18 Tuesday Jun 2013
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The highly anticipated debut full length album from Palms (Deftones, Ex-Isis) is now available for streaming over at Spin.com. The album officially comes out on June 25th so here is opportunity to be induced in dreamy, post-metal pop bliss early. This album should satisfy fans of both Deftones and Isis. Check it out now.
-Lane Oliver
18 Tuesday Jun 2013
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You may remember me raving about Locrian’s upcoming album Return to Annihilation. Well, now you get a chance to listen to this amazing album and come to your own verdicts. Spin.com is currently streaming the entire album now. The album officially comes out on June 25th so it’s time to get a jump on it. Check it out!
-Lane Oliver
15 Saturday Jun 2013
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By Lane Oliver
The Chicago experimental tyrants Locrian never want to make it easy for you. Never expect anything from this band because they will always surprise you. Their music is a intimidating chimera of sorts, drawing sounds from all over the musical spectrum and creating a beast that demands attention and will not unhook its claws from you until the final moments have been exhausted. Their previous full length The Clearing and collaboration with Mamiffer, Bless Them That Curse You, were just like that for me. Their distinctive, ever changing sound took a hold of me and kept me entranced in their gaze. So one would expect, and be correct of course, that Locrian’s new album is just as awe-inspiring. Return to Annihilation is an expansive exercise in creativity and further allows Locrian to defy expectations and categorization.
13 Thursday Jun 2013
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A new press release from UK label Rocket Girl reveals that Irish post-rock aficionados, God is An Astronaut, will be releasing their seventh full length album this year. The new record will be entitled Origins and will see a release on September 16th through the aforementioned label. The press release states that the new album will feature a new vocal direction and a more experimental guitar approach. You can read the full press release after the jump and if you are interested, you can stream their amazing album All is Violent, All is Bright as well.
11 Tuesday Jun 2013
Sigur Ros are currently streaming their highly anticipated new album and follow up to last year’s stellar Valtari, Kveikur, over at the album’s official website. The album is a different direction for a band in that it sounds a little darker and more electronic based than previous efforts. Take advantage of this opportunity and stream it now. Be sure to catch the band on tour as well.
Kveikur will be released on June 17th internationally and June 18th in the U.S.
-Lane Oliver
11 Tuesday Jun 2013
Full Of Hell have recently debuted the video for the song “The Lord Is My Light”, off of their recently released sophomore LP, Rudiments of Mutilation, out now on A389 Recordings. The corrosive experimental two-toned video comes directed by Lukas Hodge, who also directed the group’s previous video for the track “Fox Womb”, and depicts a hooded individual plastered with projections of slice of life moments whilst in the midst of a suicide attempt.
Stream the ghoulish video as well as Rudiments Of Mutilation in full below and be sure to catch Full of Hell on their remaining tour dates with Seven Sisters of Sleep as well as on their upcoming European trek with Circle Takes The Square and Code Orange Kids, details also below. Continue reading »
26 Sunday May 2013
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Hello, heathens and welcome to the (damn near forgotten) Black Metal Sunday playlist. It has been quite some time since I last did one of these, but I thought it was about time it made a sickening comeback. By this point, I think most of our readers should have Spotify, as it is a great tool for vast music listening, and thus the Black Metal Sunday playlists (from this point on dubbed “Blasphemous Offerings”) will be provided through Spotify playlists put together by yours truly. Continue on after the jump for this weeks offering, featuring Lake of Blood, I Shalt Become, a new track from Aosoth and much, much more.
Go with Satan or don’t go at all. Continue reading »
23 Thursday May 2013
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Everyone’s favorite shoegaze infused, post-rock inspired, melodic black metal band, Deafheaven, will be releasing their highly anticipated sophomore album next month on June 11th through Deathwish Inc. But go ahead and apply your sunscreen folks because Pitchfork is streaming Sunbather in advance. I personally think this album is more expansive than their previous effort, Roads to Judah. Do yourself a favor and stream this thing now!
