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- Advanced tickets for Initial Shock II are now available! Highlighting two of the performing artists below.
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THE NAUSEA and PAXILLUS SUCCUBUS at Initial Shock II
The Nausea combines experimental violin, harsh noise, and soundscapes to create dismal sonic environments. Sounds and textures are created live, and then processed to contribute to the development of live compositions with musical and anti-music elements. Touring an LP out on Absurd Exposition and Buried in Slag and Debris, The Nausea’s appearance at Initial Shock will include material from the debut LP “Requiem” as well as new material to debut at the festival.
Paxillus Succubus, a project blending field recording, industrial noise, theremin and drone, draws inspiration from the spirits of the earth, mushrooms, tree communication through roots, underground waves, and the sky. It explores the symbiosis between urban brutality, industrial zones, ghettos, and the rustling of the forest, with banshees and the laws of nature. Paxillus Succubus shares her life experiences, growing up in working-class neighborhoods, gun shots and violence, surrounded by city noises, finding freedom in the woods during summer, and delving into the human experience in all its cruelty and truth. The work intertwines memories, experiences, and an individual’s role in the world, both in material and imaginative realms.
Scream & Writhe and Disaster Sources are pleased to announce Initial Shock II! The second edition of the Montreal noise fest will take place Saturday, July 6th at La Sotterenea.
Full lineup: Richard Ramirez (PA) / The Nausea (BC) / Heat Signature (OH) / Slime Street (SK/OR) / Flatgrey (BC) / Skin / Parasite Nurse (NY) / Echthros (AB) / Deep Grey (MB) / Death Glaze (ON) / Murmur (ON) / Fowl / Paxillus Succubus / Come and See / Splinter Assembly
The After Shock matinee will take place the following day (Sunday, July 7th) at MAI/SON.
Featuring: Thin Mountain (PA) / Molena (BC) / Erin Altomare (BC) / Green Mist (OR) / Jon Vaughn (SK)
Click here for advanced tickets.
Poster designs by Chris Gibson.
Follow @initialshockmtl on Instagram for frequent updates.
New Arrivals
Abhorrent A.D.
EXCLUSION ZONE – Fallout Shelter CS
HAND & KNEE – Scopaesthesia CD
HINGST – Ska Vi Alska Sa Ska Vi Alska Till Wall Riders CD
JUTE – Nothing Beats Reality CD
NAERVAERAT – Det Finns En Ljusglimt Midt I Det Morka Tvivlets Tystanad CD
SHUTTLECOCK CD
SYSTEMS – Homespun CS
Disaster Sources
VARIOUS – Latitudes CS
Flag Day Recordings
BOB BELLERUE & FRANCISCO MEIRINO – Bain D’Arsenic CD
DAVE PHILLIPS – Human Nature Denied CD
LEIF ELGGREN / MATTIAS GUSTAFSSON / DAN JOHANSSON – Voice for Eternal Divorce CD
Old Europa Cafe
GRIM – Tokyo Hallucination CD
LINEKRAFT – Silence (Expanded Edition) 2CD
MERZBOW – Mechanization Takes Command 2CD
S.T.A.B. ELECTRONICS – Funerals (Ten Little Deaths) CD
SCOPOPHILIA – Violent for Being Sexually Desired CD
SPK – Live at the Crypt / London – April 25 1981 CD
TAINT – Savage Weapons CD
VICE WEARS BLACK HOSE – Lines of Black Nylon and Red Cut Throats CD
ᚾᛟᚢ II // ᚦᛟᚦ ᚷᛁᚷ (Nordvargr & Trepaneringsritualen) – Gamma Aenigma CD
Phage Tapes
DEAD BODY LOVE – Destruction’s Geometry CD
DISGUST – Fin LP
EINLEITUNGSZEIT – Aus Der Leichenkammer CD
EINLEITUNGSZEIT – Des Machines Humaines CD
EINLEITUNGSZEIT – Die Meschzerstorung CD
EINLEITUNGSZEIT – R Mensch CD
SORE DREAM – Decaying Souls In A Glass Cage CS
T_ERROR 404 – reSINS CS
THX1312 – Name 3 Cops That Should Be Dead LP
Tribe Tapes
AGRIOPE – Death Ovary Traces CD
DEAD DOOR UNIT – Abandon CD
DEAD DOOR UNIT – Dead Harbor CS
RANDY GREIF – Lost Contact CD
THE SPYKED / LAMB LAYS DOWN IN GEORGIA CS
Second Hand Arrivals
N/A
Upcoming Events
Initial Shock II – July 6 & 7, 2024
Playlist
Knurl – Kurtosis
Lasse Marhaug & Dan Johansson – Distort Orgasm
Persona (Bergman, 1966)
Asunder, Chris & Cosey, Cocteau Twins, Madonna, Willie Nelson, Red House Painters, Spell, Gary Stewart, Strawberry Switchblade, Swans, The Velvet Underground, David E. Williams, Townes Van Zandt
Absurd Exposition
absurdexposition.bandcamp.com
Available
BARSTOOL MOUNTAIN – III CD
BARSTOOL MOUNTAIN – Tightrope Walker LP
CASA DI CACCIA – Grand Totàl CS
DODGE JONES RAGE – West Coast Power Outage V CD
GOD IS WAR & ANDREW NOLAN – The Hunt CS
KNURL – H2T CD
MATRIARCH – Visible Paint CD
MERZBOW – Aqua Necromancer (Expanded) 2LP
MO*TE – Throw a Stone CS
MURMUR / MUTTERING – Muted CS
PHOLDE – To Favour the Occurrence CD
RUSALKA – Base Waters CD
UMPIO – Sin Memoria CD
UN REGARD FROID – Exophilie CD
ZENTA SUSTAINED – Serpent Track Patterns 12″
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Forthcoming
ARTHUR CANTERBURY – Talking To Dead People CS
DEATH GLAZE – Collapse CS
JUTE CD
KOBEUK / UMPIO CS
MASS MARRIAGE CS
THE NAUSEA – Requiem LP (co-released with BISAD)
NECROPSY HANGOVER CD
OF THE SKULL CD
ROTMANS / FOWL CS
SPRING OF LIFE CS
TOANCHE DWELLING / SYSTEMS / SLACKING / JUTE 2CS
WINCE & ALTAR OF FLIES LP
