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POWER TRIP To Join Trivium’s Euro/UK Tour; Band Confirmed For Welcome To Rockville Festival

Posted on: November 6, 2017

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The unstoppable POWER TRIP has once again expanded their upcoming tour schedule, today announcing their participation in Trivium’s 2018 UK/European tour, as well as their confirmation for Welcome To Rockville Festival and more.

POWER TRIP continues to tour across the US with Cannibal Corpse and Gatecreeper, on the tail of their huge North American tour supporting Obituary and Exodus. Early 2018 sees the band heading to Europe to join the 2018 Persistence Tour along with Hatebreed, Madball, Terror, Broken Teeth, and Insanity Alert in January.

Now, POWER TRIP has just been announced to take part in Trivium’s The Sin & The Sentence Tour this spring. Presented by Metal Hammer, the tour kicks off in Koln, Germany on March 11th and wraps up in London, UK on April 21st, with Venom Prison also included on the bill, and Code Orange joining for the UK leg of the tour. POWER TRIP is sure to be performing choice cuts from their widely praised, second album, Nightmare Logic, out now on Southern Lord. The band states, “We’re honored to come to Europe for our fifth time, especially with such a massive band as Trivium. We’re excited to watch and learn from Trivium and hang out with our friends in Venom Prison. The end of the tour has Code Orange joining the package; it’ll be good to play with those lunatics again. That’s it. That’s all. Don’t fuck up and miss this tour.”

About the tour Trivium reveals, “One of the greatest things about headlining a tour is picking the bands to round out the bill. Code Orange, Power Trip, and Venom Prison are not only the leading edge of the next wave of great metal acts, they are also three of our personal favorites.” Metal Hammer adds, “Heavy music is on absolute fire right now, and this bill proves it. Metal Hammer couldn’t be more delighted to be supporting our brothers in Trivium alongside three truly excellent young bands in Code Orange, POWER TRIP, and Venom Prison on a tour that is going to tear 2018 to shreds. See you next Spring, motherfuckers!”

Tickets go on sale this Friday, November 10th at 10am local time.

POWER TRIP has also just been announced as part of the Monster Energy Welcome To Rockville, set to be held on April 27th through 29th at Metropolitan Park in Jacksonville, Florida. The massive event sees the band joining the likes of Ozzy Osbourne, Foo Fighters, Avenged Sevenfold, Queens Of The Stone Age, Billy Idol, and countless more. Tickets are now on sale.

Find POWER TRIP’s Nightmare Logic at YouTube HERE, Spotify HERE, iTunes HERE, and at the Southern Lord US store HERE and European store HERE.

