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PRIZEHOG: Third LP From Celestial Space Sludge Trio Streaming At The Obelisk

Monday, March 3rd, 2014

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.

Admired rock/doom underground online nucleus, The Obelisk, is now hosting a stream of PRIZEHOG’s latest works alongside a detailed report of the Taskmaster’s voyage into the band’s terrestrial turmoil on Re-Unvent the Whool. In part, the account states, “The bass-less trio — you’ll note no lack of low end in the record — run a spectrum of effects-laden churning, mashing together bright ambient echoes and deep, dank tonality. I wouldn’t be the first person to compare them to the Melvins, but that doesn’t really do complete justice to the psychedelic side of their sound, which shows up quickly,” while also noting of specific tracks, “The melody that emerges from ‘Shed’‘s midsection builds on some of the best impulses Zoroaster and Kylesa have touched on, but is ultimately no more adherent to those bands than it is to a preconceived notion of what ‘heavy’ should sound like, and ‘Parradiggum’ succeeds early in throwing off the listener with blastbeats and overlaid vocal drone. It’s bizarre but surprisingly easy listening.”

Blaze the cosmos and hear Re-Unvent the Whool now at The Obelisk through THIS PORTAL.

Orders for the album are now live at the Eolian Empire fort HERE, the album available in a digital package as well as 180-gram vinyl LP including a 24″ x 24″ poster of the Chris Jehly cover art and download of the album.

This past weekend, PRIZEHOG blew the minds of the capacity crowd at The Know at their record release show with the help of local legend, Thrones, and up-and-comers, Polst. The band is finalizing an upcoming cross-country voyage into the recesses of the American populous this Spring, and will announce the entire confirmed course in the coming days.

Combining meditative grooves, punishing sludge, dazzling melodies, ultra-heavy psych, and crunchy riffs aplenty using a baffling and impossibly cryptic calculus, PRIZEHOG has created its own bizarro universe of heaviness. Re-Unvent the Whool is a byzantine labyrinth of impenetrable riffs, crushing dirges, heavy hooks, and warped excursions wrapped up in triumphant progressions made complete with downshifted bellows and dark cries; perplexing and mystifying yet grand, spellbinding, enthralling, and uncannily soulful. It’s a record full of depth, complexity, power, humor, and beauty. Recorded and mixed by Toshi Kasai (Melvins, Big Business, Tool, Russian Circles) at his new Sun Valley studio Sound of Sirens, Re-Unvent the Whool is focused, sophisticated, and masterfully produced to showcase the exquisite but intense interaction within the trio: guitars, synths, and drums push and pull one another as they crunch, crush, whirl, weave, and straight up rock their way through mazes of dynamic and dramatic movements, adding layers upon layers to sculpt mountains of sonic majesty. Pitched-down vocals, at once otherworldly and deeply human, shift between omnipotent bellows, soulful wails, and surprisingly gorgeous chants, elevating the whole enterprise to a whole other level.

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THE DRIP: Seattle Grindcore Squad Signs With Relapse; Track Released

Monday, March 3rd, 2014

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.

Based out of Washington State, THE DRIP unloads a belittling, ravenous style of high-potency grind, having taken cues from the forefathers of the genre like Napalm Death and Brutal Truth yet contemporizing their approach to put them on par with Nasum, Rotten Sound, Insect Warfare and the like. Several independent EPs found the band reaping accolades from US press outlets like Operation Grindcore, who stated, “If you like your grindcore, metallic and overflowing with seething aggression, then THE DRIP should please you for quite some time,” and Headbang or GTFO, who called the band’s style, “Furious gut stabbing grind that pummels your anus until it collapses on the floor.” THE DRIP now brings their ferocious, blasting arts to the Relapse roster with the release of their label debut, A Presentation of Gruesome Poetics. A relentless, skull-crushing, pissed off, high-energy, blast-riddled explosion of violence, the EP rips through six tracks in barely twelve minutes, the first release to be fully recorded at Audiosiege in Portland by Joel Grind (Toxic Holocaust), after which it was mastered by Brad Boatright (Tragedy, From Ashes Rise, Integrity).

