Some new pics from Hali McGrath are up now at livedaily.com

and shit, even more pics from the night are here on Ol' Hali's website

contorted blasts of string strangulation.

drifting slabs of icy ambience.

martial drums plodding forth from the center of dead planets.

the clanking cacophony of the processional denizens of the graves of the earth.

gurgling howls choked from the depths of bottomless oceans.

torrential clouds of buzzing locusts to shroud the skies in blackened waves.


these are the contents of the tome known as "krach", crafted by the KVLT of NIHILL.

originally released by monumentum records in europe, now set for a domestic release via hydra head in september 2008. "krach" is the first installment in a trilogy, the 2nd and 3rd parts of which have just been completed, and which will also be unleashed via hydra head in 2008/2009. to taste the fury that will soon be wrought upon your cowering crown go here .

.... "sailing the stinking black waters of transfiguration"....

"To any and all interested, Helms Alee will be embarking on our first tour this coming July '08. Plans are to lay waste to the entire west coast of the united states in a week's time. The tentative dates are....

WED July 16 - Portland, Or
THU July 17 - Or/NorCal
FRI July 18 - Bay area
SAT July 19 - Los Angelos area
SUN July 20 - San Diego
MON July 21 - southern california
TUE July 22 - bay area
WED July 23 - Or/norCal

As you can see, this is all unsettled so if anyone would like to help with a show, please bring it!

-Helms Alee"


Helms Alee new album Night Terror is scheduled for release on August 5th. You can hit up their Myspace for further info
www.myspace.com/helmsaleemusic

In the words of Metallica featuring Ja Rule, "Yeah, We Did It". Pelican were the overwhelming winner of the vote on the Headbangers Ball Blog and as a result the video for Dead Between The Walls will be aired again on this coming weekends Headbangers Ball. The entire free world is a better place thanks to your votes.

Your Vote Counts: Ballot Stuffers Put Pelican in Pole Position For Return Trip to Saturday’s Headbangers Ball

5/30 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop *
5/31 Chicago, IL @ Subterranean *
6/1 Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club *
6/3 Iowa City, IA @ Picador
6/4 St Louis, MO @ Bluebird Theater
6/5 Kansas City, MO @ The Riot Room
6/6 Denver, CO @ Marquis
6/7 Salt Lake City, UT @ Burt's Tiki Lounge
6/8 Boise, ID @ Neurolux
6/9 Seattle, WA @ Neumos
6/10 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
6/11 Chico, CA @ Cafe Coda
6/12 San Francisco, CA @ Slims
6/14 Pomona, CA @ The Glasshouse
6/15 Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour
6/16 San Diego, CA @ The Casbah
6/18 Phoenix, AZ @ The Clubhouse
6/20 Austin, TX @ Red 7
6/21 Ft Worth, TX @ Lolas
6/22 Houston, TX @ Rudyards
6/23 Baton Rouge, LA @ Spanish Moon
6/24 Birmingham, AL @ Bottle Tree
6/25 Atlanta, GA @ The Drunken Unicorn
6/26 Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
6/27 Wilmington, DE @ Harmony Grange
6/28 Cambridge, MA @ Middle East Upstairs
6/29 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
6/30 Baltimore, MD @ The Ottobar
7/1 Buffalo, NY @ Mohawk Place

* - Daughters Only

myspace.com/daughters1

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Album Stream: www.stovebredsky.com

We’re not exactly sure how he does it, but he’s done it again. Our man Stove Bredsky (a.k.a. Stovetop Bredsky, a.k.a. Steev Brawdski, a.k.a. Steve Brodsky) cranks out the sweet tunes like one of those Play-Doh confetti makers cranks out multicolored string-turds. Luckily, Bredsky’s shit won’t get stuck under your fingernails—it’ll just ping-pong around in your skull for a coupla years, during which time our man will have sawed off another 15 albums’ worth of infectious pop-rock delights.

