So Hideous
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NY,
United States
Last Known Status: Active
Latest So Hideous News
Below is our complete So Hideous news coverage, including columns and articles pertaining to the band. Some articles listed may be indirectly related, such as side projects of the band members, etc.
So Hideous Streaming Full "Laurestine" Album
With the release of So Hideous' monumental sophomore album, "Laurestine," one week away, a stream of the full album comes online and can be heard below.
One continuous piece of music from start to finish, "Laurestine" is a supremely intense journey in sound, created with the help of a 30-piece orchestra. Through its music and lyrics, the album tells a story of one man's post-mortem odyssey toward an afterlife. Influenced heavily by film scores,
"Laurestine" brings modern classical composition into the realm of metal and hardcore, resulting in a truly "post-metal" experience that is technically awe-inspiring and emotionally ravaging. The new album was recorded by Dean Baltulonis (Lucero, Sick of It All) and by Chris Montgomery (Lily Allen, Mumford & Sons). More...
So Hideous Streaming New Track "Relinquish"
New York shoegaze act So Hideous is streaming the new track "Relinquish" (heard in the player below). The song is taken from the band's upcoming sophomore full length album "Laurestine," which is set for an October 16th release date via Prosthetic Records.
The track listing for the album is:
1. Yesteryear (song streaming here)
2. Here After
3. Relinquish
4. The Keepsake
5. Falling Cedars
6. The True Pierce
7. A Faint Whisper
Check out "Relinquish" here: More...
So Hideous Premieres New Track "Yesteryear"
So Hideous premieres its new song titled "Yesteryear", taken from the group's new album "Laurestine", which will receive an October 16th release via Prosthetic Records.
Check out now "Yesteryear" below.
You can catch So Hideous live on the following dates: More...
So Hideous Releasing "Laurestine"
Prosthetic Records presents "Laurestine," the second full-length album by So Hideous, due out October 16.
Before "Laurestine" there was debut album "Last Poem/First Light," a 2013 self-release that balanced blackened angst and rich musicality. Like its predecessor, "Laurestine" was recorded at The Wild Arctic Recording Studio in Portsmouth, New Hampshire with producer Dean Baltulonis (Lucero, Sick of It All, Modern Life Is War) and features actual orchestral and choral tracks recorded by The First Light Orchestra.
A teaser trailer unveiling the artwork and new music is available below, and you can see So Hideous live on these dates:
Aug 28 - Brooklyn, NY @ Saint Vitus
Aug 29 - Rockaway, NJ @ The Backroom Studios
Aug 30 - Boston, MA @ O'Brien's Pub
Aug 31 - Montreal, QC @ Turbo Haus
Sep 1 - Ottawa, ON @ Cafe Dekcuf
Sep 2 - Toronto, ON @ Coalition
Sep 3 - London, ON @ The APK
Sep 5 - Chicago, IL @ Red Line Tap
Sep 6 - Cincinnati, OH @ Northside Yacht Club More...
Prosthetic Records Announces Holiday Party
Prosthetic Records is pleased to announce the label will be hosting a Holiday Party this year at Brooklyn’s infamous Saint Vitus Bar on Thursday, December 4th featuring a headlining performance from Boston acclaimed post-rock quartet Junius and blackened post-hardcore outfit So Hideous.
Prior to the show’s start, ticket holders will have access to an exclusive listening party from 8:00 – 9:00pm featuring some of the labels most-lauded singles as well as some newer, previously unheard material, in addition to being the first to taste the label’s exclusive collaborative brew with Sixpoint Brewery - Prosthetic Imperial Black Ale.
Tickets for the showcase (21+ only) are currently available online for $15 & also include a limited-edition hand screened poster. More...
So Hideous Announces New Tour Dates
In celebration of the release of the Prosthetic debut “Last Poem / First Light,” Brooklyn-based blackened post-hardcore outfit So Hideous has announced a late summer tour with Century Media hardcore act I Am Heresy.
Prior to the tour — which kicks off on the East Coast in mid-July – So Hideous will perform a series of hometown shows supporting acts including Negura Bunget, Solstafir, labelmates Junius and Hush throughout May. Full dates can be found below. More...
"NYC Sucks: Volume 3" Available For Download
The new metal music sampler "NYC Sucks: Volume 3" is now available online as a stream and free download. Check it out below, or download your copy at Metalsucks.net here.
Curated by the editors of Metalsucks, this completely free music sampler spotlights the best of the New York City metal scene and runs the gamut of genres, from death to tech to prog to grind to black to hardcore to doom.
