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1. Can you tell us a little bit about the band for those that have never heard you before?
NIHILL is a Black Metal outfit from the Netherlands. We exist solemnly for the drive to create a nauseating nightmarisch atmosphere. An underworld below a most ugly material world. We are not included by any limits artisticly. We've been around for quite a couple of years but actually decided later on to release records. Currently we are working on our third record, which is the final piece of a trilogy. The first record "KRACH" is about dying, the second "GROND" is about floating in the vacuum and the final piece will be about a painfull rebirth. NIHILL hasn't performed live and has no interest in doing so.
2. What is the meaning behind the band's name?
NIHILL is the great nothingness, the emptiness, the vacuum. The great denial of everything.
3. How would you describe your musical sound?
A voyage gone bad. Trancelike riffing and monotonous rhythm. Very layered. Chaotic. Either fast or very slow. Rooted in old school black metal, but also in noise and chaos.
Also, be on the lookout for the third installment of the Nihill trilogy! (Krach & Grond being the two previous installments).
If you haven't yet picked up the latest Hayaino Daisuki CD, and you are somewhat knowledgeable of comic books. Head o'er to ComicVine.com ASAP..
Comic Vine are giving away a couple copies of the CD to the first few people who properly answer the trivia question(s)... The questions will be posted @ 1:30 Pacific Standard Time!!!Good Luck.
So, I don't think we need to discuss this new t-shirt design at length... Your clever enough to put the pieces together yourself right?... ok, so I am going to talk about something entirely unrelated and you can go ahead and open a new browser window and navigate here to purchase this soon to be classic HM t-shirt design... OK... now that I've got your attention.. It occurs to me that Lost always been a terrible show.
Watch footage from the making of "Backsliders and Apostates Will Burn" here!
10 out of 10 review for "Backsliders and Apostates Will Burn" in New Decibel Issue out now!
"This is just unbelievably innovative and catchy music. Songs stick to your ribs and repeat in your head until you snag another chance to hear them... This record, taken as four songs written by who gives a shit and recorded in nowhere USA, allows everyone who yaps about the lack of truly original music to take a couple listens and then shut the fuck up."
10 out of 10 review for "Backsliders and Apostates Will Burn" in New Decibel Issue out now!
"This is just unbelievably innovative and catchy music. Songs stick to your ribs and repeat in your head until you snag another chance to hear them... This record, taken as four songs written by who gives a shit and recorded in nowhere USA, allows everyone who yaps about the lack of truly original music to take a couple listens and then shut the fuck up."
Backsliders and Apostates CDep/12"/DataDVD Out May 5th!!
tracklisting:
1. Song 25 (4:42)
2. Song 26 (5:18)
3. Song 27 (4:05)
4. Song 29 (5:31)
The Austerity Program Live!
Friday, 4/29 - Unit 11 in Boston w/ Disappearer and Phantom Glue
Saturday, 5/1 - 17 Mules in Providence w/ Disappearer and Phantom Glue
Sunday, 5/2 - Union Pool in Brooklyn w/ Disappearer and Phantom Glue
2. Song 26 (5:18)
3. Song 27 (4:05)
4. Song 29 (5:31)
The Austerity Program Live!
Friday, 4/29 - Unit 11 in Boston w/ Disappearer and Phantom Glue
Saturday, 5/1 - 17 Mules in Providence w/ Disappearer and Phantom Glue
Sunday, 5/2 - Union Pool in Brooklyn w/ Disappearer and Phantom Glue
Nice Austerity Program feature on Noisecreep:
"Can we get a volunteer to start our drum machine?" Justin Foley asked Friday night at Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Union Pool. Unlike many other humans I've come across, Foley and bassist Thad Calabrese don't have to try to hard to be funny. Since their enlistment in the Hydra Head army in 2003, they've put out some of the most unconventional press releases this writer has ever seen.
