The House Harkonnen - Vol. 7 Pressurize?

7/18/13 4:15PM

Split and the album is coming out at the end of the year. I also received a message per Facebook that Vol.7 is in-effect "Beastmode" just re-recorded, etc.

http://www.doforitrecords.com/7inchsplit.html

This is a 7 inch Vinyl split between the bands "The House Harkonnen" and "The Spectacle". This is the latest material from both bands. The record has an original song from each band's upcoming album on side A and a cover on side B. HK covered the band Self with the track "9 lives" and The Spectacle covered the band Sepultura with the track "Slave New World".

The House Harkonnen new album Vol.7 will be out at the end of the year. The Spectacle's new album will follow shortly. Each track on this 7 inch was recorded just for this album. All the tracks are brought to you from Do For It Records.

The album will be released on September 6th at the Double Wide in Dallas and then a later date at Rubber Gloves in Denton. It will also be available online on theDo For It Records Store. This is a limited pressing of 100 white vinyl discs with hand-printed sleeves made by Do For It Design. Each album will be hand numbered and come with a digital download card.

3/29/13 3:33AM


Good stuff. I'm thinking this will not be on the 2013 release of Beast Mode, an album ever since hearing about, I've wanted to check out. But it was put out in only limited release last Fall.

Perhaps "Vol. 7 - Pressurize" will be a new album's title? The band are in the studio right now anyway.

Orphan Bloom - Orphan Bloom (2010)

1. The Waterway 4:34
2. Immune 6:57
3. Burning in the Rain 4:20
4. Atonement 2:00
5. Indra's Web 5:42
6. The Duel 3:53
7. Brindle 4:29
8. No Ever After 3:57
9. Veil 7:42
10. Until Dawn 4:30
11. Sepia 2:13
12. Frail Hand 9:41

Wow, over the last week I just can't seem to get enough of this album from this Madison, Wisconsin based progressive metal band Orphan Bloom. It's ballsy, riffy, bluesy, technical, groove metal. This record has these thick yet catchy guitar hooks at times that never leave your head. "No Ever After" and "Until Dawn" maybe being the most memorable. Some other standouts include the epic "Indra's Web" the opening cut The Waterway" and the closer "Frail Hand." Along with some songs with these nice acoustic ballady sections in "Brindle" and "Veil."

I am really loving this album a ton, and probably a bit more with each listening. These guys have the chops, the memorable melodies, the riffs, the molding of influences. Even their singer, while he's not the greatest singer I've ever heard, keeps growing on me and I find fits their music extremely well.

The groups who do come to mind, just for the sake of a reference point: King's X, Mastodon, Rush, Motorhead and along the lines of both Mastodon and Motorhead, the great band from Texas I saw a few years back with Fair to Midland, The House Harkonnen.

Really badass, groovey blues metal, that is progressive rock of a kind, but really never is guilty of excessiveness.

And one other thing that I can't help but think about is at the show I saw them a few weeks ago in Minneapols at the "Progasm" at the 400 Bar, they played some new material. In other words, their next work may not be far away, and could be even better, as they clearly were the band I was impressed by the most that evening.

I think one of the biggest parts of what I love about them is the guitar tones they use and the tasteful guitar solos. Their lead guitarist Saigopal Nelaturi brings influences that are non-traditional-to-many-hard-rock/metal bands. As shown at the beginning of "Indra's Web" among other sections. I think among other things, his guitar work and style, makes them stand out over so many other "prog" and "prog metal" bands trying to do something significant now.

I probably would call this among if not the best 2010 record I've heard in 2011 thus far. Those are the kinds of albums I look forward to every year, even if I'm not around during the initial release period/year.

I can't wait to hear what they do next and see them live again.

Orphanbloom.com
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