Exclusive Album Premiere Of Doom/Stoner Metallers SALTPIG Self Titled Debut Album Being Released By HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS

Doom/Stoner Metallers SALTPIG formed by former Annihilator drummer Fabio Alessandrini and NYC multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Mitch Davis (known for his work with L.A. Guns, Damon Albarn, U2, Mark Lanegan or Billy Squier), the American/Italian duo makes the evergreen satanic imagery of Judas Priest, Mercyful Fate and Black Sabbath their own by conjuring up a delightfully gritty, devastatingly noisy and unfailingly satisfying 6-tracker that should win over fans of evil grooves à la Salem's Pot, Electric Wizard or Church of Misery. "It’s melodic but embraces dissonance. Underproduced and real. Recorded onto analogue tape and pushing the levels with a “distortion is never bad” ethos".

You can hear the Exclusive Album Premiere Of SALTPIG's brilliantly heavy new album below thanks to the cool folks over at Purple Sage PR and Heavy Psych Sounds.

SALTPIG Biography

SALTPIG is a bit of a mystery. The band just showed up seemingly out of nowhere, album in hand, with the music loudly speaking for itself. As it soon became known, SALTPIG is a two person band with Fabio Alessandrini (formerly of Annihilator) on drums and Mitch Davis handling vocals, guitar and all of the other layers of noise that can be heard on the record. 

The music that came out of this pairing has elements of doom/stoner/psych/occult metal and others, but they didn’t go into it with anything that specific in mind. They just make the music they want to hear. Davis has been working with bands/artists including LA Guns, Damon Albarn, Billy Squier, Stephen Malkmus, Mark Lanegan, Sunbomb and U2, but SALTPIG is obviously a very different animal. 

For his own band, Mitch created a sound that is much darker. When he started writing the SALTPIG tracks, it pretty quickly turned into this debut album. Most of the tracking was done in their respective studios, with Fabio in Italy, and Mitch in New York where he’d do all of the final recording, production and mixing. It’s melodic but embraces dissonance. It’s noisy and dirty and evil sounding. Under-produced and real. It embraces imperfections as only a human can do.

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Thanks to Purple Sage PR for all of the details.

Exclusive Album Premiere Of Doom/Thrash/Stoner Metallers CALLUS New Album GRAVIS DECENNIUM Released This Friday

Trepanation Recordings are delighted to be working with CALLUS to release their third album ‘Gravis Decennium’ on 10th May.

Preston, UK based CALLUS play down-tuned stoner metal fused with Thrash, Sludge and Doom elements forming a truly obnoxious, quite furious and outright terrifying sound.

The third studio album by UK heavy band CALLUS.

Gravis Decennium presents a tenth anniversary speciality of earlier material fully re-recorded with crushing new production to celebrate a whole decade of CALLUS.

From CALLUS:

‘This album is a collection of handpicked tracks from previous early releases, fully re recorded, heavier and more sonically dynamic than we ever thought possible. It's been a labour of love for the past "Heavy Decade" of this band and our lives... Play it fucking loud, we hope it brings you as much joy hearing these tracks as it has done for us re visiting them.'

We're beyond excited to premiere the whole album in full thanks to the awesome folks over at Trepanation Recordings.

‘Gravis Decennium’ will be released on CD, cassette and digital formats. Find pre-orders here: https://callus117.bandcamp.com/album/gravis-decennium

‘Gravis Decennium’ Tracklist:

1. Yog-Sothoth

2. The Primordial

3. Infinite Beef Machine

4. Cycloid

5. The Dunwich Horror

6. Leg Slice

7. The Root of all Evil

8. Dreameater

Credits:

Recorded February 2023 at Foel Studios in Wales.

Produced by Chris Fielding.

Mixed and Mastered by Chris Fielding.

Album painting by Ryan Hancock.

Digital layouts and original CALLUS logo by Dom Sohor.

Thanks to Trepanation Recordings for the promo.

This is also the last ever release from cult UK underground label Trepanation Recordings who are sadly calling it a day after five years of terrific service and sublime releases. I want to say thank you to Dan Dolby for his tireless work and dedication to the scene. You’ll be sadly missed and I wish you all the best for your future endeavours.

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