AUTHOR & PUNISHER will bring the steel to the stage this Sunday in Los Angeles for the first of two performances supporting audio terrorists, Corrections House. The show marks the first of a three-week journey that will find AUTHOR & PUNISHER – the gargantuan sound manipulations of one Tristan Shone – again rupturing pavement alongside Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals on the second leg of the Technicians Of Distortion Tour. The chaos will rise on January 10th in Houston, Texas and head westward, leveling more than a dozen cities. Additional support will be provided by Hymns.
AUTHOR & PUNISHER continues to tour in support of the mammoth Women & Children full-length, released last year via Seventh Rule Recordings. Commended by Cvlt Nation for manifesting “the perfect blend of man and machine,” who furthers, “Shone crafts a truly dense and unbridled set of doom and drove-inspired music, all of which is accompanied by a visceral, emotionally-rich live performance,” the record continues to floor fans and critics nationwide and abroad for its disturbingly poignant brand of industrial doom. In employing primarily custom designed and fabricated machines, speakers and various devices that draw heavily on aspects of industrial automation and robotics, Shone – who boasts a BS in mechanical engineering and an MFA in visual arts — manages to replicate dejection, desperation and earthly doom through sound with curious poise. On his latest run of audio demonstrations, Shone will road-test a new set of electromechanical vocal manipulation masks and devices, which have yet to be engaged live.
AUTHOR & PUNISHER – Live Punishments 2014:
w/ Corrections House
1/05/2014 Echoplex – Los Angeles, CA
1/06/2014 Soda Bar – San Diego, CA
w/ Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals, Hymns
1/10/2014 Warehouse Live/Studio Room – Houston, TX
1/11/2014 Riverside Warehouse – Shreveport, LA
1/13/2014 Pop’s Nightclub – St. Louis, MO
1/14/2014 Waiting Room – Omaha, NE
1/15/2014 Summit Music Hall – Denver, CO
1/17/2014 El Corazon – Seattle, WA
1/18/2014 Hawthorne Theatre – Portland, OR
1/20/2014 Ace Of Spades – Sacramento, CA
1/22/2014 Metal Masters – Los Angeles, CA
1/24/2014 Pub Rock – Scottsdale, AZ
1/25/2014 Launchpad – Albuquerque, NM
1/27/2014 Backstage Live – San Antonio, TX
1/28/2014 Trees – Dallas, TX
AUTHOR & PUNISHER’s Women & Children is currently available via Seventh Rule Recordings. Order your copy at THIS LOCATION.
“Traces of doom, dubstep, industrial, noise, and honest-to-goodness pop show up within Shone’s best songs. His music is immediate but mysterious, a chimera that’s recognizable but strange.” – Pitchfork
“…a powerful and chilling piece of music…” – Metal Injection
“..extremely loud, bass-heavy, powerful and industrial, calling to mind Godflesh-gone-‘roidal.” – MetalSucks on the A&P live experience
“Women & Children is a record that wants to hurt you and never stops probing your psyche for a weak spot.” – Exclaim
“Shone’s apocalyptic noise blends elements of industrial, doom, and dubstep, and contorts that mass into some chilling, unrecognizable form…” – Stereogum
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