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updated: October 2nd, 2011

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SATANIZED "Technical Virginity"
LP / MOD CD / ULTIMATE EDITION

PRE "Third Album"
7" EP / MOD CD / ULTIMATE EDITION

KOENJIHYAKKEI "Live At Koenji High"
All Region Manufactured On Demand DVD

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SATANIZED: ALBUM and TOUR
vv - Technical Virginity: LP / MOD CD / ULTIMATE EDITION
vv - MOD CD and ULT ED include secret bonus track!
PRE: THIRD ALBUM
vv - Third Album: 7" EP / MOD CD / ULTIMATE EDITION
vv - MOD CD and ULT ED include 8 bonus studio tracks!
KOENJIHYAKKEI ON TV
vv - Live At Koenji High: All Region MOD DVD
vv - Filmed with multiple cameras and excellent sound!
MORE NEW RELEASES
vv - OUT NOW: KOREKYOJINN "Tundra" / RUINS "1986-1992"
vv vv - CAMP SKiN GRAFT "Now Wave" Compilation"
RUINS ALONE TOUR & LP ART
vv - European Tour and a first look at the
cvv -cover art for SKiN GRAFT's 100th release!
SKIN GRAFT's FALL AD
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c ----vv -family pet, or forehead.

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SKiN GRAFT's Ace Reporter, "Jazzy" Joe Romita here with another staggering summary of the frankly phenomenal feats fathered at the famed fount of flabbergast... the forever favored, far-from faddish, far-flung frontiersmen of the fashionable Fort SKiN GRAFT!!!!

Hell-oha Audio-holics!

Yep, it's me, Jazzy Joe Romita - and today we're going to try something different. Your nutty newsnick is going to hold the hype and deliver an update that speaks for itself. So stretch those eyelids wide, set your peepers on peruse and soak in all the details on the return of PRE, the debut of SATANIZED and the audio-visual comeback of KOENJIHYAKKEI!
Ten-Hut!!!

pic courtesy of nanos

ITEM!: Philadelphia's SATANIZED were made flesh with their first live performance on the day of our Lord 06.06.06. Renowned for delivering highly intense, aberrantly convoluted, and theatrically bizarre live performances, the band has steadily conjured scathing frequencies and heavy rhythms that have left listeners trembling, pummeled and sliced - ready for sacrifice. Amid the assault, freakish moments of high musical complexity and lyrical depravity always ensure a clean kill.

Authors at a loss for words have related SATANIZED's forbidden fruit as "forward looking avant metal (?)" that simultaneously harkens back to the heavy mindfuck throb of The Jesus Lizard and the disjunct, outside-the-groove damage inflicted by Colossamite, but the cauldron's ingredients are not so easily identified, much less digested. SATANIZED push into tenebrous spaces previously unheard – a black light shining into a den of darkness.

Following their split 7” with AIDS Wolf and extensive touring, SATANIZED make their full length SKiN GRAFT Records debut with “Technical Virginity”.
Available exclusively through the Skin Graft Records shop, the "Technical Virginity" Ultimate Edition includes both the 12" vinyl LP and the MOD CD in one bundle, plus an exclusive bonus cut.

SATANIZED is the end times: a dense, flinty, and anomalous antidote for modern hyperreality; ritually sewing your seeds of destruction, prick by prick.

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PRESS QUOTES:
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o "People claiming to have been saved by God tend to recount feelings of profound peace and warmth, a calming light, and a sense of life’s greater purpose. The opposite is true when you get Satanized..." - Onion AV Club

o SATANIZED embraces the lurching menace pioneered by ruthless ’90s bands such as Colossamite. The Philly group’s demented noise rock feels assaultive on every level—no small feat in these been-there-done-that times." - Time Out New York

o "My ears are bleeding ... but I don't want to stop listening to this gross and futuristic shredfest. This totally weird band is a terrifying and truly original blend of primitive and disgusting sludge punk aesthetics and really advanced musical content. -Not to mention that I saw them play once and there were strobe lights and capes and maybe even a knife? i can't wait to hear what comes from these creeps in the future!" - Verboser

o" "If noise-punk is an energy, then Satanized is a nuclear power plant. More like an atomic holocaust actually. Mixing No Wave with hardcore elements, this Philly four-piece created such an ear-deafening racket, it was easy to overlook the shape-shifting, almost mechanical-like flow to the sound. Abrasive guitars, bass-heavy attack, pummeling drums, and vocals thick with rage, yet structured and avant-garde enough to offer more than just a muddied assault. It’s pretty clear that Satanized don’t sugarcoat anything. This crowd should happily rejoice they didn't’t suffer permanent hearing loss." - Lonely Vagabond

