jams of the past week or so and small infoless update

POVVER has some shows in June, I had Justin text me the dates, but I deleted them, so I can't remember when they are. Oopppps. My bad. Anyways, we have some shows coming up, thats sweet. Working on new songs as well and the tape is out, as you saw in the post below.

My Playlist over the last week or so,

Embrace Of Thorns - Atonement Ritual One of my favorite death metal albums, maybe ever. So dirty, dark, raw, evil and massive. The riffs are simple, but not boring, the vocals are crushing. Basically has everything I look for in death metal. I've had a burned copy since it came out, but finally grabbed a legit copy last week. worth it. Oh and the cover art is fucking great! google that shit. then buy a copy for Nuclear War Now. They have the cd for 5 dollars.

Sabbat - Live in ThailanDemonslaug ht Live Sabbat, pretty raw recording, but a great set. Play tons of awesome songs, and mix in some pretty cool solos. Just started really getting in to this band, and already love them so much. NWN has this on cd for 5 dollars as well, and its limited to 1000 grab one.

Battlemaster - Warthirsting & Winterbound PoVVer played with these dudes and they were all really cool guys, also helps that they make some really awesome music. This is the full length from a few years ago(2007) and its pure crush. Skull caving riff age. Blend of progressive black metal and death metal. Some fantastic riffs on this thing, sweet lyrics. New LP is coming out at some point I've been told. Can't wait

Wolvhammer - Black Marketeers of World War III Really overlooked record that came out last year. This should be a band people are talking about. Crust/Black/ Sludge mix and done really well. It fucking rips. One of my favorite things about this is the recording itself, the prefect recording, it sounds like a band playing in a room together, more bands need to go with this type of recording. Another band that knows how to write a fucking riff. I have a feeling people are going to start to come around to these dudes if they keep this up.

Immortal - All Shall Fall, Pure Holocaust One of my top five favorite bands ever. I like all the albums, but I've been listening to these two a ton lately. The kings of the dark riff. HAILS.

Thou - Tyrant Although I've been a fan of Thou for awhiie, I never owned any of the music. Got a copy of this monster last week. Sludge music with punk attituide. This is another one of those bands that does it all right, recording sounds real, lyrics are fantastic, riffs are massive, and artwork is the icing on the cake. They have a ton of splits eps and 3 LP's google that shit for more info and free downloads of a lot of the music.



I've been working on new poVVEr songs so I try to mix up what I'm listening to. Cheers.

tapes

Last nights show

Ruled hard. Hail the fucking Tail.


Tapes are out and ready to go. You can email povvermusic@hotmail.com if you want a copy. or grab one at a show.

I added a discography and links page on the right side on this blog. If you click the title of the release under the discography you can read more about the release. I'll keep it updated the more we put things out.

Secrets of the Moon Temple

So after a really long time, we finally recorded our first demo last night. 7 songs. Basically the songs we've been playing at shows over the past few months or whatever. We're all super stoked to have something recorded.

It was recorded stright to tape, using a boombox and a pair of headphones, live. It sounds much better than you'd think, its super raw, and for real, my favorite recording I've ever been a part of. I can't wait to have copies for people to pick up.

Not only does it rule that we finally recorded these songs for people to be able to hear at home, but it really rules because now we can move on from them and start working on new music.

We already have tons of new ideas, and songs that are just about finished or pieces of songs close to being done. So we're for sure planning to have more new music way sooner rather than later.

We're looking to do a few splits this summer. Hopefully if everything goes as planned we'll have about 3 or 4 splits out.

So the demo tape titled "Secrets of the Moon Temple" will be out on May Friday the 13th and cds version will be coming out later on.

Total cheers,
Aaron.