SILENT + No Echo

“Signed to Three One G Records (The Locust, Unbroken), Silent is a Mexicali-based outfit that cooks up a sonic stew that includes the darkness and tension of goth rock and the driving attack of punk. Jung Sing’s (Maniqui Lazer, All Leather) baritone vocals have drawn comparisons to Nick Cave—and rightfully so—but his delivery is channeled through with an aggression that is clearly coming from a punk foundation.”

-No Echo

View the video for “Lies Co.,” via No Echo, here.

This track is off of Silent’s debut LP, A Century of Abuse, which is available via Three One G Records digitally as well as on limited edition white vinyl. Order here.

Video directed by Eric Livingston. Live footage was shot at San Diego’s Art Institute.

Upcoming Shows:

August 12 - Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theater w/ Dead Cross, Author & Punisher

August 18 - Tucson, AZ @ The Rialto Theater w/ Dead Cross, Author & Punisher

September 9 - Rosarito, MX @ Sunio Beach Club (NRML BAJA 2017)

DEATH EYES + Noisey

“Since forming out of the ashes of Rat Eyes and Death Crisis in 2014, the quartet has terrorized sensibilities and eardrums with their melange of AmRep-like churning, 80s Venice Beach punk and brief forays into grind/fastcore all topped off with vocalist Alberto Jurado's Spanish/English lyrical delivery. The band has a new EP entitled Si La Revancha Fuera Una Opción... and it continues the ferocious din and bilingual attack set by its self-titled predecessor.”

-Noisey

Stream the full EP as well as read the interview with vocalist Alberto Jurado and guitarist Jason Blackmore, via Noisey, here.

Death Eyes’ newest EP, Si La Revancha Fuera Una Opcion, is available digitally as well as on colored vinyl through Three One G Records, today. Order here.

Si La Revancha Fuera Una Opción EP:

1. Life
2. NPI
3. Lesser Evil
4. Larca
5. Si La Revancha Fuera Una Opción

Upcoming Shows:

July 30 - San Diego, CA @ Whistle Stop Bar w/ Big Business

August 1 - Ventura, CA @ Bombays

August 2 - Pacifica, CA @ Winters Tavern

August 3 - Arcata, CA @ The Jambalaya

August 4 - Portland, OR @ Tonic Lounge

August 5 - Seattle, WA @ Victory Lounge

August 6 - Olympia, WA @ Le Voyeur

Out today: COUCH SLUT - Contempt

Couch Slut's sophomore album Contempt is out today on Gilead Media.

Unsane's pounding hate-rock, Darkthrone's mournful metal, and Sonic Youth's bittersweet radiance are all in effect on Contempt – it's an album that illustrates real pain and bleakness while also totally rocking. Gilead Media owner Adam Bartlett says this: "As a label that releases a fair amount of black metal, doom, and other varieties of 'extreme music,' the concept of visceral and transgressive art is nothing new to Gilead Media. But Contempt may stand as one of the most vicious and unnerving releases in the label's history."

"Heavily steeped in the late-1980s/early-1990s work of pioneering noise abrasionists like Swans, the Jesus Lizard, and Today Is the Day, Couch Slut show a like-minded, almost compulsory drive to provoke... Couch Slut chew through the various underground movements that influenced them with an apparent relish, but the sound they arrive at is startlingly unique..." 
–Pitchfork 

"The provocatively named Brooklyn band looks to the miserable spew of Unsane, Today Is the Day and Oxbow to stir its own, but its second album, Contempt, is not without perverse beauty, dripping from the sludge."
–NPR Music

"Couch Slut's Contempt is one of the most punishing things that have come across my desk this year... They've somehow pushed themselves even deeper into the fetid, feral recesses of the psyche that power their gruesome Hellhammer grooves, AmRep squeals, and Megan Osztrosits' enraged vocal performance. Contempt is sweaty, violent, visceral..."
–Noisey

"For as uncomfortable and uncompromising as this material can be, it’s also clever in an engaging way. Squirming underneath the distortion are tons of earworm melodies and hooky textures... That’s Couch Slut’s thing, really: no matter how loud or cringey things get, you can’t stop listening." 
–Stereogum 

"Contempt is an abrasive record that recalls many different styles without devoting to one or two recognizable tropes... Like Oxbow and Pissed Jeans this year, they've made a noise rock record where calling it that sells it way short."
–Decibel

