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Infest - Live Show Review 3/1/2014
Infest - Live Show Review 3/1/2014
Powerfulviolence: Infest Live Review Infest/Iron Lung/Gehenna/Warcry/Gag at El Corazon — Saturday, March1st, 2014 by Jim Walkley             At the outset, Don't Be Swindle readers, I regret to inform you that... Read more...
Weekend Nachos Interview with John Hoffman
Weekend Nachos Interview with John Hoffman
Questions by Jim Walkley of Don't Be Swindle             Weekend Nachos recently released Still, their fourth full-length LP as a band.  It's somewhat rare for a "powerviolence" band — if... Read more...
Archagathus / Nak'ay - split 10"
Archagathus / Nak'ay - split 10"
What was probably a few months ago now, I had the pleasure of seeing Nak'ay live.  When I first heard them a few years ago (split with Unholy Grave) I... Read more...
Gowl- Buzzbox EP
Gowl- Buzzbox EP
This record, fuck... is brilliant.  Gowl manages to do so much with so little.  The riffs, drumming, and song structures are primitive, yet unique.  The tones and recording production are... Read more...
Interview with the Oily Menace
Interview with the Oily Menace
The Oily Menace come oozing out of Michigan eating kale, borrowing lyrics, and grinding your mind.  Interview by Will T. and answered by Kevin and Dylan of The Oily Menace. ... Read more...
Cynarae Interview
Cynarae Interview
Cynarae Interview with Kyle Oels (Vocals) Introduction/Questions by Jim Walkley of Don't Be Swindle zine Live photos by Will Butler     Seattle, Washington's Cynarae fuse the grueling, crust-endebted aural wreckage... Read more...
Water Torture Interview
Water Torture Interview
Interview by Eric Beasley So what's the background on Water Torture (band member names, how did you form, etc...)? Moezes - drumsMatt - bassIan - bassIt started off as me... Read more...
Integrity Interview
Integrity Interview
Interview with Dwid Hellion (Vocals), Rob Orr (Guitarist), and Jon Gates (Second Guitarist) Questions by Jim Walkley (Interview conducted in a basement dressing room at the Neumo's venue in Seattle,... Read more...
Krupskaya Interview
Krupskaya Interview
by Eric BeasleyWhen thinking of Stoke-on-Trent, UK, a grindcore band with a Russian name is the last thing that will come to mind. But trust me, they are there. I... Read more...
Warsaw Scene Report 2012
Warsaw Scene Report 2012
Hello My name is Karol and I am running a facebook Warsaw Grindcore fanpage. I was asked to write a Warsaw scene report for Don't Be Swindle so I thought... Read more...
Don’t Be Swindle – Episode #7 Podcast
An ill prepared podcast for your listening pleasure. Hope you enjoy. 1. Vile Intent - Muzzle2. Archagathus - Real Fancy3. Artimus Pyle - Bloodless War4. Liberate - Amigo Imaginario5. GAZA - Am I Mad6. Gyga - Butcher7. Mukeka Di Rato - Moldar8. Malpractice Insurance - Surgical Sabotage9. Worlds - Nomadic Exile10. Bastard Noise - Seeing The Same Fate11. Exit Wounds - Concrete Childhood12. Water Torture - Syntheic Waste13. Lost Tribe - The Laughter14. Mellakka - Tuhoon Tuomittu15. Heresy - Dedication From Inspiration16. DeathToll - Prophecy Of Death17. God Harvest -... Read more...
Your Top 5 Active Bands
Your Top 5 Active Bands
I asked this question last night on the DBS Facebook page.  Here are the responses, with mine first: Juan Butts - Death Toll 80k, War Master, Misanthropic Noise, Gowl, (my... Read more...
Sore Throat vs. S.O.B. vs. Disrupt vs. Septic Death
I personally have listened to Disrupt the most out of these bands because their music is easier to come by. I love their politics. S.O.B. has an obvious special place in my heart, see the name of this blog. Septic Death I love and had the luck to find some of their stuff on Discogs for a decent price. Sore Throat has always been a bit hard to come by, and their blurred out noisecore stuff is a bit on the strange side but when they do it up, they... Read more...
TTT - Top Three Tapes - Fun for all ages
TTT - Top Three Tapes - Fun for all ages
Aaron Screwface, 30 Napalm Raid/System Shit - Split Obacha - Demo any Archagathus John Alberty, 17 Triangulum/Tzalemoth - Split Black Murder - Promo '94 Bologna Gang - Demo Nick Keller,... Read more...
2012 and Beyond!
After about a year long hiatus of posting and gathering print material for issue #2, DBS has been reawakened. Dontbeswindle.com is the new location and now contributors to issue #1 have access rights to post here. I'd like to welcome James Walkley, Ralph Haunted Hotel, Vii Caos, and hopefully soon Paul Praise and Pat Backslider. Anyone with exclusive guest columns, scene reports, band recordings, etc... can be emailed to tolivealie@gmail.com, just put DBS in the subject. Read more...
