Roadburn / Burning World Recs

Roadburn Records is proud to present yet another installment in the ever expanding ‘Live At Roadburn’-series. After releases of Chelsea Wolfe, Ulver, Conan and Bongripper we conclude last years quintet with The Netherlands’ own The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation with an album simply called ROADBURN.

The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation is the heavy droning improv incarnation of The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble. The music taps into the blistering low-frequency guitar soundscapes, augmented with smatterings of electronic skullduggery and eruptions of cello and trombone. The overall effect of this ensemble conjures expansive sonic wastelands which seem to heighten in sludgy intensity as the sessions go on. Combining subtlety with mightily impressive cinematic-sounding climaxes. Across draughty plateaus of bottom-heavy bluster, arcs of grim string instruments sound out, making for a surprisingly digestible bout of improvisational doom.

T.M.F.D.J.C release their 5th live album ‘Roadburn’. Recorded live April 12th 2012 at the famous Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, where the Corporation had the honor of opening on the main stage on Sunday at the Festival’s Afterburner.

‘Roadburn’ is The Corporations heaviest and darkest journey into abstract alien industrial territories. During this show the animations of Harry Smith guided the band through this darkened journey of colossal darkness…

Line up for this recording :
Hilary Jeffery : Trombone
Nina Hitz : Cello
Eelco Bosman : Guitar
Gideon Kiers : Electronics
Jason Kohnen : Bass

Mixed by Danny Gras
Mastering by James Plotkin

The album is available on the bands Bandcamp page on ‘Pay What you Want’-basis or on cd and double vinyl (black and gold) in the Burning World online store. Listen to the whole album below:

Early pioneers of Norwegian black metal Ulver have continually evolved over the years to become living legends of the dark music genre. By blending rock, electronic, industrial and symphonic traditions along with ambient soundscapes and experimental sounds, the band has created truly groundbreaking material.

Ulver returned with Childhood’s End, a collection of classic psychedelic tracks recorded by the band during various sessions starting in late 2008 and ending in late 2011. “This is the stuff that we sit at home and get stoked about,” Kristoffer Rygg explained in an interview. “I grew up with parents who were still listening to music from the time, so it informed my childhood, but it has became an ever increasing geeky sort of fetish since then.”

This passion for Sixties garage rock and psychedelia and the countless underground gems that remain unknown to many inspired the band to record their own interpretations of some of their favorite songs from the era. “My feeling is that most people’s knowledge sort of limits itself to The Doors,” said Rygg, “The Doors were cool, but there was so much else going on in the underground, records that got lost and didn’t get as much recognition as they deserved in my opinion.”

Ulver performed the tracks from Childhood’s End for the first and only time live at Roadburn 2012. Their “1967” performance, mixed by Kristoffer Rygg and mastered by Jaime Gomez Arellano, will be released on 2LP and CD through Burning World Records and available at this year’s Roadburn Festival.

That album is now available for pre-order on vinyl and cd and will be sent out the 2nd week of April 2013 or can be picked up at the Roadburn Festival 2013.

The vinyl is available in 3 colors:

• Gold (100 copies, only available at Burning World Records),
• White (300 copies, only available at Burning World Record and the USA)
• Black (600 copies, available at Burning World Records and all good shops near you!)

There is also an option to buy all 3 colors at a special price and the gold version is also available in a package with a shirt (round sleeve design, gold on black). Get it here.

To get a taste of their Live at Roadburn album, listen to Ulver’s take on The Music Emporium‘s Velvet Sunset below.

Burning World Records is proud to present the exlcusive European pre-sale of the doom masterpiece Longing by Bell Witch on double vinyl. Our friends at Flenser Records in San Francisco graciously have given us the opportunity to distribute this record on this side of the ocean. Bell Witch you say? They only made one of the best doom albums of last year (listen to the album on Bandcamp below). Get your orders in at the Burning World Store. read the offcicial info below:

Bell Witch is a minimalist doom duo from Seattle comprised of drummer Adrian Guerra and bassist Dylan Desmond (of Samothrace fame). Uniquely sorrowful, Bell Witch is as much akin to Skepticism as they are to Codeine. Longing is an hour and 10 minutes of doomed desolation, sadness, and sorrow. Originally released on CD and digital formats by Profound Lore Records, Longing was one of the most important doom albums of 2012 featured on numerous year end lists.

Longing will be released as a gatefold double album with thick, old-style case wrapped jackets and comes with a gatefold insert. This should ship in March but delays are always possible.

New artwork has been created specifically for the vinyl version of this release by artist Bryan Proteau. The albums will be shippe dto us in March so we will be able to ship the early April 2013 hopefully.

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.

Just in or back in or almost in. All vinyl all the time. Just a little head up for those who come to the big Record Fair in Utrecht this weekend. If you want to have some items reserved: mail us at [email protected] and we’ll keep them aside for you. This goes for all items in the Burning World Store or in the Burning World Discogs store.

