Millipede

2012

2012-01-23T12:26:00.000-08:00

This year should see the release of the 4th Millipede full-length if all goes according to plan. What I can tell you so far is that it's coming out on Install and will be a vinyl only release most likely with a digital download. Should be fairly different sounding from Realms while still recognizable as Millipede material. So far about 1/3 of the album is finished with work scheduled to resume this week after a lengthy break from recording. It has no title as yet, not even a working one.

In other news the second installment of the Brian Grainger & Millipede Play Ancient Hylian Folk Songs was released in December. It was intended to mark the 25th anniversary of the Legend of Zelda videogame series which has provided inspiration in the past for the first handful of releases under the Millipede moniker (Hyrule, Death Mountain, Hylian Folk Songs Vol. 1). It was available through Milieu Music as a limited edition cassette. Most of these are gone but some may still be available through Brian Grainger's bandcamp page here.

And finally, there are still copies of the split tape with Neon Viking Funeral available through Failed Recordings for very cheap ($3!!!). I have also contributed a song called "Rotten Crown" to a noise comp they're releasing with a bunch of other Tennessee noise artists which will be coming out pretty soon.

REALMS!

2011-10-04T12:05:00.000-07:00

The third Millipede full-length, Realms, is out now on Dead Pilot Records. Click the link to go get it on CD. Green vinyl version to follow later in the year. Get it here. 10 tracks approximately 40 minutes of harsh noise shoegaze mastered by Norwegian noise legend Lasse Marhaug with artwork by myself with Anna Davenport and Will Evans. Limited edition 200 copies.

The also long time coming split tape between myself and now defunct Chattanooga, TN harsh noise terrorists Neon Viking Funeral is out now on Failed Recordings. Click the link and give $3 and it's all yours. Limited to 49 quickly going copies.

Summer 2011.

2011-06-21T10:58:00.000-07:00

Coming this summer on Dead Pilot LP & CD.
All photography by Joseph Davenport and Anna Marie Wamack Davenport with layout and design by Will Evans.

Tracklist:
1. Heathen Horde
2. Magma
3. King Haggard
4. Destroyers and Usurpers
5. Houndstooth
6. Temporal Void
7. What Was True
8. Down to the Depths
9. Skyy Blue
10. Gateway to Another World.

Update - November 2010

2010-11-16T06:23:00.000-08:00

Realms is still in the works. Coming out on Dead Pilot in the near future. In the meantime I'll be posting a free album on bandcamp of material from the sessions for Death Mountain, Full Bloom, and Realms soon so be on the lookout for that. I also have a Facebook page and there is now a link in the sidebar if you want to check that out.

Also, the Myspace site is pretty much dead. It's still there for those that would like to check it out but I won't be updating it from here on out.

Millipede Bandcamp

2010-09-29T20:22:00.000-07:00

There is now a Millipede Bandcamp page. I'm going to start using this exclusively instead of Myspace I think. It has its own problems but at least the design aesthetic is far better and there are no ads on the page. I've put up the out of print Hyrule cassette with all new artwork for free download. Even more great stuff is coming. Full Bloom is still available from Install and Realms is coming through Dead Pilot. Already working on the next album but progress is slow and will probably halt soon after the birth of my daughter...at least for a little while. That's all for now.

http://millipede.bandcamp.com/

Realms

2010-08-20T16:27:00.000-07:00

The forthcoming Millipede album on Dead Pilot is now going to be called Realms. I think this is a much better fit for the album in general. The tracklist is going to be as follows:

1. Heathen Horde
2. Magma
3. King Haggard
4. Destroyers & Usurpers
5. Houndstooth
6. Temporal Void
7. What Was True
8. Down To The Depths
9. Skyy Blue
10. Gateway To Another World

Lots of other stuff in the works as well:
split 7" with German Sheperd
split tape with Neon Viking Funeral
collaborative tape with MOTH

Stop To Smell The Flowers

2010-06-24T17:52:00.000-07:00

So far, it seems everyone is digging Full Bloom.