Collectively stated the members of THE DRIP on signing with Relapse; “We are proud to be a part of Relapse Records and their amazing roster of bands. It’s quite an honor being label mates with some of our favorite artists, and even more exciting to be releasing our album, A Presentation Of Gruesome Poetics. It is our strongest material to date, and it’s ready to be unleashed to the metal scene. We look forward to 2014 and what it brings.”

Relapse will transport A Presentation of Gruesome Poetics to humans in North America on April 15th preceded by its April 11the release in Germany and Benelux and April 14th release in the UK and rest of the world. The EP will see release on CD, digital and LP delivery, the first press of the vinyl to bear a totally sick etching on the B-side.

The second track from A Presentation of Gruesome Poetics, the ravenous “Rise To Failure,” has been released and is now playing HERE.

THE DRIP has terrorized clubs and squats across the Northwest, sharing the stage with everyone from major regional acts like Black Breath, Poison Idea, Theories and Bone Sickness as well as acts touring through the Northwest including now labelmates Revocation, Dying Fetus, Primitive Man and others. With a steady supply of shows always being confirmed regionally, the band will take their assault beyond the Northwest on a two-week West Coast tour this Summer and more.

THE DRIP Live:
4/23/2014 The Hop – Spokane, WA w/ Fuck The Facts
5/09/2014 The Hessian Lair – Richland, WA

THE DRIP Is:
Shane Brown – drums
Brandon Caldwell – vocals
Bobby Mansfield – guitar
Talon Yager – bass

A Presentation of Gruesome Poetics Track Listing:
1. Catalyst
2. Rise To Failure
3. Bygones Only Burn Once
4. Black Screen
5. Siren
6. Lash In, Lash Out

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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…]

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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 – CATTLE DECAPITATION – COFFINS – CORRECTIONS HOUSE – CRIPPLE BASTARDS – DARSOMBRA – DIE CHOKING – DON JAMIESON – DREAD SOVEREIGN – EARTH  –  EARTH CRISIS – EAST OF THE WALL – EPISTASIS – EXHUMED – FALLUJAH –  FOSSILS  – FULL OF HELL – GHOUL – GOATWHORE – IMMORTAL BIRD – INDIAN  –  INTER ARMA – IRON REAGAN – THE KENNEDY VEIL – KING PARROT – MUTOID MAN  –NAILS – NEUROSIS – NOISEM – NORTH – THE OCEAN – OFFENDERS – ORBWEAVER – PENTAGRAM – PILGRIM – PRIMITIVE MAN – PRIZEHOG – PYRRHON – RABBITS – RIVERS OF NIHIL – SAMOTHRACE – SECRETS OF THE SKY – SIX FEET UNDER – SONS OF TONATIUH – TOXIC HOLOCAUST – TYR – ULCERATE –  WHITECHAPEL – XIBALBA

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AUTHOR & PUNISHER: Wired Magazine Investigates Tristan Shone’s Voice-Modulating Masks; In-Depth Interview + Video Demonstration Posted

Friday, February 28th, 2014

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.

Elaborates Shone, “These Masks are as much an abstract representation of what heavy music is for me as they are the physical form of it. When I put these little bastards on I feel powerful, transformed and honestly a little light-headed because it is hard to breathe. I might need some gills on the next ones…I would like to extend thanks to Augie Arredondo who has pretty much directed all of my videos. He has become a great friend and we just sort of hang out, drink beer and shoot whatever. It really helps to have somebody so chill to collaborate on these videos with, because the shots are spontaneous. Many thanks also to Wired for reaching out once again and supporting underground music.”

Peer into Shone’s fascinating world of audio deconstruction, courtesy of Wired Magazine, at THIS LOCATION.

