Avant-garde metal outfit, Dreadnought, from Denver, Colorado, have just dropped the video for their cover of Nine Inch Nails’ “The Becoming.” This is the second single taken from the forthcoming Magnetic Eye Records Redux Series release, The Downward Spiral Redux. The album is due out on November 28, 2025. Catch the new video and more below.
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Author and Punisher Share Their Single “Titmouse” – New Album Incoming
Author & Punisher have just unleashed “Titmouse,” the third and final single from their upcoming album, Nocturnal Birding. The new full-length is due out Friday, October 3, via Relapse Records. Check it out below and read more.
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Author and Punisher Shares a New Single and Video for “Thrush” – New Album “Nocturnal Birding” Coming Soon
Album Art By: Lucile Lejoly
After celebrating 20 years since the inception of Author and Punisher in 2024, founding composer, vocalist and mechanical engineer Tristan Shone embraces the project’s broadest scope to-date with Nocturnal Birding, out October 3, 2025 via Relapse Records. Author and Punisher shares the official video for “Thrush” from Nocturnal Birding. Watch the full video (co-directed by Lucile Lejoly & Arnaud Fournier) on the Relapse YouTube Channel below listen on all streaming services too! Continue reading
Author and Punisher Books 20th Anniversary Mini Tour with Morne and Glassing
Tristan Shone, aka Author & Punisher has announced a short run of tour dates celebrating 20th Anniversary mini tour. Direct support will come from Morne and Glassing. Shone took his expertise as an electrical engineer and scientist to create his sound and light machines, creating unique Industrial Metal/Drone/Doom soundscapes. His last album was 2022’s acclaimed release Kruller (Relapse Records).Continue reading
NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: February 11th New Music Releases
ALBUM REVIEW: Author and Punisher – Krüller
Tristan Shone knows a thing or two about wacky, unorthodox percussion, thanks in large part to his expertise in mechanical engineering. With that kind of arsenal at his disposal, Shone ran with it on his latest effort for Author & Punisher, Krüller (Relapse Records), eight tracks packed with diversity, uniqueness, and precision. It’s also his ninth full-length release since 2005, and it superbly stands alone.
Author and Punisher Shares New Single and Video “Drone Carrying Dread” – New Album Coming Soon
Eclectic electronic Synth-Doom artist Author & Punisher has dropped a new single and video “Drone Carrying Dread!” The solo-project is the brainchild of musician-meets-mechanical engineer Tristan Shone and the track comes off of the highly-anticipated new album, Krüller due out on February 11th, 2021 via Relapse Records. The album features Shone’s upgrades to his hand-crafted machines, now upgraded for the new album, and a handful of guest players including Tool’s Danny Carey and Justin Chancellor. The clip was directed by Monte Legaspi and features illustrations from album cover artist Zlatko Mitev, and you can watch it now!
Author And Punisher Releases “Live 2020 B.C.” Album
Industrial Metal act Author & Punisher has surprise-released a live album “Live 2020 B.C.” Album. The album was created while the band was direct support for Tool on the Fear Inoculum tour, for which the band was direct support for three months, before the pandemic. We’ve been jamming this out, and it kills! You can purchase and stream the album over at Bandcamp and buy special bundles of merch too!
Tool Kicks Off New Tour Dates with Author and Punisher Tonight
Just announced to headline Bonnaroo 2020, Tool will kick off its second US leg of the Fear Inoculum Tour tonight in San Diego at Viejas Arena and ending on February 1st in New Orleans at Smoothie King Center. Direct support will come from Author & Punisher on all dates. The band has shared the list of vaunted visual artists who worked on special posters for each city, often a limited item fans go crazy over. You can see the info in the tweet from the band below. Tool continues to tour behind their smash album, Fear Inoculum (Tool Dissectional/RCA) which topped two Billboard rock charts and sold the most physical copies of an album by any artist in 2019, earning a global #1 album. It was also fourth in Ghost Cult’s Album of the Year Countdown. See our review of last fall’s Tool tour and if you are going to a show, don’t take your phone out until the last song, or risk being tossed out! Continue reading
Stream and Purchase a Brand New Author and Punisher Track – “A Crude Sectioning”
Author And Punisher, by Emma Parsons Photography
Author & Punisher just released a killer new track, ‘A Crude Sectioning’! The track as previously part of the Adult Swim series of metal singles. You can purchase and stream the track now!Continue reading