Don't Be Swindle - Issue #1 digital edition
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Don't Be Swindle - Issue #1
Don't Be Swindle - Issue #1
Debut issue of this new half-sized zine compiled by Will Butler himself (To Live A Lie Records). Issue #1 features interviews that highlight a variety of heavy music genres, from... Read more...
Don’t Be Swindle – Episode #6 Podcast
Sixth episode is a To Live A Lie Records-centric episode, in fact all songs are from TLAL. Self promotion to inspire me to do more podcasts. 1. Sex Prisoner - Piss When I Cum (0:50) 2. Sick/Tired - Last Stand for a Deadman (1:21) 3. Shitstorm - Nevernding Genocide (0:15) 4. XBRAINIAX - Fuck the Swindlers (0:32) 5. Magnum Force - Distort (0:34) 6. Backslider - Some Kind of Moron (0:29) 7. Disciples Of Christ - 12 (0:56) 8. Dos Amigos - Snitch Bitch Eyesore (0:24) 9. Sissy Spacek -... Read more...
Don't Be Swindle - Episode #5 Podcast
Don't Be Swindle - Episode 5 1. Lapse - Posthumous 2. Curmudgeon - Gran Machismo 3. What Life Is - Street Lights 4. FCH - Japanese Wisdom I 5. Parlamentarisk Sodomi - Introduksjonell Mistillit 6. Sakatat - Unknown Title 7. Beach Babes - Cold Pizza 8. Bloody Phoenix - Isolated 9. The Kill - We Want Blood 10. Violent Children - Culture Sucks 11. Zero Boys - Splish Splash 12. Uniform Choice - My Own Mind 13. Ratos De Porao - Caos 14. Sairaat Mielet - Tippa Tappaa 15. Civil... Read more...
Don't Be Swindle - Episode #4 Podcast
Don't Be Swindle - Episode 4 1. Suffer - Numbered 2. Pissed Happy Children - Ready to Fight 3. Pandemonium - No More Talk 4. Cthulhu Youth - S.O.S.D 5. Female Snake - Adulthood 6. Kieltolaki - Maailma Menee Helvettiin 7. Blank Stare - Fuck Drugs. Fuck You. 8. Crippled Youth - Positive Scene 9. Stripmines - Failsafe 10. ¡LIBÉRATE! - Hispano? NO! 11. Attitude Adjustment - Endless Sight 12. No For An Answer - Domino Principle 13. Vile Intent - Front 14. Mondo Gecko - Unknown Track 15. Punch... Read more...
Don't Be Swindle - Episode #3 Podcast - by the Other Will
This was pretty fun to do. Enjoy! Don't Be Swindle - Episode 3 1. Doom- Circles 2. Sore Throat- Hang Norman Tebbit 3. Sore Throat- Filthchain 4. Gore Beyond Necropsy- Leavin' Here 5. Iron Butter- Willieburger 6. Final Exit- May 7. Asocial Terror Fabrication- Under the Dark Force 8. GoFuckYourself- Mormons Can Fuck Off pt. 2 9. Herpes- Seguimiento Falso 10. Electro Hippies- Gas Joe Pearce 11. Concrete Sox- Your Turn Next 12. Heresy- Despair 13. Attitude Adjustment- Warfear 14. Ulster- Morte Aos Velhos 15. Excruciating Terror- Human Error 16.... Read more...
Don't Be Swindle - Episode #2 Podcast
Don't Be Swindle - Episode 2 Heresy - Dog Torture Mihoen - Geinstitutionaliseerde Ideale Vorhees - Feed The Poor Neos - Destruct Malicious Grind - Hardcore Wall Flower DYS - Brotherhood Bathtub Shitter - Fuck Hip Raper Framtid - We Must Impart Slight Slappers - Normal Life Toast - Plastic Kill Order Sea Of Shit - Mindless Mindless - Diseased Matka Teresa - Dirty Hands Mind As Prison - Comp Song Napalm Death - Unchallenged Hate Magrudergrind -Stagnant Bathory - Holocaust Backslider - Predictable Epitaph Dead Language - Short Straw... Read more...
Don't Be Swindle - Episode #1 Podcast
Don't Be Swindle - Episode 1 Very first episode of Don't Be Swidle Podcast with Will Butler as your host. Antidote - Real Deal Lärm - Hippies Satanic Malfunctions - Dealing Out Death Electro Hippies - Run Ronald Hummingbird Of Death - Where's The Fun Quattro Stagioni - How Will I Live Tomorrow Knuckle Scraper - The Thing Hatred Surge - Society Sucker World - IMONC Ruidosa Inmundicia - Ello Son Culo - Neighborhood Watch Warhead - You In Corruption Citizens Arrest - Serve And Protect Ripcord - Aim To... Read more...
