Touched By Ghoul share first video from 'Cancel The World' album; ex-Sybris, Pink Frost

“Mullenhour's vocals rise to heated roars worthy of stardom, which lend themselves perfectly to Touched by Ghoul's brand of rock that is loud and heavy..." -- Gaper's Block

“The chaotic whirlwind of anger, intelligence and energy that defined the Chicago punk/hardcore scene in the 80s is alive and well in the form of the city’s own Touched By Ghoul.” — Rock & Roll Globe

"Sounds like some long-lost ferocious ’90s punk cult hit, like the unholy love child of Bratmobile and The Lunachicks...A record that starts strong, and only gets better from there." -- The Onion AV Club

Chicago quartet Touched By Ghoul share the first video today from their new sophomore album Cancel The World via Rock & Roll Globe. Watch/share "Better Than Me" video HERE. (Direct YouTube.)

Hear and share Cancel The World at Bandcamp, Spotify and Apple Music.

Funny story: Chicago’s quartet of weirdos Touched By Ghoul recorded their sophomore album Cancel The World at Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio in July 2019 with the title already in place. They mixed it in January 2020, and then the world was actually cancelled. After idling for months, the album was sent for pressing the vinyl to support tour dates. Tours were again cancelled. And, the pressing plant’s press was broken. Cancelled once again.

Of course, everyone’s been through the wringer over the past couple of years, and some much more severe than this. But, Cancel The World may just be the forbidden music so many artists have sought to make. Ironically, the album finds the band taming its aggressive Birthday Party / Babes In Toyland noiserock attack ever so slightly in order to embrace melodies and allow their tousled cynicism to truly shine on songs like “Better Than Me”, “Lost At The Costco” and the title track. but that doesn't mean their acerbic wit isn't on full display. 

Touched By Ghoul is fronted by former Sybris singer/guitarist Angela Mullenhour, along with guitarist Andrea Bauer and the rollicking rhythm section of bassist Alex Shumard and drummer Paige Sandlin. The intrepid group made its debut with 2016’s Murder Circus album (also on Chicago imprint Under Road Records) and for a while things were going pretty great pre-pandemic: TBG played some awesome shows (supporting Foo Fighters at Wrigley Field, Wayne Kramer's MC50, Local H), received great press and built up a small army of zombified followers. 

At last, with nothing more than this album on the horizon for the time being, Touched By Ghoul are here to undo whatever star-crossed curse they’ve brought unto the world, one gloriously weird, catchy song at a time.

Cancel The World is available on LP, download and streaming as of December 3rd, 2021 via Under Road Records. Orders are available HERE. 

Artist: Touched By Ghoul

Album: Cancel The World

Record label: Under Road Records

Release Date: December 3rd, 2021

01. Better Than Me

02. God Hospital

03. Quick Question

04. Lost at the Costco

05. Sitcom

06. Cancel The World

07. Suicide Space Camp

08. Yacht Problems

09. Cancel The World Redux

On The Web:

touchedbyghoul.com

underroad.com

twitter.com/touchedbyghoul

instagram.com/touchedbyghoul

facebook.com/touchedbyghoul

DIE! DIE! DIE! release Peter Jackson inspired "splatstick" video for explosive single ‘Losing Sight, Keep on Kicking'

New Zealand trio Die! Die! Die! share a riotous video from their forthcoming new album This Is Not An Island Anymore today. Watch and share the insane Peter Jackson inspired splatter-slapstick video for "Losing Sight, Keep On Kicking" via YouTube HERE. 

The single is also available now via Bandcamp and all DSPs at this SmartURL.

The band wanted to do something a little different from their previous clips for the music video. They reached out to Belgian director Jonas Govaerts (Cub, Tabula Rasa, F*** You Very, Very Much) who bassist Lachlan had met working on Tabula Rasa, a Netflix series that Jonas co-directed, a few years back.

 

Die! Die! Die! was excited about a director who loved punk rock and horror, so gave Jonas full license to make what he wanted. The pitch: "A workout video which descends into a gore fest". The idea was so unique they had to say yes.

 

Says Jonas of the finished product: "I'm pretty proud of the result, which hopefully looks a bit like an early Peter Jackson video. After all, shouldn't a band named Die! Die! Die! have at least one horror-themed music video?" 

Since their debut in 2005, Die! Die! Die! has blended a powerful and infectious concoction of post-punk, noise pop, shoegaze, lo-fi, and punk rock into one massive sounding whole. Fresh for a global pandemic outbreak, the trio returns in its original lineup for their most urgent and well honed album to date, This Is Not An Island Anymore. Since recording their debut album with Steve Albini (Shellac, Nirvana, PJ Harvey) in Chicago in 2005, Die! Die! Die! have worked with producers including Shayne Carter, Nick Roughan (The Skeptics), Chris Townend (Violent Femmes), and have written and recorded albums in New York, Dunedin, London and rural France. 

