How Chelsea Wolfe Brought Ancient and Haunting Soundscapes to A24's New Horror Film X 

"Throughout her career, musician Chelsea Wolfe has covered a lot of ground, as her studio albums have blended together neo-folk, doom metal, and industrial sounds with ethereal vocals, earning her a passionate following for these majestic musical landscapes. Her unique artistic sensibilities have seen shows like Utopia, American Horror Story, and The Magicians incorporate her tracks, as well as the Season 4 trailer of Game of Thrones famously using "Feral Love" from her album Pain Is Beauty. Despite how much she has already accomplished in her career, the upcoming A24 Films release from writer/director Ti West X marked a new venture for Wolfe, as she co-composed the film's score with Tyler Bates."
 

Read Chelsea Wolfe's full interview with Comicbook.com HERE

INTERVIEW WITH CATHY PELLOW ON THE LOS ANGELES TIMES 

The artists on the venerable L.A. heavy-rock label Sargent House are known for their clamor. But over the course of the pandemic, they learned to appreciate total quiet as well. 

“We had been looking for properties to build a studio, where artists can write and chill, and kept not having any luck in L.A.,” said Cathy Pellow, who founded the label from her hilltop home in Echo Park in 2006. Pellow sold the house and moved the label into a rambling compound in Sunland-Tujunga in 2016, and although it took some time and savings to build out (the label is “100% self-financed and has never had any investors,” Pellow said), by 2020 Sargent House had “this magical, insane place that’s six acres on a mountain, a huge converted barn and a pool, guest bungalows, gorgeous gardens and the backyard is mountains.” 

It was a perfect COVID-19 hideout. The label’s roster of metal and experimental acts like Chelsea Wolfe, Deafheaven, Emma Ruth Rundle and Lingua Ignota could come up for fresh air. After 15 years of championing the harshest fringes in rock, the label found its stride at this bucolic haven, where the wildest noises were the howls of Pellow’s seven dogs.

Full interview via latimes.com

CHELSEA WOLFE'S COVER OF ARTHUR FIELD’S “OUI OUI MARIE” FOR THE MOVIE X 

Today, A24 announces a whirlwind score by “west coast goth queen” (Rolling Stone) Chelsea Wolfe and the iconic horror composer Tyler Bates for Ti West’s (The House of the Devil) upcoming slasher film X, starring Kid Cudi, Mia Goth, Jenny Ortega, and Brittany Snow. The full score drops March 25. 

Chelsea Wolfe transforms Arthur Field’s 1918 “Oui Oui Marie” into a woozy, eerie ballad, with her vocals seething and simmering beneath folksy guitar strums. 

The wildly entertaining ride is set in 1979 about a group of entrepreneurial young filmmakers who retreat to a rural Texas farm to make a low-budget pornographic movie, only to find themselves thrust into unimaginable horrors when their mysterious hosts disrupt the shoot. An ode to film-making of all stripes, X is an ode to the currency of youth and arrives nationwide March 18. 

Tracklist 

01. My God 
02. Maxine Meets Pearl 03. Theda 
04. Pearl’s Lullaby 
05. Fucking Finally 
06. Pearl’s Rapture 
07. Dolls 
08. Pumping Gas 
09. Our Secret 
10. Use Your Telephone 
11. We Talked About This 12. Nice Girl 
13. Headlights 
14. Sorry to Disturb You 15. The Cellar 
16. What is it Baby? 
17. I Was Young Once 
18. Tell Me I’m Special 
19. Maxine Grabs the Gun 20. Oui Oui Marie 
21. Bring Our Daughters Home 

 

 

 

HELMS ALEE ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM "KEEP THIS BE THE WAY" 

Seattle three-piece Helms Alee has announced a new album Keep This Be The Way available April 29th via Sargent House. Across the span of their first five studio albums, the trio zeroed in on different aspects of their sound - a blend of lilting siren songs, crushing Northwest thunder and sludge, angular econo-rock, and heady guitar pop 

while retaining their no-frills, meat-and-potatoes approach in the studio. But with this Helms Alee have expanded their palette by delving into the production possibilities afforded by recording the album themselves, creating their most dynamic and technicolored work to date. This new approach is immediately evident on first single and album opener “See Sights Smell Smells,” where reverse cymbal crashes, fragmented piano, layered drums, woozy drones, saxophone freak-outs, and trippy vocal treatments transport the listener to an altered state of exhilarated anticipation. The song is accompanied by a video created by Allen Watke whose video art consists primarily of analog equipment with an emphasis on VHS dubbing, glitching & manipulation. 

