Thursday, November 30, 2017
YOB - "The Great Cessation (Reissue)"
Relapse is proud to present the deluxe reissue of YOB's The Great Cessation. Originally released in 2009, the trio's 5th full-length record is a master lesson in cosmic Doom. Epic, crushing, and heavy beyond words, YOB achieved legendary status in recent years due to their unmatched aesthetic and incredible body of work. The Great Cessation is a flawless document of a band reformed and reinspired like never before. Ebbing and flowing between thunderous, skull-splitting riffage and rhythm to meditative moments of introspective psychedelia, The Great Cessation is an essential piece in the pantheon of YOB's illustrious output. This definitive edition has been completely remastered by Heba Kadry (The Mars Volta, Diamanda Galas, Slowdive) and includes stunning new artwork plus two bonus tracks (previously only available on vinyl).
Release Date:
December 8, 2017
Formats:
CD/2xLP/Digital
Tour Dates:
Feb 15 Seattle, WA Chop Suey
Feb 16 Portland, OR Sabertooth Festival
Feb 23 Eugene, OR WOW Hall
May 25 Vancouver, BC Modified Ghost Festival
Recommended if you like:
Neurosis, Sleep, Electric Wizard, Windhand, Pallbearer, Khemmis, Mastodon
Ripple Music Launches the Biggest Sale in Label History! LP's as low as $5, CD's as low as $2 -- Limited Time!
You know that Ripple album you’ve been watching but never
pulled the trigger? Now’s the time! Ripple Music announces it's biggest sale
ever in label history! Most back catalog
prices slashed for our Pre-holiday sale. Many CDs as low as $2-5 many LPs as
low as $5-7 and discounts on many of the few test pressings, double LP's, and
limited editions we have left in stock. So hurry over. Supplies are limited and
once they’re gone, they’re gone. www.ripplemusic.bigcartel.com/products Sale
is for limited time only!

December brings two new releases to the Ripple catalog,
including the latest chapter of The Second Coming of Heavy: Chapter 7. This installment
of the award-winning split series brings the heaviness with Switchblade Jesus
and Fuzz Evil battling it out for heavy supremacy! To be released on December
8,stay tuned for pre-order info! "Overall great split from a couple of
really good Stoner Rock bands who hopefully have a couple of bright futures!
" --The Dirty Room

December also brings this beast, Borracho
"Riffography." A compendium of
all the bands previous vinyl-only releases from splits, 7", 10" etc,
never before available in one package!
Even the songs from the long-out-of-print Chapter 1 of Second Coming of
Heavy are here. CD package up for
pre-order at www.ripplemusic.bigcartel.com/products and you can check it out at
our bandcamp page!

And here's some big news!!
Ripple Music is thrilled to announce our first ever Official SXSW
showcase featuring 6 killer bands all storming the stage! Mothership, Wo Fat,
Freedom Hawk, The Watchers, Blackwulf with special guest Geof O'Keefe
(Pentagram/Bedemon) and Steak! Also appearing at South-by will be Salem's Bend.
Stay tuned for more details as we get closer.
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017
The Xroadie Files
Massgrav – Stockholm
Rockers
Norse – Guitar/Vocals, Ola – Bass/Vocals, Fenok – Drums
24 songs of pure punk that range from a few seconds to a
couple of minutes hard fast and in your face. In the style of classic punk
meets SOD.
Deadneck – Levitation
Aleski Laasko- Vocal, Sauli Purhonen – Guitar, Ville Priha –
Guitar, Vesa Tiovanen – Bass, Mika Rasanen – Drums
Intro slow steady plodding droning feedback that just worms
its way into your brain. Sleepless is a
slow Sabbath style of grinding riff that just seems to come up from beneath you
and some very interesting vocals. Born
To Follow is more of an up tempo riff that will have you swaying to it and
Headbanging. Crimson Sky some very nice
acoustic guitar that moves and grooves its way thru time and space then the rest
of the band melds in to make a great song to just drift to. Somersault more
stoner psychedelia with a great riff and some excellent lead guitar to play air
guitar. Back On Top is slow bluesy steady riff oriented stoner rock that just
slides down the road.
