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7 Oct 2020
6 Oct 2020
Rumba talk about Pharaoh Overlord's new album and single
They say:
Pharaoh Overlord, who has shrunk to a duo formed by Jussi Lehtisalo and Tomi Leppänen on the previous album, continues to sound the depths of electronic music. The band's motorik-pulsing and synthesizer-driven album 5, which started as a Circle side project, will be followed up in November by album 6 .
The record is exceptionally published by Rocket Recordings instead of Lehtisalo Ektron. The British company, one of the most interesting psychedelic stables of recent years, has served as home to bands such as Goat , Gnod , Hills , Teeth of the Sea and White Hills .
The first single from Pharaoh Overlord’s 6 album is Without Song All Will Perish . The song is like a disco created on some dystopian dance floor, stripped of humanity. As a singer, Aaron Turner ( Isis , Sumac , Old Man Gloom ) is heard , whose growl contrasts with the music, but ties the atmosphere right there to the dystopian landscapes.
“I thought, for example , of Beherit from the Drawing Down the Moon era , when the band’s music was almost entirely electronic and the only remnant of metal aesthetics was the singing style,” Turner says.
Initially, Lehtisalo and Leppänen asked Turner for songs for a couple of songs, but the collaboration stretched to the size of the whole album.
Read the piece here: Rumba
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5 Oct 2020
Decibel Magazine interviews Iggor Cavalera about new Petbrick EP 'Pet Sounds Vol.1'
It reads:
Iggor Cavalera On Petbrick Collaboration with LG Petrov; Proceeds to Benefit Iconic Frontman’s Cancer Treatment Fund
Think kismet always arrives with a stock soundtrack of orchestral strings or angelic choirs swelling in the background?
Think again.
Case in point: One night, not so long ago, Iggor Cavalera laid down an old school black metal blast beat in his practice space. He brought it home on a sampler, and then, along with his power electronics partner in crime/Petbrick bandmate Wayne Adams, slowly began to add layers of synth noise and glitchy, chopped melodies. The resulting semi-controlled sonic chaos was killer as it stood, sure, but also clearly missing that transcendent element — that X-factor — to fully actualize the song.
Then came the epiphany: Call in fellow metal legend and longtime friend LG Petrov, the iconic voice of Entombed/Entombed A.D.
“LG was stoked on the idea for the same reason I was — no one would see it coming,” Cavalera tells Decibel. “Like me, he’s into experimental stuff and, more generally, just enjoys anything weird and not so commercial that pushes boundaries — I mean, Entombed has been proving that forever, from the death metal days to Wolverine Blues and beyond — but, while LG is someone I’ve always admired as both a great person and a forward-thinking artist, he’s not known for doing stuff in the breakcore or electronic scene. So, to me, that made it even more exciting and interesting to bring him in on something like this.”...
Read the rest here: Decibel Magazine
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Rolling Stone put Julie's Haircut's "Invocation and Ritual Dance of My Demon Twin" in their "10 best records of Italian prog bands released in the last 20 years" list
They say:
Julie's Haircut becomes more spatial with each disc, up to this Invocation and Ritual Dance of My Demon Twin , a title between Zappa ( Invocation and Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin ) and Ken Anger ( Invocation of My Demon Brother ). The band's space is drugged and lopsided, between Hawkwind, Can and Ed Wood. The songs are a suite of rides in which acoustics and electronics blend into one and the consistency is lost between echoes and reverberations. In the good old days the Loops couldn't have done better, but with JH it goes even further, beyond infinity astride a sound that is beautiful and transcendental, beautifully outside of reality.
Read the full list here: Rolling Stone
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The Quietus review's Deafbrick
They say:
If you’re missing that glitchier, industrial aesthetic from Shame, however, then Deafbrick ought to sort you right out. A collaboration between Deafkids, a Brazillian hardcore act who’ve morphed into a sprawling, noisy, genre-defying beast over the last couple of years, and Petbrick, itself a collaboration between Big Lad mastermind and in-demand producer Wayne Adams and original Sepultura drummer Igor Cavalera, Deafbrick is one of those collaborative records (much like The Body and Full Of Hell’s recent team-ups) that feels less like a simple melding of two existing bands and more a whole new entity in its own right. It’s more than happy to be intensely, confrontationally abrasive – tracks like ‘Força Bruta’ and ‘Mega-Ritual’ are an absolute kick in the teeth, seething blasts of mechanically enhanced hardcore that feel like Atari Teenage Riot and Anti-Cimex joining forces to fight off a swarm of android killing machines – but also isn’t afraid to hold back when necessary for maximum impact. The creepy ‘The Menace Of The Dark Polar Night’, for example, builds slowly and steadily from sparse, barely-even-there electronic fluctuations into an oddly grandiose sludgy elegy, before segueing seamlessly into the pounding Godflesh-on-steroids gabber of ‘Máquina Obssessivo-Compulsiva’...
