THE WORLD IS QUIET HERE - "Aphelion" video

THE WORLD IS QUIET HERE: progressive metal phenom drops "Aphelion" music video, created by Brendan McGowan (Lamb of God, Imperial Triumphant)

The World Is Quiet Here has dropped the official music video for its latest single, "Aphelion."

"Aphelion" appears on the band's new album, Zon, out January 27th on Silent Pendulum Records (Dr. Acula, The Number Twelve Looks Like You).

The video, created by director Brendan McGowan (Lamb of God, Imperial Triumphant) sees the band bathed in cosmic purple hues as they rip through the song.

Metal Injection states: "The World Is Quiet Here mixes operatic vocals, mind-bending rhythms, and spacey progressive metal... It's like Devin Townsend got into a fight with Between The Buried And Me."

Stream the video, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQWmkq0Vg90

Pre-order the album (vinyl): https://silentpendulumrecords.com/products/the-world-is-quiet-here-zon

Pre-order the album (digital): https://silentpendulumrecords.bandcamp.com/album/zon

More than one hour in length, Zon is a dazzling new piece of work from this up-and-coming progressive metal phenom. "On Zon, we wanted to see how far we could stretch ourselves creatively and still have it be a cohesive experience," states bassist Tyler Dworak. 

On "Aphelion," an astral intro gives way to an odd-time, double-bass-fueled groove that uplifts as much as it bruises. Dual guitars conjure vivid colors while vocalist Lou Kelly glides through a range of voices – from metallic screams, to an operatic baritone croon, to an impossibly high shriek that puts the entire Sunset Strip to shame.

More info: https://thechainworld.blogspot.com/2022/10/the-world-is-quiet-here-zon.html

TURBID NORTH - "The Road"

TURBID NORTH: Texas doom-grinders premiere post-apocalyptic music video for rocking new single "The Road"

The official music video for Turbid North's new single "The Road" is streaming now.

The track appears on the Texas trio's upcoming new album, The Decline, out January 20th.

Stream the video, here: https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2023/01/04/video-premiere-turbid-north-the-road/

Pre-order the album, here: https://turbidnorth.bandcamp.com/album/the-decline

Turbid North guitarist/vocalist Nick Forkel states: "'The Road' is about survival in the bleakest situations. How far you'll push yourself to keep going. Even if the world you're living in isn't all that great to begin with. Suffer today, to live another day." The music video conveys the song's message by way of post-apocalyptic imagery reminiscent of the Cormac McCarthy novel with which it shares a title.

Turbid North's first new album in seven years, The Decline is a transcendent experience – a balance of sheer speed, earthquaking intensity, and rapturous beauty. While Forkel and his bandmates bassist Chris O'Toole (Unearth) and drummer Jono Garrett (Shock Withdrawal, Mos Generator) display Napalm Death-level grindcore chops, "The Road" showcases the band's doom-rock side. The song is a driving, radiant, 12/8 rocker in line with the likes of Metallica, Crowbar, and Mastodon.

Decibel Magazine states: "Prepare yourself for the end times with this new video from Turbid North... 'The Road' leans heavily into the doomed and stoned side of Turbid North, featuring chugging riffs and bellowing vocals. The song strikes a lonely chord in the listener, which is further strengthened by the accompanying video which shows a woman, once left for dead, regaining her strength and connecting with her old self."

Founded in Alaska in the early '00s, Turbid North relocated to Fort Worth, Texas in 2007 and finally delivered its debut album, Orogeny, in 2011 via Unearth frontman Trevor Phipps' Ironclad Recordings. The current lineup of Forkel, O'Toole, and Garrett was solidified in 2012. Sophomore album Eyes Alive was released in 2015, receiving these words from Metal Hammer: "A devastating piece of work; from moments of full-throttle, sludgy thrash to lolloping, red-eyed stoner riffs... Turbid North swoop and attack like some monstrous, three-headed bird of prey." 

