Ancient Warlocks II Vinyl Details Announced
Seattle fuzz rockers Ancient Warlocks will release their second album, the aptly-titled II, on March 19 on STB Records. Now, STB needs me to promote its releases the same way it might need an aardvark to paint a house, but as it happens I’ll be hosting a full-stream of the record next week — next Wednesday, if you want to mark your calendar — ahead of the release, which hits at noon on the 19th and will no doubt sell through its initial pressing in no time flat. Ancient Warlocks were through several editions of their 2014 self-titled debut (review here) by the time they were done, and I don’t think any of them lasted. As it’s packaged with an exclusive live outing as well, I’d expect II‘s die hard and other incarnations to be met with much the same treatment. Not saying I’ve heard it or anything, but the album kicks ass.
Cover and release info follow, courtesy of STB via the PR wire:
STB Records is proud to announce the release of the new full length album from Seattle’s Ancient Warlocks, “II”.
The limited vinyl release will be on Saturday, March 19th at 12pm EST through the STB Records webstore at: http://stbrecords.bigcartel.com/
Vinyl Info:
• Die Hard Edition – Limited to 100 180g vinyl, comes with a companion full length LIVE LP pressed on random colors.
• OBI Edition – Limited to 125 180g vinyl
• Standard Edition – Limited to 250 om 180g vinyl
Cassette – Limited to 100, comes in a mylar bag has both the live album and new album on it .
The band says:
“Drums, Bass, Rhythm Guitar, and Lead Guitar were all recorded live in the studio at Big Sound Productions (Seattle, WA.) through an analog console to analog 1” reel to reel tape. As a general rule, Ancient Warlocks never play more than three takes of a song while recording, and the vast majority of the time it is one of the first two takes that we choose as our “keeper”. The band puts in the rehearsal time for this to not be simply lazy or unrealistic as an approach, but rather trying to capture lightning in a bottle. After choosing the “keeper” takes, all of the rhythm guitars were simply doubled as an overdub. Then the same was done with doubling all of the lead guitars, even though during certain solo sections, only one would really be used in the mix. Then the lead vocals were added. That’s it. Complete recording. All of the mixing was done on an analog DDA DMR-12 console with the typical outboard processing hardware (no computer plug ins. No computer effects at all, no auto-tune for vocals, no beat correction for the drums… none of that stuff. A human performance recorded to analog tape).
Simple-Raw-Garage-Grunge-Punk, Indie-Blues-Doom, Feral-Emotive-Heavy-Fuzz-Rock”
Steve Jones: Drums
Darren Chase: Rhythm Guitar
Aaron Krause: Lead Vocals & Lead Guitar
Anthony “Oni” Timm: Bass
Here is the link for the Bandcamp preview of the debut single, Terrible Touch:
https://ancientwarlocks.bandcamp.com/album/preview-for-ancient-warlocks-ii-lp
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