April 22, 2016

MIRRORS FOR PSYCHIC WARFARE: Debut Album of Neurosis' Scott Kelly and Buried at Sea's Sanford Parker OUT NOW

Photo Credit: John Sturdy
The self-titled debut album from MIRRORS FOR PSYCHIC WARFARE, a collaboration between Neurosis’ Scott Kelly and Buried at Sea’s Sanford Parker, is now available through the Neurot Recordings Store.

Purchase Mirrors for Psychic Warfare CDs, LPs and digital downloads HERE.



The band’s album is also streaming in its entirety via Revolver Magazine. Listen HERE.

The five songs that comprise Mirrors For Psychic Warfare lurch and pulsate across a sullen, desolate landscape with an almost curious obsessiveness. And while Mirrors For Psychic Warfare may remind some of the best work on the classic Cold Meat Industry label, there is enough familiar Kelly/Parker-isms scattered throughout to keep the album stimulating. It is a work with more in common with a fever or a fitful wraith than a record.

Mirrors For Psychic Warfare was realized and recorded by both Kelly and Parker at Actual 13 Studio and Hypercube respectively over the course of 2015. The record was mixed and mastered by Parker and is available in CD, vinyl and digital formats.

This is not the first occasion where Kelly and Parker have joined forces. The two work together in Corrections House, a project that also features the talents of Mike IX Williams of Eyehategod, and Bruce Lamont of Yakuza, and where Corrections House seem hell-bent on impersonal bludgeon and unrestrained panic, the pair’s latest project — MIRRORS FOR PSYCHIC WARFARE — is far more restrained.



April 21, 2016

MIRRORS FOR PSYCHIC WARFARE: Collaboration Between Neurosis’ Scott Kelly And Buried At Sea’s Sanford Parker Streaming In Its Entirety At Revolver; Record Out This Friday Via Neurot

Photo Credit: John Sturdy

MIRRORS FOR PSYCHIC WARFARE is the latest collaboration between Neurosis’ Scott Kelly and Buried At Sea’s Sanford Parker. The band’s unsettling, soon-to-be-issued self-titled debut is the sonic manifestation of insomnia, complete with the tossing, turning, and perennial dread that comes with facing another shabby daylight.

The five songs that comprise Mirrors For Psychic Warfare lurch and pulsate across a sullen, desolate landscape with an almost curious obsessiveness. And while Mirrors For Psychic Warfare may remind some of the best work on the classic Cold Meat Industry label, there is enough familiar Kelly/Parker-isms scattered throughout to keep the album stimulating. It is a work with more in common with a fever or a fitful wraith than a record.


In advance of its release tomorrow, April 22nd, 2016 via Neurot Recordings, Revolver Magazine offers up the record in all its disquieting glory at THIS LOCATION.



For Mirrors For Psychic Warfare CD, LP & Digital preorders point your browser to THIS LOCATION.

Mirrors For Psychic Warfare was realized and recorded by both Kelly and Parker at Actual 13 Studio and Hypercube respectively over the course of 2015. The record was mixed and mastered by Parker and will come available in CD and vinyl form. This is not the first occasion where Kelly and Parker have joined forces. The two work together in Corrections House, a project that also features the talents of Mike IX Williams of Eyehategod, and Bruce Lamont of Yakuza, and where Corrections House seem hell-bent on impersonal bludgeon and unrestrained panic, the pair’s latest project —MIRRORS FOR PSYCHIC WARFARE — is far more restrained.

“Ambient(-esque?), but tense and brooding..” – Decibel


IDES OF GEMINI Announces New Lineup + Band To Kick Off Short Run Of Live Dates This Weekend

Photo Credit: David Lee Dailey
Following a short slumber, IDES OF GEMINI are back and ready to bring their otherworldly odes to the stage once again on a weekend run of live performances this weekend. The short trek includes an appearance at Stump Fest in Portland, Oregon and will showcase not only some brand new psalms but also an updated line up featuring drummer Scott Batiste of Saviours and bassist Adam Murray of Deth Crux alongside veteran IDES man, guitarist J. Bennett, and vocalist Sera Timms .

“These gentlemen are top-notch players and wicked handsome to boot,” issues Bennett of the new cast. “We’ll be breaking in the new lineup with a handful of West Coast shows with Saviours this month, during which we’ll be debuting some new songs.”

Additionally, the band will make an appearance at Psycho Vegas this August in Las Vegas, Nevada with more live rituals to be announced in the not so distant future. Stand by

IDES OF GEMINI: 
4/22/2016 The Chapel – San Francisco, CA
4/23/2016 Stump Fest – Portland, OR
4/24/2016 Starlite Lounge – Sacramento, CA
8/26-28/2016 Psycho Vegas – Las Vegas, NV

IDES OF GEMINI released their critically-hailed, Chris Rakestraw (Danzig)-produced Old World New Wave full-length in 2014 via Neurot Recordings as well as a special, limited Carthage/Strange Fruit seven-inch via Magic Bullet last year.

IDES OF GEMINI‘s Old World New Wave is available on CD and digitally via Neurot Recordings and on vinyl via SIGE Records.


For CD orders, point your browser HERE and for T-shirt bundles, point your browser to THIS LOCATION. 

The seven-inch is currently available on limited black and clear wax at THIS LOCATION

Desirers of the digitals visit Magic Bullet’s BandCamp page HERE or iTunes HERE.

