The second digital EP from the Hearse “Burn In Heaven II” is now unleashed! And like the introductory period of the first installment its being offered for: PAY WHATEVER THE HELL YOU DESIRE! (*expires Aug. 4th) **Burn In Heaven I is also pay what you want until 8/4!!
From the forthcoming new Deaf Club album “We Demand A Permanent State of Happiness” is the track “Crap Circles”! It’s loud and obnoxious via Decibel magazine right now!
Deaf Club vocalist Justin Pearson had this to say about the track:
“I get bummed on myself for the lyrics I write and how they are always seeped in negativity. I don’t want to say the negative stuff I do, but I have no other artistic option. Not only do I have little faith in humans at this point, but the constant blanket of stress and anxiety from the sheer stupidity of people in modern society warrants the words I write. The play on words with the title ties into aliens, and how if we were to be officially visited, or at least abducted, we could collectively throw out all the bullshit dogma that humans still seem to embrace, such as religion, the excessive ego, the rampant disrespect for one another as well as the planet in general, and the fact that we’ve managed to shove our heads so far up our asses we miss everything that actually matters.”
DEAF CLUB – “We Demand a Permanent State of Happiness“
Deaf Club is announcing the release of their second LP, We Demand a Permanent State of Happiness, to be released by Southern Lord and Three One G Records on Sept. 19th.
Deaf Club continues their scathing indictment of society with their second full-length album, being released on Southern Lord and Three One G: We Demand a Permanent State of Happiness. Fast wit and faster blast beats are mainstays of the band, but there is also a sense of growth. This is their strongest songwriting yet, incorporating more hooks and good old-fashioned moments to mosh while staying as weird as ever. Raygun guitar riffs and unexplainable sounds abound. Justin Pearson, Brian Amalfitano, Scott Osment, and Jason Klein excel at inciting emotion in the face of apathy and voicing disgust amid a world rapidly burning.
The first offering from the album comes in the form of the rager: “Nihilism For Dummies“ Check out a video of the song (with some †unholy† guest appearances) here:
SUNN O))) are pleased to announce the second live actions of 2025: a three-week European tour in October and November, entering around our performance at the Venice Biennale of Music, curated by Caterina Barbieri. This tour will bring us to cities SUNN O))) have not performed in previously: Sofia, Belgrade, Thessaloniki, Skopje, as well as strongholds like Brussels, a French appearance in Lyon, favourites Zagreb, Torino, a touch of Scandinavian brightness in Århus and Malmö and ending in Utrecht with our long-term allies Le Guess Who.
SUNN O))) will perform as Shoshin (初心) Duo, founders/guitarists Stephen O’Malley & Greg Anderson will perform as a duo immersed in profound valve amplification, spectral harmonics, distortion and volume—pure and primaeval riffs of temporality, massively heavy structures of sound pressure. Witness a live experience of physical sound, fog and glacial maximalism.
Our amazing road crew will join us: Pete Stahl, Masco, Chris Fullard, Anne Weckström, Torben Utecht, Piotr Kimzal and Pascal Thönnißen.
We hope to meet you there… we hail you for your interest and support. SUNN O)))
SUNN O))) Shoshin (初心) Duo Europe : Autumn 2025
13/10/25 – HALLE D GRAZ AT – tickets 14/10/25 – DURER KERT BUDAPEST HUN – tickets 15/10/25 – KINO SC ZAGREB HR – tickets 17/10/25 – CLUB JOY STATION SOFIA BG – tickets 18/10/25 – PRINCIPAL CLUB THESSALONIKI GR – tickets 19/10/25 – GAGARIN 205 ATHENS GR – tickets 21/10/25 – MKC SKOPJE MK – tickets 22/10/25 – DRUGSTORE BELGRADE SR – tickets 24/10/25 – VENICE MUSIC BIENNALE VENICE IT 26/10/25 – CAP10100 TORINO IT – tickets 27/10/25 – BACKSTAGE WERK MUNICH DE – tickets 28/10/25 – REITHALLE STRASSE E DRESDEN DE – tickets 30/10/25 – NUIT SONORES @ LE SUCRE LYON FR – tickets 01/11/25 – BOTANIQUE – LES NUITS WEEKEND BRUSSELS CE – tickets 03/11/25 – VOXHALL ÅRHUS DK – tickets 04/11/25 – PLAN B MALMÖ SE – tickets 06/11/25 – LE GUESS WHO UTRECHT NL – tickets
Show tickets go on sale on Friday 27th June at 11am CET.
Hedonist in conspiracy with Southern Lord launch their debut full length album “Scapulimancy”. Old school death metal on a timeless warpath strewn with familiar and unknown terrors beyond.
Southern Lord is beyond stoked to announce that we will be releasing the debut album from Victoria, BC. Old School Death Metal band: Hedonist. Hedonist brings forth a ferocious exhibition of power amidst morbid undercurrents of disaster. Timelessly in the vein of Bolt Thrower, Nihilist, Entombed and Dismember where death takes bearing on the facade of life.
