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BLACK TAR PROPHET: Tennessee Instrumental Sludge Duo To Deafen The Masses With Second Full-Length; New Track Streaming

Tuesday, March 11th, 2014

Tennessee-based, feedback-laden, instrumental bass and drum duo, BLACK TAR PROPHET, will release their second full-length next month via the sound prophets at Domestic Genocide. Titled Deafen, the nine track behemoth was recorded live with Max Otworth (Lysura, Venality) at Sonic Hex Recording Compound and sounds like planets colliding. Wholly organic, Deafen delivers an unapologetically raw, corrosive barrage of sludgy, tar-thick bass riffing and fuzzy noise-strewn, distortion powered by Black Arts Toneworks custom built pedals and is meant to be played at strategically loud volumes.

Comments bassist/noise enthusiast Greg Swinehart, “When we tracked this album, we planned on keeping a strong, raw, live sound. We didn’t want an overproduced sounding record. We don’t want to be the same shit as all the other bands out there. People like us or hate us. And fuck it either way. The backbone behind BLACK TAR PROPHET is hate mixed with a big fuck you. We’re not trying to jump on any bandwagon. We play what we like. And whatever genre it is, we don’t care. We are happy working with Domestic Genocide and hope to provide more noise before 2015, book as many shows as we can, and stay active, as we have been the past three years.”

Deafen Track Listing:
1. Dethroned
2. Judgment Whore
3. Bottom Feeder
4. Ring of Buzzards
5. Back on the Nod
6. Stoned to Death
7. Hypomania
8. Let the Cold Winds Blow
9. Condemned

Deafen will be available on April 19th via Domestic Genocide with preorders to be announced in the coming weeks. In the meantime, get down and dirty with scathing opening track “Dethroned,” now playing at THIS LOCATION.

BLACK TAR PROHET will impose their vibrations on local ears with a handful of live abrasions. More shows to be announced in the weeks to come.

BLACK TAR PROPHET Live:
4/25/2014 Springwater – Nashville, TN w/ Destroyer Of Light, Widower, Sovereign
5/03/2014 TBA – Evansville, IN w/ Gorgantherron
7/03/2014 Springwater – Nashville,TN w/ Fister, Forest Of Tygers, Sheep Shifter

BLACK TAR PROHET was spawned in 2011 in Nashville by Swinehart, then on drums, and former guitarist Mark Owen with a simple desire to record low quality demos of heavy riffs in Greg’s living room. The pair eventually left the living room jam sessions and recorded their debut LP, Note To Nod. Tracked and mastered in Swinehart’s shed, the record features one gargantuan forty-two-minute track of girthy riffs, feedback and hostility. Following a short live excursion, Owen fled the band for personal reasons. Swinehart moved to bass and recruited drummer Erik Dever. Their enormous volume efforts proved effective and in 2012 the band joined forces with Atlanta sludge bringers, Crawl, for a split CD. The following year the band performed upwards of sixty shows throughout the Southern and Midwest regions, deafening unsuspecting ears one decibel at a time. In 2014, no one is safe.

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GNAW: NYC Demented Noise Peddlers To Annihilate Pitchfork’s SXSW Show No Mercy Fest Tuesday; Band Announces Euro Tour With OvO + Appearance At Red Bull Music Academy Fest

Monday, March 10th, 2014

New York demented noise peddlers, GNAW, will be showering Austin ears this week with their corrosive canticles at Pitchfork’s Show No Mercy showcase  March 11th alongside Indian, Kylesa, Power Trip, Christian Mistress, Windhand, Iron Reagan, Youth Code, Primitive Man, Psalm Zero, Sannhet and Yautja. The following month GNAW will spread their audio plague across Europe with their cohorts in Italian avant noise duo, OvO for a run of live rituals through Belgium, France and the United Kingdom. But the sonic deconstruction won’t end there. On May 16th GNAW will crush the dreams of the hopeful as part of the Red Bull Music Academy Fest alongside Tim Hecker, Napalm Death, Gunplay, Wolf Eyes, Bastard Noise, Lubomyr Melnyk, Skullflower, Okkyung Lee, Clipping and more!

GNAW Live Incursions 2014:
3/11/2014 Pitchfork/Show No Mercy Showcase @ The Mohawk – Austin, TX
4/26/2014 Ancienne Belgique – Brussels, BE w/ Alos
4/28/2014 Le Saint Des Seins – Toulouse, FR w/ OvO, Cober Ord
4/29/2014 Les Instants Chavirès – Paris, FR w/ OvO
5/01/2014 The Victoria – London, UK w/ OvO, Shitwife
5/02/2014 Mellomello – Liverpool, UK w/ OvO
5/03/2014 The 13th Note – Glasgow, UK w/ OvO, Black Sun-Drum Korps
5/04/2014 Leave Me Here All Day Fest @ The Cluny – Newcastle, UK w/ OvO, Necro Deathmort, more..
5/08/2014 St Vitus Bar – Brooklyn, NY w/ Whitehorse
5/16/2014 Red Bull Music Academy Festival @ Knockdown Center – Queens, NY