AUTHOR & PUNISHER’s latest full-length, Women & Children, was released last year via Seventh Rule Recordings. Crowned “powerful and chilling” by Metal Injection and commended for being “immediate but mysterious, a chimera that’s recognizable but strange,” by Pitchfork, the record continues to floor fans and critics nationwide and abroad for its disturbingly poignant brand of mechanical doom. In employing primarily custom designed and fabricated machines, speakers and various devices that draw heavily on aspects of industrial automation and robotics, Shone – who boasts a BS in mechanical engineering and an MFA in visual arts — manages to replicate dejection, desperation and profound sorrow through his maniacal sonic decomposition with curious poise.

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FOSSILS: Full Album From Danish Instrumental Maniacs Streaming At No Clean Singing

Thursday, February 27th, 2014

Denmark’s off-the-chain drums/bass duo, FOSSILS, is ready to provide their meaty sophomore LP, Flesh Hammer, this coming Monday, March 3rd.

FOSSILS’ succinctly pulverizing Flesh Hammer is packed with ten precise, noisy, no-bullshit pieces of instrumental noise rock in twenty minutes, produced by Danish sound-enigma Q (Beta Satan, Entombed). The past several weeks saw FOSSILS careening on a rambunctious pre-release propaganda campaign which included virtually giving the entire album as in-studio videos one-by-one, as well as the release of a video filmed in an abandoned factory in Philadelphia after midnight where the band and album names were laser-etched onto a slab of beef jerky. Now, for their final swindle before the dropping of the Flesh Hammer, the entire album has been carved up and served over at No Clean Singing in one big old family-style helping for all to gorge upon, the open-all-day purveyor noting of the platter, “Fossils do create skull-splitting grooves, but they also generate a storm of hornet-swarm riffs that veer from feedback-drenched cacophony to some seriously spine-shaking rock ‘n’ roll. It’s more than slightly unhinged — it’s rude, raving, and radioactive.”

Leave your utensils behind; get your hands dirty and feast on the Flesh Hammer right now, RIGHT HERE.

And just because the record is streaming now, doesn’t mean you can’t still scope out that gnarly laser vs. beef jerky episode with the “Filet Horizon” video playing HERE.

The bangin’ Flesh Hammer wax — limited to 300 copies on virgin black vinyl — is shipping now! Order direct from the sole North American meatmarket carrying the Flesh Hammer, Earsplit Distro, right HERE or direct from Indisciplinarian web shop HERE.

The release Flesh Hammer will be celebrated with two Danish release shows, at Radar in Aarhus on February 28th and at Beta in Copenhagen, on March 1st. In the unconventional spirit of FOSSILS, these will not simply be “typical” release shows with the usual canapés and support bands, but instead an overload of awesome musical guests will be involved in each of the performances, not at least at the Aarhus gig where the program is quite overwhelming. Aarhus will see the resurrection of FOSSILS’ old band, the local high-octane rock n’ roll heroes, Studson playing a sweet set of oldies but goodies. Then FOSSILS will mutate into their own doom version, Slissof, covering an old Cola Freaks-classic with several guests from Cola Freaks, Rising and Studson. Hereafter, FOSSILS will perform Flesh Hammer from beginning to end, and finally the dynamic duo concludes the show when joined by numerous vocalists such as Jacob Bredahl (The Kandidate, ex-HateSphere) and Kim Kix (Powersolo) who will interpret various FOSSILS compositions from earlier releases. In Copenhagen FOSSILS will play a more straight-up set and special guests will be the aforementioned Studson and new local rock outfit, Weak.

