Vargr Out + More News...

20 Buck Spin is now relocated to Olympia, Washington. We appreciate everyone’s patience, particularly mailorder shoppers, during the move period. We are finally catching up and all your orders will be on the way very shortly. Thanks again.

First up, we’ve got a new release available. Vargr’s Northern Black Supremacy CD. This will be the last 20 Buck Spin release for 2007. A sample track “Do What We Say” is up on the 20 Buck Spin website and myspace page. Here’s the word:

Henrik Nordvargr Bjorkk is a familiar name in underground experimental noise circles, and black metal circles alike. From his work with the pioneering black industrial band MZ.412 to his many solo ventures under his own name, to collaborations with Merzbow, to other projects like Folkstorm and Toroidh, Bjorkk has been prolific to say the least. The common element in all his work has been overwhelming darkness and dread. Under the Vargr moniker, Bjorkk returns to his roots in a way. The foundation of Northern Black Supremacy is black metal of the coldest variety (think Ildjarn or Beherit), but it's buried in a no-fi terror soundtrack complete with eerie samples and anguished screams recalling his work in MZ.412. One of the harshest statements in Bjorkk's vast cannon of releases, Northern Black Supremacy captures perfectly the coldest essence of Scandinavian black metal through a filter of unthinkable horror and militancy. In his words: No Trend. No Feeling. No Production. No Mercy.

We’ve also got a limited amount of the obscure first Vargr release from the Russian Eternal Pride label.

The end of the year will see three 20 Buck Spin bands getting into the studio.

Coffins will record their third full length album, which will be called “Buried Death”. The album will tentatively have 8 tracks with the following titles:

Under The Stench
Buried Death
Purgatorial Madness
Altars In Gore
Cadaver Blood
Mortification To Ruin
Eternal Inurnment
The Frozen Styx

We’re shooting for an April release with Buried Death, both CD and LP this time. As with The Other Side Of Blasphemy, the Southern Lord label will help with distribution.

Enucleation Records is set to release both The Other Side Of Blasphemy and the split with The Arm & Sword Of A Bastard God on vinyl.

Toronto’s The Endless Blockade will record their second LP, Primitive, in the waning months of 2007. They’ll track it themselves and Scott Hull will mix and master. The final product should be 20-22 minutes of prime Neo-Powerviolence. Later, a CD version containing reworkings of tracks by noise artists carefully selected by the band will see the light as well. Tentative tracklisting, subject to change, for Primitive:

Death To Spies
Shot, Bound and Drowned
The Stain
Do Not Resuscitate
93 93/93
Like Partridges
Irrationalism Uber Alles
Raised By Wolves
Perfection
Phantom
Christ Suslov
The Endless Blockade

Samothrace from Lawrence, Kansas will record their debut LP around the end of the year. Crushing, slow, but melodic doom crust is their game. Samothrace recently completed a West Coast tour where they made many new friends and fans and created anticipation for the LP. In the meantime, we’ve put up a demo track on the 20 Buck Spin myspace page, www.myspace.com/20buckspin

Campbell Kneale is finishing up both the third full length Black Boned Angel release as well as a collaboration album with Nadja. The 3rd BBA release will be out on Riot Season, and on 20 Buck Spin in North America. The collab album is also set for release on 20 Buck Spin.

Stormcrow recently recorded tracks for a split release with Oakland behemoth Laudanum, tentatively set for release by No Options Records. A split with Coffins is in the works to be released later in 2008 on 20 Buck Spin.

Seattle’s Sanctum have finished their first full length album. The LP is due out on No Options Records. The band will tour the country in February 2008.
Grey Daturas are about to embark on a large US tour. Their recent split with Monarch is out now on 20 Buck Spin. An LP version will be out soon on Throne. We’ll have copies of the vinyl shortly after it’s release. Check greydaturas.com for tour dates.

In mailorder we’ve got new stuff from:
Atavist
Half Makeshift
Merzbow Vs. Nordvargr
Oakhelm
Portal
Ten Horned Beast
Toroidh
Von Thronstahl

And much more.

More news soon…