Italian Jazz-metallers EPHEL DUATH have posted an mp3 of their track 'Hole IV', from the upcoming album Pain Remixes The Known, at their MySpace page

The Pain Remixes The Known album is a remix album of Pain Necessary To Know, which came out in 2006.

Guitarist Davide explains, "The way we designed the previous album, Pain Necessary To Know, left room for a lot of new interpretations, or remixes as is the case here. The initial idea came from Earache's Dan Tobin, and it seduced us straight away. We were on tour at the time and therefore had enough spare time on the road to discuss about all this and we all arrived to the conclusion that slowing down the BPM of PNTK to a dubbish rythm would be a slight risk that had the potential to become a thrilling experience."

He continues, "Two years ago ambient-dub guru Eraldo Bernocchi contacted us just to congratulate us for our work and ended up inviting us to dinner. Eraldo is a guitar player, producer and electronic musician. He's got more than 20 years of musical career and 75 full lenght albums spanning many different audio and visual projects with artists and musicians from all over the world. Some of his partners and collaborators are Bill Laswell, Mick Harris, Toshinori Kondo, Thomas Fehlmann, DJ Disk and Harold Budd. He scored various soundtracks, just to mention a few Nirvana and Denti of the Oscar Prize winner Gabriele Salvatores. Among his remixes he counts Almamegretta, Prince

Paul/Jungle Brothers, WordSound, Robert Miles, AFA, The Maldoror Project and many others ranging from dub to metal and drum and bass. A brilliant artist basically. So Lucio and I went to Tuscany where he lives and a lot of ideas regarding possible collaboration came up that night. After a few months Eraldo asked us to compose a song with him for the 20th anniversary of his band Sigillum S. The song came out real Pink Floydish, with spoken words as well as the typical Ephel Duath appeal added to the ambiant guitar of Eraldo. Some time went by and our friendship developed, and at some point Dan Tobin's idea for the remix album came up and we immediately thought of Eraldo. The whole album, Pain Remixes the Known, has been composed by Eraldo in his home studio called The Place with the help of collaborator and singer Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari."

"An Ephel Duath fan knows that the band is shapeless. We think that PRTK is an extremely important experiment that can help the band widen the scope of its fanbase and can surprise whoever is used to our sound. Just listen to it and see for yourself."

Get a taster of the album at www.myspace.com/ephelduath

Pain Remixes The Known is out on July 23rd on Earache Records.