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Artist / Northern Lord
Title / The Great Northern Dreadstep
Label / Murder Channel
Format / Digital + Video
Product number / MURDG-026
Release data / February 1, 2021
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Northern Lord
What's all this then?
Well, in short, it's a new musical side-project from myself celebrating the fusion of heavy metal and sub bass music with a 1970s High-Fantasy vibe for good measure. (I know, bare with me)
To get a more in-depth look, it all started in 2015 with a Discogs page set up to buy and sell parts of my record collection after returning to the UK from Germany. The name is a play on 'Southern Lord' one of my all-time favourite record labels based in the US responsible for releasing records by bands such as: Sunn O))), Sleep, Earth and Goatsnake.
Later I’d perform vinyl DJ sets under this moniker when invited to play a couple of shows in the UK around 2018/19. These sets comprised of music from my ever expanding collection of 70s prog-rock, doom, stoner, blues, fuzz, psych and even some folk and world music.
Of course, we all know what happened immediately following 2019, So I decided to take this format I'd been enjoying live into the digital world, I got a webcam and took to Facebook and Twitch to perform a series of live streams in a fun and more relaxed radio broadcast format playing all my favourite records to a group of friends and relatives in an attempt to elevate both our collective boredom.
Sadly, this didn't work out, as after only a couple of shows I was issued with a Facebook ban and multiple warnings from Twitch for playing copy written material in a live stream. So my days of pretending to be John Peel were sadly numbered. Fast-forward to Winter 2020 and work has already begun on the next Gore Tech releases, however during this process I'd find myself experimenting on some new tracks that certainly weren't Gore Tech tracks, but also they were not, not Gore Tech tracks either.
During the last 6 months I’ve been fortunate enough to escape into a world of ‘'Dungeon Synth', re-reading the works of Tolkien and spending a lot of time alone in the peak district national park. And as sound systems became an ever increasingly distant memory I’ve found my myself mixing tracks differently, more specifically producing music that
conventionally sounded like 'rock' anthems than standard 'bass music' and that's when I decided with the help of Murder Channel to lean on my trusty and rather versatile new alias to release these tracks out to the world.
Of course much like my other projects, (Hack Sabbath, Gain and Gore Tech) You can expect ‘heavy’ to be the optimum word albeit this one is a little more tongue-in-cheek and magical.
I really hope you enjoy listening to these new tracks as much as I did making them,
May your glasses remain full and your demons slumber,
Gore Tech / Northern Lord.
credits
released January 31, 2021
Northern Lord Presents: The Great Northern Dreadstep
Written And Produced By Gore Tech
Released by Murder Channel
Executive Producer: Umegatani Yuta
Music Video and Graphic Design by Machine™
machine.myportfolio.com
Footage taken from Lord of the Rings (1978) directed by Ralph Bakshi
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