HD Video of Mortals, Dads, and Hiroshima Vacation courtesy of  Chris Knight!


Mortals


Dads


Hiroshima Vacation

I hope you didn't miss this one!


THOU

In case you haven't heard yet, Ithaca Underground is bringing Baton Rouge's sludge riders THOU on Monday, October 3rd with locals Sun Spells and Lux Carentes at The Space @ GreenStar. Way cool, right?  What can you do in the meantime?  Well, NPR was awesome enough to snag some live audio from their set at the epic event w/ pg. 99 and Circle Takes The Square.  If we hadn't been many, many states away we would have absolutely been there. Need more?  Ok, fine.  Go download their ENTIRE DISCOGRAPHY.  They put it up for free so you don't have to get frustrated with the thousands of results for THOU via your P2P or torrent searches. It's that a nice bunch of ear-annihilating metal heads? 

So, go shirk responsibilities and be there at 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca, NY 14850 (near Corks n' More, down the alley between Joe's Delivery and Enterprise - or just take the entrance off N. Fulton/RT 13... you can easily see it and all the glorious parking from the street that way).  8PM.  Just $5

Footage from July 9th big heavy show at The Haunt. I love me some Batilus... also check out the new Don't Go Into The Woods line up, yes!!


Batillus


Mutilation Rites


Don't Go Into The Woods - 'Rite of the Nazgol'


Don't Go Into The Woods


Sorrow of Batavia


Sorrow of Batavia

Lots more video over at the IU YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/IthacaUnderground

For over a decade, Providence, RI duo THE BODY have been clawing past the false and leaving releases of utterly bleak heaviness in their wake.  Turn the page to 2010 and the band drops "All The Waters of the Earth Turn To Blood" - 2xLP of stunning creativity, originality, and pure heaviness - on the unexpected masses.  An additional 30 musicians joined the duo on this epic, including the entire Assembly of Light Choir into the record - an accomplishment in itself and an outright success in their ability to still sound like themselves. Doom, noise, drone, throat singing, and more collided into something freshly evil. The album adorned many year-end "Best of" lists and set a new bar in the avant leanings in doom metal. Ithaca Underground's Bubba Crumrine catches up with the band during a brief break between recording and hitting the road for their next tour which includes a stop on the Scion Rock fest with the likes of Morbid Angel, Agalloch, Floor, Bastard Noise and more. The trek also boasts their first performance in Ithaca, NY at CMSA with locals Hiroshima Vacation, Iwo Jima Medkit, and Genital Holograms on Saturday, Feb 26th - 8PM $5.

IU: "All The Waters of the Earth Turn To Blood" was one of the most ambitious, creative, (and best in my own humble opinion) heavy LPs of 2010 - how did the idea for such an immense collaboration spawn?

We just have really talented friends, it came together pretty organically, someone would happen to be in town and we’d be heading into the studio so they’d come lay something down.

IU: Did you two have a general idea of which musicians you wanted involved and the final result or was it simply a product of all of those people getting together?

We knew we were using the choir and we wanted WORK/DEATH to do some noise parts but  mostly it just kinda came together naturally.

IU: What's the story of syncing up with Assembly of Light Choir for their involvement with the album?

Our friend Chrissy Wolpert started the choir and she’s like our musical soulmate so, it made perfect sense.  Everything she does is so great and we were honored she agreed to record with us.

IU: How have you two been adapting the album for a live setting?