Countdown to Bandcamp Friday (September 2021): What's New at MAR

The countdown is ON for the September 2021 edition which starts this Friday at 00:00 Pacific Time, and running through for a full 24 hours from its start.

If you're unfamiliar with the concept, you may ask, what is Bandcamp Friday? It is Bandcamp's initiative to support artists and indie labels during the covid pandemic, which has hit the music industry as hard as any other. In short, Bandcamp waives its usual 10-15% revenue fee from midnight to midnight Pacific Time on these designated Fridays, and sellers get to keep 100% of revenue generated during this 24-hour period. BC has done these on the first Friday of every month since May 2020 (except January, June and July 2021) and as per the latest update, BC Fridays will continue through the rest of 2021.

If you'd rather not worry about converting from PDT to your timezone, BC has an easy timer set up for your convenience, on isitbandcampfriday.com.

Now with the infomercial out of the way, onto the fun stuff. This coming BC Friday marks another huge and important one for MAR, with one new release and as many as eleven pre-order campaigns, including three new campaigns launching at the onset of this BC Friday, plus lots of new music, videos and merch being revealed throughout the roster. And, a whole bunch of exisiting music and merch in stock. 

RELEASING THIS BC FRIDAY:

MALISON (speed metal / neoclassical / thrash metal, San Diego): 

• New album Death's Embrace available on digipack CD, colored vinyl and digital download
• Free instant download of entire album with CD or vinyl purchase
• Album reviewed favorably (7/10 rating) in current issue of Decibel Magazine, and by online outlets Heavy Mag, Metal Epidemic and Razor's Edge Rocks.
• Album premiered exclusively via Ghost Cult Magazine on Thursday September 2, a day prior to release 
• Direct buy link: malison.bandcamp.com/album/deaths-embrace

PRE-ORDERS LAUNCHING THIS BC FRIDAY:

1. OLD BLOOD (psych rock / doom metal, Los Angeles):

• 2020 album Acid Doom vinyl repress on 180-gram black 12" LP with gatefold jacket, limited to 300 copies
• Test pressings for the repress will come with special exclusive "Pentahead" cover art, and will be limited to 25 signed, hand-numbered copies
• Free instant digital download of entire album with every pre-order
• Direct pre-order link: oldbloodgroup.bandcamp.com 

2. VANDALIZER (rock 'n roll / heavy metal, New York City): 

• New EP Ride (releasing October 29 2021 via MAR) will be available for pre-order on cassette and digital formats
• Pre-order-exclusive merch bundles will include the Ride cassette, t-shirt, and the previous two releases Desensitize (7" vinyl) and New Curse (cassette)
• Free digital EP pre-order with every physical pre-order
• Free instant download of lead single "Time Can't Count" with every digital or physical pre-order
• Music video for "Time Can't Count" premieres at 00:00 PDT to coincide with the onset of BC Friday
• Direct pre-order link: vandalizer1.bandcamp.com

 

3. DAEMONELIX (death / doom / groove metal):

• Debut EP Devil's Corkscrew (releasing October 1 2021 via MAR) will be available for pre-order on digipack CD and digital formats
• Pre-order-exclusive merch bundle will include the CD and t-shirt
• Free digital EP pre-order with every physical pre-order
• Free instant download of lead single "Raise Crows" with every digital or physical pre-order
• Music video for "Raise Crows" premieres at 00:00 PDT to coincide with the onset of BC Friday
• Direct pre-order link: daemonelix.bandcamp.com

 

ONGOING PRE-ORDERS CONTINUING FROM AUGUST (band names linked to artist bandcamp URLs): 

1. ZYCH (epic progressive / power metal): Debut album Dante's Inferno Part I deluxe digipack CD, merch bundles and digital download
2. ABSOLUM (heavy metal, Louisiana): Debut album Grand Design digipack CD , merch bundles and digital download
3. EALDOR BEALU (progressive stoner rock / doom metal, Boise, Idaho): Spirit of the Lonely Places digipack CD
4. THE BLUE PRISON (instrumental prog, Los Angeles): Self-titled album digipack CD, merch bundle and digital download
5. DAWN FADES (post-metal / prog / blackened doom, Los Angeles): Ode colored vinyl LP, digipack CD, merch bundles and digital download
6. SEA SLEEPER (death metal, Portland, Oregon): Nostophobia colored vinyl LP
7. CIRCLE OF SIGHS (synth doom / avant-garde): Narci grimace purple vinyl LP
8. VARKAN (power metal, Phoenix AZ): Self-titled album reissue deluxe digipack CD

NEW MUSIC VIDEOS PREMIERING THIS BC FRIDAY:

 

2021 RELEASES IN STOCK (band names linked to artist bandcamp URLs):

1. SOLAR HAZE (stoner metal / heavy metal, Los Angeles): The Solar Age digipack CD, shirts and digital download
2. FERMENTOR (instrumental death metal, San Diego): Continuance digipack CD, shirts and digital download
3. THROUGH THE OCULUS (melodic death metal / eclectic heavy metal, Southern California): Self-titled album digipack CD, shirts and digital download

4. HATESONG (black metal / crust punk / thrash, Indiana): Chapel Rats digipack CD, merch bundle and digital download

5. CIRCLE OF SIGHS (synth doom / avant-garde): Narci vinyl test pressings, digipack CD, shirts and digital download

6. BEEKEEPER (thrash metal, San Diego): Slaves to the Nothing CD, red-with-black-splatter vinyl, cassette tapes and digital download
7. DEADWOLFF (rock 'n roll, Canada): Self-titled EP cassette tape and digital download
8. VARKAN (power metal, Phoenix AZ): Butcher cassette and digital download
9. SEA OF SNAKES (stoner rock / heavy metal, Los Angeles): World On Fire digipack CD, shirts, keychains and digital download
10. SEA SLEEPER (death metal, Portland, Oregon): Nostophobia digipack CD, shirts and digital download

PLUS, 2019-20 RELEASES & DISTRO TITLES: Warwind, Living Darkness, Metal Assault Mixtapes, Hvile I Kaos + Emerson Sinclair, RoadRash, Beatallica, Formula 400, Deveria, Enertia, Within The Fire, EchoSoul, Roman Singleton, Wasteland Coven & Canens Carcer

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