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UNSANE Announces North American Tour Dates With Child Bite, Weedeater, Zeke, Wrong, And More, Plus European Tour; Sterilize LP Out Now On Southern Lord

Posted on: May 23, 2018

New York City noise rock kingpins UNSANE have announced summer tours of the North American and European continents. The trio is still out there supporting their crushing eighth studio full-length album, Sterilize, which was released through Southern Lord in September.

The new tour dates see the long-running UNSANE crew touring around the country through most of July with a variety of other acts. An Eastern/Midwestern run from July 10th through 18th sees them supported by Child Bite, which includes a Rocks Off Concert Cruise in New York City harbor. From there they hit Texas with Weedeater, Zeke, and Sierra on July 19th, 20th, and 21st, the last of which sees the bands joined by L7, The Spits, Dixie Witch, and many more. The final stretch of the tour will see UNSANE supported by Wrong, winding from the Gulf States and up the East Coast from July 22nd through 29th.

After the US tour, UNSANE heads back to Europe for two weeks of touring. From August 4th through 17th the band will play through Poland, Finland, Netherland, Germany, Czech Republic, Italy, and Switzerland, including multiple festival performances.

See the full confirmed UNSANE tour routing below.
Stream UNSANE’s entire Sterilize now at THIS LOCATION

Sterilize is available now through Southern Lord on CD, LP, and digital formats; find preorders and merch at Southern Lord’s webshop HERE

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Tour Dates:7/10/2018 Photo City – Rochester, NY *
7/11/2018 Rocks Off Concert Cruise – New York, NY * [info]
7/12/2018 Club Cafe – Pittsburgh, PA *
7/13/2018 The Blind Pig – Ann Arbor, MI *
7/14/2018 Empty Bottle – Chicago, IL *
7/15/2018 Turf Club – St. Paul, MN *
7/16/2018 Record Bar – Kansas City, MO *
7/17/2018 Fubar – St Louis, MO *
7/19/2018 Gas Monkey – Dallas, TX +
7/20/2018 Lost Well – Austin, TX +
7/21/2018 White Oak Music Hall – Houston, TX w/ L7, The Spits, more +
7/22/2018 Santos – New Orleans, LA ^
7/24/2018 Crowbar – Tampa, FL ^
7/25/2018 Gramps – Miami, FL ^
7/26/2018 Will’s Pub – Orlando, FL ^
7/27/2018 The Earl – Atlanta, GA ^
7/28/2018 Local 506 – Chapel Hill, NC ^
7/29/2018 Kung Fu Necktie – Philadelphia, PA ^
8/07/2018 OFF Festival – Katowice, PL
8/06/2018 Tavastia – Helsinki, FI
8/07/2018 DB’s – Utrecht, NL
8/08/2018 Schlachthof – Wiesbaden, DE
8/09/2018 Molotow Club – Hamburg, DE
8/10/2018 Void Fest – Bad Kötzting, DE
8/11/2018 Brutal Assault Festival – Josefov, CZ
8/13/2018 Musica W Festival – Castellina Marittima, IT
8/14/2018 Spazio Polivalente – Caramagna Piemonte, IT
8/15/2018 Piscina Comunale – Monghidoro, IT
8/16/2018 Frantic Festival – Pescara, IT
8/17/2018 Rock Altitude – Le Locle, CH
* w/ Child Bite
+ w/ Weedeater, Zeke, Sierra
^ w/ Wrong

Closing a five-year gap since the 2012 release of the Alternative Tentacles-issued Wreck LP, UNSANE made a vicious return last year with Sterilize, a record that recalls the most defining elements of the band’s seminal albums, surging with their unrelenting singular sound created by guitarist/vocalist Chris Spencer, bassist/vocalist Dave Curran, and drummer Vinnie Signorelli. Sterilize showcases the group sounding as dense and damaging as ever, and sees them remaining as necessary as ever, nearly three decades since they began.

