Releases
HRR034V - Easy Hips/Dreamboats/Le Swing/Run, Walk! "New Roars On The Block" 4-way split 7" (Sept 7th)
HRR033V - ??????? (AUG 3RD)
HRR032V - Rolo Tomassi/Throats Split 7"(AUG 3RD)
HRR031CDR - ?????
HRR030T - ?????? (DEC)
HRR029CDR/T - Holy State T-shirt + 2 track live cdr (OUT NOW)
HRR028D - Holy Roar Spring '09 Digital Sampler FREE DOWNLOAD
HRR027V/CD - The Ghost of a Thousand This Is Where The Fight Begins vinyl LP + bonus cd (Sept 7th)
HRR026CD - Maths Album (Release date and title TBC)
HRR025CD - Rolo Tomassi Untitled EP Reissue (OUT NOW)
HRR024D/T - Brontide Digital EP/T-Shirt (OUT NOW)
HRR023D - Cutting Pink With Knives Discography (FREE DOWNLOAD - requires signup)
HRR022D - Maths Live Acoustic Medley (FREE DOWNLOAD - requires signup)
HRR021CDR - Holy State demo cdep/digital (OUT NOW)
HRR020T - 'Happy Holy Roar! Vol 2' Tape Compilation (SOLD OUT)
HRR019CDR - The Ergon Carousel Limited CD/Digital release (OUT NOW)
HRR018V - Devil Sold His Soul/Tortuga Split 7" (OUT NOW)
HRR017CD - Youves CD (OUT NOW)
HRR016CD - Throats/the_Network Split CD (OUT NOW)
HRR015CD - Dananananaykroyd Sissy Hits CD mini-album (SOLD OUT)
HRR014D - Mirror! Mirror! Silicon Eyes/Wolfgang Bang digital single (OUT NOW - 7" on Tough Love Records now!)
HRR013V - Rolo Tomassi Digital History/Beatrotter 7" (SOLD OUT)
HRR012CD - Maths/Throats Split CD (OUT NOW)
HRR011D - Cutting Pink With Knives Laser Hannon digital single (OUT NOW)
HRR010T - 'Happy Holy Roar!' Tape Compilation (SOLD OUT)
HRR009D - Cutting Pink With Knives St Mark/Airz digital single (OUT NOW)
HRR008CD - Rolo Tomassi Untitled EP Reissue (SOLD OUT)
HRR007CD - Cutting Pink With Knives 'Populuxxe' CD album (OUT NOW)
HRR006V - Gallows demo 7" (SOLD OUT)
HRR005CD - Chariots 'The Inner Life' EP CD (OUT NOW)
HRR004CD - Chronicles of Adam West EP CD (OUT NOW)
HRR003CD - Rolo Tomassi Untitled EP (SOLD OUT)
HRR002V - Kayo Dot/Bloody Panda split LP (OUT NOW)
HRR001CD - Phoenix Bodies 'Raise the Bullshit Flag' CD album (OUT NOW)
HRR034V Easy Hips/Dreamboats/Le Swing/Run, Walk! - "New Roars On The Block" 4-way split 7" vinyl
Tracklisting
1. Easy Hips - White Ace
2. Easy Hips - song tbc
3. Run, Walk! - 3,5,10
4. Dreamboats - Fallen Rose(s)
5. Le Swing - Lines that get attention
6. Le Swing - song tbc
Holy Roar would like to do its part in stopping the rot by praising new bands that dont subscribe to popular scenes or trends and whom remember a time when screamo meant Page 99 rather than My Chmeical Buttfuck and when noise-rock was not a catch-all ephemeral term. So let us waste no time at all in introducing to you the New Roars On The Block - Easy Hips, Dreamboats, Le Swing and Run, Walk!
HRR029CDR/T Holy State - Live cd + t-shirt
Tracklisting
1. Anechoeic Chamber Maid
2. Skull on Skull
2 new live-in-the-studio tracks from Holy State chart their progress between the first ep and their upcoming split vinyl releases.....
