Chelsea Wolfe has revealed two unreleased songs from her Birth of Violence sessions during which she masterfully returned to her folk roots. Her stunning spin on Joni Mitchell’s eminent single, “Woodstock” and the never before heard, “Green Altar” display Wolfe’s experimental approach as she deliberately ties together her discoveries in rich textures and haunting melodies.  

Wolfe recounts, “While preparing for the Birth of Violence tour, I was watching a lot of Joni Mitchell videos. A 1966 Canadian performance that I found of hers ended up inspiring the video for my song ‘Highway.’ One night after working on the live set, Ben and I were hanging out and I was just letting the Joni videos roll.. ‘Woodstock’ came on and I started singing along. After that I simply asked Ben if he’d be into covering it with me for the tour, and we just went back into the studio and started working it out. The cover came together quite naturally and it was a treat to play on stage every night. Joni is obviously such a big inspiration to this side of my music, so it felt right to pay tribute to her.”  

“‘Green Altar’ is a cherished song that unfortunately didn’t make it onto the album. It’s a love song I wrote after finding out that my dear friends (artist) Bill Crisafi and (designer) Hogan McLaughlin were engaged. I envisioned them getting married in a lush, green outdoor space outside of some majestic castle ruins.”

Listen to “Woodstock” and “Green Altar”: https://ffm.to/cw-wga

Chelsea Wolfe, Earth, Emma Ruth Rundle and Lingua Ignota will play Los Angeles Substance 2021 on November 26-28. 

Info/tickets: https://www.substancela.com

The Armed have announced their debut feature film ULTRAPOP: Live At The Masonic Temple, an incredible narrative-driven concert film directed by Tony Wolski, presented bySargent House. Digital screenings will start 15th October, with a special in-person screening event happening the same day at Detroit’s El Club. Check here for full screening schedule: https://ultrapop.live

Part “Lemonade,” part “Live at Pompeii” and fully infused with a sense of Lynchian dread - the project is a stunningly-filmed cinematic document of live performances taking place within the opulent chapels, imposing asylum rooms, full-size indoor handball courts, halls (and more) of the mysterious Masonic Temple of Detroit; a 550,000 square foot fortress in the heart of the city. 

Live performance and story-driven narrative melt seamlessly into one another, as the film confronts themes of identity, information warfare, the commoditisation of artistic product, and commodification of the artist. The film also definitively shines a light on The Armed’s often-mysterious, collaborative structure—revealing an ever-changing lineup over the course of its runtime as they perform tracks off The Armed’s break-out album ULTRAPOP, selections from their second LP, Only Love and CYBERPUNK 2077 single “Night City Aliens”.  The movie culminates in the ultimate catharsis with the entire collective converging for the devastating closer ”On Jupiter.”

Pre-Order ULTRAPOP: LIVE AT THE MASONIC TEMPLE Limited Vinyl: https://ultrapop.live/#merch

Emma Ruth Rundle’s forthcoming Engine of Hell is stark, intimate, and unflinching. For anyone that’s endured trauma and grief, there’s a beautiful solace in hearing Rundle articulate and humanize that particular type of pain not only with her words, but with her particular mysterious language of melody and timbre. The album captures a moment where a masterful songwriter strips away all flourishes and embellishments in order to make every note and word hit with maximum impact, leaving little to hide behind. The first single “Return” is available today via Sargent House and comes accompanied with a striking and introspective video directed by Rundle herself.

'Engine of Hell' sees its release November 5, 2021 on Sargent House.

Listen / Watch / Pre-order: https://ffm.to/err-eoh

When Kristin Hayter moved to Pennsylvania, she ended up inadvertently living across from Three Mile Island – the site of the worst nuclear disaster in American history. The morning of 28 March 1979, a pressure valve in the plant’s second reactor failed to close, causing a partial meltdown that led to the evacuation of thousands of residents. The remaining reactor operated for another 40 years and eventually shut down in 2019, leaving behind an eerie image: four large grey towers abandoned within a rural sprawl. 

It’s this landscape of dereliction and decay that informs Hayter’s latest album, Sinner Get Ready. A multi-disciplinary artist originally from Del Mar, California, Hayter performs under the moniker Lingua Ignota – derived from the sacred ‘unknown language’, created by medieval mystic and composer Hildegard of Bingen. The solo project is largely about giving expression to trauma; an ever-evolving vocabulary of sound and performance used to convey the unspeakable. On previous albums All Bitches Die (2017) and Caligula (2019), this has taken the form of a torrential downpour of sound. As a survivor of abuse, Hayter has drawn on a wide range of influences from baroque and black metal to noise and neoclassical to match the overwhelming and incoherent nature of trauma, her classically trained voice gliding from operatic beauty to a scream sharp enough to cut through titanium.

Full Interview via crackmagazine.net

Watch Kerry play through and explain his signature GR6 sounds, and read about his musical influences and stylistic inspirations.

Deafheaven's album 'Infinite Granite' on the first week US only charts via Billboard. 

#130 Billboard 200 

#1 Current Rock Albums 

#2 Current Independent Albums 

#3 Current Alternative Albums 

#4 Vinyl Albums 

#7 Current Album Sales 

#6 Current Digital Albums 

#7 Internet Albums 

#20 Independent Albums 

#8 Top Albums w/TEA 

#8 Album Sales 

#8 Digital Albums

We caught up with Deafheaven’s Kerry McCoy and Shiv Mehra a few hours before their gig at Psycho Las Vegas festival. 

They’d just released their newest, Infinite Granite – definitely one of the best releases of 2021. An aggregation of what Deafheaven have been doing over the last 11 years of their career, evolving from one album to the next, developing production and artistic focus without losing their core identity. 

Louder Than War talks to the guitarists of Deafheaven – Kerry McCoy and Shiv Mehra – to discuss the writing of Infinite Granite and the importance of self-searching; relations with Sargent House and the degree of experimentation; the previously released 10 Years Gone; moments of catharsis, their love of Slowdive and their work process.

Full interview via louderthanwar.com

Lingua Ignota's album SINNER GET READY on the first week US only charts via Billboard.

 

#2 Top New Artist Albums 

#21 Top Current Album Sales 

#36 Top Overall Album Sales

#4 Top Independent Current Albums 

#4 Current Rock Albums 

#6 Current Alternative Albums 

#12 Heatseekers Albums

#33 Vinyl Albums

Sargent House’s owner and founder Cathy Pellow talked with Other Record Labels Podcast. 

Listen to the interview here: https://www.otherrecordlabels.com/other-record-labels-blog/sargent-house

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