ANCESTORS Stream New Album Suspended in Reflections In Full, ÅRABOT Release New Track Pygmalion, ROSETTA Set To Reissue Quintessential Ephemera and The Anaesthete, FUTURE USSES Release New Single Heavenly Superperson, SET AND SETTING Prepare to Release Tabula Rasa On October 12 & Drops First Track, Ecdysis
Southern California’s Ancestors continue to cast an overarching light fog of gloom over the the world in anticipation of their first full-length release in six years. Their new album almost verges into shoegaze territory; displaying a sweeping, all-enveloping sound wave that lives up to MetalSucks’ description of “a melodic type of doom that’s both easy to listen to and absolutely heart wrenching.”
The Band comment: “It’s been a long journey from the last album to here, for those that have been waiting for it we commend your patience and thank you for your support.
We’re thrilled to finally be able to share the album in it’s entirety, which is altogether elevated experience to hearing the individual songs (or so we think).”
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Hailing from Los Angeles, the now-three-piece Ancestors create mighty, modern soundscapes, taking their time in writing their fifth album, and first with Daniel Pouliot (Horse the Band, Silver Snakes).
Indeed, the band steps out from the expected; proggy strings (“Into the Fall”) and jazzy bass lines (“Release”) prove that the three piece is not confirmed to any specific genre of music. The use of an Aeolian-Skinner church organ, however – an instrument with close to 1,941 pipes – woven throughout the album, is proof that these excursions are not blind experiments, but landmarks of a sonic path that this band has carefully chosen.
Suspended In Reflections is out now
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Årabrot are set to return on 7th September with their most astounding piece of True Norwegian Art Rock to date; “Who Do You Love” on new home Pelagic Records.
The Norwegian grammy award winning band carry all the hallmarks of a sonic spectrum that has always been a wide and wild field of purposeful mismatches, a world of friction between the noisy, the disharmony and the tension, with rivalling moments of harmonic relief. But there is more than noise rock to Årabrot’s formula, “I’m interested in feelings, either the very silent or the extremely noisy“, band leader Kjetil Nernes comments. ‘I don’t care about what’s in between, the middle of the road isn’t my thing. The bible fits really well with that. I’m using it thematically all of the time.”
It comes as no surprise that the singer and guitar player has established himself in a former church in the woods of Dalarna in rural Sweden, where he lives with his wife, piano player and singer Karin Park, and where his band now rehearses and records, surrounded by pianos, organs and hundreds of old bibles that the church left behind when the congregation stopped. The clerical environment has proven to be an excellent creative tapestry for a band whose lyrical focus orbits around sex, death and defiance.
Kjetil Nernes has made his own first hand experience with the topics he sings about. He was diagnosed with malignant throat cancer in 2014, in the middle of a tour. Instead of heading in for surgery right away, the band finished a full European tour first, “Every night of that tour was like the last show ever“, Nernes comments, “It was really strange. When a doctor calls and says, ‘you’re terribly sick’, it’s surreal. You go into this phase where life is more vivid and more real, in a weird way. We’ve done so many shows through the years and sometimes it’s a little like going to the factory to do a job. But with an axe hanging over your head you perceive the world differently.“
After successfully recovering from cancer, Årabrot are now stronger than ever. The band has collaborated with procuders like Billy Anderson and Steve Albini, and musicians like Ted Parsons (Killing Joke/Swans), Sunn O))))’s Stephen O’Malley, and Kvelertak’s Erlend Hjelvik.
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Philadelphia post-metal veterans ROSETTA returned in 2017 with „Utopioid“, their sixth, critically acclaimed full-length album and most concept-driven work to date. The 2nd pressing of “Utopioid” is now available again at the Pelagic Webshop. The band were interviewed during their stop at PELAGIC FEST in Berlin on May 19 this year. The video interview with live footage from the festival can be watched at this location.
