Liturgy:

8/10 Brooklyn NY @ Death By Audio (w/ White Mice)
8/11 NYC, NY @ Santos Party House (w/ Hammers Of Misfortune, Ludicra)
8/17 NYC, NY @ Lit Lounge
8/21 Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool (w/ Bloody Panda)
9/9 Baltimore, MD @ Talking Head
9/12 Washington DC & Velvet Lounge
9/19 Athens, GA @ Secret Squirrel
9/20 Atlanta, GA @ Eyedrum
9/22 Nashville, TN @ Foo Bar
9/25 Bloomington, IN @  The Clinic
9/27 Cleveland, OH @ Now That’s Class

White Mice: (album on 20 Buck Spin released in October)

8/10 Brooklyn NY @ Death By Audio (w/ Liturgy)
8/12 York, PA @ The Depot
8/13 Philadelphia, PA @ Pillam
8/14 Baltimore, MD @ Filth Fest II
8/14 Providence, RI @ AS220 (w/ Sun Ra, Lightning Bolt)
9/11 Providence, RI @ Fancy Fuckin’ Fest
9/23 Providence, RI @ AS220

Kylesa

8/12 Oslo, NO @ Oya Fest
9/17 Wilmington, NC @ Soapbox
9/18 Asheville, NC @ Orange Peel
9/19 Charlotte, NC @ The Milestone
9/20 Nashville, TN @ The End
9/21 Memphis, TN @ Hi Tone Cafe
9/22 Birmingham, AL @ Bottletree
9/23 Savannah, GA @ Hi Ho Lounge
9/24 Austin, TX @ Red 7
9/25 San Antonio, TX @ Rock Bottom Tattoo Bar
9/26 Denton, TX @ Rubber Gloves
9/27 Oklahoma City, OK @ Conservatory
9/29 Tempe, AZ @ The Sets
9/30 Hollywood, CA @ Knitting Factory
10/1 San Francisco, CA @ DNA Lounge
10/2 San Jose, CA @ Voodoo Lounge
10/3 Eureka, CA @ Nocturnum
10/4 Portland, OR @ Satyricon
10/5 Seattle, WA @ Chop Suey
10/6 Missoula, MN @ The Palace
10/8 SLC, UT @ Club Vegas
10/9 Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater
10/10 Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theatre
10/11 Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock
10/12 Chicago, IL @ Reggies
10/13 Pontiac, MI @ Pike Room
10/14 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop

Book Of Black Earth

8/5 Boise, ID @ The Ophidia
8/6 Reno, NV @ The AGM House
8/7 Long Beach, CA @ Hickey Underworld
8/9 LA, CA @ Knitting Factory
8/11 SF, CA @ Thee Parkside
8/12 Chico, CA @ Paradise Lost
8/13 Portland, OR @ The Grindzeebo
8/14 Seatte, WA @ The Morgue
10/14 Tampa, FL @ Czar
10/15 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
10/16 Springfield, VA @ Jaxx
10/17 Allentown, PA @ Sterling Hotel
10/18 NYC, NY @ BB Kings
10/19 Montreal, QUE @ Les Foufounes Electric
10/20 Toronto, ON @ Mod Club Theater
10/21 Cleveland, OH @ Peabody’s
10/22 Detroit, MI @ Blondie’s
10/23 Mokena, IL @ The Pearl Room
10/24 Kansas City, MO @ The Beaumont Club
10/25 Denver, CO @ Cervantes Masterpiece
10/27 Vancouver, BC @ The Venue
10/28 Seattle, WA @ Studio Seven
10/29 Portland, OR @ Satyricon
10/30 San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside
10/31 San Marcos, CA @ The Jumping Turtle
11/1 Los Angeles, CA @ The Knitting Factory
11/2 Tempe, AZ @ The Sets
11/3 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
11/4 Tulsa, OK @ Marquee
11/5 Dallas, TX @ Ridglea Theater
11/6 San Antonio, TX @ Warehouse Music Venue

20 Buck Spin alumni have a new album out, following last year’s The Endless Coming Into Life. The new album, released by UK label Riot Season is entitled Verdun. It is now available in our web shop HERE.

Liturgy has a small feature on today’s Village Voice website.
Check the full feature HERE.

“Liturgy are the first black metal band that truly embodies the ghosts of New York. They play metal like it’s a minimalist downtown art/life/religion project in the tradition of dronemasters Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham and La Monte Young’s Dream Syndicate. Through their own brand of growling, gnarling, lightning-fast black grind, Liturgy try to find euphoria through dissonance, repetition and volume–turning metal nightmares into something ready for the Dream House. Their debut album for metal label 20 Buck Spin, Renihilation, is due in August. The first leaked track, “Ecstatic Rite” couldn’t be more aptly named–four minutes and 44 seconds of churning blast that aims for the heavens and stretches out when it gets there.”

