Droning Darkly For Our Future

I put on a great show a couple months ago headlined by No Anchor, supported by O and Vassals. It was fucking rad - and fucking loud. One band I wanted to fit on the bill but couldn't was Hope Drone. Their four track eponymous EP is brutality squared by concrete in the face. This is the kind of scathing atonal fury that grinds junkies' teeth into chalky stumps. It's amazing that we have so many bands of this ilk in our fair city of Brisbane, hiding in the cracks, waiting to bubble forth, the black cleansing oil of the apocalypse. There's no place like home...

The band have a couple of new releases in the wings, including a physical 12" of the EP out through OSCL, but until then, let this obliterate you...

Set These Bats Aflame

I have to say - Brisbane, you are doing a fine job in razing conventions to the ground, with some excellent doom-laden acts scorching the earth. Of course the leading contender (in my heavily biased opinion) is No Anchor. One you may not be aware of though is Golden Bats, Geordie from Dick Nasty/Teargas' solo project. He has two EPs available on Bandcamp (called I and II), and the plaintive yet evocative cover spells it all out for you. A skull spewing a skull spewing fire? A besaddled rat with some dude sleeping on its back? Its dark, heavy dirgey metal with a sense of humour. You've gotta love that!

Golden Bats - Wooden City

You can get I for free here, plus purchase II there too. Georgie has almost finished the third release and is ready to roll out the fourth - its an assembly line of destruction kids! There are tremblings that Golden Bats will be on an SM show further along in the year (maybe creating a nuclear winter...) but you MUST go see him play next Friday, May 4. He is the opening act at Alhambra Lounge, supporting Hope Drone, No Anchor and Heirs! Holy fucking shit! Take your ear plugs, forget your mind, and lose yourself in the beautiful horror...