HHR LA HQ BLOW OUT YARD SALE

The time has come for Hydra Head to shut down our LA HQ. It's been a long time coming, but that doesn't make the process any less of a heart breaker. In order to ease our pain a bit, we're opening our doors to the public for the first and last time on Saturday May 25th so we celebrate our disintegration with a Hydra Head Super-Power-Yard-Sale™. James O'Mara and Aaron Turner will be on hand to help serve you, and if you're nice, give you treats (sadly Sugar Bear aka Andrew Cox will be spending his last official paycheck in Mexico and won't be able to join us). We'll have tables set up with goodies in the office for your perusal, and snacks and refreshments available at random intervals. There will be some give away surprises to random customers and a free test pressing for the first five arrivals.

Some of what we'll have on had that day will include (but is not limited to) the following: $1 CDs, $5 t-shirts, office furniture (anyone need a desk? - we'll be giving away some of our office stuff as well), discounted copies of recent vinyl titles, Hydra Head Super-Rarities™ (original pressings of Cave In "Beyond Hypothermia" LP, Converge/Agoraphobic Nosebleed LP, Discordance Axis "Inalienable Dreamless" LP, Cave In "Jupiter" LP, Botch "We Are the Romans" 2xLP, Neurosis "Sovereign" LP, Pelican "The Fire in Our Throats..." 2xLP, etc), AND some other related treasures (ISIS test pressings and box sets, screen printed tour posters, random black metal t-shirts, and whatever other gems we can dig up). Our aim is to get rid of as much as is possible in our office, so if you see something you like hanging on a wall or sitting on a desk make us an offer and see what happens!

Here are the specifics:

Hydra Head Power-Blow-Out-Yard-Sale-Extravaganza™
Saturday, May 25th
Noon - 7 pm
4222 Santa Monica Blvd #104
Los Angeles
90029

Thanks to everyone who made our Los Angeles dreams come true. We'll miss you! Come on by to say bye, and take some treasures home - from our horde to yours!

xoxo,
Team Hydra
(Aaron, James, Andrew)

BOTCH American Nervoso 2xLP, CAVE IN Until Your Heart Stops 2xLP

BOTCH - American Nervoso 2xLP and CAVE IN - Until Your Heart Stops 2xLP are now available in the Hydra Head Shop, plus new shirt and hoodie designs for both, and a limited edition windbreaker for Botch!

  

BOTCH

American Nervoso

2xLP, CD, digital

  

Expanded to a 2xLP to include bonus tracks on vinyl for the first time. Remastered for vinyl by James Plotkin. Available on black, Fuchsia (purple?), or Steam (HHR exclusive) vinyl. Army Green Vinyl (Record Store Day exclusive) was available in stores only. 

 

Originally recorded in 1998, this is Botch's debut full-length and first Hydra Head release. It features white-hot guitar action, scathing vocals, sweet bass moves, and torrential drums. Smashing existing precepts of hardcore and redefining both the word and the music for a generation of matinee kids and grizzled vets alike.

BOTCH American Nervoso Ltd. Windbreaker

BOTCH   American Nervoso   T-Shirt

BOTCH   American Nervoso   Pullover Hoodie

 

 

CAVE IN

Until Your Heart Stops

2xLP, CD

 

Half of the pressing is housed in jackets from the original run that we've stored for years, the other half in new jackets from reconstructed art. Remastered for vinyl by James Plotkin. Availbable on black or white (HHR Exclusive) vinyl. Translucent Orange/Black Swirl vinyl (Record Store Day exclusive) was in stores only.

 

Cave In have had many musical identities since their inception in Methuen, MA, in 1995, but the one that first established them as underground heroes was the dizzying, face-ripping metal blowout now known the world over as Until Your Heart Stops. -J. Bennett / Decibel Magazine

 

CAVE IN   Halo Of Flies   T-Shirt

CAVE IN  Until Your Heart Stops  Zip Hoodie

RECORD STORE DAY 2013 - BOTCH, CAVE IN

Record Store Day 2013 (this Saturday, April 20th) is a Hydra Head hardcore bonanza, a one-two punch to the crotch, a double dose of double LPs of millennial metal masterpieces BOTCH - American Nervoso and CAVE IN - Until Your Heart Stops! 

Try not to trash your turntable when you are bashing up your bedroom along to these bammers!

BOTCH

American Nervoso

2xLP

Expanded to a 2xLP to include bonus tracks on vinyl for the first time. Remastered for vinyl by James Plotkin. RSD exclusive Army Green vinyl is unmarked and randomly distributed in stores only. 

