BARSHASKETH // WODE // BLIND SPITE

INVERTED GRIM-MILL RECORDINGS & TYRANT PRESENT

BARSHASKETH

Barshasketh formed in New Zealand during the mid-2000′s and in 2009 released two demo tapes: the self-titled debut recorded 2007 and As Flesh Becomes Earth recorded 2008. The demos were followed by a full-length tape in February of 2010 and founding member Krigeist relocated to Scotland. With the debut album, Defying the Bonds of Cosmic Thraldom, Barshasketh began to crystallise it’s unique approach. A sound which has been compared to Peste Noire and Wolves in the Throne Room: traditional atmospheric black metal with technical abilities far beyond the majority of bands in this arena.

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WODE

Black metal crust from Manchester. Check the links below to find out more and listen online:

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BLIND SPITE

Black / death metal. Local and class.
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Saturday the 20th of July at Northumberland Arms, Newcastle upon Tyne. £5 entry.

 

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More information about Tyrant in a little while...

IRON SKULL

It gives me great pleasure to announce that Inverted Grim-Mill Recordings will be releasing music by Wakefield's finest band Iron Skull. The first release will be the as-yet unreleased 2002 lost classic Kirkgate Station Sessions EP. The tracklisting will be as follows:

1. You Four Eyed Nerd
2. From Bach To Bananas
3. Gammon and Lard Butty
4. More For You For Fucking Less
5. Parsnip
6. Visceral Images of a Whore
7. Troll Features

The CD packaging is well under way. The design atop this post shows the hand-carved rubber stamp used to print the CD surfaces, and the logo design below is printed on the front cover of the booklet. There will be 100 copies of this release, ready for you to purchase in the near future... in the mean time, click on the song titles above for a sneak preview!

PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS

Here's the latest merch from the mill:

50 minipigs (10 beige, 40 pink) for the band PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS PIGS.

They are tiny. 2cm long and 1cm from ear to ear. They have names. Horrible pig-based puns, famous police officer names or just stupid wordplay. Here is the full list:

1. Boss Hogg
2. Lester Piggott
3. Starsky
4. Hamlet
5. Charley Boarman
6. Frank Furter
7. Abraham Lincolnshire
8. Pat Butcher
9. Loin Joint Silver
10. Magnum P.I.G.
11. Richard Bacon
12. Rodney Trotter
13. Pigasus
14. Nick Berry
15. Orson Walls
16. Leon Trotsky
17. Officer Dibble
18. Kevin Bacon
19. Benedict Cumberland
20. Crispin Crackling
21. Notorious P.I.G.
22. Colonel Mustard
23. Rumplepigskin
24. Piggles
25. Smokey Robinson
26. Richard Gammond
27. Taggart
28. Jimmy Savaloy
29. Stephen Fry-Up
30. Swiney Todd
31. Christopher Piggins
32. Gail Porker
33. Hamuel L. Backson
34. Shabba Shanks
35. Belly Furtado
36. Ham Solo
37. Penelope Pigsty
38. Spamela Hamderson
39. M.C. Hammer
40. Tom Shanks
41. Ian Pigslop
42. Justin Wiener
43. Ryan Piggs
44. Glenn Hamzig
45. Sean Pigpenn
46. David Hameron
47. Piglet Jones
48. Phil Jupigus
49. Captain Jean-Luc Pigard
50. Hogzilla

I sold a bunch at their debut gig and a few more to friends but the rest will be on sale at their next performance which is on the 15th of December 2012 at Hoults Yard in Newcastle. Details here.

Of Spire & Throne / Cromlech / Basic House

Here's a gig I've organised. It happens tomorrow as I write this. Here's a link to the Facebook event page if you're interested. Here's the info for everyone else:

Inverted Grim-Mill Recordings presents:
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Of Spire & Throne

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Scottish doom with a smear of sludge. Having supported Yob / Kongh / Dark Castle in Edinburgh, OS&T are a formidable force within the doomsphere. This is one of 3 dates on this particular tour, and a rare chance to see them headline an English venue. Listen to their latest release here.Top quality CDs and T-shirts will be on sale!

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Cromlech

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"Slow, loud music from Middlesbrough. For fans of large structures."

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Basic House

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Drunk In Hell's Bish on a solo mission to blend dark crushing noise with blissful ambient techno.

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DJ Reverend 33rpm selecting slow tunes between acts.

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£3 entry, all cash goes direct to the performing artists.

I also carved this Grim-Mill rubber stamp from a cheap eraser so I can stamp people's hands on the way in.    

Bad for Business vol.1

Here's my latest scam.

A run of 12 business card CD-Rs featuring a track that is shorter than 4 minutes long. There will be 12 different artists in total, as and when they send me some nonsense.

Volume 1 was donated by the legendary Craig Measham. It looks like this:

The track is called Cheese Biscuits. As all the physical copies have been given away, you can download or stream the track for nowt.

When 12 different Bad for Business CD-Rs have been released, a compilation will be made available, somehow.

DJ

Recently I was (rather foolishly) asked to DJ at a gig by a man called Ted (formerly of Gary Marchant fame). The gig featured local doom wizards Bong and another former Gary member with his new project Neolithic. A night of slow, heavy drones.

As such, I decided to take it seriously for a change and play some real music by bands that actually exist. My playlist for the night started with a long one while we sorted out the sound, then continued like this:

1. Bossk - II (part 1 & part 2 - it's too long for a single Youtube video!)

2. Earth - Coda Maestoso in F(flat) Minor (Autechre remix)

3. Tuber - Smoked Up Notes

4. Dark Castle - Seeing Through Time

5. Manatees - VIII:XVI

6. Buzzov*en - Locked Up

7. Ramesses - Omniversal Horror

8. Pyramidion - Akkadian Undercore

9. The Wounded Kings - Gates of Oblivion

10. Om - Unitive Knowledge of the Godhead

11. Angelo Badalamenti - The Pink Room

12. White Hills - No Other Way

13. Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday

14. Sleep - From Beyond

Links included where available so you can listen along and pretend you were there.

I had a bunch of other tunes lined up, but the thing with doom is that the tracks tend to be rather long. So I didn't get a chance to play any Black Math Horseman, VOM, Slomatics, Conan, Teeth of the Sea, Fog in the Shell, Humanfly, Espers, Pelican, Jackal-Headed Guard of the Dead, Nadja, Lazarus Blackstar, Gnod or Snowblood. I'm sure there'll be another time...

New Logo

Here is a revised version of the Inverted Grim-Mill Recordings logo. The old one was actually just a tiny sketch from a pocket notebook, and was only really used until I could find the time to do a proper logo. 

This version was drawn on A4 card using black ink via a wooden kebab skewer, my favourite medium. Initially it looked quite neat, but I added messy bits afterwards.

I will almost certainly be getting some shirts made featuring this design.