weekly round up: Sleep, Melvins, Noothgrush, Power Trip and much more

JBI_XVI, the guy over b9 forum with awesome music taste posted some days ago that when he finally managed a safe deal for Sleep's Dopesmoker and while it was on its way, the news broke through that Southern Lord will be reissuing Dopesmoker. That pretty much sums up the whole re issues, re re issues for the album over the years. But the good news is Southern Lord will be releasing the "original" Dopesmoker this time as the band intended for release first time. Below is the official statement:


For the 2012 reissue, there are some very notable changes. The original studio tapes have been remastered presenting the album as the band had originally intended. The audio is clearer, louder, and at last brings a true representation of Sleep's hour-plus Weedian chronicle. Exclusive to this Southern Lord edition is brand new artwork by long time Sleep artist Arik Roper, to be unveiled in the coming weeks. Additionally, this reborn version of Dopesmoker boasts an unreleased live recording of one of the band's best all-time performances: "Holy Mountain" from San Francisco's I-Beam in 1994. 


As stated before, Melvins have released a new EP The Bulls&The Bees through Scion A/V for free download. For the occassion, they released a video for the track The War On Wisdom which you can watch below. Melvins will be releasing another LP Freak Puke this year under the moniker Melvins Lite on June 5th via Ipicac. Check out for that.

Power Trip's self titled EP which contains two original songs and a Prong cover is out now on Lockin' Out Records. If you heard the Demo and Armageddon Tapes, you know what to expect- a hard pummeling drive. Power Trip throws crossover thrash with hardcore elements and packs a punch. The EP is offered as free download by the band on their facebook page.

Mutilation Rites are on a roll and it doesn't look like they are going to stop anytime soon. This time Mutilation Rites are going to unearth a full length LP entitled Empyrian which will come out May 22 on Prosthetic Records and Gilead Media. For the recently released EP I Am Legion, visit here.

Check out the cover arts for the upcoming Candlemass' Psalms For The Dead and Ahab's The Giant below with Noothgrush's full live performance (courtesy of Kill That Cat) on March 4th in Oakland.

Candlemass- Psalms For The Dead

Ahab- The Giant

Melvins- The War On Wisdom


Noothgrush- Full Set (March 4,2012)

new Mutilation Rites track streaming from I Am Legion 12''

Art for I Am Legion 12''

One of the hardest touring USBM bands, Mutilation Rites are going to release the new 12" I am Legion on Gilead Media which is an already established label known for working with different dimensional yet innovating black metal acts (see here ). While Mutilation Rites demo album which was released last year never left my heavy rotation playlist, I got understandably excited when I read about this upcoming release on Gilead Media's official blog. Now yesterday Cvlt Nation premiered the opening track Cloaca Maxima from the new 12". Take a listen here. Check back for pre- orders with some shirts in the next week.

Mutilation Rites have announced a string of tour dates with Ryan Jones (Today Is the Day, Wetnurse) on bass. Get the dates after jump.

lots happening in Oshkosh in the coming months: Dead Weight Movie Premiere, Gilead Media Music Festival and more

Adam Lee Bartlett is a busy man indeed. Not only did he manage to establish an independent record label Gilead Media and consistently put out good records of bands whose music he gratifies heartfully but also now arranged one of the most astounding underground music shows : Gilead Media Music Festival. The show spans around two days featuring likes of Loss, Thou, Ash Borer, Fell Voices, False, Lycus and more. But that starts in the last week of April. In between Adam L. Bartlett along with fellow producer/ director John Pata under the moniker Head Trauma Productions will be premiering the latest effort Dead Weight, a low- cost thriller on big screen.

Dead Weight is a horror and suspense movie filmed last year which focuses on the lassitude yet fanatical journey of Charlie Russell, travelling through the wilderness in the wake of an apocalyptic viral outbreak to reunite with his girlfriend, Samantha, in Wausau. I watched the trailer last year and instantly got excited over the whole thing. So I started to keep track of the movie although there were limited updates posted on the web, nevertheless it was growing in stature. It's a sigh of relief that the movie is finally going to see the day of light although there was no doubt seeing the hard work and extreme dedication of the whole crew. On March 30 and 31st, public primiering will take place at Time Community Theatre, Oshkosh starting from 8 p.m.; the deluxe 2xDVD package will come out in April. The trailer for Dead Weight and some of the wicked performance by the bands featuring on Gilead Media Music Festival are posted below.

Dead Weight Trailer

[Update: Barghest has been recently added to the line up]

Loss @ Nashville


Thou covering Black Sabbath's Into the Void


Ash Borer full set @ Acheron

Gilead Media

Dead Weight blog