o "SATANIZED, as the name might suggest, make music that is confrontational and completely uncompromising. The guitars rain and slither down in jagged sheets of pure treble, backed by heavy-hitting, stop-start rhythms and a crazed vocal attack not for the squeamish. Despite all this (or maybe because of it), SATANIZED is one of the most engaging bands of their type, combining the structure and ferocity of more recent thrash acts with the pure noise nihilism of New York's seemingly forgotten "no wave" scene. As with any artist having been involved with Badmaster Records, one can expect a full-out assault, and that's exactly what SATANIZED delivers (though not without a sense of humor, as the track "Purple Pickle" illustrates)." - The Deli Philadelphia

o "The brutal uncompromising philly wrecking crew satanized espouses 'positive misanthropy' with its infamous explosive live shows and intense, punishing, mind-bending noise-rock, pushing listeners through numerous twists and turns in its dark sonic labyrinth." - The Chattanooga Pulse

SATANIZED "Technical Virginity"
CATALOG # GR103: LP / MOD CD / Ultimate Edition LP & CD Set
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LINE UP:
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Andrew M. Gaspar: Vocals
Alex Nagle: Guitar
Evan Lipson: Bass
Vincent Klopfenstein: Drums

LP cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates, Berlin

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TRACK LISTING:
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1) One For Asmodeus
2) Arnaud De Verniolle
3) The Rites Of Sodomy
4) Raise The Flaccid Horn
5) Clause Of Nature
6) Perineal Wrath
7) Pain Is My Barometer
8) The Fear (To Penetrate)

Hidden Track (CD & Ultimate Edition only):
Domestic Compulsions

Free MP3 sample: Anaudi De Verniolle
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SATANIZED will be touring North America during the holy month of October, visit the TOURS page for the provisional dates!

pic courtesy of ben clark

ITEM!: No-Core's M*P* Lockwood on the philosophy of "Pre-____" as championed by Tom Smith of To Live and Shave in L.A.: "Post-____" music styles are always more cerebral, less physical, more “informed” and less “inspired.” See for example post-punk, post-hardcore, and (your best example) post-rock.

“Pre-” music styles are all about original, instinctive expression. In the band PRE, you’ve got 2 super-bouncy bass guitars leading things, plenty of punk speed, and yelped lyrics that sound like a looser version of Melt-Banana’s Yasuko. This music is definitely more about physicalism than intellectualism.
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It's been nearly two years since the release of PRE's second album “Hope Freaks”. Since then, the boys of PRE have continued to play hooky with their band Male Bonding over at Sub Pop, while vocalist Exceedingly Good Keex has kept busy with her band Comanechi, and a multitude of extra curricular activities including a stint in 4AD's Big Pink and a collaboration with Richard Kern. Fans of London's no wave titans had begun to fear that they'd heard the last of PRE, but this September, all fears can be put to rest as the band unleashes their long-rumored, but previously unconfirmed "Third Album".

Renowned for their concise, rapid fire, sugar high approach to song-writing, PRE return with five songs (laid down with "Hope Freaks" producer extraordinaire Steve Albini) - for the first ever 7" vinyl "LP" in history. In addition to these five new songs, the band has assembled eight additional studio tracks for a special extended edition CD.

Available exclusively through the Skin Graft Records shop, the PRE "Third Album" Ultimate Edition includes the 7" EP packaged in heavy cardboard sleeve with full color wraparound artwork, additional collage artwork and the 8 bonus tracks.

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o “It can be hard to stand out among the hundreds of bands that play the annual CMJ Festival, so the hallucinogenic noise-smiths in PRE left it ALL on the floor." - Spin

o This is music dedicated to fast satisfaction; it is the fizz and the caffeine of a thirty-two ounce energy drink. In fact, Hope Freaks propelled me on my last run far and beyond my typical three miles, and into the outer limits of an eight-mile excursion that I thought was really only possible by statuesque people who wear those hydration fanny-packs. (Of course, I am now nursing shin splints, which I fully blame Pre for.) Pre managed, after all, to do something that not many noise acts are capable of: they’re stuck in my head, even as I sit on the couch and ice my shins.” - Feminist Review

o “If Pre are worried about anything in particular — and it doesn't’t seem likely — it’s letting that gut-level thrill die. With most tracks clocking under two minutes (and the album itself clocking in at fewer than 20), Hope Freaks is impeccably concise, as though recognizing that at any greater length it might not be able to sustain its continual in-the-red urgency, that the thrill might lessen. Hope Freaks is a desperately cynical album that nevertheless contains some of the most electrifying noise rock released this year.” - Tiny Mix Tapes

o ”The tracks on Hope Freaks are so feverishly, intensely immediate that you get the distinct impression you're host to some epic schizophrenic opera. When, really, you're on Track 5. But it sure as hell feels like you never left Track 1. Which is probably a good thing. Anybody who remembers the Ramones, with any degree of affinity, knows that they pioneered a rapid-fire approach to song structure that clocked in at under three minutes and, in most cases, usually far less. That same waste-no-time snatch-it-fast style is present here and works just as effectively.” – Katori Magazine

