Drew Daniel (Matmos) under the name of The Soft Pink Truth has made a very funny album with a bunch of aberrant electronic covers of black metal classics. Now here is a mix of black metal intros/outros by him in order to hype his album.

Intros:  Sodom – In the Sign of Evil, Beherit – Tireheb, Blasphemy – Winds of the Black Gods, Celtic Frost – Human, Striborg – Foreboding Silence (Intro 1.), Beherit – The Oath of Black Blood, Blasphemy – Ross Bay, Bathory – Storm of Damnation, Striborg – Black Desolate Winter, Negura Bunget – Ceasuri Rele, Rotting Christ – Ach Golgotha, Striborg – Foreboding Silence (Intro 2), Striborg – Embittered Darkness / Isle De Morts,  Mayhem – In Memoriam, Morbid Angel – Blessed Are the Sick
Outros: Sodom – In the Sign of Evil, Sarcofago – INRI, Mortiis – Unreleased, Striborg – Foreboding Silence, Striborg – Black Desolate Winter, Apathia – Sepulcrum,  Mayhem – The True Legends in Black, Bathory – The Winds of Mayhem

about the album + original tracks

Simple, beautiful and funny living room pop by English twins, Amelia and Pat. They’re like a little Breeders from Brighton, or an alternative Simon & Garfunkel, or Osmonds on cheap whizz with a taste of tropicalia. They formed in the summer of 2011 after sharing a dream in which David Bowie told them they were destined to make music together

Bentcousin – Dizzy 7″ on Team Love Records (US)

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OvO is an Italian industrial noise metal duo by Stefania & Bruno with guitar, drums, effects and electronics from the deepest corner of Hell. Averno/Oblio (ie. Arrow/Point) 1 sided 12″ EP with 2 songs, other side black and gold handscreened artwork by Luca Font. 300 copies. Nice work

Hungarian weird metal band Korog has come back with a new album. The music is drenched in grunge (esp. Soundgarden). And there is a new vocalist, who arrived from Turbo. And like this name, just like the singer… errr… is too avant-garde for me…

You can buy the album on iTunes

concert >  7 June  Budapest  A38        FB event

+ Void Ov Voices, drone project of Attila Csihar (ex-Korog, Mayhem)

Surprising that HSY started as a one woman band in Canada. Post-punk with sludge metal

7″ on Buzz (Can) and Too Pure Records (UK)

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There was a special local taste of punk in Germany, but Küken could be in any garage of the world. Because of the harbour, maybe.

debut 7″ coming soon on Bachelor Records (Austria)

The new Godflesh EP – hard stuff for brain cleaning

Limited edition LP, CD + digital on Avalanches Records (UK)

Godflesh is one of the most influential industrial/drone metal bands. It was founded by Justin K. Broadrick (who was the guitarist of Napalm Death in 1985-86. His other electronic/ experimental/ post noise projects: Techno Animal, Jesu, Final, Pale Sketcher) and G.C. Green in 1988. The band dissolved in 2002, and reformed in 2009.

Minneapolis 1982. Information Society was founded in a college dorm room. During the years it became a musical collective and the part of the mainstream (with numerous top hits, for example). InSoc disbanded in 1997, but has reunited in 2006. Their first EP was released in 1983. Only 100 copies were printed. Reissue with an unreleased bonus track, which is their first recorded track ever.
New Wave Disco like Gary Numan or New Order.

Mannequin Records (Germany)

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Thou. Grunge based sludge from the mud of Louisana. This EP was recorded at same time than previous album Heathen. The 5th track „I hate myself, and I want to die” is a Nirvana cover.

Sacrifice EP on Robotic Empire (US)

Funny, playfool, jazzy. Roz & The Rice Cakes bring the Deerhoof to my mind. On other sites this is called Art Rock

Need To Feed album on Team Love Records (US)

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A song from the next Godflesh EP. The first public track for 13 years. Like a classic

Decline And Fall EP on Avalanche Records (UK) in June.

Godflesh is one of the most influential industrial/drone metal bands. It was founded by Justin K. Broadrick (who was the guitarist of Napalm Death in 1985-86. His other projects: Techno Animal, Jesu, Final, Pale Sketcher) and G.C. Green in 1988. The band dissolved in 2002, and reformed in 2009.

