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NEWS & REVIEWS GANG OF FOUR

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“Gang of Four put the rhythm in punk, with minimal funk fills and syncopations worthy of James Brown, buried under scratchy harmonics … vocal duties now rest in the hands of new addition John ‘Gaoler’ Sterry, as well as The Kills’ Alison Mosshart and German luminary Herbert Grönemeyer, plus cameos from Big Pink’s Robbie Furz and Davie Bowie bandmate Gail Ann Dorsey.” — SPIN

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As Kathryn tours with The New Pornographers, the buzz is growing for her new album, available in April from File Under: Music! “Calder hangs out in the background and plays all the cool synthy shit at The New Pornographers’ gigs. She’s kinda like Eno in Roxy Music … [this is] the follow-up record to her critically praised and Polaris-recognized sophomore album Bright and Vivid.”

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JEN WOOD & Jeremy Enigk

Jen Wood supports Jeremy Enigk (of Sunny Day Real Estate) on a handful of West Coast dates!

March 28 San Diego, CA @ The Irenic March 29 Los Angeles, CA @ Troubadour March 30 San Francisco, CA @ Rickshaw Shop April 1 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater April 2 Seattle, WA @ Neumos

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Qntal VII Selling Points

• U.S. version includes two bonus tracks!

• Hugely popular outside of traditional music markets, including Renaissance Faires.

• Qntal’s “number” series has scanned nearly 10,000 units to date.

• Recently featured on Projekt Records’ Ghosts Captured compilation.

• RIYL: Dead Can Dance, Enya, Vas, Irfan, Loreena McKennitt.

Media & Marketing • • • •

Publicity by Another Reybee Production.

Extensive Facebook and Google ad campaigns.

Full servicing to press, radio, and club DJs. Track samples available on Metropolis website.

Praised by critics and the public alike, Qntal masterfully blends medieval melodies, languages, and instruments with elements of modern electronic music. Over the span of two decades and six previous albums, the band has become one of the most popular in the medieval music scene.

The seventh studio album ushers in a new era for Qntal. Elegant artistry mingles with danceable sounds, with the group always committed to the historical importance of the original piece.

Alongside the band’s reinterpretations of medieval sources, such as Carmina Burana, the theologian Meister Eckhart, and the Ars Nova composer Guillaume de Machaut, they now also advance as far as the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.

One example, the enchanting poem “By the Light of the Moon” written by British poet Lord Byron, is just as well transformed into a dignified piece of musical art as “Tyger,” from the poem by nature mystic William Blake. With “Schnee,” the album even dares to enter the present: fantasy author Markus Heitz, known for his Dwarves saga, conceived this ode to the “eternal night.”

— GOTHIC PARADISE “Qntal continue their journey, sweeping into venues and casting spells and then sweeping out again …

Thoroughly enjoyable, long may they charm us.”

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Michael Popp: music, vocals Sigrid “Syrah” Hausen: vocals Sarah “Mariko” Newman: vocals Track Listing: Flaming Drake • Tenacious Love • Tyger • By The Light Of The Moon • Blow Northerne Wynd • Swebend • Frühlingslied • Schnee • In Dem Begyn • Rossignolet • Flame Amoureuse • Musa Venit • Melos Lacrimosum • Nox Aeterna • Schnee [Leon Rodt Mix] • Schnee [Progressive Mix] Key Markets: New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Portland, Seattle, Dallas, San Antonio, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Miami, Orlando, Ft. Lauderdale, Washington DC, Detroit, Atlanta

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“This legendary and eclectic group … combines medieval melodies and texts with modern electronic music [to create] an awesome sound that is sometimes powerful, other times relaxing and ethereal, but always beautiful.”

Genre: Electronica Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 979 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 5/12/15 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Selling Points

• A rare, intimate acoustic performance.

• Bonus DVD includes material not available digitally.

• RIYL: Necessary Response, SKOLD, Combichrist.

Media & Marketing • • • •

Publicity by Another Reybee Production.

Extensive Facebook and Google ad campaigns.

Full servicing to press, radio, and club DJs. Track samples available on Metropolis website.

On August 31, 2013, Daniel Graves did something never imagined possible: he played an entirely acoustic concert as Aesthetic Perfection.

Pulling it off took a year of planning, months of preparation, and weeks of rehearsal. Even then, nothing was perfect. How could it be? No computers, no backing tracks, nothing but what each musician brought to the stage. This unique experience was recorded at Complex in Glendale, CA, a venue renowned for its incredible sound system and intimate concert experience.

