Insound Staff Pick - 2008! An active four-piece for a little more than a year now, Religious Knives have presided over a pair of twelve-inches, a couple of collections of out of print singles and long gone burns, and one full-length. All throughout, these four have traced a path away from the clamor they once knew, bathing slight guitars, interlocking vocals, and solemn basslines in reedy organs and recalcitrant modular synths. The seemingly tin eared would call it noise, but in these eight hands suc   [ read more ]

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Insound Staff Pick - 2008! An active four-piece for a little more than a year now, Religious Knives have presided over a pair of twelve-inches, a couple of collections of out of print singles and long gone burns, and one full-length. All throughout, these four have traced a path away from the clamor they once knew, bathing slight guitars, interlocking vocals, and solemn basslines in reedy organs and recalcitrant modular synths. The seemingly tin eared would call it noise, but in these eight hands suc   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Religious Knives is Maya Miller, Michael Bernstein and Nate Nelson residing in Brooklyn. Maya and Michael run the Heavy Tapes cassette and art label and have played over 100 improvised shows with New York Drone mainstays Double Leopards. Nate Nelson co-runs the Our Mouth label and plays with kings of brutality Mouthus. Religious Knives is an extended song-based trio who explore the finer points of the "now" - an elusive thing, at best. Transitioning from improvised noise to tight melodic inver   [ read more ]

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A psychedelic epic, completely beautiful, dark and overtaking. Remains is Religious Knives first full length CD and is full of beautiful synth melodies, atonal guitar, twisted percussion and haunting vocals. Definitely one of those mythical releases dedicated to all believers of infinity. Religious Knives is Mike, Maya (both members of Double Leopards) and Nate Nelson (Mouthus.) Remains is a collection of completely out of print and long gone material that was released on small vin   [ read more ]

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Since their first release for No Fun Productions, the Religious Knives have grown into a stunningly assured and powerful rock n' roll band of sorts, one liberally and noticeably immersed in the smoke-addled haze of the psychedelic underground. Resin marches ahead with a vigorous potency that accurately shares its bloodline with the best psychedelic acts of the past. This is Brooklyn's true psychedelic rock.

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Since their first release for No Fun Productions, the Religious Knives have grown into a stunningly assured and powerful rock n' roll band of sorts, one liberally and noticeably immersed in the smoke-addled haze of the psychedelic underground. Resin marches ahead with a vigorous potency that accurately shares its bloodline with the best psychedelic acts of the past. This is Brooklyn's true psychedelic rock.

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Religious Knives is Maya Miller, Michael Bernstein and Nate Nelson residing in Brooklyn. Maya and Michael run the Heavy Tapes cassette and art label and have played over 100 improvised shows with New York Drone mainstays Double Leopards. Nate Nelson co-runs the Our Mouth label and plays with kings of brutality Mouthus. Religious Knives is an extended song-based trio who explore the finer points of the "now" - an elusive thing, at best. Transitioning from improvised noise to tight melodic inverted song forms   [ read more ]

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