Anatomia – Cranial Obsession
Jun Tonosaki – Bass/Vocals, Takashi Tanaka – Drums/Vocals,
Yukiyasu Fukaya – Guitars/Vocals
Necrotic Incision feedback slowly builds then a blast of
evil and violence that just runs you over.
Fiend punk meets death metal
with lots of aggression. Vanishment starts with more of a Sabbath feel slow and
plodding 14 minutes of pure noise and confusion in a death metal style with
lots of twists. Morbid Hallucination is
more of a mid-tempo death metal song with lots of grinding riffs and deep dark
vocals. Excarnated starts with some acoustic guitar very
melancholy then plows along at an evil pace just dragging you along. Uncanny Descension punch in your face dark
evil death metal. Abysmal Decay is over
15 minutes of dark dreary droning death that just drags you to hell. Reccurence
more slow droning evil up from the abyss to annihilate your soul
Hawkmoth – Godless Summit
Aaron Steed – Bass, Andy Griggs – Guitar, Heath Blows –
Guitar, Brendan Mackay - Drums
Godless Summit
weirds strange sounds with guitar that melds in and slowly builds to a smooth
steady beat and some excellent guitar. IBEX is more slow pounding droning plodding
metal that just takes you on a weirds trip to infinity. Mala Fide sit back
close your eyes and get ready to take a trip to the unknown and back. Charnel
Grounds almost 14 minutes of mind trip music kind of like old Pink Floyd but
with some new influences.
Rose Tiger – From Top To Bottom
Wendy Killmann – All Instruments
Look Around has that new wave sound from the 80s with lots
of keyboards and drum machines with sing along vocals. Tiger Lilly (Lala Song)
more almost disco meets new wave that would be great in a dance club reminds me
of Flock Of Seagulls. High And Low
melodic keys that tune into another new age style song that just takes you back
to the early days of MTV.
-Xroadie
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
AT THE GATES Begin Recording New Album, Announce Live Shows for 2018

Swedish melodic death metal pioneers AT THE GATES have begun
recording their upcoming studio album with producer Russ Russell (Napalm Death,
The Haunted, Dimmu Borgir) at Parlour Studios in the UK, which follows up 2014’s
acclaimed comeback release “At War With Reality”.
Frontman Tomas checked in with the following comment:
"We are finally hitting the studio and are super
excited about this! The songs have been worked on in such detail for the last 7
months and we can´t wait to put them down to tape. Russ Russell was actually
the runner up for mixing “At War With Reality”, and we really wanted to work
with him on this one. He has what we are looking for when it comes to sheer
loud, blunt heaviness. This is going to be a darker, richer and more raging
album than the last one. It has so much more real ATG emotions on display, and
I would say, it has the same approach lyrically as the feeling of “The Red In
The Sky Is Ours”. More of a RED album, than a BLUE one. Can´t wait for people
to hear it!"
Check out a look inside the studio, featuring AT THE GATES
drummer Adrian Erlandsson doing a drum set-up run-down for the recordings here:
https://youtu.be/doYGJbmXTDM
AT THE GATES have also announced their next live shows for
2018 including a trek to the U.S for Decibel's Metal & Beer Festival in Philadelphia, PA!
Dates are as follows:
3/4 Tilburg, NL – Netherlands Deathfest
3/31 Philadelphia,PA
– Decibel Metal & beer Fest
6/21 Halden, NO
– Tons Of Rock Festival
7/13-15 Gävle, CH –
Gefle Metal Fest
7/27-28 Essen, DE
– Nord Open Air
8/8-11 Jaromer, CZ
– Brutal Assault Festival
AT THE GATES’ latest album, “At War With Reality”, which
came out in late 2014 via Century Media Records, marked a first new studio
album effort in 19 years for AT THE GATES and managed to enter the charts in
several countries upon release, including the following positions: Sweden: # 3,
Germany: # 25, USA: # 53, Finland: # 15, Austria: # 39, Switzerland: # 51, UK:
#132, UK Rock Charts: # 13, France: # 119 or also Japan Oricon International: #
17.
