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OLD MAN GLOOM - NO
-Vinyl 2xLP is back in press and now available!
--New vinyl colors: Apeshit, Jade Marble
-New T-Shirt and Crewneck design to go with it!
-Vinyl 2xLP is back in press and now available!
--New vinyl colors: Apeshit, Jade Marble
-New T-Shirt and Crewneck design to go with it!
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- Old Man Gloom is a supergroup (containing members of Converge, ISIS, Cave In, Zozobra,Doomriders, Mamiffer, etc.), but instead of making shitty records like other "supergroups", Old Man Gloom actually makes great ones.
- NO is an undeniably great title for an album, and also serves as an ironclad manifesto in opposition to the moral and aesthetic decay of our global society.
- This is Old Man Gloom's fifth album, their first after eight years. They weren't on hiatus, just busy writing the greatest album in music history. That makes them the proud progenitors of the f̶i̶v̶e̶ seven greatest albums of all time, NO being number one. NO is like "one", only spelled backwards and without the "E".
- Old Man Gloom are playing shows just in time for the collapse of the global economy.
- The acronym for Old Man Gloom is "OMG". "OMG" has become a household phrase since its introduction in to the popular lexicon in 1999, directly coinciding with the formation of Old Man Gloomthe year prior. The group has never been properly credited for this massively important contribution to global culture.
- NO was made using acoustic and electric instruments including but not limited to: sheet metal, toilets, human voices, guitars, drums, tambourines, shoes, hands, various other percussive tools, analog and digital electronic devices, and brains.
- Remastered Audio
- Revamped Artwork
- Letterpress Printed Jackets
- Digital Download of the album with purchase.
Meditations in B. A simpler time. Like Pepperidge Farms, and Little House on the Prairie. Two beautiful young men (Aaron Turner and Santos Montano) set off on their own, in the peak of their sexual virility, to forge a new path in brutally sludgy, crushing, apocalyptic, post-metal, post-hardcore, pre-Y2K, post-math, pre-friendster, post-rock riffs. It was a magical time, before they added a few "session players." Still regarded by some (mostly the guys who played on it) as Old Man Gloom's finest hour.
Fun fact: Meditations in B was written in one afternoon, then recorded AND mixed in 12 hours! While many things in this text are only kinda true, that is absolutely true. They also had the privilege of recording it in their home town of Santa Fe, New Mexico at Stepbridge Studios. Within months of this, they used this monumental piece of music to convince Nate Newton (Converge) to join, and once they had him, it was a little easier to convince Caleb Scofield (Cave In) to join. It's kinda like the beginning of Bill and Ted, where the talk about getting Eddie Van Halen to join, but won't be good until he joins, but can't get good ‘til he joins, to convince him to join. Get it? Fantastic.
Hydra Head Director Andrew Cox helmed this music video for the merry pranksters in Old Man Gloom. Desert simian immolation for your viewing pleasure.
Premiered by the fine minds at Decibel Magazine
Andrew talked to Kim Kelly at Noisey about making the video
Pre-Orders Now Available For:
MAMIFFER/PYRAMIDS Split 12"
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| LP Available October 16, 2012 |
Available in Black, Beige, and Clear/Black. A limited edition photo book by MAMIFFER's Faith Coliccia is available with the Clear/Black vinyl only; this will not be sold separately!
35 minutes of new music. Limited to 1000 copies.
Old Man Gloom - Christmas
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| 2xLP Available October 16, 2012 |
A special edition T-Shirt, available for a very short time, is also up with the pre-order:
**Update:
Thanks again to everybody that has shown us support over the past few weeks. We are overwhelmed with your generosity- and with orders! We apologize if your package has yet to be shipped; we are getting through more of them every day. We appreciate your patience.
Also a big thank you to everyone who has shown their support through the written word. Lots of cool content we've enjoyed reading/watching/remembering, take a look:
Treblezine - "10 Essential Hydra Head Releases"
Absolute Punk - "Consequential Apathy: To Carry the Flame"
Crave Online: "RIP Hydra Head Records"
Cvlt Nation - "RIP Hydra Head Records!!! Mammoth Live Video Essay Now Showing!"
Lambgoat - "The First of the Fallen: A Hydra Head Records Retrospective"
The 1st Five - "A Requiem for the Many-Headed Serpant: Bidding Farewell to Hydra Head Records"
Staf Magazine - "Past, Present, Future, and the Fall of Hydra Head"
Terrorizer - "The 10 Essential Hydra Head Releases! We'll Miss You Hydra Head!"
