EOLIAN EMPIRE’s Near-Year-End Playback; HEAVYVIBES Holiday Sale

It was the best of times, it was… sorry, what was that? Anyway, before you are deluged by a slew of half-assed year-end lists and enter into a thunderdome of thread battles with commenters much less sophisticated than you, the Read More …

Eolian Empire’s Summer Of Cuz Underway; Slew Of New Releases + Festicide Announced

Welcome to another digest of all the news fit to shit for Eolian Empire’s Summer of Cuz… cuz they said so: Some of the hot stuff coming up this time through the ringer includes a DRUNK DAD record release show, Read More …

Update From The Habitually Line-Crossing EOLIAN EMPIRE

Update From The Habitually Line-Crossing EOLIAN EMPIRE: All The News Fit To Spit From Portland’s Outsider Collective The punters can’t wait to get their dirty mitts on Ripper Killer, the first full-length LP from Portland scuzzcore outfit DRUNK DAD, due Read More …

Eolian Empire News: DRUNK DAD, HOT VICTORY, GRAVES AT SEA, PRIZEHOG, TOWERS, RABBITS And Additional Controlled Chaos

The latest heavy vibes from Eolian Empire, now nearly one year into the re-launch… Everything is fine, or so it seems. Fuck-you-all-wavers, DRUNK DAD, just finished up Ripper Killer, their first full-length record. Due out July 1st, the new LP Read More …

TOWERS II Is The Gnarliest Thing You Will Hear Today; Confirm This At The Obelisk

Today, Portland’s apocalyptic bass-and-drums duo TOWERS, officially unloads their gruesome sophomore LP, II, via the Eolian Empire den of depravity, with cult rock underworld portal, The Obelisk, opening a gateway into their structural hellishness. Through their creeped-out style of grimy, Read More …

TOWERS: New Noise From Punishing Duo Creeping Folks Out Via Cvlt Nation

“Hell” is here, as the opening track to the second LP from Portland’s apocalyptic bass-and-drums duo TOWERS, II, is now audible at the Cvlt Nation portal. Filthily disbursing a completely creeped-out style of grimy, sludge/noise-coated, oscillating madness, the Portland, Oregon-based Read More …

TOWERS: Eolian Empire Gets Second LP By Apocalyptic Bass-And-Drums Duo Ready To Rage

The second LP from Portland’s apocalyptic bass-and-drums duo TOWERS, aptly titled II, will be released next month as part of Eolian Empire’s continuing mission to foist the great unwashed Portland heavy underground on a now suspecting public. TOWERS formed in Read More …

Eolian Empire Discloses 2014 Releases; TOWERS, PRIZEHOG, HOT VICTORY, GRAVES AT SEA, DRUNK DAD, RABBITS & More Penned

In 2013, the long dormant Portland D.I.Y. Eolian Empire label came back with a vengeance, starting with Keep Our Heads — the 99-minute, 26-band compilation Metalsucks called “the bible of underground heavy music in Portland with bands like Lord Dying, Read More …

Eolian Empire’s Summer Of Sickness Continues: BIG BLACK CLOUD, DRUNK DAD, REDNECK, HONDURAN, DIESTO, DEAD, TOWERS

Black Friday, the second LP from Portland’s avant noise-punks BIG BLACK CLOUD, drops from the sky tomorrow. Get reigned on with an exclusive stream of it over at Spin.com “in all its tense, taut, seething, screaming fury.” BIG BLACK CLOUD Read More …