KK NULL (from Japanese metal band, Zeni Geva) & the Hungarian drummer BALÁZS PÁNDI, somewhere over the rainbow

This is one side of a 7 inch vinyl record to be released for the tour.

more info about the gigs

Some days ago there was an astound news about Black Pus/Oozing Wound split LP by Thrill Jockey Records. Here is the next one

Why Do The Heathen Rage?

is a collection of electronic covers of black metal classics by Soft Pink Truth. It’s solo project of Drew Daniel from experimental electronic duo Matmos. His partners in crime: Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons, Jenn Wasner from indie-folkrock duo Wye Oak, Terrance Hannum from drone-metal band Locrian, his Matmos partner M.C. Schmidt and more. So

„Open the door, enter hells core
Black is the code for tonight
Atomic force, feel no remorse
Crank up the amps now it’s night
BLACK METAL
lay down your soul to the gods rock `n’ roll”

The original

Tracklist: 1. Invocation for Strength  2. Black Metal (Venom)  3. Sadomatic Rites (Beherit)  4. Ready to Fuck (Sarcófago)  5. Satanic Black Devotion (Sargeist)  6. Beholding the Throne of Might (Darkthrone)  7. Let There Be Ebola Frost (AN)  8. Buried by Time and Dust (Mayhem)  9. Maniac (Hellhammer)  10. Grim and Frostbitten Gay Bar (Impaled Northern Moonforest)

„One of our main distributors has refused to carry the record due to this content… that’s no joke.” was written by the publisher Thrill Jockey Records (US). It’s out on LP/CD on June 16th.

Drew Daniel has released a similar album in 2004: Do You Want New Wave (Or Do You Want The Soft Pink Truth?) which consisted house covers of classic hardcore and punk songs. For example: Minor Threat – Out Of Step

A Soft Pink Truth show in Europe: June 5th Copenhagen, Denmark – Distortion Festival
Matmos Euro tour May-June

BLACK PUS / OOZING WOUND split 12″ featuring brand new tracks from each.
Out on 17th June by Thrill Jockey Records on limited edition LP/DL

BLACK PUS is „raucous and otherworldly” solo drum project of Brian Chippendale, the drummer of hard noise rock duo Lightning Bolt. He has been chosen by Björk and The Flaming Lips as a collaborator and played on Lee “Scratch” Perry’s Repentance album (2008). OOZING WOUND is a classic, but a little unorthodox thrash metal band, because there aren’t guitar solos. In May 2013 they opened up for Black Pus in their hometown Chicago… These songs aren’t from the split! Just as samples

Black Pus Euro tour June-July. Vienna June 30

Hands of Doom stoner blog and Sportalsó presents

MAY 23, FRIDAY > 16:00 – 16:30 Boddah  16:45 – 17:15 Life is Marrow  17:30 – 18:00 Slide Away  18:15 – 19:00 Head for the Sun  19:15 – 19:55 Badass  20:10 – 20:50 Dusty Chopper  21:10 – 21:50 Stoneblade  22:10 – 22:50 Let the Cigar Die  23:10 – 00:00 Conan’s First Date  00:15 – 01:00 Just Four

MAY 24, SATURDAY > 13:00 – 13:30 Lastdayflayers  13:45 – 14:15 Vicious Panda  14:30 – 15:00 Spacedust  15:15 – 15:45 Giant Horizon  16:00 – 16:45 Toscrew  17:00 – 17:45 Eclipse of the Sun  18:00 – 18:45 Buso Von Kobra  19:00 – 19:45 C.Y.D.  20:00 – 20:45 Drow  21:00 – 22:00 Bearfood  22:15 – 23:00 Lumberjack Commando  23:15 – 00:00 Vendetta Inc.  00:15 – 01:00 Visioned Frailty

INSTEAD OF IT: KINGDOM OF THE THUNDER SNAKE STONER DOOM CIRCUS with POWERTRIP, LUMBERJACK COMMANDO, BADASS, DUSTY CHOPPER & VISIONED FRAILTY in Budapest at Showbarlang on 10 May. Facebook

Japanese experimental metal wonder Boris states about their new album: „the band masterfully intermingles sludge-rock, blistering crust punk, shimmering shoegaze, epic thunderous doom, psychedelic melodies and just about everything else they’ve ever done.”

„Noise” album on Sargent House in June. Pre-order

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French punky country surf garage rock’n’roll by Sapin from Rennes

„Wrong Way” album on Azbin Records. The label’s team members are from such great garage bands as Le Pecheur, Regal, Animal Trophies and The Skeptics.