BOTCH - We Are The Romans 2xLP SOLD OUT

Holy Moly! Botch - 'We Are the Romans' 2xLP sold out in the Hydra Head Shop in less than 20 minutes.

To those who were unable to secure a copy this morning, there will be limited numbers going to local record stores, so get in touch and be extra nice. VACATION VINYL will definitely have some copies.

The pressing was limited by the number of jackets we had (We don't currently have art files to print them, as they are 11 years old at this point and probably were in Quark on a PC that has been non-operational since Aaron smashed it. We are working on it though). 


The overwhelming demand confirms that BOTCH represses are a priority for 2012.

HARKONEN - Shake Harder Boy LP, Mega Pack

Shake Harder Boy, the rock and roll / hard-core masterpiece by HARKONEN (Ben Verellen of HELMS ALEE, Casey Hardy, and Matt Howard), is now available on vinyl for the first time ever! This criminally underrated album, recorded in 2002 by Matt Bayles (MASTODON, BOTCH), has been mastered for vinyl at world-renowned MasterDisk studios to give the LP the best sound possible. Very limited pressing; includes an 11x11 full color insert. Pressed under license by Brutal Panda Records.


Limited to 300 copies! -200 Ocean Blue -100 Clear

We put together a limited number of Harkonen Mega Packs, available at RealTomatoKetchup.
They include:

HARKONEN - Shake Harder Boy LP (Blue vinyl)
HARKONEN - Shake Harder Boy CD
HARKONEN - The Grizz 7"
HARKONEN - The Grizz CDep
HARKONEN - The Grizz postcard
HARKONEN / THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES - Like A Virgin split CDep
HARKONEN / THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES - Like A Virgin poster

List price for all of this is over $43
You save over 35%



Also, there is now an official HARKONEN Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Harkonen/175154022564412

PRURIENT - 'Time's Arrow' 12"/MCD/CS/Digital

HYH-231
PRURIENT - Time's Arrow
12"/MCD/CS/Digital
Release Date: October 25th, 2011
Pre-Order starting September 21st

Vinyl 12" - 1000 pcs on purple, clear orange, or black vinyl.
Cassette - limited to 400.

For many artists who have careers that span more than an album or two, there are often various lines visible in their work - a line from origin to current form, lines between different paradigms of sound, lines across which fans of different manifestations of the artist will not cross. Prurient in 2011 is drawing just such lines, and Time's Arrow proves this point explicitly. Here we bear witness to Dominick Fernow's long running project once again evolving, unfolding, permutating. Taking a bold step away from the sounds which drew attention his way in the formative years, he is clearly moving towards something new, something still taking form in the present moment. Unsettling perhaps for followers of Prurient's former incarnations, but extremely important for the longevity and vitality of a determinedly restless and inventive musician as Fernow has consistently proved himself to be.

If noise music, the genre to which Prurient has most often been assigned, is about confrontation, exploration and defying expectations, this release measures up on all counts. Yet, much of what made past work identifiable as noise music - harsh textures, screams washed in seas of static, clanging unidentified percussion - is now gone. Those elements which formerly provided a valuable counterpoint to the harsh din of Prurient's core sound - buried melodies, passages of relative serenity, and occasional spoken word bits - have come to the fore. A sense of naked clarity and uncomfortable intimacy now brings the listener closer to the world as described the music, rather than pushing away the would be voyeuristic observer. This is best illustrated on the title track of the EP, "Times Arrow", where a glistening synth melody lays atop an undeniably dancey beat, over which a fragmented, but clearly discernible narrative is intoned. Sinister in character to be sure, but also clearly without any element that could be described as overtly aggressive.

Though a newly formed voice of Prurient is clearly prominent on this release, a line drawn from the past to the present is visible throughout. As the EP progresses echoes of Fernow's assaultive past explosions creep steadily to the forefront, culminating in the furious blizzard of the closing instrumental version of "Slavery in the Bahamas". This is not a calculated reassurance for fans of old that Fernow is still capable of his former feats of unbridled harshness, but rather a reminder that no one can fully escape the past, no matter however continual the process of regeneration and renewal might be - the line of time connects the then to now and onwards.