"An effortless mix of both visceral noise rock and haunting ambiance, a sound that is as angelic as it is satanic."
–AdHoc

"Brooklyn's Couch Slut are, in some ways, your classic hardcore band. From the sarcastic, illustrated album artwork to the lyrical fuck-yous, they could pass as today's answer to Black Flag. But there's way more to them than that. They've take in the filthy noise rock of hometown heroes Swans and Sonic Youth, and they've got a little black metal in them too. Vocalist Megan Osztrosits is an absolute monster, both lyrically and delivery-wise..."
–BrooklynVegan

"These New York natives play an incendiary mix of Black Flag, black metal, and the bleakest of noise rock. The album uses repetition an rawness in equal measure to ooze violence into each song."
–Invisible Oranges

"Contempt is like a beer bottle being broken over your head and then put to your throat."
–Metal Injection

"This is scary music for a scary world."
–New Noise

Tour:

Aug 31 - Brooklyn, NY @ Saint Vitus (record release show w/ Pyrrhon)
Sep 1 - Washington, DC @ Atlas Brew Works
Sep 2 - Norfolk, VA @ Charlie's American Cafe
Sep 3 - Durham, NC @ House With No Name
Sep 4 - Nashville, TN @ DRKMTTR
Sep 5 - Cincinatti, OH @ Rake's End
Sep 6 - Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
Sep 8 - Cleveland, OH @ Now That's Class
Sep 9 - Toronto, ON @ Coalition
Oct 17 - New York, NY @ Knitting Factory (w/ Aura Noir)

Buy, here:
https://gileadmedia.bandcamp.com/album/contempt

Further info:
http://thechainworld.blogspot.com/2017/06/couch-slut-contempt.html

Out today: LESS ART - Strangled Light

Less Art's debut album Strangled Light is out today on Gilead Media.

Less Art is the new band featuring brothers Riley and Ed Breckenridge of Thrice, Ian Miller and Jon Howell of Kowloon Walled City, and Mike Minnick of Curl Up and Die.  On Strangled Light, these five veterans put forth a muscular new version of post-hardcore that crackles with feeling.

"Vigilante rage courses through the veins of Less Art... A hulking piece of post-hardcore sculpted from Drive Like Jehu's nasty grooves and Unwound's squirrelly tension."
–NPR Music

"A post-rock outfit combining elements of sludge and noise with more than a few jangly guitars... Less Art tackle in-your-face issues like suicide, animal extinction, and gun control in a way only savvy veterans can."
–Bandcamp Daily

"A claustrophobic machine of a band, playing post-hardcore in various shades of sheet-metal gray. Vocalist Mike Minnick ranges from almost conversational proclamations to bitter howls, urged on by whip-sharp Shellac-via-Kinsella guitar riffs and a cavernous rhythm section."
–Chicago Reader

"Pummeling... post-hardcore/noise-rock."

–BrooklynVegan

"A guttural, sludgy sound... A new force of nature that's both green and ferocious."

–OC Weekly

"For those of us who grew up in the post-Botch explosion of angular post-hardcore/noise-punk... this is exactly the record you'd hope for, given the cast of characters involved, at once warm and familiar and old and challenging."
–MetalSucks

"Less Art has the kind of intricate instrumentation to appeal to the cerebral punks, but more than enough impact to go toe-to-toe with any contemporary metal band."

–Treble

"If you've been missing artists that truly go for the jugular in terms of real world lyricism and real world emotions, you are in luck... This post-hardcore beast hits the ground running with musicianship sharper than a brand new knife and as clear as a crisp winter morning."
–Nine Circles

Tour:

Aug 4 - San Francisco, CA @ Hemlock Tavern

Aug 5 - Oakland, CA @ 1234 Go! Records
Aug 6 - Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room

Sep 14 - New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge - w/ Vattnet

Sep 15 - Boston, MA @ Middle East - w/ Vattnet

Sep 16 - Washington, DC @ Songbyrd - w/ Vattnet

Sep 17 - Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts - w/ Vattnet

Buy, here:

https://gileadmedia.bandcamp.com/album/strangled-light

Further info:

http://thechainworld.blogspot.com/2017/05/less-art-strangled-light.html

DYNE SIDE + New Noise

New Noise Magazine premieres "Ask Columbus" the brand new single from Dyne Side's LP Immigrant, out August 11th.


