Held annually on deepest Olympian soil, hosting endeavors whose roots reach back through the lineage of ritual performative arts to those ancestors who strove by drum and rattle to something starborne, Cascadian Yule gathers acts of sacral intent from along the west coast spanning the genres of folk, black metal, EDM, soundscape, dance, mythtelling, theater, and beyond—amidst feasting and the jovial reunions of distant tribes of artists, all in honor of the sun who gives all.
12/21 – Cascadian Yule 2024
December 9th, 202411/9 – Xiphoid Dementia, Sataray, Rising Plague Incinerator
September 21st, 20249/13 – Headstone Brigade, Waul of the Weald, OmenFog
August 9th, 20248/13 – Felsenmirror, Headstone Brigade, Iron Rot
August 9th, 20247/24-7/28 Lunasa Cascadia 2024
June 7th, 20246/21-6/23 Cascadian Midsummer 2024
June 7th, 20243/7-3/10 – Headstone Brigade Spring 2024 Tour
February 8th, 202411/30-12/3 Headstone Brigade Micro-Tour
November 13th, 2023We have arranged a few special shows to celebrate the release of our new album Victory & Defeat! Our schedule is as follows:
11/30 – Seattle, WA @ The Rabbit Box with Nesting, Medina/Walsh
12/2 – Victoria, BC @ Rebel Company Garage with Funerary Call
12/3 – Vancouver, BC @ The Heatley with Tithe, The Nausea
11/5 – Returning, Xiphoid Dementia + more
October 19th, 20239/6 – The Infinity Ring, Headstone Brigade + more
August 9th, 20238/23 – Moth Drakula, Xiphoid Dementia + more
August 7th, 2023Headstone Brigade & Cradle Of Judah Summer 2023 West Coast Tour
June 27th, 20237/7 & 7/8 – Covenant Festival 2023
June 22nd, 2023Under the Banner of the Flaming Chalice, Covenant Festival returns to Vancouver to truly celebrate the TRIUMPH of DEATH. Our annual tradition returns from the dead!! The hour is nigh to cast time itself into the burning wills of the devout and summon our congregation once again. Covenant Festival MMXXIII will stand as a union of rabid legions from our past, present, and future.
6/4 – Headstone Brigade, Samvega + more
May 23rd, 20234/16 – Aerial Ruin, Isenordal, Headstone Brigade
March 23rd, 20231/21 – Sadist, Xiphoid Dementia, Lexicon
January 5th, 202311/20 – Headstone Brigade, Sammy Fielding + more
November 14th, 20226/17-6/21 Litha Cascadia 2022
May 21st, 2022This year’s Litha Cascadia will be host to both Headstone Brigade and Xiphoid Dementia. Headstone Brigade will be performing as a 4 piece featuring cello, guitar, backup vocals and percussion on Sunday afternoon of June 19th. While Xiphoid Dementia will be delivering a full multimedia experience on Monday night June 20th.
For more information visit the Official Litha Cascadia website and grab your tickets now!
5/17 – Thief, Xiphoid Dementia, To End It All
April 26th, 20224/28 – God Is War, Xiphoid Dementia, Ex-Florist
April 12th, 2022Ruinous Resound Festival – Oct. 22nd & 23rd
October 5th, 20212 day event of heavy industrial music from US and European artists, gathering together to shake the grounds of San Francisco. Taking place in the heart of San Francisco’s beautiful Chinatown, this two day event will feature monumental names of the related genres, both seasoned and new, gathered for a massive journey and dynamic blend of dark industrial sonic and visual exploration.
Human Larvae live @ Orden
July 19th, 2021Xiphoid Dementia In-Studio Live Set @ Northeast Noise Fest 2021
July 18th, 20212/16 – Thief, Headstone Brigade + more
February 6th, 20202/16 @ Highline – Seattle, WA
THIEF MUSIC electronic-based project fronted by D. Neal (Botanist, DHR) – https://thief-official.bandcamp.com/To End It All intense songs forged from rhythms & noise, synths, & vocals – https://toenditall.bandcamp.com/Jason Walton (Agalloch, Nothing) explorations of the farthest reaches of sound – https://jwalton.bandcamp.com/Headstone Brigade neo-folk compositions by Egan Budd (Xiphoid Dementia) – https://headstonebrigade.bandcamp.com/
7/20 – 7/22 :: Headstone Brigade/Crooked Mouth Micro Tour
June 16th, 20196/1 – SH:HS, Terror Cell Unit, Xiphoid Dementia
May 10th, 20194/27 – Darkwood, Crooked Mouth, Headstone Brigade
March 26th, 20194/11-4/13 – Xiphoid Dementia PNW Mini Tour
March 13th, 20192/22 & 2/23 Industrial Aktions Festival 2019
January 11th, 2019FEBRUARY 22nd & 23rdTERMINAL / OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA
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4/16 Husere Grav, Nycterent, Greylock + more
March 25th, 20187/22 – Nighttime, Headstone Brigade + more
July 12th, 20177/20 – Echo Beds, Xiphoid Dementia + more
July 12th, 20176/11 – Serpentent, Headstone Brigade, Crooked Mouth
May 29th, 20173/18 – Night Profound, Headstone Brigade + more
January 17th, 20172/21 – Filth, Gnawed, Xiphoid Dementia + more
December 17th, 201611/3 – Pathogens, Xiphoid Dementia, Prisonfood @ Gallery 1412
October 20th, 20166/20 – Medicine Moon, Witch Bottle, Headstone Brigade + more
May 21st, 20166/16-6/18 – Covenant Festival II
February 9th, 20164/14 – Control, Scard, Xiphoid Dementia
February 9th, 2016Pent 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
3/5 – Headstone Brigade, Eric Ostrowski, Josh Medina + more
February 9th, 2016Pent Up Release and Gallery 1412 present
Acoustic Mess featuring Live Performances By
Headstone Brigade
Eric Ostrowski
Mike XVX
Adam Levitt
Josh Medina
Saturday March 5th, 2016 6pm-9pm
Gallery 1412
All Ages Event
1412 18th Avenue
Seattle WA 98122
Headstone Brigade
Accordion based neo-folk and melodramatic pop.
