Neckbolt (w/ members of Exhalants, Power Pyramid, Mom Jeans) share first track from upcoming debut LP & VHS video

 

“Neckbolt are truly onto something special... Making noise rock in their own way, deranged and slurred, loud and abrasive, but colorful and a bit psychedelic.” — Post-Trash

Austin, TX band Neckbolt share the first track from their forthcoming debut album Midwestern Drawl today via Post-Trash. Hear/share "Jawline" HERE. (Direct Bandcamp.)

The name Neckbolt might evoke images of Frankenstein’s monster’s appendages, or it might suggest a critical piece of guitar hardware. And, both are very fitting for the music of Neckbolt: a freakish hodgepodge of musical body parts rendered in nightmarish form, while also still reminiscent of rock’n’roll canon at its heart. 

This outsider noise-rock project from Austin, TX requires close listening to parse out the informed musicianship that binds the skewed and screeching elements together. Neckbolt’s unrelenting twang, invasive visual and lyrical concepts, and uncharted sonic challenges to the experimental and noise rock genres are reminiscent of the early Skin Graft label’s pugilistic skronk, while also hinting at the subsumed melodies within recent Flaming Lips noise outings. 

Neckbolt was formed in 2020 by multi-instrumentalist Benjamin Krause and vocalist James Roo after Krause had relocated from Colorado. All instruments on the bannd’s debut album Midwestern Drawl were recorded and performed by Krause during 2020 and 2021, with Roo providing vocals, lyrics, and artwork. With the 11-song album’s completion, the duo opted to expand the lineup in order to play live. Enter Bill Indelicato from Austin’s noise-rock powerhouse Exhalants, along with Kilyn Massey and Brent Hodge from OKC’s shoegaze masters Power Pyramid to complete the lineup. 

The band then shot Neckbolt Live! at the Museum of Human Achievement, the forthcoming live performance companion video to be released on VHS & online. The group not only performed in the live band, but members also tracked, edited, filmed, and mixed the VHS release. This was all done in a six hour window in an intensely hot room without air conditioning on a particularly sweltering Texan summer day. To say this was a challenge would be a gross understatement. You can probably hear the sweat.

Midwestern Drawl will be available for download and on vinyl and cassette on November 5th, 2021 via Bandcamp and distributor Digital Hotdogs. Neckbolt Live! at the Museum of Human Achievement will be available the same day on VHS and online. Preorders are available here: neckbolt.xyz

Artist: Neckbolt

Album: Midwestern Drawl

Record label: Spider Dispatch Unit

Release Date: November 5th, 2021

01. The Saddle

02. Jawline

03. Black Stars Over…

04. House on the Borderland

05. The Lighted Chamber

06. Half-Eaten

07. Sandwich

08. …Over The Lake

09. Unlighted Chambers

10. Wild Streams of Violet Midnight

11. Diver’s Sorts

On the Web:

neckbolt.xyz

neckbolt.bandcamp.com

INSTAGRAM: @neckbolt.xyz

Brown Acid series of rare/lost 60s-70s pre-metal singles shares new track from upcoming 13th Trip (RidingEasy Records & Permanent Records)

"So rare that diehard fuzz junkies say you'd have a better chance of winning the lottery than finding a physical 45 rpm single by one of the bands featured on their latest installment." -- Dangerous Minds

"Will do for hard rock, proto-metal and heavy psych what Nuggets did for garage rock, and bring it to a wider audience of collectors and music fans." -- The Guardian

"Mining the surprising rich reserves of heavy rock and proto-metal from the '60s and '70s, these collections have been crucial to understanding the history of a subgenre of rock that had far deeper roots than most fans realize." -- Paste Magazine

The forthcoming latest edition of the popular compilation series featuring long-lost vintage 60s-70s proto-metal and stoner rock singles, Brown Acid: The Thirteenth Trip will be available on Halloween 2021. Today, a new single "Buzzin'" by Gary Del Vecchio is available to hear & share via Ultimate Classic Rock HERE. (And, direct YouTube and Bandcamp) 

Metal Injection previously shared the lead track, the 1970 release "Run Run" by Montreal hard rockers Max HERE.