Salty Eggs - "A Tribute to Hydra Head Records"
The Grind That Annoys - "A Look at Some of Hydra Head's Pivotal Releases"
VICE- "Hydra Head Records Tricked Me Into Liking Nu Metal"
Pinpoint Music - "Tim Wyrm I - A Very Fond Farewell"
Aux - "Here Are 5 Releases Worth Remembering When Hydra Head Records Closes Up Shop"
FACT Mag - "The Art Of...Hydra Head"
LA Weekly - "Hydra Head Records: A Personal Recollection"
Letters From A Tapehead - "Hydra Head Records (1993-2012)"
Our very own Andrew James Cox (aka Sugarbear) designed this limited screen print poster for Monday's Old Man Gloom show at The Echo in Los Angeles.
The band will have them for sale on tour next week, or you can order one here (we'll even throw in two 11"x17" posters for OMG's Christmas and NO).
Loosely (or not-so-loosely depending on who you ask) based on a scene from Jack Kirby's comic book rendition of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, this monolith belongs on your bare wall.
The band will have them for sale on tour next week, or you can order one here (we'll even throw in two 11"x17" posters for OMG's Christmas and NO).
Loosely (or not-so-loosely depending on who you ask) based on a scene from Jack Kirby's comic book rendition of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, this monolith belongs on your bare wall.
Old Man Gloom 2012 west coast tour dates:
09/03 Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo w/ William Fowler Collins, Sad Vicious, & Ides of Gemini
09/04 San Diego, CA @ The Soda Bar w/ William Fowler Collins, Sad Vicious, & Ides of Gemini
09/05 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill w/ William Fowler Collins & Sad Vicious
09/06 Chico, CA @ Origami Lounge
09/07 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre w/ The Melvins, Big Business
09/08 Seattle, WA @ The Highline w/ Heiress, Daniel Menche
09/04 San Diego, CA @ The Soda Bar w/ William Fowler Collins, Sad Vicious, & Ides of Gemini
09/05 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill w/ William Fowler Collins & Sad Vicious
09/06 Chico, CA @ Origami Lounge
09/07 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre w/ The Melvins, Big Business
09/08 Seattle, WA @ The Highline w/ Heiress, Daniel Menche
JODIS - BLACK CURTAIN
Jodis will release their sophomore album Black Curtain, the follow up to 2007's Secret House, on October 2, 2012. Featuring members of Khanate, ISIS, Mamiffer, Blind Idiot God, OLD, Khlyst, and Old Man Gloom, the album will be available via limited vinyl LP, CD, and Digital:
Known for their work in the dark recesses of heavy music via such vehicles as Khanate, ISIS and Blind Idiot God, it would have been easy enough for the trio of Aaron Turner, James Plotkin and Tim Wyskida to kick out something adequately dark and crushing with the formation of Jodis in 2007. Certainly outside expectations of what the group would sound like fell along those lines, but to the dismay of some and the delight of others, the final results were altogether more lush, melodic, and downright beautiful than anything previously imagined. The foundation for their debut album Secret House was laid around a careful synthesis of Plotkin and Wiskyda's reductive, mercurial rhythmic interplay coupled with Turner's knack for constructing monolithic sounds and dramatic ambience. Each note was deliberate. The gaps between notes were as important as the notes themselves. Tempos were made malleable. But a clear sense of structure and a dreamy, understated elegance threaded through the album's seven tracks to produce an alluring, if somewhat bleak sonic landscape for the listener.
After several years of steady concentrated work, Jodis have returned with their sophomore album, Black Curtain. Once again, the trio's emphasis on sparseness and tension remains in full force, but is tempered by a greater focus on melody and slow blooming song structure. While its predecessor thrived on a kind of predatory patience, Black Curtain's reserve is more of a salve than a threat. The album opens with "Broken Ground", where spikes of reverb- drenched guitar sprawl across a humming electronic horizon, over which delicately draped vocal melodies twist, collide and dissolve. Drums occasionally rise from the ether, punctuat- ing the meditative passages of pastoral calm. The band continues to explore the many outlets of their panoramic minimalism across the airy expanses of "Silent Temple", the shimmering melancholy of "Red Bough", the hymn-like repetition of "Corridor", and the mantric chants of "Awful Feast". The more visceral and vitriolic elements of Jodis's members' past work are put on hold for the majority of Black Curtain. But the thunderous low-tuned throbs of guitar and strong-armed pounding of the drums rear their head in the closing track "Beggar's Grasp". Even in this rousing close to the album, the harmonious core is retained, and the listener is immersed in the depths of the sound around them, rather than mercilessly suffocated by it. Black Curtain is no doubt heavy - emotionally, even sonically - but its true strength lies in its graceful reserve and reverential worship of gray-skied beauty.
