Shrinebuilder

Here's the artwork
http://www.suspendedinlight.com/images/records/shrinebuilder_detail.jpg

YES

when's the album finally coming btw

dunno, i copied it from a post over on DFFD.
Tracklisting

1 Solar Benediction
2 Pyramid Of The Moon
3 Blind For All To See
4 The Architect
5 Science Of Anger

also wasn't hakius part of this at some point?

http://www.myspace.com/shrinebuildergroup

http://pitchfork.com/news/34328-neurosis-sleep-melvins-wino-shrinebuilder/

The band's absurd lineup: Saint Vitus/Obsessed/Spirit Caravan/Hidden Hand guitar hero Scott "Wino" Weinrich, gigantic Neurosis/Tribes of Neurot leader Scott Kelly (pictured), former* Sleep and current Om bassist Al Cisneros, and Melvins drummer Dale Crover. Former Om drummer Chris Hakius was also originally supposed to be involved, but he dropped out around the same time he left Om.

I don't like Neurosis at all, really, and I'm worried it's gonna wind up sounding like just one more Wino band (not like that's a bad thing, but the guy does tend to work an extremely narrow stylistic range). Still, I am tremendously excited for this.

i can't imagine this is going to be good. i want it to be good, it just seems like it'll be a total mess.

October 27th, btw. neurotrecordings.com :

SHRINEBUILDER have just posted a track from their upcoming debut album on their Myspace page, and on Scott Kelly's KMBT Radio "Return To Zero" blog:
http://www.myspace.com/shrinebuildergroup
http://www.combatmusicradio.com/returntozero

Also just announced was a new US live date for SHRINEBUILDER. The band will play in Austin, Texas the same week as the previously announced shows in Chicago and New York.

11/14/2009 Empty Bottle - Chicago, IL (8 and 11 PM performances)
11/15/2009 Le Poisson Rouge - New York, NY
11/16/2009 Emo's - Austin, TX

The highly anticipated SHRINEBUILDER full-length features the patented skills of Scott Kelly (Neurosis), Dale Crover (Melvins), Scott "Wino" Weinrich (Saint Vitus, The Obsessed, Spirit Caravan), and Al Cisneros (Om, Sleep) channeling their energy into one massive culmination of spiritualized, doomed-out rock. The record will be released October 27th on Neurot Recordings.

Interviews with all members are available now. Please contact Earsplit PR, www.earsplitcompound.com, with all coverage requests.

http://www.myspace.com/shrinebuildergroup
http://www.neurotrecordings.com
http://www.myspace.com/neurotrecordings

This is a mighty fine album. I wasn't expecting it to be as good as it turned out to be.

Track sounds v. good

ATX!!!

I have low hopes for this now tbh so hopefully I'll be presently surprised. Harpal is going to see them in Austin he said.

listening to promo

is jealous

google blog search ;)

promo has track 5 missing

listening to promo tracks 1-4

Good review by Ben Ratliff on it in last weeks Sunday NY Times.

This is out already though, right? We've had it for more than a week...

It is? I thought next week.

promo has track 5 missing

I didn't know this. All this time I didn't notice the fine print on the back of the CD. Why even bother?

Came out on the 12th October (i.e. Monday just gone) in the UK. I can't speak for elsewhere, but it's definitely out in the UK already.

So wait, is that an "anti-piracy" thing now? Leaving out a track? Hmm.

It's not like the fifth track will be disastrously awful enough to ruin the entire album or anything, but still, it's an idiotic move in my opinion. Southern Lord has done the same thing in the past with Boris promos.

Weird, hadn't seen that. But I certainly could deal with that over the notorious beeped promos.

going to the NY show. I'm thinking that I will hold off on hearing anything before then!

bearded dudes everywhere are stoke

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how is track 5?

i be sportin' a beard...sorta.

and i'm gettin' it this week (i think).

Oct 20 release here in the U.S..

i nearly ordered it from norman records for £7.99 along with the Majuere lp but remembered i was waiting to get it on vinyl.

Wino called me yesterday but I didn't have time to ask him about Shrinebuilder because he was about to go on stage with Vitus.

got it...and track 5 is kinda like half of track 1 and half of track 2. is good.

Fucking amazing show tonight in the Chi

Cool! Did they play anything other than the album? New material? Stuff by their other bands, other covers?

nope, the show was about 1 hour + 10 minutes.

in fact, there was no encore. After they finished, Dale said, "That's it. we don't know anymore."

Kinda funny. So yeah, they are basically doing the record straight through (although with more "JAMMING", the show was well over an "hour"), but yeah, they just rock the record straight through with no breaks --- mp encores, but at the same time the whole thing is extended live with Wino guitar solos and shit ... bottom line, they really kicked ass

Thx! Really want to see that!

:( the show i saw the other night sounded awful. according to the non-wino guitarist, the sound guy "had a digital board and their soundcheck got wiped from it". al's bass was like this ear-bleeding mess, i don't know how he even heard himself up there. i left during the 3rd song

Yikes. That's a nightmare for any band...

Would love to sneak out for the Austin show tomorrow, I hate that it's on a Monday night, though.

Pretty damn psyched to see them in approximately 4 hours...

Really bummed that I wasn't able to see them.

:( the show i saw the other night sounded awful.

Which night was that? Wasn't Saturday at EB was their first show ever? Were you at the early show? They seemed to sound great during the late one, though Yakuza had some sound issues. Both bands were great.

