Aun / Habsyll - split LP / Digital Download

AUN (Montreal, Canada) has a back catalog rich with harmonic drone, sepulchral ambience and of thick detuned guitar vistas. For this split, AUN ventures into new territory. "Druids" plays like 70's space rock on bad acid, where dissonant tones and hallucinogenic melodies slam head-first into slow, pounding beats. Texture and rhythm collide to create a dark unworldly psychedelia. "Fall Out" continues the space-y vibe, blending rhythm, bass, guitar and acidic noise shards, seemingly taking some cues from the late 60's New-York underground and mid 70's Germany.

Habsyll (Toulouse, France) accentuate angular drone with slow blasts of raw noise and sludge-y doom.  Leaving structure and melody behind (or perhaps stretching them out so far, they are imperceivable,) Habsyll's output is slow, raw and dynamic as hell. Composition has never felt so strange.

Co-released with Conspiracy Records. Limited to 500 copies. 250 on grey vinyl (PG & Aun) / 250 on gold vinyl (Conspiracy & Habsyll). Digital download card included with LP.

"The latest in Public Guilt's recent streak of high calibre vinyl releases is a study in elegant contrast. (Habsyll's "IV" is) a remarkable work of 21st century body music that detonates like a depth charge, and continues to reverberate with avant-garde aftershocks." - Rock-a-Rolla

"Two of our favorite heavies team up for an epic slab of vinyl dronedirgedoomsludge, and it's just as good as we would have hoped. AUN... like a pop song melted down into something slightly more oozing and blackened, at times sounding like some strange sort of metallic trip hop. HABSYLL... barely mobile glacial tarpit drone action, huge caustic crunches, left to ring out, the decay in the form of crumbling clouds of distortion, swirls of cymbal sizzle, a strange cacophonous harmony." - Aquarius Records

"Now this is an inspired match -- two slices of acid-rock death drone from Canada's Aun on one side, one long and tortured blast of post-Khanate ambient doom hell from France's Habsyll on the other. The cumulative effect of all three tracks is pure greatness." -Dead Angel

Aun:
A1. Druids(MP3)
A2. Fall Out

Habsyll:
B1. IV(MP3)

Aun is:
MD: Guitar, bass, violin, electronics

Habsyll is:
N.M.: 4+1 sticks & vocals
F.B. : 4 strings, noises & vocals
Y.F.H. : 6 strings, noises & vocals

Release date: May 18, 2010

Artwork: Stephen Kasner

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