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Ascend Announce New Release
ASCEND is a new collaborative musical project between Gentry Densley (Iceburn, Eagle Twin) and Greg Anderson (sunn 0))), Goatsnake, Engine Kid). Both have been making music that has crossed paths several times in the last 19 years, the most notable being during the 90s when Anderson's band Engine Kid toured with and shared a split album with Densely’s band Iceburn. During that time both were heavily experimenting with the fusion of jazz (Mahavishnu Orchestra, Miles Davis, John Coltrane) and the dark behemoth tones of influences such as The Melvins, Gore, Slint, and Caspar Brotzman.
Hitting stores on May 27th, ASCEND re-visits some of the tones and moods of their past works as well as traveling into uncharted territory all done with the utmost focus on heaviness and power, with the album "Ample Fire Within." Of particular note is the vocal performance by Gentry Densley. His voice is deep and ominous with a subtle Tom Waits influence within the growls and gruffness that is emoted. Anderson gushes enthusiastically: "we were extremely fortunate to have a lot of help from our friends with this recording. Andy Patterson pounded the hell out of the drums, and Steve Moore (aka Stebmo, also in Earth and often times sunn 0))) ) added some trombone (“Obelisk of Kolob”, and “Dark Matter”), organ (“Her Horse Is Thunder”, “Dark Matter”) and some amazing wurlitzer (“Amplifier Within”, “Divine”). His playing brings a dark, sophisticated jazz atmosphere to the album. On the track "V O G" we were blessed to have Bubba Dupree (Void) AND none other than Kim Thayil (Soundgarden) put down some incredible lead work!"
The entire album was mixed by Randall Dunn (Earth, sunn 0))), Kinski,) and mastered by Mell Dettmer who is turning into the "house-mastering wizardress" for the Southern Lord label.
Below are a few samples from the album:
Maniac's Skitliv To Release Special Edition MCD
SKITLIV, the band formed and fronted by former MAYHEM vocalist Maniac, and featuring SHINING’s Niklas Kvarforth on guitars, is releasing two special editions on the UK Label Cold Spring. The CD version, due out at the end of February, comprises two studio tracks; one a special mix of “Slow Pain Coming” exclusive to Cold Spring, and the other, a version of “Amfetamin”, with guest vocals by current MAYHEM and SUNN0))) front man Attila, and includes bonus tracks from the band’s recent live performance at the Camden Underworld, London. Following later will be a limited 12” etched edition.
The release illustrates the subtle shift away from the narrow confines of Black Metal that Maniac has taken recently, expanding into the realms of the Doom/Noise genre whilst still maintaining his original roots. His cooperation with Current 93’s David Tibet and Andrew Liles is also highlighted in the intro to the live performance that was recorded by the two musicians especially for SKITLIV. The Tibet/Liles recording used for live performances differs from the version that they recorded as an intro for the “Kristiansen and Kvarforth Swim In The Sea of Equilibrium While Waiting…” MCD that was recently released by the band for their European tour.
Maniac commented “Justin of Cold Spring has been a friend for a long time now, and we have always talked about doing a one-off project together, but you know how it goes, you tend to get side-tracked by other things, or the time is not right for one or the other. Then he came up with the idea of the etched vinyl that was something that really appealed to everyone involved. It also came at the right moment in terms of us all having a free window at the same time, so we were able to re-record and re-mix a couple of tracks especially for him in between recording the MCD and preparing for the tour”.
You can check out a song from the MCD on the band’s MySpace page.
