Ampere-Like Shadows

New Ampere, fuck yeah.

"Ampere is an American hardcore band based in Amherst, Massachusetts known for their short (10-15 minutes) but extremely loud and intense live shows. The band has put the importance of DIY hardcore punk ethics at the forefront of their lyrics and are renowned for the particular attention they bring to their vegan principles.

The members of the bands have been involved in the DIY hardcore scene for a number of years with the most notable being guitarist Will Killingsworth , who played guitar in Orchid, Laceration and Bucket Full of Teeth and who continues to run his Clean Plate record label and Dead Air recording studio where the band records all of their music. Drummer Andy Skelly played drums in both The Last 40 Seconds and Wolves, Stephen’s previous bands were montcalm and The Last 40 Seconds; he currently also plays guitar in Aerosols and briefly ran Distort, an independent record store in Northampton, Massachusetts (May ‘06 - December ‘06). Meghan played bass in Stop the Clock and Unicoroner and sang in Relics.

Much like Orchid, Ampere (especially earlier albums such as “All Our Tomorrows End Today”) often borrow some of their intense lyrics from philosophers and revolutionaries such as Guy Debord. They have preserved some of the “intellectual” punk seen in bands like Orchid, Sinaloa, Native Nod, Current, and others. While some view their lyrics as pretentious and obscure, Ampere has persisted in their belief that intellect and art make the best emotive hardcore."-Last.fm

Ampere-Like Shadows 

Ampere-All Our Tomorrows End Today

This album is my favorite release from Ampere. If you like orchid, jerome's dream, or just screamo really, then you need to download this album.

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Ampere-Funeral Diner Split

I've been on a bit of an Ampere binge lately so here is a short split of them and screamo legends Funeral Diner. Ampere's tracks are what you would expect short, fast and and awesome. Funeral Diner's song on this ep is more of slower post hardcore type of sound but it's still epic as fuck and sticks with the typical style of funeral diner's music, everything building up to a break. enjoy

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Ampere-Off Minor split

This is such a small file I couldn't justify not uploading it, both songs are pretty short but Ampere's track on this is one of my favorites from them, it's does so much in it's 30 second run time. You can definitely spare 2 minutes of your life to give this a listen, you won't regret it =]


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Ampere-Sinaloa Split LP

"Ampere is an American hardcore band based in Amherst, Massachusetts known for their short (10-15 minutes) but extremely loud and intense live shows. The band has put the importance of DIY hardcore punk ethics at the forefront of their lyrics and are renowned for the particular attention they bring to their vegan principles.

The members of the bands have been involved in the DIY hardcore scene for a number of years with the most notable being guitarist Will Killingsworth , who played guitar in Orchid, Laceration and Bucket Full of Teeth and who continues to run his Clean Plate record label and Dead Air recording studio where the band records all of their music. Drummer Andy Skelly played drums in both The Last 40 Seconds and Wolves, Stephen’s previous bands were montcalm and The Last 40 Seconds; he currently also plays guitar in Aerosols and briefly ran Distort, an independent record store in Northampton, Massachusetts (May ‘06 - December ‘06). Meghan played bass in Stop the Clock and Unicoroner and sang in relics."-from last.fm


"(1) Since forming in 2001, Sinaloa has been constantly writing songs and touring, while continuing to work their day jobs. Over these years Sinaloa has released three full-length records: Fathers and Sons (2003 - Word Salad/Chernobyl), Footprints on Floorboards (2005 - Waking/Owsla), and Oceans of Islands (2008 - Level Plane/purepainsugar), they also recorded and self-released an acoustic version of Oceans of Islands on tape titled Chapel & Basement (2009)."-also from last.fm i'm high and can't even think of a half assed description. this is good listen to it.

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