Kurt Ballou, legendary producer and guitarist for Converge is the latest guest on the Jasta Show Podcast with Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed. You can hear the podcast exclusively at Gaslight Media’s website, by using the code JASTA for a free trial. You can hear the podcast at this link:
https://soundcloud.com/jameyjasta/episode-192-josh-james-stick
Occultation is releasing their second full length album Silence In The Ancestral Houseout via 20 Buck Spin in North America.
Under the light of the moon, Occultation creeps, crawls and crushes like a many-tentacled abomination using seductive power and hypnotic conjuring on the nine curses contained within. Captured from air in a far more powerful and convincing manner than ever before by Kurt Ballou at God City Studios, the band strikes a mood both sombre and grim, reflecting a contorted, wrecked expression in a cracked mirror through eminently listenable heavy metal sorcery.
Occultation Live:
Mar 22: Saint Vitus Bar – Brooklyn, NY (w/ Dispirit)
Mar 25-29: Treefort Music Festival – Boise, ID
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Norse trailblazers Kvelertak split open the metal scene with their incendiary self titled debut not to mention a fierce reputation on the live front. A mash up of furious punk rock, searing black metal and rock n’ roll swagger the first record was indeed something very special. Having returned to Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou and God City studios for this sophomore effort Meir contains all the characteristic of what made Kvelertak such a shot in the arm. Continue reading