Sleeping Giant Glossolalia

Again, the bill seems too good to be true. But when our Portland pals Prizehog come through town we don’t mess around. Here is your Friday night:

VAZ – “…a more macho Depeche Mode covered by Midwestern punks discovering Joy Division in their first summer of cheep beer and wide-eyed discontent.” – OR- “…The Next Big Thing…” – Pitchfork

PRIZEHOG (Portland) – “Prizehog might have outheavied, outweirded, and outgeniused (the) masters…” – Aquarius Records
“Re-Unvent the Whool” Low-Frequency Extended Edition out soon on SGG!

MOSSENEK – members of Krallice, Oldest, All Scars, Meta-matics, Orthrelm, Brown Wing Overdrive, Trance and The Arcade, Crom-Tech, etc – “Began in the late 90s in a different form, 2012 saw a christening and focusing…2014 sees a conquering!”

COLLAPSIBLE BATON – Brooklyn bunker-beat basement creeps juking reality. No internet, no friends.
(1st show!)

Friday, May 23 8pm
Saint Vitus Bar
1120 Manhattan Ave
Brooklyn, New York 11222
(advance tickets available here)

RSVP here.

Not sure why this panel from the classic and controversial Weird Fantasy “Judgement Day” story seemed appropriate to us for this show’s event page..but it did. And then Dana of Insect Ark delivered the cool poster you see below. Don’t miss this if you’re anywhere near New York’s Lower East Side on May 22nd.

Sleeping Giant Glossolalia Presents:

PRIZEHOG (Portland) – “Prizehog might have outheavied, outweirded, and outgeniused (the) masters…” – Aquarius Records

INSECT ARK [Dana Schechter of Angels of Light(Swans), Bee & Flower]

STEPHEN BRODSKY – [Cave In, Mutoid Man, Old Man Gloom, Converge, etc]

COLUMBOID – ex-Vaz

Thursday 5/22 8pm
@ Cake Shop NYC
152 LUDLOW STREET, New York, New York 10002

Thanks to Denny from Roomrunner/Future Islands for making it “happen”.

RSVP here.

From Wantage/We Empty Rooms:

At some point in 2012 the Australian band Dead hosted New York group Vaz for a tour of their continent. The tour was nice where the swimming and tunes were concerned. Commercially it failed. Vaz then toured Malaysia and Indonesia, had amazing curry and returned to NYC, aka HELL. This 7″ is the commemorative oversized-foam-hand-with-index-finger-pointed-skyward … if you follow, of those tours. It offers up two of our favorite bands of the past 5 or so years, in all their desperate, excellent glory.

Dead, “like a vegan, southern hemisphere Motörhead”(but more crawling and pleasantly bitter, to these ears), and Vaz, who offer up Cold War paranoiac space rock. Desperate, fast, deftly-played and riffy without pandering to anything that could be called “stoner.”

Notes:
First edition. 313 total pressed.
Letter pressed covers.
Hand-numbered
The first 100 are limited to mailorder only and are printed on craft colored covers, and include an ultra-limited Dead and We Empty Rooms beer coaster.

Available in our store.

Formed out of an appreciation for Henry Cow’s avant leanings, La Monte Young-inspired minimalism, and the power of sheer, punishing volume, Bludded Head approach metal with a focus on desperation rather than depravity. Exploring vulnerability while maintaining a hard-heartedness that is palpable, the sound is a wounded animal’s howl, a nerves-shot predator whose teeth find its prey in the dark.

Founding member Nevada Hill has surrounded himself with formidable players throughout the various incarnations of the band, a cast that includes men and women involved with Tiger Hatchery, Terminator 2, John Zorn, Drug Mountain, Jandek, R. Stevie Moore, and Daniel Johnston to name but a few.

Coming across like Codeine writing songs for Corrupted, Bludded Head are (very literally, trust us) a cancer-conquering force that collapses and devours all light at the end of the tunnel.

Professionally dubbed and packaged in a 5 panel insert featuring a comic by 7 yr old Gillian Hill, with gold on gold tapes, a strictly limited edition of the second installment of the Bludded Head saga.

“Doom bands come and go, many sounding similar to one another, with the greatest emphasis being placed on how far apart those gut-punch downbeats can be spaced; not so for Bludded Head, who seem in it to write, arrange and execute great songs, several worlds apart from the sameyness that characterizes many of their peers in the genre.”
– Wm. Berger, WFMU

Available now in our store.

Like an intravenous injection of chocolate and peanut butter that goes straight to your heart, two great tastes that taste great together, as they say. If too much of a good thing exists, it is certainly found in this heavy pairing, friends.

If you’re anywhere near Dallas on May 13 please be sure to equip yourself with high quality ear protection(safety first) and a few dollars with which to obtain the newest SGG releases(limited edition cassettes from both Prizehog and Bludded Head) and make your way to this venue while it is still standing.

..further evidence that Prizehog operate on an entirely different level..

“RE-UNVENT THE WHOOL – Special Low Frequency Extended Version” available on SGG soon..

We’ve been trying like hell to get our man Igor to NYC for a while now. Looks like he’ll be at Acheron tonight and we’re hoping to get him something for Friday(but the sheer level of evil at work seems to be met with resistance even here in New York!). Either way, bask in the glory that is this classic clip..

(RSVP here)

We went to SE Asia and Australia with Vaz and are figuring out how to release a movie about the experience. This is obviously very much a work in progress, but here is evidence that we are in fact working on it…

Bludded Head “Bludded Death” limited edition cassette w/ 5-panel insert released March 2014 on Sleeping Giant Glossolalia.
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Official release celebration at SGG Texas Takeover, March 14 in Austin, TX with Rusted Shut, Shit & Shine, Sur, and more.
More info here.

Artwork by 7 year old Gillian Hill. Animation by Nevada Hill.

there will be bludd