The Brown Acid series is curated by L.A. label RidingEasy Records and retailer/label Permanent Records. Read interviews with the series curators via Paste Magazine HERE and LA Weekly HERE. 

About The Thirteenth Trip:

Max, from Montreal, QC — originally known as Dawn, before Tony Orlando & Dawn forced a name change — kick things off with “Run Run” from their lone 1970 single. It’s a hard-hitting rocker with scale climbing crunching guitars and powerful Bonham-esque drumming. Sadly, the band didn’t last long due to poor management and various other factors, so this is the only surviving document according to guitarist Gerry Markman. And what a document it is, paired with the A-side “The Flying Dutchman.”

You might remember Ralph Williams and the Wright Brothers from their track “Never Again” on Brown Acid: The Tenth Trip. Here they make their return to the series with the A-side of their 1972 Hour Glass Records 45, which sounds like Blue Cheer mangling Roy Orbison’s “Pretty Woman” (that’s right, several years before Van Halen actually did so.) Alas, Ralph and these Wright Brothers soon disappeared from terrestrial airspace. 

“Feelin’ Dead” is extremely heavy blues from this also extremely rare 1974 single by Detroit, MI’s Master Danse, which was only released as a promo 45. Think Led Zeppelin’s “Since I’ve Been Loving You” and you’re on the right track. A little dose of Hendrix acid blues and a heartfelt groove, and you’ll wonder why this single never even made it to official release. The unavoidable tell in the lyric, “help me get this damn thing out of my arm” hints at the post-Vietnam heroin epidemic as a potential clue why we never heard more from Master Danse. 

Folks, Gary Del Vecchio is “Buzzin’” hard on this one, and from what sounds like an in-studio party of yelps and chatter at the start of the song, it seems that the whole band was in on the festivities. The funky blues riff, reminiscent of Led Zeppelin’s “Heartbreaker” and rollicking rhythmic changes certainly keep the buzz a rollin’.The recording is technically credited as Gary Del Vecchio with Max, though not the same band as the one that kicks off this Trip. 

John Kitko’s 1973 heavy psychedelic rager “Indecision” is the only recording known to exist by the mysterious artist. The Twin Record Productions release features a different artist, Tom Poff on the B-side, which is truly a shame, considering the smoldering ashes Kitko leaves of the turntable by song’s end. It starts out more like a late 60s Acid Rock jam before leaping into a blazing double-time gallop, whipped into a frenzy by wailing, neck-pickup guitar squeals and Kitko’s barely audible howls. 

Tampa, FL’s Bacchus made their Brown Acid debut way back on the very first Trip with “Carry My Load.” This 1972 B-side, “Hope” is a huge sounding swinging rocker replete with roadhouse piano bolstering the chunky riffs and confident vocals. After relocating to Southern California a few years later, the band morphed into Fortress, an 80s melodic metal act whose Hands In The Till album of Pomp Rock on Atlantic Records still draws chatter today. 

Orchid’s “Go Big Red” is perhaps the most garage-y sounding offering here, with loose rhythms and straightforward stop-and-start riffing. Nonetheless, the stomping energy and fried-amp guitar tone make this one a charming skull thwack. The band’s 1973 single on American records, backed with a cover of Johnny Russell and Voni Morrison’s “Act Naturally” (popularized by Buck Owens and the Buckaroos) is their only release, so the world never did see this Orchid fully blossom. 

By the title alone of Dry Ice’s “Don’t Munkey with the Funky Skunky” you know you’re in for a good time. The 1974 barnstormer seems aimed to the novelty tunes crowd, with its kooky lyrics and silly-voiced spoken catchphrase break, “peeyew, you’ll be sorry if you do.” But, the Ohio band’s maniacal drumming, crunching guitars and, of course, drug euphemistic lyrics make it a shoo-in for the Brown Acid series of erudite rock’n’roll. 

Good Humore’s swaggering 1976 rocker “Detroit” is a slick and smooth paen to the Motor City. It most likely doesn’t predate “Detroit Rock City” by Kiss, also released in 1976, and it has more rock’n’roll swing, but it could fit comfortably alongside the era’s arena anthems. Not much else is known about the one-off release on P.V. Records, but songwriter Mike Moats is noted to also have been a recording engineer in later years and this well produced track sounds like a labor of love. 