The ominous anti-design of Alan Dubin (Khanate, Old, O.L.D.), Carter Thornton (Enos Slaughter), Jun Mizumachi (Ike Yard), Brian Beatrice and Eric Neuser, GNAW will be expelling hymns from their recently unleashed Horrible Chamber full-length. A jolting, spiritually abrasive exercise in noise-scorched, audio torment for fans of Khanate, Gnaw Their Tongues, Locrian, and open-face surgery, on Horrible Chamber GNAW manufactures gnarly, nerve-wracking sound orgies where the cumulative sensations of dread, trauma, wrath and repugnance crash into a disturbingly cathartic state of ominous, audio disease. Horrible Chamber was recorded at Seizures Palace by Jason LaFarge (Swans, Akron/Family, Khanate, Angels Of Light), mixed by Brian Beatrice at audioEngine and mastered by James Plotkin (OLD, Scorn, Khanate, Khlyst etc), with additional elements recorded by Beatrice, Dubin, Thornton, and Mizumachi in various chambers.

Horrible Chamber is currently available via Seventh Rule Recordings. Order your copy today at THIS LOCATION.

“Part horrifying ambient-noise-terrorism and part doom-metal slash and burn…” — Noisey

“… a fascinating listen.” – Decibel

“Horrible Chamber is the only album I’ve been scared to listen to again… it is a stark, intimate, frenetic work of raw emotive power and sonic precision. Enter if you dare.” – Unhinged Music

“Few bands have managed to pull off such a seamless and triumphant splicing of doom metal, noise and industrial as GNAW have managed to do with this album, and in this extremely unique, surreal and particular world the band dwells in, Horrible Chamber represents hands down industrial doom’s finest hour of 2013.” – Cvlt Nation

“A psychosexual mood piece — sometimes a bleak doom metal dirge, sometimes bleary noise, sometimes 12 minutes of analog darkwave,…The Eyes Wide Shut piano drags it all the way to the dungeon.” – Spin

“…a hideous juggernaut or aural evil that is the musical equivalent to venom coursing through your veins.” – SputnikMusic


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EARSPLIT PR: Roundup From The Compound – March 10, 2014

Monday, March 10th, 2014

ENABLER Locks Tour To New England Metal & Hardcore Fest, Announces New Drummer And Album – After several months off the grid, metallic punk radicals, ENABLER, now pledge full-on annihilation in 2014, today announcing their revamped lineup, a plethora of upcoming live actions, and the completion of their highly anticipated second LP. [More…]

THE DRIP: Seattle Grindcore Squad Signs With Relapse; Track Released – Relapse Records this week confirms the label signing of blistering grindcore quartet, THE DRIP, releasing an arsenal of details on the band’s debut recording for the label. [More…]

ANAGNORISIS: Winter Live Incursion Begins This Week; Band Marks 100th Show – Louisville’s infectious black metal contingent, ANAGNORISIS, begins their latest live incursion this Thursday, March 6th with a hometown performance, with eight more cities lined-up behind the kickoff show. [More…]

PRIZEHOG: Third LP From Celestial Space Sludge Trio Streaming At The Obelisk - Portland’s celestial space sludge trio, PRIZEHOG this week celebrates the release of their mammoth third full-length as outsider horde, Eolian Empire, unveils the supernova of creativity that is Re-Unvent the Whool. [More…]

FUCKED UP: Canadian Hardcore Punk Perpetrators To Release Sixth Installment Of The Zodiac Series Via Tankcrimes; Band To Take Over SXSW + Brainsqueeze Fest – Long running Canadian hardcore punk perpetrators, FUCKED UP, will discharge the sixth installment of the “Zodiac Series” with Year Of The Dragon this Spring. [More…]

NORTH: Arizona Post Sludge Metal Collective Reveal New Track From Upcoming EP; Preorders Available – Following the recent announcement of Metanoia, the forthcoming 12” EP from dusty post-sludge metal collective, NORTH, Cvlt Nation offers up a taste of its desolately rich and reverbed explosiveness with “Hiraeth.” [More…]

ILSA & SEVEN SISTERS OF SLEEP Confirm Northeastern US Tour – Following the 2013 split release between the two acts, A389 Recordings this week announces a short Northeastern US tour with a duo of priority acts from the label’s mighty roster; Washington DC’s ILSA and Southern California’s SEVEN SISTERS OF SLEEP. [More…]

THE SOCKS: Psychedelic Fuzz Rock Merchants Premiere “Electric War” At Heavy Planet; Release Of Forthcoming LP Draws Near – With the release of their self-titled debut full-length now just two weeks away, French fuzz rock merchants, THE SOCKS, in cooperation with the volume dealers at HeavyPlanet, are pleased to tease another new track with “Electric War.” [More…]

RUN WITH THE HUNTED: Arizona Punk/Hardcore Assault To Release Fourth Full-Length Via Panic Records + Teaser Video Posted; Band To Embark On Short Run Of Live Takeovers – Arizona punk/hardcore assault, RUN WITH THE HUNTED, are pleased to announce the release of their long-awaited new full-length. [More…]

OBLITERATIONS: Tour To Brutalize SXSW Begins Today; Band To Record At Studio 606 – Cali punks, OBLITERATIONS, hit the road this week on their way to brutalize SXSW 2014 with a rash of performances exposing the public to seventeen brand new tracks during the trek, in preparation for their upcoming recording for Southern Lord. [More…]

