Stress On The Sky

Flenser alumni bump:

New Boduf Songs album Abyss versions dropping October 4th. He's now on Orindal records but I didn't think it appropriate to make a standalone thread.  I know as musicians go he's really elusive  and I'm sure some of you Flenser heads probably enjoyed Stench Of Exist but may not have heard about the label move or the new one.

First track:

Preorder at: https://bodufsongs.bandcamp.com/ 

Three variants

200  Abyss Black (I assume that's standard not marbled or smokey)

200 Nothingness Clear

100 Blueberry Ice Cream Sundae purple transparent*

*whoever named that variant needs a slap.

Thom has phase 2 of Planning For Burial - Below The House (Destroyed Cassette) up for pre order here.

https://planningforburial.bigcartel.com/product/planning-for-burial-below-the-house-version-c61-cassette-gwr10

Details on second phase destruction:

Between July and November 2018 I continued the process, this time I took a production copy of the 2nd pressing and pulled the tape out so it would flow on my dashboard while on tour driving through the country, much of the time was spent driving through the desert during the summer months, at times flowing down to the floor and being stepped on in spots, later it was burnt and taped back together in a spot, then played over and over in cheap tape deck.

Third pressing is limited to 100 copies.
new art work. purple coloured cassette with white imprinting. pro dubbed.
pro printed j card

No download codes will be sent with this because the idea is that you're supposed to play it and further degrade it.

Children Of God is hands down my favourite Swans album, their more recent iteration was good but it was starting to lose steam so I'm happy they ended it when they did. New track is good.

It's been a good year so far. 

Top tier:

Twilight Sad - It Won/t be like this all the time

Cave In - Final Transmission

Wreck & Reference - Absolute Still Life

Drowse - Light Mirror

Elizabeth Colour Wheel - Nocebo

Silversun Pickups - Widows Weeds

Field Medic - Fade Into The Dawn

Gender Roles - Prang

Biffy Clyro - Balance Not Symmetry

Good tier:

Thom Yorke - Anima

Vale - Burden Of Sight

Wear Your Wounds - Rust On The Gates Of Heaven

Tool - Fear Innoculum

American Football - Selftitled 3

American Pleasure Club - Fucking Bliss

Jamie Lenman - Shuffle

Still to come:

Have A Nice Life

Chelsea Wolfe

Boduf Songs

Mark Lanegan Band

Drowse & LS Otay

Torpor

Caïna

The new Caïna due out November 1st is up at apocalyptic witchcraft. Got a second song streaming up there too which I really rate https://apocalypticwitchcraft.bandcamp.com/album/gentle-illness

US distribution through Season Of Mist.

I thought it was gonna be a malcolm middleton cover for a minute still sounds good. Will deffo grab the digital, the last album didnt do much for me so I dont feel like dropping a reasonable stack on this at the current price point.

Full Sea Of Worry drop schedule courtesy of the Legrand subscription & the flenser FB group.

Get hype people.

Secret 12" has been revealed. It's a 4 track EP from drowse featuring collaborations with Lane from Elizabeth Colour Wheel on half of it entitled Second Self. Only available on vinyl through the sub with the physical due out in November. Here's the first taste:

8 minutes ago, fish said:

 

I actually never really cared for W&R much but I absolutely love this new album. One of my favorite records of the year by far.

 

I love all their previous work but they change it up a lot and since Want they've just been getting progressively better with each release, I don't know how they do it.

So a vague as heck bump but from the horses mouth:

 

SERIES ONE UPDATE:

Series One secret record is in production. Digital will come before vinyl. Vinyl will be shipped late in the year.

Series One 7 inch number two is in production. News soon.

13 hours ago, mikeburns said:

This is exciting! Hopefully these Melvins reissues continue, eagerly awaiting (A) senile animal!

Hopefully although I want a regular version none of that 4 disc madness they did the first time

Looking for an EU/UK link.

I totally spaced updating this I haven't really been paying much attention to VC for a while, anyway 7" number one for subscribers is confirmed. DEETS:

Street Sects – Gentrification III: Death and Displacement

By The Flenser on June 10, 2019 in Uncategorized

Pre-order 7inch
Bandcamp
Pre-order 7-inch Europe

In January of 2014 Street Sects released their first single, “Gentrification I: The Morning After the Night We Raped Death”. The two song 7″ was the first of a planned five part series titled “Gentrification: A Serial Album”. In June of the same year they released “Gentrification II: Broken Windows, Sunken Ceilings”. After the second single was released, the band was approached by San Francisco based record label The Flenser, and the band switched gears to begin working on a full length for the label. One release led to another, and the final three installments of the Gentrification series were put on hold, indefinitely. Now, five years later, in the wake of the release of their more melodic and melancholic sophomore LP, “The Kicking Mule”, the band have returned to the serial album that started it all to pick up where they left off. “Gentrification III: Death and Displacement” isn’t so much a return to form (the bands’ style has always been in flux, and their approach to songwriting and production has evolved significantly in the past half-decade) as it is a return to the emotional intent that fueled those first two releases. The themes and stories addressed within the Gentrification series were never intended to be strict socioeconomic commentary, but rather the conversation and consequences surrounding Gentrification were meant to be a fractured and brutal lens through which we are given a voyeuristic look into the emotional perspectives of characters whose lives are maligned by alienation, exile, and economic peril. If crime is primarily a symptom of the underclass, then perhaps our prisons are filled with some our most valuable living lessons. These castaways, offenders and recidivists are a glaring example of the consequences of a systematic ideological violence inflicted by the haves upon the have-nots. The Gentrification series is not an indictment or an apology, it is an empathetic gritting of the teeth, clenching of the fist, and pulling of the trigger.