HRR028D Holy Roar Spring '09 Sampler FREE DOWNLOAD
Tracklisting
1. Brontide - Crunk Anansie
2. Youves - Bigorexic
3. Holy State - Repeat and Fade
4. The Ergon Carousel - Ironclad
5. the_Network - 500 pounds of idiot
6. Throats - Reign of Low (tape version)
7. Maths - Untitled Album Demo
8. Cutting Pink With Knives - Aylburton
9. Rolo Tomassi - Cirque Du Funk (4Music Session version)
10. November Coming Fire - Return of the Black Dog
11. Jealous - Ruins
Our first digital sampler! Brontide and Throats rare tracks reprised from out-of-print tapes, brand new Youves and Maths songs, a CPWK b-side from the 'Populuxxe' sessions, a previously unreleased Rolo Tomassi radio session track, a rare November Coming Fire song and a new track from new faves Jealous. Amongst other stuff. Free. Great, huh?
HRR027V/CD The Ghost of a Thousand - This Is Where The Fight Begins LP+Bonus cd - September 7th
Tracklisting - LP
1. Bored of math
2. Left for dead
3. Up to you
4. New toy
5. Black art number one
6. Married to the sidewalk
7. One for the road
8. As they breed they swarm
9. No-one ever gives you a straight answer to anything
10. The last bastion of heaven lies abandoned and burning
Bonus CD
1. Bored of math (live demo)
2. Left for dead (live demo)
3. Up to you (live demo)
4. New Toy (home recording)
5. Black art number one (home recording)
6. As they breed they swarm (first official band recording)
7. Tiny ships in giant oceans (unreleased B-side)
8. No-one ever gives you a straight answer to anything (instrumental demo)
9. The last bastion of heaven lies abandoned and burning (home recording)
With TGOAT's now banging out their second album on Epitaph, the debut record, 'This is where the fight begins', finally appears on vinyl! This is no token release however. Check this for specifics - all new artwork on gatefold sleeve, heavyweight (180gsm) white vinyl and a 9 track bonus cd of unreleased demos and exclusive tracks slotted neatly into the package! Hardcore punk rock'n'roll.
HRR025CD Rolo Tomassi - Untitled CDEP Reissue - March 23rd
Tracklisting
1. Film Noir
2. Curby
3. Cirque Du Funk
4. Seagull
5. C Is For Calculus
6. Fuck The Pleasantries Lets Remix (colon open bracket remix)
7. C Is For Drowning Under Waves Of Listless Apathy (ornine remix)
It's back again.....this is the definitive, final, never to be sold out again version. All new artwork by Simon Moody, and incredible 10 panel, digifile foldout packaging that has to be seen to be believed.
HRR024D/T Brontide - Digital EP - May 4th
Tracklisting
1. MFBT
2. Rats
3. noheadnohands
16.5 minutes of new Brontide! After slipping out 'Crunk Anansie' on Happy Holy Roar Vol 2, Brontide are back with a new batch of demos in time for their touring activity in May. The bands trademark instrumental rock is stretched into ever new shapes and, as cliched as it is to say, they really do just keep on getting heavier and more melodic!
HRR023D Cutting Pink With Knives - Discography - (FREE DOWNLOAD - requires signup)
Tracklisting
Too big to write here, but includes -
- Unreleased new songs and new demos
- Unreleased Split 5" with Rolo Tomassi
- Split Tape with Rolo Tomassi
- Split 5" with Trencher
- Self-released CD-R
- Laser Hannon Video
- 3 Live Sessions
- Remixes
- Demos/B-Sides/Curios
This essentially clears the CPWK closet of everything except the 3 albums ('Alef! Alef! Alef!', 'Oh Wow!' and 'Populuxxe') and still in press splits with Concentration Champ and Antithesis. Over 100 tracks. Please note this is split into 5 parts, with part 1 containing the tracklisting for all parts. High-res art here
HRR022D Maths - Live Acoustic Medley - (FREE DOWNLOAD - requires signup)
Tracklisting
1. (Untitled)
2. Heavy Heart
3. (Untitled)
4. IV
5. Statue Of Her
Performed by Matt Maths, live, in one take on Diesel U Music Radio, Wednesday Sept 17th 2008, Dalston, London. Artwork by Sam Dunn
HRR021CDR Holy State - 4 track cdep/digital - Out now (cd)
Tracklisting
1. Comatones
2. Solid State Messiah (vs. Valve Viking)
3. Repeat and Fade
4. Skeleton Coast
Remember growing up listening to Hot Snakes and Jesus Lizard? Remember your passion for this kind of angular, anthemic rock'n'roll being reignited by Black Cross? Holy State fuckin' do. 100 physical copies, handcreened artwork, vinyl-effect cds - this will look sweet! Also available digitally.