Originally recorded in 1998, this is Botch's debut full-length and first Hydra Head release. It features white-hot guitar action, scathing vocals, sweet bass moves, and torrential drums. Smashing existing precepts of hardcore and redefining both the word and the music for a generation of matinee kids and grizzled vets alike.

CAVE IN

Until Your Heart Stops

2xLP

Half of the pressing is housed in jackets from the original run that we've stored for years, the other half in new jackets from reconstructed art. Remastered for vinyl by James Plotkin. RSD exclusive Translucent Orange/Black Swirl vinyl is unmarked and randomly distributed in stores only.

Cave In have had many musical identities since their inception in Methuen, MA, in 1995, but the one that first established them as underground heroes was the dizzying, face-ripping metal blowout now known the world over as Until Your Heart Stops. -J. Bennett / Decibel Magazine 

Stores carrying HYDRA HEAD RSD titles 

(This list doesn't include international stores or stores who ordered from onestops or other distributors. Contact your local shop to see if they have the records you want!)

1-2-3-4 Go! Records 

2nd Avenue Records

641 RPM

Absolute Vinyl Records

AFK Books

All Day Records

Amoeba Music Berkeley

Amoeba Music Hollywood

Amoeba Music San Francisco

Aquarius Records

Armageddon Shop

Attic Record Store

Backside Records Burbank

Better Days Records

BK Music

Bleecker Street Records

Blue Groove Soundz

BooBoo Records-San Luis Obispo

Bop Shop Records

Bull Moose Music

Cactus Music

Canterbury Records

CD Alley Chapel Hill

CD Central

CD World - Eugene

Chaz's Bull City Records

Co-op Records

Co-op Records Clinton

The Corner Record Shop

Criminal Records

Crooked Beat

Culture Clash

Culture Shock Records

Darkside Records & Gallery

Dave's Records

Deadbeat Records

Deep Search Records

Dimple Records

Disc Exchange

Double Decker Records

Doylestown Music, dba Siren

Dusty Groove

Ear Candy

Earshot Charleston

Earshot Music - Laurens

Earshot Music - Winston-Salem

Earwax Records - Brooklyn

Easy Street Records

Electric Fetus

Electric Kitsch

Encore Music

End of An Ear

Error Records

Euclid Records

Everyday Music

The Exclusive Co.

Finder's Records and Tapes

Fingerprints

Flat Black and Circular

For The Record

Forever Young

Freakbeat Records

Fuzz Records

Gallery of Sound HQ

Generation Records

Going Underground Records
Good Records

Gray Whale CD

Grimey's

The Groove

Guestroom Records

Guestroom Records Bricktown

Guestroom Records OKC

Harvest Records

Homer's Records

Hot Poop

House of Records

Independent Records

Indy CD and Vinyl

In Living Stereo

In The Moment Music & Gifts

Jackpot Records

J & R Music World

Ka-CHUNK Records

Lakeshore Record Exchange

Landlocked Music

Laurie's Planet of Sound

Long in the Tooth

Looney Tunes

Love Garden Sounds

Lunchbox

Mass Media Records

Melody Supreme

Mojo Books and Music

Monster Music & Movies

Mount Analog

M-Theory

Music Millennium

Music Saves

Neat Neat Neat Records and Music

NeedleDrop Records

Newbury Comics

Orange Records

Origami (LA)

Other Music

Permanent Records-Illinois

Permanent Records-Los Angeles

Porchlight Coffee & Records

Princeton Record Exchange

Pure Pop Records

Radio-Active Records

Rainbow Records (Barrington)

Rainy Day Records

Ramalama Records

Ranch Records-Salem

Rasputin Music

Reckless Records - Loop

Reckless Records- Wicker Park

Reckless Records-Broadway

Record Archive

The Record Exchange

Record Exchange Boise

The Record Room

Redscroll Records

Repo Records

Retrofit Records

Revelation Records

Revolver Pensacola

Rhino Records Claremont

Rockaway Records

Salzer's

Scotti's

Schoolkids Records

Second Hand Tunes

Shake It

Shangri La

Shuga Records

Sig's Lagoon

Silver Platters

Size Records

Skully'z Recordz

Sonic Boom Records

SOS Music

Sound Cat Records

Sound Exchange (Houston)