Their indispensable collection of records, and their intense and unflinching live show, continue to drive their connection with audiences across the globe. Both are a telling reminder of why Die! Die! Die! are one of the most enduring and unapologetic bands to ever emerge out of New Zealand. 

Artist: Die! Die! Die!

Album: This Is Not An Island Anymore

Record Label:  Self-released 

Release Date: February 18, 2022

01. This Is Not An Island Anymore

02.Is Darren There?

03.Takaparawhau

04 Losing Sight, Keep On Kicking

05.6 Months In The Lighthouse

06.15 Years

07.Vanish (but That's My Hometown, Marcus)

08.Never Tire Looking At The Sun

09.IMAGINE (Spending So Long Making Other People Feel Like Shit)

On The Web:

facebook.com/diediedieband

diediedie.bandcamp.com

Thirsty Curses drop "Down & Out" single, Raleigh, NC spiritual heirs to Replacements, Violent Femmes' chaotic pop/rock

 

Watch/share “Nothing Really Matters” video HERE

"There’s a ramshackle element to the music on the new record that firmly places this talented band alongside such Raleigh-reared greats as The dBs and Let’s Active." -- Rock & Roll Globe

Raleigh, NC band Thirsty Curses announce their forthcoming fourth album and share the first single today via Rock''n'Roll Globe. Hear and share "Down & Out" HERE. (Direct Bandcamp HERE.)

To the Ends of the Earth is the fourth studio album by the Raleigh-based band Thirsty Curses. The band recorded most of the album at frontman Wilson Getchell's home studio in Raleigh, NC over the summer of 2021. The band also spent a day in Bias Studios in Northern Virginia where they recorded three songs for the album and did piano overdubs on the studio's baby grand.

The album is a moody mother, as it bounces between numerous rock subgenres throughout. A majority of the songs appearing on To The Ends of the Earth were written since the completion of the band's last album, Thirsty Curses. Incidentally, lead singer and songwriter Wilson Getchell began writing the album's final track "Baptist and a Rabbi" circa 2008, but the song had largely been forgotten and was unfinished. However, during the 2020 lockdowns, Wilson ran across an old demo of the song and ultimately re-wrote some of the lyrics and transposed the song from guitar to piano. 

To the Ends of the Earth is the first Thirsty Curses album to feature Evan Miller on drums and Alexander Weir on lead guitar, replacing Phil Harrington and Kelley Otwell, respectively, who left the band over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic. Hannah Chapman (who sang on "GDMNT" on Thirsty Curses) provided guest backup vocals on "Tell Me the Truth." The album was mixed and mastered by Benjamin Jenkerson.

To The Ends of the Earth will be available on CD and download on March 4th, 2022. 

THIRSTY CURSES LIVE:

01/28 Apex, NC @ Local Bar

03/04 Raleigh, NC @ Ruby Deluxe

03/19 Sanford, NC @ Hugger Mugge Brewing

Artist: Thirsty Curses

Album: To the Ends of the Earth

Record Label:  Self-released

Release Date: March 4, 2022

01. One of These Days

02. Are You Still There?

03. Your Next Move

04. What The Hell?

05. WhistlePig

06. Calmer Waters

07. Tell Me The Truth

08. Down & Out

09. Vera

10. Jenny

11. Nothing Really Matters

12. A Baptist and a Rabbi

On The Web:

www.thirstycurses.com

www.thirstycurses.bandcamp.com

Omnibael unleash "Shut Out the Light" video, extreme band reminiscent of Godflesh, peak Ministry, early Unsane, The Body

 "They make a rather vicious noise reminiscent of early Godflesh, peak-era Ministry, Cop Shoot Cop and Unsane." -- Side-Line Magazine

"Harrowing, anxious and bleak, much like these times." -- Ghost Cult

Stoke-On-Trent, UK band Omnibael unleash the video for "Shut Out The Light" today from their forthcoming debut full length on Cruel Nature Recordings. Watch/share the video via New Noise Magazine in the US & EU HERE, or Spill Magazine in Canada HERE. Direct to YouTube HERE. 

Watch the official video for the first single "The Repetition" via YouTube HERE and hear/share via Bandcamp HERE. 

Crawling into virtual space during the Covid-19 pandemic, Omnibael had ideas. Diverse, divergent, wide-ranging ideas, but ideas which centred around the creation of noise. The noise came before the identity, before any kind of cohesion or coherence. Identity – or perhaps more accurately, invisibility – is integral to Omnibael’s work. You won’t see their mugs plastered all over their cover art or social media. That stuff is just a distraction, a sideshow. This project is about sound, not image.

