The boys in John Coffey have released a video for ‘No House For Thee’, the title track of their new politically charged EP which was recorded by Kurt Ballou in GodCity Studio. The song is a call for humanity, a call to extent your helping hand to a brother or sister from afar in need, … Continue reading
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Harm’s Way To Record New Album
Harm’s Way from Chicago, Illinois will be hitting the studio this Thursday to record their yet-to-be-titled new full-length album. The band will spend a week with Andy Nelson at Bricktop Recording and resulting tracks will be mixed by Kurt Ballou at Godcity Studios. Scheduled for an early 2015 release via Deathwish Inc., this new LP … Continue reading
Review: Trap Them – Blissfucker
Trap Them emerged in 2001 as one of the many bands that combines very fast-paced and short song-styled Nasum-esque Grind with Hardcore, Crust and Death Metal influences. Thirteen years later that particular sound is perfected on Blissfucker. Trap Them’s fourth, longest, most diverse and catchiest album to date. The Kurt Ballou (of Converge fame) produced … Continue reading
Review: Brutality Will Prevail – Suspension Of Consciousness
Whether you like their ‘no-fucks given’ attitude or not, it’s hard to deny that in a short matter of time, Welsh hard-hitters in Brutality Will Prevail have changed their status from UK hardcore newcomers to heavyweights. Over the years, the band’s history has been marked by multiple line-up changes; last one to date being the … Continue reading
This Routine Is Hell Release Video for ‘I Wake To See The World Go Wild’
Dutch hardcore band This Routine Is Hell have release a new video for ‘I Wake To See The World Go Wild’. The track comes off of their amazing 2013 album Howl that was recorded at Godcity Studio with Kurt Ballou. “Over the last one and a half year we’ve played over a hundred shows in all kinds of … Continue reading
Review: Doomriders – Grand Blood
It’s been four years since their last release Darkness Come Alive, but now Doomriders is back with their third full-length release called Grand Blood. As expected, this album was also recorded at God City Studios with Nate Newton’s bandmate in Converge Kurt Ballou. Doomriders isn’t busiest band in the world, as all members are involved with other … Continue reading
Doomriders Reveal Details New Album
Grand Blood from Doomriders is the follow-up to their highly regarded 2010 album Darkness Comes Alive, coming on October 15th via Deathwish Inc. Grand Blood was engineered by Kurt Ballou at God City Studios, and features artwork from Thomas Hooper as well as packaging from Ryan Patterson (Coliseum) and J. Bannon. Where Darkness Comes Alive was smooth and heavy in tone, Grand … Continue reading
Converge Release “Wolverine Blues Sessions” Digital EP
Converge have released a digital EP via Bandcamp, entitled Pound for Pound: The Wolverine Blues Sessions and featuring five versions of the Entombed song ‘Wolverine Blues’ with different vocalists on each. The various vocals were compiled into one final version of the cover, released on Converge’s split with Napalm Death, but are available individually via this release for … Continue reading
Review: This Routine Is Hell – Howl
At one point in their careers, many bands release a record that changes their rankings. Call it maturity or whatever you want, but it’s easy to recognize an album that will last. When This Routine Is Hell announced their trip to the USA last summer to record their new album with the omnipresent Kurt Ballou … Continue reading
Review: Baptists – Bushcraft
We already knew that most productions affiliated with the name of Kurt Ballou are crafted for excellence. But still, see Converge guitarist retain as much regularity and quality trademark is impressive. Among recent groups who recorded at GodCity Studio, there is Baptists. Straight from Vancouver, the Canadians had already released a 7” self-title demo in … Continue reading