Pharaoh Finish Recording Debut Album Negative Everything

Posted in Whathaveyou on May 19th, 2014 by JJ Koczan

New Jersey natives Pharaoh will round out a Philly-Baltimore-D.C. weekender tonight with a set in Montclair, in my beloved Garden State, alongside the formidable likes of Dutchguts, Ilsa and Seven Sisters of Sleep. I’m late in posting the news below about their forthcoming full-length debut, Negative Everything, but I figured better that than never. It’s been five years almost to the day since I reviewed the trio’s The Demonstration 2009 demo, and though they’ve had a couple singles out since then, I’m looking forward to finding out where the last half-decade has taken their sound. Time flies. Also birds.

A389 will have Negative Everything out in the coming months, as the PR wire informs:

PHARAOH: New Jersey Trio Completes Tracking Of New LP For A389

Following two 7″ releases released through A389, Somerville, New Jersey-based trio, PHARAOH, has completed the tracking on their debut LP for the label.

PHARAOH’s hardcore-influenced sludge reverberation can be traced to legendary acts like Bloodlet, Neurosis, Grief and Starkweather, the band demonstrating their craft through a bruising, slow-motion dirge of through monolithic amplification. Through regional touring and multiple recordings, including their 2010-released I Murderer 7″ and 2012-released This House Is Doomed 7″, the past few years have earned the band a respectable cult status in line with the likes of A389 labelmates Ilsa and Seven Sisters Of Sleep.

Now for 2014, PHARAOH’s debut LP, Negative Everything, is being finalized for release. With nearly fifty minutes of new material, Negative Everything takes the band’s intoxicating low-end tunes to new levels of musicianship with more swirling lead guitar mayhem and thunderous rhythms. The album was tracked and produced by the band and mastered by Will Putney at Machine Shop. Upon receiving the final masters, A389 will confirm a late Summer release date for the LP.

Negative Everything Track Listing:
1. Recease
2. The Slasher
3. Degenerator
4. Spared
5. Dusted
6. Bartholomew
7. Crying Mother
8. Drag

PHARAOH will raid Philly for a show tonight, Friday, May 16th, followed by shows in Baltimore and Washington DC the next two nights before joining Seven Sisters Of Sleep, Ilsa and others in Montclair, New Jersey this Monday, May 19th. Additional tour actions will be scheduled as the release of Negative Everything closes in.

PHARAOH Live:
5/19/2014 The Batcave – Montclair, NJ w/ Seven Sisters Of Sleep, Ilsa, Dutchguts, Thera Roya

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Pharaoh, Live at A389 10th Anniversary, Jan. 16, 2014

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Napalm Christ Sign to A389 Recordings

Posted in Whathaveyou on November 25th, 2013 by JJ Koczan

Their debut demo in the works since 2011, Little Rock, Arkansas, four-piece Napalm Christ released 2012 Demo just last month on tape through the UK’s Goatprayer Records (info here). Well, I guess the world was just waiting for it, since in addition to getting picked up by that label for release, the band has also signed to A389 Recordings to issue the demo — which presumably will get a retitling of some sort, or, you know, not — and their full-length debut, both of which can be expected in 2014.

More to come, but for now, here’s the PR wire with the latest:

NAPALM CHRIST: Little Rock Underlords Sign With A389 Recordings

Vinyl Issue Of Malicious 2013 Demo & Debut LP Slated

A389 Recordings proclaims their new liaison with Arkansas-based underlords, NAPALM CHRIST.

Formed in late 2010, NAPALM CHRIST unites a crew of longtime henchmen who have helped shape the Little Rock area extreme music scene over the past two or more decades. Since the early 1990s, the four horsemen who form NAPALM CHRIST have collectively spent time at war with the mainstream in Rwake, Shredding Corpse, Pale Unearthed, Shitfire, Witch’s Tit and others. In this cult they unify their hateful ways and debauchery-ridden tactics into a volatile brew of charged-up, doom/grind-influenced death metal, reeking of days past, yet with enough potency to give fair warning of much darker days to come.

Initiated as a side-project, things got out of control, and NAPALM CHRIST began infecting the planet with recorded material, thus far accumulated in a series of random online demos, singles and comp inclusions. The latter of said demos was released via Bandcamp in June 2013, and that’s when A389 caught a whiff of the band’s trail. Recorded by Alan Wells with assistance from Keith Bracy in Little Rock, and mastered by Collin Jordan at Boiler Room Mastering in Chicago, and masked with illustrations by Dennis Lee Hughes, A389 will manifest this half-hour of disturbing anthems into an official 12″ vinyl release, followed by their debut LP later in the year. Exact street dates on both pending releases will be announced in the coming weeks. For now stream the entire 2013 Demo HERE.

NAPALM CHRIST:
Kiffin Rogers (Rwake) – guitar, vocals
Michael Lawrence (Witches Tit, Shitfire) – guitar
Alan Wells (Shitfire, ex-Rwake) – bass, vocals
David Sroczynski (Shredded Corpse) – drums

2013 Demo Track Listing:
1. Idols of Evil
2. Life is Dimming
3. Reclaimed by the Earth
4. Nuclear Holy War
5. Despoilment of Will
6. Burning Away the Scourge

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Napalm Christ, 2013 Demo

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