The band will be returning to Europe in November, supporting THE OCEAN on their upcoming album’s headline tour. On the occasion of this, we are re-issuing the preceding 2 albums on vinyl: 2013’s „The Anaesthete“ and 2015’s „Quintessential Ephemera“.
While the latter saw Rosetta expand to a 5-piece and use melodic vocals for the first time, „The Anaesthete“ emphasizes the dark and dismal side of Rosetta.
Informed as much by the minimal soundscapes of STARS OF THE LID as by the pulverizing weight of GODFLESH and drone / doom influences, ROSETTA’s compositions have a spaced-out, exploratory feel, appropriately dubbed “metal for astronauts.” \
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Utopioid | Quintessential Ephemera | The Anaesthete
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L.A.’s FUTURE USSES deliver an astounding instrumental record of devastatingly heavy, oppresively slow, yet shimmery and lush sludge-paced rock, run through a filter of nightmarish psychedelia.
It’s hard to believe that „The Existential Haunting“ is really a debut album… the Three-piece’s sound comes across too shrewd, too canny and too sophisticated. But while FUTURE USSES have really only played a handful of shows in their short career, main songwriter Sacha Dunable has been a member of INTRONAUT for almost 15 years, and dabbled with various doom metal projects over the years, like BEREFT (LA).
Check out Heavenly Superperson here
FUTURE USSES takes small elements of what those bands do and magnifies them, combining the slow-motion crushing power of doom with the atmosphere and dense harmonic tendencies of INTRONAUT.
Drums and guitar were recorded at Clearlake Audio with Josh Newell (INTRONAUT, CYNIC), Derek Donley (INTRONAUT, BEREFT) and bass with Jon Nunez (TORCHE), all in Los Angeles. Mixing was done by CONVERGE’S Kurt Ballou at God City Studio.
FUTURE USSES lavish guitar sound is built around live guitar loops which presents a whole set of limitations but also virtually endless opportunities.
Sacha Dunable comments. ‘The beautiful thing about making an instrumental record is that you’re not obligated to impose any specific literal message onto the listener, but rather to concentrate on setting a vibe that can be interpreted or personified naturally through the power of their own imagination’
“This album is the end result of almost five years of rewriting, rerecording, and reconceptualizing what these songs were and what this band was going to be. With the help of my bandmates and everyone involved in the production of this album, we made something truly unique and special. Totally worth the wait, and we can’t wait to finally bring it to you in person.”
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SET AND SETTING are a young band from St. Petersburg, Florida who merge instrumental rock with a thick metallic edgeand elements of drone and ambient music.
The result is a captivating wordless genre amalgam“ Decibel Magazine raved and Brooklyn Vegan defined their sound as “metallic chug to trippy psychedelia to soaring post-rock beauty… like Russian Circles teaming with early Pink Floyd“.
Since their debut album Equanimity in 2013, “the quartet has been very active throughout theunderground and extreme music scenes in the U.S. and Canada.
In 2014 SET AND SETTING released their second album A Vivid Memory via Prosthetic Records and continued to tour internationally and locally with bands such as Mouth of the Architect, EyeHateGod, Inter Arma and Kayo Dot throughout 2015.
2016 brought a tough year of writing and recording while battling injuries within the band limiting live performances. In 2017 SET AND SETTING released theirthird full-length album Reflectionless and now SET AND SETTING are now returning with their 4th album Tabula Rasa, the band’s heaviest album to date and their debut on Pelagic Records.
The band comment ‘When we were writing this album, we had a new lineup and felt a new energy. We named this song Ecdysis because it felt like we we were shedding old skin and pushing new boundaries we haven’t reached yet.’ ‘We purposely tried to extend the boundaries of our sound by adding more extreme metal and punk influences all while still sounding like ourselves“ guitarist Shane Handall comments.
The album was recorded and mixed during 10 straight days in Miami
Listen To Ecdysis On Spotify or YouTube
Check Out The Album Teaser here
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