Because of the positive response the artwork for TO NO AVAIL has been receiving, I invited Sarah Sitkin to an interview. Unfortunately WordPress is horrible for formatting pictures in a appropriate way to showcase artwork and I had to use Tumblr. Click below for the link. – Sarah Sitkin Interview
Category Archives: News
Chicago Reader Reviews To No Avail
Monday, November 7, 2011
The Chicago Reader is Chicago’s largest free weekly newspaper, nationally recognized as a leader in the alternative press. Since 1971, the Reader has served as Chicago’s political conscience, cultural guide, and music authority. Surachai’s To No Avail is hands down one of the best-looking albums to come out of Chicago this year, and with its […]
Gapers Block Reviews To No Avail
Friday, November 4, 2011
Gapers Block is a Chicago-centric web publication providing information on news, events and other interesting stuff around town. Gapers Block wants you to slow down and check out your city! It’s a rare feat that a heavy metal album can balance melody and bludgeoning brutality as well as To No Avail. Surachai hits a hidden […]
A.V. Club’s Loud Reviews To No Avail
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Punk, hardcore, metal, noise: Music shouldn’t always be easy on the ears. Each month, Loud unearths some of the loudest, crudest, weirdest, and/or heaviest sounds writhing beneath the surface. The world’s not getting any quieter. Neither should we. Earlier this year, Lake Of Blood delivered As Time And Tide Erode Stone, its two-very-long-songs saga. Structurally, […]
Lords of Metal Reviews To No Avail
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
The regular LoM readers – especially those who are with us from the start – will probably know that this e-zine is the result of a deceased radio show, but I guess most of you will never have heard one single note of it. Biggest letdown is that it all only lasts 22 minutes. Even […]
Grindthieves Reviews To No Avail
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Specializing in information about and links to material residing a little below the radar, you can find everything from hip hop to noise to jungle/drum’n’bass to death metal to classical to ambient to breakcore to black metal to dubstep and more. I’ve listened to this release more times in the last 24 hours than I […]
Exclaim! Reviews To No Avail
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Exclaim! Magazine features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with special focus on Canadian and cutting-edge artists. “as the one-man masterpiece borrows from other musical genres to create stellar, unique music, versus heavily relying on the traditional norms found in European-based black metal. The desolateness, urgency and brutality of American Black metal are […]
Surachai – To No Avail (Out Now!)
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
I’m proud to announce that To No Avail is out now. You can download and pay-what-you-want at Handshake’s Bandcamp page. I recommend downloading the FLAC version and listening in it’s full merciless glory and of course grabbing it on vinyl when January comes around. Pre-orders for vinyl are available and will include either a copy […]
toeleven.net Reviews To No Avail
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
The first review for To No Avail is out! “It’s a basic fact that you pretty much have me at the words “experimental black metal.†Or at the least, you’ve basically guaranteed a listen. On a continuum between conventional black metal and the more extremely experimental stuff that I love, Surachai are occupying a comfortable […]