Archive for October 2012

The first thing you’ll likely notice about this EP is that the labels instruct you to rip this at 45rpm, when it clearly should be played at 33rpm. Typos aside, we have a seriously interesting mix here. Fascist Insect have a punky approach to grind, and throw a lot of different influences into the mix as well (there is even an acoustic guitar at one point). The sound is very metallic, and the vocals are very strained and impressive….

Hells bells I’ll say one thing; Bringer Of Gore Rex loves the dirtier underbelly of grindcore almost as much as he loves his badly pixelated cover artwork! No frills here once again, just Tumour belting out blast after blast of indecipherable watery cyber grind. almost sounding like your mother drowning in piss after stealing the original LDOH demo and adding a electronic drum track to it (before she drowned in piss). Yes, this is that…

Initially, I was puzzled to why the WIAFS album was split into 2 parts on vinyl. I could live with it, but it annoyed me nonetheless. When I espied part 2 for cheap on Discogs, I snapped it up. Little did I know until this arrived (go me for researching properly) that these two volumes are just two tracks a piece; one on each side. Man that sucks! I guess it was an easy way…

This post is dedicated to Michael Gira’s dog Nina, who passed away last week. Songs for a Dog is essentially the vinyl version of what would become The Milk of M. Gira on CD. Both act as compilation albums of Gira’s self-released acoustic stuff, which is all out of print, limited edition and worth a fucking fortune. This was originally put together by a British label called Lumberton Trading Company back in 2006. It is…

I picked this 3 track promo / single up dirt cheap from Kelly’s Records in Cardiff (it’s a wonder the fucking thing doesn’t skip – you’re lucky to get a playable record from that place, let me tell you!) as I’m a sucker for classic Alice Cooper and as you all know everything sounds better on vinyl. Well, most things. This sneaky 12″ spins at 45 so “Poison” and “Trash” fly by on side A;…

9TH OCTOBER 2012: It is with an epic feeling of chuft-ness I unveil to you the 100th Lines in Wax blog post! What sorcery is this? I have actually stuck something out passed it’s initial conception stage! I’m rather proud of what Lines in Wax is slowly becoming, if I’m honest, so I’ll take this moment to quickly thank all you readers from around the globe for tuning in and having a gander at my…

I don’t know where my interest in classical music came from, but one has to assume that it has somehow stemmed from the orchestral involvement in some metal music; either that or film soundtracks. I don’t collect or own many film soundtracks, but I guess that we are all subject to a lot of classical music without really noticing that we are listening to it as it plays along to some of our favourite movies, tv shows…

I always forget how much I love BFOT until I spin this one-sided nightmare. The mix of power electronics and harsh (dare I say it) post-grind really is something to behold. The electronic and noise passages range from the downright horrid and nasty through to floral and sprawling; lush soundscapes of peace acting as intermissions between the balls-to-the-wall full band pieces, which are something to behold all on their own with their genre-bending groovyness. BFOT…

It has been a long wait, but I bet a whole bunch of people are happy with Earache for finally deciding to press both Iron Monkey records onto wax for the first time ever. They are pressed from digital masters, so I wasn’t expecting the world but they actually sound absolutely fantastic. I’ve always been put off by Earache’s CD comp of all Iron Monkey shit (I’m a record-in-it’s-original-form kinda guy), so when I heard…

This 12″ is absolutely massive! Every time I put it on the bass on this Planet Mu pressing literally shakes my house! This is a prime example of electronic music cut onto vinyl; I would gladly use it to put all the analogue-or-die vinyl fans in their place, that is if I was cool enough to know people who could possibly argue over that thing. I was excellently blessed with this for free by someone…

This is the Gold Dust Gramaphonics pressing of GLC’s 2002 seemingly untitled EP. You Knows It 1983 is written on the back under the logo, so I’ve just used that as the name for now. All we have here is basically a collection of skits and old tracks, one of which would go on to appear on the 2005 record Safe As Fuck. Side a kicks off with “Roller Disco Remix”, which is just that;…

I’ve been anticipating the review of this monster for a very long time; it has been nagging away at the back of my mind since I heard the album a few months ago. I almost wrote the review on the mp3 files I heard, but I pressured myself into waiting for the actual finished product, and boy am I glad that I did! The Seer is an absolute fucking monster of a record, and is…

In my last Anal Cunt post I mention briefly that Limited Appeal Records put out some fantastic records, and this here slab of ridiculousness is a prime example. Regardless what you might think of Anal Cunt’s Picnic of Love record, the pressing itself is a labour of love; the front has whole new artwork from the original, each one is hand numbered (I have 13 out of 311), the art and text on the labels is hand done; and…

(2021 Edit: thanks to Photobucket for fucking my only picture of this release with a whopping sopping wet cunt of a watermark. There are 2 other versions of this release, the artwork on mine is posted at the bottom of this post. Fuck you Photobucket!) Welcome to Lines In Wax’s first CD post! Holy mother, I’ve sold the fuck out. It had to happen eventually; it is a dark world where every single piece of…