Bands featured on the compilation include Car Bomb, Primitive Weapons, So Hideous, Natur, Sannhet, and many more.
Stay tuned for Volume 4, featuring thirteen more bands and songs, out on April 28th. More...
So Hideous Streaming Full New Album
With So Hideous' debut full-length, "Last Poem/First Light," seeing its official release today, MetalSucks is now presenting a stream of the entire album. Check it out in the player below.
Reports MetalSucks: "Last Poem/First Light may be the first album ever released to unite fans of Buried Inside and Celeste. 'Epic' and 'raw' are both terms which get thrown around the describe metal bands all the time, but in the case of So Hideous, they really are the most fitting descriptors. Few bands can sound so furious and so morose at the same time."
Produced by Dean Baltulonis (Agnostic Front, Lucero), "Last Poem/First Light" features an actual orchestra and choir, recorded live in the studio, adding to the staggering depth of the sound. More...
So Hideous Releases Track From Upcoming Album
With debut full-length "Last Poem/First Light" due out next Tuesday, October 22nd, So Hideous reveals one more song off the new album: "Rhapsody" is now streaming in the player below via Terrorizer Magazine.
So Hideous will play October 25th at St Vitus in Brooklyn, NY, with Kylesa and Pinkish Black, followed by an official record release show on October 26th at ABC No Rio in New York, NY, with Meek Is Murder and East of the Wall. The band then hits the road for a tour of the Eastern US, kicking off November 1st in Philly with Starkweather.
The album's track listing is as follows:
1. Rising (streaming here)
2. Stabat Mater
3. My Light (listen here)
4. Rhapsody
5. Last Poem
6. Glory More...
So Hideous Streams "Rising"
After posting the song "My Light" online, today So Hideous reveals new track "Rising," which is the opening number off the band's "Last Poem/First Light" album.
Listen to "Rising" in the player below, courtesy of Revolvermag.com. "Last Poem/First Light" is set for an October 22nd release and has the following track listing:
1. Rising
2. Stabat Mater
3. My Light
4. Rhapsody
5. Last Poem
6. Glory More...
So Hideous Streaming "My Light"
Invisible Oranges today presents the premiere of "My Light," the first song to be revealed off "Last Poem/First Light," the debut full-length by So Hideous. Listen to the track below.
Invisible Oranges editor Doug Moore writes, "An even blend of hardcore, post-rock, and black metal... Last Poem/First Light sounds tonally huge and powerful, which is important for such melodically delicate music... The softer textures enrich the guitars, rather than overwhelming them."
The following press release was also issued about the band: "From New York City, So Hideous combines intense, blackened hardcore with orchestral elements. The supremely cathartic result lies somewhere between 90s German legends Acme and a John Williams film score. For the debut album, Last Poem/First Light, out October 22nd, an actual orchestra and choir performed live in the studio with the band to help create the majestic songs.
"Last Poem/First Light was recorded and mixed by Dean Baltulonis (Agnostic Front, Lucero) and mastered by Scott Hull (not the Pig Destroyer guitarist but the mastering engineer whose credits include Sting and Lou Reed)." More...
So Hideous Announces New Album
New York City quartet So Hideous (formerly So Hideous, My Love...) announces the October 22nd release of its debut full-length album, "Last Poem/First Light." The following press release was issued about the band:
"Like New York itself, a place of sewer depths and skyscraper heights, So Hideous combines utter extremes and makes them one. On Last Poem/First Light, the band redefines the term 'epic' with a violently beautiful sound, uniting the ugly and the majestic, the anguished and the grandiose.
"On one hand there are rabid vocals leading a torrent of blackened hardcore that evokes the intensity of 90s German legends Acme. On the other hand there are angelic melodies and lush atmospheres recalling The Cure's masterpiece, Disintegration, or the symphonic swells of a John Williams film score. These two sides, equally prominent, coexist in unison, strengthening each other and creating one supremely cathartic sound.
"Last Poem/First Light was recorded and mixed by Dean Baltulonis (Agnostic Front, Lucero) and mastered by Scott Hull (not the Pig Destroyer guitarist but the mastering engineer whose credits include Sting and Lou Reed).
"Six songs, 33 minutes, the album was crafted for maximum sonic impact - drums explode and rich tones haunt with crystal clarity. Most of the orchestral and choral sounds on the album were performed live in the studio by The First Light Orchestra, a New York-based group consisting of ten string players, a tuba, and four vocalists!"
