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Now that Fade Kainer (Inswarm, Batillus, Jarboe) is back in the country after the volcanic ash debacle that stranded him and the rest of the Jarboe band in Europe, the dreadlocked vocalist of Batillus ...
Batillus’ forthcoming new album Concrete Sustain is easily their best effort yet. That’s not meant to disparage their 2009 self-titled EP or 2011 full-length Furnace, both of which crushed skulls with ...
Lurching entreaties to rage and windswept howls of purging catharsis are two of the many pleasures offered up by Brooklyn bootstrappers Batillus. With a diminutive back catalog of EP's and a new ...
If I might, I’d like to examine a very specific section from the song “Deadweight,” which appears on Furnace, the new release from Batillus. The section in question begins at roughly the 4:14 mark, ...
On their ambitious new album, the industrialized N.Y. metal band Batillus demonstrate their intention to shake loose the formulas of doom and stoner metal, breaking beyond the genre’s barriers, as ...
When I booked Batillus with Ocean and Salome in early 2009 they were a fun, patient, working-man's instrumental doom trio. The later addition of dreadlocked ex-Inswarm vocalist (and Jarboe ...
Fade Kainer, vocals/synths: “Deadweight” is about becoming aware of all the false things we give power to, and coming to realize through suffering that truth is not an external structure to be ...
March 25, 2011 • A good vocalist compliments sound. A great vocalist is an instrument. Imagine if your favorite instrumental metal band suddenly added a vocalist. Download "The Division" from Furnace ...
Brandon Stosuy's Show No Mercy column presented a night of smoke machines, slam dancing, and spilled beer with Car Bomb (who brought their own homemade light show), Batillus, Pyrrhon, Primitive ...
The newly moved Portland, OR based Seventh Rule Records has announced that they will be releasing the debut album from Brooklyn doomers Batillus. The New Yorker described the band as "a sludgy ...
Lurching entreaties to rage and windswept howls of purging catharsis are two of the many pleasures offered up by Brooklyn bootstrappers Batillus. With a diminutive back catalog of EP's and a new ...