ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING
PARAISO U.F.O.
'IAO Chant From The Melting Paraiso
Underground Freak Out' CD (Info) & Limited Edition LP
(Info) Cat# REPOSECD032/REPOSELP032
MAINLINER 'REVELATION SPACE' SHIPPING UPDATE
All three
formats, CD, Vinyl and Cassette are now shipping. Thanks
for your patience and orders. If you're waiting to buy
from a record store, Monday 13th May is the official
release date.
If you
follow me on Facebook, or have pre-ordered the 'gold'
vinyl edition you will know by now that it is no longer
gold ... due to a pressing plant mix up they are now
pressed on transparent swamp green coloured vinyl ...
but thankfully they still look and more importantly
sound killer!
Hope you like them. Andy
WIRE
MAGAZINE REVIEW MAINLINER & BAD GUYS LP'S
KAWABATA
MAKOTO'S MAINLINER 'REVELATION SPACE'
artist:
KAWABATA MAKOTO’S MAINLINER
title:
Revelation Space
formats: CD, White or Gold Vinyl LP & Cassette
catalogue # REPOSECD036/REPOSELP036/RSCASS01
cd
barcode # UPC 666017260228
vinyl
barcode # UPC 666017260211
CD
Tracklisting :
1.
Revelation Space (11:31)
2.
Taitan (5:27)
3.
D.D.D. (2:05)
4. The
Dispossessed (9:28 CD EXCLUSIVE)
5. New
Sun (20:29)
LP
Tracklisting :
A1.
Revelation Space (11:31)
A2.
Taitan (5:27)
A3.
D.D.D. (2:05)
B1. New
Sun (20:29)
Cassette edition has same tracks as CD but in
slightly different running order.
One of the most celebrated Japanese Underground bands
have returned! It may have taken over 12 years, but
Kawabata Makoto, guitar guru and head honcho in Acid
Mothers Temple, has finally decided to get his
celebrated 'psychedelic solid free attack group' back
together. Joining original Mainliner members Kawabata
Makoto (motorpsycho guitar) and Koji Shimura (drums) is
new recruit Kawabe Taigen of Bo Ningen (bass/vocals) and
the trio still kick up one hell of a sonic racket.
Confusion surrounds the exact details of the recording,
but they seem to date from December 2011, and from
Kawabata's mountain top temple studio-cum-home. The man
himself, as always, is shying away from sharing too many
of the magick details about the Mainliner rebirth. And
the stark, minimal black with gold sleeve keeps the
mystery intact, apart from the grainy band photo on the
rear.
All said, 'Revelation Space', is a comeback statement of
intent. And it's firmly in the same 'in the red / raw'
camp as the original trio's classic 'Mellow Out'. From
the initial speaker shaking feedback burst of opener
'Revelation Space', right through to the closing
20-minute epic 'New Sun' (which showcases Taigen's
otherworldly howl perfectly) there is no let up in the
brutal delivery.
This will no doubt delight those Mainliner diehards who
never thought they'd see the day again, and all those
with a love of over the top guitar howls and punishing
feedback levels, but always under pinned by some
righteous grooves.
The band will be touring the UK in September, and the
rest of the world will follow.
CD and Cassette contain bonus track, 'The Dispossessed'.
Here's a
Youtube teaser video for the album ...
DETHSCALATOR 'RACIAL GOLF COURSE NO BITCHES'
artist:
DETHSCALATOR
title:
Racial Golf Course No Bitches
label:
Riot Season
formats: Bubblegum Pink Vinyl LP
catalogue # REPOSELP035
barcode
# UPC 666017260112
This
release is expected to ship early June.
Full
release details and pre-order news to be announced
shortly.
LP
Tracklisting:
A1
Black Percy (1:51)
A2
Grotto Crank (4:19)
A3
World War Two Hitler Youth Dagger (4:07)
A4 Felt
Leg (3:46)
A5
Midnight Feast (2:54)
B1 Aids
Atlas (2:10)
B2 Shit
Village (4:31)
B3 It’s
What They Call The Clubhouse, Arsehole (5:33)
B4
Internet Explorer & Friends (2:44)
B5 Pine
Pot (2:40)
Release
Info :
Slow,
angry, psychedelic and gigantic - like a paisley
glacier full of Stanley Knives, flowing over Brian
Blessed’s foot - Dethscalator move at their own
pace. They formed in 2008 in Hackney, London, and
have spent the last five years building up to the
release of their debut album Racial Golf Course No
Bitches. (The band’s drummer Stu Bell said of the
name: “What does it mean? I just had this image in
my head of a sign you’d see on a golf course by a
picket fence that would make absolutely no sense
whatsoever. I think it came about because we found
out you can buy 500 golf tees with Dethscalator
printed on them for £30.”) And it may have become
the Chinese Democracy of noise rock over the last
half decade, but now that it’s here, we can safely
reassure you that it was well worth the wait.
Road
hardened and tightened the band have shrugged off
their looser, sludge-blasted origins to reconnect
with their American 80s post hardcore, pig fuck
roots, with riffs n’ hooks worthy of Killdozer,
Jesus Lizard, Unsane, Butthole Surfers and Fudge
Tunnel but have mixed this up with giant slabs of
monolithic doom, coruscating beams of white noise
and whirling vortices of space rock.
However
it is the deep, dub influenced production job; the
way that layers and layers of feedback have been
marshalled into a horrific orchestral wall of sonic
horror and the brightly fizzing lysergic sheen to
the whole shebang that will bestow a blessing on
your ears. This is guaranteed to tweak your brain’s
long dormant and atavistic proto-human god nodules
and have you punching your walls like William Hurt
as the multi-coloured amoeba man at the end of
Altered States after he’s spent an afternoon in a
floatation tank on Ayahuasca and seen a goat with 13
eyes nailed to a crucifix.
Howling
drunkenly into the abyss has never been so much
fun... and this time it comes with a free golf tee.
"Dethsalator
have a front man who looks like a minotaur dipped in
Immac bellowing horrific stuff that you’d sooner not
know. They execute inverse psychedelia and anti-funk
in equal measures. There are only two types of
people in this world: those who love Dethscalator
and those who have not yet had enough crystal meth."
John Doran - THE QUIETUS
"Bursts
of cyclical riffage, that sound almost looped,
occasionally lifting off into some serious space
rock territory, before falling back into another
stretch of woozy metallic noise rock, culminating in
the weird brooding noise rock slowjam that ends the
record, murky and washed out and gloomy, weirdly
melodic and super dark and creepy. Rad rad rad."
AQUARIUS RECORDS
Full
details will be sent out to mailing list subscribers
soon.
Thanks.
Andy
BAD GUYS 'BAD GUYS' DEBUT LP OUT NOW!
All
mailorder copies come with a free MP3 download and a
poster while stocks last
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 ATPfestivals,
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
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
FREE
RS DIGITAL DOWNLOAD SAMPLER 12/13
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.
You can
download it in numerous formats for FREE
here
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.