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Latest releases from Black Seeds Records

January 19, 2009 /

BSR 013 LAUTSTURMER –  “Audio Plague Outbreak Alert” 7″ EP (Ltd 308)
Swedish brutal hardcore crust! 5 track debut EP recorded April 2008 – RAW, BRUTAL meets early Swedish raw-punk style! These lads were playing with Kurbits IR, Article Nine, Slemäters, Final Holocaust and another infamous d-beat crust/metal bands!! And its limited 308 copies!! (150 on black, 59 on red/marron and 99 on red wax)
(Also available on tape in distro section)
www.myspace.com/lautstrmerBSR 014 FLYBLOWN/WARVICTIMS – split CD

England’s FLYBLOWN play harsh & brutal crust noise with grunted vocals and downtuned guitar.  They  influenced by bands such as Disclose, Dismachine, Totalitar and Framtid. The band has cut a space for itself on the underground punk scene as a band with political intent and an extreme musical style. This is their last track ever!!
WARVICTIMS play raging D-beat  raw punk in the Scandinavian tradition, including a cover of DISCHANGE’s classic “After War Scars”.

This split consist 10 track from WARVICTIMS and 5 track from FLYBLOWN.
(12″ vinyl version available only at the distro)
http://www.myspace.com/warvictims
http://www.myspace.com/flyblown 

BETON/CAD –  split LP (Co-release with other 12 D.I.Y label)
Both bands comes from Slovakia. BETON with six furious tracks of heavy brutal D-beat with pissed off vocals. Short simple cold, dark dead lyrics. Nothing new just D-beat rawpunk that you can’t get enough off! CAD already have several releases out and have played together for many years by now. 11 furious tracks of grind/crust/rawpunk. Great cover art. No translation for the lyrics. You can find BETON’s lyrics translated on their myspace. This is released by 13 labels and limited to 500 copies.
(CD version available at the distro)
http://www.myspace.com/betoncrust
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=353702114

 

Still available/in stock:

BSR 011 WARVICTIMS – “Lognen Om Fredsavtalet” CD
D-beat crust out of Sweden. Brand new track with 8 page booklet. One of most active bands with new release every season. Silver stamp logo.http://www.myspace.com/warvictims BSR 012 ETACARINAE – “In These Dark Times” CD
Spanish cosmic apocalyptic crust. 10 new track plus bonus track from split with ASEDIO and “Faith in Chaos” EP. Included infamous track “Misery” from Bastard. 20 page special booklet that you can’t get from download!! http://www.myspace.com/etacarinaehc 

PROJECT HOPLESS “Välkommen till vår sopfyllda fabrik” CD
 (Co-release with Wasted Sound and Shaman Records)

An A//E political hardcore raw punk from Malmo Sweden. With touch of fast Swedish HC tradition and d-beat, here in the digital format and 12 page booklet. Comes with 2 an extra bonus tracks which are not available on vinyl version.

http://www.myspace.com/projecthopeless

 

BSR 006 DISTRUST “World OF Tommorow” CD

DISTRUST are Singaporean crusties was formed in 1999 with greatly influenced by Discharge, Doom, ENT and UK crust punk band and Swedish HC as well. This CD contains 17 tracks full of d-beat/crust. Comes with 8 pages booklet, glossy cover and silver stamp logo.  http://www.myspace.com/distrustpunk

 

BSR 007 SKULLCRUSHER “Darkness Falls” CD

SKULLCRUSHER was formed in early 1999 as well. Hail from Malaysia. In early days they were played covered from Discard, Bastard, Anti-Cimex, Masskontroll and of coz’ Discharge. When they hiatus for a few years the music change little bit. With the new guitarist the band still played like they used to play, bit Amebix influence in it make this recording variety of tune. 14 tracks full of heavy and brutal d-beat. Big layout poster size, glossy cover and silver stamp logo.http://www.myspace.com/skullcrusher

BSR 008 NUCLEAR DEATH TERROR – s/t CASSETTE

NDT hail from K-Town, d-beat crustcore of Doom with some metallic elements in an amazing combination. Downtuned, aggressive and violent, the rhythm section is full of energy and moves fast while the vocals are deep low howls with some slow apoclayptric crust intros. Brilliant!! Glossy cover and silver stamp logo.http://www.myspace.com/nucleardeathterror

