AUGUST 2015 NEW RELEASES STREET DATES 8.7.15 AND 8.21.15
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New Atlantis Records........... 5 New Granada Records........ 14 Organized Crime Records...... 4 Ripple Music....................... 8 Squidhat Records................ 8 WTII Records...................... 9
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“Indonesian psychedelic gods Napolleon deliver an astounding debut of heavy, effects-laden mind bending … This isn’t the paisley pop of Nuggets Vol. II, it’s the flashbackinducing rock of the Psychedelic Salvage Company compilations.”
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“On Time As One Axis, the twosome go nuclear on its sludge-dripping anthems. Noxious chunks invoking Stooges Fun House-era free jazz fits, Sonic Youth-ian skronk and Melvinslike heaviosity are the Invisible Things’ lethal recipe for its cerebral and noisy madness.”
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“10 Songs Public Radio Can’t Stop Playing: You may know Kathryn Calder from her role in the Canadian indie rock supergroup The New Pornographers … [but she] also has a string of beautiful solo albums. The songs are nowhere near as bombastic as the New Pornographers; instead, they rely on a stripped-down, ethereal pop sound built around Calder’s operatically trained voice.”
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1. The von Trapps Dancing in Gold (HNZ 18) 2. Kathryn Calder Kathryn Calder (FUM 43) 3. Doug Benson Promotional Tool (ATG 61) 4. PIG vs. Primitive Race Long in the Tooth (MTP 981) 5. Drakkar Band Drakkar 74 (MPC 110) 6. Juno Reactor The Golden Sun… Remixed (MTP 986) 7. Violent Reaction Marching On (RHQ 158) 8. Upsilon Acrux Sun Square Dialect (NAL 19) 9. Jamison Road Jamison Road (SOJ 44) 10. Piano Interrupted The Unified Field Reconstructed (DNV 226)
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Primitive Race
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Selling Points
• Features members of Pop Will Eat Itself, Prong, Skinny Puppy, and more! • RIYL: Pop Will Eat Itself, Lords Of Acid, KMFDM, Revolting Cocks, Prong, LUXT, Sex Gang Children.
Media & Marketing
• Facebook and Google ad campaigns. • Full servicing to press, radio, and club DJs. • Track samples available on Metropolis website.
Rising forth from the primordial sonic stew of intensive collaboration, industrial supergroup Primitive Race stands ready to take their place as the pure evolution of industrial music — past, present, and future. Evoking the intensity, fury, and excitement of Industrial First Wave, Primitive Race brings together an all-star cast of contributors, each of whom is a “missing link” in the canon of industrial and EBM in their own right. Conceived by bassist, impresario, and Lords Of Acid manager/executive producer Chris Kniker, Primitive Race features regular appearances from Graham Crabb (Pop Will Eat Itself), Erie Loch (LUXT, Blownload, Exageist), and Mark Gemini Thwaite (Peter Murphy, Tricky, Gary Numan). That core is joined by an all-star cast of contributors including Tommy Victor (Prong, Ministry, Danzig), Dave “Rave” Ogilvie (Skinny Puppy, Jackalope), Kourtney Klein (Combichrist, Nitzer Ebb), Mark “3KSK” Brooks (Warlock Pinchers, Foreskin 500, Night Club), Josh Bradford (RevCo, Stayte, Simple Shelter), Andi Sex Gang (Sex Gang Children), and more!
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Erie Loch: music David Ogilvie: music Graham Crabb: music, vocals Mark Gemini Thwaite: music, vocals Christopher Kniker: music Thomas Michael Victor: music, vocals Joshua Bradford: music, vocals Mark Brooks: music, vocals Andi Sex Gang: music, vocals Kourtney Klein: music Track Listing: So Strange • Follow The Leader • Acceptance Of Reality • Addict Now • Cage Rattler • Give Up The Ghost • Taking Things Back • Platinum Balls • Seeing Right Through it All • DJFH • Below Zero Key Markets: Denver, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Portland, Seattle, Dallas, San Antonio, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Miami, Orlando, Ft. Lauderdale, Washington DC, Detroit, Atlanta
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Primitive Race have seen the future of industrial music, and decided it looks much like the thundering, soul-searing past. Viva La Evolucion!
