“…one of the best albums in the genre for a long time.”
Read it HERE.

We booked The Bastard Noise in Olympia on 12/7 at our favorite local venue, Northern. Supporting will be Iron Lung, Western Hymn and White Boss. The Red List split CD with The Endless Blockade will be released in February.

Our annual end of year sale is going on now through December 15th. We have made a bunch of killer new package deals of 20 Buck Spin releases from this year, and years past, making some of our stuff much cheaper than buying them one at a time. Check the Sale/Specials section to check them out. Additionally, everything overall is on sale if you spend over, $25, $55 or $85 respectively. Just follow these instructions upon checkout:

FOR ORDERS OVER $25 ENTER COUPON CODE DU3TBP AT CHECKOUT FOR 5% OFF ORDER TOTAL
FOR ORDERS OVER $55 ENTER COUPON CODE 69KA8H AT CHECKOUT FOR 10% OFF ORDER TOTAL
FOR ORDERS OVER $85 ENTER COUPON CODE 4R0P24 AT CHECKOUT FOR 15% OFF ORDER TOTAL

All orders made by December 15th will ship this year. Any order placed December 16th or later will ship during the first week in January. Additionally, the above discounts WILL NOT apply to the Kylesa Wooden Box 2xLP which will be released in a few weeks.

Here’s a list of Bastard Noise’s upcoming West Coast tour dates. 20 Buck Spin will release “The Red List” a split CD with Bastard Noise and The Endless Blockade in early 2010. A limited tape version will also be made available.

Fri Dec  4th @ the blvd in los angeles, ca w/ lack of interest, progeria
Sat Dec  5th @ cafe coda in chico, ca w/ the makai, teeph
Sun Dec  6th @ rotture in portland w/ thrones, rabbits, nux vomica
Mon Dec  7th @ the northern in olympia, wa w/ iron lung, western hymn, white boss
Tue Dec  8th @ the vera project in seattle, wa w/ iron lung, same-sex dictator, requin
Thu Dec 10th @ epic space in eugene, or w/ rye wolves
Sun Dec 13th @ burnt ramen in richmond, ca w/ voetsek, funeral shock, go like this

Well written and thoughtful review of Liturgy’s Renihilation by Metal Observer:
http://www.metal-observer.com/articles.php?lid=1&sid=1&id=16818

A book that makes a sweet gift for any foodeating metalhead. Motherfucker! Foodeater! Buy it here:
http://www.phantomcityrecords.net/store/product_info.php?cPath=26&products_id=495

With this delicious collection of favorite basic recipes by heavy metal bands from around the globe, Annick “The Morbid Chef” Giroux declares war on junk food, and fires up the flame for a special heavy metal feast.

Hellbent for Cooking feeds voracious appetites with a varied menu of over a hundred recipes from thirty countries, including Yorkshire Pudding from England, Beer Pizza Crust from Germany, Spaghetti Barracuda from Italy, Fårikål from Norway, Country Lamb Exohiko from Greece, Churrasco from Brazil, and Mushroom Steak à la Jack Daniel’s from the United States.

The dishes are legendary, and so are the bands. Feel the heat of thrash metal pioneers Sepultura, Kreator, Anthrax, and Nuclear Assault; the proto-metal heavy rock of Thin Lizzy, early Judas Priest, and Uriah Heep; the slow-cooked doom of Pentagram and Saint Vitus; and the extreme cuisine of underground pioneers Autopsy, Death, Repulsion; and Norway’s infamous black metal chefs Mayhem and Gorgoroth.

Raise your infernal fork for madman Chris Reifert’s Mummified Jalapeño Bacon Bombs, then sample Roast Beef with Green Beans prepared under the watchful eye of Udo Dirkschneider of Accept. Try After the Bombs’ Speed Metal Vegan Tofu, or Eyehategod’s favorite New Orleans Blood Red Beans and Rice.

