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The new installment of Malignant compilation is out now!
This 2016 edition showcases the talents of Theologian, Xiphoid Dementia, Phelios, Phragments, Shibalba, TOMB, Aderlating, Steel Hook Prostheses, Gnawed, Analfabetism, Of Earth And Sun and Leila Abdul-Rauf and more! The compilation is available for download purchase or to stream free here.
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We would like to introduce Headstone Brigade which is the new folk project of Egan Budd/Xiphoid Dementia with this free downloadable and streaming EP featuring covers and traditional arrangements of folk songs. Headstone Brigade’s sound can be described as neofolk or melodramatic pop with a sea shanty twist due to the main instrument of accordion being featured in almost all tracks. This free EP is a precursor to a full-length which is coming later this year on Brave Mysteries.
Please check out the EP Divine Vestiges over at Headstone Brigade’s bandcamp …
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Pent Up Release presents
SEATTLE, Thursday 4.14
PORTLAND, Saturday 4.16
Seattle, WA
Thursday April 14th, 2016
REBAR 21+
CONTROL
SCARD
GRIEFER
RUSALKA
XIPHOID DEMENTIA
PRISONFOOD+MASAAKI MASAO
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Portland, OR
Saturday April 16th, 2016
HIGH WATER MARK 21+
CONTROL
SCARD
BLOOD BOX
JONATHAN CANADY
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Every year since 2012, we have been treated to a quality collaborative compilation between the iconic Malignant Records—a label that I recently described as “the leading name releasing the new generation of old-school industrial and dark ambient music today”—and arguably the strongest digital label that our scene has to offer in Kalpamantra. Originally finding a run as The Malignant Series, the annual compilation found a life of its own last year with Endless Descent Into Oblivion: a thirty-nine-track marathon of nearly perverse audial violence (The Vomit Arsonist‘s “Failed”; …