From the mossy
underbelly of Portland, Oregon comes the gritty tones of ambidextrous quartet NETHER REGIONS, and the release of
their debut full-length LP, Into The
Breach.
Following the demise
of Ditchliquor in 2006, bassist/vocalist Joe Wickstrom supplied live bass for
Black Elk, Subarachnoid Space and Witch Mountain for three years, before seeking
out several choice musicians in the area to form NETHER REGIONS. With thunderous tones
that would surely allow the band's sound to fall under multiple genre sub
categorizations, the core NETHER REGIONS
sound simultaneously molests heavy riffery with a persuasion all their own,
unable to be contained by one simple style tag.
Into The
Breach clocks in with
forty-five minutes of original extreme music recorded by Mike Lastra and Mark
Ellsworth at Smegmatone, and mixed/mastered by Adam Pike at Toadhouse -- both in
Portland. Originally self-released
by NETHER REGIONS in February in a
strictly limited 1,000-run CD pressing, a copy of Into The Breach found its way into the
hands of North Carolina-based Abnormal Gait Records who instantly decided that
there must be a vinyl version of the album made. After being specially remixed
and remastered for the LP version by Adam Pike (Red Fang, Black Elk), the album
was pressed on black 140-gram wax, and packaged with cover art crafted by
Brandon Munday and Sam Ford, limited to 500 copies.
Stream Into The Breach in its
entirety at the Abnormal
Gait BandCamp page.
Into The
Breach Track
Listing:
1. Into the
Breach/Spanish Werewolves
2. Do You
Live
3. Your Name is
Madness
4. Pale Faced
God
5.
Alpha/Omega
6. Blood
Ritual
7. A City Far Enough
Away
8. Outrun the
Sun
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