HRR020T 'Happy Holy Roar!' Volume 2 Compilation Tape - SOLD OUT
Tracklisting
Side A:
1. Pulled Apart By Horses - Universal Talk Box**
2. Holy State - Solid State Messiah (vs. The Valve Viking)**
3. Mirror! Mirror! - On Probation*
4. Tropics - Dead Lips**
5. Throats - Sometimes**
6. Brontide - Crunk Anansie*
7. Lone Wolves - Stonehill**
8. the_Network - Coke Head Queen*
9. Chronicles of Adam West - The Big Sleep*
10. Three Trapped Tigers - 5
Side B:
11. Algernon Cadwallader - Katies Conscience**
12. Cutting Pink With Knives - Cite*
13. Calories - Eat Rabbit**
14. Maths - Culpa (Demo)*
15. No Kilter - Fuck Me Tony*
16. Caves - Numbers**
17. Jailbait - On Reflection**
18. Ergon Carousel - Hindsight Is A Wonderful Thing When You Dont Mean It
19. Omes - Give blood*
20. Suffocate For Fucks Sake - I Got Worried I Was So Freaking Scared Of That Window, You Know
* = Previously unreleased
** = Only previously appeared on a demo / self-release
All your favourite bands from 2008 and all your new favourites from 2009. We bet at least a couple of these bands will make waves in 2009. Only 100 copies, no digital release, available on red, white and green tapes for Christmas! Artwork by James Burgess.
HRR019CDR The Ergon Carousel - 6 track cdep/digital
Tracklisting
1. Sum of Nothing
2. City of Ghosts
3. Ironclad
4. Hindsight is a wonderful thing when you don't mean it.
5. She's dead, what's your excuse?
6. The End
The Ergon Carousel is 3/5 of Narcosis, and dudes who used to be in Carmen and Beecher. This is 6 tracks of ultra-harsh, brutal grind. The full packaging (pictures forthcoming) is an entirely black cd, housed in screen-printed handmade card wallets (by D!L!P!R!), black ink on dark grey card. The current jpeg image really doesn'y convey how awesome this release looks. Limited to 100 copies. Also available on iTunes if you are not cool. Bigger image on our 'store' page.
HRR018V Devil Sold His Soul / Tortuga - Split 7" Vinyl
Tracklisting
A1. Devil Sold His Soul - Crane Lake
B1. Tortuga - The Tomb of John Wortley (1857)
B2. Tortuga - Dance Like No-one's Watching
A brand new exclusive epic from Devil Sold His Soul and 2 cuts by Tortuga taken from their long sold-out 'The Cold' demo. Limited to 500 copies. No digital/cd/shop release. Only available from the bands on tour and Holy Roar direct. Awesome artwork courtesy of Simon Moody (Rolo Tomassi, I Was A Cubscout etc), Maroon vinyl.
HRR017CD Youves - 'Cardio-Vascular' Mini-Album - Out May 4th
Tracklisting
1. Fully Erect Serve and Protect
2. Aladdins Rave
3. Bigorexic
4. Another Djemba Djemba
5. Superstitious
6. My High Horse is a Penny Farthing
7. On Probation
Seven tracks of Youves signature dance-punk. taking in a new found sense of vocal melody and dynamic, the stage is set for Youves to conquer the minds of indie and rock kids alike....
