Hey guys!

As the release details about our new album and a forthcoming Athens gig will soon emerge, in the meantime check out Northward Equinox, a collaborative release between the personal projects of Thanos and Panos!

PRESS RELEASE

Title: Northward Equinox

Artists: Kommpound, Ναφθalyn (Nafthalyn)

Format: Cassette, digital (Bandcamp)

Pressing info: 100 white tapes packaged with 6-page booklet

Release date: 20/3/2024

Record labels: Blastbeat Mailmurder, Head To Avoid Recordings

Genres: field recordings, ambient, drone, noise, avant-folk.

For Fans Of: Tribes Of Neurot, Biosphere, Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement, Natural Snow Buildings, Harvestman, Sabers.

Northward Equinox is the collaboration of Kommpound and Ναφθalyn, the experimental projects of Panos Agoros and Thanos Mantas, respectively vocalist/lyricist and guitarist/songwriter of extreme underground act Dephosphorus.

It is a work inspired by and elaborated in anticipation of the Spring Equinox. It is packaged in a 6-page booklet, sporting beautiful photography by the talented Vasilis Gorogias while the layout has been elaborated by Lethargos Visuals.

Each cassette side clocking at 30 minutes, Kommpound deliver on their part 3 tracks oscillating between drone, ambient and noise. Their soundscapes are built around nature field recordings (notably some captured in Iceland) and heavily mutated sci-fi samples.

Ναφθalyn propose an electroacoustic trip, lifting off and coming down with 12-string guitars while in-between hypnotizing the audience with analogically generated noisy drones and loops.

This cassette and digital release is brought to you by the record labels of the two partners in crime, Blastbeat Mailmurder and Head To Avoid Recordings.

https://kommpound.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/kommpound

https://nafthalyn.bandcamp.com/

https://www.instagram.com/nafthalyn_/

Panos and Thanos will perform live tomorrow Saturday 9/3/24 @ Greenbridge Trikala-GR w/ their personal projects Kommpound & Nafthalyn. Expect field recordings, ambient and avant-folk sounds. We’ll also have some Dephosphorus & Blastbeat Mailmurder merch with us.

Tonight (Friday 8/3/24) we’ll warm-up with a heavy DJ set joined by comrade Stelios Greenbridge @ Rising Hard Rock & Heavy Metal Bar. Show up!

As most (all?) of you, we are heartbroken by the tragic death of L.G. Petrov, taken away too early from this cruel world at the age of 49 after a fierce fight with bile duct cancer.

He was the emblematic frontman of one of Dephosphorus’ favorite bands and influences (the live cover of Say It In Slugs back when myself and Thanos played with Straighthate, was the high point of our opening set for Cursed (CA) -heavily influenced by Entombed themselves- in Athens circa 2005).

I still remember the excitement of seeing them live with him back in 1994 supporting Wolverine Blues by opening for Napalm Death in Paris. Even though they were technically the support act, a big part of the audience came just to see them – leaving just before ND!

LG had an inimitable voice, sounding at the same time deep, expressive and super angry.

Most importantly though, everybody knew him as an all around great guy. He was the archetype of the cool metalhead/musician/music lover: passionate, talented but never taking himself too seriously.

Our hearts go to this family, band mates and loved ones.

Gone but not forgotten – REST IN POWER!

Panos/Dephosphorus

Hey guys, Bandcamp are waiving their revenue share today. Better late than never so as we didn’t do any kind of Black Friday/Cyber Monday promotion so far, use the discount code ‘astrogrindforever‘ today and for the whole weekend for 25% discount from our Bandcamp store! (discography pic by Nerve Altar)

Hi folks,

we’ve prepped a mixtape for our friends United Forces.

Part I is available right now at Spotify and Mixcloud.

Track selection: Thanos Mantas. Flyer/photography: Panos Agoros.

Part II coming soon.

Enjoy!