Over a very short period of time, they’ve racked up quite an impressive recorded output – notably a split album with Lip Critic – and a fair few live and virtually live outings, and every one has been different – to the extent that it sometimes sounds like a different act, and this is testament to their drive, their questing curiosity, and their sonic ambition, and they really do push the parameters of what a duo can do. 

Rain Soaks the Earth Where They Lie – their first long player proper – is a document of their development, but it’s also a testament to their desire to push, to innovate, and the fact that they’re musical magpies.

"We were listening to The Body, White Suns, Show Me The Body, Uniform, Black Dice, Sightings, Kevin Richard Martin and Full of Hell - our friends’ music too - Rejection Ops, Territorial Gobbing," they explain, and there’s no question the tearing, shrieking, calamitous overload of ‘Mind is A Mess’, which sets out the stall perfectly, clearly draws on the punishing intensity of The Body, at the same time warranting comparison to the gnarly nastiness of Gnaw Their Tongues while the grinding, monotonous churn of ‘Last Days’ is Industrial in the Throbbing Gristle sense.

Rain Soaks the Earth Where They Lie is something of a patchwork, a combination of accident and design, with segments of the original demo recordings intersected with samples and all sorts, and while Burroughsian cut-ups and tape loops and gnarly noise dominate the album, it’s the percussion that kills. Armed with a host of drum machines, they create a barrage of beats that hammer away amidst a murky cacophony of dense, disturbing sound, and it’s heavy as hell, particularly with the vocals which are by turns shrieking demonic and droning atonal: ‘Nothing Tastes Better than Deceit’ pounds and thrashes so, so hard, while ‘Rung Keep’ manifests, contrastingly, as the lowest, slowest, most ominous drone. But ultimately, every track on here is punishing in some way.

Omnibael is not about the end point, the final, definitive sound, but the journey, the continual evolution, the exploration. Rain Soaks the Earth Where They Lie, then, is not the definitive Omnibael sound, but a detailed report – their first annual report, if you like – of a band who are not staying still. 

Rain Soaks the Earth Where They Lie will be available on cassette and download on February 4th, 2022 via Cruel Nature Recordings. Pre-order HERE. 



Artist: Omnibael

Album: Rain Soaks The Earth Where They Lie

Record Label:  Cruel Nature Recordings

Release Date: February 4, 2022

01. Mind Is A Mess

02. Last Days

03. The Repetition

04. Nothing Tastes Better Than Deceit

05. Rung Keep

06. Sound of the WW2 Story

07. Flowing Backwards

08. Lost Days

09. Shut Out the Light

On The Web:

omnibael.bandcamp.com

linktr.ee/cruelnature

FIREBREATHER share new single "Creed" from powerhouse new album on RidingEasy Records

"Firebreather veer towards roaring, High On Fire-esque sludge, and they've got the chops and the grit to pull this kind of thing off." -- Brooklyn Vegan

"A thrilling style of Progressive Sludge/Stoner Metal that will rank as one of the best albums of the year." -- Outlaws Of The Sun

"Firebreather do a bang-up job capturing what it feels like for one’s inner being to be lit afire through the use of scorching hot riffs, stomach-churning bellows, lightning-fried drums and intestine-rattling bass." -- Metal Sucks

"Effectively a class in how to write the chunkiest riffs possible." -- Metal Injection

Swedish trio Firebreather share a new track today from their forthcoming album Dwell In The Fog via Metal Injection. Hear and share "Creed" HERE. (Direct YouTube and Bandcamp.)

Revolver Magazine previously shared the first single "Kiss Of Your Blade" HERE. (Direct YouTube.)

Gothenburg, Sweden trio Firebreather’s 2019 RidingEasy Records debut album Under a Blood Moon was a powerhouse that most certainly established the band’s incendiary potential. But none of us would be prepared for the suffocating onslaught that is Dwell in the Fog. While that album was in-your-face and raw, Dwell in the Fog rumbles and rages with a fury the band had only hinted at previously. 

Firebreather has a streamlined focus on driving, symphonic riffs in the vein of High on Fire, Inter Arma and their tour- and label-mates Monolord. The guitar and bass tones are, quite simply, entrancing. Paired with vocalist/guitarist Mattias Nööjd’s guttural yet melodic howls and drummer Axel Wittbeck’s groove based rhythms, their entire sound flows like thick, viscous lava. 

“The album is a cathartic journey inwards and a musical continuation from Under A Blood Moon, but with more emphasis on groove and feel,” Nööjd says. From the first notes of album opener “Kiss Of Your Blade” you’ll know exactly what he means. 

Like their preceding two albums, Dwell in the Fog was also recorded and mixed by engineer Oskar Karlsson at Elementstudion in Gothenburg. The band is joined by new bassist Nicklas Hellqvist on this album, who seems to have increased the thunder rumble tenfold. 

