New arrivals from Difficult Interactions, Dirter Promotions, Malevolent Relics, Minimal Impact, Modern Decadence, Tesco, Vial
- Above: Sissy Spacek in Montreal 5/31/24
- Advanced tickets for Initial Shock II are now available! Highlighting two more of the performing artists below.
- THE RITA returns to Montreal on June 20th, after 6 years away. Support from HIGH GROVE, JUTE, AXIOM and EYDEN ZHAO. Tickets are available here.
SLIME STREET at Initial Shock II
Reuniting for a special performance this year at Initial Shock is Canadian duo SLIME STREET. Additionally, each member will also be performing solo sets at the After Shock matinee on Sunday.
SLIME STREET was born in the year 2010 when Dallas Kruszelnicki met Jon Vaughn upon relocating to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan from Brighton, England. The two immediately bonded over their love of psychotronic horror films, 4-tracks, blazing up, and counter-cultural music scenes and began conjuring spine tingling, sludge infested, supernaturally psychotic soundscapes. Over the following years, Dallas and Jon would perform many times, sharing the stage with such artists as MERZBOW and splitting releases with EVIL MOISTURE and ORLOP, remaining faithful to ‘Slime Street Mondays’ for over eight years. Their appearance at INITIAL SHOCK II marks their first much anticipated reunion in six years since moving in opposite directions, coinciding with the release of their new c60 on Disaster Sources entitled ‘Séance’.
Click here for advanced tickets to the main event.
GREEN MIST and JON VAUGHN at After Shock
GREEN MIST is the audio performance of Dallas K, who has been manipulating cassette walkmans and electronics for 20 years. Notable festivals that he has played include No Fun (Brooklyn), Colour Out of Space (Brighton), Glamorama (Antwerp), Sounds Like (Saskatoon), Fake Jazz (Vancouver), and Minimidi (Beijing). After two decades of conjuring up demented tape squelch and heavy doom electronics, GREEN MIST is proud to perform at Initial Shock’s AFTER SHOCK matinee.
JON VAUGHN (they/he) is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, independent publisher, and experimental musician living in Regina, SK. They have collaborated with artists such as TIM OLIVE, TOSHIMARU NAKAMURA, SCANT INTONE and others and worked with labels such as Magnetic Domain, No Type, Panospria and Oral, Flish, Slapart, and Krakilsk. Vaughn has opened for artists such as MERZBOW and THE THING and performed at such festivals as Mutek, send + receive, Vancouver New Music Festival, RE:FLUX, Suoni Per Il Popolo, Rien A Voir, Sight + Sound, and Akousma.
There are no advanced tickets for the After Shock matinee. It’s $10 PWYC at the door!
Scream & Writhe and Disaster Sources are pleased to announce Initial Shock II! The second edition of the Montreal noise fest will take place Saturday, July 6th at La Sotterenea.
Full lineup: Richard Ramirez (PA) / The Nausea (BC) / Heat Signature (OH) / Thin Mountan (PA) / Slime Street (SK/OR) / Flatgrey (BC) / Skin / Parasite Nurse (NY) / Echthros (AB) / Deep Grey (MB) / Death Glaze (ON) / Murmur (ON) / Fowl / Paxillus Succubus / Come and See / Splinter Assembly
The After Shock matinee will take place the following day (Sunday, July 7th) at MAI/SON.
Featuring: Molena (BC) / Erin Altomare (BC) / Green Mist (OR) / Jon Vaughn (SK) / Rhoda and dang. (NS)
Click here for advanced tickets.
Poster designs by Chris Gibson.
Follow @initialshockmtl on Instagram for frequent updates.
New Arrivals
Difficult Interactions
GNAWED – Torchsmoke & Rope 7”
HIVE MIND – Hollow Slumber CD
STRAIGHT PANIC – Stemming the Rose LP
Dirter Promotions
CONSUMER ELECTRONICS – Surge CD
Malevolent Relics
PLUNGE / MAGPIE CEMETERY – Live Decompositions CS
SUNKEN TOMB OF THE ELDERS – A Crumbling Edifice for Empty Souls CD-R
SZARSZ / INEFFABLE SLIME CS
Minimal Impact
BLOATED DATA – The Aesthetic of Death CD-R
BLOATED DATA – The Aesthetic of Death CS
CONSUMPTION OF SIGNS #3
KAGAMI SMILE – Iris CS
LUSTRATE – Soteriologic Deprivation CS
PUDDLE – The Gift That Keeps On Giving CD-R
Modern Decadence
NAXAL PROTOCOL – Devotional Rites of Mictlantecuhtli: Six Studies in Sacrifice, Subjection, and Defiance CS Box
POLLUTANT – Lillies of Peace CS Box
Panta Rhei / related
KNURL – All Existences Conceived CD
KNURL – Hyper Mathostat CS
KNURL – Sensory Eradication CS
KNURL – The Closed Interval CS
RICHARD RAMIREZ / KNURL CS
Tesco
GENOCIDE ORGAN – All Is Suffering CD
THE GREY WOLVES – Exit Wounds CD
Vial
IMMINENT DEATH – Radiant Ignition CS
SPITEFUL WOMB – Traumacore CS
Second Hand Arrivals
The next batch of second hand arrivals is being worked on. A drop can likely be anticipated early July.
Upcoming Events
The Rita + High Grove + Jute + Axiom + Eyden Zhao – June 20, 2024
Initial Shock II – July 6 & 7, 2024
Playlist
BT. HN. – Black Mirrors and Dark Planet Alignment
BT. HN. – Vitiated
C.C.C.C. – Cosmic Coincidence Control Center
The Cherry Point & The Rita – Breast Mutilation
Mayuko Hino – Performance at Club FUCK in L.A.
Sissy Spacek – Mirror Aggressor State
Tunnel Canary – Jihad / Live at the ECCA
Leonard Cohen, Current 93, Excruciating Terror, Fire + Ice, Gowl, Of the Wand and the Moon, Lou Reed, Gerhard Richter: Doubt and Belief in Painting, Shooting Spree, Surplus Killing, Vermin Womb
Absurd Exposition
absurdexposition.bandcamp.com
Available
BARSTOOL MOUNTAIN – III CD
BARSTOOL MOUNTAIN – Tightrope Walker LP
CASA DI CACCIA – Grand Totàl CS
DODGE JONES RAGE – West Coast Power Outage V CD
GOD IS WAR & ANDREW NOLAN – The Hunt CS
KNURL – H2T CD
MATRIARCH – Visible Paint CD
MERZBOW – Aqua Necromancer (Expanded) 2LP
MO*TE – Throw a Stone CS
MURMUR / MUTTERING – Muted CS
PHOLDE – To Favour the Occurrence CD
RUSALKA – Base Waters CD
UMPIO – Sin Memoria CD
UN REGARD FROID – Exophilie CD
ZENTA SUSTAINED – Serpent Track Patterns 12″
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Forthcoming
ARTHUR CANTERBURY – Talking To Dead People CS
DEATH GLAZE – Collapse CS
JUTE CD
KOBEUK / UMPIO CS
MASS MARRIAGE CS
THE NAUSEA – Requiem LP (co-released with BISAD)
NECROPSY HANGOVER CD
OF THE SKULL CD
ROTMANS / FOWL CS
SPRING OF LIFE CS
TOANCHE DWELLING / SYSTEMS / SLACKING / JUTE 2CS
WINCE & ALTAR OF FLIES LP
