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Blackrune
Palustrine Hegemon

Catalog Numbers: FH-024 / FH:VI-006
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Genre: Dark Shoegaze / Mystical Post-Rock
Type: LP
Purchase: Bandcamp
Links: Discogs Info | Spotify

pressing information

Digital: Worldwide
Cassette Tape: Furhoof: Sixth Man

• 1st Press (2014): 250
  ”Swamp Green” solid green cassette with greyscale A-side paper label, 3-Panel J-Card (one-sided) on semi-gloss paper, in a clear plastic Norelco case. Home-dubbed. Hand-stamped and hand-numbered.

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 2013, Blackrune dug deep into the local swamplands in search of the buried roots of heavy music and from that search, Blackrune was reborn as a trio. Like a dark dust cloud settling across the mind's eye, the deceptively unassuming trio of Chris Goggans (Grand Vapids, Mothers), Matt McCullough (Temazcal, Longitude/Latitude), and bandleader PM Goerner used rock instrumentation to paint blissfully foggy pictures of the fantastic and the mystical in dense, dark shades. Standing at the altar of Sabbath, Floyd, Spacemen 3, and Sunn 0))), Blackrune compels the ancient knowledge of their instruments in an iconoclastic pursuit of modern musical sciences such as neo-psychedelia, dark shoegaze, atmospheric black metal, and hypnotic noise. Their EP ‘Omphalos’ was released August 13th 2013 digitally worldwide and on limited edition cassette via Furious Hooves. It served as a preface to their debut full-length ‘Palustrine Hegemon’ which was released almost exactly one year later on August 5th 2014 digitally worldwide, as well as on limited edition cassette via Furious Hooves.

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

"Blackrune drape themselves in Southern Gothic ritual. From the ebon art work to the tactile script – even a name that burns sinisterly with its implications – but it’s all a façade into a rather spiritual and otherworldly plane."
– KEXP, review of ‘Palustrine Hegemon’ LP.

“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.

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