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Pre-Order Now!
ENDON - MAMA vinyl LP, T-Shirt
BOTCH - 061502 vinyl 2xLP, T-Shirt, Windbreaker
CIRCLE - Miljard vinyl 3xLP, T-Shirt
US: https://hydrahead.merchtable.com/pre-orders
EU: https://eu.kingsroadmerch.com/hydra-head-records (Yes, Europeans! This marks the launch of our European webstore! Hopefully this cuts down on your shipping cost!)
Summer's almost over, school is back in session, and you are pissed that you have to start wearing sleeves again. Well, cool your jets, because we have a trio of Pre-Orders for BOTCH,DAUGHTERS, and JESU records that belong on your shelf.
BOTCH
We Are the Romans
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 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.
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DAUGHTERS
s/t
Daughters' s/t is the kind of record you can't stop turning up. The kind that satisfies every cultural, musical requisite a critical listener possesses while simultaneously reinventing the wheel. The kind that's so immediately gratifying that you don't even bother to compare your instincts with what today's internet has to say. The kind you won't have to remove from your record player for months on end.
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JESU
Everyday I Get Closer to the Light From Which I Came
Beginning with 'Homesick', with its guitar hooks, shoegaze textures and familiar jesusound, one can be misled into considering that this new album will follow a familiarjesu trajectory. Instead the following tracks use jesu's aesthetic, but take in dub, post punk, and electronica along the way, to create maybe the most dynamic jesu album to date.
(Avalanche Recordings)
We are proud to announce
now available for pre-order in the Hydra Head Shop at Blue Collar Distro.
CONVERGE
Caring & Killing: The Early Years 1991-1994
- First time on vinyl ever!
- Converge's early recordings finally available again after being out of print for years.
- New audio mastered by Alan Douches.
- Packaging designed by Jacob Bannon with artwork by Aaron Turner.
- 2xLP in gatefold sleeve with 3 different colored vinyl versions.
For anyone remotely familiar with the heavy music underground of the last two decades, Converge needs no introduction. They are recognized as one of the most ferociously consistent, challenging and influential bands within and beyond their realm. Like other long-running institutions Neurosis, Sonic Youth, The Melvins, or Fugazi, Converge was born from the wellspring of punk and hardcore, quickly mutating into something all together different - an aural beast of their own design. Their sound has since fluctuated and evolved over a long and industrious career, but even in their earliest days the hallmarks of their sound were there - whiplash dynamics, floor-stomping breakdowns, brittle heart-rending melodies and a torrential sense of momentum.
The collection of Caring & Killing captures Converge in their formative years, spanning the timeframe of 1991-1994 . This period was extremely productive for the band, generating the debut full length Halo in a Haystack, a slew of compilation appearances and split EPs, as well as multiple demo sessions. The resultant tracks were unpredictable - rageful and delicate, catchy and obtuse. Despite the harsh juxtaposition of opposing elements, it was clear Converge possessed the will and the wit to construct cohesive songs from the maelstrom, ones that proved to be powerfully charismatic in their idiosyncratic nature. These early anthems are certainly more ungainly than those of present day Converge , but they burn with the same vitality and punishing drive for which the band is known and loved. These incendiary sermons are as utterly convincing now as upon the day of their first iteration, and from them a cult was born.
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DISCORDANCE AXIS
Jouhou
The mid-1990s were a pretty bleak period for grindcore. The genre's progenitors had either retired into their dotage or were aimlessly wallowing in creative bankruptcy.
A change was needed, and New Jersey upstarts Discordance Axis were about to upend 15 years of grindcore tradition and establish the template for 21st Century extremity. Where first album Ulterior owed obvious debts to their musical forerunners,Discordance Axis found their unique voice on 1997's Jouhou (Japanese for "Information"), turning in 18 minutes of sleek, cyberpunked grind that directly addressed human frailty and emotions rather than recycling the same political jeremiads and empty slogans.
Unlike the first wave of grind, which owed obvious debts to '80s hardcore, Discordance Axissounded fresh and modern, buoyed by guitarist Rob Marton's forward thinking playing, which melded fleet-fingered technique with streamlined, pinpoint aggression. Marton was influenced as much by Voivod as he was by Napalm Death, and he was one of the few grindcore guitarist whose compositions revolved around actual riffs that were driven by Dave Witte's frenetic, pinpoint drumming. Added to that, Jon Chang introduced a whole new lexicon that appropriated themes and images from manga, science fiction and cartoons and turned them into metaphors for loss, loneliness and alienation, topics that grindcore had never seriously addressed. Together, the trio were the first to make a bid for grindcore as a capital-A Art form. There was more to their blastbeating than a bunch of kids mouthing off at the world.
