Batillus

With songs that move from bristling blast beats to subterranean crawls, Batillus (buh-TILL-us) cohere the extremes of heavy music into a surge of massive riffing, rolling over and descending on the listener with the force and intensity of a sudden storm. The New Yorker describes Batillus as “a sludgy four-piece that slows monstrous Black Sabbath riffs to a crawl to produce highly textured compositions of droning doom-metal,” and Revolver calls their music “beyond-atmospheric blackened doom.”

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Batillus’ debut full-length, Furnace, will be released this spring via Seventh Rule Records in North America and the UK and Vendetta Records in Continental Europe. The album, which was recorded at Semaphore Studios with engineer Sanford Parker (Yob, Rwake, Unearthly Trance, Nachtmystium, Pelican), will be available in vinyl, CD, and digital formats from the labels and the band directly, as well as at many independent record stores.

Originally conceived in 2007 as an instrumental trio, Batillus’ lineup expanded in 2009 to add vocals and synth to the dynamic range of their music. The band’s writing process is thoroughly democratic; each member contributes his own ideas to the whole, which allows for stylistic range and intricacy in the songs and their parts. No individual is more important than another, and the results are truly a representation of the band’s collective vision. The band has recorded and released a pair of EPs on their own, both of which are now sold out, and a 12″ split LP with Maine’s Hallowed Butchery. They have toured with Kowloon Walled City, Hull, Salome, Elder, and Riff Cannon, Author and Punisher, and Theologian, among others.