1 Better and Better
2 Going Back Down Again
3. Can’t Live With You / Can’t Live Without You Blues
4. Lucille
5. Young Stuff
6. Down In The Alley
7. From Four Till Late
8. Call For The Doctor
9. Stranded On A Dead End Street
10. Late Night Lover
11. Yes, No, Maybe So
12. Nasty Ways

The locals would say the Pearl Handle Band legend emerged at a barn party in Illinois corn country, on Halloween, under a brilliant, harvest-style full moon. The year was 1974. The auspicious debut brought three communities together. George Millspaugh, lead singer and guitarist, was raised just a couple miles away in the farm town of Waterman. Guitarist Dan Hurc and bassist Mickey Gentile were products of the northwest side of Chicago. And drummer Dean Aliotta hailed from suburban Berwyn.
Millspaugh had come to the band schooled in Chicago blues with an appreciation for country rockers Marshall Tucker and Charlie Daniels. He delivered piercing, glass shattering, vibrato-soaked vocals backed by fierce and fast licks on his red Gibson SG guitar. He would brag he had been the speediest typist in high school. Millspaugh, who also had a large physical presence, would often thrill crowds with a head high karate kick or a big swig of Jack Daniels, as he cried out for “ammunition.”
Hurc previously played bass, influenced by a father who favored the button accordion, but had committed to guitar. While not yet fluent on his instrument his musical instincts held sway. With a long-held love of rock music but a yearning desire for the blues, he was both the perfect sponge to absorb Millspaugh’s knowledge and the creative driver of the band’s chunky chord structures that grounded the band’s originals. Hurc’s instrumental riffs provided the members full license to contribute lyrical content.
Gentile had returned home after a college stint at SIU Carbondale and used his new-found freedom to stretch out with the band. He consistently delivered a compact, solid, low-end bass that underpinned the quickly developing twin guitar work of Millspaugh and Hurc. As aficionados of double guitar threats like Thin Lizzy, The Allman Brothers and Wishbone Ash, Gentile and Hurc pushed Pearl Handle into new territory. With a sense of business and fashion, Gentile set a standard of professionalism for the band.
Aliotta was the youngest of three brothers, the eldest having made his mark as bassist in the Rotary Connection. Both Aliotta and Hurc had done a turn with Aliotta’s middle brother in the band Hoona. A rocker at heart, but loving outlaw country, Aliotta’s signature smile exposed a laid-back sensibility, his drumming not so much a heartbeat but the rumbling approach of a freight train or a herd of cattle, his double kicks accenting a flood of sound that put feet on the dance floor and kept them there.
Making their bones on the college circuit and sorting their way through their various influences, the Pearl Handle Band found themselves in demand, opening for Journey and Van Halen and appearing at rousing summer concerts. As the only band to book in for three appearances in a single year at Chicagofest, two on the rock stage and one on the country stage, the band was genre crossing long before the 80’s rock sound became the mainstay of modern country decades later.
Six years after the barn dance in the cornfields of Illinois the band found themselves in Nashville recording with producer Nelson Larkin and famed engineer Ron “Snake” Reynolds. Armed with their originals and a couple tunes offered by their producer the boys discovered the powers that be were not quite equipped for the sound they were delivering. Not pop country and not quite ZZ Top, they were adrift among the marketing silos, with untamed amounts of whiskey, women and Marshall amplifiers.
The album got finished, for the most part, but then the label folded leaving Pearl Handle Band with a choice. A soft implosion followed. Millspaugh worn down by the road, decided to take a sabbatical. Over time bootlegged versions of the studio sessions made their way to cassette tapes distributed through interstate truck stops. In that way the band and the sound lived on. But here and now, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of a magical night which birthed the Pearl Handle Band, they finally get their due.

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“«Birthright Abolished» is a song about taking back what has been stolen by the exploitation, slavery and oppression of the ruling class that has ravaged and polluted entire areas of the world for profit. We chose this song as the second single from «Devotion» because of its relentless speed and technicality, reminiscent of the «The Vile Conception» era, filtered through the influences of subsequent albums” – Hour Of Penance, March 2024.

