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BEDEMON Featuring Bobby Liebling & Geof O’Keefe To Reissue ‘Child Of Darkness’ Via Relapse

8th January 2015 Lee Edwards Bedemon, Bobby Liebling, Child Of Darkness, Geof O'Keefe, Mike Matthews, News, Randy Palmer, Reissue, Relapse Records

Relapse Records is proud to announce the official re-release of BEDEMON‘s archival recordings, Child Of Darkness. Widely considered America’s first

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BLACK TUSK To Tour Europe With BLACK LABEL SOCIETY In 2015; Band Issues Statement

11th December 2014 Lee Edwards Black Label Society, Black Tusk, Euro Tour 2015, Jonathan Athon, News, Relapse Records

After a trying year and the loss of their brother and band mate, BLACK TUSK will be honoring Jonathan Athon‘s

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LORD DYING Post In-Studio Video From ‘Poisoned Altars’ Recording Sessions

18th November 2014 Lee Edwards Lord Dying, New Album Details, New Video, News, Poisoned Altars, Relapse Records, US Tour 2014

Portland, Oregon’s LORD DYING will release their new album entitled Poisoned Altars, January 27, 2015 (1/26 for UK/World and 1/24

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RED FANG Premiere Animated Video For The Track ‘Crows In Swine’

13th November 2014 Lee Edwards Adam Avilla, Communion Of Sirens Tour, Crows In Swine, Desertfest, New Video, News, Red Fang, Relapse Records, Timbrr! Winter Music Festival, US Tour 2014, Whales And Leeches

RED FANG have premiered their new video for Crows In Swine, the third single off the Portland-based rock group’s critically

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Anatomy Of Habit ‘Ciphers + Axioms’ CD/LP/DD 2014

13th November 20143rd September 2019 Sandy Williamson 2014, Anatomy Of Habit, CD, Ciphers + Axioms, Digital, Drone, Heavy, LP, Mark Solotoroff, Post-Rock, Relapse Records, Review, Sandy Williamson

Anatomy Of Habit is the brainchild of noise icon Mark Solotoroff, and Ciphers + Axioms marks their Relapse Records debut.

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GOBLIN REBIRTH Sign To Relapse Records; Album Due Spring 2015

11th November 2014 Lee Edwards Goblin, Goblin Rebirth, News, Relapse Records

Relapse Records is extremely proud to announce the signing of Italian progressive instrumentalists GOBLIN REBIRTH. A new incarnation, inspired by

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Usnea ‘Random Cosmic Violence’ CD/LP/CS/DD 2014

11th November 20143rd September 2019 Caspian Yurisich 2014, Caspian Yurisich, Cassette, CD, Digital, Doom, Heavy, LP, Random Cosmic Violence, Relapse Records, Review, Sludge, Usnea

In the same vein of perhaps Ocean’s Here Where Nothing Grows, Torture Circle, Aldebaran, Buried At Sea, early, less-bad Moss

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BLACK TUSK Bassist Jonathan Athon Passes Away

10th November 2014 Lee Edwards Black Tusk, Jonathan Athon, News, Relapse Records, RIP

Bassist Jonathan Athon of Savannah, Georgia’s BLACK TUSK passed away yesterday morning (Sunday, November 9) from injuries sustained in a

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USNEA: ‘Random Cosmic Violence’ LP Now Streaming At Stereogum

7th November 2014 Lee Edwards Audio Stream, News, Random Cosmic Violence, Relapse Records, Stereogum, Usnea

The sophomore full-length release from Portland, Oregon’s USNEA, Random Cosmic Violence, is now playing at Stereogum in its entirety a

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ANATOMY OF HABIT: New Album ‘Ciphers + Axioms’ Now Streaming In Full At Pitchfork

7th November 2014 Lee Edwards Anatomy Of Habit, Audio Stream, Ciphers + Axioms, New Album Details, News, Pitchfork, Pre-Orders, Relapse Records

Following teaser streams from Heathen Harvest and Cvlt Nation, Ciphers + Axioms, the new two-song full-length from post-metal/noise rock experimentalists, ANATOMY

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TORCHE Reveal New Album Release Date & Artwork; US & Euro Tour Dates Announced

7th November 2014 Lee Edwards Euro Tour 2015, New Album Details, News, Relapse Records, Restarter, Temples Festival, Torche, US Tour 2014

TORCHE, the Florida/Georgia-based band the Village Voice dubbed “the legitimate sons of a union between Hüsker Dü and the Melvins,”

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Video Premiere: TESA – Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Ahead Of This Friday’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’
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