Sterilize was reviewed as Bandcamp’s Album Of The Day, including, “Throughout, Dave Curran and Vincent Signorelli steamroll any rival noise-rock rhythm section into surrender. Chris Spencer’s virulent riffs add to the effect, while his growled lyrics cover a whole gamut of hopelessness: misery, delusion, corporate greed, history’s sick habit of repeating itself, running out of time, running out of breath, running ever towards oblivion.” Noisey’s feature includes that Sterilize, “continues that characteristically bloody legacy with another grisly scene front-and-center… The red splatter adorning the cover accurately matches the tone of its contents. ‘Aberration’ squeals with feedback and a meaty bassline by longtime member Dave Curran, while ‘Inclusion’ slowly grinds a steel-toed boot into the grime and viscera. For fans of the group, these ten tracks deliver the messy goods.” Exclaim! Magazine’s review boasts that Sterilize is, “an intense ride through conventional rock crafted with an ugly, chaotic sense of aggression that shows the band have no plans of ending their reign over the genre… it succeeds in solidifying UNSANE‘s rule as the kings of noise rock.”

For review copies of Sterilize,interviews with UNSANE, and coverage of the band live, in North America contact dave@earssplitcompound.com and internationally contact lauren@rarelynable.com

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BAPTISTS: Beacon Of Faith LP Streaming At Revolver Magazine As Album Nears Release Through Southern Lord This Friday

Posted on: May 23, 2018
Revolver Magazine is now streaming Beacon Of Faith, the new album from Vancouver’s BAPTISTS, as the album surges towards its official release this Friday through Southern Lord.
 
The Beacon Of Faith album stream is paired with an interview with BAPTISTS on their crushing Kurt Ballou-produced third full-length release, in which Revolver declares, “Like previous records Bushcraftand Bloodmines, the band’s latest release excels in wickedly fast, battering-ram-to-the-face assaults (‘Absolved of Life/Spent Cells’, ‘Carbide’) that recall Converge (whose guitarist Kurt Ballou recorded and contributed to the album) and cult crust/hardcore crew Cursed. But the act is just as willing to mangle you with barbed-wire noise rock (‘Gift Taker’), or slowly eroding death marches (‘Eulogy Template’). It’s the most fully-realized and harrowing Baptists experience yet.’
 
Listen to BAPTISTS’ Beacon Of Faith at Revolver Magazine RIGHT HERE.
 
Southern Lord will issue Beacon Of Faith this Friday, May 25th; find preorder bundles – including reissues of the band’s prior albums, Bushcraft and Bloodmines – at the Southern Lord webshop HERE, and digital preorders at Bandcamp HERE.
 
Stay tuned for Baptists tour dates and more BAPTISTS news to be announced shortly.
 
Beacon Of Faith broadly follows the same trajectory as its predecessors — Bushcraft (2013) and Bloodmines (2014) — combining raw adrenaline-fueled emotion, venomous vocal delivery, gigantic guitar sound, and a visceral, rhythmic propulsion, a sonic manifestation of desolate rage, bolstered by a palpable sense of urgency. The album is densely-packed, yet BAPTISTS‘ sound is far from claustrophobic. There is melody amongst the dissonance, as the band more deeply explore the noise rock vistas that have always underpinned their sound.
 
The lyrics on Beacon Of Faith are drawn from the members’ direct experience of a broken society and general discontentment with everyday life. A multitude of issues are in the firing line, from the Canadian court system, issues surrounding substance abuse, mental health, and how the more fortunate tend to dismiss people who have been dealt a less-fortunate hand. Beacon Of Faith was recorded at Godcity in Salem, Massachusetts with Kurt Ballou in July 2017, mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege in Portland, Oregon, and completed with photography by Jillian Mann.
 
For review copies of Beacon Of Faith and interviews with BAPTISTS in the Americas contact dave@earsplitcompound.com and otherwise contact lauren@rarelyunable.com.
 

VITAMIN X: Age Of Paranoia Now Streaming; Album Out Today Through Southern Lord

Posted on: May 18, 2018

Age Of Paranoia, the new album by Dutch hardcore punk kingpins VITAMIN X, is out today via Southern Lord.