Sunn O))) Mini-tour Of The Northwest
Sunn 0))) has announced a few Northwest shows for November. Joining the band on stage for these performances will be special guests Attila Csihar and Justin Broaderick. Here are the tour dates:
11/1 Olympia, WA @ Manium w/ Earth, Wolves In The Throneroom, Grey
11/2 Seattle, WA @ Neumos w/ Jesu, Eluvium
11/3 Portland, OR @ The Hawthorne Theater
Sunn O))) Wraps Up Touring, To Write New Album
Sunn O))) has wrapped up their summer touring and posted the following message:
"It has been an insane summer for sunn0))), many shows and a new release. Thanks to all who have supported our efforts thus far….we could not have done it without you! sunn 0))) will now go into hibernation in preparation for its next album recording. We shall emerge from our caves in October to work on this next release and possibly play some shows. Until then check out the latest release: “Oracle” and read a current in-depth interview in Rock-a-Rolla magazine."
"p.s. : The Seattle Weekly did a great feature on our brother, colleauge, sound man etc..
There is a good deal of footage from 7/7/07 on YouTube:
Sunn 0))) Summer European Festival Appearances
Sunn 0))) have a number of summer European festival appearances planned:
Jun 16 - SUNN O))) Sonar Festival, Barcelona
Jun 18 - SUNN O))) Meltdown Festival, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (w/ Chrome Hoof)
Jul 14 - SUNN O))) SuperSonic Festival, Birmingham (w/ Om, Mogwai, Miasma, etc)
Jul 15 - SUNN O))) Dour Festival, Belgium (w/ Wilco, Merzbow, Wolf Eyes, etc)
More details such as lineup etc.. will be revealed soon! See you in the heat!
Sunn 0))) Members To Host NYC Event
TV EYE DVD Magazine and Southern Lord Records will be putting on an event to celebrate the release of TV EYE's fourth installment, which features Sunn 0))), Isis, The Melvins, High on Fire and more. The event will feature a live performance by Sunn 0)))'s Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson alongside David Grubbs (Squirrel Bait, Bastro, Gastr Del Sol) as well as live DJ sets by Stephen O'Malley and his various cohorts.
The party will be happening Friday, November 3rd from 5-8PM at the Rockstar Bar in Brooklyn, NY. Admission and beer are free.
Celtic Frost To Appear On HBB This Weekend
Swiss metal band CELTIC FROST will be appearing on MTV2's "Headbanger's Ball" on Saturday, September 30. The segment was taped when FROST played in New York City earlier this month. The show will also mark the "Headbanger's Ball" premier of the video for "A Dying God Coming Into Human Flesh", taken from their 2006 release "Monotheist".
"The tour and the audience's reactions have far exceeded all of our expectations," said bassist Martin Eric Ain, checking in from Calgary. "We have worked very hard to bring the FROST back, and the support of the people we have met so far during these shows has made it more than worthwhile. We are one-third into this tour, and we'd like to think there is much more to come and that we have much more to give."
Currently 14 shows into their 47-date North American tour, the band will perform Victoria, Canada Saturday night. On October 3, the band will be joined by SUNN O))) and GOATWHORE, replacing current supporting artists 1349 and SAHG.
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Khanate Calls It Quits
"Extreme doom" metal band KHANATE, the brainchild of Stephen O'Malley (THORR'S HAMMER, BURNING WITCH, SUNN 0))), LOTUS EATERS) and James Plotkin (OLD, SCORN, ATOMSMASHER), has disbanded. In a statement, Plotkin writes, "I have decided to leave KHANATE due to the lack of commitment of certain members. The decision was a difficult one, as I've put six years and immeasurable amounts of creativity into the band hoping to take it as far as possible. The past year has brought about many missed opportunities and the realization that some players are more concerned with personal careers and day jobs rather than the advancement of music as an artform.
"I will continue to work with drummer Tim Wyskida on a number of other projects, mainly KHLYST and our improvisational duo.
"Gratitude to all those that have supported what we have done and acknowledged our importance in modern music.
"The companion album to 'Capture & Release' is currently being mixed. This yet untitled work consists of spontaneous recordings made during the 'C&R' sessions dating back to February 2005. This will be my final work in KHANATE. There are plans for Japanese issues of the self-titled and 'Things Viral' CDs with expanded packaging and bonus discs with unreleased material."