OBSEQUIAE: 20 Buck Spin Confirms Vinyl Release Of Debut Album And New LP From Minnesota Outfit – 20 Buck Spin is proud to announce the signing of American metal outfit, OBSEQUIAE. Hailing from the great Northern end of Minnesota, the band creates a unique, organic blend of dark, melodic black and death metal infused with traditional medieval music. [More…]

KING PARROT: Australian Thrash Grind Unit Kicks Off North American Tour; Band To Raze SXSW – Melbourne thrash grind unit, KING PARROT, will be leveling North America on a near-six-week run of live assaults. [More…]

Tankcrimes Releases Free Brainsqueeze II Compilation Featuring New Tracks From Municipal Waste, Fucked Up And More! – In honor of their upcoming Brainsqueeze II Fest, the volume-gremlins at Oakland-based Tankcrimes Records are pleased to offer up the fabulously fest-centric Have You Seen My Mind compilation. [More…]

Second Installment Of Cvlt Nation’s Compilation Series Now Playing With BLACK SABBATH’s Master Of Reality – To close out their third anniversary this week, CVLT Nation is proud to present the second in a series of covers compilations dubbed The CVLT Nation Sessions with BLACK SABBATH’s seminal album, Master Of Reality. [More…]

CLOAK OF ALTERING: Crucial Blast Confirms Impending Album From Dutch Avant-Metal Madman, Mories – The head of audio dismemberment at Crucial Blast has proclaimed an agreement with CLOAK OF ALTERING, signing on for the release of the project’s third full-length exploration into sonic depravity, Plague Beasts. [More…]

GREY SKIES FALLEN: No Clean Singing Premieres New Track From NYC-Area Dark Metal Act – As New York City-area-based black/death metal quintet, GREY SKIES FALLEN, prepares to release their The Many Sides of Truth LP late this April, the band today releases the album’s opening track, “Ritual Of The Exiter.” [More…]

IRON REAGAN Signs To Relapse Records; Recording Underway + US Tour To Commence This Sunday – Relapse Records is extremely proud to announce the signing of Richmond, Virginia hardcore thrash supergroup, IRON REAGAN. [More…]

NIGHTFELL: Portland Outfit Featuring Members Of His Hero Is Gone and Aldebaran To Release Debut Album – Southern Lord confirms the impending release of The Living Ever Mourn, the debut LP from Portland-based group, NIGHTFELL. [More…]

GIGAN: Exploratory Tech Metal Ambassadors Announce Ceremonies And Hallucinations Tour 2014 – Exploratory tech metal ambassadors, GIGAN, will take to the streets this May for another rash of live rituals. [More…]

FULL OF HELL Announces April Tour With Column Of Heaven & Record Store Day Split With Psywarfare – The invincible, noiseblasting killing machine, FULL OF HELL, this week confirms a pair of impending offensives upon the humans, including new tour actions and new studio documentation of their tactics. [More…]

NATE HALL: Ode To Townes Van Zandt Available For Free Download – The second installment of tribute albums to late American singer/songwriter, Songs Of Townes Van Zandt Vol II, has been released this week, as today, March 7th, marks the hero’s birthday. [More…]

LO-PAN: Ohio Riff Rock Perpetrators Enter Studio Next Month; Band Unites With Tone Deaf Touring – Live Takeovers Announced – Ohio riff rock perpetrators LO-PAN, will enter Translator Audio in Brooklyn, New York next month to record their forthcoming new full-length for amplification station, Small Stone Recordings. [More…]

BENEATH: Icelandic Deathsquad To Release Second Album Via Unique Leader – In a few short weeks, Reykjavik, Iceland-based death metal squadron, BENEATH, will unleash the hellstorm that is their daunting sophomore full-length, The Barren Throne, once again through Unique Leader Records. [More…]

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A STORM OF LIGHT – ANAGNORISIS – BAPTISTS – BATTLECROSS – BEHEMOTH – BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME – BEYOND THE SHORE  –  THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER – BL’AST – BRUTAL TRUTH – BUIOINGOLA – COFFINS – COP PROBLEM – CORRECTIONS HOUSE – CRIPPLE BASTARDS – DARSOMBRA – DIE CHOKING – DON JAMIESON – DREAD SOVEREIGN – THE DROP – EARTH  –  EARTH CRISIS – EAST OF THE WALL – ENABLER – EXHUMED – FALLUJAH –  FOSSILS  – FUCKED UP – FULL OF HELL – GHOUL – GOATWHORE – ILSA – IMMORTAL BIRD – INDIAN  –  INTER ARMA – IRON REAGAN – THE KENNEDY VEIL – KING PARROT – LO-PAN – MUTOID MAN  –NAILS – NEUROSIS – NOISEM – NORTH – OBLITERATIONS – THE OCEAN – OFFENDERS – PILGRIM – PRIMITIVE MAN – PRIZEHOG – PYRRHON –RIVERS OF NIHIL – RUN WITH THE HUNTED – SAMOTHRACE – SECRETS OF THE SKY – SEVEN SISTERS OF SLEEP – SIX FEET UNDER – THE SOCKS – SONS OF TONATIUH – TOXIC HOLOCAUST – TYR – ULCERATE –  WHITECHAPEL – XIBALBA

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BENEATH: Icelandic Deathsquad To Release Second Album Via Unique Leader

Friday, March 7th, 2014

In a few short weeks, Reykjavik, Iceland-based death metal squadron, BENEATH, will unleash the hellstorm that is their daunting sophomore full-length, The Barren Throne, once again through Unique Leader Records.