► Credits:
Animations – Andrea Mantelli
Graphics – Paolo Pieri
Line-up:
Giulio Moschini – guitars
Paolo Pieri – guitars and vocals
Marco Mastrobuono – bass
Giacomo Torti – drums

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► Lyrics:
Feed them the death-filled blackened gold
In the shape of infected blades to carve pitiful lumps of flesh and bones
Hoarders – They left this soil dry and sterile

While they grow their bodies
As deformed as their mind soaked in rot
We know not repentance nor hear their cries

As we take back our will and use it to dethrone
Those who just understand the privilege of birth
Your world dies

Starve into this hole as we all did trying to survive
Sinking teeth in the dirt you’ll watch us thrive
Back from the exile to rise

Justice shall take its toll upon them
Noblemen eaten by worms alive
Granting them endless years of pain
As they deprived us of being human beings

Time to taste the famine
Gnaw the marrow from each other spine
Hollowed out compassion – Eye for an eye

As we take back our will and use it to dethrone
Those who just understand the privilege of birth

Sinking teeth in the dirt you’ll watch us thrive
Back from the exile to rise
—
#HourOfPenance #Devotion #DeathMetal



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► Credits:
Jeff Forrest – video director
Dave Astor – drums
Daniel Richardson – guitars
Richard Jackson – bass
Obie Flett – vocals

► Pathology on-line:
Website: https://pathologyband.com/
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► Lyrics:
A CENTURY OF EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL WRECKAGE RETRIEVAL
THE UTMOST SECRECY IS IMPLEMENTED
A SELECT FEW HOLD THE KNOWLEDGE OF TRUE REALITY
WHISPERINGS OF DEMONIC INTENTIONS
DILUTING THE GATEKEEPERS
REVERSE ENGINEERING ENSUES
BREAKTHROUGHS ARE CREATED, AND DEALS ARE MADE WITH THE OTHERS
UNEARTHLY CRAFT ARE CREATED
DEFYING ALL LAWS OF PHYSICS
THEIR BLACK TRIANGLES MANEUVER IN SILENCE
A NEW RELIGION IS BORN TO THE SELECT FEW WITH THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM
A BREAKAWAY CIVILIZATION THAT ANSWERS TO NO ONE
KNOWLEDGE OF THE QUANTUM REALM, EXTREME LIFE EXTENSION, GOD COMPLEX
UNSEEN HUMANS ON A PATH TO BECOMING HIGHER BEINGS, USING FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE
WHEN THEIR FORCES ARE MIGHTY ENOUGH, THEY WILL MAKE THE DECISION TO EITHER LEAVE US TO DIE OR BECOME OUR CONTROLLERS OUTSIDE OF THE SHADOWS.

—
#Pathology #UnholyDescent #DeathMetal #BrutalDeathMetal



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► Tour dates (w/ Demonical):
“Titans of Darkness Tour 2024”
11.04 Bitterfeld (DE) – Festung
12.04 Oberhausen (DE) – Helvete
13.04 Kuurne (BE) – Sint-Pieterszaal
15.04 Milan (IT) – Slaughter Club
16.04 Ljubljana (SL) – Orto Bar
17.04 Vienna (AT) – Escape
18.04 Pilsen (CZ) – Parlament Club
19.04 Zwickau (DE) – Club Seilerstrasse
20.04 Bielsko-Biala (PL) – Rudeboy Club
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17.05 Hyvinkää (FI) – Steelfest

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► Pestilence:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Pestilenceofficial
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—
#Pestilence #LevelsOfPerception #DeathMetal



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► Hanging Garden on-line:
Website: http://hanging-garden.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HangingGardenOfficial
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hanginggrdn
Bandcamp: https://hanginggarden.bandcamp.com/

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► Credits:
Video by Hatakka Productions
Music: T. Hatakka, Hämäläinen
Lyrics: T. Hatakka

► Lyrics:
Onward through shallow water
Hear the spirit call
For your safe return
For the tide to bring you home
From your journey harsh and long
Come
Run through the Dark
Come and join the
Dance
Dance through the night
Dance to the firelight
The spirit invites you to
Dance
Dance through the night
Dance to the firelight
Through fire, for you are alive
The waves speak to you at the waters’ edge
A story of forgotten shores
A tale of tattered banners
Of Battles lost, some won
Long since gone
—
#HangingGarden #CitylightSessions #Rock #Synthpop



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Original pressings of this private press biker rock GRAIL have sold for as much as $2000! Only 13 very lucky people have this record in their collection and nearly 300 have it in their wantlist on Discogs. Tough luck for most, considering only 200 copies were pressed back in 1971!