Feel free to to re-visit the various video clips produced for
“At War With Reality”:
“Death And The Labyrinth”: http://youtu.be/hzjshF0TFm8
“Heroes And Tombs”: http://youtu.be/ctXRhv90Gz8
“The Book Of Sand (The Abomination)”:
https://youtu.be/I6cMVf1cXPU
“The Night Eternal”: https://youtu.be/po0idn8POlg
“The Circular Ruins”: https://youtu.be/SHC_ScJi1ew
“At War With Reality” is available from Century Media's web
store here: https://www.indiemerchstore.com/item/43296
Further updates on the upcoming album will be revealed soon!
AT THE GATES line-up:
(From left to right on above photo)
Adrian Erlandsson – Drums
Jonas Björler – Bass
Tomas Lindberg – Vocals
Jonas Stålhammar – Guitar
Martin Larsson – Guitar
AT THE GATES online:
Century Media online:
OK Go Premieres New Music Video for "Obsession"
Grammy® Award winning rock band OK Go have shared their
latest extraordinarily innovative music video for track "Obsession".
Directed by OK Go frontman Damian Kulash, Jr. and Yusuke Tanaka, with the
support of the leading global paper brand, Double A, the intricately
choreographed clip was shot in Japan
over the course of two years using 567 printers and a lot of paper. Watch the
stunning music video HERE. "Obsession" is off OK Go's latest album
Hungry Ghosts, which available HERE via Paracadute/BMG.
"This song is about how our most intense and complicated
emotions are also our simplest and most universal. Obsession is so overwhelming
and perplexing, but it's also so binary and basic - everything's normal and
then suddenly it's not," shared Kulash, Jr. "For the video, we wanted
that same idea: take the simplest thing and just revel in how powerful and
not-simple it really is. And animation is that - it's just one picture on one
piece of paper, then another, and then another, and somehow that progression
turns into a whole universe. So we tried to create the physical version of that
universe, a room where the walls can change into anything you imagine, but
everything is made of just one piece of paper following the last."
"And what a pleasure it was to collaborate with this
team. Working with Yusuke was incredible, and we've been wide-eyed fanboys of
Rizomatiks and Elevenplay (and Daito and Mikiko) for years, so this was a real
dream come true. We learned, again, that the simplest ideas are always the
hardest, and this team made miracles happen. We're so thankful that Double A
gave us this opportunity, not to mention the paper that inspired the whole
thing!" Kulash, Jr. elaborated
"Because we are constantly looking for innovative ways
to showcase Double A's super smooth paper, it was a no-brainer to approach OK
Go," said Thirawit Leetavorn, Senior Executive Vice President at Double A.
"OK Go's viral video style and award -winning originality that draws
viewers in is exactly what we were looking for in a creative partner."
Alongside the launch of the video, Double A Paper will offer
at least two lucky viewers the chance to meet the band in a city on their
concert tour with VIP tickets and backstage passes. Other prizes include
iphones and gift cards. Fans can enter the contest HERE. Double A has fostered
enduring relationships with consumers based on trust, quality, ease of use, and
the company's sustainable environmental practices and charitable contributions.
All of the paper used in the "Obsession" music video has since been
recycled, with proceeds donated to Greenpeace.
This summer, two of OK Go's music videos were honored with a
staggering seven awards at the 2017 Cannes Lions International Festival of
Creativity, the largest gathering of worldwide advertising professionals,
designers, digital innovators, and marketers. "The One Moment",
captures, in mind-bending slow motion, over 300 events which occurred in a mere
4.2 seconds of real time. "Upside Down & Inside Out", which was
shot in zero gravity in the skies above Russia, also received the
Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for Visual Art, and was nominated for the
Grammy® Award for Best Video.
Earlier this year, OK Go delivered the TED Talk "How To Find a Wonderful Idea" at the prestigious conference in Vancouver, BC.
Kulash, Jr. explained the band's unique creative approach, shedding light on
the process behind their extraordinarily innovative music videos. Eschewing the traditional slideshow format,
the talk itself embodied the infectious spirit of OK Go, and was bookended by
the band playing acoustic renditions of "This Too Shall Pass" and
"The One Moment" in synch with the songs' iconic video clips. The
talk earned a rare standing ovation from the packed opening-night audience, and
curator Chris Anderson joined the band on stage to exclaim, "You've
reinvented the TED talk!"