 
Recorded by Igor Wouters at ARC Studios in Amsterdam, and including special guest guitar solos by J. Mascis (Dinosaur Jr., Witch), and Bubba Dupree (Void, Soundgarden, Dave Grohl’s Probot, Brant Bjork). Age Of Paranoia offers sixteen volatile tracks, packed into a succinct, white-knuckled twenty-eight minutes. The album surges with rapid-fire punk angst, replete with ripping rock leads and raised-fist, group-chanting anthems. The cover artwork was created by Marald (Baroness, Kylesa, High On Fire).
 
Stream VITAMIN X’s Age Of Paranoia now at THIS LOCATION.
 
Age Of Paranoia is out now on LP, CD, and digital formats; find physical bundles HERE and digital at Bandcamp HERE as well as through all digital providers.
 
VITAMIN X will be performing the material from Age Of Paranoia at fests and shows throughout 2018, including a newly-confirmed release show for the album on June 22nd. Check out the listings so far below and stay tuned for more tour dates to be announced throughout the year.
 
VITAMIN X Tour Dates:
6/15/2018 TBA – SP
6/16/2018 Valles Escrema Fest – Montornes del Valles, SP
6/22/2018 – OCCII, Amsterdam NL *Age Of Paranoia release show
7/06/2018 Flugplatz – Zwickau, DE
7/07/2018 RIIP Fest – Tours, FR
7/14/2018 Woodstick Fest – Lage, DE
8/03/2018 TBA – Wroclaw, PL
8/04/2018 Novy – Jicin, CZ
8/05/2018 TBA – Bratislava, SK
9/07/2018 Chimpyfest – London, UK
9/14/2018 Punk Rock Weekend Fest – Stockholm, SE
9/15/2018 TBA – Troisdorf, DE
 
“Fast, furious, overflowing with energy and slam happy anthems, Age of Paranoia is a heavyweight, Hardcore monster that should, and deserves to, find a home in every HC kids, both young and old, record collection and on every single punk rock stereo in scene-land. Welcome to the Age of Paranoia. It’s time to take your vitamins…” – Mass Movement
 
”One of the best and most important hardcore bands today” – Profane Existence
 
”Excellent and addictive, gathering the best of punk and metal: one part hardcore punk, another Motörhead” – Metal Advisor
 
“the supreme thrash band in all of current rock ‘n’ roll” – Maximum Rocknroll
 
For review copies of Age Of Paranoia and interviews with VITAMIN X in The Americas contact dave@earsplitcompound.com and elsewhere contact lauren@rarelyunable.com.
 

BAPTISTS: Title Track To Beacon Of Faith LP Streaming On All Platforms As Album Nears May Release Via Southern Lord

Posted on: May 8, 2018
“Beacon Of Faith,” the title track to the impending third LP by Vancouver, British Columbia-based metallic hardcore punk outfit, BAPTISTS, is now available on all digital platforms ahead of the album’s release through Southern Lord later this month.
Beacon Of Faith was recorded at Godcity in Salem, Massachusetts with Kurt Ballou in July 2017, and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege in Portland, Oregon.
Stream the BAPTISTS track “Beacon Of Faith” via iTunes HERE and Spotify HERE, as well as all other digital providers.
Southern Lord will release Beacon Of Faith on all formats on May 25th; the vinyl has been slightly delayed. Find preorder bundles – including reissues of the band’s prior albums, Bushcraft and Bloodmines – at the Southern Lord webshop HERE, and digital preorders and stream the track “Capsule” at Bandcamp HERE.
Watch for BAPTISTS tour dates and more on Beacon Of Faith to be announced shortly.
Though the Beacon Of Faith album is densely-packed, yet BAPTISTS‘ sound is far from claustrophobic. There is melody amongst the dissonance, as the band more deeply explore the noise rock vistas that have always underpinned their sound. The album broadly follows the same trajectory as its predecessors — Bushcraft (2013) and Bloodmines (2014) – combining the style of raw adrenaline-fueled emotion, venomous vocal delivery, gigantic guitar sound, and a visceral rhythmic propulsion; a sonic manifestation of desolate rage, bolstered by a palpable sense of urgency.
The lyrics on Beacon Of Faith are drawn from the members’ direct experience of a broken society and general discontentment with everyday life. A multitude of issues are in the firing line, from the Canadian court system, issues surrounding substance abuse, mental health, and how the more fortunate tend to dismiss people who have been dealt a less-fortunate hand.
For review copies of Beacon Of Faith and interviews with BAPTISTS in the Americas contact dave@earsplitcompound.com and otherwise contact lauren@rarelyunable.com.

