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0 Atmospheric Visual Prog LAKEMAN Share Video “Powers Creek”; New EP “Progenitor” Out Now!
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NEWS RELEASE
Montreal, QC – February 18, 2020
For fans of Russian Circles, Mogwai, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, And So I Watch You from Afar
Atmospheric Visual Prog LAKEMAN Share Video “Powers Creek”
New EP “Progenitor” Out Now!
Visual instrumental prog band LAKEMAN is sharing with fans their music video ‘Power Creeks’ in support of their EP “Progenitor” released this past November.
The track is based on a local myth from the Okanagan Valley where the band is based in British Columbia. As the story goes, an apparition of a middle-aged man who seems to be searching for something or someone has been seen throughout the Powers Creek area. Rumours have circulated that it is the ghost of a local man who died in the area searching for his still-missing daughter. Others believe this is the ghost of William Russell Spears, a fugitive who gunned down an RCMP officer and then hid in the area during a manhunt during 1965. William Russel Spears turned the gun on himself before he was apprehended by authorities.
The cinematic tale can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/jxOKRGtdT94
“Progenitor” is the second audio-visual release from LAKEMAN. Most of the EP was recorded live off the floor by Kaylub Burke at the Center for Arts and Technology with mixing and mastering by Andy Ashley. Visual elements for the EP were filmed and edited by Jonathan Robinson, and lighting was operated by Joshua Goodwin.
Robert McLaren explains further:
“We all seem drawn to lo-fi expression for this project. I personally love to capture moments rather than reproduce them. 90% of “Progenitor” is live off the floor, recorded as a band playing together in a room. I would not suggest this for most bands, it is a waiting game to find the take that everyone played their best and usually, time is not a luxury when you are in a studio. However, you have to learn to love your blemishes and flaws as a band when you record this way. It is a form of radical self-acceptance. I like to also add that we have 20 more minutes of recorded music in production to release after “Progenitor”.
“Progenitor” is available for stream and download via Bandcamp.
CD and vinyl versions that feature individual one of a kind acrylic pour artwork are sold out.
(Watch the EP art creation video here.)
LAKEMAN has a devoted cult-like following throughout the Okanagan Valley and British Columbia. The band’s long-form instrumental and genre-bending approach beckons audiences of various musical forms. They revel in the band’s ability to exchange instruments everything from drums to guitars, bass, keyboards, synthesizers and lately even the fiddle and banjo. All this happens on stage while the music continues seamlessly through ambient soundscapes.
The overall theme of the band is a sonic meditation of the veiled and macabre history of the Okanagan valley. The group finds their sound in a deeply collaborative approach, very little composition is done apart, and there is no “songwriter”. The band starts the compositions by first improvising together, the feel of each improvisation can be vastly different based on who is playing which instrument. As mentioned earlier the band does not have assigned instrument roles as most other bands traditionally do. You can find any one of the members doing anything from turning knobs on a synthesizer to singing into a violin before they started bowing it. After finding the improvisation the band likes, they then begin the long process of composing around this initial improvisation. Once a LAKEMAN piece of music starts to take form the band will start considering a local myth or legend to devote the theme to, this deepens the band’s thematic composition. This is when the piece will usually take its final or close to its final form.
Track Listing:
1. Powers Creek (8:08)
2. 25,000 + Hectares (7:12)
3. Pandosy (10:38)
EP Length: 25:59
Band Line Up:
Josh Bissonette: guitar, bass, keys/synth, drums
Josh Pym: guitar, bass, keys/synth, vocals
Warryn Berry: guitar, keys/synth, drums
Robert McLaren: guitar, bass, keys/synths, drums, vocals, fiddle, banjo
For more info:
Facebook.com/lakemanband
Instagram.com/lakemanband
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“Experimenting with unique atmospherics, delving deep into concepts that feature tidbits of Okanagan history and relying heavily on intuition, LAKEMAN goes beyond catchy riffs and infectious hooks to create living and breathing art that resonates.” – Kelowna Now
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0 EPK – Asbestos Worker – Dead End Town (2020) (No List Records)
Asbestos Worker – Dead End Town (2020) (No List Records)
For fans of Hawks, Killdozer, Janitor Joe, Pissed Jeans, Shallow North Dakota
Publicist – Jon Asher – asher[@]ashermediareltaions[.]com
Album Title: Dead End Town
Release Date: January 23, 2020
Label: No List Records
Distribution: Distrokid
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Photo of Josh Stever taken by Josh Stever – Bass, Guitar, Drums and Vocals
Asbestos Worker is Josh Stever. Josh Stever is an asbestos worker. Josh Stever is on guitar, Josh Stever is on bass, Josh Stever is on drums, Josh Stever is on vocals. Josh Stever aka Asbestos Worker keeps his hits coming with the release of his first full length “Dead End Town” via No List Records.
