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0 All About The Rock- Howling Giant – Black Hole Space Wizard Part 1

Running at just over 21 minutes & combing the ethereal grunge vocal ofSoundgarden, the doom of early Mastadon & the conceptual imagery of Arjen Lucassan. Howling Giant have produced an E.P that is as fucked up as this three-way sounds. Tim Polzine (guitar & vocals), Roger Warks (bass & vocals) & Zach Wheeler (drums & vocals) are great musicians, with an understanding of being as tight as a submarines doors as well as giving each other enough room to breath.

http://allabouttherock.co.uk/howling-giant-black-hole-space-wizard-part-1/

0 Tickets On Sale Now! Edmonton’s Doom & Black Metal Festival ‘Black Mourning Light’; 2016 Line-Up w/ UADA, Panzerfaust, Erimha, Helleborus and more!

August 16, 2016
by Asher
· Black Mourning Light Metal Fest · Music News

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NEWS RELEASE

Montreal, QC – August 16, 2016

Official Website | Facebook | Twitter | Youtube

Tickets On Sale Now! Edmonton’s Doom & Black Metal Festival ‘Black Mourning Light’

2016 Line-Up w/ UADA, Panzerfaust, Erimha, Helleborus and more!

Festival Poster

2016 Edition
October 21, 22, 23 2016
Rendezvous Pub, Edmonton

Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/293606467646555/

Tickets are now on sale for Edmonton, AB based Black Mourning Light Metal Festival, a celebration of black, doom, and dark death metal presented by Crown of Visery’s from October 21st to 23rd.

Ticket prices are as follows:
Friday, Oct 21st = $25
Saturday, Oct 22nd = $35
Friday Oct 21st + Saturday, Oct 22nd = $50
VIP = Friday Oct 21st, Saturday Oct 22nd, Sunday, Oct 23rd Mourning After Breakfast w/ bands = $60

Tickets are available online through Crown of Viserys (http://crownofviserys.bigcartel.com/product/black-mourning-light-metal-festival-tickets), YEGLive.ca (service fees apply), Annihilatrix Productions in Calgary, AB and Desecrate Promotions in Regina, SK.

Friday, October 21 will be headlined by Toronto’s Panzerfaust, alongside Montreal’s Erimha, and Edmonton’s Idolatry. Display of Decay (Edmonton), the night’s only death metal band, Calgary’s Vile Insignia and Hive will set the tone. Idolatry and Vile Insignia are the only returning bands from Black Mourning Light 2015.

Saturday, October 22 will see Portland, Oregon’s UADA headline with support from Manitou Spring, Colorado’s Helleborus and Vancouver’s Wormwitch, Norilsk (Gatineau, QC), Cell (Winnipeg), Holocaust Lord (Victoria), Nachtterror (Regina), Dethgod (Calgary), Ye Goat-Herd Gods (Calgary) and Hunted By Ravens (Red Deer) will bring a mix of black, death, and doom to set that night’s tone.

Sunday morning, October 23 will not feature bands performing, but rather bands eating. Sunday will be reserved for The Mourning After, the VIP exclusive breakfast with all the bands.

Line-Up:

Friday, October 21, 2016

Panzerfaust (Toronto, ON) – 12AM

Erimha (Montreal. QC) – 11PM

Idolatry (Edmonton, AB) – 10PM

Display of Decay (Edmonton, AB) – 9PM

Vile Insignia (Calgary, AB) – 8PM

Hive (Calgary, AB) – 7PM

Saturday, October 22, 2016

UADA (Portland, OR) – 12AM

Helleborus (Manitou Springs, CO) – 11PM

Wormwitch (Vancouver, BC) – 10PM

Norilsk (Gatineau, QC) – 9PM

Cell (Winnipeg, MB) – 8PM

Holocaust Lord (Victoria, BC) – 7PM

Nachtterror (Regina, SK) – 6PM

Dethgod (Calgary, AB) – 5PM

Ye Goat-Herd Gods (Calgary, AB) – 4PM

Hunted By Ravens (Red Deer, AB) – 3PM

Black Mourning Light is still taking submissions from filmmakers to showcase their work (preferably dark/ horror) at this year’s event. The films will be viewed at The Rendezvous equipped with televisions to showcase films via DVD. Most films will be shown during band performances.

