Music is serious business and you have to be willing to power through on your journey to worldwide success, and Petrol Hoers (with all his Horse Problems and Cross Word Puzzles), is here to guide you.
Of the record, Hoers neighs: "I HOPE YOU ENJOY MY ALBOM PLEASE PRETEND YOU DID NOT HEAR THE BUCKFAST PUN I WOULD LIKE TO USE THAT IN ANOTHER SONG…"
Mixing elements of comedy, industrial, grindcore, gabba and punk music, Hoers is your real alternative in 2019.
Not much is known about this hefty equine phenom, but he does really like Squats, and believes that its very important while you give his new album, ‘I Don’t Know, Just Horse Stuff, I Guess’ (released on August 31) a listen, that you do some too.
Uniform & The Body’s monolithic collaboration, Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back, has been unleashed via Sacred Bones. They’ve unveiled their new video ‘Day of Atonement’ via Consequence of Sound’s Heavy Consequence.
The video is a Super 8 film by artist Alexander Barton. He explains, “I wanted to make an abstraction of violence. The film’s character is in low resolution, a changing of disguises, an ambiguous identity, shadowed ideologies and masked by the skyline. The hooded figure is evasive to society. In this collection of images, he has prepared himself and represents the threat of the unknown.”
Comprised of an amalgam of abrasive influence that spans Swans-y dirge and purge, Whitehouse’s clenched-jaw noise, middle-period Ministry’s penchant for metallic post-industrial everything, New Order’s nose for melodic emotionality, and Juicy J-inspired beats, Uniform and The Body’s approach delves deeper down the rabbit hole than before, igniting a sonic world of terror and bliss poised to grip the throats of fans yet again.
Watch the video here:
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Uniform Live Dates continue…
08/19: San Diego, CA – Casbah *
08/20: Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar *
08/22: San Antonio, TX – Paper Tiger *
08/23: Austin, TX – Barracuda *
08/24: Denton, TX – Rubber Gloves *
08/25: Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall *
08/26: New Orleans, LA – Poor Boys
08/27: Birmingham, Alabama – The Firehouse
08/29: Tallahassee, FL – Wilbury
08/30: Tampa, FL – Orpheum *
08/31: Gainesville, FL – High Dive *
09/01: Atlanta, GA – Masquerade *
09/03: Nashville, TN – Exit/In*
09/04: Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel *
09/06: Baltimore, MD – Joe Squared
09/07: Washington, DC – Black Cat *
09/08: Jersey City, NJ – White Eagle Hall*
09/10: Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere *
09/11: Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club *
09/12: Portland, ME – Port City Music Hall *
09/14: Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace *
09/15: Grand Rapids, MI – Pyramid Scheme*
09/17: Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall *
09/18: St. Louis, MO – Delmar Hall *
09/20: Denver, CO – Marquis Theater *
09/21: Salt Lake City, UT – Metro Music Hall*
09/23 Seattle, WA – Neumos *
09/24: Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge *
09/26: San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall *
09/27: San Jose, CA – The Ritz *
09/28: Camarillo, CA – Rock City *
09/29: Los Angeles, CA – Echoplex *
* w/ Boris
The Body Live Dates continue…
06/09: Denver, CO – Denver Hex at Lost Lake Lounge
The spellbinding new album from Chelsea Wolfe is out in just under a month and today she has given us another glimpse of her more folk leaning sound. Her new single, ‘Be All Things’ is an emotional journey and shows Wolfe at the top of her songwriting game.
Of the track, Chelsea Wolfe says “’Be All Things’ is about navigating the world as a woman: reconciling the soft and the strong, balancing the warrior and the goddess, and wanting to be everything and nothing at the same time. Telling stories through song allows me to explore so many facets of myself; so many lives within. Some days I want to be quiet and reach my roots into the earth, and some days I want to spring up from the ground and be all things.”
“The video is a culmination of footage taken in a few magical locations,” says Wolfe. “Around southwestern Iceland, while shooting the Birth of Violence album cover, inside Moaning Cavern in Northern California – a marble cavern 450 feet deep that I visited as a child and sang in as an adult, sending my voice out as heavy as I could against the powerful dampness and sparkles of the ancient cave walls. A special spot in nature not far from my home where the Manzanita grows up like a red and green tunnel, and a historic California hotel from the Victorian era where many from the past rested their heads.”
There are rituals surrounding all acts of surrender; the strange dance we perform before the many endings scattered throughout our lives, before the next beginning rises from the dust. Cold in Berlin’s new album Rituals of Surrender, released on 11th October via London label New Heavy Sounds, offers up thunderous modern fables, crawling from the wreckage of an ordinary life – dark and hopeful – standing tall in the debris.
