White Suns: "Footprints Filled"

Whoa. Not sure what to call this shit. It's kinda sludge, kinda punk, kinda noise. Actually it's mostly noise, but there are vocals and discernible riffs so definitely don't think of Merzbow or old Earth style drone. White Suns are playing with genre conventions in a manner that the average metal blog would have you believe is only being done via Cascadian black metal. Fuck your Cascadian black metal in the ear. Sinews is out 4/20 (appropriately enough) on Load Records.
(via Tiny Mix Tapes):

Ice, Sea, Dead People: "Ultra Silence"

PTO.  For most people it stands for "paid time off".  For me it usually stands for "passed the (fuck) out".  I'd intended to get caught up on a lot of writing over the past five days, but instead I couldn't be bothered to even keep up with my regular posting.  Is it too late to pretend I was out of town and preoccupied?  Fuck it, I'm talking into a void anyway.

Playing catch up - here or elsewhere - always puts me in a shitty, antagonistic mood, so this seems a good opportunity to clear out my backlog of heavy shit.  Ice, Sea, Dead People do not sound like Iceage but they ply the kind of amped up, infectious upbeat post-hardcore that would make both bands great tour mates.  Also they both start with Ice and I don't really need my free association skills being taxed too heavily right now, thank you very much.  Hopefully the above image is of the correct album.