Festival News Scorched Tundra Announce Entire Line-Up For 2018 Edition

Scorched Tundra is proud to announce the entire lineup for its tenth edition.  The second installment of 2018 – taking place on August 31st and September 1st at The Empty Bottle in Chicago – features newcomers and veterans of the festival from across the country and abroad.

Friday August 31st

Monolord

Lair of the Minotaur
Telekinetic Yeti

Saturday September 1st

Sumac
Yakuza
In the Company of Serpents
Couch Slut

Tickets can be purchased through these links:

Friday 8/31:
http://eventbrite.com/e/scorched-tundra-x-the-empty-bottle-tickets-46205946229

Saturday: 9/1:
http://eventbrite.com/e/scorched-tundra-x-the-empty-bottle-tickets-46205078634

Scorched Tundra’s mission is to give a new generation of talented artists a unique live platform in Gothenburg and Chicago. The festival’s billing – based on sound, not stature – creates an unparalleled aural experience for its audience.

“The process of selecting bands for the tenth edition of this festival began over a year ago. For this momentous occasion, I sought bands that have forged their own space at the convergence of heavy, progressive and dark music. Scorched Tundra’s mission is to give a new generation of talented artists from Gothenburg and Chicago a unique platform. The tenth lineup achieves this, while also mixing in extremely talented musicians from around the country. I look forward to sharing this exceptional lineup at The Empty Bottle on Labor Day Weekend.” states organizer Alexi D. Front.

Tickets for August 31st and September 1st will be $20 per night, and more exciting festival details will be revealed in the coming weeks.

Links:
Scorched Tundra
http://scorchedtundra.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/scorchedtundra

The Empty Bottle
http://emptybottle.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/emptybottle/

Sumac
https://sumac.bandcamp.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/SUMACBAND/

Monolord
https://monolord.bandcamp.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/monolordsweden/

Lair of the Minotaur
http://www.lairoftheminotaur.net/ | https://lairoftheminotaur.bandcamp.com/

Yakuza
https://www.facebook.com/yakuza-55268044860/ | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakuza_(band)

In the Company of Serpents
https://inthecompanyofserpentsdoom.bandcamp.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/InTheCompanyOfSerpents/

Telekinetic Yeti
https://telekineticyeti.bandcamp.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/telekineticyetiband/

Couch Slut
https://couchslut.bandcamp.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/couchslut/

SUMAC - What One Becomes (Album Review)

Release date: June 10^th 2016. Label: Thrill Jockey Records. Format: CD/DD/Vinyl

What One Becomes – Tracklisting

1.Image of Control

2.Rigid Man

3.Clutch of Oblivion

4.Blackout

5. Will to Reach

Band Members:

Aaron Turner

Brian Cook

Nick Yacyshyn

Review:

This is heavy music on a slightly progressive scale, made by skinless forms not unlike chunks of meat flesh. It consists of many sounds parts, including distortion, feedback, clamouring, pounding, screaming and overall damage. The vocals are straight from the obituary column. All the songs are long, clocking in over 9 minutes and the longest song tops 17 minutes in duration.

I will let the songs speak for themselves...

Image of Control - The introduction of this record and inception of the first song begins with what sounds like the cacophonous and painful birth of Neanderthals who immediately rise to find instruments that were buried within the earth beside them and instinctively bang on these musical tools to create a hostile and minimalistic soundscape. The progression of the song builds structure, but sonically, it remains rudimentarily harsh and fundamentally brash. This is exposed nerve flesh twitching like afterbirth born in a salt mine.

Rigid Man - After the previous song documenting the sounds of atrocious birth comes the next instalment that shows a strengthening of the musical phrase architecture amidst the residual chaos. The softer section of this song reminds me of the kind of tremulous sound waves you might hear emitted from a huge gray colored harp, plucked by an old witch's arthritic hand, the kind of strums that recede into the black compartments of the unconscious mind. The song erupts back into life like the tail of a thresher shark in attack mode.

Clutch Of Oblivion - A tune evoking the soft and the eerie, providing instructions that indicate your errors are not mistakes, but rather the language of the ancients. The song blooms into twisted guitars, uninhibited drums and guttural screams, the soundtrack for the self righteous prig who ingested the nature beware, tell tale blood hued flowers, toxic in all their poisons.

Blackout - Drums accompany the static along with screams that may be borderline cannibalistic. Repetition through distorted guitar strumming and skittish drum head clangs, all bent and determined to memorialize the arduous symphony cry...'hail to the triumphant nomad'.

Will To Reach - Double time march of drum percussion, metallic machine gun riffage, and battle cry type wails, transform into a progressive interlude and reflection period that traverses off course, fastidiously ringing the distorted slaughter house bell comprised of instruments with non stop, unforgivable, conveyor belt purposes. This is free association for a psychopath.

This album contains the pulse of a newborn race of overlords. This is sheer permafrost and you will find nothing warm here. It is the musical score of primal resources attracting morose interests. It is the guitar that provides utter pollution, alongside relentless drum skin throbbing, all amidst curdled vocals of death. This album fulfils the basic human need found within the core foundation of heavy music. Pick up a wooden club, hold it up to the red sun and beat your chest like a man-beast. All hail the almighty Sumac...

Words by Nick Palmisano

What One Becomes will be available to buy on CD/DD/Vinyl via Thrill Jockey Records from June 10^th 2016.

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