About the Brown Acid series:

Some of the best thrills of the Internet music revolution is the ability to find extremely rare music with great ease. But even with such vast archives to draw from, quite a lot of great songs have gone undiscovered for nearly half a century -- particularly in genres that lacked hifalutin arty pretense. Previously, only the most extremely dedicated and passionate record collectors had the stamina and prowess to hunt down long forgotten wonders in dusty record bins -- often hoarding them in private collections, or selling at ridiculous collector's prices. Legendary compilations like Nuggets, Pebbles, ad nauseum, have exhausted the mines of early garage rock and proto-punk, keeping alive a large cross-section of underground ephemera. However, few have delved into and expertly archived the wealth of proto-metal, pre-stoner rock tracks collected on

Brown Acid. 

Lance Barresi, co-owner of L.A.-based Permanent Records and the Permanent Records Roadhouse has shown incredible persistence in tracking down a stellar collection of rare singles from the 60s and 70s for the growing compilation series. Partnered with Daniel Hall of RidingEasy Records, the two have assembled a selection of songs that's hard to believe have remained unheard for so long. 

"I essentially go through hell and high water just to find these records," Barresi says. "Once I find a record worthy of tracking, I begin the (sometimes) extremely arduous process of contacting the band members and encouraging them to take part. Daniel and I agree that licensing all the tracks we're using for

Brown Acid is best for everyone involved," rather than simply bootlegging the tracks. When all of the bands and labels haven't existed for 30-40 years or more, tracking down the creators gives all of these tunes a real second chance at success. 

"There's a long list of songs that we'd love to include," Barresi says. "But we just can't track the bands down. I like the idea that Brown Acid is getting so much attention, so people might reach out to us."

Brown Acid: The Thirteenth Trip will be available everywhere on LP, CD and download on October 31, 2021 via RidingEasy Records. Pre-orders are available for digital (with immediate download of the first single) at Bandcamp, physical pre-orders at RidingEasy Records. 

Artist: Various Artists

Album: Brown Acid: The Thirteenth Trip 

Label: RidingEasy Records

Release Date: October 31, 2021

01. Max "Run Run"

02. Ralph Williams "Dark Street"

03. Geyda "Third Side"

04. Gary Del Vecchio "Buzzin'"

05. John Kitko "Indecision"

06. Bacchus "Hope"

07. Master Danse "Feelin' Dead"

08. Orchid "Go Big Red"

09. Dry Ice "Don't Munkey With The Funky Skunky"

10. Good Humore "Detroit"

Blackwater Holylight (RidingEasy Records) share new single "Delusional" from upcoming album

Photo: James Rexroad

"An abrasive blend of doom metal, psych rock, goth and a tangy soupçon of pop music... They landed a spot on the 2018 Best New Band poll in alt-weekly Willamette Week, but could quickly take over the world." -- Paste Magazine

"They mesh elements of doom, Krautrock and atmospheric indie into one bewitching rock whole." --Classic Rock Magazine

"A greasy, sun-baked rock jam calling back to the genre's classic days while showcasing a heavy doom edge that gives it a modern spin." 6 Best New Songs Right Now -- Revolver Magazine

Portland, OR band Blackwater Holylight share a new single from their forthcoming third album Silence/Motion (on RidingEasy Records) today. Hear/share album opener "Delusional" -- featuring guest vocals by Brian Funck of Thou -- via Bandcamp, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify. 

Revolver Magazine recently launched the dreamy video for the lead single “Around You," which is available to watch/share HERE or via YouTube. 

Blackwater Holylight also launch tour dates with former RidingEasy labelmates Monolord in Europe in November-December, followed by North American shows with All Them Witches. Please see all dates below. 

Empty surrounds all of me. It’s a poignant line from the third album by Blackwater Holylight that encapsulates the search for self when suddenly everything has changed. There’s a theme of processing vast personal trauma throughout Silence/Motion that eloquently — both lyrically and musically — and simultaneously embodies the crushing emptiness, sorrow, strength and rebuilding of recovering from personal devastation. 

“There was so much grief both in the world and interpersonally during the process of creating Silence/Motion,” says vocalist/bassist Allison “Sunny” Faris. “The four of us gave one another more space to be ourselves, to experiment with each other’s ideas and to be gentle with one another more than we ever have before. So, we knew this tenderness would manifest in extremely honest arrangements, and I think that you can hear that throughout the record.”

