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GREED & RAPACITY Announce Partnership With Milam Records, Release Details for ‘Loki Bound’
Antipodean metal extremists GREED & RAPACITY have been cultivating a rapt audience of devotees and supporters since their ‘Ergreifer’ demo surfaced in 2010. Now, at the cusp of the apocalypse, they are pleased to announce their alignment with like-minded individualists Milam Records to unleash their long-awaited debut EP, ‘Loki Bound’ on April 9, 2012.
Dedicated to channeling and venting the worst of human nature in sonic form, and obsessed with aural depravity, with clattering and crushing performances of music as technically confounding as it is eviscerating, GREED & RAPACITY is less a band than an experience. Its two progenitors collaborate from Portland, Oregon and Sydney, Australia, and are also involved in BLEAKWOOD and AZOTH (check out an interview explaining the threads connecting the projects here).
According to The Lurker’s Path, “GREED & RAPACITYstands at the nexus of forward-thinking black metal, funeral doom and ritual black ambient. ‘Loki Bound’ is a lesson in how to construct and execute extreme metal in the most organic sense of the word…Combining the somnambulism of better dark ambient acts together with the occult sensibilities of higher echelon black metal outfits like Deathspell Omega has paid off no end on this EP…A sea of sickened growls, whispers and burrowing voice manipulation hides just beneath the morass of ‘Loki Bound,’ weaving a heavy robe of occult texture.GREED & RAPACITY wear this shadowy veil with pride, and rightly so, the music on display represents a band maturing beyond their contemporaries.”
Loki is the Norse god of chaos. Bound by his fellows for crimes real and imagined, rotting, burning up in the inexorable drip of the serpent’s venom. Humanity’s most potent, most primal instincts personified, then bent against themselves, pent into an apocalyptic tide of hatred, paranoia, resentment, and spite. The mythic embodiment of (self)righteous disgust. It’s only fitting to invoke his name on such an otherworldly slab of pure sonic mayhem. ‘Loki Bound’ is a one track, 33-minute doom metal plunge into ravening insanity. Animalistic shrieks and grunts, mind-breaking time signatures, and oppressive layers of down-tuned guitars invoke total chaos and suffering while lurching bass, pummeling drums, and eerie choirs drag the listener, struggling but helpless, into the eye of Loki’s captive fury.
According to the band themselves, “This release is an expression of the most utterly depraved – and therefore most profoundly human – archetypal force that exists. ‘Loki Bound’ is akin to an irresolvable, all-consuming existential crisis, a nadir without end.”
Come April 9th, 2012, the cassette edition (with digital download) of ‘Loki Bound’ will be available through:
US/World: http://milamrecords.bigcartel.com/
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APPALACHIAN TERROR UNIT Announce Rerelease of ‘Armageddon Won’t Be Brought By Gods, But By Men Who Think They Are…’ 7”
Every once in a great while, a new band comes along with such intense fury that they captivate all who hear and see them. Anarcho-crust eco-warrior collective APPALACHIAN TERROR UNIT is that band, and ‘Armageddon Won’t Be Brought By Gods, But By Men Who Think They Are…’ is their seminal release, a 7” slab of raw power and vitriol that will be resurrected from its long out-of-print status by venerable punk provocateurs Profane Existence on April 3, 2012.
Hailing from the mountains of West Virginia, ATU belt out a thunderous chorus of eco-awareness and chastisement for mankind’s destructive ways (or at least those who are in control). Musically they combine classic punk, crust, and a hint of metal into a sound that’s likened to latter day NAUSEA, totally reinforced by the strong female vocals throughout. Adding to the over-all amazing quality of this EP are additional touches of brilliance, like the brutally powerful recording by Jay (Antischism, Damad) at The Jam Room in South Carolina and incendiary cover / poster art by Marald. Normally this sort of praise for a job well done is reserved for bands who have been around the block once or twice — not for the debut EP from a band barely formed a year before recording, but ATU are far from “normal.” They are more a force of nature than a punk rock band. This is the band’s first 7” release, which originally came out in 2007 and has been out of print ever since, claiming its place as one of the most sought-after records in Profane Existence history!
Since their inception this energetic and uncompromising band has completed numerous tours of the United States and Europe and released a series of cathartic, razor-edged crust monoliths. Profane Existence commented, “We are excited to have this record back in print just in time to hit the streets before ATU’s summer tour!”
Keep an eye out for tourdates.