With very little time out of his personal life and career, Asbestos Worker is a solo project created out of necessity. It’s aggressive unrelenting rock that was first debut in March 2019 with the EP “My New Vision – A manifesto on how to forcibly seize power and eradicate sadness across the globe”. Not wasting any time, in just under a year, his latest release, the full length “Dead End Town” was unleashed to kick off 2020. Asbestos Worker’s goal is to create a loud, thought-provoking and relatable noise rock experience. With influences from grindcore as well as punk and thrash, the madness is 11 tracks of muscular hate rock for everyone sick of something, the perfect soundtrack for getting laid off from the steel mill.
Stever adds:
“Music has always been my therapist. So my songs have a never ending supply of things I have to get off my chest. Whether that be my own fears and insecurities and depression, or it could be the everyday irritations that we all face or the various social and political issues that might be pissing me off at the time. I guess you could say the world we live in is what inspires my lyrics and tunes. It’s also been a dream of mine to make a record since I was a kid and let’s face it, not many people ever realize their biggest dreams. And I was able to write the record all the music myself.”
When it comes time to doing live sets, the band consists of ⅔ of the band Tongue Party (Adam And Brandon Hile) on drums and guitar and Luke Gutting (former bassist for Tongue Party, current bassist for the band Cola Horse).
“Dead End Town” was released on January 23, 2020 and is available from No List Records.
Track by track explained by Asbestos Worker:
1. Over Analytical – This song was written at the end of one of the darkest times in my life. It was written on a night laying in bed unable to sleep because I was too busy thinking about the futility of life.
2. The Inconvenient Truth – The Inconvenient Truth is, in my opinion, that the majority of people have a lot to bitch about in this world. And those people are too lazy or lack the conviction to do anything about it.
3. Dead End Town – I live in east St. Paul, Minnesota. Which unfortunately is the greatest place in this state to live. In fact St. Paul sucks!
4. Defeatist – I wrote and dedicate this song to every nihilist troll who instead of doing anything useful with his life decides since there’s no point in this life he might as well make everyone else as miserable as possible.
5. Resting Bitch Face – I have one of those faces that if I’m not smiling I look like I want to murder someone. Even if I’m happy.
6. Thank You May I Have Another – Sometimes people stay in abusive relationships because they think they deserve it.
7. Burdened By Regrets – Also at the tail end of my darkest hour. I was as the title say Burdened By Regrets
8. Responsible Adult – I have 2 kids and know who I am and how the world perceived me. I really am amazed that I was allowed to have children.
9. Deadlock – I feel that at this point in history we as a species are deadlocked in a battle between ignorance and intelligence. All that’s at stake is our lives and our planet.
10. The Definition Of Asshole Is A Picture Of You – This one is dedicated to all the alt-right, neo-nazi assholes out there
11. Let’s Take This Outside – I work in construction and I was on a job last year where a guy who couldn’t punch his way out of a wet paper bag threatened to hit me with a small broom. All because I walked through an area He didn’t want me to but had forgotten to put up a barricade.
Fun Facts:
1. Josh Stever came up with the Asbestos Worker name because of his job. He’s a mechanical insulator by trade and the union is the heat and frost insulators and asbestos workers. He was trying to come up with something dark and ominous but everything else he came up with seemed contrived and cheesy.
2. This record and the EP before it were written and recorded between January – July. of last year. While also trying to teach himself how to play drums and how to record. And most of it was recorded while his daughter’s were sleeping in the room right above him. He uses 15 and 20-watt amps.
