*** This event is now postponed due to imposed travel restrictions as well as the unfolding health risk situation worldwide. Stay tuned for information about a new date. If you require an immediate refund please contact your point of purchase ***
Old Empire and The Black Heart proudly present
CLOUD RAT
https://cloudrat.bandcamp.com
plus special guests
LEECHFEAST
https://leechfeast.bandcamp.com
NOTHING CLEAN
https://nothingclean.bandcamp.com/
JØTNARR
https://jotnarr.bandcamp.com
The Black Heart
2-3 Greenland Place
Camden Town
London
NW1 0AP
Doors: 7pm
Tix : £14 (adv)
www.old-empire.co.uk
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CLOUD RAT
Over the past ten years, Cloud Rat has established itself as one of the most compelling bands in the underground. Over a staggering number of releases – four full-length albums, eleven EPs and splits, a live album, and various other comps, in one decade – the Michigan band has made a name for itself via sheer emotion and musical freedom.
NPR Music called Cloud Rat's 2013 album, Moksha, "a feral, fearsome and fearless piece of work." Noisey described a live show in 2015 with these words: "Cloud Rat is one of those rare bands whose music connects instantly, painfully – you feel the words, the the riffs, and the all-consuming cacophony deep within the marrow of your bones, vibrating out into a hostile world."
Emerging from the space where hardcore punk spirals into grindcore, Cloud Rat is that and so much more. The band knows no limits and incorporates influences from across the map – black metal, noise, doom, goth, folk, and beyond – all while retaining its realness and urgency.
Cloud Rat guitarist Rorik Brooks describes the new album: "Pollinator is our most complete and accomplished work yet. It is the quintessence of everything we've tried to say and do before, and it's kind of fitting that we are coming up on a decade of being a band together."
LEECHFEAST
“The madness of decaying urban jungle, endless nights without sleep, strange dreams that you remain thinking about through the next day, chronic back pain, cramped up stomach, pathetic porcelain faces around you with a permanent smile, the fact that you can relate to the cat that lives with you more than you can to other people and years of repressed aggression that needs to get out badly” it’s how Netherlands based Slovenian band Leechfeast describe their music.
Their second LP “Neon Crosses”, four tracks of sluggishly slow doom dirges soaked in tar-like grime and heaps of refuse, was released in 2018 by Dry Cough Records and Rope or Guillotine. A game changing sludge record, ghastly and almost demonic but also haunting and atmospheric in mood and tone.
As “Teeth of Divine” puts it “the impressive part about Neon Crosses and Leechfeast is the fact that there is arrangement and memorable parts crammed into their murky swamp of sewage suffocation”, and this is even more obvious during their live sets.
Their new EP “Village Creep”’ is out now on Vendetta Records.
NOTHING CLEAN
Leicester based fast hardcore by members of Toecutter, Meatpacker, Mangle, Chief Wiggum, Diet Pills, Hangover Heartattack, etc. Through extensive touring across the UK and Europe and a name for ferocious and concise live shows Nothing Clean are a set of the very best noise makers in the underground of this country currently. A slew of releases and splits across the last few years on underground labels here there and everywhere have cemented them as a force of no-nonsense PV destruction to be witnessed at any opportunity. Blink n you’ll miss a 1000 notes !
JØTNARR
Shimmering scapes of blackened metal noise straight from the dark clouded skies of ... Essex !. Colchester super buds Jøtnarr are an established pillar of underground heaviness in the UK, bringing both extremity and real raffs to the mix. So if ya don't have em on loop in the stereo of your XR3i already, click above, crack the windows down and go blast !