RELEASES
APES031 | TOUNDRA II
Nov. 25th, 2011 · Basement Apes Ind. / Aloud Music · Digipack CD
Toundra sign off a beast of an album challenging crowds of post-music by certified variations on highs and lows and by daring not to rock the same riff for fuckin' hours long.
?view=f8327/products/products/products/products"> APES030 | ANORAK Sick
May 1st, 2011 · Basement Apes Ind · 12" + Digipack CD
Clearly exposed to the hardcore/metal genre, they absolutely cross this ever-going basis with grind and noise. Anorak quirky bursts of aggression and toss metal in its modernity into a dense and complex extremity very dear to grindcore hordes, plus impulsing a colourful fragrance of tenacious rock and roll vice here and there.
APES028 | ALKALYS A pack of lies
January 5th, 2011 · Basement Apes Ind · Digifile CD
Alkalys always consumes in processed machine of noise, erupting into sheets of frenzied cymbals and guitars and stepping from the low-lying space to the highest part of the mountain. 5-song staring deep into a real ascent. Alkalys escalates.
?view=f8327/products/products/products/products"> APES027 | SOFY MAJOR Permission to engage
October 27th, 2010 · Basement Apes Ind · 2x12" + Digipack CD
Sofy Major has filthy increased in heavyness through 50 unrelenting minutes of angular and unique aggressivity. This new found efficiency serves well manifest-songs with large strokes of stressing sludgy vocals and succinctly lenght of songs, with no pointless remnants of riffs. The body and ear are torn as to how to react.
?view=f8327/products/products/products/products"> APES026 | MEMBRANE Disaster
January 10th, 2010 · Basement Apes Ind · 12" + CD
2 years after the terribly dark 'A story of blood and violence'; MEMBRANE returns with 'Disaster', a container of angst and agressiveness, delivering like this their heaviest and most punishing record to date. Serving guts, violence and domination on all tracks as doomsday approaches.
APES025 | CYBERNE Law
January 2008 · Basement Apes Ind · CD
The beast has been released and threatens to attack. Osaka's CYBERNE tightly injure through ten bruising tracks, crushing your spine with drilling-machine vocals and blistering your brain with maniac grind and manic groove. It's itchy all over like cactus.
APES024 | PLEBEIAN GRANDSTAND How hate is hard to define
January 5th, 2010 · Basement Apes Ind · CD
2 years from the gasping 'Vulture riot' ep, Plebeian Grandstand returns with a full percussive punishment in the name of 'How hate is hard to define'. Forward-thinking, exclusive and colossal, the chaotic lure of the album has taken complexity to new heights and added a healthy dose of incomparable melodic songcraft, for it is Plebeian Grandstand who understood the crescendo-running equation melancolic sounds = death. Hate is hard to define and you won't know which side you belong to.
APES023 | ALKALYS Choeur delys
January 1st 2009 · Basement Apes Ind · Digipack CD
Alkalys always consumes in processed machine of noise, erupting into sheets of frenzied cymbals and guitars and stepping from the low-lying space to the highest part of the mountain. 5-song staring deep into a real ascent. Alkalys escalates.
APES022 | TOUNDRA I
January 2009 · Basement Apes Ind · Digifile CD
Madrid's Toundra follows its ways to subtle variations subduing the listener on 6 tracks of instrumental rock. Dynamic and intensively careful on brilliance, this selftitled album pulls back the curtain to reveal all its immediately accessible music. Includes bonus track 'Nordeste' from their split w/ Hand of fatima.
APES021 | PRACTICAL WEAPON To date we do not have music sufficienttly powerful to act as a practical weapon
October 2009 · Basement Apes Ind · Digifile CD
Denunciating group of individual who could care less. TO DATE WE DO NOT HAVE MUSIC SUFFICIENTLY POWERFUL TO ACT AS PRACTICAL WEAPON rings true and is the tract about a specific music scene area, the one where Basement Apes Ind. come from. True to its roots and wide opened with its influences, this disc is a pragmatic testimony of people sticking together for the sake of music.
