TAURUS: Psychedelic Blackened Doom Duo Premieres New Hymn Via Cvlt Nation
Portland-based psychedelic blackened doom/drone channellers, TAURUS — featuring Stevie Floyd of Dark Castle and Ashley Spungin, formerly of Purple Rhinestone Eagle/Negative Queen – are pleased to premiere a brand new hymn from their impending new long player, No/Thing.
Recorded to two-inch tape at Cloud City Studios by legendary sound magus Billy Anderson, No/Thing offers up five habitually chilling avant doomscapes set within a tranquil nightmare of angular death metal riffs, paranoid screams and black mass rumblings. Featuring guest vocal invasions by Anderson and Leviathan’s Wrest, No/Thing is a spiritually godless, cathartic yet terrifying audio journey. In honor of its forthcoming unveiling, Cvlt Nation brings forth “No Thing Longing… Human Impermanence.”
Describes the mega-blog, “I’m looking up at the sky as snow floats to the ground, covering everything around me. While the grey outside is being painted by Mother Nature, something else is happening in my eardrums. I have TAURUS’ ‘No Thing Longing… Human Impermanence’ on repeat, expanding into vast parts of my brain with each sound…. the layers and depth of their music is never-ending, and all I want to do is hear more!”
Adds the band, “All things move constantly, half embraced, increasing aloneness, meditating on nothing, stripping the mind of useless thoughts. All is temporary and moving around. I am space, creating and recreating.”
Feel the traumatic pulse of “No Thing Longing… Human Impermanence” at THIS LOCATION.
No/Thing will be released independently on April 1, 2014 via TAURUS’ official Bandcamp page and comes available in three options:
Record Box Set Option One:
– Wooden hand screen printed, stained and shellacked box with original Stevie Floyd art includes:
– No/Thing LP (colored vinyl), CD, download
– Life LP, CD, download (old record)
– 18” x 24” bleached black canvas tapestry/large backpatch
– lithograph lyric/art gold print on red linen paper
Record Box Set Option Two:
– Wooden hand screen printed, stained and shellacked box with original Stevie Floyd art includes:
– No/Thing LP (colored vinyl), CD, download
– 18” x 24” bleached black canvas tapestry/large backpatch
– lithograph lyric/art gold print on red linen paper
Record-Only Option Three:
– No/Thing LP (colored vinyl), CD, download
– lithograph lyric/art gold print on red linen paper
No/Thing Track Listing (song titles flow together as a parable):
1. No Thing Longing… Human Impermanence
2. Lives Long For Own
3. Set Forth On The Path Of The Infinite
4. Increase Aloneness
5. Receed
All music was felt by:
Stevie Floyd – guitar, vocal, Hammond organ, ukulele
Ash Spungin – drums, vocals, synth, samples
Wrest (Leviathan) – vocals (track 5)
Billy Anderson – vocals (track 4), producer, engine ear
Pre-Order packages are currently available at THIS LOCATION. (All preorders come with an 18” x 24” black canvas tapestry/large backpatch.)
TAURUS defines rehearsed spontaneity; organized mathematical rhythms of the timeless organic. Their view, not of man but an abstraction. The abstract is real, the actual is invisible. It is their sense of space and time; seeing through the here and now, into the vast black deep beyond, the unchanging… Life is an interval. The cosmic process is hurrying on, crushing life back into granite and methane. The wheel constantly turns for all Life… yet all Life is temporary. All creating and recreating. Each movement so important. Each space equally as relevant. We are dust.
In related intelligence, TAURUS will bring their audio explorations to Europe this Spring for a still-in-its-booking stages bout of live rituals which will include a special performance at the third annual Heavy Days In Doomtown festival in Copenhagen, Denmark. Further details to be announced in the coming weeks.
http://taurusisdust.bandcamp.com
http://www.facebook.com/TaurusIsDust
Source: Earsplit PR