FOSSILS Flesh Hammer Record Release Shows:
2/28/2014 Beta – Copenhagen, Denmark
3/01/2014 Radar – Arhaus, Denmark

“This here is well written yet chaotic buzzing and distorted bass and drum instrumental attacks bouncing off your skull in a jackhammer whir of snare hits and tom rolls, screeching noise and sped up Tool riffs. Insane cymbal work and especially addictive kick drum patterns… Show your teeth!” – Metal Riot

“My bobble-head was nodding by the time it ended (I’m talking about the thing that sits between my shoulders).” – No Clean Singing

“These Danish fellows are energetic and loud, and while they like to keep things short, they pack as much noise as they can into each and every track… Imagine The Jesus Lizard and Kylesa combined forces… Their music is loud and constantly shifting rhythms and tempos.” – Media Snobs

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NEAR DEATH CONDITION: New Canticle Crushing Craniums At This Is Not A Scene

Thursday, February 27th, 2014

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.

Titled “Evolving Towards Extinction,” the latest requiem of revulsion comes by way of the band’s upcoming new full-length of the same name. Set to detonate next month via technical death metal empire, Unique Leader Records, Evolving Towards Extinction was mixed at renowned Hertz Studios (Vader, Hate, Dead Infection, Vesania etc.) in Poland, mastered at Iguana Studios in Germany, and boasts eleven imposing tracks of hypnotic drum gymnastics, demented riff structures, oppressive atmospheres and calloused vocal incursions. Dark, acrimonious and wholly unsettling, Evolving Towards Extinction is epic in scope and embraces controlled chaos with curious precision.

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Additionally you can still break some pavement with “Between The Dying And The Dead” still streaming at Heavy Blog Is Heavy at THIS LOCATION.

NEAR DEATH CONDITION’s Evolving Towards Extinction will destroy worlds via Unique Leader Records on March 18, 2014. Order your copy today at HERE.

“Gratuitously filled to the brim with churning riffs, relentless blastbeats and that sort of dusty and cobwebbed sound and atmosphere that you get from listening to the classic material of bands like Anata, Suffocation and Spawn Of Possession…” – Heavy Blog Is Heavy


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PYRRHON: Experimental Death Metal Perpetrators Premiere New Tune Via MetalSucks; Band Prepares To Level SXSW

Thursday, February 27th, 2014

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.

A nightmarishly exploratory manifestation of physically and psychologically ravaging extreme metal, The Mother Of Virtues delvers a brain-twisting synthesis of clanging death metal, subtle otherworldly psychedelia, dark jazz rhythms and demented storytelling. Recorded by Ryan Jones (Today Is The Day, Mutilation Rites) and mastered by Colin Marston (Gorguts, Krallice), the nine tracks occupying The Mother Of Virtues takes its listeners on a traumatic audio voyage into the darkest portals of musical severity. Recommended for perverse souls with a penchant for the sonic acuteness of acts like Brutal Truth, Gorguts, Ulcerate, Artificial Brain, Portal, Deathspell Omega and Today Is The Day.

Comments vocalist Doug Moore of the title track: “I’ve seen some people say that we aren’t ‘really’ a death metal band, and this song is pretty good evidence in favor of that claim. It’s also one of the more ambitious songs we’ve ever recorded, structurally speaking. Good luck.”

Wrap your head around closing track “The Mother Of Virtues,” now staining soundwaves at MetalSucks at THIS LOCATION.

And you can still rape your ears with teaser track “Balkanized,” currently streaming HERE.

PYRRHON will bring their crude canticles to the streets on a near-two-week run of live rituals scheduled to begin this Monday at Brooklyn’s Acheron. The roadside takeover features a pair of appearances at this year’s edition of SXSW — including the official Relapse Records showcase on March 12th at Dirty Dog — and will conclude with a special record release show on March 28th at Trans Pecos in Brooklyn. The band will be joined by hometown avant sound serpents, Psalm Zero.