APES020 | GENERAL LEE Hannibal ad portas
January 2007 · Basement Apes Ind · Digifile CD
In a darkening world with blurred possibilities, General Lee take the road of introspection to arrive at a dramatic understanding of the mind’s surroundings. Unleashed with a grand dimension of upsetting melodies, Hannibal Ad Portas is evolving from musical damnation to salvation in 6 not-so-easy-to-listen tracks.
APES019 | PURSESNATCHER Narrated by
January 2008 · Basement Apes Ind · Digifile CD
Cleveland's Purse Snatcher touches on subtle instrumental areas yet deeply personal in approach. Stirring emotional splendor is at hand, perverted by pounding riffing and punishing saturated bass. 'Narrated by' extend the realm of density through 6 tracks smelling heavy fire.
?view=f8327/products/products/products/products"> APES018 | GOODBYE DIANA Odds and ends
January 2008 · Basement Apes Ind · 12" + CD
A vanguard of instrumental and intricate sound patterns diving in a sonic and more urgent illustration of what a pair of drum sticks and pedals of sound can do. Heavily percussive and urgently powerful.
APES017 | PLEBEIAN GRANDSTAND The vulture riot
January 2007 · Basement Apes Ind · CDEP
The debut war cry from original and categorically defiant Plebeian grandstand. Brought forward with cutting-edge songwriting, striking with a siege of destroying power and emotion, and consuming with abysmal force.
APES016 | TIME TO BURN Is.land
2007 · Basement Apes Ind · CD
Exploding all expectations, TIME TO BURN new effort 'Is.Land' throws out an ugly, hostile and noisy negation of music. Until all that is left are ruins and dust, a pale grey sky will open on a life-debris dimension where the land of Is shall remain the only place to shelter as life will be blown away with bliss.
APES015 | MEMBRANE A story of blood and violence
2007 · Basement Apes Ind · CD
An overload of massive 90's alt rock eruption from MEMBRANE, this terrifying storm, has landed. Terribly dark, this second full run gives praise to the lords of alternative music (Amphetamine Reptile sound) and sail the seas of noisy, blown noise rock heydey blend into an earth-shaking dirge metal. An 8-song sucker punch.
APES014 | ELODEA Cataclysmic
2006 · Basement Apes Ind · CD
The wings of tragedy are progressively blackening our man-made world corrupted. Chaos is riding and dimness is destroying faces in agony. The one chosen to save the world, dragged into the sea of today's life evils, lose faith in majesty. Eternal is now the pain; 'Cataclysmic' is its darkest epitaph. A 6-track musical scheme spreading chaos. Lp version available through Fuck Yoga Records/Good Samaritan Records.
APES013 | SUPERSTATIC REVOLUTION / PUPILLE Split
2006 · Basement Apes Ind · CDEP
A pattern against punk teenagers' addiction to consume fashion in capsules. SR's arsenal is one of weighted and valuable influences from post-hardcore, noise and metal while Pupille gets the best out of today's progressive rock. Tracks herein take the weight out of these aural oppositions to converge both of them in the same command of a truly enjoyable journey into the depths of progressive rock/hardcore.
APES012 | AND SAY WE DID Final demonstration
2006 · Basement Apes Ind · CD
Led by ex-bass player of SUPERSTATIC REVOLUTION Cyril Blandino, the Cleveland's quartet who is armed to dissect a trillion notes, self-proclaiming a genre. Reading it math-something on a thousand faces and hearing it noise-something on all voices. No one's to blame here, it seems, please sink your teeth in it... you'll shore your music passion away for a real something. AND SAY WE DID is now renamed ENDAGENDA.
APES011 | ZUL El golpe de la aguja
2006 · Basement Apes Ind · CD
'El golpe de la aguja' unquestionably prides itself on life-size musical strides. As far as this out-classed by such bands as Mogwai or Mono, and before long dethroned by Zul which will shine alone as true archivists. Zul are stirring bridges towards a dark amplification of life itself.
