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ALBUM REVIEW: Insect Ark – The Vanishing
For over eight years, Dana Schechter and Ashley Spungin created heavy, eerie soundscapes as Brooklyn-based duo Insect Ark. When this fragmented last year, with a new album and US tour in the pipeline, leading force Schechter found herself in a tight corner until a serendipitous union with former SubRosa drummer Andy Patterson enabled the renewed probability of both. Tour almost complete, it’s time for the fourth album The Vanishing (Profound Lore Records) to hit the airwaves and Patterson’s influence, together with a more intense writing process, sees the band’s sound throb with added weight.Continue reading
NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: February 28th New Music Releases
Insect Ark Steams Entire New Album “ The Vanishing”
Psychedelic Doom Metal band Insect Ark are streaming their entire new album today, over at Metal Injection at the link below. The Vanishing releases this Friday, February 28th 2020 via Profound Lore Records. Jam it out now!Continue reading
Insect Ark Shares New Single and Album Teaser, New Album On The Way
Avant-garde duo Insect Ark has returned with a new lineup, new single and newly completed album. The Vanishing is due for release on February 28th via Profound Lore Records. You can stream the new song ‘Tectonic’ now! Insect Ark now consists of founder Dana Schechter (Swans) and Andy Patterson (ex SubRosa). The band opened for Oranssi Pazuzu on tour recently. The group has been mining challenging musical soundscapes that traverse gene definitions since their releases Portal / Well (2015) and Marrow Hymns (2018). Jam out to ‘Tectonic’ and watch the new album teaser right now! Continue reading
Oranssi Pazuzu Books Short US Tour with Insect Ark, Appearing At Psycho Las Vegas
In a rare appearance in North America, Finnish psychedelic/prog Black Metallers Oranssi Pazuzu will embark on an EXCLUSIVE tour of the USA as part of their participation in Psycho Las Vegas 2019. The band will play a one-off show in Los Angeles on August 14th, preceding their performance on August 17th at Psycho Las Vegas, where they join the likes of The Original Misfits, High On Fire, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Bad Religion, Carcass, Old Man Gloom, Power Trip, and many more. Direct support on the tour to come from Insect Ark. The tour runs from October 10th through October 19th, with shows in Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, Montreal, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Raleigh, and Atlanta. Watch for additional dates to be added over the months ahead.Continue reading
FESTIVAL PREVIEW: Roadburn Festival 2018
The day is finally here! The best underground heavy music festival in the world begins today as Roadburn takes flight for its 2018 edition in Tilburg, NL. The lineup is so good, naturally, you would want to see every band, but it’s of course, impossible. Follow our sensible day by day guide to the can’t miss bands each day below. Continue reading
Kjeld Added To Roadburn, Festival Begins Next Week
Long-revered European music festival Roadburn kicks off four days of heavy, avant-garde and challenging music and art experiences in Tilburg, NL. Dutch black metal entity Kjeld has been added to the bill due to Cocatenatus dropping off due to a family situation. In a post, Roadburn founder and creative force Walter Hoeijmakers updated attendees on the last minute changes to the bill.Continue reading
February 23rd, 2018 Metal Releases
Insect Ark – Marrow Hymns
The thing that everyone always forgets about “Post-Rock” is that it was never intended to be a defined style of music. Essentially journalistic shorthand for “I don’t really know what this is, but they use guitars”, it was a useful semi-label for the otherwise unlabelable until someone decided that it was a genre defined by stroke-inducing levels of boredom and its use in a review became the Touch Of Death for all right-thinking people. Continue reading