Mediafire account suspended

I guess it's inevitable these days that your Mediafire account will get falsely suspended if you have any public links to your files. In this case, NBC Universal claimed that "Mama - Операция Пластилин (2009).zip" was the movie "MAMA (2013)" and that was enough to suspend my account without actually checking the validity of the claim in ANY way. It's not even remotely plausible to fit a full-length movie in a 90mb zip file, not to mention that the file names only "match" if you're a robot. Great job, intellectual property laws. I sent a counter-claim, but I'm not very optimistic that it'll be reversed.

So, what this means is that almost all of the download links on here are dead at the moment. I'll be working on fixing them soon.

Update: All download links should be working again. Also, they are direct links now so no more annoying ad-filled landing pages before you're able to download.

An Introduction

So, I figured I should probably introduce myself. My name's Ryan. I live in California and I like crust/punk/hardcore that incorporates bowed string instruments. That seems like enough information.

I started this blog because I thought I had compiled a somewhat definitive list of all bands/albums/songs that fit into the aforementioned category and wanted to share it. My list up to that point contained pretty much all of stuff I have posted so far, but nothing more (special thanks to whoever created this pastebin paste, it helped a lot). I thought that after these initial posts, I'd begin to post sporadically, only on the rare occasion that I happen to come across something that fit the theme. Well, it turns out I was wrong.

In the past few days, I have discovered that my previous list was only the tip of the iceberg. There are more bands/albums/songs that fit the theme of the blog than I could have possibly imagined, but many of them certainly take some digging to find. Because of that, I have added a page to the blog detailing what I plan to post, what I've found, and a few of the ways I look for things. Make sure to check it out here (the link is also in the sidebar on the right):

List of Things To Be Posted or That I've Recently Found

Also, I don't think I've been very good about promoting this blog. I'll try to do better, but it'd be very helpful if those of you who do like it/know it exists would help spread the word. Plus, feel free to contact me or post comments. I want to thank the few people that have gotten in touch with me so far; they have all been really helpful and nice

P.S. Today I received Al-Thawra's "Who Benefits From War?" CD (which has violin) and the Pazahora / Ghaust split 7" (Pazahora's side has violin), so be on the lookout for those to be posted in the near future.