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Varego Break Out the Claymation in New Video for “Soul to Devour”
Sometimes you want a bit of unabashed weirdness, and fortunately that’s what Italian post-metallers Varego have on offer with their new video for the track “Soul to Devour” from their self-released...
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Hollow Leg to Reissue First Album Instinct on Argonauta Records
Floridian sludge metallers Hollow Leg have announced they’ll reissue their 2010 full-length debut, Instinct, through Argonauta Records. The CD of the four-piece’s first outing has been gone for some...
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Hollow Leg Unveil New Single “God-Eater”
Floridian sludgers Hollow Leg are getting ready later this month to head out on a run up and back down the East Coast with Holly Hunt, and even as they prepare to do so supporting an Argonauta Records...
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Witch Charmer Sign to Argonauta Records; New Album The Great Depression Due...
Today brings the news that UK doom rockers Witch Charmer have inked a deal to issue their first album, The Great Depression, via Italian imprint Argonauta Records. It will be the follow-up to the...
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The Obelisk Radio Adds: Ides of Gemini, Michael Rudolph Cummings, Witch...
It’s a pretty wide stylistic swath with this week’s adds to The Obelisk Radio, but I don’t think that’s a bad thing. If you check out the playlists for the last couple days, you’ll see a considerable...
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Suma to Reissue Ashes on Argonauta Records
Usually when bands sign to new labels and do reissues, they dip back to the beginnings of their catalog — the debut, or if for whatever reason not that, their sophomore outing. Well, Ashes was Suma‘s...
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Bantoriak Debut Album Weedooism Due April 13; “Lysergic Tantra” Video Posted
I am a sucker for a rolling groove. One of those grooves that unfolds and is immediately hypnotic. The kind that you snap back to consciousness after it ends and wonder where the previous however-long...
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Lowburn Sign to Argonauta Records
After an initial EP and a follow-up digital single and split, Finnish heavy rock four-piece Lowburn have inked a deal to make their full-length debut through Argonauta Records. No exact release date...
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Nibiru Reveal Padmalotus Album Details
Freakout prone Italian psych rockers Nibiru will release their third album, Padmalotus, via Argonauta Records on May 18. Their blend of sludgy aggression and heavy psychedelia has carried them across...
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Nibiru, Kayleth, Varego and More Confirmed for Argonauta Fest 2015
The first Argonauta Fest is set for May 10 at Live23 in Alessandria, Italy. Confirmed for the lineup are Nibiru, Infection Code, Varego, Last Minute to Jaffna, Deaf Eyes and Kayleth, and there’s free...
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Return from the Grave Announce New Bassist and EP Due this Fall
Venetian four-piece Return from the Grave have announced a return. They’re making a comeback. They’re the prodigal band. They’re… oh, come on, there has to be another phrase for it. They were gone and...
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Shabda to Release Pharmakon / Pharmakos in Sept.
Italian ritual droners Shabda will release their new album, Pharmakon / Pharmakos, Sept. 7 on Argonauta Records. Last year the three-piece put out the Tummo LP, and proceeds from the new one will go...
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Argonauta Records Releases Devouring the Mountains Vol. II Label Compilation
Argonauta Records went ahead and made you a mixtape. And they put Christopher Lee on the cover, so, you know, right on. Devouring the Mountains Vol. II includes 12 tracks from bands on the Italian...
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Shabda Premiere “Pharmakos” from New Album Pharmakon / Pharmakos
Italian drone ritualists Shabda release their third album, Pharmakon / Pharmakos, on Sept. 7 through Argonauta Records. Comprised entirely of two tracks each on the north side of 20 minutes long, it...
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Mountain Tamer Sign to Argonauta Records
Of the various kinds of stories I might post on this site any given day — band announces tour, band announces album, band farts in a cup and makes you smell it, etc. — my favorite is quite possibly...
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Quarterly Review: We Lost the Sea, Dark Buddha Rising, Red Mountains, Black...
We’re in the thick of it now. It’s hard sometimes putting these things together to remember that each band has worked incredibly hard to put out an album. I’ve been through that process (once), and so...
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Quarterly Review: My Dying Bride, Glowsun, Caustic Casanova, Dead Sea Apes,...
One thing I’ve noticed over the now-several times I’ve done this is that people have a tendency to apply some value to the ordering. It’s true that I try to lead off with a bigger release sometimes...
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Hollow Leg Finish Recording Third Album
Back at the start of the year, I had Floridian sludge-slingers Hollow Leg‘s next opus on my list of 2015’s most anticipated albums. Curiosity played no small part in that since, after their digital...
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Return from the Grave Stream Three(p) in Full
Italian four-piece Return from the Grave play a few tricks on their latest release. Following two full-lengths, 2012’s The Rebirth from the Last Breath and 2014’s Gates of Nowhere, the Venice-based...
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Varego Release New Single “Phantasma” this Month
The forthcoming “Phantasma” single from Italian post-sludgers Varego will not be their first collaboration with Billy Anderson. Rather, Anderson — whose production CV is second to none in heavy — has...
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