SATANIC PLANET + Revolver

 

"a spine-tingling amalgamation of doom, industrial and blackened ambient music that's probably unlike anything else you've ever heard."

- Revolver

Stream the band's debut album in its entirety, via Revolver, here:

https://www.revolvermag.com/music/hear-slayer-locust-members-conjure-evil-satanic-planets-debut-album

SATANIC PLANET is the creation of Lucien Greaves (The Satanic Temple co-founder and spokesperson), Luke Henshaw (Planet B, Sonido de la Frontera), Dave Lombardo (Slayer, The Misfits, Mr. Bungle, Suicidal Tendencies, Dead Cross), and Justin Pearson (The Locust, Dead Cross, Swing Kids, Deaf Club). With the birth of Satanic Planet, hip-hop producer Henshaw and punk provocateur Pearson joined co-founder and spokesperson of The Satanic Temple, Lucien Greaves-- the most prominent and outspoken contemporary Satanist in the world. Greaves has gained international attention as an advocate for religious liberty and the voice of the Satanic Reformation, delivering lectures nationwide and featured in national media outlets including  MSNBC, NPR, Huffington Post Live, CNN, Harper’s Monthly, Newsweek, Fox News, Vice, Salon, Rolling Stone, and many more. As the trio were diligently working, and nearly completed with, the music for their debut album, the worldwide pandemic hit, seemingly bringing things to a halt. However, with the onset of this new way of living, the newly-formed band was in a unique position to enlist the legendary Dave Lombardo, who found himself not touring for the first time in years, and suddenly having more time to work in his home studio on projects that interested him. With the addition of this iconic drummer, Satanic Planet was complete. Along the way, an eclectic range of guest appearances arise, including Cattle Decapitation’s Travis Ryan, Nomi Abadi, Silent’s Jung Sing, Shiva Honey, Eric Livingston (also known as his artist moniker, First Church of the Void), and Hexa’s Carrie Feller. This collaboration embraces the avant garde to create sci-fi sermons that range from doom and industrial to evil exotica.

Satanic Planet will be released by Three One G Records digitally, as well as on CD and vinyl, with four limited edition vinyl variants on May 28th. Preorder, here.

Satanic Planet s/t:

1. Baphomet (feat. Jung Sing)

2. 999

3. Grey Faction

4. Passage

5. Invocation

6. Devil in Me (feat. Nomi Abadi)

7. Unbaptism (feat. Travis Ryan, Shiva Honey)

8. Vete al Infierno (feat. Jung Sing, Carrie Feller)

9. The Hell

10. Strangers

11. Exorcism (feat. Travis Ryan, Shiva Honey)

12. Satanic Planet (feat. Eric Livingston)

13. Liturgy

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GULL & GLEIX - "Prepared Breaks"

"Gull is a masked one-man band that we once compared to Lightning Bolt and Battles, and Gleix is an electronic musician from Brooklyn who specializes in IDM, ambient, breakcore, and drill 'n' bass, and they've now collaborated on the new single... If you're familiar with both prepared piano and breakbeats, you probably have an idea of what to expect, and this song delivers. It's equal parts gorgeous and dizzying."

- BrooklynVegan

Watch the video for the new single from Gull and Gleix, "Prepared Breaks," via BrooklynVegan, here: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/watch-gull-gleixs-video-for-their-collaborative-single-prepared-breaks/

