Años En Infierno, the devastating fourth LP from Pomona, California guerrillas XIBALBA, is out now through Southern Lord.
For the past thirteen years, XIBALBA has been dedicated to carving a sound which combines unadulterated aggression booming out of the vocals, an ultra-heavy low-end frequency, colossal death metal riffs, brutal hardcore breakdowns, and a trademark groove now synonymous with the group. Showing no mercy, and keeping their cultural message intact, Años En Infierno‘s eight songs culminate into XIBALBA‘s most brutalizing material to date.
Años En Infierno was produced by Arthur Rizk (Cro-Mags Power Trip, Inquisition) and completed with artwork by longtime collaborator Dan Seagrave (Dismember, Entombed, Suffocation).
Stream XIBALBA’s Años En Infierno in its entirety RIGHT HERE.
Años En Infierno is out now on CD, LP and digital platforms via the Southern Lord Bandcamp HERE, the label webshop in the US HERE and Europe webshop HERE. Find shirt packages at Closed Casket Activities HERE.
Today, Wednesday, June 10th, XIBABLA guitarist Brian Ortiz is overthrowing Gimme Metal with a guest DJ slot as part of the station’s Gimme Relief Series. Tune in from 5:00pm EST/2:00pm PST. Line up a few cervezas and tune in at https://gimmemetal.com/.
Watch for official videos from Años En Infierno and more to see release in the weeks ahead.
Pomona, California-based metallic hardcore powerhouse XIBALBA this week unleashes their anxiously anticipated fourth LP, Años En Infierno, through Southern Lord.
On the eve of its release, the entire album is now streaming exclusively at Cvlt Nation, and this evening, the band will launch a massive livestream assault in support of the record.
Años En Infierno was produced by Arthur Rizk (Cro-Mags Power Trip, Inquisition) and completed with artwork by longtime collaborator Dan Seagrave (Dismember, Entombed, Suffocation).
Cvlt Nation writes with the advance album stream, “This album erupts like a hardcore volcano and spews molten fury on everything and everyone in its path!”
Stream XIBALBA’s Años En Infierno early at Cvlt Nation RIGHT HERE.
Años En Infierno will see release on CD, LP and digital platforms on May 29th. Southern Lord Bandcamp HERE, the label webshop in the US HERE and Europe webshop HERE, and with shirt packages at Closed Casket Activities HERE.
TONIGHT, XIBALBA will launch a special livestream feature via Twitch to celebrate the album’s release. BYOB and tune in for a special session with the band including an interrogation of the band, a full album stream, and a crushing live performance. The stream will only be available for 24 hours so don’t miss it!
XIBALBA’s livestream special will launch at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern at THIS LOCATION.
For the past thirteen years, XIBALBA has been dedicated to carving a sound which combines unadulterated aggression booming out of the vocals, an ultra-heavy low-end frequency, colossal death metal riffs, brutal hardcore breakdowns, and a trademark groove now synonymous with the group. Showing no mercy, and keeping their cultural message intact, Años En Infierno‘s eight songs culminate into XIBALBA‘s most brutalizing material to date.
Watch for official videos from Años En Infierno and more to see release in the weeks ahead.
Worcester, Massachusetts-based HIGH COMMAND has just issued an official video for “Merciless Steel,” one of the most searing tracks from the band’s Southern Lord-released debut LP, Beyond The Wall Of Desolation.
Released in the Summer of 2019, HIGH COMMAND‘s Beyond The Wall Of Desolation delivers an onslaught of searing thrash/hardcore aggression. The band’s ravenous delivery is magnified by the powerful recording courtesy of Machines With Magnets (Daughters, The Body, Lingua Ignota), and mastering by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege (Obituary, Integrity, Black Breath).
Surrounding the album’s release, HIGH COMMAND torched sectors of the country on tour with the likes of Spirit Adrift, Enforced, and more, and Spring 2020 saw them lined up to tour alongside Ringworm and others when the COVID-19 outbreak halted all plans.