With new single ’The Power’, Cold in Berlin return with a dark slab of gothic doom just in time to soundtrack a burning world, which they describe as, ‘dark, black and infinitely heavy’. Listen now:
Chelsea Wolfe has returned with another stunning track from her forthcoming album, Birth Of Violence out September 13th on Sargent House. The song is accompanied by this video which Wolfe tells us is an “expression of freedom and beautiful humans being themselves.”
She continues, “It began as a sort of homage to a scene in the Paul Thomas Anderson film Magnolia, where the characters are singing along to the Aimee Mann song “Wise Up,” but I wanted our version to be explored through the lens of The Tarot. I’ve been reading tarot cards for myself for many years, and researching the symbolic expressions of the cards for this video made me want to dive even deeper. To represent that, I played both The Fool and The High Priestess cards in the video, to embody both the beginning of the journey, and the realization that the sacred knowledge I was seeking was inside me all along. We cast friends to play a few other tarot archetypes, and Karlos’ idea was to bring the symbols and signifiers into the contemporary; deconstructed, and made everyday – “the magical and the unexceptional.” I loved that. At the same time, we really wanted to challenge the binary of the traditional tarot cards, and give them more diversity, which is something important that many cool artists and witches are doing. I’m such a fan of Karlos Rene Ayala as a writer, director, documentarian and friend, and have looked forward to making a video with him for a long time.”
Watch the video here:
Wolfe will be embarking on an extensive, acoustic North American tour this Autumn starting with a special performance at Pasadena Daydream Festival with her full band. All tour dates are listed below.
Chelsea Wolfe Acoustic Tour:
31/08: Pasadena, CA – Pasadena Daydream Festival * (Non Acoustic Set) 18/10: San Diego, CA – Observatory North Park 19/10: Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom 21/10: Salt Lake City, UT – Metro Music Hall 22/10: Estes Park, CO – Stanley Hotel 24/10: Chicago, IL – Metro 25/10: Detroit, MI – Senate Theater 26/10: Toronto, ONT – Queen Elizabeth Theatre 27/10: Montreal, QC – Le National 29/10: Boston, MA – Royale 31/10: Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer 01/11: New York, NY – Brooklyn Steel 03/11: Washington, DC – 9:30 Club 04/11: Charlotte, NC – McGlohon Theater 05/11: Atlanta, GA – Terminal West 06/11: Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge 08/11: Dallas, TX – Texas Theatre 09/11: Austin, TX – Levitation 10/11: Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall 12/11: Santa Fe, NM – Meow Wolf 13/11: Tucson, AZ – Club Congress 15/11: Los Angeles, CA – The Palace Theatre 16/11: San Francisco, CA – Regency Ballroom 18/11: Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom 20/11: Seattle, WA – The Showbox 21/11: Vancouver, BC – Vogue Theatre
* All dates with special guest Ioanna Gika except 8/31
Canadian composer Scott Morgan shares a video for the track ‘Equivalent 6’, taken from his 12th long-player as Loscil, Equivalents.
The album takes its title from an influential series of early 20th century photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, abstracting clouds into miasmic, painterly canvases of smoke and shadowplay. It’s a deeply fitting analog for Morgan’s own musical process across the past two decades, fraying forms and tones into widescreen mirages of opaque texture and negative space. The name Equivalents referred to Stieglitz’s notion of the photographs as being equivalent to his “philosophical or emotional states of mind;” the same could be said of these eight weighty, shivering chiaroscuros of sound. Each piece unfolds and evolves enigmatically, adrift in low oxygen atmospheres, shifting dramatically from pockets of density to dissipated streaks of moonlit vapour.
The entirety of the record was created specifically for the album with the exception of ‘Equivalent 7’, which began as a dance score for frequent collaborator Vanessa Goodman. The album version of this track was reworked with Vancouver musician Amir Abbey aka Secret Pyramid.
Spotlights have shared a video for the track ‘Mountains Are Forever’ taken from their latest album Love & Decay which is out now via Ipecac Recordings. The video arrives as the band commence their first headline tour across the US, having previously shared the stage Deftones, Melvins, Quicksand, Hum, Glassjaw, Pelican and Pallbearer – dates below.
The monolithic collaboration between industrial-noise post-everything bands Uniform and The Body continues with a second entry, Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back. Comprised of an amalgam of abrasive influence that spans Swans-y dirge and purge, Whitehouse’s clenched-jaw noise, middle-period Ministry’s penchant for metallic post-industrial everything, New Order’s nose for melodic emotionality, and Juicy J-inspired beats, Uniform and The Body’s approach delves deeper down the rabbit hole than before, igniting a sonic world of terror and bliss poised to grip the throats of fans yet again.
