The Lords of Outland

Experimental / Jazz / Death Metal

San Francisco Bay Area

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About

The Short Story...
Rent Romus' Lords of Outland : broke from its 'straight-ahead' straight jacket in 1993 and through a series of transmogrifications morphed into something some people call "Free Jazz Black Metal." Culture of Pain and You Can Sleep When You're Dead! are recorded results of this alchemy. You can find these life-threatening CDs on www.edgetonerecords.com. The 'Lords' feature Rent Romus on saxophones/electronics and a current line-up of sonically disturbed sound artists such as CJ Borosque no-input pedals, Philip Everett bitterman/percussion, and Ray Schaeffer electric-bass.

The Long Story...
The Lords of Outland are a loose collective rotating ensemble for the sonic escapades of saxophonist, producer Rent Romus.
The Lords of Outland began in 1993 after a bloodless coup by members a band he ran for ten years known as Jazz On the Line. The Lords released it's first album You'll Never Be The Same for New York based Jazzheads Records in 1995. Still beholden to the vapid decrepid ideals of the standard-jazz-mindset, Rent entered a group video to the then micro-fledgling BET Channel's National Network Show "Jazz Central". As Rent watched the judges sit and stare at the camera as they tried to say something "nice" about the Lords' version of Eric Dolphy's 'Out to Lunch' submitted alongside the smooth and silky Pat Matheny he knew he was meant to bludgeon the status quo.

Since then the Lords' roster has changed numerous times, releasing five albums with each incarnation more terrible then the last, wreaking havoc on the ears of unsuspecting victims happily chasing away the once plump jazz fans of days past.
As the years sloshed ahead through a decade sonic conservatism Rent discovered he and the Lords had fallen into a realm known to some as "FreeJazz Black Metal". This back door alley sub-genre seems to have metamorphosed from the need of a new generation to navigate it's urge to play band instruments and still mosh in a complete abandon. This incubation and virulent growth of such a community has spurred Rent's most recent releases with the Lords named aptly Culture of Pain and You can sleep when you're dead! featuring his current line-up of the most sonically disturbed of sound artists CJ Borosque, Philip Everett, and Ray Schaeffer.

"Safely, if not sanely put, Lords of Outland imagines Jaco Pastorius playing armor outfitted basketball with a band of crazed bassists and saxophonists. The rhythms run amok, the melodies are anything but friendly, and nausea and sickness is sure to follow."
- Ken Micallef