Rarely Unable

• 06.06.2012 NIRL Belfast, tba.
• 07.06.2012 IRL Galway, tba.
• 08.06.2012 IRL Cork, Fred Zeppelins
• 09.06.2012 IRL Dublin, The Pint
• 15.06.2012 DK Copenhagen, Copenhell Festival (where they will be amongst some fine company indeed playing alongside Slayer, Mastodon, Anthrax, Immortal and more)
• 16.06.2012 SWE Hultsfred, Hultsfred Festival

Hailing from the German city of Mannheim, sludge devastators BLACK SHAPE OF NEXUS, having recently signed with Exile On Mainstream, are preparing for the release of their upcoming third full-length Negative Black.

Recorded in the Winter of 2011 and twisted into shape at the mighty Tonmeisterei Studio, Negative Black — an album four years in the making — marks a new step for Black Shape Of Nexus, carving a path into their foreseeable future. The album has been eagerly awaited by BSON’s diehard cult fanbase and underground doom/sludge aficionados since the release of their bruising 2008-released Microbarome Meetings 2xLP. While the outfit already bears the reputation for unfurling some of the most destructive but still coherently-flowing sludge metal available, incorporating outside elements of crust, black metal and ambient/soundscape persuasion at times, Negative Black surges to even deeper caverns of auditory obliteration, pummeling you with painfully slow doom and finishing you off with acrid, harsh drones, and giving down-tempo a whole new meaning.

Black Shape of Nexus shall release Negative Black on 7 May.  It will be made available to fans on CD in a matte-varnished 6-panel digifile, a 2xLP format with inside/out printed gatefold cover, and deluxe digital download.

Negative Black Track Listing:
1. Illinois
2. 400H
3. 60 WV
4. 10000 µF
5. 14d
6. RMS
7. Neg. Black

Black Shape Of Nexus have been utilizing the D.I.Y. methods the members adopted from their various punk/hardcore backgrounds, and have toured throughout Europe since their 2005 inception, including appearances at Roadburn, Trashfest, South Of Mainstream, Dawn Of Doom, Doom Shall Rise and other renowned festivals. With a German tour confirmed for the month of April in support of Negative Black, many more live actions for the band will be announced sporadically over the coming months.

BLACK SHAPE OF NEXUS German Tour April 2012:
4/14/2012 Immerhin – Würzburg, Germany w/ Conan, Obelyskkh
4/15/2012 Kult41 – Bonn, Germany w/ Wall
4/16/2012 Jubez – Karlsruh, Germany
4/17/2012 KV – Nürnberg, Germany
4/18/2012 UT Connewitz – Leipzig, Germany
4/19/2012 Red Rooster – Berlin, Germany
4/20/2012 Chemiefabrik – Dresden, Germany
4/21/2012 Nexus – Braunschweig, Germany w/ Beehoover

Exile On Mainstream just can’t stay away from the wooden boxes, and there’s a new release on the way in what is quickly becoming a bit of a tradition. They’ve teamed up with the lovely folks at Southern Records and bundled up Wino & Conny Ochs’ fantastic new album Heavy Kingdom and the soon-to-be-released Latitudes session Labour Of Love for a nice and SUPER-ULTRA-LIMITED wooden box edition. Only 300 made!!!

100 will be available on the upcoming European tour of Wino and Conny Ochs
100 will be available through the Southern Records webshop
60 will be available through the Exile On Mainstream webshop
40 will be available on the Exile On Mainstream stall at Roadburn Festival

Wino and Conny Ochs’ tour is well underway now and this superb video has been shot which gives you a real sense of the chemistry between the two! It get’s me excited about their upcoming UK leg, dates which you can find here.

Danish sludge metal trio RISING will embark on a full European spring tour in support of their debut album “To Solemn Ash”. The tour starts on March 16th in Berlin and includes dates in Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovenia Switzerland, Italy and Luxembourg. In addition to the mainland tour, RISING will play its first headlining shows in Sweden in April/May and one Danish show when hitting Linköping, Stockholm, Gothenborg, Malmö and Copenhagen.

Before the European tour starts, RISING will head out for three Danish shows in start March supporting fellow danes, the punky thrashers in THE KANDIDATE.