Writes HIGH COMMAND‘s Ryan McCardle, “We had been planning on doing a big production metal video with swords and the like before the pandemic hit, but then we started going through all the footage we had collected from our first couple tours supporting Beyond The Wall Of Desolation and we realized we had all this great video of a time that seems almost alien and long ago considering the current state of affairs. Meticulously edited and directed by visual madman Chris O’Coin, the ‘Merciless Steel’ video is our ode to a community that was of the utmost importance to us and we hope returns someday soon.”
Metal Injection writes with their premiere of the video, “HIGH COMMAND released their thrash-mad album Beyond The Wall Of Desolation in 2019. If you missed it, or you’re looking for some skull-splitting riffs alongside a music video that looks like an old VHS, then you need ‘Merciless Steel’ in your life right now.”
Watch HIGH COMMAND’s “Merciless Steel” at Metal Injection RIGHT HERE.
Beyond The Wall Of Desolation is available on CD, LP, and digital via Bandcamp HERE and the Southern Lord webshop HERE.
Watch for new tour dates to be announced over the months ahead pending the reopening of venues and the return of live music around the country.
Los Angeles, California-based hardcore punk band ENTRY will release their debut full-length, Detriment, through Southern Lord Recordings on July 17th. The lead single “Your Best Interest” is now playing exclusively at New Noise Magazine.
The follow-up to their sold-out No Relief 7″ released on Dune Altar, ENTRY‘s Detriment LP is succinct and ferocious. Detriment is a diverse album which provides a breath of fresh air to the genre. The album showcases ENTRY‘s appreciation for different aspects of punk and hardcore, and their imaginative songwriting that is condensed into nine concise musical statements of intent.
As a collective, the members of ENTRY passionately believe in the power of punk and the uniting nature of music, and with Detriment,they reflect themselves and their community with integrity and authenticity. This caught the ears of Southern Lord label owner Greg Anderson, who remarks, “The unhinged intensity of ENTRY‘s live performance at the last Power Of The Riff fest blew me away. They embody many of the characteristics of powerful underground music that I have been obsessed with since my youth!”
ENTRY‘s vocalist Sara Gregory writes with the premiere of “Your Best Interest,” Detriment‘s lead single, “This is the first song on the record. It’s about how people are treated unfairly by the legal system and are unable to receive effective assistance because they lack resources.”
Hear ENTRY’s “Your Best Interest” first through New Noise Magazine at THIS LOCATION.
Southern Lord will release Detriment on vinyl and digital formats on July 17th; digital preorders post this week. Watch for additional audio previews of the record to post in the weeks ahead.
Inspired by the likes of Discharge, Minor Threat, Converge, Tragedy, The Cramps, and The Exploited, ENTRY started as a project between Sara Gregory – whose musical origins come from punk bands in Pennsylvania – and Clayton Stevens, who also plays guitar in Touché Amoré on Epitaph Records. Bass player Sean Sakamoto plays in the indie pop band Sheer and is a recording engineer in Los Angeles, while drummer Chris Dwyer is also a recording engineer in LA. The punk community at large is as inspiring as it has ever been to them.
ENTRY has played the Olympia Hardcore Festival, and Ceremony’s Homesick Festival in Los Angeles, and has opened Career Suicide, Krimewatch, Sunn O))), Dangers, Despise You, Sect, and Show Me The Body, and many others.
Detriment Track Listing: 1. Intro 2. Your Best Interest 3. Vulnerable 4. Secondary 5. Selective Empathy 6. These Feelings 7. Not Your Decision 8. Control 9. Demons
ENTRY: Sean Sakamoto – bass Sara Gregory – vocals Chris Dwyer – drums Clayton Stevens – guitar
Review copies of Detriment will be issued in the days ahead. For interviews and all coverage of ENTRY in The Americas contact dave@earsplitcompound.com and in Europe contact lauren@rarelyunable.com.
As Norwegian black metal/punk cult OKKULTOKRATI prepares to release their ominous new La Ilden Lyse full-length through Southern Lord this Friday, BrooklynVegan is now hosting an advance stream of the entire record.