Genre: Industrial / Acoustic Label: Metropolis Records CD+DVD: MTP 973 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 2 Amaray, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 5/12/15 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT 7

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Graves said of the experience “I was more musically vulnerable than I had ever been before. The whole experience taught me that it’s ok to be vulnerable, it’s ok to be flawed, it’s ok to make mistakes, it’s ok to relinquish control and put your trust in others. Though much of this has been part of the Aesthetic Perfection ‘philosophy’ since Day 1, putting that into practice is easier said than done … I’m proud of what my friends and I accomplished, and I’m grateful to them for their hard work and creativity that made my vision come to life.”

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Daniel Graves: vocals Lauren Krothe: piano, backing vocals Marquis Howell III: upright bass Tim Van Horn: drums Tim Skold: acoustic guitar CD Track Listing: The Great Depression • Tomorrow • Inhuman • Vapor • Devotion • Hit The Streets • Antibody • The Siren • Pale • Spilling Blood • One And Only • Big Bad Wolf • Spit It Out DVD Contents: Interview • The Great Depression • Tomorrow • The Siren • Pale • Big Bad Wolf DVD Specs: NTSC, Region 1, 16:9 (Widescreen), Color, English (Stereo), Not Rated, Run Time: 29 min

Previously AVAILABLE Aesthetic Perfection

Aesthetic Perfection

Key Markets: Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Portland, Seattle, Dallas, San Antonio, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Miami, Orlando, Ft. Lauderdale, Washington DC, Detroit, Atlanta

‘Til Death CD: MTP 927 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1

All Beauty Destroyed CD: MTP 764 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1

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Selling Points • • • • •

Extensive touring throughout the U.S. in 2015.

LP pressed on white vinyl; includes download card.

Full PR campaign through Brixton Agency.

Radio campaign by A Man A Plan A Canal.

RIYL: Fucked Up, Single Mothers, Trash Talk, Off!, Big Black.

For their debut album on File Under: Music, NEEDS decided to step back from the chaos that has always fueled their live shows to purposefully craft a record that inspires you to never stop listening.

Bassist Glenn Alderson has a picture hanging on his fridge of vocalist Sean Orr lying shirtless on the floor, screaming into a microphone propped up in a shoe. The photo was taken at the explosive final show for Orr’s last band, which Alderson saw as the beginning of his new band.

After getting guitarist Derek Adam (You Say Party) onboard, he got Orr back on the mic. Guitarist Colin Spensley and drummer Devin O’Rourke witnessed the early NEEDS performances and took no convincing to join the orchestra for Orr’s performance piece, in which nothing he can get his hands on is safe. R.I.P. pineapples and pint glasses.

Track Listing: Rescue Don • Walk, Cycle or Take Transit Like Jehu • The Only Good Condo is a Dead Condo • Clowns to the Left of Me, Dzokhars to the Right • Nag Champion (Smoke Break) • N.E.E.D.S • We Forgot the Records to Our Record Release Show • The Accursed Share • We Don’t Know Why We Are Protesting is Why We Are Protesting • Did You Just Call Me Lord Fuck Head?

Key Markets: Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, New Jersey, Detroit, Chicago

NEEDS NEEDS

Genre: Hardcore Label: File Under: Music CD: FUM 45 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 50 Street Date: 5/12/15 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT 6

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Selling Points • • • • •

Duo of Mark Shippy (U.S. Maple) and Jim Sykes (Parts & Labor).

Engineered by studio legend Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Swans).

Beautiful packaging by the legendary Ian Anderson & Designer’s Republic.

Press, radio, and publicity by Curran Reynolds and New Atlantis.

RIYL: U.S. Maple, Sonic Youth, Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, Shorty, Parts & Labor, Grooms.

“Jumbly ghost-core phantom prog caveman-classical music!”

— ROCTOBER SIDE A: Rockets • Four Figures • KNIII... • F • SIDE B: Once it Starts • ttZZz... • Hypopansonicteleconsonance • Nouxalliance Consortiant Key Markets: Hometown: Chicago, New York. Also: Philadelphia, Dayton, Cleveland, Bloomington, Louisville

Invisible Things Time AS One Axis

Genre: Alt Rock/Noise Label: New Atlantis Records VINYL: NAL 744 Price Code: 2J (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 25 Street Date: 5/12/15 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT 6

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New Atlantis Records is thrilled to present Time AS One Axis, the sophomore recording by the mighty Invisible Things! Comprised of veteran guitarist Mark Shippy (U.S. Maple, Shorty) and drummer & noted ethnomusicologist Jim Sykes (Parts & Labor, Grooms), this is a colossal sound fountain of heavy, atmospheric noise rock engineered by studio legend Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Swans) at B.C. Studio in Brooklyn. Cathartic squalls of feedback coalesce with forceful, rapturous percussion, evoking both the searing intensity of NY NoWave, and the skewed songcraft of the SKiN GRAFT/Load Records stables in equal measure.