POWER TRIP Tour Dates:
11/06/2017 New Daisy Theater – Memphis, TN *
11/08/2017 Trees – Dallas, TX *
11/09/2017 White Oak – Houston, TX *
11/10/2017 The Mokawk – Austin, TX +
11/12/2017 Club Red – Phoenix, AZ *
11/13/2017 The Observatory – Santa Ana, CA *
11/14/2017 Slim’s – San Francisco, CA *
11/15/2017 Slim’s – San Francisco, CA *
11/17/2017 Neumos – Seattle, WA *
11/18/2017 Hawthorne Theater – Portland, OR *
11/19/2017 Knitting Factory – Boise, ID *
11/20/2017 The Complex – Salt Lake City, UT *
11/22/2017 Summit – Denver, CO *
11/24/2017 Thalia Hall – Chicago, IL *
11/25/2017 St. Andrews Hall – Detroit, MI *
11/26/2017 Agora Ballroom – Cleveland, OH *
11/27/2017 Chrome – Waterford, NY &
11/28/2017 Royale – Boston, MA *
11/29/2017 Stage 48 – New York, NY *
11/30/2017 TLA – Philadelphia, PA *
12/01/2017 Broadberry – Richmond, VA *
12/02/2017 The Tarheel – Jacksonville, NC *
12/03/2017 Pete’s – Greensboro, NC *
12/05/2017 Diamond Pub Concert Hall – Louisville, KY *
12/06/2017 Exit/In – Nashville, TN *
12/07/2017 Masquerade – Atlanta, GA *
12/08/2017 The Orpheum – Tampa, FL *
12/09/2017 One Eyed Jack’s – New Orleans, LA !
1/18/2018 Astra Kulturhaus – Berlin, DE ^
1/19/2018 Tivoli Ronda – Utrecht, NL ^
1/20/2018 Eventwerk – Dresden, DE ^
1/21/2018 Backstage – Munich, DE ^
1/22/2018 Komplex – Zurich, CH ^
1/23/2018 Schlachtof – Wiesbaden, DE ^
1/24/2018 Sono – Brno, CZ ^
1/25/2018 Stadthalle – Lichtenfels, DE ^
1/26/2018 De Mast – Torhout, BE ^
1/27/2018 Turbinenhalle – Oberhausen, DE ^
1/28/2018 02 Forum Kentish Town – London, UK ^
3/11/2018 Live Music Hall – Koln, DE #
3/12/2018 Turbinenhalle 2 – Oberhausen, DE #
3/14/2018 KB – Malmo, SE #
3/15/2018 Fryshuset Klubben – Stockholm, SE #
3/16/2018 Rockefeller – Oslo, NO #
3/17/2018 Arbis – Norrkoping, SE #
3/19/2018 Cable Factory – Helsinki, FI #
3/21/2018 Pustervik – Gothenburg, SE #
3/22/2018 Pumpehuset – Copenhagen, DK #
3/23/2018 Huxleys – Berlin, DE #
3/24/2018 Täubchenthal – Leipzig, DE #
3/25/2018 Progresja – Warsaw, PL #
3/27/2018 Roxy – Prague, CZ #
3/28/2018 Majestic – Bratislava, SK #
3/29/2018 Durer Kert – Budapest, HU #
3/30/2018 Simm City – Vienna, AU #
4/01/2018 Tvornica – Zagreb, HR #
4/02/2018 Kino Siska – Ljubljana, SI #
4/03/2018 Phenomenon – Novara, IT #
4/04/2018 Komplex – Zurich, CH #
4/06/2018 Sala Santana – Bilbao, ES #
4/07/2018 Teatro Barcelo – Madrid, ES #
4/08/2018 Sala Razzmatazz – Barcelona, ES #
4/10/2018 L’Usine – Geneva, CH #
4/11/2018 Tonhalle – Munich, DE #
4/12/2018 LKA-Longhorn – Stuttgart, DE #
4/13/2018 Bataclan – Paris, FR #
4/15/2018 Trix – Antwerp, BE #
4/16/2018 O2 Academy – Bristol, UK @
4/17/2018 O2 Academy – Birmingham, UK @
4/19/2018 O2 Academy – Glasgow, UK @
4/20/2018 Academy – London, UK @
4/21/2018 Academy Brixton – London, UK @
4/27/2018 Welcome to Rockville Festival – Jacksonville, FL [info]
5/27/2018 Modified Ghost Festival III – Vancouver, BC [info]
+ w/ Cannibal Corpse, Blanck Mass
* w/ Cannibal Corpse, Gatecreeper
& w/ Gatecreeper
! w/ Suicideyear
^ w/ Hatebreed, Madball, Terror, Broken Teeth, Insanity Alert
# w/ Trivium, Venom Prison
@ w/ Trivium, Venom Prison, Code Orange

“…the best they’ve sounded, the tightest representation of their no-holds-barred thrash attack that pummels you into dirt for 32 frenzied minutes straight, without so much as a 10-second breather…” – Billboard

“one of the best live acts of the modern day” – Loudwire

“You don’t need to be a metalhead to have a blast with Nightmare Logic… POWER TRIP’s fist-pumping choruses, ricocheting grooves, and ample charm are so animated that they leave us with something addictive and, well, fun. – Pitchfork / Best New Music

“possesses a certain monolithic quality Lemmy would admire: a massive rawness and a sludgy, heavy hopelessness that thrashes with punk immediacy and metal intricacy…it’s a track preparing for war” – NPR

“one of the most highly anticipated records in aggressive music in recent memory” – The New Yorker

For review copies of Nightmare Logic and interviews/live coverage of POWER TRIP in North America contact dave@earsplitcompound.com and internationally contact lauren@rarelyunable.com.

