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There’s been an end of transmission here for a long, long time. Maybe if I wrote or posted something controversial, edgy, deplorable, cute, trendy, sexual, maybe that’d spark a conversation. But I won’t. Maybe “just” writing about music and re-posting someone else’s “fight the good fight” posts will never engage anyone to break the ice and communicate directly? 

INTRODUCING: Pleasure Gap's Cream Wave  New Hampshire's Pleasure gap are on a trip their own. Luckily for us, Nomadic Behavior granted us the privilege of being an introduction vessel of sorts for the uninitiated. You'll hug yourself for checking this out. Is it possible for a band like this to originate from the woods? ‪#‎HalCo‬ READ / ALBUM STREAM

I run around in a death metal thread on a messageboard. Today said board yielded gold for my ears! I'll have you know that Cruciamentum's new song is so damn good, it should have been source/foundations for Morbid Angel's Heretic album. I'll get to that a bit later. READ / LISTEN HERE.

I'll have you know #1, feat. ABYSSAL Welcome to I'll Have You Know, a new feature here on Halifax Collect. What it really is, is me trying to adapt to my life's changes all the while keeping this blog going. The long format writing I've maintained through the years is not sustainable as I stand these day, but I hope to return to it in not too distant future.  I'll Have You Know will be the quickest format yet, easy to formulate and format and I hope it brings some excitement into your blog-hopping day. READ / LISTEN HERE

“The shape of punk roots put out to pasture.” Continue and read the review in its entirety HERE (videos inside).

MISÞYRMING - Söngvar Elds og Óreiðu "Misþyrming’s debut full length on Norway’s Terratur Possesions, is a seething and multi-layered beast full of..." Read the review in its entirety and listen to Söngvar Elds og Óreiðu HERE.

Mutilation Chamber is well written and is consistent and steady. It's a very well executed death metal EP. It's hard­hitting and brutal, and sounds great. Not too polished, but not too lo­fi either. REVIEW IN ITS ENTIRETY HERE.

Þorrabjórsmakkið í ár er annað þorrabjórsmakkið í röð (hið fyrra) hjá oss og markar það sömuleiðis áttunda bjórsmakk Halans. Því má segja að mikið ölæði hafi gripið mannskapinn og væri það ekki mögulegt án þeirra brugghúsa sem taka vel í uppátækið og senda inn sína fulltrúa í vökvaformi. Að þessu sinni var þorrabjórsúrvalið mun meira en í fyrra og er það Borg Brugghúsi að þakka þeir brugguðu fjórar mismunandi útgáfur af Surtu þetta árið. Ölgerðin, Vífilfell, Gæðingur og Steðji tóku þátt sem fyrr en Kaldi sá sér ekki fært að blanda sér í slaginn. Hvernig ætli hann hafi bragðast í ár? Dómnefndin ár var ekki af lakari taginu. Fjöllistamaðurinn Holaf (twitter), tómstundahvíslarinn Sævar, úberplöggarinn Guðný Hlemmur PR (twitter), Þúsundþjalatónlistarsmiðurinn Elli Bang úr Ojba Rasta, Birkir ritstjóri bloggsins (twitter), Besti vinur Sage Francis hann Ævar (twitter) og Þórir hinn Franski, voru smakkarar kvöldsins. Þvílíkt! Ánægjustuðulstjórn var sem fyrr í höndum Hafsteins Árnasonar (twitter). Útgangspunktar sem vert er að hafa í huga: - Smakkarar vissu ekki hvaða bjór þeir voru með í glösunum hverju sinni, sáu ekki flöskurnar og var ekki kunngjört um nafn né framleiðanda. - Smakkarar ræddu ekki um upplifun og skoðun sín á milli fyrr en var búið að skila inn niðurstöðum. - Ef bjórinn var þorralegur, þá var það honum til tekna. SJÁ NIÐURSTÖÐUR HÉR

"Fuck your comfort zone" It's with true pleasure and excitement that we give you the premiere for Muck's latest music video, and what will become the second streamable single of sorts, from the band's highly anticipated second full-length Your Joys Future. The album's street date is February 24th. and it'll see a LP, CD and digital release. Pre-order deals HERE. WATCH THE VIDEO / READ THE INTERVIEW / SELF-FUCK YOURSELVES HERE

"Hailing from my childhood stomping grounds of Luleå, Sweden,Raised Fist were my first love. They dragged me kicking and screaming into the gateway pit that lead from departing Pennywiseto the end station of Cephalic Carnage. As my gaze drifted westwards, my ears were to be long deprived of the teenhood hooks and brazen breakdowns served up with a Raised Fist." READ THE REVIEW IN ITS ENTIRETY AND LISTEN TO RAISED FIST HERE.

On Dormant Heart, Sylosis continue to play the long con on my aesthetic palette. Every time I convince myself they are unique and decidedly different, I give this disc another figurative spin, and gain a deeper meaning of the conversation between Snipes and Harrelson in White Men Can’t Jump –the one about listening to vs. hearing the music. READ THE REVIEW IN ITS ENTIRETY / LISTEN / WATCH HERE.

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Find out about some of the greatest music that came out last year but you slept on HERE.

"The Lucid Collective may be the single greatest feat of tech death ever committed to binary code." READ the review in its entirety, listen to the band and watch mind-melting playthrough videos HERE.

The fourth batch of #HalCo #yearend2014 lists has just landed. Making it 12 lists in total! #4 includes a #Spotify playlist for your listening pleasure, as curated by Guðný of Hlemmur PR. Have a look HERE. Run The Jewels SÓLSTAFIR Iceage White Lung Kælan Mikla Prins Póló Nicki Minaj Future Islands Wovenhand (official) Autopsy Swans Svartidauði Full of Hell... AND MORE!