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• Members of The Love Me Nots, The Seeds, The Woolly Bandits, Zero Zero, Tongue, and more.

• Members have toured with Iggy Pop, The Damned, and Billy Corgan.

• Singles already being aired on Sirius/XM: Underground Garage, KMXU, KROQ (LA), KEXP (Seattle), KWSS (Phoenix), KQ1067 (Phoenix), WRUR (Rochester), and 89.9FM Radio Valencia (San Francisco).

• Serviced to radio, press outlets, bloggers, and podcasts.

• RIYL: Joan Jett, Runaways, White Stripes, Iggy Pop, Cramps.

Motobunny Motobunny

Genre: Rock Label: Rusty Knuckles CD: RTK 27 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 Street Date: 5/12/15 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT 6

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Motobunny promises foot-stomping, glitter-flinging, bass-booming American rock. The band was formed in 2014, by four longtime friends in the backstage chaos of an Iggy Pop concert. After years of sharing green rooms, tour vans, back lines, and seedy motel rooms, they decided to storm the stage together as one thundering, powerhouse rock band with two magnetic frontwomen. The four members wrote the band’s self-titled full-length debut together, recorded in Detroit at Ghetto Recorders with Jim Diamond (White Stripes, Electric Six), mixed in Phoenix at Flying Blanket Recording with Bob Hoag (Dear in The Headlights, The Format), and mastered in Fort Collins at The Blasting Room with Jason Livermore (Rise Against).

“Iggy Pop meets Icona Pop.” — HYPE MACHINE Track Listing: The Other Side • Shake Me • Let’s Go Out • Red Rover • Drown • Motobunny • Apocalypse Twist • My Boyfriend Is A Ghost • You’re Killing Me • Thinkin’ About Me • Spider & Fly • I Warned You Key Markets: Hometown: Los Angeles, Phoenix. Also: Detroit, Seattle, Vegas, San Francisco, Austin, Charlotte

Selling Points

STREET DATE MAY 12, 2015

• Ten-year anniversary edition of Have Heart’s debut release!

• Pressed on one-sided color vinyl, in gatefold jacket with free digital download.

• New artwork by Pat Flynn from Have Heart and Sam from Triple B. • Has scanned over 42,000 units to date; each of their previous LPs sold over 10,000 copies.

• Toured extensively with Gorilla Biscuits, Bane, Trapped Under Ice, Rise & Fall, Madball, and more.

• RIYL: Bane, Turning Point, Champion.

Have Heart What Counts

Genre: Hardcore Label: Triple B Records VINYL: 3BS 45 Price Code: 2D (SRP $13.99) Number of Discs: 1 Gatefold LP Jacket, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 5/12/15 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT 7

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It has been 10 years since Have Heart’s debut 7” What Counts was released, and as a celebration Triple B Records has pressed all the songs from the CD version (which included the 7” plus tracks “Dig Somewhere Else” and “Reinforced” by Outspoken) onto one side of a 12”. These are housed in a gatefold jacket featuring new artwork by Pat Flynn from Have Heart and Sam from Triple B. The tracks have been remastered at New Alliance in Cambridge, MA. This is a onetime pressing, so when it’s gone, it’s gone forever.

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Track Listing: What Counts • Get The Knife • Something More Than Ink • What Counts • Dig Somewhere Else • Reinforced (Outspoken cover) Key Markets: Hometown: Boston. Also: Richmond, Philadelphia, New York, Atlanta, Orlando, Washington DC, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Chicago

Selling Points

• Darkly hilarious debut album, with an incredibly powerful and personal take on death and lost love.

• Named one of 2014’s Top 16 Comics in Chicago by Chicago Magazine.

• RIYL: Louis CK, Doug Stanhope, Anthony Jeselnik.