Vinyl Tracklisting CD Tracklisting
1. Broken Ground 1. Broken Ground
2. Silent Temple 2. Silent Temple
3. Awful Feast 3. Red Bough
4. Red Bough 4. Corridor
5. Corridor 5. Awful Feast
6. Beggar's Grasp 6. Beggar's Hand
Pre-Order Coming Soon.....
Ok, you yard-apes, you've been whining and begging for Old Man Gloom to "Please play west coast" "+1 Seattle" "Los Angeles, por favor," etc. perhaps because you want to witness the resumed gloom, or perhaps because the combined forces of the OMG Institute produced a method of pre-embedding the pending tour dates through space-time into the subconscious, precognitive nether regions of your simian brain flesh. Regardless, here is the mostly complete itinerary of Old Man Gloom's impending West Coast Tour (Maybe there are one or two more shows to be announced. Keep checking back compulsively like we know you will anyway):
09/03 Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo w/ William Fowler Collins, Sad Vicious, & Ides of Gemini
09/03 Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo w/ William Fowler Collins, Sad Vicious, & Ides of Gemini
09/04 San Diego, CA @ The Soda Bar w/ William Fowler Collins, Sad Vicious, & Ides of Gemini
09/05 San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill w/ William Fowler Collins & Sad Vicious
09/08 Seattle, WA @ The Highline
Also, buy some more copies of Old Man Gloom - NO for your friends and family.
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June 26th, 2012
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INTER-OFFICE DATA EXCHANGE BETWEEN THE HEAD EXECUTIVES AND THE OMG INSTITUTE, WINTER 2012
A: Do any of you have interest in doing a small number of OMG live events in 2012? First
off, a fest in Poland and possibly some additional shows before and/or after?
C: If it makes sense to do some other shows then great, I could probably get away with
being gone for a short week. If not then I'm fine with just doing the fest and taking
everyone's share of money. I figure I deserve it based on the amount of stress I endured
during the recording process. I need a googleplex to make this work.
S: I'll drop some knowledge on ya'll. Caleb is trying to trick us. A googleplex isn't a
number, but a wrestling maneuver. He's simply trying to make sure we'll all wrestle on
the tour. ....plus, we'll have merch to sell, and from what I understand, the Polish love
balsa wood aeroplanes.
A: Nate - just so you know, the fact that Santos drinks now means he can just come
along to entertain Caleb, and we can finally ask Kurt to play drums for us full time.
C: If we can keep our over head to a minimum then I would be on board. And of course I
will need a bowl of Wendy's french onion soup at every show. And it better be fucking hot.
A: Wendy's soup. Got it. You are a prick.
N: Danzig wanted a Wendy's chicken sandwich in addition to his piping hot french onion
soup. "No mayo, No mustard. Dry."
A: Even if we never play a show, just talking about them is reward enough for me.
N: I'm sorry if that last email came off shitty. I read it after I sent it and realized the tone
could have been misunderstood. Though I AM shitty, I promise I wasn't trying to be.
S: Hey fellas. Any progress in figuring out your schedule Caleb? Maybe I missed some
emails. I got the one where I was kicked out, so I'm just writing as a fan. Can I get on the
guestlist if you do play shows?
C: Ok, so in theory this would work for me. Drop the kids off at daycare 7am on Tuesday
the 1st. Drive to airport, fly to London. Shred hard in London Tuesday night. Make our
way to the Poland fest by shredding hard through Europe. Maybe another show after the
fest heading in the right direction? I would need to try and be home by 4pm on Monday
the 7th. You can probably throw in a trip to the emergency room somewhere in there,
mid-week or so. Again, this would be an ideal situation for me but I realize everybody
has their own shit as well. I'm just spitballin' as they say in the industry.
A: Well, Santos it looks like you might be able to play with us after all. Do you know how
to press play on a discman?...Also, anyone have an opinion about the new sequence of
the record?
N: I'm fine with this new version too, I just like it when records punch you in the face
right off the bat. Thinking about you staring at me makes me uncomfortable.