Track List –
1. Boogie With You
2. Blind With Shame
3. Just for Fun
4. High Rollin On The Freeway
5. River Bummin
6. Handful (Of Love)
7. Thank You
8. Learn How To Boogie
9. Harley Perdoo
10. Lights Gonna Shine

BETTY Handful 1971

“Thank you for being what you really are”… key words from this impossibly rare 1971 private pressing LP. BETTY lays down who they really are straight upon “Handful” like a breathing snapshot in time. The performances and mix sound like they were done on the fly, which in the private pressing tradition means the artists are captured unfiltered with diamond-in-the-rough vitality. Their influences are seamlessly integrated into a personality filled biker rock roadhouse attack with discreet echoes of Canned Heat, Steppenwolf, the Doors, even throwing an early ’60s UK beat rock curveball at one point. They are pro at communicating but not slick enough to compromise their own reality by aping their influences. The musical elements here will be familiar but the band’s audacious attitude fire this baby up with undiluted excitement. The music feels like real life captured out in the wild rather than created in the studio.

BETTY was a working band out of LA gigging primarily around Pasadena at the time. An early biker rock vibe dominates, post ’60s west coast moves moderate the more typical hard-drinking-woman-trouble-raising-hell scenarios the genre usually exemplifies. Most of the songs are about women… though they may be a “handful” to deal with mentally, the eye-popping “handful” pictured n the LP sleeve is the ultimate bottom line. Treat ’em right, get down all night. There’s a genuine sense of appreciation for the ladies here, little in the way of macho posturing. The guitars keep it tough and the singer’s preposterously ragged confidence hits the bullseye from left field continually. Anthon Davis may be a bit over the top but it really works. Character to spare.

BETTY were main songwriter Anthon Davis on guitar and lead vocals on tracks #1 – #9, Mike McMahon on guitar and backing vocals, Kerry Kanbara on bass and backing vocals, Al Rodriguez on drums and backing vocals. Tom Jordan guests on keyboards and Lee Marks guests on backing vocals. McMahon and Marks also helped with the writing on several tracks.

Only 200 copies of “Handful” were custom pressed by Thin Man Records in 1971 made to sell at live shows. BETTY unleashed an uncompromising serendipitously emergent killer here where these real guys get in your head as they really are… or were, ripping it up at dive bar remnants of Wild West saloons before hitting the highway. A perfect triple bill would have been these guys, Bear Mountain Band and the Estes Brothers!

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Track List
1. Last Hour
2. Blood Offerings
3. A Sinner’s Past
4. Walperguise
5. Unhinged Spirit
6. The Apparition
7. Hell’s Odyssey
8. Soul Sorcery

Early Moods – A Sinner’s Past

Early Moods’ sophomore album A Sinner’s Past is the ultimate dosage of classic early 70s proto-metal, 90s grunge riffing and timeless songwriting delivered with an explosive youthful energy.

The Los Angeles area quartet burst onto the scene fully formed with a sound that somehow simultaneously merged gritty underground Street Doom with slick “big box” Heavy Metal melodies on their self-titled RidingEasy debut album in 2022. And it’s the band’s highly skilled musicianship paired with exquisite aesthetic taste — in addition to their killer live show — that has made them an immediate popular favorite.

A Sinner’s Past takes those elements several steps higher with a nod to Soundgarden’s huge sonic depth, the low-mid fuzz drenched tones of Sabotage and classic 70s melodies and structures of Ulli Roth-era Scorpions. The latter in particular inspiring the album’s intricate tonal shifts and shimmering twin leads.