Curiously, considering the dark times in which it was created, this is the band’s most melodic and catchy music so far. Blackwater Holylight, as the name suggests, is all about contrasts: It’s a fluid convergence of sound that’s heavy, psychedelic, melodic, terrifying and beautiful all at once. And, Silence/Motion finds the band honing those contrasts, letting ideas and moods fully develop from song to song, rather than filling every song with a full range of their capabilities. It allows the band to go fully prog-rock here, and simply stay hushed and intimate there. There’s a new confidence to the band in how seamlessly they wield their stylistic amalgam.

“Writing this album was extraordinarily difficult emotionally, however it did come to fruition fairly quickly,” Faris says. “In the past, the theme of vulnerability has always been a big player and it definitely showed up full force while writing this album.”

Blackwater Holylight recorded the album as a four piece: Faris on vocals and guitar (on “Silence/Motion”, “MDIII”, “Around You” and “Every Corner”) and bass for the remainder, Sarah McKenna on synths, Mikayla Mayhew on guitar (and bass when Faris plays guitar) and drummer Eliese Dorsay. New second guitarist Erika Osterhout will perform the songs with them live. For Silence/Motion the band chose to work with a producer for the first time, bringing in A.L.N. (of Mizmor, Hell) to produce, along with recording engineer Dylan White — who also helmed their previous album Veils of Winter (2019) — at Odessa Recording Studio in Portland, OR. Guest vocals on album opener “Delusional” are by Bryan Funck (Thou.) Mike Paparo (Inter Arma) and A.LN. (Mizmor, Hell) lend guest vocals to album closer “Every Corner.” 

Silence/Motion opens softly with interwoven folky single note guitars over an ominous sounding drone for the first minute, akin to moments from Pink Floyd’s Echoes. Suddenly an irresistibly head-nodding, groovy droptuned riff kicks in with the drums and it’s a full on blackened rocker with soaring synths and Funck’s witchy whispers over the top. “Who The Hell,” the track quoted above, takes proceedings into a Krautrock direction, centered around McKenna’s arpeggiated synth loop and Dorsay’s tom-tom triplets, while 16-note guitar strums add tension as Faris wearily sings, “So tell me who the hell would want to live this way — so afraid/ To feel this void, to dwell in it… I can’t describe this pain I wear/ It suffocates and you left it here.” It’s an incredibly powerful 6 minutes. The title track delivers the 1-2-3 punch of the album’s brilliant opening trilogy. It starts with lightly plucked acoustic guitar, plaintive piano chords and Faris’ voice gliding so softly it sounds more like a Mellotron. The song builds slowly toward crescendo, led by a swinging tom pattern, that abruptly switches back to a heavier version of the opening melody.“Silence/Motion” is about digesting and healing from sexual assault. As Faris explains, “It is an ode to the juxtaposition of feeling paralyzingly blank and and like your entire life is moving through you simultaneously.” Elsewhere, Black Metal guitars collide with dreamlike melodies. “Around You” brandishes a hopeful, hummable synth melody and shimmering shoegaze guitars like throwing down a gauntlet. In the end, it becomes undeniably clear just how completely into their own Blackwater Holylight has come.

“The analogy is that with our first record (Blackwater Holylight, 2018) we were getting into to the car and buckling up,” Faris says. “The second (Veils of Winter, 2019) we were turning the car on, and with this third we have kicked into drive toward our destination. Our destination is a bit mysterious and has the ability to change from day to day, but we’re on our way.”

Silence/Motion will be available on LP, CD and download on October 22nd, 2021 via RidingEasy Records. 

