April 15th at the Buffalo Bar, Dethscalator play with Bad Guys, Gum Takes Tooth and Psychic Pussies

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April 15th at the Buffalo Bar, Dethscalator play with Bad Guys, Gum Takes Tooth and Psychic Pussies as part of the Buffalo Bar 10th birthday celebrations, FREE ENTRY. FB Event: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=205034742859169

March 5th, The Buszy, Milton Keynes

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Our guitar player Matt still has a sore spot regarding Wimbledon FC moving to Milton Keynes, however, by way of reconciliation the nice people of Milton Keynes have invited Dethscalator to play on March 5th.

Poino, Ageing and Bad Body are all also on the bill, FB event link here:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=180487381993259

Supersonic Festival

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Following the news that the 2010 edition of Birmingham’s acclaimed annual Supersonic Festival will be headlined by NAPALM DEATH, SWANS, GODFLESH, HALLOGALLO and MELT BANANA, Capsule are excited to announce the final few acts who will be appearing at this year’s festival, as well as reveal highlights from the incredible film, talks and visual arts programme.

Latest additions to the Supersonic line-up include the awesome live orchestra, Chrome Hoof, experimental hardcore band Ruins, the heavy riffage of Dethscalator and the melancholic pop sounds of Daniel O’Sullivan’s new project, Mothlite. Also, a special AV set from the hugely evocative Barn Owl, the psych/folk/electronic sounds of Health & Efficiency, regular jazz meets free improv in the form of Steve Tromans & Dan Nicholls Duo and Black Sun Drum Corps presenting a percussion parade through the festival, which will combine Supersonic Festival performers and audience members to create a visceral and live massed drumming experience. From metal to avant garde and folk, Supersonic 2010 is set to cement the festival’s reputation as one of the most original and eclectic music festivals in the UK.

Tickets on sale now
Friday: £20, Sat/Sun: £35, Weekend: £75

FRIDAY 22ND OCTOBER
NAPALM DEATH
DEAD FADER / DEMONS (W/SICK LLAMA) / DEVILMAN (W/DJ SCOTCH EGG) / DRUMCORPS / FUKPIG / GUM TAKES TOOTH / NECRO DEATHMORT / PCM

SATURDAY 23RD OCTOBER
GODFLESH + MELT BANANA
BLUE SABBATH BLACK FIJI / CAVE / CLOAKS (exclusive solo DJ set) / DOSH / EAGLE TWIN / GNAW / GNOD / KING MIDAS SOUND / LASH FRENZY vs KK NULL / LICHENS / OvO / PART WILD HORSES MANE ON BOTH SIDES / PEOPLE LIKE US / STEVE TROMAN & DAN NICHOLLS DUO / STINKY WIZZLETEAT /  TWEAK BIRD

 SUNDAY 24TH OCTOBER
SWANS + HALLOGALLO
BARN OWL / BLACK SUN DRUM CORPS / CHROME HOOF / DETHSCALATOR / BONG / FACTORY FLOOR / HEALTH & EFFICIENCY / JAILBREAK FEAT. CHRIS CORSANO + HEATHER LEIGH / JAMES BLACKSHAW / KHYAM ALLAMI AND MASTER MUSICIANS OF BUKKAKE / MOTH LITE /  MUGSTAR /  NISENNENMONDAI / PETER BRODERICK / PIERRE BASTIEN + MALE INSTRUMENTY / RUINS / VOICE OF THE SEVEN THUNDERS / ZENI GEVA

Seed Records Comp

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Dethscalator track ‘You Know Nothing About Cars or Martial Arts’ appears on the Seed Records ‘Seed X’ 10th anniversary comp, order it now, details below:

2010: Seed Records is a decade young and SEED X celebrates 10 pioneering years in the electronic alligator infested bayou that is the alternative music scene – and what a dangerous, yet strangely pleasurable swamp it is to swim in.

