Author: wwchurch

Opening Bell have announced a summer tour and you have been warned.

“We are taking our business(and our pleasure) elsewhere, specifically to the American West. If you live in these places, please do come see us systematically fall apart in front of your very eyes.

All dates w/ the UK’s finest lads, Action Beat + GW Sok(yes, from The Ex). Many lads, one van. Bring your pocketbooks.”

August 2 San Diego @ The Whistle Stop

August 3 Los Angeles, CA @ Handbag Factory w/ Amps For Christ, Sam Mickens(Dead Science, Xiu Xiu)

August 4 Las Vegas, NV

August 5 Grand Junction, CO @ Copeka

August 6 Denver, CO @ Thoughts/Forms

August 7 Yellowstone

August 8 Missoula, Montana @ Flavortown

August 9 Moscow, Idaho @ Bitter Root Tattoo

August 10 Seattle, WA @ The Funhouse w/ Dialing In

August 11 Olympia, WA @ Le Voyeur w/ Fountainsun(feat Daniel Higgs of Lungfish, etc), The Moving Pictures

August 12 Portland, OR @ Tonic w/ Daniel Menche

August 13 Eugene, OR . @ The Wandering Goat

August 14 Arcata, CA Richards Goat Tavern

August 15 Oakland, CA @ Elbo Room w/ White Pee

August 16 Berkeley, CA @ 924 Gilman w/ Dead and Gone, Black Fork

August 17 Los Angeles, CA @ Timewarp Records w/ Hepa/Titus(ex Melvins, Tomahawk, etc)

Opening Bell are preparing to tour the American West and are kicking off on a bill with The Wayward(featuring a member of our own Multicult and Overcalc), Hex Machine(ex Today is the Day), and Chaser…

Nastie Band is polymorphic sleaze seen through double vision. A full moon draped in a cape of jewels, weeping black tears of liberation. A rotating die of haunts, trances and hexes. “I thought it would be funny. It was terrifying.” Nastie Band is a multi-headed ghoul who etches the rules on the inside of a coffin lid. Nastie Band isn’t.

Sleeping Giant Glossolalia announces the July 26th release of the self-titled debut album by Nastie Band.

“With leather, chains, macabre makeup, and a cast of characters including an 85-year-old vocalist, shirtless twin brothers, and iconic keyboard player Roddy Bottum (Faith No More, Imperial Teen), Nastie Band is one of New York City’s most thrilling spectacles.

The sound: spine-chilling dirges, for fans of the creepiest depths of Khanate or Thrones or Confessor. The album opens and closes with songs featuring octogenarian Chris Kachulis’ croon – a damaged, pining voice, in the spirit of the late Scott Walker. Fans of early electronic music know Kachulis as a collaborator of Bruce Haack; he sang on Haack’s 1970 album, The Electric Lucifer, among other things.

“I’ve often stopped and wondered why I appeal to men / Men cluster to me like moths around a flame / And if their wings get burned I am not to blame,” he intones maniacally on Nastie Band’s first track.

Over seven songs, the band descends deep into dungeon atmospherics and minimalist metal, punctuated by Bottum’s icy, signature synths. From the hypnotic throb of “Shapeshift,” to the battle march of “Circle of Knives,” to the dance-terror of “Relapse,” Nastie Band’s art-doom crackles with the type of danger, darkness, and drama that once defined New York City.

Revolver Magazine calls it, “Mind-melting destruction delivered at a lumbering, sinister pace… An incorporeal call to revelry.”

Masterminded by Sandy Smiles – the alter ego of visual artist Frank Haines, whose body of work includes film, stained glass, performance art, and more – Nastie Band’s lineup has morphed since its inception and still might change from show to show. Appearing on the album are Haines, Kachulis, Bottum, guitarist Patrick Delaney (ex-Villains, Pollution), twin brothers David and Tradd Sanderson, drummer Elsner Nino (ex-Merchandise, Horoscope), artist Reuben Lorch-Miller, and vocalist Inyang Bassey (Moby). Since the time of the recording, drummer Hisham Bharoocha (Black Dice, Kill Alters, Soft Circle) has entered the fold as well.

Nastie Band was recorded at Seizures Palace in Brooklyn by Jason LaFarge (Swans, Devendra Banhart, Opening Bell) and mastered by James Plotkin (Merzbow, Sunn O))), Gnaw).

With the album set for a July 26th release, first single “Shapeshift” will be released June 14th on cassette as a maxi-single containing ten remix versions of the song, by members of Nastie Band, dälek, Opening Bell, and Ornament(Growing).

Nastie Band:

Reuben Lorch-Miller
Chris Kachulis
Patrick Delaney
Roddy Bottum
Elsner Nino
Mr. Sanderson
Mr. Sanderson
Sandy Smiles

Recorded and mixed by Jason LaFarge at Seizures Palace
Mastered by James Plotkin
Photographs by Jonathan Grassi
Vocals on “Relapse” by Inyang Bassey

scorcher on July 11 at Ceremony in Brooklyn
don’t get burned by missing out
8 pm coming in heated –
hot tip, Gospel of Mars up first, followed by Desertion Trio and the duo of Andrew Smiley & Jason Nazary…

Tonight at @wordbookstores in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Experience readings from the companion book to NYC band @__skryptor__ and their multi sensory piece Luminous Volumes with readings by the companion book authors Maria Gabriele Baker, Ian Caskey, Jeremy Johnston, David McClelland and Tom Newton.

A few of the illustrators will also be in the house. Fine beverages will be provided FREE of charge. First 20 people who purchase the book will get the Limited Edition GOLD Vinyl for FREE!