With an unrelenting fifty-three minutes of technical death metal cruelty through eleven new tracks, on The Barren Throne, BENEATH has sought to envelope melody, atmosphere and structure within its manic blastbeats and speed-picked guitars. The album evolves lyrically and conceptually around the idea of a being or entity that consumes and devours everything around it until it’s forced to consume itself. The follow-up to their Unique Leader-released 2012 debut full-length, Enslaved By Fear, the dynamic The Barren Throne is BENEATH’s first release with new vocalist, Benedikt Natanael Bjarnason, who joined the lineup in June 2013. The album’s massive production was achieved by the Wieslawski brothers of famed Hertz Studios in Poland (Behemoth, Dead Infection, Vader, Decapitated), and the album artwork once again sanctioned to the masterful Raymond Swanland. The end result is a complex and procedural, yet dynamic album that rewards repeated listening. The Barren Throne will be released worldwide on April 29th.

Said guitarist Johann Ingi, “We are truly thrilled to be releasing our second full-length on Unique Leader Records. During the writing and recording of The Barren Throne, every single member of the band has surpassed themselves, taking the album to another level. The album is tighter, more focused and doesn´t give an inch when it comes to sheer brutality. We are inspired by many different genres of extreme music and on this record we sought to embrace this and transcend the need to adhere to the common boundaries of the technical death metal genre. This has resulted in what we feel is our most dynamic and relevant release yet.”

The Barren Throne Track Listing:
1. Depleted Kingdom
2. Chalice
3. The Barren Throne
4. Putrid Seed of Affection
5. Iron Jaw
6. Sovereign Carnal Passion
7. Sky Burial
8. Veil of Mercy
9. Mass Extinction Codex
10. Storm Drainer
11. Unearthed

Formed in the winter of 2007/2008, the members of BENEATH have all been active in the Icelandic metal scene for some years, with current and former connections to Sororicide, Changer, Atrum, Azoic and Diabolus to name a few. After making their live debut supporting The Black Dahlia Murder in January 2009 and after winning the inaugural Icelandic finals for the Wacken Open Air Metal Battle they became the first Icelandic band to perform at the Wacken Open Air festival in August 2009. More festival appearances followed, amongst others Death Feast Open Air in 2010 and Neurotic Deathfest in 2011. In February 2010, BENEATH released their debut Hollow Empty Void EP on Mordbrann Musikk which landed them a record deal with Unique Leader Records. In 2012 the band released their first full-length, Enslaved By Fear, which was mixed by Daniel Bergstrand at Dug Out studios in Uppsala, Sweden.In 2013, singer and founder Gisli Sigmundsson left the band and was replaced by Benedikt Natanael Bjarnason (Azoic).

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LO-PAN: Ohio Riff Rock Perpetrators Enter Studio Next Month; Band Unites With Tone Deaf Touring – Live Takeovers Announced

Friday, March 7th, 2014

Ohio riff rock perpetrators LO-PAN, will enter Translator Audio in Brooklyn, New York next month to record their forthcoming new full-length for amplification station, Small Stone Recordings. Titled Colossus, the offering will be mixed and mastered by Andrew Schneider (Unsane, The Brought Low, Keelhaul) with art direction by Jason Alexander Byers (Black Black Black, Disengage). A Fall release is expected.

In related news, LO-PAN recently joined forces with the roadburning heavyweights at Tone Deaf Touring (Corrosion Of Conformity, Weedeater, ASG) and will embark upon a short stint of live abrasions later this month alongside manic noiserockers, Whores. The ten-date motorcade will include two special Small Stone Showcases in Cambridge and Brooklyn. The following month, the band will join reunited iconic stoner rock sorcerers, Spirit Caravan, and the wicked doom bringers in Pilgrim for a performance in Columbus with additional bouts on onstage debauchery to be announced in the coming months.

LO-PAN Spring Takeover 2014:

3/20/2014 The Cactus Club – Milwaukee, WI w/  Whores
3/21/2014 Cobra Lounge – Chicago, IL w/  Whores
3/22/2014 Ruby’s – Columbus, OH Ruby’s w/  Fuck You Pay Me, White Wolves
3/23/2014 Grog Shop – Cleveland, OH w/  Whores, Fuck You Pay Me
3/24/2014 The Union – Athens, OH w/ Whores, Horseburner
3/25/2014 Brillobox – Pittsburgh, PA w/ Whores
3/26/2014 The Depot – York, PA w/ Neon Warship, Black Cowgirl, Witch Hazel
3/27/2014 The M Room – Philadelphia, PA w/ Neon Warship, Skeleton Hands
3/28/2014 Small Stone Showcase @ Middle East – Cambridge, MA  w/ Wo Fat, Roadsaw, Mellow Bravo, Gozu, Neon Warship
3/29/2014 Small Stone Showcase @ Saint Vitus – Brooklyn, NY w/ Wo Fat, Lo-Pan, Roadsaw, Gozu, Neon Warship, Geezer
4/09/2014 Skully’s – Columbus, OH  w/ Spirit Caravan, Pilgrim
4/17/2014 Pinned 4 – Columbus, OH  w/  Neon Warship, Ride To Ruin, Beggers