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FRIENDSHIP: Hatred LP By Japanese Harsh Hardcore Act Now Available Through Southern Lord; Album Streaming

Posted on: November 3, 2017

Hatred, the corrosive debut full-length onslaught from Japan’s mysterious harsh, doom-fueled crust/hardcore outfit FRIENDSHIP, is now available through Southern Lord, the LP streaming in its cruel entirety.

While FRIENDSHIP‘s identity remains an enigma, those who have encountered their antagonistic, loud, and murky sonic world, can testify to the sheer power of the auditory torture the band creates. FRIENDSHIP has previously self-released two CD EPs which sold out in a month since reissued as I & II vinyl and cassette version through Sentient Ruin. For their Hatred LP, the band delivers twelve caustic tracks in just over twenty-five minutes, the album recorded in their home city of Tokyo, the album then mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege. Blackened, ominous, and intense, fans of prior Southern Lord releases by Nails, Heartless, Dead In The Dirt, Gust, and similarly devastating acts should not ignore this.

Stream FRIENDSHIP’s entire Hatred LP HERE.

Originally released by Daymare Recordings on CD and digital formats back in June, Southern Lord now issues FRIENDSHIP‘s Hatred on LP format.

Place digital orders for Hatred HERE and order physical product HERE.

Having gained a reputation for extremely loud live shows through playing with the likes of Full Of Hell, Sumac, Endon, and others, FRIENDSHIP will open for Sleep in Tokyo in January. Find more info HEREand watch for international tour dates from FRIENDSHIP to be announced in the months ahead.

FRIENDSHIP Leave Them All Behind 2018:
1/13/2018 Garden – Tokyo, JP w/ Sleep, Mutoid Man, Nepenthes

Stereogum declares of Hatred’s vile attack, “tracks like ‘Life Sentence’ also showcase a riff dexterity and subtle multi-section mastery that evades a lot of genre-adjacent HM-2 steppers… Other bands would labor over a way to get the listener from Point A to Point B. FRIENDSHIP realizes that you don’t need much connective tissue if Point A and Point B both kick ass. And that’s the takeaway: While fast/slow, particularly punk-fast and sludge-slow, is one of the dustier tropes, to be a legitimate two-tool threat is still rare.” Svbterranean’s review includes, “From start-to-finish, FRIENDSHIP make quite the name for themselves on this monstrous, unforgivably heavy debut. Despite their name, FRIENDSHIP‘s music is the furthest thing from friendly.” Metal Trenches warns, “Hatred, as the name suggests, is a no frills, no bullshit slice of bitter hardcore and grind with no regard for your eardrums or well-being… Listening to this album conjures images of concrete slabs and dried bloodstains.”

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KOHTI TUHOA: Entire Pelon Neljäs Valtakunta LP Streaming At Noisey Ahead Of Southern Lord North American Release

Posted on: November 2, 2017

Noisey is now streaming the entire Pelon Neljäs Valtakunta full-length by Helsinki, Finland hardcore punk warriors, KOHTI TUHOA, ahead of the LP’s North American release through Southern Lord in November.

Recorded in May 2017 at V.R. Studio in Turku, Finland, Pelon Neljäs Valtakunta was engineered by Jussi Vuola, mixed by Jussi Vuola and KOHTI TUHOA, mastered and cut by Jukka Sarapää at Timmion Cutting, and finalized with artwork by returning artist Jaakko Karjula. The album crushes twelve relentless tracks of socio-political unrest, including a cover of Painajainen’s “Saatanan Lampaat.”

Alongside an interview with KOHTI TUHOA, Noisey refers to the band as, “a crucial new voice in Finnish hardcore,” praising of their sound, “the quartet delivers an acerbic old-school punch with enough of an angular edge to keep things sounding violently fresh.”

Unleash KOHTI TUHOA’s Pelon Neljäs Valtakunta at Noisey RIGHT HERE.

