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GHOST BROS OST VINYL!!!
That's right folks! Eat My Shit Records took the plunge and Ghost Bros OST will be available on vinyl by early December!!!!! This is a limited edtion of 100 copies. You can preorder your copy on bandcamp.
Zero4 Champ DooZy-J video by PHIL THOMAS KATT!!!
A TOTAL DREAM COME TRUE! Phil made a most excellent video for this song. I hope you enjoy!
Hag Lore extended cut on Hard Return
An abbridged version of the song 'Hag Lore' appears on my new album Ghost Bros OST, but now you can fest on an extended cut thanks to HARD RETURN!!!
"If the original, six-minute cut of “Hag Lore” situates the listener inside a labyrinthine cave network, this extended version posits the prospect of never getting out. At this duration the bass drone adopts a thick gravitational drag, murmuring in some sort of core-born morbid siren summoning, while all manner of soft hallucinations thicken across the upper frequencies: cruelly imagined shafts of escape-route moonlight, glinting rescue team torches. These phantoms start to melt from the moment they materialise, leaving the listener with the corporeal mainstays of twitching static and tumbles of synth detritus. It’s an environment both spacious and smothering – a gradual diminishment of both sensory input and survival optimism."
Split with Chuck Bettis out now!
This magical friendship split between Chuck Bettis and myself has been in the works for a good long while and it's finally going to be a real tangible tape at the end of August! This is a limited edition of 50 tapes released on Eat My Shit Records.
Ghost Bros OST in Wire Magazine!
"Trigger Object is the new moniker adopted by Veronica 'Vern' Avola, and their latest release is a set of metaphysical sonic oddities inspired by the artist's love of ghost hunting reality TV shows. On Ghost Bros OST Avola relishes taking things to playful, noisy extremes with acrid atmospherics, creepy unidentifiable clangs and clunks, and oodles of goopy, pungent distortion. The ghost hunting theme is playfully explored on "Trailer Squatting Arsonist", a slow burning horror show that
begins in hesitant, clunking rhythms and ends with a screaming, hissing wall of noise."Chaos Control" is all flashing lamps, trembling side tables and EMF readers going batshit.On "Zero4 Champ DooZy-J" Avola immolates shifty synths in stinging distortion with what feels like a twisted sense of glee. Of the more rhythmically hectic tracks, "Ghost Bros Theme" and "Dunk Chud" are wonderfully crunchy and kinetic, and "My Facts Don't Care About Your Feelings" is a juddering racket of blunt force fun. The album closes with appropriately haunted epilogue "Hag Lore", full of insidious ambience and shivering revulsion."
Wire Magazine Issue 485, July 2024
Upcoming Events
November 22 - Physical Media Showcase with Street Lightning and ISM - Technoir Studios, Portland, OR Tickets
November 29 - Synth Library Portland Fundraiser with Amulets, Eric Schlappi, Abraham Ingle and Casual Decay, Portland, OR Tickets
December 5 - with Sumac, Kowloon Walled City - The Earl Atlanta, GA Tickets
December 6 - with Sumac, Kowloon Walled City - JJ's Bohemia Chattanooga, TN Tickets
December 7 - with Sumac, Kowloon Walled City - DRKMTTR Nashville, TN Tickets
December 8 - with Sumac, Kowloon Walled City - Smoke & Barrel Fayetteville, AR Tickets
December 10 - with Sumac, Kowloon Walled City - Siberia New Orleans, LA Tickets
December 11 - with Sumac, Kowloon Walled City - Handlebar Pensacola, FL Tickets
December 12 - with Sumac, Kowloon Walled City - Conduit Winter Park, FL Tickets
December 13 - with Sumac, Kowloon Walled City - New Brookland Tavern Columbia, SC Tickets
December 14 - with Sumac, Kowloon Walled City - Kings Raleigh, NC Tickets
December 15 - with Sumac, Kowloon Walled City - Eulogy Asheville, NC Tickets
January 23 - with U Sco, Surgery Season, Hearse Mechanic - Swan Dive Portland, OR
Available for tour, festivals and special events worldwide. Contact: email@verns.world
COMPLETED TOURS OF 2024
Midwest with DEAD from Australia.
5/21 - VERN+JEM NOISE SET - The Owl - Livingston, MT
5/22 - VERN+JEM NOISE SET - Rhythm Records - Bismark, MT
5/23 - Silver Plus - Minneapolis, MN
5/28 - Harold’s On Main - Moorhead, MN
5/29 - Ojata Records - Grand Forks, ND
5/30 - Prarie Sky Breads - Minot, ND
5/31 - Rhythm Records - Bismark, ND
6/1 - The Cave - Rapid City, SD
6/2 - Bourgeois Pig - Casper, WY
6/4 - ZACC - Missoula, MT
6/6 - High Water Mark - Portland, OR
6/7 - South Gate Roller Rink - White Center, WA
6/8 - The Chapel - Seattle, WA
6/9 - New Frontier - Tacoma, WA
6/13 - TRIGGER OBJECT + DEAD FRIENDSHIP BIG BAND Zero Wave - Portland, OR
Southwest with SUMAC alongside Portrayal of Guilt
8/1 - Urban Lounge, Salt Lake City, UT
8/2 - Meow Wolf, Denver, CO
8/3 - Launchpad, Albuquerque, NM
8/4 - Valley Bar, Phoenix, AZ
8/5 - Whiskey Creek Zócalo, Silver City, NM
8/7 - Paper Tiger, San Antonio, TX
8/8 - Parish, Austin, TX
8/9 - Rubber Gloves, Denton, TX
8/10 - 89th St Conservatory, Oklahoma City, OK
8/11 -The Bottleneck, Lawrence, KS
West coast with WOLF EYES
8/28 - Soda Bar, San Diego, CA
8/29 - House in City Terrace, LA
8/30 - Thee Stork Club, Oakland, CA
8/31 - Holland Project, Reno, NV
9/1 - Mississippi Studios, Portland, OR
9/2 - Seizure Palace, Portland, OR
9/3 - Clockout Lounge, Seattle, WA