Filmmakers interested in having their work shown at Black Mourning Light 2016, can use the following Filmmaker’s Application, located here.
Watch the video trailer with clips from BML 2015: https://youtu.be/1tUj9PW-zOQ

black mourning light 2016 trailer

About BML:

Black Mourning Light Metal Festival is the black metal and doom festival founded by Dustin Ekman of Crown of Viserys. Created to fill a void in Edmonton’s black and doom scene.

After a successful debut during Halloween 2015, Black Mourning Light Festival returns for a 2016 edition set from October 21st-23rd. The onslaught will be held at the Rendezvous Pub with a lineup of bands from across Western Canada all in the vein of black and doom metal along with select death styles. Last year’s line up included 11 bands from three provinces such as headliner Idolatry (Edmonton), Altars of Grief (Regina), Noire (Winnipeg), Ossific (Winnipeg), Vile Insignia (Calgary) and more.

Those that attended the 2015 inaugural ritual will not be disappointed by 2016, as they can expect a different while similar experience to that event. Due to the proximity of Samhain, costume prizes will still be awarded to those who wish to dress up early and celebrate the season.

For more info, please visit https://blackmourninglight.wordpress.com.

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0 WeLoveMetal – Getting to know Vow of Thorns

https://www.welovemetal.com/newsite/wordpress/2016/08/16/vow-of-thorns-interview/

0 Altered Frequencies – Howling Giant – Black Hole Space Wizard Part 1

The band sounds like a mad creature wailing away….perfect!…This is one of those albums that you need to put on, open the windows, and blow your neighbors away with the massive sounds on display. Grab a copy of this album now…..what are you waiting for?

https://alteredfrequencies.wordpress.com/2016/08/16/howling-giant-black-hole-space-wizard-part-1/

0 Wings of Death – Howling Giant – Black Hole Space Wizard Part 1

https://www.wingsofdeath.net/49101-Howling-Giant-Black-Hole-Space-Wizard-Part-1

0 Broken Neck Radio Interviews Armstrong MetalFest – AMF Co Organizer Mike Rogers

0 Zware Metalen – Howling Giant – Black Hole Space Wizard Part 1

http://www.zwaremetalen.com/recensie/34979/Howling-Giant-Black-Hole-Space-Wizard-Part-1.html

0 Dire Notes – Like Animals – Feral

http://www.direnotes.com/2016/08/review-like-animals-feral-ep.html

0 Strathmore Standard – Dead Ranch set to rock Siksika

http://virtual.strathmorestandard.com/doc/Strathmore-Standard/strathmore_standard-0803/2016080201/9.html#9

Aug 3 - Strathmore Standard - Dead Ranch

0 NEWS: Stereogum Premiere Full Stream of NO LIST RECORDS SPLIT: The Great Sabatini / Godstopper

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NEWS RELEASE

Montreal, QC – August 15, 2016

Split Promo Request here.

No List Records | EPK – Split: Great Sabatini / Godstopper

Stereogum Premiere Full Stream of NO LIST RECORDS SPLIT: The Great Sabatini / Godstopper

Split: The Great Sabatani / Godstopper Out August 19th

1. The Great Sabatini – I’m Not The Man Of The Hour (2:09)
2. The Great Sabatini – Shortwave Radio (1:03)
3. The Great Sabatini – The Ear Collector (2:31)
4. The Great Sabatini – Dog Years (Quiet) (2:51)
5. Godstopper – It’s Alright (3:59)

6. Godstopper – A Prayer (4:47)

Split Length: 17:23

NO LIST RECORDS is unleashing a split featuring six tracks, four from Montreal sludge metallers THE GREAT SABATINI and two from Toronto noise rockers GODSTOPPER. The split is slated for release on August 19th, but before its official release, NO LIST RECORDS has teamed up with Stereogum for the full stream premiere at the following link: http://www.stereogum.com/1893915/stream-the-great-sabatinigodstopper-split/franchises/premiere/

The split will will be available digitally plus on cassette at the following link: http://store.nolistrecords.com.