APES010 | THE FANTASTIKOL HOLE Mathematikol oil
2006 · Basement Apes Ind · CD
No matter whyever THE FANTASTIKOL HOLE quartet deserves to be on a label catalogue, they're simply uncategorizable in the current century and for that reason should be heard out by any passionate of freaky music out there. Melting both experimental and metal scenes in an all-star 26-track episode, this digital piece dwells in machine-driven grindcore.
APES009 | TIME TO BURN Starting point
2005 · Basement Apes Ind · Digipack CD
Motivated and characterized by an uncritical devotion to the most extreme sounds. A wild-eyed, unbalanced and obsessive familiarity with post noise hardcore and melancholic mammoth soundscapes impregnated with the saddest melodies. Obviously your next favorite band.
?view=f8327/products/products/products/products"> APES008 | SUPERSTATIC REVOLUTION Goodbye Mr Wanton
2005 · Basement Apes Ind · 12" + CD
Goodbye Mr Wanton is a massive explosion of riffage, destroying the boundaries of metal music into an extended version of anger-driven modern heavy rock. SR construct with furtive grinds, unexpected turns and notes, desperate screams and gigantic emotions, transporting the mind on a high musical progression level.
APES007 | MEMBRANE Utility of useless things
2004 · Basement Apes Ind · Digipack CD
Never a noise band have reached so much high standards. Membrane more-than-decently drains their powerful post noise hardcore full of melancolic images and heavy-as-a-mammoth sounds. Close your eyes and think to be the master of creation.
?view=f8327/products/products/products/products"> APES006 | SPINNING HEADS Change the game
2004 · Basement Apes Ind · 12" + CD
Finally the real essence of heavyness has been unleashed as you can the deafening rumble of ten-floor/thousand-ton building falling onto the desperate ground. Respected and packaged to-the-very-note by Serge Morattel at Geneva's Morattel Studios (Knut, Impure Wilhelmina, Tantrum...) and mastered by Glen Miller.
APES005 | MORGUE Barbed wire cranium
2004 · Basement Apes Ind · CDEP
Morgue path further their way to the pandemonium of extreme yet sophisticated music. 'Barbed wire cranium' foretastes a devastating and straight-to-the-point music which blends grindcore and power-violence.
APES003 | JUGGERNAUT / BBUGG The cato street conspiracy
2003 · Basement Apes Ind · CD
Unconcerned with rules and conventions of metal music, free-wheeling in their own’s own soundscapes, those creatures surrender a six-song and 40-mn odd atomsmasher spilling the beans about butterflies and defying god. Think Isis and Pelican.
APES002 | SUPERSTATIC REVOLUTION We kneel in the pews by the confession box
2003 · Basement Apes Ind · MCD
The second effort from SR. Heavier, classier... comes as a slim digipack cd. No doubt about the fact that SUPERSTATIC REVOLUTION is going ahead of all influences, flying above more progressive beaches through longer songs and reinforce the way they choose on their debut and goes further in the emotional domain with 2 long songs 'Mary versus Jesus Christ' and 'For the limbs grow numb and any movement wakes'. The other songs develop other musical faces from SR with grind, melodies and that little hint of metal. Definitely more intrusive than their debut. A 5-song jammer to tell your beads.
?view=f8327/products/products/products/products"> APES001 | SUPERSTATIC REVOLUTION / SUBMERGE 101010101
2003 · Basement Apes Ind · 7" + CDEP
This cdep is actually the cd version of the 500-copy limited edition split 7’’ made originally possible by Shogun Records The cdep version features the 4 songs included in the 7’’ plus an all-out new lay-out and design. SUPERSTATIC REVOLUTION’s debut recording on this release simply strikes a blow. This band will in no time unleash its talent in the scene by its post hardcore metal mostly tainted by guitar cacophony and intricated structures with an hint of emotion. Fellow band SUBMERGE drives the nail further into the head with 2 new songs; torturated and emotive..