3. The main guitar riff for “The Definition Of Asshole Is A Picture Of You “was written 24 years ago when he was still in high school. He’s never forgotten it, but never got a chance to use it.
“Asbestos Worker is a one person band from Minneapolis, Minnesota who formed in 2018, from the looks of things. Asbestos Worker play an ugly and negative sounding style of music that incorporates elements of punk, metal, grunge, and noise rock within their sound. Musically, Asbestos Worker can be loosely compared to bands such as Flipper, Cuttthroats 9, Unsane, Melvins, and other like-minded bands. Since forming in 2018, Asbestos Worker has released a six song EP titled My New Vision-A Manifesto On How To Forcibly Seize Power And Eradicate Sadness Across The Globe in March of 2019. Dead End Town is Asbestos Worker’s latest LP, which was released on January 23rd, 2020. On Dead End Town, Asbestos Worker offers up eleven tracks of killer punk, metal, grunge, and noise rock. Overall, Dead End Town makes for an awesome listen and definitely should not be missed. Highly recommended! Enjoy!” – Dead Air At The Pulpit
“Asbestos Worker has returned with “Dead End Town”, 11 tracks of muscular hate rock for everyone sick of something. Driving like a jackhammer into your fucking teeth, tracks like “Deadlock” are as precise as Tar and hit like a bag of concrete dropped on your skull. The perfect soundtrack for getting laid off at the steel factory.” – Aaron Marko
“Asbestos Worker is a one person band from Minneapolis, Minnesota who formed in 2018, from the looks of things. Asbestos Worker play an ugly and negative sounding style of music that incorporates elements of punk, metal, grunge, and noise rock within their sound. Musically, Asbestos Worker can be loosely compared to bands such as Flipper, Cuttthroats 9, Unsane, Melvins, and other like-minded bands. My New Vision-A Manifesto On How To Forcibly Seize Power And Eradicate Sadness Across The Globe is Asbestos Worker’s debut EP, which was released on March 24th, 2019. On My New Vision-A Manifesto On How To Forcibly Seize Power And Eradicate Sadness Across The Globe, Asbestos Worker offer up six tracks of killer punk, metal, grunge, and noise rock. Overall, My New Vision-A Manifesto On How To Forcibly Seize Power And Eradicate Sadness Across The Globe makes for an awesome listen and definitely should not be missed. Highly recommended! Enjoy!” – Dead Air At The Pulpit (Review of 2019 debut EP)
Album Title: Dead End Town
Release Date: January 23, 2020
Label: No List Records
Distribution: Distrokid
Track Listing:
1. Over Analytical (1:26)
2. The Inconvenient Truth (2:49)
3. Dead End Town (2:24)
4. Defeatist (3:25)
5. Responsible Adult (3:10)
6. Thank You May I Have Another (3:05)
7. Burdened By Regrets (2:25)
8. Resting Bitch Face (1:59)
9. Deadlock (3:20)
10. The Definition Of Asshole Is A Picture Of You (4:15)
11. Let’s Take This Outside (2:22)
Album Length: 30:45
Album Credits:
• All songs performed by: Josh Stever
• All songs written by: Josh Stever
• Produced by: Josh Stever
• Mixed by: Adam Tucker of Signaturetone Recording
• Mastered by: Adam Tucker of Sigaturetone Recording
• Album Artwork by: Artwork made and hand screen printed by Adam Hile
Asbestos Worker Recording Line Up:
Josh Stever on guitar
Josh Stever on bass
Josh Stever on drums
Josh Stever on vocals
Live Band Line Up:
Josh Stever – Guitar and Vocals
Adam Hile – Guitar
Brandon Hile – Drums
Luke Gutting – Bass
Discography:
2020 – Dead End Town
2019 – My New Vision-A manifesto on how to forcibly seize power and eradicate sadness across the globe
0 EPK – Lakeman – Progenitor (2020) (EP)
Lakeman – Progenitor (2020) (EP)
For fans of Russian Circles, Mogwai, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, And So I Watch You from Afar
Publicist – Jon Asher – asher[@]ashermediarelations[.]com
Album Title: Progenitor
Release Date: January 10, 2020
Label: Self-Release
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“Experimenting with unique atmospherics, delving deep into concepts that feature tidbits of Okanagan history and relying heavily on intuition, LAKEMAN goes beyond catchy riffs and infectious hooks to create living and breathing art that resonates.” – Kelowna Now
Album Title: Progenitor