 

Track list:

1. Goodbye Recidivist Road
2. Boxcars

I believe the sub variant is on blue.

On ‎6‎/‎28‎/‎2019 at 10:07 PM, Skacel said:

Yup, first 4 albums for me. Freak on a leash was a floor filler in the rock clubs back in the day 👴

I got drunk about a week ago n met a friend in town n we went to the only alternative night our shitty lil town has, legitimately saw a guy wearing a nu metal kilt and heard some KoRn so I'd argue its still filling clubs if that's your thing. Even my last club night in Camden was 90% nu. It's as if 2003 was the year the music died unless you scour London for a more hipster establishment.

On ‎6‎/‎26‎/‎2019 at 4:59 PM, fish said:

For those in the UK:

 

https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/type-o-negative/type-o-negative-none-more-negative

190 ahead of postage puts it at about £31 per album which isn't  unreasonable considering the secondary market for any of these alone (save the recent re-issued bloody kisses) that being said I picked up that re-issue for £20 and it is well put together numbered item and on colour if they wind up doing that for each album I can prevent myself duplicating and avoid getting the albums I know won't get the played a lot. Tis a real beard scratcher of a decision.

I love the idea of a box and would probably jump on it if it was available outside of the US (Fuck importing a boxset) that said kind of miffed they didn't announce this before dropping Bloody Kisses. I could have waited. I'm partly holding out hope that each album will in turn get an individual run so I can cherry pick now that I already have Bloody Kisses.

On ‎6‎/‎18‎/‎2019 at 5:21 PM, AlexH. said:

 

My thoughts exactly but then you get Manchester Orchestra doing that same song so I'll just reorder the digital by putting that in its place instead of at the end and dash that mp3. There was live footage of the MO covering this one live and it was tonally spot on.

As far as everyone saying this won't stand up as a cohesive unit ya'll probably right, I still snagged the vinyl because I'm a Clyromaniac and wanted to show some love.  Daughter covering Poke is sure to be a real tearjerker and of course The Twilight Sad can do no wrong so I'm still happy.

19 hours ago, turtlefog said:

Well you did it and I hope you are happy I got another 30 day ban on facebook because of you reporting me and taddling on me. I thought that things would be different on here but I guess you people don't change

Bro cool it with your persecution complex, I assure you I do not find your trollsona engaging or exciting enough to rage a pseudo flame war via Mark Zuckerberg. Wouldn't click a link you posted if you were paying home slice.

Oh boy challenge accepted.

Fidget spinners at ten paces, high noon, Denny's parking lot.

I guess Tug is pretty much in the wind until RSD each year so the return of CrocodileJoyMaleHeir will have to hold us all over. I hope this sequel lives up to the hype of the first iteration.

My friend told me they wanted the Shrek soundtrack, I wasn't sure if she was joking

But then I saw her face

Mutoid Man are clearly a bunch of guys just having fun and in it's own way that is refreshing. Most of the people I know who have sort of stadium metal tastes that I have introduced to them really like their stuff and it is accessible, catchy and heavy in just the right balance. Depends how you gauge what counts as the best I guess, if you're ranking from a point of view of heavy music that get's you pumped up they're definitely great candidates. If you're thinking of it more in terms of high art, chin stroking music then they seem out of place for sure.

Still it's Kerrang! they're hardly the journalists to get the whole picture of what is the best modern metal.

10 minutes ago, mesi said:

Is that Drowse booklet/zine an interesting read? Not sure if I should go for it or just grab the regular press.

its 62 pages long and I find it interesting but its more of a production diary than the zine/books that come with Deathconsciousness or Giles Corey which were interspersed with lyrics art and fiction. It is mostly a reproduction of hand scrawled notes and it does also occasionally diverge into more ruminative segments about feelings and philosophy. It does go into depth as to explaining the themes as well as the compositional choices of each track. So if that's your bag maybe its worth the extra 8 euros?

Ok here goes @skycriesmary apologies for the lighting/lack of photography skills on display.

Elizabeth Colour Wheel - Nocebo (Red Blob in clear with screen printed dustcover)

All Your Sisters - Trust Ruins (Red with black splatter and art booklet/zine)

Vale - Burden Of Sight (Clear with Silver & Black Splatter)

Drowse - Light Mirror (Clear & Silver half and half with production diary zine/booklet)

As far as sound quality goes I'm probably not the most qualified to weigh in, my set-up is mid-tier and I've never been an audiophile. That said all of them play well, I don't think I've ever got a record that sounded shitty or off from this label.

17 minutes ago, andrewlucas said:

Lucky. Mine has a bent edge and a 1.25” seam split. Those records just flop around inside. They should have added a piece of cardboard or even just a regular vinyl sleeve inside of the screen printed one. When I picked up the package from my front door I felt the records moving and was like “oh no.”

Yeah I figure it'll be luck of the draw with anyone yet to physically have it in hand. Beautiful item but very delicate and could definitely done with extra padding inside to prevent the records moving about. Still the hobby wouldn't be the same without rolling those dice