Inspired in part by the performances for their TED Talk, OK
Go unveiled a new interactive live show on a West Coast tour earlier this
month. The band performed their songs live and in sync with 20 of their iconic
videos, pausing for question/answer sessions with the crowd and newly
reimagined renditions of fan favorite tracks. OK Go will take their new
interactive live show in tour next year. Upcoming live dates will be available
via the band's website soon.
About OK Go
Singer and video director Damian Kulash, Jr. and bassist Tim
Nordwind met at summer camp in 1987, and a decade later they formed OK Go. With
Dan Konopka as drummer and Andy Ross as guitarist and resident computer
programmer, they've built a unique career at the intersection of music, visual
art, technology, and science, emerging at the forefront of a class of artists
whose 21st-century brand of experimental creativity dissolves the traditional
boundaries between disciplines.
OK Go have collaborated with dance companies and tech
giants, cosmonauts and Muppets, scientists and entrepreneurs. Their videos have
been encoded on strands of actual DNA. They've penned New York Times op-eds and
testified before the US Congress, and they were President Obama's selection to
perform at his 50th birthday party.
OK Go received the 2016 Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award
for Visual Art, and they've been honored with a Grammy, three MTV Video Music
Awards, eighteen Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity awards, six
CLIO awards, three UK Music Video Awards, two Webby Awards, and have had their
work presented at The Guggenheim, MoCA, LACMA, The Hirschhorn, The Hammer
Museum, and Seattle's Museum of Pop Culture.
Labels:
bmg,
double a,
elevenplay,
how to find a wonderful idea,
hungry ghosts,
New Music Video,
obsession,
Ok Go,
paracadute,
rizomatiks,
ted talk,
the one moment,
upside down & inside out
Monday, November 27, 2017
STARING INTO NOTHING - Power
Antares Records
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/staringinto
Bandcamp: https://staringintonothing.bandcamp.com/
Web Site: www.staringintonothing.com
This progressive rock trio hails from Orange County, CA
and consists of Steve Rogers (piano, keyboards, lead and backing vocals),
Savannah Rogers (guitar, lead and backing vocals), and Kurt Barabas (bass and
guitars). The album also features the additional musicians: Matt Chamberlain
(drums), David Levita (guitars), Jamie Muhoberac (keyboards), Pop Levi (backing
vocals), and Andrea Meli (backing vocals).
With political lyrics and tight musicianship, the band gives
listeners an earful that makes repeated listening very easy. You get hints of
‘70s prog mixed with ‘80s and current sounds that make for a nice mixture of
sounds that never gets boring. This has so many songs that stand out that it’s
hard to pick one or two, it’s like a collection of the best songs or at least a
band that put a lot of thought into what they recorded instead of just trying
to pack a ton of songs on a release. The one-two punch of “Puritans” and
“School Daze” must be one of the best starts to any album that I’ve heard in a
long time. So catchy and played with conviction, I had a hard time going onto
the rest of the album until I played them a few more times. “The Pendulum”,
“Heads And Tails”, and the lead single “Big Brother,” are more of the standouts
on the album. There is also an 18-minute opus on the record entitled “Towers”
that is an amazing song that needs to be listened to with headphones on to get
the full effect. With beautiful production from Mark Needham, this sounds clear,
crisp and full of life.
All I can say is that if you need something new to listen
to, grab this and ignore your preconceived idea of overwrought prog, this has
depth and is brimming with emotion, plus lyrics that will get you thinking…how
can that ever be a bad combination?
-Rick Ecker
Sunday, November 26, 2017
W.A.S.P. - Unveil Details For Release Of "ReIdolized (The Soundtrack to the Crimson Idol)”!
This year marks the 25th anniversary of "The Crimson
Idol" - the legendary story of Jonathan Aaron Steele, which was originally
intended to be accompanied by a movie, with several hundred hours of film that
were shot to create approximately 60 minutes of movie footage. The album is
still considered to be the best of W.A.S.P.'s career, and one of the greatest
concept albums of all time! It undoubtedly belongs in every metal head’s record
collection!
