Posts Tagged ‘Crucial Blast’

Album of the day: SubArachnoid Space – Eight bells

Posted on Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

SubArachnoid Space - Eight Bells

SubArachnoid Space - Eight Bells

Lovingly pinched from OregonLive.com: Call it what you will — a trip, a trance, a journey — but heavy instrumental four-piece SubArachnoid Space soundtracks the superconscious, with all the breadth of wonderment and horror between sleep and wake and between Dali paintings and Cortazar stories.

Guitarist Melynda Jackson moved the 14-year-old project — which is named for a cavity in the skull and helped pave the way for instru-metal stars like Pelican and Isis — to Portland from San Francisco three years ago. With bassist Daniel Barone, drummer Lauren K. Newman and guitarist Daniel Osborne, all of Portland, Eight Bells is her first release since the move and is certainly one of the most ambitious and creative releases in loud rock music this year.

Continue reading: NW CD review: SubArachnoid Space – OregonLive.com

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Album of the day: Gnaw Their Tongues – All The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity

Posted on Sunday, August 30th, 2009

Lovingly stolen from our dear friends at Aquarius Records / San Francisco:  We’re running out of superlatives, not to mention overly poetic descriptions of filth and blackness and depravity, to describe this one man cinematic black doom noise outfit. But with every record, Mories (Gnaw Their Tongues), the man behind ...read more

Gnaw Their Tongues to release new CD in September; vinyl already available

Posted on Monday, August 17th, 2009

Dutch black / experimental metal act Gnaw Their Tongues will release its new album, All The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity, on September 8 via Crucial Blast (All The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity, including three extra tracks has already been released on vinyl via Holland’s very own Burning World Records). Picking ...read more