HRR016CD Throats / the_Network - 'Notes From The Turncoat Campaign' Split CD - OUT NOW
Tracklisting
1. Black Thursday
2. The World Won't Listen
3. Hibernate
4. Rabid Electronics
5. 500 Pounds of Idiot
6. R. Taylor
Tracks 1-3 = Throats
Tracks 4-6 = the_Network
To be released by Holy Roar Records in the UK and Black Market Activities/Metal Blade in the USA, Holy Roar considers it an absolute honour to work with possibly the only American label consistently flying the flag for intelligent heavy music. With 6 brand new exclusive songs this split cd shows an unwavering evolution for two of the most vital noisy, visceral punk bands around.
HRR015CD Dananananaykroyd - Sissy Hits CD mini-album
Tracklisting
1. The Greater Than Symbol And The Hash
2. One After One
3. Cleaning Each Other
4. British Knights
5. 1993
6. Infinity Milk (outro version)
The six best songs yet from the Scottish 'fight-pop' terrors. Don't believe us? 10/10 on Drowned In Sound says otherwise.
HRR014V Mirror! Mirror! - Silicon Eyes / Wolfgang Bang digital single
Tracklisting
1. Silicon Eyes
2. Wolfgang Bang
3. Silicon Eyes (Cutting Pink With Knives remix)
4. Silicon Eyes (DEFN remix)
Hardcore kids taking tips from The Rapture, this is a cowbell-orgy of the most danceable indie-punk imaginable. Backed up by Cutting Pink With Knives and DEFN remixes. Buy here
HRR013V Rolo Tomassi - Digital History / Beatrotter 7" White Vinyl - OUT NOW
Tracklisting
1. Digital History
2. Beatrotter
2 brand new songs on one-sided white vinyl in clear sleeve, all hand customised by the band. No two copies will be the same. Limited to 500 copies. No digital/cd/shop release. Only available from the band on tour and Holy Roar direct. These songs will NOT appear on the bands forthcoming album, they are exclusive to this vinyl-only release.
HRR012CD Throats/Maths - Split CD - June 9th'08
Tracklisting
1. Heavy Heart
2. Statue of Her
3. Vacant
4. Brathe As If It Were A Story
5. Solace
6. Headclouds
7. Locked Blue
8. Reign of Low
9. Comedown
10. Deathnaps
Tracks 1-5 = Maths
Tracks 6-10 = Throats
With five tracks from each band, Throats bring the spirit of Curl Up And Die/Coliseum/Converge kicking and screaming to the UK. A totally unique band that go from one minute ragers to seven minute epics. Maths slay everyone with their fierce, technical screamo that again has no comparison within the UK right now. Think p99, Saetia and Neil Perry for vague pointers. Art by Colin Phoenix Bodies.
HRR011 Cutting Pink With Knives - Laser Hannon Digital Single - Out Now
Tracklisting
1. Laser Hannon
2. My France Is Dead
The second digital single from 'Populuxxe' again featuring an exclusive b-side - 'My France Is Dead' - another track left-over from the 'Oh Wow!' recording sessions - it shows CPWK at their most calm and reflective. Another departure, another side to CPWK, another essential track. Also seek out the video for Laser Hannon that is circulating now! PLEASE PURCHASE FROM ITUNES AND ALL OTHER GOOD DIGITAL OUTLETS.
HRR010T 'Happy Holy Roar!' Compilation Tape - SOLD OUT
Tracklisting
SIDE A
1. Throats - Reign of Low*
2. Chronicles of Adam West - Untitled**
3. Mouthbreather - Forgainst the Kids*
4. Rolo Tomassi - Film Noir (demo)**
5. Chariots - Born and Back*
6. Maruta - In Perpetual Narcolepsy**
7. Maths - Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?**
8. Cutting Pink With Knives - Sad Sad Leroy Brown **
9. Tubelord - Propeller**
10. Kayo Dot - Stage Ambiance Fall 2006*
SIDE B
1. Tortuga - Dance like no-ones watching*
2. Barbaric White Elephant - My Arms are Tentacles*
3. Bloody Panda - Photosynthesis*
4. Phoenix Bodies - Filler (Minor Threat cover)*
5. Paul Marshall - The Horsewoman Came Home*
6. Serena Joy - Movement 1
7. Doom Patrol - Campbell**
8. Omerta - Black Teeth Sink Deep*
9. The Pluto - Phal Pancake Universe Bee (edit)**
10. November Coming Fire - Pyxis Nautica*
*=previously unreleased
**=only previously appeared on a demo/self-release
We basically wanted to make something very limited and very special in time for Christmas! With only 100 copies being made and such a high volume of exclusive tracks, this is bound to become something of a collectors item.
