Hope you know about this!

" Therion? Who the fuck listens to Therion?"  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko_svYKVg94

"Communion with Mother and Machine" is on the shelves!

This release took the LONGEST to get released! Here we are in March and this release has been in the can since Jan! 


Well, I think it was worth it, the 6 panel digipak looks amazing and it very VERY black in the posting! 


Please support Aquarius Records and buy through them if you can. 


www.aquariusrecords.org


Their post on "Communion" 

JABLADAV Communion With Mother & Machine (self released) cd-r 8.98 
Latest from our favorite one man, Weakling by way of Black Flag styled black metal band, but don't be expecting any gnarled black blasts or pounding frenzied freakouts, Communion With Mother & Machine falls more in line with any of the various Jabaldav ambient records, but is notable for being created using mostly Buddha Machines and Black Boxes. A slow burning sonic collage, a blackened sprawling composition, that takes those prerecorded loops, as well as the process of switching from loop to loop (including any clicks or buzzes), and weaves them into a lush, densely layered dronescape, along with samples of other Jabladav recordings, field recordings of nature at night, Mellotrons, as well as some effects and feedback, the process is detailed in the liner notes, a simple technique of setting up the boxes in a circle around the microphone, with a particular box manually moved closer to increase its volume / presence, the colors of the Buddha Machines used are detailed as well (1 red, 1 orange, 1 white and 2 blue), as is the recording gear used, and various other steps of the process. And while that stuff is definitely interesting, it's the finished recording that matters, and it's incredible, a swirling, smoldering loopscape, crickets chirping over distant whirs, slowly shifting layered melodies, the glitch and grit of the tiny speakers adding more buzz and blur to the proceedings, deep melodic swells pulsing and shimmering, the loops slipping from organic and amorphous to machinelike and repetitive and back again, creaks and groans, disembodied voices, everything building to lush heaving slabs of layered density, laced with tinkling melodies, all set amidst thick clouds of muted crunch, smoothed into gorgeous expanses of blissed out lustrous mesmer. So great.
Total nirvana for dronelords, and as with all Jabalav stuff, WAY recommended, whether buzzy or beautiful, or both.
Packaged in super swank 6 panel digipaks, each one signed and hand numbered, and limited to ONLY 100 COPIES!!!
MPEG Stream: "Communion With Mother & Machine (Excerpt 1)"
MPEG Stream: "Communion With Mother & Machine (Excerpt 2)" 

Thine Vinter,Lodona is Mine

 We are having a glorious winter here in North Carolina. 98" inches of white inspiration has fallen in my mountains. The inspiration of this winter has yielded much productivity musically . I have a ton of music to offer and will upload soon. Thank you for your understanding.

UPDATE

I hope you have checked out the wonderful first release by SOTD. If not, please do so. I will post some new music soon.  

Shadow of the Destroyer's "Harbingers of the Dark Truth"

Jabladav- Ben, Thanks for letting me post your first release, I couldn't think of a better release to start this blog off. Give us a little history of SOTD...

It started off with just Nate (our first drummer) and myself around November 2006. It took us a long time to get the line up we have now but we are all very happy with it. Guitars, bass, and vocals have been the same since we became a full band but we have been through a lot of drummers in the past three years. After we lost our second drummer Justin, we started having practice with his drum tracks from our first demo played through an ipod into our PA. It was almost impossible to hear the drums clearly which really crushed our motivation for a while. None of us ever want to have to do that again. Justin moved back after being gone a year and took back his position in the band which had recently become open again. We are back to our original complete line up and moving forward once again so be ready for more releases in the near future.

Jabladav-Can't help to hear some Weakling influenced guitar tones, is this a fair comment? What are the bands influences and what are you currently listening to?

  We are all big fans of Weakling for sure so having a similar tone is definitely not a bad thing.  I think at least for me my sound was less intended and more of result of the equipment I played, and still play through.  I bought a tube head for our band and I just play on the high gain channel with everything cranked except for my tone knobs.  I like to keep my set up simple, I don't need a pedal board with 20 different effects to get a sound I like.  As far as influences go theres a lot.  Some of my influences are musical, some stem from my own inner darkness, others come from nature and its own dark powers, and definitelty my disgust for religion and the small minded sheep that follow it.
Right now I'm listening to Urgehal  "Through Thick Fog Till Death", lately I have been listening to a heavy rotation of Urgehal, Funeral Mist, Dagon, Glorior Belli, Watain, and Mutilation.

Jabladav- For the gear heads out there, what are you currently using?  


I play a Gibson Explorer with the 500T bridge pick up, a 5150 head, Digitech Digiverb pedal that I don't like run into a Marshall 1960A 4x12 cabinet. Joey plays a Jackson guitar, a Chameleon effects processor, JCM 800 head into a Marshall 1960A 4x12 cabinet.

Jabladav- Tell us about the upcoming release and its direction?

  The new release is much darker and more brutal than the first.  Harbinger's of a Dark truth is two years old so we have progressed a lot as a band since then.  I think our new material is the embodiment of the darkness that we posess, we want our music to make you feel like you're watching the death of humankind through a swirling cloud of blackened fog that chokes you're every breath.  This is the direction of this release and future ones as well,which is pure vengeance, disgust, and hatred.

Jabladav- How can people buy your music?  

  You can get it through us at our shows and at a few local record stores, but as far as distros goes we don't have that worked out yet.


buy here: www.staticagerecords.com 

Jabladav- Final comments? 

  I just want to let everyone know that our upcoming release should be out before the end of January and will post the actual date on our myspace page as soon as its available. 

 Thanks for the interview and putting us up on your blogspot. Hails

                                             Shadow of the Destroyer
                             see them here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZxnu6D8L2U

Carolina Paysage D'Hiver

The snow is beginning to fall. Inspiration to follow. 


I will also get this blog back on track hopefully this weekend. Thank you for your understanding. 

Mini Tour of Jabladav Studio

Welcome to a mini-tour of Jabladav Studio. To your left is a Line 6 Flextone HD Head. I use this for both guitar and bass parts in the studio. The rack underneath it is my old road gear: ADA MP-1 pre-amp (Mesa-Boogie/Groove Tube tubes)with a  MosValve Power amp. Not sure of year of the Mesa-Boogie 4x12.I bought it used in 95. My guess is it is a 1990 model. It is a mono cabinet and will knock your socks off. On the floor is a Rockman Midi pedal for the ADA and a Line 6 foot board. I have about 20 custom tones I have crafted on the Line 6. On the desk you see a Axiom 25 Midi-key/2 M-Audio BX-8 monitors/Samsung 20" /M-Box for Pro-Tools/Behringer 16 channel mixer. Mac G5 with 550 G loaded. The rack to the right houses a Sony TC-WE475 cassette deck/Onkyo TX-8211 Power Amp( kinda lame I know) Philips CDR778 cd-burner. I used this before I stepped up to Protools/Reason for recording. Great piece of equipment but it will only play cds now. Sony RCD-W500C 5 cd changer/burner. I used this for the master mix of "Communion with Mother and Machine". On top is my turntable that I bought at a yard sale for 10 bucks with a crate loaded of Zepplin/Floyd! I put a new stylus and belt and bought thousands of dollars in rare vinyl,What a deal huh?!!  Finally, to your right of the picture is my old keyboard that has seen better days. Three of the keys are broken from the blast-beats that was recorded on "Black as Pitch". In the future I will show you the rest. Hope you enjoyed your tour. Please exit to the left.