The Lord was completely blown away by their “Sepulchral Lacerations” demo (https://hedonistdeathmetal.bandcamp.com/album/sepulchral-lacerations-demo) and are really honored to be working with the band on their brutal debut album! The very first track we will be unleashing from the “Scapulimancy” album is called “Execution Wheel” and is streaming//available to purchase for download exclusively from bandcamp! Vinyl pre-order information will be made in the not so distant future.
April 1st 1998 was the official unleashing of the Southern Lord label. Initially created solely to release (2) monumental groups that both Stephen O’Malley and I were involved in:
Both albums were released on compact disc by Southern Lord in 1998. This primordial singularity in itself birthed the massiveness that followed. 27 years later and there are no words, no language to express the immense honor it has been to be able to work with so many incredible artists. Nothing but gratitude for being allowed to be involved.
Eternal Thanks, †Greg Anderson† Southern Lord Recordings
p.s. The Thorrs Hammer and Burning Witch albums are available digitally for whatever you want to pay via bandcamp for a short period of time.
The second and most important album from Engine Kid : ”Angel Wings” turns 30 years old today! In celebration of this absolutely surreal fact (!!!!) the remastered version (including 1 song not originally on the session: “Angel Dust” which was mixed by Brad Wood) is now available via all streaming platforms! (The Coltrane cover: “Ole” is vinyl only).
Deluxe 2xLp with Stoughton gatefold jacket available via the Kid Bandcamp and our store. AND!!! ANGEL WINGS IS AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD FOR FREE FROM BANDCAMP, (for a limited time).
Precise, exacting, relentless. Those days of preparation in advance of recording Angel Wings was a time for me where I felt like a complete musician. 6 days a week, 4 hours a day for 6 weeks: of sweat and passion. With all three of us on a collective mission to bring it home; and I still hear it in the work 30 years later. (With gratitude to John Goodmanson for his stewardship and production)
JD 🗡️
“30 years! It doesn’t sound a day older than 25. Actually, it sounds and feels just as it did when we recorded it. I cherish Angel Wings and the memories of those sessions and look forward to the 50th anniversary.”
A little cheesy, but that’s me. Krafty
After amassing a very decent arsenal of new songs we headed into the studio to record our first full-length for Revelation. We chose to work with John Goodmanson again this time at Bad Animals studio in downtown Seattle. The diversity of our songwriting could almost be heard as sounding schizophrenic. At one moment we were bludgeoning a riff to a bloody pulp (Lies Like Knives) and the next evoking melancholic melodicism (Stitches). We would quickly turn angular yet disjointed cacophony into fist pumping hypnotic undulation. It was an elevation of the quiet/loud juxtaposition to new heights. We capped the whole thing off with a enthusiastic, heavy rendition of John Coltranes” OLE’ with close friends Bill Herzog-(Upright bass), Joel Phelps-Silkworm (Saxophone) and once again Tim Midgett (Trumpet). These recordings were released as the “Angel Wings” album on Revelation Records in 1995.
SUNN O))) are pleased to announce the first live actions of 2025: a one-week European tour in June, bringing us to Ephemera Festival in Warsaw, Hellfest, the biggest metal festival in the world, a return to Prague, Graz, Heidelberg and the cult Dachstock in Bern.
SUNN O))) will perform as Shoshin (初心) Duo, founders/guitarists Stephen O’Malley & Greg Anderson will perform as a duo immersed in profound valve amplification, spectral harmonics, distortion and volume—pure and primaeval riffs of temporality, massively heavy structures of sound pressure. Witness a live experience of physical sound, fog and glacial maximalism.
Our amazing road crew will join us: Pete Stahl, Masco, Chris Fullard, Anne Weckström, Torben Utecht and Pascal Thönnißen.
We hope to meet you there… thank you for your interest and support. SUNN O)))
From the dark alleys and dead ends of Los Angeles, EXCEL have been delivering maximum crossover since crossover first crossed over. Their classic albums Split Image (1987) and The Joke’s On You (1989) remain linchpins of the genre decades after their release. The band continues to pack venues across the globe and appear at European festivals. On July 19, fans will have a chance to hear EXCEL’s long-lost album.
Originally released in 1995 while grunge dominated airwaves and MTV, Seeking Refuge offers a glimpse at an EXCEL many have never heard before. Out of print for decades, Seeking Refuge will finally get its due, complete with a guest shot from H.R. of Bad Brains (on “Take Your Part Gotta Encourage”) and a video starring Tony Alva for the anthemic single “Unenslaved.” “A lot of people who know EXCEL don’t necessarily know about this record,” bassist Shaun Ross explains. “It’s been out of print since ’95, and it was just kind of forgotten.”