The most recent press release was this bit from Hydra Head: "Three years after they released their debut full length, the Austerity Program are back with not even twenty minutes of music -- a four-song EP. You are not us, their label and so you have no idea how much this absolutely infuriates us. We have probably been on the phone with these guys averaging at least once a week over that time. 'Guys, guys, we have invested a lot of money in you, when are you going to come out with something?'"
The most recent press release was this bit from Hydra Head: "Three years after they released their debut full length, the Austerity Program are back with not even twenty minutes of music -- a four-song EP. You are not us, their label and so you have no idea how much this absolutely infuriates us. We have probably been on the phone with these guys averaging at least once a week over that time. 'Guys, guys, we have invested a lot of money in you, when are you going to come out with something?'"
The Kayo Dot "Coyote" CD Pre-Order has begun my friends! And if that weren't exciting enough, we are giving away free pins and stickers to all those who pre-order this thing! I dare you to tell me that you aren't inspired to affix this artfully decorated adhesive square to your hand me down chrysler... because I know you are!
Oh and don't forget about this recently launched Kayo Dot t-shirt... Printed on the American Apparel Summer Shirt... Enjoy!
Kayo Dot has entered the studio to begin recording their new EP, entitled S
tained Glass. The EP will consist of one, long composition of the same title, featuring the lineup of Coyote plus vibraphonist Russell Greenberg (Hi-Red Center, Yarn/Wire, Hunter/Gatherer). Kayo Dot will once again be recording with Jim Fogarty at Zing Studios in Westfield, MA - the man and studio behind Kayo Dot's Choirs of the Eye, Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue, Toby Driver's In The L..L..Library Loft, and maudlin of the Well's Bath, Leaving Your Body Map, and Part The Second. Additional recording will take place in various locations around the globe on portable 4-track cassette and antique 1/4" one-track reel-to-reel. The end result will be a dualistic rapport between Fogarty's super-clean, crystalline production and the intimate atmosphere of 2AM bedroom whispers. Stained Glass will be released by Hydra Head later in 2010.
* Kayo Dot's new album, Coyote, is out everywhere April 20th on Hydra Head.
Tracklist for Coyote
I. Calonyction Girl
II. Whisper Ineffable
III. Abyss Hinge 1: Sleeping Birds Sighing In Roscolux
IV. Abyss Hinge 2: The Shrinking Armature
V. Cartogram Out Of Phase
Kayo Dot Live!
4/10 @ Blot Spot Binghamton, NY
Kayo Dot plays Coyote
4/11 @ Union Pool Brooklyn, NY
Kayo Dot plays Coyote
4/12 @ Whitson Greeting Hall SUNY Purchase, NY
Kayo Dot plays Coyote
The Xasthur-"Demo 2005" 12" Pre-Order is Up and Running! This little number is limited to 5 hundo, so, again, act quick if your interested...
Heres to the Future, a brand new full-length cassette release, by our man Steve Brodsky is now available for pre-order on the Hydra Head store!!! The cassette is limited to 100 copies, so just like pretty much everything we o'er at Hydra Head produce, you might want to act quickly if you want to get your hands on one of these things.
Also, if by chance you missed the blinding red banner in the image above... until 3/23 the Coupon Code: FUTURE gets you 20% on anything Steve Brodsky related at the HH webstore... so that means anything Cave In, Octave Museum, Pet Genius, Stove Bredsky or Stephen Brodsky solo project related merchandise is 20% off!!! which is a wicked good deal if you ask me.
lastly, if your over purchasing limited physical formats and or your impatient, you can purchase the album on itunes now!
If the Pyramids With Nadja Remix 12" sold out before you got a chance to pick it up @ the Hydra Head Webstore, you are in luck! As of, lets see here, 5 minutes ago we made another 50 available! So, if your still in the market pre-order one here!
And don't forgot coupon code: EGYPT gets you 20% off of Pyramids With Nadja T-shirts on the HH Webstore through 3/23/2010!
