‘Mollusc’ MP3 Link

Heres (just click on ‘demo’) a link to our demo cd, ‘Mollusc’.
Be warned its verging on half an hour for the single song!

demo

Heres some reviews it got for those of you who want to know what you’re getting themselves into!!!

“The type of slow droning doom that DeNovissimis play is definitely an acquired taste, and it definitely takes a certain degree of patience and/or a certain mindset to appreciate. It is severely doubtful that those already with an aversion to the likes of Unearlthy Trance, Corrupted, Burning Witch and their ilk will have time for this single 28 minute track of pure droning cold filthy rot. The first few minutes of this recording consist of a wall of feedback before building up to a slow pounding drone which could be difficultly described as being completely minimal in a Kahante kind of way, but which certainly doesn’t meander like some similar bands do. The slow paced plod is interspersed with more chaotic, up-tempo grindy parts, which definitely help the piece from slipping down the passage of Sunn O))) like monotony.
Imagine the cold, raw and filthy almost black sound of Unearlthy Trance’s excellent ‘Season of Séance, Science of Silence’ album with the chaotic, insalubrious[sic] feel of the first two Carcass albums. Other sections contain slight traces of that almost trance inducing Neurosis -like oceanic heaving noise, and still elsewhere one can imagine a stripped down early Esoteric without all the effects and melody. This is made especially apparent with the crossing of the lethargically slow with abrupt fast sections. Vocal duties are shared by two members, one being a grim hateful rasp and the other a low Bill Steer-esque grunt, and this certainly adds further dimension to the proceedings. There are no major gripes as such. Drums could do with a bit of extra kick, but everything is audible and the low end is held down by a wonderfully dense manky guitar sound. The disc also comes housed in some fantastic DIY handmade photocopied packaging with excellently grim monochrome hand drawn artwork. De Novissimis would definitely score high with those who appreciate things like Crust, Grind, Drone, Sludge and Funeral Doom, as well as more open minded and patient folk. Definitely another one of those out of the blue surprises.”
– Jonathan Barry ::: 22/12/05
Metalireland.com

“Extreme doom fans, alert! De Novissimis is a Irish (at least, we’re pretty sure they’re Irish) five-piece who traffic in a totally grotesque, diseased brand of doom-grind that’s not too far removed from the same gutter that you would find outfits like Goatsblood, Bunkur, or Catacombs. This private press CD-R boasts a single, almost half-hour long track of grueling sludge that is centered around several key riffs, mostly delivered at a saurian trudge as the droning, downtuned guitars bang out a simple 4 chord dirge for minutes on end while the dueling vocalists trade off deep, bellowing death roars and screeching vomit squeals. It’s not completely stuck in magma mode, though….occasionally De Novissimis will suddenly explode into a flurry of extremely noisy and chaotic grindcore, or a quieter, post-rocky passage, before falling back into the black maw of their demonically glacial doom. This is mind-numbingly heavy shit that will send your skull to your knees repeatedly. Fans of the doomcrust stuff that’s been oozing out of Baltimore over the past couple of years (Wake Up On Fire, Moonshine, etc.) would lose their minds over this. Packaged in a simple, xeroxed brown sleeve.”
-Crucial Blast

“negative, crusty doom that reminds me of bands like corrupted, burning witch, swans and de mysteriis-era mayhem. Horribly slow riffs that suddenly switch to blast beat driven nekro as fuck black metal and return to total unrelenting trolls on acid filth. Nothing grows here, the aural equivalent of being repeatedly mouth fucked by Satan’s 12 inch cock.”
-a review that seems to appear alot! by Aonghus McEvoy

“This is unlikely to appeal to any regular readers of Frequency-Ireland, but for the benefit of variety, a mention now for De Novissimis, whose 2005 debut EP was one of a number of hardcore-metal releases sent on by Rimbaud Records for digestion (indigestion) recently. De Novissimis are undoubtedly one of Ireland’s heaviest bands at the moment. They sound like a slow lurching evil, with doom laden satanic themes growled out with menacing vocals over deathly slow stoner riffs, although every now and then the double bass kicks in, the pace of riffs is upped four fold, and in those moments they’re almost like a direct descendant of Morbid Angel. It’s all quite disturbing, like an ensemble of possessed incarnates.
Actually, to me they sound quite a bit like a stoned-up death metal band. I went through a short phase of listening to bands such as Morbid Angel and Obituary back in my mid-teens (quite embarrasing as it is looking back now), and it’s easy to relate back the similarities. Despite the comparisons however, they don’t seem to have much to do with the metal scene here in Ireland, apparently sitting more comfortably with hardcore-punks, and fitting in with the resurgence in doom and slow heavy stoner bands. They’ve been compared by those more familiar with the genre to the likes of Corrupted, Burning Witch and Boris. I listened through the EP just once, and am unlikely to again, it’s not a genre that interests me at all these days. Perhaps I should just now donate it to a local church group to see what they make of it, I’m sure they’d love something to get riled about.”
-Frequency-Ireland

We are the living dead

Art by Phil King

de Novissimis News and Upcoming Gigs

Friday 20th November

Noise Not Music presents..

HAIR POLICE
w/ De Novissimis (https://denovissimis.wordpress.com/)

Whelans Upstairs
Friday 20th November 2009
Doors: 8.00pm
Tickets: E10 (available from Whelans/Wav Box Office & www.tickets.ie)

Noise Not Music are proud to present Hair Police in their first ever Irish performance.

