The Early November

The Early November are a five-piece emo/post-hardcore band from Hammonton, New Jersey that formed in 2001. Shortly after forming, they ended up getting signed to Drive-Thru Records, releasing two EP's and a full-length with them between 2002 and 2003 alone. This was followed up with the ambitious The Mother, The Mechanic, And The Path, a three-disc concept album. In the year following its release, the band went on hiatus. They reunited in 2011, and have been steadily active ever since, putting out new material via Rise and Pure Noise Records. 

Admittedly, I don't know a ton about this band or listen to them all too often, though their first full-length and EP are solid, and "Ever So Sweet" is an absolute standout, whether it be the album, acoustic, or live version. I know this band gets a ton of requests, so figured there is no better time to get this post done then now, in early November. If you are completely new to them, fans of bands including Saves The Day, The Starting Line, The Get Up Kids, Taking Back Sunday or Jets To Brazil might take interest in here. Think driving guitars with melodic yet melancholic intonations, and a heavy emphasis on singer/guitarist Ace Enders' songwriting. He's also been active with a solo project, I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business, which has been concurrent with The Early November for nearly their entire career. Enjoy.

An Excellent Attempt At Next To Youism (2001)

1. Every Night's Another Story (Demo)

2. For The Road (Demo)

3. All We Ever Needed (Demo)

4. Come Back (Demo)

5. Just Enough (Demo)

6. Pretty Pretty (Demo)

7. Make Believe (Demo)

8. My Sleep Pattern Changed (Demo)

9. Ashala Rock (Demo)

10. Open Eyes (Demo)

11. Sunday Drive (Demo)

For All Of This (2002)

1. Every Night's Another Story

2. I Want To Hear You Sad

3. All We Ever Needed

4. Sunday Drive

5. Take Time And Find

6. Ashala Rock

7. Come Back

8. We Write The Wrong

The Acoustic EP (2003)

1. Ever So Sweet

2. I Want To Hear You Sad

3. All We Ever Needed

4. Sunday Drive

5. Come Back

6. Make It Happen

7. Every Night's Another Story

The Room's Too Cold (2003)

1. Ever So Sweet

2. Something That Produces Results

3. The Mountain Range In My Living Room

4. Sesame, Smeshame

5. Baby Blue

6. The Course Of Human Life

7. Dinner At The Money Table

8. Exchanging Two Hundred

9. My Sleep Pattern Changed

10. Fluxy

11. Everything's Too Cold... But You're So Hot

The Early November/I Am The Avalanche (2005)

1. The Early November - Outside (Demo)

2. The Early November - Ever So Sweet (Live)

3. I Am The Avalanche - New Disaster

4. I Am The Avalanche - I Took A Beating (Acoustic)

The Mother, The Mechanic, And The Path (2006)

Disc 1: The Mechanic

1. Money In His Hand

2. The Rest of My Life

3. Decoration

4. No Good At Saying Sorry (One More Chance)

5. This Wasn't In Our Plan

6. The One You Hated

7. Long Talks

8. Outside

9. Make A Decision

10. The Car In 20

11. Figure It Out

Disc 2: The Mother

1. My Lack of Skill

2. A Little More Time

3. Little Black Heart

4. Hair

5. Driving South

6. Scared To Lose

7. From Here To L.A.

8. Is It My Fault

9. I Don't Know How To Say This

10. The Truth Is

11. 1000 Times A Day

Disc 3: The Path

1. Intro

2. We Grew Up The Same

3. Runaway

4. Session 01

5. This Is Love

6. Session 02

7. We're Finding Something Out

8. Session 03

9. Decoration

10. Session 04

11. Uncle

12. Session 05

13. Never Coming Back

14. Guess What

15. Session 06

16. You Don't Know What It's Like

17. Session 07

18. Look At Me

19. Session 08

20. Session 08 Part II

21. Runaway II

22. Session 09

23. I Think This Is Love

24. A Bigger Meaning

In Currents (2012)

1. A Stain On The Carpet

2. Frayed In Doubt

3. In Currents

4. Digital Age

5. Tell Me Why

6. Close To You

7. Guilt & Swell

8. That's Not Your Real Name

9. Like A Kid

10. Smell Of This Place

11. Wearing The Tie

12. Call Off The Bells

Imbue (2015)

1. Narrow Mouth

2. Better This Way

3. Magnolia

4. The Negatives

5. Boxing Timelines

6. Circulation

7. Harmony

8. Cyanide

9. I Don't Care

10. Nothing Lasts Forever

11. Digital Age

Fifteen Years (2017)

1. Narrow Mouth

2. Outside

3. The Mountain Range In My Living Room

4. Boxing Timelines

5. Tell Me Why

6. A Little More Time

7. Decoration

8. Call Of The Bells

9. Frayed In Doubt

10. I Don't Care

11. In Currents

12. Figure It Out

13. Driving South

14. Sunday Drive

15. Ever So Sweet

Lilac (2019)

1. Perfect Sphere (Bubble)

2. My Weakness

3. Ave Maria

4. Hit By A Car (In Euphoria)

5. Comatose

6. Fame

7. You Own My Mind

8. I Dissolve

9. Make My Bed

10. Our Choice

11. The Lilac

Twenty (2022)

1. Trees

2. Make It Happen

3. Denent

4. Over My Shoulder

5. Five Years

6. The Sand

7. 5am On Sunday

8. My Own Dialogue

9. Pretty Pretty

10. Open Eyes

The Early November (2024)

1. The Empress

2. The Magician

3. About Me

4. What We Earn

5. We Hang On

6. The Fool

7. Tired Of Lying

8. The Dirtiest Things

9. The High Priestess

10. It Will Always Be

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Holy Fawn

Holy Fawn are a four-piece post-rock/shoegaze band from Phoenix, Arizona that began in 2015. Since then, they've released two full-lengths and a few EP's/singles. Sonically, they play a dark and expansive take on post-rock that's simultaneously foreboding and ethereal, with shimmering tremolos and hard-hitting riffs. They reach immaculately heavy crescendos with walls of distortion and reverb, while the driving rhythm section give them a real energy and urgency, with soft vocals splashed against the background of the noise. Fans of bands including Slow Crush, Greet Death, Nothing, Deafheaven or Cloakroom should absolutely give this a listen if you haven't already. Enjoy.

Realms (2015)

1. Can We Lie Here?

2. Colossus

3. Amulet

4. Foal

5. Glóandi

6. Lo

Death Spells (2018)

1. Dark Stone

2. Arrows

3. Drag Me Into The Woods

4. Yawning

5. Seer

6. Two Waves

7. Take Me With You

8. Vespertine

9. Same Blood

10. Sleep Tongue

The Maze (2020)

1. The Maze (Manchester Orchestra cover)

hf:LHPN/seer/REF2.alt (2020)

1. hf:LHPN/seer/REF2.alt

The Black Moon (2020)

1. Candy

2. Tethered

3. Blood Pact

Dimensional Bleed (2022)

1. Hexsewn

2. Death Is A Relief

3. Lift Your Head

4. Empty Vials

5. Amaranthine

6. Dimensional Bleed

7. Sightless

8. Void Of Light

9. True Loss

10. Blood Memory

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Ed Gein

Ed Gein was an American interior designer were a three-piece grindcore/hardcore band from Syracuse, New York that formed in 2001 before amicably breaking up in 2018. Its members reconvened shortly thereafter to form Shadow Snakes, a new project that veered away from the legacy of their former band. Sonically, Ed Gein were chaotic and discordant while remaining distincly rhythmic, with throat-shredding vocals and heavy, trebly riffs. Fans of bands such as The Number Twelve Looks Like You. Heavy Heavy Low Low, or As The Sun Sets will definitely find something to love here, even if those aren't exact comparisons. Despite their lengthy tenure, their release schedule was pretty sporadic. With only three-full lengths, two EP's and a demo, it doesn't take long to get through their entire discography. If you're looking for somewhere to start out, It's A Shame... is probably their most mathy/grindy, while Bad Luck is the closest they get to straight-up hardcore, so depending on your tastes either of those might interest you most, though Judas Goats & Dieseleaters is also a good option with less polarity. Enjoy.

Ed Gein (2002)

1. Bathed In Orange

2. Score One For Team Bitch

3. Willie Loman

It's A Shame That A Family Can Be Torn Apart By Something As Simple As A Pack Of Wild Dogs (2003)

1. You Suck At Life... And I'm Not Talking About The Board Game

2. The Marlboro Man Is A Douche Bag

3. A Way To Kill Old People

4. Nice Shoes... Wanna Fuck?

5. I Wish You The Best

6. And By Best I Mean Worst

7. Beating A Dead Horse

8. What Is This Monstrosity?!

Judas Goats & Dieseleaters (2005)

1. Robert Flaig

2. Small Towns, Small Minds

3. Killing A Co-Worker

4. Pee Wee Herman/Paul Reubens

5. We're Drowning In It

6. Amen

7. Christianity As Foreign Policy

8. United Ninety Three

9. Bastard

10. A Conflict Of Interest

11. The Wool Is Pulled

12. Guilty As Charged

13. This Ends Now

14. Breed (Nirvana cover)

Bad Luck (2011)

1. Intro

2. Wage Slave

3. The Wraith

4. Bullet Dodger

5. Captain Shit

6. Into The Fire

7. She Creeps

8. Moth Collection (Into The Freezer)

9. The Spectacle

10. VIP's

11. Wasted Life

Smoked (2016)

1. The Legion

2. Build A Wall Around D.C.

3. Tarrare

4. Dragged

5. Like Rain

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The Locust

The Locust are a four-piece hardcore?/grindcore?/powerviolence?/noise rock? band from San Diego California, that began in 1994. Since then, they've become one of extreme music's most unique and reputable sources for off-the-wall, outside-the-box sonic bizareness, with theatric live performances and insane recordings. Following a few line-up changes in their earliest incarnation, the band's roster settled with some very familiar figures in the world of hardcore. This includes vocalist/bassist Justin Pearson (Swing Kids, Struggle, Some Girls, Holy Molar, Head Wound City, Retox, Dead Cross) and guitarist-turned-drummer Gabe Serbian (Cattle Decapitation, Holy Molar, Head Wound City), who unfortunately died earlier this year. The band was rounded out by guitarist/vocalist and founding member Bobby Bray, alongside keyboardist/vocalist Joey Karam.

To try and even describe The Locust is an insurmountable task, and one not even worth really attempting. Think minute-long bursts of unhinged chaos at breakneck speeds with disconerting rhythms, and even that doesn't do it justice. They evolved and changed quickly as a unit, pumping out three full-lengths and a whole wack of other material in just a few short years. For a quick guide, the majority of their discography can be found on the 2012 compilation Molecular Genetics From The Gold Standard Labs. Between that, Plague Soundscapes, New Erections, and their splits with Jenny Piccolo and Man Is The Bastard, you've covered most of your bases. If you're new to them, I'd suggest starting with Plague Soundscapes, and diving further into the rabbit hole from there. Enjoy.

Our Earth's Blood Pt. 2/Locust (1995)

1. Man Is The Bastard - Margin For Disintegration

2. Man Is The Bastard - War

3. Man Is The Bastard - Prayer From Another Land

4. Man Is The Bastard - Robotic Anenomi

5. Man Is The Bastard - Cave Water Rings

6. Man Is The Bastard - A Periscope's Demise By Torpedo

7. Man Is The Bastard - Rocket Brain Failure

8. Man Is The Bastard - Ward Of Knives

9. Man Is The Bastard - Lunatic Hunting People

10. Man Is The Bastard - Pluto's Winter

11. Man Is The Bastard - Jupiter's Autumn

12. Man Is The Bastard - Katlehong Journal (An Update)

13. The Locust - Ass Gravity

14. The Locust - Futile Agreement

15. The Locust - Sever The Toe

16. The Locust - Emaciation Fuckers

17. The Locust - Red

18. The Locust - Inbred America

19. The Locust - Hellos

20. The Locust - Personal History

21. The Locust - Keep Off The Tracks

The Locust/Jenny Piccolo (1996)

1. The Locust - Follow The Flock, Step In Shit

2. The Locust - Coffin Nails

3. Jenny Piccolo - Labor Day '92

4. Jenny Piccolo - Six

5. Jenny Piccolo - Hand That Feeds

6. Jenny Piccolo - One Year

The Locust (1997)

1. Halfway To A Worthless Ideal Arrangement (An Interlude To A Discontinued Sarcastic Harmony... Yea Whatever)

2. Prepare To Qualify

3. Kill Rodger Hedgecock

4. Pain Reliever

5. Off By A Long Shot

6. Cattle Mutilation

7. #99

8. Head Hits Concrete

9. Hairspray Supository

The Locust (1998)

1. Moth-Eaten Deer Head

2. Brand New Set Of Teeth

3. How To Build A Pessimistic Lie Detector

4. Nice Tranquil Thumb In Mouth

5. Dog Without A Collar (Run Over Red Rover)

6. The Perils Of Believing In Round Squares

7. Normal Run Of The Muck (Compensation For Conversation)

8. Stucco Obelisks Labeled As Trees

9. Straight From The Horses Mouth

10. An Extra Piece Of Dead Meat

11. Twenty-Three Full -Time Cowboys

12. Backbones Of Jack Asses

13. Fixed Companionship, Ghost Town Irrationality

14. Skin Graft At Seventy-Five Miles Per Hour

15. High-Maintenance Libido, Bring The Whole Family

16. Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle

17. Halfway To A Worthless Ideal Arrangement (An Interlude To A Discontinued Sarcastic Harmony Yea Whatever)

18. Kill Roger Hedgecock

The Locust/Arab On Radar (2000)

1. The Locust - Get Off The Cross, The Wood Is Needed

2. The Locust - Wet Nurse Syndrome Hand-Me-Down Display Case

3. The Locust - This Is Radio Surgery

4. The Locust - Spitting In The Faces Of Fools As A Source Of Nutrition

5. The Locust - Sever The Toes

6. Arab On Radar - Three Meals Away From A Crack Whore

7. Arab On Radar - Piggin In The Pumpkin Patch

Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle (2000)

1. Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle

2. Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle (Bastard Noise Remix)

3. Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle (Wizards of War Remix)

4. Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle (Christoph De Babalon Remix)

5. Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle (Sinking Body Remix)

6. Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle (Kid606 Remix)

7. Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle (I Am Spoonbender Remix)

Flight Of The Wounded Locust (2001)

1. Gluing Carpet To Your Genitals Does Not Make You A Cantaloupe

2. Turning Your Merchandise Into A Ripped Wall Of Mini-Abs

3. Bring Your 65 Italian Carbine

4. Alas Here Come The Hypochondriacs To Wait With You In The Lobby

5. Siphoning Projectiles During Selective Amnesia

6. Get Off The Cross, The Wood Is Needed

7. Wet Nurse Syndrome Hand-Me-Down Display Case

8. This Is Radio Surgery

9. Spitting In The Faces Of Fools As A Source Of Nutrition

10. Sever The Toes

11. Flight Of The Wounded Locust

The Locust/Melt Banana (2002)

1. The Locust - How to Become a Virgin

2. The Locust - Who Wants a Dose of the Clap?

3. The Locust - Twenty‐Three Lubed‐Up Schizophrenics With Delusions of Grandeur

4. The Locust - Priest With the Sexually‐Transmitted Diseases Get Out of My Bed

5. The Locust - The Half‐Eaten Sausage Would Like to See You in His Office

6. Melt-Banana - Too Rough to Scoop (Find a Grain of Greed)

7. Melt-Banana - Creeps in a White Cake

Plague Soundscapes (2003)

1. Recyclable Body Fluids In Human Form

2. Identity Exchange Program Rectum Return Policy

3. Solar Panel Asses

4. Live From The Russian Compound

5. Earwax Halo Manufactured For The Champion In All Of us

6. Wet Dream War Machine

7. Listen, The Mighty Ear Is Here

8. Who Wants A Dose Of The Clap?

9. Teenage Mustache

10. How To Become A Virgin

11. Anything Jesus Does I Can Do Better

12. Late For A Double Date With A Pile Of Atoms In The Water Closet

13. File Under 'Soft Core Seizures'

14. Practiced Hatred (Crossed Out cover)

15. Psst! Is That A Halfie In Your Pants?

16. The Half-Eaten Sausage Would Like To See You In His Office

17. Pulling The Christmas Pig By The Wrong Pairs Of Ears

18. Can We Please Get Another Nail in The Coffin Of Culture Theft?

19. Your Mantel Disguised As A Psychic Sasquatch

20. Twenty-Three Lubed Up Schizophrenics With Delusions Of Grandeur

21. Captain Gaydar It's Time To Wind Your Clock Again

22. Priest With The Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Get Out Of My Bed

23. Pickup Truck Full Of Forty Minutes

Follow The Flock, Step In Shit (2004)

1. Follow The Flock, Step In Shit

2. Coffin Nails

3. Red

Safety Second, Body Last (2005)

1. Armless And Overactive / Invented Organs

2. One Decent Leg / Immune System Overtime

New Erections (2007)

1. AOTKPTA

2. We Have Reached An Official Verdict: Nobody Gives A Shit

3. The Unwilling... Led By The Unqualified... Doing The Unnecessary... For The Ungrateful...

4. One Manometer Away From Mutually Assured Relocation

5. Full Frontal Obscurity

6. Scavenger, Invader

7. Hot Tubs Full Of Brand New Fuel

8. God Wants Us All To Work In Factories

9. Book Of Bot

10. Slum Service (Slyed On The Sly)

11. Tower Of Mammal

The Peel Sessions (2010)

1. How To Become A Virgin

2. The Half-Eaten Sausage Would Like To See You In His Office

3. Kill Roger Hedgecock

4. Straight From The Horse's Mouth

5. Moth-Eater Deer Head

6. Priests With The Sexually-Transmitted Diseases, Get Out Of My Bed

7. Cattle Mutilation

8. Perils Of Believing In Round Squares

9. Twenty-Three Lubed-Up Schizophrenics With Delusions Of Grandeur

10. Stucco Obelisks Labeled As Trees

11. Skin Graft At Seventy-Five Miles An Hour

12. Get Off The Cross, The Wood Is Needed

13. Who Wants A Donse Of The Clap

14. Wet Nurse Syndrome (Hand Me Down Display Case)

15. Gluing Carpet To Your Genitals Does Not Make You Cantaloupe

16. Twenty-Three Full-Time Cowboys

Molecular Genetics From The Gold Standards Labs (2012)

1. How To Become A Virgin

2. Who Wants A Dose Of The Clap?

3. Twenty-Three Lubed Up Schizophrenics With Delusions Of Granduer

4. Priests With The Sexually Transmitted Diseases Get Out Of My Bed

5. The Half-Eaten Sausage Would Like To See You In His Office

6. Perils Of Believing In Round Squares

7. Flash's Theme

8. Gluing Carpet To Your Genitals Does Not Make You Cantaloupe

9. Turning Your Merchandise Into A Ripped Wall Of Mini-Abs

10. Bring Your 6.5 Italian Carbine

11. Alas, Here Come The Hypochondriacs To Wait With You In The Lobby

12. Siphoning Projectiles During Selective Amnesia

13. Flight Of The Wounded Locust

14. Get Off The Cross, The Wood Is Needed

15. Wet Nurse Syndrome Hand-Me-Down Display Case

16. This Is Radio Surgery

17. Spitting In The Faces Of Fools As A Source Of Nutrition

18. Sever The Toes

19. Well I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle

20. Moth-Eaten Deer Head

21. Brand New Set Of Teeth

22. How To Build A Pessimistic Lie Detector

23. Nice Tranquil Thumb in Mouth

24. Dog Without A Collar (Run Over Red Rover)

25. Normal Run Of The Muck (Compensation For Conversation)

26. Stucco Obelisks Labeled As Trees

27. Straight From The Horse's Mouth

28. An Extra Piece Of Dead Meat

29. Twenty-Three Full-Time Cowboys

30. Backbones Of Jack Asses

31. Fixed Companionship, Ghost Town Irrationality

32. Skin Graft At Seventy-Five Miles Per Hour

33. High-Maintenance Libido, Bring The Whole Family

34. Halfway To A Worthless Ideal Arrangement (An Interlude To A Discontinued Sarcastic Harmony... Yea Whatever)

35. Kill Rodger Hedgecock

36. Hairspray Suppository

37. Cattle Mutilation

38. Prepare To Qualify

39. Pain Reliever

40. Off By A Long Shot

41. Head Hits Concrete

42. Ass Gravity

43. Keep Off The Tracks

44. #99

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Chino Horde

Chino Horde were a four-piece emo/punk band from Little Rock, Arkansas that began in 1990 and broke up in 1993. They played an early iteration of emo featuring melodic bass lines, vibrant guitars and vocals that ebb from spoken to screamed in an instant. I don't think it'd be a stretch to suggest these guys were big fans of bands like Embrace that preceded them by just a few years. They released a small chunk of material, with only one full-length, a few EPs, and a split with the also-incredible Current. Their discography was later compiled in 2010 for a vinyl release, though I don't have a digital version of that. A quick point of interest with this band is that their bassist, Jason White, would later become known as a long-time touring guitarist with Green Day and a member of Pinhead Gunpowder. Other members of Chino Horde also formed Thumbnail, who were active in the late 90's Enjoy.

Demo Cassette (1990)

1. Twenty Seven

2. Single Question

3. Invalid

4. Velour

5. Too-Edged

6. Too-Edged

7. Prelude

8. Pinned

9. Racket

10. RSON

Chino Horde 7" (1992)

1. Merit

2. Racket

Towncraft: Music And Words From Little Rock, Arkansas (1992)

9. Composite

Chino Horde (1993)

1. Undone And Over

2. Natural

3. Twenty-Seven

4. Paul

5. Arson

6. Silo

7. Composite

8. Donor

Current/Chino Horde (1994)

1. Current - Monument

2. Chino Horde - What You Can't Get Now, I'll Give You Later (Prelude)

3 Chino Horde - Silo

This Is Done (1995)

1. Song 3

2. Song 2

3. Song 1

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