LP/Digital Available October 16, 2012

MAMIFFER/PYRAMIDS Split 12" is now streaming in its entirety at Tiny Mix Tapes

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).

PRE-ORDER HERE

  

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 

  

  

CVLT Nation Contest - Enter to Win a MAMIFFER/PYRAMIDS test pressing!

  

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JODIS Black Curtain Getting Love!

Stream Full Album at ALARM Magazine

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, CD, and Digital versions are now available in the Hydra Head Shop and on Bandcamp.

LP and CD editions limited to 1000 copies each worldwide.

  

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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!

PRE-ORDER HERE

  

2xLP Available October 16, 2012

  OLD MAN GLOOM Christmas has returned! Originally released in 2004, OMG's fifth sonic dissertation has been repressed and can be picked up here.


A special edition T-Shirt, available for a very short time, is also up with the pre-order:
 

MAMIFFER/PYRAMIDS - SPLIT 12"

LP Available October 16, 2012

Tracklisting:

MAMIFFER

1. Sophia

2. Tichá Noc

PYRAMIDS

1. This Is One For Everyone

35 minutes of new music. Limited to 1000 copies.

MAMIFFER TOUR DATES

09/19 Shin-Okubo, Tokyo, JP @ Earthdom*

09/20 Shinsaibashi, Osaka, JP @ Pangea*

09/21 Ikeshita, Nagoya, JP @ Club Upset # *

09/22 Shin-Daita, Tokyo, JP @ Fever ^ *

10/14 Vienna, AUT @ Arena+ "

10/15 Zagreb, HR @ Nkc Park+"

10/16 Velenje SL @ eMCe+

10/17 Bologna, IT @ Teatro Degli Illusi+

10/18 Milan, IT @ Ligera+

10/19 Neuchatel, CH @ Queen Kong Club+

10/20 Bern, CH @ Dachstock+ "

10/21 Paris, FR @ L'Espace B+

10/23 Brussels, BE @ Magasin 4+

10/24 Liege, BE @ La Zone+

10/25 Amsterdam, NL @ Winston+

10/26 Bochum, DE @ Christuskirche+

10/27 Karlsruhe, DE @ Die Stadtmitte+

10/28 Berlin, DE @ HBC+

10/30 Wroclaw, PL @ Firlej+

10/31 Warsaw, PL @ Powiekszenie+

11/02 Riga, LV @ Artelis+

11/03 Tallinn, EE @ Von Krahl+

11/04 Helsinki, FIN @ Korjaamo+

* with Earth

+ with Menace Ruin

^ with Boris

# with Eternal Elysium

" with White Hills

Pre-Order Coming Soon....

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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.....

Occasionally noisome hardcore punk by way of Finland and Vashon Island. Featuring Aaron Turner of ISIS and Jussi Lehtisalo of CIRCLE.  'Tiny Me', from their upcoming debut album, is streaming now on Pitchfork.

 

SPLIT CRANIUM WANTS YOUR SKULL: 

Live fast, die young and leave a good-looking corpse? How about play fast, die old and leave the next round of stiffs wondering what the shit their crusty old grandpop was up to back in the economically vibrant 20-teens, when liquid gold flowed down from Finland's Kemi River and crisp American sawbucks grew on trees? IfSplit Cranium had a manifesto-which they don't-they might at least consider endorsing that one, whatever it was, before giving us all the finger and getting on with it.

"It" being a highly satisfying blitzkrieg of Finnish/Amero punk perpetrated by Jussi Lehtisalo (Circle, Pharaoh Overlord), Jukka Kröger, Samae Koskinen (Steel Mammoth) and Aaron Turner (Mamiffer/ex-ISIS), a token American brought in to soften potential US resistance to the Finns' brash mastery of almost every style of rock worth mastering. Of course, it's no coincidence that Mr. Turner is also not exactly a fucking slouch in the vocal department, lending his patented monastic chants and feral roars to the band's stomp n' burn riffola and death-defying d-beats.

Birthed kicking, screaming and drenched in smelly amniotic slime, Split Cranium is the result of a recording session that promptly reversed course. Lehtisalo and Kröger had spent a few days unfurling some artsy-fartsy free-noise-rock improvisations before deciding to just get their fucking riff on. Circle had recently joined ISIS on the latter's final European tour, during which Lehtisalo and Turner had discussed forming an unstoppable Scandi-American justice league of maximum musical proportions. Right after his improv session went punk, Lehtisalo heard that clicking sound that everyone always references when they say dumb shit like "It just clicked." The token American was drafted, post-haste. Koskinen was simultaneously hauled in from NWOFHM killers Steel Mammoth. Left brains were promptly separated from right brains. Split Cranium were ready to, uh, split craniums.

First head on the list? YOURS.  