Sean White’s debut album is an unflinching and deeply personal rumination on two very specific topics: death and divorce. Hailed for being a “gem” by RE:Com Chicago Comedy magazine, and for “killing it” by the Chicago Tribune, Sean was just listed as one of the Top 16 Comics in Chicago by Chicago Magazine and has been performing in clubs around the world for over eight years. His brutally honest style of quick, thought-provoking material landed him in the finals of the Hong Kong International Comedy Competition, with entrants from over 11 countries. Originally from Alabama, Sean is now located in Chicago and can be seen in showcases, clubs, and family reunions throughout the Midwest and South.

“An essential rumination about loss [with] a point of view unique among comics.” — CHICAGO TRIBUNE Track Listing: All You Need to Know • You’ll Live • Benefits • Training Wheels • Damage • Iron Man • Brotherly Love & Strange Gifts • Fat Ashes • One Divorce, Please! • Reactions • Native Mistakes • What I Left Behind • Registries • Love ‘em & Leave ‘em Key Markets: Hometown: Chicago. Also: New York, Los Angeles

Sean White Dead & Gone

Genre: Comedy Label: aspecialthing records CD: ATG 60 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number of Discs: 1 Eco Wallet, Box Lot 100 Street Date: 5/12/15 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT 8

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• Available on CD or 180-gram LP with free HD download code.

• Kit Downes has been nominated for the prestigious Mercury Prize.

• Catchy melodies woven into complex time signatures, with hints of haunting trip-hop and post-rock.

• Extensive social media campaigns; service to press & radio.

• RIYL: Tim Berne, Aphex Twin, Deerhoof, Albert King, Flying Lotus.

Troyka is an experimental British trio that makes rich, enthralling instrumental music. Featuring Mercury Prize nominee Kit Downes on Hammond/synths, Chris Montague on guitar/loops, and Josh Blackmore on drums, this is definitely not your usual Hammond organ trio!

UPCOMING DATES

June 24 Rochester, NY – Rochester Jazz Festival June 25 New York, NY – Rockwood Music Hall Track Listing: Arcades • Life Was Transient • Ornithophobia • Magpies • Thopter • Bamburgh • The General • Troyka Smash • Seahouses Key Markets: Portland, New York, Los Angeles

Troyka Ornithophobia

Genre: Jazz Label: Naim Jazz CD: NAI 210 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 Street Date: Available Now !

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An Allegro crossover title

STREET DATE MAY 12, 2015

“Sounding both deep-rooted and as modern as the moment — spikily abstract at times, gracefully lyrical or traditionally rock-bluesy at others.” — THE GUARDIAN HHHH

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• Nashville-produced, rocked-up country music!

• Press releases to TV and radio outlets, as well as print and online publications.

• Targeted Facebook ad campaign.

• RIYL: Miranda Lambert, Sugarland, Lady Antebellum, Martina McBride.

Jennifer DePalma, Brent Duersch, and Laurie Heltsley — the members of Cincinnati-based country trio Jamison Road — have rocked audiences across the country with their cleverly crafted songs, topnotch musicianship, and lively connection with listeners. Their new album, recorded in Nashville, features a dozen tracks written and composed by the trio, each exhibiting the thought-provoking lyrics, powerful vocals, soaring harmonies, and driving guitars for which Jamison Road has come to be recognized.

“Heartfelt country music offerings armed with intricate riffs and commanding female vocals that give an enormous strength and soul to each and every song.” — ARENA

Jamison Road

Jamison Road

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Track Listing: Call it Home • Another Day • Coaltown • That’s Enough • I Know Now • After You • Slow it Down • Way Up High • Shut Up and Love Me • Don’t Repeat It • Let Me Outta Here • Girls’ Drinkin’ Song Key Markets: Hometown: Cincinnati. Also: Cleveland, Columbus, Louisville, Lexington, Nashville, Chicago, Los Angeles

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Selling Points • • • •

Limited edition 7” vinyl includes bonus track on download card.

Stereogum track premiere in February 2015 received a rave review!

Promo via tour press & social media.

RIYL: Hüsker Dü, Lemuria, Pink Razors, Tiger Trap.

STREET DATE MAY 12, 2015

Singer/guitarist Sarah Blumenthal began to play music with Late Bloomer’s Joshua Robbins in 2013. After a few months the project seemed to be morphing into a band, so they enlisted It Looks Sad drummer Garrett Herzfeld, who was a perfect fit. The group continued to write new songs, and entered the studio in late 2014 to record the songs for this 7” release at Legitimate Business (Junior Astronomers, Torch Runner), with mastering by Carl Saff (Young Widows, California X, Priests, RVIVR).

