NEWS, 13th August 2010
> STARS OF THE SEARCH PARTY ANNOUNCE UK TOUR
UK alt-rockers Stars of The Search Party have announced a string of late summer tour dates in support of the release of their new EP ‘Lost In The Dust Part II’. The 6 strong band, completed by Rob Harral on vocals, Steve Coleman and Russ Poke on guitar, synth/ vocals from Mark Edgeller, Rob Dowall on bass and Calum Terry-Short on drums, have spent their last couple of tours in the company of A, and Young Guns.
Speaking of their upcoming tour dates, guitarist Russ said, "We can't wait to get out on the road and tear up the south! It's going to be awesome playing lots of headline shows across the country, visiting new places, meeting the fans, and giving everyone a little taste of what Stars Of The Search Party have in store for the future! As we are currently in the process of writing our first mini album, this is going to be a great opportunity to test out some new material with everyone! We've been really excited for this tour, so we are going to give it all we've got, and get damn sweaty in the process.”
The full list of tour dates is as follows:
13 Aug – White Rabbit, Plymouth
14th Aug – Buffalo Bar, Cardiff
15th Aug – Hobo’s, Bridgend
16th Aug – Vic, Derby
18th Aug – Hamptons, Southampton
19th Aug – Boileroom, Guildford
20h Aug – Fighting Cocks – Kingston
21st Aug – Naggs Head, High Wycombe
http://www.myspace.com/starsofthesearchparty
> ENCOFFINATION ALBUM
Selfmadegod Records is proud to announce the release of the CD version of the debut album by the U.S. death metal/doom band ENCOFFINATION, entitled Ritual Ascension Beyond Flesh.
Formed in 2009, ENCOFFINATION is the sepulchral embodiment of rancid death. Crushing, suffocating death metal doom of the lowest caliber. Named for the ritual preparation of the dead for burial, ENCOFFINATION exists below the plane of mortality; deep within the realms of death and decay. Slowly they lurch forth with their educated form of blasphemy, occult, and ritualistic expulsion of the holy from the earth.
This is the first full length from this amazing two-piece band, which is comprised of Ghoat on vocals, guitar, and bass (also in Festered) and Elektrokutioner on drums (also in Decrepitaph, Festered, Tombstones, Beyond Hell, Scaremaker). The follow-up to their After Their Temples Descend Below The Earth 7-inch, released earlier this year, this Georgia/Texas-based duo attacks with the 8-song Ritual Ascension Beyond Flesh, featuring over 30 minutes of cryptic metal influenced by early ‘90s American doom/death and bands like Incantation, Disembowelment, and Morpheus Descends. The album has already been released on tape format by Ritval Death Offerings, and the vinyl version is available on Psychedelic Lotus Order. Now it’s time for the CD version!
Prepare for the most soul draining and graven death metal album of the year this September!
Ritual Ascension Beyond Flesh track listing: 1. Procession, 2. Nefarious Yet Elegant Are the Bowels of Hell, 3. Miasma of Rotten Serenity, 4. Eucharist of Bone and Flame, 5. Interlude, 6. Beyond the Grace of Flesh Go I, 7. Entombment of the Breathing Flesh, 8. Coffinpsalms
http://www.myspace.com/encoffination
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> SLEEP U.S. 2010 TOUR UPDATE
Legendary stoner metallers SLEEP, who recently announced their long-anticipated reunion tour, have added several new stops to the impending trek including additional shows in Brooklyn and San Francisco. Dubbed the Marijuanaut's Return US Tour 2010, the journey will commence on September 3 at the prestigious All Tomorrow's Parties Music Fest in Monticello, New York and draw to a close on the second of two dates at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, California. Support will be provided by a revolving roster of bands throughout the tour including: Doomriders, Unearthly Trance, A Storm Of Light, Lichens, Sub Oslo, Scott Kelly, YOB and Thrones. Check out the David D'Andrea tour poster, which will be available at each show as a 26" x 26" glow-in-the-dark screen print, here: http://tinyurl.com/33lzzwr
SLEEP split in 1997 after two hugely influential albums. Members went on to form underground heroes OM and High On Fire, and more recently metal supergroup Shrinebuilder. On the Marijuanaut's Return Tour, original members Al Cisneros and Matt Pike will be joined by drummer Jason Roeder of Neurosis to perform the seminal Holy Mountain album in its entirety as well as selections from Dopesmoker and more.
