https://zacbentz.bandcamp.com/album/30000-days
released January 3, 2017
One song.
Twenty-four hours.
Forty-eight segments, each thirty minutes long.
Originally released exclusively to subscribers once a week across eleven months. Each original release has unique artwork.
(30,000 days is roughly eighty-two years, or one lifetime.)
https://zacbentz.bandcamp.com/album/ghostship
released January 12, 2017
Recorded as part of the Ghost Ship Benefit in Duluth, Minnesota on January 6th, 2017. facebook.com/events/1205462559544684/
IW/M/DK is:
Mike Trepanier (Ire Wolves) – Guitar
Dustin Fennessey (Ire Wolves) – Bass
Dean Berlinerblau (Modify) – Digital Manipulation
Zac Bentz (Dirty Knobs) – Synthesis
https://zacbentz.bandcamp.com/album/hallowed
released February 12, 2017
https://zacbentz.bandcamp.com/album/fuck-it-fade
released February 12, 2017
https://zacbentz.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-drone-not-drones-2017
released February 26, 2017
Recorded live at Drone Not Drones 2017. Recorded direct from equipment on-stage, not the board mix.
Please visit dronenotdrones.com and donate if you are able.
https://zacbentz.bandcamp.com/album/do-not-let-your-kindness-be-weaponized-against-you
released March 17, 2017
Known around the world for delivering up massive (and massively long) slabs of dark atmospheres like Field Recordings from the Edge of Hell (8 hours), The Hermit Seeks the Stillness (12 hours), and 30,000 Days (24 hours), Dirty Knobs returns from the other end of the spectrum with Do Not Let Your Kindness Be Weaponized Against You, 5 songs clocking a relatively demure 30 minutes. From the robotic whispered warning of the title track set over a family’s shared laughter, to the reverential echoes of “We Sing the Sun,” and the almost-not-even-there of “Endure,” these songs take a much more delicate, almost hesitant approach than the smothering walls of sound that Dirty Knobs is known for. But the analog pulses and wails in “Closed Horizons” and “Welcome to Ghostbridge” do remind listeners of the dread just around the corner.
https://zacbentz.bandcamp.com/album/kinderchomper-the-soundtrack
released April 19, 2017
Soundtrack to the film Kinderchomper, directed by Mike Scholtz.
A new documentary about a mild-mannered artist from Minnesota who leads a double life as a baby-eating professional wrestler in Japan.
Coming soon to a film festival near you.
https://zacbentz.bandcamp.com/album/breakdown-dawnbreak
released August 23, 2017
Improvised live and recorded from the stage at Northern Isolation III in Duluth, Minnesota around 9:30pm on Sunday, August 20th, 2017.
https://zacbentz.bandcamp.com/album/from-a-vantablack-heart
released October 1, 2017
I sometimes have a difficult time remembering how I’ve made music. When I listen back to final mixes, it’s a mystery. I could never recreate what I’ve done. Not exactly. That doesn’t mean it was created in some sort of fugue-state. Quite the opposite. But a major component is experimentation and a sense of discovery. If you know exactly what you want to discover, then that’s not discovery. The journey is sometimes indistinct and difficult to recall.
I often have a quote from Warren Ellis’ Morning Computer in mind while working, a mental image of “places that were only ever designed to be passed through.” Maybe that’s what this music is. Music for places that were only ever designed to be passed through. Infinite anechoic chambers absorbing all vibration. Massive underground neutrino detectors catching a glimpse of the universe as it passes through their clear waters. Galaxies of dark matter and voids. Mental spaces where time stutters and anxiety flexes.
Music to be lost and forgotten. Music from a vantablack heart.
https://zacbentz.bandcamp.com/album/solstice
released December 21, 2017
Stay warm.
-zb