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Author & Punisher, the alias for visionary San Diego musician-meets-mechanical engineer Tristan Shone, returns with the melody-laden new album, “Krüller” (Feb. 11τη, 2022, ωια Relapse Records), featuring a suite of upgraded machines, a distilled vocal process and a handful of guest players including Tool’s Danny Carey and Justin Chancellor.

Black Lodge Records present their new signing Urferd. The ambient nordic folk music project from Daniel Beckman, the man behind Twilight Force and Ages. The debut album goes under the name “Resan” and will see the light of day on April 15th, 2022.

Watch the album trailer below.

A concept waiting years to emerge, Urferd officially saw the light of day in late 2020.

Big|Brave are pleased to announce European tour dates in April and May 2022 in support of their latest album, “Vital” out now on Southern Lord. Dates and details below. 

On their fifth album “Vital”, the core trio of Robin Wattie, Mathieu Ball and Tasy Hudson traverse minimalism and instinct, structure/freedom and meticulous timing, elements that have been the cornerstones of Big|Brave’s precise, rhythmical sound.

Bassist/vocalist Pia Isaksen from the Norwegian heavy psych and doom band Superlynx has launched her first solo affair entitled “PIA ISA”! Her debut album will be released in early 2022 through powerhouse label Argonauta Records.

Oakland-based artist Leila Abdul-Rauf will release her fourth full-length solo album, “Phantasiai”, in July through Cyclic Law, with a vinyl release to follow in September as a co-release with Cloister Recordings. The cover art, track listing, preorders, two tracks from the album, and more have been issued.
 

Minimalism and instinct, structure/freedom and meticulous timing form the cornerstones of Big|Brave’s precise, rhythmical sound.

Lyrically, the new album “Vital” explores the weight of race and gender, endurance and navigating other people’s behaviours, observation and protest. The band further commented “this album involves what it means navigating the outside world in a racialized body and what it does to the psyche as a whole while exploring individual worth within this reality”.
 

Italian experimental fusionists, San Leo, have revealed the details about their upcoming, fourth album, titled “Mantracore”. Slated for a release on November 13th, 2020, via Bronson Recordings, “Mantracore” will see the duo - who is exploring all kinds of various music elements, from kraut-rock, psychedelic folk, free-form post-rock, obscure metal, electronica and ambient sounds - to channel all their energy and vision to a whole new level.

Following their latest album, “Salbrox” (2019, Ritual Productions), Blackened Sludge and Drone trio, Nibiru, have re-signed with Argonauta Records for the release of their sixth studio album, titled “Panspermia”, that will be seeing the light of day on Friday the 13th of November 2020.

“Sacro Bosco” (“Sacred Grove”) is the starting point for Anna von Hausswolff’s new album “All Thoughts Fly”, incoming on Southern Lord on September 25th, 2020. Here in solo instrumental mode, the entire record consists of just one instrument, the pipe organ, and represents absolute liberation of the imagination.

Worcester, Massachusetts-based avant electronics project The Oracle will release its debut full-length debut “Hypogeum” this August, via Repose Records.
 
Inspired at once by the grandiosity of film scores and classical music, the bleakness of black metal, and minimalist ambient music, “Hypogeum” is dark and at times ritualistic with its themes and complimentary visuals touching upon the rise and fall of messiah-like figures and cult leaders.