Hair Police are an American psychedelic noise rock band based out of Lexington, Kentucky who formed in 2001. The current line up is Mike Connelly (also plays with Wolf Eyes) on guitar, vocals, tapes , Robert Beatty on electronics, and Trevor Tremaine on drums, vocals & tapes (both also play with Burning Star Core).
They have released records through labels such as No Fun Productions, Troubleman Unlimited, Hanson Records, Gods of Tundra, Freedom From and Hospital Productions. Working with traditional rock instrumentation as well as electronics, tape manipulation, and oscillators, Hair Police builds demonic walls of sound for a result reminiscent of Throbbing Gristle, early Black Dice, and Wolf Eyes. They just released their latest album “Certainty Of Swarms” on No Fun Productions which made the critics top lists in 2008 including being named one of The Wire’s Top 10 Avant Rock albums of the year

Friday  October 23rd

Doom 101

(poster to come)

Doom101 returns after a short break to Fred Zeppelins on the October Bank Holiday Weekend Friday 23rd and Saturday 24th October. Admission and exact running order to be confirmed. The following bands are lined up to make an appearance

MOLOCH (UK) www.myspace.com/molochscum
WAR IRON http://www.myspace.com/wariron
ON PAIN OF DEATH www.myspace.com/onpainofdeathdoom
SEA DOG www.myspace.com/deadseadogs
SLOMATICS www.myspace.com/slomatics
DE NOVISSIMIS
REALISTIC TRAIN www.myspace.com/realistictrain
DWELL IN SUN www.myspace.com/dwellinsun

Also Glyn of Scrawled Design will be designing a print for the event that will be available at the venue on the weekend and http://scrawleddesign.blogspot.com/ also

Thursday October 1st

http://www.myspace.com/atheosireland

http://www.myspace.com/draggedintosunlight

Friday 10th July

not a de novissimis gig, but ed our singer is doing a release gig for his amazing zine, anyone thats around should come down.

The long awaited (well by me anyway!) 4th Issue of ‘The Devil On 45’ Zine hits the streets on the 10th of July 09. The Devil On 45 focuses on the more unusual side of music/music culture. From the strange to the controversial to the outright banned, The Devil On 45 pays homage to the wonderful and weird world of music and art. This issue is 72 pages, A4, photocopied and not one single advertisement.!

In This Issue:

The Master Musicians Of Joujouka – Your humble editor’s Journey to Joujouka, Morocco to hear the Master Musicians play the music of Boujaloud.
Heavy Metal In Baghdad – An Interview with Eddy Moretti – Co-creator of Vice Magazine and director of Heavy Metal In Baghdad – The Story of Iraq’s only metal band Acrassicauda.
An Interview with Marie Korpe and Ole Reitov from Freemuse.Org, An organisation dedicated to supporting freedom of speech for Musicians worldwide.
‘In League With Satan?’ – The Malaysian Black Metal Ban – An in-depth article focussing on the suppression and outright ban on Black Metal in Malaysia, featuring interviews with banned musicians.
An Interview with InPlainSite.Org – A Christian organisation dedicated to eradicating all forms of ‘satanic rock music’ including Christian Rock itself!
Brotherhoods Of Breath – Moroccan Sufi Trance Today by Joe Ambrose (author of Chelsea Hotel Manhatten, Gimme Danger: The Iggy Pop Story and Moshpit Culture)
An Outer Space Music Fantasy – Welcome To Meeksville – A look into the strange life and tragic death of the legendary Joe Meek, engineer and producer.
For Those About To Pop, We Salute You! Part Two: The Diasopric Gem Clusters by Boz Mugabe – Part Two of this looks into pop gems from the Surfaris through to Sandie Shaw and Public Image Ltd.
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Dead – Some Hallucination Induced Thoughts on Albert Hofman, LSD, Psychedelia and Hypocritical Society.
The Devil’s Music – Rock n’ Roll’s Romance With The Occult – From Robert Johnson, to Jimmy Page to Genesis P-Orridge, musician’s liaisons with the prince of darkness.
The West Memphis Three – Injustice in Arkansas, background to the case and more information on how you can help.
The Spook Of The Thirteenth Lock – An insightful interview with the future of Irish rock/folk
An Economic (and Economical) History Of The MP3
*** Plus almost 20 pages of Original art/cartoons etc.

Sunday 3rd May

thursday 2nd April

2nd april lower deck

+one more band to be confirmed!

saturday 21st march

added at short notice to the awesome looking galway all day and all night gig. never played Galway before, so should be fun!

de novissimis replace sheepdip

thursday 19th feb timothy c holehouse, estel, de novissimis, jenny and the deadites and over at the lower deck portobello

We’re back from tour! Thank you to everyone who helped us out over the last couple of weeks, we had a blast, cant wait to get back out there!!

I’ll post some pics and stories when i get the chance.

Our split 10″ with Dublin sewer dwellers Wreck of the Hesperus is here! its available through Stitchy Press Records .

We are also planning a “GET THE FUCK OUT OF IRELAND FOR THE WINTER” tour in January, which (fingers crossed!!) will bring us through England, France and Spain.

the dates so far are:

2nd jan:

london

VENUE: The Grosvenor Pub, 17 Sidney Road London SW9

PLAYING WITH: Moloch and Spectra Hawk

3rd:

paris

VENUE: sans-plomb, paris

WITH: les louise mitchels, abject-object, serious shit

4th:

dijon

VENUE : LES TANNERIES, DIJON

WITH: BAYGON VERT and OLD RUSTIC CHEESE.
5th: VENUE: LYON

plus a movie

6th:

TOULOUSE

VENUE: LES PAVILLONS SAUVAGES , TOULOUSE

WITH: KISS THE BOTTLE

9th: VENUE: Bayonne (64), au bar Kixkil

WITH: GASMASK TERROR

10th:

BORDEAUX

VENUE: La Central, 15 rue Bouquiere BORDEAUX

WITH: YEAR OF NO LIGHT

still some gaps to fill, i’ll update a.s.a.p!

If you want to get involved in helping to organise some dates please feel free to get in touch!!