Artist: V/A
Title: ‘SEED X: Part I – III’
Release Date: April 26th – June 2010
Label: Seed Records
Format: Limited edition digipak CD
Cat. No: SEEDCD21 SEEDCD22 and SEEDCD23
Style: Techno/Noise/Italo/Folktonic/Electronics/Live

There are only 100 physical copies of each part and the complete set (or individual units) can be bought direct from us on pre-sale ( with instant MP3 gratification) for a special discount price:

SPECIAL PRE-SALE FROM SEED RECORDS

Designed by award winning artist Chris Wright, a Bristoly/Berliny nomad who eats flowers for money, and brought to you by a label synonymous with quality of an outré dimension, SEED X proudly presents 30 fresh and exclusive tracks across 3 super ltd edition releases, all excellence assured and 100% highly flammable for maximum peril.

No genre is left molestation free as this dirty yet adorable uncle runs his one remaining functioning finger across techno, noise, no-wave, folktronics and Italo, teasing out the very best examples from every pore on the global wildebeest’s booty ( The Machars included) with notable contributions from Swedish Grammy winner, Andreas Tilliander, Moog resident and Tresor stalwarts, Dave Tarrida and Tobias Schmidt plus Minnesota’s favourite extrasensory perception and Communiqué director, Woody McBride.

And, in a further curious blend of recognition and futility, Seed’s very own Mixmag 5* rated Sleeps In Oysters, Dazed and Confused’s favourite Italo don, Antoni Maiovvi, and East Moline’s psychedelic dom toms, Eyes, serve up quintessential tracks alongside new signings; Dressed In Wires, The Dagger Brothers, DFA’s Capracara and balaclava boffins, Dethscalator, each and every one of them delivering an autistic take on the musical paysage the likes not seen since Liberace’s ménage a trois with Kraftwerk and a baby terrapin shortly before his stroke in the late 80’s.

Lest we forget our roots neither, with a welcoming BOOM from the cannon of many of our original recording artists – since gone on to better things with their £2 advance – including: Posthuman, Cursor Miner, [s]! Jazzfinger and The Doubtful Guest (Planet Mu)

SEED X: An eminent menagerie and historical benchmark that plots a promising future for Seed Records. We hope you’ll enjoy listening to it as much as we did compiling it.

Track listing

Part I

1. Jazzfinger – Bumblepump
2. The Dagger Brothers – Release The Thunderball
3. The Shepardtones – Reichatronics
4. Romvelope – Timbalandrover
5. Skitanja – Sedan
6. Rels – Work That
7. Company Fuck + The Toilet – Vaginas or Not
8. Andreas Tilliander – Juno Chords
9. Tobias D. Schmidt and Lady Miss C – Some Kind of Disco
10. Arthur Mittens – Ordinary Spell To Cure How I Am Feeling

Part II

1. Machars Action – Viscous Attacks
2. Unit Black Flight – Not Named
3. Dressed In Wires – let The World Be Wary
4. Dethscalator – You Know Nothing About Cars or Martial Arts
5. Eyes – Reptyle
6. Cursor Miner – Devils In The Details
7. Posthuman – One Wrong Turn Deserves Another
8. Ola Bergman – Blane Glamor
9. Antoni Maiovvi – La Vincenda di Amore
10. Dave Tarrida – Meat Beat

Part III

1. Snakefork – Untitled
2. Mary and Polly – Ice Cream
3. Capracara – Panic Beats
4. Standard Planets – Count Down To The Mouth O’Bourne
5. Yard – Waves of Love
6. Bauri – You Are Not Here
7. Jaques Lueder – Crash
8. The Doubtful Guest – Noxic
9. Woody McBride – Der Wierd
10. [snyzch] – Eastendface

FREE TRACK FROM SEED X Part I – The Dagger Brothers – ‘Release The Thunderball’

www.seedrecords.co.uk

Split LP Reviews

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for the Hey Colossus vs. Dethscalator split 12”, out now on Black Labs. Order it from Riot Season here: http://www.riotseason.com/UHURA1.htm