Southern Lord will issue Pelon Neljäs Valtakunta on LP and digital formats in North America on November 24th; find digital preorders HERE and vinyl and merch bundle options HERE. Svart Records is releasing the album in Europe.

KOHTI TUHOA just completed their first North American tour earlier this month with a run through the East Coast US and Canada. A video of the band’s entire set from their Brooklyn show was captured via Max Volume Silence, playing HERE.

KOHTI TUHOA’s 2015-issued debut LP, Rutiinin Orja,was considered by many as the most exciting hardcore punk record out of Scandinavia in ages. Their sophomore album Pelon Neljäs Valtakunta is constructed from similar building blocks of aggression based at sociopolitical injustice, but with the band’s sound taking a step further towards genre classicists such as Discharge and Disorder, not to mention classic Finnish hardcore punk acts such as Terveet Kädet, Varaus, and Riistetyt.

Stand by for new KOHTI TUHOA tour dates and more to be announced. For review copies of Pelon Neljäs Valtakunta and interviews with KOHTI TUHOA in North America contact dave@earsplitcompound.com and internationally contact nathan@svartrecords.com.

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CENTURIES To Release Second LP, The Lights Of This Earth Are Blinding, Through Southern Lord In January; “Bygones” Now Streaming

Posted on: October 31, 2017

CENTURIES announces the band’s incoming second LP, The Lights Of This Earth Are Blinding. The album is now set for January release through Southern Lord Recordings, and the track “Bygones” has been released early as the band begins to book live actions for the upcoming year.

Formed in 2008 in South Florida, and having toured both the US and Europe several times, CENTURIES has experienced geographical and member shifts since the release of their 2013-issued Taedium Vitae debut through Southern Lord, the current lineup based in the US out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Nashville, Tennessee, and overseas out of Manchester, UK. The time between albums sees the band returning with the expected scathing assault of their first record, yet the sound is more refined, focused, and intense, as proven on their recently completed sophomore album, The Lights Of This Earth Are Blinding.

Recorded in February 2017 by Kris Hilbert at Legitimate Business (Catharsis, Torch Runner, The Body), mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege (Integrity, Black Breath, Halshug), and completed with artwork by Phil Trona, CENTURIES‘ The Lights Of This Earth Are Blinding surges with ten new tracks of the band’s harrowing, metallic, punk/crust-influenced hardcore, delivered with a calculated, very deliberate approach.

The band offers, “The Lights Of This Earth Are Blinding is a dark album that carries a theme of constant self-doubt. It follows how we choose to accept our loses and the reaction to life, as well as the journey we take to make peace with the demons we’ve made.”

An early single from The Lights Of This Earth Are Blinding, the LP’s “Bygones,” is now streaming RIGHT HERE.

Southern Lord will release CENTURIES’ The Lights Of This Earth Are Blinding on LP and digital platforms on January 12th, 2018. Stand by for additional audio/video samples from the album, preorder links, and more over the weeks ahead.

CENTURIES will be returning to Europe for the fourth time in Spring 2018, leading with the band’s participation in We Built the World And Miss The Stars Fest V in Berlin, Germany in May. Stand by for further festival and tour details.

The Lights Of This Earth Are Blinding Track Listing:
1. The Lights Of This Earth Are Blinding
2. Wooden Hands
3. Bygones
4. Soil
5. A Bow Across A String
6. The Climb
7. The Endless Descent
8. May Love Be With You Always
9. Fury
10. Nul Orietur

CENTURIES:
Eric Verporter — Guitar/Vocals
Phil Trona — Guitar
Dionisio Rodriguez — Bass
Derrick Flanagin — Drums

Review copies of The Lights Of This Earth Are Blinding will be issued shortly. For coverage of CENTURIES and all Southern Lord artists, in North/South America contact dave@earsplitcomound.com and in Europe contact lauren@rarelyunable.com.

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KOHTI TUHOA: “Hajota Ja Hallitse” Streaming At Cvlt Nation As Pelon Neljäs Valtakunta LP Nears Southern Lord Release; Full Live Set Posted

Posted on: October 26, 2017

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The lead track to the new Pelon Neljäs Valtakunta LP by Helsinki, Finland’s KOHTI TUHOA, “Hajota Ja Hallitse,” is now streaming at Cvlt Nation, as the album nears release through Southern Lord in November.