Egan Budd is a electronic music artist as well as composer recently re-located to the Seattle area perhaps more known for his noise/industrial project Xiphoid Dementia or label/webzine Existence Establishment previously based out of Boston, MA.
https://www.facebook.com/headstonebrigade/
Eric Ostrowski
Eric Ostrowski is a freely-improvising musician and experimental filmmaker based in Seattle, WA.
He played guitar and violin as one half of …
10/31 – Xiphoid Dementia in Vilnius!
October 17th, 201510/9 and 10/10–Of Earth And Sun/FRKSE microtour (Boston and Providence)
September 18th, 201510/15 – MK9, Rusalka, Xiphoid Dementia + more
August 22nd, 20156/19 & 6/20 – Minneapolis Industrial Noise Fest
May 7th, 20154/18 – Vancouver Noise Fest 2015
April 3rd, 20153/14 – Armageddon Descends III
January 26th, 201512/7 – Bastard Noise, Xiphoid Dementia + more
October 26th, 201411/21 – Morne, Xiphoid Dementia + more
October 26th, 201411/7 – Horror Vacui, Xiphoid Dementia + more
October 26th, 201410/17 – Brighter Death Now, Deutsch Nepal, raison d’être + more
September 5th, 2014PRESALE TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE
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Brighter Death Now (Linköping, Sweden)
Brighter Death Now – No Pain
Brighter Death Now is the artist name under which Roger Karmanik (b. 1965 as Roger Karlsson), the founder of the Swedish record label Cold Meat Industry, releases death industrial, power electronics and dark ambient music.
Whereas early Brighter Death Now recordings tended to be largely instrumental and atmospherically oriented, present-day releases often feature screamed vocals, distorted beyond comprehension. Throughout its history, Karmanik has kept his music’s thematic elements focused on such …
10/15 – Father Murphy, Xiphoid Dementia + more
September 2nd, 20149/18 – MK9, Omei + more
August 1st, 2014((((Facemelt Event))))
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MK9 (Pleasant Hell, CA)
MK9 – Synaptic Plague Virus
MK9, is the current project of Michael Nine, it began in the latter half of 2001. Preceding the end of the controversial and confrontational performances as the renowned project Death Squad.
MK9 brings the initiation of a different level of psychological intrusion. Through video projection, audio constructions and performance, MK9 continues to investigate the varying aspects of emotional states
interrelated with the human condition and the social psyche.
The presented video, sound and performance address current issues and perspectives. Dealing with humanity’s ever-changing state …
8/15-8/24 – Xiphoid Dementia & Regosphere 2014 West Coast Tour
July 11th, 20148/2 – Murderous Vision, Pauline Lombardo + more
July 9th, 2014((((Facemelt Event))))
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Muderous Vision (Fairport Harbor, OH)
Murderous Vision – The Canopy of Sorrow that Remains
Murderous Vision was founded as a 3-piece group, but later became the solo project of Stephen Petrus. Murderous Vision’s style ranges from dark ambient to death industrial to martial industrial and neoclassical music.
Murderous Vision has released close to a dozen albums and has been featured on several compilations and has had releases done on several industrial and ambient labels, most notably Petrus’ label Live Bait
Recording Foundation.
Pauline Lombardo (NE, OH)
Pauline Lombardo – Bitter Breath (excerpt)
One half of …
7/27 – Hive Mind, Redrot + more
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Hive Mind (Los Angeles, CA)
Hive Mind – Return to Steam
Hive Mind is a brutal patch of analog smog birthed in the bleak landscape of Detroit, Michigan and currently casting shadows in Los Angeles, California. A constantly throbbing, full frequency signal transmitter which is only limited by the physical restraints of time and the artificial constructs of society, Hive Mind has both blessed and cursed us with dozens of musical communications in almost every imaginable format.
Pushing the limits of analog media and revealing the coldness inherent in the …
7/25 & 7/26 – Summer Scum III
June 17th, 20147/23 – Sire, Xiphoid Dementia & Corephallism + more
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Sire (Providence, RI)
Weirdo black metal from Providence with members of Tinsel Teeth, White Mice, Howl and Necronomitron.
Sadist (Boston, MA)
Sadist – Beauty Fades
Rising from the ashes of Boston d-beat band G.A.S.H. is Sadist. These boys are hell bent on bringing the sickest sound that hardcore punk can muster and they’ll shove it right down your throat. Get ready for a delivery of no-strings attached noisy punk with a ferocity rarely matched.
Xiphoid Dementia & Corephallism (MA/PE/FU)
Xiphoid Dementia – I Want to Live a Life of Insignificance Part II
Corephallsim – Speaking …
6/26 – Husere Grav, Erroraeon + more
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Husere Grav (Texas)
Husere Grav – Serpent Savior
The mysterious Husere Grav (pronounced “Huss-urr-ee Grahv”) first rose out of the ashes of black metal duo Homunculus in 2006, and over the past eight years has released some spectacular pieces of utterly dread-filled industrial blackness. Following up splits with Meditations, TRTRKMMR and Robedoor and the 2012 Cd Ten Graves, Husere Grav’s latest full-length offering comes via the Crucial Blaze imprint, a seven-song album of macabre ambiance and ghostly black drift that combines the charnel perfume of early 90’s black metal …
6/14 – Xiphoid Dementia, Bereft – NYC
May 2nd, 20145/22 – Tovarish, Xiphoid Dementia + more
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Tovarish (Providence, RI)
Tovarish – Road of Bones
Tovarish is a Soviet-inspired doom/drone/noise band from Rhode Island (USA). The band is asked often, “Is it normal to want to kill myself after listening to you?” And the answer is, simply, “Yes.” There is no hope. There is no salvation. There is only Tovarish.
Often drawing comparisons to artists such as Sunn O))), Nortt, and SPK, Tovarish’s aesthetic evokes the majestic horror of war and the glory of the state through riffs played so slowly as to trouble the line between …
4/25 – Vulgar Fashion, Statiqbloom + more
March 5th, 20144/17 – Crowhurst, Xiphoid Dementia + more
March 5th, 20144/5 – Hot Guts, M Ax Noi Mach + more
March 5th, 20143/13 – Double Cassette Release Show feat. Sharpwaist, Goodbye Cruel World + more
February 11th, 2014*flier artwork by Wladimir Vladimir
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Sharpwaist & Marabou Stork (Boston/New York)
Sharpwaist & Marabou Stork – Untitled
Currently celebrating their collaborative release tape entitled “Cold Shots” on Existence Establishment, Sharpwaist and Marabou Stork will perform a rare collaborative performance to comemorate the evening. Their release is based on the feeling of autumn in New England and is sure to offer a nice contrast to the early spring atmosphere.