Alright Alright

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Aerobic International & Negative Fun 7-INCH: AEI 160 Price Code: G (SRP $8.99) Number of Discs: 1 7” Sleeve, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 5/12/15 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT 8

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“It’s more than alright — it’s actually pretty great … they have a lock on nostalgic, straightforward punk with a decidedly sentimental bent.

Take the ridiculously fun and catchy lead single ‘Cold Feet’ — it’s earnest, a little bratty, and totally sounds like it could be some longlost bonus track from the Clueless soundtrack.” — STEREOGUM SIDE A: Mixed Signals • Cold Feet • SIDE B: Watercolors • Pollen & Allergies (bonus track on download card) Key Markets: Hometown: Charlotte. Also: Washington DC, New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles

Selling Points • • • •

Project from curator of the Supernormal Festival (Brighton, Oxfordshire).

Promotion through Viral Propaganda.

Targeted Facebook ad campaign.

RIYL: Plurals, Sunn O))), Boards of Canada, Tim Hecker.

Ekca Liena, the solo project of Daniel W.J. Mackenzie, uses varying degrees of drone, ambience, rhythm, and noise to create dynamic, dramatic music. Melancholic quietude, psychedelic landscapes, and doomed guitar passages are key aspects of the overall sound, although glimpses of everything from warm electronica to modern classical shine through. Graduals is the first Ekca Liena full-length in over two years, and the official sequel to the dreamscapes of the critically acclaimed Slow Music For Rapid Eye Movement.

“While for all accounts the drone found within is fundamentally dynamic and complex, Ekca Liena still manages to retain the disarming allure of spherical aural journeying.”

— HEATHEN HARVEST Track Listing: Out Fir • Mattie Devore • Summoning Dust • Free Precipitation • Precip / Epilogue • Fields Forever • Ky Ra Key Markets: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles

Ekca Liena Graduals

Genre: Alt Rock/Ambient Label: ConSouling Sounds CD: CSD 45 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 Street Date: 5/12/15 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT 3 481574 679996 D

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• Promo campaign through Viral Propaganda.

• Targeted Facebook ad campaign.

• RIYL: Mogwai, Blueneck, Aidan Baker, Greg Haines, Syndrome.

Le Seul Elément is the solo project of a French musician who does not want to be known by his real name, and this has everything to do with the way he sees this project: there is an air of danger coming from the music, which seems to come from a ghost or some otherworldly force, as an abstract shadow-play translated to music.

Silence plays as much a part in this music as does sound. He describes his music as a mix of classical piano, noise, ambient, and post rock.

Key Markets: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles

Le Seul Elément Meradiam

Genre: Alt Rock/Noise Label: ConSouling Sounds CD: CSD 49 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 Street Date: 5/12/15 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Track Listing: 01 03 47 • Jancee • Heol • Meradiam • Tehee • Dëm • Essist

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• Deep ambient side project of Martin Stürtzer, of acclaimed ritual ambient project Phelios.

• Close to an hour of incredibly pure, hypnotic drones and cosmic drift.

• Beautiful digipak with matte finish and metallic ink designed by well-known artist Alonso Urbanos.

• Promos to web outlets and magazines dedicated to industrial, dark ambient, and electronic music.

• Audio teasers and promotional videos on YouTube, Soundcloud, Bandcamp, and Vimeo.

• Interviews in high-profile underground metal and electronic magazines.

• RIYL: Phelios, Steve Roach, Sleep Research Facility, Northaunt.

Sphäre Sechs Enceladus

Genre: Alt Rock/Ambient Label: Malignant Records CD: MGN 83 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 50 Street Date: 5/12/15 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT 6

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Follow-up to the acclaimed Tiefschlaf CD (2012), this project from Phelios’ Martin Stürzter and Christian Stiztel finds the duo traveling even further into space, beyond the reaches of light and into realms never before explored. While the overall approach is similar to Tiefschlaf, the seven tracks that comprise Enceladus feel weightier and darker; a glorious amalgam of drift and synth drone that seems to extend beyond any visual measure, the tones and textures floating off into an infinite expanse, pulled and stretched by an unseen gravitational force. Space-inspired dark ambient can be a tricky thing; it has been attempted by many with some measure of success, but few capture the coldness, stillness, and awe-inspiring beauty of the interstellar void as brilliantly as Sphäre Sechs.

