SLUDGELORD RECORDS PRE-ORDER #99: Saltbuck, "Gorb"

Hey everyone, yes it's that time of the month again, its Bandcamp Friday, which means all sales go directly to the artist/label, so if ever there was a time to support labels, today is that day.

To celebrate, I'm excited to announce a brand new preorder and more importantly we're excited to share with you the upcoming release of "Gorb", the brand new record from SALTBUCK, a devastatingly bleak sludge band from the UK.

The album consists of four bleak and super heavy tracks. The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Wayne Adams, who has worked on a number of other records we have released on Sludgelord Records, including the mighty TORPOR.

The preorder is live now and "Gorb" will be issued on limited edition CD. Not only that, you can stream the opening track "Heresy" now. We are excited about this collaboration and we hope you like it.

Check it is out, place an order and support the underground.

The Sludgelord Song Premiere - "Terrifying Japanese Coldplay Documentary" by Palehorse

By:  Aaron Pickford

“Gee, That Ain’t Swell”, a cheekily monikered debut if ever there was one, indeed Palehorse were possibly so underground during the time of the band’s debut release in 2003, the fact that 16 years later the band are calling it a day, is perhaps testament to that statement. But all joking aside, a band whose debut could be construed as a modern British masterpiece, all the while with a comparatively avante garde approach with two basses ringing distorted noise through a filter of depressive and maniacally savage vocals, Palehorse have remained at the cutting edge of the underground heavy scene.  Quite simply they have always been the one, but not Metallica

So as we approach something resembling the summer here in the UK, Palehorse are set to issue what will most likely be their epitaph, with new album “Looking Wet in Public” via Truthseeker Music.

Having recently undertaken a co-headline tour of the UK with Ghold throughout the early part of May and finishing up in Leeds, Palehorse will perform their final ever appearance and  farewell show, at the prestigious  Temples Festival in Bristol on 5th June.  As their press release for their new album attests too, Palehorse are about to leave listeners with the uncomfortable sense that something inevitable and horrifying is going to happen, indeed this will be the only time, you’re gonna be happy about “Looking Wet in Public”. 

With a little over a month to go before the new album drops, today at The Sludgelord in partnership with the good folks at Truthseeker Music, we can officially debut an exclusive stream of a brand new tune entitled “Terrifying Japanese Coldplay Documentary”.  You have been warned, this is sluggish distorted sludge at its best, so before you check it out, fix yourself a sandwich because you won't want to die on an empty stomach.

“Looking Wet in Public” has a street date of July 1^st and is available as a download and limited vinyl.  It can preordered here now, so what are you waiting for.  A full track listing and artwork can be found below. 

“Looking Wet in Public” DD//LP Tracklisting:

Half Lizard / Half Lizard

Miserable Heroin Addict vs. Jehovahs Witness Guy

Lambs To The Laughter

The Shower

Terrifying Japanese Coldplay Documentary

1893

Band info: facebook || bandcamp

The Sludgelord News: Third I Rex to release the crushing "Loss" album by sludge, hardcore maniacs LLNN

By:  Aaron Pickford

Self styled post apocalyptic hardcore maniacs, LLNN from Copenhagen fresh from decimating ear drums with their caustic and punishing debut album “Loss” last year, have teamed up with DIY label Third I Rex to release it on CD for the first time. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the band, get set for a bludgeoning  and mesmerising mix of sludge, hardcore and sci-fi Bladerunner driven madness.  

Drawing comparisons to Converge and Love Sex Machine but filtered through the visionary mind of cult sci fi movies, LLNN’s attitude to their compositions is one of devotion to embracing a variety of genres but melding them into their own unique and outstanding personality.

Ultimately their debut album is visionary but more importantly monumentally crushing, "Loss" is a journey through lands unknown.  Equally aggressive and comfortable on stage, LLNN have performed live in support of Redwood Hill, Église, Czar, Smertegrænsens Toldere, Pyramido, Grim Van Doom, Year Of No Light, Arakk  and will soon share the stage with Cult Of Luna, Pelican, Russian Circle. 