A joint venture between renowned labels @skingraftrecords , @sgglossolalia , and @aqualamb_records, Luminous Volumes is released in vinyl, CD, and digital formats, along with a deluxe, illustrated, 200-page book featuring original horror stories curated by Skryptor bassist David McClelland. An illustrated collection of short stories, curated & penned by McClelland and other authors, Luminous Volumes comprises surreal and supernatural tales of bloodthirsty sea life, deceptive twins, trench warfare, and more.

Skryptor features members of influential bands Dazzling Killmen and craw.
Luminous Volumes Authors & Illustrators
Master of Ceremonies
by Sean Madigan Hoen – Illustration by David McClelland
Dry Cleaning
by David MCClelland – Illustration by Fritz Welch
The Sound of the Bridge
by Tom Newton – Illustration by Sarah Austensen Wilson
Memories
by William A. Turley – Illustration by Guno Park
Brendan Ryan’s Rocket Car
by David MCClelland – Illustration by Jimi Sakai
Brights
by Chaunceton Bird – Illustration by Rich Hall
Slaughterhouse Vision
by Maria Gabriele Baker – Illustration by Paul Nitsche
Stork
by Jeremy Johnston – Illustration by Roberto Gomez
For Your Kindness, For Your
Buttons by Ian Caskey – Illustration by Stephany Sovitch
Brothers
by David MCClelland

video gig-advert for the Nastie Band maxi-single release party with Christeene by master Joe DeNardo(Ornament, Growing), who is one of many featured on “Shapeshift RMXXXD”, which is available June 14. Very pleased, and a little frightened, to open this coffin for you.

The esteemed Martin Bisi and his band join Picastro tonight to celebrate the release of Picastro’s new LP “Exit”. We will have copies of that record in addition to Martin’s expansive BC35 (+ bonus material) cassette release. Union Pool, Brooklyn, 8pm. Thank you.

SHAPESHIFT is transformation, not this, that, here or there.
It’s a continuum striving for an impossible stasis,
a journey that won’t stop when it ends.
In an effort to expand the constraints of what NASTIE BAND can be,
we fielded out remix duties for the cassingle of SHAPESHIFT to all band members.
Collectively and individually we aim for a resolution that will never be.

1. Shapeshift (album version)
2. Castrati Remix
3. DSwarm Remix
4. Decimation Blvd Remix
5. Ornament Remix
6. M.A.L. Remix
7. DJ Teeth Remix
8. Sandy SmilesRemix
9. Ancient Remains Remix
10. Opening Bell Remix
11. Activated Corpse Remix

SGG is thrilled, frightened, and honored to present the first offering from our beloved Nastie Band in the recorded realm. Featuring the debut single “Shapeshift” and ten(10) remixes and reinterpretations by friends of the group(such as Joe DeNardo of Growing & Ornament, members of Dälek, Opening Bell, and more) and the band members themselves, “Shapeshift RMXXXD” is its own journey and an album in its own right. The perfect Gemini Twin to the Nastie Band debut LP*.

Limited edition, packaged in a wraparound cassingle sleeve with photography by Jonathan Grassi available from our store and finer shops everywhere.

SGG-064 Maxi-Single

releases June 14, 2019

*Experience Nastie Band live with Christeene on June 13 as we celebrate the release at Brooklyn Bazaar and stay tuned for details on the impending full-length Nastie LP later this summer….

We are celebrating the release of “Exit” by Picastro on June 12 at Union Pool in Brooklyn with the esteemed Martin Bisi and his band as well as Ryan Power. Do join us.

Overcalc, an organic/synthetic Multicult offshoot, makes its NYC debut this thirsty Thursday w/ OMA(memb Final Boss, Action Beat), the trio of Sandy Ewen, Damon Smith, Weasel Walter, & Nick Podgurski at 224 Manhattan Ave. Do attend if you intend to have your goose expertly cooked.

Overcalc debut LP out this summer on SGG.

Both lads from GROWING play tonight here in NYC, one as Ornament, the other with Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s Efrim Manuel Menuck as/are Sing Sinck, Sing – at Murmrr.

To obtain a copy of the Growing “Disorder” cassette though, look to the trees, or other suspicious plant life..

Release party for “Luminous Volumes” by Skryptor, the ambitious ‘LP/book & beyond’ project from us at SGG & esteemed colleagues Skin Graft Records & Aqualamb this Saturday, May 18 here in Brooklyn. Skryptor is comprised of players from groups that quite literally did our heads in back in “the day”, such as craw & Dazzling Killmen, and the uncharted territory they’re now exploring feels familiarly dangerous, offering the most rewarding form of uncertainty.

Sharing the bill we have Ava Mendoza(whose Unnatural Ways LP, “The Paranoia Party”, is still ripe), ESSi, bbigpigg – quite a feast.

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224 Manhattan Ave
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Do attend.
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FRKSE(now augmented by Mr. Mike of Opening Bell, Final Boss, etc) are on a very insanely stacked fest this weekend in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, curated by the crew at Iron Lung. Early shows, late shows, film screenings, dinners, cats and dogs living together….

We are psyched to welcome back Night Vapor to NYC. The band, from Pittsburgh, PA, contains valued SGG operatives known for their work in post-doom/industrial/noise-rock unit Brown Angel and no-wave grinders Microwaves. Night Vapor, however, navigate an unfamiliar terrain, which we’ve described as something like Black Flag playing Captain Beefheart songs whilst possessed by the spirit of ZZ Top. Eh, maybe.

Local support shall be provided by Mike Mare(Dälek, Destructo Swarmbots, Anguish), Wilful Boys(“As brutal as the Cosmic Psychos, maybe a bit smarter” – Tony Proccacino), & Marc Edwards Slipstream Time Travel, the “afrofuturistic free-jazz” unit helmed by one of our all-time favorite players, the inimitable Marc Edwards himself.

Get. To. This. Gig.