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.

You’ve already had your chance to check out the Bongripper sets at Roadburn through Bandcamp (if not, do it now, it’s free!), now there’s the possibility to get your hands on the double cd version of the set. We will get the 2cd in in two weeks and will send them out then (2nd week of February).

And because the Conan Live At Roadburn CD will be out a few weeks later you can also order a package of the two for a nice price. The two bands will embark on a European tour in April. The package will be sent as soon as the Conan cd has arrived.

The cd’s are available in the Burning World webstore. Or if you live in the US, Canada check the Outer Battery Store to save on shipping (the Bongripper/Conan package will not be available there).

Check out a video of the first track Hail on the cd in video below:

Roadburn Records is proud to announce the third show from Roadburn 2012 to make it to an official release. After Chelsea Wolfe and Bongripper, the mighty Conan gets the Live At Roadburn treatment. The gig the British threesome did in Stage 1 was massive and left many a spectator standing with their mouths open and their ears closed. The band calls the album: Mount Wrath – Live At Roadburn.

But who can say it better than our good friend Adam Stone from Head of Crom Records who said it like this in his Roadburn Festival 2012 review for The Sleeping Shaman:

‘The band were in obviously ebullient form, stoked at playing this legendary festival and also being asked to join Sleep in Oslo, as selections from the new and monstrous ‘Monnos’ were intermingled with the huge and bulldozing force of classics like ‘Krull’ and ‘Older Than Earth’. Jon’s instantly likeable faraway vocals have never sounded more realised to these ears, and the audience were massively appreciative of Conan’s true wallop as the Stonehenge of amps that framed the band belched out universe-sized slices of ultra low-end hostility. A special mention too for Paul O’Neil’s expert drumming which represents the kind of versatility and intelligence that one would not usually expect with this most primal of genres, truly adding colour to the palette. By the end of the set I had cunningly worked my way into the centre of the room and believe me I was not regretful of the deoxygenated crush of Stage 01 – Conan had finally arrived on the international stage like the great wrecking ball that they have always been and I needed to be there to witness their special Roadburn moment. I toast thee lads – you are truly monolithic. ‘

The live recordings were mixed and mastered again by James Plotkin in New York just like he did for the Monnos album.

Artwork was once again in the hands of the master Tony Robert. Click below for a bigger version of the artwork:

The album will be released digitally first at February 1st, the cd will be out one month later (accompagnied bij a secret release party somewhere… ) and the vinyl version will be out April 1st. In time for the Conan tour with the mighty Bongripper.

Till then you can listen to the set at the 3VOOR12 network:

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.

Roadburn Records is proud to present another installment in the Live at Roadburn series. The new year begins heavy with Bongripper Live At Roadburn 2012, and later Conan will follow. But we can safely say that the biggest title we can announce for 2013 is the set legendary Norwegian band Ulver played at Roadburn 2012. They played a special set of 60′s covers from 13th Floor Elevators, The Beau Brummels, Jefferson Airplane, Troggs among others.

As the band says themselves on their website: ”Live at Roadburn is also around the corner. Roadburn Records will release a limited edition vinyl in one thousand copies next year, while we will release it digitally from our new webstore – store.jester-records.com – linked directly to from the app and our webpages.” (And when you are there check out the new Ulver app!)

The release is planned for an spring release. No date is set yet, but keep on checking these pages and we’ll keep you posted!

The album is in production, the test-pressing is confirmed so this means we can put this baby up for pre-sale. Roadburn Records is proud to present Chelsea Wolfe Live At Roadburn 2012 LP to the world. This album will only be available on vinyl, no cd or digital release is planned at this moment (and chances are there will be none). Find the artwork for the album to the left (click=big) – made by Ben Chisholm of the band – and the links to purchase the album on gold (limited to 100 copies) or on black vinyl (400 copies) below.

Chelsea Wolfe – Live at Roadburn 2012 (gold vinyl) SOLD OUT
Chelsea Wolfe – Live at Roadburn 2012 (black vinyl)

Happy days at the Roadburn Records offices. After announcing the release of Black Magician and White Hills US release last week, we have other news we like to share with you. LA chanteuse Chelsea Wolfe will release the set that she and her band played at Roadburn 2012 through Roadburn Records in September. The set (which you can listen to below courtesey of VPRO’s 3VOOR12) was remastered by the band and will only be released on limited edition vinyl. Pre-sales will go up halfway August and the records will be sent out halfway September of this year.

Northern California native Chelsea Wolfe’s sound is best described with broad strokes: elemental, intense, radiant, ancient yet modern, intimate yet expansive, dark and sparkling. Hues of black metal and deep blues inform her ever-evolving electric folk, a warm force that wraps itself around the listener, encouraging uplift, seeking triumph. Her voice similarly haunts and soothes, with words that illuminate life’s darker corners in order to reveal the unlikely truth and beauty hidden within.

We’ve been working hard the last years to get our Burning World and Roadburn releases over to the US. Which sounds simple but in reality it takes a lot of doing with shipments, customs, lost packages, reclaims with the insurance and all that. All energy that is spent on things we’d rather not do. That is why we have decided to partner up with two trusthworthy US based Canadian fellas. They go by the name of Outer Battery Records (don’t ask, another Canadian thing) and they will release and distribute some selected titles from our catalogue.

White Hills Live At Roadburn LP is the first result of our cooperation, the next one will be The Obsessed Live in Koln 92 vinyl in the fall. Outer Battery’s first releases are the J. Mascis project Heavy Blanket and Dinosaur Jr’s live set of their performance of the Bug album.

As said our first joint release is White Hills – Live At Roadburn 2011 vinyl. It is available in the Outer Battery store.
Find some pics of the album below.

Finally we come around to putting some stock we have left from Roadburn Festival online. A few of them are only available with us like the Voivod Live At Roadburn Lp and The Obsessed – Live in Amsterdam and Live in Koln + 7″ albums. Dig in!

diSEMBOWELMENT – Trancendense Into The Peripheral 2LP
High On Fire - De Vermis Mysteriis (grey + cd + 12″ )
Nachtmystium – As Made 7″
Nachtmystium – Doomsday Derelict 12″
The Obsessed – Live in Amsterdam 1992 LP
The Obsessed – Live in Koln 1992 Lp + 7″
Voivod – Live At Roadburn LP

The Obsessed – The Church Within 2×10″ and Ulver – Roadburn EP 7″ are sold out.

And we’ve added ome more of our “normal” items:

Acrostichon – Return To Killburg 2LP
Belzebong – Sopnic Scapes … LP
Brainticket – Alchemic Universe LP + CD
Freedom Hawk – Holding On LP
Leaf Hound – Growers Of Mushroom LP
Patto – Hold Your Fire LP
Rush – Abc 1974 2LP
Sahg – III LP