Release Date: January 10, 2020
Label: Self-Release
Track Listing:
1. Powers Creek (8:08)
2. 25,000 + Hectares (7:12)
3. Pandosy (10:38)
EP Length: 25:59
EP Credits
All song written and performed by: LAKEMAN
Produced by LAKEMAN
Mixed by Andy Ashley
Mastered by Andy Ashley
Album Artwork by Chelsea Terry
Warryn Berry and Robert McLaren Socan Members
Band Line up:
Josh Bissonette: guitar, bass, keys/synth, drums
Josh Pym: guitar, bass, keys/synth, vocals
Warryn Berry: guitar, keys/synth, drums
Robert McLaren: guitar, bass, keys/synths, drums, vocals, fiddle, banjo
Discography:
Self-Titled (formerly: N’ha-a-a-itk) (2016)
Progenitor (2020)
List of festivals:
2016 – Hi Society
2017 – Hi Society
2017 – Arts Raising
2017 – Artswells
2018 – Tune It Down Turn It Up
Lakeman has a devoted cult-like following throughout the Okanagan Valley and British Columbia. The band’s long-form instrumental and genre-bending approach beckons audiences of various musical forms. They revel in the band’s ability to exchange instruments everything from drums to guitars, bass, keyboards, synthesizers and lately even the fiddle and banjo. All this happens while the music continues seamlessly through ambient soundscapes.
The overall theme of the band is a sonic meditation of the veiled and macabre history of the Okanagan valley. The group finds their sound in a deeply collaborative approach, very little composition is done apart, and there is no “songwriter”. The band starts the compositions by first improvising together, the feel of each improvisation can be vastly different based on who is playing which instrument. As mentioned earlier the band does not have assigned instrument roles as most other bands traditionally do. You can find any one of the members doing anything from turning knobs on a synthesizer to singing into a violin before they started bowing it. After finding the improvisation the band likes, they then begin the long process of composing around this initial improvisation. Once a Lakeman piece of music starts to take form the band will start considering a local myth or legend to devote the theme to, this deepens the band’s thematic composition. This is when the piece will usually take its final or close to its final form.
In the fall of 2015 the band filmed their first and only song at the time, clocking in at over 35 minutes long, they named it “N’ha-a-itk”. It was filmed and edited by Chelsea Mcevoy. Audio engineering, mixing, and mastering of the song was recorded by Mike Pederson at the much-praised music city studio. The band wanted to name their first release after the mythical serpent creature of Lake Okanagan. Locals refer to the mysterious animal as the “ogopogo”, but the members of Lakeman wanted to honour its true name of the Sylix first nations people “N’ha-a-itk”. While no members of the Sylix people spoke out about the band using the traditional name some well-meaning community members claimed Lakeman was unjustly culturally appropriating the traditional name. After a long amount of consideration, the band dropped the name “N’ha-a-itk” and renamed the piece “Self-Titled”.
Sections of “Self-Titled” were featured by peach city radio, Kootenay Co-op Radio, and dozens of online blogs across the province. The band was quickly noticed by music festivals across the province and revered as a premier live performance. Word quickly spread and the band grew popular with regional music supporters.
Lakeman has graced stages around the province since 2015. The band has been a part of a wide variety of festival since that time: Turn it up/Tune it down(2018), Artsrising (2017), Artswells(2017), Hi-Society(2017 & 2016).
Lakeman’s 2nd audio-visual release “Progenitor” was released on November 29th, 2019. The EP’s title “Progenitor” suggests a theme of fatherhood. The first single is titled “Powers Creek” is based off a local legend of an apparition of a father who died trying to find his missing daughter in the Powers Creek area. “+25,000 Hectares” and is an auditory interpretation of the devastating fires that sweep through the Okanagan Valley on an annual basis. The final track is simply titled “Pandosy”, this track is a musical contemplation of a darker side of Kelowna’s founding father: Father Jean-Charles Pandosy.
