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PROTEST:VOX:05.26.11

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EARTH: West

EARTH – who are about to embark on their next installment of tour dates in support of their Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1 opus throughout the Midwest and East Coast US in two weeks — have just confirmed a new full set of West Coast dates for the Summer months as well!

Today EARTH officially unveil eight brand new West Coast shows for July and August, based around their previously-announced performance at Washington’s What The Heck? Fest. The new dates will see the band headlining shows in Oregon, California and their home state of Washington, with direct support from Angelo Spencer et Les Hauts Sommets on all dates, and will also include special guests including Wyrd Visions, Whirr and Tiny Vipers on several shows.

EARTH’s founder/guitarist Dylan Carlson and drummer Adrienne Davies are available to American writers for phone interviews once again next week on Tuesday, May 31, and Wednesday, May 1 between the hours of 2pm and 9pm EST. Please get in touch right away to schedule a chat with one of them.

EARTH Confirmed Live Performances:

Midwest/East Coast American Tour:
6/08/2011 Mayne Stage – Chicago, IL w/ Ô Paon
6/09/2011 Mad Planet – Milwaukee, WI w/ Ô Paon
6/10/2011 Magic Stick – Detroit, MI w/ Ô Paon, Isosceles Mountain
6/11/2011 The Strutt – Kalamazoo, MI w/ Ô Paon
6/12/2011 Grog Shop – Cleveland, OH w/ Ô Paon
6/13/2011 Johnny Brenda’s – Philadelphia, PA w/ Ô Paon
6/14/2011 Wadsworth Atheneum – Hartford, CT w/ Ô Paon
6/15/2011 Middle East Downstairs – Boston, MA w/ Ô Paon
6/16/2011 Le Poisson Rouge – New York City, NY w/ Ô Paon
6/17/2011 Ottobar – Baltimore, MD w/ Ô Paon
6/18/2011 Braddock Carnegie Library – Braddock, PA w/ Ô Paon
6/19/2011 The Historic Southgate House – Newport, KY w/ Ô Paon

*NEW - West Coast Tour:
7/13/2011 Doug Fir – Portland, OR w/ Angelo Spencer et Les Hauts Sommets, Wyrd Visions
7/14/2011 The Northern – Olympia, WA w/ Angelo Spencer et Les Hauts Sommets, Wyrd Visions
7/16/2011 Port Warehouse – Anacortes, WA @ What The Heck? Fest
7/21/2011 Catalyst Atrium – Santa Cruz, CA w/ Angelo Spencer et Les Hauts Sommets
7/22/2011 Slim’s – San Francisco, CA w/ Angelo Spencer et Les Hauts Sommets, Whirr
7/23/2011 Echoplex – Los Angeles, CA w/ Angelo Spencer et Les Hauts Sommets
7/24/2011 Casbah – San Diego, CA w/ Angelo Spencer et Les Hauts Sommets
8/02/2011 Tractor Tavern – Seattle, WA w/ Angelo Spencer et Les Hauts Sommets, Tiny Vipers
8/05/2011 The Shakedown – Bellingham, WA w/ The Narrows, Cold Lake
9/09/11 Hopscotch Music Festival - Raleigh, NC
10/02/2011 I’ll Be Your Mirror, curated by Portishead & ATP – Asbury Park, NJ

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NAILS Video To Premiere On MTV2 This Friday

Hardcore henchmen NAILS‘ crushing “Conform/Scum Will Rise” video has been confirmed to premiere on MTV2 this Friday, May 20 at 7:00pm EST! Filmed as part of Scoin’s ongoing bi-annual underground artist series, ”Conform/Scum Will Rise” hails from the band’s acclaimed 2010 album Unsilent Death. This is a major step for NAILS and their ongoing campaign for world domination. For now you can crush your enemies to the video, which initially premiered on Metal Injection in late March, at this location.

Exactly one week later, Friday, May 27, NAILS will assault the audiences at Maryland Deathfest on the indoor stage alongside Pulling Teeth, Machetazo, Cripple Bastards, Kylesa, Exhumed, Marduk, and the same night as Corrosion of Conformity and Neurosis. NAILS fly directly to Seattle the next day where they’re scheduled to rain some hell on Rain Fest alongside 7 Seconds, Cruel Hand, Madball, Trial, Weekend Nachos, labelmates Black Breath and tons more. Regional shows will litter the rest of June and July, and then at the end of July NAILS are back on the road on their co-headlining tour with Ringworm!