Sharpwaist was started in Boston by Carl Haas in 2006 and has released on such labels as Razors and Medicine, Nil By Mouth, …
2/8 – Ode, Xiphoid Dementia + more
January 12th, 20141/14 – Shredded Nerve, A Snake In The Garden + more
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Shredded Nerve (Cincinnati, OH)
Shredded Nerve – Mind Begins to Crumble as Dots Are Connected
Shredded Nerve is a project created by Justin Lakes in late 2013 after the dissolution of the Pusdrainer project. Shredded Nerve utilizes tape loops,synthesizer,and found objects to create stressful layered harsh noise compositions. Touring in support of the “Failure to Maintain” double tape on Chondritic Sound.
Deceiver (Buffalo, NY)
Deceiver – Soon I Will be Dead and Nothing Will Matter Anymore III
Deceiver is a slow moving minimal HNW project featuring Matt Goodrich of Water Torture, Breached …
12/14 – Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, Kintaan + more
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Blue Sabbath Black Cheer (Seattle, WA)
Blue Sabbath Black Cheer – The Sense of Violence
Blue Sabbath Black Cheer (BSBC) formed in winter 2005, by wm.Rage and Stan Reed, rehearsing after-hours in the Electric Heavyland (R.I.P.) record store in Seattle, Washington, before moving into an all concrete garage in the alley behind the record store, where they rehearsed incessantly for the next 2 years, much to the dismay of the nearby neighbors. In 2007, leaving “The Bog”, rehearsals and recordings then took place for a short time in an …
10/31 – Spettro Family, Theologian + more!!!
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Spettro Family (Salerno, Italy)
Spettro Family – Brasov Black Biserica (TutRur 2012)
In 2010, the sole man behind the music, Stefan Iannone, took a trip into the Carpathian heart of Romania — a place that exists seemingly cut off from the rest of Europe in nearly every sense; so cut off, in fact, that it contains a large percentage of Europe’s last intact wilderness, and no doubt is a place whose people live within a culture that is at least moderately removed from most of the West in meticulous …
9/27 – Hollow Seed, Ultra Negative + more
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Hollow Seed (Belchertown, MA)
Hollow Seed – Untitled
Hollow Seed is the new project from Jesse Allen the man involved in several landmark noise units including The Cathode Terror Secretion, Cowards, and Migrations In Rust. Having newly relocated to Western Mass he debut’s his new project in a whirlwind of aggressive distorted rhythmic elements and grindcore paranoia.
Ultra Negative (Portsmouth, NH)
Ultra Negative – From Nothing To Nothing
Ultra//Negative, everyone’s favourite Namshaw Powerviolence band lives up to their name lyrically and musically, and it’s only right, seeing as they have Jan of …
8/15 – Author & Punisher, Theologian, Massdirge
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Author & Punisher (San Diego, CA)
Author & Punisher – Terrorbird
Tristan Shone is a mechanical engineer, sculptor, musician and creator of the Drone Machines and now Dub Machines industrial sound controllers. Alongside fabricating machines and composing sound for performance, Shone works at the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research as a mechanical engineer and the Center for Research and Computing in the Arts at UCSD as a researcher in media arts.
Drone/Dub Machines are custom made machines fabricated from raw materials and utilizing open source circuitry. The devices …
8/6 – Peter J Woods, Sharpwaist, Lucky Bone
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Peter J Woods (Milwaukee, WI)
Peter J Woods – A Story
Peter J Woods is a musician, playwright and performance artist from Milwaukee, WI. Up until a few years ago, these three areas were kept isolated, performing music under a number of different monikers and with a handful of different bands (Phoned Nil Trio, xALLxFORxTHISx, Raperies (Like Draperies), Coelacanth, Peter J Woods Free Jazz Ensemble, just to name a few), writing short absurdists pieces for a number of different theatre companies (Insurgent Theatre, Pink Banana, Alamo Basement), and doing …
7/22 – Gnawed, Yosh Ohara, A Snake in the Garden + more
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Gnawed (Minneapolis, MN)
Gnawed – Savage Judgement
Gnawed is Grant Richardson of Minneapolis. Under the moniker he creates a crushing blend of death industrial, power electronics and noise which shakes the foundations of the genre. Being one of the top industrial acts in the U.S. currently Richardson has embarked on a U.S. tour and is playing Boston for the first time. Be prepared for chugging synths, bowel-inducing frequiencies and industrial material attacks.
Yosh Ohara (Brooklyn, NY)
Yosh Ohara – Untitled (Excerpt)
Yoshiko Ohara, a member of creepy art-metal outfit Bloody Panda, who …
Summer Scum Festival II
June 28th, 2013Summer Scum is the second annual Buffalo, NY noise fest focused on Harsh Noise and Power Electronics. This years fest will take place at The Flesh Tunnel (1245 Niagra st) on July 18th,19th, and 20th. The lineup features over 50 acts from all over the country such as: Ferveur Noire, John Mannion, Ahlzagailzehguh, Deterge, Skin Graft, Envenomist, Gnawed, Xiphoid Dementia, Hostage Pageant, and many many more.
Summer Scum was conceptualized in early 2012 when curators Justin Lakes and Matt Goodrich decided to start doing a fest shortly after Lakes …
7/16 – Being, Breaking The Will, Hostage Pageant + more
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Being (Dayton, OH)
Being – Untitled (Excerpt)
Being is the harsh noise project of Luke Tandy, who also operates the Skeleton Dust Recordings label. Starting in 2006, the project has been a vessel for exploring the depths of a variety of extreme sounds and frequencies. There is no political or sociological message; just pure sonic worship. It is the sound of an amplified existence.
The performance for the evening will consist of contact microphones, cassette loops and fuzz pedals used together to discover the possibilities of decaying acoustic feedback …
6/14 – Nurture Abuse, Xiphoid Dementia + more
May 24th, 2013Milwaukee Noise Fest 2013
May 14th, 2013Now in its eighth iteration, the Milwaukee Noise Fest returns with a facelift, promising to be bigger, better and noisier than ever. From August 22nd to the 24th, FTAM productions will fill the Miramar theatre with twenty four of North America’s absolute best in controlled (and uncontrolled) dissonance and sound wave hijacking.