They’ve now shared the album’s lead track ‘Penance’, which Uniform’s Michael Berdan explains, “has to do with an ongoing attempt to hold oneself to a higher standard than you did yesterday. Human beings are bound to mess up as often as not, which can lead to either teachable experiences or nihilistic resign. I grew up surrounded by religious types who could act like monsters six days out of the week as long as they were willing to say ‘sorry’ to some priest and pray a rosary on the seventh. Continuing in malicious behaviour and demanding arbitrary absolution is a garbage way to live. However, if we take account of where we’ve done harm to others and ourselves and endeavour to learn and not repeat these actions, then maybe we can grow into empathetic and loving people.”
Listen to ‘Penance’ here:
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Uniform Live Dates:
06/07: Groningen, Netherlands – Vera
07/07: Leper, Belgium – Leper Fest
09/07: Malmo, Sweden – Plan B
10/07: Stockholm, Sweden – Hus 7
11/07: Anyksciai, Lithuania – Devilstone Festival
12/07: Kutná Hora, Czech Republic – Creepy Teepee Festival
13/07: St. Petersburg, Russia – Serdce Club $
14/07: Moscow, Russia – Pluton $
16/07: Bratislava, Slovakia – Protokultura
17/07: Kosice, Slovakia – Collosseum Club
18/07: Ostrava, Czech Republic – Colors Of Ostrava Festival
19/07: Berlin, Germany – Kantine Berghain
20/07: Den Haag, Netherlands – Grauzone Summer Festival
21/07: Bristol, UK – Crofters Rights +
22/07: Hull, UK – The Polar Bear +
23/07: Leeds, UK – Temple Of Boom +
24/07: Cardiff, UK – The Moon +
25/07: London, UK – Electrowerkz +
26/07: Paris, France – Espace B
27/07:Bamberg, Germany – Pizzini
28/07: Rokycany, Czech Republic – Fluff Fest
19/08: San Diego, CA – Casbah *
20/08: Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar *
22/08: San Antonio, TX – Paper Tiger *
23/08: Austin, TX – Barracuda *
24/08: Denton, TX – Rubber Gloves *
25/08: Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall *
26/08: New Orleans, LA – Poor Boys
27/08: Birmingham, Alabama – The Firehouse
29/08: Tallahassee, FL – Wilbury
30/08: Tampa, FL – Orpheum *
31/08: Gainesville, FL – High Dive *
01/09: Atlanta, GA – Masquerade *
03/09: Nashville, TN – Exit/In*
04/09: Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel *
07/09: Washington, DC – Black Cat *
08/09: Jersey City, NJ – White Eagle Hall*
10/09: Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere *
11/09: Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club *
12/09: Portland, ME – Port City Music Hall *
14/09: Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace *
15/09: Grand Rapids, MI – Pyramid Scheme*
17/09: Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall *
18/09: St. Louis, MO – Delmar Hall *
20/09: Denver, CO – Marquis Theater *
21/09: Salt Lake City, UT – Metro Music Hall*
23/09: Seattle, WA – Neumos *
24/09: Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge *
26/09: San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall *
27/09: San Jose, CA – The Ritz *
28/09: Camarillo, CA – Rock City *
29/09: Los Angeles, CA – Echoplex *
$ w/ Thou
+ w/ Bad Breeding
* w/ Boris
The Body Live Dates:
04/07: Roskilde, Denmark – Roskilde Festival #
05/07: Kassel, Germany – Goldgrube *
06/07: Leipzig, Germany – Conne Island *
08/07: Prague, Czech Republic – Modra Vopice *
09/07: Budapest, Hungary – Durer Kert *
10/07: Munich, Germany – Backstage !
11/07: Paris, France – Gibus #
12/07: London, United Kingdom – The Dome #
13/07: Dour, Belgium – Dour Festival #
15/07: Nijmegen, Netherlands – Valkhof Festival *
16/07: Berlin, Germany – Zukunft Am Ostkreuz *
17/07: Oberhausen, Germany – Drucklufthaus %
18/07: Crispendorf, Germany – Chaos Descends Festival
20/07: Birmingham, United Kingdom – Supersonic Festival
21/07: Sheffield, United Kingdom – Doomlines V 22/07: Glasgow, United Kingdom – Broadcast %
23/07: Manchester, United Kingdom – Soup Kitchen %
24/07: Bristol, United Kingdom – Rough Trade %
26/07: Moscow, Russia – Mutabor
27/07: St Petersburg, Russia – Opera
28/07: Rokycany, Czech Republic – Fluff Festival
29/07: Milan, Italy – Macao %
30/07/: Bologna, Italy – Freakout Club %
31/07: Linz, Austria – Kapu %
01/08: Kosice, Slovakia – Tabacka Kulturfabrik %
02/08: Katowice, Poland – OFF Festival
05/09: Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
06/09: Denver, CO – Denver Hex at Lost Lake Lounge
Russian Circles have shared the blistering new track ‘Milano’ from the formidable trio’s latest album Blood Year incoming on 2nd August, followed closely by live dates in the UK and Ireland, with a full European tour still to be announced later in the year. With their latest album, Russian Circles forsake the sonic crossroads of divergent musical paths found on albums like Guidance and Memorial to offer up the most direct collection of songs in their discography.