Track Listing: Enceladus I • Enceladus II • Enceladus III • Enceladus IV • Enceladus V • Enceladus VI • Enceladus VII

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Key Markets: Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Boston

Selling Points • • • •

Six-panel digipak with insert.

Service to radio and club DJs. Print & web advertising via various outlets.

RIYL: Austra, Alter der Ruine, Haujobb, Trust.

STREET DATE MAY 12, 2015

Black Nail Cabaret is a Hungarian synth-noir duo from Budapest.

Formed in 2008, the group consists of vocalist Emese, who participated on the latest album from German mastermind Daniel Myer’s experimental electronica project Architect, along with keyboard player Sophie.

“The ‘Satisfaction’ single blew me away … the darkwave beats that these ladies have put behind these moving lyrics will make you move, become inspired, and bring bodies to the dance floor.” — SLUG

Black Nail Cabaret Harry Me Marry Bury Me Me Bite Me Genre: Electronica Label: Negative Gain CD: NEG 81802 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 Street Date: 5/12/15 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT 8

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Track Listing: Hair • Blonde • Dora • Lovely Girl • Dance For You • Satisfaction • Right On • Change Me • Down Again • Burial Party Key Markets: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Boston, Miami, Orlando, Chicago, San Diego, Portland, Seattle, Austin, Phoenix, Tucson, Salt Lake City, Philadelphia, New York, Dallas, Cleveland, Columbus

Selling Points

• Unique epic music, melodic and atmospheric, with extensive use of traditional and folk instruments.

• Experienced band with an established fan base.

• Promos to all print & web outlets, as well as underground webzines, blogs, and radio stations.

• Online promotion including heavy use of social media.

• Album teaser and clips on YouTube.

• RIYL: Manowar, Bathory, Running Wild, Folkearth, Accept.

Hailing from Athens, Greece and formed in 2003, Sacred Blood quickly established themselves as a unique epic metal band due to their use of traditional folk instruments. The band is now back with its third CD, which focuses on the myth of Jason and the Argonauts.

The use of instruments like Irish bagpipes and bodhran — as well as female choir vocals and narrations in Ancient Greek — give the music a completely new dimension. The album features a number of guest appearances including that of Nicholas Leptos (Arrayan Path, Warlord), who lends his voice for a duet in the album.

Track Listing: Legends of the Sea - The Epic of Apollonius (Argonautica) • Hellenic Steel • Hail the Heroes • Legacy of the Lyre • To Lands no Man Hath Seen • Call of Blood • O’er the Tomb (Beyond the Pillars of Heracles) • Friend or Foe • Enchantress of the East • The Golden Fleece Pt. I • The Golden Fleece Pt. II Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, Boston

Sacred Blood Argonautica

Genre: Metal Label: Pitch Black Records CD: PTB 35 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 Street Date: 5/12/15 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT 7

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• A unique blend of progressive metal, filled with cinematic passages and very melodic lines.

• Thirteen tracks, clocking in at 60 minutes.

• Promos to all print & web outlets, as well as underground webzines, blogs, and radio stations.

• Online promotion including heavy use of social media.

• Album teaser and clips on YouTube.

• RIYL: Pain of Salvation, Beyond Twilight, Symphony X, Epysode, Savatage.

Track Listing: Shadows Still • The Finest Art of Feeding • The Becoming • Under Dying Stars • In Sickness and in Hell • The Death of All Morrows • Dismissal • In Terms of Twilight • Because He’s Made of Flesh • For Each Man Kills • Chronicles • The Man Who Cried Wolf • Shapeshifter Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, Boston

Orpheus Blade Wolf’s Cry

Genre: Metal Label: Pitch Black Records CD: PTB 36 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 Street Date: 5/12/15 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT 7

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Progressive and heavy metal, film music and musicals, a concept fantasy that is an allegory to real-life endeavors — all of these are the cornerstones of Orpheus Blade, a project led by Adi Bitran. Armed with an “all or nothing” attitude that has made her bleed for her creation, she chose only the best to accompany her on this journey to her first album, Wolf’s Cry. An eclectic collection of shapes and colors, this is unique metal with layers upon layers of cruel guitars and carefully written lyrics.

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Selling Points

• Features members of Front Line Assembly, Stiff Valentine, SMP, Left Spine Down, and 16Volt.

• As a production team, Deathproof has worked with Jewel, Marcy’s Playground, 16Volt, Angelspit, The Gothsicles, Front Line Assembly, Ego Likeness, Aesthetic Perfection, Caustic, and many more.

