First a few words from Mark about Hensch's
Hometown Heroes
Hometowns. Despite the fact it can sometimes
be difficult to admit, we all have them. So do bands. Every band, be they
radio flash-in-the-pans, legends who completely redefine their fields,
or eternal unknowns doomed to a complete lack of notoriety, has a hometown.
That's where I come in. My name's Mark
Hensch....and these are my hometown heroes. These are bands unsigned or
simply unknown, their public relations machines being nearly non-existant.
They're just getting started...or maybe they've languished in the musical
netherworld known as career obscurity for way too long. Regardless, I've
found them, and I'm shining my spotlight on something none of you have
never heard...chances are neither have I.
So that's why "Hensch's Hometown Heroes"
exists. There are tons of great bands out there, just getting started,
in hometowns all over the world. In the world now christened the Global
Village, bands that constitute local acts to me or you might be all the
way across the globe. I promise you the most interesting and/or talented
upstarts from all over the Planet Earth, and I recommend you experiment
with them yourselves...you'll never know what future beacons of genius
are lurking just round the corner in any town in existence, or what crappy
band was accidentally unearthed from beneath the ten-ton rock of suckitude
that should still be keeping them down. The choice is yours to make, and
the fun is in the discovery. Let's rock, and let's ride!
-Mark Hensch
Aras - Hemaseye Andooh (4 stars)
Ogre - Plague of the Planet (5 stars)
The Poison Written - Devices
Mountain Mirrors
Unchariot
- Untold Depths EP
Flesh
for the Beast - Scavengers of the Damned
Bladesmith/Ohvrikivi
- The Tenebrous Journey
Hallways
of the Always - A Masturbatory Aid for the Enthusiastically Violent
The
Makai - The End of All You Know
Novel
of Sin
Vallenbrosa
- Hessian Mercenaries
Vallenbrosa
EP
Dead
Man's Root - Mouth Breather
Bladesmith
- Sharpen Your Blade! EP
Bloody
Panda - Pheromone
Flesh
for the Beast Live
Behind
Lies Ruin Reunion Show
Silver
Daggers - New High & Ord
Monotract
- Trueno Obscuro
Air
Conditioning - Dead Rails
Tides
Within - Worship
In
the Guise of Men
Bladesmith
- The Darkness Remains Unsent
LOAD
Records Doubleshot Special
Pestilence,
Perdition, Plague, Pox - Praeyer
Makahiya
Interview
Makahiya
- Attack of the Bridgeport Shaman
Electric
Needle Room - Trying to Escape the Bigotry
Wolves
in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars
Winternacht
- Lands of Ice and Snow
Forgotten
Land - A Forest is Myne Home
Suffer
the Silence - Sorrow for a Doomed Nation
Suffer
the Silence - A Welcoming to Departure
Drear/Great
American Desert - Warring Against the Sun/Solipsis
Paranaut
Interview
Paranaut
- The Hills Fell Silent
Generation
of Vipers Interview
Generation
of Vipers - Grace
Syndrome
of the Fallen (Bane and Illusion / Syrigx Split CD)
Ogre
- Seven Hells
Mountain
Mirrors interview
Galt
Aureus - Heralds to the Sun
Sadred
Gayang
Kulintangan Revolt Interview
Gayang
Kulintangan Revolt - Misangod Rondom
Maligno
Enemite
- Wuyuan
Bane
and Illusion Interview
Bane
and Illusion
Fort
interview
Fort
- In a New Light
Gwynbleidd
Interview
Gwynbleidd
- Amarathine EP
Space
Raven - Cosmic Magnum EP
Flesh
for the Beast Interview
Flesh
for the Beast - Devouring
Sadomasochism
- Worship the Dark
March
into the Sea - Purge Demo
Peril
- The Desert
Ghostly
- Tombed Demo
Peril
- Lands of Ice Preview
Couldron
- Four Winds EP
Plague
Bringer - As The Ghosts Collect, the Corpses Rest
Salt
of the Earth - The Purity of Oblivion
Get
a Load of This
The
Yellow Swans - Psychic Secession
Barkley's
Barnyard Critters: A Mystery Tail DVD
Moss
- Cthonic Rites
Rabbath
Ammon
Divine
X - The Other Side
Trifog
Wizardzz
- Hidden City of Taurmond
Children
18:3 - Songs of Desperation
Fat
Worm of Error - Pregnant Babies Pregnant With Pregnant Babies
Special
HHH Showcase: Galt Aureus
Golgothian
Denial - The Reign of Hatred
Kites
- Peace Trials
Dead
Man's Root - Demo 2005
No
Tribe - The Day of Days
Chamber
of Sorrows
Akimbo
- Forging Steel and Laying Stone
Glitter
Pals - Unleash The Compassion
Octalux
- Loud, Fast, & Awesome
Tea
Leaves
Raise
the Red Lantern - Breathe Fire
Agnosis
- Hecate EP
Kosmology
by Jeremy Christner (Great American Desert)
Electric
Needle Room - My Socks Never Match
Koncrete
Kite - The Joy of Bee Stings
Great
Dane - One-Leaf Tree
Couldron
- Couldron
The
Drawers - Parlor Noise
Vrolok
- Soul Amputation
Drear
- Hope is the Opiate of the Masses
Robert
Fairweather & the Luv Machine - Big Maracas
Elijah
Bossenbroek - Harmony in Disarray
Robert
Fairweather and the Luv Machine - Blizzard in Chicago
Anti-Hero
Interview
Troll
- Que Son Los Trolls Y En Que Nos Ayudan?
Anti-Hero
- Unpretty
Children
18:3 - Places I Don't Want to Go
Ogre
- Ogre Demo 2000
Great
American Desert - Land of Tears
Manhir
- Feelings from the Stone
Hollow
- Silence
Space
Raven - Singles Demo
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