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…
BELL WITCH – “Longing” Now Available To Order
The despondent debut album from Seattle extreme doom metal duo BELL WITCH is now available to order from our website. One of the heaviest, saddest, and emotionally draining doom metal albums you’ll hear all year, “Longing” is a colossal and monstrous sounding opus of introverted doom metal art.
HELEN MONEY To Release New Full-Length Through Profound Lore
Profound Lore, as one of its first releases of 2013, will be releasing the new full-length album from avant-classical virtuoso cellist Helen Money (aka Alison Chesley). Entitled “Arriving Angels”, this is the third full-length album Chesley has recorded under the moniker Helen Money. She created Helen Money to showcase her compositions and her very uncommon approach on the cello, but also has quite the repertoire at her disposal. Aside from her solo work as Helen Money and her classical upbringing, Chesley has played on over 100 albums with such artists as Bob Mould, Disturbed, Mono, Anthrax, Broken Social…
THE ATLAS MOTH – Announce Tour With Gojira and Devin Townsend
Launching the new year, pretty much immediately (pending the world doesn’t end), THE ATLAS MOTH will be embarking on a pretty epic North American tour, probably their most ambitious tour to date, in January/Feb where they will be supporting Gojira and Devin Townsend. This tour will take the band through the U.S. as well as multiple dates in Canada which will include dates in the vast Canadian prairie wastelands (hence it would be wise to dress warm).
The dates for the tour go as follows:
01/14 Minneapolis, MN @ Mill City Nights
01/15 Winnipeg, MB @ Garrick Centre
01/16…
ATRIARCH – “Ritual Of Passing” Now Available
*UPDATE: The album is streaming in its entirety for a limited time via Invisible Oranges HERE.
The harrowing new album from Portland’s ATRIARCH is now available to order through our website. A new milestone for this deathrock/doom metal cult, “Ritual Of Passing” (check out the packaging HERE) is the album the band have been threatening to unleash since their mere beginnings and the album that truly defines their being. Also a heads up, the band will be touring in conspiracy of this release, tour dates/announcement can be read HERE.
INDESINENCE – “Vessels Of Light And Decay” Hardcover Book CD Now Available
*UPDATE: hear “Vessels Of Light And Decay” in full via Stereogum HERE.
After a bit of a massive delay, one in which we had to push the album back at least a month, the crushing and haunting new INDESINENCE album “Vessels Of Light And Decay” is finally available to order from our website. The album is packaged as a thick and massive gorgeously designed hardcover digibook with a 28-page booklet glued in (see photos HERE). At the moment, this is the only format the album is available in as is the definite presentation of what we…
YAKUZA – New Album “Beyul” Now Available To Order, New Album Streaming In Full
The new YAKUZA album “Beyul” is now available to order through our website. Another daring output from YAKUZA, “Beyul” sees the avant-garde jazz-influenced progressive metal band take their sound even further beyond, while continuing to tread the path laid down by their “Of Seismic Consequence” milestone. Go to our online shop to order another milestone for the band and go to HERE to Brooklyn Vegan to stream the album in its entirety.
ATRIARCH – Announce U.S. Tour
Pacific Northwest deathrock cult ATRIARCH will be embarking on a U.S. tour this fall in cohesion with their Oct 30th release of “Ritual Of Passing”. This will be the band’s first jaunt outside of the West Coast and we can assure you, witnessing ATRIARCH live is an experience onto its own. The dates are as follows:
11/09 – Idaho Falls, ID @ Waxhouse
11/10 – Denver, CO @ Aqualungs
11/11 – Kansas City, MO @ House Show
11/12 – Chicago, IL @ Ultra Lounge
11/13 – Indianapolis, IN @ Piss Haus
11/14 – Pittsburgh, PA @ The…
LOSS/WORM OUROBOROS West Coast Tour
LOSS and WORM OUROBOROS will team up this November for a mini West Coast tour of epic proportions. Other bands of ours that will be joining LOSS and WORM OUROBOROS on select dates of this tour include MITOCHONDRION, BELL WITCH, and ASH BORER (in particular, the Seattle show on Nov 10th shall be one of a catastrophic nature).
LOSS ONLY
11/09 – Vancounver BC @ Astoria Pub (w/MITOCHONDRION)
WORM OUROBOROS ONLY
11/09 – Salem, OR @ Burial Grounds (w/Will O’ The Wisp, Aerial Ruin, Disemballerina, Hell Mouth Yawns)
LOSS/WORM OUROBOROS West Coast Tour
11/10 – Seattle, WA @ The…
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