A selection of artists released via GOD UNKNOWN RECORDS. 

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Ten Point Introduction to God Unknown Records

WELLWATER CONSPIRACY -  Lucy Leave

PART CHIMP - I Lie Sometimes

London based HENGE have been frying brains for the last 4 years with their psychedelic doom, coming on like an acid-fried freight train straight to your cerebral core. Think Black Sabbath through an Amphetamine Reptile filter, via Pigs x7. Their first LP, released in January 2016, gained rave reviews and 'Nothing Head' builds on their S/T debut oppressive groove. 

The album opener, 'Compressor' feels like you are staggering through a Californian desert with the heat beating down on your back, bewildered and lost but knowing full well when you reach your destination that's when things will start to get really weird. 

'The Sea' continues the desert stagger until a white light beams down opening up a portal to your subconscious and your bad deeds spring forth. 'Beginners' makes feeling of claustrophobia tingle with a forlorn wail following your every move. 

The light finally begins to raise again with 'Human Beings' although briefly until darkness descends with 'Teddy Bear'. Desperately trapped but once you let yourself go movement flows freely. This is it. 

At just over 8 minutes long 'Dracila' is the one that stretches time and builds on everything gone before. 'Nike' ebbs and flows with a worldly understanding and rounding the LP off in an enlightened state.  

The cover says it all. There was an ecstasy tablet going around London a couple of years ago, unbeknownst to the band, bearing their name and logo. Reports say the experience was like witnessing HENGE live - claustrophobic but downright beautiful. 

Bandcamp listed them in the Top Ten UK Noise Rock Bands alongside Terminal Cheesecake, GNOD, US Nails, Casual Nun etc so they must be doing something right.

HENGE - Teddy Bear

Featuring Nicholas Bullen (founder member of Napalm Death and Scorn) and John Pickering (founder member of Doom and Sore Throat), Birmingham based Rainbow Grave channel the blank despair of negative punk through layers of distorted psychedelic damage: dirty guitars, freeform pedal abuse and effected vocals coagulate around cyclic bass and drum rhythms in repetitive and minimal structures.

After a performance at Fat Out Fest in April 2017, God Unknown Records approached the group to record a split 7” single. Released in July 2018 as part of Volume Three of the God Unknown Singles Series, Rainbow Grave’s ‘Death Pyramid’ is a crawling mantric blend of heavy bass, psychedelic guitars, robotic vocals and hard drums described as “deeply hewn heaviness” (Shindig) and “congruent with the great scum rock purveyors of the late 80s” (The Wire).

Following the reception of the single, God Unknown invited Rainbow Grave to continue the relationship with the release of the ‘Sex Threat / You Are Nowhere’ 7” single in November 2018.

The group are currently working on their debut album ‘No You’ (forthcoming on God Unknown in 2019).

“Rainbow Grave are a Birmingham quartet whose sludge waffle sound is congruent with the great scum rock purveyors of the late 80s.” - The Wire

“... nasty, grinding and hard, it’s a massive negative sound.” - Louder Than War

“...a sludgetastic rumbler that out-Melvins The Melvins.” - Shindig

RAINBOW GRAVE - Suicide Pyramid

WHISTLING ARROW - Forking Paths

Slow, heavy, repetitiveness from Dead Neanderthals / Sex Swing / Mugstar members. Twin Sister are drone heavy and influenced by krautrock and doom bringing a slow burning blend of low tuned noise. 

Formed in the Netherlands in 2019 by Jason Stoll, Otto Kokke and Rene Aquarius the band headed to White Noise Studio in the winter of 2019 to record this their debut album. Taking a minimal approach where less is more repetition is the key here. Taking a simple riff and repeating the phrase over and over, creates a hypnotic texture that some resembles a trance like state. 

Jason Stöll - Bass
Otto Kokke - Keys
Renë Aquarius - Drums

TWIN SISTER - Drab

Hayward Versus Harmergeddon - Helix

Renowned veteran musician Charles Hayward has been collaborating with London-based audio/visual duo Harmergeddon, creating driving drumming with electronics that weave through beautiful soundscapes. Their self-titled collaborative album will arrive on June 26th via God Unknown Records.

Hayward is an English drummer and was a founding member of the experimental rock groups This Heat and Camberwell Now. He also played with Mal Dean’s Amazing Band, Dolphin Logic, and gigged and recorded with Phil Manzanera in the group Quiet Sun project, as well as a short stint with Gong.

He was a session musician on The Raincoats’ second album, Odyshape, and on one occasion played drums for the anarchist punk band Crass. Since the late 1980s he has concentrated on solo projects and collaborations, including Massacre with Bill Laswell and Fred Frith. His first solo record, Survive the Gesture, was released in 1987. Since then, he has released 10 more long players, and has been touring with the reformed This is not This Heat.

Harmergeddon is Nathan Greywater and Polyphoniefae, a Dungeness-based performance art duo that formed in South London in the autumn of 2010.Their live show blends sound and light in a feedback loop using photophonics (sound carried on light beams), electromagnetic fields, and consumer electronic junk, taking Industrial from its scrap metal past to the electronic fallout of late capitalism with a basis in improvisation and psychedelia. The result verges on sensory overload.

