CAINA – “Hands That Pluck” Now Available To Order
The new, and final, CAINA album “Hands That Pluck” is now available to order. Presented as a two-CD set, the second disc being a 55-minute bonus EP entitled “Old Songs, New Chords” which showcases a re-working of several CAINA classics vs. their remastered original versions (along with a Nico cover). Priced as a single CD go to our STORE section to pick up what is the most ambitious and progressive CAINA album ever.
New KRALLICE EP Available For Download
KRALLICE have just released a three-song Orphan covers EP (entitled “Orphan Of Sickness”) for download. This is KRALLICE’s tribute to Orphan bassist Brendan Majewski who tragically passed away earlier this year, this past Jan.
Go HERE to download the EP for free.
It absolutely crushes.
THE ATLAS MOTH – Complete Work On New Album
Psychedelic sludge/progressive/post metal band THE ATLAS MOTH have completed their follow-up full-length to their 2009 heralded debut “A Glorified Piece Of Blue Sky”, entitled “An Ache For The Distance”.
Known as one of the hardest working young bands America’s heavy music scene today (THE ATLAS MOTH have done endless touring cycles since their inception in 2007 with such bands as Helmet, St. Vitus, Eyehategod, Harvey Milk, Coalesce, Kylesa, Nachtmystium, Zoroaster, and Dark Castle to name a few notable artists the Chicago-based unit have shared the stage with), “An Ache For The Distance” sees THE ATLAS MOTH create an even more…
DISMA and AVICHI Albums Now Available
*UPDATE – For a week prior to its official release date, NPR is exclusively streaming DISMA’s “Towards The Megalith” in its entirety. Go HERE to hear it (legally) in full online.
The new albums by DISMA and AVICHI are now available to order. Be sure to pick up what will be easily the most heralded old-school death metal album of the year along with one of the most challenging and methodically woven and constructed American black metal albums of the year likewise. Those who order the AVICHI album will get an exclusive AVICHI patch as well too, while supplies last respectively.
KEN mode – Canadian Tour Dates Announced
The KEN Mode touring cycle never ends as the band soldier on in support of “Venerable”. This time the trio will be doing a cross Canada tour heading towards the Maritimes, with a few dates in the U.S. (one being a stop over at this year’s Dudefest in Indianapolis). The dates (most of them being with The Great Sabatini) are as follows…
July 16 – Fargo, ND @ New Direction w/Batillus, Mutilation Rights, Sleeping in Gethsemane
July 17 – Sioux Falls, SD – INIT FEST – @ The Vault
July 27 – Madison, WI @ Project Lodge
July…
YOB / DARK CASTLE European Tour
Just an update on the upcoming fall YOB/DARK CASTLE European tour (with Kongh as the support act).
Following their North American pillage of doom, YOB and DARK CASTLE will head to Europe for a month likewise for what will look like another epic tour jaunt. Opening the tour in Tilburg’s excellent Incubate Festival on Sept 16th, here are the tour dates that are currently confirmed for this. There are more dates to confirm of course and when they are, then we’ll be making a full-blown announcement on this, but for now, we just wanted to spread the word…
YOB – Complete Work On New Album
American doom metal gods YOB have completed work on their new album of colossal doom metal art, “Atma”.
Following in the footsteps of its predecessors and continuing to strengthen the YOB legacy, one in which was given new life with their comeback album “The Great Cessation” in 2009, “Atma” is the defining YOB album that is the result of having conquered that mountain, overcoming adversary, and being victorious during the many years of doom metal dominance and culmination.
By combining the sheer monolithic solar bursting heaviness YOB have always been known to deliver, along with summoning a dynamic beauty and…
MORNE – “Asylum” Now Available
The unbelievably crushing and moving new opus from Boston, Massachusetts apocalyptic crust/sludge/progressive doom band MORNE is now available to order.
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CAINA – “Hands That Pluck” Album Announcement
Seminal UK raw black/post metal act CAINA have completed work on their most ambitious, epic, visceral, surreal, and dreamy album to date, “Hands That Pluck”.
In what Stereogum has deemed the best CAINA album to date in their “Hands That Pluck” preview HERE, “Hands That Pluck” is a sprawling, vast, sky bleeding opus that literally culminates all of the influences that CAINA sole proprietor Andrew Curtis-Brignell has build up within his vast musical repertoire. By not only presenting some of the most aggressive and stripped down CAINA material to date, “Hands That Pluck” also presents some of the…
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