Too Early for Spring Cleaning
Every few weeks, I purge my record collection to make room for new stuff, and to get money to buy new stuff. There's no motive of gain, some sort of pyramid scheme, or anything like that. To me, records have a utility to them. I'm not a collector, I'm just a listener. So, when searching for something to listen to on any particular day, if I find myself combing over the same record again and again, then it's time for it to go. One really helpful thing to note is... Read more...
5 Grindcore Records You Probably Didn't Buy in 2010
5 Grindcore Records You Probably Didn't Buy in 2010
The following are five noteworthy records released this year that I heard almost nothing about. Were it not for my love of discovering new music, I wouldn't have known to... Read more...
Best Album Of The Year
Best Album Of The Year
...is Contagium's Archaic LP. The album contains 9 songs of pure aural bliss from these three Halifax punks. Contagium knows how to seek out a lumbering rhythm, and use it... Read more...
Anticipation
Here's a preview of some of the records that I'm drooling over myself just thinking about. Some are out, and I don't have a copy yet, and some have been announced as coming soon. 1. Suffering Mind self titled LP- I already heard the tracks, because Kuchar was nice enough to send me the mp3s while I wait for my copy! Along with this will be the Suffering Mind 3" which I've also heard, but it will be really cool. 2. Mass Grave LP- This band can do no wrong.... Read more...
Human Error / Black Hole of Calcutta split 7"
I received copies of this 7" today for my distro, and I was curious to check out Human Error's new stuff. I had heard a few songs quite some time ago, so I wanted to know if I would like them as much as I remembered, or more. What ended up happening, was that I listened to their side twice in a row! They start off with the kind of intro I'd expect from Extreme Noise Terror, and then a quick countoff, and they begin blasting. The song breaks into... Read more...
Interview with Nashgul (Spain)
Interview with Nashgul (Spain)
This interview was conducted sometime in Summer '09 for Noise Reduction Zine #3, which hasn't been printed. In celebration of Nashgul's new LP, (that I received this week) I decided... Read more...
Total Wreck - Demo 09
Total Wreck - Demo 09 CD-R http://www.myspace.com/totalwreckva Thrash punk that isn't snotty, a nice change! Lyrics are very ryhme-y. Well recorded, I dig this a lot more than a lot of the throwback hardcore stuff that is out here, so check these dudes out! -willfastcore N.E.K. vs. Septix tape http://www.karasukiller.com NEK side starts out sounding like crust punknroll. Second song bursts into more of the heavy gritty Japanese hardcore I was hoping for! The other side is raucous and noisey.. dig it a lot, hammer-ony and overdriven. Wish I could... Read more...
Ablach - Aon CD
I had seen the name of this band around, and thought they'd be a lousy black metal band, but I'm really glad about how wrong I was. Ablach are not a shitty black metal band, but instead a fucking headcrushing mess of crust/grind/death from Scotland. This CD features 13 songs in 19 minutes, not somethign that I'd usually complain about, but it just whizzes by too fast for me. Included in that 13-song count are a Terrorizer cover (Corporation Pull in) and a Napalm Death cover (Unchallenged Hate- which I... Read more...
CD Reviews
Rabid Dogs - Italian Violence CD myspace.com/rabiddogsgrind This appears to be their debut album that they shipped me in a bubble mailer from Italy. It got cracked so I'm just going to listen to their Myspace songs because although the packing job was pretty losy, they took the time and money to send it all the way my way, which is awesome in my book. The first song online appears to be the s/t album that opens the CD up. Sounds rad, blasty, screamy, not super tight and a little... Read more...
Cellgraft - Demo Cassette
Cellgraft are from Florida, and they play no-frills grindcore in the style of Assuck. This cassette has 13 tracks, never hitting the minute mark. The guitar sounds metallic and sharp, and if they have a bass player, I didn't notice on the recording. The drumming is good, along with the drum production, which is usually a dealbreaker for me when it's bad. The vocals consist solely of low grunts and barks. The artwork on the demo is printed on yellow cardstock. The artwork looks like a med-school chalkboard drawing to... Read more...
Reviews - Tapes for now, CDs for later
Magnum Force - Demo '09 tape Blastcat Records Mega blasty. Musically reminds me of MAGRUDERGRIND or IN DIGUST. Where has this band been hiding that I haven't heard of them before? Tape is demo quality but very listenable. Six songs including a song called 'Party Song' which has no lyrics. The last song totally rips, fast parts into a really cool slower blast kick part. They did sixty of these the first run and I guess needed to do thirty more, I see why this would have sold out, it... Read more...