From the aforementioned album opener “Kiss Of Your Blade”, with its droning opening chords over a rollicking tom pattern, the band quickly shifts gears into a head bobbing, serpentine riff with a transcendent melodic hook. Elsewhere, as on the title track and “Weather The Storm” rapid-fire hummable riffs come and go in an ever-shifting mass of devastating swirling churn. It’s like the band has such an endless supply of great hooks that to, ahem, dwell for too long on any one would undo their constantly building momentum. That they somehow give each song, and the album as a whole, a streamlined and cohesive, monolithic groove is testament to their skill. And, proof that the album must be absorbed in its entirety to experience the overwhelming swaying and lunging low end growl that drives the band’s most captivating work to date. 

Dwell in the Fog will be available on LP, CD and download on February 25th, 2022 via RidingEasy Records. 

Artist: Firebreather

Album: Dwell in The Fog

Record Label: RidingEasy Records

Release date: February 25, 2022

01. Kiss of Your Blade

02. Dwell in the Fog

03. Weather The Storm

04. Sorrow

05. The Creed

06. Spirit’s Flown

On The Web:

firebreatherdoom.bandcamp.com

ridingeasyrecords.com

 

Omnibael share "The Repetition" track, extreme band reminiscent of Godflesh, peak Ministry, early Unsane, The Body

 "They make a rather vicious noise reminiscent of early Godflesh, peak-era Ministry, Cop Shoot Cop and Unsane." -- Side-Line Magazine

"Harrowing, anxious and bleak, much like these times." -- Ghost Cult

Stoke-On-Trent, UK band Omnibael announce their forthcoming debut full length on Cruel Nature Recordings, sharing the first track & video today via Ghost Cult Magazine HERE. Watch the official video via YouTube HERE and hear/share "The Repetition" via Bandcamp HERE. 

Crawling into virtual space during the Covid-19 pandemic, Omnibael had ideas. Diverse, divergent, wide-ranging ideas, but ideas which centred around the creation of noise. The noise came before the identity, before any kind of cohesion or coherence. Identity – or perhaps more accurately, invisibility – is integral to Omnibael’s work. You won’t see their mugs plastered all over their cover art or social media. That stuff is just a distraction, a sideshow. This project is about sound, not image.

Over a very short period of time, they’ve racked up quite an impressive recorded output – notably a split album with Lip Critic – and a fair few live and virtually live outings, and every one has been different – to the extent that it sometimes sounds like a different act, and this is testament to their drive, their questing curiosity, and their sonic ambition, and they really do push the parameters of what a duo can do. 

Rain Soaks the Earth Where They Lie – their first long player proper – is a document of their development, but it’s also a testament to their desire to push, to innovate, and the fact that they’re musical magpies.

"We were listening to The Body, White Suns, Show Me The Body, Uniform, Black Dice, Sightings, Kevin Richard Martin and Full of Hell - our friends’ music too - Rejection Ops, Territorial Gobbing," they explain, and there’s no question the tearing, shrieking, calamitous overload of ‘Mind is A Mess’, which sets out the stall perfectly, clearly draws on the punishing intensity of The Body, at the same time warranting comparison to the gnarly nastiness of Gnaw Their Tongues while the grinding, monotonous churn of ‘Last Days’ is Industrial in the Throbbing Gristle sense.

Rain Soaks the Earth Where They Lie is something of a patchwork, a combination of accident and design, with segments of the original demo recordings intersected with samples and all sorts, and while Burroughsian cut-ups and tape loops and gnarly noise dominate the album, it’s the percussion that kills. Armed with a host of drum machines, they create a barrage of beats that hammer away amidst a murky cacophony of dense, disturbing sound, and it’s heavy as hell, particularly with the vocals which are by turns shrieking demonic and droning atonal: ‘Nothing Tastes Better than Deceit’ pounds and thrashes so, so hard, while ‘Rung Keep’ manifests, contrastingly, as the lowest, slowest, most ominous drone. But ultimately, every track on here is punishing in some way.

Omnibael is not about the end point, the final, definitive sound, but the journey, the continual evolution, the exploration. Rain Soaks the Earth Where They Lie, then, is not the definitive Omnibael sound, but a detailed report – their first annual report, if you like – of a band who are not staying still. 

Rain Soaks the Earth Where They Lie will be available on cassette and download on February 4th, 2022 via Cruel Nature Recordings. Pre-order HERE. 



Artist: Omnibael

Album: Rain Soaks The Earth Where They Lie

Record Label:  Cruel Nature Recordings

Release Date: February 4, 2022

01. Mind Is A Mess

02. Last Days

03. The Repetition

04. Nothing Tastes Better Than Deceit

05. Rung Keep

06. Sound of the WW2 Story

07. Flowing Backwards

08. Lost Days

09. Shut Out the Light

On The Web:

omnibael.bandcamp.com

linktr.ee/cruelnature