BLACKWATER HOLYLIGHT LIVE 2021 - 2022

11.18 - Oberhausen (DE) - Kulttempel *

11.19 - Utrecht (NL) - DB's *

11.20 - Nijmegen (NL) - Doornroosje *

11.21 - Antwerp (BE) - Zappa *

11.22 - Bristol (UK) - Exchange *

11.23 - Glasgow (UK) - Stereo *

11.24 - London (UK) - Underworld *

11.25 - Manchester (UK) - The Bread Shed *

11.26 - Dunkerque (FR) - 4 Ecluses *

11.27 - Paris (FR) - Petit Bain *

11.28 - Toulouse (FR) - Rex *

11.30 - Madrid (SP) - Caracol *

12.01 - Barcelona (SP) - Boveda *

12.02 - Annecy (FR) - Brise Glace *

12.03 - Aarau (CH) - Kiff *

12.04 - Vienna (AT) - Arena *

12.05 - Dresden (DE) - Chemiefabrik *

12.06 - Berlin (DE) - Zukunft am Ostkreuz *

12.07 - Hamburg (DE) - Bahnhof St. Pauli *

12.08 - Copenhagen (DK) - Stengade *

12.09 - Gothenburg (SE) - Pustervik *

12.10 - Stockholm (SE) - Debaser Strand *

12.11 - Malmö (SE) - Babel *

12.12 - Oslo (NO) - Youngs *

* w/ Monolord

01.21 - Dallas, TX - Trees #

01.22 - Austin, TX - Mohawk #

01.23 - San Antonio, TX - Paper Tiger #

01.24 - Phoenix, NV - Crescent Ballroom #

01.27 - San Diego, CA - Belly Up Tavern #

01.28 - Los Angeles, CA - The Regent Theater #

01.29 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore #

01.31 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom #

02.01 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom #

02.02 - Seattle, WA - The Showbox #

02.04 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court 

02.05 - Denver, CO - Gothic Theater #

02.06 - Fort Collins, CO - Aggie Theater #

# w/ All Them Witches

Artist: Blackwater Holylight

Album: Silence/Motion

Record Label: RidingEasy Records

Release date: October 22, 2021

01. Delusional

02. Who The Hell?

03. Silence/Motion

04. Falling Faster

05. MDIII

06. Around You

07. Every Corner

On The Web:

blackwaterholylight.com

instagram.com/blackwaterholylight

ridingeasyrecords.com

The Shining Tongues (ex-Infinite Three) share "It Is Fear" video from forthcoming debut album

“Swans-esque distortion in a Godsticks-like anthem… Brings a modern spin on their dark roots with a Bauhausian creep and haunt, and occasional The Cure’s proggier moments. A bold introduction.” — Prog Magazine

“A psychedelic folk aesthetic with a shade of post-punk darkness, balancing the rich otherworldliness of Spiritualized with the haunting melodies of Ocean Rain-era Echo and the Bunnymen.” — Treble

“5.5 out of 5!” — Zero Tolerance Magazine

London, UK band The Shining Tongues share a new video from their forthcoming debut album Milk of God today via New Noise Magazine. Watch/share "It Is Fear" HERE. (Direct YouTube.)

TrebleZine recently hosted the first single, "Buildings" HERE. (Direct Bandcamp.)

The new expansive collaborative project picks up where their former band The Infinite Three left off. When that trio’s drummer Paul Middleton passed away suddenly in October 2019, the surviving members Daniel Knowler and Sam McLaughlin decided the band couldn’t carry on with a replacement. But the grieving process brought about a flood of beautiful new music and soon The Shining Tongues were born. The album was written as an open collaboration with numerous players contributing remotely to the recordings throughout 2020.

Taking their previous band’s post-punk experimentalism and adding an atmospheric gothic folkiness, this is a new beginning and a lush, melodic work of intensity, love, noir pop, gothic folk, drone and more.

Milk Of God displays the fruits of The Shining Tongues' labour and features contributions from Robin Jax (RobinPlaysChords), Andrea Kerr (LWED), Orlando Harrison (Alabama 3), Lilith Firechild, Doug Shearer (Scow) and Simone Bozzato.

Daniel Says of the album, "Milk Of God is the culmination of the first phase of The Shining Tongues’ work and after a decade of The Infinite three coming to an end, this album feels like a rebirth of sorts."

Milk Of God draws on themes of dream imagery, life cycles, religion and the body. Eleven songs that drift from earthy rhythms to elegiac beauty and weave together influences from drone, psychedelic rock, nocturnal folk and soundtrack music.

Milk of God will be available on CD and download on October 15th, 2021 via Actual Size Music. Pre-orders are available HERE.

