Clarion Void drop "Sisyphus Wept" from forthcoming sophomore album produced by Greg Wilkinson (High on Fire) on Lost Future Records

“Trudging, grinding post-metal heaviness... The opening riff feels like Killing Joke's 'Eighties' played at half-speed and drop tuned a couple of steps.” — Decibel Magazine

Colorado Springs, CO band Clarion Void share the second single today from Failure in Repetition, their forthcoming sophomore album, and debut on Lost Future Records. Hear and share "Sisyphus Wept" HERE (All DSPs.)

Decibel Magazine previously premiered the video for lead single "The Top" HERE. 

Failure in Repetition is the newest album from the Colorado Springs, CO based doom-metal quartet Clarion Void. Focused on themes of inevitability and the futility of progress the album crushes the listener with detuned, sludgy riffs before exploding into a breakneck black metal onslaught. Not for the faint of heart.

Failure in Repetition was recorded with Grammy nominated producer Greg Wilkinson (High on Fire, Pallbearer) at his studio in Oakland, CA. 

The album will be available on LP and digital on March 1st, 2024 via Lost Future Records. Pre-orders are available HERE.

CLARION VOID LIVE:

02/29 Colorado Springs, CO - What's Left Records (album release show)

Artist: Clarion Void

Album: Failure in Repetition

Label: Lost Future Records

Release Date: March 1st, 2024

01. Repetition I

02. Through Chaos We Succeed

03. Sisyphus Wept

04. This Is The Water

05. Lulu’s Interlude

06. Repetition II

07. The Bottom

08. Repetition III

09. The Top

10. Rolling Boulder

On The Web:

clarionvoidco.bandcamp.com

instagram.com/clarion_void

linktr.ee/clarion_void

 

BOTCH announce final shows in Seattle in June; following farewell tours in EU/UK and Australia

Photo: Ryan Russell

Legendary Tacoma, Washington mathcore/hardcore/metal band Botch announce their final reunion shows in Seattle to take place in June 2024 following what will be their last EU/UK and Australian tours. Please see all dates below. All ticket links are HERE.

Bassist Brian Cook, guitarist David Knudson, drummer Tim Latona, and vocalist Dave Verellen formed Botch in 1993, becoming one of the most ground-breaking and influential bands during a pivotal shift in heavy music. Their final show was June 15, 2002. The members would go on to play in These Arms Are Snakes, Minus the Bear, Russian Circles and Sumac, among others.

What better way for Botch to end their unexpected year of reunion shows than with a two-night run at Seattle’s Showbox on June 14th and 15th? Not only will the final show coincide with the 22nd anniversary of their farewell show back in 2002 in the same venue, the show will also feature support bands that are alumni from that night — Helms Alee and Great Falls feature members of Harkonen and Playing Enemy, respectively, who opened the show back in 2002. The first night will feature Olympia’s desolate death metal outfit Mortiferum and cult grind savants Caustic Wound.

“It’s been an absolute pleasure to play all these songs for both our old fans, and new fans that have found us over the last 22 years," says guitarist David Knudson. "We’ve loved playing for you and seeing your beautiful faces in cities that we never thought we’d get to perform in again. Thank you for welcoming us back. We are so fortunate to be able play one last tour in Europe and Australia before we finish again in Seattle this June."

BOTCH LIVE 2024:

EU + UK

March 08 – Prague, CZ – Meet Factory
March 09 – Vienna, AT – Arena

March 10 – Chemnitz, DE – AJZ
March 12 – Berlin, DE – Festsaal Kreuzberg

March 13 – Copenhagen, DK – Vega

March 14 – Hamburg, DE – Uebel & Gefährlich

March 15 – Brussels, BE – Botanique

March 17 – Wiesbaden, DE – Schlachthof

March 18 – Esch-Sur-Alzette, LUX – Rockhal

March 19 – Paris, FR – Elysee Montmartre

March 21 – Bristol, UK – Marble Factory

March 22 – Manchester, UK – New Century Hall

March 23 – London, UK – Electric Ballroom (SOLD OUT)

March 25 – Athens, GR – Gagarin 205

Support: Great Falls on all, except Athens

Additional support Bristol & London: Bad Breeding

AUSTRALIA

May 17 – Melbourne, AU – Max Watts

May 18 – Melbourne, AU – Max Watts

May 19 – Adelaide, AU – The Gov

May 21 – Perth, AU – Rosemount Hotel

May 23 – Brisbane, AU – The Triffid

May 24 – Sydney, AU – Manning Bar

May 25 – Sydney, AU – Manning Bar

USA -- A WEEKEND OF DEAD ENDS

June 14 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox

June 15 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox

(US tickets on sale Friday, January 26th)

Watch/share "Japam" live video (YouTube)

Watch/share "One Twenty Two" video (YouTube)

On The Web:

linktr.ee/botchband

instagram.com/botch_band

sargenthouse.com/botch

Oak, Ash & Thorn drop first single from forthcoming album 'Our Grief is Thus' on Lost Future Records

 

"I've absolutely fallen in love with their d-beat inflected, richly expressive take on death metal. This is nothing more than well made, thought out, and passionately performed metal that runs on the wild and epic sound we love here on Heavy Blog." -- Heavy Blog is Heavy

"D-beat infused blackened death metal...Their latest recorded triumph." -- Decibel Magazine

Denver quartet Oak, Ash & Thorn premiere the first single from their forthcoming full length, Our Grief is Thus today. Hear and share "Light My Pyre" via Bandcamp and all DSPs.

Watch and share the video for "Unchain the Wolf" culled from the band's 2023 Eternal EP HERE.

Our Grief Is Thus is a monumental album, loosely constructed as a concept album with every song dealing thematically with grief from loss in some form. Album opener, “Dying Culture”, for example, is about the loss of tradition by way of urbanization and generational decline, “Light My Pyre” tackles betrayal and the dissolution of friendship, and “Auras” deals with the loss (and renewal) of honor and identity in the face of withering familial ties.

The album was recorded at the Blasting Room (founded by Black Flag/Descendents drummer Bill Stevenson) in Ft. Collins, CO in June-July of 2023, and marks the first time in Oak, Ash & Thorn's history that the band walked out of a studio with an album fully representing their vision. The songs on Our Grief is Thus are tighter than on prior recordings, with the band reaching beyond their pagan death/black metal foundation to take novel influence from the galloping energy of crust punk, power metal's soaring triumph, post-punk's brooding dynamics, and the unconventional melodies of prog metal. 

Vocalist/guitarist Adam Armstrong uses his clean tenor/baritone more than ever before, reinvigorating it with a newfound grit and power. Lead guitarist Jason Harding truly shines in his playing, and his unique melodic leads - including his first proper solo on "Ten Years on the Tundra" - have elevated the band's songcraft to new levels. Bassist Erik Hoffman can be heard coming into his own with his distinct knack for both accentuation and lead-weighted groove, while drummer Cierra White, already notorious for her unstoppable kit-killing, has taken inspiration from gospel drummers, evident in her choppy fills and use of unorthodox patterns. Producer/recording engineer Colton Krohn and guest producer Taylor Hahn, meanwhile, were instrumental in the making of the album, as Armstrong notes, “they pulled the absolute best performances out of us, and their expertise and advice on arrangement were like nothing we'd ever had before.”

Oak, Ash & Thorn arose along the Colorado Rocky Mountain's Front Range out of a collective passion for heavy metal and a shared pagan worldview. Their debut full-length, May Every Altar Linger from 2018, was a patented blend of dual clean vocals/death growls, anthemic riffing, and athletic drumming, inspired by the likes of Týr, In Flames, and Immortal. On 2021 follow-up EP To Gaze on Stars of Frost, the band refined their sound further by enlisting Fabian Jiru of Trollfest (Napalm Records) for production duties. In 2023, the band would work with Jiru once more on the Eternal EP, issued by new label Lost Future Records directly before an extended east coast tour with Brooklyn melodeath up-and-comers Solemn Vision. Previously, Oak, Ash & Thorn had shared stages with the likes of Cradle of Filth, Borknagar, Rotting Christ, Týr, Arkona, Metsatöll, and Kalmah, amongst many others. 

Our Grief is Thus will be available on LP and digital on April 19, 2024 via Lost Future Records. Pre-orders are available HERE. 

Artist: Oak, Ash & Thorn

Album: Our Grief is Thus

Record Label: Lost Future Records

Release Date: April 19, 2024

01. Dying Culture

02. Like The Sea, I Raged

03. Ten Years On The Tundra

04. Bury Deep My Tired Bones

05. Light My Pyre

06. Auras

07. Distant Mountains, Distant Gods

08. Unchain The Wolf

On The Web:

oakashandthorn.bandcamp.com

linktr.ee/ofoakashandthorn

lostfuturerecords.com

instagram.com/lostfuturerecords

lostfuture.bandcamp.com