"Bold, original and astonishingly well-produced throughout, Bermuda Drain really is a new peak in Prurient's prolific career" - Boomkat / Album of the Week

"After a decade of forging the most jagged, invasive noise imaginable, Fernow has moved ahead, tempering his menace with a broader range of texture and tone. And yes, even melody. The result is Prurient’s strongest statement to date, and its best album." - The A.V. Club

"Bermuda Drain is full of distortion-free keyboard, perverse disco beats, moments of beauty, even hooks... Fernow wants to shake you up, unnerve you, make you understand just how fragile "beautiful" music is." - Pitchfork

Track List:

1. TIME'S ARROW

2. TIME'S ARROW (UNSOLVED)

3. LET'S MAKE A SLAVE (DE-SHELLED)

4. MASKLESS FACE

5. SLAVERY IN THE BAHAMAS (INSTRUMENTAL)

Pre-Order Time's Arrow

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Time's Arrow cassette cover  

Select Live Appearances:

October 8, MAGA Museum, live collaboration with Nico Vascellari, Gallarate, Italy

October 9 Odalunga, with Bus de la Lum, Vittorio Veneto, Italy

October 15, De Kreun, Conservatoriumplein 1, Kortrijk, Belgium

JESU - s/t 2xLP

HYH-079-1
JESU - s/t
2xLP
Release Date: October 25th, 2011
Pre-Order starting September 28th

1000 pcs on black, brown, or clear gold vinyl. Repress.

Few albums represent an individual and genre defining milestone as does the self titled debut from Justin Broadrick's Jesu. Combining the considerable sonic weight of Godflesh with brittle melancholy melodies in hypnotic long-form structures, it provided ample evidence of Broadrick's myriad capabilities as a song writer and ceaselessly creative musical innovator. While the eight tracks that comprise the album truly sound like no one else, they also hinted at previously unexplored areas of tenderness and subtlety. Though Jesu went on to mine those more harmonious aspects of its sound on subsequent releases to great effect, none rivaled the debut in its perfectly crafted mixture of beauty, heaviness, hope and despair. Much has happened since the arrival of this album, both for Broadrick as well as the musical world(s) he inhabits, but nothing has diminished the gleaming radiance of this darkened gem.

Tracklisting:

Side A

1. Your Path To Divinity (9:14)

2. Friends Are Evil (9:43)

Side B

3. Tired Of Me (9:31)

4. We All Faulter (6:56)

Side C

5. Walk On Water (11:23)

6. Sun Day (10:03)

Side D

7. Man/Woman (9:29)

8. Guardian Angel (8:06)

Pre-Order starting September 28th

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BOTCH - We Are the Romans 2xLP repress

HYH-041-1
BOTCH - We Are the Romans
2xLP+2xCD
Release Date: October 25th, 2011
Pre-Order starting September 28th

We found about 450 empty jackets and inserts from the original pressing in our storage unit. We used the original plates to press vinyl for them. Available on Orange A/B + Blue C/D vinyl, and White/orange/blue haze A/B + Black/orange/blue C/D vinyl.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock that’s underneath another even bigger rock in a

cave in the middle of nowhere, you probably already know what’s up with this

milestone/motherfucker of an album. Initially released in the year two grand, Botch’s final

full-length was/is the kind of devastating metallic hardcore explosion that the term “metallic

hardcore” could/can only aspire to. In fact, these dudes nailed it so hard that the bands

that came afterward had to start calling themselves “metalcore” out of respect. And today,

it’s actually even worse: Ever since Botch went belly up back in 2002, there’s been a steady,

obnoxious stream of MTV2-jocking carpetbaggers that have ripped off our Sea-Tac boys

(currently and formerly members of esteemed rock outfits like Minus The Bear, These Arms

Are Snakes, Roy, Narrows and Russian Circles) riff for riff. We’d name names, but why

mess around with pretenders to the throne when you’re already in bed with the kings? Its

on 180g double vinyl for the first time since the album's initial release in y2k, and now also

includes the totally sweet double-compact disc edition from 2007 featuring the original

recording remastered plus bonus live tracks and the entire album in its hi-fidelity demo

version. We Are The Romans is bigger, better, and more Roman than ever.

“Selling Points”:

- This is it, the big one! Overstatement or hyperbole isn’t possible when describing how

critical this full length was to the progress of metallic hardcore. Along with pretty much

every band we have worked with in the past 10 years (you know what we are talking about...

Cave In, Converge, Coalesce, Knut), Botch took hardcore to unexplored realms.