Artist: The Shining Tongues

Album: Milk of God

Record Label:  Actual Size Music

Release Date: October 15, 2021

01. The Idiot Skin

02. Buildings

03. It Is Fear

04. Eating Bread

05. Rice

06. Natural Slab

07. Annihilation

08. Swallow Heaven

09. Humming/Dissolving

10. The Undefiled Absorption of Supreme Bliss

11. Make Us Eat

On The Web:

theshiningtongues.com

theshiningtongues.bandcamp.com

instagram.com/theshiningtongues

twitter.com/ShiningTongues

Blackwater Holylight (RidingEasy Records) share first video from new album, tours w/ Monolord & All Them Witches start in November

Photo: James Rexroad

"An abrasive blend of doom metal, psych rock, goth and a tangy soupçon of pop music... They landed a spot on the 2018 Best New Band poll in alt-weekly Willamette Week, but could quickly take over the world." -- Paste Magazine

"They mesh elements of doom, Krautrock and atmospheric indie into one bewitching rock whole." --Classic Rock Magazine

"A greasy, sun-baked rock jam calling back to the genre's classic days while showcasing a heavy doom edge that gives it a modern spin." 6 Best New Songs Right Now -- Revolver Magazine

Portland, OR band Blackwater Holylight share the first video from their forthcoming third album Silence/Motion (on RidingEasy Records) today via Revolver Magazine. The dreamy clip is for the lead single “Around You,' and available to watch/share HERE or via YouTube. 

The track, "Around You" is also available on Spotify, Apple Music and Bandcamp.

Blackwater Holylight also announce tour dates with former RidingEasy labelmates Monolord in Europe in November-December, followed by North American shows with All Them Witches. Please see all dates below. 

Empty surrounds all of me. It’s a poignant line from the third album by Blackwater Holylight that encapsulates the search for self when suddenly everything has changed. There’s a theme of processing vast personal trauma throughout Silence/Motion that eloquently — both lyrically and musically — and simultaneously embodies the crushing emptiness, sorrow, strength and rebuilding of recovering from personal devastation. 

“There was so much grief both in the world and interpersonally during the process of creating Silence/Motion,” says vocalist/bassist Allison “Sunny” Faris. “The four of us gave one another more space to be ourselves, to experiment with each other’s ideas and to be gentle with one another more than we ever have before. So, we knew this tenderness would manifest in extremely honest arrangements, and I think that you can hear that throughout the record.”

Curiously, considering the dark times in which it was created, this is the band’s most melodic and catchy music so far. Blackwater Holylight, as the name suggests, is all about contrasts: It’s a fluid convergence of sound that’s heavy, psychedelic, melodic, terrifying and beautiful all at once. And, Silence/Motion finds the band honing those contrasts, letting ideas and moods fully develop from song to song, rather than filling every song with a full range of their capabilities. It allows the band to go fully prog-rock here, and simply stay hushed and intimate there. There’s a new confidence to the band in how seamlessly they wield their stylistic amalgam.

“Writing this album was extraordinarily difficult emotionally, however it did come to fruition fairly quickly,” Faris says. “In the past, the theme of vulnerability has always been a big player and it definitely showed up full force while writing this album.”

Blackwater Holylight recorded the album as a four piece: Faris on vocals and guitar (on “Silence/Motion”, “MDIII”, “Around You” and “Every Corner”) and bass for the remainder, Sarah McKenna on synths, Mikayla Mayhew on guitar (and bass when Faris plays guitar) and drummer Eliese Dorsay. New second guitarist Erika Osterhout will perform the songs with them live. For Silence/Motion the band chose to work with a producer for the first time, bringing in A.L.N. (of Mizmor, Hell) to produce, along with recording engineer Dylan White — who also helmed their previous album Veils of Winter (2019) — at Odessa Recording Studio in Portland, OR. Guest vocals on album opener “Delusional” are by Bryan Funck (Thou.) Mike Paparo (Inter Arma) and A.LN. (Mizmor, Hell) lend guest vocals to album closer “Every Corner.” 

