Tomb of Feathers, the debut album from crusty Bay Area Blackened Noise Doomsters ABSTRACTER, is now available as a digital download through The Path Less Traveled Records. CD and vinyl versions will be released in early 2013 and a cassette tape version of the album will be released this fall through the band's own imprint Anti-everything Laboratories.
Tomb of Feathers is available at abstracter.bandcamp.com.
Consisting of three tracks spanning 40 minutes, Tomb of Feathers is both mesmerizing in its massive, enveloping soundscapes, and annihilating in its brutal, relentless, and merciless grasp of the listener's synapses. ABSTRACTER's unique sound is influenced by the likes of AMEBIX, SWANS, BATHORY, GODFLESH and DISEMBOWELMENT, and shaped by elements borrowed from a vast array of genres, spanning from black metal, to crust and doom metal, to shoegazing and psychedelic rock, to hardcore punk and noise music. The work itself is a single-themed concept album about madness and mental disease as a result of the extreme and cynical individualism that permeates the world, and humanity's cowardly tendency to constantly leave the weak behind.
Entirely self-produced and self-funded by the band, Tomb of Feathers was recorded live in three days (one track per day), directly to 22-track 2-inch analog tape mounted on 30-minute reels processed by a mid-80's Akai tape recorder, by sound engineer Josh Garcia (DEPECHE MODE, MELVINS, DWARVES). The recordings were then passed on to Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios for mixing, and were then shipped to Philadelphia to be mastered by James Plotkin (ISIS, SUNN O))), OLD, KHANATE, etc.).
Tomb of Feathers is available at abstracter.bandcamp.com.
Consisting of three tracks spanning 40 minutes, Tomb of Feathers is both mesmerizing in its massive, enveloping soundscapes, and annihilating in its brutal, relentless, and merciless grasp of the listener's synapses. ABSTRACTER's unique sound is influenced by the likes of AMEBIX, SWANS, BATHORY, GODFLESH and DISEMBOWELMENT, and shaped by elements borrowed from a vast array of genres, spanning from black metal, to crust and doom metal, to shoegazing and psychedelic rock, to hardcore punk and noise music. The work itself is a single-themed concept album about madness and mental disease as a result of the extreme and cynical individualism that permeates the world, and humanity's cowardly tendency to constantly leave the weak behind.
Entirely self-produced and self-funded by the band, Tomb of Feathers was recorded live in three days (one track per day), directly to 22-track 2-inch analog tape mounted on 30-minute reels processed by a mid-80's Akai tape recorder, by sound engineer Josh Garcia (DEPECHE MODE, MELVINS, DWARVES). The recordings were then passed on to Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios for mixing, and were then shipped to Philadelphia to be mastered by James Plotkin (ISIS, SUNN O))), OLD, KHANATE, etc.).
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Walls that Breathe
To Vomit Crows
Ash
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ABSTRACTER is a crust/sudge/psych band from Oakland, CA, formed in 2010 by vocalist Mattia Alagna, who had recently relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area from Italy (where he fronted the noise/hardcore outfit (A)toll) and guitarist Robin Kahn, who had spent much of the year working on solo noise, drone, and improvisational projects, and who was looking to get something more organic and brutal off the ground. The two got in touch through Craigslist after they identified in each other their mutual love for “violent, bleak, and unearthly sounds”, a shared and generalized disgust for humanity, and their common love for bands like Godflesh, Bathory, Disembowelment, Swans and Amebix.
The band was then rounded out on bass by Mattia's close friend Jose Picou and by Ben James on drums. Bassist Jose Picou at the time was a standup bassist and multi-instrumentalist coming from a dark-wave and post-punk background, and drummer Ben James another multi-instrumentalist who had previously played the drums in Bay Area sludge metal band Damnweevil and the guitar in local hardcore/thrash outfit Tree Puncher, and who is also the current guitarist for bay area avant-black metal enigma Nihilotep.
Tomb Of Feathers is the band's first offering. Written over a span of just a few months, the recording displays the band's unique sound and style of songwriting, along with their broad array of influences, spanning from black metal, to crust and doom metal, to psychedelic rock, to hardcore punk and noise music. The work itself is a single-themed concept album about madness and mental disease as a result of the extreme and cynical individualism that permeates the world and humanity’s cowardly tendency to constantly leave the weak behind. The band has dedicated this recording to the last of the last, and to whoever has suffered from, or is currently battling mental disease and abandon.
Tomb Of Feathers is the band's first offering. Written over a span of just a few months, the recording displays the band's unique sound and style of songwriting, along with their broad array of influences, spanning from black metal, to crust and doom metal, to psychedelic rock, to hardcore punk and noise music. The work itself is a single-themed concept album about madness and mental disease as a result of the extreme and cynical individualism that permeates the world and humanity’s cowardly tendency to constantly leave the weak behind. The band has dedicated this recording to the last of the last, and to whoever has suffered from, or is currently battling mental disease and abandon.
Entirely self-produced and self-funded by the band, Tomb of Feathers was recorded live in three days (one track per day), directly to 22 track - 2 inch analog tape mounted on 30 minute reels processed by a mid-80’s Akai tape recorder, by sound engineer Josh Garcia (Depeche Mode, Melvins, Dwarves). The recordings were then passed on to Greg Wilkinson at Hearhammer Studios for mixing, and were then shipped to Philadelphia to be mastered by James Plotkin (ISIS, SUNN O))), OLD, Khanate, etc.). The band is currently writing their sophomore offering and are regularly playing selected shows in the broader bay Area, with confirmed shows coming up in the fall with the likes of City Of Ships, Young Lions, Ehnahre and Kayo Dot.
ABSTRACTER is:
Ben James: drums
Jose Picou: bass
Robin Kahn: guitar
Mattia Alagna: throat
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