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Frontier Psychiatrist on Anatomy of Habit

Thanks to Jordan Mainzer of Frontier Psychiatrist for the write-up on our recent show:

3/17 – Indian/Bloodiest/Anatomy of Habit/An Aesthetic Anaesthetic @ Subterranean, Chicago

At least the first three of four acts had senses of humor, or rather a lighter side. Math rockers and wordplay aficionados An Aesthetic Anaesthetic (creators of a song called “Randy Quaidludes”) announced that they were only playing two songs. Little did newbies know how tongue-in-cheek they were being, considering that both songs ranged from ten to twenty minutes, rendering the set actually longer than usual for the first of four acts. Anatomy of Habit had a lighter side simply by virtue that they weren’t hard rock or metal; they sounded like a noisier Joy Division (you know you’re in for a dark night when the Joy Division-inspired band is the least dark). And Bloodiest, despite their name, mustered up enough snark to declare, “Fuck the Irish!” as an anti-St. Patrick’s Day statement. This was all leading up to the band whose record release show it was: local doom miserabilists Indian. Indian’s From All Purity is one of the best albums of the year so far, let alone metal albums. At the Subterranean, their disturbing songs like “Rape” and “Directional” sounded exactly as they should, cracking and whipping and pummeling forcefully but at a brutally slow speed, like the best doom. This was one of the best shows of the year so far.

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Anatomy of Habit plays live tomorrow night

https://www.facebook.com/events/247023985458502/

Poster for Anatomy of Habit - March 17, 2014 Show

New Anatomy of Habit show announced

Indian (Record Release)
Bloodiest
Anatomy of Habit
An Aesthetic Anaesthetic

 

Monday, March 17, 2014

 

Subterranean

2011 W. North Ave.

Chicago, Illinois 60647

Tickets: http://ticketf.ly/1gGAo6r
 
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Wrekmeister Harmonies - Saint Vitus - Brooklyn - Video of Full Show

Tonight (4/21)

Time Out on AoH 4/21

We need to get Time Out a new blurb... "Anatomy of Habit's punishing doom-gaze gives voice to the dark thoughts of Bloodyminded mouthpiece Mark Solotroff. Setting the stage is Sean Patrick Riley of Bloodiest (see Top live shows)."  http://timeoutchicago.com/music-nightlife/music/15255366/anatomy-of-habit-man

Anatomy of Habit coverage in Brooklyn Vegan

A big thanks go to Brooklyn Vegan, as always, for paying attention!

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/chicago/2012/04/anatomy_of_habi_4.html

Poster for April 21, 2012 show

Updated schedule for Anatomy of Habit

+ Saturday April 21 at The Burlington with Man (Sean Patrick Riley from Bloodiest solo guitar)

+ Saturday May 12 at The Hideout with Chord and John Mueller

+ Friday June 22 at Cobra Lounge with RØSENKØPF, Maledicere and Sun Splitter

+ Friday June 29 at Lincoln Hall with Pelican

More kind words about AoH from Chicagoist

We could not ask for better company! 

http://chicagoist.com/2011/12/30/chicago_music_in_2011_from_watched.php

AoH - 4/9 - Recap + news

Thanks to all of our friends who came out to support us last night! What an amazing night to be a part of. Even with three competing metal shows - plus Robert Plant at The Auditorium Theater, where I would have been if not for this show - we had an excellent crowd at Subterranean. The club took great care of us, holding the doors until we completed a solid soundcheck, and - bless them - we had loaders last night, so the mountains of Emperor cabinets and Sunn heads, etc., made their way up the steep steps without us breaking our backs. Major thanks go to Indian and Bloodiest, for including us in their dual record release show, and for the ongoing support that folks in both bands have shown us. It is MUCH appreciated. Both bands sounded incredible last night... two very different interpretations of doom... one more warm and enveloping and one more cold and nihilistic... you guess which was which. Lots of people saw us for the first time last night and it was humbling to get such positive feedback from both "veterans" and "virgins"! Thanks to everyone who stopped me to offer such kind words. It was also really nice for me to revisit our earliest setlist. meaning playing "Overcome" and "Torch"... allowing me to just go for it, vocally, if and when I felt like it. Greg brought some truly haunting new guitar sounds to "Overcome," which sound amazing on the recording that I am listening to right now. So now... a break for sure in live shows during May... maybe something in June if things solidify... and big news... We are booked for mastering (FINALLY!) at the end of June with Bob Weston (of Shellac) at Chicago Mastering Service... He will cut out lacquers, which will then go on to plating and pressing, as quickly as is humanly possible...