A: How about if I jump out of the record cover and punch you in the face next time you
put it on?
C: Im good with it.
N: Him punching me or the sequence?
C: Both.
N: Well, I guess we can get the punch over with this weekend.
A: Only if we listen to the record.
SELLING POINTS //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
- Old Man Gloom is a supergroup (containing members of Converge, ISIS, Cave In,
Zozobra, Doomriders, Mamiffer, etc.), but instead of making shitty records like other
"supergroups", Old Man Gloom actually makes great ones.
- NO is an undeniably great title for an album, and also serves as an ironclad manifesto
in opposition to the moral and aesthetic decay of our global society.
- This is Old Man Gloom's fifth album, their first in eight years. They weren't on hiatus,
just busy writing the greatest album in music history. That makes them the proud
progenitors of the five greatest albums of all time, NO being number one. NO is like
"one", only spelled backwards and without the "E".
- Old Man Gloom are playing shows in 2012 and 2013, just in time for the collapse of
the global economy.
- The acronym for Old Man Gloom is "OMG". "OMG" has become a household phrase
since its introduction in to the popular lexicon in 1999, directly coinciding with the
formation of Old Man Gloom the year prior. The group has never been properly credited
for this massively important contribution to global culture.
- NO was made using acoustic and electric instruments including but not limited to:
sheet metal, toilets, human voices, guitars, drums, tambourines, shoes, hands, various
other percussive tools, analog and digital electronic devices, and brains.
You can stream a couple tracks and pre-order the album on all formats on the OMG Bandcamp page or pre-order it with limited edition clothing in the Hydra Head Shop
OLD MAN GLOOM - NO
2xLP/CD/Cassette/t-shirt/ladies t-shirt/longsleeve/hoodie
Available for pre-order now!
We would write a rambling, somewhat entertaining blurb about how great the record is, and too bad you weren't at the shows to get it early (neither were we), or even if you were you didn't get the limited pre-order exclusive shirt/hoodie, and how it will be hilarious when someone asks if you've listened to any good records lately and you shout "NO!" with all the force of a sentient simian research scientist seeking sonic solutions to somnolent sedentary styles of living through voluble auditory vocal projection (not unlike that practiced by Institute Researchers Aaron Turner, Caleb Scofield, and Nate Newton in recent field experiments), thus confusing and alarming your inquirer and leading to potential future awkward social engagements, but we figure you don't have time to read another run-on sentenced blog post from us when you could be carving your place amongst the chosen few who will have the new OLD MAN GLOOM album in all of it's quaking glory upon it's official release date (June 26th), along with items of clothing that will only be produced prior to the release, and thereafter unavailable for purchase, making your wardrobe the envy of those slower and less attentive to our various information outlets who also appreciate the strange, humbling, deafening heaviness of OMG, and who probably didn't get one of the limited vinyl colors because they dilly dallied on their way to the Hydra Head Shop to order the 2xLP, maybe to read another article on the internet about bizarre undersea creatures caught on robotic cameras, or a blog post written for the amusement of the few obsessive computer addicts who feel obligated to keep up to date on every word posted to the sites they follow (count some of us in this camp). No, we thought we would keep this short so you can be sure to get your opposable thumbs on the new OLD MAN GLOOM record, NO, on whichever color of whichever format you prefer before they are gone, along with one (or all) of the associated clothing options.
Old Man Gloom have made a new album. It's called NO.
It comes out June 26th.
If you want it early (on 2xLP or cassette), go see Old Man Gloom on tour (starting tonight at TT the Bears).
05/02 Cambridge, MA @ TT The Bears w/ Phantom Glue, MGR, 13 Billion Years (Buy Tickets)
05/03 Boston, MA @ Great Scott w/ All Pigs Must Die (Buy Tickets) SOLD OUT
05/04 Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church w/ Rosetta, James Plotkin (Buy Tickets)
05/05 Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter w/ Iron Reagan, Balaclava (Buy Tickets)
05/06 Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar (Buy Tickets)
05/07 Hamden, CT @ The Space (Buy Tickets)
05/08 Brooklyn, NY @ Europa w/ The Austerity Program, Psychic Limb (Buy Tickets)
It comes out June 26th.
If you want it early (on 2xLP or cassette), go see Old Man Gloom on tour (starting tonight at TT the Bears).