PRE "Third Album"
CATALOG # GR97: 7" EP / MOD CD / Ultimate Edition EP & CD Set
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LINE UP:
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Exceedingly Good Keex / Singer
J. Art Webb: / Guitar
Kevin Hendrix / Bass
Matthew P. Warburton / Bass
Richard P. Bennett / Drums

Recorded By Steve Albini at Electrical, Chicago

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TRACK LISTING:
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1) Yr Fun Is Fun
2) Dweller
3) Cold
4) White Castle
5) Love, Peace and Hair Grease

Additional Tracks (CD & Ultimate Edition Only):

6) Dead Pony
7) Treasure Trail
8) Swollen
9) Duncan's Banus
10) Silver Skull
11) Goof
12) Coughing
13) Big Dique

Free MP3 sample: Dweller
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pic courtesy of lutz diehl

ITEM!: KOENJIHYAKKEI? For the uninitiated, imagine Yoshida Tatsuya's drum and bass punk-prog-metal duo RUINS, preaching the one true interplanetary gospel - an overcharged jazz fusion opera emboldened by reeds, keyboards and a soaring front-woman speaking in somersaulting tongues.

That still doesn't come close.

“Live at Koenji High” is a live document of a band that is indescribable - performing at home - fresh off of their European tour, and with new members AH on vocals and Yabuki Taku on keyboards. Filmed with multiple cameras and excellent sound, "Live at Koenji High" is the bare bones - no interview clips – no special features – no mysteries revealed - just Koenjihyakkei live on stage.

“Towers over most modern progressive rock because of an attention to detail and almost overwhelming force of conviction. No irony here: this rocks with the teeth and heart to cut through scenes and the "overground" like a knife.” - Pitchfork

Previously available only in a limited pressing in Japan, “Live at Koenji High” includes two new songs, unavailable anywhere else - and comes packaged in a standard DVD case with all new, exclusive cover art. All Region NTSC MOD DVD – plays worldwide.

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o On the Japan import DVD: Having seen this tour, this perfectly encapsulates just what makes this group so wild and so fun. This is *the* DVD to own. As usual, this is a wild race into Zeuhl territory, with all the throbbing bass, wild, Vander-inspired drumming, & Kobaian-via-Japan singing you could hope for.” - Wayside Music

o “Koenjihyakkei is a prog band that defies the criticisms of people who don’t like prog. Where the critic complains that prog is long-winded, meandering, and pretentious, Koenji is brisk, tightly arranged, and, in its own way, pleased to be entertaining, - and even catchy. For all its musical experiments, the album has the simple appeal of a potboiler novel: it picks up a flag of roaring melodrama and flourishes it rampantly, in triumph..” - Popmatters

o ”Creative in the extreme, it is a crime we haven’t had this over here sooner. Sublime prog pop with classical overtones, and the wonderfully inventive rhythm section keeps everything on the right side of barking. This is something to be absorbed, enjoyed and revered. Now, to check out the rest of their back catalogue.”- Subba-Cultacha

LO-RES VIDEO SAMPLE:

KOENJIHYAKKEI "Live At Koenji High"
CATALOG # GR104: Manufactured On Demand DVD

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LINE UP:
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Yoshida Tatsuya / Drums, Vocal
Sakamoto Kengo / Bass, Vocal
Komori Keiko / Soprano Sax
Yabuki Taku / Keyboards
AH / Vocals

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TRACK LISTING:
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1) Vissqaguell
2) Becttem Pollt
3) Rattims Friezz
4) Dhorimviskha
5) Phlessttighas
6) Fettim Paillu
7) Angher Shisspa
8) Wammilica Iffirom

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ITEM!: As announced in an earlier TWITTER update, a prehistoric stone in the image of Yoshida Tatsuya has been uncovered amidst the thick forest growth on the slope of a hill near the town of Ena, in central Honsu, largest of the Japanese islands. We've secured a photo of the idol and it will grace the cover of SKiN GRAFT's 100th release, the debut album from RUINS ALONE. The album will be out this November, and if you click the mini to the left, you'll get your first look at the front cover.

We'll have more details soon - but we can announce that the album runs 20 tracks long - and we have an additional 3 tracks that we're looking to include as a bonus with every purchase. Watch this space for more details.

RUINS ALONE is touring Europe NOW, visit the TOURS page for all the details!

And finally a note to Zine publishers: SKiN GRAFT's humble roots are stained with ink, and we're always game for designing b&w ads geared toward the free press. If you'd like to help us spread the good word about our uncanny artists, please feel free to click the advert above to download a hefty sized print-ready file to your desktop.

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"JAZZY" JOE ROMITA

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