 

BSR 009 DISCOVER “Stench Of Death” CD

DISCOVER hail from Sweden. This is split release with Black Konflick Rec.8 new tracks plus 6 cover song from Shitlickers, Doom, BOD, Discard and mighty Disclose!! they put all influence and put into the package raw punk arise!! Make sure play it loud!! Glossy cover plus silver stamp logo. http://www.myspace.com/discoverdbeat BSR 010 WARVICTIMS – Until Man Exist No More” CASSETTE

D-beat destruction from Sweden. Tape version with 3 extra track taken from their D-Beat Destruction EP.
One of most active band with new releases every season.16 track in total. Glossy sleeve and silver stamp logo as usual. http://www.myspace.com/warvictims

 

Other label:

NEVER BUILT RUINS CD (Bulit to love 10″ + demo)

Germany-Switzerland d-beat driven punk engine. Complete track from 10″ and demo collections.

http://www.myspace.com/neverbuiltruins

 

Get in touch!!

 

cheers!

-jery

www.myspace.com/blackseedsrecords
www.blackseedsrecords.blogspot.com

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Colin Preece writes on a warning to Cannabis users in Birmingham

January 19, 2009 /

“As a supporter of the Legalise Cannabis Alliance, I feel that we should warn the many thousands of cannabis users in Birmingham and the UK that our Government has defied its own efforts and will be raising cannabis from Class C to Class B next week.

The Government-appointed committee, the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) has for the third time stated that in their expert opinion cannabis should not be put into class B of the Misuse of Drugs Act.

However, Gordon Brown, who has mistakenly referred to some of the stronger versions of cannabis as “lethal” , Jacqui Smith et al, have decided to ignore that advice and go with the scare-mongers in order to try to win more votes.

The recent downfall in the number of cannabis users that followed downgrading to class C, has also been ignored. Maybe the Government want to see an increase.

The real effect of this will be an increase in maximum sentence for possession to 5 years in prison – the maximum sentence for cultivation, production or supply will remain at 14 years.

In other words, the only difference will be to cannabis users – whether they say it is medicinal or recreational or religious: and we are talking about users who have done no harm or posed no threat to anyone. Obviously people who harm others are punishable under other laws.

And of course the police who originally wanted downgrading to enable them to focus more on class A and B drugs, will now find themselves once again arresting cannabis users. Once again the courts will be filled up with people charged for possession instead of being given warnings or cautions. Once again our young people will be given criminal records for nothing more than possession of a plant product – and those that risk growing cannabis for their own medical benefit will be threatened by prison.

And the increased cost on top of the billions of pounds sent annually policing cannabis, will be born by the taxpayer – yes readers, your tax bill is about to go up so we can arrest more victimless cannabis users.

As a taxpayer I object most strongly to this: as a voter I object most strongly to our Government ignoring the advice of a committee we have paid for.

I hope that this will encourage readers to write to our MP’s as well as this letter page, and get this decision reversed before disaster strikes on top of disaster”

Sadly not only do governments past and present fail to tell the truth about cannabis they also fail to tell the truth about hemp….

HEMP4SHED sustainable human environmental development…

I believe the world needs to utilize as much land as possible for the cultivation of biomass, for food, fiber and fuel. Humanity needs to be working in cooperation globally, under the supervision of the United Nations, in order to cultivate biomass as a resource for sustainable human and environmental development. President Elect Obama has been speaking about the need to cultivate biomass in his drive to lower the USA’s carbon footprint, we in the UK need to be doing the same.

The below is a link to my myspace blog which goes into far more detail on the issues of how humanity can work toward global peace and human harmony with nature. I do hope you take the time to look at the link and forward it to all your contacts listeners readers and or viewers.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=98840874

yours faithfully
colin preece
4 rodborough road
sheldon
birmingham
b26 2qb

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THE ARCADIAN KICKS (Birmingham) “The Arcadian Kicks are one group whose star is most certainly on the ascension…..