Napalm Records now proudly presents "ReIdolized (The
Soundtrack to the Crimson Idol)", the 25th anniversary of the iconic hit
album plus the original "The Crimson Idol" movie on DVD and BluRay!
For the first time EVER as originally intended – film and soundtrack united and
released as one special product! The product will also feature 4 missing songs
that were originally intended to be part of the original "The Crimson
Idol".
"ReIdolized (The Soundtrack to the Crimson Idol)"
will be released worldwide on February 2nd 2018 via Napalm Records!
All info on album artwork, track listing, and available
formats can be found below:
Track listing CD1:
1 The Titanic
Overture
2 The Invisible Boy
3 Arena of Pleasure
4 Chainsaw Charlie
(Murders in the New Morgue)
5 The Gypsy Meets
the Boy
6 Michael's Song
7 Miss You
8 Doctor Rockter
Track listing CD2:
1 I Am One
2 The Idol
3 Hold on to My
Heart
4 Hey Mama
5 The Lost Boy
6 The Peace
7 Show Time
8 The Great
Misconceptions of Me
Available formats:
2CD & Bluray & DVD in Slipcase
2LP Gatefold + DVD
Deluxe Box
2CD Digipack (Re-Press)
2CD Jewelcase (Re-Press)
Digital Album
More Info & News On W.A.S.P.:
"Hail The Hounds" Tour (feat. Greenleaf, The Atomic Bitchwax & Steak) kicking-off soon!
Hey friends!
December is almost here, bringing along Christmas markets
(popping up everywhere!), snow (starting to fall here and there...), and the
usual madness of year's end celebrations... But above all, it brings the
"HAIL THE HOUNDS TOUR"!! Greenleaf, The Atomic Bitchwax and Steak
teaming-up to rock you with the hottest and finest spaced-out stoner grooves!
16 dates in 7 countries, starting from December 1st! You just shouldn't miss
that: Tab have a new album, and rumors say that Greenleaf might play some tunes
from the new record they're working on!
We are also thrilled to tell you that MaidaVale, the Swedish
grooviest star rising in the skies of heavy psychedelia, just joined the Sound
Of Liberation family! The quartet is currently working on its second album, set
to see daylight in March 2018! MaidaVale will of course be touring in the
Spring to promote it :)
And as usual, many of our other artists (1000Mods, Mars Red
Sky, Monkey3, The Necromancers for instance) also have dates scheduled here and
there this month, so check-out our Website if you don't wanna miss the next gig
of your favorite band!
So long for now fellas. Enjoy the end of 2017, keep up the
Flag of Rock, and stay tuned for loads of awesome news for 2018!
-----
Your SOL Team
Labels:
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hail the hounds,
maidavale,
sound of liberation,
Steak,
the atomic bitchwax,
tour
Saturday, November 25, 2017
Diggers Factory offers new LP release from King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard for $1
This album is FREE. Free as in, free. Free to download and
if you wish, free to make copies. Make tapes, make CD’s, make records.
On November 14, 2017, the Australian psychedelic rock band
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard published this powerful statement,
encouraging fans around the world to produce their own copies of the band’s
newest album called “Polygondwanaland”.
This kind of initiative is what Diggers Factory supports,
building a sense of community around music and vinyl records. We love to see
music lovers gather around the passion they share for an artist.

This will happen as a pre-order campaign limited to 2000
copies for sale at 1€ (only 1 copy per Digger) and there will be another round
of 100 records to win randomly by creating a new account on Diggers Factory.
We want to give everyone a chance to get their lucky hands
on this album, so let’s make it real together! MAKE IT VINYL!
Each delivery address will be verified to limit the number
of copies to 1 for each Digger.
You can find out more and learn how Diggers Factory will
press vinyl for anyone's budget the link below.
Friday, November 24, 2017
A Ripple Conversation With Esben Willems Of Monolord
Can you define the bands vision when you're creating music?
Esben Willems: Our vision is to always keep exploring our
band sound and always aim at making the next live show or the next album better
than the previous one.
Tell me about your live shows! Do you have any rituals
before you go on stage?