Genre: Industrial Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 989 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 8/7/15 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT
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First release in five years! Reunites For Those Who Were Crucified-era lineup after 17+ years. Recorded/produced by Steve Evetts. Limited press of 1,000 on clear blood-red vinyl. Comes with digital download including three bonus unreleased tracks from a 1993 demo. • RIYL: Cro-Mags, Sodom, Merauder, Integrity, Carnivore, Amebix.
All Out War Dying Gods
Genre: Hardcore Label: Organized Crime Records CD: OCR 62 VINYL: OCR 62 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 LP Jacket, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 8/7/15 Street Date: 8/7/15 8 d
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Since 1991 All Out War has assaulted the masses with their punishing metallic hardcore aggression, and through a multitude of recordings including a pile of singles and EPs, their 1997 debut LP, and four subsequent LPs. Their arsenal of recorded misanthropy and waves of worldwide touring led the band to become a respected staple act for metal and hardcore fans worldwide. In 2013, after several years off the grid, All Out War came crushing back with the reunited For Those Who Were Crucified-era lineup and laid waste at both This Is Hardcore Fest and 2014’s A389 Records Bash. The momentum has been growing ever since. Now nearing the band’s two-and-a-half-decade mark, All Out War proves that age has only refined their killing capabilities on Dying Gods, a brand-new release about to be unleashed upon humanity. Track Listing: Dying Gods • Vengeance Reigns Eternal • Nothing Left To Bleed • Servants To The Obsolete • Choking On Indifference • Arise • God Is Dead Key Markets: Hometown: New York. Also: Chicago, Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles
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• Crucial death industrial sounds from one of the most recognized artists in the field. • Follow up to the well-received An Occasion for Death CD. • Mailing to media devoted to ambient, industrial, noise, and metal. • Exclusive videos made for multiple tracks. • RIYL: Brighter Death Now, MZ.412, Trepaneringsritualen, Gnawed.
The Vomit Arsonist Only Red
Genre: Industrial Label: Malignant Records CD: MGN 77 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 8/7/15 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT 6 d
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Two years after An Occasion For Death, Andrew Grant’s The Vomit Arsonist returns with a vengeance with his second full-length for Malignant, Only Red. Inspired and galvanized by Brighter Death Now’s U.S. shows in 2014, Grant’s latest takes on an even more visceral and dynamic feel than works past, and is unquestionably the heaviest thing he’s ever done. If An Occasion for Death showed moments of self-discipline, no such restraint exists here, as everything about this record feels amped up to an entirely new realm of intensity. This is The Vomit Arsonist in full attack mode, as explosive and bludgeoning percussion loops emerge from a churning, monolithic pit of corrosive electronics, menacing transformer buzz, chain-dragging atmospherics, and gasping machine exhalations. Track Listing: Choice • Only Red • Nothing Matters • It Just Is • I’m Not Fine • No One Can Help You • Unwelcome Peace • GW (Rdx) Key Markets: Hometown: Providence. Also: Boston, Minneapolis, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Portland, San Francisco, Dallas
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• Features Academy Award® winner Henry Kaiser, known for his soundtrack work for Werner Herzog. • Also features Weasel Walter (The Flying Luttenbachers) and Damon Smith. • Press and publicity by New Atlantis Media.
