WEEDEATER / ASG / COUGH @ The Haunt - ALL AGES

Ithaca Underground presents

WEEDEATER (Southern Lord : Wilmington, NC)
ASG (Relapse : NC)
COUGH (Relapse : Richmond, VA)
+tba

Monday, April 23rd

The Haunt
702 Willow Ave
Ithaca, NY 14850
7PM Doors $10 adv / $14 dos

Tickets will be available starting Friday, March 9th online and at The Haunt and Angry Mom Records.

WEEDEATER
http://www.myspace.com/weedeater
Unfiltered, unrefined, decibel shattering, booze and smoke filled sludge from north Carolina with members from Buzzov*en and Hail!Hornet.

Monstrous riffs spew from both Dixie and Shep's nearly indistinguishable bass and guitar tones, while the audience is beaten to a bloody pulp Keko's annihilation of his kit. This is volume. This is heaviness. This is a f**king Weedeater show!

After 2007's critically acclaimed and now classic release, "God Luck and Good Speed" had been toured to death around the world, the boys finally took some time between the mishaps - favorite shotgun accident - and mayhem of 2010 to write and record their 2nd album for Southern Lord Recordings and 4th full-length CD/LP, "Jason...The Dragon", which just hit on March 1st on CD and LP.

Recorded and mixed once again by the legendary Steve Albini at Electrical Audio Studios in Chicago, and mastered once again by the equally as legendary John Golden at Golden Studios in southern California, "Jason..." continues the legacy that has culminated over nearly 15 years of the band's existence into something truly unique and masterful.

Once again, we are dragged through the mire by three of the finest dirge merchants in the world, and the songwriting is just as ingenious as ever and seems to start just where "God Luck..." left off, with "Hammerhandle" kicking things off in an oscillating groove that builds and falls and then eventually melts into "Mancoon", a ripping tune that spans themes from homemade dynamite to true tales of human bite wounds and other guttural warnings that are surely not meant to be taken lightly. The band returns to their swampy roots via acoustic bass and banjo with the album's closer "Whiskey Creek", and they venture into totally new territory with the hook-laden, driving force that is "Homecoming". Dixie's solo performance on "Palms and Opium" sounds like a narcotic jam that he and Dean Ween had at a private nitrous party on a deserted island; the track was inspired by and written during the blissed-out visions Dixie had while laid up on pain pills for a month after blowing off his big toe with a shotgun in early 2010. We don't need to go back there again, do we? Seems like we just did. The masterpiece is of course the album's namesake, "Jason...the Dragon" which takes the listening doomernaut on a slithering journey through a sludgy world of viscous, black molasses riffs that are punctuated by cannon drums and some of the album's most memorable lyrics.

Vids:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pK8yEnny9WQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SQkTQIN_5Fk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cniwPE5XZGQ

ASG:
http://www.facebook.com/asgnation
Formed in the North Carolina coastline community of Wrightsville Beach in 2001, the riff-fueled, distortion-driven rock of ASG that can be found on their latest effort has actually been at the band's core since its inception.

ASG have been pumping riff-fueled, distortion-driven rock since forming in 2001 on North Carolina's coastline community of Wrightsville Beach.

Initially forming as a three-piece instrumental project, due to the lack of a dedicated vocalist, ASG were intensely focusing on devising tight, driving guitar riffs. In time, founding guitarist Jason Shi stepped up to the mic.

With Shi becoming more comfortable as a frontman, the group found themselves connecting with Volcom Entertainment, who signed the band and put them in the studio in 2003, to record their debut album, "...The Amplification of Self Gratification". Their sophomore effort "Feeling Good Is Good Enough" summoned all the band's potential and spawned a thunderous hard rock creation.

Shortly after completing "Feeling Good Is Good Enough", second guitarist, Jonah Citty, was added to help recreate the album's sounds live, and the now-quartet found themselves on the road with the likes of The Sword, Torche, Dwarves, and CKY.

In June 2007 ASG returned to Los Angeles to record their fourth album, entitled "Win Us Over" - a vivid, psychedelic, and panoramic thrust that is just as much for the ears as it is for the aura; an experience

In late 2011, Relapse Records signed these fine psychedelic, stoner-punks.

ASG hit the studio earlier this spring, recording their highly anticipated Relapse debut with producer Matt Hyde (Slayer, Children of Bodom, Fu Manchu).

Additionally, the band has confirmed a string of Southern U.S. Dates in January plus a special appearance at this year's Hellfest in France.

COUGH:
http://www.facebook.com/Cough666
Cough was conceived in the metal fertile metal underground of Richmond, VA circa 2005. The newly formed band sought out to be the heaviest band ever from Richmond, and took inspiration from traditional doom metal bands, grimy sludge, and early metal.

The band self-released an EP, ‘The Kingdom’, in 2007, and followed it quickly with their first proper full-length ‘Sigillum Luciferi’ in 2008 - recorded with producer Sanford Parker (Minsk, Rwake, Pelican, Nachtmystium). The debut LP was an ugly, agonizing set of misanthropy set to music. Slight bits of psychedelia had wormed into the massive riffs and woven throughout the band's inhuman screams, making this one of the most promising pieces of doom metal to emerge from North America in recent memory.

2008 saw the band holed up in a filthy warehouse amidst a brutal winter, laboring on their follow-up between hospital visits and bouts of near-insanity

By winter 2009/2010, the band had signed to Relapse Records and returned to Chicago, IL, enlisting Parker once again to record the follow-up...

‘Ritual Abuse’, delivers thoroughly massive, psychedelic doom. The albums five epic tracks are impenetrable walls of sludge; at some points suffocating and claustrophobic, at others warped and hallucinogenic. ‘Ritual Abuse’ is an impressive monolith of sound and volume, and one of the finest moments yet for 21st century doom metal.

Since then, the band has hit the road on two epic North American and European tours lasting almost four months, tour Australia, and one of the prime selection of newer bands on this year's MDF.