 RISING “To Solemn Ash” spring dates 2012

08.03.2012 DK Viborg, Paletten w/THE KANDIDATE

09.03.2012 DK Copenhagen, Beta w/THE KANDIDATE

10.03.2012 DK Odense, Kansas City w/THE KANDIDATE

16.03.2012 GER Berlin, Red Rooster

17.03.2012 GER Halle, Rockstation

18.03.2012 GER Dresden, tba

19.03.2012 CZ Prague, Cafe na pul cesty

20.03.2012 CZ Olomouc, Galerie u Mloka

21.03.2012 AUT Linz, Stwst

22.03.2012 SLO Maribor, Club Gustaf

23.03.2012 ITA Massa Carrara, Swamp Club

24.03.2012 ITA, Chatillon Aosta, Centre Hibou

25.03.2012 GER Frankfurt, Ponyhof

27.03.2012 SUI Bern, Dachstock

28.03.2012 LUX Luxembourg, Rocas Cafe

29.03.2012 GER Osnabrück, Bastard

30.03.2012 GER Essen, Cafe Nova

31.03.2012 GER Hannover, Glocksee

01.04.2012 GER Hamburg, Molotow

02.04.2012 GER Rostock, MAU Club

05.04.12 SWE Linköping, L’ Orient

26.04.12 SWE Stockholm, Fritz’s Corner@Strand

27.04.12 SWE Gothenburg, Sticky Fingers

28.04.12 DK Copenhagen, Loppen

03.05.12. SWE Malmö, Debaser

 RISING’s debut effort “To Solemn Ash” was released by Exile on Mainstream in Europe in October 2011. On January 17th it saw its North American release via EOM/E1 Distribution and has been the subject to general praise from American press.

DECIBEL gave it an 8 out of 10, and just recently PITCHFORK rated the album 7.6 out of 10 and wrote: “They’ve found multiple ways to come off expansive and compelling within a tight, traditional framework…They simply know how to write great riffs.”

Also the American metal/rock blog THE OBELISK is still streaming the album in it’s entirety right here

“To Solemn Ash” is produced by new producer talent Jakob Reichert Nielsen, mastered by Alan Douches (Converge, Mastodon, High on Fire a.o.), and the album features the iconic artwork of Danish artist and music video director Jakob Printzlau aka Plastic Kid (Lack, Volbeat, Bring Me The Horizon a.o.). The album is available as CD, LP and download via Exile On Mainstream

http://www.risingmetal.com

http://www.facebook.com/risingdk

http://www.twitter.com/risingdk

http://www.rising.bandcamp.com

http://www.reverbnation.com/risingdk

http://www.youtube.com/risingdkvid

http://www.soundcloud.com/rising-3

To mark the North American release of Rising’s To Solemn Ash on Exile On Mainstream, Pitchfork is currently hosting a stream of the opening track to the album, “Mausoleum.” Check out the worldwide public premiere of the newly unleashed anthem RIGHT HERE.

To Solemn Ash boasts nearly fifty minutes of RISING’s solid doom-and-groove heavy metal thunder over ten tracks, produced by Jakob Reichert Nielsen, mastered by Alan Douches (Converge, Mastodon, High On Fire, etc.) and bearing artwork of Jakob Printzlau aka Plastic Kid (Lack, Volbeat, BMTH, Kashmir, etc). To Solemn Ash will be available in a 4-panel digifile CD, gatefold 180-gram LP and digital download.

“…Rising have a knack for huge, blustery sludge anthems…” – Pitchfork

“…tracks that sound like they’re going to implode in a mess of smoldering tar, cracked horse hooves, bong glass shards, transmission pieces from a 1971 Corvette Stingray and flaming lumberjack axes… 8/10″ – Decibel

“The band tempers the heft and brutality of sludge and doom with enough trad-metal finesse to render an exceptionally listenable record that still hits hard.” – MetalReview

“The band knows how to put rocking, heavy-ass tunes together, tunes that flow like a river of molten lead.” – Doommantia

“…these guys expertly blend vintage metal with sludge to create both the typical down-in-the-muck feel and headbanging grooves.” – Popdose

“Moving from menacing to melodic in the space of minutes, the band are clearly competent at their sound…” – Metal Reviews