PHILM Announce Los Angeles Record Release Show

April 26, 2012, 12 years ago

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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 - will release their debut album, Harmonic, on May 15th via Ipecac Recordings.

The three-piece have a busy month ahead with a May 15th hometown show/release party scheduled at The Viper Room in L.A.

Philm will also be conducting a live interactive video fan chat on Tuesday, May 1st at 1 PM, PT via Yowie. To tune in and ask the band "anything" click here.

"When people hear about my involvement in Philm, they automatically assume that it will compare to Slayer's sound," explains Lombardo. "They couldn't be more different. I have scaled down my drum set to a four-piece, reminiscent of the drummers from the late '60s that influenced me. Each song is unique in itself, I like to refer to it as 'rhythmic emotion." 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."

"We decided to record Harmonic in the intimate setting of a home, with various vintage recording equipment. " says Lombardo on the band's debut album. "The music was written collectively in an improvisational manner, unlike the majority of recordings I've done before. This was very important given this is my first recording where I'm carrying the title of Producer and performer. The album achieves a dense, unholy convergence of tones and discords. We also touch on haunting, desolate, ambient sounds. Our music tends to be written in a manner where we never know the outcome until we listen back to what we recorded. A Harmonic journey."

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.

Harmonic tracklisting:

'Vitriolize'

'Mitch'

'Hun'

'Area'

'Way Down'

'Harmonic'

'Exuberance'

'Sex Amp'

'Amoniac'

'Held In Light'

'Dome'

'Killion'

'Mezzanine'

'Mild'

'Meditation'

Philm's next show is April 28th at The Ruby Room in San Diego, CA, with more tour dates to be announced soon.

(Band photo: Cammy Kinney)


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