Big Business Announces New "Quadruple Single" EP Out July 26th * Adds Second Guitarist Scott Martin (400 Blows / Crom)!

Big Business – “Always Never Know When To Quit” (Stereogum Premiere)



Cheeky Melvins/Karp/Murder City Devils/White Shit/etc-associated sludge-rock heroes Big Business are celebrating the late 2010 addition of fourth member, guitarist Scott Martin of Crom/400 Blows, and upcoming tour with aesthetic allies Torche by following 2009′s Mind The Drift with the Quadruple Single 12″ EP on their very own, recently launched new label Gold Metal. As the EP’s title suggests, it’s four songs, each strong enough to be its own single. Get a taste via mighty opener “Always Never Know When To Quit.”



(((Read more and listen to "Always Never Know When To Quit" here!)))

The Village Voice Interviews Conceptual Artist and Metal Composer Nader Sadek

Q&A: Nader Sadek On Wearing Deicide T-Shirts In Cairo And Humanity's Oil-Fueled Pursuit Of Its Own Destruction



Egypt-born visual artist Nader Sadek has been bringing the worlds of avant-garde art and extreme metal together for several years. His 2007 installation Faceless arose out of his experiences living as a metalhead in Cairo, and combined oddly Edward Gorey-ish drawings of a niqab-clad woman standing in landscapes not unlike the ones you might see on metal album covers or fantasy novels. The soundtrack to the piece had members of Morbid Angel, Emperor, Obituary and Testament performing an experimental piece that mixed death metal and Middle Eastern music alongside Middle Eastern musicians like Omar Faruk Tekbilek and Raquy Danziger. Sadek has also designed costumes and sets for the likes of Mayhem and Attila Csihar.

This week Sadek releases his first full-length album, In the Flesh (Season of Mist).

(((Read the full interview here!)))

Quintron and Miss Pussycat Premiere Video for "Face Down In The Gutter" at Impose.tv

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Premiere: Quintron + Miss Pussycat, "Face Down in the Gutter"
(Video by Panacea Theriac)

Face Down in the Gutter from Panacea Theriac on Vimeo.

* Here's a brand spanking new Quintron video for the track "Face Down in the Gutter", which gives Miss Pussycat's puppets a whole creepy world of their own (a world that is apparently called Busters), with Quintron hanging out behind the bar in a tux and a handlebar mustache like it ain't no thing. Things get hairy as the puppet folk down more of the legal poison, but Q holds his own and Miss P. drops by for a cameo. The track comes off their new album Sucre Du Sauvage, which came out April 12 on Goner Records. Brooklynites rejoice: Quintron and Miss Pussycat will be playing 285 Kent on May 28. - Impose

Balance and Composure Release Debut Album "Separation" on No Sleep Records To Massive Fanfare!

Balance and Composure have just released their debut full length album "Separation" on No Sleep Records and the response has been deafening. You can read just some of what critics are saying below:



"The quintet knock it out of the park on their debut full-length, Separation. With accomplished producer Brian McTernan at the helm, the group's brand of well-rounded post-hardcore has never sounded more engrossing." - Alternative Press Magazine 4/5

"...probably the best record released in 2011 so far. Separation doesn't just live up to the self-earned standards that Balance & Composure have given themselves by releasing good music in the past, it takes those standards, writes them all on a piece of paper, burns it to ashes and writes a book on how this genre should be done." - Absolutepunk

"Separation is an exhausting practice, riddled in catharsis and grinding tension. Balance and Composure always conveyed a certain level of tribal melancholy with their past material, but they've rarely employed it with this much thought and deliberation, nor as much originality. Brilliant." - Punknews

"‘Separation’ possesses tracks that are as mournful and introspective as Cobain’s funeral, others are as upbeat and energetic as Jimmy Eat World’s ‘Bleed American’" - Rock Sound

"Balance and Composure show surprising depth in their new album and the outcome of this is an extremely cleverly crafted album that makes us wonder just what exactly they are capable of doing in the future." - Sputnikmusic.com

"With Separation, Pennsylvania-based Balance and Composure have really made a statement. The talent that they hinted at in their previous two EP’s is fully expanded and fleshed out on this record. Their live show was already a sight to behold, a captivatingly intense and mesmerizing spectacle that can only be aided by adding some of these songs to the set.. Separation will undoubtedly end up on my Best of 2011 list come December, as it blew away my already high expectations." - Behind The Hype

"Separation isn’t just good, it’s surprisingly good. From first listen, you’ll be hooking into it’s calming, yet cathartic nature, and surely be bobbing your head and singing along after multiple listens. If you haven’t given this band a due chance, there is no better time than now." - Review Rinse Repeat

"...daring and breathtaking study in tone and atmosphere, it’s brilliantly realized and a stunning ensemble piece. Score: 9/10" - Under The Gun

"...one of the most notable releases so far this year. - 4.5/5" - Alter The Press

"The youth of 2011 want nothing to do with cherry-flavoured choruses about first kisses and instead, wrap distress and relatable emotions into a neat little package and hurl it straight towards your face. Separation does just this; it complexes, awes and entraps, letting fixed chords reverberate into an outbreak of grim vocals and drum abusing rhythms..." - Blare Magazine

"Balance and Composure is still miles ahead of most other bands operating in their genre. The reason? Authenticity." - Muzik Dizcovery

"Highly recommended!" - Elementary Revolt

Spin Magazine Reviews Debut Album from Nine 11 Thesaurus!

Nine 11 Thesaurus
'Ground Zero Generals'
Not as spine-chilling as OFWGKTA, but less bloody!



Born of an after-school program in Bushwick, Brooklyn, this group of five MCs teamed up with ex–Gang Gang Dance drummer Tim DeWitt and Skeletons' Matt Mehlan to rhyme over some spare beats.

(((Read more here!)))

Alternative Press Magazine Spotlights No Sleep Records!

pick up the new issue now!

Fuse TV Spotlights New Album from Title Tracks (feat. John Davis of Q and Not U)

Fuse Free Music Downloads
Title Tracks "All Tricks"



In Blank contains 10 original songs from John, as well as a cover of the Flamin' Groovies song, "I Can't Hide." The mood on the new record is 32 minutes of nearly unflagging kinetic push from start to finish and is mixed in glorious mono. Starting with "Shaking Hands" ("a tongue-in-cheek glorification of a solipsistic apocalypse," John says) and ending with "Winners Cry" (about "tattered friendships and the pursuit of oblivion"), the record only slows down very slightly at the halfway mark for "Forget The Ghost," a spectral song cloaked in a wash of Doric organ, an insistent tandem of acoustic guitar and kick drum and a bass line that walks the song like the titular phantoms. "It's about feeling like you've maybe exorcised the worst parts of yourself," John explains, "as told through a few ghost stories I've been a part of and/or heard at points in my life."

(((Read more and download "All Tricks" here!)))

Nader Sadek Premieres New Song "Petrophilia" at MetalSucks.net

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: NADER SADEK, “PETROPHILIA”



From the brain of Egyptian-born, New York-based conceptual artist Nader Sadek comes In the Flesh, a new album that centers on the notion of humanity’s relationship with petroleum and how this exhumation of ancient life forms serves as a self-destructive fuel to society’s greed (a subject that’s near and dear to my heart).

(((Read more and listen to "Petrophilia" here!)))