Industrial metal visionary Author & Punisher delivers his sixth full-length recording and Relapse debut Beastland on October 5th.
Watch below the new video for single “Nihil Strength”.
Author & Punisher’s mastermind Tristan Shone comments: “I built new machines for this album to make more aggressive and dynamic music. These devices are compact and powerful, made from robotic components, intended for high energy repetition. I, as do many others, feel rage against the Beasts of our era: those who horde, who poison, or who discriminate. We need aggressive music to make an aggressive statement. Beastland is an introspection of who we are as a human race. At a time when we have the tools, the intellect, and the history to remind us how to treat each other and the earth, we go far out of our way to feast on the less fortunate and vulnerable, disregarding the atrocities and lessons of the past.”
Author & Punisher’s sixth studio album Beastland is due out October 5th via Relapse Records. Beastland was recorded at K Street in San Diego, CA and engineered by Tristan Shone & John Cota (Death Eyes). Additional recording was done in Las Cruces, NM with Jason Begin (vytear). The album was co-produced with Braden Diotte (Faust, EXO//ENDO, Neurosis, Pinback, Tarantula Hawk), mixed by Kurt Ballou at God City and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.
Beastland tracklist and artwork (Art credit: Juha Arvid Helminen):
1. Pharmacide
2. Nihil Strength
3. Ode to Bedlam
4. The Speaker is Systematically Blown
5. Nazarene
6. Apparition
7. Night Terror
8. Beastland
Catch Author & Punisher on tour this Fall, full dates below:
Sep 14 New York, NY Cold Waves NY @ Irving Plaza
Sep 22 Chicago, IL Cold Waves VII @ Metro
Sep 27 Los Angeles, CA Cold Waves LA @ 1720
Oct 12 Rotterdam, NL RVLT Festival
Oct 13 Helsinki, FI Blowup Vol. 4
Oct 14 Tallinn, EE Sveta Baar
Oct 15 St. Petersburg, RU LES
Oct 16 Moscow, RU Model T
Oct 17 Malmo, SE Plan B (w/ Conan)
Oct 18 Copenhagen, DK Pumpehuset (w/ Godflesh)
Oct 19 Oslo, NO Bla
Oct 20 Gothenburg, SE Sticky Fingers (w/ Godflesh)
Oct 24 Lisbon, PT MusicBox
Oct 25 Porto, PT Maus Habitos
— All dates Nov 8 – Nov 17 with The Body & Uniform —
Nov 08 Cambridge, MA Sonia
Nov 09 Montreal, QC La Sala Rossa
Nov 10 Toronto, ON Baby G
Nov 11 Detroit, MI El Club
Nov 12 Oberlin, OH Dionysus Disco
Nov 13 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle
Nov 15 Pittsburgh, PA Spirit Hall
Nov 16 Philadelphia, PA PhilaMOCA
Nov 17 Brooklyn, NY Market Hotel