Plane Crash Two is the second document from the legendary improvising power trio of Henry Kaiser, Damon Smith, and Weasel Walter. Kaiser has been active in the improvised music community since the 1970s, bringing his dazzling technique to bear in a myriad of diverse contexts, including Academy Award®-winning soundtrack work for director Werner Herzog. Damon Smith is an acolyte of the FMP school of improvised music, but he also betrays the influence of forward-thinking new music pioneers and be-bop masters, with a proficient voice of his own. Drummer Weasel Walter is notorious for shirking the constraints of genre in favor of making massively original music, whether collaborating with jazz masters or anchoring the most pioneering of avant-rock units, like the Flying Luttenbachers, Lydia Lunch’s Retrovirus, Behold... the Arctopus, XBXRX, Lake of Dracula, and countless other units. Track Listing: Cactus Makes Perfect • False Alarms • Violent is the Word for Curly • Fifi Blows Her Top Key Markets: Hometowns: San Francisco, Houston, Brooklyn. Also: Philadelphia, Baltimore, Oakland, Los Angeles, Austin, Chicago
Henry Kaiser, Damon Smith & Weasel Walter Plane Crash Two Genre: Jazz Label: New Atlantis Records CD: NAL 24 Price Code: J (SRP $9.99) Number of Discs: 1 Custom Wallet, Box Lot 40 Street Date: 8/7/15 6
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• A slab of voracious noise rock/metal. • Press & publicity by Curran Reynolds and New Atlantis Media. • RIYL: Craw, Dazzling Killmen, Fugazi, Mastodon, The Fucking Champs.
“STATS cuts the fat away from metal riffery and refines it into an aggro science.” — SIGNAL TO NOISE SIDE A: Human Butt • NTD • The Freeze, The Fritz • Line of Prime • SIDE B: List Serve • Contact • Dinner Alone: How Does it Feel Key Markets: Hometown: New York. Also: Pittsburgh, Dayton, Washington DC, Baltimore, Atlanta, San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Chicago
STATS Mercy
Genre: Avant Rock Label: New Atlantis Records VINYL: NAL 6441 Price Code: 2J (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 Custom LP Jacket, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 8/7/15 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT 6 d
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STATS is an aggressive, stylistically omnivorous rock trio based in Brooklyn, formed in 2002 under the name Stay Fucked. Mercy is the band’s first full-length release, following a series of EPs. Tracked at Brooklyn’s Strange Weather Studio with engineer Ben Greenberg, the album is the most intense and ambitious STATS recording to date, ranging in style from seething post-hardcore to atmospheric doom and frenetic prog-punk. Primarily an instrumental band in the past, STATS employs vocals extensively here — as well as synths, samples, and other compelling textures — to complement its core guitar-bassdrums palette. The result is an album of mercilessly intense yet richly detailed 21st-century rock music.
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Petrels Flailing Tomb
Genre: Electronica Label: Denovali Records VINYL: DNV 232 Price Code: 2O (SRP $27.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 40 Street Date: 8/7/15 4 024572 821371 d
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• 180-gram vinyl with thick matte covers, printed inner sleeves, and free download code. • The most diverse album of composer/producer Oli Barrett. • Has collaborated with Duane Pitre, Brassica, and Talvihorros. • Features a guest appearance by Never Sol on vocals.
Petrels returns with a thunderous new album, Flailing Tomb, to be released via Denovali Records. Taking the exhilaratingly huge sonic expanse that the band has become known for and pushing it further still, Flailing Tomb draws on a breathtaking sonic palette of influences and instrumentation to craft what is perhaps their strongest release to date. SIDE A: We Are Falling Into the Heart of the Sun • Thangen After Dothe • Orpheus • SIDE B: L. Caution Part One • L. Caution Part Two • L. Caution Part Three
Multicast Dynamics Scape
Genre: Electronica Label: Denovali Records VINYL: DNV 230 Price Code: 2O (SRP $27.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 40 Street Date: 8/7/15 4 024572 821395 d
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• 180-gram vinyl with thick matte covers, printed inner sleeves, and free download code. • Debut album of this project from producer Samuel van Dijk. • First in a series of four concept albums.