Added to the store lately:

Cough – Sigillum Luciferi 2xLP
Dead Congregation – Graves Of The Archangels CD (restock)
Elder – S/T LP
Embrace Of Thorns – Atonement Ritual CD & LP
Funebrarum – Beneath The Columns Of Abandoned Gods LP
Insect Warfare – Evolved Into Obliteration LP
Instinct Of Survival / Wojczech – Split CD
Master’s Hammer – Slagry LP
Morbosidad – Profana De La Cruz Nazareno CD
Morbosidad – Morbosidad / Cojete A Dios Por El Culo CD
Von – Satanic Blood Angel – CD & 2xLP

We are happy to announce that Coffins will return to the US and the Maryland Deathfest in 2010. The Deathfest is scheduled for May 28th-30th in 2010. More information at Marylanddeathfest.com. There will not be any other shows at that time. It is an exclusive appearence.

Some of our friends from the darker corners of outer Olympia are involved in this festival. For more info go to www.thefleshoflight.org

Added to the store today:

Corrupted – Paso Inferior CD
Teitanblood – Seven Chalices CD (best metal album of 2009)
Weapon – Drakonian Paradigm LP

We’re working on getting vinyl of the Teitanblood.

The Nadja & Black Boned Angel full length collaboration CD is now available directly from 20 Buck Spin. The LP is about 2 months away yet and will be limited to 500 copies. The CD is officially in stores on July 14th.

The idea for a collaboration between Canada’s prolific neo-doom duo Nadja and New Zealand’s pitch black droners Black Boned Angel was first hatched in conversations between 20 Buck Spin and Nadja’s Aidan Baker around the time Nadja released their Truth Becomes Death EP on Alien8 Recordings in 2006. 20 Buck Spin ran the idea by Campbell Kneale of Black Boned Angel, who at that point was unfamiliar with Nadja. After hearing their material, the complimentary potential was realized, and the groups began their cross-continental collaboration sending music back and forth digitally.

Time passed and both groups, along with Campbell’s altar-ego Birchville Cat Motel, were extremely busy releasing their own material. By the end of 2007 the collaborative effort had realized three fully formed tracks. One more accessible track that included vocals called “Christ Send Light” was released in 2008 as a CD EP on Kneale’s own Battlecruiser imprint. The other two long tracks were combined for a full length release for 20 Buck Spin. With the album being a collaborative effort 20 Buck Spin also convinced two close comrades, David D’Andrea and Stephen Kasner, to collaborate on some artwork. Again, artistic collaborations take a great deal of time, and finally in 2009 both art and music have finally come together for this much anticipated release.

The two 20+ minutes tracks contained on this self-titled collaboration have a less accessible vibe then the Jesu-like track on last year’s “Christ Send Light” EP. There are no vocals to be heard. They are comprised in equal parts of Nadja’s fuzzed-out, lurching and hazy dream-doom, and BBA’s razor-sharp metallic riff-shards. Extended passages of riff-static noise bleeds one track into the next while deep space eerieness looms ever present in the shadows. Finally the whole thing collapses under the weight of its own self-created black hole. This is the end.

Note that the CD cover displays only a small amount of the featured artwork, which is pictured much more fully on the LP cover.
As previously mentioned August will bring two new releases, Liturgy’s Renihilation album and Laudanum’s The Coronation. Full album descriptions, album covers, and sample tracks have been added to the website at 20buckspin.com. The Laudanum track features new vocalist Nathan Misterek, previously of Graves At Sea. The Liturgy album will be released on both CD and LP. Laudanum will be released on CD with the always great Life Is Abuse label handling the LP version. You can also read more about Liturgy in the latest Show No Mercy column at Pitchfork:

http://pitchfork.com/features/show-no-mercy/7668-show-no-mercy/

Finally we are very stoked to announce that we will be releasing the new album from Providence Rhode Island’s The White Mice. The White Mice have been around for quite a while now and have released 3 completely devastating and demented LPs via Load Records and Blossoming Noise. Anyone who has ever seen this band live or heard the records knows they are completely gonzo not only musically, but aesthetically, artistically, lyrically and mentally as well. More info on the all new Ganjahovahdose album will be forthcoming in the next few weeks. The album is scheduled to be released in October. In the meantime take a peak into the weird world of The White Mice at thewhitemice.com and myspace.com/whitemice. Cheezus saves!