UPCOMING SHOWS
May 19 ULCERATE with Tombs and Svart Crown buy tickets
May 23 YOB with Cough and Mike Scheidt buy tickets
May 25 CHURCH OF MISERY with Rwake and Gates of Slumber buy tickets
June 4 MERZBOW with Wold buy tickets
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THE BLACKENED MUSIC SERIES PRESENTS
ULCERATE (first ever NYC show)
with Tombs and Svart Crown
Saturday May 19 at Public Assembly, Brooklyn
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Ulcerate’s The Destroyers of All was easily the best death metal album of 2011: a strange, masterful new mutation you have not heard before. After ten years and three albums, this will be the New Zealand band’s first ever NYC show. Brandon Stosuy at Pitchfork wrote the album “weaves epic post-metal into frantic atmospheric death squalls… a beautiful blizzard of sound that feels chaotic and supremely controlled” while Metalsucks says “one else sounds like them, they’re heavy in a truly new way.”
Joining them is Tombs, who made Decibel Magazine and Brooklyn Vegan Metal’s #1 Album of 2012 for their jaw-dropping Path of Tonality, a masterclass in violent, blackened metal born out of hardcore and noise, and driven by extreme anger and total control.
Listen to Ulcerate here.
Listen to Tombs here.
THE BLACKENED MUSIC SERIES PRESENTS
YOB with Cough and Mike Scheidt (Yob) solo
Wednesday March 23 at The Bell House, Brooklyn
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Along with Sleep, YOB have always been considered one of, if not the, heaviest doom three-pieces ever. More importantly YOB has earned deep respect amongst the doom metal faithful, mining a distinct sound (culled from influences such as Black Sabbath, Neurosis, Obsessed, and Sleep) that no other doom metal band has been able to imitate. Over the years YOB’s signature and distinct style of epic, crushing sludge doom has developed and matured, and now the band finds itself forging its heaviest, darkest, and undeniably loudest music ever. The Blackened Music Series is proud to present YOB for a second time. Read the last show’s review in the New York Times here. Download a Mike Scheidt solo track here.
THE BLACKENED MUSIC SERIES PRESENTS
CHURCH OF MISERY (first ever NYC show)
with Rwake and Gates of Slumber
Friday March 25 at the Cameo Gallery, Brooklyn
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Japan’s greatest doom band Church of Misery has been at it for 20 years, but this show marks their first ever performance in New York City. Most songs by Church of Misery are about serial killers and mass murderers. After several releases on small independent labels they released the EP Murder Company on Man’s Ruin Records, then moved on to Southern Lord Records for debut full-length Master of Brutality. Their second full-length from 2004, The Second Coming, recently reissued by Metal Blade is even better, fully discharging their love for Blue Cheer, Pentagram, and Cactus with trippy, classic doom soaked in blood. Judging by their 2010 Live at Roadburn LP, their first ever NYC show will be a can’t miss event.
Supporting them is two of our finest doom bands — Rwake from Little Rock, AK and Gates of Slumber from Indianapolis, IN.
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MERZBOW (a special Blackened exclusive)
with WOLD (harsh noise and black metal from Saskatchewan)
Monday June 4 at Saint Vitus, Brooklyn
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Merzbow is the most important artist in the history of noise music, and has appeared on hundreds of albums. Born in Tokyo in 1956, he grew up studying psychedelic rock, free jazz, Dada and the surrealists, and gradually began experimenting with broken tape recorders and feedback. His first cassettes sparked a network of underground industrial music. His harsh noise eschewed the primitive anger found on this scene to reach a Zen state, calm inside the storm. In 2000, Extreme released the 50-CD box set, Merzbox and remains the biggest musical statement in the history of noise music. Merzbow has collaborated with Mike Patton, Boris, The Melvins and Sunn O))).
Wold is the harsh Saskatchewan duo of Fortress Crookedjaw and Obey, who straddle noise and black metal in a way that refuses to concede to either genre. They make a white-out of crackling feedback and snowbound bleakness, deconstructing songs and sonics with mystery and provocation.