..the swirling chaos which was the Om Advaitic Euro tour into the Australian Grails Black Tar trip has just ended and I'm about to get on a plane to Savannah Georgia in search of the center of the cyclone after being stranded in LA and assaulted in Sydney - after tons of tireless work in a dimly lit tower somewhere south of more illustrious circumstances, the dust is finally settling on the upcoming releases again... > some of you have already gotten Black Tar 5 at the AU shows and the pre-orders have most likely already been shipped out -
WARM COALS is receiving a hard street date in APRIL from Important Records,,, this is seriously final and the master is handed in! - it feels like it took 20 years to make this record and it basically did as HolySons is now officially 20 years old this year - in keeping with Criminal's Return and Drifter's Sympathy the layout is done in the same well loved & timeless CD/digipak format,,, I'll post the artwork soon as its in the running for best layout yet --
..we're now moving back to issuing Decline of the West Vol.II on LP w/downloads not too long after on an avant-garde label called Chrome Peeler Records - I'm re-tooling the sequence now and amping up its bitching level to barn-burning status or some such extreme-heat rating -
..there will be some random crossover of eras across all these records for sure as the songs come from many different periods of distress,,, but ultimately there's enough material to make a Decline Vol. III,, a new comp of super old-school lo-fi (which will be particularly fun & hard to assemble),, and a brand new hi-fi record that features all the most vicodin'ed out ballads yet,,, there is no end to the fevered documentation! -- although it had appeared like HolySons had slowed down,, that was just a distraction before the ultimate spiritual sucker punch that will put a stern foot down thru the pantheons of non-documentation that have threatened to out-pace the true charms of the HolySons virus -
If I seek out more small labels to help unveil this museum of dread & personal power ceremonies, the records will come out faster,, but we also have to look at potential touring options to re-ignite the live band and synchronize a couple of these releases with hypothetical tours -
..next up is the Om East Coast tour in Nov. & then it looks like I'll be in NYC working on a soundtrack in Jan. before Om goes West,,,, we're just finishing up the 2nd Lilacs & Champagne record now and its a moody graveyard lurker with fangs fer sure //// excellent 10-4
