HELEN MONEY – Announces U.S. Tour Dates

Following the recent release of her third opus “Arriving Angels”, solo cellist Alison Chesley (aka HELEN MONEY) has announced a string of U.S. dates in conspiracy of the release of her most intriguing album to date.  The dates (so far) are as follows:

03/02 – Los Angeles, CA @ Permanent Records (in-store) 03/15 – Chicago, IL @ Township 03/17 – Toronto, ON @ Hard Luck Bar 03/18 – New Paltz, NY @a Team Love Ravenhouse Gallery 03/19 – Boston, MA @ TT The Bears 03/20 – New Haven, CT @ BAR 03/21 – Providence, RI @ Machines with Magnets…

THE ATLAS MOTH, WITCH MOUNTAIN, ASH BORER European Tour Updates

With the impending Roadburn Festival approaching, THE ATLAS MOTH, WITCH MOUNTAIN, and ASH BORER will all be doing European tour dates (on their own separate unique tours) surrounding it and their appearance at the prestigious heavy music festival.  So here’s a round-up on all European dates on the aforementioned bands making the trek overseas, all for the first time ever (*update PALLBEARER had to cancel their European tour and will just be appearing for their scheduled date at Roadburn and will also be playing France’s Hellfest in June):

PALLBEARER 04/18 – Tilburg, The Netherlands @ Roadburn Fest

THE ATLAS…

PORTAL – “Vexovoid” Now Available To Order

PORTAL’s new work of death metal dementia, “Vexovoid” is now available to order from our website.  The long-awaited follow-up to “Swarth” is another manifestation of unbridled unorthodox sonic horror, death metal once again inverted, channeled through PORTAL’s most dense-sounding artistic offering to date.  Laid out upon the feeble mortal coil.

ALDEBARAN West Coast Tour Dates With GRAVES AT SEA and ASH BORER

West Coast doom gods ALDEBARAN have announced a string of West Coast dates with the mighty GRAVES AT SEA.  ASH BORER will be joining the tour on the Portland and Seattle dates exclusively as a warm up for their European tour.  We can only imagine how insane these particular shows are gonna be.

03/26 – Portland, OR @ Ash St. (w/ASH BORER) 03/27 – Seattle, WA @ The Black Lodge (w/ASH BORER) 03/29 – Oakland, CA @ Oakland Metro 03/30 – Santa Cruz, CA @ Blue Lagoon 03/31 – San Francisco, CA @ DNA Lounge

 

OCCULTATION – Announce “Dreams In The Witch House” West Coast Tour w/Borrowed Time

OCCULTATION have announced a West Coast tour (christened Dreams In The Witch House) in support of their singular and haunting “Three And Seven” masterpiece.  They will be touring with the awesome NWOBHM-influenced band BORROWED TIME who hail from the wastelands of Detroit, Michigan.  OCCULTATION will also be taking part in this year’s Winter’s Wake Festival in Pittsburgh (Feb 22-23) alongside the likes of EVOKEN, BLOOD CEREMONY, and VATTNET VISKAR to name a few, and have an upcoming show with PILGRIM on Feb 6th in NY at the Bowery Electric.

Dates are as follows: 03/21 – Tacoma, WA @…

HELEN MONEY – “Arriving Angels” Now Available

The new album from prolific solo cellist Alison Chesley (a.k.a. HELEN MONEY) is now available to order on CD format.   Recorded and mixed by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio and featuring Jason Roeder of Neurosis and Sleep on warhammers, “Arriving Angels” is a vision where classical music, experimental, ambient, and meditative drone all work in conspiracy to unearth one of the most singular and unique albums we’ve had the pleasure of releasing.

ASH BORER – Selft-Titled Debut Now Available To Order On CD, European Tour Announced

For the first time ever on CD format, ASH BORER’s stunning debut album from 2011 (previously only available on cassette and vinyl format) re-mastered for this version, in turn rendering the three time-stretching tracks more devastating and powerful.  Packaged in a faux-leather gatefold CD jacket adorned with red-foil text (view HERE), this is now available to order exclusively through our website prior to its official Jan 22 release date.

Also with the band’s appearance at this year’s Roadburn Fest, ASH BORER will also embark on a European tour (with Fell Voices) that will lead up to the band’s…

PORTAL – Complete Work On New Album

Australian surrealist death metal terror unit PORTAL have completed work on their anticipated fourth full-length album entitled “Vexovoid”, the four year follow-up to their “Swarth” predecessor.

Taking their sound of singular death metal psychosis by creating their darkest and most-dense sounding album to date, “Vexovoid” carries the tradition PORTAL have laid upon since their inception 18 years ago.  Through the band’s strange, unsettling, avant-garde, and polarizing take on death metal (on a musical, lyrical, visual, and aesthetical level), throughout the years PORTAL have shape-shifted and inverted the genre into multiple realms of dementia.  “Vexovoid”, as expected, is another…

HELEN MONEY – Completes Work On New Album, New MP3 Available

Cellist Alison Chesley has completed work on her new album under her HELEN MONEY alias entitled “Arriving Angels”.

Engineered and mixed at Electrical Audio by legendary music icon Steve Albini, and featuring drummer Jason Roeder (of Neurosis and Sleep) on drums on four songs, “Arriving Angels”, which follows up her 2009 release “In Tune”, sees Chesley create her most dense and varying work to date.  Armed with her cello and an assortment of pedals, Chesley uses and applies her instrument in unconventional, unique, ethereal and ominous ways, through the vessel of mixing such influences as classical, chamber, and experimental…

PALLBEARER – Announce North American Tour With Enslaved

Kicking off the new year with the doom, the most talked about doom metal band of 2012, namely PALLBEARER, will be doing a full-on North American tour as direct support to legendary Norwegian metal band Enslaved (Ancient VVisdom are the opening band on the tour).  The dates for this epic jaunt are as follows, and a good number of Canadian dates are also on the itinerary.

01/30 – Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts 01/31 – Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar 02/01 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls Theater 02/02 – Detroit, MI @ The Magic Stick 02/03 – Chicago, IL…