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Holy Mountain’s first full length album ‘Ancient Astronauts‘ is now available to pre-order from the Chemikal Underground online shop. The album is available to buy on CD, limited edition gatefold vinyl & digital download. The vinyl will be on heavyweight 180gsm vinyl with CD included.

Masculine yet never macho, reverential yet never slavish, accomplished yet never
ostentatious – galaxy-shaking hard rock visionaries Holy Mountain return to
Planet Earth for the release of magnum opus ‘Ancient Astronauts‘ on 7th of April.

Want to try before you buy? Fill your boots with an excerpt of album title track ‘Ancient Astronauts’:

Holy Mountain and Chemikal Underground are delighted to be receiving marketing support from the BPI and UKTI‘s excellent ‘Music Export Growth Scheme‘. At a time when label’s like Chemikal Underground inevitably struggle to invest in overseas marketing, the MEGS will be helping us channel resources into our strongest European territory, Germany, in support of ‘Ancient Astronauts‘. Working with our long-time German partners Rough Trade, we’ll be pushing Holy Mountain’s thunderous new album into every German nook and cranny we can find.

‘Ancient Astronauts‘ will be released on April 7th in the UK and Europe, but in the meantime our German, Dutch and English friends can catch their far from retiring live show very soon: check the dates on the right hand side of the page for details.

Available on CD, LP & digital download, the deluxe vinyl package comes in the form of that mouthwatering rock staple, the gatefold sleeve. It’ll also be in 180gsm vinyl and includes, as always the CD, ensuring your portable digital kicks are satisfied. It’s limited mind, so you’ll have to be quick to get your hands on this one…

As far as the Music Export Growth Scheme is concerned, there’s another funding round taking place in Spring 2014. It takes a very progressive approach towards offering practical, financial assistance to independent labels selling overseas and we’d encourage any of our fellow labels out there to consider applying if you’ve got campaigns coming in the second half of this year. A great initiative that deserves to be championed and promoted. 

They say “good things comes to those who wait”. In this case it doesn’t apply as Hubby is about to embark on a mini European tour which kicks off on the 1st of December in Durham, England. The ten date tour takes in England, Holland, Germany and comes to an end in Paris, France on the 11th of December. Details of the venues and cities he will be visiting are over to your right.

The tour brings to a close what can easily be described as a tremendous 2013 for Hubby. Picking up the ‘Scottish Album Of The Year Award’ in June and the subsequent release of his third album ‘Breaks & Bone’.

Holy Mountain return with a brand new 7″ single ‘Luftwizard’.  The title track’s taken from their (currently nameless) second studio album which is due for release in early 2014. The b-side?  Well that’s an almighty version of Black Sabbath’s classic ‘War Pigs’, a stalwart of their live set. You can pick up the single from their Glasgow launch show onwards and don’t be slow because it’s limited to 500 copies. Tour dates are below with main support coming from Rungs.

The single will be available on our online shop and via discerning record emporia in the not too distant future.

17th Oct – Liverpool – Lomax
18th Oct – Glasgow – Cathouse (7″ launch) tickets
19th Oct – Leeds – Brudenell Social Club
20th Oct – Aberdeen – The Tunnels

RM Hubbert returns with a new album, radiating the effulgent glow of success after ‘Thirteen Lost & Found’ dropped jaws and raised the roof by (quite justifiably) snaffling this year’s SAY Award. If the technical artistry and emotional warmth which infused that record seemed like a career high, then hold that thought and steal yourself for ‘Breaks & Bone’…

An entirely solo effort this time round, ‘Breaks & Bone’ is notable for the inclusion of Hubby’s vocals on each consecutive song. It’s an album of hair-raising beauty and no little emotional clout in fact, we might as well be the first ones to lavish praise on an album that, in our opinion, is up there with the very best Chemikal Underground has ever released.

The fact that this album is CHEM200 just makes it all the more fitting: a landmark release in every conceivable sense.

Good things come to those who wait. Nearing 11 years after ‘5:14 Fluoxytine Seagull Alcohol John Nicotine’ was released on CD, we have finally got around to releasing it on vinyl. Not just a standard issue LP vinyl, oh no. We have went to town on this one and it is limited to 750 copies. Here is what to expect…

*The original ‘5:14’ album on heavyweight double vinyl.
*10 track single LP of original acoustic recordings.
*15 track CD of bonus material.
*Signed and numbered 12″x12″ artwork/lyric sheet.
*Data disc that includes all the audio in the LP on 320kbps MP3’s & the ‘Crappo The Clown’ short film by Martin Smith.

If you are lucky enough to get along to one of Malcolm’s up and coming gigs then you can pick up a copy of the deluxe LP there. The dates are listed over to the right. Malcolm will be playing a solo set which includes a selection of new songs as well as tracks from ‘5:14’. Support for the tour comes from Fence artist Seamus Fogarty.

Want the LP?  Click here.