EARTH SHIP Release Video For A Handful Of Flies, ÅRABOT Who Do You Love, Out NOW, FUTURE USSES New Album The Existential Haunting Released Sept 14 Streaming In Full Now!
Ever since their inception in 2010, “Berlin 3-piece EARTH SHIP have built their reputation in the vast field of the stoner / doom / sludge underground scene as one of the most relentless and heavy-hitting live bands out there. With their thunderousblend of sludgy riffs bluesy leads virulent vocals and a massive dose of both groove and humour vocalist Jan Oberg, his wife Sabine (bass) and Sebastian Grimberg (drums) have taken EARTH SHIP to the stages of Desertfest, Stoned From The Underground & Pelagic Fest and tours with bands like RED FANG, TORCHE, CROWBAR & VOIVOD.
After 3 albums on Pelagic the band signed with NAPALM RECORDS for the release of 4th studio album „Hollowed“ in 2016. But the alliance didn’t last long and the band returned to Pelagic’s welcoming arms for album #5: Resonant Sun.
EARTH SHIP continues an evolution towards more stripped down arrangements and tunes that stun through simplicity and heaviness an evolution that began with 2014’s Withered album. While the occasional clean vocals remind of TORCHE or ALICE IN CHAINS Jan’s range stretches far out into the harsh spheres of bands like MANTAR or WEEDEATER. The strikingly fat production ofthe album was done by the band leader himself at his own HIDDEN PLANET STUDIOS in Berlin where all EARTH SHIP albums to date were made.
Resonant Sun will be released on October 5. The CD version comes with an exclusive bonus track and a cover of “Children Of The Revolution“ by T-Rex will be available digitally only.
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Kjetil on the album stream… “I walk 47 miles of barbed wire I use a cobra-snake for a necktie I got a brand new house on the roadside made from rattlesnake hide. I got a brand new chimney made on top made out of a human skull, now come on take a walk with me and tell me, who do you love?”
Årabrot have just released 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.
Who Do You Love? Is Out Now
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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).
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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