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“LO-PAN could easily stand as one of the most important bands of their generation in the genre.” — The Obelisk

“With enough stoner rock goodness to destroy bridges and skyscrapers alike, Lo-Pan show that they are one of several absolutely essential rock outfits working today and a major force to be reckoned with.” – Sputnik Music


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GIGAN: Exploratory Tech Metal Ambassadors Announce Ceremonies And Hallucinations Tour 2014

Thursday, March 6th, 2014


Exploratory tech metal ambassadors, GIGAN, will take to the streets this May for another rash of live rituals. Scheduled to initiate on May 2nd in Wisconsin, the Ceremonies And Hallucinations Tour will wind through twenty metropolises. As a bonus, the Chicago show will feature a full liquid light show and Super 8 visual accompaniment, manifesting the ultimate live GIGAN experience! Additionally, the tour will include special guests on both coasts, specifically Transylvanian eclectic metal sorcerers, Negură Bunget, in both Santa Ana and Las Vegas, as well as Mike Browning’s iconic Nocturnus A.D. in Tampa!

Relays guitarist Eric Hersemann: “GIGAN is excited to start our 2014 with the Ceremonies And Hallucinations US Tour as we will be hitting many of the cities we missed last year and we are looking forward to seeing all of you! The Ritualistic Projection Tour 2013 was a stellar time and this tour will be even better! Come out and transcend the norm!”

GIGAN Ceremonies And Hallucinations Tour 2014:
5/02/2014 The Bottom End – Appleton, WI
5/03/2014 The Wisco – Madison, WI
5/04/2014 The House Of Rock – Eau Claire, WI
5/05/2014 The Cobra Lounge – Chicago, IL
5/06/2014 The Brass Rail – Fort Wayne, IN
5/07/2014 The Haymarket – Louisville, KY
5/09/2014 The Haven – Orlando, FL
5/10/2014 The Brass Mug – Tampa, FL w/ Nocturnus A.D.
5/11/2014 Atticus Bar – Jacksonville, FL
5/14/2014 White Swan – Houston, TX
5/15/2014 Reno’s – Dallas, TX
5/16/2014 Beerland – Austin, TX
5/17/2014 Zombie’s – San Antonio, TX
5/18/2014 The Weather Balloon – Roswell, NM
5/20/2014 The District – Tucson, AZ
5/21/2014 Tempe Tavern – Tempe, AZ
5/22/2014 The Boncroft – San Diego, CA
5/23/2014 The Handbag Factory – Los Angeles, CA
5/24/2014 Malone’s – Santa Ana, CA w/ Negură Bunget
5/25/2014 Cheyenne Saloon – Las Vegas, NV w/ Negură Bunget

GIGAN released their titanic Multi-Dimensional Fractal Sorcery And Super Science last year via Willowtip Records. Recorded with Sanford Parker (Minsk, Buried At Sea, Yakuza) at Earth Analog Studios in Chicago, Multi-Dimensional Fractal Sorcery And Super Science is an instrumentally dense, methodically precise, conceptually captivating and physically challenging listening excursion that commands its listener’s attention. In an in-depth assessment of the record, No Clean Singing commends the, “labyrinth of destructive percussion and frenzied guitar-work that build in collaboration to monstrous heights of hyper-blasting, ever-shifting insanity,” adding that GIGAN have, “always been one of the most unique and truly alien-sounding technical death metal bands, their aggressiveness rounded out with a heavy dose of drawn-out atmosphere, oddball riffs, genuinely psychedelic and trance-like moments, and a chaotic nature rooted in the shifting between these different sounds that makes the music a uniquely unhinged, unpredictable experience.” Exclaim shares the sentiment, “Multi-Dimensional Fractal Sorcery And Super Science comes at the listener as an overwhelming wall of sound, the frenzied, barely restrained guitar work interwoven with a dense, hostile network of throbbing, explosive synths. Ugly, intense and increasingly mechanical, …Super Science is the type of record that would be favored by angry cyborgs,” while Emusic boasts, “…those who like their death metal inhuman, loud as a jet engine and thick as tar will find Multi-Dimensional Fractal Sorcery and Super Science one of 2013′s most exhilarating albums.”

The brainchild of left-handed lead guitarist and founding member Eric Hersemann, GIGAN has been challenging the mortal laws of extreme music and creativity since early 2006. Forged around the simple notion that the imagination should be art’s only limit, GIGAN’s style of creative delivery has simultaneously invoked reactions of amazement, disbelief, shock, awe and ultimately, respect.

Multi-Dimensional Fractal Sorcery And Super Science is out now via Willowtip Records. Order your copy HERE.

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Second Installment Of Cvlt Nation’s Compilation Series Now Playing With BLACK SABBATH’s Master Of Reality

Thursday, March 6th, 2014

To close out their third anniversary this week, CVLT Nation is proud to present the second in a series of covers compilations dubbed The CVLT Nation Sessions with BLACK SABBATH’s seminal album, Master Of Reality.