So ask yourself the question, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”? And immerse yourself in this fantastic debut video “Rapture” from this neck wrecking genre bending Danish quartet. Don’t forget to pull the trigger and order to the CD whilst you’re at it.  The preorder begins today.  

The record is called “Loss” it is available to preorder here and you can find the track listing below:

“Loss” CD track listing

1). Rapture
2). Monolith
3). Calamity
4). Loss
5). Depths
6). Voyager

Band info: bandcamp | facebook

The Sludgelord News: Old Witch//Keeper Split Cassette Pre-orders Up NOW & Track Stream

CVLT Nation is happy to announce their first ever physical release in conjunction with the renowned tape labels, Grimoire Cassette Cvlture – a split they describe as ‘going to take the world of heavy music by storm’. Their new collaboration label called Grim CVLT are set to release their debut cassette only release and it is a stunning, massive, corrosive audio plague from two young bands, a split between Old Witch from Ontario, Canada and Keeper from California whom we have featured twice on the site. According to CVLT Nation, this split will surpass the high expectations we know you have for these two amazing bands! Grim CVLT will issued this cassette as an initialy limited first run of 200 cassettes – 150 black with silver imprint and 50 clear with silver imprint. Each cassette will come in its own matte black box with a silver embossed cover, and will include a download code. Pre-orders started yesterday at grimcvlt.bandcamp.com, and the release date is July 15th.

But wait, that is not all. Today NOISEY premiered a track off the split, Old Witch's "The Vague Fears That Bother My Waking Life Regarding The Inevitability Of Death And What May Or May Not Lie Beyond", with Kim Kelly saying that Old Witch's "feedback-heavy dirges ooze past the line between sludge and funeral doom...it's music that shudders along painfully, methodically, like a sick man walking to the gallows." You can check out the track listing and debut track below

Track List:
OLD WITCH 1. The Vague Fears That Bother My Waking Life Regarding The Inevitability Of Death And What May Or May Not Lie Beyond (12:13)
2. Broken Soil On An Early Grave (04:28)
3. A Gathering Of Strangers Who Knew The Deceased But Not Too Well (05:01)
4. Gallows (06:40)

KEEPER:
1. Four Walls; A Home (14:42)
2. With or Without Pt. 1, 2 & 3 (15:15)

For more information

Old Witch:Like: https://www.facebook.com/GODOVWOLVES
Listen https://oldwitch.bandcamp.com

Keeper:Like: https://www.facebook.com/keeperdoom

Listen: https://keeperxdoom.bandcamp.com

The Sludgelord News: KINGS DESTROY: Brooklyn Stoner Rock/Doom Unit To Release New Full-Length Via War Crime Recordings; Preorders Available

Brooklyn stoner /doom crew KINGS DESTROY, a firm favourite at Sludgelord acres, are set to unveil their new record, with a release date set for May 5th. Simply titled ‘King Destroy’, this self titled record is the follow-up to last years ‘A Time Of Hunting’ full length.  Once again the band has teamed up with famed producer, Sanford Parker at Studio G in Brooklyn, to record and mix it, with the master being handled by Colin Jordan at The Boiler Room in Chicago. 

The new release will be their third album in four years, with the band being championed by Yob guitarist/vocalist Mike Scheidt, he exclaims "It's a great album. Heavy, yes. Doom? Yes, But what is best about KINGS DESTROY is that they write good songs. Helmet meets early Queens Of The Stone Age meets Kyuss/Unida, roughly. [Steve] Murphy's vocals are strong and really steps up what is already killer.” Now that’s high praise indeed. 

You can check out our most recent review of their work here. The track listing for ‘Kings Destroy’ can found below and with killer artwork to match, this album is set to be their best yet.  Check out this band if you haven’t already, with more updates to follow over the forthcoming weeks. 