“A pair of the finest extreme groups currently tearing through the UK underground vie for supremacy on this inaugural split release from Black Labs, sister label of the lauded West Midlands-based Riot Season. Hey Colossus weigh in with three suitably imposing new tracks that forgo the rancorous sound of their “Happy Birthday” full length for some seriously tripped out freak rock jams. Their roaring trilogy of translucent psychedelia is swollen with crashing riffs, feedback death screams and a fleeting, mesmerising homage to AC/DC.
Dethscalator tip the scales with five tracks that are a gripping entry into their world of gloriously dishevelled garage sludge. These songs are cut from a fractious, agitated cloth. Lumbering, zombie-like grooves sway with a howling swagger all of their own, their closeted, wrangled guitar noise is wrestled to the ground by the mortal yelps of their commandingly incoherent vocalist. Less an album than a bracing fumigation of the senses, it’s also a highly auspicious start for this dark new venture.”
ROCK-A-ROLLA

“Latest eruption of doom-sludge-drone heaviness from UK kill team Hey Colossus, here teamed up with the awesomely named Dethscalator, but more on them in a second.

Hey Colossus continue to expand their epic dirge space rock, with three sprawling slow-jams, that oozes from slow burning drones, to lurching stumbling blackened crush, to metallic krautrock and back again, rumbling drones erupt into looped sounding riff heavy sludge workouts, the vocals a hellish bellow, feedback swirling all over the place, the band a beast, a lumbering sonic juggernaut, downtuned and crushing, but spaced out and psychedelic too. Folks into Shit And Shine might want to give these guys a try, the same sort of noise drenched fucked up mantra like mesmerizing heaviness. Amidst all that heaviness, the band do unwind into hypnotic post/space rock jams, simple and rhythmic, under a haze of murky buzz and jagged skree, but seem to eventually explode into either a squall of melting lysergic effects drenched freakout, or pounding black murk slow motion metal crush. We dig it either way!

Which brings us to Dethscalator, who we liked already, cuz, well, they’re called Dethscalator, we’re like that. Thankfully the sound lives up to the name, a gnarled blend of Gore like repetitive heaviness, and lo-slung Jesus Lizard like noise rock, the vocals especially, a dead ringer for David Yow, all scowly and sort of sung / spoken, and super distorted, with the band swinging all downtuned and seasick, until they lock into bursts of cyclical riffage, that sound almost looped, occasionally lifting off into some serious space rock territory, before falling back into another stretch of woozy metallic noise rock, culminating in the weird brooding noise rock slowjam that ends the record, murky and washed out and gloomy, weirdly melodic and super dark and creepy. Rad rad rad. Definitely need more Dethscalator in our lives, and heck more Hey Colossus while we’re at it!

Features some awesomely fucked up and garish (and badly photoshopped) cover art, one eyed creep and headless biker anyone??”
AQUARIUS RECORDS

“Next up a split available from Black Labs (a new sister label to Riot season with this being the first release). Veteran d.i.y stomp boxers Hey Colossus start things of low key style but soon erupt into a foaming mass of riffage and inaudible psycho-babble vocals. These are long, hypnotic mega tunes with massive reverb saturated drums and immense amounts of guitar feedback that practically saturates opener ‘Eyes for an eye’. Can i hear a saxophone in there? Maybesssss……
NKOTB (New Kids on the
Block) dethscalator take a slightly more straight forward approach on these five tracks yet they are no less effective in their mission. I’m totally loving the riffage presented here and the vocals are a truly disturbing combination of manic taunts and yelps. Sort of reminds me of Pissed Jeans and The Jesus Lizard (especially that fearsome vocal). This is a totally rocking beast and the back cover features a headless biker riding a Harley Davidson…..what more do you want? Eh?”
NORMAN RECORDS

