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Now up for Pre Order!

Bismuth / Undersmile split lp

Here it is. I'm very proud to present this split LP release. Probably the darkest, and at the same time most quiet record I've helped put out so far. It might sound a bit awkward but this record doesn't stand out in how many guitars are being used or how low they are tuned (well ok, that does matter) but it's the overall sound which makes it so incredibly massive. Bismuth are a two piece from Nottingham with only bass and drums. On this release they come with one track not unlike their debut tape The Eternal Marshes. Amp worship and wonderfully executed drone landscapes. So beautiful and so intense, it makes me want to pull out my hair (if i had any). On the other side comes Undersmile from Witney with a very long tune that suits perfectly with the Bismuth side. As with their counterparts it's the sum of the parts that make the track. It doesn't have huge guitar walls or rumbling bass. But it's dark and gorgeous. It will make you drift away in spooky and scary dreams or nightmares if you will. The track itself reminds me a lot of bands like Bell Witch or Ensorcelor. Excellent pairing of bands and music. The signature artwork is done by Tony Roberts which again fits perfectly with the music of both bands.

This a co-release between Graanrepubliek Records, Tartarus Records and At War With False Noise.

Pre Order and listen to it here:
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Still very available:
Moloch / Ensorcelor split lp
Grinding Halt / Diet pills split 7"
Suffering Quota / Grinding Halt split 7"

check graanrepubliekrecords.bandcamp.com for some streaming and downloads

Coming up sooner or later:

Grinding Halt / :Pine Barrens split 7" (ready to go)
Haggatha / Moloch split 7" (haggatha side is recorded for the rest i have no clue)
Crows lp (this is probably recorded by now)
Humans The Size Of Microphones - discography 12" (this is set for April 2014)

Distro:

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There's some new stuff in as usual and some nice stuff on the way. Do check out the Column Of heaven and Hoax lp's, but also the Bad Vision lp on Adagio which is great punkrock from downunder.

Godstopper - What Matters lp (restock)
Ahna / Bridgeburner split lp
Column Of heaven - Mission from God lp
Hoax - s/t lp
Old Skin - Maere 7"
Bloody Phoenix - Ode To Death lp
Heartless - Certain Death 7"
Bad Vision - s/t lp
Dead Language - s/t lp (restock)
Hatred Surge - Human Overdose lp
Needles - Desesperacion 7"
No Statik - Unity and Fragmentation 12"
Masakari - The Prophet Feeds lp (restock)


Cheers, Mark

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Some kind words from No Clean Singing

From out of the blackest pits of Groningen in The Netherlands, Tartarus Records will be co-releasing, along with Graanrepubliek Records and At War With False Noise, a split by two UK bands who deserve more exposure: Bismuth (from Nottingham) and Undersmile (from Witney). Each band contributes a single song to the split, but they are gigantic, collectively demanding more than 40 minutes of your time. It’s life and death in the low and slow lanes.

BISMUTH

Bismuth consists of vocalist/bassist Tanya Byrne and drummer Joe Rawlings. Bismuth released a debut EP last year by the name of The Eternal Marshes, and their contribution to this split marks their second release. It’s a 17-minute work entitled “Collapse”, and there could hardly be a better title for it — except this is not so much the sound of existence falling apart as it is the sound of existence being slowly dismantled in a titanic demolition project.

The pacing is glacially slow, the rhythms (such as they are) marked by ponderous drum beats and cymbal ticks. Yet the true implements of destruction are the massively fuzz-bombed chords of Tanya’s bass and the protracted howling/screeching waves of distortion and feedback she wrenches out of each note. It’s the sound of a building-sized transformer that’s been overloaded past the point of survival, so grotesquely warped that each touch on the strings brings images of bridges collapsing into deep waters. Piercing the corrosive atmosphere of all that low-end monstrosity come periodic banshee shrieks of despair.

In the song’s back half, the slow repeating chords give way to a sonic landscape virtually devoid of melody or rhythm — simply a series of protracted detonations and prolonged amp excretions that sound like concrete being sawed into pieces and smashed into gravel. Yet slowly emerging from this massive demolition project you hear ghostly, wordless, choral harmonies. At the end, those voices sound like spirits rising from the rubble of catastrophe, like otherworldly life set free by the obliteration of their earthly cages.

UNDERSMILE

Undersmile are a four-person group and like Bismuth they’re fronted by a woman, or more accurately women, both of whom are also the band’s guitarists — Hel Sterne and Taz Corona-Brown. Their debut album Narwhal came out in 2012, and Metal Archives discloses that they’ve also released an EP and two previous splits. Don’t be misled by that photo up there: These aren’t flower children, unless the flowers are dead, black, and desiccated.

“Titanaboa” is the name of Undersmile’s contribution to the split, and at more than 23 minutes in length it surpasses the duration of Bismuth’s. Listening to “Titanaboa” is variously like being carried away in slow, heaving ocean swells, gradually being sucked down into a pit of congealing tar, or hallucinating while the blood in your veins hardens and your oxygen supply is cut off, bit by bit. Huge, groaning riffs join hands with booming, echoing drum hammers. Bleak guitar melodies chime like steel bells. Prolonged, shimmering, ice-cold ambient sounds drift by as slow, sludgy chords mercilessly pound in a distorted dirge. Here and there, eerie vocal samples appear, and clean vocal harmonies come and go, floating above the anvil blows in the low end in a kind of desolate, haunting near-chant.

The effect of “Titanaboa” is narcotic, the kind of funereal sludge/doom that tends to blot out what surrounds you and extinguish other thoughts. You won’t get into it unless you’re in the mood to be immersed. When you surface, gasping for air, it will take some time to reorient yourself to the passage of normal time and the light of daily life, because neither exists in “Titanaboa”.

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