Afterwards, Doro Pesch of Warlock serves her Black Forest Cake, and Richard Christy from Death pours his trademark cocktail, the mighty Viking Testicle. Now for anyone with a taste for metal:  The kitchen gates are open—grab your weapons of mass nutrition and let the feasts begin!

Featuring a full flavorful menu of appetizer, breakfast, lunch, dinner, vegetarian, seafood, dessert, and drink recipes contributed by members of:

Abigail, Abscess, Accept, After the Bombs, Alcoholic Rites, Amebix, Anthrax, Anvil, Armored Saint, Arphaxat, Atomizer, Autopsy, Bastardator, Bëehler, Blackfire, Blasphemy, Brutal Truth, Budgie, Bulldozer, Cauldron, Children of Technology, Control Denied, Countess, Cruachan, Dantesco, Deadmask, Death, Death SS, Deiphago, Denial of God, Desolation Angels, Destruction, Devastation, Dissection, Doro, Dusk, Electric Wizard, Elixir, Envenom, Exciter, Eyehategod, Faustcoven, Funerot, Goat Horn, Gorgoroth, Grimorium Verum, Gwar, Hidden Hand, Holocausto, Impaler, Inepsy, Judas Priest, Killers, Kreator, Lamp of Thoth, L’Impero Delle Ombre, Lord Vicar, Mantak, Master, Master’s Hammer, Mayhem, Melechesh, Messiah, Midnight, Minotaur, Mortal Sin, Mütiilation, Necromantia, Necrosadist, Nuclear Assault, Obituary, Obscurity, Orodruin, Pagan Altar, Pentagram, Piledriver, Possessed, Procession, Repulsion, Reverend Bizarre, Rigor Mortis, Rotting Christ, Sadistik Exekution, Saint Vitus, Sepultura, Shackles, Sigh, Sir Lord Baltimore, Skyforger, Slaughter, S.O.D., Spirit Caravan, Stiny Plamenu, Tankard, Thanatos, The Gates of Slumber, The Obsessed, The Rods, Lord Weird Slough Feg, Thin Lizzy, Toxic Holocaust, Trench Hell, Trouble, Tygers of Pan Tang, U.D.O.. Uriah Heep, Warlock, Warpig, Weapon, Wino, Witchfynde, Witchtrap, Xibalba, and Zemial.

Got the Shrinebuilder 2xLP up to order in the online shop now:
http://www.phantomcityrecords.net/store/product_info.php?cPath=28&products_id=494

Tiny Mix Tapes review of White Mice’s Ganjahovahdose
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/White-Mice,10032

Laudanum’s West Coast tour in support of The Coronation starts today:

LAUDANUM & BLACK GANION
WEST COAST TOUR 2009 / NOV. 20- 29

11/20- Eugene, OR. @ Epic Space w/ Casu Marzu
11/21- Portland, OR @ Plan B w/ Atriarch
11/22- Seattle, WA @ The Funhouse w/ Book of Black Earth
11/23- Olympia, WA @ Northern w/ Society Nurse & Funerot
11/24- Ashland, OR @ Stillwater w/ Ritual of War
11/25- San Francisco, CA @ Annie’s Social Club w/ Lethe & Worm Ouroboros
11/26- Live on KFJC Radio 89.7 / Broadcast On-Line
11/26- San Jose, CA @ The Gingerbread House w/ Bird
11/27- Los Angeles, CA @ The Relax Bar w/ TBA
11/28- Los Angeles, CA @ The Boulevard w/ Valdur & Lightning Swords of Death
11/29- Berkeley, CA @ Gilman w/ In Disgust & E Coli

Starting to get a lot of questions about the Kylesa Static Tensions Wooden Box 2xLP edition. Yes, this is still happening. We have all the elements now except the actual wooden boxes which are still in production. We hope to begin selling these on or about December 1st if things remain on schedule. We won’t take pre-orders on these. We will post a few days before they go on sale the actual date/time they’ll go on sale so people will have some advance notice. We will also post some pics in advance of the on sale date.