Warcry

Off of Author & Punisher's 2007 EP "WARCRY"

Horns

Author & Punisher cover of Godflesh's BODY DOME LIGHT off of the SELFLESS album, featuring on  "Fathers Of Our Flesh - Tribute To Godflesh", Fobofile Productions , 2014‎.

Body Dome Light (GODFLESH Cover)

Track 6 off of Author & Punisher's 2015 release "MELK EN HONING" out on Philip H Anselmo's Housecore Records.  Produced by Philip H Anselmo, Tristan Shone, co produced by Michael Thompson, engineered by Stephen "The Big Fella" Berrigan and Michael Thompson.

AUTHOR   PUNISHER - CALLOUS AND HOOF

Author & Punisher's 2015 release "MELK EN HONING" out on Philip H Anselmo's Housecore Records. Produced by Philip H Anselmo, Tristan Shone, co produced by Michael Thompson, engineered by Stephen "The Big Fella" Berrigan and Michael Thompson. Artwork by Russell MacEwan (Force Majeure Art).

07 - AUTHOR   PUNISHER - TEETHING

06 - AUTHOR   PUNISHER - CALLOUS AND HOOF

05 - AUTHOR   PUNISHER - DISPARATE

Author & Punisher's 2015 release "MELK EN HONING" out on Philip H Anselmo's Housecore Records. Produced by Philip H Anselmo, Tristan Shone, co produced by Michael Thompson, engineered by Stephen "The Big Fella" Berrigan and Michael Thompson.  Artwork by Russell MacEwan (Force Majeure Art).

04 - AUTHOR   PUNISHER - FUTURE MAN

03 - AUTHOR   PUNISHER - SHAME

02 - AUTHOR   PUNISHER - CAUTERIZE

01 - AUTHOR   PUNISHER - THE BARGE

08 - AUTHOR   PUNISHER - VOID, NULL, ALIVE

All songs written and recorded by Tristan Shone in San Diego, CA. Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege. Album artwork by Russell MacEwan (Black Sun Art), logo design and layout assistance by Christina Liu, and vinyl layout by Orion Landau. Special thanks to Phil Sgrosso, Gary LoCurto and my best friend Marilia Maschion.

02 - AUTHOR & PUNISHER - PRESSURE LOVER

03 - AUTHOR & PUNISHER - NAZARENE

Pressure Mine

05 - AUTHOR & PUNISHER - BLACK WAND

04 - AUTHOR & PUNISHER - NEW WORLD

01 - AUTHOR & PUNISHER - ENTER THIS

First track off of Ursus Americanus, 2012, RAWT!

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Terrorbird

New track recorded in March, 2012 as part of a video documentary on Author & Punisher and the Dub Machines shot by Lenovo (using the Lenovo Ideapad Y580).  This particular track utilizes the Mute Mask that I recently fabricated (shown in the photo) and am composing with. There should be a new video and set of recordings out in early 2013 based around these masks.  This song has been provided courtesy of Lenovo, enjoy, cheers!

Author & Punisher - Magnetik

AUTHOR & PUNISHER, named, “one of the most prolific acts in aggressive music,” by Noisey, has just released his first album on Relapse Records entitled “Beastland”.  His newest and most intense album recalls Ministry, channeling Godflesh, traversing through dark, uncompromising, and often disturbing soundscapes, with occasional detours into rich melodies and splinters of light. After leaving a career as mechanical engineer in Boston to focus on art and sculpture, Tristan Shone, the creator and sole artist behind AUTHOR & PUNISHER, moved west to pursue his MFA in Southern California. In the metal and machine shops of University of California, San Diego, Shone forged a relationship with design, sound and fabrication that ultimately yielded AUTHOR & PUNISHER‘s first music and mapped the journey away from traditional instrumentation towards custom made, precision machinery. Shone used his technical knowledge, along with his artistic background to create what Wired Magazine has hailed as his own “special brand of doom metal.” All aspects of the AUTHOR & PUNISHER sound begin with physical movement, limbs struggling in unison to coordinate a wall of electronic rhythm and oscillation, ultimately conditioned by an organic and loose quality absent of sequencing and plastic perfection. AUTHOR & PUNISHER performances are a real amalgamation between man and mechanisms. They are direct, physical, heavy experiences that have amassed praise and intrigue from a wide array of audiences. Pitchfork styled him “immediate but mysterious,” Stereogum described his “chilling, unrecognizable form,” and NPR hails him as “a thrill [who] fires on all cylinders.”
“ In the contiguous realms of metal nerds and gear nerds, Shone possesses semimythical status. He performs within a semicircle of frightening homemade machines that seem at once futuristic and medieval.“ – The New Yorker (2016).

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