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VHÖL (Mike Scheidt, Aesop Dekker, John Cobbett and Sigrid Sheie): Track Premiere at Stereogum

Posted on Monday, March 18th, 2013

Listen to an insane new song from VHÖL (“Illuminate”), with members of Yob, Agalloch and Ludicra HERE, courtesy of Stereogum.

“The song that topped our list last month was “Grace,” the first release from the band’s forthcoming debut on Profound Lore. Now we’ve got another, and it’s … even better. “Illuminate” opens with a Dekker-led tribal barrage before shifting into a Celtic Frost thrasher, with all the knobs twisted hard to the right: bigger, faster, louder, fuller. More accurate, really: biggest, fastest, loudest, fullest. Scheidt sounds like a man possessed, and his guitar interplay with Cobbett has the deathwish thrills of a pair of tweakers drag racing on black ice. At 4:30, though, the song shifts gears, slows, and bursts anew into something else entirely; Scheidt is suddenly flexing Halfordian melodies and range, while the instruments are building a post-metal skyline worthy of Agalloch. And build it does. By song’s end, Dekker must literally be on fire, with Cobbett, Scheidt, and Shie hanging on like skitchers on a train. It’s truly goddamn amazing” — Michael Nelson / Stereogum.

VHÖL is out 4/16 via Profound Lore.

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VHÖL (Mike Scheidt, Aesop Dekker, John Cobbett, Sigrid Sheie): Track Premiere At Pitchfork

Posted on Wednesday, February 20th, 2013

Hear metal supergroup VHÖL‘s ‘Grace’, from the band’s forthcomiong self-titled LP on Profound Lore HERE, courtesy of Pitchfork. “When supergroups form, public attention tends to turn towards fractions of the band– namely, the members of the new group who are best known. And so it goes with VHÖL, the West ...read more

Album of the day: Portal – Vexovoid

Posted on Thursday, February 14th, 2013

Lovingly pinched from About.com: Heavy Metal: We’re all too aware of the terrifying acts our species is capable of, but nothing reflects that better than the splendidly grotesque noisescapes of Portal. As the unnerving Australian death metal quartet proves yet again on their latest horror-filled dirge, Vexovoid, there are levels ...read more

Album of the day: Ash Borer – Ash Borer (CD)

Posted on Saturday, January 26th, 2013

Praise for Ash Borer‘s Self Titled from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: Originally released as a super limited cassette on Psychic Violence in 2011, then a little later, on Pesanta Urfolk as a limited LP, and now finally, this killer collection of avant, droned out, post rock flecked, West Coast black ...read more

Album of the day: Occultation – Three & Seven

Posted on Sunday, November 25th, 2012

Praise for Occultation‘s Three & Seven from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: Three And Seven is the debut full length from NYC psychedelic doomlords  /doomladies, and Negative Plane offshoot, Occultation. Their sound is a dark and dramatic, almost cinematic sort of witchy metallic psychedelia, the heaviness tempered by a fantastically muddy, ...read more

Album of the day: Yakuza – Beyul

Posted on Saturday, November 17th, 2012

Lovingly pinched from MetalSucks: I’ve always thought “avant garde metal” is an odd duck micro-niche. Since so much metal is (ostensibly) devoted to pushing the parameters of form, tempo, technicality, production, or listener tolerance, an “avant garde” for metal is like asking for a sandwich with extra sandwich in it: ...read more

Album of the day: Bell Witch – Longing

Posted on Monday, November 12th, 2012

Praise for Bell Witch‘s Longing from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: Seattle doom duo Bell Witch have been lauded for being one of the heaviest doom outfits around, their sound achingly crushingly despondent, made all the more remarkable for the fact that they’re just a duo of bass and drums. On ...read more

Album of the day: Atriarch – Ritual of Passing

Posted on Monday, November 5th, 2012

Lovingly pinched from Pitchfork: ‘Prayer’ takes shape slowly: Halfway through the second album by Portland menaces Atriarch, the guitars work within a web of distortion, a monstrous riff cutting occasionally through the sinister reverie. The drums pound deep in circular patterns, cresting over edges of throbbing bass. “There is a ...read more

Pallbearer Confirmed For Roadburn Festival 2013

Posted on Monday, October 1st, 2012

Roadburn jubilantly announces that Pallbearer will bring their classic doom sound to our 2013 Festival on Thursday, April 18th at Het Patronaat in Tilburg, Holland. Pallbearer‘s epic, timeless riffs and modern production have been taking the music world by storm with their recently released debut album Sorrow and Extinction, no ...read more

Album of the day: Dysrhythmia – Test Of Submission

Posted on Tuesday, September 25th, 2012

Praise for Dysrhythmia‘s Test Of Submission from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: It’s been a while since we’ve heard from NY math / post / prog metallers Dysrhythmia, but we’re happy to report that very little has changed in the years since 2009′s Psychic Maps (which for some reason we never ...read more