Street date: 2020-12-31

ALABASTER SUNS is the new band rising from the ashes of the much celebrated Capricorns (Rise Above Records). The band features K A Williams on guitar and vocals and Nathan Perrier on drums with new blood DL on bass. After playing numerous shows, this is the bands first recording, with John Hannon at the controls (NO RECORDING studio). The album opens at a furious pace with 'Iron Gang', brutal and heavy, it bears comparison with elements of Voivod, Prong and similarly progressive brutal acts of the mid 80s, though with a Dischord edge, perhaps bringing to mind bands such as Swiz and Circus lupus. The band's complex time signatures, and atypical riffs create a true sound all their own though, as they seamlessly blend staggeringly heavy freight-train bludgeon with more mellow breakdowns. Indeed penultimate track 'Alabaster Suns' is a remarkably gentle piece, which makes very effective use of a perfectly selected guitar tone: being veterans of the hardcore scene, Alabaster Suns are perfectly clear about what they want to achieve and they know their equipment. 'The World Got Lighter' closes the proceedings with nearly eight minutes mixing mid-paced groove and ferocious rocking. With their past pedigree and the sheer quality on offer with this debut album its certain that Alabaster Suns will get the attention they deserve.

Street date: 2008-11-03

Potop create seismic assaults of negative, down tempo extreme hardcore. In a world where the boundaries between hardcore punk and extreme metal have long since dissolved, Potop straddle genres and easy labels to produce pure audio negativity, despair and ecstatic misery. Their sound combines hardcore urgency of extreme Power Violence acts such as Drop Dead, Crossed Out and Man Is The Bastard colliding with the slow motion brutal Doom of bands like Burning Witch. Potop are fiercely DIY and have strong links with the global hardcore underground, typified by their hands-on involvement with the Fuck Yoga label. "Channels", the band's first CD release, combines two tracks from the split 12 inch with the US band Burmese and a further track from a forthcoming Fuck Yoga compilation LP with two previously unreleased dirges. Potop are slow, blackened, ugly music. Iron Pig is proud to present "Channels" with the packaging entirely in the band's native Macedonian language, in Cyrillic characters.

Street date: 2008-10-06

Previously only available on very limited vinyl through the internet. For fans of Venom, Discharge, old Slayer, Cerebral Fix, Nattefrost, Carpathian Forest... Militia of Blood Sacrifice is also the debut release from the label Iron Pig.