January 19, 2009 /

“Love the idea it’s what all young bands should do to get profile”…….. Alan McGee 

BRITAIN’S BEST 4 NEW BANDS – ALL PLAYING EACH OTHER’S CLUB NIGHTS THROUGHOUT 2009  www.myspace.com/syndicateclubnight


First night: 6th Feb 2009
Featuring: The Arcadian Kicks & The Chairmen playing live

with extra support from Tantrums and Jessie Rose

plus Jon Brookes (from The Charlatans) dj set.
Place: The Sound Bar, Corporation Street, Birmingham,

open at 8pm.
Cost: £3 on the door.Syndicate Solutions are proud to announce a new concept in club nights….The first batch of gigs will involve 4 amazing bands from Birmingham, Liverpool, London and Leicester – each of them getting a chance to play at each other’s club night – three “home” and three “away” gigs for each band creating a fantastic opportunity for new music lovers across England to check out the next big thing. There will be drinks promotions and guest djs too so look out in these cities for the next Syndicate Club Night.

Bands who have confirmed to be involved in the Syndicate Club Nights are The Arcadian Kicks (Birmingham), The Grants (London), The Chairmen (Leicester), Bells For Rene (Liverpool). The dates are listed in the events section with more to follow over the next few days. 

THE ARCADIAN KICKS (Birmingham) “The Arcadian Kicks are one group whose star is most certainly on the ascension, and their hybrid of indie rock and a smattering of funk and soul…………Finishing with a funked up swagger.” – FUSED MAGAZINE 

THE GRANTS (London) “I got it wrong. Hands up. I will admit it. I have been saying the Grants are the best unsigned band in the United Kingdom. No. They are the best unsigned band in the world.” – ALAN MCGEE – THE GUARDIAN 

BELLS FOR RENÉ (Liverpool) “This band are defiantly showing promise and having energy and reaction similar to bands such as The Arctic Monkeys and Operator Please, I can see them pasted all over next years sell-out festivals.” – HALTSMAL MUSIC MAGAZINE 

THE CHAIRMEN (Leicester) “It was once again the combination of the quality of their material with their electric live performance that saw them standout as one of the most exciting bands of the event. Expertly written and arranged their tracks are packed full of ideas and sparkle with wit and energy.” – SURFACE UNSIGNED FESTIVAL (2008 WINNERS) 

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REMEMBER KEEP CHECKING THE MYSPACE/FACEBOOK PAGES FOR ALL THE UPDATES AND GIG DATES – THEY WILL ALL BE UP OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS

www.myspace.com/syndicateclubnight

website www.surfaceunsigned.co.uk

email info@surfaceunsigned.co.uk

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Review of forthcoming NIGHTINGALES album

January 19, 2009 /

(Skug magazine by Heinrich Deisl)):

The Nightingales, follow-up project of Birminghams first legendary punkband the Prefects around Robert Lloyd, that supported acts like Nico or Bo Diddley, are back with a nonchalant noisy album. While we’re in history: Lloyd, in his various incarnations, has been a regular guest at John Peels, only outplayed by the Fall. Lloyd, Alan apperley, Daren Garrett and young Matt Wood drone themselves through 12 rocknumbers, containing Avantgarde, Punk and borrowings to große kosmische musik – (annotation: i like that one) there are two guest appearances by Faust bass player Andreas Schmid (he he) – held together by Lloyds grumbly(?) singing, that sometimes sounds like Iggy Pop. Rock&Roll and Surf also consistently look around the corner: not for nothing the ‘gales dedicate “insult to injury” to Bo Diddley and Link Wray. This record scores with bulkiness, lots of bittersweet (there’s no way to translate Hinterfotzigkeiten… backc..tness? something like sneakyness) and pop-down to earth melancholy. A tour is coming up in spring 2009. Don’t miss it.

