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Finally, finally, finally our new opus 'River, Bear Your Bones' will be released in the UK on July 28th. The rest of the world soon after. Sorry for the wait. Rest assured that it will stab you in the face and rip out your eyes. Buy it, steal it, whatever but above all we hope you enjoy it.

Take care,

Capricorns

Good news.

Electric Wizard Today

Dorset Doom returns like never before; The new Electric Wizard are back & this time it's for real. With their sixth full-length studio album titled Witchcult Today, the album will certainly give listeners something they've been waiting for from this now legendary cult band. Recorded & produced by Liam Watson (White Stripes, Datsuns etc) at London's legendary Toerag studio's, the album is released on November 12th. Initial CD copies will come in foil Gatefold LP replica, with a double vinyl version foil sleeve also (first 125 copies will come with exclusive free poster & patch and will be up for pre-order on the Rise Above site within the next week or so, once we have an estimated delivery time.

Tracklisting as follows;

Witchcult Today
Dunwich
Satanic Rites Of Drugula
Raptus
The Chosen Few
Torquemada 71
Black Magic Rituals & Perversions
Saturnine

The band make their debut appearances in Japan with three shows in November and are now also confirmed to play next years Roadburn Festival.

UK/EUROPE Release - Nov 12th

U.S.A. Release - Nov 20th

http://www.myspace.com/electricwizarddorsetdoom

Electric Wizard have completed work on their new LP 'Witchcult Today'.
8 tracks of mind melting occult rock. Awesome chrome gatefold cover with full colour inserts exposing the sinister world of 'Witchcult Today'.
'...witchcraft,black magic,sex cults,drug use....'
Release dates to be announced.

from here

Sun 15 Jul – Pharaoh Overlord, Alexander Tucker, Stargazer's Assistant

If any of you lot who organised this are reading, start a little earlier ;) Doors: 7pm First artist: 8:30pm(ish)

Three very interesting and pretty damn varied offerings were on show.

STARGAZER'S ASSISTANT were a three piece for most of their 'set'. With Alexander Tucker, Daniel O’Sullivan, David J. Smith and Jussi (from Circle). They produced a mix of looped (and fucked with) percussion, the sounds almost 'collected' by the microphone wielders before they exacted their imprint on it and added it to the soundscape. Ending up with interesting loops of percussive sound with vocals, again, looping over the top. Finished off by a giant of a man arriving on stage, and growling something indistinguishable for the next while.

Cig break time.

Then Alexander Tucker (and his army of pedals) took the stage and did something quite similar to STARGAZER'S ASSISTANT but less percussion and more complex guitar and vocal loops. It was interesting again, but doesn't entirely hold interest I find.

By this time it was getting on to quarter to eleven, and Pharoah Overlord stroll onto stage, each with a piece of BM 'spiky stuff' draped rather unconvincingly (though comically) over some part of themselves. It was remarked as the time, 'Oh my god, more than one instrument on stage,' for there were three guitarists, a bassist and a drummer (who had the cold, dead eyes, of a killer - Bernard Black). Lush, slow rich sounds and rhythms then filled the small room under the arches. The essential bits of much rock and roll has been distilled into a lumbering sound which, while repetitive, manages to pull the listener into the thick, mong inducing depths.

After leaving early (shit tubes dont'cha know), we managed to catch the last bakerloo line northbound and it was at piccadilly circus that my luck ran out. Westbound train, gone, eastbound (that my companion needed), waiting at the platform. Cue a wander round central london for a little bit, before arriving at Trafalgar Sq. and my bus stop home.

Ever so slightly disappointing night, if mainly because of the tube situation and the lack of any real bass bar Pharoah Overlord, but worth the seven quid no doubt.

Sun 13 May – The Hidden Hand, Stinking Lizaveta, End Of Level Boss

Managed to miss End Of Level Boss, who were reportedly very good.

Stinking Lizaveta were, as always, on absolutely outstanding form. I highly recommend seeing them any and every opportunity you can. The most fun and possibly best live band I've seen for quite a while.

After being bored by Hidden Hand at Roadburn 12 I wasn't entirely convinced about staying to see them. However we did, and the set was a welcome suprise in comparison. I still found myself growing bored and not being held by their music, but at least there were sections where they got into some pleasing grooves.


Stinking Liz steal the night easily and dare I say, had they played all night there would have been a lot of happier people.