With the debut KOHTI TUHOA offers, “It’s one of the fastest songs on the album, and one of the last ones we finished writing before the studio. The machine gun drum roll is a perfect way to start the new album.”

Cvlt Nation declares, “Finland has been a hotbed for subversive d-beat since the early ’80s, and not too much has changed decades later. All you have to do is listen to the soon-to-be released LP from KOHTI TUHOA entitled Pelon Neljäs Valtakunta. This record is straight killer with no filler and is aimed at all downpressors worldwide.”

Hear KOHTI TUHOA’s “Hajota Ja Hallitse” at Cvlt Nation RIGHT HERE.

KOHTI TUHOA just completed their first North American tour earlier this month with a run through the East Coast US and Canada. A video of the band’s entire set from their Brooklyn show was captured via Max Volume Silence, playing HERE.

Southern Lord will issue Pelon Neljäs Valtakunta on LP and digital formats in North America on November 24th, with Svart Records handling the album in Europe. Find digital preorders HERE and vinyl and merch bundle options HERE.

KOHTI TUHOA’s 2015-issued debut LP, Rutiinin Orja,was considered by many as the most exciting hardcore punk record out of Scandinavia in ages. Their sophomore album Pelon Neljäs Valtakunta is constructed from similar building blocks of aggression based at sociopolitical injustice, but with the band’s sound taking a step further towards genre classicists such as Discharge and Disorder, not to mention classic Finnish hardcore punk acts such as Terveet Kädet, Varaus, and Riistetyt.

Recorded in May 2017 at V.R. Studio in Turku, Finland, Pelon Neljäs Valtakunta was engineered by Jussi Vuola, mixed by Jussi Vuola and KOHTI TUHOA, mastered and cut by Jukka Sarapää at Timmion Cutting, and finalized with artwork by returning artist Jaakko Karjula. The album crushes twelve relentless tracks in twenty minutes, including a cover of “Saatanan Lampaat” by Painajainen.

For review copies of Pelon Neljäs Valtakunta and interviews with KOHTI TUHOA in North America contact dave@earsplitcompound.com and internationally contact nathan@svartrecords.com.

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SECT Issues “Open Grave” Via Exclaim!; No Cure For Death LP Nears Release Through Southern Lord

Posted on: October 25, 2017

North American straightedge/vegan hardcore/crust outfit SECT — featuring scene lifers hailing from Cursed, Left For Dead, Catharsis, Undying, Earth Crisis, The Path Of Resistance, Day Of Suffering, Racetraitor, and more — has issued the devastating “Open Grave,” the lead track their impending second album, No Cure For Death. The new song is now playing at Exclaim! Magazine as the LP nears November release through Southern Lord.

No Cure For Death was recorded with Kurt Ballou at GodCity Studios and mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music. SECT vocalist Chris Colohan explains that the new “Open Grave” single is, “a song about how we got to this point in history, how detached from consequence and oblivious to the removal of our most basic mental if not social, political or ecological safety nets we had to become to allow for the assault on reality we’re living out now to succeed. How the bar for what’s acceptable and what’s normalized just drops in free fall while we’re zoned out by the endless barrage of trivial amusements, and the fatal implications of that caliber of apathy not just for the West but civilization across the board.

Exclaim! issues with their premiere of the track, “the metallic hardcore is filthy and sinister, laden with a guitar tone resembling a power tool and with feedback akin to the noise one would make scraping on steel.”

Let SECT’s bleak “Open Grave” out of the casket through Exclaim! at THIS LOCATION.

Southern Lord will release No Cure For Death on CD, LP, and digital formats on November 24th; stand by for preorder links, official videos from the album, and more to be issued in the days ahead, and see recently-issued footage of the No Cure For Death recording sessions at THIS LOCATION.