Now available for exclusive streaming and free download, Master Of Reality: The CVLT Nation Sessions features Graves At Sea, Usnea, Primitive Man, Rorcal, Bongripper, Albino Python and Cult Of Occult offering up their devouring renditions of these doom classics!

The CVLT Nation Sessions is a musical project with the aim of reinterpreting iconic music that has influenced a wide spectrum of genres, while also widening the audience for the participating bands. CVLT Nation has recruited some of its favorite underground heavy bands from around the world to record covers for free distribution and download via CVLTNation.com. All the mastering is done by Black Matter Mastering in Nashville, Tennessee.

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BLACK SABBATH Master Of Reality – The CVLT Nation Sessions Track Listing:
1. Sweet Leaf – Primitive Man
2. After Forever – Rorcal
3. Children Of the Grave – Cult of Occult
4. The Haunting – Bongripper (Hel and Taz from Undersmile on vocals)
5. Orchid – Graves At Sea
6. Lord Of This World – Graves At Sea
7. Solitude – Albino Python
8. Into The Void – Usnea

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Tankcrimes Releases Free Brainsqueeze II Compilation Featuring New Tracks From Municipal Waste, Fucked Up And More!

Wednesday, March 5th, 2014

In honor of their upcoming Brainsqueeze II Fest, the volume-gremlins at Oakland-based Tankcrimes Records are pleased to offer up the fabulously fest-centric Have You Seen My Mind compilation. A FREE for all free-for-all, the mammoth collection features an exclusive re-recording of Municipal Waste’s “Insurance Fraud” from their split with Crucial Unit, new hymns from The Shrine and Fucked Up, a remastered version of Final Conflict’s “Crucifixion,” a bonus tune from Obsessor, sexy numbers from Ghoul, Iron Reagan, BAT, Cannabis Corpse, a bonus bonus track for downloaders and so much MORE!

The magical murderous medley is currently available for streaming and FREE download courtesy of Invisible Oranges at THIS LOCATION. Get down with the cheapness.

Have You Seen My Mind Track listing:
Ghoul – “Spill Your Guts”
Final Conflict – “Crucifixion”
Municipal Waste – “Insurance Fraud”
The Shrine – “Destroyers”
Negative Approach – “Pressure”
BAT – “Code Rude”
Fucked Up – “I Wanna Be A Yank” (Cardboard Brains cover)
Kicker – “Not You”
Iron Reagan – “Mini Lights”
Brainoil – “Death of this Dry Season”
Fucktard – “Ladder of Pigs”
Impaled – “You Are the Dead”
Conquest For Death – “Sand Storms”
Cannabis Corpse – “Shatter Their Bongs”
Connoisseur – “I Am The Weed”
Obsessor – “Aftershock”
+A Secret Track

Set to commence April 18th and 19th at the Oakland Metro and April 20th at Eli’s Mile High Club, which will include BBQ and an Andrei Bouzikov art show, the gargantuan Brainsqueeze gala features more than a dozen ear-searing luminaries including Municipal Waste, Final Conflict, Ghoul and Negative Approach.

Weekend super passes are on sale NOW and include a two-sided, duel color Brainsqueeze T-shirt and 22” x 34” two-color screen printed poster. Nab your tickets now RIGHT HERE or be left in the dust. And if you missed it, don’t forget to check out the nut-busting video teaser below.

Friday – April 18, 2014
Oakland Metro – All Ages
Ghoul
Cannabis Corpse
Final Conflict
Iron Reagan
BAT
Fucktard

Saturday April 19, 2014
Oakland Metro – All Ages
Municipal Waste
Negative Approach
Fucked Up
Impaled
The Shrine
Kicker
Conquest for Death

Sunday – April 20, 2014
Eli’s Mile High Club – 21+
Brainoil
Deny the Cross
Connoisseur
+ wild and unpredictable guests
BBQ + Andrei Bouzikov art showing

Individual ticket info will be available via the Tankcrimes Bandcamp Page soon. Stay alert.

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FUCKED UP: Canadian Hardcore Punk Perpetrators To Release Sixth Installment Of The Zodiac Series Via Tankcrimes; Band To Take Over SXSW + Brainsqueeze Fest

Monday, March 3rd, 2014

Long running Canadian hardcore punk perpetrators, FUCKED UP, will discharge the sixth installment of the “Zodiac Series” with Year Of The Dragon this Spring.

Melding all the prime tenets of rock, punk, metal and psychedia into a comprehensive and imposing opus of unyielding enormity, FUCKED UP are sonically and conceptually devouring in ways few bands can emulate. Following the releases of 2006’s Year Of The Dog, 2008’s Year Of The Pig, 2009’s Year Of The Rat, 2010’s Year Of The Ox and 2012’s Year Of The Tiger, Year Of The Dragon boasts three tracks, cover art by Andrei Bouzikov (Municipal Waste, Toxic Holocaust, Skeletonwitch) and will come available on 12”, CD and digitally. Side A features the title track, a seventeen-and-a-half-minute epic anthem centered on dreams, expectations, compromise and hypocrisy. Side B is rounded out by two classic Canadian punk covers from Cardboard Brains and The Ugly.