While the festival continues to focus on local musicians playing host to twelve of the city’s best noise artists, this year will include an expanded roster of international musicians. Creative commons crusaders and plunderphonics masterminds Negativland – best …
5/22 – Breached Hull, Developer, Diaphragmatic + more
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Breached Hull (Buffalo, New York)
Breached Hull – Magnetic Alignment
Breached Hull is the sci fi power electronics project of Matt Goodrich (Water Torture/Pacing) and Justin Lakes (Pusdrainer) based out of Buffalo,NY and Cincinnati,OH. The project was founded in early 2012. Focused on rhythmic,crushing loops taken from audio from some of our favorite movies with aggressive vocals with lyrics inspired by the film. This will be our second tour and our first time on the east coast. The planned set will feature two songs from our debut “Into the …
4/19 – APEX FEST V
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En Nihil (California)
En Nihil – The Tombs of Empire
En Nihil is the dark electronic music project of reclusive artist Adam fritz. Based in Los Angeles California. Formed in 1994 ,three proper albums were released from 1995 -1998. Aswell as over a dozen limited tapes and a few notable split releases, in what’s consider as the fist phase of an almost 20 year existence. A very long hiatus followed until a resurfacing and second phase was realized in 2010 with the release of “The absolute …
4/17 – Oneirogen, Andrew Hock + more
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Oneirogen (Brooklyn, New York)
Oneirogen – Numina
NYC based multi-instrumentalist Mario Diaz de Leon creates hallucinatory walls of sound with electric guitar, electronics, and acoustic instruments. His project ONEIROGEN descends into a territory of unsettling synths and distortion, framed by metal, noise, industrial, and modern composition. The project was initiated in 2012 with the release of “Hypnos”, which brought widespread acclaim among fans of experimental and heavy music for its varied and cinematic intensity. The new album, “Kiasma” (released March 2013 on Denovali), maintains a strong …
4/12 – Sannhet, Ehnahre, Fórn, Øde
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Sannhet (Brooklyn, New York)
Sannhet – Absecon Isle
Sannhet is an instrumental experimental metal band featuring members Christopher Todd – drums and samples, John Refano – guitar and loopers, and AJ Annunziata – bass guitar. Straddling the line between clear riffs and static, Sannhet’s songs were highly structured, but drenched in a top layer of noise–much like the garbled images one can almost make out under TV snow.
Expect a barrage of harmonically complex post-everything building to a climax only to pinnacle into further obliteration.
Ehnahre (Boston, MA)
Ehnahre – The …
*CANCELED* 2/8 – Jeff Carey, Richard Axle Jones, Andrea Pensado, Övervarning
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Jeff Carey (Odenton, MD)
Jeff Carey – ctrl
Jeff Carey’s music is hardcore digital instrumental music. It is computer based synthesis, noise, and improvisation combined with a no-safety-net aspect of gestural control makes his music totally physical and visceral.
“He’s acting on raw instinct here – he refuses the clinical approach to programming software or composing music, and strives to throw himself bodily at his machines, replacing all mechanical moving parts with human flesh, blood, and bone. In pursuit of this all-organic goal, virtually everything else is …
1/12 – Raspberry Bulbs, Pharmakon + more!!!
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Raspberry Bulbs (Brooklyn, NY)
Raspberry Bulbs – What It Is Between Us
After releasing several tapes and an LP as a solo project, He Who Crushes Teeth (Bone Awl) expanded RB to a full band lineup in 2011. The band has recorded the second LP and are now playing their first shows outside New York.
Salvation (Philadelphia, PA)
Salvation – The Tethered Man
A mouthful of bloody broken teeth and flailing debris with a frantic, collapsing sound all their own, SALVATION are an epithet of TRUTH in a world of of ineffectual, …
1/4 – C.Lavender, Soft Target + more!!
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C.Lavender (New York)
C.Lavender – Meet Me At The Station (Excerpt)
C. Lavender is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily with heavy electronics based sound. Her performances feature elements of harsh noise, black metal and sleaze pop. C. Lavender has performed at The Voice of the Valley festival in West Virginia, The International Noise Conference in Miami, The NY Eye & Ear Fest in New York and is a member of the bands Cock E.S.P and The Laundry Room Squelchers.
Soft Target (Providence, RI)
“Painful atmosphere. Jagged, pulsing electronics. …
11/30 – Ehnahre, Sewer Goddess, Northumbria + more!!!
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Ehnahre (Boston, MA)
Ehnahre – The Clatterbones
The master of 20th century music, Arnold Schoenberg, declared the “liberation of the dissonance” to be essential for the progress of music as an art form. Nowhere is this currently more apparent than in the world of metal, and other extreme music. Ehnahre wholly embraces that philosophy, and it consummately informs their music.
Sewer Goddess (Boston, MA)
Sewer Goddess – Demasculator
Sewer Goddess is prepared to deliver a psychologically debasing set executed in three movements from a collective …
11/8-11/14 – Funerary Call / Xiphoid Dementia Northeast Tour 2012
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Funerary Call (Vancouver, Canada)
Funerary Call – Transference From The Void
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Drawing from a diverse palette of analog and digital hardware, found objects, field recordings and ritual implements, Funerary Call creates an unsettling ancient atmosphere that aims to transcend the perceptive listener, spiritually and emotionally – beyond all boundaries and limitations.
Channeling energy and inspiration from chthonic elements, the music celebrates the exploration of man’s darker half: the shadow-self. It is an aural descent into the underworld of unconscious and subconscious dimensions. Challenging the listener to …
11/2-11/4 – Halloween Industrial Festival
September 20th, 201210/1 – Dream Affair, G.A.S.H. + more!!!
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Dream Affair (Brooklyn, NY)
Dream Affair – Syndrome
Dream Affair is a dark post-punk band based in Brooklyn by way of Philadelphia formed in the winter of 2009. Members Hayden Payne (vocals, guitar, electronics) and Bryan Spoltore (bass) have also made music together since they were just teenagers. Following their self-released EP All I Want, Abby Echiverri (vocals, synth, violin) joined the band, and the young trio released their debut album Endless Days on Avant! Records in 2011, which was promoted with a European tour.
Now Dream Affair is releasing …
9/13 – Kevin Greenspon, Suffer on Acid + more!
