Xasthur To Release New Album On Hydra Head Records

The unfortunate part about “art” music in the world of extreme music is that some artists who produce odd music sometimes don’t do much except release albums. This certainly puts more news out there from other bands who tour, or do other things to gain some sort of media attention. So, here we have a nice change from the usual rounds of death metal, and metalcore that manages it’s way into the Nile River. What we have here is isolationist black metal from the US!

Make jokes if you will about one-man black metal bands (I like them and I still make jokes), but black metal in general is rising from the underground in North America. Xasthur specializes in the keyboardless black metal with intentionally poor production, but creative nonetheless. If you're willing to listen with open ears, it is possible to do good "raw" production.

Xasthur will be releasing their new album titled “Subliminal Genocide” on Hydra Head Records in association with Battle Kommand Records on September 12th.

In other news, theprp.com seems to be looking at some different extreme music, as lately I saw them post a tour for a death metal tour that had no connection to any metalcore bands. It was the “Monsters Of Death 2006 Tour” with Six Feet Under, Krisiun, Decapitated, Cattle Decapitation and Abysmal Dawn. To also get reports of black metal of this sort from theprp.com is strange, but still helpful.

I’m also guessing that somewhere in that logo pictured at the top of the post is supposed to be the band name Xasthur if you can decipher it.

Xasthur
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Battle Kommand Records
Hydra Head Records