Comprised of an international cast of scene veterans, who cut their teeth in that formative moment of political, cynical, antagonistic extremes, SECT unites vocalist Chris Colohan (Cursed, Burning Love, Left For Dead), guitarists James Chang (Catharsis, Undying) and Scott Crouse (Earth Crisis, The Path Of Resistance), bassist Steve Hart (Day Of Suffering), and drummer Andy Hurley (Racetraitor, Fall Out Boy, The Damned Things). The result of these musicians’ alignment is a caustic, riotous, belligerent style of vile hardcore fed by a boundless well of socio-political vitriol.

SECT gets right down to the blast beats and breakdowns that fight it out in their chaotic jams. They cut the shit and go for the throat with no time to waste, “because the Orwellian police states and irreparable social and ecological disasters we once saw off on the horizon are now on our front doorsteps, in full swing. And in just such a volatile, precarious moment as this for civilization, there is more reason than ever to keep lashing out at a world more suicidally-bent on its own destruction and the exploitation of people, species and the ecosystem itself, than perhaps ever before in history.”

For SECT, this is the purpose of hardcore as they know it, conveying an urgency that transcends age, credentials or scene politics, to convert desperation into real talk and action.

For review copies of No Cure For Death and interviews with SECT in the Americas contact dave@earsplitcompound.com and in Europe contact lauren@rarelyunable.com.

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ALL PIGS MUST DIE: Hostage Animal LP Streaming At Noisey; Album Out October 27th Via Southern Lord + East Coast Shows Begin Tonight

Posted on: October 20, 2017

Ahead of its release through Southern Lord October 27th, ALL PIGS MUST DIE‘s bludgeoning new Hostage Animal LP is now streaming at Noisey, as the band kicks off a trio of East Coast shows in Brooklyn tonight.

Four years since the release of their last full-length, ALL PIGS MUST DIE return with Hostage Animal, an album that distills aggressive music to its purest tenets. The band, now a five-piece with the addition of Brian Izzi (Trap Them) on guitar, is comprised of some of the most well-seasoned musicians on the eastern seaboard, with Kevin Baker (The Hope Conspiracy), Ben Koller (Converge), Matt Woods (Bloodhorse), and Adam Wentworth (Bloodhorse). Hostage Animal is their most dynamic collection of work thus far and is an aural representation of the record as a whole; concise, intense, aggressive and carrying a bleak world view.

Listen to ALL PIGS MUST DIE‘s Hostage Animal LP in its entirety, along with a new interview with bassist Matt Woods, today via Noisey RIGHT HERE.

Southern Lord will release Hostage Animal on CD, LP, and all digital formats on October 27th; find physical preorders in the US HERE and Europe HERE.

ALL PIGS MUST DIE has confirmed several new performances coinciding with the release of Hostage Animal, beginning tonight in Brooklyn, with shows in Boston and Providence following over the next two days. Additional tour dates are to be expected in the months ahead.

ALL PIGS MUST DIE Tour Dates:
10/19/2017 Saint Vitus Bar – Brooklyn, NY
10/20/2017 Great Scott – Boston, MA
10/21/2017 AS220 – Providence, RI

ALL PIGS MUST DIE unleashed their first full length in 2011 with God Is War, and the thirty-minute rip was a nod to primeval disdain and anger. Exploring facets of human conflict one track at a time, God Is War introduced the world to a whole new spectrum of rage. In 2013, APMD upped the ante with Nothing Violates This Nature. Honing their craft with more speed and filth, the band pushed their sound closer to the edge of the cliff. Now, in 2017, the band is gearing up for the release of Hostage Animal which, like its predecessors, was recorded at Kurt Ballou’s GodCity Studio. But that is where the similarities end; Hostage Animal ushers in ten new songs that pulverize, gnash, and whirl with the band’s most punishing delivery yet. Hostage Animal showcases that ALL PIGS MUST DIE is far more than the sum of their parts, and their fusion of crust punk, hardcore, and metal is more ferocious than ever before.