PYRRHON Live Assaults 2014:
3/03/2014 Acheron – Brooklyn, NY w/ Vattnet Viskar, Vaporizer (no Psalm Zero)
3/07/2014 Strange Matter – Richmond, VA / Guerilla Toss, Cloud Becomes Your Hand, R-Complex
3/08/2014 The Spring Water – Nashville, TN w/ Yautja
3/09/2014 Vino’s – Little Rock, AR w/ Yautja
3/11/2014 SXSW – Austin, TX
3/12/2014 Relapse SXSW Showcase @ Dirtydog – Austin, TX
3/14/2014 Bryant Street Tavern – Dallas, TX w/ Baring Teeth
3/15/2014 Skihouse – Carbondale, IL w/ Parlor, Wei Zhongle, Skinwalk
3/16/2014 Fubar – St. Louis, MO / Obliteration, Stormcaller, Enflesh, Decay Crawler
3/17/2014 Willy St. Pub And Grill – Madison, WI w/ Coordinated Suicides
3/18/2014 Cobra Lounge – Chicago, IL w/ Murmur, Venowl
3/19/2014 Berkley Front – Berkley, MI w/ Coffin Feeder, Writhing
3/20/2014 Smiling Moose – Pittsburgh, PA w/ Dendritic Arbor
3/28/2014 Trans Pecos – Brooklyn, NY Joint Record Release w/ Stern, Penchant

The Mother Of Virtues will be unleashed on CD, LP and digitally in North America via Relapse Records on April 1st, Germany/Finlan/Benelux on March 28th and UK/World on March 31st.

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“Technical death metal with atmospheric guitar work, crazy riffs and time changes, and top-shelf musicianship…” – Metal Underground

“…progressive death metal that mixes shiny technical skills with dank atmospherics.” — Pitchfork

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DIE CHOKING: Philly Shred Trio Preps Debut EP For Vinyl Delivery

Wednesday, February 26th, 2014

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. The band’s five-song self-titled EP bas been freshly dispatched to the printing presses for its first vinyl incarnation, pending release in conjunction with the extreme music purveyors at Earsplit’s label, The Compound.

Featuring Paul J Herzog (ex-Total Fucking Destruction) on bass/vocals, Joshua T. Cohen (Cop Problem) on drums, and Jeffrey V. Daniels (Burden) on guitar, DIE CHOKING digitally released this first studio effort in January and immediately sparked an underground buzzstorm. CvltNation.com stated of the release,”this band scrambles your brain cells with their brand of high-octane grindcore laced with traces of rancid crust! What I dig about this record is the hidden grooves that are smashed against walls of aggressive speed and angst,” continuing, “…DIE CHOKING also brings the noise with their messages of anti-authority and anti-capitalism.”

The Die Choking EP was recorded by Brutal Truth guitarist Dan O’Hare at his Mark It Zero Studios in New Jersey, the same studio DIE CHOKING will return to on March 1st to record a new five-song EP due out later this Summer. Preorders for the vinyl version of the 7” will be available in the coming days via The Compound/Earsplit Distro.

Die Choking 7” Track Listing:
I. Low Finality
II. Momentum
III. Greed War
IV. Reason Resist | Reason Reborn
V. Uninstall

DIE CHOKING has several notable forthcoming tour dates confirmed, including a featured performance in Brooklyn at Artificial Brain’s record release show March 15th at Saint Vitus Bar. The band was also hand-picked by Decibel Magazine owner and founder Albert Mudrian to be the regional support for the Philadelphia stop the Decibel Magazine Tour featuring Carcass, The Black Dahlia Murder, Gorguts, and Noisem on April 12th at The Trocadero. Other regional stops including shows with The Compound labelmates Enabler are being announced now via the band’s website.

DIE CHOKING Live Actions:
3/14/2014 Paradise House – New Brunswick, NJ
3/15/2014 Saint Vitus Bar – Brooklyn, NY w/ Artificial Brain, The Communion
4/04/2014 Siren Records – Doylestown, PA w/ Carved Up, Bardus
4/12/2014 Trocadero – Philadelphia, PA w/ Carcass, The Black Dahlia Murder, Gorguts, Noisem
4/24/2014 The Mr. Roboto Project – Pittsburgh, PA w/ Enabler, Black Mask, Meth Quarry, Rabid Pigs

Continuous updates will emerge as DIE CHOKING prepares tours for the Summer and Fall months in support of these two EPs and also enters the studio to record their debut full-length before the end of the year.

