Every now and again the rare occasion arises that you come across a record clearly created by fanatics that simply can't help but stand apart from the crowd. Fanatics that have deep roots in nothing else but bashing out the most grim yet beautiful sounding doom... doom isn't the genre here, doom is the atmosphere. Eyes peer beyond shadows and blood flows beneath footprints. The world is not as vast as the mind. Reality suffers the consequence and we are it's slaves. Peasant is Thou's 2nd full length after their debut LP Tyrant and both LPs were summoned in their hometown of Baton Rouge, LA which many here in the states consider the home state of that true soulful doom vibe somewhat akin to Motown via Detroit. Unlike many bands of the ilk, Thou doesn't just simply plow over you with riff after unbearably crushing riff over the duration of the album but choose to riff over your soul track by track with more venom per ounce than is likely healthy by any standard. Needless pain and suffering are all around you, Thou are not the answer... they are the alternative. No true pleasure can ever be experienced without a healthy dose of pain. Look no further.
 
Thou live:
09/21/2008 Howlin Wolf - New Orleans, LA
10/07/2008 Hi Ho Lounge - New Orleans, LA
10/08/2008 One Eyed Jacks - New Orleans, LA
10/15/2008 Knitting Factory - New York, NY w/SunnO))
10/16/2008 First Unitarian Church - Philadelphia, PA w/SunnO))
10/17/2008 Girl Cave  DC - Washington, DC
10/18/2008 ABC No Rio - New York, NY [matinee]
10/18/2008 Supreme Trading - Brooklyn, NY [night]
10/24/2008 Fletcher’s House - New Orleans, LA

The amazing debut album from Wisconsin's true merchants of bleakness and depravity, Murmur, will follow Marblebog. Their album "Mainlining The Lugubrious" has been under wraps for almost a year now and we are ecstatic to unleash the vision of Mr Matthias Vogels upon the world. The CD will feature sharp spot printing throughout the layout and we've also planned a vinyl release of "Mainlining" (no date) with an entirely different layout than said CD version. The Murmur sophomore effort is currently being recorded as well so expect that sometime in 2009 via AKR.

In other AKR news, the first Gulaggh album Vorkuta has been completed. Gulaggh of course being the name of a new trilogy of releases rising from the ashes of the now defunct Stalaggh. The album has been produced by Luther Feuer (www.myspace.com/LUTHER_FEUER). Vorkuta will be released in a limited edition of 1,000 hand numbered digipak CDs just as all the Stalaggh CDs in the past. Following Vorkuta will be Norilsk and finally Kolyma. As stated by members of Gulaggh: "These are the names of the worst Soviet gulag concentration camps that were located north of the Arctic Circle. We used many classical instruments and over 20 vocalists of which 15 are children... wait till you hear their screams... they will haunt you forever!"