05/02 Cambridge, MA @ TT The Bears w/ Phantom Glue, MGR, 13 Billion Years (Buy Tickets)
05/03 Boston, MA @ Great Scott w/ All Pigs Must Die (Buy Tickets) SOLD OUT
05/04 Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church w/ Rosetta, James Plotkin (Buy Tickets)
05/05 Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter w/ Iron Reagan, Balaclava (Buy Tickets)
05/06 Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar (Buy Tickets)
05/07 Hamden, CT @ The Space (Buy Tickets)
05/08 Brooklyn, NY @ Europa w/ The Austerity Program, Psychic Limb (Buy Tickets)
This Friday, November 25th, is the slated release date for several Hydra Head titles:
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| BLACK FACE - I Want to Kill You b/w Monster 7" |
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| HELMS ALEE - Weatherhead Cassette (previously only available from the band on tour) |
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| OLD MAN GLOOM - Christmas Eve I & II + 6 + Live in NYC LP |
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| PYRAMIDS / HORSEBACK - A Throne Without a King LP+7" |
Unfortunately due to some delays, some stores will not have received OLD MAN GLOOM or PYRAMIDS / HORSEBACK in time for Record Store Day Black Friday, but check back in the next week or two.
If you are in the Los Angeles area, come by VACATION VINYL on Friday. In addition to all four Hydra Head titles (probably the only store to have PYRAMIDS / HORSEBACK available on Friday) and piles of other RSD releases, we will be giving away free Hydra Head promo CDs, posters, and stickers. Also, we may or may not have a stack of HHR Test Presses for sale.
Also, the first 10 people to buy the BLACK FACE 7" will receive an uncut jacket print.
Here is a partial list of stores who have ordered HHR Black Friday releases:
1-2-3-4 Go! Records2nd Avenue Records
641 RPM
Albums On The Hill
Amoeba Music Berkeley
Amoeba Music Hollywood
Amoeba Music San Fran
Angelo's CD's & Tapes
Apop Records
Aquarius Records
Bent Crayon
BK Music
Bleecker Street Records
BooBoo Records-San Luis Obispo
Bop Shop Records
Bull Moose Music
Cactus Music
CD Alley Chapel Hill
CD Central
Chaz's Bull City Records
Co-op Records Clinton
Criminal Records
Culture Shock Records
Dave's Records
Dearborn Music
Decatur CD's
Dimple Records
Disc Exchange
Ear Candy
Earshot Music - Laurens
Earshot Music - Winston-Salem
Earwax Records - Brooklyn
Easy Street Records
Electric Fetus One Stop HQ
End of An Ear
Euclid Records
Everybody's Records
Everyday Music
Extreme Noise Records
Flat Black and Circular
Forever Young
Four Thousand Holes
Generation Records
Good Records
Gotham Distributing
Grimey's
Harvest Records
Homer's Records
Horizon
House of Records
Independent Records
Indy CD and Vinyl
J & R Music World
Jack's Music Shoppe
Ka-CHUNK Records
Kim's Video & Music
Landlocked Music
Luna MusicLunchbox
M-Theory
Mad Platter-Riverside
Magnoliathunderpussy
Melody Record Shop Inc.
Monster Music & Movies
Music Millennium
Neat Neat Neat Records and Mus
Newbury Comics HQ
Offbeat Music, Ltd.
Origami (LA)
Other Music
Parasol Records
Park Ave. CD's
Paul's Compact Discs
Phono Select Records
Princeton Record Exchange
Pure Pop Records
Radio-Active Records
Ramalama Records
Rasputin Music HQ
Reckless Records - Loop
Reckless Records- Wicker Park
Reckless Records-Broadway
Record Archive
Record Breakers -Chicago
Record Den
Record Exchange Boise
Repo Records
Rhino Records Claremont
Rockaway Records
Salzer's
Second Hand Tunes
SG Distributing-Gray Whale CD
Shake It
Sig's Lagoon
Size Records
Sonic Boom Records-WA
SOS Music
Sound Fix Records
Sound Garden Baltimore
Spoonful Records
Static Age Records
Steady Sounds Record Store
Stinkweeds-Phoenix
Street Corner Music
Streetlight - Santa Cruz
Strictly Discs
Sweat Records
The Exclusive Co.
Treehouse Records
Twist & Shout
Underground Sounds
Vacation Vinyl
Vintage Vinyl Fords
Vinyl Collective
Waiting Room Records
Waterloo
Wax N' Facts
Wax Trax Main Store HQ
Young Ones
Zia Enterprises, Inc.
Stores, let us know in the comments if you should be on this list.