This time, Brodsky has awarded himself The Black Ribbon Award for various questionable behaviors, the nature of which should remain unspoken—at least here, and by us. Fast on the shit-hot heels of last year’s catchy-as-fuck Pet Genius long-player, Brodsky has returned to his signature one-man band format, recording 18 tracks of melancholy melodiousness at Club Awesome in Somerville, MA.

The songs within were all originally written back in the ’90s, when Brodsky was piloting the almighty, ever-morphing Cave In through the thankless stream of commerce. Seriously, the vocal harmonies on this one are enough to make a grown man (read: us) weep.

Stove Bredsky Live:
May 24 2008 Relapse Records - Philly, Pennsylvania
May 25 2008 Generation Records - New York City, New York
May 30 2008 The Loft - Somerville, Massachusetts

Wanted: people capable of taking orders, filling drawers, removing things from said drawers, filling them again, and then taking more orders. Hydrahead wants you, the lonely, broke student to be our new intern. Live your life vicariously through us and get abused mentally by a man that looks somewhat like this:


If you think you can hang with the big dogs*, please contact Rachael, the alpha female, at rachael@hydrahead.com






* We know this line is stupid, we are just posting it to push Mark's buttons.

MTV has granted a rare opportunity (as far as I know) for people to vote the videos they liked from last week's Headbanger's Ball on next week's show. As you may or may not know PELICAN's video for "Dead Between the Walls" premiered on the show last week and is in the running to be shown again.

Help us get this puppy back on MTV.

Being on tour Pelican had no access to cable TV when it came on this past weekend and have no idea what it's like to see their own video shown on the Ball - grant them the opportunity one more time!

The link for voting is HERE.

And many apologies to non-US interneters who have not been able to view the video. For some reason videos hosted on MTV's website are not viewable internationally.


THANKS!!!!!

CLICK HERE to pre-order

Starting now you'll be able to order the new Harvey Milk album along with a t-shirt, long-sleeved t-shirt, and/or hoodie featuring a life-affirming design that will show the world just how much you <3 life. Order quickly, 'cause after May 27th the hoodie, t-shirt and/or long-sleeve t deal will be an offer of the past. The t-shirt will be available for purchase on the HHR online shoppe again, but not for a while, and life is too short to sit around waiting for another chance at a Harvey Milk shirt.

Track Listing:

1. Death Goes to the Winner
2. Decades
3. After All I've Done For You, This Is How You Repay Me?
4. Skull Sock and Rope Shoes
5. We Destroy the Family
6. Motown
7. A Maelstrom of Bad Decisions
8. Roses
9. Barnburner
10. Goodbye Blues

After making their auspicious but notoriously underexposed debut with 1994’s My Love Is Higher Than Your Assessment Of What My Love Could Be, Athens (GA) dirge lords Harvey Milk recorded two more full-lengths (1995’s Courtesy And Good Will Towards Men and 1997’s The Pleaser) before going tits up in 1998 in a fit of nuptials and child-rearing.

Reintroduced to the underground at large through reissues, live DVDs and whatnot, The Milk reformed to unleash Special Wishes upon the feverishly lactating public, which has been lactating feverishly ever since. Which is to say that the Milk — as they themselves like to say—have “not” been “canceled due to lack of interest yet.”

Fast forward to the here and, like, now, and Harvey Milk are celebrating their own renaissance by lauding the virtues of The Best Game In Town. Spearheaded by the alternately burly and angelic vocal stylings of Milk mastermind Creston Spiers, The Best Game In Town. is both tumultuous and grueling, resonating with the glorious slow-motion radiance of Total Dirge Power. In layman’s terms: Yet another classic. Oh, and did we mention that they’ve since been joined by Thrones legend Joe Preston? Well, they totally have.

Harvey Milk Live!

