Roadburn / Burning World Recs

Conan is coming for you the next few weeks (and in late March/April again with Bongripper). Be sure not to miss them live on tour starting this Friday. Here’s the official statement with the dates:

Back in April 2012 two bands shared the attention of a devoted crowd, spread across different stages at what was for them their first ever appearances in mainland Europe. Since that date at Roadburn 2012 a mutual appreciation of dusty 12 inch cones, crusty fuzz and glowing EL34s has blossomed and has borne fruit, ladies and Gentlemen we give you this – a UK tour joining together the immovable object – Chicago’s Bongripper (US), the irresistible force – Liverpool’s Conan and Leeds’ own lords Humanfly, three bands that will lay down before you a dead mountain of tone and riffs and soaring, devastating heaviness.

All current 2013 tour dates are up on our stereoposter page, feel free to share any date: http://stereoposter.com/conan

Current tour dates

February 8th Le Havre, France
February 9th Amsterdam, The Netherlands
February 10th Paris, France
February 11th Club Dijon, France
February 12th Zurich, Switzerland
February 13th Dornbirn, Austria
February 14th Praha-Břevnov, Czech Republic
February 15th Pardubice, Czech Republic
February 16th Leipzig, Germany
February 17th Potsdam, Germany
February 18th Hamburg, Germany
February 20th Dresden, Germany
February 21th Brussels, Belgium
March 21st Turku, Finland
March 22nd Helsinki, Finland
March 23rd Oulu, Finland
20th April Liverpool, England
21st April Manchester, England
22nd April Basingstoke, England
23rd April Sheffield, England
24th April Preston, England
25th April Bristol, England
26th April Edinburgh, Scotland
27th April Newcastle, England
28th April London, England
May 4th Copenhagen, Denmark (Heavy Days In Doomtown)

For those in need of a physical copy of the Conan – Mount Wrath: Live at Roadburn 2012 set please go to our online store. Pre-orders of the cd will be sent out in 2 weeks. Vinyl will be sent out the last week of March 2013. In the meantime check out the set on Bandcamp.

Roadburn Records is proud to present another installment in the ‘Live at Roadburn’-series. Conan’s Mount Wrath: Live At Roadburn 2012 is only available digitally for now. February/March will see the release of the CD and the vinyl around the end of March.

As we want as many people to hear these great sets we decided to do the digital version on a “pay what you want or ”name your price” basis.

For those who need the real thing and want to be sure to get one we have already put up both cd and vinyl up for pre-order. But beware: cd’s will be sent of in two weeks, vinyl at the end of March 2013.

If you have a small wallet due to the expensive holiday season, just pick it up for free and enjoy it! If you got some more money to spend and want to support the band and the label, you can name your own price. In the meantime the stream from Bandcamp itself is free, so if you don’t want to leave your email address when you want to download it for free, you can just enjoy the album from our Bandcamp site.

Why not start the new year in the spirit of sharing, we at the Burning World Headquarters thought. So from now on all ‘Live At Roadburn’ albums that we have the digital rights to will be free. Digitally that is. CD’s and vinyl still have to be bought  ;-)

So this is your chance to listen back to gigs by: Wolves In The Throne Room, Yob, White Hills, Bong, Wino among other. Put them on your iPod, burn em on a disc for your car, delete them if you don’t like them. It’s all fine with us.

The more people listen to the music we put out, the more we like it. So get over to the Burning World  Bandcamp page and download or listen away.

There is only minor one catch: if you pay nothing (which is fine by us) you’ll have to leave your mailaddress. We promise we will only mail you one with a big unsubscribe button in there so no harm done. Or maybe you’ll like to keep updated once a month on what’s going on at Roadburn Records and Burning World Records.

Check out Wino’s Live At Roadburn below for instance. It’s smokin’!

Roadburn Records is proud to present another installment in the ‘Live at Roadburn’-series. Bongripper Live At Roadburn 2012 is only available digitally for now. The new year will see the release of the 2CD (in February) and the vinyl around Roadburn 2013. As we want as many people to hear these great sets we decided to do the digital version on a “pay what you want or ”name your price” basis.

If you have a small wallet due to the holiday season, just pick it up for free and enjoy it! If you got some more money to spend and want to support the band and the label, you can name your own price. In the meantime the stream from Bandcamp itself is free, so if you don’t want to leave your email address when you want to download it for free, you can just enjoy the album from the Bandcamp site.

Burning World Records is proud to announce that we are releasing Vatnet Viskar’s debut EP in Europe this fall. The American foursome from New England received favourable reviews all round when the EP came out in the US in March of this year. Metalblast.net maybe says it best:

“While their contemporaries traffic in pristine production and unearthly Alcestian shimmers, these guys are far more raw and immediate. Everything’s still distinguishable and there’s no muddy maelstrom of impenetrable noise, but there’s just enough of a filthy edge for it to be considered a black metal album. And the compositions are top-notch. These guys have a great grasp of harmony through black metal riffs – it’s not quite on the same level as the Steve Reichian neoclassicalisms of Wolves in the Throne Room, but it’s definitely well on its way to getting there.”

This release has been described on Pitchfork (7.9!) as “Aside from some surprisingly wide-eyed lyrics that explore general themes of existential nihilism and a desire to tear down antiquated systems and build anew, none of those concerns really become a factor here. Vattnet Viskar is simply a strong start from a band that has tapped into the current transmogrification of black metal and proclaimed– quickly, restlessly, and enthusiastically– that it has something to say about the process.”

Listen to the whole EP on Bandcamp here:

If you want to know more about the infkluences of the band please check the mixtape they made at Sonic CVLT Nation here.

The EP will be out on cd, vinyl and digital through Burning World Records in November.

And the good news keep on coming. After White Hills US, Black Magician and Chelsea Wolfe another addition to the roster. Slomatics from Belfast, Ireland will release their cd A Hocht on Burning World Records in September 2012. Artwork will be provided by Tony Roberts who also did the Conan – Monnos album and the Conan / Slomatics split cd for us. Vinyl duties will be handled by UK’s own Head Of Crom Records. Mastering was done by James Plotkin.

Slomatics from Belfast reporting for duty to bring you a blitzkrieg of total chaos and destruction. As their name might indicate, these guys like it slow; Electric Wizard riffage mixed with Melvins grooves and some DNA from the New Orleans family (Eyehategod, Sourvein). With two maximum low tuned guitars, who needs a bass player anyway? As a trio, Slomatics will do enough damage as it is!

The band will play at the Incubate Festival in September here in Holland.

Listen to the first track of the album, Beyond Acid Canyon on Bandcamp:

Lot’s of questions came in yesterday when we posted the news on Roadburn Records releasing The Obsessed Live in Koln vinyl. To cut it short the main question was: how does it sound? Exactly for that reason we have posted the first track from the album on Bandcamp. Not to buy but just to get an idea on how the quality of the live album will be. We guess you won’t be dissapointed!

Here is all the info on the release including a link on where to purchase the album or how to pick it up when you go the Roadburn 2012.