More info: https://thechainworld.blogspot.com/2022/10/turbid-north-decline.html

Photo by Nick Forkel

ADULT/PLANET B + BrooklynVegan

 

"Both tracks are dark and abrasive yet catchy industrial songs, and Justin's coarse shouts make for a great foil to Nicola Kuperus' haunting, soaring singing voice."

-BrooklynVegan

Stream both collaborative tracks, via BrooklynVegan, here:

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/stream-adult-planet-bs-new-collaborative-two-song-single/

Justin Pearson (Dead Cross, Deaf Club, The Locust), Luke Henshaw (Sonido de la Frontera), Kevin Avery (Field Day, Retox) and Scott Osment (Deaf Club, Glassing, Volente Beach) formed Planet B with the shared purpose of creating music subversive in sound and sobering in message. Their music lays somewhere just out of reach of genre, with aesthetics rooted in hip hop, hardcore punk, turntablism, and 70s-80s horror movie scores. It is catchy, heavily percussive, and eerie all at once, much like the creative output of dark dance duo ADULT., a pair that seek to harness “the perverse aspects of the late '70s analog dystopian post-modernism.” These artists’ bodies of work mirror one another in form and function, and both “Release Me” and “Glass in The trash” encapsulates the ethos of both, allowing the duos’ similar mindsets to collide. Nicola Kuperus’s hypnotic vocals add an occult aura, mysteriously alluring and supernatural, pulsating and equally intense alongside Pearson’s aggressive style. Henshaw and Adam Lee Miller’s sampling, sequencing and synthesizing entangle and diverge seamlessly, providing dance-driven soundtracks fit for an apocalypse. Both tracks ebb and flow, pull and push, begs to be released and yet remains throbbing in your head long after it ends.

 

Track listing: 

1. Glass in the Trash

2. Release Me

ENDLESS, NAMELESS - Living Without

ENDLESS, NAMELESS: Silent Pendulum Records to release new album "Living Without"; BrooklynVegan premieres "Propaniac" music video

Silent Pendulum Records announces the March 24th release of Living Without, the debut full-length album by Endless, Nameless.

Stream the official music video for the album's first single, "Propaniac," here: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/endless-nameless-prep-debut-lp-living-without-watch-the-propaniac-video/

Pre-order the album (LP): https://silentpendulumrecords.com/products/endless-nameless-living-without

Pre-order the album (digital): https://silentpendulumrecords.bandcamp.com/album/living-without

From Denver, Colorado, Endless, Nameless deals in progressive songcraft and soul-baring sincerity – a mix of sculpted discordance and the rawest emotions, occupying a space where post-hardcore, grindcore, and prog intersect. 

On Living Without, the follow-up to 2018's debut EP, Counterparts, the band spins a web of dizzying drums and knotty guitars, with vocalist Elle Reynolds pairing pensive melodies and primal screams that rip the ears like a swooping eagle. 

Reynolds states: "Someone described us as 'identity crisis-core' and I thought that was funny and represented us well. We all come from such different musical backgrounds and I think we have a really fun time seeing how that manifests, especially as we influence each other over time. Everyone’s influences range from death metal to power-pop, it ends up being a sort of stew with everyone throwing in a bit of themselves and their roots."

The playful euphoria of the music is contrasted by the gravity of Reynolds' lyrics. "I cover a mix of personal and political topics on the album," they reveal. "A lot of the time I am touching on both, and on how systemic violence can lead to interpersonal conflict and vice versa. Being a trans person, it feels like my personal identity is violently and forcibly made political, so a lot of the album touches on that and intentionally blends those two categories."

The balance of unorthodox musicality and pure intensity, on full display across Living Without's nine tracks, echoes the the works of greats such as The Mars Volta, The Fall of Troy, and Circle Takes the Square. 

Living Without was recorded and mixed by Austin Minney at All Aces Studio in Denver, and mastered by Brad Smalling at Evergroove Studios. The recording is natural and scrappy, and this is a strength; all the energy of a real performance has been captured. "We’re definitely on the proggier side but we take a noisy-as-fuck approach to our music," states the band collectively. "We wanted that fun, imperfect energy to show on this record. Recording to a grid, especially in a prog or math setting, can come off too sterile and we wanted everything but."

