Earth (us), Sabbath Assembly (us), Menace Ruine (can, Aluk (f)

Earth är tillbaka på Nef. Deras nya album ANGELS OF DARKNESS, DEMONS OF LIGHT: 1 kommer i februari på tunga Southern Lord. Albumet är inspelat av Stuart Hallerman som också rattade den klassiska EARTH 2..

Dylan Carlson och hans band har på egen hand byggt en genre där band som sunnO))) hämtat sitt syre. Men Earth går längre och låter sig inspireras av country och blues i sin långsamma musik som tycks få tiden att stå stilla. Det är magisk musik som arbetar på flera plan samtidigt.

We have been blessed with a massive offering from the gods! - Southern Lord Records.

Adrienne Davies –tr, perc.
Dylan Carlson –g.
Lori Goldston –cello.
Karl Blau –b.

Sabbath Assembly är ett märkligt och intressant projekt där man tagit musik från en sekt vid namn The Process Church of the Final Judgement. Se nedan för mer info.
Bandet innehåller medlemmar från No Neck Blues Band och Jex Toth.

Restored to One is a modern response to the musical activities of a cult known as The Process Church of the Final Judgment, who used music to spread their visions of Gnostic reconciliation in a time of cataclysmic change.
Sabbath Assembly has re-charged the original hymns of The Process Church and worked them into moving renditions that unite the trinity of rock, psychedelic and gospel into one triumphant re-awakening.
The Process Church was an intensely creative, apocalyptic shadow side to the flower-powered ’60s and New Age ’70s. The influential group opened Chapters in London, Europe and across the United States. Dressing in black cloaks and walking the streets with German Shepherds, they created their own intricately designed magazines, and promoted a controversial, quasi-Gnostic theology that reconciled Christ and Satan through deeper awareness and love. Funkadelic reproduced Process writings in two of its albums.

The Process Church was accused of being part of a Satanic underground conspiracy by true crime pulps, most notably Ed Sanders’ The Family, which linked the Church to the Manson murders. The insider’s perspective of this secretive group and its true leadership recently emerged with Feral House’s LOVE SEX FEAR DEATH: The Inside Story of The Process Church of the Final Judgment, written by former members including Timothy Wyllie, and edited by Adam Parfrey.