Tonight - 4/9

The Vinyl District on 4/9

From The Vinyl District

TVD Recommends: Indian & Bloodiest at Subterranean, 4/9

By brian | April 8, 2011

Chicago, prepare to have your faces melted. Two of the city’s heaviest take the stage at Subterranean this Saturday for a dual record release show. Headlining are our own hometown stalwarts of sludge Indian, supporting the release of their third full-length Guiltless, which comes out this Tuesday on Relapse.

Joining them on the bill are label mates Bloodiest, who released their debut album Descent just last week. A fairly new group, the seven piece Bloodiest count ex & current members of Follows, 90 Day Men, Atombombpocketknife, and Yakuza’s Bruce Lamont among their ranks.

Advance tickets are available here for 8 bucks. Doors open at 9pm, and openers Anatomy of Habit take the stage at 10pm. Subterranean is located at 2011 W. North Ave in Wicker Park.

The Reader on 4/9

From The Chicago Reader

Critic's Choice
Recommended

Indian, Bloodiest, Anatomy of Habit

When: Sat., April 9, 10 p.m.
Price: $8

It's been three long years since Chicago doom unit INDIAN released an album. The news that they'd signed to Relapse for their fourth full-length boded well, as did the addition of a second guitarist and vocalist, Will Lindsay of Wolves in the Throne Room. Produced by Sanford Parker and due on Tuesday, Guiltless is worth the wait—a hundred tons of crusty, primitive grit, churning with a beautiful mess of greasy, grimy gopher guts. The noise and drone elements that were already a huge part of Indian's sound don't exactly dominate the record, but they add something important this time out: a new feeling of promise and threat, woven deep into the fuzzy, feedback-drooling riffs. And then there's something like emotional depth, which I wasn't quite prepared for: Guiltless is akin to a song cycle of remorse and ruthlessness, a cathartic drama of accused and accuser, all rendered in vicious, vibrating screams. This isn't the almost relaxing flavor of doom favored by heavy-lidded stoners—this is Armageddon style. —Monica Kendrick

Not to disparage the efforts of the good people at Relapse's design department, but if they were really serious about capturing the feel of Descent, the new debut album by local septet BLOODIEST, they would've packaged each copy in a jagged monolith of black marble as tall as a three-flat. That approach would at least adequately reflect Descent's immense mass and raw, cruel beauty. Working out of Steve Albini's Electrical Audio, producer Sanford Parker didn't do much more than capture the band as they sound in their killer live shows—and that's all he really needed to do. When you've got three guitars, gothic piano, and the unhinged vocalizations of man-about-metal-town Bruce Lamont, do you even need overdubs? Descent rumbles with the heavy energy of metal, but there's something almost classically elegant about the way the songs carry themselves, even as they edge toward pure noise. —Miles Raymer

Time Out previews 4/9

From Time Out

Indian + Bloodiest + Anatomy of Habit

Critic's pick

Indian, celebrating the release of its new Relapse debut, Guiltless, plays churning doom that will down-tune your soul. Starkly dynamic art-metal opener Bloodiest, featuring Bruce Lamont of Yakuza as well as members of Follows, is also celebrating a new album on Relapse, Descent. First up is Anatomy of a Habit, which specializes in draping sheets of sheer menace.

Alternate poster for 4/9 show

Illinois Entertainer on Indian/Bloodiest/April 9

From Illinois Entertainer/Caught in a Mosh column:

Caught In A Mosh: April 2011

ilentertainer | Mar 30, 2011

Total Relapse

I have a love-hate relationship with Relapse Records. On one hand, the label never, ever, ever sends me music. Never. Ever. And I’ve asked. Many times.

On the other hand, Relapse is like an adorable puppy that shits all over the living-room floor: it’s hard to stay mad. How can I hold a grudge against the label that introduced me to Mastodon and High On Fire? The list of Relapse alumni reads like a royal charter: Deceased, Repulsion, Incantation, Neurosis, to name a few. And Toxic Holocaust, Disfear, Voivod, and the freshly reunited Zeke call the Pennsylvanian label home nowdays. So yeah, Relapse knows its shit.