• Full press, college radio, and club DJ servicing.

• Full social media blitz including Google AdWords.

Deathproof is a Canadian-American electronic music duo formed by producer/singer Chris DeMarcus (Front Line Assembly, Stiff Valentine) and drummer/singer Jason Bazinet (Front Line Assembly, 16Volt). Keyboardist/singer Kerry Peterson (Stiff Valentine) and drummer Galen Wailing (Left Spine Down) complete the line-up for Deathproof’s debut album, set to come out on WTII Records in 2015. Primarily known for their remixes of industrial dance tracks, Deathproof has retooled tracks for Information Society, Aesthetic Perfection, System Syn, MC Lars, Unit 187, Angelspit, Mesh, and over 50 other electronic and rock artists. They’ve also produced full records for Stiff Valentine, Sounds of Mass Production, and Slave Unit.

Deathproof Set to Smash

Genre: Industrial Label: WTII Records CD: WTI 108 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 50 Street Date: 5/12/15 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT 8

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Track Listing: Bloodrush • Streets of Rage II • Psychotic Reaction • Bitcrush • Shitlist • Headshot • Crypttappa • Power • Grimetown • Set to Smash • Headshot (Instrumental) Key Markets: Hometown: New York, Vancouver. Also: Seattle, Chicago, Milwaukee, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, Dallas, Denver, New York, Philadelphia

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The Eye of Time ANTI

Genre: Avant Rock Label: Denovali Records VINYL: DNV 209 Price Code: 2O (SRP $27.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 40 Street Date: 5/12/15 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT 4 024572 747947

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Piano Interrupted The Unified Field Reconstructed Genre: Avant Rock Label: Denovali Records VINYL: DNV 226 Price Code: 2O (SRP $27.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 40 Street Date: 5/12/15 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT 4 024572 801694 D

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180-gram vinyl features thick matte covers with spot varnish print, 12-page booklet, and free digital download. The Eye of Time is the solo project of French musician Marc Euvrie, whose musical development is deeply connected with the French DIY punk and hardcore scene although he has been classically trained as well. With his new album, ANTI, four letters take us to the most extreme and darkest recesses of the mind, influenced by the likes of Third Eye Foundation, Portishead, Neurosis, DJ Shadow, Björk, Sigur Rós, Edvard Grieg, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

180-gram vinyl features thick matte covers & printed inner sleeves, with free digital download. Piano Interrupted is the brainchild of London-based pianist and composer Tom Hodge and French electronic producer Franz Kirmann.

Last year’s release The Unified Field was well-received and critically acclaimed, finding its way onto a number of “best of the year” lists. Now, 2015 brings a stunning remix of the album featuring reinterpretations by Hidden Orchestra, Floex, John Lemke, Saffronkeira, Origamibiro, Franz Kirmann, and Second Moon of Winter.

SIDE A: A Perfect World • Retrospective Memory • Collapse • SIDE B: ANTI • Embrace The Truth, Face The End Of All Things

SIDE A: Cross Hands (Hidden Orchestra Remix) • Two or three things (Franz Kirmann Remix) • Accidental fugue (Origamibiro Rework) • Darkly shining (John Lemke Rework) • SIDE B: Emoticon (Floex Remix) • Lost coda (Saffronkeira Reinvented) • Camera obscura (Second Moon of Winter Remix)

Selling Points

• First release with Ripple Music.

• Ads with genre-specific magazines and websites.

• RIYL: Down, Pantera, Clutch, Motörhead, Orange Goblin.

Dirty, gritty, and heavy, Switchblade Jesus shows everyone how things should be done. Their take on sludgy stoner rock is bar none as they crush everything in sight!

Track Listing: Into Nothing • Bastard Son • The Wolves • Sick Mouth • Equinox • Renegade Riders • Copperhead • Oblivion Key Markets: Hometown: Corpus Christi. Also: Houston, Houston, Dallas, Austin, New Orleans, New York City, Baltimore, Washington DC, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco

Switchblade Jesus Switchblade Jesus

Genre: Rock Label: Ripple Music CD: RPL 2584 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 100 Street Date: 5/12/15 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT 8

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First live album from Ape Machine, recorded at Freak Valley Fest.

Single LP in a gatefold jacket, with a bonus DVD of the concert.

Ads with genre-specific magazines and websites.

RIYL: Led Zeppelin, Rival Sons, Scorpion Child, Orchid, Melvins.