Sound Garden

Spinnaker Records

Spoonful Records

Square Records

Static Age Records

Steady Sounds Record Store

Stinkweeds - Phoenix

Streetlight - San Jose

Streetlight - Santa Cruz

Strictly Discs

The Telegraph

Toad Hall Books & Records

Tracks Records

Trailer Space

Transcontinent Record Sales

Treehouse Records

Tune Town

Twist & Shout

Uncle Sam's - Miami Beach

Underground Sounds

Vacation Vinyl

Vintage Vinyl Fords

Vintage Vinyl St. Louis

Vinyl Daze Records

Vinyl Edge

Vinyl Solution - Huntington Beach

Von's Records

Waiting Room Records

Waterloo

Wax N' Facts

Wax Trax

Wuxtry Records - Athens

Young Ones

Zia Enterprises

Zions Gate

ZZZ Records  

HELMS ALEE - Pre-Order New Album!

Hydra Head alumni, HELMS ALEE, are holding a pre-sale for their upcoming third full-length, Sleepwalking Sailors, to be released by their own record label, Rolf Neslund, in fall 2013.  

They chose Kickstarter to raise money for recording, manufacturing, etc.
Help play a part in the release - you have until Monday April 22nd to pre-order the vinyl (and more!) here.  

Pre-sale vinyl comes with a limited edition hand silk screened cover.  

If nothing else, the video is worth a laugh.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/helmsalee/new-helms-alee-record-presale

PRE-ORDER: CONVERGE and DISCORDANCE AXIS

We are proud to announce 

CONVERGE - Caring & Killing 2xLP and 

DISCORDANCE AXIS - Jouhou 2xLP 

now available for pre-order in the Hydra Head Shop at Blue Collar Distro.

CONVERGE

Caring & Killing: The Early Years 1991-1994 

2xLP, Zip Hoodie, T-Shirt

  

- First time on vinyl ever! 

- Converge's early recordings finally available again after being out of print for years.

- New audio mastered by Alan Douches.

- Packaging designed by Jacob Bannon with artwork by Aaron Turner.

- 2xLP in gatefold sleeve with 3 different colored vinyl versions.

  

For anyone remotely familiar with the heavy music underground of the last two decades, Converge needs no introduction. They are  recognized as one of the most ferociously consistent, challenging and influential bands within and beyond their realm. Like other long-running institutions Neurosis, Sonic Youth, The Melvins, or Fugazi, Converge was born from the wellspring of punk and hardcore, quickly mutating into something all together different - an aural beast of their own design.  Their sound has since fluctuated and evolved over a long and industrious career, but even in their earliest days the hallmarks of their sound were there - whiplash dynamics, floor-stomping breakdowns, brittle heart-rending melodies and a torrential sense of momentum.

The collection of Caring & Killing captures Converge in their formative years, spanning the timeframe of 1991-1994 . This period was extremely productive for the band, generating the debut full length Halo in a Haystack, a slew of compilation appearances and split EPs, as well as multiple demo sessions. The resultant tracks were unpredictable - rageful and delicate, catchy and obtuse. Despite the harsh juxtaposition of opposing elements, it was clear Converge possessed the will and the wit to construct cohesive songs from the maelstrom, ones that proved to be powerfully charismatic in their idiosyncratic nature.  These early anthems are certainly more ungainly than those of present day Converge , but they burn with the same vitality and punishing drive for which the band is known and loved. These incendiary sermons are as utterly convincing now as upon the day of their first iteration, and from them a cult was born.

CONVERGE Caring & Killing Vinyl 2xLP Pre-Order - $24.99

CONVERGE Caring & Killing Ltd. Zip Hoodie Pre-Order - $35.00

CONVERGE   Caring & Killing    Ltd. T-Shirt  Pre-Order - $18.00

DISCORDANCE AXIS 

Jouhou

2xLP, Ltd. T-shirt

  

The mid-1990s were a pretty bleak period for grindcore. The genre's progenitors had either retired into their dotage or were aimlessly wallowing in creative bankruptcy.

A change was needed, and New Jersey upstarts Discordance Axis were about to upend 15 years of grindcore tradition and  establish the template for 21st Century extremity. Where first album Ulterior owed obvious debts to their musical forerunners,Discordance Axis found their unique voice on 1997's Jouhou (Japanese for "Information"), turning in 18 minutes of sleek, cyberpunked grind that directly addressed human frailty and emotions rather than recycling the same political jeremiads and empty slogans.  