An introspective, ethereal, and intense listening experience mixing dark ambient and almost beatless dub techno. Samuel van Dijk is an electronic music producer, sound designer, and media artist from the Netherlands who has released electronic music under a variety of projects, namely Mohlao and VC-118A. With his current project, Multicast Dynamics, he creates everevolving sound textures culminating in intriguing soundscapes while preserving a tranquil cinematic atmosphere. SIDE A: Cell Structure • Hypnotism • Kone • Scape • SIDE B: Surface I • Surface II • Valo
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Multicast Dynamics Aquatic System
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• 180-gram vinyl with thick matte gatefold covers, black polylined inner sleeves, and free download code. • Second in a series of four concept albums.
In his new series of concept albums, electronic music producer Samuel van Dijk moves from an evolutionary to a cosmological scale. With this concept, Multicast Dynamics explores organic and aqueous worlds in a dreamlike and spiritual appearance. Aquatic System is the second installment of the series, written and composed in two remote geographical places: Finland and Fuerteventura. Inspired by the complexity of water, its movement, inhabitants, and hidden energy, the album was assembled mainly using synthesizers and processed field recordings of the ponds, streams, lakes, and oceans of the different locations. SIDE A: Oriva • Unitila • Valta • SIDE B: Amphibi • Sinua • SIDE C: Nebulous • Vaihe • SIDE D: Tie • Vascular • Hiernamaals
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• Follow-up to debut released on John Zorn’s Tzadik label. • Features the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), described as “the new gold standard for new music” by The New Yorker. • Facebook campaign with over 100,000 targets. • Email campaign with over 15,000 targets. • RIYL: Stockhausen, Wolf Eyes.
Mario Diaz de Leon is emerging as a singular voice in contemporary music. With a body of work that cannot be neatly categorized, his music is marked by a sound that is both hallucinatory and intensely physical, and an aesthetic engagement with the role of mysticism in contemporary life. His debut album as composer, Enter Houses Of, was released in 2009 on John Zorn’s Tzadik label and praised by the New York Times, among others. As a solo performer, he is active under the name Oneirogen, a project known for its merging of ethereal synths, brutal distortion, and noise influences. “Hallucinatory intensity.” — NEW YORK TIMES Track Listing: Luciform • The Soul is the Arena • Portals Before Dawn Key Markets: Hometown: New York. Also: Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Seattle, Austin
Mario Diaz de Leon The Soul Is The Arena
Genre: Avant Rock Label: Denovali Records CD: DNV 234 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 8/7/15 4 024572 848118 d
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• A cohesive new album, consisting of tracks produced since 2012, representing their best since the last full album Archipelago. • Facebook campaign with over 100,000 targets. • Email campaign with over 15,000 targets. • RIYL: Exploding Plastix, DJ Shadow, Jaga Jazzist.
“Contemporary, atmospheric, and accessible.” — BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE HHHHH Track Listing: Piano Interrupted: Cross Hands (Hidden Orchestra Remix) • Clarinet Factory: 5 Steps (Hidden Orchestra Remix) • Poppy Ackroyd: Lyre Grounds (Hidden Orchestra Remix) • Macmaster/Hay: Thograinn Thograinn (Hidden Orchestra Remix) • Floex: Saturnin Fire And The Restless Ocean (Hidden Orchestra Remix) • Long Arm: Sleep Key (Hidden Orchestra Remix) • Hidden Orchestra: The Revival
Hidden Orchestra Reorchestrations
Genre: Avant Rock Label: Denovali Records CD: DNV 233 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 8/7/15 4 024572 848088 d
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This new collection of Joe Acheson’s Reorchestrations, including two previously unreleased tracks, takes works by exceptional experimental/classical/folk musicians and passes them through Joe’s studio, where they are intricately reworked with the trademark Hidden Orchestra techniques. The two unreleased tracks are reworkings by members of the HO live ensemble: Poppy Ackroyd and Mary Macmaster. There are also remixes of HO collaborator and occasional live guest clarinettist Tomas Dvorak (AKA Floex), Russian producer Long Arm, Anglo-French duo Piano Interrupted, and Czech clarinet quartet Clarinet Factory.