In a Denver scene that includes peers like Antibroth and Quits, Endless, Nameless is a standout. Local culture authority 303 Magazine featured the quartet in its November 2022 list of "New Music You Should Know," calling it "an inventive outfit that blends genres and refuses to play by the rules."

The newest addition to Silent Pendulum Records' stellar roster of progressive/aggressive artists, Endless, Nameless is at home amongst labelmates such as The Number Twelve Looks Like You, Heavy Heavy Low Low, and Sleepsculptor.

As any Nirvana fan will guess, the band is named for the hidden track that closes Nevermind. "It’s just so noisy and chaotic and its essence seemed to capture a lot of what we wanted to bring into fruition when we started the band," says guitarist Ricardo Bonilla.

Tracklist:

1) A World So Kind

2) Cloudburst

3) Propaniac

4) A Gradual Unwinding

5) Remembrance

6) Living Without

7) Plea Market

8) Perfection in Your Name

9) Sarah Lynn

Lineup:
Elle Reynolds - vocals, guitar
Ricardo Bonilla - guitar, vocals
Bradley Thill - bass
Jackson Lacroix - drums

Band photo by Aimes Lily

Cover art by Naji Chalhoub

TURBID NORTH - "Patients"

TURBID NORTH: Texas doom-grinders reveal new "A Clockwork Orange"-inspired "Patients" music video

Turbid North have released the official music video for new single "Patients."

Stream the video, here: https://www.invisibleoranges.com/turbid-north-video/

The track appears on the Texas trio's upcoming new album, The Decline, out January 20th. Pre-order the album, here: https://turbidnorth.bandcamp.com/album/the-decline

Formed in Alaska, based now in Fort Worth, TX, Turbid North unites punishing death-grind with crushing doom and a touch of soaring rock elements. Napalm Death and Neurosis are reference points, as are David Gilmour's leads.

Invisible Oranges states: "Turbid North are an amalgam of metallic fury... The band plays varying styles of grind and sludge with a touch of what gave progressive rock an otherworldly tinge as it transitioned from the ‘60s to the ‘70s. Their upcoming album The Decline releases next month and showcases exactly those differing styles that Turbid North have managed to master in the seven-plus years since their last full length, Eyes Alive."

The exhilarating new single "Patients" showcases the band's death-grind side. In under two minutes, frontman Nick Forkel and his beast of a rhythm section – bassist Chris O'Toole (Unearth) and drummer Jono Garrett (Shock Withdrawal, Mos Generator) – blast out a smothering wave of metallic mania.

Forkel, who also creates the band's music videos, states: “'Patients' is about mental health. This one deals with more of the violent end of that spectrum. Very much influenced by 'A Clockwork Orange' when coming up with the lyrics and visuals."

More info: https://thechainworld.blogspot.com/2022/10/turbid-north-decline.html

Photo by Nick Forkel

Out today: THE ATOMIC BOMB AUDITION - Future Mirror

Future Mirror, the new album by The Atomic Bomb Audition, is out today on Fifth Wizard.

Stream the album and buy it, here: https://theatomicbombaudition.bandcamp.com/album/future-mirror

A new masterpiece from this Oakland, California band, back in action after almost 10 years' silence. Layers of prog, doom, and new wave are twisted into glorious, mournful rock songs, bridging gaps between visionaries of the past (Roxy Music, Scott Walker) and modern-day post-metal songcraft (Jesu, Torche). Recorded by Kowloon Walled City's Scott Evans.

More info: https://thechainworld.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-atomic-bomb-audition-future-mirror.html

"‘70s heavy prog meets modern stoner pop." 

–Invisible Oranges

"A new masterpiece from this adventurous Bay Area post-metal band."
–New Noise

"A fantastically engaging and captivating listen. Future Mirror is hard to put it down as it strikes that elusive balance between approachable compositions and hidden depth, both initially alluring and rewarding to explore."
–Heavy Blog Is Heavy

"This record could charm listeners who embrace rock, metal, prog, you name it, and there’s so much richness baked in, it’s impossible to come away unaffected... It excels because of its ingenuity and heart." 

