July 22, 2016

STEVE VON TILL TO PERFORM TWO SOLO SHOWS AROUND THE UPCOMING NEUROSIS EUROPEAN TOUR

Neurosis guitarist/vocalist and Neurot Recordings founder, Steve Von Till will perform two solo shows bookending the recently announced Neurosis European summer dates. This willll include a show in Prague, and a solo show in Porto as part of Amplifest. Audiences can expect to hear material from his latest solo album, the immense and celestial, A Life Unto Itself, as well as other gems from his solo back catalogue.

[Photo Credit: Niela Von Till]


STEVE VON TILL SOLO DATES:


09.08.2016 – CZ, Prague – 007
22.08.2016 – PT, Porto – Amplifest, Passos Manuel


NEUROSIS LIVE DATES:

10.08.2016 – CZ, Jaromer, Brutal Assault Festival (with Tesa)
11.08.2016 – IT, Brescia, Festa Radio Onda D’Urto (with Tesa)
12.08.2016 – CH, Le Locle, Rock Altitude Festival (with Tesa)
13.08.2016 – NO, Oslo, Oya Festival
14.08.2016 – AT, Vienna, Arena (with Tesa & Ufomammut)
15.08.2016 – GER, Leipzig, UT Connewitz (with Tesa)
16.08.2016 – GER, Hamburg, Gruenspan (with Tesa)
17.08.2016 – NL, Haarlem, Patronaat (with Tesa)
18.08.2016 – BE, Hasselt– Pukkelpop Festival
19.08.2016 – GER, Karlsruhe, Substage (with Tesa)
20.08.2016 – FR, St. Nolff – Motocultor Festival
21.08.2016 – PT, Porto – Amplifest (with Tesa)


Fires Within Fires is the eleventh full length from Neurosis, which will see the light of day via Neurot Recordings on 23rd September.




July 18, 2016

KOWLOON WALLED CITY DEBUT EUROPEAN TOUR SUPPORTING MINSK APPROACHING THIS AUGUST

[Photo Credit: Josh Martines]


Soon to be touring in Europe for the very first time are Kowloon Walled City, radical reworkers of sludge and post-hardcore, supporting atmospheric metal masters Minsk. Their debut European tour takes in 12 countries and includes a performance at Porto’s esteemed Amplifest. This is an excellent chance to witness a band who, over the last decade, have refined their sound to a powerful zenith. Last year, they released the terrific album Grievances via Neurot Recordings (CD) and Gilead Media (LP).

Hear Kowloon Walled City honing in on their sparse, melancholic detuned heaviness on Grievances via their bandcamp. All dates, including new additions, can be found below:


KOWLOON WALLED CITY / MINSK TOUR DATES:


16.08 Antwerp Belgium @ Kavka
17.08 Paris France @ La Mécanique Ondulatoire
18.08 Toulouse France @ La Saint Des Seins
19.08 Avilés Spain @ Malecón
20.08 Porto Portugal @ Amplifest
22.08 Madrid Spain @ Arena
23.08 Barcelona Spain @ Kasal de Roquetes
24.08 Montpellier France @ Black Sheep
25.08 Misano Adriatico Italy @ Wave
26.08 Winterthur Switzerland @ Gaswerk
27.08 Leipzig Germany @ Bermuda Dreieck
28.08 Poznan Poland @ U Bazyla
29.08 Berlin Germany @ Musik & Frieden
30.08 Hamburg Germany @ Hafenklang
31.08 Gothenburg Sweden @ 128:A
01.09 Copenhagen Denmark @ KB18
02.09 Tilburg Holland @ Little Devil
03.09 London UK @ Underworld




Grievances is available on CD, LP, Digital and T-Shirt bundles at THIS LOCATION


"One of this year's true masterpieces." - ROCK A ROLLA 

"Grievances manifests its majesty in mounting despair: once your ears attune to its rewarding subtleties, the emotional rush begins to border on the epic. Manna from heaven for anyone who’s ever entertained the idea of Slint, Floor and Twelve Hour Turn locked in a glaring contest; beautifully bleak heaviosity for everyone else." - THE SKINNY

"The entire album is an eloquent and heartfelt rumination and, despite Evans’ assertion that “all of your voices are like silhouettes”, Grievances proves that it is possible to make your voice heard, and do so with real vigour." - MUSIC OMH

"A stunning record – big, clean guitars, used as knives, not hammers, over a vicious bass bite and drums that hang and resound, full of anticipation, tension and release.... And what’s most impressive is how the riffs all feel purposeful in an emotional and narrative sense. They evolve, twist and push the songs forward. They’re beautiful, brittle and brutal all at the same time." -THE LIST







July 12, 2016

Neurot Recordings Deep Cut #3: Final - 3

With the DEEP CUTS series, Neurot Recordings revisits the depths of our catalog, heralding the obscure, occasionally unsung and indisputably influential artists that we have had the honor of releasing. Our hope is to bring attention to the influential works that we have helped bring into the world. We believe these releases make up the core of who we are as a label.