At the time that Seeking Refuge was recorded, Ross was working for Fuct streetwear and living in their warehouse. “One of the owners had a friend who knew H.R. from Bad Brains, and they just dropped him off at the studio,” the bassist recalls. “He ended up living with me for the better part of the year in the Fuct warehouse. It was a crazy time.” (As a result of H.R.’s appearance on Seeking Refuge, Dan and Shaun would soon witness firsthand the reunification of the Bad Brains.)
H.R. makes a guest appearance on “Take Your Part Gotta Encourage” while EXCEL incorporate elements of rock, funk, and grunge on tracks like “Plastic Cracks” and “Drowned Out.” For lead single “Unenslaved,” they hit a hallowed Dogtown landmark to shoot a video starring skate pioneer Tony Alva. They re-emptied the Gonzales Pool, a.k.a. Gonzo Pool, where some of Alva’s most famous moments had been captured in the movie Thrasher.
Produced by Ron Champagne, (Jane’s Addiction, Alice In Chains), Seeking Refuge didn’t fit into any of heavy music’s prefab categories circa ’95. “We didn’t get a great response,” Ross recalls. “Between ’90 and ’95, the market for thrash and even punk kinda died with grunge becoming so popular. And we didn’t use our original logo, which in retrospect was a big deal because it didn’t look like an EXCEL record. We fixed that for the reissue.”
In late 2023, Ross and Clements welcomed two new members to the EXCEL family: Greg Cerwonka of Chula Vista thrashers Take Offense will take over on guitar, while Damon DeLaPaz of pop punk vets Fenix TX will handle drums. “We’ve already started writing,” Ross enthuses. “The goal is to record in 2024 and have a new album out by 2025.”
EXCEL’s Seeking Refuge was reissued by Southern Lord for Record Store Day 2024, and sold out. It will be available on red vinyl and on all digital platforms via Southern Lord, Southern Lord EU and Bandcamp.
New Year’s Day, 1985: Venice crossover upstarts Chaotic Noise change their name to EXCEL after vocalist Dan Clements and guitarist Adam Siegel recruit bassist Shaun Ross and drummer Greg Saenz to join the band. Clements is working for Suicidal Tendencies’ merchandising company, Triple M, and Dogtown Skateboards, when ST frontman Mike Muir invites EXCEL to appear on the soon-to-be-legendary Welcome to Venice compilation alongside No Mercy, Beowülf, Los Cycos, and ST themselves.
Welcome to Venice put EXCEL on the map. “The early ’80s bands that were popular in LA were kind of falling off around this time,” Ross says. “We walked into the perfect window of opportunity with punk/metal crossover becoming a thing. The first wave of hardcore bands were already established, and then we stepped in and came up locally pretty quick.”
EXCEL’s early demos, Personal Onslaught (1985) and Refuse to Quit (1986), were, along with an appearance on Thrasher magazine’s Born to Skate (Skate Rock 5) (1987), already circulating among those tapped into the thriving speed metal underground. Pushead reviewed them for Maximum Rock N’ Roll, giving EXCEL instant cred.
Muir went on to release EXCEL’s full-length debut, Split Image, on ST’s own Suicidal Records. Hitting like a fist to the face in ’87, the album was produced by studio overlord Randy Burns, who’d helmed game-changers like Possessed’s Seven Churches, Death’s Scream Bloody Gore, and Suicidal Tendencies’ self-titled debut. “Randy produced a lot of stuff we grew up listening to, so that was a big deal for us,” Ross recalls. “He made us sound good.”
They started writing their next album immediately after Split Image came out. Entitled The Joke’s On You, it added new dimensions to EXCEL’s signature sound. “With The Joke’s On You, we had more influences,” Ross explains. “We were able to hone in on our own thing. We came up with weird time changes without making it fusion-y. We were also influenced by bands like Jane’s Addiction and Faith No More, but we were still coming from the punk/hardcore side. We were also graffiti artists that listened to hip-hop. I think our lifestyle and our influences all came together on that album.”
Released by Caroline Records in 1989, The Joke’s On You put EXCEL on the international stage. They toured the US and Europe with the likes of Megadeth, Overkill, Vio-Lence, and Dark Angel while becoming reliable attendance boosters for major California promoters. “We could play metal shows and punk shows—we were very versatile in that way,” Ross says. “If Goldenvoice wasn’t selling enough tickets for a particular show, they’d just put us on the bill.”
In 1992, Siegel and Saenz left the band. At the same time, Clements’ and Ross’ tastes were evolving. Both changes became evident on Seeking Refuge. “Dan and I had to find a new lineup and write a new album, but the drummer we hired couldn’t play fast so the album ended up being all midtempo,” Ross explains. “At the same time, grunge happened between ’90 and ’92, plus we were hearing bands like Kyuss and Sleep, and we’d been doing hardcore forever. We just kinda wanted to do something different. I think it’s a very ’90s record, but it still sounds like EXCEL.”
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