VITAMIN X: Revolver Magazine Premieres “Flip The Switch” Featuring J Mascis Of Dinosaur Jr.; Age Of Paranoia LP Nears May Release Through Southern Lord

Posted on: April 27, 2018

Southern Lord will issue the Age Of Paranoia LP by Dutch hardcore punk kingpins VITAMIN X in less than a month, the band’s first title for the label. As the release date closes in, the newest single has been released in the form of a Revolver Magazine premiere of “Flip The Switch,” which features guest guitar work by J Mascis.

The newest chapter in the VITAMIN X lineage, Age Of Paranoia, was recorded by Igor Wouters at ARC Studios in Amsterdam. Packing sixteen volatile tracks into a white-knuckled twenty-eight minutes, Age Of Paranoia surges with rapid-fire punk angst packed with ripping rock leads and raised-fist gang-chant anthems. The album includes several special guest guitar solos by J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr., Witch) and Bubba Dupree (Void, Soundgarden, Dave Grohl’s Probot, Brant Bjork), and is completed with cover artwork by Marald (Baroness, Kylesa, High On Fire).
New single “Flip The Switch” features an empowering solo by J Mascis which spans the entire track. Revolver states of the song, “It’s a very Annihilation Time, mid-period Black Flag-y ripper that’s perfect for the pit or washing down a cold one with another cold one (sorry, straight-edge homies). Either way, don’t miss Mascis tearing a hole in the universe with a solo over the entire thing.”
Stream the raging VITAMIN X anthem “Flip The Switch” with J Mascis at Revolver Magazine RIGHT HERE.
VITAMIN X guitarist Marc Emmerik recounts the experience: “We had this song with a Dinosaur Jr. type of intro. I thought it’d be perfect to let J Mascis do the solo. My friends Graham Clise (Witch, Lecherous Gaze, Annihilation Time) and Dave Sweetapple (Teepee, Witch) got in touch with him and he agreed to do it, he actually had one of our albums because John Brannon (Negative Approach) sang on it.
When J passed through Amsterdam he played the solo on my 1980 Gibson SG. He said he never plays Gibson but it has J Mascis all over it and it’s one of his most furious solos ever in which he seems to revisit his hardcore roots, as he was in hardcore punk band Deep Wound before Dinosaur Jr.
The funny thing is, J’s solo runs from beginning to end, more than two minutes! When he started he didn’t stop and ran his solo through the entire song, even over the vocals. After that first take I told him, ‘You only have to do the intro,’ to which he replied, ‘No, I’ll do the whole song; just take out whatever you want.’ When I came home and listened, we didn’t take out anything and kept his whole original solo since it’s insane and rips so much! I think this is the only song in hardcore punk with a two-minute solo from start to end!”
Southern Lord will release Age Of Paranoia on LP, CD, and digital formats May 18th; find preorder bundles HERE and digital at Bandcamp where you can stream “Modern Man” at Bandcamp HERE and through all digital providers.
VITAMIN X will be performing the material from Age Of Paranoia at fests and shows throughout 2018, having already announced a spread of performances through late summer. Watch for more tour dates to be announced throughout the year.
VITAMIN X Tour Dates:
5/03/2018 N8 Lounge – Bonn, DE
5/04/2018 TBA – Antwerp, BE
6/15/2018 TBA – SP
6/16/2018 Valles Escrema Fest – Montornes del Valles, SP
7/06/2018 Flugplatz – Zwickau, DE
7/07/2018 RIIP Fest – Tours, FR
7/14/2018 Woodstick Fest – Lage, DE
8/03/2018 TBA – Wroclaw, PL
8/04/2018 Novy – Jicin, CZ
8/05/2018 TBA – Bratislava, SK
9/07/2018 Chimpyfest – London, UK
9/14/2018 Punk Rock Weekend Fest – Stockholm, SE
9/15/2018 TBA – Troisdorf, DE
 