HRR009 Cutting Pink With Knives - St Mark/Airz Digital Single - OUT NOW!
Tracklisting
1. St Mark/Airz video mix
2. Angus Is The Camera
With an exclusive video mix-up of St Mark and Airz from 'Populuxxe' and an exclusive b-side in the form of 'Angus Is The Camera' (a 3min36sec track left over from the 'Oh Wow!' album sessions that goes from electronic doom-noise to Postal Service-esque keyboard bliss) this release serves as both a vital introduction for those unfamiliar with Cutting Pink With Knives and an essential addition to any existing fans catalogue. Artwork courtesy of Alys Jenkins. PLEASE PURCHASE FROM ITUNES AND ALL OTHER GOOD DIGITAL OUTLETS.
HRR008CD Rolo Tomassi - Untitled CDEP Reissue - SOLD OUT
Tracklisting
1. Film Noir
2. Curby
3. Cirque Du Funk
4. Seagull
5. C Is For Calculus
6. Fuck The Pleasantries Lets Remix (colon open bracket remix)
7. C Is For Drowning Under Waves Of Listless Apathy (ornine remix)
Following the first pressing selling out in just over 9 months, we saw no reason not to keep this awesome release available. With slightly altered artwork courtesy of Fessey this reissue will have a much sleeker feel. With a gabba-gameboy reinterpretation of 'Fuck the plesantries lets rock' (from the split 7" with Mirror! Mirror!) courtesy of Colon Open Bracket and the horror-soundtrack-meets-fantomas remix of 'C Is For Calculus' courtesy of Ornine, this cd now clocks in at 31 minutes. Do not miss this second time round!
HRR007CD Cutting Pink With Knives - Populuxxe CD Album - OUT NOW!
Tracklisting
1. St. Lazare
2. Coasts
3. St. Mark
4. Airz
5. See Emm Sea
6. You're Late
7. Idic
8. Montreal, Renegade
9. Pyramids
10.No Falcons
11.Lightning's Solar Crystal Power
12.Universal Models
13.All Our Oldest Spirits and Ghosts
14.Lions
15.Laser Hannon
16.Cosmic Explosion of the Velvets
Following a multitude of low-key releases, which culminated in an album (Oh Wow!) on leftfield electronica label ADAADAT, the evolution of these trans-national kids takes another significant step forward with Populuxxe. Erasing another chunk of noise from their sound, Cutting Pink With Knives have injected a variety of influences from 80s rock, hip-hop, pop and dance music to arrive at a sound that is undeniably their own. Unquestionably pop, enviably concise, Cutting Pink With Knives lodge themselves deep within your cranium without wasting a single second.
HRR006V Gallows Demo 2005 7" SOLD OUT
Tracklisting
1. Just because you sleep next to me doesnt mean youre safe
2. Will someone shoot that fucking snake
3. Abandon ship
4. Swarm over death
Gallows need no introduction right now. This strictly limited edition release of their original demos, recorded in 2005, features three older, and different, versions of tracks which were eventually re-recorded for their Orchestra of Wolves album, and one track which is not available anywhere else. On white vinyl, with black and silver artwork and a pressing of only 500 copies, to say this release is special would be an understatement.
HRR005CD Chariots 'The Inner Life' CD EP OUT NOW!
Tracklisting
1. The Red Notebook
2. Last judgement
3. Albany
4. Sacred Detoura
5. The Inner Life
With 'The Inner Life' EP, Chariots have produced the farewell record which has redefined their boundaries once again, and makes their demise all the more sad. Taking any of the genre names which may have been associated with Chariots before to another plane altogether, their sound remains crushing and intense whilst taking in a far wider scope, involving atmospheric instrumental interludes and post-rock passages which combine with something altogether more heavy, beautiful and sinister. Fans of anything from Envy and Orchid to Shikari and His Hero is Gone should take note.
HRR004CD Chronicles of Adam West CD EP OUT NOW!