–Meat Mead Metal

Out today: SALVATION - Mock

Mock, the new album by Salvation, is out today on Reptilian Records.

Stream the album and buy it, here: https://reptilianrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mock

The fourth release from this Chicago band, Mock is a masterpiece of dark, raucous, noise rock, crowned by the soulfully cracked vocals of frontman Jason Sipe. For fans of Nirvana's sweet, melodic annihilation, the unhinged twang of Lollipop or Cows, and the haunted croon of Elliott Smith. No Echo calls it "Sub Pop meets AmRep". Drummer Brian Wnukowski is a founding member of '90s Chicago noise rock unit Big'n.

More info: https://thechainworld.blogspot.com/2022/11/salvation-mock.html

"Chicago grunge trio Salvation have consistently been releasing music since 2015... 'Drag,' the LP’s opening track, is injected with the type of soulful punk blues peddled by groups like OBN III’s, with Jason Sipe’s prominent vocals setting the scene for the rest of the album."
–Flood

"Salvation brilliantly captures the dark and sordid sound of noise rock on new album Mock... An absolute delight to get lost in."
–Idioteq

"A tour de force of dark and boisterous noise rock..."

–Destroy//Exist

"Fantastic Chicago based band... A masterpiece."
–It's Psychedelic Baby

"Dark noise rock from Chicago, with nods to the underground scene of the early/mid '90s."
–Scene Point Blank

"The Chicago trio keep it brutally real on their fourth LP — though they balance their unhinged outbursts with some grungy riffs and (believe it or not) vulnerable ballads."

–Tinnitist

Out today: DESPERATE LIVING - SHAME

SHAME, the new EP by Desperate Living, is out today on Reptilian Records.

Stream the EP and buy it, here: Pre-order the EP: https://reptilianrecords.bandcamp.com/album/shame

Noise rock grime and punk rock exuberance unite on Desperate Living's new EP; the band's bursts of vitriol and swagger could wow a basement full of AmRep nihilists and a theater full of The Bronx fans on the same night. From Philly, Desperate Living features ex-members of The Minor Times, Ladder Devils, Legendary Divorce, and more.

More info: https://thechainworld.blogspot.com/2022/11/desperate-living-shame.html

"A full-on noise punk assault that holds nothing back and really rips."
–BrooklynVegan

"One of my new favorite bands. I've been listening to this record on repeat."
–Songwriting Malpractice

"The four-man crew of Desperate Living has just ushered in a new age of explosiveness with its SHAME EP."

–Ghettoblaster

"This Philadelphia-based quartet focus on steady-paced and starkly illustrative work which immediately resembles the early-to-mid 90’s severity of darker sludge-adjacent noise rock."

–Grizzly Butts

"A collection of new noisy punk tunes form the Philadelphia, PA-based quartet whose members have also played with The Minor Times."
–Scene Point Blank

"The Philadelphia noise-punks come off loud and proud on this thundering concept EP."

–Tinnitist

THE INFINITY RING x Jarboe

THE INFINITY RING: Federal Prisoner label releases neo-folk visionary's new collab with legendary vocalist Jarboe (Swans)

Ohr – a new collaboration between The Infinity Ring and Jarboe – is out today on Federal Prisoner.

Consisting of two tracks, Ohr is available now as a 12" LP and a digital release.

Buy Ohr, here: https://federalprisoner.shop/products/the-infinity-ring-x-jarboe-ohr-vinyl-lp

Cameron Moretti, the Boston-based musician behind The Infinity Ring, recalls the genesis of Ohr: "The idea started with a dream I found myself having in the winter of 2020. I'm stationary in a sun soaked field. The wind is blowing but I can only hear the sound of violins and a voice. Nothing is physically in sight. I knew I wanted to attempt to capture a snapshot of the dream in a song formation. I started composing some ideas based around this mental picture I had. Being a longtime advocate and fan of Jarboe's work, I reached out and explained the idea of the songs, and here we are."