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MAGMA TO RELEASE RETROSPEKTÏW VOLUME I + II AND III 3LP COLLECTION VIA SOUTHERN LORD, 24 NOVEMBER; GROUP TO APPEAR AT THE SOUTHERN LORD SHOWCASE EVENING IN AMSTERDAM ON 29 OCTOBER

Posted on: October 19, 2017

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MAGMA, one of the most influential of all French bands, are to release Retrospektïẁ 3LP collection, including Volume I + II and Volume III via Southern Lord on the 24th November. Available as a limited pressing of 1500 hand-numbered copies, remastered by Brad Boatright, including original artwork by Eva Nahon, also including the classic comicstrip by Solé, Dister and Gotlib depicting Magma’s trials and tribulations.

Southern Lord and Magma’s collaboration doesn’t end there, as the label have invited the group to perform at their label showcase on 29th of October at the Melkweg in Amsterdam, alongside SUNN O))), Unsane, Circle and more (tickets available and full details here).

Read on for more about the Retrospektïẁ volumes…

The first 10 years of Magma were celebrated on three memorable evenings in June 1980 at the Olympia theatre in Paris. This retrospective, reuniting most of the musicians who had performed in the group, was issued as two albums, Retrospektïẁ 1 / 2 (double) and Retrospektïẁ 3 (single). Issued first, Retrospektïẁ 3 comprises 3 titles Retrovision, a long piece in the style of the album Attahk, in which the vocalists Stella Vander, Guy Khalifa and Maria Popkiewicz turn in a blazing performance over a driving rhythm section; a supercharged version of Hhai, in which the trio Lockwood / Paganotti / Widemann works miracles; and finally La Dawotsin, where, in a more muted register, the voice of Christian Vander triumphs through its mastery and profound sensibility.

Recorded, like Retrospektïẁ 3, during the soirees at Olympia in June 1980, Retrospektïẁ 1 & 2 is an absolutely fundamental album in which Theusz Hamtaahk, the first movement of the trilogy of the same name, is presented for the first time. The second and third movements, Wurdah Itah and Mekanik Destruktiw Komandoh, were of course already well known. Although played in concert since 1974, Christian Vander had waited for years before recording it for posterity as he wanted every note to be as beautiful, magical, essential and definitive as possible. It is with the same respect for his music that he releases here the most successful version of Mekanik Destruktiw Komandoh, considered outstanding on account of two incredible improvisations from Bernard Paganotti and Didier Lockwood. Klaus Blasquiz, who did not perform on Retrospektïẁ 3, is the lead vocalist on this version – and justifiably so, since he was indeed the Magma singer who first sang these two masterworks.

There’s no doubt about it, Magma have left a legacy of music that defies any of the standard and convenient classifications of rock, operating instead in a realm of their own creation. Southern Lord looks forward to being part of their ever-evolving story…

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SECT To Release Second Album, No Cure For Death Via Southern Lord November 24th; In-Studio Footage Posted

Posted on: October 11, 2017

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Following the signing of North American hardcore group SECT to Southern Lord earlier this year, the band has since completed recording their second full-length, and label debut, No Cure For Death, and with plans to release the album on November 24th. No Cure For Death was recorded with Kurt Ballou at GodCity Studios and mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music.

View brand new footage of SECT‘s No Cure For Death recording sessions at THIS LOCATION.

Comprised of an international cast of scene veterans, who cut their teeth in that formative moment of political, cynical, antagonistic extremes, SECT unites vocalist Chris Colohan (Cursed, Burning Love, Left For Dead), guitarists James Chang (Catharsis, Undying) and Scott Crouse (Earth Crisis, The Path Of Resistance), bassist Steve Hart (Day Of Suffering), and drummer Andy Hurley (Racetraitor, Fall Out Boy, The Damned Things). The result of these musicians’ alignment is a caustic, riotous, belligerent style of vile hardcore fed by a boundless well of socio-political vitriol.

SECT gets right down to the blast beats and breakdowns that fight it out in their chaotic jams. They cut the shit and go for the throat with no time to waste, “because the Orwellian police states and irreparable social and ecological disasters we once saw off on the horizon are now on our front doorsteps, in full swing. And in just such a volatile, precarious moment as this for civilization, there is more reason than ever to keep lashing out at a world more suicidally-bent on its own destruction and the exploitation of people, species and the ecosystem itself, than perhaps ever before in history.”