Relays the band, “The two B sides are faithful versions of two ‘forgotten’ historic Toronto punk tunes. So much of Toronto’s early punk scene had a strong following and a great reputation, but some things never really made it out in to the world at the time. CBC [Canadian Broadcasting Corporation] were commemorating the anniversary of The Last Pogo — a huge, well-known, punk show in the late ‘70s that was held at the Horseshoe Tavern; populated by almost every band of the day, and was capped off by a near riot [it was later immortalized on vinyl] — and we helped ring in the occasion by giving two of the bands on the record a little reanimation care of FUCKED UP. The Ugly are still active to this day, and the Cardboard Brains are a collector favorite.”

Year Of The Dragon Track Listing:
1. Year Of The Dragon
2. I Wanna Be A Yank (Cardboard Brains)
3. Disorder (The Ugly)

FUCKED UP’s last album, David Comes To Life (Matador Records) debuted at #83 on the Billboard 200. Called “a convincing demonstration of what can happen when a band works without limitations,” by Pitchfork, the offering reaped the critical adoration of fans and media globally and was Spin Magazine’s #1 Record Of The Year (2011).

In related FUCKED UP intelligence, the band will be taking Austin later this month with four performances at SXSW set to kick off with Pitchfork’s day party on March 13th. The following month, FUCKED UP will take part in the second edition of Tankcrimes’ Brainsqueeze Fest with a performance on April 19th alongside Municipal Waste, Negative Approach, Impaled, The Shrine, Kicker and Conquest For Death. Nab your tickets now RIGHT HERE.

FUCKED UP Live:
3/13/2014 French Legation Museum (Pitchfork Day Party) – Austin, TX
3/13/2014 Mohawk (Stereogum Party) – Austin, TX
3/13/2014 Scoot Inn (Converse/Thrasher Death Match) – Austin, TX
3/14/2014 Empire Control Room (Altamont Party) – Austin, TX w/ Powertrip
4/19/2014 Oakland Metro @ Brainsqueeze Fest II – Oakland, CA

Year Of The Dragon will be released via Tankcrimes on April 15th, 2014. The first wax pressing includes a six-minute edit of “Year Of The Dragon” included on a separate seven-inch flexi disc. Preorders to be announced later this month.

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EARSPLIT PR: Roundup From The Compound – March 3, 2014

Monday, March 3rd, 2014

BULBUL: Circuit-Melting Austrian Maniacs Return With New LP; Track Now Playing – Austria’s BULBUL, perpetrators of the most exceedingly unique, solidly nonconformist, and bluntly odd acts one could conceive encountering, will close a six-year gap since their last LP with the release of their hedonistic Hirn Fein Hacken via Exile On Mainstream this Spring. [More…]

GAMMA RAY: Power Metal Icons Unleash New Lyric Video Via Revolver; Empire Of The Undead To Drop This Spring – Today, the perpetrators at Revolver are pleased to premiere the lyric video for “Hellbent,” from German power metal icons, GAMMA RAY. [More…]

T.O.M.B.: Crucial Blast To Issue Collected Works From Obscure Black/Industrial Collective – Crucial Blast announces the upcoming Springtime release of Pennhurst / Xesse, an album featuring two rare out-of-print recordings from obscure black/industrial metal collective, T.O.M.B. [More…]

BUIOINGOLA: Debut From Italian Apocalyptic Crust Act Out April 1st – Newly formed independent extreme/experimental metal label, Sentient Ruin Laboratories, is preparing to release its second title, in the form of the new album from Italian Apocalyptic crust act, BUIOINGOLA. [More…]

TAURUS: Psychedelic Blackened Doom Duo Premieres New Hymn Via Cvlt Nation – Portland-based psychedelic blackened doom/drone channellers, TAURUS — featuring Stevie Floyd of Dark Castle and Ashley Spungin, formerly of Purple Rhinestone Eagle/Negative Queen – are pleased to premiere a brand new hymn from their impending new long player, No/Thing. [More…]

LETHAL DOSAGE: Second Full-Length Out Now On Battleground And Streaming At PureGrainAudio – Consume, the second album from Tucson-based modern death/thrash quintet, LETHAL DOSAGE, is out today via Battleground Records. [More…]

EXILE ON MAINSTREAM Records Celebrates 15 Years Of Bliss With Roadburn Show – This just in from the headquarters of Germany’s outstanding underground rock purveyors, Exile On Mainstream Records, now celebrating 15 years and 70 label releases… [More…]

GRAVES AT SEA: Portland Doom Derelicts To Unveil This Place Is Poison Vinyl EP Via Eolian Empire – Following a lengthy dormancy, notorious doom derelicts, GRAVES AT SEA, rise again! Now based in Portland and buoyed by a killer new rhythm section, the band will drop the This Place Is Poison twelve-inch EP upon the living this Spring via the volume dealers at Eolian Empire. [More…]

BAPTISTS To Record Second LP At Godcity For Southern Lord; Full Rain City Recorders Video Session Now Playing – Following a few months off the grid after an action-packed first half of 2013, Vancouver’s BAPTISTS, announce their return to the front lines in 2014. [More…]

Living Fast Episode 1: Heavy Metal Talk Show Launched By Municipal Waste Guitarist Debuts Today! – Living Fast is a heavy metal talk show created by Ryan Waste (Municipal Waste/Volture/BAT). [More…]