The track listing is as follows:
1. Rising
2. Stabat Mater
3. My Light
4. Rhapsody
5. Last Poem
6. Glory More...
So Hideous, My Love Streaming Three Songs Online
Three tracks are currently available online for streaming from New York post black metal act So Hideous, My Love...
You can listen to the songs "Prelude in G # Minor," " However Boldly Their Warm Blood Split," and "To Clasp a Fallen Wish with Broken Fingers" in the player below. The songs are taken from the recently released "To Clasp a Fallen Wish with Broken Fingers" EP.
So Hideous, My Love... Announces Release Show
New York post black metal troupe So Hideous, My Love... has announced a record release party on July 25th in Brooklyn. Details are as follows:
When: July 25th, 2011
Where: The Charleston
174 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn NY w/ openers Risk & Toaster
Time: 9:15pm
The party will be in celebration of the band’s recently unleashed "To Clasp A Fallen Wish With Broken Fingers" EP. The performance will also showcase new members: Kevorikian drummer Danny Moncada and bassist Dan Galante. Moncada formerly played for NY death metal outfit Regain The Heart Condemned while Galante comes from Long Island grindcore act Lobster Apocalypse.
Commented guitarist Jack Marshall: “The Charleston show is our record release party and we’re psyched as always to play out live especially after the hardships and turmoil we’ve had to deal with getting this record done. We went through a couple of personnel changes this past year, so this isn’t only a showcase for the new EP but it’s also a chance to introduce everybody to the new lineup. The sound is the same but somewhat heavier and we’ve matured musically and lyrically a lot as a band since our first EP and last live show.”
You can also check out the EP by heading over to the Play The Assassin Records Bandcamp page.
So Hideous, My Love… Streaming New EP Title Track
Today Decibel Magazine is hosting an exclusive stream of “To Clasp A Fallen Wish With Broken Fingers,” the title track from So Hideous, My Love…’s recently unleashed EP. Released via Play The Assassin on June 21 in a limited run of 250 copies (on snow white and blood red 10? vinyl), "To Clasp A Fallen Wish With Broken Fingers" serves as the companion piece to 2008’s self-released album, "I Balance A Daydream On An Edge Of A Knife."
To check out the title track, point your browser over to this location.
The band has also announced the addition of Kevorikian drummer Danny Moncada and bassist Dan Galante to its official lineup. Moncada formerly played for NY death metal outfit Regain The Heart Condemned while Galante comes from Long Island grindcore outfit Lobster Apocalypse. The new lineup – Moncada and Galante, alongside composer/guitarists Brandon Cruz and Jack Marshall – will play the first of many upcoming shows next month:
7/25/2011 The Charleston – Brooklyn, NY w/ Welkin Dusk
So Hideous, My Love... To Release EP
So Hideous, My Love... will be releasing an EP titled "To Clasp A Fallen Wish With Broken Fingers" through Play the Assassin Records. The band's publicist commented on the EP:
"Lurking beneath the surface of metal underground, NYC’s own So Hideous, My Love... have created a devastating musical hybrid of heart racing proportions. Fusing post rock leanings (Envy, Mono, Godspeed You! Black Emperor) and adventurous black metal (Wolves In The Throne Room, Celeste) with classical beauty (Arvo Part, Beethoven), So Hideous, My Love... lay claim to the appropriately termed buzz moniker 'post-black metal' with their newest offering, To Clasp A Fallen Wish With Broken Fingers.
"Born out of home recordings in the winter of 2008 by composer/guitarists Brandon Cruz and Jack Marshall, So Hideous, My Love... self-released their debut EP, I Balance A Daydream On An Edge Of A Knife, in the Spring of 2010 to an outpouring of love from the heavy music community. To Clasp A Fallen Wish… serves as a companion piece to the band’s first release and showcases a further maturation of engaging daydreams and paralyzing musical nightmares."
Said Cruz of the EP: “The word epic gets thrown around quite a bit online when listeners/press/bloggers/ describe what they hear and for me that’s the greatest compliment. I wrote the songs and the string arrangements to sound urgent, emotive and ‘huge’… a full layered production that was the most destructive and beautiful storm…would’ve used a larger orchestra if possible. For what was trying to be conveyed with the EP, I remember mixing in the studio throughout December and January and watching the trailer for Terrence Malick’s The Tree Of Life on my laptop and thinking, ‘If we could get this record to be the guitar band equivalent of that I could die happy.’”
A limited run (250 copies) of To Clasp A Fallen Wish With Broken Fingers will be available on Snow White or Blood Red 10? vinyl via Play The Assassin Records on June 21st. More...