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Kevin Greenspon (Los Angeles, CA)
Kevin Greenspon – Maroon Bells
Kevin Greenspon is a musician from Los Angeles, CA that blends ambient, electronic, drone, field recording and harsh noise composition into short songs that can be likened to miniature film scores. Primarily using guitar, effects and tape collage techniques, each song is an emotionally engaging arrangement of melodies and electronics fueled by a storytelling nature. Restraint and subtlety are key elements in Greenspon’s work, carefully balancing between sparse quietude and dense layering of orchestral melodies and crackling textures as …
8/22 – Indignant Senilty, Weak Sisters, Benjamin Nelson + more!
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Indignant Senility (Portland, OR)
Indignant Senility – Color Absolution
Indignant Senility is a rotten-ambient 1-man band with a heavy emphasis on theft and degradation of classical music, among other things.
Benjamin Nelson (Boston, MA)
Benjamin Nelson – Live @ The Piano Factory (excerpt)
Influenced by early minimalism, Nelson’s music focuses on extremes such as duration, volume, or lack thereof to explore their effects on hearing, stream separation, and to reveal often hidden but dramatic shifts in overtones, spectrum and phase. Integrating electronics, acoustic sound, …
7/29 – Peter J Woods, Lucky Bone, Zerfallt + more!
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Peter J Woods (Milwaukee, WI)
Peter J Woods – A Story
Peter J Woods is a musician, playwright and performance artist from Milwaukee, WI. Up until a few years ago, these three areas were kept isolated, performing music under a number of different monikers and with a handful of different bands (Phoned Nil Trio, xALLxFORxTHISx, Raperies (Like Draperies), Coelacanth, Peter J Woods Free Jazz Ensemble, just to name a few), writing short absurdists pieces for a number of different theatre companies (Insurgent Theatre, Pink Banana, Alamo Basement), and doing …
7/19 – Anasazi, Dekoder, G.A.S.H. + more!
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Anasazi (New York, NY)
Anasazi – Bone Collector
Deranged and violent Post-PUNK from New York City. A tribal disaster the ancestors would hate… Anasazi, who’ve suddenly surfaced over the past 2 years, play hateful hymns for happy people. Crucially conflicted, controversially cannibalistic: Ancient Pueblan-Wave at its best.
Dekoder (Montreal, Canada)
Dekoder – Hate Song
Dekoder began in the spring of 2010 as a side projects of other bands (Complications). Members either left their other bands and some just disbanded focusing more on Dekoder and eventually recorded …
7/6 & 7/7 – INDUSTRIAL LIBERATION FESTIVAL 2012
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Deutsch Nepal (Sweden)
Deutsch Nepal – Heartbomb
There´s a big gap between what exist and what possibly could….. Deutsch Nepal try to fill that gap by concidering what is true, what is pure and possible. With a conviction of the purity of it´s own distorted creation Deutsch Nepal twist the truth and turn the impossible into a reality existing only inside your head. Never mind this statement …. mind the gap!
iVardensphere (Edmonton, Canada)
iVardensphere – Ancients
Based …
6/6 – Aun, Thisquietarmy + more
May 16th, 2012((((Facebook Event Listing))))
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Aun (Montréal, Canada)
Aun – Berlin
Aun are a Montreal-based band that melt the boundaries between psychedelic, electronic, ambient, industrial and doomgaze music. Aun have performed at the Mutek, Roadburn, WGT, FIMAV and Swingfest festivals. They have released numerous praised albums with such labels as Alien8 Recordings, Important, Cyclic Law and now with Denovali.
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Thisquietarmy (Montréal, Canada)
Thisquietarmy – As the Creatures Unravel From Within/Vampyr
Thisquietarmy is the experimental guitar-based project of Eric Quach from Montreal, Quebec, Canada – active since 2005. Revolving around improvised drone …
6/1 – Xiphoid Dementia, Katze, Symptomatic + more
May 8th, 20125/30 – Machismo, Hate Basement + more
April 26th, 2012((((Facebook Event Listing))))
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Machismo (Chicago, IL)
Machismo – You Weren’t Born Innocent
Overly violent, nihilistic power electronics from Chicago, IL. Machismo is a dual vocal trio incorporating harsh noise and a confrontational live presence. Having done prior time in several hardcore bands, Machismo take power violence dynamics and apply it to noise.
Hate Basement (Chicago, IL)
Hate Basement – Pathetic
Anxiety-ridden harsh noise and power electronics. Sweating profusely and pulling out its hair while dreaming about long drives in the mountains. Slaves to …
5/20 – Dave Public, Locutions, Corephallism + more
April 17th, 2012((((Facebook Event Listing))))
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Dave Public (Pawtucket, RI)
Suffering Bastard – Oiled Up
**Suffering Bastard canceled, Dave Public (Suffering Bastard solo) will be playing instead. Suffering Bastard is a full-on grindcore unit hailing from Providence Rhode Island. Featuring members of Nurture Abuse, and Dave Public. Expect a full-frontal aural assault of aggressive punk, metal, and noise attacks.
Sharpwaist (MA/PE/FU)
Sharpwaist – Baltimore Single Mother
Personal and peripheral tragedy and degradation. Burnt-out sound spaces, stale ambiance and frustrated harsh noise blasts, all swarming with the scraped-raw vocalizations informed as much …
5/11 – Hive Mind, Raven Strain + more
April 12th, 2012((((Facebook Event Listing))))
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Hive Mind (Los Angeles, CA)
Hive Mind – Return to Steam
Hive Mind is a brutal patch of analog smog birthed in the bleak landscape of Detroit, Michigan and currently casting shadows in Los Angeles, California. A constantly throbbing, full frequency signal transmitter which is only limited by the physical restraints of time and the artificial constructs of society, Hive Mind has both blessed and cursed us with dozens of musical communications in almost every imaginable format.
