A GREAT DAY TO BE A DOOM FAN: NEWS FROM SHRINEBUILDER AND A STORM OF LIGHT
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 at 1:30pm by Vince Neilstein
“Highly anticipated” does not even begin to describe the hype surrounding Shrinebuilder’s debut album. The doom supergroup features Saint Vitus / Obsessed / Spirit Caravan / Hidden Hand guitar hero Scott “Wino” Weinrich, Neurosis / Tribes of Neurot leader Scott Kelly, former Sleep and current Om bassist Al Cisneros, and Melvins drummer Dale Crover… basically THE definitive who’s who of doomo all-stars. Roadburn.com is now reporting that the album is finally coming this autumn via Neurot Recordings, and they’ve posted the breathtaking artwork by A Storm of Light’s Josh Graham (a small portion of which I’ve posted above). They also report that the band will play several gigs in the U.S. later this year with European dates to possibly follow.
Speaking of A Storm of Light, they’ve got a crushing new track called “Midnight” streaming on their own website (take that, MySpace!). The track comes from the new double-disc record Forgive Us Our Trespasses, due in September via Neurot as well.
Thanks to MS Maniac Charlie F. for the tips.
-VN
Normally I hate the hype surrounding album releases, but this truly deserves it. I cannot wait to hear this!
Now that’s a damned cool album cover, not that hippie “looks like a mouldering corpse sprouting tentacles” shit that seems so trendy now.
You guys gonna review the new Yob album?
I agree. YOB is DOOOOOOOOOM.
This is going to be amazing. Put it on the wish list with the new Baroness and Mariachi El Bronx.
So so so excited for this one.
I got to hear this record in its entirety in a listening session at Roadburn a few months back, and trust me: it is EXACTLY as awesome as you think it’s going to be, and is far more than the sum of its parts. Absolutely fucking monolithic.
See now I will have to kill you for talking about this…
I’m not even into doom all that much and I really want to hear Shrinebuilder.
Can you imagine how amazing this will be on VINYL??
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The only person on the lineup that is actually associated with Doom metal is Wino. Neurosis, Melvins and OM are not Doom, and its even debatable if they are actually metal. Still they are great musicians and it will be a great album. Look forward to picking it up.
So fucking excited for Shrinebuilder, its going to be epic. Glad to hear about european tour dates too. Looking foward to the new storm of light too.