SPLIT CRANIUM - s/t CD/LP/Digital Pre-Order

SPLIT CRANIUM - s/t

IN STORES MARCH 20TH, 2012

PRE-ORDER NOW

TRACK LISTING

1. Little Brother (1:52) 

2. Tiny Me (1:36)   

3. The Crevice Within (1:06) 

4. Blossoms from Boils (4:48) 

5. Sceptres to Rust (2:41) 

6. Black Binding Plague (3:03) 

7. Yellow Mountain (2:26) 

8. Retrace the Circle (8:13)

  

  

  

  

  

SPLIT CRANIUM -Sceptres to Rust 7"/Digital

SPLIT CRANIUM - Sceptres to Rust 7"/Digital

AVAILABLE NOW

7" is limited to 300 and includes exclusive
B-Side: Daniel Menche Mangled "STR" Mix
 

Mamiffer on this Recording: 
Faith Coloccia 
Aaron Turner 
with: 
Alex Barnett (Oakeater)

Demian Johnston on this Recording: 
Demian Johnston

New material from Mamiffer recorded post-Mare Decendrii. One long 18 minute piece - organ, voice, guitar and field recordings. 2 new tracks from Demian Johnston - guitar, metal desk and drones. Comes in an oversized box with 13 photo prints and Cyrillic text made / designed by Faith Coloccia. Limited to 110 copies.

Track Listing: 
1. Mamiffer - Dead Settlers 
2. Demian Johnston - Kallikantzaros 
3. Demian Johnston - Sawdust and Old

Mare - s/t EP
CD, MP3
When I heard this record I felt like I was hearing something perfect. Every note and change and harmony makes sense and resonates within me. I wish Mare would make another record someday. I also wish I could sing like Tyler, and I also wish I could play drums like Caleb. I heard that Tyler had a toothbrush in his back pocket while they were playing in Toronto...what can I say?

Jodis - Secret House
2xLP, CD, MP3
This is one of the saddest and most lonely records I have ever heard, sad and lonely without being dramatic. It sounds very honest, like a twisted version of Fovea Hex. I really appreciate the space the music has, and the time period and personalities of the musicians the recording captures. You can appreciate James Plotkin's exceptional hearing and mastering skills. I tried to make a funny joke about Jodis, but you CANT joke about Jodis, and everyone knows that. This record deflects joking.

BERGRAVEN - Til Makabert Väsen
CD, MP3
When I heard this record I was walking in the rain, it was before the record came out (thanks HHR!). I was listening to it on broken ipod headphones. I listened to it with two bi-polar manic depressives in my car driving in traffic, and all these times I only noticed the music. This is an amazing record. I think this is the most "listened to" record for me of 2009. This record is also not really funny or joke-able.

Old Man Gloom - Christmas
MP3
This record is so fucking awesome, it sounds haunted and it sounds like a bunch of guys were trapped in a recording studio in Salem during a snow storm. In my dream world if I was a dude and I could growl and yell really loud and play electric guitar like I just couldn't stop being influenced by The Dead Man soundtrack, then I would be in this band and I would play live shows and be tired and sweaty afterward. I REALLY wish Old Man Gloom would make some more records...I heard they are going to soon...just saying.

Khanate- Capture and Release
LP, CD, MP3
I don't even need to describe to you my excuse for loving this record. But there are so many good things you can do while listening to Khanate. You can drink coffee early in the morning with your Khanate mug, you can cut the sleeves off of your Khanate shirt and go hiking in the mountains, you can sharpen the Khanate hunting knife you have near your bed while living in the woods, you can drown out your roommates irritating folk music by listening to Khanate really loud, you can appreciate James Plotkin's exceptional hearing and mastering skills, and you can play with your cat by dragging him around with an afghan on the floor while you both listen to Khanate.

First up: Mamiffer/Oakeater Split Cassette. Only three more available through the Dead Accents site. Click here if you want to purchase one or just want more info. Also, I'm told that Faith will have a few on her persons on the upcoming European Mamiffer tour... 

Next Up: Dead Accents is now taking pre-orders for the Mamiffer/Oakeater 2xCassette box sets. According the the Dead Accents blog this thing is not going to be easy to acquire. More info/pre-order here. 

Almost immediately after closing Isis's Wavering Radiant tour, Mamiffer is back on the road. An unstoppable force I tell you.. And, since we are on the subject, I'm going to let you'll in on a little secret... the band is going to have a very limited Mamiffer live tape on their persons... so it would be wise to show up early if your into that kinda thing... If your not in that kinda thing than you'll probably ask that friend of your friend, the one with an alphabetized terabyte of stolen music on his western digital, to keep an eye out... but then again, he's going to wanna hang out and everything that comes out of his mouth makes your squirm. and that gentlemen, is why the physical medium reigns supreme.

New Tour Dates: 

being the busy folks we are we occasionally overlook a few important details. one such detail recently overlooked detail was the inclusion on our home page of a link to a streaming version of the new mamiffer album "hirror enniffer" which is coming out 9/23 on HHR. so here it is: click here . 

if your own ears aren't convincing enough here are some recent reviews of the album: the stranger and bc music . 

the preorder for this album is available through this weekend.

...and now back to our previously scheduled melvins vinyl assembly....