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April 11, 2012
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Untrue And International: Living In A Post Black Metal World Brad Sanders celebrates the 25th anniversary of the birth of modern black metal by looking at how the genre has finally emerged from the long shadow cast by the True Norwegian scene and where it is headed. “Now, more than at any other time in the genre’s history, the door is open to bands who want to take the traditional black metal framework and rework it into a seemingly endless array of disparate shapes and functions. More importantly, the best of these bands are finding acclaim with both heavy music neophytes and entrenched metal warriors alike…” Read the full Quietus article featuring Alcest, as well as Wolves In The Throne Room, Altar of Plagues, Liturgy, Cobalt, and more

Untrue And International: Living In A Post Black Metal World

Brad Sanders celebrates the 25th anniversary of the birth of modern black metal by looking at how the genre has finally emerged from the long shadow cast by the True Norwegian scene and where it is headed.

“Now, more than at any other time in the genre’s history, the door is open to bands who want to take the traditional black metal framework and rework it into a seemingly endless array of disparate shapes and functions. More importantly, the best of these bands are finding acclaim with both heavy music neophytes and entrenched metal warriors alike…”

Read the full Quietus article featuring Alcest, as well as Wolves In The Throne Room, Altar of Plagues, Liturgy, Cobalt, and more

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January 13, 2012
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The New Yorker: GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN

DIAMOND TERRIFIER AND MIVOS QUARTET

Jan. 18: Sam Hillmer, who is the saxophonist for the downtown avant-chamber group Zs, also leads Diamond Terrifier, a sax-and-electronics project named for Vajrabhairava, an irate Buddhist deity with nine faces, thirty-four hands, and sixteen legs. The group’s first album, comprising its long-form, drone-oriented songs, will be produced by Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor and released through Northern Spy Records this September. Hillmer and company open for the MIVOS Quartet, which premières a string quartet by Patrick Higgins. The piece, based on Proust’s reflections on memory and recollection, marks Higgins’s début as a classical composer; he is more well known as a gifted guitarist at home on the more brutal, punky fringes of the prog-rock community.

Diamond Terrifier in the New Yorker

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Diamond Terrifier playing & curating shows w/ many special guests, working on an album (dates & MP3)

Diamond Terrifier is introducing his new bi-weekly series, ‘PRACTICE!’ taking place at Zebulon every other Tuesday. This month it takes place on January 17 and 31, and he’s performing at and curating each one. The 1/17 show includes Lichens, Hunter Hunt-Hendrix (of Liturgy who are opening for Zola Jesus at Webster Hall), LZA/Dutch E. Germ (of Gang Gang Dance), and DJ sets by Laurel Halo and The Oracle. The 1/31 show includes Dan Friel, GDFX, Rat Attack, and DJ sets by Chief Boima (of Dutty Artz) and The Oracle. All shows in this series are free.

PRACTICE!

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