1349, Sahg, Sunn O))), Goatwhore To Support CF
More tour dates have been announced in the US tour in which 1349, Sahg, sunnO))), Goatwhore To Open For Celtic Frost 1349 will support Celtic Frost on the 1st leg this autumn. Together with openers Sahg, the band is confirmed on the following dates. On October 4th, the Celtic Frost tour will change the openers to sunnO))) and Goatwhore.
Celtic Frost, 1349, Sahg
09/13 Springfield, VA - Jaxx
09/14 New York, NY - BB King's
09/15 New York, NY - BB King's
09/16 Montreal, QC - Le Medley
09/18 Toronto, ON - The Opera House
09/19 Pittsburgh, PA - Rex Theater
09/20 Cleveland, OH - House Of Blues
09/22 Detroit, MI - Harpo's
09/23 Chicago, IL - Vic Theatre
09/24 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
09/25 Winnipeg, MB - Royal Albert Hotel
09/27 Calgary, AB - Warehouse
09/28 Edmonton, AB - Starlite Room
09/30 Victoria, BC - Sugar Nightclub
10/01 Seattle, WA - El Corazon
10/02 Portland, OR - Roseland Theatre
10/03 San Francisco, CA - Fillmore
1349
10/04 Hollywood, CA - Safari Sams
These gigs will feature the following line-up: Ravn - Vocals, Archaon - Guitars, Seidemann - Guitars, Tony Laureano (Nile, AngelCorpse, etc.) - Drums, Teloch (Nidingr/Orcustus) - Guitars.
Celtic Frost, sunnO))), Goatwhore
10/04 San Diego, CA - House Of Blues
10/06 Anaheim, CA - House Of Blues
10/07 West Hollywood, CA - House Of Blues
10/08 Tempe, AZ - Marquee Theatre
10/09 Las Vegas, NV - House Of Blues
10/11 Englewood, CO - Gothic Theater
10/12 Albuquerque, NM - Sunshine Theater
Soundgarden Contributes To Sunn O))) and Boris
Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil has contributed guitar work to a collaboration between American drone kings Sunn O))) and Japanese sludge masters Boris. Thayil, who appears on the song "Blood Swamp," also wrote the liner notes for the album, which comes out October 31st and is called Altar. A vinyl-only version includes the bonus track "Her Lips Were Wet With Venom," which features Earth frontman Dylan Carlson. Other guests include Joe Preston (High on Fire, Earth, Melvins), Steve Moore (Earth) and Jesse Sykes, and other songs include "Etna," "N.L.T." and "Akuma No Kuma."
Dismember To Wrap Up European Tour In Israel
Swedish heavy metal band Dismember will perform in Israel on August 29 at the Barby Club in Tel Aviv. Israeli metal bands Eternal Gray and God Below will open for the headlining band.
Another group of musicians slated to arrive in Israel soon is O’Malley/Ambarchi/Csihar, which will perform here in September. Attila Csihar, soloist for Mayhem who performed in Israel with the band Salem, will be joined by Steven O’Malley of Sunn O))) and Oren Ambarchi, a Habad member and son to a Jewish Iraqi family who emigrated to Australia. The three artists are signed with the Southern Lord record label.
The Israel show will be the trio’s first time sharing the same stage. During their stay, in addition to their joint show, they will perform solo concerts as well as joint shows with Israeli musicians. On July 20 and 22, the band will play at Levontin in Tel Aviv, and of July 24 they will play at the Yellow Submarine in Jerusalem.
Celtic Frost Announce Support On US Tour
Celtic Frost have announced the addition of renowned Norwegian black metal bands 1349 and Sahg for the group’s fall 2006 North American tour. The bands will support Celtic Frost from September 12 (Springfield, Virginia) to October 2, 2006 (Portland, Oregon). Norway’s cult black metal band 1349 features Satyricon drummer Frost, and doom supergroup Sahg features notable Norwegian black metal stars Manngard, 2005 Norwegian Grammy award winner Audrey Horne and former Gorgoroth members King and Kvitrafn. These will be the first North American shows for both bands.