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About: Great Sabatini

No List Records | Solar Flare Records

Thegreatsabatini.com | Facebook | Twittter @thegreatsabatini

Youtube | Instagram @thegreatsabatini | Bandcamp | CD Baby

For fans of Melvins, Today Is The Day, Neurosis, Helmet, Whores, Torche, Unsane, Keelhaul

“…hails from further out in left-field with more peaks and valleys than the heads-down-tits-up sludgy rock they fire at you from the stage…these dudes have a 90s alt-rock edge grinding against their love affair with riffs that crash bolts of lightning into stacks of Orange amps in delivering a rumbling calling card of hellacious noise.” – Decibel

“In 2012, the unpredictability and wickedness of Matterhorn and the gritty violence of the companion release The Royal We established the group as one to watch closely; Dog Years confirms that attention was well worth it.” – Exclaim

“The Great Sabatini are not just playing by-the-numbers sludge, but rather mixing things up, and transposing their punk attitude into new forms of musical expression beyond what you might be expecting.” – The Sleeping Shaman

L-R – Joey (bass. vocals), Steve (Drums, vocals), Sean (guitar, vocals), Rob (guitar, vocals) Photo Credit: Marc Bourgon

Since forming in Montreal in late 2007, The Great Sabatini have released four eps, three full length albums, and logged seemingly endless tour dates around North America and Europe. Their music is an aggressive mixture of noise rock, doom, hardcore, and metal wrapped up in a burly sludge aesthetic. They’ll fearlessly employ any musical device if it suits their needs, from standard pop song structures and hooks to utterly tuneless experimentation or any degree between the two. All four band members handle vocal duties. They play loud, and with conviction.

Their latest full length album “Dog Years” (2014) was the result of years of accumulated experience writing, performing and recording together. It was recorded in Hamilton by Sean Pearson (Cursed, Shallow North Dakota) and self-released by the band in Canada on digital and vinyl and released by Solar Flare Records on vinyl for Europe and USA.

Show Dates:
Aug 19 – Montreal, QC – Casa Del Popolo – info

Aug 20 – Sherbrooke, QC – Le Murdoch – info

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About: Godstopper

Bandcamp | Facebook

For fans of Melvins, Failure, YOB, Torche, Big Business

“There’s a lot of compositional bells and whistles on deck here, from a chugging chorus riff that feels like it’s perpetually interrupting itself to a left-turn Thin Lizzy guitar lick that King Buzzo would surely appreciate. But the part that’ll really suck you in is the sublime vocal harmonies that frontman Mike Simpson layers over the song like fishnet over a boulder.” – Stereogum

“Like the best records by Today Is the Day, Swans and Harvey Milk, all of which I hear in Godstopper’s jarring songwriting…We talk a lot about making extreme music as cathartic for the music maker, but what the listener? I feel no more relieved for having heard Empty Crawlspace. In fact it’s psychically draining. And totally addictive, too. I’m not going to be able to sleep for a week.” – Metalsucks

“Somewhere between the Thunder-Pop of sparkly heavy-hitters Torche, the aggressive sludge of fellow Floridians Cavity and the awkward stop-start dream-logic quasi-operatic noise rock of Pony Express Record-era Shudder To Think lie Toronto’s Godstopper…What Matters is a tough record to describe, in some ways, as any comparisons I care to make are merely rough approximations used in an attempt to point you, the potential listener, in a certain direction, as far as preparing you for what to expect. However, the truth of it is that Godstopper sound exactly like Godstopper, and, really, how many bands these days can truly lay claim to such a thing?” – Sleeping Shaman

Godstopper Promo 1

L-R – Mike Simpson- Guitar/ Vocals, Miranda Armstrong – Bass, Derek Del Vecchio – Guitar, Adam McGillivray- Drums

Godstopper was formed in 2010. Mike Simpson wrote, performed and recorded a demo, later released on cassette, called “Empty Crawlspace”. The band then became a performing unit in 2011, and has since toured the US and Canada, performing with acts such as Ehnahre, Tombs, and OXBOW.

Discography:

2015 – Lie Down

2014 – Children Are Our Future

2013 – split w/Tendril

2012 – What Matters

2011 – Empty Crawlspace (demo)

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