VITAMIN X has unloaded their energetic brand of rock and thrash-soaked hardcore punk since the late 1990s. Having operated through diehard DIY efforts, the band has amassed an arsenal of albums, EPs, singles, splits, and more across a wide array of underground labels, including Havoc Records, Tankcrimes, Underestimated, AgiPunk, Refuse Records, and many others. Their most recent two LPs were recorded by Steve Albini (Nirvana, Iggy Pop, Neurosis), and their 2016-released ”About To Crack” video went viral and reached more than a million views.
Well-known for their energetic and explosive live shows which attract fans from across the metal, punk, and rock spectrum, VITAMIN X has toured around the world several times, from Japan to the United States, from South America to Southeast Asia, and beyond. The band has played on MTV and many large fests including Hellfest, Maryland Deathfest, and many others, and recently toured with Baroness and Harley Flannagan’s Cro-Mags.
For review copies of Age Of Paranoia and interviews with VITAMIN X in The Americas contact dave@earsplitcompound.com and elsewhere contact lauren@rarelyunable.com.

Southern Lord Mark Their Twenty Year Anniversary with a Limited Edition Silver Vinyl Subscription Series & Silver Vinyl Reissues of Essential Back Catalogue

Posted on: April 17, 2018

In the mid-90’s, in the cold, bleak north of Seattle, Washington, two friends in their mid-20’s, Greg Anderson and Stephen O Malley, were wading deep in the behemoth dirge of the Melvins, and melting into Earth‘s expansive, glacial-paced, guitar-based soundscapes, heavily influenced by these sounds. Greg and Stephen were playing together in Thorr’s Hammer and Burning Witch, and tread their own paths after the demise of those bands, only to be brought back together in Los Angeles in 1998. In a new city, at the dawn of a new decade, the two went on to form a new band sunn O))) and launch Southern Lord Recordings with the vision of releasing recordings of these works.

On the 1st of April 1998, Southern Lord Recordings was officially established, and put out their first CD release by Thorrs Hammer, Dommedagsnatt.  20 years later, the label are marking this milestone year with the release of a limited edition, silver vinyl subscription and reissue series, which launches today. 
The label are releasing 10 records as part of the series, eight can already be revealed, The Want – Greatest Hits Vol.5 LP, Toadliquor – Discography 2xLP, Thorr’s Hammer – Live at Roadburn 2010 LP,  sunn O))) – Downtown Rehearsal/Riff Tape March 1998 LP, The Secret –Lux Tenebris LP, Rein Sanction– Black album, LP. The bundles include T-Shirt, slipmat and download code with each record – find out more on the Southern Lord Store. 
Label owner Greg Anderson comments “Over the years Southern Lord has the incredible honour of releasing albums from cult legendary bands: Electric Wizard, Sleep, Magma, Unsane, Darkest Hour, Grief, Saint Vitus, BL’AST!, Winter, Wolfbrigade, Poison Idea, & Pelican as well as iconic, monumental artists: Dylan Carlson (Earth), Wino, Dave Grohl (Probot), Zakk Wylde (Zakk Sabbath),&  Josh Homme (Desert Sessions). We are extremely proud to have been a part of the developing rise of several bands who are now part of the essential fabric of the underground: Wolves In The Throne Room, Nails, Boris, & Power Trip.”
Greg continues…”It is our mission to create a sanctuary for bands/artists/musicians to have their creative works released exactly as their vision was intended.“

VITAMIN X: “Modern Man” From Age Of Paranoia LP Streaming At No Echo; Album Set For Late May Release Via Southern Lord

Posted on: April 12, 2018

Long-running Amsterdam hardcore punk outfit VITAMIN X has issued the first single from their upcoming sixth LP, Age Of Paranoia, the band’s first release for Southern Lord. The album-opening “Modern Man” has been unleashed through a premiere at No Echo alongside a brief interrogation of the band.