-Lane Oliver
20 Monday May 2013
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California Love, Cryptic Passages, doom metal, hardcore, Hollow, Selfish Ways, Sludge Metal, The Wrath
“It’s all in the hips.” – Happy Gilmore, 1996
Welcome to the eleventh edition of Cryptic Passages, a weekly hopefully-weekly column in which I, Eric Nguyen, will be presenting for your torture, some of the most brutal, unrelenting, and hate drenched pieces of audio I’ve found journeying through the misanthropic plains of the internet. This week’s special re-summoning of the Cryptic Passages column brings with it a local focus, on bands from my neck of this circle of hell, Southern California. For now, I return to my place on the altar of sacrifice and offer you three fresh kills…after the jump. Continue reading »
17 Friday May 2013
According to a recent update from their official blog, Seattle, WA’s infamous powerviolence duo, Iron Lung, are apparently going to be hosting a TED Talk. For those unaware, TED is a nonprofit organization dedicated to “Ideas Worth Spreading” and draw in speakers from the realms of “Technology, Entertainment and Design”. TED Talks have ranged from presentations featuring Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs speaking on the value and current stigmatization of work to the well-known interviewer Nardwuar speaking on the do-it-yourself aspects of journalism. Listed below are some of the issues the abstract powerviolence duo will be speaking on: Continue reading »
15 Wednesday May 2013
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Palms (Deftones, Isis) have released the official details on their highly anticipated self titled debut. The album will be released on June 25th through Ipecac and feature the following track listing:
1. “Future Warrior”
2. “Patagonia”
3. “Mission Sunset”
4. “Shortwave Radio”
5. “Tropics”
6. “Antartic Handshake”
Digital pre-orders are now being offered through iTunes with an immediate download of the song “Tropics”. Physical pre-orders will be made available soon through the band’s official official website.
The band will be hitting the road as well for a few dates with Crypts (ex These Arms Are Snakes). Those dates are as follows:
12 Sunday May 2013
Posted in Album Reviews, Atmospheric, Band Spotlight, Doom Metal, Industrial, Reviews, Sludge Metal
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By Lane Oliver
Within moments of this album’s beginning you can smell the thick, nostril flaring smog that would billow from the smoke stacks of some environmentally unsafe factory. A factory that resides within the ruins of a crumbling city whose own citizens brought about its own corruption and destruction. You see, Batillus’s Concrete Sustain possesses a sound reminiscent of collapsing buildings within a post-apocalyptic metropolitan city. Please put on your hard hat before listening to this one.
10 Friday May 2013
Pitchfork is currently streaming the opening track from Locrian’s upcoming album Return to Annihilation, which is due out on June 25th through Relapse. I have become so used to Locrian’s dark droning mentality that this new track, “Eternal Return”, really surprised me. This four minute piece opens up with swelling drones that build into a bright collage of melodic, almost post-hardcore ish riffing and rhythms and keyboard melodies. The distorted vocals which are swallowed by one another add a nice dimension of weirdness to this overall upbeat sounding song. I was definitely not expecting this from Locrian. Head over to Pitchfork and check out the track right meow!
-Lane Oliver
02 Thursday May 2013
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Palms, the highly anticipated collaborative project from Chino Moreno (Deftones) and ex-Isis members Jeff Caxide, Aaron Harris and Bryant Clifford Meyer, has finally released a taste of what’s to come. Pitchfork is currently streaming the track “Patagonia” from their upcoming self titled debut which is due out on June 25th. The track is just what I expected this project to sound like; a culmination of the more melodious and ambient moments of Isis and Deftones. But that doesn’t mean the track exceeds my expectations for “Patagonia” is quite stellar. It’s totally entrancing and has a lot of that ambient Wavering Radiant era Isis sound I adore. You can stream the track at Pitchfork or stream it via Youtube below.
02 Thursday May 2013
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The shoegaze infused black metallers Deafheaven have released the first cut from their highly anticipated new record, Sunbather, which will be released on June 11th. The track is called “Dream House” and it is nine minutes of awe-inspiring layered melodies dripping with black metal speed and attitude. It’s quite a gorgeous and exhilarating track. Head on over to NPR to check it out!
-Lane Oliver