Foxy Digitalis gave it an 8 out of 10!

Forest Gospel's mind was equally blown.

The Knoxville News Sentinel even gave me some love. Apparently they only miss you when you're gone....as in moving to a city roughly two hours away.

2010-06-14T14:29:00.000-07:00

Full Bloom is out now. Pick one up from Install (www.installsound.net)

Magma

2010-06-12T11:39:00.000-07:00

Check out a song from the upcoming Millipede album on Dead Pilot Records. It's called "Magma" and it will be on the album called 1982. It's the last song in a mix that Dan from Dead Pilot did for Fluid Radio with a bunch of other awesome Dead Pilot groups/artists. Scope it out here.

In other news, Full Bloom will be out in a minute. It's going to be a good year for new Millipede jamz! German Shepherd split is in the works as well as other "secret" projects.

Toward the Future.....

2009-12-08T18:27:00.000-08:00

Things in the works for 2010.
Millipede - Full Bloom (Install) full length. Finished and due out before or around spring.
Millipede - TBA (Dead Pilot) full length. In the writing/recording process. More info at a later date.
Millipede/German Sheperd split 7". In the works but no more info available at this time.

Most importantly, after the Dead Pilot full length is finished recording I will most likely provide an entire album's worth of b-side type material from the Full Bloom/Dead Pilot album sessions for free as a download here. I sent some of this material to friends after finishing Full Bloom and the reaction was extremely positive. Since I began working on the album for Dead Pilot there has been a lot more of this type of material surface. Mostly it will be things that did not work thematically for either of the albums or possibly sounded a little too similar to me to something I had done before. If there's one thing I can't stand it's an artist's inability to self-edit. At the same time I'm aware that sometimes people want to hear all the scraps if they really like an artist's work. I just want to make sure that it is understood that this stuff is not meant to be regarded as an album unto itself.

Until then....best wishes.

2009-11-12T18:09:00.000-08:00

Here is a re-up of the Hyrule cassette. It came to my attention that the old link is dead.

https://www.yousendit.com/download/TzY2cmxSSU9GOFJMWEE9PQ

Full Bloom is coming in 2010 on Install. More live actions forthcoming. Another full-length for UK label Dead Pilot is in the pipeline, about halfway through the writing/recording process. In the meantime you can still pick up copies of Death Mountain from Install (www.installsound.net) and the last copies of the Traveling split CD are available through Sunrise Acoustics (www.sunriseacoustics.com) or if you live in Knoxville, TN you can purchase one at The Disc Exchange. Best wishes everyone!

Halloween

2009-10-20T19:32:00.001-07:00

Free download only comp featuring the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse from the Traveling split doing covers and originals in the theme of Halloween. Two Millipede tracks, one new song called "October" and a cover of The Cure's "A Forest" from their excellent '80s classic album Seventeen Seconds.

http://sunriseacoustics.com/halloween09.html

2009-07-15T19:46:00.001-07:00

Millipede full-length album #2 to be titled Full Bloom. It is being released by INSTALL but no definite release date has been set, possibly late 2009 or early 2010. Tracks are as follows:
1. Ice Cream Melting
2. Confetti & Cupcakes
3. Cotton Candy Hair
4. Full Bloom
5. Nitrous Dream
6. A Rainbow Beam From Your Mouth
7. White Dwarf
8. Stargazer
9. Flowers Wilting

More info in months to come. Goodbye for now.

Grab Bag!

2009-06-26T19:18:00.001-07:00

Lots of news. First up, Death Mountain was review on Tiny Mix Tapes today. You can check it out here: www.tinymixtapes.com/millipede

A nice score of 4 out of 5 is tough to argue with folks! I believe there are still some left over at INSTALL so go and get them here: www.installsound.net

Second, the Traveling 4 way split with Brian Grainger, German Shepherd, and MOTH is out now and you can get them from Mr. Freeburg here: www.sunriseacoustics.com

I am also working on a track with Brian Grainger for one of his upcoming releases. I'll be splattering a noise solo all over some downtuned sludge that he sent my way. If you like Electric Wizard and Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine (which you should by the way) I think you will dig it. More info on that to come.

