When Iron Age released their latest album The Sleeping Eye first through Cyclopean Records (later picked up by TeePee Records), which is founded by their frontman Jason Tarpey, I was intrigued if more releases were going to follow and what kind of music it'd be. After all, a new independent record label from Austin is interesting no matter how you slice it: the city has a musical history with a diversity on such a scale I have yet to see anywhere else.
Eventually a new release-announcement was made: the second release was Mammoth Grinder's Extinction of Humanity. Again a great record which was then picked up by Relapse Records.
For the third Cyclopean release, I was a bit surprised, Green & Wood is an entirely different kind of band. Jason Tarpey has said in interviews that he just releases what he likes which is pretty awesome and it makes the label stand out of the rest of independent labels I think. After 2 successful records, Green & Wood's first LP was no different.
Two new releases are coming up: Slaughter Strike's At Life's End and Sungod's First Matter. Slaughter Strike's demo was some of the best raging death metal I'd heard in a long time so I'm looking forward to hearing their new 12". But on to Sungod.
As you have probably guessed by the album cover, this isn't your average '70 influenced band. Now, I can start telling you what they sound like but that wouldn't them justice. This two-piece (yes, a two-piece, think about that when you're listening) is doing some great stuff. Their demo is a 19 minutes track which you can download at their Bandcamp, I highly recommend it.
They've released a new song as well, which you can listen here:
This is above and beyond their already pretty good demo if you ask me. The record drops next week on the 24th of August.
Cyclopean Records
Sungod Bandcamp
Geen opmerkingen:
Een reactie posten