Hello and welcome to RJW Records, an independent record label specialising in electronic dance music and its surrounding genres. 

Being a producer of such music myself, I understand the difficulty and frustration you face whilst trying to get your music heard and would therefore like to offer as much help as I can to aspiring musicians.  

Demos & inquiries: rjwrecords@gmail.com (or dropbox).

Southern Stoner band from Milan, Italy. Lot of Groove and Heavy Riffs at your service.

HELL OBELISCO was born in the second half of 2015, with the intention of forming a well-defined musical entity, characterized by a heavy/sludge sound but, at the same time, by definite rhythmic dynamics. The engagement of Doc and Fraz (guitars) was the decisive step to start a shared path also in terms of attitude.
The evolution of HELL OBELISCO was mainly determined by the cohesion of the band and a refinement of sound and arrangements, made possible also by the addition of Fraz to the choirs. The band's style is the result of twenty-five years of activity in very different musical experiences, but it is mainly influenced by a cinematographic inspiration and by directors like John Carpenter and David Cronenberg, as well as the very first Steven Spielberg (Jaws) and Ridley Scott (Alien).
The debut of the HELL OBELISCO, Swamp Wizard Rises, is the natural development of a couple of songs composed for promotional purposes, which draw the attention of Argonauta Records, the most qualified label in this kind of sound. The recordings with Para at the Boat Studios and the mixing with Paso at Studio 73 highlighted the band's personality, taking advantage of modern technology and bringing out some particularly representative songs like Teenage Mammoth Club and Earth Rage Apocalypse.
The Swamp Wizard Rises features vocalist Tony J.J. (Transport League and B-Thong) and Carmelo Orlando (Novembre). Considering that every member of HELL OBELISCO is a fan of these artists, their collaboration respectively with the songs Voodoo Alligator Blood and Biting Killing Machine was not only a matter of prestige, but a quality improvement of the album in a general sense.
The reference point of HELL OBELISCO for the cover and the artwork of Swamp Wizard Rises has always been the illustrator Roberto Toderico, a fantastic artist who was able to capture the band's imagination and develop it in the most complete way. Despite a great variety of settings and scenarios, including ancestral rites practiced in the swamps, violent robberies and mother earth rebelling against man's greed, the central figure of the concept is a sorcerer who identifies the darkness of the human being and the world around him.
The release of Swamp Wizard Rises represents for HELL OBELISCO the achievement of a great goal in terms of creativity and receptivity from the widest possible audience. The intention of the band is promoting their hard work playing live in Italy and abroad, as this is the ambience from which the disruptive energy and the entertainment skills of HELL OBELISCO emerge in the most genuine way.

LINE-UP
Doc - six sludge strings
Alex - behin the skins
Andrew - front row mammoth
Fraz - seven doomed and lowered strings

DISCOGRAPHY
Swamp Wizard Rises LP (2018, Argonauta Records)

Written by Emanuele Biani

Three dancing eyes chasing the night idol, a sound bending at the magical sphinxes of times ready to explode in millions of vivid and dying butterflies. A needles storm enveloping more distant minds’ sleep to fecundate the first handmaid’s ancient womb. A psychic and interrupted rock, a multitude of words weaved together with a string made of stones and
gems. Three eyes left is the dance before the word and the word before the colour, and now waits for the harvest refulgence to gather and offer the livid germ of its roots.
Dance incestuous sons! At the sickle light, find the chosen ones, show them what they will receive in gift.
A mass of mothers and sisters, of eyes consecrated to the black light of the oblivion, an ethereal mastodons and solar flares’ Danse Macabre.
A music box made of tendon and blood from which rolls itself the inception silence, the virgin the offers herself for another smile, the planet that fears a light that isn’t its own.
From the Stones’ Gardens up to the never born dreams, through the Third Stone, to the solitude of mud beyond the discriminating mind’s hell, Three eyes left is sludge and psych, now more than ever.





Feel free to contact us via e-mail: StalePunchOfficial@gmail.com

THE LATERS è un progetto musicale nato dall’idea di formare una band che si avventuri in un mondo musicale poco esplorato,  quello del rock più recente / contemporaneo nelle sue varie declinazioni: pop-indie-postpunk-grunge… con qualche nostalgica deroga agli ’80. 
Da quarantenni, ripensando a quali fossero le hit con cui si faceva l’alba a ballare nei locali 20 anni fa, è nato un repertorio potente e divertente, con brani che raramente si ascoltano live. Non saranno pietre miliari della storia del rock, ma di sicuro arriveranno alla pancia del pubblico strappando un sorriso e suscitando un ricordo
….e non si potrà  star seduti ad ascoltare!
Alcuni esempi? Garbage, Cardigans, Breeders, Elastica, Alanis Morrisette, Boss Hog…
E poi ci sono i pezzi che oggi passano per radio e ci fanno pensare che per fortuna ci siano ancora cose interessanti in giro:  Florence and the machine, Yeah Yeah Yeah’s, Metric….
Un set di grande impatto energetico, un repertorio speciale pur nella fedeltà agli arrangiamenti originali!

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