Ohr is The Infinity Ring's third release to date, and its first for Federal Prisoner, the label co-founded by Greg Puciato (The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Black Queen, Jerry Cantrell) and acclaimed artist Jesse Draxler. A recent feature on Post-Punk.com describes Moretti's work as "haunting dark folk... weaving a unique sonic tapestry of dark sounds." On Ohr, he sets a tone that is gentle, lush, and ominous, evoking his dream state by way of guitar, synth, hammer dulcimer, pan drum, percussion, and violin.

While past work featured Moretti's vocals, a baritone in the range of Nick Cave or Leonard Cohen, he entrusted all the vocals on Ohr to Jarboe. No surprise, her performance is ethereal and almighty. 

An icon within the realms of post-punk, noise-rock, and experimental music, Jarboe rose to fame as a member of Swans in the 1980s and '90s, appearing on classic albums such as Children of God and Soundtracks for the Blind. A review in The New Yorker reads: “Jarboe, who sang with New York’s legendary nihilists the Swans for more than a decade, is not an easy musician to categorize. She pairs the visual flair of performance art with a fiercely eclectic arsenal of styles, and she never shies away from the aggressive and the extreme.” Post-Swans collaborations include Neurosis, Justin Broadrick, Phil Anselmo, and now, The Infinity Ring. The New York Times has depicted her vocals as "bluesy, breathy, baleful"; LA Weekly once labeled her as a "Satanic chanteuse." 

Ohr was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Zach Weeks (The Armed, Converge & Chelsea Wolfe, Russian Circles). The cover art was created by Pleasure Coffin. 

In addition to The Infinity Ring, Federal Prisoner's roster includes industrial artist Trace Amount, Full of Hell side project Sore Dream, and more.

Tracklist:
1) Ein Sof
2) Tiferet

Lineup:
Cameron Moretti - guitar, hammer dulcimer, pan drum, percussion, synth

Jarboe - guest vocals
Alison Dooly - guest violin
Matt Bond - guest synth

Upcoming shows:
Jan 12 - Brooklyn, NY @ TV Eye w/ Norman Westberg (Swans)

Discography:
Temptress / Gift of Life 7" (2020, Funeral Party)
I dreamt it. Did it happen? EP (2021, self-released)
Ohr (2022, Federal Prisoner)

THE ATOMIC BOMB AUDITION - "Haunted Houses"

THE ATOMIC BOMB AUDITION: progressive Bay Area squad confronts Freddy Kreuger in epic new post-metal dirge "Haunted Houses"

The Atomic Bomb Audition has revealed new track "Haunted Houses" from its upcoming new album, Future Mirror.

Stream the song, here: https://newnoisemagazine.com/premieres/track-premiere-the-atomic-bomb-audition-haunted-houses/

Pre-order the album, here: https://theatomicbombaudition.bandcamp.com/album/future-mirror

Future Mirror, The Atomic Bomb Audition's first new music in almost a decade, is a new masterpiece from this adventurous Bay Area band. Layers of prog, heavy metal, and new wave are twisted into glorious, mournful rock songs, bridging gaps between ’70s visionaries (e.g. Pink Floyd, Roxy Music, Scott Walker) and modern-day heavy songcrafters (e.g. Jesu, Torche, Kowloon Walled City). The album was recorded by Kowloon Walled City’s Scott Evans.

New single "Haunted Houses" begins amidst post-metal melancholy, then descends into a mesmerizing doom rock dirge capped with the soaring vocals of guitarist Alee Karim.

Karim states: “This song was very specifically trying to recreate the emotional vibe of a horror film, specifically how I perceived them as a kid who found them existentially terrifying and not even a little bit fun. I was spooked out by Freddy Krueger and worried that if I fell asleep he’d kill me. The lyrics were initially inspired by how freaked out I would get about that—and then realizing that as an adult, there’s much scarier things to occupy my imagination in terms of real world concerns. Old fears look small with time but the basic specter of fear finds a new face to terrify you. I still get nightmares; I’m still afraid of ghosts; no fear ever goes away unless I confront it or somehow make peace with it.”

More info: https://thechainworld.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-atomic-bomb-audition-future-mirror.html

Photo by Rex Mananquil