“Hey Colossus on vinyl? Again? Yep.
This time the seventh wonders of the south team up with London/Brighton types Dethscalator for another dose of mindfuck what-will-they-do-next action.
Thankfully it’s another surprise, the sound here rolls out of the speakers wrapped in the usual layer of fuzz but no actual SONG materialises for a while.
No matter, for what occurs is a stalking, bass-laden beast that starts the one-track, three-part composition with abstract drones and whistles before a frankly Wizard-like riff comes in all wonderfully doom with the addition of what sounds like bagpipes that works extremely well. Static swathes cut through the end of the track and make it sound like old walkie-talkie recordings, more of this please. The second part starts in a garbled, squeaking and restrained way before cracking into an all-out uber-phase-out that wouldn’t sound out of place in black and white re-runs of Patrick Troughton Dr Who episodes. All in all, another inventive release from a band that seem to have total creative freedom and intend to run with it.
Dethscalator on the other hand, and other side, rip through their tracks with a much more fevered pace, the sludge via Jesus Lizard style they have grown into comes across as both a slap to the face and a filthy exercise in fuzz.
Vocals hold the monotony together with a drunken drawl that takes pointers from Eugene Robinson’s growling, yelping and frightening lexicon. The music pummels away satisfyingly, but its the contortions that ex-Hunting Lodge vocalist Dan makes that keep the band interesting.
Song titles are pretty righteous too, ‘Kicking The Horns Off A Bull’ anyone?”
NINEHERTZ.CO.UK
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Rumori unti di liquido nero che scorre sottoterra, echi e fischi in lontananza, riverberi che esplodono in un doom puzzolente di zolfo scagliato nello spazio, come degli Hawkwind corrotti dal lato oscuro.
Sembra di sentire gli Orthodox – quella voce! – ancora più fragorosi, gli strumenti si impastano e fanno male, la chitarra gioca a fare la cornamusa, arriva il caos e strappa brandelli di ritmo lasciando tutto in mano al rumore. E all’improvviso stop, ecco il suono della puntina che arrivata alla fine del disco non ha la forza per rialzarsi e salta, ma non è ancora ora di andarsene; lo spettro della psichedelia krauta si impossessa dei colossi, un motorik sotterraneo su cui riecheggia una voce alla Alan Vega comincia ad entrare nelle vene e a dare un ritmo all’impasto, ma giusto il tempo di abituarsi al cambio che la terza parte entra prepotente in scena. È l’industrial dei Throbbing Gristle di 2nd Annual Report, nel cuore della fabbrica-inferno, a farla da padrone, onde di feedback e distorsioni che rotolano su basse frequenze che portano alla mente le cose più oscure di James Plotkin. Ecco qua la minisuite di ventuno minuti suddivisa in tre parti, altro importante tassello che va ad aggiungersi al panorama noise/rock britannico, zozzo e psichedelico, ad opera degli ormai rodati Hey Colossus, gruppo che ormai non ha bisogno di presentazioni. Ma le sorprese non finiscono qui, perché c’è anche del nuovo in questo pregevole split, uscito solo su vinile in 500 copie per la Black Labs (etichetta gestita sempre da Andy della Riot Season) con una copertina a dir poco rappresentativa del contenuto, e il nuovo in questo caso si chiama Deathscalator, tre ceffi provenienti anch’essi da Londra. Collocati musicalmente in un’area grigia compresa tra il primo noise rock di gente come Scratch Acid, Killdozer, Butthole Surfers, le cose più marce dell’Amphetamine Reptile, Black Sabbath e Melvins, con un cantante che sbava ubriaco su di un microfono perennemente effettato, anch’essi colpiscono duro e lasciano il segno. Cinque brani ipnotici, sguaiati e rumorosi, che puzzano di birra, piscio e sudore e fanno semplicemente venire l’acquolina in bocca al solo pensare come potrà essere un intero loro album, che a breve dovrebbe uscire. Per ora, facciamoci bastare questi cinque brandelli di carne, che non sono affatto poco. Due facce dell’inarrestabile noise rock britannico, e dio salvi la regina (dal terremoto).
Audiodrome.it