Big Takeover is pleased to host the premiere of the striking instrumental single “Helix” off the upcoming LP. Disorienting sonics and a restlessly active and pushing beat relentlessly drive the song forward, as spacey and starry sounds materialize in the vivid mix.

The rhythmic beat and cymbals hits speed up and only occasionally relent, forming a malleable backbone for dark growling undertones, grinding noises, and shards of reverberating electronics to spiral outwards into space.

HAYWARD VERSUS HARMERGEDDON - Helix

23 is BUSHPILOT's magnum opus beautifully crafted and totally way ahead of its time. Influenced by Can, Slint and Talk Talk Bushpilot signed to Cherry Red in the mid nineties and recorded two albums before disbanding and heading off in different directions.

BUSHPILOT - 23 single edit

Pulling inspiration from the weirdest depths of post punk and krautrock, KLÄMP inject elements of noise rock and horrific low end into the mix, all while kneeling at the altar of the riff. 
'Hate You' is KLÄMP's second album, and first to feature Lee Vincent on drums. The recording took place in March 2020 in East London as the world went on lock down with Covid19. Capturing the palpable tension in the air, 'Hate You' would make a fitting soundtrack to the apocalypse. 'Hate You' is released on the 2nd October 2020
KLÄMP is Lee Vincent (Pulled Apart By Horses, Concentration Champ), Jason Stöll (Sex Swing, Twin Sister, Mugstar, God Unknown Records, Bonnacons of Doom) and Greg Wynne (Manatees).

KLÄMP - Arise

October 2020 brings the release of Splintered Metal Sky, the long-awaited new installment in the ever vast musical cannon of WHITE HILLS. The album takes the listener on a post-punk, psychedelic ride fueled by industrial-strength fuzz and propelled by powerful beats where songs weave in and out of each other to imitate the rhythm of the city the band calls home. Splintered Metal Sky is about oscillation and evolution. It’s metamodern music looking at human existence in relation to technology and the hyper-driven architectural reshaping of a city. The music was largely inspired by the drone and roar of machinery pulsing through New York City, which is in a never-ending state of demolition and reconstruction. Dave and Ego took to the streets, gathering field recordings of sounds from the subway, drills, jackhammers, people in parks, traffic, mayhem and the occasional silence. These recordings were then manipulated and constructed into rhythmic lines that were used as the basis for songs. The music, mixing noise with disciplined beat, embodies the paradoxical nature of the city: the grimy littered dead end alley just steps away from the sleek luxury skyscraper; the half eaten chicken bone being devoured by a rat on the subway tracks just beneath the glittering facade of the Chrysler building; the endless milling about of the 8 million people who call this slab of land home on their way to and from everywhere and nowhere. Informed by industrial innovators Einstürzende Neubauten and SPK, the avant garde post-punk of Tuxedomoon and the dub-electro of Cabaret Voltaire, the album vibrates with the energy of a sensually feral, raw beast. 

The band recorded and mixed Splintered Metal Sky at Studio G in Brooklyn with producer/engineer Jeff Berner (Psychic TV). WHITE HILLS previously worked with Jeff for the Valley King Records release of the single Putting On The Pressure. The album features numerous guest appearances. The idea to recruit collaborators came after a meeting between Ego and fellow Only Lovers Left Alive alumni, Lebanese singer, Yasmine Hamdan, while she was in NYC recording with former Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley. The band asked her to add vocals to a song and she jumped at the opportunity, which led to a stunning vocal performance on the track Rats. Energized by the collaboration, Dave & Ego decided to approach other cohorts to join in. This led to guest appearances by filmmaker and musician Jim Jarmusch (ambient guitar on c:CoNSTRUCT & Illusion), Simone Marie Butler of Primal Scream (vocals on Honesty) and former Cop Shoot Cop and current member of Human Impact Jim Coleman (synth on Numbers & c:CoNSTRUCT). Each person added their own flavor and perspective, pushing the songs to places not before imagined by the duo. Running with the idea of collaboration, Dave decided to work with someone on the cover concept. In came longtime friend of Dave’s Johnny Brewton, who has quite a resume of his own in the art world, having worked with and for Mark Motherbaugh at Mutato Muzika, Tom Waits, Hunter S. Thompson and Charles Bukowski to name a few. He is the man behind XRay Book Co, who produce art publications like XRay Magazine, and Bagazine. Upon the two discussing the concept of Splintered Metal Sky, Johnny went to work cutting up images and constructing the concept visually through the medium of collage. 
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releases October 24, 2020

WHITE HILLS - Illusion

God Unknown Records

Releases include:

MONSTER MAGNET
DUKE GARWOOD
WHITE HILLS
WELLWATER CONSPIRACY
CHARLES HAYWARD
RAINBOW GRAVE 
BUSHPILOT
BARDO POND
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE
GNOD 
SEX SWING
ETERNAL TAPESTRY
ONEIDA
DEZ DARE
TEETH OF THE SEA
CARLTON MELTON
HEY COLOSSUS
WHITE MANNA
KOGUMAZA
KINSKI
CLINIC
XEELAND
RESEARCH GROUP
THE BEVIS FROND
MAN FOREVER
LIFE COACH
THE MYRRORS
CAVALIER SONG
HENGE
JOHN MCBAIN
BLOWN OUT
BROKEN DC

and a whole lot more....