DEEP CUTS #3
NR042
RELEASED: 2006

Justin Broadrick is one of those rare humans out there in the world that seems to be driven by the exploration of sound, with a similarly-evolving trajectory in art and music that we have. When we first met, we had both been around long enough to carve our own unique marks in the sonic landscape. Neurosis was, in part, inspired by Godflesh and the way they changed the sound of heavy music forever. As much as we found the need to deconstruct our rock band format and distill sound into its pure essence, Justin - alongside Diarmuid Dalton - seemed to be doing the same with his project, FINAL. In the first years of Neurot when we actually made the decision to release music other than our own, thus curating our own brotherhood of sound, Justin was one of the first people we wanted to work with.

In 2006, we finally got that chance, releasing Broadrick and Dalton’s FINAL: 3. It is a contemplative journey of hidden melody in a dreamlike haze: sonic cloud-like shapes, dissolving and reforming with an uplifting bliss. We’re proud to have had a hand in seeing it come to life. — Steve Von Till

July 5, 2016

NEUROSIS: MORE ALBUM DETAILS EMERGE AND ARTWORK IS REVEALED FOR THEIR ELEVENTH OPUS, FIRES WITHIN FIRES

[Photo Credit: Scott Evans]

Of all that humankind has inherited through our ancestry, no single language has transcended every age as powerfully as music. For thirty years, NEUROSIS have formed an unbreakable union, channelling that inheritance of sound with great command and authority. Showing their discontent with convention from the very beginning, NEUROSIS revealed what would become an instinct for transformation in sound and scope. Their sound has become interchangeable with vision of the conscious and unconscious, coexisting in an infinite audial spectrum. A vision that challenged not only the constraints of what listeners, and indeed the band themselves expected, but of themselves as beings. Going beyond the remarkable, NEUROSIS have become unforgettable.

The journey of their music has found the band relishing the unpredictable, embracing the unknown and exploring the possibility of where the music was capable of taking them. This year finds NEUROSIS taking a dominant leap with their eleventh full-length, Fires Within Fires.Three decades in the making, and following 2012's Honor Found In Decay, the album is a testament both to the history and future of NEUROSIS. In true Ouroborean style, Fires Within Fires gives due to its predecessors while progressing forward into the unfamiliar and formidable. Striking the band's signature balance between light and dark, beauty and repulsion, dense sonic heaviness and reflective space. Fires Within Fires is succinct, raw and deeply soulful, an all-encompassing reminder to all that transfiguration in sound remains their most commanding and inimitable strength.

Created by Scott Kelly, Steve Von Till, Jason Roeder, Noah Landis, and Dave Edwardson. The album features exquisite album artwork from the renowned Thomas Hooper and the stellar recording work of the group's longstanding engineer Steve Albini. We are proud to reveal the artwork and track listing for the album below...




TRACK LIST
1. Bending Light
2. A Shadow Memory
3. Fire is the End Lesson
4. Broken Ground
5. Reach

Fires Within Fires is the next powerful step towards a destination that has long been and continues to be the very heart of "becoming" for Neurosis.

Neurot Recordings will release the album on September 23rd worldwide, more information on pre-orders very soon. In the meantime, here's where you can experience NEUROSIS live in the near future, including some newly added Steve Von Till solo shows...


NEUROSIS LIVE DATES: 

10.08.2016 - CZ, Jaromer, Brutal Assault Festival (with Tesa)
11.08.2016 - IT, Brescia, Festa Radio Onda D’Urto (with Tesa)
12.08.2016 - CH, Le Locle, Rock Altitude Festival (with Tesa)
13.08.2016 - NO, Oslo, Oya Festival
14.08.2016 - AT, Vienna, Arena (with Tesa & Ufomammut)
15.08.2016 - GER, Leipzig, UT Connewitz (with Tesa)
16.08.2016 - GER, Hamburg, Gruenspan (with Tesa)
17.08.2016 - NL, Haarlem, Patronaat (with Tesa)
18.08.2016 - BE, Hasselt– Pukkelpop Festival19.08.2016 - GER, Karlsruhe, Substage (with Tesa)
20.08.2016 - FR, St. Nolff - Motocultor Festival
21.08.2016 - PT, Porto - Amplifest (with Tesa)

STEVE VON TILL SOLO DATES:
09.08.2016 - CZ, Prag – 007
22.08.2016 - PT, Porto – Amplifest, Passos Manuel



(words adapted from original bio written by Jonathan Dick)





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