EW: Since we're all vegetarians we don't sacrifice baby
goats, we're also atheists and don't believe in supernatural beings to summon,
so we're having difficulties finding a fitting ritual to perform. But for the
time being, black coffee and talking backwards in a dimly lit room will do.
How has the band progressed as a live act since its first
live-performance?
EW: I think that's more a question to our audience, how they
experience a live show compared to the first time they saw us. For us, it's
being a more tight knit unit, we have developed a mutual understanding, you
know when you can read each other's minds almost, you know what your band mates
are doing next without having to communicate that, it's implied. Hard to
explain, but that feeling is just amazing. When the band is one collective
unit.
Any specific memorable concerts so far?
EW: I love those intimate and intense shows, when the venue
is packed, the audience is up close and the air is vibrating from the heat. For
me, that's the pure essence of a live show; you're one with the audience.
How do you translate the record into a liveshow?
EW: We always record with the feeling of the live sound as a
reference, so there really is not much of any adaptation. Before tours we
rehearse until the songs are in our backbones, from there's it's just go.
Could you imagine when you started the band that you would
be a well respected band with many tours overseas and a constant growing
fanbase?
EW: No.
Have you met any reaction on your latest effort ”Rust”?
EW: The response from our fans have been overwhelming, on
top of that we've been getting great reviews, a massive stream of superlatives,
almost hard to comprehend.
Did you notice any change in the way people react if you
compare it to your other records?
EW: Only that many seems to like the minor difference in
sound, like the addition of other instruments here and there.
You record your own records!
Bad or Negative? Both?

When writing for a new record. Can describe the process?
What comes first ? Are you a jamming band or do you have it all clear when
entering the studio?
EW: There's no specific formula or set process. We always
work on new music, in several kinds of ways, so when it's approaching album
recording time we start with narrowing the current ideas down to the material
we feel is would make an album we can be proud of.
What’s the ingredient when you're crafting the massive
record sound of yours?
EW: It seems like there's a perpetual search for the holy
grail of sound, but the harsh reality is that there is no magic ingredient.
Hard work and open ears is all you need.
You seem to be a band who write about what's going on in the
world. Do you get any comments about not writing the usual doom-lyrics?
EW: Yes.
Do you have any favorite child on the new record?
EW: If by child you mean song, every song is our favorite.
We wouldn't have recorded them otherwise.
What song makes the audience go bananas?
EW: Whenever any cover band plays Bon Jovi's ”You Give Love
a Bad Name”. I still don't get that.
Whats the reason behind the success of so many Scandinavian
bands?
EW: Garlic, coffee, the polar bears roaming every street in
every town, atheism and the resistance against the royal family.
When recording Rust you used several different instruments
such as strings and organ and especially the violin in “Wormland”. I think the
violin picks up the octave from the guitar and rides the song out. Is this a
direction you will explore even more on the upcoming records?
EW: We don't make decisions like that, we go with the flow
of the songs and what we think the feel of them are, so if we feel the addition
of a specific instrument will get us there we'll add that, if not we won't.
What gear are you using when recording?
EW: Basic gear, the sound is not in the gear, it's in how
you use it.
What’s up for the rest of 2017 in the catacombs of Monolord?
EW: We're on tour with Conan at the moment, covering most of
Europe. Great fun! After that, we only have
one more show this year, the mini festival Vintersabbat in Oslo.
-DoomsdaysJesus
Labels:
a ripple conversation,
bon jovi,
conan,
doom metal,
esben willems,
Monolord,
Rust
Thursday, November 23, 2017
Throbbing Gristle: 40th Anniversary Event at Rough Trade NYC

Photo: Throbbing Gristle
40TH ANNIVERSARY EVENT AT ROUGH TRADE NYC
Q&A AND SIGNING WITH GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE ON
NOVEMBER 24
THE SECOND ANNUAL REPORT, 20 JAZZ FUNK GREATS AND THE TASTE
OF TG REISSUES OUT NOVEMBER 24
Mute and Rough Trade are pleased to announce a special
Q&A and signing with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge of Throbbing Gristle at Rough
Trade NYC on November 24. Moderating the discussion will be T. Cole Rachel of
The Creative Independent. The Brooklyn event follows a similar occasion held earlier
this month at Rough Trade East in London
with Throbbing Gristle’s Cosey Fanni Tutti and Chris Carter. Further
information regarding the Brooklyn Q&A and signing is available here.
