THE SWAN KING - EYES LIKE KNIVES: THE TEST PRESS.

BATILLUS 'FURNACE' REVIEWED ON HELLBOUND.

"When the world eventually ends, it will probably sound something akin to Furnace."

Full review posted here.

THE CRUSTCAKE REPORT ON HARPOON.

"Chicago grinders Harpoon could be described as sort of the Godflesh of grind. They use a drum machine, but don't try to tell us they're disco. No shortage of vitriol at all. The songs, which have a very thrashy bent, are very much real, even if the drums are not. And hey, that's one more mouth the band doesn't have to feed!"

Read it in its fullness.

BATILLUS INTERVIEWED ON CVLT NATION.

"This band deconstructs doom & then reconstructs it in their likeness. Every song on Furnace, their recently released album, is murder to the tenth degree. They created one of my favorite albums this year hands down. I could keep singing their praise, but I’m going to let them speak."

Check it out in it's entirety.

BATILLUS "FURNACE" REVIEWED ON BLABBERMOUTH.

"Every time those three little words ("big", "bad", and "ugly") pop into my head when listening to a doom/sludge release, it almost always leads to a positive review. Enter BATILLUS' "Furnace" and those are indeed the first words that swam through the gray matter. As such, I've nothing but positives to shower on the beast that crawls along the bottom and spreads more infection than The Plague."

The full review can be read here.

HARPOON SET TO RECORD SOPHOMORE ALBUM FOR RELEASE ON SEVENTH RULE.

It's 2011 and HARPOON still refuse to sell out and get some fallable human to compliment their trusty drum machine. Their personnel is minimal...The riffs are maximum.

HARPOON will enter Bricktop Recording in the month of June to record their sophomore record "Deception Among Birds." Andy Nelson (Weekend Nachos, Millions, Black September) will once again be handling the engineering duties after recording the band's first first full-length "Double Gnarly /Triple Suicide" (Released on Interloper).

The guitar performance within HARPOON is delivered with a fluidity not often heard from bands associated with the terms "grind" or "powerviolence". Make no mistake - there's nothing 'soft' about this pile driving onslaught - you can simply sense the ease of execution in Dean Costello's playing. He isn't new to this. In addition to Costello, HARPOON singer Toney Vast-Binder has been reunited with bass player D.J. Barraca (Lair of the Minotaur). There's enough metal pedigree here to pique the interest of even the most skeptical metal maven (7000 Dying Rats, Lair Of The Minotaur, Gun Kata, and on and on). "Deception Among Birds" veers slightly from the premise of the first full-length ("Double Gnarly / Triple Suicide" released on Interloper) in that it takes some time to stop and smell the corpses. There are exercises in dronery that re-oxygenate the listener just enough to spear them with another sharpened assault from the part-man, part-machine, all-shredding HARPOON.

"Deception Among Birds" is slated for release through Seventh Rule for the month of September on analog and digital formats. Tour dates will be announced soon, including a proper set of West Coast shows leading up to the release.

"...Chicago's Harpoon shoot straight through the rubbery, yielding blubber of a whole world of sound to snag on the juddering, up-tempo grind of their 'Double Gnarly/Triple Suicide debut for Interloper Records." -- Terrorizer

"Double Gnarly/Triple Suicide will sock you in the mush, make no bones about it. Still just a hair on the raw side with echoey beat replicants, Harpoon nevertheless benefits from slicker than grease note shrills plus the capacity to play in tandem to outrageous rhythm patterns that would give even Dave Lombardo the fits at times."
- The Metal Minute

A demo version of the forthcoming album track "To The Tall Trees" has been posted here and should be listened to immediately:

http://soundcloud.com/seventhrule/harpoon-to-the-tall-trees

A video of "Company Man," the first track off of Double Gnarly / Triple Suicide can be also be viewed here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vo1Bq5GIyA&feature=youtu.be