{"id":2261,"date":"2012-02-21T10:48:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T18:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2012-05-04T22:30:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T05:30:55","slug":"philm-sign-with-ipecac-announce-may-15-release-for-debut-album-harmonic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/2012\/02\/21\/philm-sign-with-ipecac-announce-may-15-release-for-debut-album-harmonic\/","title":{"rendered":"PHILM Sign With Ipecac, Announce May 15 Release For Debut Album “Harmonic”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PHILM, the Los Angeles power trio featuring Slayer’s Dave Lombardo, War’s Pancho Tomaselli and Gerry Nestler of Civil Defiance, have signed to Ipecac Recordings and will release their debut album,\u00a0Harmonic<\/em>, on May 15.<\/div>\n
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“When people hear about my involvement in PHILM, they automatically assume that it will compare to Slayer’s sound,” explains Lombardo.\u00a0 “They couldn’t be more different.\u00a0 I have scaled down my drum set to a four-piece, reminiscent of the drummers from the late ’60s that influenced me.\u00a0 Each song is unique in itself, I like to refer to it as ‘rhythmic emotion.”\u00a0 It’s almost like taking all the heavy songs of the ’60s and bringing that era to a modern plateau, then blending them with the modern trance and psychedelic sounds of today.”<\/div>\n
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“We decided to record\u00a0Harmonic<\/em>\u00a0in the intimate setting of a home, with various vintage recording equipment. ” says Lombardo on the band’s debut album.\u00a0 “The music was written collectively in an improvisational manner, unlike the majority of recordings I’ve done before.\u00a0 This was very important given this is my first recording where I’m carrying the title of Producer and performer.\u00a0\u00a0 The album achieves a dense, unholy convergence of tones and discords.\u00a0 We also touch on haunting, desolate, ambient sounds.\u00a0 Our music tends to be written in a manner where we never know the outcome until we listen back to what we recorded.\u00a0 A\u00a0Harmonic<\/em>\u00a0journey.”<\/div>\n
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A highly anticipated release, PHILM officially took form in late 2010 with a handful of tour dates and an early four-song demo that quickly began to make the rounds of in-the-know music critics. \u00a0Noisecreep<\/em>said the band “has crafted a crunchy, thrashy, yet thoroughly unclassifiable sound” and the\u00a0OC Weekly<\/em>\u00a0said of the trio: “PHILM’s ability to melt down metal influences and mix them with the elements of funk, ambient jazz and punk… is potent and has left audiences wondering how so much noise could emanating from just three musicians.”<\/div>\n
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Harmonic<\/em>\u00a0track listing:<\/div>\n
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1.\u00a0 Vitriolize<\/div>\n
2.\u00a0 Mitch<\/div>\n
3.\u00a0 Hun<\/div>\n
4.\u00a0 Area<\/div>\n
5.\u00a0 Way Down<\/div>\n
6.\u00a0 Harmonic<\/div>\n
7.\u00a0 Exuberance<\/div>\n
8.\u00a0 Sex Amp<\/div>\n
9.\u00a0 Amoniac<\/div>\n
10.\u00a0 Held in Light<\/div>\n
11.\u00a0 Dome<\/div>\n
12.\u00a0 Killion<\/div>\n
13.\u00a0 Mezzanine<\/div>\n
14.\u00a0 Mild<\/div>\n
15.\u00a0 Meditation<\/div>\n
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PHILM’s next show is Apr.28 at The Ruby Room in San Diego with\u00a0 more tour dates to be announced soon.<\/div>\n
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www.facebook.com\/PHILMOfficial<\/a><\/div>\n
www.ipecac.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PHILM, the Los Angeles power trio featuring Slayer’s Dave Lombardo, War’s Pancho Tomaselli and Gerry Nestler of Civil Defiance, have signed to Ipecac Recordings and will release their debut album,\u00a0Harmonic, on May 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3081,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions\/3081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}