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• Features Dirk Vermin and Rob Ruckus, stars of A&E show “Bad Ink.” • CD includes seven bonus tribute tracks of popular Vegas bands covering their favorite Vermin songs. • Limited edition tombstone-gray vinyl includes digital download card. • Promoted by SquidHat Records as part of their national print, radio, and social media campaigns. • Social media reach through Twitter and Facebook accounts of over 100,000 fans. • RIYL: The Ramones, The Clash, Social Distortion, Black Flag.
A career retrospective of the legendary Vermin, known as the “Punk Rock Rat Pack” of Las Vegas, featuring all-original tracks from their infamous 20-year career as Las Vegas’ most infamous punk band. Features Dirk Vermin and Rob Ruckus, stars of A&E’s popular “Bad Ink” TV series.
The Vermin The Vermin Must Die
Genre: Punk Label: SquidHat Records CD: SQD 3747 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 50 Street Date: 8/7/15 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT 7 d
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Track Listing: Devil Blonde • Copulate • Girl Says No! • Lipstick Smears & Bloodshot Eyes • Fuck You Too • Molotov • Just Another Nightmare • Roach! • Chewin’ On Glass • Johnny’s Thunder • The Exciting Sounds of Al Martino • Boredom (Was The Reason) • She’s So Tragic • King Of Men • That Haunted Train • Where’s Nikki? • Dead Friends • Cockfight • Santa Was A Cross-Dressing Nazi Key Markets: Hometown: Las Vegas. Also: Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Reno, Los Angeles
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The new kings of heavy psych, blues, and rock. Vinyl includes digital download card. Ads with genre-specific magazines and websites. RIYL: Kadavar, Black Sabbath, Orchid.
The new kings of heavy psych, blues, and rock are ready to unleash magic with their debut album!
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CD Track Listing: Tramplifier • Bed Of Ashes • Slow Burn • Phoenix Ascent • Talismana • Black Horizon • Boogie Bride • Heavy Head • Banshee Call VINYL SIDE A: Tramplifier • Bed Of Ashes • Slow Burn • Phoenix Ascent • Talismana • SIDE B: Black Horizon • Boogie Bride • Heavy Head • Banshee Call
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• Support act for 2015 KMFDM Salvation Tour; previously supported KMFDM on both of their 2013 tours. • Bradley is the live touring drummer for Die Krupps. • Have worked with The Butthole Surfers, Skrew, Pigface, Die Krupps, and The Razorblade Dolls. • Final mixes assembled by Sascha Konietzko of KMFDM. • Full internet and social media blitz including Google AdWords. • Reviews in RE:GEN, Brutal Resonance, Auxiliary, COMA, and more. • RIYL: KMFDM, Pigface, Einstuerzende Neubauten, Die Krupps.
CHANT’s signature tribal-driven sound, immersed within a modern take on classic industrial! Full of punk rock DIY venom, the new album calls out ironic hypocrisies and plays off of every generation’s obsession of the end. Add an extra dose of grinding guitar blasts, haunting noise loops, and a mixing assault from the ultra-heavy beat creator Sascha Konietzko (KMFDM), and CHANT’s Bradley Bills returns with his most dynamic record to date. Brave New Apocalypse screams the heartbreaking truth that nothing lasts forever, but contends that something new always rises. Track Listing: Brave New Apocalypse • Cycles • Manifesto • Repeat Repeat • Universal • Adoration • Dead Muse • Bring Me the Head of the Music Critic • All the Same • Create to Destroy • Song I Never Wanted Key Markets: Hometown: Austin. Also: Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Pittsburg, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, San Francisco, New Orleans, Houston, Atlanta, Denver
CHANT Brave New Apocalypse
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Have performed with Gary Numan, Adam Ant, Infest, and more. Full radio and DJ servicing. Full internet and social media blitz. Reviews in RE:GEN, Brutal Resonance, Auxiliary, COMA, Gothic Beauty, and Orkus. • RIYL: David Bowie, IAMX, Depeche Mode, Dresden Dolls, Rasputina.