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Hey Colossus have just one track on this, the latest in their growing line of full-length releases. And full-length it certainly is: their ‘Eyes For An Eye / Unlive Wire / Ain’t No Love In The Mallet’ medley is over twenty-one minutes in length, and it’s pretty gruelling stuff. I’m sure that this band started out as something of a joke, or a fun side project – and I don’t mean that in a pejorative way, just that I’m not sure at what point in their career they became this brutal. This isn’t twenty-plus minutes of screaming and noise, however; it’s more unsettling than that. They create a whirling, miasmic confusion of echoing sound and muttering, distant voices, that’s as frightening as it is compelling and, frankly, weird. Dethscalator pitch in with five tracks of – in this context – far more normal music. Extract these tracks into their own release however, and they’d be pretty surreal in themselves: strangled, urgent vocals sputtered over growling pseudo-black metal riffing and moody, stalking rhythms. They’re at their most effective when they warp things out a bit, especially on the fantastically-named ‘You Know Nothing About Cars Or Martial Arts’, on which the vocals are special-effected into all kinds of weird places, over a never-ending repetition of riff that pounds the listener into the kind of delirious, happy dark place that Circle manage to do when at their most rockingest. This is the first release from Riot Season offshoot Black Labs, and it’s set the bar pretty high. More!
Diskant.net
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HEY COLOSSUS / DETHSCALATOR – Hey Colossus Vs Dethscalator (Black Labs) – Limited edition of just 500 slabs of vinyl and an experimental noisefest of a split album that’s bizarrely soothing and rather therapeutic. You got noise from Hey Colossus and more noise from Dethscalator – “Black Labs unites two of Britain’s creamiest, hadiest, hell mongers…” but this doesn’t sound like my idea of hell. Hell is an unpleasant place full of disagreeable noise and people and shapes and colours you don’t want to spend even the smallest amount of time an space with – this is soothing, this is indeed creamy, this is an aural massage of boiled up noise and what should be excruciating is in fact rather relaxing and enjoyable, cerebral, soothing, an ambient acid bath of heavy heavy (heavy) rust-peeling corroding unhinged goodness – we’re bathing in the Hey Collossus deprivation tank here, three long instrumental sculptures that may or may not be taking us anywhere other than coiling around an unlive wire, while their weigh up eyes for an eye…. Dethscalator are a little more traditionally focused in the sense that they have actually songs that start and finish, words and screams about being sold down the river, evil riffs and that’s a disturbing man shouting over those disturbing riffs. Massive riffs and what is he on about, kind of person you avoid on tube trains, get off a stop or two early for fear of being the last one left in the carriage with him… Mean acid-drenched blackhearted blues-tinged slow-churning heavy metal, riffs that are even more corrosive and skin splitting than those Hey Collossus baths. A tag team pincer movement, first Hey Collossus soften up your senses then these mean bastard Dethscalators move in for the sadistic twisted kil and the picking of your bones – all slow and in their own trapped feedback-drenched time. Putridly good and all gone wrong at the end of the dream. All Amebix raw and no one driving. Who the f is driving this record? Where we going? Victim flaying metal noise and evil doom riffs and these Dethscalator people are wholesomely good good good. Forty minutes and two bands who perfectly complement each other, fine fine album, play it again, love it to bits, turn it up, play it again, pass the paint…dragging you down their dim well? Dragging us up, putrid euphoria..
Organ
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Sur l’autre face, des débutants prennent la place des vieux briscards. Dethscalator est aussi anglais que Hey Colossus et je sens que cette face sera beaucoup plus usée que l’autre. Avec l’ancien chanteur des Hunting Lodge dans leur rang, Dethscalator martyrise la sphère du punk-rock en l’abordant plus frontalement que leurs camarades de jeu du jour. Une approche déviante tout de même qui doit autant au feu-Penthouse qu’à Pissed Jeans avec un chant collant aux basques de David Yow avec une pointe de débilité à la Al Johnson. Que demander de mieux ?! C’est plus souvent mid-tempo que virulent, poisseux avec un riff sentant la ferraille, voir cyclique sur l’excellent You know nothing about caring and martial art. Ce noise-rock colle aux chaussures, opte pour la démarche du mec bourré (le chant titubant y est beaucoup dans cette impression), est plein de témérité aveugle (Kicking the horns off a bull, des volontaires ?), de bassesse, de vilaines pensées et, allez savoir pourquoi, me fait souvent penser aux Brainbombs. La crasse entre les cordes sans doute et l’hypnose qui s’en dégage. Le groupe annonce un split 7”, un album pour les mois prochains et qu’apprends-je à l’instant, ce groupe est venu fouler les planches du Mondo Bizarro à Rennes en septembre 2008, mais c’est quoi ce bordel ??!! On surveille donc ce nouveau groupe de très près et un sp
lit à décapiter n’importe quelle tête de Hell’s Angels.
Perte et Fracas