When the pandemic hit, guitarist/vocalist Ben Verellen, bassist/vocalist Dana James, and drummer/vocalist Hozoji Matheson-Margullis found refuge in their music and bunkered down in a makeshift studio in Verellen’s amplifier shop. Through the remainder of 2020 and into early 2021, the band wrote an album as a distraction from the surrounding turbulence, recording songs with the assistance of Ron Harrell as they were writing them, composing the material with the added benefit of hearing them come together from the engineer’s chair. Keep This Be the Way still very much sounds like a Helms Alee record, but it’s their first album that diverts from the faithful recreation of their live sound and delves into a vibrant tapestry of surreal sounds and invented spaces.

 

THE ARMED WILL PLAY PITCHFORK FEST IN CHICAGO 

New shows added to The Armed 2022 dates. They will play Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago and Cabaret Vert Festival in France: 

March 10 - Brooklyn - The Armed W/ Liturgy At MHOW - SOLD OUT 

March 26 - Los Angeles – The Regent W/ Illuminati Hotties 

June 02 - Barcelona - Primavera Sound 2022 SOLD OUT 

July 16 - Chicago - Pitchfork Festival 

August 06 - Katowice - Off Festival 2022 

August 18 - Charleville-M - Cabaret Vert 2022 

August 20 - Bristol - Arctangent 2022

 

Tickets / Info: thearmed.com

LINGUA IGNOTA NEW SHOWS ADDED 

LINGUA IGNOTA LIVE  2022 

Apr 24 Roadburn  - Tilburg  SOLD OUT 

May 4 Thalia Hall - Chicago SOLD OUT 

May 7 Le Poisson Rouge - NYC SOLD OUT 

May 8 Le Poisson Rouge - NYC 

May 11 The Sinclair – Cambridge SOLD OUT 

May 13 Capital Turnaround - Washington DC 

Jun 2 Primavera  – Barcelona  SOLD OUT 

Jun 9 The Regent - Los Angeles 

Jun 12 Great American Music Hall - San Francisco 

Jul 1 Roskilde Festival - Roskilde SOLD OUT 

Oct 8 AM Fest - Barcelona 

Oct 10 EartH  - London SOLD OUT 

Oct 11 EartH - London 

Oct 13 Amplifest - Porto

Tickets / Info: linguaignota.net 

 

EMMA RUTH RUNDLE ANNOUNCES ORPHEUS LOOKING BACK EP 

Emma Ruth Rundle has announced a new EP Orpheus Looking Back, a small collection of unreleased songs from the Engine Of Hell sessions, her highly lauded 2021 album.   Set for a March 25th release via Sargent House, these three bare and intimate performances are in keeping with the album's unadorned style. “Pump Organ Song” the first to be shared from the EP, was written spontaneously in the studio in response to her failing marriage and the availability of an old pump organ in the tracking room. Rundle Notes: “In the year that has come since recording the song, I feel more and more connected to this love song. It is still speaking to me about the process of parting ways and how romantic arrangements change and relationships close.” 

 

Engine of Hell, released in November of 2021, is a stark, intimate and unflinching look at trauma and grief. The album, which saw acclaim from Pitchfork, NPR, Stereogum, and more, focused on a return to the piano, an instrument she left behind in her early twenties. The Engine of Hell recording sessions took place in Stinson Beach in December 2020, with Sonny DePerri co-producing/engineering.

Chelsea Wolfe ‘Apokalypsis' reissues 

The reissue of Chelsea Wolfe ‘Apokalypsis’ is now available in Orange/White or Grey/Black vinyl. Ships around May 10, 2022. Only 1k of each variant worldwide. Available in her stores Hello Merch and Evil Greed (EU) along with new merch. 

Pre-order your copy because they will go fast: https://linktr.ee/cchelseawwolfe

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