La Ilden Lyse – which roughly translates to “Keep The Fire Burning” – is an album of pure, cold, grim, rawness. Themes of enduring life, transcending death, worshipping the moon, and triumphant, satanic darkness are all at play here, and the album sounds harder, faster, and nastier than ever. No more messing around. Keep it black, keep it metal, all the time.
BrooklynVegan writes, “Four years is the longest OKKULTOKRATI have gone without an album, and it seems like the time away has only made them sound more furious. La Ilden Lyse tones down the gloomy post-punk/deathrock side of the band’s earlier work, and finds them diving more head-first into their Discharge side. As usual, they combine the punk influences with the harsh vocals and atmospheric rawness of early black metal and the metallic rock and roll of bands like Motorhead and Venom, so La Ilden Lyse is still in the same general ballpark as OKKULTOKRATI‘s other albums; it’s just even nastier.”
Experience OKKULTOKRATI’s entire La Ilden Lyse early only at BrooklynVegan RIGHT HERE.
La Ilden Lyse will see release through all digital providers this Friday, May 15th including Bandcamp HERE. LP/physical bundles are now shipping from the Southern Lord Euro store HERE and US physical preorders launch on June 5th.
OKKULTOKRATI offers on the release of La Ilden Lyse, “Behind the veil of the mundane world there is fire, darkness and the old gods. Beyond space and time there is an essence of nature, existence and madness. Life is constant struggle, endurance and pain, and if it doesn’t break your spirit then you are forged stronger in the flames. Infernal hellscapes, hidden realms and a glimpse into the void, all while spitting in the face of adversity.
La Ilden Lyse is triumphant, tyrannical and transgressive music to inspire, anger and fuel the fires of pitch-black souls.
Keeping the fire alive!”
Review copies of La Ilden Lyse and interviews with OKKULTOKRATI are now available. For coverage in North and South America contact dave@earsplitcompound.com and internationally contact lauren@rarelyunable.com.
Pomona, California-based metallic hardcore powerhouse XIBALBA prepares for their anxiously anticipated fourth LP, Años En Infierno. As the album nears its release through Southern Lord Recordings late this month, the title track to the album has been premiered through an exclusive at Revolver Magazine.
Años En Infierno was produced by Arthur Rizk (Cro-Mags Power Trip, Inquisition) and completed with artwork by longtime collaborator Dan Seagrave (Dismember, Entombed, Suffocation).
Offers vocalist Nathan Rebolledo, “‘Años En Infierno,’ as a song and record, is the embodiment of the past decade of my life. All that is good and bad in my life is thanks to this band. A selfish way of life where dreams and opportunities have come true at the cost of something or someone one. I have caused hardship and pain, something I can’t take back, but I need to change. XIBALBA as a band has decided to slow down, what the future holds I don’t know but I do know I need to slow down and appreciate.”
Revolver writes, “For the past thirteen years, Pomona, California’s XIBALBA have spearheaded a hellaciously heavy amalgamation of hardcore and death metal full of mosh-driving grooves and instilled with a deep respect for the band members’ cultural heritage,” referring to ‘the track “Años En Infierno” as, “a pulverizing, intensely personal example of the trio’s ferocious talents.”
Stream XIBALBA’s Años En Infierno early only at Revolver Magazine RIGHT HERE.
Años En Infierno will see release on CD, LP and digital platforms on May 29th. Preorders go live tomorrow for Cinco De Mayo at the Southern Lord Bandcamp HERE, the label webshop in the US HERE and Europe webshop HERE, and color vinyl + shirt packages at Closed Casket Activities HERE.
For the past thirteen years, XIBALBA has been dedicated to carving a sound which combines unadulterated aggression booming out of the vocals, an ultra-heavy low-end frequency, colossal death metal riffs, brutal hardcore breakdowns, and a trademark groove now synonymous with the group.
Showing no mercy and keeping their cultural message intact with their fourth full-length, Años En Infierno takes these conventions and finds a new way of expression that the band defines as, “more harsh, brutal, and creative in a metaphorical sense.” The eight new movements onAños En Infierno culminate into XIBALBA‘s most brutalizing material to date.