A fantastic live recording — plus a bonus DVD of the concert — from the prestigious Freak Valley Fest in Netphen, Germany catches Ape Machine at their very best, delivering a thunderous set!

Track Listing: Wear Me Out • The Sun • Black Night • Strange Are The People • Grind Of Defeat • Ruling With Intent • Gun You Down • Everybody Bleeds • Tyrant’s Arm • Angry Man • Mangled

By The Machine

Key Markets: Hometown: Portland. Also: San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Chicago, New York City, Washington DC

Ape Machine Live at Freak Valley

Genre: Rock Label: Ripple Music VINYL+DVD: RPL 2560 Price Code: X (SRP $31.99) Number of Discs: 2 Gatefold LP Jacket, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 5/12/15 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT 8

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3LT Musicology

Eremite Records

M80 Music

500 Records

Esperanza Plantation

Malignant Records

Red Giant Records

54°40’ or Fight!

EyesofSound

Mazarine Records

Reflection Records

6131 Records

Fancy Records

Meaty Beaty Records

Requin Records

Aerobic International

Fight Fire with Fire

Meester Records

Revelation Records

Reboot Stereophonic

Airgo Music

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MegaPlatinum Records

Revenant Records

Alone Records

Firehouse 12 Records

Metal Postcard Records

Ripple Music

Antenna Farm

Fivecore Records

Metropolis Records

Riti Records

Ares Records

FiXT

Minky Records

Rivalry Records

Arf! Arf! Records

Fortunate Son Recordings

Mint 400 Records

Run for Cover Records

Ariwa Records

Frame Up Music

Modular Moods

Rusty Knuckles

Arkam Records

Fun Fun Records

Monolathe Recordings

Sailor’s Grave Records

aspecialthing records

Geisha Boy Records

MuSick Recordings

Second Shimmy

Australian Cattle God

Get Outta Town Records

Negative Gain

Semprini Records Skeleton Crew Records

Auxiliary

Go-Kart Records

New Atlantis Records

Awake Productions

Grass Roots Record Co.

New Granada Records

Beatville Records Benten Tokyo Big Bender Bit Riot Records

TH

Blood & Ink Records

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Skin Graft Records Snarf Inc. Sojourn Records Solitaire Records

S

Black Numbers

Signed By Force Sixty Nine Apple Recordings

Sonic Flux

Bobok Ltd

Soulbeats Records

Boompa Records

Sounds Are Active

CaseQuarter

Spectral Voice Recordings

Cash Sell-Out Productions

Spirit of Orr

Central Control International

SquidHat Records

Chairkickers Union Music

Standard Recording Co. Straight On Records

Cider City Records

Subconscious Communications

Colorado Mountain Goat Records Consouling Sounds

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Cockroach Media

OC

Cobra Records

ST

Coalmine Enterprises, Inc.

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Cloverdale Music

SA

Circadia Records Closed Casket Activities

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Chicken Ranch Records

SC

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Conspiracy Records

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The Fever Zone The Record Machine Thick Records Think Fast! Records Thorp Records THP Records Trash Art! Sound and Culture Three Ring Records Toxic Ranch

COP International

Gravy Records

New Rag Records

Toxic Shock

Corleone Records

Gunnshy Records

New School Records

Triple-B Records

Count Your Lucky Stars

Heinz Records

Nicotine Records

TTT Records

Crazy Boy

High Two

No Karma Records

Twelve Gauge Records

Crossroads of America

Indecision Records

No Sleep Records

Undergroove Records Upland Records

Cyclic Law

Interscope Records

OHEV Records

Dead Truth Recordings

Iodine Records

Organized Crime Records

Vendetta Music

Defiled Under Music

Jailhouse Records

Panic Records

Vile Beat Records

Denovali Records

Joe Pogo Records

Patac Records

We Got Power Films

DC-Jam Records

Kaiser Records

Per Capita Records

Words of War Records

Digital World Audio

Kid Tested Records

Pirates Press Records

Wreck-Age

Distortion Productions

Khepera Records

PIG Records

WTII Records

Downtown Academy

KOI Records

Pitch Black Records

Xemu Records

Durty Mick Records

Lentonia Records

Platinum City Entertainment

Youngblood Records

Electric Frankenstein

Lockin’ Out Records

Ponk Media

Yoyo Records

Engine Studios

Longshot Music

Ratchet Blade Records

Zeno Records

Engineer Records

Lovitt Records

Reaper Records

Zodiac Killer Records

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