Mathcore Index: Best of Volumes 1-5 Compilation Featuring Retail Monkey

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Mathcore Index: Best of Volumes 1-5

Mathcore Index: Best of Volumes 1-5, our very first physical compilation, distributed by Dark Trail Records and featuring 41 of the finest artists in extreme and underground music. 200 units in hand-numbered 2 disc digipacks made with 100% recycled materials. First 5 purchases receive a signed copy of Car Bomb – “Mordial” CD. 100% of profits go to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Black VisionsCollective. Art by Karl Frandsen and layout and original logos by Keith Carlson. $12 USD + shipping, order here.

This compilation features some of the best and most well-known bands in the genre today and I am honored to have been asked to contribute my track Retail Monkey – Pass Me the Yogurt Chips Before I Cremate Myself, Emilio. (The full album the song is from can be found here.) So far we have raised over $1000 through this effort! Black lives matter.


 

N64 Tonal Inversions – Set 7

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A short overview of this project can be found here.

Mission: Impossible – Title Theme

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – Sheik’s Theme

GoldenEye 007 – Bunker I

Mario Kart 64 – Koopa Troopa Beach

1080 Snowboarding – Work Your Body

BONUS – 1080 Snowboarding – Work Your Body with Reversed Vocal Samples

 

A short overview of this project can be found here.

More to come.

DIY Conspiracy Reviews Liminal Veil

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Liminal Veil – S/T

Liminal Veil is a raw, visceral, and passionately violent skramz with math-rock influences. Six short but intense tracks of tragedy, passion, and emotional apocalypse. Drums and guitars create a rather dramatic orchestration, while vocals die out in desperation. Each track is unique and tunes are different from each other to keep the listeners engaged… Along the lines of Cowboys Become Folk Heroes, Ampere, and Converge, Liminal Veil holds a true potential of raw, visceral energy. The best gem of 2020.

Read the full review here.

N64 Tonal Inversions – Set 6

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A short overview of this project can be found here.

GoldenEye 007 – Surface I

WWF No Mercy – Diggity Dog

BONUS – WWF No Mercy – Diggity Dog with Reversed Vocal Samples

Mission: Impossible – Embassy Function

Super Mario 64 – Hazy Maze Cave

Perfect Dark – dataDyne Research: Investigation

 

A short overview of this project can be found here.

More to come.

Liminal Veil

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Liminal Veil

liminalveil.bandcamp.com

My 2014 release Bird Surgeon – Vanishings is a math rock album that was heavily influenced by screamo. Ever since putting that out, I’ve wanted to do the inverse and write some music that is primarily skramz but heavily influenced by math rock. This is that.

This EP was inspired by the corruption and ineptitude of the Trump administration, the smoke-filled-room political dealings that took down the Sanders campaigns in the 2016 and 2020 primaries, and the bungled pandemic response which has resulted in millions losing work while the billionaires continue to rake in unconscionable profits. Our representation in this country is bought by the mega wealthy and the big corporations to protect profits for shareholders above all else. This is an indictment – not only against the cartoonish evil of the Republican party leadership but also against the complicity of the Democrats in maintaining this system. It is a call to fight, to do what you can with what you have in order to make change to this broken system.

Available on cassette via Bandcamp – BNR2001

 

Planetary Scale

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Planetary Scale

jonlervold.bandcamp.com/track/planetary-scale

This musical sketch utilizes Dave Tremblay’s The Planetary Scale, which takes the planets’ relative distances from the sun and converts them into (you guessed it) a scale.

0.00 ¢: Sun
11.77 ¢: Mercury
21.98 ¢: Venus
30.40 ¢: Earth
46.31 ¢: Mars
158.18 ¢: Jupiter
291.36 ¢: Saturn
583.34 ¢: Uranus
913.31 ¢: Neptune
1200.00 ¢: Pluto