Музыка и песни Lo! / Lo!

THE GLEANERS (Black Vinyl)

The Gleaners

2x7" in gatefold sleeve - colored vinyl (orange/blue). After their critically acclaimed debut album Look and Behold (2011) and follow-up Monstrorum Historia (2013), Lo!, hailing from Sydney, Australia, are back with a new EP: The Tongueless. 2014 was a big year for Lo! In Australia: the band supported Trivium, In Flames, Corrosion Of Conformity and Torche, to name a few. Besides the massive live presence on their continent, Lo started working on new material, immediately after the departure of former vocalist Jamie-Leigh Smith in late 2013. "Stylistically I aimed for a harsher, more venomous tone as Lo!'s voice", says new vocalist Sam Dillon. "Lyrically I was looking towards themes of extinction and mankind's extreme ignorance towards creatures. The track 'Orca' was inspired by the 'Blackfish' documentary highlighting the history of killer whales in captivity." The songs were originally put together starting with drummer Griffin and guitar player Whitbread instant messaging drum licks and guitar riffs to flesh out ideas... between Hong Kong, where Griffin lives, and Sydney, where the rest of the band is based. The Tongueless was recorded at Adversary Studios in Sydney, mixed by Whitbread himself and mastered by Brad Boatright from Audiosiege (Old Man Gloom, Nails, Baptists). "We kept the recording process as natural as we could - the drums were all tracked live without a click with all of us in the same room", says Whitbread. "We tried to rely on as little processing as possible and really paid attention to nailing the sounds we wanted at the beginning. Vocal wise, Sam prefers to use a handheld mic when recording so we used that approach this time which really added to the natural vibe." One of the refreshing things about this band is the way they weave different styles of music into their own, heavy garment: there are plenty of faster parts, relentlessly driven by heavyhitting rummer Adrian Griffin's extraordinary playing, but there are also slow, doomy, atmospheric passages that suck the listener deep into Lo!'s dark cosmos. "Lo! have come to remind you of glorious times, times when Mastodon were using samples of Jurassic Park to kick off their records", Metal Hammer (UK) wrote about Lo!, and TheMusic.Com.Au adds: "Lo! are our scene's finest proponents of sludgy hardcore and live are akin to a cinder block to the cranium." The band will soon release a video clip for the track Orca, produced by bass player Adrian Shapiro himself, who is a well-known movie producer in Australia. "The video shoot was definitely more professional than we were expecting", says Whitbread. "When director Matt Divine approached us with his idea for the clip, we were expecting it to all be shot in someone's backyard on a Sunday afternoon. But of course Shapiro being a producer there was no way this wasn't going to be done properly and professionally. So we had a full camera and lighting crews, a massive sound stage complete with harnesses and a stunt coordinator." The clip will soon be premiered... watch out! After supporting Cult Of Luna and The Ocean in Europe in 2013, including a performance at Roadburn Festival, here's to hoping that the band will return to our shores with The Tongueless this year Record Label: Pelagic Style: Metal

Record Label: Pelagic Records Style: Metal

Lo!'s unpolished, abrasive sound calls up the image of a derailed freight-train, crushing everything in its path, ripping up the soil before coming to a flaming halt in the middle of the lifeless Moroccan hammada... Lo! follow bands like Old Man Gloom on their path down the dirt-trail of sludgy, noisy hardcore - but the band finds their own distinct sideways soon. That's why ,Look and Behold" sounds surprisingly fresh, from the first feedback of opener ,Hath" to the last waning cymbals of closing track ,Fire at the Child Actor's Guild". Atmospheric electronic interludes such as the elegiac ,Seraphim" or ,Doth" give the listener some space to take a breath in between the assault of mighty groove-riffs and berserk drum attacks and further add to the diversity of the whole damn thing. Lo!, hailing from Sydney, Australia, burst onto the scene some time around mid 2010. The bands' members have a long history of playing in various punk, hardcore and metal bands and played a whole bunch of shows with well established Australian acts. The band released a self-produced 6 track EP, which caught the attention of PELAGIC RECORDS. And here it is! Their first full-length album, now also available on beautiful ivory-colored vinyl with red splatter. And be sure that we here at Pelagic will be pushing hard to bring this fine outfit to Europe very soon...For fans of Breach, Old Man Gloom, Converge, etc Record Label: Pelagic Style: Metal

180g vinyl After their critically acclaimed debut album Look and Behold (Pelagic Records 2011), Lo!, hailing from Sydney, Australia, are now back with their second album Monstrorum Historia... and it really is a monster of an album, an angry beast spitting nails and fire in every direction. One of the refreshing things about this band is the way they weave different styles of music into their own, heavy garment: there are plenty of faster parts, relentlessly driven by heavy-hitting drummer Adrian Griffin's extraordinary playing, but there are also slow, doomy, atmospheric passages that suck the listener into Lo!'s dark cosmos. There are anthemic metal riffs, but there is also the energy of the more abrasive side of hardcore in their songs, represented by bands like Cursed or Black Breath... Lo! have also been confirmed for a performance at Roadburn and Impetus Festivals in April. Make sure to check them out live, as they are truly a sight to behold on stage! The monochrome artwork perfectly represents the spirit of Monstrorum Historia. It comes in a nice CD digipak printed with mat finish on rough cardboard; and on vinyl with a 2-folded silk-screened print including silver colour and heavy 180 gram black vinyl. Record Label: Pelagic Style: Metal

180g vinyl After their critically acclaimed debut album Look and Behold (Pelagic Records 2011), Lo!, hailing from Sydney, Australia, are now back with their second album Monstrorum Historia... and it really is a monster of an album, an angry beast spitting nails and fire in every direction. One of the refreshing things about this band is the way they weave different styles of music into their own, heavy garment: there are plenty of faster parts, relentlessly driven by heavy-hitting drummer Adrian Griffin's extraordinary playing, but there are also slow, doomy, atmospheric passages that suck the listener into Lo!'s dark cosmos. There are anthemic metal riffs, but there is also the energy of the more abrasive side of hardcore in their songs, represented by bands like Cursed or Black Breath... Lo! have also been confirmed for a performance at Roadburn and Impetus Festivals in April. Make sure to check them out live, as they are truly a sight to behold on stage! The monochrome artwork perfectly represents the spirit of Monstrorum Historia. It comes in a nice CD digipak printed with mat finish on rough cardboard; and on vinyl with a 2-folded silk-screened print including silver colour and heavy 180 gram black vinyl. Record Label: Pelagic Style: Metal