“A stark blend of black metal-derived guitar riffs, rigid, martial beats, and the haunting, gothic vocal harmonies… this album washes over the listener, feeling simultaneously comforting and unsettling.” – Decibel

“…the pure, sonic power of these songs… will knock you off your feet.” – Soundblab

“IDES OF GEMINI has a knack… for creating a world of sound and inviting the listener in. Their music has the feel of a classic horror film: all psychology, no fake blood or cheap startles. If there’s a goth revival afoot in metal culture… then IDES OF GEMINI is among its most evocative front-runners.” – Invisible Oranges



April 12, 2016

ALARIC: Dark Punk Conjurors Premiere New Track At Invisible Oranges; End Of Mirrors Preorders Available

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End Of Mirrors is the forthcoming full-length from Oakland-based dark punk conjurors ALARIC. Set for global release on May 6, 2016 on CD, vinyl, and digitally via Neurot Recordings, and on cassette via Sentient Ruin Laboratories, the record was captured and mixed by Skot Brown at Kempton House Studios and provides an emotional and deeply physical journey through inky, blackened sonic murk, devoid of all hope. Oppressive, gloomy, and epically grandiose, each of the seven psalms comprising End Of Mirrors is at once beautiful and unsettling.

As a precursor to its release, today Invisible Oranges offers up third movement, “Mirrors” for communal ingestion noting, "Though they boast Russ ‘Mr. Hate’ Kent of Noothgrush fame, ALARIC is not the type of metal band you would normally find on this website—or a metal band at all, for that matter. Though definitely doomed in their own unique way, ALARIC is a post-punk band at their core, but End Of Mirrors is no Mesh & Lace goth club party anthem. Maintaining a sluggish tribal beat for the majority, ‘Mirrors’ reaches the lowest levels of despondency – psychedelic, woozy, and cold – before reaching a rabid and aggressive conclusion. The groundwork set by bassist Rick Jacobus and drummer Jason Willer meld the simplicity of a strong, locked-in rhythm with enough space for their own tasteful finesse, be it a brief, memorable cymbal flourish or a room-filling sympathetic drone. Kent’s shimmering, sharp guitar work maintains a cutting fuzz, countering Willer and Jacobus’s rich, smooth sound and creates a striking melodic counterpoint with Shane Baker’s distinctly groaning voice. Though I had previously asserted that ALARIC had achieved their peak with their contribution to their 2012 split with fellow gloomers Atriarch, ‘Mirrors’ sets the bar higher. ALARIC is night music for aging punks – the sound of the last call at an emptied, dimly lit bar slowly purging its last denizens. To quote a song from a previous Alaric release, ‘the sadness goes on,’ and it certainly does.”


Delve deep into “Mirrors,” now playing at Invisible Oranges at THIS LOCATION.




And if you missed it, sample “Angel,” still streaming at Cvlt Nation, at THIS LOCATION.

For various End Of Mirrors preorder bundles go HERE.

ALARIC -- featuring within its ranks current and former members Of Dead And Gone, Pins Of Light, Noothgrush, Hedersleben and UK Subs -- began their voyage in 2008 with an eye toward creating moody and compelling music unlike any other. Beginning with influences from such progenitors as Killing Joke and Christian Death to the darkest, heaviest punk bands and the most epic psychedelia, the band has dedicated itself to creating a singularly shadowy electric guitar-driven music. ALARIC’s previous releases include a debut single Animal/Shadow Of Life (FYBS/ Buried In Hell Records, 2010), a self-titled LP (20 Buck Spin, 2011) and a split 12” LP, with Atriarch (20 Buck Spin, 2012). ALARIC, who recently opened for Neurosis on one of their three special thirtieth anniversary shows in San Francisco earlier this month, completed a full European tour with Cross Stitched Eyes last Fall and are currently plotting live assaults in support of End Of Mirrors.

“…a deathrock opera that brilliantly sews together the dusky emotivity of Bauhaus and Christian Death, the punishing and bleak atmospheres of Killing Joke and of the heaviest punk bands, and the desolate and hopeless atmospheres of the most crippling doom.” – Cvlt Nation






April 8, 2016

NEUROSIS ANNOUNCE FURTHER EUROPEAN SHOWS THIS SUMMER

[Photo credit: Scott Evans]

Following their monumental milestone 30 year anniversary shows in San Francisco NEUROSIS reveal more live shows in summer. The new dates are listed below with an asterisk (*), along with those previously announced. More dates to be revealed soon...

NEUROSIS LIVE DATES: 

04/15/2015 - NL, Tilburg - Hat Patronaat *STEVE VON TILL and SCOTT KELLY solo performances

04/16/2016 - NL, Tilburg 013 - Roadburn Festival - 30th Anniversary Performance

04/17/2016 - NL, Tilburg 013 - Roadburn Festival - 30th Anniversary Performance

* 08/10/2016, CZ - Jaromer, Brutal Assault Festival

08/11/2016 - IT, Brescia - Festa Radio Onda D'Urto

* 08/12/2016, CH - Le Locle, Rock Altitude Festival

08/13/2016 - NO, Oslo - Oya Festival

* 08/14/2016, AT - Vienna, Arena (with Tesa & Ufomammut)

* 08/15/2016, GER - Leipzig, UT Connewitz

* 08/17/2016, NL - Haarlem, Patronaat

* 08/18/2016, BE– Hasselt– Pukkelpop Festival 

08/20/2016 - FR, St. Nolff - Motocultor Festival

08/21/2016 - PT, Porto - Amplifest

New album details will be revealed in the coming months. 





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