Obake - "The Augur"

Brand new video for the "The Augur" taken from the new Obake album "Draugr", thanks to Max Facchinettti and Roots of Riot design.

for more please see
www.obakeband.com

Obake - "Draugr" Preview track, Tracklisting and Cover Image

Cover image by Petulia Mattioli

1. Cold Facts
2. Incineration Of Sorrows
3. Hellfaced
4. The Augur
5. Appeasing The Apparition
6. Serving The Alibi
7. Cloud Of Liars
8. Immutable
9. Draugr
10. Draugr (Leon Switch Remix)

"Draugr" is due a late October release on Rarenoise, first preview to be released is the track "Appeasing the Apparition" which you can hear below:




..more news to follow…..

Obake album due October.

I'm just listening to finished, mastered mixes of the forthcoming new album from Obake…expect fury, noise, beauty and controlled chaos…..it's a further development of our last outing "Mutations, more defined perhaps, but keeping the intensity.

The album is scheduled for an October 2016 release on Rarenoise, more news when I have it...

Gaudi - 30 HZ Dub Prelude

I am in great company on several new and forthcoming tracks by Gaudi, who's full length album "Magnetic" is due later this year on Rarenoise. I have been regularly updated on the progress of the album, and it's developed into something really special, as Gaudi has spun entirely new tracks from disparate material taken from across the Rarenoise catalogue adding his own analogue keyboards and a well placed selection of stunning effects as well.

Below you can hear the track 30Hz Dub Prelude, (which features also my Metallic Taste of Blood bandmates Ted Parsons and Eraldo Bernocchi) taken from Gaudi's new White Vinyl 10" EP which is out now, click the text for details.




For more information please go to:

http://www.rarenoiserecords.com/gaudi

Metallic Taste of Blood - "Pashupati" Video

Alistair Peck of Human Eye Studios has made this psychedelic video for the Metallic Taste of Blood track "Pashupati", taken from last years "Doctoring the Dead":

Metallic Taste of Blood live in Austria

I'll be joining Ted Parsons and Eraldo Bernocchi next week for a live "power trio" version of Metallic Taste of Blood at Q-West in Kufstein, Austria, click here for FB event page.

We'll be playing material from both Metallic Taste of Blood albums, but where necessary re-worked and reinterpreted as a trio…..expect the unexpected.

Obake Recording

At the tail end of 2015, Obake reconvened in a remote fog bound studio in the Reggio Emilia region of Italy to start work on an as yet untitled third album, scheduled for a release later this year on Rarenoise.

Sessions were productive and enjoyable, once again the music making a great context for my down tuned Spector Euro 435LX.

Italian website The New Noise  has in depth interview with Eraldo Bernocchi, with photos and details about the recording process here http://www.thenewnoise.it/obake-studio/

Our first live date of 2016 is Camden Underworld on January 21st

Sicily Redscale with Fisheye 2

The sun was shining brightly last weekend in Sicily, which made ideal conditions for some outside photos with my redscale film equipped Fisheye 2

http://colinedwin.tumblr.com/post/131343580136/syracuse-double-exposure-by-colin-edwin-via

I had a great time with Eraldo Bernocchi, Raiz, Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari and Jacopo Peirazzuoli playing versions of the Ashes material, with a few Almamegretta tunes thrown in too…..there may be more…for anyone unfamiliar, start here:

Obake live in London in January.

Obake return to London on January the 21st.

Please click here for tickets.

Obake live at Stonerhead in September

Looking forward to another Obake live outing in Austria:

Obake Live Photos

Thanks to Alistair Peck for these shots from the Obake gig at London's Desertfest last month.

Lef in full flow.

Bass (and backing vocals, a first for me)

                                                     Eraldo Bernocchi on Baritone Guitar

Not visible is drummer Jacopo Peirazuolli, seen on the left above, these portraits by Federico Pedrotti.

You'll also find a selection of live shots from out first Belgian show here

Metallic Taste of Blood - Album Trailer & Pre-Orders

Above, a short preview of some tracks from the upcoming Metallic Taste of Blood album "Doctoring the Dead", to be released May 26th.

You can read a bit more about this second album, on my previous post here, and the first review has just been posted on Echoes and Dust

To Pre-Order "Doctoring the Dead" please follow this link where various formats, (vinyl, CD, FLAC etc) are available.

Best,

Colin

Metallic Taste of Blood - "Doctoring the Dead"

Here's the cover image for the second Metallic Taste of Blood album, which is due in May on Rarenoise.

Once again myself on bass with Eraldo Bernocchi on guitars and electronics, and also Ted Parsons on drums and percussion, with Roy Powell on keyboards.

Audio samples coming soon…..

Best,

Colin

Obake live at DesertFest in April

I am pleased to report that Obake will be on The Quietus Stage at the Underworld in Camden, London on April 25th, with some more European dates to be arranged for the same period, I'll post them here in due course,  for now,  Magasin 4 in Brussels the next day, April 26th is also confirmed.

Click here for Desert Fest tickets.

Best,

Colin

Obake - December European Dates

See below, trailer for a series of Central European Obake gigs, taking in Austria, Croatia, Slovenia and Italy, kicking off next week in Kufstein.




More dates are in the works for 2015, check the dates here as they are confirmed, and you can also follow the band on twitter @obakemusic.

