A389's Latest Batch of Releases Package Deal and Other Such Madness

A389 is at it again with their latest 3 releases (Seven Sisters Of Sleep / Children Of God split, Ringworm / Mindsnare split, and the Ringworm "comeback" demo), and they have a crazy package deal available that gives you all three releases for a cheaper price with the two Ringworm related releases coming on limited color variations available only in this package deal.

In the deal you get:
RINGWORM/MINDSNARE Split 7" w/Mini Comic Book (Purple Vinyl/250)
SEVEN SISTERS OF SLEEP/CHILDREN OF GOD Split 12" (Black Vinyl)
RINGWORM 'Madness Of War' 7" Flexi (Clear/150)

Order that here


Also, A389 is Running a 24 hour Test press sale for all you collectors... check that out here.

Seven Sisters Of Sleep / Children Of God split...

I still feel as though Seven Sisters Of Sleep is one of the best hardcore bands going today, and it is awesome that they are part of this split with up and comers Children Of God.

SEVEN SISTERS OF SLEEP deliver three new tracks that pick up where their amazing self titled LP... CHILDREN OF GOD deliver an impressive followup to their 'Coup De Grace' 7" with three new tracks of harsh metallic hardcore that blurs the lines between musical violence and chaos...

Here are some videos for this release... yes videos.








Both of those songs come off this split... so grab it for some viciousness here.

A389's Latest Batch of Releases: Ringworm & Mindsnare Split

Ringworm follows up their latest LP (Scars, on Victory Records) with this split 7" with Australian powerhouse Mindsnare.

Cleveland hardcore legends RINGWORM return with two new/unreleased crushers from the vaults. Never before heard until now! The flipside of this split 7" is sure to make your blood pressure rise...with two new tracks by MINDSNARE!!!

First pressing comes packaged as a mini 8-panel EC comics style insert illustrated by the Human Furnace.

Human Furnace has an incredibly crazy visual style, so the comic book is probably a trip and the 7" cover is a nice throwback to old EC Comics horror titles, classic.

The 7" also comes with a download code for digital listening purposes.


Order here

Again, if you order this in the A389 Package this time around, this comes on Purple vinyl.

A389's Latest Batch of Releases: Ringworm Demo

Yes! More Ringworm to crush our minds to...

This is the classic sought-after 1999 'comeback' demotape RINGWORM released in 1999 after years of silence. Available as a one-time limited edition flexi pressing of 250 copies. Half on black/Half on clear.

Super limited, so order quick... here

Again, if you order the whole A389 Package, you can get this on Clear vinyl, if that is your poison.

below is not the songs here, but some Ringworm, if you have not had the chance previously:

Pyramids & Horseback...

Are finally up for pre-order.

From the label:

In our current climate of exponentially expanding micro-genres and sub-sub-niches, we're usually only a few mouse clicks away from finding or assigning a particular tag to any given musical artist. In instances when a group or solo musician seems to have hit upon a sound that hasn't already been neatly classified, it seems there's a whole host of anxious internetters just waiting to cobble together a set of hyphenated words to quickly solidify the identity of the unruly artist. Though both Pyramids and Horseback have existed now for what seems like eons by modern standards (you know, at least three or more years), astonishingly neither has been saddled with a lasting classification for the sounds they make. Whether this is due to their constantly shifting approach to compositional technique with each successive release, their fluctuating membership, or simply the fact that their not borrowing exclusively from any one source, it seems one thing is certain: both have succeeded in making music that is singularly their own, while also possessing a deeply affective humanity, initially alienating though it might appear.

Now that these two entities have combined forces for "A Throne Without a King", a new set of questions is raised in through its realization. Firstly, is it a split or a collaboration? Well, it's both - the album includes one new song from each individual group, as well as a long-form collaborative piece involving all personnel from Horseback and Pyramids playing together. Over the course of the three tracks that comprise the set the music ranges through territories of frenzied blasting, sonorous melody, arrhythmic clattering, frenetic riffing, frozen howls, and uneasy quiet. Horseback offers up the most recognizably structured piece of the three, a scabrous black metal weave, threaded through with a distinctly American twang. On their solo adventure Pyramids force together incongruent bits of hammering drum machine, screeching metallic textures and harmonious snippets of spacious piano into one implausibly seamless whole.

Strong as the preceding pieces are, it is the massive forty five minute collaborative piece that is really the centerpiece of the entire project - a sprawling mass of sonic moss, mud, concrete and galvanic crackle. Incorporating harsh electronics, buzzing swaths of guitar, low pulsing drones, improvised percussion and spectral voices issued from a distant universe, the "song" is a perfect synthesis of the diverse musical personalities involved in its creation. Though it could be inaptly described as any number wildly different types of music, like the parent groups that have channeled its chaotic essence into a tangible living form, it is a beast of unique nature - at once beguiling, terrifying and completely immersive. A more successful pairing of experimental-metal-drone-ambient-krautish-noise-rock collaborators you are unlikely to find, in our reality or any of its parallel relatives.

Track Listing (7")
Side A: Pyramids 'Phaedra's Love' (6:45)
Side B: Horseback 'Thee Cult Of Henry Flynt' (7:00)

Track Listing (LP)
Side C: Pyramids + Horseback 'A Throne Without A King pt. 1' (8:54)
Side C: Pyramids + Horseback 'A Throne Without A King pt. 2' (13:06)
Side D: Pyramids + Horseback 'A Throne Without A King pt. 3' (9:47)
Side D: Pyramids + Horseback 'A Throne Without A King pt. 4' (13:52)

Pre-order here

Old Man Gloom's Christmas Eve...

...finally sees a pressing here in the United States (Conspiracy Records in Europe releases this as a 2x7"). Tortuga Records rises from the dead and releases this beast on us all.

Track Listing:
Side A:

Christmas Eve Part I
A.L.F. Makes Accident, Or The Slow Advance Of The Now Liberated, But Virally Contagious Chimps
Skull Of Geronimo
Masami's Music Box I
Branch Breaker (Live In NYC)
Masami's Music Box 2
Christmas Eve Part II
Gratuitous Bonus Track Made By Sensible Musicians Doing Questionable Things

Side B (Live At Brownies In NYC):

Zozobra (Excerpt)
Skullstorm
Branch Breaker
Sonic Wave Of Bees
Rape Athena
Flood II
Afraid Of....
Hot Salvation
Jaws Of The Lion
Hot Salvation
Jaws Of The Lion

This comes on 3 colors: light blue, yellow, and black.

Order here or pose

Has It Really Been 10 Years?

Has it truly been ten years? This is blowing my mind right now. This record devoured me for the three to five years following its release as I pseudo religiously traveled all over to see Bane play these songs. Give Blood means a great deal to me personally.

I know I know, I do not normally hype hardcore records here, but I could probably fill a book with my experiences related to this album (no joke).




This is just one of the many times that I have seen these guys while they toured the hell out of the record.


Well, Triple B Records is re-issing Give Blood on vinyl.

Here are some details:

it's FINALLY here! pre-orders for the 10 year anniversary pressing of Bane's infamous GIVE BLOOD are now up! there are 3 colors available for purchase on our site. 1 color will be exclusively available through Equal Vision.
This LP comes complete with a high quality gatefold embossed sleeve and a 16 page 11x11inch full color insert booklet.

Pre-order here