"We sat down and really thought about 'Will it really affect us?'" said Larson. "I was shocked - mostly shocked," said Plourde. They hope to start distilling in January and open to the public on March 1.īut an event in August gave them pause to mull over their plans: the Pawtucket Red Sox announced that the team would move to Worcester.
Rhode Island Spirits, which will produce under the Rhodium brand name, got a tangible start in the spring when Larson and Plourde chose the factory building between Route 95 and the Blackstone River, upstream from Pawtucket City Hall. "Some of it will come from here," Plourde said. And many of the botanicals used to infuse flavors in the beverages will be foraged locally, in private cemeteries and farms and along the riverside and seaside. Their company, Rhode Island Spirits, will buy "very high quality" corn spirits as the base of their gins and other liquors, they say. "We started to look at other business models."Īlthough they settled on metal stills in a century-old factory in the middle of an aging city, they say they won't stray far from that agricultural inspiration in making their product. "We were driving by a farm in Little Compton, and we saw two signs: 'Goat for rent' and 'Farm for sale,'" she said. That meant the married couple would have to change from consulting for nonprofits, where, Larson noted, "You never get a tangible result."īut the change in professions had already been on their minds after a ride in the country, said Plourde. "We came back and thought: A, Pawtucket is ripe for a new business downtown, and B, we could get in front of" growing demand for locally made gin. "A lot more people in England make their own drinks," said Larson. Now they are planning to open a distillery on the east bank of the Blackstone River, where they will make the juniper-flavored spirit and other liquors. Cathy Plourde met Kara Larson through mutual friends in Maine, but it was while they were living in England two years ago that the couple fell in love with gin. The eight bludgeoning tracks on Beyond The Wall Of Desolation cleave the tender cranium of the listener asunder across their 43 minute running time.PAWTUCKET, R.I. Seth Manchester, the head engineer, worked tirelessly for the week High Command were there, sculpting a record with a healthy respect to the Old Gods of Metal they admire while at the same time, sonically speaking, also carving a realm of its own. From hearing previous projects recorded there (Daughters, The Body, LINGUA IGNOTA, Churchburn to name a few) it was apparent to the band that this was a studio that had a focus on the unique and the organic. Their studio choice for such proceedings was the legendary Machines with Magnets in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, constantly challenging the boundaries of what is possible in the realm of recorded media. Beyond the thin vail of sanity lies the forgotten age of mysticism and heroes”. High Command’s lyrical world, created by vocalist Kevin Fitzgerald, is steeped in lore and savagery, heavily inspired by fantasy based warfare, and in the band’s own words “boundless quests frozen in the aeons of time and space hacked out of ice and transcribed in lightning. Beyond The Wall Of Desolation, incoming via Southern Lord on 27th September is in the band’s own words, “five friends coming together to create the sonic equivalent of a barbarian horde.”
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High Command set out on the warpath to create their debut full length and the heaviest work they have produced yet.
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