We've been running our mouths for months...shit, almost a year actually...about how totally undeniable this 3rd Daughters album is.
The album came out on Tuesday around the globe, and now Revolver Magazine is graciously hosting a full album stream for every single one of you broke ass motherfuckers that need to hear the shit before you buy it.
If you're reading our blog then you probably like Hydra Head at least a little bit...and if you like us at least a little bit then we're ready to ask a favor of you....go give Revolver's stream of Daughters 's/t' a proper once over...and let us know what you think!
If you enjoy Pyramids with Nadja, Pyramids without Nadja, or vis-versa... then you likely want to pre-order this hand-numbered little buddy... Reasons to support the aforementioned claim are as follows:
1. Side A. is a remix of Into the Silent Waves by Lustmord!
2. Side B. is a remix of Into the Silent Waves by Ulver!
3. You couldn't possibly dream up a more awesome and appropriate pair of
remixers for a PWN track!
4. The thing is limited to 300! meaning good luck trying to find one if you don't pre-order it.
5. And remember how badass the Pyramids with Nadja record is?! if not, try it out again, or for the first time, here!
last, but not least, if you neglected to pick up a Pyramids With Nadja t-shirt during the PWN CD pre-order, we are now offering it @ a discounted rate up until the Remix 12" Pre-Order is up (Pre-Order Ends 3/23). In order to get the discount use coupon code: EGYPT when checking out!
Between 1992 and 1998, very few people outside Georgia knew about Harvey Milk. The band packed it in just after hiring a new and monstrous drummer, Kyle Spence, and just before a band could get international traction by putting a demo on myspace. I never heard Note 1.
In the following years, some of its earlier music was re-released on CD. When Harvey Milk’s music became easy to find, the band re-formed in 2006, with the original drummer, Paul Trudeau. I completely missed “Special Wishes,” the first post-reformation album. I heard “Life ... the Best Game in Town,” from 2008, with Mr. Spence back on drums, and felt nothing. I didn’t like the artless moan of Creston Spiers, the singer and guitarist. And sometimes the music — slow, rumbling, wayward — reminded me of the Melvins, who try my patience.
As you all should probably know by now (because we've been jellying it down your throats for the past month and all)... Daughters' self-titled comes out tomorrow! I don't want to have to hold your hands through this thing, but that means less than 10 hours (Pacific Standard Time) remains for you to pre-order the record on the HH web-store...
(Note: we didn't make this banner, and we aren't sure if its funny).
Also, the Daughters catalog sale that has been going on @ the HH webstore for the past couple of weeks expires at the end of the day as well.. 25% off of all non-pre-order Daughters Merch when you use the coupon code: SUGARBEAR at checkout! Make it happen
In Preparation for the release of Harvey Milk's new full-length, "A Small Turn of Human Kindness", (which we will be offering you a taste of in the near future) the band has scheduled some tour dates.. Dates listed below:
HARVEY MILK w/ Coalesce & Atlas Moth
3/5 Pittsburgh, PA @ Rex Theatre3/6 Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie
3/7 Baltimore, MD @ Otto Bar
3/8 New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge
3/9 Boston, MA @ Middle East Downstairs
3/10 Montreal, QC @ Il Motore
3/11 Toronto, ON @ Wreck Room
3/12 Hamtramck, MI @ Small's
3/13 Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
HARVEY MILK w/ Converge, Lewd Acts & Black Breath
5/27 Nashville, TN @ Rockettown
5/28 Atlanta, GA @ The Masqurade
5/27 Nashville, TN @ Rockettown
5/28 Atlanta, GA @ The Masqurade
5/29 Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle
The very essence of Harvey Milk, as exemplified by Stephen Tanner
Since Henry Owings already told us why Harvey Milk rules, we figured we’d open the floor to drummer Kyle Spence and bassist/kick-ass cook Stephen Tanner. In the following post, they give us a brutally-honest beginner’s guide to their entire discography, from the rubber-burning ZZ Top nods of The Pleaserto their “most pretentious” LP yet, this spring’s A Small Turn of Human Kindness. Our favorite line from a story that’s full of ‘em: “This record is pretty great except for the performances and the sound of all the instruments.” Oh, and this: “So fuck you. At least it’s better than Tortoise.”