The new album, "Mutations" (available on CD, vinyl and all the usual download formats) has been getting some great reviews too, you can read a selection below:

The Quietus

SlowEnd

Rock'n'Reel

Echte Leute

Metal Italia

Echoes and Dust

Angry Metal Guy

The Sleeping Shaman

IyeZine

Sentire Ascoltare

Queens of Steel

You can also read my previous blog posts here and here

Line-up will be Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari on Vocals, Eraldo Bernocchi on Guitar, Yours truly on bass and Jacopo Pierazzuoli (from Morkobot) on drums.

Best,

Colin

Obake Press Release and Touring in December

I'll be touring in Europe with Obake in December, dates confirmed so far can be found here  and more will be added in due course. You can also track the dates as they come in by following the link below:

http://www.bandsintown.com/Obake

Official Press Release:

"M" is the latest track to be released from Obake's upcoming second album, Mutations, which will be released via Rare Noise Records this October. Like a number of the new album tracks, it begins with a familiar sound, a thick, sludge- like groove recalling numerous titans of the Southern Rock scene, however it soon breaks down all conventions with a game-changing unsettling vocal interlude which segues into mind-boggling progressive rock, replete with minor chords and epic crescendos. It is songs like this that go a long way to show how Obake take their influences and create something that is uniquely their own.

Obake are Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari (vocals, piano, electronics), Eraldo Bernocchi (guitar, electronics), Balazs Pandi (drums) and Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree - bass). This second album arrives at the place where the energies of metal fuse with ambient electronica, jazz, and noise with the precision of math-rock and the groove of blues. Obake's sound harks back to the dawn of hard-rock, drawing upon a variety of influences from Sunn 0))), Popul Vuh, Ashra Tempel as much as Slayer, Tool, Melvins and Coil. Obake are made all the more distinctive by the fluid lyrical delivery and musings of a commanding operatic voice.

Imposing in its darkness, encompassing in its beauty and ever powerful, Obake have lost none of their might since the release of their debut, if anything, they are more captivating now than ever before.

Mutations was recorded by Daniel Sandor at Metropol Studio in Budapest, produced and mixed by Eraldo Bernocchi and Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari at The Place in Tuscany and mastered by Michael Fossenkemper at Turtletone Studio - NYC. 

Lastly, for a flavour of the upcoming album "Mutations" due in October,  here's "M":

Obake - "Mutations"

The "Fallen Angel" cover image below, by Petulia Mattioli, is taken from the forthcoming second album "Mutations" by Obake, due this coming October via Rarenoise.

I had been a big listener of their first album, and after hearing some of the early work in progress tracks from "Mutations" I couldn't resist the chance to step into their intense cauldron of sonic energy.

I have contributed bass to the majority of the tracks on the new album, making a lot of use of my down tuned Spector Euro 435LX, aided and abetted by various EBS distortion FX, like the FuzzMo, MultiDrive, Valvedrive etc.  perhaps some of my most furious bass sounds to date.

You can hear the results on this album preview track Seven Rotted Globes:

In due course, I'll be joining Eraldo Bernocchi, Balazs Pandi and Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari for some live dates later this year. Check out the tour dates on the band website here, and for those on Facebook, the FB page can be found here.

More news soon…….

Colin

Prague Recording Sessions with Metallic Taste of Blood

2014 has got off to a great start with myself, Eraldo Bernocchi and Ted Parsons (who has previously drummed with, among others Prong, Jesu, Swans, Godflesh and Killing Joke ) getting together at Faust Studios in Prague to commence work on the second Metallic Taste of Blood album.

Prague is certainly one the world's most beautiful cities with some great looking buildings, churches, statues, bridges and a rich, impressive history and atmosphere to rival any major European city, not to mention a selection of beers that could have seriously undermined the album writing process...

In order to match the intensity of the first album I hope that perhaps we managed to tap into that undercurrent of mysterious energy, which in ages past, attracted the likes of Edward Kelly among other alchemists, scientists, mystics and seekers to the city. I certainly felt something, within ten minutes of arriving at the studio I was confronted with an unlikely co-incidence which caused me to reflect on the nature of life itself…..some other strange things too….

Anyway, for now, some footage of us at work:



Best,

Colin

Live Photos Metallic Taste of Blood.

Some live photos Metallic Taste of Blood from Wroclaw, thanks to Veronika Klimonová and Kamil Downarowicz for the pictures.

Balazs Pandi

My Wal

Eraldo Bernocchi tunes up...

 Roy Powell

Roy's hands

Eraldo Bernocchi

Balasz Pandi

Metallic Taste of Blood Live Debut

Very much looking forward to playing live for the first time with Metallic Taste of Blood at the Asymmetry Festival in the beautiful city of Wroclaw, Poland on May 4th.

Eraldo Bernocchi, Balazs Pandi and myself will be joined by Roy Powell, of the band Naked Truth

Click here to visit the festival website for all the information and check out the bill, also including Melvins Lite, UfoMammut, Cult of Luna, Mayhem and lots of others.



I am also happy to say The Metallic Taste of Blood album has just been voted by the staff at Metalstorm.net as the best Avant Garde/Experimental Metal album of 2012, and although having been out for a while now, the album is still picking up some great reviews too , here on the blog horsebits, here on ultimateguitar.com, and also on Dutch website Progwereld.

Bye for now,

Colin