Silence/Motion opens softly with interwoven folky single note guitars over an ominous sounding drone for the first minute, akin to moments from Pink Floyd’s Echoes. Suddenly an irresistibly head-nodding, groovy droptuned riff kicks in with the drums and it’s a full on blackened rocker with soaring synths and Funck’s witchy whispers over the top. “Who The Hell,” the track quoted above, takes proceedings into a Krautrock direction, centered around McKenna’s arpeggiated synth loop and Dorsay’s tom-tom triplets, while 16-note guitar strums add tension as Faris wearily sings, “So tell me who the hell would want to live this way — so afraid/ To feel this void, to dwell in it… I can’t describe this pain I wear/ It suffocates and you left it here.” It’s an incredibly powerful 6 minutes. The title track delivers the 1-2-3 punch of the album’s brilliant opening trilogy. It starts with lightly plucked acoustic guitar, plaintive piano chords and Faris’ voice gliding so softly it sounds more like a Mellotron. The song builds slowly toward crescendo, led by a swinging tom pattern, that abruptly switches back to a heavier version of the opening melody.“Silence/Motion” is about digesting and healing from sexual assault. As Faris explains, “It is an ode to the juxtaposition of feeling paralyzingly blank and and like your entire life is moving through you simultaneously.” Elsewhere, Black Metal guitars collide with dreamlike melodies. “Around You” brandishes a hopeful, hummable synth melody and shimmering shoegaze guitars like throwing down a gauntlet. In the end, it becomes undeniably clear just how completely into their own Blackwater Holylight has come.

“The analogy is that with our first record (Blackwater Holylight, 2018) we were getting into to the car and buckling up,” Faris says. “The second (Veils of Winter, 2019) we were turning the car on, and with this third we have kicked into drive toward our destination. Our destination is a bit mysterious and has the ability to change from day to day, but we’re on our way.”

Silence/Motion will be available on LP, CD and download on October 22nd, 2021 via RidingEasy Records. 

BLACKWATER HOLYLIGHT LIVE 2021 - 2022

11.18 - Oberhausen (DE) - Kulttempel *

11.19 - Utrecht (NL) - DB's *

11.20 - Nijmegen (NL) - Doornroosje *

11.21 - Antwerp (BE) - Zappa *

11.22 - Bristol (UK) - Exchange *

11.23 - Glasgow (UK) - Stereo *

11.24 - London (UK) - Underworld *

11.25 - Manchester (UK) - The Bread Shed *

11.26 - Dunkerque (FR) - 4 Ecluses *

11.27 - Paris (FR) - Petit Bain *

11.28 - Toulouse (FR) - Rex *

11.30 - Madrid (SP) - Caracol *

12.01 - Barcelona (SP) - Boveda *

12.02 - Annecy (FR) - Brise Glace *

12.03 - Aarau (CH) - Kiff *

12.04 - Vienna (AT) - Arena *

12.05 - Dresden (DE) - Chemiefabrik *

12.06 - Berlin (DE) - Zukunft am Ostkreuz *

12.07 - Hamburg (DE) - Bahnhof St. Pauli *

12.08 - Copenhagen (DK) - Stengade *

12.09 - Gothenburg (SE) - Pustervik *

12.10 - Stockholm (SE) - Debaser Strand *

12.11 - Malmö (SE) - Babel *

12.12 - Oslo (NO) - Youngs *

* w/ Monolord

01.21 - Dallas, TX - Trees #

01.22 - Austin, TX - Mohawk #

01.23 - San Antonio, TX - Paper Tiger #

01.24 - Phoenix, NV - Crescent Ballroom #

01.27 - San Diego, CA - Belly Up Tavern #

01.28 - Los Angeles, CA - The Regent Theater #

01.29 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore #

01.31 - Portland, OR - Wonder Ballroom #

02.01 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom #

02.02 - Seattle, WA - The Showbox #

02.04 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court 

02.05 - Denver, CO - Gothic Theater #

02.06 - Fort Collins, CO - Aggie Theater #

# w/ All Them Witches

Artist: Blackwater Holylight

Album: Silence/Motion

Record Label: RidingEasy Records

Release date: October 22, 2021

01. Delusional

02. Who The Hell?

03. Silence/Motion

04. Falling Faster

05. MDIII

06. Around You

07. Every Corner

On The Web:

blackwaterholylight.com

instagram.com/blackwaterholylight

ridingeasyrecords.com