Stream, Ask Columbus here: http://newnoisemagazine.com/stream-dyne-side-ask-columbus/

"Ask Columbus" is the album's hit, swaying back and forth from their heavier and melodic sides, guided with a strong song structure. Lyrically, the song has to do with sadism and the taking of what doesn't belong to you. "We want what you have, we take everything you have." The opening track, “An Argument With Myself”, is where the band draws a heavier influence reminiscent to Underoath. The guitar tones are raw, and there is a bass heavy leading riff delivering a punch in the vein of Norma Jean. 

 "Dyne Side’s lead single is an ode to all the visionaries out there looking to keep their hustle alive and rep their city while they do it." 
- The Noise

 “Despite” is the somber pop hit on the record with production nodding to Sade and Nine Inch Nails, and with vocals in tune with Glassjaw and Head Automatica. Vocalist Emman Costa Maya has an exceptional range, and it is particularly showcased on this track. 
 
The record relates to a lot to the human condition and is explained through many different perspectives. Immigrant has a lot of open ended stories being told throughout that allow the listener a chance to connect with the tracks. The title is fitting too, as bass player Ariel Ramirez came to America with his parents on a boat when he was 3 years old. 

Immigrant was recorded and mixed by Paolo Angulo at The Heat Studios, and was mastered by Kris Crummett (Sleeping With Sirens, Issues, Drop Dead, Gorgeous) at Interlace Audio.

https://www.facebook.com/DYNESIDE/

@dyneside

LESS ART + Bandcamp Daily

"A post-rock outfit combining elements of sludge and noise with more than a few jangly guitars... Less Art tackle in-your-face issues like suicide, animal extinction, and gun control in a way only savvy veterans can."
–Bandcamp Daily

"Vigilante rage courses through the veins of Less Art... A hulking piece of post-hardcore sculpted from Drive Like Jehu's nasty grooves and Unwound's squirrelly tension."
–NPR Music

"A claustrophobic machine of a band, playing post-hardcore in various shades of sheet-metal gray. Vocalist Mike Minnick ranges from almost conversational proclamations to bitter howls, urged on by whip-sharp Shellac-via-Kinsella guitar riffs and a cavernous rhythm section."
–Chicago Reader

"Pummeling... post-hardcore/noise-rock."

–BrooklynVegan

With debut Strangled Light out on Gilead Media this Friday, July 28th, Less Art offers up a stream of the entire album today, exclusively via Bandcamp Daily, along with a new interview with bassist Ian Miller.

Listen and read, here:
https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/07/26/less-art-kowloon-walled-city-thrice-interview/

Less Art is the new band featuring brothers Riley and Ed Breckenridge of Thrice, Ian Miller and Jon Howell of Kowloon Walled City, and Mike Minnick of Curl Up and Die.  On Strangled Light, these five veterans put forth a muscular new version of post-hardcore that crackles with feeling. Comparisons to OGs like Fugazi, Unwound, and Drive Like Jehu have been flying around – Bandcamp Daily pegs the dark, emotive sound as "post-hardcore in various shades of sheet-metal gray."

Strangled Light was recorded and mixed by Kowloon Walled City frontman Scott Evans at Sharkbite Studios and Antisleep Audio, and mastered by Brad Boatright (Full of Hell, Mutoid Man) at Audiosiege.

Pre-order, here:
https://gileadmedia.bandcamp.com/album/strangled-light

Less Art will set out on a quick West Coast run in August, followed by East Coast dates with Vattnet in September.

Aug 4 - San Francisco, CA @ Hemlock Tavern
Aug 5 - Oakland, CA @ 1234 Go! Records
Aug 6 - Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room
Sep 14 - New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge - w/ Vattnet
Sep 15 - Boston, MA @ Middle East - w/ Vattnet
Sep 16 - Washington, DC @ Songbyrd - w/ Vattnet
Sep 17 - Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts - w/ Vattnet

Photo by Scott Evans

THE NUMBER TWELVE LOOKS LIKE YOU 2017

The reformed, revived The Number Twelve Looks Like You continues to rev up its motor in the second half of 2017, implementing a slew of action that includes a brand new recording, the release of two reissues, a tour with The Dillinger Escape Plan, and the band's first-ever Russian shows.  