The newest chapter in the VITAMIN X lineage, Age Of Paranoia, was recorded by Igor Wouters at ARC Studios in Amsterdam. Packing sixteen volatile tracks into a white-knuckled twenty-eight minutes, Age Of Paranoia surges with rapid-fire punk angst packed with ripping rock leads and raised-fist gang-chant anthems. The album includes several special guest guitar solos by J. Mascis (Dinosaur Jr., Witch) and Bubba Dupree (Void, Soundgarden, Dave Grohl’s Probot, Brant Bjork), and is completed with cover artwork by Marald (Baroness, Kylesa, High On Fire).
No Echo is streaming the lead track to Age Of Paranoia, “Modern Man,” of which the band states, “The lyrics are the starting point of a bigger theme; the age we’re living in, is an age of confusion and paranoia… More than ever, we’re controlled and affected by media, technology, mobile devices, Internet, social networks, governments, politics, climate change, pollution, fake news, etc. ‘Modern Man’ is a sarcastic song in which we wonder if our so-called ‘progress” isn’t actually ‘regress.'”

Stream VITAMIN X’s “Modern Man” at No Echo RIGHT HERE.

Age Of Paranoia will be released on LP, CD, and digital formats May 18th through Southern Lord; find preorders HERE. 

Watch for additional audio and video previews from the album and more to be released over the next several weeks.
 
Age Of Paranoia Track Listing:
1. Modern Man
2. Rollercoaster Ride
3. Age Of Paranoia
4. Human Plague
5. No One
6. Flip The Switch
7. Short circuit
8. Speak No Evil
9. Deranged Degenerate
10. Revers Midas Touch
11. Media Messiah
12. Road Warrior
13. Bounce Back
14. Leave Me Alone
15. Rock N Roll Destroyer
16. Shock Value
 
VITAMIN X will be performing the material from Age Of Paranoia at fests and shows throughout 2018, having already announced a spread of shows through late summer. Watch for more tour dates to be announced throughout the year.
 
VITAMIN X Tour Dates:
5/03/2018 N8 Lounge – Bonn, DE
5/04/2018 TBA – Antwerp, BE
5/10/2018 Mondo Bizarre – Rennes, FR
5/11/2018 Unies Sont Nos Cultures Fest – Lorient, FR
5/12/2018 TBA – Le Havre, FR
6/15/2018 TBA – SP
6/16/2018 Valles Escrema Fest, Montornes del Valles, SP
7/06/2018 Flugplatz – Zwickau, DE
7/07/2018 RIIP Fest – Tours, FR
7/14/2018 Woodstick Fest – Lage, DE
8/03/2018 TBA – Wroclaw, PL
8/04/2018 Novy – Jicin, CZ
8/05/2018 TBA – Bratislava, SK
9/07/2018 Chimpyfest -, London, UK
9/14/2018 Punk Rock Weekend Fest – Stockholm, SE
9/15/2018 TBA – Troisdorf, DE
 
VITAMIN X has unloaded their energetic brand of rock and thrash-soaked hardcore punk since the late 1990s. Having operated through diehard DIY efforts, the band has amassed an arsenal of albums, EPs, singles, splits, and more across a wide array of underground labels, including Havoc Records, Tankcrimes, Underestimated, AgiPunk, Refuse Records, and many others. Their most recent two LPs were recorded by Steve Albini (Nirvana, Iggy Pop, Neurosis), and their 2016-released ”About To Crack” video went viral and reached more than a million views.
 
Well-known for their energetic and explosive live shows which attract fans from across the metal, punk, and rock spectrum, VITAMIN X has toured around the world several times, from Japan to the United States, from South America to Southeast Asia, and beyond. The band has played on MTV and many large fests including Hellfest, Maryland Deathfest, and many others, and recently toured with Baroness and Harley Flannagan’s Cro-Mags.
 
Review copies of Age Of Paranoia will be released in the coming days. For interviews and coverage of VITAMIN X in The America contact dave@earsplitcompound.com and elsewhere contact lauren@rarelyunable.com.
 

 

SCREAM To Reissue NMC17 (No More Censorship) Via Southern Lord On April 27th; Deep Insight Into The Album Revealed + Preorders Posted

Posted on: March 29, 2018

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Southern Lord will reissue NMC17 (No More Censorship) from the seminal Washington, DC punk band SCREAM on CD and LP formats this April 27th, the band’s first album to feature drummer Dave Grohl.

