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Southern Lord presents the fifth and final installment in the CASPAR BRÖTZMANN MASSAKER reissue series, releasing the Home LP today. 

Originally recorded in 1994 and released in 1995, Home is characterized by MASSAKER‘s ultra-refined riffs of shrieking, screeching feedback, and rattling machine gun staccatos. Exuding confidence, authority and a natural rapport that the musicians clearly had with one another. Certain songs from earlier records were revisited on Home including “The Tribe” and “Massaker” from The Tribe, and “Templehof,” “Hunter Song,” and “Böhmen” from Black Axis. These pieces had evolved following years of rethinking, rehearsing and reshaping them on stage, as well as playing with Danny Lommen, who had replaced Frank Neumeier on drums after Black Axis. These refined versions on Home raise the level of density and tension, the ominous evocations of impending doom, booming threat, and the grim determination that’s always driven MASSAKER.

The 1994 recording of Home at the Steinschlag Studio (of FM Einheit) features CASPAR BRÖTZMANN on guitar with Danny Lommen on drums and Eduardo Delgado Lopez on bass.

Listen to CASPAR BRÖTZMANN MASSAKER’s Home at Bandcamp HERE, Spotify HERE, YouTube HERE, and via all other digital providers.

Home is now available on CD, 2xLP, and digital formats through Southern Lord. Orders can be placed at the Southern Lord webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE. 

Arguably one of the most unique and innovative guitarists of the last forty years, CASPAR BRÖTZMANN and his enduring trio continues to perform live. The guitarist is exploring new solo material and will release his first solo album later this year.

The recording for Home took place at Steinschlag, the studio of FM Einheit, famed metal-percussionist for German avant-noisniks Einstürzende Neubauten, with Bruno Gephard on production (also at the helm for Koksofen). BRÖTZMANN‘s connection to FM Einheit traces back to the late Eighties in Berlin, as together they had released the album Merry Christmas in 1994, and subsequently toured in the US.

Recorded in Mauren, a small town in the southern hills of Germany, FM Einheit’s equipment was set up in an unused swimming pool of a detached house in while the band played in the roof of the building; an intriguing setting for the album. Home was originally released on New York-based label Thirsty Ear, which at the time was specializing in releasing renowned records by noise, avant-rock-industrialists like Swans, Jim Foetus, and Einstürzende Neubauten. The album was followed by further lineup changes, and what became MASSAKER‘s largest US tour supporting Helmet with the improvised lineup.

The trio went on to release and tour the final album, Mute Massaker (Rough Trade Records, 1998), after which, the artistic story of MASSAKER was over and BRÖTZMANN disbanded the trio.

For all CASPAR BRÖTZMANN coverage in North America contact dave@earsplitcompound.com and elsewhere contact lauren@rarelyunable.com. 

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Celebrating their 25th anniversary in 2020, DARKEST HOUR has rescheduled their North American West Coast Tour. The trek was initially supposed to begin today but was postponed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The rescheduled tour will now take place late this Fall, running from December 10th through the 20th, with shows in Denver, Albuquerque, Scottsdale, San Diego, Anaheim, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver. Joining DARKEST HOUR for the trek will be their friends in Misery Signals, as well as Southern Lord labelmates Sect.

Writes the band, “We love, miss you, and can not wait to get back on tour. As promised, here are our rescheduled tour dates with Misery Signals and Sect! All three bands will be on the shows again so, this party is back the fuck on!

Of course, due to the current world pandemic we must totally accept the possibility that these shows could also be affected, but we will not let that affect our hopes! Everything is rapidly changing, and it is impossible to say right now how things will sort themselves out by this December. We encourage everyone to stay home, practice the newfound art of social distancing, and stay safe so that we can help get this virus under control and live music can return! 

We are, and will continue to, actively monitor the situation over the course of the next few months and we are committed to taking a pragmatic approach to the tour. If it’s not conducive to the health and safety of everyone involved, the shows will be shelved, tickets will be refunded, and we will continue to push on in the spirit of all things heavy metal! 

We hope to see you at these shows, now more than ever it’s clear how important this connection of music and spirit is!”

DARKEST HOUR West Coast Anniversary Tour 2020 w/ Misery Signals, Sect:

12/10/2020 Marquis Theater – Denver, CO [tickets]

12/11/2020 Launchpad – Albuquerque, NM [tickets]

12/12/2020 Pub Rock – Scottsdale, AZ [tickets]

12/13/2020 Brick By Brick – San Diego, CA [tickets]

12/14/2020 Chain Reaction – Anaheim, CA [tickets]

12/15/2020 1720 – Los Angeles, CA [tickets]

12/18/2020 El Corazon – Seattle, WA [tickets]

12/19/2020 Hawthorne Theatre – Portland, OR [tickets]

12/20/2020 Rickshaw Theatre – Vancouver, BC [tickets]

Produced by Kurt Ballou (Converge), DARKEST HOUR‘s eleventh LP Godless Prophets & The Migrant Flora continues to solidify the band’s legacy as a major metal powerhouse. Raw, complex, melodic, yet cutting with razor blade precision, Godless Prophets & The Migrant Flora is a fierce album which shows the long-running band as lethal and ravenous as ever. Following its 217 release through Southern Lord, the band has continued to tour regularly throughout North America and Europe.

Godless Prophets & The Migrant Flora is available on CD, LP, picture disc LP, digital via Southern Lord, including a brand-new pressing on purple vinyl limited to 300 copies. Find options at the label’s webstore HERE, Bandcamp HERE, and through all digital providers.

In other news, DARKEST HOUR recently launched an official fan club via Patreon as part of their 25th anniversary. Here, fans can choose their desired tier to access lots of band content; some of it never before accessible, some of it so old it has been lost to the black hole of the Internet, and some of it totally brand new and exclusive. Check it out RIGHT HERE.

Watch for additional DARKEST HOUR updates in the weeks ahead. For coverage in North America contact dave@earsplitcompound.com and internationally contact lauren@rarelyunable.com.

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