For this single, typically solo artist Gull has collaborated with artist Gleix, who provides programmed breaks, audio & video production alongside Gull’s piano playing. Gleix is one alias of George Gleixner, a Brooklyn based multidisciplinary artist whose musical and visual works often explore one of two extremes -- sometimes existing in a calm, meditative space separated from the outside world, and other times trapped within an ever-shifting anxiety driven collage of dark psychedelia. Growing up listening to artists on Warp, Planet Mu, and similarly rhythmically complex work, breaks found their way into much of  his work, and still informs a lot of the way  he approaches production. Since the pandemic hit, Gleixner had been forced to pivot away from working on live visuals at a venue in New York, and has instead been mostly building electronic instruments, weird machines, and video synthesizers.
Nathaniel Rappole’s solo project, Gull, has recorded a 7", 6 EPs, 4 full lengths, and has traveled vigorously—playing venues, on the streets, and in the wilds of Canada, United States, Mexico, Europe, Kenya, and SE Asia. Gull has toured in support of White Rabbits, Tres Mts, and RNDM, and has shared the bar arena with the likes of Silver Apples, Girl Talk, Deerhoof, Adrian Belew, Sleaford Mods, Ruby The Hatchet, Panda Bear, Mdou Moctar, Dan Deacon, and Melt Banana. Among his numerous achievements, Gull has been featured in various music-focused movies and documentaries, performed and answered questions pertaining to his travels at a TedX talk, and contributed an improvised performance to Grotesque Tables ii- Noah Wall's anagramic reimagining of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies deck of cards. In December, 2019, Gull went to Thailand and Laos to film a new doc in an ongoing series about musical ecology and culture around the world. Relentlessly hardworking, in 2020, Rapple not only released the Relative Stranger LP on Lagom Audio/Visual, but managed to pull off a covid-compliant tour (outdoor venues/masked) with Saxsquatch.

 

“Prepared Breaks” was released March 2021 through Lagom Audio/Visual.

Video shot by Cy Fi, visuals/editing by Gleix, illustration by Christina Gleixner.

ARELSEUM - Arelseum III

ARELSEUM: members of Krallice and Unearthly Trance to release new album "Arelseum III" via Sleeping Giant Glossolalia

Sleeping Giant Glossolalia presents the June 18th release of Arelseum III, the new album by Arelseum. 

Arelseum is the new project of Colin Marston (Krallice, Gorguts, Dysrhythmia) and Ryan Lipynsky (Unearthly Trance, The Howling Wind, Reeking Aura).

In addition to a digital release, Sleeping Giant Glossolalia will release the album on cassette as part of a trilogy of cassettes: Arelseum, Arelseum II, Arelseum III.

Stream new track "Woods," from Arelseum III, here:

https://sleepinggiantglossolalia.bandcamp.com/album/arelseum-iii

Through their many respective projects, Marston and Lipynsky have spent the past two decades prowling the extreme and experimental depths of metal, and have helped move the genre forward. Acquainted since the early 2000s as prolific members of the New York scene, Marston and Lipynsky began Arelseum in 2020 during the pandemic. Arelseum sees the duo combine their talents in an entirely new way: cinematic synth-scapes, for fans of '70s sci-fi epics, '80s slasher flicks, and dungeon synth. From suffocating tension to placid tranquility, Arelseum paints vivid scenes using deliciously retro sounds.

Marston, working from his famed Queens, NY studio, Menegroth The Thousand Caves (where he has engineered, mixed and mastered music by all of his own projects as well as such artists as Agalloch, Liturgy, Prurient, and Kelly Moran), states: "It was born out of the remoteness of the pandemic. Ryan starts all the songs and sends me the multitrack with the title. I overdub keys and drums, then edit, arrange and mix. So it's almost like he's the singer-songwriter who hands the nice, simple and effective song over to the producer, and I just over-produce the f*ck out of it and accidentally make it LESS commercial. Haha!"

Rather than pinning down any specific musical influences, Lipynsky makes this statement: "The concepts at play are the ideas that go through your head when you are between being barely awake and asleep. Inspiration through exhaustion. The ideas reveal themselves in a unique way that only makes sense when it is complete. This band is about instinctual creativity and the art form of collaboration."

Arelseum III and the Arelseum cassette trilogy mark another high point for Sleeping Giant Glossolalia, the Brooklyn-based label responsible for an expertly curated slew of releases by artists spanning metal, rock, noise, and electronic genres – Shit and Shine, Couch Slut, Growing, Gnaw, Nastie Band, and Urwelt, to name a few.

Arelseum III tracklist:
1) Owl
2) Below
3) Crux

4) Woods

5) Eleven

6) Meteor

VELOUR ACADEMY - "A Gentle Breeze" video

 

"Velour Academy walk the line the between pop-punk and dream pop and they do it well, very well. 'A Gentle Breeze,' their new track, has the energy and scrappiness of a garage-punk thumb snapper, but the band lays an ethereal gauze on top of the skeleton, making a tune that is sweet, but also a little spooky."