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PROFANE EXISTENCE…MAKING PUNK A THREAT AGAIN
OILTANKER/NO TOMORROW Announce Release Date for Split LP
Profane Existence are proud to announce the imminent release of a split 12” LP that showcases two up and coming metallic crust powerhouses and drops April 3, 2012. Connecticut’s d-beat destroyers OILTANKER and Cape Fear crust vigilantes NO TOMORROWboth come armed to the teeth and hardened by years of toiling and touring. Worshipping upon the filth-streaked altars of Scandinavian hardcore, Japanese punk, classic d-beat, and vicious, metallic-minded crust, these two bands have risen rapidly through the underground, and are poised to take the fuck over.
The label stated, “Tour after tour, song after song both of these bands are relentless and have shown through their actions that they won’t let up until the world hears their message of defiance and unrest. When looking for new artists to join the Profane Existencefamily we want bands that exemplify our mission statement. These bands are definitely out there “Making Punk A Threat Again!” While each band has their own unique style it’s easy to see why they are sharing a release together. Their sound is heavy. Their delivery is crushing. The recording embodies the high energy performance and intensity you would expect from a live show while sounding solid and musically tight. This is definitely a record that will breath new life and energy into the crust punk genera. When they contacted us about releasing the record there was no way we could pass it up. This is one of the best new records we have heard in a while!”
Fans of Disrupt, Nausea, Doom, & Extreme Noise Terror are sure to agree. With both bands poised to launch live assaults upon the continental US and even further, the release of their split LP is only a merciless harbinger of the destruction that is to come. There will be blood.
NO TOMORROW
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COFFINWORM Announce Vinyl Release of ‘Great Bringer of Night’ via The Flenser
The Flenser are pleased to announce this latest addition to the fold, Indianapolis blackened sludge barbarians COFFINWORM. The San Francisco-based label will be partnering with the band for the first-ever vinyl release of their now-classic ‘Great Bringer of Night’ demo from 2009.
COFFINWORM play ugly music for hateful people. The doomhauling quintet first came crawling out of the primordial ooze of Indianapolis’ D.I.Y. underground in 2007, and have kept themselves busy doing the devil’s work ever since. Their virgin offering, 2009’s self-released three-track demo, demanded attention, and got it, as the press and fans of the heavy started to discover ‘Great Bringer of Night.’ COFFINWORM had given volcanic birth to a wretched, heaving slab of noxious, blackened death sludge of the lowest order, one that eventually led to their signing with Profound Lore and invitations to perform a number of high-profile live actions across the country. Hellish, depraved, and heavy as a neutron hammer, COFFINWORM had truly created a monster.
It all began here, though, and The Flenser have committed to dragging this filthy gem out into the sunlight to give it the treatment it so richly deserves, and adding the original versions of two extra songs that had found their way onto the band’s Profound Lore debut. Sludge, tortured doom, snarling black metal, knuckle-dragging death metal and a few handfuls of crusted-over punk meld together into one of the nastiest, most misanthropic, most wonderfully ugly albums you’ll ever hear, ripe for fans of BURNING WITCH, EYEHATEGOD, NOOTHGRUSH, DARKTHRONE, and CORRUPTED.
Now, you’ll finally be able to experience it on coal black vinyl - heavy as black tar. , addictive as black tar heroin. This deluxe version will include two unreleased tracks from the demo recording sessions in all their raw glory, and comes graced with the gorgeous artwork of Bryan Proteau (DEAFHEAVEN, PALLBEARER, ATRIARCH, LYCUS, OBOLUS) and a finely-tuned mastering job from James Plotkin (KHANATE, ISIS, PELICAN, KVIST).
TRACKLISTING
1. High On The Reek Of Your Burning Remains
2. Strip Nude For Your Killer
3. The Inner Caligula
4. Start Saving For Your Funeral
5. Spitting In Infinity’s Asshole
VATTNET VISKAR Announce March Tour! VATTNET VISKAR Announce March Tour! VATTNET VISKAR Announce March Tour
New Hampshire’s darkest export, blackened doom alchemists VATTNET VISKAR, will be hitting the road in support of their Broken Limbs Recordings debut, a self-titled EP that marks the band’s first foray onto vinyl. They’ll be winding their way down the East Coast, playing with the likes of WOE, TOMB & THIRST, and more, rampaging through the Southeast, then looping back up to wrap things up with al album release show at NYC’s Lit Lounge on March 19th. Catch them while you can!