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Track Listing: Become the Wraith • I Breathe You • Trepanning • Click • Hide • Predator • The Nameless Game • Love Like Vanity • Unpopulism Key Markets: Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Toronto
AlterRed In the Land of the Blind… Genre: Electronica Label: WTII Records CD: WTI 113 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 8/7/15 8 d
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Last year we introduced North America to the dark and mysterious world of AlterRed with a collection of tracks, entitled The Electro Creep Show, that covered the band’s illustrious career. This release showcased AlterRed’s unique sound and served as the foundation for their upcoming releases. After months in the studio, MikEy AlterRed and Vix Vain have once again emerged with a new masterpiece in the form of the album, In the Land of the Blind… Always striving to explore and expand their sound, AlterRed has crossed into uncharted territories while maintaining the core of mixing avant-garde strings and piano with electronic beats and synths. MikEy’s powerful vocals and dark lyrics tell the tales of love, lust, lunacy, and loss, while acting as the string that ties the whole release together.
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• Celebrating 10 years of thisquietarmy! • Marketing campaign through Viral Propaganda. • RIYL: Nadja, Aun, Jesu, Syndrome, Tim Hecker.
thisquietarmy Anthems for Catharsis
Genre: Dark Ambient Label: ConSouling Sounds CD: CSD 53 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 Street Date: 8/7/15 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT
Anthems for Catharsis marks the follow-up to thisquietarmy’s last fulllength studio album Rebirths, a representative collection of reworked tracks that have defined his purgative live performances. Between back-to-back tours in Europe and Asia, as well as the release of live drone documents as and collaborative works with Noveller, Aidan Baker/Hypnodrone Ensemble, André Foisy/Locrian, and Syndrome/ Amenra, thisquietarmy’s Eric Quach went back to the drawing board in his Montreal studio at the end of 2014. Within the repetitive genre of ambient and drone, thisquietarmy constantly evolves, incorporating new textures and structures into the music — for instance, the kraut-rock shoegaze of Resurgence, or the post-rock doom of Hex Mountains. Anthems for Catharsis sounds very focused but also very very dark, not unlike a ritual cleansing or a detoxification. In dismantling his sound, thisquietarmy almost struck a black metal vein, resulting in a brooding, ice-cold rendering of his signature drones. Track Listing: Ruminations • Purgation_Purification • From Darnkness Redux • Accomodator • Masquerade • Closure Key Markets: Hometown: Toronto. Also: Chicago, Los Angeles, New York
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• Marketing campaign through Viral Propaganda. • RIYL: Wolves in the Throne Room, Paramnesia, Liturgy, Thou.
Toung Belgian doom/black metal band Deuil made quite an impression with their 2013 debut album, Acceptance/Rebuild. Now, 2015 brings us Shock/Deny, further explorations of the stages of loss and grief. For two long and relentless tracks, they probe within the psyche of mourning. The tone is bleak and dark, the music harsh and moody. Their experimental doom — even drone — approach to black metal grinds and grates the soul. The massive sound of Deuil’s “blackgaze” (for want of a better word) gets under the skin and pulls in the listener with brute force. The album might only take 30 minutes, but it will surely leave you gasping for air. Track Listing: Shock • Deny
Deuil Shock/Deny EP
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• First brand-new material in 10 years, and his most complex work yet! • Promos sent to various magazines and radio stations. • RIYL: Kammarehit, Sinke Dus, Allseits, Treha Sektori, New Risen Throne.
