AUTHOR & PUNISHER Announces January Live Actions

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AUTHOR & PUNISHER Announces January Live Actions Supporting Philip H. Anselmo And The Illegals 

Following a mega successful run of live takeovers last summer supporting Philip H. Anselmo And The Illegals, AUTHOR & PUNISHER
 sound manipulator, Tristan Shone, is pleased to pack up his steel and 
unite with Anselmo and company for another mutinous round of sonic 
abrasions.

Just in time to ring in the New Year, the second leg of the Technicians Of Distortion Tour will commence on January 10th
 in Houston, Texas and head westward, trampling through over a dozen 
cities with additional support provided by Hymns. Shone also has a few 
new mechanized surprises to unveil. Comments Shone: "West
 Coast: I will be unveiling a new set of electromechanical vocal 
manipulation masks and devices, never before used during a tour as well 
as some new and old tracks." You are hereby warned.

As a precursor to the Technicians Of Distortion trek, AUTHOR & PUNISHER
 will join the audio antagonists in Corrections House for two special 
performances in Los Angeles and San Diego. See confirmed live actions 
below.

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 And 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, Texas
 1/28/2014 Trees - Dallas, Texas

AUTHOR & PUNISHER continues to tour in support of the colossal Women & Children full-length,
 released earlier this year via Seventh Rule Recordings. Relying on cold
 steel and soulless machinery to replicate dejection, hopelessness and 
earthly doom, Shone utilizes primarily custom designed and fabricated 
machines, speakers and various devices that draw heavily on aspects of 
industrial automation and robotics and focuses upon the eroticism of the
 interaction with the machine. The machines are designed to require 
significant force from the performer, aligning he/she with the plodding 
doom-influenced sounds that are created. Shone's results transcend 
beyond the traditional confines of the industrial genre however into a 
dimension far more cold and grim.

Metal Injection calls the record a "powerful 
and chilling piece of music," further elaborating that, "Tristan Shone 
demonstrates the same talent for crafting harsh yet melodic songs that 
Trent Reznor possesses; the slavering ugliness and sci-fi horror 
atmosphere recalls Skinny Puppy; the sparse futurism and twitchy 
mechanical grind is reminiscent of Gridlock; and Shone, with his 
homemade electronic contraptions, has to at least be considered a 
spiritual successor to Einstürzende Neubauten. Art isn't created in a 
vacuum, and the fact that AUTHOR & PUNISHER has some things in common with other bands doesn't diminish that fact that Women & Children is a colossal album," Stereogum applauds Women & Children
 noting, "Shone's apocalyptic noise blends elements of industrial, doom,
 and dubstep, and contorts that mass into some chilling, unrecognizable 
form...," Sputnik Music commends, "...an all-consuming trip into the 
realm of mental destruction that amazes with its potent use of musical 
machinery... Both greatly daring and innovative, the record is destined 
to be one of the most coveted underground releases of the year," while 
MetalSucks recalls the AUTHOR & PUNISHER live
 experience to be "extremely loud, bass-heavy, powerful and industrial, 
calling to mind Godflesh-gone-'roidal," Cvlt Nation crowns Shone, "the 
perfect blend of man and machine; a musical cyborg locked into a rig 
that is both dark and twisted. 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." Adds Pitchfork, "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."

AUTHOR & PUNISHER's Women & Children is currently available via Seventh Rule Recordings. Order your copy at THIS LOCATION.

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