Author&Punisher

Author&PunisherAuthor&Punisher 2018 AUTHOR & PUNISHER, named, “one of the most Years Active: 2004 - Present prolific acts in aggressive music,” by Noisey, has fab- ricated a new arsenal of machines and is working on For Fans of: Swans, Godflesh, Chelsea Wolfe, Ein- his debut release for Relapse Records due out in late sturzende Neubauten, Neurosis, SUNN O))), Youth 2018. Last year saw the self-released EP Pressure Mine Code. which followed full-length Melk En Honing, released in 2015 via Phil Anselmo’s Housecore Records. The record Labels: Relapse Records (current), Housecore Records was listed among Decibel Magazine’s Top 40 Albums (2014-2016), Seventh Rule Recordings (2011-2014), Of 2015 and continues to astound listeners globally. Heart & Crossbone (2010-2011). After leaving a career as mechanical engineer in Bos- ton to focus on art and sculpture, Tristan Shone, the Plans: Touring with new instruments and writing debut creator and sole artist behind AUTHOR & PUNISHER, full length release for Relapse Records. moved west to pursue his MFA in Southern Califor- nia. In the metal and machine shops of University of California, San Diego, Shone forged a relationship with design, sound and fabrication that ultimately yielded AUTHOR & PUNISHER‘s first music and mapped the journey away from traditional instrumentation towards custom made, precision machinery. Shone used his technical knowledge, along with his artistic background to create what Wired Magazine has hailed as his own “special brand of doom metal.”

All aspects of the AUTHOR & PUNISHER sound begin with physical movement, limbs struggling in unison to coordinate a wall of electronic rhythm and oscillation, ultimately conditioned by an organic and loose qual- ity absent of plastic perfection. AUTHOR & PUNISHER “ In the contiguous realms of metal nerds performances are a real amalgamation between man and gear nerds, Shone possesses semi- and mechanisms. They are direct, physical, heavy expe- mythical status. He performs within a semi- riences that have amassed praise and intrigue from a wide array of audiences. Pitchfork styled him “immedi- circle of frightening homemade machines ate but mysterious,” Stereogum described his “chilling, that seem at once futuristic and medieval. unrecognizable form,” and NPR hails him as “a thrill “ - The New Yorker [who] fires on all cylinders”. DISCOGRAPHY 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 industrial metal performed by enslaved heavy machinery, and at it’s most intense, sounds like a symphony of hellish steel presses and tank-tread drum machine 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 SHAME: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn0zX_NTtsA

VOID, NULL, ALIVE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO3schSBOw0 “It’s a thrill to watch this musical cyborg TERRORBIRD: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjlBOPLWZyw at work, as he literally PARTNERSHIPS fires on all cylinders LIVE IN SWEDEN AT ELEKTRON STUDIOS: and pulls levers like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUlRe9OTjzY an executioner.” LENOVO: https://www.youtube.com/ - Lars Gotrich NPR watch?v=tn0zX_NTtsA RECENT AND UPCOMING SHOWS 2018: EU (May/June) Festivals/Tour, USA (May) Festivals

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 Horror Film 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.

2013: USA/CAN Phillip H Anselmo & The Illegals and Warbeast, USA A Life Once Lost, EU/UK tour with Gnod.

CONTACT USA : Phil Sgrosso : [email protected] Mahmood Shaikh : [email protected] EU/UK: Ricky : ricky/swamp booking: [email protected] OTHER: [email protected]