Ten years after the now-cult-classic album The Starwheel, Kammarheit finally offers brand-new material in his most complex work yet. Pär Boström returns with his typical atmospheres, both apocalyptic in vision and soothing to the soul, delivering a dense and compelling album of pure, awe-inspiring darkness and meditative ambience. With The Nest, Pär takes us on a subterranean journey through enormous halls of unfathomable depths, and with the new opus he demonstrates once again why he’s become one of the most respected artists in dark ambient. Track Listing: BORGAFJÄLL • UNSEALED • LOWER HALLS • THE HOWL • SPHAERULA • HYPOGAEUM • THE NEST • SUNG IN SECRET • AEON Key Markets: New York, Seattle, Boston, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, San Francisco
Kammarheit The Nest
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• Second album by Dutch dark ambient prodigy. • Promos sent to various magazines and radio stations. • RIYL: Kammarheit, Sinke Dus, Cities Last Broadcast.
Kave is the solo work of Netherland’s Bram Gollin, and his new album Ominousium reflects on mental and physical hardship, offering a glimpse into the past and bringing to light hidden states and emotions. Where some dark ambient music tends to conjure heavy and oppressing atmospheres, Ominousium aims to induce a meditative experience, where inner landscapes are forged and the listener is left to wander through his own interpretations of these cinematic soundscapes.
Track Listing: A House Amongst The Weeds • The Tribes of Nyx • Stuporous • Wind Apathia • Alter Terra • Ominousium Key Markets: New York, Boston, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago
Kave Ominousium
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“Monstrously deep, dark ambient … with a somehow cinematic touch.” — EIBON
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Songs have been featured in various TV commercials. Extensive social media marketing; print & radio advertising. Service to over 700 club & radio DJs, and magazines. RIYL: Rottersand, Alter der Ruine, Aesthetic Perfection.
Los Angeles-based duo Gentleman Junkie is set to bring you their second album with Negative Gain Productions, entitled From The Moment That I Saw You, in August 2015. Still not attached to any particular style, writing only what their mood demands, their sound has evolved and matured yet maintains their original goals: to make you think, to make you feel, and to make you dance. Track Listing: One Last Kiss • If (Feat. Saiyaka) • Moonlit Night • I Strike A Balance • Over and Over • Propaganda By The Deed • The Fire From Within • Zoe • Blinders • Die In LA • Life Is Death Remix (Feat. Saiyaka)
Gentleman Junkie From The Moment That I Saw You
Key Markets: Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: San Francisco, San Diego, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Seattle, Portland, Salt Lake City, Chicago, New York, Boston, Tampa, Toronto, Calgary, Quebec, Detroit, Indianapolis
Genre: Electronica Label: Negative Gain Productions CD: NEG 81402 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 Street Date: 8/7/15 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT 6 d
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• Limited run of 250, with screen-printed jackets and download card. • In-house PR campaign and social media marketing. • RIYL: Belle and Sebastian, Sleater-Kinney, Tegan and Sara.
Wake, the third record by San Francisco’s Social Studies, finds the band diving into deep emotional waters as they explore themes of lost love and the tumult of modern life. It’s a wide-ranging and dynamic record that finds the band in peak form.
STREET DATE AUGUST 7, 2015
“Indie pop that falls somewhere between the sobriety of the Decemberists and the ebullience of the New Pornographers.” — POP MATTERS SIDE A: Territories • Holy One • Drifty • On The Docks • Miles Away • SIDE B. Moment Is Dead • Heart Like A Drum • Convince Me • Tacit Change • Wake
Social Studies Wake
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Key Markets: Hometown: San Francisco. Also: Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, New York, Washington DC, Athens
Delayed to September 2015
Cocksure
Corporate Sting Selling Points
• Second album from the former masterminds behind Revolting Cocks and Acumen Nation. • Limited edition vinyl includes digital download card. • Select U.S. tour dates to coincide with the release. • RIYL: Revolting Cocks, Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, KMFDM.
Media & Marketing
• Extensive Facebook and Google ad campaigns. • Press servicing by Another Reybee Production). • Additional in-house servicing to press, radio, and club DJs.
