ARTISTS / blackrune
Blackrune
Akhenaten Percentages
Catalog Numbers: FH-008
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Genre: Dark Shoegaze / Mystical Post-Rock
Type: EP
Purchase: Bandcamp
Links: Discogs Info | Spotify
pressing information
Digital: Worldwide
Cassette Tape: Furious Hooves
1st Press (2012): 24
Transparent purple / smoky-mist cassette, typewritten thin A-side paper label from an old illustrated Greek mythology book, purple photocopied 3-Panel J-Card (one-sided) on cardstock, in a clear plastic Norelco case. Each came with a ‘90s basketball card collaged with the heads of Greek Gods over top of the players’ heads. Hand-crafted and home-dubbed. Hand-numbered.
Tracklisting
1. A Thousand Stairs – 04:19
2. Chthonic Rites – 04:17
3. At Falconer’s Folly – 04:21
4. Laocoön – 08:29
5. Ruins – 03:43
Total Run Time: 25:09
Side Split: A 1-3, B 4-5
Credits
Written, Recorded, and Produced by PM Goerner.
PM Goerner: Guitar, Synthesizer, Piano, Organ, Drums, Programming.
Art & Design: PM Goerner & Ryan McCardle.
Release Biography
Born out of a series of feedback rituals in the summer of 2012, Blackrune was conjured up by Savannah multi-instrumentalist PM Goerner. Previously, Goerner played atmospheric electronic psychedelia under the moniker Magic Places. "Electronic music," Goerner says in an interview with Connect Savannah, "was really kind of a refuge for me, when I didn't have the instruments to engage with other people on more of an organic, creative basis. It was a way for me to make music and investigate things when I didn't have any equipment." Even before Magic Places existed, Goerner was a veteran of DIY Punk bands around his hometown of Greenville, SC. However, after moving to Savannah without a guitar and “playing the buttons” as Magic Places for a few years, he bought a guitar again in 2012 and Magic Places morphed into Blackrune — a nexus of eerie adventure music and dark fantasy soundtracks, which weave together the moods of occult mystery, ancient history, science fiction, and modern fantasy to create a uniquely curious heavy sound.
In 2012, Blackrune had a couple of releases to introduce us to what Goerner’s plan were, but at that point it was still a solo venture. The debut EP ‘Akhenaten Percentages’ was released on August 31st 2012 digitally and on a very limited handmade cassette via Furious Hooves. Shortly after, Blackrune was included on the second release in the Furhoof Halloween Split series called ‘Devil, Do You Dare Approach Me?’ with Man Eating Sloth.
Unfortunately, 2016 brought the departure of many Savannah artists and Blackrune was not immune. Goerner eventually found himself in Chicago, IL, where he has been honing in on a number of things under the umbrealla of Waxing Crescent Media.
Press & Accolades
“Like an immense, gauzy beast rising slowly from a dark ocean, Blackrune will pursue and envelope you, and swallow you, and pass you on to a strange and multi-hued chemical world where nothing is as it seems.”
– Connect Savannah, interview with PM Goerner about the formation of Blackrune.
Product Shots
Audio/Video
Live version of "Laocoön" from ‘Akhenaten Percentages’ with Matt McCullough on drums. Filmed at Hang Fire in Savannah, GA during the 2013 Savannah Stopover Festival.