Author&PunisherAuthor&Punisher 2019 Years Active: 2004 - Present AUTHOR & PUNISHER, named, “one of the most prolific acts in aggressive music,” by Noisey, has For Fans of: Swans, , Chelsea Wolfe, Ein- fabricated a new arsenal of Drone Machines and sturzende Neubauten, Neurosis, SUNN O))), Youth is currently touring on his new release BEASTLAND Code. for . Last year saw the self-released EP Pressure Mine which followed full-length Melk En Labels: Relapse Records (current), Housecore Records Honing, released in 2015. After leaving a career as a (2014-2016), Seventh Rule Recordings (2011-2014), mechanical engineer in Boston to focus on art and Heart & Crossbone (2010-2011). sculpture, Tristan Shone, the creator and sole artist behind AUTHOR & PUNISHER, moved west to pursue Plans: Touring with new instruments and writing debut his MFA in Southern . In the metal and full length release for Relapse Records. machine shops of University of California, San Diego, Shone forged a relationship with design, sound and fabrication that ultimately yielded AUTHOR & PUNISH- ER‘s first music and mapped the journey away from traditional instrumentation towards custom made, precision machinery. Shone used his technical knowl- edge, along with his artistic background to create what Wired Magazine has hailed as his own “special brand of .”

All aspects of the AUTHOR & PUNISHER sound begin with physical movement, limbs struggling in unison to coordinate a wall of electronic rhythm and os- cillation, ultimately conditioned by an organic and loose quality absent of plastic perfection. AUTHOR & PUNISHER performances are a real amalgamation be- tween man and mechanisms. They are direct, physi- “ In the contiguous realms of metal nerds cal, heavy experiences that have amassed praise and intrigue from a wide array of audiences. Pitchfork and gear nerds, Shone possesses semi- styled him “immediate but mysterious,” Stereogum mythical status. He performs within a semi- described his “chilling, unrecognizable form,” and NPR circle of frightening homemade machines hails him as “a thrill [who] fires on all cylinders”. that seem at once futuristic and medieval. “ - The New Yorker DISCOGRAPHY BEASTLAND 2018 “I, as do many others, feel rage against the Beasts of our era: those who horde, who poison, or who discriminate. We need aggressive music to make an aggressive statement.”. - Tristan Shone

PRESSURE MINE EP 2017 Pressure Mine is “is bathed in noise and static, suggesting that the punishment this time around is more textural than sheer physical impact” - San Diego City Beat

MELK EN HONING 2015 (Produced by Phil Anselmo) “Melk En Honing is perhaps likely to be one of the most quietly distinctive Metal albums of the year, simultaneously mechanised and surprisingly human, and is unmistakably the work of a man with a fiercely independent vision that extends far beyond his unorthodox methods and deep into the music itself.” - Ghost Cult

WOMEN AND CHILDREN 2013 “...Shone, with his homemade electronic contraptions, has to at least be considered a spiritual successor to Einstürzende Neubauten. Art isn’t created in a vacuum, and the fact that AUTHOR & PUNISHER has some things in common with other bands doesn’t diminish that fact that Women & Children is a colossal album.” - Metal Injection

URSUS AMERICANUS 2012 “…it’s impossible to hear Tristan Shone’s fourth album as AUTHOR & PUNISHER without feeling an essential part of yourself being destroyed and remade in some gloriously awful way.” – Decibel Magazine on Ursus Americanus (#30 on the mag’s coveted Top 40 Albums Of 2012 list)

DRONE MACHINES 2010 Drone Machines is an ultra-intense blast of performed by enslaved heavy machinery, and at it’s most intense, sounds like a symphony of hellish steel presses and tank-tread rhythms…” - Crucial Blast

WAR CRY 2007 THE PAINTED ARMY 2005

OTHER RELEASES: Father’s of our Flesh (2014, Godflesh Tribute Album Cover of “Body Dome Light”) Bong-Ra vs. Gore Tech vs. Author & Punisher (2014, Remix Album) “Fearce” (2014, Author & Punisher/Harassor 7” “His music is immediate but mysterious, Split) a chimera that’s recognizable but strange.” “Melancholia” (2016, Tribulation remix) - Pitchfork MEDIA AND PARTNERSHIPS

LIVE PERFORMANCES / DOC WNYC/NPR ON “THE TAKEAWAY”: http://www.wnyc.org/story/mechanically-engineering- heavy-metal-music/

LIVE AT ST. VITUS IN NYC 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opgvd2e5xSs

ARTE TRACKS INTERVIEW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFBBJhJlOSA (4:51)

MASKS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23-lRV3qNQk

VIDEO EPK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIn0dcluJAI

MUSIC VIDEOS NIHIL STRENGTH: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=1UR3YjktJYI “It’s a thrill to watch SHAME: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn0zX_NTtsA this musical cyborg VOID, NULL, ALIVE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO3schSBOw0 at work, as he literally TERRORBIRD: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjlBOPLWZyw fires on all cylinders and pulls levers like PARTNERSHIPS LIVE IN SWEDEN AT ELEKTRON STUDIOS: https://www. an executioner.” youtube.com/watch?v=qUlRe9OTjzY - Lars Gotrich NPR

LENOVO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn0zX_NTtsA RECENT AND UPCOMING SHOWS 2019: EU (April/May) Tour with support from , USA (July/August) Tour with 3teeth, USA (November/December) Tour with Cattle De- capitation and Full of Hell.

2018: EU (May/June) Festivals/Tour, USA (May) EU Tour (April) with support from Trepaneringsritualen, USA (November/December) Tour with The Body and Uniform.

2017: USA (Feb/March) West Coast Tour, EU Tour (April) with appearance at Roadburn, EU (July) Tour with Neurosis with appearance at Roskilde, USA (October) Tour with Zombi

2016: USA/CAN with Weedeater (direct support), EU/UK (Winter, Solo).

2015: USA/CAN (Spring, Fall), EU/UK (Winter, Spring), Cold Waves Festival, Southwest Terrorfest, Psycho California, Housecore Festival, Resonance Festival (UK), Voidstar Festival

2014: USA/CAN with Philip H. Anselmo and the Illegals (Winter, direct support), Housecore Horror Film Festival, USA/CAN (Fall, Solo), Terminus Festival.

CONTACT USA : Phil Sgrosso : [email protected] Mahmood Shaikh : [email protected] EU/UK: Ricky/Swamp Booking: [email protected] OTHER: [email protected]

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