OKKULTOKRATI is now sharing their new single “Loathe Forever,” the new single from their upcoming new album La Ilden Lyse, nearing release on May 15th through Southern Lord.
La Ilden Lyse – which roughly translates to “Keep The Fire Burning” – is an album of pure, cold, grim, rawness. Themes of enduring life, transcending death, worshipping the moon, and triumphant, satanic darkness are all at play here, and the album sounds harder, faster, and nastier than ever. No more messing around. Keep it black, keep it metal, all the time.
OKKULTOKRATI remarks, “Pushing beyond the grasp of simply life and death, crossing over despite one’s fleshy limitations and mortal flaws. Everything physical decays, rots and fades away, but ideas are forever. Transcending life, contempt/alienation/(self) hate/loathing are eternally constant. Embrace the frostbitten darkness and ride with us to the badlands.”
The band continues, “OKKULTOKRATI has always been more than being a band, making music, touring, and making music. Striving to be something beyond the mundane and trivial. It’s an attitude. In defiance. To everyone and everything. To not chase after trends. To seek truth in music wherever it takes you. To be an outsider and an outlaw, even though it makes you a freak. La Ilden Lyse is music for the misguided, the conspiratorial, the unappreciated and unwanted. It’s black outlaw metal. It’s a beacon in the dark, for desperate times.”
Stream OKKULTOKRATI’s “Loathe Forever” now through Bandcamp HERE, Spotify HERE, and Apple Music HERE.
Southern Lord will issue La Ilden Lyse on May 15th. Find digital preorders where “Kiss Of Death” is also playing HERE as well as the Southern Lord Euro store HERE. US store physical preorders will post in the coming days.
Review copies of La Ilden Lyse and interviews with OKKULTOKRATI are now available. For coverage in North and South America contact dave@earsplitcompound.com and internationally contact lauren@rarelyunable.com.
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.
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:
12/19/2020 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.
Pomona, California’s XIBALBA unload the devastating “En La Oscuridad,” the first single from their anxiously anticipated fourth LP Años En Infierno, due in May through Southern Lord Recordings. With the album’s release date now in the crosshairs, the new single has been issued though a premiere at Decibel Magazine.
The eight damaging new movements on XIBALBA‘s Años En Infierno culminate into the band’s most brutalizing material to date, with more death metal energy than ever fueling the album, with their trademarks breakdown savagery fully on display in every track. The LP was produced by Arthur Rizk (Cro-Mags Power Trip, Inquisition) and completed with artwork by longtime collaborator Dan Seagrave (Dismember, Entombed, Suffocation).
XIBALBA offers of the “En La Oscuridad” single, “The song will beat the shit out of you. We chose the song because we felt it was our hardest song and one that would get stuck in your head.”
Decibel writes with the premiere, “XIBALBA‘s name translates to place of fear, and they chose the perfect time to return to their throne atop it… The California crew is still blending death metal and hardcore, complete with smatterings of depressing doom. However, the three-year break since their last release seems to have reinvigorated the leaned-down trio on their first song back.”
Hear XIBALBA’s “En La Oscuridad” through Decibel Magazine at THIS LOCATION.
“En La Oscuridad” hits all digital providers tomorrow, and Años En Infierno will see release through Southern Lord on May 29th. Find digital preorders HERE and watch for physical preorders and additional audio samples to post in the weeks ahead.
For the past thirteen years, XIBALBA has been dedicated to carving a sound which combines unadulterated aggression booming out of the vocals, an ultra-heavy low-end frequency, colossal death metal riffs, brutal hardcore breakdowns, and a trademark groove now synonymous with the group. Showing no mercy and keeping their cultural message intact with their fourth full-length, Años En Infierno takes these conventions and finds a new way of expression that the band defines as, “more harsh, brutal, and creative in a metaphorical sense.”
Review copies of Años En Infierno will be issued in the coming weeks. For all coverage of XIBALBA in North America contact dave@earsplitcompoud.com and internationally contact lauren@rarelyunable.com.
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