As we mentioned last week, Earth are releasing their sixth album tomorrow, entitled The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull. We've yet to hear it but certainly aren't hesitant to recommend it anyway.
This is interesting-- Century Media recently inked a deal with Tom Warrior of Celtic Frost to remaster and re-release all three old Hellhammer demos on one comprehensive double CD and triple LP called Demon Entrails. Via Century Media:
Demon Entrails has been specially re-mastered from copies of the original master tapes under the supervision of Tom Gabriel Fischer, and the demos now represent HELLHAMMER exactly as the band sounded when recording these songs in June and December of 1983. Drawing from a wealth of previously unknown historical liner-notes material and artwork as well as plenty of unreleased HELLHAMMER photos from 1982 to 1984, Demon Entrails features all lyrics and essays detailing the individual demo recording sessions.
This will be the first official Hellhammer release since 1984's Apocalyptic Raids EP. For true Black Metallers, Demon Entrails will likely be seen as unnecessary (or even blasphemous) given the importance of the actual demo tapes in BM circles, but for the casually curious it will be great addition to the 'historical' section of your record collection.
Another thing we can confidently recommend, though this may be a head-scratcher for you metalheads, is Beach House's Devotion. Beach House is a two-piece group from Baltimore Maryland who create a dreamy and relaxing soundscape that's perfect for helping you unwind and doze off after a long, hard day. Stereogum has a great review of the album.
Speaking of male/female pairs, British electronica duo Goldfrapp's new one, Seventh Tree, is also out tomorrow. Lead single "A&E" had us a little worried-- thinking it was representative of the album at large, it seemed Goldfrapp had traded the sultry, dark jazzy numbers and the quirky electronica for straight-up pop. The truth is a bit more complicated, though. Seventh Tree is a good listen, and you can hear for yourself right here.
Our picks:
Beach House - Devotion [Amazon]
Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull [Amazon]
Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree [Amazon]
Hellhammer - Demon Entrails [Amazon]
For more, head to Largehearted Boy.
[MP3] Earth - "The Driver"
[full album stream] Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
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