DREAD SOVEREIGN: Ván Records Unveils Details for Debut LP – Dublin based true doom trio, DREAD SOVEREIGN, has unveiled details of their upcoming debut full-length album. [More…]

THOTHAMON: Birmingham Doom Trio Unleashes New EP Via Domestic Genocide Records – Birmingham, Alabama traditional doom trio, THOTHAMON, recently joined goat horns with the eclectic sound peddlers at Domestic Genocide Records for the release of their latest EP. [More…]

EPISTASIS: Invisible Oranges Leaks New Track From NYC Experimental Metal Act – As New York City’s eclectic/experimental metal act, EPISTASIS, prepares for Crucial Blast’s unveiling of their latest works, nearing release on April 1st in the form of the Light Through Dead Glass mini-album, Invisible Oranges infiltrates the population with the public’s initial exposure to the record. [More…]

CRADLE OF FILTH: Iconic Extreme Metal Ensemble To Release Total Fucking – Darkness Demo On Vinyl This Spring Via Mordgrimm; Preorders Now Available – After more than two decades, Total Fucking Darkness, the infamous third demo from notorious UK extreme metal magicians, CRADLE OF FILTH, will be unleashed on gatefold double LP and digipak CD via Mordgrimm this Spring. [More…]

DIE CHOKING: Philly Shred Trio Preps Debut EP For Vinyl Delivery – Grinders, shredders, ragers and speedfreaks, welcome DIE CHOKING, a Philly bred trio quickly becoming known for their smoldering concoction of brutal punk mayhem, grindcore, and raw metal, played at ungodly fast speeds of pure sonic annihilation. [More…]

BLOODTRUTH: Italian Death Metal Troupe Joins Unique Leader Records – Italian death metal troupe, BLOODTRUTH, are pleased to join Unique Leader Records’ expanding realm of extreme. [More…]

ORBWEAVER: Exploratory Death Metal Behemoths Issue Winter Tour Update – Florida exploratory death metal behemoths, ORBWEAVER, recently waged audio Armageddon upon the US with a twenty-date run of live takeovers alongside fellow Sunshine State sludge slingers, Shroud Eater. [More…]

STONEBURNER: Portland Sludge Bringers Unveil Life Drawing Album Trailer – Portland sludge bringers, STONEBURNER, today reveal their first audiovisual insight into the sounds that propel their forthcoming full-length, Life Drawing. [More…]

PYRRHON: Experimental Death Metal Perpetrators Premiere New Tune Via MetalSucks; Band Prepares To Level SXSW – The experimental death metal perpetrators in New York City’s PYRRHON (pronounced peer-on) are pleased to soil ears with the title track from their forthcoming new long player, The Mother Of Virtues. [More…]

DARSOMBRA’s Sixty-City US Tour Begins Tomorrow – Baltimore-based duo, DARSOMBRA, is about to embark on the most extensive tour excursion in the band’s history, beginning tomorrow, February 28th in Richmond, Virginia. [More…]

NEAR DEATH CONDITION: New Canticle Crushing Craniums At This Is Not A Scene – Today, the volume pushers at This Is Not A Scene vomit forth another helping of auditory punishment from Swiss death metal tyrants, NEAR DEATH CONDITION. [More…]

FOSSILS: Full Album From Danish Instrumental Maniacs Streaming At No Clean Singing – Denmark’s off-the-chain drums/bass duo, FOSSILS, is ready to provide their meaty sophomore LP, Flesh Hammer, this coming Monday, March 3rd. [More…]

EARTH CRISIS: Lyric Video From Salvation Of Innocents Let Out Of The Cages – Salvation Of Innocents, the epic new album from EARTH CRISIS, is nearing release worldwide, its street date for North America now slated for March 18th. [More…]

LORD MANTIS: Noisey Debuts Opening Track From Death Mask – LORD MANTIS today dispatches the first wave of audio violence from their impending third full-length, Death Mask, nearing release via Profound Lore this Spring. [More…]

BATTLECROSS Announces Dates With Killswitch Engage And Trivium; Tour With Protest The Hero Underway – Detroit metal squad, BATTLECROSS, who just returned home from a successful debut stomp through Europe with Killswitch Engage, Trivium, and Miss May I, will return to the stage this weekend on a US tour featuring Protest The Hero, The Safety Fire, Intervals, and Night Verses. [More…]

AUTHOR & PUNISHER: Wired Magazine Investigates Tristan Shone’s Voice-Modulating Masks; In-Depth Interview + Video Demonstration Posted – AUTHOR & PUNISHER master sound manipulator, Tristan Shone, recently spoke with Wired Magazine for an in-depth investigation of the voice modulating masks – among many other handcrafted industrial contraptions — that aid in his cacophonous manifestation of cold mechanical doom. [More…]

IMMORTAL BIRD: Blackened Death Thrash Behemoths Kick Off US Tour – Chicagoan blackened death thrash behemoths, IMMORTAL BIRD, with bring their scathing psalms of sickness to the stage on a ten-city jaunt of live incursions. [More…]

Contact liz@earsplitcompound.com or dave@earsplitcompound.com for interviews with the above artists, or bands listed below with current and/or pending tour dates; keep up to date on all Earsplit-related tour offensives at our Live Actions page HERE.

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