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Greber – Cemetery Preston (2018)

For fans of Unearthly Trance,Man Is The Bastard, Black Sheep Wall, Lightning Bolt, Cult Leader

Release Date: February 2, 2018

Labels:

CD = Pink Lemonade Records

Cassette = Hibernation Release

Vinyl = Ancient Temple Recordings, D7i Records, No Why Records

Publicist – Jon Asher – ashermedia(@)gmail.com

Booking – Marc Bourgon – notsterile[@]gmail.com

Bandcamp | Big Cartel | Facebook | Instagram | Soundcloud

Band Photo | Album Cover | Album Lyrics

Tour Dates:

February 1, 2018 – Ottawa, ON @ Pressed – info
February 2, 2018 – Montreal, QC @ Atomic Cafe – info
February 3, 2018 – Quebec City, QC @ Scanner – info
February 6, 2018 – Fredericton, NB @ Manic Mansion – info

February 7, 2018 – Saint John, NB @ Second Spin – info
February 8, 2018 – Moncton, NB @ Plan B – info
February 9, 2018 – Halifax, NS @ Gus’s Pub – info
February 10, 2018 – Sherbrooke, QC @ Le Murdoch – info
February 23, 2018 – Toronto, ON @ Coalition – info
February 24, 2018 – Cambridge, ON @ Scout Hut – info

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Canadian College Radio Loud Charts
Highlight – #7 on The National Loud Chart – For the Week Ending: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 (Earshot)

Highlight – #5 on The National Loud Chart – For the Week Ending: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 (Earshot)

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“Greber offer up their latest slab of crushing sludge- and doom-laden grind with their new album, Cemetery Preston. The duo consist of bassist/vocalist Marc Bourgon (ex-Fuck the Facts) and drummer/vocalist Steve Vargas (The Great Sabatini), who create an exceptionally raw and visceral sound with their unique approach.” – Exclaim!

““Obliterating” is the word that comes to mind first in reflecting on this massive marauder. The vocals are raw and unhinged; the bass riffs are hard and heavy enough to reduce tall building to tiny piles of smoking gravel; and the tumbling, battering, bone-smashing qualitis of the changing drum rhythms are seriously attention-grabbing. There’s doom and blood-thirsty violence and a healthy dose of head-nodding compulsiveness in this genre-bending song, and I’m now slobbering to hear more from Greber.” – No Clean Singing

“Greber’s pursuit of intricate heavy music pays off immensely. “Cemetery Preston” will be one of the most unique and layered experiences of this year.” – The Sludgelord

““Backhanded Interest” for your aural perusal. It’s a no-face-unpunched collision of pressure cooked lactic acid low end tone and pounding at the inside of the coffin lid drumming with just enough feedback/noise to break up the gang hanging out in the doughnut shop parking lot.” – Decibel Magazine

“Greber lay down sludgey power violence, noise rock, and doom with authority here on their third full-length. And it’s no surprise this band delivers unique, passionate extremity.” – Bravewords

“Greber has certainly created their own sound with Cemetery Preston. A medley of differing metal styles delivered in bitter fashion. The duo bring an level of intensity that walks a tight line between sludgy riffs, grinding drum beats & wild hardcore style vocals.” – Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life

“Greber have released one hell of a record in the form of Cemetery Preston” – Sputnik Music

“They tick all the required boxes and right from the offset of opener ‘Backhanded Interest’ they go for the knock-out punch. A fist in your face. This unrelenting violence continues for the entire duration of the album, nowhere do they give the listener a chance to breathe. After the last tones of ‘The Closer We Got’ you’ll have been beaten into a pulp.” – Lords of Metal

“On Cemetery Preston, Greber have produced some of the heaviest, super-massive black hole music, this side of Unearthly Trance.” – Hellbound

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Release Date: February 2, 2018
Labels:

Ancient Temple Recordings for release Vinyl
Hibernation for release on Cassette
Pink Lemonade Records for release on CD

Track Listing:

1. Backhanded Interest (3:44)

2. The Wreckers (4:01)

3. Prophetic (3:03)

4. By Any Other Name (4:06)

5. Overdraft (2:38)

6. Our Burnt Treasure (3:12)

7. Grave Plot (3:15)

8. No One But You (3:07)

9. The Closer We Got (8:16)

Album Length: 35:27

Album Credits:
• All songs performed by: Greber
• All songs written by: Marc Bourgon, Steve Vargas
• Drums Recorded by: Sean Pearson at Boxcar Studios in Hamilton, ON. Everything else recorded by Marc Bourgon at MO/EX Audio in Cambridge, ON
• Mixed by: Scott Miller at Ancient Temple Recordings in Quispamsis, NB
• Mastered by: Brad Boatright at Audiosiege in Portland, OR
• Album Artwork by: Yanni Panos
• Album Band Line Up:
Steve Vargas (drums, vocals)
Marc Bourgon (bass, vocals)
Skull Servant (Noise).

Live Band Line Up:
Steve Vargas (drums, vocals)
Marc Bourgon (bass, vocals)

Discography:
2018 – Cemetery Preston – LP
2016 – Split with Anthesis – EP
2014 – Kiln Hardened Psalms – LP
2013 – Split with Hiroshima Vacation – EP
2012 – Split with Proletar – EP
2010 – Hometown Heroin – LP

Shared The Stage With:
Yautja, Wake, The Great Sabatini, Alaskan, Homewrecker

Highlights:
December 2014 – Kiln Hardened Psalms – LP – #19 on Top 20 Loud Charts – Canadian College Radio – (Earshot)

Endorsements:
Steve Vargas (drums, vocals) endorsed by Los Cabos Drumsticks.

L to R – Marc Bourgon – Bass, Vocals, Steve Vargas – Drums, Vocals

Photos by Austin Gibson www.austingibsonphotography.com

Henry Miller wrote one of the great truths of life when he said “All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.”

Such a quote could describe bass-and-drums duo Greber, save that with past and present members of Fuck the Facts and The Great Sabatini, they have a great wealth of experience to bring to the table.Inspired by the truly great bands like Neurosis and Propaghandi, but inspired not to slavishly imitate what they have already created, but to forge their own sound, to blaze new trails. To look out at the world that surrounds us and reflect what they see truthfully; as though holding up a mirror to the darkness in the hope of reflecting a glimmer of light.

They truly have gazed into the abyss and put to music what they see there; their music has huge depths and they have none of the limitations that plague so many bands. They truly are their own beast and they truly have their own sound.

Since forming in 2008, Greber have released two well-received full length albums, three 7″ inch split singles, and played countless shows. As if they were morphing into a single entity, Drummer Steve Vargas and bassist/vocalist Marc Bourgon have made Greber into their own unique entity, something as important to the duo as food and air.

On February 2, 2018, Greber will release their new album ‘Cemetery Preston’, through a collaboration between Ancient Temple Recordings, Pink Lemonade Recordings, Hibernation Release, No Why Records and d7i Records, on LP, CD, cassette and digital download. Audience’s jaws will drop at the raw mining of emotions it contains, its searing sincerity, and sheer innovation. As Marc explains. “Cemetery Preston is our best attempt at taking a fleeting snapshot of this living purgatory that we all call life.”

(bio written by Steve Earles)

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