religious knives “live at bigjar” compact disc

• the sun (5:57)
  
• everything happens twice (6:53)
  
• 96 tears (6:35)
  
• in brooklyn after dark (14:16)

archive press release...

religious knives “live at bigjar” cd archive43 a four track live disc recorded in august of 07 by myself. while religious knives represent 1/2 the former output of double leopards the output from this quartet is anything but. raw and dirty garage rock for keyboards, bass, guitar and drums that sounds more comfortable being off the doors early demo days box set rather then a nofun offshoot band. comes in a 1/2 panel sleeve graphic work by now frequent archive art collaborator chase middaugh. pressing of 600 copies.

religious knives “the door” compact disc

• downstairs
  
• basement watch
  
• on a drive
  
• the storm
  
• major score
  
• decisions are made

ecstatic peace! press release...

religious knives the door cd cat: e#100i all songs written by religious knives, all lyrics by michael bernstein. produced by thurston moore and religious knives. recorded at bank row recording, greenfield, ma by justin pizzoferrato. mixed at bisquiteen, amherst, ma by justin pizzoferrato maya miller and michael bernstein met in new york a decade ago, and began making music together as half of sturm und drone quartet double leopards a few years after that. religious knives came later still, away from the road and the rehearsal space, borne and nurtured in cramped apartments throughout kings county. beginning in 2005, the pair released a string of cd-rs and cassettes, both on their own heavy tapes imprint and through the labels of kindred spirits. steadily moving away from the psychedelic tone baths and modern industrial scrape for which the leopards had become known, religious knives coursed through minimal synth oscillations and spare kraut repetition. mouthus' nate nelson joined the pair in 2006, lending a powerful presence behind the drums that shaped religious knives' rudimentary jams into rough-hewn, long-form paeans to tar-blackened bummer psych. soon after that, old friend todd cavallo completed the quartet on bass, adding a sturdy low end and dubwise groove that lifted religious knives from cellar murk to black cloud puffs of bone deep alarm. an active four-piece for a little more than a year now, religious knives have presided over a pair of twelve-inches, a couple of collections of out of print singles and long gone burns, and one full-length. all throughout, these four have traced a path away from the clamour they once knew, bathing slight guitars, interlocking vocals, and solemn basslines in reedy organs and recalcitrant modular synths. the seemingly tin eared would call it noise, but in these eight hands such a set plays as anything but, instead a (cough) syrupy stroll in search of the ghosts of rock's classicist past. with the door, religious knives have not only found those bygone days, but broken them apart. there are bookmarks to be found here, pages creased in well-worn chapters. but make no mistake - theirs is a sound tied to the here and now, a summer record for those dread days when the heat holds low and skin sticks to cheap car seats and old patio furniture. these six songs are brighter, sharper than anything that has come before, locking in tight on jugular rhythms. it's the score for disappearing neighborhoods and crumbling buildings, a hope of holding onto the past as those around us move fast to forget it. it is scent as sound, the stench of smog and sickly smoke spiraling towards the sky. it is brooklyn, july of 2008. the sun has left us in the east, disappearing somewhere behind jersey, leaving our borough to find the pulse of another night deep with the city's streets.

workbench / black quarter / cornucopia “live in san juan” c30 cassette

• workbench & black quarter - recorded live a the san juan noise fest
  
  
• cornucopia - 30th dic. 2007 cubo 1517 santurce pr

religious knives / the haunting “live at the cove” c20 cassette

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religious knives “resin” compact disc

• in the back (6:11)
  
• luck (8:24)
  
• everything happens twice (8:26)
  
• growth (9:35)
  
• the sun (9:16)
  
• twelve bottles and one white cone, part 1 (8:32)
  
• twelve bottles and one white cone, part 2 (8:54)
  
• in the back (6:46)

no fun productions press release...

30 religious knives 'resin' cd since their first release for no fun productions, the collection of early lp's/singles entitled 'remains', the religious knives have grown into a stunningly assured and powerful rock n' roll band of sorts, one liberally and noticeably immersed in the smoke-addled haze of the psychedelic underground. resin marches ahead with a vigorous potency that accurately shares its bloodline with the best psychedelic acts of the past. this is brooklyn's true psychedelic rock.