The reissue is dedicated to the influential photographer Naomi Petersen who was instrumental in ensuring that the original No More Censorship master tapes survived. As a long-time friend of the band, Naomi has captured many memorable images of an era, including countless SST bands and SCREAM. Years after their first encounter, Naomi found the original tapes gathering dust, and passed them onto Pete Stahl before they perished. SCREAM saw this as a second chance to put the record out. The way they always wanted. Subsequently, Southern Lord had the tapes baked and prepped for a remix at Dave Grohl’s 606 Studio.

This new mix sounds vital and intense; the entire packaging, layout, and design is completely different from the original, with the inclusion of photos, lyrics, poetry, and other personal writings from the band during that era, collected in an extensive booklet.

There is another side to the story of this album of course, and deep-rooted reasons for bringing it to life again. As Pete Stahl explains, “This record was written and recorded during Reagan’s presidency. US foreign policy was being disruptive in Central and Latin America, Iran-Contra… Art and music was being censored. Ed Meese, Ronald’s Attorney General was appointed to do a report on the effect of pornography on society. Hearings were held in Congress about lyrics and albums, and warnings were placed on album covers. One bitter example being Dead Kennedys, who were taken to court over the Frankenchirst album’s Geiger poster. SCREAM raised money to help in the Dead Kennedys court battle, and more widely participated in benefits to raise money to fight this oppression. So much of what was going on then is still so relevant today. History repeats.”

Franz Stahl continues, “Activism and artivism was always very much a part of the SCREAM vernacular and a driving force behind the band’s music and attitude in the ’80s. As SCREAM brought the re-envisioned remix to the contemporary they also wanted the new artwork to parallel those ideas and update it to the present. Inspired by Ai Weiweii, the Chinese contemporary artist, and activist, famously known for his own serious struggles with censorship. The CD and vinyl covers are each unique, but both were created in the spirit of one of Weiewei’s own exhibits, and our idea, limiting or censoring information. Leaving only an acronym for the original title and a number for the year we did the remix (NMC17).”

Listen to “God Squad” from the album RIGHT HERE.

Southern Lord will now reissue SCREAM‘s everlasting NMC17 (No More Censorship) on April 27th in CD and LP formats.
Find preorders at the relaunched Southern Lord site HERE and Bandcamp HERE.

SCREAM was formed out of high school sometime in 1980 by vocalist Peter Stahl, his brother Franz Stahl on guitar, Skeeter Thompson on bass, and Kent Stax on drums. The next few years would see the addition of second guitarist Robert Lee Davidson. Following three LPs through Dischord Records – Still Screaming (1983), This Side Up (1985), and Banging The Drum (1986) – SCREAM’s No More Censorship was released via reggae label RAS Records in August 1988. The album was the first to feature (now famous) drummer Dave Grohl, who replaced Stax for the album, and stayed with the band until they disbanded in 1990.

Since disbanding, several incarnations of SCREAM have reunited/resurfaced for random tours and recordings since. Members of the band went on to form and play in countless other influential acts including Nirvana, The Foo Fighters, earthlings?, Wool, Queens Of The Stone Age, Goatsnake, The Suspects, and others.

For review copies of NMC17 (No More Censorship) contact dave@earsplitcompound.com.

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EAGLE TWIN: The Thundering Heard (Songs Of Hoof And Horn) Streaming At Noisey; Album Out Friday Through Southern Lord  

