If we’re remembered as a deathrock band, that would be fine with me.”

Everyone uses it to describe every-fucking-thing so it’s lost any meaning. “To me the term ‘post-punk’ means about the same as the term ‘hardcore’ does: nothing. “We could still play a punk fest or a goth fest and more or less fit in,” guitarist Des says, from the interview below. But “Wind and Shadows” is in fact the first LP-as-such from the Chicago/NYC band (singer Danny lives in NYC), and it’s a nonstop juggernaut of guitar distortion, flange pedals, Aquanet, black hair dye, howling vocals, and enough doomy, foggy, claustrophobic atmosphere to make Mario Bava green with envy. It feels a little strange to call “Wind and Shadows” a debut LP given that Cemetery previously had all their demos collected on the “Collection” 12″, also on Mass Media. Cemetery are also thankfully playing out again, including a date with veteran anarcho-punks The Mob (see photos from their April 1 show below). Released on Mass Media Records, which is increasingly a one-stop shop for anything worthwhile coming out of the modern dark punk scene, the European version is set to be released on the UK’s Inflammable Material imprint.

and Europe has finally gained them much deserved attention in recent years.Chicago deathrock band Cemetery‘s debut LP, “Wind and Shadows,” started shipping April 1. The voices at work are really unlike any other outfit before or prior, and their touring reactivation in the U.S.

Going track by track would really be redundant, since each one is a great story or feeling conveyed. And accompanied by a killer rhythm section, one of the final guitar heroes of our age, Joe Baiza, really trucks along with lines that would evolve into some of the most inventive playing put on disc, or on stage for that matter. Vocalist Jack Brewer comes across as if he’s just breaking through pubescence (that would change), or belting out his voice for the first time in his life, and his way of delivering just-so stories differs greatly from any other known punk rock affiliate of the day. Their first release “Paganicons” is actually about as conventional as it gets for them, and it’s still a challenge but this EP is also tight interplay, great changes and aberrant lyrical prose from front to back. Not that SacTrust really made it easy on themselves their brand of rock isn’t as dope-smoking friendly as their more popular San Pedro brethren or the Puppets. And even when Saccharine Trust got name-dropped by Kurt Cobain they still managed to slip into the ether. As well known as SST may be in America courtesy of releases by the near unswayable Black Flag and underground rock staples Minutemen, Meat Puppets and Sonic Youth, much of their roster still goes unnoticed.

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