Goatwhore will support the band from October 3 (San Francisco, California) to the end of the tour November 11, 2006 (Johnson City, New York). Additionally, American drone/doom stars Sunn O))) will join the tour for the Pacific Coast dates from October 3 (San Francisco, California) to October 9 (Las Vegas, Nevada). The North American tour runs for eight weeks. Here is the complete list of tour dates: More...
Sunn 0))) Tour Dates
Sunn 0))) have lined up a handful of May tour dates. Here are the latest tour dates:
5/18 Boston, MA @ Middle East (downstairs) w/ Grief & Sin of Angels
5/20 Victoriaville, Quebec @ FIMAV w/ Haino Keiji
5/22 Toronto, Ontario @ Music Gallery
5/23 Grand Rapids, IL @ Institute of Contemporary Arts
dates w/ Boris
5/25 Minneapolis, MN @ Walker Art Center
5/26 Chicago, IL @ Logan Square w/ Kevin Drumm
5/27 Columbus, OH @ Walker Center
5/28 Youngstown, OH @ Emissions From the Monolith
5/29 New York, NY @ Avalon
Sunn 0))) and Earth Plan European Tour
Sunn 0))) and Earth will be touring Europe together in February and March. Here's the latest schedule:
2/8 Germany, Koln @ Gebauede 9
2/9 Belgium, Diksmuide @ 4AD
2/10 London @ TBA
2/11 Leeds @ The Cockpit
2/12 Glasgow @ ABC2
2/13 Liverpool @ Roadkill
2/14 Bristol @ Thekla
2/15 Birmingham @ Custard Factory
2/16 Luxembourg @ TBA
2/17 France, Paris @ TBA
2/18 Spain, Barcelona @ Apollo
2/19 France @ TBA
2/21 Switzerland, Dudingen @ Bad Bonn
2/22 Italy, Milan @ TBA
2/23 Italy, Torino @ TBA
2/24 Italy, Rome @ TBA
2/25 Italy, Bologna @ TBA
2/27 Croatia, Zagreb @ Galerija SC
2/28 Austria, Vienna @ Szene
3/1 Germany, Dresden @ Star Club
3/2 Germany, Berlin @ Volksbuhne
3/3 Netherlands, Amsterdam @ Paradiso
3/4 Germany, Hamburg @ Markthalle
3/5 Denmark, Copenhagen @ Loppen
3/7 Norway, Oslo @ BLÄ
3/8 Sweden, Stockholm @ Debaser
3/10 Sweden, Gothenburg @ Ideal Festival
3/11 Denmark, Aarhus @ Voxhall
3/12 Netherlands, Groningen @ Vera
Sunn O))) Northeast Tour Dates
Sunn O))) will be touring the Northeast briefly in mid-December. Here are the tour dates:
12/16 Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church w/ Jack Rose
12/17 Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar w/ Nachtmystium, The Hidden Hand
12/18 Brooklyn, NY @ NorthSix w/ Nachtmystium, Growing
12/19 Boston, MA @ The Middle East w/ Nachtmystium
12/20 Wallingford, CT @ American Legion Hall w/ Nachtmystium
12/21 New York, NY @ Knitting Factory w/ Nachtmystium
The Rise of Art-Metal
Jon Caramanica has written a surprisingly excellent article in the New York Times about the shift in metal and the rise of "art metal" and "post metal," the latter label I dislike more than the first. Here's an except to get you started:
You might not have known it from looking at the audience, but when the Chicago instrumental band Pelican performed at the Knitting Factory in late July, it was playing metal.
