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From their nihilistic, sheer-noise-based beginnings six-plus years ago improvising soundtracks to silent horror classics and '60s physics animations, Grey Daturas have morphed into a surreal auditory nightmare, blending dark, pulsating drones, slow, low-end sludge riffs, crushing percussion, and walls of ear-torturing noise. Three and a half years after the release of their globally acclaimed second album, Dead in the Woods, and following numerous EPs, split and collaborative releases with the likes of Yellow Swans, Monarch, Bardo Pond, and Wolf Eyes, Grey Daturas unearth their finest and most challenging work.

Between Dead in the Woods and Return to Disruption, the most obvious difference is the improved production values. Where Dead in the Woods took a modest month to complete on eight-track/quarter-inch tape, Return to Disruption spanned a lengthy eighteen months on 24-track/two-inch tape. The band once again teamed up with Melbourne-based recording engineer Neil Thomason to track and mix drums, guitars, bass, and various other sounds and objects such as contact-microphone feedback, scrap metal, hardware materials and tools, violin, saxophone, and electronics. Following three months with Thompson, the remaining fifteen months (between numerous tours of the USA, Europe, and Australia) were spent painstakingly post-producing and collaging together the original tracks from the sessions, with the final mastering touches of Pig Destroyer's Scott Hull, to what has become the vast and consistently flowing epic that is Return To Disruption.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Beyond And Into The Ultimate
Return To Disruption
Balance Of Convenience
Answered In The Negative
Undisturbed
Demarcation Disputes / Unity
Neuralgia

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"The weather never changes in my world." Goddamned right.

With only an acoustic guitar and his voice, Kelly crams the lilt, lift, and longing of several lives well lived into five-some-odd minutes of every song. Not only would this record not have been possible at any other point in his life-- or ours, for that matter-- than now, it also seems to suggest the shape of beyond-now: thin and on fire.

Enjoy it. Time is short. --Eugene S. Robinson

30-second MP3 excerpts:

The Ladder In My Blood
Figures
Saturn's Eye
The Searcher
Catholic Blood
In My World
Remember Me

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"The weather never changes in my world." Goddamned right.

With only an acoustic guitar and his voice, Kelly crams the lilt, lift, and longing of several lives well lived into five-some-odd minutes of every song. Not only would this record not have been possible at any other point in his life-- or ours, for that matter-- than now, it also seems to suggest the shape of beyond-now: thin and on fire.

Enjoy it. Time is short. --Eugene S. Robinson

30-second MP3 excerpts:

The Ladder In My Blood
Figures
Saturn's Eye
The Searcher
Catholic Blood
In My World
Remember Me

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Go to iTunes to browse downloads for Scott Kelly "The Wake"

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The band always plays at deafening volumes, and guitarist Nate Hall frequently uses multiple amp setups for a thick, layered sound. Rhythm section Tim Greene and John Presnell hit the low-end, and Matt Johnson often mans guitar and theremin simultaneously. Chad Davis is able to handle any musical duties at any time. Shows are chaotic and unpredictable, riddled with sythesizer and theremin spasms. Images are projected onto the stage, the ceiling, or performers themselves. Many a drunken bystander has been drawn to the theremin's magic antennae.

Their first recording, Prayer Meeting, authentically captured the sound of the band at the time, and the same can be said for Bad Heart Bull, Salt The Wound, and U.S. Christmas's latest full-length, Eat The Low Dogs. All four albums were recorded live, by the band, either in stifling heat or nut-shriveling cold. Snare drums rattle, amps hum and pop, dogs bark in the background. But that's the way it always sounds, and the band doesn't see any point in changing a method that works.

U.S. Christmas has shared bills with some of the world's best heavy bands, including High on Fire, Weedeater, DOVE, Place of Skulls, Orange Goblin, ATP, Graves at Sea, Scissorfight, Red Sparowes, Atomic Bitchwax, and Kylesa.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

In The Light Of All Time
The Scalphunters
Say Sister
Silent Tongue
The Light And Trails
Uktena
Gallows Humor
Black Lung
Pray To The Sky

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The band always plays at deafening volumes, and guitarist Nate Hall frequently uses multiple amp setups for a thick, layered sound. Rhythm section Tim Greene and John Presnell hit the low-end, and Matt Johnson often mans guitar and theremin simultaneously. Chad Davis is able to handle any musical duties at any time. Shows are chaotic and unpredictable, riddled with sythesizer and theremin spasms. Images are projected onto the stage, the ceiling, or performers themselves. Many a drunken bystander has been drawn to the theremin's magic antennae.

Their first recording, Prayer Meeting, authentically captured the sound of the band at the time, and the same can be said for Bad Heart Bull, Salt The Wound, and U.S. Christmas's latest full-length, Eat The Low Dogs. All four albums were recorded live, by the band, either in stifling heat or nut-shriveling cold. Snare drums rattle, amps hum and pop, dogs bark in the background. But that's the way it always sounds, and the band doesn't see any point in changing a method that works.

U.S. Christmas has shared bills with some of the world's best heavy bands, including High on Fire, Weedeater, DOVE, Place of Skulls, Orange Goblin, ATP, Graves at Sea, Scissorfight, Red Sparowes, Atomic Bitchwax, and Kylesa.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

In The Light Of All Time
The Scalphunters
Say Sister
Silent Tongue
The Light And Trails
Uktena
Gallows Humor
Black Lung
Pray To The Sky

If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the link immediately below should open the iTunes application and take you to that album's iTunes page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks:

Go to iTunes to browse downloads for U.S. Christmas "Eat The Low Dogs"

This title is also available for download at AmazonMP3

For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music Service and emusic, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.

Where his previous releases showed reverence for the past, A Grave Is A Grim Horse peers directly forward, envisioning a path where others see fields.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

A Grave Is A Grim Horse
Clothes Of Sand
The Acre
Willow Tree
Valley Of The Moon
The Spider Song
Looking For Dry Land
Western Son
Brigit's Cross
Promises
Gravity

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