Unlike the first wave of grind, which owed obvious debts to '80s hardcore, Discordance Axissounded fresh and modern, buoyed by guitarist Rob Marton's forward thinking playing, which melded fleet-fingered technique with streamlined, pinpoint aggression. Marton was influenced as much by Voivod as he was by Napalm Death, and he was one of the few grindcore guitarist whose compositions revolved around actual riffs that were driven by Dave Witte's frenetic, pinpoint drumming. Added to that, Jon Chang introduced a whole new lexicon that appropriated themes and images from manga, science fiction and cartoons and turned them into metaphors for loss, loneliness and alienation, topics that grindcore had never seriously addressed. Together, the trio were the first to make a bid for grindcore as a capital-A Art form. There was more to their blastbeating than a bunch of kids mouthing off at the world.  

  

- Andrew Childers, Grind and Punishment

DISCORDANCE AXIS  Jouhou Vinyl 2xLP Pre-Order - $23.99

DISCORDANCE AXIS  Jouhou  Ltd. T-Shirt  Pre-Order - $18.00

HYDRA HEAD Update, HELMS ALEE Pre-Order, HHR Collection

Hello fellow members of the HHR Musical CO-OP Foundation™, some updates for you here from HQ:

First off, THANK YOU to all of you who contributed/are contributing to the CO-OP's health by participating in our fundraising efforts. Whether you purchased a sticker, donated a dollar, or bought the entire Hydra Head Test Press Collection ©, every little bit has helped us regain some of our former strength and provided some stable ground on which we continue to tread. Because of your generous support in just a few short months we've managed to pay off some long standing debts, keep our remaining staff clothed and fed, and get five reissue projects into production*. While we're not out of the woods yet, we're doing a far sight better than we were before this whole Hydra Health™ Plan was initiated. Though our path out of the dark is still dim and strewn with obstacles, there is certainly hope for the future that we'll be able to continue repressing our back catalog, thanks to everyone who's helped shed some light along the way - and to all of those people, we are very grateful indeed. 

Helms Alee

Next up on the agenda is the new album in the works from Hydra Head alumni Helms Alee. Saddened as we are by our inability to participate in the release of this album, we're happy to announce the band themselves are shouldering the duty of releasing it. In an effort to raise the necessary funds to make the record happen they've launched a Kickstarter pre-sale campaign with some pretty sweet packages on offer for potential backers. To watch their superbly crafted promo video and score a copy of what is sure to be one of the best albums of the year go here to pledge your support: 

Helms Alee 'Sleepwalking Sailors' pre-order

Hydra Head Records Collection

Speaking of support, we managed to pull together one more complete Hydra Head Records Collection™pulled directly from the A. Turner Archives © to help with our own continued fundraising efforts. The set includes over 240 different releases - LPs, 7"s, 2xLPs, DVDs, pictures discs, cassettes, compact discs, 6"s, etc. Aside from the wide array of fantastic items listed above, there are also some special surprises provided with the set, including but not limited to 5 (or more) test pressing editions from our unparalleled catalog of recorded sound works. Proceeds from the sale of this set will go directly towards the pressing of future Hydra Head Records catalog titles. Though we realize this is a steep sticker price, the eBay value alone is well above our own comparatively modest asking amount, not to mention the fact that you'd be obtaining over 7200 minutes of the worlds best music! 

Go here for more on this fantastic offer: Hydra Head Records Collection™

And that about concludes our news for the moment. We'll be back next week with details on some exciting pre-order launches for the Discordance Axis - Jouhou 2xLP and Converge - Caring & Killing 2xLP as well as a bit more on our exciting Record Store Day releases: Cave In - Until Your Heart Stops 2xLP andBotch - American Nervoso 2xLP. 

'Til then, thanks for tuning in and "see" you next time...

HYDRA HEAD COMPLETE COLLECTION V 2.0

OK big spenders, now's your chance:

That's right - we've assembled another complete set of Hydra Head Recordings pulled directly from the A. Turner HHR Archives™. The set includes over 240 different releases - LPs, 7"s, 2xLPs, DVDs, pictures discs, cassettes, compact discs, 6"s, etc.! All releases in the set are provided on the vinyl format, unless the release in question was not manufactured on that format. All vinyl included is either first pressing or colored vinyl, in many instances both. Aside from the wide array of fantastic items listed above, there are also some special surprises provided with the set, including but not limited to 5 (or more) test pressing editions from our unparalleled catalog of recorded sound works. 3 BIG boxes of the worlds best music available here for the last time in one complete set, delivered directly to your home anywhere in the world. Proceeds from the sale of this set will go directly towards the pressing of future Hydra Head Records catalog titles....

It's available here.

Thank you.