DANAVA RECORD RELEASE CELEBRATION!

UNSEEN FORCES proudly presents the official vinyl release party for DANAVA's 2004 demo recordings Heavy Devil Star-Crash! Saturday March 23 at DANTE'S in Portland, Oregon with special guests OCCULTATION and BORROWED TIME. This is a free event.

UNSEEN FORCES 007: DANAVA

DANAVA

Heavy Devil Star-Crash: 
The 2004 Demos

12" EP

SOLD OUT!

There are many paths to the jeweled gates of liberation: possession, ecstasy, sacrilege, heresy. Paradox subjugates ego in the transcendent thrust toward the eternally expansive. The star studded spacecraft known as DANAVA, dispatched as it was from America's rainy northwest coast, emerged on the midnight horizon with this obscure 4 song masterpiece as a shining symbol of freedom in sound. Critics have done their best to identify this flying object with all manner of convenient but ultimately meaningless qualifiers and all have missed the mark. This is not "stoner rock", even if the pilots are probably stoned. This is not "progressive rock", for the boundless soul thwarts gentrification. This is not "space rock", although their heads are full of meteor dust their boots still waltz in the gutters of Whitechapel sin. This is not "retro rock", because tomorrow calls even as the third eye glances in reverse to hail electric ancestry. Armed to the teeth with Orgone amplification and mesmeric Luciferian aether, the technicolor demon people have risen from primordial depths to dispel all curses and sever all bonds. UNSEEN FORCES proudly presents the earliest DANAVA recordings, originally released in 2004 as a limited  hand-colored CD-R demo, remastered by Timothy Stollenwerk and pressed to virgin vinyl in all its raw splendor.   Shake your ass and bang your head. Let's get real free!

Paypal to unseenforces666@gmail.com

• $18 ppd US
• $26 ppd Canada
• $30 ppd Mexico
• $32 ppd Rest of the World

European customers are encouraged to purchase directly from the band on their upcoming Spring Tour!

Chips & Beer reviews GRAVE COMMAND

Chips & Beer Magazine has reviewed Grave Command: All Hallowed Hymns HERE.  HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Aquarius Records reviews GRAVE COMMAND

Aquarius Records has spilled a bit of proverbial ink on the first UNSEEN FORCES compilation LP Grave Command: All Hallowed Hymns.  ORDER NOW or forever hold your piece:

V/A Grave Command: All Hallowed Hymns (Unseen Forces) picture disc

Not sure what the theme of this compilation is, but it hardly matters, cuz holy shit is it amazing. From the art to the nearly all exclusive tracks, from a weird array of outfits from weirdo Finnish black metal to kosmische synth wranglers! Might as well just give a run down track by track... Ghoul are up first, but instead of their usual brand of metallic mayhem, offer up a creepy ominous pipe organ intro. Yep, just pipe organ, which leads directly into a track by late great eighties Portland true (Christian) metal band Xinr, whose track of Judas Priest style classic metal KILLS, replete with deranged laughter, and badass vox that are weird and warped but so good. Local Sabbath soundalikes Orchid deliver another dose of uncanny Ozzy era Sab worship, and as always, it's a dead ringer for the original, and thus, sounds amazing! Then our favorite fucked up weirdo black metal Finns, Ride For Revenge spew a filthy primitive caveman dirge metal pound, all practice space drums, crumbling distorted guitars, growled demonic vokills, and even when they crank it up to doubletime, it's still a woozy midtempo churn. The A side finishes off with Xander Harris, and some super rad, creepy Carpenter like soundtrack synthscapery, ominous and sinister, totally kick ass retro slasher flick score for sure! The flipside starts off with Grave Violators, who we had never heard before, and who traffic in grinding blackened thrash, with some seriously unhinged vocals. The mighty Deceased are up next with some classic metal menace, brand new, but sounds like it could have been recorded back in the day. Occultation follow, and deliver what might be one of the best tracks here, a sprawling epic of witchy proggy female fronted doom, epic and haunting and heavy, definitely need to hear more! Up next, also new to us Venenum, who kick out some serious progged out metallic Voivodisms, with echo drenched vox and some twisted arrangements, and finally, Danava finish things off, and like Ghoul, forego their usual sounds and finish things off with the perfect outro, all creepy synth horror movie madness. So good. And perfect for Halloween listening. And incredible packaged, garish cartoony cover art, which is also featured on the A side of the picture disc, the B side an even darker creepier drawing, and as things things usually are, quite limited, only 1000 copies.

UNSEEN FORCES 006: GRAVE COMMAND

GRAVE COMMAND
All Hallowed Hymns
V/A Picture Disc LP

UNSEEN FORCES proudly presents GRAVE COMMAND: All Hallowed Hymns, a sepulchral compilation picture disc celebrating the thinning of the veils between the living and the (un)dead that occurs under the hungry Harvest Moon! Limited to 1000 copies and introducing the fantastic artwork of Brian Profilio, GRAVE COMMAND is an eclectic and sinister assemblage of never-before-heard compositions written and recorded specifically for this collection (plus one mandatory killer from the 1984 XINR recordings!) and showcasing some of our most beloved fiends, necromancers, ravagers and revenants pushing themselves far beyond the pale of limitations. Double-sided 33rpm picture disc comes in a beautiful full-color LP jacket sleeve. Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk of Stereophonic. All treats, no tricks.  Featuring:  GHOUL / XINR / ORCHID / RIDE FOR REVENGE / XANDER HARRIS / GRAVE VIOLATORS / DECEASED / OCCULTATION / VENENUM / DANAVA

Paypal to unseenforces666@gmail.com

• $17 ppd US
• $25 ppd Canada
• $29 ppd Mexico
• $31 ppd Rest of the World

European customers are encouraged to order from these distributors:
Clear Spot
High Roller

Invictus
Iron Bonehead
Sepulchral Voice
Svart
Van
Ahdistuksen Aihio

XINR on KBOO Radio!

THIS WEEK! Portland radio station KBOO 90.7 FM will broadcast the XINR interview that was recorded live on stage at East End during the official record release party on Saturday September 15, 2012.  The interview will air at 1am (Pacific Standard Time) Thursday morning (or late Wednesday night, depending on how you look at it) on Heavy Metal Vomit Party.  The show will stream live worldwide here and we will be giving away a copy of the new XINR LP signed by all surviving members.       

(L to R): Kenny Stocks (bass), Paul Dreyer (drums) and Roger DeCarlo (guitar) reunited for the first time in 28 years.  Photo by Chris Hoard 

A somber moment on stage at East End as Roger DeCarlo displays the original flier for the XINR gig scheduled for December 1, 1984 that never happened due to the motorcycle accident that took the lives of Tony Saiz and Shaun Tramel one night earlier.  Photo by Anna Wilson

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