Pushing the limits of analog media and revealing the coldness inherent in the …
5/5 – FRKSE, Xiphoid Dementia + more
April 11th, 20124/27 – GRKZGL, A Snake In The Garden + more
March 27th, 2012((((Facebook Event Listing))))
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GRKZGL (Montreal, Canada)
GRKZGL – Ainsi tout fout-il le camp
Hailing from Montreal, GRKZGL (also known by some as Alexandre Scarfone) has been genre-dodging since 2003, progressing from his digital gurgles and cosmic drones to his current excursions in noise. He also plays alongside sax player Cabral Jacobs and drummer John Brennan in the trio Chansons d’amour (and with Brennan as Totems), with Martin Sasseville (Wapstan) in the tape warble-based Incapables and in a duo with synth wizard Emilie Mouchous as Gmackrrkzgl. Lately, GRKZGL has been focusing on dynamic …
April 1st-7th 2012: Amalgamate
March 25th, 2012AMALGAMATE
WITH NEW WORKS BY: Joey Asal, Derek Hoffend, Egan Budd, Deftly-D, Romesh McCullough, Vela Phelan & Jeff Huckelberry
Curated by Alexis Avedisian and presented in partnership with Together & The Mobius Group
Mobius Gallery, 55 Norfolk Street, Cambridge
April 7th 8-10PM 2012: Reception & Live Performances by Xiphoid Dementia (feat. Deftly-D on video) and Derek Hoffend Saturday, April 7th
Article at Together Festival Page with more information, article in The Boston Dig and RSVP at the Facebook event.
3/20 – Pregnant Spore, Cincinnatus C, Scant + more
February 27th, 2012((((Facebook Event Listing))))
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Pregnant Spore (Baltimore, MD)
Pregnant Spore – Satan Drape
Loss, community, freedom, fear, pain, galaxies, enlightenment, microbiology, romance, anxiety, chemistry, impermanence, dreams, the evil of the new world order, carnal desire, energy, color, confusion, rational emotive behavior therapy, cleansing, the illusion of time, healing.
Lloyd will be concentrating on more meditative and quiet compositions more so than anything he’s done before. He will likely be using contact mics and hand-made acoustic contraptions along with looping and weird drones. However, circuit-bent pedals and/or other home-made electronics are pretty much always a …
2/25 – Cut Hands, Veiled + more
January 25th, 2012((((Facebook Event Listing))))
Article in The Boston Phoenix
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Cut Hands (London, United Kingdom)
Cut Hands – Backlash
Cut Hands is William Bennett who founded Whitehouse in 1980, with a mind to creating “the most extreme music ever recorded”. They succeeded. The group remained at the forefront of the experimental and noise scenes over the next 27 years, invariably creating controversy and stimulating debate with their choice of violent and sexual subject matter, before eventually disbanding in 2007. A specialist in linguistics and unconscious communication, Bennett now helms the mass hypnosis experimental project, Extralinguistic …
2/16 – Xiphoid Dementia, FRKSE + more
January 25th, 20122/8 – Dead Boomers, Amobriax + more
January 24th, 2012((((Facebook Event Listing))))
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Dead Boomers (Melbourne, Australia)
Dead Boomers – Vintage Summa Cum Laude
Dead Boomers is a Melbourne based duo dealing in heavy electronics and lurid forecast. Active with other projects including True Radical Miracle and the Sabbatical label, Dead Boomers was conceived initially as an outlet for the members’ interest in contemporary harsh noise and industrial electronics. Over time focus has been drawn towards more defined compositions driven by an austere approach to structure. The prospect of an aging populationdominates these ominous narratives, exploring anxious visions of a seemingly …
1/21 – Child Abuse, Controlled Bleeding + more
December 28th, 2011((((Facebook Event Listing))))
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Kid Bastard (Boston, MA)
*Child Abuse canceled, Kid Bastard took their place.
Kid Bastard is a side project of a few bands in the Brighton/Allston area of Massachusetts. It’s tempting to call it a super group, but you’ve probably never heard of any of our other bands either.
Photo by Greg Cristman
Controlled Bleeding (Massapequa, NY)
Controlled Bleeding – Controlled Bleeding
Controlled Bleeding is a prolific experimental music group based in Massapequa, New York. The group was founded by Paul Lemos, the group’s only consistent member. Most of Controlled Bleeding’s released recordings …
1/7 – Heavy Breathing, Klit + more
December 19th, 2011((((Facebook Event Listing))))
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Heavy Breathing (Richmond, Virginia)
Heavy Breathing – Grey Tape
Frigid and oppressive industrial electronics from Richmond, Virginia. Hissing synth scrape, straining frequencies and vitriol for both the willing and unwilling.
A Heavy Breathing performance falls loosely on the power electronics end of the noise spectrum and is vocal and synth heavy. The set usually consists of between one and three constructed “pieces” that are largely contingent upon my perceptions of the general atmosphere of the show. I am not interested in pursuing the tropes of power electronics (confrontation, …
12/8 – Houstin, Texas – Sistrenatus + more
November 28th, 201112/3 – Nyodene D, Pregnant Spore + more
November 19th, 2011((((Facebook Event Listing))))
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Nyodene D (Painesville, Ohio)
Nyodene D – There Will Come Soft Rains
Nyodene D is an extreme industrial / dark ambient project that utilizes analogue and digital synthesizers, tape loops, scrap metal percussion and vocals to create dark industrial atmospheres. The project has existed since 2008 and has several releases on various formats from labels such as Phage Tapes, Assembly Of Hatred, Danvers State Recordings – and in 2012 – Malignant Records’ Black Plague sublabel. Lyrics and themes range from anti-humanism, observation of human political nature, human cruelty, …
11/7 – Fossils, Howard Stelzer, Middle Kingdom + more
October 23rd, 2011((((Facebook Event Listing))))
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Fossils (Ontario, Canada)
Fossils – Live @ Silent Barn 2010
On this November 2011 U.S. tour Fossils consists of David Payne (tapes, mics, electronics) & Rob Michalchuk (alto sax, trumpet, clarinet). David Payne began building his Fossils empire back in 2004. Since that time Fossils has colonized the underground circuit with a steady flow of ultra-limited tapes/cdrs, many of them through David’s own Middle James Co imprint. The Fossils sound is always one of formless despair. Churning low-grade electronics, primitive tape manipulations, and an aura of stoned reverie are …
10/27 – Horror Sounds: A Synesthetic Evening of Horror Films and Sickened, Bleak Electronic Music!