For SECT, this is the purpose of hardcore as they know it, conveying an urgency that transcends age, credentials or scene politics, to convert desperation into real talk and action.

Southern Lord will release No Cure For Death on November 24th; stand by for audio samples, videos, preorder links, and more in the days ahead.

SECT will take part in Not Dead Yet Fest this weekend in Toronto, playing Saturday, October 14th alongside Incendiary, Glory, Hotheads, Spiritual Cramp, Illusion, and Real World. The next day they headline a show in Buffalo with Acolyte, Old Ghosts, and Juggernaut. Additional tour dates are to be expected.

SECT Tour Dates:
10/14/2017 Coalition – Toronto, ON @ Not Dead Yet Fest [info]
10/15/2017 Mohawk Place – Buffalo, NY w/ Acolyte, Old Ghosts, Juggernaut [info]

No Cure For Death Track Listing:
1. Open Grave
2. Day For Night
3. Crocodile Prayers
4. Reality’s Wake
5. Stripes
6. Liberal Arts
7. Born Razed
8. Transaction
9. Least Resistance
10. Avoidance Ritual

SECT:
Chris Colohan – vocals
James Chang – guitar
Scott Crouse – guitar
Steve Hart – bass
Andrew Hurley – drums

Review copies of No Cure For Death will be released in the coming days. For all coverage of SECT in the Americas contact dave@earsplitcompound.com and in Europe contact lauren@rarelyunable.com.

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KOHTI TUHOA Begins East Coast North American Tour Today; Pelon Neljäs Valtakunta LP Nears Release Through Southern Lord

Posted on: October 6, 2017

[photo by Jaakko Hietakangas]

Helsinki, Finland’s KOHTI TUHOA will begin their maiden North American tour today, preceding the November release of their second LP, Pelon Neljäs Valtakunta.

KOHTI TUHOA advances the release of the by-the-throat Pelon Neljäs Valtakunta album with their first North American tour which kicks off in in Philadelphia tonight. The band will then blasts through Washington, Richmond, Pittsburgh, New York City, Boston, Montreal, and ends Toronto through October 14th.

KOHTI TUHOA Tour Dates:
10/06/2017 Glitter Galaxy – Philadelphia, PA
10/07/2017 Slash Run – Washington, DC
10/08/2017 VSC – Richmond, VA
10/09/2017 The Rock Room – Pittsburgh, PA
10/10/2017 Brooklyn Bazaar Cellar – Brooklyn, NY
10/11/2017 Ralph’s Rock Diner – Boston, MA
10/12/2017 Cafe Atomic – Montreal, QC
10/14/2017 Coalition – Toronto, ON

KOHTI TUHOA‘s 2015-issued debut LP, Rutiinin Orja,was considered by many as the most exciting hardcore punk record out of Scandinavia in ages. Their sophomore album Pelon Neljäs Valtakunta is constructed from similar building blocks of aggression based at sociopolitical injustice, but with the band’s sound taking a step further towards genre classicists such as Discharge and Disorder, not to mention classic Finnish hardcore punk acts such as Terveet Kädet, Varaus, and Riistetyt. Recorded in May 2017 at V.R. Studio in Turku, Finland, Pelon Neljäs Valtakunta was engineered by Jussi Vuola, mixed by Jussi Vuola and KOHTI TUHOA, mastered and cut by Jukka Sarapää at Timmion Cutting, and finalized with artwork by returning artist Jaakko Karjula. The album crushes twelve relentless tracks in twenty minutes, including a cover of “Saatanan Lampaat” by Painajainen.

Stream KOHTI TUHOA’s “Kiire Läpi Elämän” and “Meille On Valehdeltu” from Pelon Neljäs Valtakunta and find digital preorders HERE.

Southern Lord will issue Pelon Neljäs Valtakunta on LP and digital formats in North America on November 24th. Digital preorders are live HERE; stand by for physical preorder links. Svart Records is handling the album for Europe.

For review copies of Pelon Neljäs Valtakunta and interviews/live coverage opportunities with KOHTI TUHOA in North America contact dave@earsplitcompound.com and internationally contact nathan@svartrecords.com.

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