Prisoner

#PaganSongOfTheDay AUGUST '17

#PaganSongOfTheDay Fave 50 of 2017 #Playlist

Long Distance Is Always Such A Pain 
Missing You Every Single Day
Think About The Love That You Gave
Don't Worry We're Gonna Find A Way

Always Finding A Way

Someday We'll Be In Each Other's Arms
Hold You So Close Just To Keep You Warm 
Miss You Been Missing You So Much
Don't Worry We'll Always Have This Love 

Casino Hearts-Long Distance

Ex Head is released on Feb 26th on Leisure + District Records.

Digital and 7" from iTunes, Bandcamp and Spotify





Ex Head

Hang Me High

PRISONER emerged from the fertile Richmond underground in 2012 and has been dragging their feral, unforgiving roar across the East Coast and Midwest ever since. In 2014 FORCEFIELD RECORDS issued their debut EP offering FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER on cassette, a savage demonstration of deranged hardcore/metal that viciously declared their arrival to an unsuspecting world while simultaneously hinting on the insanity yet to come...now enter BEYOND THE INFINITE!
 
On PRISONER’S newest offering and vinyl debut, the band has laid waste to any and all preconceptions. Meticulously recorded by Ricky Olson (Unsacred, Unholy Thoughts, etc.) at The Ward in Richmond, VA and mastered by Brad Boatright (Nails, YOB, Poison Idea, etc.) at Audiosiege, PRISONER is poised to take on the world with their unique brand of noise damaged, nightmarish hardcore/metal. From the “arena crust” on acid vibe of burners like “Eternalist” and “Starve” to the oppressive, industrial inspired madness of behemoths like “Elapse” and “Abyss” this record is truly beholden to no weak genre construct. Blast beat ridden passages of tremolo picked terror give way to swathes of synth soaked post-metalish uproar. Unhinged, noisy d-beat raging crashes headfirst into the creeping slow grind of industrial treachery. This is BEYOND THE INFINITE, a harrowing soundtrack to survival pulled from the claustrophobic underbelly of society.

FORCEFIELD RECORDS will be releasing BEYOND THE INFINITE LP/digital in the spring of 2017. LP is limited to 500 copies.  The track listing and cover art are attached above.  Preorders and more information on the album will follow in the coming weeks.



Release Date:
April 4, 2017
 
Formats:
LP/Digital
 
Focus Tracks:
Disintegration of Time, Elapse, Beyond The Infinite, Tyrant
 
Profanities:
Disintegration of Time, Sycophant 
 
Recommended if you like:
His Hero is Gone, Converge, Godflesh, The Body, Cursed, Martyrdöd, Integrity

05 - PRISONER - EVENT HORIZON

04 - PRISONER - STARVE

03 - PRISONER - ETERNALIST

02 - PRISONER - SYCOPHANT

01 - PRISONER - DISINTEGRATION OF TIME

Marlon Williams — “Vampire Again” out now on Dead Oceans

Stream / Purchase “Vampire Again” — https://marlon-williams.lnk.to/vampireagain

Marlon Williams - Vampire Again

'Dear Jackie' by Gen Pop is taken from the band's debut 7" out on Upset The Rhythm this September 15th! This is also Upset The Rhythm's 100th release!

Available to pre-order now: http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

Four voices tousle loudly as they leave the soft realm of the body, venturing out into the world. Reproduction and traditional instruments (guitars, drums, samplers, digital, voices) allow the human generation to play right now. Playing is intersubjective, we appeal to consciousness. Here in the human era we dialog, reference, and reproduce with traditional reference and frustration. Kissing lightly decided harmonies, Gen Pop plays in the human generation and is from the human era. Playing used in its most remedial sense, an occasion to slap together a narrative and generate trust between each other. 

Gen Pop produced a small run of tapes featuring 3 tracks from their debut 7” on Upset the Rhythm earlier this year.  This 7” brings to totality the sinews and olfactory system of the Gen Pop promo tape. The essence of what they are doing and not the end of it. The first track ‘On Screen’ whinges lackaday about screen oriented living. “I’ll be chained and beaten, in a motel room its our first time meeting” shoots the moon for the loneliness of access and an end to curiosity (good riddance). Honestly though, a screen can and will be held by all. 

The product of exposure can be found in ‘Easy’, the ballad of confused ability. The lacing of MaryJane Dunphe’s noise guitar, brought back to life from her days in Polly Darton, meld with David Strother and Theo Maughan’s air tight rhythm section. Ian Corrigan, playing 2nd guitar, and Dunphe vocalise together in frustration, this all should be quicker, easier. Corrigan and Dunphe played together previously in Olympia, WA’s maelstrom of punk and passion known as Vexx (also released through Upset The Rhythm).

‘Teach Me How To’ peaks in winding energy, standing tall as a pinnacle of frustration and excess. “The poor need lessons, they’re far too crude, but what about your life? Have you known rot tooth” Dunphe cries in resistance to plutocracy and vapid hegemony. Access will be had by all, but not until the human era is over and the internet is a human right. In ‘Dear Jackie’ simple harmonies on the guitar lap lightly at the toes of a bulky thick rhythm section that is strolling late night on the beach. Each note that Dunphe and Corrigan hit are planned to harmonise, intention over expression. Strother’s voice digs deep into choosing, choosing an ending, his pummelling drums and margin walking sense of genre helps the band approach a more lighter sound. 

Finally, closer ‘The Wall’ can speak for itself. “I know, we’re guilty, these eyes so milky,” the powerless individual’s eyes cataract while watching an indigenous land be divided by a white contingency. And if its called white supremacy they might as well “ take my head and turn it clockwise”. Needling guitar parts crescendo into a furious finale, reminding all that Gen Pop as one of the last human bands are trying twice as hard to keep ahead of the future.

'On The Screen' EP

Gen Pop - 'Dear Jackie'

Knives are proud to present the debut release from Belgian artist Obsequies, entitled Organn. 

At its core, Organn is a record about love and duality. Taking inspiration from Isidore-Lucien Ducasse's poem 'Les Chants de Maldoror', the record is antagonistic yet often drops its temper to reveal blistered beauty within the fray. Such are the condradictory elements within the compositions themselves: widescreen claustrophobia; glimmering sludge; piercing VHS ambience.

Visuals come courtesy of French mixed-media artist, Thomas Hauser. Hauser's imagery similarly evokes retrograde surrealism and further insists on a narrative at work here, with obscured characters playing out alongside mantric piano, filmic vox and hyperspeed jungle.

01 - PRISONER - DISINTEGRATION OF TIME

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