Finally, I'm reposting the link to download the Hyrule tape for all those looking to check it out. Click the word below:
hyrule

Next album is nearly done and I've begun recording and writing for the one after that. I can't say anything else beyond that about either of them except that they are even better than everything else so far (or at least from their creator's perspective so you can take that for what it's worth).

Best wishes everyone!

Full Bloom

2009-04-01T07:07:00.000-07:00

New Millipede Album News

2009-03-24T18:10:00.000-07:00

Quietly, I have been hashing out the details of the next Millipede full-length. No title yet, but here is a full list of songs that have been recorded that may or may not be included on it:

Ice Cream Melting
Confetti & Cupcakes
Nitrous Dream
Full Bloom
Cotton Candy Hair
A Rainbow Beam From Your Mouth
Flowers Wilting
Skullsplitter
Into the Rabbit Hole

There is also one finished song that has no title as of yet.

Tracking has been a very tumultuous affair....one day things go unexplicably well, then another I write and record for five or six hours and scrap every note. So far the finished pieces are (I believe) the best things I've done. The trees around my new house are beautiful this time of year with their white and pink blossoms and have been an obsessive bit of inspiration to me. I may post pictures as I've taken tons of them. I've been going through old photos and playing Mario Kart Wii and Resident Evil 5. That is all for now.

Millipede & INSTALL present Sand & Surf digital 7" FREE!

2009-02-23T15:00:00.000-08:00

Four all new Millipede tracks brought to you by the INSTALL label as a free download! 320 kbps mp3s, tracks are:
1. Sun
2. Sand
3. Surf
4. Sea

Get it for FREE by clicking here

Death Mountain and split with Brian Grainger both available now!

2008-12-03T05:57:00.000-08:00

Death Mountain CD (2008 INSTALL)

Millipede, fresh from his split cassette with Brian Grainger at Milieu Music, appears here for his very first full-length album, "Death Mountain". A huge, towering monolith of a record, this sounds exactly like you'd expect with a name like that. Gigantic masses of distorted guitars lock together to form chunks of shoegazing space-dust and singsong feedback. This is music for a weary traveler on a long and lonesome quest, and quite possibly the heaviest album we've released in this series! For fans of tape hiss, distortion pedals and dreamy riffing coated in fuzz-bliss, check this one out!

Buy

Brian Grainger & Millipede Play Ancient Hylian Folk Songs C-40 (2008 Milieu Music)

The first tape here at Milieu Music, and a very unique one at that (although I understand that not everyone buys tapes anymore, so every
order for this release comes with high-quality MP3 files!). Splitting sides with recent Install-inductee Millipede, this
is a 40-minute quest through the Hyrulean kingdom, chock-full of dangerous mythical beasts, alluring forests with giant talking trees,
beautiful maidens and boss fights, where our hero in green will have traveled through time to save the world so that we may spin
these tales of battle and woe. What remains of that kingdom? None remain who know...

Buy

Download Hyrule for Free

2008-10-30T17:23:00.000-07:00

The Hyrule C-30 is now completely sold out. Since it was limited to only 30 copies I have decided to offer it for free to those who missed out. Below you will find a link to download a high quality 320 kbps mp3 version of the album. I hope you enjoy it and please let me know if the link is dead and I will gladly repost it. I think the yousendit link only has 100 downloads but I'm not going to limit it to that. The split with Brian Grainger and the Death Mountain CD-R are coming up next so don't miss out on those! Also feel free to post the album on your blog and share it with your friends if you wish to do so. Sharing is cool. Click on the word "Hyrule" below.