The record officially drops on March 15, 2012, and is graced with ethereal cover art from San Francisco artist Bryan Proteau, whose gorgeous creations have illustrated DEAFHEAVEN, PALLBEARER, ATRIARCH, LYCUS, and OBOLUS. The album was recorded and mastered by Brett Boland (HETFIELD & HETFIELD).
VATTNET VISKAR MARCH TOUR DATES:
March 8, 2012 @ Ralph’s Rock Diner :: Worcester MA
March 9, 2012 @ Elm Bar :: New Haven CT
March 10, 2012 @ Pickwick Pub :: Poughkeepsie NY
March 11, 2012 @ Kung Fu Necktie :: Philadelphia PA
March 12, 2012 @ Garfield Artworks :: Pittsburgh PA
March 13, 2012 @ Tommy’s Pub :: Charlotte NC
March 14, 2012 @ Slim’s :: Raleigh NC
March 15, 2012 @ The Muse :: Nashville TN
March 16, 2012 @ Underdogs :: Lexington KY
March 17, 2012 @ 130 Jackson :: Blacksburg VA
March 18, 2012 @ Crayola House :: Harrisonburg VA
March 19, 2012 @ Lit Lounge :: Manhattan NY
VATTNET VISKAR recently joined forces with underground music portal Cvlt Nation, who cemented the bonds between the two entities by inviting the VV camp to create an exclusive “mixtape” as part of Cvlt Nation’s ongoing Sonic Cathedrals Mixtape Series. ”. The site also recently premiered a track off of the band’s upcoming Broken Limbs Recordings debut (stream it HERE).
“When you hear VATTNET VISKAR’s music, you realize that something is special about this band…” - Cvlt Nation
Listen/download this eclectic musical document here: http://www.cvltnation.com/sonic-cathedrals-vol-xxxvicurated-by-vattnet-viskar
AUTHOR & PUNISHER and Seventh Rule Recordings Align to Bring You ‘Ursus Americanus’
Seventh Rule Recordings are proud to announce the latest signing to their eclectic roster, San Diego’s AUTHOR & PUNISHER. Iconoclastic in the truest sense of the word, Tristan Shone, the sole propagator behind this haunting, claustrophobic cacophony inverts the tenets of doom metal completely, relying on cold steel and soulless machinery to bring despondency to life. His new record, entitled ‘Ursus Americanus’, will be his first release on Seventh Rule, and is due out as digipack CD on April 24, 2012. AUTHOR & PUNISHER can be described most succinctly as “industrial doom,” but of course, is much than a mere genre tag. This one-man project utilizes primarily custom designed and fabricated machines and speakers, devices that draw heavily on aspects of industrial automation and robotics and focus upon the eroticism of interaction with machine. The machines are designed to require significant force from the performer, aligning he or she with the plodding doom influenced sounds that are created - ”Like Godflesh meets The Bug meets Flying Lotus,” according to MSN Metal’s Adrien Begrand. AUTHOR & PUNISHER has performed with and shown these machines extensively at festivals and exhibitions in the United States and abroad, and has more live actions planned for 2012. Watch Shone work via Decibel Magazine’s website: http://www.decibelmagazine.com/featured/metal-machine-music/ Wired feature on Shone’s machines: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/11/st_obsessed_machines/ DISCOGRAPHY 2012 - URSUS AMERICANUS 2010 - DRONE MACHINES 2007 - WARCRY 2005 - THE PAINTED ARMY PAST WORDS OF PRAISE “An ultra-intense blast of industrial metal performed by enslaved heavy machinery, and at it’s most intense, sounds like a symphony of hellish steel presses and tank-tread drum machine rhythms…” -Crucial Blast “Shone wisely uses electronics to not only add melody, but just as often, to provide warped discordance. What makes this style work is the artist’s ability to convey that to the listener a sense of mechanical manifestations of psychological wildfires, and contrast the cold and clinical aesthetic of the instrumentation with a bitter, passionate voice; and Shone’s delivery is confident, intense, and impressive” - Metal Review “..If you’ve ever wondered what it must be like to inhabit the deepest depths of Hell—the underworld’s boiler room, where pedophile priests shovel serial killer brains into the burner to keep Hell’s gears moving at a steady pace—then listen to Drone Machines.” San Diego Citybeat
“The music becomes more than a chunk of industrial metal, it becomes a heaving metallic monster MADE from industrial metal, the various gears and servos emitting strange buzzes and whirrs, its thunderous footsteps the booming beat, the speaker rattling low end it’s guttural growl, and the howling vox, the man that commands this beast, and instructs it to do his bidding, a futuristic steampunk, post industrial robotic doom metal dirge, that we just can’t get enough of!” - Aquarius Records LINKS:
Blackened Doom Visionaries VATTNET VISKAR Create Exclusive Mixtape for Cvlt Nation
GHOUL Confirm Additional Dates on GWAR’s “Return of the World Maggot Tour,” Release Limited Edition Flexi
Creepsylvania’s thrash-obsessed masked merauders, GHOUL, will be continuing their mammoth US trek with GWAR with an additional round of live assaults. Joined by prog-doomsters KYLESA and LEGACY OF DISORDER. The band will be shredding through classic cuts as well as newer material from 2011’s critically acclaimed and viciously fun Transmission Zero (now available on CD/LP/digitally from Tankcrimes).