Posted on: March 28, 2018
Salt Lake City duo EAGLE TWIN presents their anxiously-awaited third LP, The Thundering Heard (Songs Of Hoof And Horn), out this week through Southern Lord. The full album can now be heard ahead of the record’s release through Noisey, alongside an interview with both members of the band.
EAGLE TWIN‘s commanding sound delivers like an Earthly force, where doom and blues collide. Gentry Densley’s dominating low-end vocal tone bellowing alongside some of the most dominating riffs he’s ever poured forth, and Tyler Smith’s powerful rhythmic propulsion erupting like tectonic shifts and molten geysers. Fueled with the band’s jazz and blues influence, the creative ongoing storyline between LP’s, and an overall singular and commanding tone, all elements align into an unstoppable album.
Noisey’s interrogations with Densley and Smith includes, “the music is viscerally accessible, and deeply cathartic. It’s tempting to associate the record with the chaotic present day, but the record had essentially already been recorded as long as two years ago. And ‘Heavy Hoof,’ the record’s menacing, lurching third track, was the first song the duo wrote together after forming EAGLE TWIN in 2006.”
Unleash The Thundering Heard at Noisey RIGHT HERE.
Southern Lord will release The Thundering Heard on LP, CD, and digital formats on March 30th; find physical preorders HERE and digital at Bandcamp HERE.
Stand by for additional previews, tour dates, and more on EAGLE TWIN to be announced shortly.
Equally prevailing are the stories that shape EAGLE TWIN‘s musical output, drawing upon folklore, and also strongly informed by recent happenings in the world. Observing our relationship to nature, and the band’s own surroundings in the dead salt seas of Utah are themes that feature frequently across their musical canon. The Thundering Heard continues where the previous album The Feather Tipped The Serpent’s Scale ended. In the band’s own words, “As the great snake grew giant fractal antlers of snakes and turned in upon itself creating a new world, the mountains rise, and the antlers stab through like trees across the landscape. The record begins with the hoofed and horned animals of our world running from mountains and forests on fire. Eerily harkening to the recent events in California and the massive devastation by fire across the land.”
For review copies of The Thundering Heard and interviews with EAGLE TWIN contact dave@earsplitcompound.com; and in Europe/UK contact lauren@rarelyunable.com.

BAPTISTS To Release Third Album, Beacon Of Faith, Via Southern Lord On May 25th; New Track “Capsule” Now Streaming

Posted on: March 22, 2018

[photo by Ryan Walter Wagner]

Vancouver’s BAPTISTS announce their third full-length album, Beacon Of Faith, now confirmed for release through Southern Lord on May 25th. The album’s brooding “Capsule” has been made available for streaming.

Beacon Of Faith broadly follows the same trajectory as the album’s predecessors, Bushcraft (2013) and Bloodmines (2014) – combining the style of raw adrenaline-fueled emotion, venomous vocal delivery, gigantic guitar sound, and a visceral rhythmic propulsion – a sonic manifestation of desolate rage, bolstered by a palpable sense of urgency. The album is densely-packed, yet BAPTISTS’ sound is far from claustrophobic. There is melody amongst the dissonance, as the band more deeply explore the noise rock vistas that have always underpinned their sound.

Lyrics are drawn from the members’ direct experience of a broken society and general discontentment with everyday life. A multitude of issues are in the firing line, from the Canadian court system, issues surrounding substance abuse, mental health, and how the more fortunate, “tend to dismiss people who have been dealt a less-fortunate hand,” as guitarist Danny also reflects.

Beacon Of Faith was recorded at Godcity in Salem, Massachusetts with Kurt Ballou in July 2017, and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege in Portland, Oregon.

Hear BAPTISTS’ “Capsule” now at THIS LOCATION.

Southern Lord will release Beacon Of Faith on all formats on May 25th; watch for additional updates in the weeks ahead.

“Capsule” Lyrics:
Passing cheeks
A faucet’s drip
The right amount to
Anoint the pit
Saturation
Prevents the clunk
But I want to feel it
As it goes down

Taste what’s going to move me
Before I
Have fucking changed

The tablet drops
An essence seeps
Past consumption
Post misuse
Destination
Informed conceit
A planned reprieve
From culture’s feats

Beacon Of Faith Track Listing:
1. Worse Than Hate
2. Absolved Of Life/Spent Cells
3. Beacon Of Faith
4. Gift Taker
5. Capsule
6. Outbreeding
7. Vicarious Trauma
8. Victim Services
9. Indigo Child
10. Eulogy Template
11. Bevel Down
12. Carbide
13. Nostrovia

BAPTISTS:
Andrew Drury – vocals
Danny Marshall – guitar
Sean Hawryluk – bass
Nick Yacyshyn – drums

Beacon Of Faith review copies will be released shortly; for all coverage of BAPTISTS in the Americas contact dave@earsplitcompound.com and otherwise contact lauren@rarelyunable.com.

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