- Andrew Childers, Grind and Punishment
DISCORDANCE AXIS
Jouhou
Pre-Order - $23.99
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Hello fellow members of the HHR Musical CO-OP Foundation™, some updates for you here from HQ:
First off, THANK YOU to all of you who contributed/are contributing to the CO-OP's health by participating in our fundraising efforts. Whether you purchased a sticker, donated a dollar, or bought the entire Hydra Head Test Press Collection ©, every little bit has helped us regain some of our former strength and provided some stable ground on which we continue to tread. Because of your generous support in just a few short months we've managed to pay off some long standing debts, keep our remaining staff clothed and fed, and get five reissue projects into production*. While we're not out of the woods yet, we're doing a far sight better than we were before this whole Hydra Health™ Plan was initiated. Though our path out of the dark is still dim and strewn with obstacles, there is certainly hope for the future that we'll be able to continue repressing our back catalog, thanks to everyone who's helped shed some light along the way - and to all of those people, we are very grateful indeed.
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Next up on the agenda is the new album in the works from Hydra Head alumni Helms Alee. Saddened as we are by our inability to participate in the release of this album, we're happy to announce the band themselves are shouldering the duty of releasing it. In an effort to raise the necessary funds to make the record happen they've launched a Kickstarter pre-sale campaign with some pretty sweet packages on offer for potential backers. To watch their superbly crafted promo video and score a copy of what is sure to be one of the best albums of the year go here to pledge your support:
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Speaking of support, we managed to pull together one more complete Hydra Head Records Collection™pulled directly from the A. Turner Archives © to help with our own continued fundraising efforts. The set includes over 240 different releases - LPs, 7"s, 2xLPs, DVDs, pictures discs, cassettes, compact discs, 6"s, etc. Aside from the wide array of fantastic items listed above, there are also some special surprises provided with the set, including but not limited to 5 (or more) test pressing editions from our unparalleled catalog of recorded sound works. Proceeds from the sale of this set will go directly towards the pressing of future Hydra Head Records catalog titles. Though we realize this is a steep sticker price, the eBay value alone is well above our own comparatively modest asking amount, not to mention the fact that you'd be obtaining over 7200 minutes of the worlds best music!
Go here for more on this fantastic offer: Hydra Head Records Collection™
And that about concludes our news for the moment. We'll be back next week with details on some exciting pre-order launches for the Discordance Axis - Jouhou 2xLP and Converge - Caring & Killing 2xLP as well as a bit more on our exciting Record Store Day releases: Cave In - Until Your Heart Stops 2xLP andBotch - American Nervoso 2xLP.
'Til then, thanks for tuning in and "see" you next time...
DROWNINGMAN - Busy Signal at the Suicide Hotline is being re-pressed on vinyl LP. It will be available on Black, Clear, and Black/Yellow split vinyl, and housed in the last remaining jackets from the original pressing. There is also a limited edition shirt that will only be printed once as part of this pre-order.
We thought Drowningman's debut would be best described and contextualized by one of their peers. With that in mind here's some words on the subject by Roderic Mounir, drummer extraordinaire from Swiss math-metal wizards and fellow Hydra Head alumni Knut:
"Remember, this was year 1998 when so many great bands put out incredible releases: Converge When Forever Comes Crashing, Cave In Until Your Heart Stops, Botch American Nervoso, Isis Mosquito Control EP, Refused The Shape of Punk to Come, etc. Those were exciting times for the realm of heavy underground music. A seemingly lesser-known act, Drowningman, came up that year with a moniker and a sound that brought to mind the pioneers of chaotic metallic hardcore, Deadguy. Rising from Burlington, Vermont, they rocked in an even tighter fashion and would play even further the superlong-witty-song-title game. The album itself was presented under a semi passable (but ultimately memorable) B-movie title, Busy Signal at the Suicide Hotline.
That however wasn't the most important facet of the album- the music was: Drowningman fired on all cylinders, fusing hardcore-punk, noisecore, math-rock, metal and even indie-pop. Yes, they were the only band that could jump from a shredding metalcore part to a pretty singy-songy chorus without sounding like a preppy emo band - long before this became a fashionable (and marketable) formula. With a singer as capable as Simon Brody, you'd wonder why they wouldn't give it a shot. It worked. Most of all, the guitarists had so many great riffs under their belts - viciously discordant, blatantly rocking, anthemic, you name it, and to top it off a drummer that possessed enough versatility and musicality in his grooves to make it flow effortlessly.