‘Kings Destroy’ Track Listing:

1. Smokey Robinson

2. Mr. O

3. W2

4. Mythomania

5. Embers

6. Green Diamonds

7. Time for War

Kings Destroy will be released on LP, CD and digitally on May 5th, 2015 via War Crime Recordings. CD preorders are currently available HERE. For vinyl preorders go HERE. 

Source:  Earsplit PR

Posted by: Aaron Pickford

For more information:

http://www.facebook.com/KingsDestroy 

http://www.kingsdestroy.com 

http://www.facebook.com/WarCrimeRecordings 

The Sludgelord News: UFOMAMMUT Releases Track From New LP And Interview Through Several Global Branches Of Noisey; Fifth Making-Of Ecate Video Released + Preorders Posted

[photo by Andrea Tomas Prato]

In a multi-nation takeover, multiple international branches of Vice Magazine's music channel, Noisey, have cooperatively premiered "Plouton," the gargantuan second movement on UFOMAMMUT's impending seventh LP, Ecate. In addition to leak of the new track, the fifth installment of short videos documenting the mammoth undertaking of the Ecate recording sessions has been posted, focusing on the album's vocals being harnessed, and preorder packages for the mighty record have also been activated.

As with the rest of Ecate, "Plouton" is a bit varied from the majority of UFOMAMMUT's vast recorded catalog, the album unloading a more dense and upbeat percussive and riffage attack, taking the band's cosmic, psychedelic tones to some of their most devastating capabilities in the band's now decade-and-a-half-long mission. At just over three minutes in length, "Plouton" consumes only a fractional amount of time compared to most of their extensive doom/sludge anthems, but helps create a distressing amount of tension early in the album which uncoils and consumes everything in earshot over the subsequent tracks. Spearheaded by Noisey's Brazilian sect, the magazine's American and Italian branches have also joined the mission to help disseminate the premiere of "Plouton" to as much of the globe as possible. The track is joined by an interview with the band on the creation of Ecate and their upcoming international tour plans following the album's release, once again through Neurosis' mighty label cult, Neurot Recordings, in conjunction with the band's own Supernatural Cat Records.

Endure "Plouton" and the interview with UFOMAMMUT now at Noisey Brazil HERE, US HERE and Italy HERE.

Scope the fifth of seven mini-documentaries on Ecate's recording process at THIS LOCATION and stand by for the final episode to leak in the coming days. Also catch up with part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4.

Preorders for Ecate including limited edition vinyl, CD, shirt, and bundle deals are now available. In North America stop by the Neurot Recordings store HERE and internationally click to Supernatural Cat's store HERE.

UFOMAMMUT's massive international tour in support of Ecate begins directly after its release, with several Italian shows preceding their two-week European tour with the UK's Conan, and including appearances at both of this year's Desertfest events in London and Berlin. And May and June will see the band on their first-ever tour of North America. Initiated by their anticipated performance at this year's Maryland Deathfest with lablemates Yob, Neurosis and countless others, UFOMAMMUT's month-long North America Spring 2015 will run from May 13th through June 13th, with direct support from Relapse Records' Usnea.

UFOMAMMUT Ecate European Tour Dates:

4/04/2015 e20 Underground - Montecchio Maggiore IT

4/10/2015 Bloom - Mezzago IT

4/18/2015 Impetus festival - Delemont CH

4/19/2015 Glazart - Paris FR w/ Conan

4/21/2015 Forum - Bielefeld DE w/Conan

4/22/2015 Schlachthof - Wiesbaden DE w/ Conan

4/23/2015 Feierwerk - Munich DE w/ Conan

4/24/2015 Desertfest - Berlin DE w/ Conan

4/25/2015 AB - Brussels BE w/ Conan

4/26/2015 Desertfest - London UK w/ Conan

4/28/2015 Vortex - Siegen DE w/ Conan

4/29/2015 Kellerclub - Stuttgart DE

4/30/2015 Weekender Club - Innsbruck AT

UFOMAMMUT North America Spring 2015 w/ Usnea:

