Column of Heaven BC shows

We're playing three shows in BC next week. For a while i wasn't convinced it was going to happen, but flights have been paid for, work has been cancelled, dogs have sitters and attitudes are now firmly 'Can-Do'.


Friday July 6th The Astoria
w/ Rotting Hills, Haggatha, Violent Gorge, and Archagathus.

We'll be collaborating with The Rita at this show

Saturday July 7th Squamish, Fastcore Fest .
w/ 8,000,000 other bands: Osk, Soy, Rob Ford's Big Fat Psychedelic Adventure, Cooked and Eaten, Chopped and Screwed, Six Brew Bantha, Tauntaun Assault Squad, Giant Sandwich of Death (CA), Rape Revenge, Bastard Son of a Hundred Maniacs, Expression of Pain, Take it Real Easy, xMagnottax, Man Cave, Supergod, Cigarette Torture, Truth Serum, Real Magick (ON), Disgorge (France), New Jersey (MI), Apathetic Ronald McDonald playing a set of Blasphemy covers, and a Chow Down reunion.

Fastcore fest will be compered by the entire genre of Reggae, 1965-1998

Sunday July 8th house show at the Chateau Noir w/ Canada's greatest fuck: Radioactive Vomit, and Cooked and Eaten

If UPS doesn't do their usual trick of delivering records for tour three days after we've gone home, the show at the Astoria will have some magical version of Mission from God 12" with some e bay friendly trimmings. Buy them all from us, we don't care what you do with them as long as we have money for beer and falafel (my spell check keeps suggesting 'fellatio' here).

The record will be available for everyone else sometime in July.

My crazy adventure with academia is almost at an end, which means some of our records might come out quicker; the next two and a half are written.

It also means i might have some time to book some shows further afield at some point.

It's been a long time since i had a) the time and b) any news to update on this blog, so here's ye olde playlist of some things i've been enjoying a lot semi-recently:

Sound:

Skullshitter - tape
Snake Charmer - live
Horders - Fimbulvetr tape
Pick Your Side - Let Me Show You How Democracy Works LP
Lustmord - Zoetrope 2xLP
Ascension - With Burning Tongues 12"
Old Man Gloom - No 2xLP
The Cathode Terror Secretion - Spectre of Historys Design LP
Defeatist - Tyranny of Decay LP
Skullhog - Evil Dead CD
Isis - Oceanic 2xLP
Sea of Shit - side of forthcoming split 7" w/ Constrictions
Radioactive Vomit - Witchblood tape
Black Witchery - live
Purity Control - live
SHIT - tape
Violent Future - tape

Reading:

Chips and Beer magazine 2&3
Isten - Death Marches On double issue
Grant Morrison - Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God From Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

some comic books and little else because i've been doing nothing except write my damn masters thesis for the post three months and my brain hurts at the end of every day.

Watching:

Delocated season 1&2
Mothers Day (2010) - i liked the unrelenting cruelty of it, but it was way too long for me to give a shit about the last 20-30 minutes and it reminded me of:
Kidnapped AKA Secuestrados - which was amazing from start to finish

A Modern Day Sodom

Column of Heaven - Mission from God tape out now on Survivalist, has slightly different artwork from the LP version that's due out on SPHC in July. SPHC will also be selling a shirt for mail order for everyone who isn't one of the 45 people that's had a chance to buy one from one of our highly sporadic live shows.

You can get one from one of these places in the next week or two:

Analogue Worship
Absurd Exposition
locals can go to Hits and Misses at the end of next week and get one and people in Winnipeg can buy one from Mike A at whatever show he's propping the bar up at

There aren't that many copies going to any of these people to be honest, most were sold at the Pick Your Side record release show in Hamilton last weekend. And mighty fine they were too (and the LP's great)

If you buy from Analogue Worship i'd highly recommend the Ill Omen and Luciation records he put out; two of my favourites of the recent times. Also get the Radioactive Vomit (Column of Heaven's favourite newish Canadian band) tape and the Stone Wings LP (if you like olde sounding doom death).

I'm not going to post about the release itself now, maybe when the vinyl comes out, but here's a brief word about tapes.

Here's why i make them: because it's incredibly fucking easy. That's it. No romantic notions about tape culture; i hold some cherished memories of tape culture, but that's personal, not something to base a release schedule on.

There's a tape duplicating place five minutes away from our band space and they have a 24 hour turnaround. If i had to send off files to Quebec to get them made i wouldn't bother releasing them. If the production time was more than a day i wouldn't bother releasing them.

digital idiocy

The legal team at Lionsgate seem to think i recorded that first Column of Heaven release under contract to them and thus the mediafire link is currently suspended

Until it gets unsuspended (you know, because the pricks at Lionsgate don't actually own it) you can either download an inadequately shit tape rip from some other blog or go to bandcamp and get the version that isn't sequenced properly

more in print

I wrote some stuff about Furze recently, buy it here

The second issue of "Invocation of Obscene Gods" is bigger, uglier and stuffed full of more punk and metal bullshit than most publications twice as glossy. Includes interviews with NEKROFILTH, PIZZAHIFIVE, RUPTURE, MINCH and SOCKEYE, FOSSIL FUEL and TOUGH SKINS masterminds Food Fortunata and Poopy Necroponde plus articles on FURZE and THE GEROGERIGEGEGE, columns, comics, record reviews and sex advice from Dr. Jason Wade! 64 pro-printed half-sized pages of glory for the literate idiot and discerning underground filth monger.

Recent playlist:

Cro-Mags - Age of Quarrel
Bastard - Wind of Pain
Perspex Flesh - demo
Kickback - No Surrender
Vaz - Dying to Meet You
Unsane - Wreck
Ouroboros is Broken - In C
Suffering Luna - Blood Filled Bong

Reading:

Umberto Eco - The Prague Cemetery
Anna Bramwell - Blood And Soil: Richard Walther Darré And Hitler's "Green Party"

in print

Some new writings

Chromium Dioxide issue five,  i participated once again in the What Went Wrong? round table discussion. This issue four of us talk shit about Entombed for a few pages

Last weekend Siesta Nouveaux in Toronto closed down so another condo could be built.

Blank Stare and Youth and Rust put together a zine to commemorate the space.

Digital copy below. Physical copies also exist, though i have yet to see one. I suspect that if there are any left over from the weekend there'll be found here eventually

Open publication - Free publishing

A small list of music i've recently enjoyed:

Radioactive Vomit - Witchblood tape
Farang - tape
Hatred Surge - Human Overdose LP advance
S.H.I.T. - tape
Purity Control - live
Zouo - Final Agony 7"

R.I.P. Siesta Nouveaux

small Mission from God preview

Cassette out on Survivalist May 5th (for the Pick Your Side show in Hamilton), 12" on SPHC in July, lossless free/ pay what you can be arsed download from Bandcamp around the same time as the 12"

Twelve songs, 20 minutes, some noise, some yelling, me playing the piano.

A real game changer if ever there was one.

I'm aiming to have a week off between finishing this one and starting recording the next if i can...

next Column of Heaven show

May 5th in sunny Hamilton, get punched in the face to Pick Your Side after eating at Harvest Burger.

Mission from God tapes will be ready for this show, this time i'm not lying

handy Mission from God instant lyric generator:

moors

mist

dead children

buried

in the north

Irene Richardson

1977

time and space