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Juniper Grave Premiere “The Forest” Video; Dec. UK Dates Announced

Posted in Bootleg Theater on November 13th, 2018 by JJ Koczan

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Dec. 7 marks the release date of Juniper Grave‘s debut album, Of Hellions and Harridans, on Wasted State Records, and that same night the Edinburgh four-piece will play a hometown release show at St. Mark’s Unitarian Church. A church seems a fitting setting for their organ-laced sound, further distinguished as it is by the harmonies brought to bear by multiple vocalists, with Jenni in the lead position backed by guitarist Shonagh and bassist Sarah while Jason drums behind. The release show is the first of a three-night weekender, and they’ve got two weekenders in a row, winding up in Manchester on Dec. 15, which is as far south in the UK as they go. Fair enough for the band to celebrate the arrival of their tales of mischief and devilry in songs like the boogieing “A Trick of the Light,” the seven-minute prog-doom centerpiece “The Bridge Between Worlds” and the well-harmonized and classically metal closer “Rest with Your Dead (Faolitighearna),” which is a cause worthy of celebration both for the realization of these songs themselves and for the potential they represent.

“The Forest,” the video for which actually takes place indoors as well as outside in the woods, is the leadoff track on Of Hellions and Harridans, offers a rousing hook to capture the listener’s attention early, and as such, it makes a fitting juniper grave of hellions and harridansopener, but while it doesn’t have the same kind of charged harmonies as in the finale or even the penultimate “Lunar Calling” before it, it also does some essential work in setting up the linear flow of the album toward those ends. The organ is established for being the crucial element that it is. The rhythm section proves crucial to the weight and groove overall, and the melody brings forward the nascent sense of command in the vocals overall that speaks to one of the band’s great potentials for arrangement and melodic/harmonic interplay going forward. That’s getting well ahead of things, but it’s there in the song all the same and becomes a subsequent theme for Juniper Grave across the album’s 40-minute, LP-ready span.

This is the first audio from the album to be made public so far as I know, so please dig in and click the tour poster to enlarge the dates should you happen to be in the region early next month. Preorders for Of Hellions and Harridans are up now through Wasted State, and you’ll find that link along with more info under the video below.

Please enjoy:

Juniper Grave, “The Forest” official video premiere

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From the dreich, winding closes of Edinburgh come Juniper Grave. Riding out under the banner of debut album Of Hellions and Harridans, these four harbingers of doom have distilled the influence of fellow occultists Blood Ceremony and Jex Thoth into the soundtrack to a Faustian bargain.

Video shot & edited by Richie Morgan

Taken from their debut album ‘Of Hellions & Harridans’, released 7th December 2018 through Wasted State Records.

Coming as Vinyl, CD and Digital Download, the album pre-order is now available at:
http://www.wastedstate.com/releases/juniper-grave-of-hellions-harridans/

Juniper Grave are:
Lead Vocals and Organ: Jenni
Guitar and Backing Vocals: Shonagh
Bass and Backing Vocals: Sarah
Drums: Jason

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Juniper Grave Release Debut Album Of Hellions and Harridans Dec. 7

Posted in Whathaveyou on October 25th, 2018 by JJ Koczan

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Scottish four-piece Juniper Grave formed in 2016 and issued a two-track demo in 2017 that featured the songs ‘Lunar Calling’ and ‘The Bridge Between Worlds.’ The cultish-leaning outfit have signed to Wasted State Records and both of those tracks will feature on their debut album, Of Hellions and Harridans, which is due out Dec. 7. There’s no audio from the record yet and the demo has been taken down from Bandcamp in place of a preorder page for the LP — fair enough — but the live clip below gives some sense of the band’s approach with guitarist Shonagh and bassist Sarah providing backing vocals for organist Jenni, and it seems likely those arrangements will factor heavily in the album (haven’t heard it, so can’t confirm that) along with the weighted grooves and eerie organ melodies. Also dig the purported themes of “warrior women and accursed souls.” Would be a nice change from all that horror-movie silly whatnot that seems to abound everywhere you look.

The PR wire has details:

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JUNIPER GRAVE TO RELEASE DEBUT ALBUM THIS DECEMBER!

Edinburgh based witch-rock band JUNIPER GRAVE have announced the release of their hotly anticipated debut album titled ‘Of Hellions & Harridans’!

Formed in 2016 peddling their unique brand of occult rock with strong tinges of the doom, JUNIPER GRAVE have quickly grown their coven of fans at live shows, such as in support of Dystopian Future Movies or Church Of The Cosmic Skull, and progressed towards the album writing at the start of 2018.

This summer, JUNIPER GRAVE entered the Chamber Studio in Edinburgh to record their debut album ‘Of Hellions & Harridans’, which is set for a release with Wasted State Records on December 7th 2018!

“After two years of weaving and crafting we can’t wait to share our stories of warrior women and accursed souls with the world.“ Says the band. “The themes, although fantastical, embody our ethos of empowerment and sisterhood and we are really proud of these seven songs of ruin and revenge.”

The tracklist will read as follows:
1. The Forest
2. A Trick Of The Light
3. Daughters of the Waves
4. The Bridge Between Worlds
5. Dance of the Daemon Queen
6. Lunar Calling
7. Rest With Your Dead (Faoiltighearna)

Coming as Vinyl, CD and Digital Download, the album pre-order is now available at:
http://www.wastedstate.com/releases/juniper-grave-of-hellions-harridans/

Juniper Grave are:
Lead Vocals and Organ: Jenni
Guitar and Backing Vocals: Shonagh
Bass and Backing Vocals: Sarah
Drums: Jason

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Juniper Grave, “Daughters of the Bannermans” live in Edinburgh

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