Bland Hand Records: 10/01/2008

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Revelation - "Release"

Bland Hand Records has licensed Revelation's "Release" to Leaf Hound Records and Shadow Kingdom Records.

"Release" is not currently available from Bland Hand as a free download, but you can buy the disc directly from Shadow Kingdom: www.shadowkingdomrecords.com. Bland Hand Records will also soon have copies of the CD for sale at www.againstnature.us.

John Brenner sings and plays guitar

Bert Hall, Jr. plays bass

Steve Branagan plays drums

Track List:

1. Stars Almost Drown
2. Once Summer
3. Release
4. Then and Again
5. Wither
6. Anatomy of Melancholy
7. Epiphany
8. The Provenance of Clouds

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Music by and for Poets and Fascists

John Brenner

bass guitar, drum machine, keyboards, plastic

recorder, acoustic guitar

Bert Hall, Jr.

electric guitar, clarinet, soprano saxophone,

keyboards, drum machine

Special Guests:

Steve Branagan

drum machine, electric guitar

Jory Fox

cello, electric guitar

BH 011 Two Minutes' Hate

BH 012 Put on a Happy Face

BH 013 A Dog's Day

BH 014 Spin, Win, Sin

BH 019 The Jury Is In: Noodles!

BH 025 Brutish, Nasty, and Short

BH 029 Tape's Last Krapp

BH 033 Set Pounds

BH 034 Swelter

Download:

The Jury Is In: Noodles!

Brutish, Nasty, and Short

Set Pounds

Swelter

Tape's Last Krapp

John Brenner - "Solo Works"

John Brenner: All instruments

BH 009 Best of Acoustic Sketchbook 1992-1999

BH 010 Philophobe:Phobophile

BH 032 Private Tape 1992

BH 038 Ballads of the Lava Whales 2007

BH 039 8 Pieces for Bass and Sundries

Download:

Best of Acoustic Sketchbook

Philophobe:Phobophile

Private Tape 1992

Ballads of the Lava Whales

8 Pieces for Bass and Sundries

Chowder - Demo

Josh Hart guitar, vocals, keyboards

Chad Rush drums

Joe Ruthvin bass

BH 020

"By necessity practical and by philosophy stern, these folk were not beautiful in their sins. Erring as all mortals must, they were forced by their rigid code to seek concealment above all else; so that they came to use less and less taste in what they concealed."

- Chowder

Download:

1. Earthsick

2. Eyes Sown Shut

3. Saturated

4. The Sting / Afterthought

Tortured Spirit - "Broken Soul" demo

Markus Etienne drums

Michael Bolle bass

Oddy guitar, vocals

BH 043

Contact: www.myspace.com/torturedspiritdoom

Download:

1. The Bend

2. Human Taste

3. Broken Man

Against Nature - "Redux"

BH 023

This is an open-ended, Internet-only release.

Download:

1. R20 Overture (Dean mix 2006)

2. Blessed Realm (Dean mix 2006)

3. Lost Innocence (Dean mix 2006)

4. R20 Overture (Laney mix June-July 2007)

5. Blessed Realm (Laney mix June-July 2007)

6. Behind the Wall of Sleep/Ensurpate

7. Frustrations (Remix 2005)

8. Against Nature (Remix 2005)

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Revelation - "Paleontology 1983-1992"

BH 031

Paleontology 1983-1992

These are demos and rehearsals from the earliest days of Bert and John playing music together in 1983, to John's 4-track recordings at home, through the preparations for the Never Comes Silence release in 1992. All songs are from old, deteriorating cassette tapes, so the sound is hissy and the quality mostly poor.

Revelation - "Live in Frederick 1993"

Download:

1. One Last Step

2. Infinite Nothingness

3. Never Comes Silence (Part II) / Unreal

4. Wounds Which Never Heal

5. Poets and Paupers

6. Long After Midnight

Revelation - "Live in Pittsburgh 1991"

Download:

1. Part 1

2. Part 2

Track List:

1. Infinite Nothingness

2. Unreal

3. Blessed Realm

4. Frustrations

5. Images of Darkness

6. Long After Midnight

7. Against Nature

8. Lost Innocence

9. Death Romance

10. Waiting for...the End

11. Salvation's Answer

12. Poets and Paupers

Revelation - "Live in Baltimore, MD 1988"

Download:

1. Live at the New Loft

Track List:

1. Confusion

2. Fatal Blow

3. Images of Darkness

4. Lost Innocence

5. Paradox / Gnarled Remains

6. Salvation's Answer

Revelation - "Live in Washington, DC 1987"

Download:

1. Live at the East Side

(The debut concert by Revelation.)

Track List:

1. Confusion

2. Fatal Blow

3. Gnarled Remains

4. Mind Control

5. Salvation's Answer

6. Endtime

7. Empty Existence

Oversoul - "Demo '99"

Dennis Cornelius guitar, vocals, bass

Launch Pad Patric drums

BH 035

Released on cassette in 1999.

Download:

1. Games

2. Forgive Me

3. Heartrending

4. Matters of the Soul

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Revelation - "Five Demos"

John Brenner sings and plays guitar and bass*

Bert Hall, Jr. plays bass**

Andy Kremer plays bass***

Steve Branagan plays drums

BH 022 5 Demos

Download:

1. Face Reality - January 1987***

2. Terminal Destiny - June 1987*

3. Images of Darkness - November 1987*

4. The Illusion of Progress - March 1989**

5. The Unbearable Vision - July 1991**

Revelation - "Unreleased LP 1988"

John Brenner sings and plays guitar

Bert Hall, Jr. plays bass

Steve Branagan plays drums

BH 004

*Note: Originally planned for release on Doom Records in 1988.

Not released until 2008 on Leaf Hound Records, vinyl edition only.

Download:

1. Images of Darkness

2. Lost Innocence

3. Poets and Paupers

4. Salvation's Answer

5. Long After Midnight

6. Waiting for...the End

7. Paradox

Spectre - "Spectre" Demo

Josh Hart guitar, backing vocals

Chad Rush drums

Steve Newberger bass

Rich Newberger vocals

BH 020

Engineered by Rich Newberger and Josh Hart at Falling Sound Studios, Baltimore, Md. 1993

Mixed by Chris Kozlowski.

Produced by Josh Hart.

Download:

1. Paradise

2. Liverhead

3. Forsaken

4. Digits

Iron Hearse - "Rehearsals of Doom"

Grant guitar, vocals

Liam bass

Chris drums

BH 049

Ian's Tape: A rehearsal tape from the archives of our first drummer, Ian. Recorded in 2002 on 4-track, shortly before our second demo. Raw versions of the same tracks as the demo, but slightly more punishing in places! - Grant

Reactor IV: A pre-album run-through. Raw rock n’ roll. Recorded May 2006. - Grant

Magnificent Octopus: One night Liam can’t make practice, so Chris and I go off on a mental metal journey as a duo. Some of the riffs that we pulled out of thin air for this jam were later used in the song ‘Eternal Frost’ on the debut album. Gets a bit crazy in places, threatening to fall apart, but we just about hold it together. - Grant

Download:

Ian's Tape

1. A Haircut Worthy of Time Travel

2. Church of Green

3. Brimstone Beckons the Fallen

4. Chronovisor

Reactor IV

5. Reactor IV

Magnificent Octopus

6. Magnificent Octopus