October 8th, 2011((((Article in The Boston Globe))))
((((Review from the Boston Phoenix))))
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Reviver (Norwalk, CT)
Reviver – Snakes in Repose
Begun in early 2006, REVIVER is the solo noise project of Connecticut’s own Chris Donofrio which strictly utilizes a controlled network of graphic equalizers to create raw environments of low frequency death-drone countered with nails-on-chalkboard scrawlings . Having released recordings almost exclusively on cassette tape format for the past 5 years (both independently and on several notable noise stables such as Temple Of Pei and 905 Tapes), REVIVER continues to shape and refine …
10/4 – Black Twilight Circle, Sharpwaist + more
September 14th, 20119/17 – Millipede, Candle Nine, Xiphoid Dementia
August 24th, 20119/23 – Sudden Infant, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Einfgall + more
August 16th, 2011((((Review from the Boston Phoenix))))
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Sudden Infant (Berlin, Germany)
Sudden Infant – Tandoori Chicken Scooter III
Born 1965 in Switzerland and currently operating out of Berlin, Joke Lanz (aka Sudden Infant) is one of the most prolific and profound artists working in the border zones where performance and body art meet Improvisation and Noise. In his Sudden Infant guise, Lanz creates a unique blend of physical sound poetry and epileptic noise bursts, using contact microphones, loops, tapes etc. The result is an extreme form of musique concrète that juxtaposes spasmodic …
9/3 – Controlled Bleeding, Nau-Zee-Aun + more
August 14th, 2011((((Facebook Event Listing))))
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Photo by Greg Cristman
Controlled Bleeding (Massapequa, NY)
Controlled Bleeding – Controlled Bleeding
Controlled Bleeding is a prolific experimental music group based in Massapequa, New York. The group was founded by Paul Lemos, the group’s only consistent member. Most of Controlled Bleeding’s released recordings feature two main collaborators, Chris Moriarty and vocalist Joe Papa, who both died in the late 2000s.
Since their first full-length release in 1983, Controlled Bleeding have released over 30 albums spanning several different genres, many of which were released on notable …
9/2 – Epaulettes, C.Lavender, Shame Michael Broderick + more
August 12th, 20118/6 – Black Bloc, Bereft, Heavy Breathing + more
July 20th, 2011The Artists
Black Bloc (Fredonia, NY)
Black Bloc – On The Brink of a New World
Black Bloc has progressed from its original anarcho-crust leanings through forays into anarcho-primitivism and finally this: a raw, emotive style that would make watchers of Fuse TV curl up in a fetal position and wish they were never born. Black Bloc wants to show you his scars–all of them, be they physical (his whole body is tiger-striped with cut marks), mental, or emotional. His sound is like the misery of humanity itself pouring like smog out of …
7/14 – Rosenkopf, Gash, Xiphoid Dementia + more
July 5th, 2011This event is organized in conjunction with Fucker Productions
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Rosenkopf (Brooklyn, NY)
Rosenkopf – Untitled
Rosenkopf is a three piece band who creates sounds that range from, dark, dancey, noisy, and at times loud. Electronic elements are mixed into the music as well. Recorded a demo as only a 2 piece then added in a live drummer for extra sound. Members of Thriller, Dawn of Humans, Detestation, Question.
They will be playing a complex set using bass guitar, vocals, and a drum machine as well as an electronic and acoustic drum kit.
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6/21 – Pusdrainer, Pacing, D/A A/D + more
June 9th, 2011The Artists
Pusdrainer (Cincinnati, OH)
Pusdrainer – Portal
Harsh Noise/Power Electronics project of Justin Lakes (also of Friends With Corpses and Orbiting Formats). Began early 2008 as a strictly harsh noise project, Pusdrainer continues to shift between HN, Power Electronics, and Beat driven industrial heaviness. Featured in Decibel magazine and various online/print noise publications.
Pusdrainer’s set will consist of a crunbling harsh wall with heavy feedback and pitch shifted vocals crying for help on top. Accompanied by a video backdrop that loops and churns depravity and degradation until the set dies.
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6/9 – Black Leather Jesus, RU-486, Hierchiss + more
May 26th, 2011Review and more video footage from the Boston Phoenix
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Black Leather Jesus (Austin, Texas)
Black Leather Jesus – Ty
BLACK LEATHER JESUS was formed in 1989 by Richard Ramirez in Houston, Texas. The harsh noise group has had a revolving door of band members with Ramirez, Sean E. Matzus, Kevin Novak, Vance Osborne at the helm. The band has worked with many international acts including Merzbow, Taint, MSBR, The Haters, Deathpile, Eugenics Council, Smell & Quim, etc.
RU-486 (Hattiesburg, Mississippi)
RU-486 – Filth Fantasies
RU-486 was born out of the undying influence …
Xiphoid Dementia Pacific Northwest Tour
April 25th, 20115/15 – Portland, OR @ Mudai w/ Lavas Magmas, John Mannion, Soup Purse, Indignant Senility
5/19 – Seattle, WA @ Teatro de la Psychomachia w/ Bloodbox, Masaki Satsu, Venessa Skantze, Cathartech
5/20,21 – Victoria, BC @ 9th Annual Festival of Noise w/ Chefkirk, Severed Flesh, Frozen Body, Marlo Eggplant, Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, Slates, Merdique, GRKGZL, Wapstan, Static Kitten, Ryan Bloomer, Acid Attack, Suicide Bomber, Monarch, The Rita, Sistrenatus, Whip of the UFO, Froghat, Grandpa Big Balls, Griefer, Quebec lePink, Ha Ha Terror, Brutophilia, CSTL, Sea Lion
5/6 – Das Butcher, Chronox, Retribution Body + more
April 14th, 20114/26 – Xiphoid Dementia, Beyond, 3 Moons + more
March 28th, 20114/23 – Controlled Bleeding, Sharpwaist + more
March 15th, 2011Brought to you by Existence Establishment in conjunction with the Together Festival Boston
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Controlled Bleeding (Massapequa, NY)
Controlled Bleeding – Trawler’s Song
Controlled Bleeding is a prolific experimental music group based in Massapequa, New York. The group was founded by Paul Lemos, the group’s only consistent member. Most of Controlled Bleeding’s released recordings feature two main collaborators, Chris Moriarty and vocalist Joe Papa, who both died in the late 2000s.
Since their first full-length release in 1983, Controlled Bleeding have released over 30 albums spanning several different …
4/3 – Xiphoid Dementia, Phog Masheen, FRKSE + more
March 14th, 201111/20 – Author & Punisher, Theologian + more
October 28th, 2010((( FACEBOOK EVENT )))
Saturday, November 20th 2010
@ STARLAB
$10, 8PM ALL AGES
Author & Punisher
Theologian vs. The Vomit Arsonist
Hunted Creatures
Master of Pussy
Batillus
Bereft
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Author & Punisher (San Diego, CA)
I am a mechanical engineer, sculptor, musician and creator of the Drone Machines and now Dub Machines industrial sound controllers. Alongside fabricating machines and composing sound for performance, I work at the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research as a mechanical engineer and the Center for Research and Computing in the Arts at UCSD as a researcher in media arts.
