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BATHSHEBA – Servus

05 Sunday Mar 2017

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Ain Soph, Album Release, Bathsheba, Belgium, Burning Moon, Caro, Chelsea Wolfe, Coven, Death Penalty, Debut Album, Disinterred, Dragonfest, Dwight Goossens, Glimpse Of The Unseen, Into The Void, Jelle Stevens, Jinx Dawson, King Woman, Leviathan Speaks, Michelle Nocon, Oathbreaker, Raf Meukens, Rheia, Roadburn, Rock Hard Magazin, Rodeo Fest, Sardonis, Serpent Cult, Servus, She-Wolf, Slave, Svart Records, Tourdates, True Widow

Inhale heavy riffs, obey the witch and stare in the eternal black void of ‘Servus’! Released one week and two days ago, this is not only a good reason to take a closer look at the debut full-length of Belgian Doomsters Bathsheba, but also to celebrate my first encounter with the wonderful Michelle Nocon. ‘Servus’ much notably and rightfully has gained a massive media echo and shall pave the way for further touring efforts outside their native territory.

bathsheba-burning-moonPhoto by Burning Moon

‘Servus’ is a very spiritual album. It’s about deep feelings and experiences that are very abstract. There are other feelings like ‘saudade’ which is also very deep and hard to grasp for some people, but they are more concrete. ‘Servus’ is about things that are hardly on earth anymore. During the process of ‘Servus’ I had a lot of dialogues with myself, I went through a lot of weird things, also demonology related somehow, as the talented vocalist recalls about the progress of creating the album, which was released on February 24th, 2017 by Svart Records. And while they were only just an opening act at the joint venture of Occult Sabbath and Feverdance Rituals, it certainly will only be a matter of time till the four-piece will do a headlining tour. Being amongst those who have been chosen to appear at prestigious Roadburn Festival and sharing stages with the likes of legendary Coven & Jinx Dawson, Chelsea Wolfe, Oathbreaker, King Woman or True Widow, to name but a few, will clearly up the ante for them. If you’re not yet fully convinced of the greatness of Bathsheba and ‘Servus’, you might give yourself and the band a chance by streaming the album in its entirety via German Rock Hard Magazine!

bathsheba-burning-moon-iiShe-Wolf And The Faceless Ghouls: Bathsheba MMXVII – by Burning Moon

09/03 Amsterdam (NL) – OT301

30/03 Brussels (B) – Botanique (CD Release)

01/04 Genk (B) – Hammer Of Thor Fest

20/04 Tilburg (NL) – Roadburn Fest

28/05 Leuven (B) – JH Sojo

24/06 Antwerp (B) – Rodeo Fest

01/07 Bradford (UK) – Dragonfest V

21/10 Leeuwarden (NL) Into The Void

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KING WOMAN – Unveil Video For ‘Deny’ & Announce US+EU Tourdates

28 Saturday Jan 2017

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Album Realse, Andy O’Connor, Bay Area, Caro, Chelsea Wolfe, Consequence of Sound, Created in the Image of Suffering, Debut Album, Deny, Doom Metal, Europan Tour, High On Fire, Jaye Jayle, Kevin Haus, Khemmis, King Woman, Kristina Esfandiari, Oathbreaker, Relapse Records, San Francisco, Sannhet, Survive, Tourdates, True Widow

After previously announcing the release of their full-length debut record “Created In The Image Of Suffering”, San Francisco-based King Woman have now unveiled a first music video in advance.  Directed by Kevin Haus, the video for “Deny” was brought to life by Consequence of Sound.

Vocalist and lyricist Kristina Esfandiari comments: “With this video we aimed to paint a picture of how tormenting and exhausting it is to wrestle with your true self.” Religion plays a strong theme in the music of King Woman, but not in the “praise God, glory be to Him” sort of way. Naming their forthcoming output “Created In The Image Of Suffering” was more than just a clever turn of phrase for the Bay Area Doom Metal outfit. The record is a “catharsis for years of religious and mental torment,” as a press statement puts it, a release you can certainly feel in the album’s new single “Deny”. The song itself finds bandleader Kristina Esfandiari bewailing the facade forced on her by religion in her uniquely hazy drone. “I pray my mother/ Won’t you ever find a cure?” Esfandiari asks on the chorus. “Throw back odd pill/ Find euphoria I once knew.” Musically, “Deny” is a perfect exemplification of how Consequence of Sound’s own Andy O’Connor described the band’s sound in his 10 Most Anticipated Metal Albums of 2017 feature: “Doomy enough for those who still wish High on Fire were on the label, yet weird enough for people who only know Relapse through S U R V I V E…”

king-womanAs for the track’s video, which you can watch above, director Kevin Haus captured the song’s ethos with frightening vividness. Esfandiari describes it as revealing “the shadow aspect in Jungian psychology,” unlocking the darkness kept locked away in one’s subconscious. “In the video you see this portion of the mind surfacing and coaxing the preacher into his truest form; drawing out the aspects of himself which he loathes because it doesn’t fit in with his beliefs,” she tells Consequence of Sound. “In church, I saw others being raised with a rod in their backs, trying to fight their own carnality — buried in shame and guilt. The belief was to deny anything inside of themselves that was considered ugly or wrong, and instead attain a pristine image.”

Additionally the band will be touring the US and Europe alongside Oathbreaker, Chelsea Wolfe and True Widow throughout February, March and April.

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TRUE WIDOW – Announce US Tour Dates

24 Tuesday Feb 2015

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Circumambulation, Cult of Luna, DH Phillips, Earth, Jay Farrar, Matt Pence, Moon Duo, Nicole Estill, Pentagram, Psycho California, Relapse Records, Sleep, Slim TX, The Echo Lab in Argyle, Tourdates, True Widow, US Tour, Yuck

True WidowTexan trio, TRUE WIDOW have confirmed a series of tour dates this May, including shows with EARTH and an appearance at Psycho California alongside SLEEP, PENTAGRAM, CULT OF LUNA and many others. The dates kick off May 11th in Albuquerque, NM and run through May 24th in Norman, OK. A complete listing is available below.

TRUE WIDOW released their latest album, “Circumambulation”, via Relapse Records in 2013. The album of hypnotic, heavy-but-melodic shoegaze was recorded at The Echo Lab in Argyle, Texas with the band reuniting with producer Matt Pence (YUCK, Jay Farrar). The entire album is available to stream for free via the TRUE WIDOW Bandcamp page.

True Widow Tour Dates

Mar 15 Dallas, TX City Tavern^
May 11 Albuquerque, NM Sister*
May 12 Tucson, AZ Club Congress*
May 13 Phoenix, AZ Crescent Ballroom*
May 16 Santa Ana, CA Psycho California @ The Observatory
May 17 San Francisco, CA Bottom of the Hill
May 19 Portland, OR White Owl Social Club
May 20 Seattle,WA Highline
May 21 Boise, ID Neurolux
May 22 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge
May 23 Denver, CO Lost Lake
May 24 Norman, OK The Opolis

^ = with MOON DUO
* = with EARTH

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