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EPISTASIS: Invisible Oranges Leaks New Track From NYC Experimental Metal Act

Wednesday, February 26th, 2014

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.

The second of the six tracks on Light Through Dead Glass, the six-minute “Finisterre” is a spiraling, tension-building, musical vortex, a free-form take on post-rock/doom experimentation. Here is a prime example of how EPISTASIS provides intriguing and original songs, where monolithic amplification and percussive battery don’t collide head-on into organic soundscapes and acoustic/woodwind instruments, rather they coalesce as one writhing, living organism. Leaking the “Finisterre” audio, Invisible Oranges provides their own detailed account of experiencing the new mini-album, stating in part of this track specifically, “There’s never a dull moment, but a particular highlight has got to be the crescendo that kicks off around 4:00, with the trumpet-as-Siren being a defining factor. If we can play etymologist here, perhaps the trumpet’s the calm before the world-ending storm. It’s a thing of beauty…”

Explore the ethereal but explosive “Finisterre” at Invisible Oranges AT THIS LOCATION.

New local live actions for EPISTASIS are being confirmed for the weeks ahead, with a show in Brooklyn happening this Friday, February 28th with Oneirogen and Feast Of The Epiphany, and a record release show for the new record and more in the planning stages to be continuously announced in the weeks ahead.

EPISTASIS Live:
2/28/2014 Trans Pecos – Brooklyn, NY w/ Oneirogen, Feast Of The Epiphany

EPISTASIS integrates the talents of guitarist Kevin Wunderlich, bassist Doug Berns, drummer Alex Cohen (also of avant-death metallers, Pyrrhon, and tech-death legends, Malignancy), and is fronted by Amy Mills on vocals and trumpet, Mills having also contributed trumpet parts on new albums from Castevet and Psalm Zero. On Light Through Dead Glass — the follow-up to their 2012-released self-titled album on The Path Less Traveled Records — EPISTASIS’ delivery is that of a band which has re-emerged with a much more focused and fleshed-out sound on this dark new vision of atmospheric dissonance and surrealistic heaviness. Recorded by Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Swans, Unsane), with this new collection of songs, the band has evolved into something much darker, the music shifting from passages of moody, understated atonal melody into blasts of frostbitten discordant blackness and lurching, angular riffage.

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EXILE ON MAINSTREAM Records Celebrates 15 Years Of Bliss With Roadburn Show

Tuesday, February 25th, 2014

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:

Who would have expected this? It seems as if it was only yesterday that we started folding inserts and assembling wooden boxes for our first release, Payola’s !Hecho Totalmente A Mano! 7-inch. Having started out on a shoestring, in the beginning this label was nothing but a crazy idea in the backyard on a drunken night, buried in the haze of an April Fool’s joke (yeah, that’s right, the official business started on 1st April 1999, no shit) but what it became – a story, a statement, a life!

15 years of trying to torpedo almost every cliché of the shallow trench this business is by raising fists and artistic inspiration to the sky. I have been waiting 15 years for the moment to scream out “Look – we are still here!” Let’s be honest, though, it’s probably only the face in the mirror that needed this evidence the most.

Anyway, with 70 releases under our belt, a serious amount of tours and uncounted nights worked through, as well as celebrations of true, honest and classy art, it’s about time to celebrate, and what would be a better fit than the mighty Roadburn Festival being our host and home for this extravaganza?

Not only has Exile On Mainstream been involved with the festival to end all festivals for more than a decade now, its ethics incorporating art, underground and an attitude we appreciate and endorse to unlimited extent, it’s long been topped by an ongoing deep personal friendship between Walter and myself that not only makes Roadburn the best festival for a celebration – it makes it the ONLY one we would wanna have.