In addition, GHOUL will be offering up a special treat for fans of sweet tunes and weird formats - a limited edition foil-stamped flexi, available only from the band themselves and their cohorts at Tankcrimes. Digestor smirks, “We did a cover of “Kids in America” by Kim Wylde, and it was recorded by a dude named Casey Westrope, or at least that’s what it looks like his drivers license says. It’s hard to read what with all the blood. Our version is about being trapped in the doldrums of everyday life in the catacombs and dreaming of escaping to America to savagely murder our fans. I’m happy to say we’ll soon see the dream become reality.”
The “Return of the World Maggot” tour kicks off in Richmond, VA on March 16th, 2012 with a special tribute show to benefit the family of GWAR’s Cory Smoot, AKA Flattus Maximus, who recently passed away. All proceeds from the Richmond show will benefit the “Smoot Family Fund.” The first leg of the tour will feature RVA thrash titans MUNICIPAL WASTE as direct support for fellow Richmond metal legends GWAR, with KYLESA taking their place later on.
All GHOUL dates are below, get ready to rage!
GHOUL W/ GWAR, Municipal Waste, Legacy of Disorder 3/16: Richmond, VA @ The National - TICKETS 3/17: Millvale, PA @ Mr. Smalls - TICKETS 3/18: Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom - TICKETS 3/20: Boston, MA @ Wilbur Theater - TICKETS 3/21: So. Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground - TICKETS 3/22: Syracuse, NY @ Westcott Theater - TICKETS 3/23: Toledo, OH @ Headliners - TICKETS 3/24: Lexington, KY @ Buster’s Billiards and Backroom - TICKETS 3/25: Joliet, IL @ Mojoes - TICKETS 3/26: Madison, WI @ Majestic Theater - TICKETS 3/27: Des Moines, IA @ People’s Court - TICKETS 3/28: Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom - TICKETS 3/30: Lincoln, NE @ Bourbon Theater - TICKETS 3/31: Boulder, CO @ Fox Theater - TICKETS 4/1: Grand Junction, CO @ Mesa Theater & Club - TICKETS 4/2: Flagstaff, AZ @ Orpheum Theater - TICKETS 4/3: San Diego, CA @ House Of Blues - TICKETS 4/4: Ventura, CA @ Majestic Ventura Theater - TICKETS 4/5: Chico, CA @ Senator Theater - TICKETS 4/6: San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom - TICKETS 4/7: Reno, NV @ Knitting Factory - TICKETS 4/9: Las Vegas, NV @ Hard Rock Café - TICKETS 4/10: Magna, UT @ The Great Salt Air - TICKETS 4/11: Ft. Collins, CO @ Aggie Theater - TICKETS GHOUL W/ GWAR, Kylesa, Legacy of Disorder 4/13: San Antonio, TX @ Backstage Live 4/14: Corpus Christi, TX @ House of Rock 4/16: Pensacola, FL @ Vinyl Music Hall 4/17: Orlando, FL @ Beacham Theater 4/18: Jacksonville, FL @ Free Bird Live 4/19: Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel 4/20: N. Myrtle Beach, SC @ House of Blues SC 4/21: Baltimore, MD @ Sonar 4/22: Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall 4/23: Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works 4/25: Buffalo, NY @ The Town Ballroom 4/27: Hampton Beach, NH @ Wally’s Pub 4/28: Allentown, PA @ Crocodile Rock Transmission Zero was recorded by Sal Reya at Earhammer Studios in Oakland, CA, and features eleven ripping tracks of GHOUL’s trademark death-thrashing crossover mayhem. Extreme Responses’ James Hoare praised it as “superbly anachronistic stuff - all fist-pumpingly punkish, up-tempo grinding crossover thrash, with Carcass-bothering high vocals and Massacre-like slab-battering lows,” while FEARnet raved, “When the worlds of thrash, punk, surf, death and hardcore collide with such insane force, there’s a risk that the resulting explosion will be too much to handle… but not so for GHOUL, whose knack for pitch-black humor, clever lyrical storytelling (this is a concept album, after all) and solid hooks succeeds in stitching the scattered material together into a hulking altered beast.” In conspiracy with Metal Injection, GHOUL unleashed a ridiculously awesome new animated music video (created by Agalloch/Worm Ouroboros drummer Aesop Dekker and his sonThe Crud Wizard). Check it out here: http://www.metalinjection.net/tv/view/7695/ghoul-metallicus-ex-mortis-video-premiere
