Fans of the loud, heavy, experimental or just plain noisy rock music rejoice because you may have a new favorite local record label.
Tad Doyle, formerly of grunge titans TAD, recently announced that he has launched a cassette and digital download label called Incineration Ceremony Records.
I am excited to announce that I am launching a cassette and digital download record label. https://t.co/ysfKMuY4gU
— Tad Doyle (@TadDoyle_Tad) April 14, 2018
According to a post on Doyle’s website announcing the label’s launch, Incineration Ceremony Records will “find and help expose the music/non-music that is hunkered in behind doors and walls that a potential talent can bring forth and share their sonic vision, as well as visual representation of whatever it is that they do.”
Doyle also had this to say in a statement on his site:
“There are a lot of very unique and talented sound-scapes out there that really never get the attention that they are worthy of. Incineration Ceremony Recordings mission and purpose is to be independent, passionate and non-compromising in it’s approach and execution of spreading our tendrils, being a vessel to share what moves us viscerally, intellectually, emotionally, with spirited elements.”
The label, which takes its name from Doyle’s 2017 debut solo album, does not have a roster of artists listed.
This isn’t the only bit of TAD news worth sharing. On Record Store Day (April 21) two releases featuring Doyle will hit stores. Sub Pop is releasing the vinyl version of “Incineration Ceremony,” which is an instrumental score of sorts put together by Doyle, on grey marbled vinyl.
The other record featuring Doyle is”Quick and Dirty” which is a combination of unreleased TAD material and a live TAD set. Side A of “Quick and Dirty” is unreleased material recorded in 1999 by the final lineup of the band featuring Doyle, Kurt Danielson and Mike Mongra. Side B is a six-song live recording from a 1995 TAD show at the Crocodile Cafe.
Take a listen to a cut from “Quick and Dirty” below. You can pre-order the digital version of the album if you like what you hear.
