![]() " Southern Lord is beyond stoked to be working with longtime favorites DARKEST HOUR on their upcoming album! Their tasteful, seamless fusion of hardcore and metal as well as never ending dedication to underground music is both admirable and praiseworthy," said Southern Lord founder Greg Anderson. We've always respected Greg's work ethic, creative prowess and steadfast dedication to quality." While working with Kurt, we became reacquainted with Greg. "To quote Nina Simone: 'An artist's duty is to reflect the times.' With that, we hold a mirror to the face of all things truly horrific and give you 'Knife In The Safe Room'."ĭARKEST HOUR has partnered with Southern Lord Recordings, which Schleibaum discussed, saying: "The band has a long history of working with Greg and Southern Lord, who originally released the vinyl version of 'The Mark Of Judas'. This is the beginning it is part bitter reflection of the way things are and part anthem for those who struggle to survive as the world encircles them. On the surface, it is a classic DARKEST HOUR song, ripe with the reflection of today's bleak modern age but as you peel back the lyrics and ideas contained within the album story unfolds, one that is all too common in human history. "Thematically this song has a dual purpose. "While this may be the most fierce album we have ever released, its depth and sonic richness are sure to be discovered as the listener dives in. Schleibaum stated about "Knife In The Safe Room": "This song sets the tone for the album both lyrically and sonically. Artist Shaun Beaudry was commissioned to create a custom painting, giving the album a unique visual identity. The band chose producer Kurt Ballou ( HIGH ON FIRE, NAILS, CONVERGE) for "his obvious genius" (as guitar player Mike Schleibaum said) and recorded the release at Ballou's Godcity Studio. The 12-song effort was part of a crowdfunding campaign that the band launched earlier this year, with the ultimate tally netting the band well over 100% of the initial goal and allowing them to also create an album beyond their initial expectations. ![]() The track is taken from the band's ninth full-length album, "Godless Prophets & The Migrant Flora", which will be released on March 10 via Southern Lord Recordings. metalcore pioneers DARKEST HOUR, can be streamed below. Psrwp is an experimental project of Bangkok-based motion and visual graphic designer Peerawas Chooraksa, and Winkieb is editor-in-chief of who’s been in the city’s electronic music and underground music scenes for years."Knife In The Safe Room", a brand new song from Washington, D.C. He’s released tunes on Beatport, Traxsource and iTunes but has his own label, Zoo Studio, and cofounded. ![]() Marmosets, which blends experimental house, techno and hardware synthesiser, is an offshoot project for Kingkong, the FJ-producer who won the Heineken DJ Spin competition in 2006. ![]() In 2016 he toured Europe with Berlin-based artist Inner8, a member of the techno duo Dadub, and contributed a track to a compilation album of Korean underground collective Constant Value. Ten years into his career, Shimizu finally released his own debut album, “Otolary”, in 2015, and continues to perform around Southeast Asia and in Japan and South Korea. His record label and party series, So: On Dry Flower, gets the local music out there and brings in foreign guests. He studied sound engineering in New York, then landed here in 1993 and came back to stay in 2003. They’ve assembled a posse of DJs to play for a solid five hours, including Koichi Shimizu (So: On Dry Flower), Marmosets (Tempo, Zoo Studio), Psrwp (Duck Unit) and WINKIEB. Raze is chiefly the name of a Bangkok-based collective whose members love hammering beats, rave culture and that “noise” thing. The main man on the decks will be Ansome, a wild techno and EBM producer from London who’s wielded his heavyweight percussion and synths at the 18/7001 Festival in Rotterdam and the Rave Indoor Bunker in New York. From 9pm until late, the air will be filled with industrial techno and hard techno music, dark and experimental music and another genre cheerfully referred to simply as “noise”.
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