**GET IN TOUCH with Kim Kelly at Catharsis PR for interviews, review materials, guest list, and all other media inquiries concerning GHOUL and TANKCRIMES. THRASH ‘TIL DEATH!**
Cvlt Nation Hosting Exclusive Profane Existence Mixtape
Underground champions Cvlt Nation asked anarcho-punk legends Profane Existence Records to put together an online mixtape of past and present artists, and the result is currently streaming on the Cvlt Nation website. The mix features tracks from several current and upcoming releases as well as vintage tracks; check it out (and download the whole thing for free!) here: http://www.cvltnation.com/cvlt-nation-mixtapecurated-by-profane-existence/
CVLT Nation Mixtape Curated By PROFANE EXISTENCE
TRACK LIST:
1. Appalachian Terror Unit – Black Sands (Black Sands 7″)
2. In Defence – Reinventing Rob Halford (Party Lines & Politics LP)
3. Dresden – Extinguish The Cross (Extinguish The Cross 7″)
4. No Tomorrow – Machines (No Tomorrow/Oiltanker split LP)
5. Against Empire – Thieves & Leeches (Thieves & Leeches LP)
6. Wartorn – Overdose (Aftermath Discography CD)
7. State Of Fear – Shroud (s/t 7″)
8. Varix – Lost Convictions (Welcome To Minneapolis 7″)
9. Police Bastard – The Lie (Police Bastard / War//Plague split LP)
10. War//Plague – Scene Not Heard (Police Bastard / War//Plague split LP)
11. Kontrasekt – Wasteland (Welcome To Minneapolis 7″)
12. Cognitive Dissonance – Reality? (Welcome To Minneapolis 7″)
13. Oiltanker – Blind (No Tomorrow/Oiltanker split LP)
14. Oi Polloi – Systeemin Orja (ATU/Oi Polloi split 7″)
15. Resist – Another Day In Paradise (s/t 7″)
16. Appalachian Terror Unit – Judgemental, ignorant, Stupid and Blind (ATU/Oi Polloi split 7″)
17. Against Empire – Another Mouth To Feed (Thieves & Leeches LP)
18. In Defence – Black Metal Mania (PartyLines & Politics LP)
19. Disrespect – Rich Kid (out of print first 7″)
20. Appalachian Terror Unit – The End of Complacency (w/sample… internet release only)
21. Agrimonia – Cyst (Host of the Winged CD)
Profane Existence has been one of the linchpins of the underground music community since 1987, formed as a DIY distribution service to distribute music, literature, print and gear produced by and for the punk, hardcore, metal and related underground music community. Over the years, PE grew to encompass a record label and internationally beloved print zine as well, and have collaborated with the legendary likes of AMEBIX, DOOM, MISERY, RESISTANT CULTURE, WARCOLLAPSE, APPALACHIAN TERROR UNIT, IN DEFENCE, and scores more.
now available:
AGAINST EMPIRE - Thieves and Leeches LP
APPALACHIAN TERROR UNIT / OI POLLOI - split 7”
IN DEFENCE - Party Lines & Politics” CD/LP (also available on cdbaby.com)
POLICE BASTARD / WAR//PLAGUE - split LP
RESIST - s/t 7”
upcoming:
APPALACHIAN TERROR UNIT - Black Sands 7”
DRESDEN - Extinguish The Cross 7”
IN DEFENCE - Don’t Know How To Breakdance LP
STATE OF FEAR - s/t 7”
V/A WELCOME TO MINNEAPOLIS 7” Scene Compilation (featuring In Defence, Varix, Ponx Attax, Kontrasekt, Cognitive Dissonance and Favella Rising)
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PROFANE EXISTENCE…MAKING PUNK A THREAT AGAIN
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