Read the full piece here: The Quietus
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Fuzzy Sun say some words about Pharaoh Overlords 'Without Song All Will Perish'
They say:
That Rocket Recordings is an awesome label has been clear for a long time, but what I love mostly is the divers and unique stuff that is on the label. 2020 is again a year with great releases like industrial madness by Petbrick/deafkids, electro/noise by Shit and Shine, and so much more this year.
Now we get new music by Pharaoh Overlords wich is a a Finish duo that produce out of this world synth driven kraut stuff. Their first track ‘Without Song All Will Perish’ from their upcoming album ‘6’ wich will be released on Rocket Recordings November 13.
Read the rest here: Fuzzy Sun
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2 Oct 2020
Celebrating Bandcamp's 'No Revenue Day' for October
So as always, today is a great time to buy some Rocket albums and shirts - some releases we wanna bring to your attention are:
Pharaoh Overlord – 6
Immensely epic album 6 on very limited 'Diamondback' splatter vinyl edition
Petbrick – Pet Sounds Vol 1
4 Track EP of new material including a track featuring Entombed singer LG Petrov
Paisiel – Unconscious Death Wish LP
Stunning second album, td Red/Black 'colour-in-colour' vinyl
Anthroprophh – Toilet Circuit EP
Repress on yellow vinyl due to speed of first pressing sold out – expected to go the same way
GOAT – Commune LP
Special ltd 'Silver edition' reissue on silver/blue swirl vinyl and new artwork
J. Zunz – Hibiscus LP
Ltd Blue/White swirl vinyl
Autotelia – I LP
Ltd 'Weird Green' striped vinyl
Sex Swing – Type II LP
On Ltd edition swirl vinyl
Kooba Tercu – Proto Tekno LP
On Ltd edition clear vinyl
Goat – Goatman T-shirt
Black reprint of the Classic Goat T-shirts
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Viscerals and T-shirts
Latest album on ltd colour vinyl + ltd edition 'Lets Rock' and 'King of Cowards' T-shirts
+ there are loads of other great albums, shirts and posters to pick up from the Rocket or individual bands Bandcamp stores:
Bandcamp
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Preorder Pharaoh Overlord '6' album:
Today is another Bandcamp 'No Revenue' day so for the first time we have the Preorder for Pharaoh Overlord '6' album both on CD & the Limited 'Diamondback' vinyl splatter version.
Order here: Bandcamp
So as always, today is a great time to buy some Rocket albums and shirts & we thank you very very much for the support.
John & Chris
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Introducing Petbrick Pet Sounds Vol 1:
Introducing Petbrick Pet Sounds Vol 1:
Petbrick have a new EP called Pet Sounds Vol 1 available from today, you can also pick up a Tape and a new T-shirt from the band for Bandcamp day, so go support them.
The Press Text Reads:
Pet Sounds Vol.1 is the first of a series releases that will see Petbrick explore many unvisited sonic landscapes and take part in unique collaborations – an outlet to help drive positivity during these doomed times for musicians who thrive on a live stage.
Vol.1 features four brand new tracks and the song Lonely Soul features a very special collaboration with LG Petrov – the enigmatic frontman from Swedish Death Metal legends Entombed. Iggor said this about how the collaboration came about, “I have known Lars Göran Petrov since the early 90’s, we shared the stage many times together, and also shared our love for football.”
Iggor goes on to say “When we finished a demo for one of our new Petbrick tracks, we felt it would be cool to invite someone to add some old school black/death metal vocals, so i contacted LG and he was stoked on collaborating with us, he also told me he is a big fan of Aphex Twin, so it was cool to sing on something in that spectrum. That was before i was aware of his cancer, so we felt logical to raise all the profits from this release to help our brother. So please support him and also support underground music during these turbulent times: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-petrov.”
Order your album here: Bandcamp
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Goat Commune 'Silver Edition' OUT TODAY
Goat Commune 'Silver Edition':
The repress of the Goat's 'Commune' is out on 'Silver Edition' in all good record shops from today.
You can buy the Limited Blue & Silver version from the Rocket store:
or the Silver & Red version from all good record shops.
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