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Cigarettes & Clip-Art - Hole Sections

The crudely-drawn floating head returns as a vengeant stormcloud, curling forth with great malignance to swallow your pathetic unsuspecting city.  Noisy synths rumble and bounce across jagged beats, the occasional slice of guitar flashing briefly in the night sky.  Five chunks of unusual barometric pressure which will make you unsure whether to dance, headbang, or throw yourself on the floor and hallucinate.  We suggest all three, simultaneously if possible.  You may need to use gaffer’s tape to keep those headphones on.  Goodnight, Mr. Moon!

Tracklisting:

1. Section A (3:08)
2. Section C (6:44)
3. Section B (4:58)
4. Section D (1:39)
5. 23rd Orifice (Hole) (24:13)

Tags: 5.5.2009, c&ca, cigarettes & clip-art, cleveland, dance, experimental, hole sections, ohio, squeeeeeek AHH

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Vito Genovese - The Waiting Game

Port Richey, Florida’s Vito Genovese may prove to be a prolific fellow.  Less than two months have passed since his debut release, Storms Bring. This new collection takes us to an ethereal space almost Lynchian in atmosphere; a place of quiet mystery, a darkened waiting room for the soul.  Dim the lights and don headphones.

Tracklisting:

1. We Packed Our Bags to Go to Stockholm (3:46)
2. The Night Drive (2:12)
3. Car Windshield Breaking (2:57)
4. Ambulance Divers (4:11)
5. Torn Hopes (3:22)
6. Looking (3:44)
7. I Swore You Were Dreaming (4:01)
8. Calpurnia’s Vortex (2:41)
9. Orchid Petal Blues (6:34)
10. Vertigo Easter (2:00)
11. The Waiting Game (6:34)

Tags: 5.4.2009, atmospheric, dark, florida, quiet, the waiting game, vito genovese

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One Grisly Day - Live @ Extremefest

The first day of May, 1999.  Cleveland (and very Skrow!-oriented) folk-influenced black metal group One Grisly Day’s performance at a gig dubbed Extremefest, at the famous Peabody’s (the old Peabody’s), is faithfully taped to camcorder and rendered to VHS by… someone.  Someone else entirely (like, the drummer) would later unearth this tape, capture the audio, and humbly request its release here on Skrow!.

Thus, in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of this performance, the long-since-defunct One Grisly Day achieve their Skrow! debut.  As the only recording with this lineup, including two songs never recorded elsewhere, this 24 minute set is a fitting document of the band’s early era (before many lineup changes and the eventual transmogrification into groovecore band Screaming Underwater), complete with blistering guitars, harrowing screams, and production as GR1M, N3KR0 and, dare I say, TR00… as you could ever want it.  Please crank this for posterity.

Tracklisting:

1. Moonscape (5:50)
2. Nero Fiddler (5:34)
3. The Legend of the Weeping Willow (5:57)
4. Ritual (6:10)

Tags: 10th anniversary, 5.3.2009, black metal, cleveland, gr1m, live, n3kr0, ogd, ohio, one grisly day, onemuthafuckin'grislyday, tr00