Tracklisting
1. Small Town, Big Mouth
2. Shit Eating Grin
3. The Applicant
4. Corvus et Lupus
5. Showcat
Definitely not grind, Chronicles' brand of relentless tech-metal with death-tinges crosses over to lands normally inhabited by something far more experimental or even prog. With an appeal as far and wide as Meshuggah and The End to The Murder Of, they defy description and show British experimental metal has more life in it than the Myspace bands which have over-saturated the scene. These five songs make for a devastatingly accomplished debut.
HRR002V Kayo Dot/Bloody Panda - split 12" VinylOUT NOW!
Tracklisting
Side A: Kayo Dot - 1. Dont Touch Dead Animals
Side B: Bloody Panda - 1. Fever / 2. Circle and Tail
Bostons Kayo Dot, with albums on Tzadik and Robotic Empire, cover a vast and mostly indefinable ground, with everything from orchestrated epic jazz to noise and doom thrown into the mix. Their 11 minute track was recorded for, and is excusive to, this release. New Yorks Bloody Panda contribute two tracks (19 minutes) that combine funeral sludge with female chanting and Eastern influences to create something utterly menacing but at the same time completely enthralling. Comes on marbled vinyl in a gatefold sleeve, with incredible artwork by Toby Driver of Kayo Dot.
Fucking awesome. Rock Sound 8/10
...it's only the journey that matters, and although here it's a frightening one, littered with dead ends and periods of jet-black darkness, it's a journey you will want to take again and again. Drowned In Sound 8/10
Dunno bout you but Im having this played at my funeral Subba-Culture.com
Quite simply put Genius. Rock A Rolla
This is heavy, down-tuned and nasty, with feeling, and if listened to loud can be powerful stuff. ZapBangMagazine.com 4/5
HRR003CD Rolo Tomassi – EP SOLD OUT
Tracklisting
1. Film Noir
2. Curby
3. Cirque Du Funk
4. Seagull
5. C is for Calculus
From Sheffield, Rolo Tomassi play a synth driven fury which at times descends into lounge jazz and at others peaks with balls out punk rock. Any other information about the band is secondary to a sound that is both eminently listenable and melodic, yet incredibly complex and heavy.5 songs in just under 30 minutes.
Easily the best UK release this year. MusicIsFuckingDead.com 4.5/5
Buy it, love it, and look after it in years to come this EP should be worth a fortune; if not monetarily then certainly as a document of one of 2006s most amazing new discoveries.Drowned In Sound 9/10
I would say that if you like a combination of hardcore and jazz with pop sensibilities and some intelligent hooks thrown in, buy this EP. Excellent stuff DieShellsuitDie.co.uk 8/10
Its a queasy proposition, but somehow this wilful headfuckery actually works.God knows what Frankensteins monster theyll come up with when they do a full length. Kerrang 4/5
Fantastic band, great recording and altogether fresh sounding to boot Zero Tolerance 4/6
HRR001CD Phoenix Bodies - 'Raise the bullshit flag' CD AlbumOUT NOW!
Tracklisting
1.Raise the bullshit flag
2. Resonance of the Strom Thurmond Death Rattle
3. Hard on for a Hummer
4.. Youve been Harmburgled
5. Striving for Autism
6. I Guarantee Youre a Pile of Shit
7. Test of Faith at the Trinity Broadcasting Network
8. If Money is Power
9. Intelligent Designer Sunglasses
10. The War on Entropy
Thrash-punks Phoenix Bodies, from Indiana USA, produce a kinetic grind with catchy riffs, and have previously produced splits with Shikari and Enkephalin. With releases on Init and HCNL already under their belt in the US this is their first official release in the UK.
In a parallel universe, all politicized grindcore/noise records would be this much fun. Kerrang 4/5
Drum along on a tabletop til your fingers fall apart. I did Drowned in Sound 8/10
This is completely stupid, but in a good way. Metal Hammer 7/10
This record is absolutely fucking sick. RockMidgets.com 5/5
Phoenix Bodies concentrate on what they clearly do best- kicking you in the throat and laughing in your face. Zero Tolerance 3.5/6