From the mossy underbelly of Portland, Oregon comes the
gritty tones of ambidextrous quartet NETHER REGIONS, and the
release of their debut full-length LP, Into The Breach.
Following the demise of Ditchliquor in 2006,
bassist/vocalist Joe Wickstrom supplied live bass for Black Elk, Subarachnoid
Space and Witch Mountain for three years, before seeking out several choice
musicians in the area to form NETHER REGIONS. With thunderous tones
that would surely allow the band's sound to fall under multiple genre sub
categorizations, the core NETHER REGIONS sound simultaneously
molests heavy riffery with a persuasion all their own, unable to be contained
by one simple style tag.
Into The Breach clocks in with forty-five
minutes of original extreme music recorded by Mike Lastra and Mark Ellsworth at
Smegmatone, and mixed/mastered by Adam Pike at Toadhouse -- both in Portland. Originally
self-released by NETHER REGIONS in February in a strictly
limited 1,000-run CD pressing, a copy of Into The Breach found
its way into the hands of North Carolina-based Abnormal Gait Records who
instantly decided that there must be a vinyl version of the album made. After
being specially remixed and remastered for the LP version by Adam Pike (Red
Fang, Black Elk), the album was pressed on black 140-gram wax, and packaged
with cover art crafted by Brandon Munday and Sam Ford, limited to 500 copies.
Stream Into The Breach in its entirety at
the Abnormal
Gait BandCamp page.
Into The Breach Track Listing:
1. Into the Breach/Spanish Werewolves
2. Do You Live
3. Your Name is Madness
4. Pale Faced God
5. Alpha/Omega
6. Blood Ritual
7. A City Far Enough Away
8. Outrun the Sun
Stay tuned for NETHER REGIONS tour dates
and other happenings to be announced over the coming weeks and through the
Summer months. For review copies of Into The Breach or to set
up coverage/interviews with the band, worldwide contact Earsplit PR.
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