Listen to ‘Milano’ here:
RUSSIAN CIRCLES IRELAND/UK DATES
AUG 08 Dublin, IRE @ Button Factory *
AUG 09 Galway IRE @ Roisin Dubh *
AUG 10 Belfast UK @ Limelight 2 *
AUG 12 Glasgow, UK @ G2 +
AUG 13 Manchester, UK @ Gorilla +
AUG 14 London, UK @ Earth +
AUG 16 Bristol, UK @ ArcTanGent Festival Support from
Following the announcement of IAMTHEMORNING’s new studio album The Bell, due for release on Kscope on 2nd August, the Russian duo, comprising of virtuoso classical pianist Gleb Kolyadin and charismatic vocalist Marjana Semkina have premiered the first single to be taken from the new opus ‘Ghost Of A Story’.
You can watch the video for ‘Ghost of a Story’ here:
Following the announcement of IAMTHEMORNING’s new studio album The Bell, due for release on Kscope on 2nd August, the Russian duo, comprising of virtuoso classical pianist Gleb Kolyadin and charismatic vocalist Marjana Semkina have premiered the first single to be taken from the new opus “Ghost Of A Story”.
Marjana explains more on how “Ghost Of A Story” fits into the album’s song cycle “’Ghost of a Story’ starts the second part of the song cycle that is The Bell, and we decided to launch it with a brighter note to have a bigger contrast with all what comes after. It’s a song about awakening, reinterpreting and questioning yourself and the world and looking for deeper meanings. It’s a song about how pain dims with time – about the fact that in the end, every tragedy that we suffer through is just a drop in the ocean of suffering of men – that we survive anyway. "Nothing feels real, these scars won’t heal – Nothing’s worth tears, it was alright from very start"
The live studio clip was filmed by the band’s long-time collaborator Eggor Kree at Lendok studios in St Petersburg.
The duo’s dedication to writing forward-thinking and thought-provoking music sees them create a new album of impressive depth and playability. A modern blend of rock, classical and folk, The Bell makes use of 19th Century song cycles – a style established by Schubert – that cohesively tells 10 individual stories. Vocalist Marjana Semkina explains in more detail “The Bell is divided into two parts but each song is a story in its own right, all of them are fuelled by human cruelty and pain caused by it. Cruelty is the central theme of the album – together with all the different ways we respond to it and cope with it. This album is multi-layered and is, in many ways, a journey inwards, taking us inside of a mind of a person suffering from abuse or neglect or open hostility of the society or a specific person.
“Aesthetically, the album is based on themes taken from Victorian England’s art and culture, but more in a way of turning our attention to the fact that at its core, humankind isn’t making much progress in terms of emotional maturity.”
The Bell was recorded in March 2019 across Russia, the UK and Canada in several studios: Mosfilm in Moscow; Lendoc and Red Wave in St Petersburg; Noatune in London; The Studio at Sunbeams, Penrith; and Union Sound Company in Toronto. With engineering and mastering handled by Vlad Avy.
The album features the track “Blue Sea” which featured in demo form on the band’s studio film Ocean Sounds.
The album’s beautiful cover artwork was created by the band’s favoured collaborator Constantine Nagishkin. Marjana explains the imagery “on the cover is a safety coffin bell – it’s a 19th century idea born from people’s obsessive fear of being buried alive, having been provoked by a lot of press attention to supposed cases of premature burials across the country. and the fact that Edgar Allan Poe frightened many readers by vividly describing the premature burial phenomenon in his short stories.
“One of the inventions to escape such a terrifying ordeal was a so called “safety coffin” that existed in many different configurations, including the one that had a bell attached to the gravestone with a thread that was attached to it and went all the way underground into the coffin so that the when the poor soul awoke and on realizing he’s been buried alive, could ring to let the people outside know what has happened.
“Although the idea is a bit morbid I feel there is hope in the artwork too – no matter how low you are or desperate you think your situation is, you can still call for help, but more than that you have to call for help if you need it”.