Listen to opener ‘Condoning The Use Of Inhalants’: it clocks in at just under three minutes, but by the time it reaches the 2:30 mark, the band has already gone through five different riffs at least, and just as many tempo shifts, seamlessly. Drowningman were a lesson in songcraft just as much as they were in extremity. A lesson those lucky enough to cross their path undoubtedly retained."
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JK FLESH/PRURIENT
Pre-Order & Pitchfork Premiere
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| Split LP Available December 11, 2012 |
The final track on the PRURIENT side of the upcoming JK FLESH/PRURIENT Split LP Worship is the Cleansing of the Imagination.
"I Understand You is an aptly faltering beauty" - Pitchfork
In clear, grey, or black vinyl. Tracklisting:
JK FLESH:
Fear Of Fear
Deceiver
Obedient Automaton
PRURIENT:
Chosen Books
Entering The Water
I Understand You
MAMIFFER/PYRAMIDS
Streaming in Full
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| LP/Digital Available October 16, 2012 |
Pre-orders are still available in advance of next week's October 16th release date. 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.
Keep an eye out for MAMIFFER on the other side of the pond! Tour dates start in Austria on Sunday:
10/14 Vienna, AUT @ Arena w/ White Hills
10/15 Zagreb, HR @ Nkc Park w/ Menace Ruine, White Hills
10/16 Velenje SL @ eMCe w/ Menace Ruine
10/17 Bologna, IT @ Teatro Degli Illusi
10/18 Milan, IT @ Ligera
10/19 Neuchatel, CH @ Queen Kong Club w/ Menace Ruine
10/20 Bern, CH @ Dachstock w/White Hills
10/21 Paris, FR @ L'Espace B w/ Menace Ruine
10/23 Brussels, BE @ Magasin 4 w/ Menace Ruine
10/24 Liege, BE @ La Zone w/ Menace Ruine
10/25 Amsterdam, NL @ Winston w/ Menace Ruine
10/26 Bochum, DE @ Christuskirche w/ Menace Ruine
10/27 Karlsruhe, DE @ Die Stadtmitte w/ Menace Ruine
10/28 Berlin, DE @ HBC w/ Menace Ruine
10/30 Wroclaw, PL @ Firlej w/ Menace Ruine
10/31 Warsaw, PL @ Powiekszenie w/ Menace Ruine
11/02 Riga, LV @ Artelis w/ Menace Ruine
11/03 Tallinn, EE @ Von Krahl w/ Menace Ruine
11/04 Helsinki, FIN @ Korjaamo w/ Menace Ruine
10/15 Zagreb, HR @ Nkc Park w/ Menace Ruine, White Hills
10/16 Velenje SL @ eMCe w/ Menace Ruine
10/17 Bologna, IT @ Teatro Degli Illusi
10/18 Milan, IT @ Ligera
10/19 Neuchatel, CH @ Queen Kong Club w/ Menace Ruine
10/20 Bern, CH @ Dachstock w/White Hills
10/21 Paris, FR @ L'Espace B w/ Menace Ruine
10/23 Brussels, BE @ Magasin 4 w/ Menace Ruine
10/24 Liege, BE @ La Zone w/ Menace Ruine
10/25 Amsterdam, NL @ Winston w/ Menace Ruine
10/26 Bochum, DE @ Christuskirche w/ Menace Ruine
10/27 Karlsruhe, DE @ Die Stadtmitte w/ Menace Ruine
10/28 Berlin, DE @ HBC w/ Menace Ruine
10/30 Wroclaw, PL @ Firlej w/ Menace Ruine
10/31 Warsaw, PL @ Powiekszenie w/ Menace Ruine
11/02 Riga, LV @ Artelis w/ Menace Ruine
11/03 Tallinn, EE @ Von Krahl w/ Menace Ruine
11/04 Helsinki, FIN @ Korjaamo w/ Menace Ruine
JODIS have made some friends since last week's release of Black Curtain:
"Loping, haunting, and coarsely ethereal, it sounds like field recordings of cellular decay." - AV Club
"It is cautiously optimistic and empowered, spotlighting the power and beauty that can arise from sadness. As a swansong piece for a beloved label, it is a perfect one." - Brainwashed
"Black Curtain is not the colorless and, let's be honest, bland mimicry or derivation of other atmospheric post-metal. It's more of a testament to the idea that music and, more specifically, the metal genre is exploring new depths every day." - Steel For Brains
"The guitars, ringing out with distortion and reverb, pluck notes one by one as feedback, atmospherics, and Turner's harmonized, almost chant-like vocals craft a ghostly setting. When Wyskida's drums come crashing in, the band's full weight can be felt, but like an apparition, they too are fleeting, never allowing the listener to know when to expect them." - ALARM
LP and CD editions limited to 1000 copies each worldwide.
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)"