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Wolves In The Throne Room + Haxan + Taint Pram + Women Chris Corsano & Paul Dunmall + Theo Vetiver + guests Mono + Iroha

January 19, 2009 /

Wolves In The Throne Room + Haxan + Taint
Friday 30 January, Dragon Bar, Digbeth
Tickets £10 in advance www.theticketsellers.co.uk

The music of  The Wolves In The Throne Room is rooted in the  traditions of Black Metal, but they subvert the common aesthetic and ideology in order to remain true to their own personal manifestations. Their strong convictions appropriately compliment the confident decisive execution of their sound. This is the sound of paradox, ambiguity and confusion. Catharsis is the objective, not a lilly-white and guilt free existence. Death and rebirth, transformation and enlightenment. They believe that in Black Metal, there is great truth, transcendence and power.

“Our relationship with the natural world is a healing force in our lives. If you listen to Black Metal, but you don’t know what phase the moon is in, or what wild flowers are blooming then you have failed. The music is about wild forests, unfettered rivers, nature: furious and vengeful.”

This “natural” aesthetic permeates the bands every expression, Lyrically, musically, and ideologically. “Black Metal is the cleansing fire that frees us from the bondage of rationality, science, morality, religion, leaving us free to choose our own path…The deep woe inside black metal is about fear that we can never return to the mythic, pastoral world that we crave on a deep subconscious level”
www.myspace.com/wolvesinthethroneroom

Haxan is a Midlands based musical project that mixes dischordant black metal riffing, psychedelic atmospherics and melancholic doom into epic pieces that openly address mans relationship with religion, nature and self. Formed in 2004, the band rarely play live and openly shun most aspects of the modern music business. Their self titled debut album, available later this year will be a varied 40 minute concept piece and story that details the descent into madness and chaos of the main protagonist. Haxan tread a line between many genres to create something fresh and organic and truly emotional. Features ex members of Doom and Police Bastard.
http://www.myspace.com/000haxan000

Taint Of South Wales are something of an enigma. Many have striven to place their sound within a handy genre definition, only to find themselves wondering whether a band so dynamic and full of surprises can really be called ‘sludge’, or whether music so antithetical to boredom can justifiably be termed ‘post-hardcore’. Taint’s 2005 full-length debut for Rise Above, ‘The Ruin Of Nova Roma’ was a crafty beast that revelled in contructing such riddles for the listener and, of course, the critic. Pigeonholes are for pigeons, after all. It’s the purpose of great rock groups to not quite fit in.
http://www.myspace.com/taintuk

Pram + Women
Friday !3 February, Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath
Tickets £6 in advance www.theticketsellers.co.uk

Pram Birmingham’s Pram craft fairytales from concrete reality. The second city’s spin cycle of perpetual renovation, from the slum clearances to its current cosmetic upgrade, is etched in Pram’s restless groove, an endearing and gently refusenik mix encircling early Rough Trade innovators The Raincoats, astro jazz, sci-fi soundtracks, creepy Victoriana, tropical analogue and tumbledown funk.
www.myspace.com/pushthepram

Women, latest signing to Jagjaguwar (home to Bon Iver + Black Mountain) produce light and spacious sounds, at other times eerie and dense with an ominous weight,  touching upon Velvet Underground, Swell Maps or This Heat while not really having any obvious precursors – a lo-fi masterpiece cloaked in layers of vibrato and guitar wash.
Noisy and claustrophobic songs smash through junkyard trash brawls while others lift and soar across the landscape of 50’s-informed pop; a contradiction and an enigma, the debut album by Women will find its way onto summertime pool break-in boombox mixes and the turntables of record store devotees.

“…. straddles the 1960s’ divide between the Warhol crowd’s speed-addled New York cynicism and the echoes of psychedelic San Francisco that bubbled up across the pond in the fey, catchy pop of UK groups like the Zombies.”
– Pitchfork

http://www.myspace.com/womenmusic

Chris Corsano & Paul Dunmall + Theo
Sunday 22 February, Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath
Tickets £7 in advance www.theticketsellers.co.uk

Both players, Chris on drum and Paul on saxophone, have vibrant solo and group and improvised projects but the two love playing together and this is a rare instance to be celebrated. Their music manages to move people in a way that is just beyond words. Bear witness.