Which night was that?

friday

was at the ny show last night. pretty great all around.

liturgy: they were decent. felt like their material wasn't quite there yet but I could see this band turning into something cool. and their onstage timidity was funny/endearing.

rwake: was not familiar with this band but they killed. stole the show, imo. nasty, sludgy, chaotic. awesome stuff.

shrinebuilder: hadn't listened to any of their material before the show but was into what I heard. basically sounded exactly like what you would imagine given the pedigree, so no surprises, but they were solid. loved their tendency to just ride out heavy grooves for a nice, loooong time. but they played too loud and everything sounded pretty murky as a result.

biggest letdown of the night was the price of my makers on the rocks: $13! wtfffff

i missed the first opener, earthride, which sux cuz they seem to be a decent local doom act http://www.myspace.com/earthridedoom. the 2nd band u.s. christmas was a good example of how the extended repetitive jam format can work against you cuz the riffs you're repeating over and over for 12 min suck

I pretty much agree with Alan N abt last night's show. Shrinebuilder would have, paradoxically, been heavier if they had been a little less loud, know what I mean? Cisneros was rigged up so sub-sonically that I never had any idea what he was doing even though I could see that he was playing all over the fretboard.

The highlights for me were the many humming solar-echo gtr solos (mostly Wino I think?) and of course Dale's inimitable drumming (bummer that I couldn't get a sight line on him; I love watching that guy drum, looking like a tortured giant trying to break its lava shackles).

Rwake were fucking intense. I want to know more about them. They had no album at the merch table that I could see. I got kind of a mid-80s black flag punk-doom feel from them. with the ranting style of the vocals and the the way the guitarists tortured the bent notes. But couldn't really hear what their second, female, screamer was doing most of the time.

Rwake are great.

i have a record of theirs--could never decide if i liked it or not.

I got kind of a mid-80s black flag punk-doom feel from them.

yessss. otm.

I'd love to see Earthride, hella underrated band

Get the impression that Al's bass playing style/sound needs to be tweaked *just so* else it can totally go to shit - a bad mix totally killed one Om performance I saw

i saw om just last month so i kinda knew what kind of sound he should have. i read on another board that wino's got his own sound guy doing the shrinebuilder shows and he likes to go heavy on the bass. maybe the show i saw wasn't a one-off thing?

Great piece in the New York Times this week on Krallice and Shrinebuilder.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/arts/music/17shrine.html?ref=music

On Sunday at Le Poisson Rouge, Shrinebuilder played an overwhelming show — almost meditatively focused, one whose afterimage is likely to stay with those who saw it. It’s a band of willful musicians in their 40s from around the country who have given their adult lives to slow-and-heavy music: Scott Kelly of Neurosis, Scott Weinrich of the Obsessed and Saint Vitus, Al Cisneros of Om and Dale Crover of the Melvins. Shrinebuilder is as loosely based in doom-metal as Krallice is in black-metal: it might be the starting place, but it’s not the ending place.

If Krallice’s music — with its bright distortion, sprinting drums and needling guitars — suggests insanely crosshatched surfaces, Shrinebuilder’s is all solid interiors. Its tempos were slow and cruising, and its sound was loud but spacious and clear, with Mr. Weinrich playing slow, sliding leads over Mr. Kelly’s low-pitched riffs. All band members sang in their varied voices, from Mr. Cisneros’s dire, syncopated monotone to Mr. Kelly’s gruff gurgle. But none of them yelled. This music, and their demeanor, was some sort of Zen lesson: these were teachers who could quell the class with calm but decisive gestures.

In a set that lasted about an hour and a quarter, the band elongated all the songs from its new, self-titled first album, and played a cover of Joy Division’s droning “24 Hours” — a perfect and surprising choice. (It’s hard to imagine the two Scotts, stolid American grizzlies, as secret Anglophiles.) As the last song, “Pyramid of the Moon,” swept to its end and Mr. Crover socked the last beat, the crowd erupted almost involuntarily, as if it had been punched.

Rwake slept on my floor 6 or 7 years ago. We've been buddies ever since. I think I say something like that on every thread though.

man, that nytimes article had me groaning. like, another "we all know metal is kinda dumb... but not THIS BAND" article, really?

but it's actually one of the better metal reads in a mainstream publication I've come across lately. pretty informative and not condescending. (to the genre or the reader.)

expect more yuppos at the next shrinebuilder show, lolz.

^ sorry man, but you're wrong. Ben Ratliff, the writer of that article, is definitely not of the "we all know metal is kinda dumb... but not THIS BAND" school, if such a thing even exists. he's on record as being a pretty big champion of the genre.

uh, isn't this what I said?

yeah, sorry. just re-read your post. but why were you "groaning", cuz it was in the Times?

figured, no biggie.

and yeah, because it was in the times. got a flashback to this article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/28/magazine/28artmetal.html?pagewanted=all

and the "but not confined by it" piece of the headline.

Yeah, that headline is terrible, I agree with that.

It's a good article though. It was written by a novelist for a general non-metal audience. Makes me want to go back and listen to Altar again.

Listening to it for all the weekend: it's all great, but "Blinded for all to see" is truly a masterful exercise in controlled power.

I forgot this even came out

need to spin this again, i enjoyed v much at the time

It kills.

Man, this album just RULES. Any chance for a next one?

this is my favorite thing Cisneros has been involved with.

Nagas 1&2 (new song they played on their 2010 tour) + Pyramid of the Moon, Live in Kortrijk, Belgium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC9oUtrfOiw