Cocksure is Christopher J. Connelly (Ministry, Revolting Cocks, Sons Of The Silent Age) and Jason C. Novak (Acumen Nation, DJ? Acucrack, Czar). After offering three separate releases on three different labels in 2014, this year the boys bring out another full-length album on Metropolis one year to the date after their debut full-length. Corporate_Sting delivers 10 punches of innovative industrial-cum-punk cum mega-mixx old school Doc Marten stompers, including a cover of a classic 30-year-old Severed Heads tune. Written and produced by Connelly & Novak at Cracknation Studios, Corporate_Sting lives low on the log of the seedy underbelly of society, taking aim at the exploiters, the thieves, the dealers, and the corruptors, cranking up the heavy drums and the dirty bass while raising the ghost of classic Wax Trax!-era sounds, bathed in future horrors and catastrophe. The album includes a guest “memo” written by Duane Swierczynski, published author of Severance Package, The Blonde, and a writer for the monthly Marvel Comics series “Cable,” plus photography by Black Pearl Photo.
September 18 & 19 Los Angeles & San Francisco with Australia’s legendary Severed Heads September 26 Chicago’s Cold Waves Festival
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Christopher J. Connelly: music, vocals Jason C. Novak: music Track Listing: Porno Drones • Severance Package • Hustler Face • Kollider Skope • O.C.D. Got Game! • Cold Dick • Mighty Mouse • Razor Invader • Harold and Cindy Hospital • Hi Talez Key Markets: Hometown: Chicago. Also: Denver, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Portland, Seattle, Dallas, San Antonio, Cleveland, Columbus, Miami, Orlando, Ft. Lauderdale, Washington DC, Detroit, Atlanta
STREET DATE AUGUST 21, 2015
UPCOMING DATES
Genre: Industrial Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 982 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 8/21/15 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT
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• Sophomore full length from Florida art-punk trio. • U.S. tour to coincide with street date (dates TBA). • Vinyl version is limited to 300 copies on the band’s own No Clear Records imprint, and includes download card. • National publicity campaign. • RIYL: Unwound, Minutemen, Erase Errata, Sonic Youth.
Expanding on the Minutemen-influenced, critically-acclaimed art-punk of 2013’s The Void...It Creeps, Florida’s Permanent Makeup gives us their next full-length Taker. Springing from a collaboratively improvbased writing process throughout 2014, the songs on Taker have a more naturally complex and aggressive approach. “[A] resuscitation of seminal punk’s most vital components.” — PUNK GLOBE
Permanent Makeup Taker
Genre: Alt Rock Label: New Granada Records CD: NGR 49 Price Code: G (SRP $8.99) Number of Discs: 1 Eco Wallet, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 8/21/15 0 d
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“Roger Miller/Mission of Burma-ish squalls, vocals with a D. Boon cadence at times, a few Fall touches … all adds up to something that’s both edgy and melodic.” — SUBURBAN VOICE Label: New Granada Records & No Clear Records VINYL: NGR 49 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 10 Street Date: 8/21/15 6 d
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Track Listing: Hey Taker • Weak in the Knees • Manhater • Distrusted • Moderation • Space Race is Dead • Adult • Blot Out the Sun • Chafing • Not Binary • Information • Subtleties of Shouting • Structure Key Markets: Hometown: Tampa. Also: Austin, Atlanta, Washington DC, New York, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco, Oakland, Seattle, Portland
Selling Points • • • •
Touring in October with IAMX. Marketing to over 500 radio/club DJs. Record release parties, social media marketing, and print advertising. RIYL: Crystal Castles, VNV Nation, The Knife, Pictureplane.
STREET DATE AUGUST 21, 2015
“Newcomers and the committed alike have yet another release to explore, one which consolidates Mr.Kitty’s initial legacy with both howling fury and nurturing warmth.” — I DIE YOU DIE Track Listing: Hell • Mother • Entwine • Shanghai • I Lost You • Discolored • In Your Blood • Flowers for Boys • Cycle of Violence • Spirit of the Forest
Mr. Kitty Fragments
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