NAILS Live Actions:

5/27/2011 Sonar – Baltimore, MD @ Maryland Deathfest
5/28/2011 Neumo’s – Seattle, WA @ Rain Fest
6/01/2011 The Blvd – Boyle Heights, CA w/ Weekend Nachos, The Afternoon Gentlemen, Cyborg, ACxDC, Disapproval
6/03/2011 Cobalt Cafe – Canoga Park, CA w/ Cruel Hand, The Carrier, Former Thieves, The Greenery, Habours, Capsize

Death Comes Ripping Tour:
RINGWORM & NAILS w/ Bitter End, New Lows

7/30/2011 924 Gilman – San Francisco, CA
7/31/2011 Chain Reaction – Anaheim, CA
8/01/2011 Nile Underground – Mesa, AZ
8/02/2011 Trainyard – La Cruces, NM
8/03/2011 Red 7 – Austin, TX
8/04/2011 Trees – Dallas, TX
8/05/2011 Downtown Music – Little Rock, AR
8/06/2011 The Record Bar – Kansas City, MO
8/07/2011 Fubar Music Venue – St Louis, MO
8/08/2011 Subterranean – Chicago, IL
8/09/2011 Peabody’s – Cleveland, OH
8/10/2011 Bogies – Albany, NY
8/11/2011 Great Scott – Boston, MA
8/12/2011 *TBD – Philadelphia, PA

The trio are currently writing their follow-up to Unsilent Death for Southern Lord Recordings. Stay tuned for constant updates through the year on all things NAILS.

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WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM: New Full-Length Begins To Take Shape

Black metal cultivators WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM are currently fully immersed in the process of harvesting their next full-length album.

The new album, though still untitled, will be the third WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM full-length for Southern Lord Recordings. Aaron and Nathan Weaver, the founding and only full-time members of the band, will collaborate once again with producer/mystic Randall Dunn (Earth, Sunn O))), Boris) who produced WITTR’s mammoth Two Hunters and Black Cascade albums.

This week Aaron Weaver supplied some insight on the creation of the new album. “I got into a daily rhythm of greeting the weak winter sun in the morning, working outside in the rain until midday, then retiring to our studio to work on the music late into the night. I did this nearly every day for two months. Quite a monastic lifestyle actually. I didn’t see many people. We were totally lost inside the record. Once the record was conceived from beginning to end, we met with Randall and started to slowly build the tracks at his studio in Seattle. I think that this album will be the best thing that Wolves in the Throne Room has created. We’ve never been able to devote this much time to writing and recording. It feels like this will be the culmination of everything we’ve done up to this point.”

In addition to the Weaver brothers, the album will also feature vocal contributions from Jessika Kenny, who contributed so much to the transcendent tone of the band’s massive Two Hunters album.

More information on the album will be brought forth in the coming weeks, as the band complete the album and prepare for a surely busy year of WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM actions worldwide.

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ЗЕМЛЯ

American drone ensemble EARTH yesterday completed their five-week European tour with support from Sabbath Assembly, the successful venture coming to a smashing close in Brugge, Belgium.

EARTH are now headed back to Washington to rest up for a few weeks, and prepare for the next leg of their Angels Of Darkness, Demos Of Light 1 tour. Embarking in early June, EARTH will perform for twelve cities throughout the Midwest and Northeast U.S., bringing Ô Paon along for the ride.

The band will not sit around long after, as EARTH are currently plotting upcoming West Coast and Southeast U.S. tours for the Summer months, which will be announced in the coming weeks.

Other confirmed American festival appearances for EARTH in the months ahead include What The Heck? Fest, in their home state of Washington this July, joined by Liturgy, Mount Eerie, Ô Paon, Thrones and many more. EARTH are also confirmed to perform at Hopscotch Music Festival, in Raleigh, North Carolina alongside The Flaming Lips, Swans, Rhys Chatham and countless other acts. In October, EARTH will return to the East Coast where they’ve been invited to take part in I’ll Be Your Mirror, curated by Portishead & ATP America, appearing at the massive festival with Swans, Mogwai, Shellac and dozens more.