Dilapidated warehouse, makeshift stage, loud-as-fuck sound system, cheap booze and weed smoke everywhere, hundreds of sweaty, crazy motherfuckers going insane as the band-members gyrate about on stage and come into the audience, because really there’s barely any separation between stage and floor. That’s what I want it to be like the first time I see post-punk / metal explosion outfit Daughters live (yes, I know they’ve been around for years). Based on this here new track “The Theatre Goer” I can tell that these dudes put on really fucking intense shows, and withthe sudden absence of These Arms are Snakes in all of our lives I really need a band to fill that void.
Daughters comes out on March 9th via Hydra Head. Pre-order it here.
"Yo, for those of you pussies that haven’t swooped Xasthur’s recently-released 2005 Demo because you are poor or stupid, we’re stoked to give you the chance to get that shit for free. The bros at HydraHead have been kind enough to run this sick “How Bummed Are You” contest with CY. All you have to do is email us and tell us how miserable you are and why. Not so hard for most of you, I’d imagine. 2 (un)lucky winners will receive the 2005 Demo 12″ EP, with 2 runners-up receiving the CD. So have at it. Let us know how shitty you feel."
Cave-In came roaring back louder than ever last year, but that doesn't mean frontman STEPHEN BRODSKY is done foraging for eclectic new solo strategies. His new Here’s to the Future (a limited release on Hydra Head) pushes the psychedelic possibilities of acoustic-guitar jangle, layering lo-fi melodies with detuned, string-buckling chords and overdriven buzz. It never sounds prettier or creepier than album highlight “Here in Spirit,” a six-minute song that introduces killer riffs, pop hooks, and jarring noise without really ever plugging in. New genre: implied metal? Get your MP3 of “Here in Spirit” below.
From Hydra Head Records (,but not really):
Three years after they released their debut full length, The Austerity Program are back with not even twenty minutes of music - a four song EP. You are not us, their label, and so you have no idea how much this absolutely infuriates us. We have probably been on the phone with these guys averaging at least once a week over that time. "Guys, guys, we have invested a LOT of money in you, when are you going to come out with something?"
And they fucking promised us like a triple LP or something. And then, three goddam years later, we get this. That's like, just over a song a year. And not a 45 minute, seven part epic song. These things are barely five minutes each. You could probably learn to play them over a long afternoon.
What the hell did we do? We run a record label - it's not like we're dumping toxic waste in playgrounds or laying off thousands of people who work in our factory or anything. This is small potatoes. So why the hell are we punished like this? And of course - of course - we're suddenly expected to drop everything because now they've got a record release show lined up and "it's very important that we have all formats available the night of the show." It's like, I...
I really don't even know what to type I'm so angry about this. I just had to walk away from the computer and get a glass of water to calm down. This is ridiculous.
What does it sound like? You tell us, man. We haven't even cracked open the reference copies because what's the point? Any schedule we made about this thing died literally years ago. If it's anything like their last record (and they claim that it is, but "so much better" - whatever, guys) it'll have a drum machine and some guitars and bass and that one guy will be singing and can I just tell you how pissed I am that I am even stuck writing this thing? Promo materials for something that the band swore up and down was going to be huge and on time. I just want to get a red marker and write "D - , SEE ME" all over the CD copy they sent us and just mail it back to them. No, even better, I want to FED EX it back to them just to make it totally obvious how screwed up they are. Four songs. Just... it's just astonishing that they really think this is their next record.
So, yeah, The Austerity Program finally took some of their precious time and now expect us to put their EP out. Screw this - I'm going to go work on reviewing the layout for the next Torche record or something.