The Rough Trade event coincides with the first in a series
of reissues on Mute, starting with the 40th anniversary of their debut album
release, The Second Annual Report.
On November 24, The Second Annual Report, presented as a
limited edition white vinyl release in the original packaging and also on
double CD, and 20 Jazz Funk Greats, on green vinyl and double CD, will be
released along with, The Taste Of TG: A Beginner’s Guide to Throbbing Gristle
with an updated track listing that will include “Almost A Kiss” (from 2007’s
Part Two: Endless Not). This will be the first time The Taste Of TG has been
available on vinyl and will be presented on double red vinyl alongside a CD and
digital release. For those not attending the Rough Trade event, stream and
order the reissues via the links below.
STREAM AND PURCHASE LINKS:
The Second Annual Report20 Jazz Funk Greats
Taste of TG
The Second Annual Report, the first album from Throbbing
Gristle, came out originally on November 4, 1977 and launched the career of one
of the most politically and sonically antagonistic bands of all time.
Throbbing Gristle are Chris Carter, Peter 'Sleazy'
Christopherson (who sadly passed away on November 25, 2010), Cosey Fanni Tutti
and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. Their impact on music, culture and the arts is
immeasurable and still felt today.
November’s anniversary releases will be followed by further
catalog releases in 2018.
TBC 2018
D.o.A. The Third And Final Report
Heathen Earth
Part Two: Endless Not
Mission
Of Dead Souls
Greatest Hits
Journey Through A Body
In The Shadow Of The Sun
2017 saw Throbbing Gristle’s catalog available on streaming
services for the first time. Mute and Throbbing Gristle will continue the
reissues series, creating previously unreleased box sets and making available
long out-of-print and important pieces of work.
STB Records Celebrates 5 Years!


Its True!! STB Records is going to be 5 years old! How
insane is that!! To celebrate I am putting everything in the STB Records store
ON SALE for 30%
off!! EVERYTHING!. Not only that, every order will get a FREE copy of an
unreleased version of one of my records!! That is right! FREE VINYL!! People
First! This is relationship business not show business...
I want to extend a heart felt thank you to each and everyone
of you who have supported wheather it be from day 1 or just this week. You all
are equally important and help STB Records continue to grow and pursue its
mission to create a movement. This fight has no meaning unless we ALL grow
together. So again, Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Stay Punk in your minds and Heavy in your hearts.
Steve STB
TOKE "Orange"

STB - 28 TOKE - ORANGE - On
Sale Saturday Dec 9th 12 noon EST
STB 28 - TOKE "Orange"
- Repress comes with 2 new VINYL ONLY TRACKS
Sunshine of Your
Love - Originally by Cream
Limb from Limb -
Originally by Motorhead
Rick Contes from “Young And In The Way” did guest solos on
limb from limb!
Test Pressing - 15 units - Comes hand numbered with a SUPER
exclusive laser etched WOOD cover.
Die Hard -75 units - 180g vinyl - Half Transparent Orange /
Half Clear - with black splatter in a heavy weight euro version jacket with two
diff color foil stamping.. Comes with an exclusive TOKE "Orange" cast
ring, a 4ft x 4ft TOKE "Orange" silk banner, and a TOKE "Orange"
Back patch for your battle vest!
OBI Edition: - 100 units-
Clear with a black center and orange splatter. Printed OBI Strip - Made
to look like "Toke Brand" rolling papers. hand numbered. Jacket with
- spot UV
Standard Edition - 125 units- Clear with black and orange splatter Jacket
with - spot UV
Save your alarms and mark your calendars. These will go FAST!