Midwest/East Coast American Tour:
6/08/2011 Mayne Stage – Chicago, IL w/ Ô Paon
6/09/2011 Mad Planet – Milwaukee, WI w/ Ô Paon
6/10/2011 Magic Stick – Detroit, MI w/ Ô Paon, Isosceles Mountain
6/11/2011 The Strutt – Kalamazoo, MI w/ Ô Paon
6/12/2011 Grog Shop – Cleveland, OH w/ Ô Paon
6/13/2011 Johnny Brenda’s – Philadelphia, PA w/ Ô Paon
6/14/2011 Wadsworth Atheneum – Hartford, CT w/ Ô Paon
6/15/2011 Middle East Downstairs – Boston, MA w/ Ô Paon
6/16/2011 Le Poisson Rouge – New York City, NY w/ Ô Paon
6/17/2011 Ottobar – Baltimore, MD w/ Ô Paon
6/18/2011 Braddock Carnegie Library – Braddock, PA w/ Ô Paon
6/19/2011 The Historic Southgate House – Newport, KY w/ Ô Paon 7/16/2011 What the Heck Fest – Anacortes, WA 9/09/11 Hopscotch Music Festival - Raleigh, NC 10/02/2011 I’ll Be Your Mirror, curated by Portishead & ATP – Asbury Park, NJ

Stay tuned for more interview opportunities with the members of EARTH in the coming weeks, and for more tour dates to be announced as well. Reviews copies of Angels Of Darkness, Demos Of Light 1 are also still available.

“The combination of revisiting the discordant drone of the early days with the dustbowl desolation of its current method is a winning formula…” – Relix Magazine

“…there’s a twang and smolder to its sound, whammy bars smear honeyed licks into gold-leaf lattices, and the moniker has taken on a rootsy ring.” – Filter Magazine

“…the intricacies of this Earth… demand attention and immersion. That is, check in, not out, and you’ll rarely hear four players with as much quiet command.” – Pitchfork

“…Earth’s newest album manages to redefine American roots music, their impressionistic colossus a potential crossover for fans of antiquated country, folk and blues music. 10/10″ – No Ripcord

“…unlike most heavy-music acts it changed over time as human beings actually do. Its music became lighter and clearer and wiser; it started having more to do with Indian music and La Monte Young and Miles Davis’s ‘In a Silent Way.’” – The New York Times

“As Earth developed its heavy instrumental vision in the past six years, subtle deviation has been crucial to the band’s renewal. Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1 is the latest installment in that trajectory, adding a cello, desert blues and British folk-rock motifs to Earth’s slow-moving Americana.” – NPR

“…for those who can surrender to the serene and gradually unfolding sound, this hour-long listen is simply copasetic. 9/10″ – The Montreal Mirror ‘album of the week’

“…Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1 invites its listeners into that silent continuum that makes music whole. 4/5″ – Tiny Mix Tapes

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NAILS Announce Co-Headlining Summer Tour With Ringworm

Ravenous California hardcore trio NAILS have just confirmed a co-headlining tour with Cleveland’s infamous Ringworm!

This crushing co-headlining venture — dubbed the Death Comes Ripping Tour 2011 — will ruin fourteen cities in a cross-country rampage in July and August. In addition to NAILS and Ringworm, Bitter End and New Lows will also join the brutal mob, making it contender for hardcore tour of the Summer.

The tour news comes in addition to NAILS‘ previously-announced upcoming appearances at Maryland Deathfest as well as Rain Fest in Seattle this month, and won’t be the last, as more live actions are currently in the planning stages.

NAILS Live Actions:
5/27/2011 Sonar – Baltimore, MD @ Maryland Deathfest
5/29/2011 Neumo’s – Seattle, WA @ Rain Fest
6/03/2011 Cobalt Cafe – Canoga Park, CA w/ Cruel Hand, The Carrier, Former Thieves, The Greenery

Death Comes Ripping Tour 2011
RINGWORM & NAILS w/ Bitter End, New Lows
7/30/2011 924 Gilman – San Francisco, CA
7/31/2011 Chain Reaction – Anaheim, CA
8/01/2011 Nile Underground – Mesa, AZ
8/02/2011 Trainyard – La Cruces, NM
8/03/2011 Red 7 – Austin, TX
8/04/2011 Trees – Dallas, TX
8/05/2011 Downtown Music – Little Rock, AR
8/06/2011 The Record Bar – Kansas City, MO
8/07/2011 Fubar Music Venue – St Louis, MO
8/08/2011 Subterranean – Chicago, IL
8/09/2011 Peabody’s – Cleveland, OH
8/10/2011 Bogies – Albany, NY
8/11/2011 Great Scott – Boston, MA
8/12/2011 *TBD – Philadelphia, PA

NAILS are currently constructing their new album, their second for Southern Lord Recordings. Stay tuned for more updates on all fronts.

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06.07.11

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