BAND OF THE DAY: CRIME DESIRE

Heavy music long ago devolved into just desperately rearranging building blocks in different orders and hoping for something different enough to make your listening experience in some small way memorable. On their own, Discharge + Hellhammer isn't particularly interesting, being instantly indicative of the over-saturated and joyless glut of Fenriz-endorsed pose-striking metalpunk bands. Throw in the original wave of corrosive post-punk/goth rock and belligerent East Coast hardcore, and we're breaking out the partypoppers.

Referred to by idiots who only listen to one type of music as 'Satanic hardcore' – anyone remember when Bleeding Through were briefly called 'black metalcore'? – San Diego's elusive Crime Desire crank out brooding, mean-spirited, stripped down (to the point where it was recorded on an analogue tape and then mastered straight onto vinyl) hardcore that's absolutely spoiling for a brawl. Their recent wax work, 'Alone in a Dream' gets right up in the face of their core inspiration and gives them a great big kiss with guest wailing from Christian Death's Gitane Demone (plus her daughter Zara). Both that, and the earlier 2009 EP 'Every Day... in Chains' are downloadable for pay what you want (including nothing) here. Get it now and daub weepy streaks under your eyes with mascara.