RS slays with it's latest releases. Without any doubt this is the strongest independent European label.
Here're 2 upcoming albums from this fabulous label that will reach my personal "Top of the noise" for sure.
Dethscalator - Racial Golf Course No Bitches LP
This is truly sick.
This is undoubtly heavy.
This is new Dethscalator's album that follows a successful split LP with Hey Colossus.
"Racial Golf Course" sounds like a Margaret Thatchers' funeral. Someone will like it, someone not.
"Slow, angry, psychedelic and gigantic - like a paisley glacier full
of Stanley Knives, flowing over Brian Blessed’s foot - Dethscalator move
at their own pace. They formed in 2008 in Hackney, London, and have
spent the last five years building up to the release of their debut
album Racial Golf Course No Bitches. (The band’s drummer Stu Bell said
of the name: “What does it mean? I just had this image in my head of a
sign you’d see on a golf course by a picket fence that would make
absolutely no sense whatsoever. I think it came about because we found
out you can buy 500 golf tees with Dethscalator printed on them for
£30.”) And it may have become the Chinese Democracy of noise rock over
the last half decade, but now that it’s here, we can safely reassure you
that it was well worth the wait.
Road hardened and tightened the band have shrugged off their looser,
sludge-blasted origins to reconnect with their American 80s post
hardcore, pig fuck roots, with riffs n’ hooks worthy of Killdozer, Jesus
Lizard, Unsane, Butthole Surfers and Fudge Tunnel but have mixed this
up with giant slabs of monolithic doom, coruscating beams of white noise
and whirling vortices of space rock.
However it is the deep, dub influenced production job; the way that
layers and layers of feedback have been marshalled into a horrific
orchestral wall of sonic horror and the brightly fizzing lysergic sheen
to the whole shebang that will bestow a blessing on your ears. This is
guaranteed to tweak your brain’s long dormant and atavistic proto-human
god nodules and have you punching your walls like William Hurt as the
multi-coloured amoeba man at the end of Altered States after he’s spent
an afternoon in a floatation tank on Ayahuasca and seen a goat with 13
eyes nailed to a crucifix.
Howling drunkenly into the abyss has never been so much fun... and this time it comes with a free golf tee."
Initial mailorder copies come with free printed Dethscalator golf tee
while stocks last. The first 50 copies will also come with a free folded
A3 promo poster (first come first served)
KAWABATA MAKOTO'S MAINLINER 'Revelation Space' LP/CD/TAPE
Tokyo-based
"psychedelic solid free attack group" is back after the 12 years of silence.
Following the latest Riot Season's releases : Pikacyu*Makoto & Acid Mother's Temple.
"One of the most celebrated Japanese Underground bands have returned!
It may have taken over 12 years, but Kawabata Makoto, guitar guru and
head honcho in Acid Mothers Temple, has finally decided to get his
celebrated 'psychedelic solid free attack group' back together.
Joining original Mainliner members Kawabata Makoto (motorpsycho
guitar) and Koji Shimura (drums) is new recruit Kawabe Taigen
(bass/vocals) and the trio still kick up one hell of a sonic racket.
Confusion surrounds the exact details of the recording, but they seem
to date from December 2011, and from Kawabata's mountain top temple
studio-cum-home. The man himself, as always, is shying away from sharing
too many of the magick details about the Mainliner rebirth. And the
stark, minimal black with gold sleeve keeps the mystery intact, apart
from the grainy band photo on the rear.
All said, 'Revelation Space', is a comeback statement of intent. And
it's firmly in the same 'in the red / raw' camp as the original trio's
classic 'Mellow Out'. From the initial speaker shaking feedback burst of
opener 'Revelation Space', right through to the closing 20-minute epic
'New Sun' (which showcases Taigen's otherworldly howl perfectly) there
is no let up in the brutal delivery.
This will no doubt delight those Mainliner diehards who never thought
they'd see the day again, and all those with a love of over the top
guitar howls and punishing feedback levels, but always under pinned by
some righteous grooves.
The band will be touring the UK in September, and the rest of the world will follow."
