  HUNTER 10'' / CD Vinyl: thick covers with a minimalistic design, free mp3 download code, 150 pieces on white/black hal/half vinyl, 350 pieces on black. Cd: thick matte digipak. preorder cd | vinyl buy mp3 buy merch |
In September 2011, Heirs will release the first single from their forthcoming third album in the form of 10"/CD titled "Hunter", again on Denovali Records. The material sees Heirs strengthening their melodic resolve, and while equally intense, inhabits a less oppressive atmosphere, with the band citing Cocteau Twins & Sisters of Mercy as being influential to their process. It also sees the band taking their visual explorations to new heights, with artwork and video production taking even greater significance, where light, colour and sound are distorted in to a monochrome, hyper-real coition. To celebrate the release Alcest & Heirs are touring Australia in October 2011 presented by Exotic Corpse and Reckoning Entertainment. The tour features visuals and installations by Heirs' guitarist and visual artist Brent Stegeman.
FOWL CD/LP
Out now! The CD is packed in a special digipak cover. The LP is packed in a heavy matte gatefold cover + a heavy matte printed inner sleeve and available on yellow/white vinyl (150 pcs), yellow/black vinyl (150 pcs), and black vinyl (300 pcs). We also offer preorder shirts with a new design!
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You can listen to a few songs of 'Fowl' below. A stream and full free download of 'Alchera' can be found further below.
ALCHERA CD/LP
Finally repressed! The CD is packed in a special digipak cover. The LP is packed in a heavy gatefold cover with special 3D-effect and available on silver/black vinyl (100 pieces) and aqua blue vinyl (400 pieces).
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You can listen to the full album below.
HEIRS - FOWL PRESS RELEASE / BAND BIOGRAPHY
Upon returning to Melbourne after 67 shows across Europe and Japan, Heirs commenced work on their second album, Fowl.
With the baton of core song-writing being handed from drummer Damian Coward to guitarist, Brent Stegeman, Heirs turned their attention toward their electronic underbelly, honing in on the industrial vapour and blackened ambience that permeated their debut, Alchera, distilling the underlying sense of melody with an arresting sense of dread. Fowl displays a deliberate shift towards a broader sonic palette, enabling the band to incorporate disparate influences and approaches to create a sound that is uniquely their own.
Fowl deals with the human processing of the ornery – the filth we feed upon to entertain us, to sate our hunger, to gratify our sexual desires, to escape our reality or simply to facilitate our survival. Fowl is an exploration of the consumption of filth, the nourishment it provides and the way we excrete it back into the world, calling into question the notion of morality and its place in an increasingly faithless populace.
From wheezing blasts of industrial steam to weeping passages of gothic suspense, Fowl is a fully realised analysis of the repugnant. Its pugilistic rhythmic foundation, reverb soaked guitars, crackling electronics and deadpan dark-wave meditation create an abstract dronescape of industrial dirge and metallic ambience coalesced into an ambitious whole.
Recorded and mixed by Neil Thomason at Head Gap in June/July 2010, and produced by Brent Stegeman and Damian Coward, Fowl is a 45-minute journey inside the proverbial machine and represents a band confronting the visual and aural atrocities of the quotidian.
Damian Coward: Drums/Electronics
Laura Bradfield: Bass Guitar
Ian Jackson: Guitar
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Miles Brown: Theremin/Synth/Electronics