- Presented here in its original 2xLP packaging and pressed from the original vinyl plates,

this repressing includes the 2007 remastered deluxe edition 2xCD as an added bonus. CD 1

features the remastered original record, while CD 2 contains several live tracks and nearly

every track from Romans in their never-before-heard live-in-the-studio demo-form. The

point we are trying to make is this thing is freakin’ awesome...

“Choice” Press Quotes:

“Some of the most impressive heavy music from the past 10 years.... no one has come close

to topping their dedication, adventurousness or personality. Botch were dead serious about

one thing: fucking ruling.” - DECIBEL

“One of the most revered hardcore bands of the last decade, Botch pioneered the

mathmetal school of rock with song structures so complex and musicianship so virtuosic

the Seattle quartet might as well have played classical music.” - REVOLVER

“If you’re a fan of metal, hardcore or any of either category’s attendant subgenres and still

aren’t worshiping the ground Botch stomped on, we don’t have any hope for you.”

- ALTERNATIVE PRESS

2xLP Track Listing:

Side A

1. To Our Friends In The Great White North (5:10)

2. Mondrian Was A Liar (2:41)

3. Transitions From Persona To Object (6:04)

4. Swimming The Channel Vs. Driving The Chunnel (4:31)

Side B

5. C. Thomas Howell As The "Soul Man" (4:44)

6. Saint Matthew Returns To The Womb (3:05)

7. Frequency Ass Bandit (4:27)

8. I Wanna Be A Sex Symbol On My Own Terms (3:35)

Side C

9. Man The Ramparts (10:51)

Side D

10. We Are the Romans (7:27)

Bonus Compact Disc Tracklisting

1. To Our Friends In the Great White North - Demo (5:17)

2. I Wanna be a Sex Symbol On My Own Terms - Demo (3:41)

3. Transitions From Persona To Object - Demo (6:34)

4. Mondrian Was A Liar - Demo (3:02)

5. Saint Matthew Returns to the Womb - Demo (3:21)

6. C. Thomas Howell as the “Soul Man” - Demo (4:25)

7. Man The Ramparts - Demo (6:31)

8. Saint Matthew Returns to the Womb - Live (4:19)

9. Vietmam - Live (3:11)

10. Transitions From Persona To Object - Live (6:01)

11. Hutton’s Great Heat Engine - Live (6:19)

Pre-Order starting September 28th

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New Prurient shirt!

There is new Prurient shirt available for order now in our webstore.  The shirt will be shipping in 2-3 weeks.  Check it out above.  The shirt can be order here.  And be on the look out for some more Prurient in the coming weeks.

KAYO DOT - Stained Glass vinyl

‎Kayo Dot - Stained Glass vinyl is now available in the Hydra Head Shop. Limited to 500 pieces (200 each on purple and teal, and 100 hand numbered black), pressed under license by the good folks at Antithetic Records.

Kayo Dot's Stained Glass.  20 minutes of beautiful, synth heavy avant experimentalism.  Here's a description from the label:

Scenes of rapture, agony, and consecration are arrayed as windows in this latest EP by the avant-rock maestros.  With a large ensemble of glimmering malleted percussion, shrieking distorted organs, crystalline guitars, and sighing horns, violins, and vocals, Stained Glass' translucent passages of unearthly beauty set a new standard in soothing terror.  Stained Glass features the return of original Kayo Dot lyricist Jason Byron, as well as a guest appearance by electric guitar genius Trey Spruance (Secret Chiefs 3, Mr. Bungle)

• 500 copies on 180 gram vinyl
• Full color jacket printed on reverse board
• Insert on uncoated stock w/ lyrics and album details
• 11" x 17" full color poster on 100# uncoated text with additional artwork by Toby Driver exclusive to this release.
• B side contains a stripped down "de-mix" featuring the track as it was originally composed, as a rhodes-vibes-guitar trio.  Remix is exclusive to this release.  

Pressing Info:

• 200 Purple
• 200 Teal
• 100 Black - Hand Numbered

Pressed by Antithetic Records under license from Hydra Head.


Also available: 

KAYO DOT - Stained Glass CDep, Digital Download

KAYO DOT - Coyote CD, Digital, LP

KAYO DOT - Blue Lambency Downward
LP, CD, Digital

Kayo Dot: Blue Lambency Downward T-Shirt
$15.00

Kayo Dot: Blue Lambency Downward Triptych Art Prints
$60.00