The New Jersey-based Number Twelve made its name as a star of the mid-'00s mathcore scene, bashing out wildly adventurous, technical music, imbued with the musicality of progressive metal and the urgency of screamo. The AV Club once described the sound as a hybrid of "The Blood Brothers' dual-scream abrasion and The Dillinger Escape Plan's nanotech riffing... The Number Twelve knows precisely when to throw a soaring, melodic chorus or a bizarre flamenco flourish into an otherwise grinding, grunting gnarl of prog-metal."

On hiatus since 2010, the band returned last year with a string of comeback shows featuring original members Jesse Korman on vocals and Alexis Pareja on guitar, and new recruits Michael Kadnar on drums and DJ Scully on bass. 

The new lineup has confirmed that they are currently at work on writing and recording a brand new single – the first new music since 2009's Worse Than Alone album. 

Meanwhile, fans can now obtain The Number Twelve's first two albums on vinyl – the 2003 debut, Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses, and the 2005 follow-up, Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear. – both available now exclusively through Silent Pendulum Recordings, the label owned by new drummer Kadnar (also a member of Downfall of Gaia and Black Table).

While the Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses vinyl is already almost entirely sold out, Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear. can still be preordered now in various color-vinyl options.

Put On Your Rosy Red Glasses (reissue out August 4th on Silent Pendulum):
https://silentpendulumrecords.bandcamp.com/album/put-on-your-rosy-red-glasses-the-number-12-looks-like-you

Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear. (reissue out September 1st on Silent Pendulum):
https://silentpendulumrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nuclear-sad-nuclear-the-number-12-looks-like-you

The Number Twelve hits the stage this week for three Northeast US shows, then heads to Europe in early August to support The Dillinger Escape Plan for nine dates of their final European tour. After the Dillinger run, The Number Twelve soldiers on through the UK and Europe and concludes the journey with four shows in Russia – the band's first time ever playing in Russia. 

Says Kadnar, "I was always a big fan of The Number Twelve Looks Like You. I even went to their farewell show, seven years ago. To be asked to join the band was an absolute honor. We have been working hard on this new recording and preparing for this tour."

July 27 - Brooklyn, NY @ Gold Sounds †
July 28 - Kingston, NY @ BSP Kingston †
July 29 - Wallingford, CT @ Wamleg
Aug 8 - Nuremberg, DE @ Hirsch *
Aug 9 - Jaromer, CZ @ Brutal Assault Festival *
Aug 10 - Krakow, PL @ Kwadrat *
Aug 11 - Budapest, HU @ A38 *
Aug 12 - Zagreb, HR @ Mochvara *
Aug 13 - Vienna, AT @ Szene *
Aug 14 - Prague, CZ @ Palac Akropolis *
Aug 15 - Cologne, DE @ Gloria *
Aug 16 - Leipzig, DE @ Conne Island *
Aug 18 - Bristol, UK @ ArcTanGent
Aug 20 - Glasgow, UK @ Audio ∆
Aug 21 - Birmingham, UK @ Sunflower Lounge ∆
Aug 22 - London, UK @ The Black Heart ∆
Aug 23 - Haarlem, NT @ Patronaat ∆
Aug 24 - Kaliningrad, RU @ Detroit
Aug 25 - St Petersburg, RU @ Zoccolo 2.0
Aug 26 - Moscow, RU @ Rock House
Aug 27 - Ekaterinburg, RU @ Svoboda

† = w/ Meek Is Murder
* = w/ The Dillinger Escape Plan
∆ = w/ Hexis

Photo by Karen Jerzyk

COUCH SLUT + AdHoc

"An effortless mix of both visceral noise rock and haunting ambiance, a sound that is as angelic as it is satanic."
–AdHoc

"It’s refreshing that this year’s best metal albums have felt particularly bold, pushing the genre to new places... The second half of the year should be no less exciting—with great releases from Spectral Voice, Couch Slut, Sannhet, and more." 
–Pitchfork

"The provocatively named Brooklyn band looks to the miserable spew of Unsane, Today Is the Day and Oxbow to stir its own, but its second album, Contempt, is not without perverse beauty, dripping from the sludge."
–NPR Music

"For as uncomfortable and uncompromising as this material can be, it’s also clever in an engaging way. Squirming underneath the distortion are tons of earworm melodies and hooky textures... That’s Couch Slut’s thing, really: no matter how loud or cringey things get, you can’t stop listening." 
–Stereogum 
 
AdHoc presents the premiere of newest Couch Slut single, "Snake in the Grass," from the Brooklyn band's upcoming sophomore album Contempt.

