SEEN AND HEARD: NAPALM DEATH AND VOIVOID ON TOUR, DECIBEL NAMES THE TOP 100 DOOM ALBUMS, AND NEW MUSIC FROM ARCHGOAT

In today’s posts we’ve thrown quite a lot of new music your way, but we’re still not quite done. There are a couple more songs I want to recommend that I discovered over the last 24 hours, plus some news items that perked my interest. We’ll start with those and then move to the songs.

THROUGH SPACE AND GRIND TOUR 2015

Through Space and Grind is the name of a 2015 North American tour whose roster is full of eye-catching names: Napalm Death, Voivod, Exhumed, Iron Reagan, and Black Crown Initiate. The tour begins on January 27 in Miami and runs through February 28 in Houston.

The following bands will also join the tour on selected dates:  Ringworm, Dayglo Abortions, Theories, and Phobia. Here’s the full schedule:

 

1/27/2015            Miami, FL                             Grand Central*

1/28/2015            St Petersburg, FL              State Theater*

1/29/2015            Atlanta, GA                         Masquerade*

1/30/2015            Winston-Salem, NC         Ziggy’s*

1/31/2015            Baltimore, MD                   Soundstage*

2/2/2015              New York, NY                    Gramercy Theater*

2/3/2015              Philadelphia, PA               Union Transfer*

2/4/2015              Toronto, ON                       Opera House

2/5/2015              Ottawa, ON                        Maverick’s

2/6/2015              Montreal, QC                     Club Soda

2/7/2015              Worcester, MA                Palladium*

2/8/2015              Poughkeepsie, NY           The Chance Theater*

2/9/2015              Cleveland, OH                   Agora Ballroom*

2/10/2015            Chicago, IL                           Reggie’s*

2/11/2015            Minneapolis, MN             Amsterdam*

2/12/2015            Winnipeg, MB                   The Zoo

2/13/2015            Regina, SK                           The Exchange

2/14/2015            Calgary, AB                            Republik

2/15/2015            Edmonton, AB                   Starlite Room

2/17/2015            Vancouver, BC                  Rickshaw Theater**

2/18/2015            Seattle, WA                        Studio 7 #

2/19/2015            Portland, OR                      Hawthorne Theater

2/20/2015            Oakland, CA                       Metro ##

2/21/2015            Fresno, CA                          Strummers ##

2/22/2015            Los Angeles, CA                House Of Blues

2/23/2015            Tempe, AZ                          Club Red ##

2/24/2015            Albuquerque, NM           Sunshine Theater ##

2/25/2015            Denver, CO                         Summit Music Hall ##

2/26/2015            Lawrence, KS                     Granada Theater ##

2/27/2015            Dallas, TX                             Gas Monkey ##

2/28/2015            Houston, TX                       Fitzgerald’s ##

* = Ringworm

**=Dayglo Abortions

#= Theories

##= Phobia

 

DECIBEL’S TOP 100 DOOM METAL ALBUMS OF ALL TIME

Of all the many sub-genres of metal I’ve explored since getting into metal late in life about a decade ago, doom has been the one whose attractions I’ve discovered most recently. I’m not sure why it took me so long, because I would now count myself a devoted fan of doom in almost all of its permutations.

Still, I know I’ve missed a lot and have a lot of learning left to do — which is why I was excited to see that DECIBEL magazine has compiled a special issue devoted to doom. Described as “an authoritative and exhaustive history of doom metal”, it isn’t a re-hash of previously published articles but all-new content, including a new “Hall of Fame” feature dedicated to Cathedral’s second album, The Ethereal Mirror.

This special issue is available for order on-line for $4 plus shipping at this location, or at select indie record retailers. I’ve already ordered my copy. Very curious to see who’s on the list.

Okay, time for some new music…

 

 

ARCHGOAT

Finland’s Archgoat have been unyielding celebrants of devil worship for more than two decades (though their career was interrupted by a long hiatus from ’93 – ’04). As black metal has evolved and mutated into a wide spectrum of kindred styles, Archgoat have remained steadfast in their sonic blasphemy.

The latest evidence of their fealty to Luciferian bestiality will come on January 26, 2015 (January 27 in North America), when Debemur Morti releases their third album, The Apocalyptic Triumphator, with cover art by Chris Moyen. I’ve been waiting to hear something from this monstrosity, and yesterday finally brought the premiere of a new song with the shy and retiring title of “Nuns, Cunts & Darkness”.

I will tell you two things about this song: At first, it’s going to strike you as primitive and primal — and it is. And then it’s going to eat its way down into your bones, sort of like the way the Alien’s acid blood eats its way through the floors of the Nostromo, because it gets more and more interesting as it goes along. It is indeed bone-chilling and alien — and it will get your head moving, too.

https://www.facebook.com/archgoat.official

http://www.debemur-morti.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE HOUSE OF CAPRICORN

I’ve been singing the praises of this New Zealand band to anyone who would listen ever since we premiered a song named “Ivory Crown” from their new album, Morning Star Rise. This morning Invisible Oranges premiered a video for yet another new song, “The Only Star In the Sky”, which gives me another convenient excuse to tell you this album is the shit, even though (and in part because) it’s an exception to our Rule. Check it out here (the album comes out tomorrow on Svart Records):

https://www.facebook.com/thehouseofcapricorn