RIOT SEASON : News & Updates

BAD GUYS is an album that rides a horse and drives a van. It doesn’t own any furniture and it hasn’t bothered sorting out digital tele, it just watched the channels disappear one by one until they were all gone. Then it kicked the screen in and broke its foot and didn’t go to hospital. It drinks, it fucks, it fights, it throws up and it gets up and fucks again. It’s not complicated, it’s heavy rock music. There are concepts there, somewhere, but they’re crushed under a tonne of rock, and rendered irrelevant. And rightly so, because who wants to complicate a party?. Stop analyzing and start nutting off.

Lazy comparisons time, take this lot and bash em together, Melvins, Black Sabbath, Harvey Milk, Motorhead, ZZ top, Trans Am, Killdozer, 90’s Am Rep, Thin Lizzy, MC5, Deep Purple etc

The Band :

BAD GUYS. A midlander, a southerner, a Canadian and a Hungarian. Three necks, two kicks and no mic stand. Long hair, grey hair, bald-heads and beards. A shitload of rock. The works. Sounds like a plan. As well as playing with the likes of Circle and Oxes, these guys have earned a reputation for crashing all sorts of parties. They’ve played three ATP festivals, played on the plinth in Leicester Square, played Field Day, pissed off a lot of security, got a bunch of fines, and helped a lot of
people have a lot of fun. Formed through a mutual desire to play some rock music that’s not had the life squeezed out of it by some kind of po-faced academic mangler, they make the heavy stuff and they play it loud, the way it should be

LP Tracklisting :

ART OF BURNING WATER 'THIS DISGRACE'. LIMITED EDITION VINYL LP (& DOWNLOAD) OUT NOW

The first RS release of 2013 is available now. 'This Disgrace' is the fourth album by Londoners Art Of Burning Water and i'm happy to be putting it out as a co-release between RS, SuperFi & Swarm Of Nails. I'm getting about 150 copies for RS side of things. All vinyl orders come with a free MP3 download sent via email at time of shipping. The band are touring throughout December / January to promote the album.

artist: ART OF BURNING WATER
title: This Disgrace
formats: Vinyl LP & Download
catalogue # REPOSELP034

Art Of Burning Water were born out of the ‘white flats’ of Hanwell (W7) and the pre-gentrified homes of Hammersmith (W6) in West London in 2001. The sound of suburban alienation and misfit isolation forged an awkward visceral sound that was too punk for the metallers, too noisy for the arthouse crowd and too weird for seemingly everyone else. AOBW continue to plough their own furrow despite personal injury and often chronic disorganisation. with self-promotion taking a back seat to the importance of sound creation to combat the often ugly hardships of everyday living.

Like Slayer gone sludge, AOBW channel the prime noise-rock of vintage Zeni Geva and Godflesh with the more complex rhythmical riff obsessions of the Melvins, Keelhaul and mid-period Voivod. In saying that however, AOBW also adhere to the original punk philosophy of ‘anything goes’. There are no restrictions. Punk isn’t about Discharge (as good as they were and are), studded belts and crusty bum flaps. Punk is the heart to tell the narrow minded to get fucked.

“This Disgrace” continues the more spontaneous writing approach of third album “Love You Dead” with some emotionally draining dirge sections akin to a more budget “Children Of God”-era Swans, “What’s This For?” period Killing Joke as well as the “Souls At Zero” beatings of Neurosis. All subject to opinion of course.

LP Tracklisting :

A1. You Won't Know Till You've Cried (5:56)
A2. It Didn't Get Any Better (3:29)
A3. Lacerations To Hands And Faith (4:34)
A4. Way Of Bastard (1:12)

B1. We Failed (2:53)
B2. Since His Collapse (4:14)
B3. The Live You Live (2:41)
B4. Way Of Snake (2:38)

"What do you do when one of the greatest bands in the world release and album on one of the greatest labels in the world? That’s right…Art Of Burning Water on Riot Season. Although extremely welcome, it is a little bit surprising. Riot Season specialise in drunk as hell overdrive, gonzoid freak out noise rock of the highest order, whereas sludgcore thinkers AOBW are an outfit of pummelling metal precision. The results are dazzling. AOBW give IMO their best album to date here. Not only do they appear to be a metal band, they also incorporate a potent concoction of textural unpredictabiltiy that rather like the Melvins, Tad or Goatsnake twist out the sound into endless fresh and exciting forms. The guitar tone is thick an merciless, the drums relentless. When I first saw them back 10 years opening for Mastodon and High On Fire at the Underworld I was literally blown away. I thought they were the next big thing. In metal life spans are much longer, and it is my sincerest wish that AOBW find that big audience. But as long as they are making records as fxxked up, huge and tone-owning as this, that’s all that matters." FOXY DIGITALIS

To end the year, and welcome in the new one properly, I've put together a FREE download compilation. It features stuff from 2012, a few older bits and THREE new/unreleased as yet songs from upcoming 2013 releases from Bad Guys, Art Of Burning Water & Dethscalator.

Hope you like enjoy it, please feel free to share it around. Just make sure you send em back to me if they like what they hear.