Drone/Dub Machines are custom made …
11/19 – Holzkopf, Freida Abtan + more
October 26th, 2010((( Facebook Event )))
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Holzkopf (Montreal, Quebec)
Since 2001, Holzkopf has been developing a style of hypnotic and frenetic dance music made from a mishmash of homemade tape collages, blown out drum machine beats, dumpstered Chinese pop cassettes, raw data noise, barely controled feedback and smashed and grabbed found sounds. The sound is remenicent of proto-industrial, disco, hip-hop, global psychedelia, gospel and breakcore synthesized into a complete unique whole unlike any one component part. This is futurist and anarchist music made on cheap gear, recorded live to tape or dusty old …
Funerary Call /// Xiphoid Dementia 2010 East Coast Tour
October 9th, 20109/26 – Xiphoid Dementia in Chicago
September 14th, 20109/25 – Xiphoid Dementia @ Milwaukee Noise Fest 2010!
August 25th, 20109/21 – Illusion of Safety + more @ Starlab!
August 24th, 2010((( Facebook Event )))
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Illusion of Safety (Chicago, Illinois)
Since 1983 Illusion Of Safety has been the ongoing project of Daniel Burke, working alone and with various collaborators. They have released over 20 CDs on labels such as Complacency, Die Stadt, Experimedia, Odd Size, Silent, Soleilmoon, Staalplaat, Tesco, and Waystyx, and played over three hundred concerts in Europe and North America. IOS’ work has been called ambient, post-industrial, electro-acoustic, noise, sound collage, improvisation, and power electronics, but they are unwilling to limit their work to any given style or method. …
8/14 – Justice Yeldham, Heathen Shame, + more!
July 22nd, 2010— Facebook Event —
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Justice Yeldham (Darlinghurst, Australia)
What’s been described as “a trumpet player trapped in a two dimensional universe” is in fact the unique work of Justice Yeldham, a maverick musician with an unhealthy obsession with sheets of broken glass. In his infamous show that has astonished and bemused countless people in over 40 countries, yeldham ecstatically purses his lips against sheets of amplified glass whilst deftly employing various vocal techniques ranging from throat singing to raspberries, turning discarded shards into crude musical instruments. The results are a wild …
8/6 – Xiphoid Dementia, Encanti @ ORDNANCE!
July 18th, 20108/4 – Wapstan, Corephallism, Sharpwaist, Epaulettes
July 16th, 2010Wapstan (Montreal, Canada)
Wapstan (misspelling of the the word “Wapistan” means “xxx”) is the project of xxx xxx, also the head of DIY label Brise-Cul Records and member of bands Selfish Implosions and Incapables based out of Montréal in Québec. Conceived between the aluminum factories and the wooden fjords of Saguenay in the North of Quebec in 2002 with the intention of purveying one of the coldest forms of sound. Wapstan gets most of his influence in …
7/10 – Mindspawn, Retribution Body, Xiphoid Dementia
June 17th, 20107/8 – Regosphere, Neckhold, Zerfallt + more
June 16th, 20107/3 – Steel Hook Prostheses + more in Boston!
June 11th, 20106/20 – Xiphoid Dementia, Sewer Goddess, The Vomit Arsonist
June 11th, 20104/22 – INTERNATIONAL NOISE CONFERENCE 2010: BOSTON
April 15th, 201005/01 – Derek Holzer, Shawn Greenlee, Karlheinz, Animal Steel + more!!!
March 29th, 2010Facebook Event Page
*NEW LOCATION! CONTACT: egan@existest.org FOR ADDRESS INFORMATION*
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Derek Holzer (Berlin, DE)
Derek Holzer (1972) is an American sound artist living in Berlin, whose current interests include DIY analog electronics, sound art, field recording and the meeting points of electroacoustic, noise, improv and extreme music. He has played live experimental sound, as well as taught workshops in Pure Data and electronics, across Europe, North America, Brazil and New Zealand.
TONEWHEELS is an experiment in converting graphical imagery to sound, inspired by some of the pioneering 20th Century electronic music inventions. Transparent …
March 10th: Koufar, Get Laid, Winters in Osaka, Finisher, PTM, Skingraft
March 2nd, 2010Facebook Event Listing
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Koufar (Chicago, IL)
Koufar meaning “Those that deny God” in arabic, is a Right Wing Lebanese Maronite Nationalistic Power Electronics act. Taking inspiration from witnessing first hand the war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006, this project is rooted in real life experiences as well as familial and cultural ties. Calling forth to the Maronites of Lebanon, Koufar calls upon them to rise up and destroy those that attempt to steal a country that isn’t theirs. Koufar is not another sexually frustrated act, instead this project thrives on …
Xiphoid Dementia live @ The Plough and Stars
February 25th, 2010Uncompromising Music for Uncompromising People
February 25th, 2010Existence Establishment Web Launch Show/Party
February 18th, 2010The Existence Establishment Web Launch show/party is to celebrate the launch of the new EE website and present a varied bill of electronic experimental, noise, industrial, ambient, and drone music to Boston. From the shut down of Blood Ties WebZine in December of 2008 Existence Establishment has focused on completeing releases (Might is Blight CD, Exposing the Ribcage CDR) recording new material for Xiphoid Dementia and sponsoring our first U.S. tour (Xiphoid Dementia, Zerfallt, Waterdogs in March of ’09). But we’ve been itching to get back to doing reviews, interviews, …
2009 Northeast Noise and Power Electronics Festival II
February 4th, 2010The Northeast Noise and Power Electronics Festival II took place in Boston on Nov. 6th, 7th, and 8th featuring peformance by 27 artists spanning over 3 days. The event was organized by Lascivious Aesthetics and Existence Establishment with lots of help from local Bostonians involved in the scene. The first night occured at Jaques Cabaret, a bar in Boston’s historic South End which features a tranny show and an underground performance area. The last two nights were hosted by O’Briens Pub in Allston, a small venue and bar usually hosting …