Sorry to harsh your afternoon mellow, but reader Andrew Jordan just noticed the following post on Unearthly Trance’s Facebook page:

That sounds pretty definitive in terms of the band doing any future shows. But does it mean that Unearthly Trance are done, or just done playing gigs? The band just released a new album, V, this past September on Relapse (it’s still streaming in full here), so it would be a bummer if they broke up a mere six months later. I have a message out to Relapse reps, but they’re en route to SXSW right now so I don’t know how quickly we’ll get an answer.

While we wait for some official word, feel free to be nervous in our comments section.

-AR

Knocked down but never defeated, Eli Shaika is back from the jaws of death to bring you the seventh episode (and first of 2011) of Cooking Contaminated, our very own metal cooking show. This episode’s guest is Jonathan Canady, a man of many talents you might know from his time in Torture Chamber, Deathpile, Blunt Force Trauma, Angel of Decay and most recently Unearthly Trance and Diamond Cult.

Jonathan brings his simple yet delicious recipe for “Spreading the Disease Grilled Cheese” and pairs it up with Eli’s own home-made “Bromato” tomato soup for yet another Cooking Contaminated episode that has our tummies rumbling. Watch the episode below and find the list of ingredients after the jump!

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Last night I had the privilege of attending the latest in the monthly series of Pitchfork’s Show No Mercy metal shows in Brooklyn, featuring Stats, Defeatist, Unearthly Trance, and Minsk supporting Keelhaul. I arrived a fan of Minsk — who certainly did not disappoint with their epic blend of doom, prog, sludge and punk — but I left a newly converted fan of Keelhaul, whose razor-tight set of angular post-metal riffs justly lived up to show promoter Brandon Stosuy’s description as “muscular.” Keelhaul absolutely fucking killed it, their furious Coalesce-on-steroids onslaught leaving me wondering how this band had slipped beneath my radar for so long.

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Like my e-comrade Vince, I too am planning to check out Canadian stoner/doom/mammal metallurgists Bison B.C. at tomorrow night’s CMJ Metal Blade/Relapse/Lifeforce showcase at Knitting Factory (Also playing: Psyopus, Tombs, This Or The Apocalypse, Left To Remain). Now if, like me, the very thought of CMJ causes you to break out in painful hives and cold sweats, the next chance for New Yorkers to see Bison B.C. will be as part of the all-day long (4pm – 4am, apparently) Beasts Of The East festival (tickets here) on November 2nd at Club Europa in Brooklyn.

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