Some new releases and a gig!

Here’s some shameless promotion for ya!

This should be a top night and if you don’t come along you will be mocked, quite rightly, by your friends and peers. We’re looking into getting a Dopefight, Funeral Hag, Enos tour sorted for next year (if you’re a promoter or would just like to help out with this tour please get in touch via our Myspace page) so this should give us some idea of what to expect.

Enos
Dopefight
Funeral Hag
By Definition

Saturday 4th December at The Hydrant, London Road, Brighton. £4 entry, doors 8pm. 18+ only.

Here’s a Facebook event thing.

In other news…

Brighton thrash tykes, Crypsis,have just released their first EP, Choir For The Carrion, as a free download via their Bandcamp page. Choir For The Carrion is due to be released on CD via Tadpole Records soon. Make sure you head over to our message board and check out Crypsis’ hosted forum.

Alunah (who you may or may not remember that we reviewed in issue 7 of Thee Big Black) are set to release their début album Call of Avernus on December the 6th, the album is currently available for pre-order from Play.com. Keep an eye on Alunah’s Myspace for more info and details of upcoming shows.

Now, as you’ve no doubt worked out by now here at Thee Big Black we love free (legal) stuff, especially compilations. So on top of our own comps, Black is Thee New Black Vol 1 and 2, the latest comps from Droning Earth and Exhilarate Records we’re happy to add Melancholic Epiphany (The Trance Formation is Shattered) from Hypnotic Dirge to that list.

According to the press release…

“To celebrate two-years of activity for Hypnotic Dirge Records we are releasing an extensive compilation album on November 7th, 2010 which will include audio, video, text, and visual components. The entire album has been created with a strong attention to detail and a working theme throughout. Within the compilation comes audio tracks exclusive to the compilation by some high-profile guests, some previously released HDR material, some upcoming stuff from future releases, as well as three music video premieres, some essays and short stories, and complete album artwork with a full theme, and notes from the artists and contributors. An extensive piece of work comprising many hours of work from many dedicated artists in multi-disciplinary fields. Make sure you are here to download to album for FREE on November 7th, 2010.”

And includes…

Audio
I – The Foetal Mind – Big Crunch
II – Funereal – Of That Which Lies Beneath…
III – Funeral Fornication – Stargates Eternal Beheld My Nightmares
IV – Exiled From Light – We Writhe As Worms
V – netra – Outside…Alone
VI – Ancient Tundra – The Shimmering Radiance of a Thousands Stars
VII – Njiqahdda – Nji taaevaasti vortaa est flaami
VIII – Neige et Noirceur – Croix de Feu, Croix de Fer
IX – Funeral in Heaven – Bhandhana
X – Autaric – Cremation Divine
XI – Old Forgotten Lands – Hour of the Wolf
Video
XII – netra – La Page (Music Video)
XIII – Njiqahdda – Nji taaevaasti vortaa est flaami (Music Video)
XIV – Old Forgotten Lands – Hour of the Wolf (Music Video)
XV – The Foetal Mind – La Corde Rouge (Music Video)
XVI – Exiled From light – There is no beauty left here…(Promo Video)
XVII – The Foetal Mind – The Grand Contraction (Promo Video)
Text
XVIII -’The Origin of Values’ Essay by: N. Skog
XIX -’The Bleak House’ Short story by: Vultyrous
XX -’Nji taaevaasti vortaa est flaami’ by: Njiqahdda

Hypnotic Dirge made Melancholic Epiphany… available to download for free from their website on the 7th of November. Make sure you head over and get yourself a copy of this pretty impressive compilation.

Only a brief ’round up this time but a pretty worth while one.  We’ll try and not leave it so long next time!