Posts Tagged ‘jarboe’

True Cult Heavy Metal: Roadburn 2010 Day One: Unearthing The Memories

Posted on Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

Lovingly pinched from True Cult Heavy Metal ( Louise Brown, editor Terrorizer Magazine): Never has the phrase Portents Of Doom ever been so apt. We all know Roadburn is an earth-shattering event but coming off the plane (thank god we got the early one) in Eindhoven we didn’t expect to ...read more

Jarboe about her appearance at Roadburn Festival 2010

Posted on Thursday, November 26th, 2009

Former Swans chanteuse Jarboe has aligned herself with the constantly mutating world of Avant-Metal by her recent collaborations with  Neurosis, Cobalt and Jesu. She has also forged her own path with her feminine take on NYC dirge. Heavy, operatic and hypnotic, Jarboe’s  hydra-head vocals vary from waif whispers to shrieking litanies,  ...read more

More bands announced for Roadburn 2010: Eyehategod, Outlaw Order and Jarboe

Posted on Friday, November 20th, 2009

Roadburn is beyond thrilled to report that seminal  New Orleans, Louisiana sludge-legends EYEHATEGOD, along with Outlaw Order and Jarboe will be part of the festival line-up on Thursday, 15 April 2010. Self-hating riff worshippers rejoice! EYEHATEGOD, the legendary Southern hardcore-blues-sludge-and-doom group from Katrina-ravaged New Orleans has been confirmed for Roadburn ...read more

Album of the day: Jarboe – Mahakali

Posted on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from Brainwashed: Jarboe is an artist that is very much at the mercy of her collaborators; a strong band behind her and she flourishes but accompanied by a weaker artist she flounders. This has made for a patchy career, the dizzying power of her performances with Swans has ...read more

Supersonic Festival 2009

Posted on Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Sunday night’s performance of the reunited Goblin brought Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival to a close, a fitting conclusion to a great weekend for me and Jurgen. One of the special things about Supersonic that we noticed was how much time the musicians from the various bands on the bill spent hanging ...read more

Supersonic Festival: Birmingham, July 24th – 26th

Posted on Thursday, July 16th, 2009

We are currently gearing up for our sonic pilgrimage to Birmingham’s annual Supersonic Festival. Louise of Terrorizer.com recently conducted an interview with promoter Lisa to find out more about their aural annual adventure. An excerpt from the chat follows below. What is Supersonic Festival all about? We aim to put ...read more

Bloody Panda: Summon details revealed

Posted on Saturday, July 4th, 2009

New York City experimental doom metal act Bloody Panda has completed work on its new album, Summon, for an August 11, 2009 North American release via Profound Lore Records. Fronted by Japanese siren and accomplished visual artist Yoshiko Ohara, whose death-defying wails have at once drawn comparison to Diamanda Galas, ...read more

A beginners guide to the music of Swans

Posted on Sunday, May 24th, 2009

Swans are perhaps the single biggest influence on the burgeoning doom / sludge / drone scene aside from the obvious likes of Black Sabbath. New York’s Dan Bukszpan wrote a beginners guide to the music of Swans: One of the unexpected wonders of being in my band, Slow Horse, is ...read more

Supersonic Festival, Birmingham, 24th – 26th of July

Posted on Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

We’re going to attend Birmingham’s very own Supersonic Festival in July: “As British music festivals go, Birmingham’s annual Supersonic event is the best kind of mixed musical bag, a dizzying assortment of avant rock textures and Heavy Metal thunder on a bill which swings from the sublime to the ridiculous ...read more