Backsliders and Apostates Will Burn Tracklist
1. Song 25 (4:42)
2. Song 26 (5:18)
3. Song 27 (4:05)
4. Song 29 (5:31)
The Austerity Program Live!
Friday, 4/29 - Unit 11 in Boston w/ Disappearer and Phantom Glue
Saturday, 5/1 - 17 Mules in Providence w/ Disappearer and Phantom Glue
Sunday, 5/2 - Union Pool in Brooklyn w/ Disappearer and Phantom Glue
A Small Turn of Human Kindness is as dense and as heavy temperamentally as it is musically. The seven songs so subtly bleed together that the listener has no choice but to view the entire album as a linear orchestration with a singular ebb and flow.... a rising and falling action, refined to hell and back. And so, all of these things lead me to believe that any and all true HARVEY MILK fans will eventually argue this record as the band's finest work. Or at least the vinyl version will become the quintessential mantle-piece for a generation of suburban children slumming it in the inner city... you know who you are!
Tracklisting:
1. *
2. I Just Want To Go Home
3. I Am Sick of All This Too
4. I Know This Is No Place For You
5. I Alone Got Up and Left
6. I Know This Is All My Fault
7. I Did Not Call Out
Harvey Milk Live!
3/5 Pittsburgh, PA @ Rex Theatre w/ Coalesce, Atlas Moth
3/6 Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie w/ Coalesce, Atlas Moth
3/7 Baltimore, MD @ Otto Bar w/ Coalesce, Atlas Moth
3/8 New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge w/ Coalesce, Atlas Moth
3/9 Boston, MA @ Middle East Downstairs w/ Coalesce, Atlas Moth
3/10 Montreal, QC @ Il Motore w/ Coalesce, Atlas Moth
3/11 Toronto, ON @ Wreck Room w/ Coalesce, Atlas Moth
3/12 Hamtramck, MI @ Small's w/ Coalesce, Atlas Moth
3/13 Chicago, IL @ Subterranean w/ Coalesce, Atlas Moth
5/27 Nashville, TN @ Rockettown w/ Converge, Lewd Acts, Black Breath
5/28 Atlanta, GA @ The Masqurade w/ Converge, Lewd Acts, Black Breath
As of RIGHT NOW, and lasting until March 9th, you can get 25% off select Daughters merch (pre-orders excluded) at the Hydra Head store. Just use coupon code SUGARBEAR at checkout. Commence visiting the shop!
Stephen Brodsky, frontman of recently reformed quartet Cave In and occasional bassist for Converge, is venturing out on his own again with the March 23 release of his fourth solo album, Here’s To The Future, via Hydra Head. Featuring a blaring electric guitar and a combination of harsh and mellow vocals, Brodsky's solo act strays from Cave In's hardcore metal sound and goes for a more relaxed but still raw vibe. Drawing comparisons to the White Stripes and Elliot Smith, the new album's title track and first single showcases Brodsky's talents both instrumentally, through the earth-shattering electric guitar riffs, and lyrically, through emotional lyrics that strike a balance between pessimism and optimism.
The nine-track Here’s To The Future will be available both digitally and as a limited-edition cassette. Both versions will include booklets featuring words of wisdom from Brodksy.
The nine-track Here’s To The Future will be available both digitally and as a limited-edition cassette. Both versions will include booklets featuring words of wisdom from Brodksy.
P.S. if your a big Stephen Brodsky fan, check out the LALA.com playlist linked to on this news story... Its real nice
The band's longest, most intense affair yet at 28 minutes, Daughters is another audacious step away from their originally ephemeral blasts of chaos. It's a freakish middle ground between avant-garde jazz's frenetic attack, punk rock belligerence and metal's ungainly power. Fiercely proud of the results yet expecting astounded ― possibly dismayed ― fans, Marshall proactively defends the band's continual sonic shift.