Damien Done "Total Power"

CASSETTE - $6.00
STREET DATE: 5/19/23
CAT#: PRO-089
LABEL: Protagonist

Dusky rock'n'roll meets gloomy pop from Damien Moyal, the former of frontman of As Friends Rust, Culture, Morning Again, and Shai Hulud. Playing alongside former members of Child Bite, Earthmover, and Scissor Now, this latest effort sees Moyal continue his sharp turn from the angst of his past, instead using Damien Done as a vehicle to croon unnervingly voyeuristic tales over a collection of bleak but catchy tracks. Touching on the doom and drawl of swampy grunge and the cold, blue sneer of darker 80s pop and hazy post-punk, Total Power is just the slightest curl of a lip on an otherwise angelic face.

TRACK LISTING:

  1. Maw
  2. Black Moon
  3. Pray For Me
  4. Inexorcisable
  5. Young Drugs
  6. Always On Fire
  7. Fin Dom
  8. Gentleman Thief
  9. Bounty and Blight

MARKETING POINTS:

  • Featuring members of As Friends Rust, Shai Hulud, Child Bite.
  • Full-color and multi-facet packaging with O-Card.

FOR FANS OF:
Nick Cave, Interpol, Billy Idol, Echo & The Bunnymen

Cult Leader "Lightless Walk"

LP - $17.25
LP UPC: 723314784267
STREET DATE: 5/19/23
CAT#: DW183
LABEL: Deathwish Inc.

Cult Leader are a chaotically aggressive band from Salt Lake City, Utah. "Lightless Walk" was recorded and engineered by Kurt Ballou at God City Studios (Converge, High On Fire). From the first menacing thumps of "Great I Am", Cult Leader unleash grinding musical fury. "The Sorrower" gallops before crashing into a wall of heaviness as they vocally declare "...nothing will get better". The pessimistic spiral continues in "Sympathetic" and "Suffer Louder", two tangles of cacophony that give birth to crushers of ending riffs. "Broken Blades" then emerges as a near constant barrage, showcasing the technical prowess thriving underneath Cult Leader’s layers of grime. While "A Good Life" ushers in new dynamics, clawing through melodious dirt before taking flight again. "Walking Wastelands", "Gutter Gods", and "Hate Offering" are all metallic monsters in their own right, lurching towards the epically haunting pairing of "How Deep It Runs" and "Lightless Walk". Two songs that show Cult Leader at their most depressive and powerful as they recede into introspective darkness.

TRACK LISTING:

  1. Great I Am
  2. The Sorrower
  3. Sympathetic
  4. Suffer Louder
  5. Broken Blades
  6. A Good Life
  7. Walking Wastelands
  8. Gutter Gods
  9. Hate Offering
  10. How Deep It Runs
  11. Lightless Walk

MARKETING POINTS:

  • Available again on vinyl
  • Recently released a split with END
  • Over 6 million lifetime streams

FOR FANS OF:
Converge, Trap Them. Full Of Hell

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Omen Astra "The End of Everything"

LP - $14.00
STREET DATE: 5/19/23
CAT#: PRO-076
LABEL: Protagonist

Nothing can fully prepare you for the scope and scale of what Omen Astra are documenting on this monumental debut. Crushing. Atmospheric. Challenging. Just some of the descriptors one might choose to wrap their mind around this release. Influences present include the brute force, technicality, and hooks of bands as diverse as Cult of Luna, Faith No More, Cave In, Gojira, and Neurosis, and even touches of the interstellar psychedelia and melodic songcraft of Bowie or Pink Floyd. The full album is so sonically and emotionally heavy that it might transform your record player into a home version of the large-haedron collider. No comparison or written description is truly apt here, though it might be best characterized as an explosion of rage and beauty akin to the eye inside a storm - an experience to be lived rather than read about. And one absorbed best at full volume!

TRACK LISTING:

  1. Breathe Into the Wave
  2. False Gods
  3. Who's Been Painting My Roses Red?
  4. The City That Burns
  5. Glory To The Crown
  6. This Is The End of Everything

MARKETING POINTS:

  • Features members of New Day Rising, The Black Maria, Spread the Disease

FOR FANS OF:
Cult of Luna, Cave In, Gojira, Mouth of the Architect, Neurosis

Cult Leader "A Patient Man"

LP - $17.25
LP UPC: 723314784250
STREET DATE: 5/19/23
CAT#: DW208
LABEL: Deathwish Inc.

Cult Leader is a chaotic band from Salt Lake City, Utah. “A Patient Man” was recorded and engineered by Kurt Ballou at God City Studios (Converge, Nails, High On Fire). From the first hits of opener “I Am Healed” Cult Leader take listeners on a sonic rollercoaster ride. Much of the album follows this blueprint. Songs like “Curse of Satisfaction”, “Craft of Mourning”, and “Share My Pain” are driven by a weave work of unorthodox metallic riffing and fueled by hyper-aggressive percussion. While the tech- nical proficiency is impressive, it’s in their use of dynamics where they truly shine. The album contains four beautifully brooding epics; “To: Achlys”, “A World of Joy”, title track “A Patient Man”, and “The Broken Right Hand of God”. Each one of them carries a maturation and sense of melody that few “extreme” bands have within their arsenal. Proving that aggressive music still has much to offer the world in terms of originality, creativity, and emotion.

TRACK LISTING:

  1. I Am Healed
  2. Curse of Satisfaction
  3. Isolation in the Land of Milk and Honey
  4. To: Achlys
  5. A World Of Joy
  6. Craft of Mourning
  7. Share My Pain
  8. Aurum Reclusa
  9. A Patient Man
  10. The Broken Right Hand of God

MARKETING POINTS:

  • Available again on vinyl
  • Recently released a split with END
  • Over 6 million lifetime streams

FOR FANS OF:
Converge, Trap Them. Full Of Hell

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