KRÜEL

KRÜEL are getting noisier in their old age...and faster. Blinding white noise distortion is brutally penetrated by galloping DBeat madness d...

TEARIST

Repetitive and distorted sampled beats that lurch as much as groove make up this beast, but what drives the beast is the vocals. A distinct ...

ASPEX

I'm not sure that fans of Mondays at The Escape can really ask for more than this. Members of KRUEL, DEAD NOISE, THE HELPLESS and others...

CONDITION

A buddy of mine was in town a few weeks ago, and we were talking music (not exactly an uncommon occurrence). He asked if I had heard CONDITI...

ODOUR OF DUST AND ROT

More sounds from a certain circle of incestuous black metal savants, this 60+ minute comp features many of the regular suspects (GLOSSOLALI...

POLISKITZO

POLISKITZO are associated with the Silenzio Statico crew in Los Angeles, but it's hard to say exactly where they fit in. I've seen t...

ODZ MANOUK

Even more haunting black metal from the circle of Southern California madmen that call themselves Black Twilight. While I still leave discus...

QUIET RIOT

I am a shameless fan, have the tattoo to prove it, and these 1979 demos are QUIET RIOT's original lineup cranking through proto-Sunset S...

TUKAARIA // ODZ MANOUK

I will leave black metal accolades and descriptors to the experts, but rest assured that if I offer you a metal cassette on Terminal Escape ...

MANIA

Raw fukkn punk from the Silenzio Statico tape label. Long Beach's MANIA churn through eight UK influenced burners - tell me that "R...

RAYOS X

Los Angeles has not made an appearance on The Escape in a while. Around the same time I realized this, I saw the second RAYOS X demo sitting...

RHINOCERVS

Los Angeles' mysterious black metal collective RHINOCERVS get even darker on their second release. Four more movements, taking a bleak ...

BAD ENTRAILS 5

For the folks who enjoyed Bad Entrails 1 and 3 , I present you with the next odd numbered volume in the series: Bad Entrails 5 . This 1987 ...

SKULL COLLECTOR

Noisy, hollow hardcore from 2008. SKULL COLLECTOR have ceased activity, but their dark and mysterious approach to chaotic hardcore mixed wit...

UNIFORM CHOICE

I doubt that anyone here needs a primer on Southern California's '80s straight edge heroes, right? This 1984 demo dishes out 10 blis...

LOS MUERTOS CAMINAN

There were piles of killer records in Austin last weekend, new releases, limited releases, cheap used fodder and $100+ foreign flexis. But p...

ABSUM

Black Twilight does it again, this time a torturous funeral doom exercise from ABSUM. There are four movements on this cassette, each more p...

HALF OFF

Back from tour, and back to one a day posts instead of that "waiting with baited breath - is there going to be a new demo today" f...

VOLAHN // TUKAARIA

Black Twilight just keeps making magic...black magic perhaps, but magic nonetheless. Stalwarts VOLAHN return with more bleak high end madne...

CRINGER

It's ironic that it took me until I was an adult to appreciate the eternal teenage enthusiasm and energy of Lance Hahn's music. It w...