Instead of long hair and all-black outfits, the crowd was displaying the trappings of brainy, slightly nerdy indie rock. Young men wore artistically cropped hair and tight-legged jeans, and there was even a smattering of young women in librarian glasses and worn-out Chuck Taylor sneakers.
This is not your older brother's metal crowd. "I've been wearing my Def Leppard T-shirt on tour recently," said Laurent Lebec, a guitarist in Pelican and a fan of that archteypal 1980's metal band. "People come up to me and ask, 'Is that a joke?' I have to tell them that I don't wear T-shirts as a joke."
The particularly dark and aggressive strain of rock called heavy metal has been around for more than three decades. In that time, it has spawned a range of offshoots, but none have been as unlikely as the recent wave of bands using metal as a jumping-off point for a range of experimental styles, dabbling in free jazz, minimalist post-rock, noise and even modern classical music.
This is art-metal, a curious scene populated by a new generation of metal acolytes onstage and younger fans often unfamiliar with metal's headbanger heritage.
"Metal in general has long been unjustly maligned as solely the province of knuckle-dragging meatheads," said Aaron Turner, a founder of the influential Hydra Head Records, which has released three CD's by Pelican, including, recently, "The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw." "That said, there's never been a group of musicians like there is now, who are helping to advance the form."
Read the full article at New York Times.
Sunn O))), Boris, and Thrones West Coast Tour
Sunn O))), Boris, and Thrones will be hooking up for a brief West Coast tour in late-October. Here are the dates:
10/26 Vancouver, BC, Canada @ Brickyard
10/27 Seattle, WA @ Neumos (Earth replaces Thrones)
10/28 Olympia, WA @ TBA
10/29 Portland, OR @ Berbati's Pan
10/31 San Francisco, CA @ Slim's (3 Days Of Darkness Festival)
11/01 Los Angeles, CA @ TBA
Sunn 0))) Working On Fourth Album
Experimental space-metal band Sunn 0))) are working on their fourth album, "White-1," in Magnetic Park studios in Oregon. Track titles include "My Wall" and "The Gates of Ballard."
Roadburn Festival To Be Webcasted Live
Holland`s major network, VPRO 3voor12, will pull off a live coverage of the 10th Roadburn Festival this Saturday, April 9, 2005 at 013-Tilburg, Holland. The live webcast starts at 18.45 hrs CET ( 12.45 pm EST). Click web radio for the live stream.
The live webcast will feature Sunn 0))), Alabama Thunderpussy, High on Fire, Electric Wizard, Litmus, Astrosoniq, Brant Bjork and the Bros, Space Ritual, Vic Du Monte`s Idiot Prayer, Hypnos 69, Black Moses, Josiah, and Hulk.
The Roadburn Festival (i.e all the performances) will be available on demand for free later throughout the week via VPRO 3voor12 and roadburn.com.
For a direct link to the live webcast page, click here.
Monster Magnet Guitarist To Jam With Space Ritual
On Saturday, April 9, 2005, the Dutch Roadburn Festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary edition with a stunning variety of space/stoner/doom rock bands on three different stages with Brant Bjork & The Bros, SUNN O))), ELECTRIC WIZARD (the first ever show with the We Live line-up), and HIGH ON FIRE, amongst others, at 013-Tilburg.
Monster Magnet lead guitarist Ed Mundell has been confirmed to jam live on stage with headliners SPACE RITUAL. That band was formed in 2001 to revive the lost magic, the truly interstellar spirit of Hawkwind, of which the band were all members, and this will be Space Ritual`s first ever gig on the European mainland. Check roadburn.com for the complete line up. Holland’s major network, VPRO 3voor12, will pull off a live webcast of the 10th Roadburn Festival.
In other news, VPRO 3voor12 will re-broadcast last year`s "Monster Magnet Live at the 9th Roadburn Festival" webtv webcast. The webcast will run on April 6, 2005 at 7:00 p.m. GMT at www.3voor12.nl (click on webtv).