So please find yourself invited to a special celebration held at the Cul de Sac venue on Friday, April 11th, presenting four acts that have been picked to illustrate the wide array of styles and attitude this label stands for and for their special connection that binds them to us.

The first 100 attendees will receive a free compilation CD containing current sounds on Exile On Mainstream, unheard versions and unreleased, exclusive songs by Obelyskkh, The Antikaroshi, A Whisper In The Noise and many more.

KRISTIAN HARTING
Like most artists on EOM, Kristian all of a sudden turned up at a private party and won us over within a blink of an eye with his deep and soulful tunes. Inspired by sufi-music, mali-blues, western low-fi pop and the avant-garde Kristian Harting aims to write beautiful songs and music using whatever gritty, noisy, pretty, dirty, smooth, wonderful sounds are to hand.

“To me Roadburn has always stood as the essence of musical integrity, curiosity and sense of quality. Never victimized to fashion and cheap populism. Exactly how I feel about Exile on Mainstream too. To be part of both makes me extremely proud, excited and humble” – Kristian Harting


CONNY OCHS
Conny Ochs draws on his most primordial self in the creation of music, with a pristine commitment to his own emotionality. What is channeled into his music, tone and lyrics is nothing but the truth. Sometimes happy, sometimes sad, sometimes nasty, sometimes nice, sometimes begging, sometimes proud, sometimes cheerful, sometimes bitter, sometimes lost, sometimes found.

“Exile on Mainstream is my home and base. Here is where I found freedom and understanding as well as passion and a soulful of fury, and i am proud to be a part of this gowing family since more than three years now. To be celebrating the 15th anniversary of this ever young and burning label at Roadburn is matching soul entities. Where else could we set a light better than in this creative, inspiring, tolerant and evolving atmosphere? Burn bright!” – Conny Ochs


TREEDEON
This band might not be known to you before the show but the members should be no unknowns: Arne Heesch of German Noise-classics Ulme, Yvonne Ducksworth of Jingo de Lunch and Boomer of German Proto-NoiseStoners Kaeng have been earning merits in the underground for a fair few years, and now they’ve teamed up to deliver the best AmRep-styled noise currently existing – fuelled with an urgency that will leave you breathless. That’s a threat and promise.

“In the as of yet, ’short history of our band’, what an honor for us: To play at the Roadburn Festival! Roadburn has hosted such a long list of musicians that have influenced the way we perceive and play music. Exile on Mainstream has allowed this to happen, a label which has been a diamond in the rough by consistently showing deep commitment and integrity, plus extreme attention to detail, in supporting bands and music we love..Happy 15th!” – Arne, Yvonne, Boomer / Treedeon

BULBUL
Here we are – entering a universe consisting of antagonisms such as accessibility and denial, degeneration and full bloom, similarity and dichotomy and vegetables. Bulbul lives by their own standards. The Austrians, unlike other bands, do not casually shop pop history – they chase through it. Sometimes gently ripping parts out and incorporating them in their own sound, other times they pillage through the leftovers of inspiration that might have driven pop music in years past and don’t even wait until they are back at the parking lot, they smash it right there in the museum and create something new, unbelievably vital, haunting and unbearable. We keep saying that in some ways this band has been the blueprint for this label and it still bears truth. As chaotically as history evolves I can pretty much confirm that this label wouldn’t exist as it is if I wouldn’t have seen this band for the first time live almost 20 years ago. There’s logic them being signed to Exile On Mainstream.

“Working with Exile On Mainstream doesn’t mean getting in the stable being milked. It’s more like flying to your nest where mama (replace mama by friend, fan, host, enthusiast… Andreas) awaits you with protecting wings to give you shelter from all the wild things out there and whispers “it’s gonna be good” – Raumschiff Englmayr / Bulbul.

Get down with us and party! At the Cul de Sac!

Andreas Kohl | Exile On Mainstream


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