5/13/2015 Reggies - Chicago, IL

5/14/2015 Now That's Class - Cleveland, OH

5/15/2015 Bug Jar - Rochester, NY

5/16/2015 Mod Club - Toronto, ON

5/17/2015 Le Ritz - Montreal, QC

5/19/2015 Saint Vitus Bar - Brooklyn, NY

5/20/2015 Johnny Brenda's - Philadelphia, PA

5/21/2015 Maryland Death Fest - Baltimore, MD [no Usnea]

5/22/2015 King's - Raleigh, NC

5/23/2015 Drunken Unicorn - Atlanta, GA

5/25/2015 Siberia - New Orleans, LA

5/26/2015 Walter's - Houston, TX

5/27/2015 Red 7 - Austin, TX

5/29/2015 Sister - Albuquerque, NM

5/30/2015 Flycatcher - Tucson, AZ

5/31/2015 Complex - Los Angeles, CA

6/02/2015 Catalyst - Santa Cruz, CA

6/03/2015 Elbo Room - San Francisco, CA

6/04/2015 Press Club - Sacramento, CA

6/05/2015 WOW Hall - Eugene, OR [no Usnea]

6/06/2015 Rotture - Portland, OR

6/07/2015 Chop Suey - Seattle, WA

6/08/2015 Neurolux - Boise, ID

6/09/2015 Bar Deluxe - Salt Lake City, UT

6/10/2015 Hi-Dive - Denver, CO

6/12/2015 Turf Club - St Paul, MN

6/13/2015 Metal Grill - Milwaukee, WI

Source: Earsplit PR

http://www.ufomammut.com 

http://www.facebook.com/pages/UFOMAMMUT/83336386071 

http://www.supernaturalcat.com 

http://www.malleusdelic.com 

http://www.neurotrecordings.com 

http://www.facebook.com/neurotrecordings 

The Sludgelord News: FAITH NO MORE STREAM “SUPERHERO” VIA MARVEL.COM

Faith No More press photo (credit: Dustin Rabin)

  SOL INVICTUS COVER ART REVEALED; DIGITAL PRE-ORDERS AVAILABLE NOW FOR MAY 19 RELEASE

SAN FRANCISCO, March 2, 2015 – Faith No More offer up a second song from their forthcoming album, Sol Invictus (May 19, Reclamation Recordings/Ipecac Recordings), with the single “Superhero” currently streaming via Marvel.com (http://marvel.com/news/comics/24157/faith_no_more_brings_superhero_to_marvel).

The band has also revealed the cover art for Sol Invictus, which features an image from Ossian Brown, a member of Coil and Cyclobe, who also published the book “Haunted Air” in 2010.

Sol Invictus digital pre-orders, which feature an instant download of the single as well as the previously released song, “Motherfucker,” are available now via iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sol-invictus/id968564846?ls=1).  “Superhero” will be available as a limited edition 7-inch single on March 17.  The song made its worldwide radio premiere last night on BBC Radio 1’s Rock Show with Dan Carter.

Sol Invictus track list:

1. Sol Invictus
2. Superhero
3. Sunny Side Up
4. Separation Anxiety
5. Cone of Shame
6. Rise Of The Fall
7. Black Friday
8. Motherfucker
9. Matador
10. From The Dead

The Bay Area band recently announced their first North American tour since 2010, with all dates sold out upon on-sale. 