During the writing and release of this “Progenitor” EP, 3 of the 4 members of Lakeman have become new fathers.
Robert McLaren states:
“In a time when masculinity is deeply culturally examined, we too find ourselves asking what kind of fathers will we be? As we examine the themes of the valley’s symbolic masculinity and paternity, we are able to question ourselves subjectively through the art we intuitively create.”
“Progenitor” was recorded/engineered by Kaylub Burke at the Center for Arts and Technology with mixing and mastering by Andy Ashley. Visual elements were filmed and edited by Jonathan Robinson, and lighting was operated by Joshua Goodwin.
The album art for this release is individual, one of a kind acrylic pours for both CDs and Vinyl.
Last year the band recorded what will most likely be the last of their pieces of work. No official date has been set for this last currently untitled release. The band does not wish to comment on the reasons for this end, but are forever grateful for the love and support of their friends, family, and fans.
0 Metal Temple – Hellevate – Krampusnacht “a great offering to the Heavy Metal community and one that HELLEVATE should be very proud of. There is clearly a vast amount of talent within the group that should see them continue to grow and hopefully build on the successes that they have had in the past.”
Metal Temple – Hellevate – Krampusnacht “a great offering to the Heavy Metal community and one that HELLEVATE should be very proud of. There is clearly a vast amount of talent within the group that should see them continue to grow and hopefully build on the successes that they have had in the past.” http://www.metal-temple.com/site/catalogues/entry/reviews/cd_3/h_2/hellevate.htm
0 Metal Temple – Krvsade – Judgement Day “Strewn between the avenues of Thrash and Death Metal, KRVSADE, does well to carve their own path in the niche compartmentalization of each and has a special place on my playlist for their eldritch track on seeking Yog-Sothoth, whose song title comes from the Lovecraft short story Through The Gates Of The Silver Key… cold, boisterous, and energetic each track serves as a prelude to a much more grand machination, and “Judgement Day” as a whole serves as proof of what’s to come.”
Metal Temple – Krvsade – Judgement Day “Strewn between the avenues of Thrash and Death Metal, KRVSADE, does well to carve their own path in the niche compartmentalization of each and has a special place on my playlist for their eldritch track on seeking Yog-Sothoth, whose song title comes from the Lovecraft short story Through The Gates Of The Silver Key… cold, boisterous, and energetic each track serves as a prelude to a much more grand machination, and “Judgement Day” as a whole serves as proof of what’s to come.” http://www.metal-temple.com/site/catalogues/entry/reviews/cd_3/k_2/krvsade-judgement-day.htm
0 Rockshots Records: Out Now! THE DESTROYING LASER – New Album “Oracle”
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NEWS RELEASE
Montreal, QC – February 14, 2020
For fans of Underoath, Millencolin, Senses Fail, Architects
Rockshots Records: Out Now! THE DESTROYING LASER – New Album “Oracle”
Italian post-hardcore band THE DESTROYING LASER have unleashed their debut album “Oracle”, now available as of February 14th via Rockshots Records.
With introspective, metaphorical and upside-down lyrics, the band investigates the shadows and lights of existence. Sharp and dark sounds alternate with tight riffs, resonant and ethereal guitars, open refrains. Power and romantic chords, always on the razor’s edge. All accompanied by dynamic and richly detailed drumming.
Singles/Videos available:
‘Another You’– https://youtu.be/-jFbOLqFYcY
‘Unbeatable’ (feat. Paolo Colavolpe from Destrage) – https://youtu.be/C4ljhYJXgUE
‘Dead Sailor’ – https://youtu.be/wy-sybnz7LQ
Stream/Download/CD available at https://smarturl.it/TDF_Oracle
Track Listing:
1. Encounters
2. Unbeatable
3. Hostile
4. Dead Sailor
5. Foxhole
6. Another You
7. Arcane Ashes
Artwork Giacomo Trivellini
Mixing & Mastering – Andrea Nfb Beninfanti
THE DESTROYING LASER:
Magno : drums
Kaioh : guitar /backing vocals
Elios : guitar /backing vocals
Thon : voice/bass/lasergun
For more info:
Rockshots.eu
Facebook.com/thedestroyinglaser
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