The special 30th anniversary editions of Sigh’s groundbreaking and boldly experimental second album Infidel Art are out now on Peaceville. The new release is available on a selection of formats including a limited marble vinyl LP, standard black vinyl LP, 2CD, and cassette. Alongside the release, the band have also shared a new lyric video for the track ‘The Zombie Terror’, created by Matt Vickerstaff.
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Speaking on the new edition, bandleader and songwriter Mirai Kawashima shared -
“I am well aware that Sigh’s albums released via Cacophonous Records in the 90s have been hard to find for a long time. Actually so many labels tried to re-release those albums, but it never worked. However, finally the wait is over! Soon you can get them on both vinyl and CD via Peaceville Records. Of course the albums are way more primitive than what we are doing today, but they definitely are the albums that shaped who we are today. And what really surprised me was that those 4 albums were released within 5 years. How productive we were!”
INFIDEL ART VINYL EDITIONS: MARBLE VINYL LP AND BLACK VINYL LP
Infidel Art is also available as a Double CD Edition and a collectible Cassette Edition. The CD includes a rare first mix of the entire album, as well as additional tracks ‘The Zombie Terror’ from the ‘Far East Gate In Inferno’ compilation, plus songs originally included for a split release with Kawir, having also received a new transfer from the original DAT source.
All formats apart from the cassette also include a new interview with main-man Mirai Kawashima conducted by Dayal Patterson of Cult Never Dies, delving into the history and legacy of the album.
Wisconsin’s industrial death metallers CRAWL dropped a new lyric video for the song ‘No Way Out’, taken from the album with the same name released on June 27th via THC: Music/Virgin Music Group.
Pioneering Midwestern Industrial-Metal act CRAWL initially formed in 1989 in Green Bay, WI, under their original moniker, Nothing Sacred. They recorded several well-received demos, before changing their name to BLEED. The band released its seminal EP Womb in 1993, marking a violent stylistic shift for the band, moving heavily into the realm of Industrial-Death Metal.
Showcasing bombastic drum machines coupled with grotesque samples, synthetic bass, ferociously growled vocals, and an ultra-modern down-tuned progressive thrash sensibility, making the band an immediate standout in the Glam/Grunge era of the early 90’s. Bleed quickly became a major draw throughout the Midwest, performing multiple times at the legendary Milwaukee Metal Fest, and becoming the go-to opening act for major Death and Industrial acts coming through Wisconsin, sharing stages with the likes of Godflesh, Entombed, Malevolent Creation, Grave, and many more.
After signing to Olympic Records in 1994, the band changed their name to CRAWL, unleashing the classic LP Earth, showcasing a brutal industrial edge, married with innovative tunings and time signatures. CRAWL quickly found a niche in the burgeoning Industrial-Alt-Metal scene, with the rise of bands like Godflesh, Entombed, Prong, Pitchshifter, and Fear Factory, receiving glowing reviews from top Metal mags like Metal Maniacs. Crawl would follow-up Earth with Construct, Destroy, Rebuild, their first and only release without Danz, who exited the band at the end of the Earth cycle. Featuring several songs co-written with Danz prior to his departure, DeJardin assumed lead vocal duties for Construct, Destroy, Rebuild, and the corresponding touring, showcasing a more stripped-down, hardcore approach to the band’s sound, reflective of the burgeoning underground post-hardcore and nu-metal scenes rapidly developing at the time.
CRAWL stayed active for the better part of 2 years supporting the album, including several dates on the ‘97 Vans Warped Tour with Blink 182, Limp Bizkit, Social Distortion, and tons more, as well as tours alongside Acumen Nation, 20 Dead Flower Children, and more. After a successful run in support of the latest album, the band went on an indefinite hiatus that would last for almost two decades.
In 2018, the band reconnected with fellow Green Bay native and record industry executive Thom Hazaert, president of THC: Music, then managing the relaunched COMBAT RECORDS with former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson, who would go on to reissue Womb in 2019. The band would reunite with the classic line-up of Danz, DeJardin, Pantzlaff, Kabacinski along with drummer Josh Hovland for a handful of live shows. This included several dates supporting Ellefson and Hazaert and their band ELLEFSON, Taproot, and more.
Now, 35 years out from the band’s formation, CRAWL prepares to unleash their latest Industrial-Metal masterpiece No Way Out. The band’s first studio LP in almost 30 years, in stores June 27th 2025 via THC MUSIC/Virgin Music Group. With a sound that is instantly recognizable to fans of the band and remains true to the band’s groundbreaking Industrial-Metal roots, CRAWL sounds as relevant in 2025, as they did in 1995.
Dark electronic trio, PAWN PAWN has just unveiled their latest EP, Halloween. The EP delivers a darkly electrifying journey through a spectrum of synth-driven styles, each track a study in emotional and sonic extremes. The Halloween EP is both a love letter to synthpop’s past and a step into its future. While inspired by film director, John Carpenter, the EP is named in honor of a holiday many dark hearts celebrate every day, Halloween’s trajectory goes through the brooding, pulsing opening track, ‘Trick Or Treat’ to the seductive, shadowy anthem, ‘Tell You With My Eyes’, then closing with ‘Jealousy Looks Good On Me’, a high-octane fusion of ’90s industrial-pop that balances chaotic aggression with razor-sharp melodic hooks.
They’ve produced a video to accompany the closer, which you can watch here:
The EP’s themes, like Halloween, are about embracing darkness and emotional extremes: vengeance, obsessive attraction & jealousy. They also represent tales of liminal spaces; the spaces between thinking about revenge and actively seeking it, or the space between obsessing over someone and actually making a move.
The EP also addresses the lines between passion and destruction, the idea being that an emotion like jealousy can theoretically make us more passionate and wanting to be the very best version of ourselves. Meanwhile that eternal desire competes in a battle that can never be won and is ultimately self-destructive.
Says vocalist, Liz Owens Boltz, the music on the EP is “about exploring synthpop and industrial-pop…this is really our first official foray into these genres. So our creative journey has brought us here, trying on a darker and more aggressive sound, and having fun with it.”
Now ahead of their appearance at Desertfest London next month and their upcoming UK tour with High On Fire, SILVERBURN, have shared a new lyric video for ‘Pain Body’. ‘Jimbob comments,
"Pain Body is an energetic cleanse, an aural exorcism of toxic spectres. True catharsis and a sonic healing rite.”
Watch the video for ‘Pain Body’ here:
Welsh metal visionary Jimbob Isaac, known from his previous bands Taint and Hark, recorded the album during lockdown in 2020. He handled all vocals, guitar, bass and drums himself. With this album, Jimbob has meticulously crafted a wholly uncompromising solo offering in the truest sense. It has been said that extreme conditions demand extreme responses, and Self Induced Transcendental Annihilation (‘SITA’) began as an elemental response to the almighty global gut-punch that surrounded it’s creation.
From the world-ending double-kick maelstrom of opening track “Annihilation” to the cinematic, discordant chug and release of “Etheric Crush” this album draws from Isaac’s beloved eras of 90’s metal and 00’s metallic hardcore, noisecore, space and sludge metal and bands like Botch, Mastodon, Knut, Converge, Keelhaul, Crowbar, Sepultura, Neurosis and Helmet.
SILVERBURN tour w/ High on Fire
June 14th – Islington Assembly Hall, London, England June 15th – Rebellion – Manchester, England June 16th – Slay – Glasgow, Scotland June 17th – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, England June 18th – Thekla, Bristol, England
Aural Aggravation 