The night of the rite of blood is upon us! For the 20th installation, not only is there a stellar lineup, but we will have Blood Rite beer available at the bar in Earthdom. For advance tickets, go to the Facebook event page.
It’s officially that time of year! Time for nengajyos (New Year’s greeting cards)! [以下日本語]
2024 is the year of the DRAGON. In Japan, it is customary to mail out a New Year’s greeting card to celebrate the new year featuring the year’s zodiac animal as we look ahead to what the new year may hold for us.
I have been upholding this tradition for a while now, and this year I decided to make a set which may be purchased. The set is printed as a two color risograph. This is my first time make a set available AND to try risography.
As usual, I will mail one of the 4 designs to those on my mailing list. But this year four dragon designs are also available as a set for purchase. They may be displayed in your home, or given as gifts. Please visit the link below to pre-order. Thank you for your support!
First Osaka gig for Swazönd and first Kansai Blood Rite show. A heavy lineup indeed, with Black Metal stalwarts Sex Messiah headlining. I’ve known this band and wanted to play with them since Darkcorpse days, and finally here we are! Joining us from Tokyo will be Seeping Protoplasm who’s vocalist Adam is also in Wolftread. To celebrate the release of the Swazönd and Wolftread split album, Adam will be spinning a DJ set. August 26th at Namba Bears, be there!
Halloweekend approaches! Kicking it off proper with a record release party at Godz on 10/28 for my long time NYC band Amputee with the album coming out on cassette from Tanaka Shoten.
Live performances by Lifeblood, Funeral Moth, and Abiuro DJ sets by Takashit, Korvus, Sure, Will, and myself!
Blood Rite 15 was a success, thanks to those who came out!Swazönd’s first time touring to Sendai!
It’s been a slow year for live shows, but at least we can say we’ve been busy in the studio writing. It’s great to have a couple of gigs once again where we can play the album “Cursed Inheritance” alongside some new and as of yet not recorded songs. See you in Sendai!
After 5 years, Blood Rite is back, and with one of the heaviest lineups to date! In the past, Matt and I booked the shows and it feels good to get back to it. Big thanks to Anatomia, Begräbnis, Sithter, and Worship Pain for joining forces!
It was a pleasure to design this flyer for which I used an old photo of a painting I took over 10 years ago. Also learned some new tricks in Procreate.
The new album from Tokyo Black Metal band Swazönd titled “Cursed Inheritance” will be released on April 2 by Zero Dimensional Records on CD and available as a digital download on Bandcamp. Check the video for the lead track “Goddess Annihilation”.