ORTEGA gig roundup

First and foremost, a heartfelt cheers to all those that attended the recent Ortega, Of Spire & Throne and Live Burial gig. Enough of you turned up to ensure all the bands got paid what they asked for, maybe a little more!

Additional thanks to anyone who bought an Inverted Grim-Mill Recordings or Tyrant T-shirt (or both) or any of the range of badges I've been making.

Next up, here's the between-band playlist for anyone enjoying the tunes more than awkward silence:

5ive - Jules Vernes' Dream
Slomatics - Flame On
Jackal-Headed Guard of the Dead - Obsidian Bats
Yob - Grasping Air
Bongripper - Satan
Dark Castle - Seeing Through Time
Ahab - Old Thunder
Latitudes - Fluxes of the Womb
Conan - Grim Tormentor
Necro Deathmort - Led To The Water
The Wounded Kings - Baptism of Atlantis

Cheers to the venue, soundman and bar staff for putting up with our racket and for being easy to deal with. I think we'll be using it again...

Finally, a massive thanks to all the bands for turning up on time, playing to schedule and generally not being any fuss. A smooth gig to run, a rare occurance and a real pleasure!

ORTEGA // OF SPIRE & THRONE // LIVE BURIAL

INVERTED GRIM-MILL RECORDINGS & TYRANT PRESENT

 

ORTEGA

Netherlands ocean doomers Ortega bring their swirling, crushing, thalassic heaviness back to the shores of the UK. Expect salt-laden waves of Dutch DOOM.

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OF SPIRE & THRONE

Joining them on the waves will be Edinburgh's Of Spire & Throne, dishing out their brutal, miserable doom extremity. A welcome to return to Newcastle for these guys.

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LIVE BURIAL

Newcastle's own death doom heroes bring some additional brutality to the bill.

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Saturday the 30th of November at The Head of Steam, Newcastle Upon Tyne. £6 tickets in advance, £7 on the door.

Facebook event page | Last.fm event page | Ortega UK tour facebook page

Head of Steam facebook | Inverted Grim-Mill Recordings facebook | Tyrant facebook

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.
Bandcamp

Saturday the 20th of July at Northumberland Arms, Newcastle upon Tyne. £5 entry.

 

Facebook event page | Last.fm event page

Northumberland Arms Facebook | Inverted Grim-Mill Recordings Facebook 

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.