And right now, when it comes to heavy music, Chicago is the shit. That’s not meant to be all, like, “Our scene is better than yours,” but I’ll kiss yer ass if it ain’t. Relapse is damnwell aware, too, which explains its Windy City shopping spree in the past few years. First was Minsk (technically Peoria, but Chicago has claimed the band as its own), then Circle Of Animals, now Bloodiest and Indian, both of which signed last year. Bloodiest, whose seven members come from metal (Yakuza) and non (Atombombpock-etknife) backgrounds, struck first March 29th with Descent; Indian’s Guiltless arrives April 12th. The two team up for a dual record-release show April 9th at Subterranean, so “Mosh” shipped questions to both bands, never figuring Indian bassist Ron DeFries and Bloodiest guitarist Eric Chaleff would drunkenly hammer ‘em out at Logan Square’s The Burlington. Assume it was drunken, because DeFries saying “Oh, snap!” in any other circumstance is unimaginable.

Mosh: Is it really sheer coincidence Indian and Bloodiest signed to Relapse within six months of each other and will release their label debuts within two weeks? Sounds too good to be true.
Eric Chaleff: Yes, sheer coincidence. I hear the word around the Relapse office is Chicago is sort of the mecca for metal.

M: I assume the decision for a dual record-release show wasn’t a difficult one.
Ron Defires: Bingo.

M: In all honesty, what about Relapse appealed to your bands?
EC: They’re the biggest indie label any of us could hope to be on. Plus they have put out countless records that are so influential to all of us. How wouldn’t we want to be a part of that?

M: In 50 words or less, describe the other band.
EC: Well, Indian [is] my favorite Chicago band. [They're] disgusting and completely hopeless as musicians.
RD: Gypsy hair drone and best band I’ve never played in.
EC: Never will.
RD: Oh, snap!

M: Eric, you’re on the spot: Bloodiest, metal or not? This is technically a “heavy-music,” not heavy-metal, column, so it’s O.K. to say no.
EC: Yes and more. Our influences range all across the board; each of us brings a different style to the table. I feel a big success of the band is focusing those styles to a cohesive end. Darkness is the end goal.

M: Ron, Guiltless (like past Indian releases) is a completely hostile, antisocial-sounding album. That’s 100-percent compliment, but I would (and have) absolutely avoid talking to any of Indian’s members if I was standing next to them at a show. Are you guys as unfriendly as your music suggests?
RD: We’re the nicest guys I know. The music is what it is, that’s just what comes out. Buy us beers and we’ll be your best friend.

M: What are the pros and cons (there must be something) about being a heavy band from Chicago?
EC: I really can’t think of any cons. We have a really strong-knit community; we all hang out together, drink together. I mean we are writing this from a bar right now.
RD: Really all pro on my end as well. Playing shows in the winter sucks, but you’re smack in the middle of the country, so touring either coast is pretty easy. And we all jam together so that rules. (That’s my Circle Of Animals plug.)

M: Who are some of the other local acts you guys are into, and what makes them stand out in your minds?
EC & RD: Chicago bands that rule: Sweet Cobra, Bloodyminded, Anatomy Of Habit, The Swan King, Follows, Circle Of Animals, Yakuza, Electric Hawk, Minsk, Killer Moon, Ga’an, Locrian, Head Of Skulls, Howler.

M: Ron, Indian has nearly doubled in size since its last release. What did the addition of Sean Patton and Will Lindsay mean to Guiltless? How did you guys hook up with Will, anyway?
RD: Sean has been around since the beginning and currently co-owns Emperor [Cabs]. We met Will while on tour with Middian; he was playing bass for them and somehow just knew that he was gonna be our second guitar player. This lineup slays.

M: Of course, five members is nothing, right Eric? Can seven people in one band ever be a pain in the ass?
EC: Not so much a pain in the ass as just a scheduling nightmare. All of us are a part of other projects or have real intense jobs. Everyone really contributes. It’s actually kinda sweet.

Sneak Peek: AoH 3/12+4/9

Two incredible line-ups for shows that Anatomy of Habit has been asked to be a part of were just announced:



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