Hyrule

Major Announcements!

2008-10-22T05:32:00.001-07:00

Major Announcements

The Install label, based out of New York, and home to artists such as Brian Grainger, David Tagg, Ourson, and The Caretaker will be releasing Death Mountain as a limited edition CD-R as part of their Installation series. It won't be out until next year sometime but I should have more info on that as it becomes available to me. If you want to see what it might look like you can head on over to www.installsound.net and check out other entries in the series. I couldn't be happier than to be working with some very nice people who believe in what I'm doing.

As if that weren't enough ridiculously awesome news for one day, Brian Grainger and I will be doing a split cassette based on ideas taken from each of us regarding The Legend of Zelda. Not for sure on what the title will be exactly just yet but the text may be all in Hylian!

More info to come closer to actual release time.

Update.

2008-09-23T08:03:00.000-07:00

So I've posted about this several times here before and I was pretty much wrong every time until now. The new record is finished. It's going to be called Death Mountain and not Singing Mountain. The following is the tracklist and yet again more lies as "Kakariko Village" will be the final track. I'm still trying to find a label to put it out since Epicene founder Matt Reis has decided to call it quits on doing the label. I'm extremely happy to have had the chance to work with him, he's great guy running an awesome label and I'm sad to see it come to an end. The following will be the tracklist for Death Mountain:

1. Stalfos
2. Gyorg
3. Daphnes Nohansen
4. Red Candle
5. Grumble Grumble
6. Syrup the Witch
7. Kakariko Village

In the meantime I'll be doing a short run of 20 CD-Rs for the record just like Hyrule with another version to follow as soon as I can find a label. You will be able to get the CD-Rs directly from me when they're finished.

Review of Hyrule in WIRE!

2008-09-19T08:05:00.001-07:00

From WIRE issue 296 October 2008

Millipede - Hyrule

"Knoxville Tennessee guitar-noise tribute to Zelda (the game) and MBV (the group). Well, it's not that simple, actually, but you get the idea - overload layering for a variety of nerdly senses." - Byron Coley

Kakariko Village.

2008-09-12T14:13:00.000-07:00

"Kakariko Village" was going to be on Singing Mountain but was cut because I could not decide where to put it. It sounds like the last song on a record to me but I already had a good one. If you want to download a 320 kbps mp3 of it then visit the Myspace page and it can be yours completely free!

Singing Mountain

2008-07-19T11:11:00.000-07:00

Singing Mountain is finished. More info to come on the format and time frame for release. Definitely more burly than Hyrule but also more quiet too. I'm relocating to Chattanooga in a month as well, goodbye Knoxville!

Hyrule C-30 OUT NOW!

2008-02-18T16:01:00.000-08:00

The tape version of Hyrule is out now on Epicene_ESR. It is limited edition just like the CD-R version but this time there are 30 copies available with a gorgeous pro-printed cover. You can order it from the label here: www.epicenesound.com/catalog-esr.html

Hello!

2008-01-05T19:32:00.000-08:00

So this blog is going to be the main website for info on Millipede aside from the myspace page. From time to time I may post new material here as well as performance dates and other various goings on. Since most of the material I'm releasing under this moniker will be in a limited edition form of CD-R, tape, or some such thing, I will probably post entire Millipede releases in high quality mp3 format for those of you that miss out on the short-run pressings.

A little information about Millipede:
Millipede is the psychedelic/noise project of Joseph Davenport (that's me). From time to time it may include other musicians, especially in the live aspect of the project. It was started in 2006 with a limited edition CD-R entitled Aquamentus, named after a monster in the original Legend of Zelda videogame series. The Legend of Zelda has been a huge inspiration to me during all of my recordings even though it doesn't necessarily come through in any way other than album and song titles. In 2007 the 5 song Hyrule CD-R was self-released in a limited edition of 20 copies in a black/red swirl slipcase with a tape version still in the works on the Ohio label Epicene_ESR.