Chris Corsano’s drumming has to be seen to be fully appreciated. An ‘into the void’ musician who collaborates with a huge range of artists and can still pull off mad solo shit. It is a rare drummer that can hold his own with his customized kit, clatter practice and circular breathing drone exhortations but retain a dynamic and structure that works. He also self-releases a CD of distorted and spiked keyboard pieces on the Hot Cars Warp label to confuse those who try to pin him down. Loose-limbed, intense, even melodic, he exposes the audience to sounds and rhythms that defy normality. He moves light footed around the world sparking off into all kinds of collaborations playing with/alongside Jim O’Rouke, the Dimension X project, Whitehouse, Bjork, Mick Beck, Okkyung Lee, Thurston Moore and Bill Nace among many.

PAUL DUNMALL
For thirty years Paul Dunmall has carved out a reputation for himself and is now widely recognised as one of the most uncompromising and talented reed players on the International jazz/improvised music scene. Whether playing in small groups or big bands his musical sensitivity and imagination combined with a powerful sound to make him one of the most distinctive improvisers playing today.His octet and Moksha big band showcases his abilities both as a composer drenched in the Jazz traditions and Folk traditions and as a sympathetic leader able to give maximum freedom to a elite group of fellow improvisers.

Theo, the work of one Sam Knight, is one for themath rock fans. Taut, chugging guitar loops layer up with frenetictapping patterns that interweave in spiralling complexity before nearsub-atomically precise, powerhouse drumming clatters and builds eachsong into juggernaut of riffs and rhythms. To achieve something likethis recorded is one thing, but to see Theo perform live is quiteanother as each song blurs into the next and the dazzling guitar anddrum acrobatics leave jaws sagging on the faces of all who bear witnessto the talent on offer.
www.myspace.com/theo1000

Vetiver + guests
27 February, Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath
Tickets £10 in advance www.theticketsellers.co.uk

Vetiver is an American folk band headed by songwriter Andy Cabic and often joined by Devendra Banhart, cellist Alissa Anderson, drummer Otto Hauser, violin Carmen Biggers, guitarists Kevin Barker and Sanders Trippe, bassist Brent Dunn.

Vetiver released their debut album in 2004 on the small indie folk label DiCristina. Since the album`s release Vetiver has toured extensively, opening for and collaborating with Banhart and Joanna Newsom. Before moving to San Francisco, Cabic was a member of the Greensboro, North Carolina indie rock band The Raymond Brake who released some records on the now defunct Simple Machines label. The band shared the bill with Vashti Bunyan on her US tour in early 2007.

The band is named after the grass, vetiver. Their music has been described as `surreal`, `lullingly pleasant`, `tender and accessible` and `quirky and warm`.
http://www.myspace.com/vetiverse

Mono + Iroha
Saturday 21 March, Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath
Tickets £10 in advance www.theticketsellers.co.uk

Just in time for their 10-year anniversary, MONO return to Birmingham in support of their fifth studio album, the absolutely massive Hymn To The Immortal Wind.

The music is naturally majestic, with MONO’s trademark wall of noise crashing beautifully against the largest chamber orchestra the band has ever enlisted. The instrumentation is vast, incorporating strings, flutes, organ, piano, glockenspiel and tympani into their standard face-melting set-up.

Recorded to analog tape with long-time friend and producer Steve Albini, there is an intimacy captured here that is at once beautiful and a little terrifying. The creaking of old wooden chairs as the orchestra rocks in their seats (both literally and figuratively), puckered lips rolling along flutes, and even the conductor’s opening cue can be heard during the hauntingly quiet opening moments

While Hymn continues to mine the cinematic drama inherent in all of MONO’s music, the dynamic shifts now come more from dark-to-light instead of quiet-to-loud. The maturity to balance these elements so masterfully has become MONO’s strongest virtue.

http://www.myspace.com/monojp

IROHA
Featuring current and former members of Jesu, Cable Regime and Final, Iroha mixes layers of textured guitar and basslines with heartbreaking melodies and brutally slow beats to produce songs of melancholic beauty.

“Although its scent still lingers on, the form of a flower has scattered away. For whom will the glory of this world remain unchanged? Arriving today at the yonder side of the deep mountains of evanescent existence. We shall never allow ourselves to drift away intoxicated, in the world of shallow dreams”
www.myspace.com/irohamusic

If you are organising any live events in the midlands region and would like your listings posted here too then get in touch

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