Listen, here:
http://adhoc.fm/post/couch-slut-find-beauty-unnerving/

As AdHoc states, the song is "as angelic as it is satanic" – hauntingly beautiful and heavy as hell. The song veers from sludgy tar-pit rock of the Unsane school, into cruising, bittersweet Sonic Youth radiance.

An exclusive premiere of the entire Contempt album is set for late Tuesday night on WFMU's My Castle of Quiet show. Tune in live at midnight Tuesday night/Wednesday morning to hear the album in full. The show will be archived and available to stream online at wfmu.org starting Wednesday.

Couch Slut is poised to set sail on a short tour of the US and Canada, kicking off with a hometown record release show on August 31st at Saint Vitus in Brooklyn.

Aug 31 - Brooklyn, NY @ Saint Vitus (record release show w/ Pyrrhon)
Sep 1 - Washington, DC @ Atlas Brew Works
Sep 2 - Norfolk, VA @ Charlie's American Cafe
Sep 3 - Durham, NC @ House With No Name
Sep 4 - Nashville, TN @ DRKMTTR
Sep 5 - Cincinatti, OH @ Rake's End
Sep 6 - Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
Sep 8 - Cleveland, OH @ Now That's Class
Sep 9 - Toronto, ON @ Coalition
Oct 17 - New York, NY @ Knitting Factory (w/ Aura Noir)

Contempt will be released July 28th on Gilead Media. Pre-order here:
https://gileadmedia.bandcamp.com/album/contempt

Gilead Media owner Adam Bartlett says this: "As a label that releases a fair amount of black metal, doom, and other varieties of 'extreme music,' the concept of visceral and transgressive art is nothing new to Gilead Media. But Contempt may stand as one of the most vicious and unnerving releases in the label's history."

Photo by Roger Hayn

DEAD CROSS + Stereogum

Dead Cross is a new band, but it has a hell of a pedigree. The berserker hardcore supergroup features Faith No More frontman Mike Patton and OG Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo alongside former members of the Locust and Retox. Their self-titled debut is coming next month… and now they’ve shared a new clip for a frantic, pummeling new song called “Obedience School.”

-Stereogum

View the video for "Obedience School", described as "an evocative look at a world that most of the would've never seen," via Stereogum, here.

Dead Cross emerged out of a series of unlikely happenstance, fallen-through plans, and last-minute musical experimentation. Shows were scheduled before a single song was written, fans were formed before even one show was played. The chaos of its creation seems apt; after all, the band is comprised entirely of artists who have thrived playing tightly-coiled turmoil—intelligent dissonance disguised as disorder. Consisting of Dave Lombardo (Slayer, Suicidal Tendencies, Fantomas), Justin Pearson (The Locust, Retox, Head Wound City), Michael Crain (Retox, Festival of Dead Deer), and Mike Patton (Faith No More, Fantomas, Mr. Bungle, Tomahawk), the impressive, expansive, and eclectic list of prior bands collectively played in would be enough to ensure the unyielding ferocity of the music... but a resume isn’t necessary, here. Dead Cross stands on its own, speaks volumes with its multilayered evil-genius vocals, manic guitar riffs, and severe rhythms.

"Obedience School" was shot by Dennis Bersales. The track is off of Dead Cross’ new self-titled album, produced by Ross Robinson, to be released August 4th on colored vinyl and CD via Ipecac Records and Three One G, as well as digitally through iTunes.

Upcoming shows:

August 10 - Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory
August 11 - Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl
August 12 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Marquee
August 14 - Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey Bar & Grill
August 15 - Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
August 16 - Austin, TX @ Emo’s
August 18 - Tucson, AZ @ The Rialto Theatre
August 19 - San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park
August 21 - Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theatre
August 23 - Berkeley, CA @ The UC Theatre
August 25 - Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre
August 26 - Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
August 27 - Portland @ Wonder Ballroom
August 29 - Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades
September 8 - Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage
September 10 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
September 11 - Boston, MA @ Royale
September 12 - New York, NY @ Gramercy Theatre
September 13 - Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw
September 15 - Detroit, MI @ St. Andrew’s Hall
September 16 - Chicago, IL @ Riot Fest
September 17 - Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom
September 19 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
September 20 - Lawrence, KS @ Liberty Hall
September 23 - Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre