Horseback/Locrian LP Repress

Utech Records has the copies of the Horseback/Locrian LP repress in stock here.

The Locrian store has copies too: http://www.locrian.bigcartel.com

Check it out!

The Locrian & Christoph Heemann LP will be out in a month and the Lps turned out great. Handmade Birds will also have a cd version.

Update and Stuff

Steven and I met with Jamie Ludwig from Uneasy Listening last night at the Map Room.

We drank some great beer. Apparently, it's the only place in the city that has unfiltered Stiegl. Look for an interview posted on Uneasy Listening soon.

Also, Utech Records has the Locrian & Mamiffer 2xLP album for sale now here: http://www.utechrecords.com/Releases3.html

Profound Lore should have the CDs for sale later today at: http://www.profoundlorerecords.com/

Land of Decay will have copies of this stuff for sale soon, but I'm waiting on my tape covers for the next Land of Decay releases to arrive. I'm planning to have everything up for sale on March 6th.

It's Coming Soon....

Locrian & Mamiffer "Bless Those That Curse You" Update

Aaron Turner posted an update about our upcoming Locrian/Mamiffer collaborative album "Bless Those That Curse You" here.

We are mastering the album today with Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering Service. A few minutes ago, Jason finished the audio mastering for the first track and it sounds immense!

This album will be out in March 2012 on CD, 2xLP, & tape! The labels working on these include: Profound Lore, Daymare, Sige, Utech, and Land of Decay.

Here are the track titles:

1. Bless Them That Curse You
2. In Fulminic Blaze
3. Corpus Luteum
4. Second Burial
5. Lechatelierite
6. Metis/Amaranthine/The Emperor

Horseback/Locrian LP SOLD OUT

We are totally sold out of the Horseback/Locrian LP.

It seems as if Utech Records still has a few copies.

We shipped out the last few orders for this release today. If you're interested, then hit up Utech quickly!

We will have some rare, out of press, Locrian items for sale in early September, but I don't expect that we'll have any more of these LPs...ever.

Locrian/Mammifer Recording Notes

Here are some of Aaron Turner and Faith Coloccia's notes from the Locrian/Mammifer collaborative recording that took place in June.

Randall Dunn will be mixing the recording the release in August and it will be out someday via Profound Lore (CD) and Utech/Sige Records on LP (or possibly 2xLP?).

Locrian/Horseback LP Available!

We have a few copies of the Locrian/Horseback LP available here:



Utech Records will have the remaining LPs available next week, but we're selling our artist copies now because we need gas money to get us to Montreal next weekend!

Thanks to everyone that came out to support the Utech Records festival this weekend.

Brainwashed on Locrian/Horseback: "New Dominions"

Link here.

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As I mentioned in my review of the split 7" a few weeks ago, these are easily two of my favorite artists working in the more experimentally focused metal scene (that currently doesn't have an inane genre tag, which I'm perfectly fine with). Unlike that single, this one sided LP has the two projects working collaboratively, with the results completely living up to expectations.

Utech

Jenks Miller's solo project Horseback has recently received wider exposure due to reissues via Relapse, but Horseback still remains far more complex than most other artists with a metal bent to their sound. Chicago's Locrian is now a trio after vocalist/keyboardist Terence Hannum and guitarist Andre Foisy added the accomplished experimental percussionist Steven Hess to their lineup last year. Coming off 2010's distinctly different LPs Territories and The Crystal World, they have developed into a unique balance of dark atmospheres and avant garde sounds. This release is partially a celebration of the upcoming Utech Music Festival, as these two are both the headlining acts, but it’s anything but a merchandising cash grab.

The shorter "The Gift" opens with heavily reverberated guitar noises and improvised percussion from Hess. Amidst the swirling chaos there’s guitar to be heard: rapid, sparsely effected notes that shine like a pinhole of light in the otherwise oppressive blackness. The vocals sound more like Horseback to me, so I'm guessing it’s Miller's guttural, pained vocals that instantly reminded me of Danny from The Shining. Half way in the drums lock into a more traditional rhythm, and the remainder would almost be a lush ambient piece if it wasn’t so heavy and evil sounding.

The longer "Our Epitaph" slowly lurches along over a sparse distorted bass and drum rhythm, which, when combined with the monastic, chanted vocals (which sound like Hannum, but I’m guessing), feels like a ritualistic chant, austere and focused. In the background a combination of guitar and synthesizer come together violently, slowly becoming the focus and engulfing the liturgical chants.

The thing is, this sounds not like a collaboration in the traditional sense but like a singular project that perfectly balances the influence of the individual parts. Miller's unique combination of black metal and old school minimalism perfectly matches Locrian's film-score like bleakness and juxtaposition of noise and structure. New Dominions sounds like the work of both artists, but neither one in particular. It highlights both of their strengths, blended into a perfectly unified whole that's among the best I have ever heard in this currently unnamed category of experimental metal. I just hope this isn’t the only collaboration these two bands will unleash.

Invisible Oranges Interviews Horseback

Invisible Oranges did a nice interview with our buddy Jenks. You can check it out here.

If you haven't done so yet, you should go to the Utech site and download a track ("The Gift") from the upcoming Locrian/Horseback collaborative LP.