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ELISIUM
Things They Carried
Emotionally charged lyrical imagery coupled with mind-shearing volume and gut-wrenching delivery - Elisium's latest is a spritual, redemptive experience like nothing heard in a quite a long time.
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COMPRESSION
Battle of the Ants (2CD)
Compression fills all voids, challenging all you thought you knew about heavy music. Truly experimental, putting itself years ahead of anything done in the name of post-hardcore or modern metal.
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DURDEN
Bloody Kiss EP
DURDEN make smart, memorable, no-frills hard rock music that twists its way into your psyche -- and then promptly knocks you flat on your ass.
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DEAD MEN SWAY
Boombabba
Dead Men Sway delivers thundering spiritually-supercharged-power-blues-groove-rock. The sound is big, bold, brash and absolutely undeniable.
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FORWARDHEAD
Pieces
Forwardhead's PIECES redefines the boundaries of alternative metal, combining haunting atmospherics, melodic hooks, metallic crunch and fearsome technical prowess.
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COMPRESSION
Self-Titled
On their previously out-of-print debut, Compression show off a depth and maturity that few metallic outfits are capable of. Cranium-cracking riffs are combined with an experimental, creative approach that never fails to captivate and impress.
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HARD VOLUME NEWS 02.01.08
Joe Natoli, founder
So here it is in a nutshell: Effective immediately, Hard Volume Records is now HARD VOLUME DISTRIBUTION. What does that mean?
It means that instead of begging and pleading with major distributors to carry our product, instead of asking constantly to be invited to the party, we will throw the party OURSELVES.
Backstory: I've spent a great deal of time over the past 12 months talking to major and minor labels, distributors and retailers. Folks in NY, Chicago, and Florida who have the leverage and the size and the rep and the CASH to get the music Hard Volume carries in the faces of people who will dig it. And here's what I hear over and over and over and OVER:
"DAMN, these bands are incredible, Joe. Shame you guys are so small."
Size, friends, apparently matters. Despite what we boys hear from you ladies :-)
Read the full story here
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