U.S.
Jun 17 2008 The Earl Atlanta, Georgia w/ Pride Parade and Major Stars
Jun 18 2008 The Milestone Charlotte, North Carolina w/ Pride Parade and Major Stars
Jun 19 2008 Canal Club Richmond, Virginia w/ Clouds
Jun 20 2008 Knitting Factory NYC, New York w/ Growing, Clouds, Bloody Panda
Jun 21 2008 Great Scott Boston, Massachusetts w/ Clouds and 27
Jun 22 2008 The Elevens Northampton, Massachusetts
Jun 23 2008 Europa Brooklyn, New York w/ Growing and Clouds
Jun 24 2008 Johnny Brenda’s Philadelphia, Pennsylvania w/ Clouds
Jun 25 2008 Otto Bar Baltimore, Maryland w/ Dianogah and Clouds
Jun 26 2008 Soapbox Wilmington, North Carolina
Jun 27 2008 40 Watt Athens, Georgia w/ Pride Parade
Jun 28 2008 Bottle Tree Birmingham, Alabama w/ Pride Parade

Europe w/ Oxbow!
Jul 7 2008 Club Schocken Stuttgart
Jul 8 2008 Festaal Kreuzberg Berlin
Jul 9 2008 Hafenklang Hamburg
Jul 10 2008 Worm Rotterdam
Jul 11 2008 Recyclart Brussels
Jul 12 2008 Supersonic Festival Birmingham
Jul 13 2008 Glasgow Stereo / ABC 2
Jul 14 2008 The Ruby Lounge Manchester
Jul 15 2008 Underworld London
Jul 16 2008 La Maroquinerie Paris
Jul 17 2008 FZW Dortmund
Jul 18 2008 Dour Festival Dour

For more information, visit:
www.myspace.com/harveymilk

Our Ebay store is temporarily on vacation but will be back up and running sometime next week!

Our man from Ocrilim, Mick Barr, has just been named one of the 50 fastest guitar players of all time according to the new issue of Guitar World. Here's what they had to say about him in case you can't read the tiny type in the jpeg above:

"He may look like some geek from a Tolkien fest who has an unhealthy obsession with Gollum, but precious few players can match Mick Barr's intensity and speed, which has reportedly been clocked at up to 24 notes per second. The music the Barr records under pseudonyms Octis, Ocrilim, and Orthrelm is challenging."

No shit.

Mick was listed between Trey Azagthoth (Morbid Angel) and some guy named Michael Angelo Batio, which is pretty sweet. Congrats Mick! Ocrilim will be hittin' the road soon so catch him if you can - he's lightnin' fast!

When Headbangers Ball asks for a video you give it to 'em....

Pelican's 'Dead Between The Walls' is up now...Check it

Hey guy, We have been digging through our storage spaces to put together a goody bag (or tube) of posters stickers and other random stuff we can find and for 4(sorry i thought they were going for 3 dollars but the higher ups informed me i was wrong and consider your deal that much better if you bought it within the first 2 hours haha) bucks its pretty much a big giveaway. The first 15 will be the first run and then we will continue to variate the runs with a new batch of older and recent stuff! Check out the ebaystore to get yours today.

When Laurent was an underage alcoholic he ALWAYS made sure to get home in time on Saturday nights to watch Headbangers Ball...and now he's not only got a video premiering (more on that later) on the show but they are posting about his boy chest...he'll be the first to tell you he can die a happy man now...

Check it, we've branched into Bed, Bath and Beyond territory! Now we can go public and before you know it they'll be a Hydra Head Shop in every Best Buy or Target shopping mall across the USA! Our homies at BCD went bonkers and dyed these bitches themselves...check out more of their work here....they pretty much killed it for us, we still can't believe we sold close to 25,000 of these things!

Tonight, May 5th, in the midst of their tour with Thrice and Circa Survive, Pelican will be hosting a party at Fontanas in New York City. There will be tons of drink specials as well as DJ sets by the strapping young lads in Pelican, and judging by Laurent's choice of shirts, should be quite eclectic. It starts around 7pm, see you there. Pertinate info below as well as on this snazzy flyer.

MAY 5th 2008
PELICAN DJ SET AND PARTY
WITH SPECIAL GUEST
MR. BEN FASMAN

@ FONTANAS
105 Eldridge St. NYC, NY
Starts at 7pm / 21+
TONS OF DRINK SPECIALS
www.fontanasnyc.com / www.pelicansong.com