SLEEP: Marijuanaut's Return US Tour 2010:
9/03/2010 All Tomorrow's Parties - Monticello, NY
9/04/2010 FYE Fest - Los Angeles, CA
9/05/2010 Gothic Theatre - Englewood, CO
9/06/2010 Brooklyn Masonic Temple - New York, NY w/ Doomriders, Unearthly Trance
9/07/2010 Starlight Ballroom - Philadelphia, PA w/ A Storm Of Light
9/08/2010 Brooklyn Masonic Temple - New York, NY w/ A Storm Of Light, Lichens
9/09/2010 Logan Square Auditorium - Chicago, IL w/ Lichens
9/10/2010 Mohawk - Austin, TX w/ Sub Oslo w/ Sub Oslo
9/11/2010 Roseland Theater/Music Fest NW - Portland, OR w/ Scott Kelly, YOB
9/12/2010 Regency Ballroom - San Francisco, CA w/ Thrones
9/13/2010 Regency Ballroom - San Francisco, CA
SLEEP debuted with 1991's Volume One album, recorded for San Francisco label Tupelo. Earache Records received the band’s next recordings in the mail as a demo. The label -- impressed by SLEEP's single-mindedness and unique vision -- immediately signed the band and released the tape exactly as it was received. Record stores worldwide stocked SLEEP’s Holy Mountain from November 1992 to this day.
The band then signed to London Records. Their debut album for the major took the form of one mammoth 63-minute leviathan of a track entitled "Jerusalem." The band resisted the label’s attempts at radio edits and bringing in their own engineer to remix the album in view of “marketability.” London baulked at the prospect of promoting what probably still is the most extreme music ever recorded for a major label, so shelved the recording and dropped the band.
SLEEP's music has been featured in films by Harmony Korine and Jim Jarmusch.
http://www.myspace.com/rifffilledland
> SWARM RECORDS: AN INTUITIVE WORLD OF ARTS
Swarm Records, the multidisciplinary french label (Ed Wood Jr, Josh, Royal McBee Corporation...) specialized into books edition, production of bands & events announces the second edition of its festival "An Intuitive World of Arts #2: The Noisy End" on 11/20 @ Maison Daniel Féry (France, Nanterre, 92) & 11/21 @ Le Tapis Rouge (France, Colombes, 92)
The first bands announced are: Akiko (noise-rock), Dupek (noise-rock), Ed Wood Jr. (math-rock), Gameboy Physical Destruction (electro-punk 8 bits), Josh (screamo-noise), Royal McBee Corporation (noise-rock duo)
> PELICAN 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY
Chicago’s reigning gods of heavy instrumental rock, PELICAN, have announced plans to play two very special shows in celebration of their 10-year anniversary box set release, out October 19th on Berlin, Germany’s Viva Hate Records. The elegantly packaged wooden-box set will be limited to a run of 500 copies and will encompass material from their four full-length releases and three EPs.
Formed in Chicago in 2000, the quartet’s discography has stood as a consistent refutation of genre and musical classicism, perfecting an obtuse approach that has become increasingly precise and calculated while no less recognizable. Listeners from all corners of the earth have celebrated PELICAN’s unique instrumental take on metal, watching them spur the genre into new conceptual territory.
PELICAN will play Chicago’s Bottom Lounge on October 23rd joined by longtime friends and occasional collaborators The Life & Times. Munster, Indiana’s Three Floyds Brewery -- recognized internationally as one of the most unique and distinguished micro-breweries in the country -- will celebrate the event by unveiling a special, PELICAN-dedicated Doppelbock (one of the few styles of beer all four band members regularly agree upon). The as-yet-unnamed ale will be served at the Chicago show and at select watering holes and specialty shops around the Chicagoland area for a limited time. One week after the Chicago appearance, PELICAN will join forces with legendary doom-metal overlords Goatsnake on October 30th to play the Troubador in Los Angeles, an event likely to be one of the most anticipated So-Cal metal sets in recent memory.
PELICAN 10-Year Anniversary Dates:
10/23/2010 The Bottom Lounge - Chicago, IL
10/30/2010 The Troubador - Los Angeles, CA
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