- Punknews.org

Watch the video for "A Gentle Breeze," here:

https://www.punknews.org/article/74589/check-out-the-new-video-by-velour-academy

VELOUR ACADEMY is a pop-punk band founded in 2005 by songwriter/bassist Jamil Kassimali and songwriter/vocalist Shannon Martinez, who traded demos while going to school across the country from each other. Some songs, such as “Soda & Juice” and “Macrifoam,” were revived from those early demos for this new album. After releasing demos with just these two members, the band expanded its lineup, adding drummer Matt Calderon and backup vocalist/keyboard player Itzel Palacios. Under this formation, they recorded their first formal album, Ooze, in October 2017. Since, the band has performed in the Los Angeles area as well as festivals around the country. The band describes their aesthetic as 80s girl pop like Bananarama and early Madonna, “if that music were written and played by a punk band.”

 

CHISME was recorded/mixed/mastered by Jack Shirley, who has worked on projects for bands like Joyce Manor and Gouge Away, in October 2020 at the Atomic Garden in Oakland, CA. The album will be released digitally as well as on pink 10” vinyl and pink cassette on June 4th, 2021. Preorder it, here.

 

Video for “A Gentle Breeze” directed by Shannon Martinez. Shot and edited by Anna Orzechowicz, featuring Vivianne Serendipia.

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PAPER MICE - "1-800-Mondays" album stream

 

"The band masterfully mixes technical ability with punk energy and quirky lyrics in a way that very few other bands could pull off in such an authentic and fun way. Paper Mice sounds like This Heat mixed with your local news with a dash of Frank Zappa absurdity."

— Fecking Bahamas

Stream the album 1-800-Mondays in its entirety, via Fecking Bahamas, here:

https://feckingbahamas.com/exclusive-paper-mice-return-with-1-800-mondays

Paper Mice is a three-piece whirligig from Chicago that blends a freakish range of influences into miniature, prog-punk puzzles.  Started in 2008 by Dave Reminick, Adam McCormack, and John Carroll, Taylor Hales took over for Adam on bass duties in 2013, and the band has been writing and performing together since that time. The band is a fixture in Chicago’s tight-knit DIY community, performing their high-wire “stop-start mess of rhythmic tics and awkward face plants” for dance-soaked warehouse hounds throughout the Midwest and East Coast. Over the years, they’ve toured and/or performed with musical peers Pinback, NNAMDI, Meat Wave, Melkbelly, Oozing Wound, and The Spektral Quartet, amongst others. Influences include The Beach Boys, The Residents, Abba, The Talking Heads, Nomeansno, This Heat, and Susana Baca.

 

This single is off of Paper Mice’s upcoming LP, 1-800-Mondays, which will be released digitally as well as on vinyl through Three One G Records on May 7th, 2021. Preorder it, here.

Paper Mice’s first album, Paint it Pink, featured sixteen short, spastic songs about bizarre news stories, botched surgeries, and hirsute politicians. The follow-up, The Funny Papers (also on Three One G Records), continued the band’s jagged jaunt through the world of current events with eleven tracks about canine heroes, fast-food, financial meltdowns, and Dolly Parton. 1-800-Mondays follows in this quirky tradition, with every song being about weird and ridiculous true stories from the news-- in particular, this album often focuses on fire (mainly, people setting things on fire accidentally/on purpose). Channeling The Residents’ strange conceptual brilliance, The Beach Boys’ pop sensibilities, and expertly arranged musical complexity throughout, the band also enlists Grammy-nominated Spektral Quartet, Mike Hogg, and Ben Roidl-Ward as guest appearances on the album. Though the LP has been in the works for almost a decade now due to various roadblocks, surely, the timing is apt for this ode to the absurd, as we seem to be in something of a golden age of insanity when it comes to headlines.

1-800-Mondays LP:

1. Fight Fire With Firearms

2. 1 - 800 - MONDAYS

3. Fight Spider With Fire

4. For The Birds

5.  Trial By Fire

6. Fresh Coat

7. It's Your Funeral

8. Taking The Heat

9. A Regular Guy

10.  The Cynic Route

 

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