FFFF: Braiden - The Alps

I don't mean to post harsh and fast as lightning black metal for each of the Fast and Furious Friday Features
 but that's the way it usually goes, but I;m changing things today, even if the bpm of this is about 100 below what I usually post, doesn't mean it's got no momentum. Braiden's track the Alps has been on constant rotation at mine for months and I've overlooked it for too long.  If your ears are anywhere near the bass ripples of the dubstep scene then you'll know what this already - released in November on Joy Orbison's Doldrums label; If this is all news to you, you're in for the treat of your winter. The way the elements of the track keep building up, overlapping, multiplying sends the brain into a twitching hyperactive trance.  Imagine this pouring out a wall of speakers. IMAGINE!

FFFF: Zeitgeister Records Sampler

For today's Fast and Furious Friday Feature I'm giving you not one, not two but a whole sampler full of high velocity mayhem to contend with!! 

German Black Metal distro/label Zeitgeister Records has a Soundcloud sampler up and running showcasing a whole range of blackened sounds, from the kinetic Klabautamann, to the more doomy lumberings of Woburn House.  Black metal is having a bit of a renaissance at the moment I feel; It;s kicking off again over in the US, the UK is going back to its Pagan roots and these German artists all have a lot going on for them, especially the Owl track, which is as infectious and addictive as it is mysterious - no web presence for them at all.

HORNS UP MOTHER FUCKERS!!!!!!