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35007 – Phase V LP (gold / black / shirt)
Bongripper – The Great Barrier Reefer 2LP
Dawnbringer - Into The Lair Of The Sun God LP (white)
Dinosaur Jr – Bug: Live At The 9:30 Club Washington Juni 2011 LP (green)
Dogfeet – Dogfeet LP
Dusty Skull – Tossed & Lost 7″ (blue & white)
Enslaved / Roadburn Showcase USA – Arik Roper Poster
Eyehategod – Dopesick 2LP
Godspeed you! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don’t Bend Ascend (Lp + 7″)
Graveyard – Lights Out LP/Pic Disc
Harmonia – Deluxe LP
Harmonia – Muzik Von Harmonia LP
Heavy Blanket – Heavey Blanket LP (white)
Hurdy Gurdy – Hurdy Gurdy LP
My Dying Bride - A Map Of All Our Failures 2LP
The Obsessed – Live in Koln USA version (red)
Om – Advaitic Songs 2LP
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Fillmore Auditorium Feb. 4th, 1967 With Dino Valenti LP + cd
Sweet Apple – Elected b/w No Government 7″
Tear Gas – Tear Gas LP
Tweak Bird - Under Cover Crops LP
Chelsea Wolfe - Unknown Rooms: A Collection Of Acoustic Songs LP
Woven Hand – Consider The Birds LP

We’re almost there. Test pressings have been received and approved, so the plant is pressing 500 of these baby’s up right now. The final installment of the 35007 vinyl series is almost upon us. All other albums of the band have been released on vinyl before (by Stickman and Man’s Ruin among other labels) but Phase V, released on cd by Stickman Records in 2005 was never released on the mighty vinyl.

The album has been described as: “35007 are instrumental jamming masters; theres lots of melody in the tracks underpinned by the quality rhythm section over which the guitars and other effects playfully interact. As I said in my review of Liquid; 35007 are all about ebb and flow and Phase V flows superbly over rocking, psychedelic jamming terrain perfectly for over 40 mins.” (Amplified Man at Amazon.co.uk).

But the best thing of course is to listen to the album itself to make you mind up. If you have Spotify you can listen to the whole album here.

To celebrate the release of this Dutch space rock classic we also have a T-shirt available with the minimal but beautiful design.

Both the album (on limited gold and black vinyl) and the T-shirt are available at our webshop at Burningworldrecords.com.

The Obsessed Live in Koln vinyl  is now also available in the USA with a new sleeve design! On red and grey vinyl. Listen to the sample track Mourning on our Bandcamp page.

This is what our American distributor Outer Battery Records in Vermont says about the album:

Have we got a hot record for you guys! Our partnership continues with Roadburn – the Dutch festival/label – and this time we bring you The Obsessed’s “Live in Koln” LP. Recorded in 1992 and featuring the line-up from “The Church Within” – Scott ‘Wino’ Weinrich on guitar/vocals, Greg Rogers on drums and Guy Pinhas on bass – “Live in Koln” is 10 monstrous slabs of doom that captures the band at their peak.

Our version comes with new artwork designed by Guy Pinhas, and we pressed 800 copies on grey vinyl and a very limited run of just 200 copies on blood red vinyl, only available from the Outer Battery website!

If you want one please go here. And while you are at it, they also have some nice J. Mascis related vinyls on display as well.

PS for wholesale or trades in the US please mail info at outerbatteryrecords dot com.

Just a short note to say that we have about 15 more gold copies for sale. We always wait till the album comes in to check if it arrived all right and to have some to spare in case some were damaged. And next to that we had some customers who bought way more that was allowed. I mean we are not against Ebay gold but we’d rather sell 1 copies top 10 customers than 10 copies to one Ebay seller who then flips them for 200$ (yes that’s you Old Man Chair Records, Ote138 and Wellington3rd). So this item now has a 1 copy per customer cap. If you buy more you’ll be refunded for both items and get no record. We know there is still ways to get more when you buy with different addresses and such but so be it.

Get it here. … SOLD OUT

As the date to the official release of BLACK MAGICIAN’s debut album ‘Nature Is The Devil’s Church’ draws ever closer, today Burning World Recording makes the final track from the album ‘Chattox’ available to stream on Soundcloud which you can check out below.

Read what Sludgelord.com has to say about the album:
“When you feel that Doom Metal has gone a little stale of late here comes a band like Black Magician that manages to turn the genre on its head. The album is full top-notch riffs, vocals and lyrics to show these guys are one of the best creative bands in the UK Doom Metal scene right now.”

The cd version of the album is now up for presale at Burning World Records.com.

You can get the cd or you can get the package together with the Conan and Slomatics cd for a nice price.

If you are into vinyl please check the vinyl version of this album (limited to 300 copies on bloodred vinyl) through Shaman Recordings.