skullflower “strange keys to untune gods' firmament” double compact disc set

• shivering aurora (9:19)
  
• starlit mire (9:27)
  
• enochian tapestries (8:09)
  
• city of dis (8:07)
  
• gateway to blasphemous light (14:20)
  
• basement of an impure universe (11:07)
  
  
• nibelungen (7:38)
  
• blood mirror streams (7:02)
  
• blackened angelwings scythe the billowing void (8:37)
  
• chaotic demons fly in to my eyes (8:41)
  
• skar konstellation (9:14)
  
• rheingold (7:33)

neurot press release...

skullflower / strange keys to untune gods' firmament neurot recordings 2xcd nr067 street date: february 2nd, 2010 “all must bow before the pagan wall of drone..."  so reads the opening line of skullflower's website. hearing their tortured, distorted, and eerily shamanic sounds emanate from the stereo for the first time in the early '90s was truly a revelation. iiird gatekeeper and obsidian shaking codex are two of my all-time favorite albums and have been extremely influential on the way my brothers and i approach guitar-based heavy music. to grab an instrument, drive a loud amplifier to its physical limit, and ride the drone into oblivion is ecstasy, and matthew bower has been showing us all how it is done for 20-odd years.  strange keys to untune gods' firmament evokes wagnerian sonic bombast, a nietzchean worldview, and a warlike cry of rebellion against the false, encased in a whirlwind both psychotropic and psychoacoustic. each spin brings new themes to the forefront. not easy listening by anyone's standards, strange keys is not for the faint of heart--but those willing to submit and immerse themselves in the deep, thick waters of self-transformation will be greatly rewarded.  -- steve von till (neurosis / neurot recordings) new double-album features some of the band's most intensely dark music to date follows up where orange canyon mind and tribulation leave off mastering by james plotkin brings psychoacoustics into three-dimensional experience

grey daturas “return to disruption” compact disc

• beyond and into the ultimate (5:16)
  
• return to disruption (2:37)
  
• balance of convenience (3:01)
  
• answered in the negative (10:47)
  
• undisturbed (3:50)
  
• demarcation disputes / unity (10:32)
  
• neuralgia (7:21)

neurot press release...

grey daturas return to disruption cd melbourne australia's grey daturas are an improvising, instrumental trio with no songs or melodies; they don’t rehearse; yet they maintain a touring ethos to match that of early hardcore pioneers. drawing sonic influence from a vast ocean of musical styles including free jazz, the avant garde, psychedelic rock, punk, metal, industrial and noise, grey daturas have developed a blend of harsh and dark psychedelia unmistakably their own. from their more nihilistic, sheer noise based beginnings improvising sound tracks to silent horror classics and sixties physics animations, grey daturas have over the course of the last 6 years morphed into a surreal auditory nightmare, blending dark pulsating drones, slow low-end sludge riffs, crushing percussion, and walls of ear torturing noise. now three and a half years since the release of their globally acclaimed second album dead in the woods, and following numerous ep’s, split and collaborative releases with the likes of yellow swans, monarch, bardo pond and wolf eyes, grey daturas have unearthed their finest and most challenging work, their highly anticipated 3rd album, return to disruption. as with all follow up releases comparisons to the predecessor are inevitable. between dead in the woods and return to disruption the most obvious difference is the improved production values. where dead in the woods took a modest month to complete on 8-track/ “ tape, return to disruption spanned a lengthy 18 months on 24-track/2” tape. the band once again teamed up with melbourne based recording engineer neil thomason to track and mix drums, guitars, bass and various other sounds and objects such as contact microphone feed back, scrap metal, hardware materials and tools, violin, saxophone and electronics. following three months with neil, the remaining 15 months (between numerous tours of the usa, europe, and australia) were spent painstakingly post producing and collaging together the original tracks from neil’s sessions, with the final mastering touches of pig destroyer’s scott hull, to what has become the vast and consistently flowing epic that is return to disruption.