Faith No More tour dates:

March 3     Auckland, New Zealand     WestFest

April 15     Vancouver, BC     PNE Forum

April 16     Seattle, WA     Paramount Theater

April 17     Portland, OR     Keller Auditorium

April 19     San Francisco, CA     Warfield

April 20     San Francisco, CA     Warfield

April 22     Los Angeles, CA     The Wiltern

April 23     Los Angeles, CA     The Wiltern

April 24     Los Angeles, CA     The Wiltern

April 25     Santa Ana, CA     The Observatory

May 7     Chicago, IL     Concord Music Hall

May 8    Detroit, MI     The Fillmore

May 9     Toronto, ON     Sony Centre for the Performing Arts

May 11     Boston, MA     Orpheum Theatre

May 13     New York, NY     Webster Hall

May 14     New York, NY     Webster Hall

May 15     Philadelphia, PA     Electric Factory

May 29     Nurburgring, Germany     Grune Holle Festival

May 31     Munich, Germany     Rockavaria Festival

June 2     Milan, Italy     Sonisphere

June 4     Vienna, Austria     Vienna Rocks Festival

June 5     Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic     Rock For People Festival

June 6     Berlin, Germany     Zitadelle Spandau

June 8     Krakow, Poland     Tauron Arena

June 12     Landgraaf, Netherlands     Pinkpop Festival

June 13     Donington, UK     Download Festival

June 20     Clisson, France     Hellfest

June 21     Dessel, Belgium     Graspop Festival

June 23     Hamburg, Germany     Sporthalle Hamburg

June 24 - 27     Seinajoki, Finland     Provinssi

June 25 – 27    Norrkoping, Sweden     Bravalla Festival

June 28     Odense, Denmark     Tinderbox

Aug. 7 – 9     Montreal, QC     Heavy Montreal

Sept. 24 – 27     Rio de Janeiro, Brazil     Rock in Rio

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www.fnm.com

www.facebook.com/officialfnm

www.twitter.com/faithnomore

Source: Speakeasy PR

The Sludgelord News: FULGORA: Full-Length From Grindcore/Death Unit Featuring Members Of Pig Destroyer, Misery Index & Agoraphobic Nosebleed Streaming In Its Entirety At Decibel; Preorders Available

Stratagem is the forthcoming, seven-track skull-crusher from grindcore/death perpetrators, FULGORA. A name representing the female personification of lightning in Greek mythology, FULGORA features members of Pig Destroyer, Misery Index and Agoraphobic Nosebleed. Together, their output is vicious, painful and sadistic.

Set for imminent detonation courtesy of Housecore Records next month, Stratagem is a sinister collection of limited vinyl singles and samples. In anticipation of its release, today Decibel Magazine spews forth Stratagem in its scathing entirety noting in a recent 8/10 review of the record, "With Adam and John Jarvis (Pig Destroyer, Misery Index, Agoraphobic Nosebleed etc.) acting as the rhythmic backbone for guitarist/vocalist B.L. LaMew it's not a surprise that direct lines exist between those bands. Not that we're complaining. Adam's drumming ...unfathomably exudes space, breadth and surprising amounts of groove, while sounding like he's hitting everything at once. His frenetic style works well with LaMew's weaving of splashy discord into taut powerful riffs."

Strap on a helmet and check out Stratagem at THIS LOCATION.

And if you missed it, watch the visual companion to the track "Meridian," which American Aftermath dubs a "three-minute barrage of vile, grind mayhem," playing at Metal Injection at THIS LOCATION.

FULGORA will release Stratagem via Philip H. Anselmo's Housecore Records on March 24th, 2015. For CD preorders, visit THIS LOCATION. Vinyl lovers go HERE. 

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"FULGORA is cute" - Philip H. Anselmo

"...if Misery Index is a determined fanatic seething with the righteous rage of political revolution and Pig Destroyer is the lovelorn, desperate stalker of every woman's nightmares, then FULGORA is a mad scientist who is going to make you the middle section of his human centipede. FULGORA's music is unforgiving and furious, but it's also executed with surgical precision." - MetalSucks

Source: Earsplit PR

http://www.fulgoramusic.bandcamp.com

http://www.facebook.com/fulgoramusic

http://www.facebook.com/housecorerecords

http://www.thehousecorerecords.com