Labels:
5 year anniversary,
bandcamp,
free vinyl,
orange,
stb records,
toke,
vinyl,
young and in the way
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
The Xroadie Files
Deathcrush – Hell
Luigi Cara – Vocals/Bass, Andrea Sechi – Guitar, Giampiero
Serra – Drums
Incest Of The Wretched is Slayer thrash with death metal
vocals and blast beats. Eucharisty Of Worms more annihilation of sounds and
grinding riffs. Lost In The Vortex of Heretics just grinds thru you and tears
you apart. Blasphemik Souls has more of a classic metal riff then the deep
vocals just pound into your very being. Dethroned Archangels is Metallica meets
Slayer meets Death. Mors Mori 3002 evil slowly builds into Crowning The Beast which just grabs you and
slams you to the ground over and over. Spreading The Chaos is just that, a chaos of sounds that just runs you
over. King Of Rats keeps up the blast beats and fast riffs along with the
demonic vocals. Deny The Cricifix starts
slow and steady boring into your very essence and dragging you to hell.
Diuna – The Very Best Of The Golden Hits
Maciek Klimiuk, Patryk Mitzig, Jakub Didkowski, Konstanty
Mierjewski
Smiec W Czerwcu is a very blues based stoner style of song
that just has your head a bobbin and feet tappin that also has some interesting
twists and turns. Klamstwa Szatana is blues mixed with stoner mixed with
psychedelia very interesting to sit back and trip to. Uczta is mid-tempo song
that has a very Sabbath style to it.
Zielony Syn slow steady and plodding with rough deep vocals. Szron has a guitar riff that is Hendrix meets
Stevie Ray Vaughn with a slow bluesy riff with a very strange ending. Afekt Bladawy
blues meets stoner meets psychedelia. Filozofia Dialogu a fast tempo bluesy rockabilly riff mixed with stoner rock
vocals has a Motorhead sound to it.
Telmo Sisso slow and melodic then a grinding riff moves in and goes back
and forth for 9 minutes of pure musical tripping.
Eccentric Pendalum -
Tellurian Concepts
Vibhas – Drums, Ankit – Guitar, Arjun – Guitar, Arun – Bass,
Kaushal – Vocals
Tellurian I Nil strange sounds and moods that just make you
trip away to a far place. Tellurian II
Accelerated Extinction old style Pink Floyd psychedelia with death metal vocals
strange and different. Tellurian III
Contrivance is more of a metal riff with some blast beats and prog keyboards
very different.
Fragarak – A Spectral Oblivion
Supritam Sen – Vocals, Kartikeya Sinha – Bass, Arpit Pradhan
– Guitar, Ruben Franklin – Guitar, Louis Rando – Drums
In Rumination 1 The Void excellent acoustic guitar then a
riff that melds in with some deep evil vocals in the background that slowly
move their way to the front then back to the acoustic guitar. In Rumination II Reflections melancholy and
moody with some very evil intent. The Phaneron Eclipsed more great acoustic guitar
work with choral vocals the music builds and builds along with some demonic
vocals. Alucinari 1 Transcendence a
classical style of song that melds into Fathom Of Delirium which is a straight
forward death metal song with some prog elements. Alucinari II Revelations is a
very folky style of song that leads into Spectre An Oblivion Awakens that is
classic progressive death metal with a few twists and turns. Alucinari III
Reverie is a great acoustic melancholy style of song to just drift along with.
This Chastising Masquerade is death metal screams and heavy riffs that just
pound you into the ground. Of Ends Ethereal 12 minutes of just pure progressive
death metal with many changes that take you down a weird winding path.
Alucinari IV The Fall acoustic guitar
and spoken words that drift off into the distance.
Invertia – The Crimson Screen Vol 1
David Coppola- Guitar/Bass/FX/Samples, Tim Winson – Drums/Programming/FX/Keyboards
Lykanthropos in your face rammed down your throat death
metal with vocals from the depths of hell. Cast No Shadow weird sounds building with a strange riff and deep growling
vocals. Face On His Face industrial sounds and a rumbling bass that builds till
it rips your face off. Created From Cadavers more industrial sounds and tv
sounds with weird heavy riffs that just kick you in the teeth.
-Xroadie
Labels:
a spectral oblivion,
deathcrush,
diuna,
eccentric pendalum,
fragarak,
hell,
invertia,
tellurian concepts,
the crimson screen vol 1,
the very best of the golden hits,
the xroadie files
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