Chicago’s Pelican, known for hard-hitting instrumental rock, announced two shows in celebration of its 10-year-anniversary box-set release, out October 19 on Viva Hate Records. The set will combine material from four full-lengths and three EPs and will be packaged in a deluxe wooden box. Fans will have to act quickly; it will be released in a limited run of 500 copies.
Goatsnake
Nails joins Southern Lord Records
Freshly signed to a new label, Nails joins the likes of Sunn O))), Pelican, and Goatsnake under heavy metal giant Southern Lord Records with the re-release of their album, Unsilent Death. Comparable to a cross between Amrep bands of the nineties and Cro-Mags Age of Quarrel riffage, Nails’ severe sound is brutal, vicious, and raw, hurtling at hypersonic speeds.
A new release is in the works under the new label for early 2011, but in the meantime Nails is taking to the road with fellow label-mates in the Southern Lord-sponsored The Power of the Riff Festival in LA on August 8. A cross-country tour is also scheduled for early September.