“I’m very proud of these songs,” says guitarist Eddie Andrade. “We did a lot of different things, took a lot of chances and show a lot of growth, and I think people will pick up on it. I was trying to use more open chords, not the typical styles. We came off touring with Candlemass and Pentagram, sharing those shows with our heroes really pumped us up. We went into the studio just hungry to record.”

The album was recorded near the band’s home base in Pico Rivera, CA by Allen Falcon of Birdcage Studios, who also mixed their debut album. “He’s a good friend of the band and we wanted to be more comfortable, in a relaxed environment for this,” Andrade says. “He had a lot of input and his ideas made a lot of impact on this recording.” The band started recording in May 2023, then worked on the album on and off for 3 months between tours, which also lends to its very refined sound.

Early Moods was founded in 2015 by Andrade and vocalist/keyboardist Alberto Alcaraz after a few years of playing in thrash and death metal projects before the two realized that the classic doom that they’d grown up with was what they really wanted to explore. Going through a few lineup changes while delving deeper into the diverging influences that were calling, Early Moods arrived at the sound and lineup that grew their fanbase locally. The band released their debut EP Spellbound in 2020 on German label Dying Victim Productions, followed by their self-titled debut full length on RidingEasy Records in 2023. Early Moods is Oscar Hernandez on lead guitar, Chris Flores on drums, Elix Felciano on bass, Alcaraz on vocals/synth and Andrade on guitar.

Record out world wide March 8, 2024

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“We chose ‘Devotion for Tyranny’ as the first single because it’s probably the most straightforward and uncompromising song on the album, and it perfectly represents the main themes of the album,” Hour Of Penance comments. “This animated video is heavily inspired by the mysterious atmospheres of Soulslike games and the hooded man represents the revolutionary vanguard that overthrows the established order based on wealth and oppression, that has left the Earth a barren and sterile land for a deformed and enslaved humanity to live in. The visual references to the elements of the alchemical process are a metaphor for the transformative power of the human will. It’s a dystopic vision of a not-so-distant future and a warning.”

► Credits:
Concept, prompting and generation – Paolo Pieri
Video editor – Alberto Falcone
Images generated on Midjourney
Image to video and text to video clips generated on Runway

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► Lyrics:
And as the plague keeps crawling
They eat the innards of the saints
We failed

Drawn to the pit by the smell of the carcass
Mankind is enticed to oppression
Blind and tied then bred to swallow this ill-fated blasphemous creed
Taste the vile golden crown
Forge anew the curse of life
Sworn to obey your masters calling
Tyranny is the saviour’s will and faith

Bastards who hail the unseen servitude
To fulfill their need to endure
They cast them in gaols, tortured, skinned, maimed and sliced
May their kin be eradicated to delight in everlasting grace

Rabid like dogs, we serve and disgust you
Weaving our self loathe to cling upon our lives

Tyranny – We shall be devoted to centuries of pain
Tyranny – We shall be devoted to slavers of the self

Rabid like dogs, we serve and disgust you
Weaving our self loathe to cling upon our lives

Oh monarch, beseech us to keep upon our necks and feet the gentle chains of higher scorn
Avow the guilt and skin the earth upon which I sacrifice my will and my desire for thee

Fierce is the one who detests his creation
As rot engulfs the ascended
Choice became the mark of the traitors
Hanging down from sacred trees
Spiritual cancer swells
To dissolve our mortal shell
Don’t you see they birthed the culling?
Tyranny is the saviour’s will and faith

Bastards who hail the unseen servitude
To fulfill their need to endure
They cast them in gaols, tortured, skinned, maimed and sliced
May their kin be eradicated to feed the neverending grace of war

—
#HourOfPenance #Devotion #DeathMetal



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Parchment Farm from Union, Missouri gigged with the likes of ZZ Top and Ted Nugent back in the day and unleashed the amazing “Songs Of The Dead” in 1971. Primitive riff/chord pattern dosed with some funky prog moves, sky turning black, ‘is this heaven or hell’ type disoriented confusion… may as well grab your guitar and sing songs to the dead. Robert ‘Ace’ Williams on bass, Paul Cockrum on guitar, and Mike Dulany on drums (R.I.P.) Cool that they use the Blue Cheer misspelling from Vincebus Eruptum for the band name!

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