Will Ballantyne

musician from Vancouver BC Canada

City | City & i.o | Anti-God Hand | Trance Band

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discography

2023

Anti-God Hand - Blight Year (American Dreams Records)

TRANCE BAND - Entrancing (SVBKVLT)

2021

City & i.o - Chaos is God Neighbour (Éditions Appærent)

Anti-God Hand & Threshing Spirit - split (American Decline Records/Crown & Throne Ltd.)

Anti-God Hand - X (American Decline Records)

Anti-God Hand - Wretch (American Decline Records)

Anti-God Hand - Endless Excavated Earth (American Decline Records) 

2020

City - Simulation Fix (Divination) (Ascetic House)

City - Trance Cult Metal Remixes (self-release)

City - Trance Cult Metal (self-release)

2019

City & i.o - Spirit Volume (PTP)

2018

City - Skeleton (self-release)

City - Only Borders (Ascetic House)

2017

City - A Goal is an Image (Halcyon Veil)

City - Arcadia (Halcyon Veil)



video

Anti-God Hand - "Barge of Light" (dir. Jordan Reyes)

City, i.o, Dis Fig - "Unkind" (dir. Felicia Chen)

City - Boiler Room x Asian Dope Boys (dir. Tianzhuo Chen)

City - "If the seasons stop changing" (for O Fluxo) (dir. Simon Kounovsky)

City - Disorginzation x TRANCE Trailer (dir. Tianzhuo Chen)

City - "Brightness" (dir. Seraphim)

City - "Shame Dagger" (dir. Rick Farin)

City & i.o - "Anxiety Object" (dir. Maxwell Patterson)

City & Traci Finch - live collaboration at Corridor Festival

City - "Cold & bright"


collabs - features - commissions

Rick Farin - "Powerzone" feat. City from Wretched (THANKS Recordings)

guitar on "On the Beach, Watching the World End" and "A Cold Wind Passes Over the Sand" from Time Passes, Until it Doesn't by Estoc (TT)

City & ssaliva - "Generated Tons" from Eat The Night OST by ssaliva

guitar on Abyss X - "Vacuum (feat. Juliana Huxtable)" and "From Hot to Cold" from Freedom Doll (AD 93)

guitar solo on DEBBY FRIDAY - "WHAT A MAN" from GOOD LUCK (Sub Pop)

guitar solo on IVVVO - "Bleached Butterfly" feat. Abyss X from Bleached Butterfly (AD 93)

Estoc - "WAR WORLD" feat. City from BOG TROLL (Yegorka)

VISIO - "Years of Silence" feat. City from Privacy Angels (Haunter Records)

City - "9K" from Midnight is Comin' by ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U (Midnight Shift)

soundtrack contributions to All Under Heaven by Rick Farin and Xander Zhou

soundtrack contributions to Adcredo: The Deep Belief Network by Joey Holder

Eaves - "New Babylon" (City Remix) from Shine PTP)


writing - interviews

Heavy Blog Guest List: Anti-God Hand

Will Ballantyne interviews Olin Caprison (Violence) for O Fluxo - Alleviate Eliminate Reify

Will Ballantyne selects a Wire playlist: an introduction to Devin Townsend

Anti-God Hand on The Metal Show - Bandcamp

Anti-God Hand: "Crushing the old gods of black metal" - Discorder

City & i.o on collaboration - Collide24

City: "Excavating Organic Sound Material" - SBVRSV

City: "Anxious Momentums" - AQNB


shows

✺with i.o

♲durational performance with Tianzhuo Chen

2024

✺07.10 | Centennial Square, Victoria | Near Dark Events presents Eventide 2024 | with Fred Cracklin, CSTMR, Cooplore

♲06.15 | Sonar Festival, Bacelona | Tianzhuo Chen presents PHYSIS

♲02.23 | Sonic Acts Festival, Amsterdam | Tianzhuo Chen presents TRANCE

2023

12.03 | The ANNEX, Vancouver | Normiecorp presents A Different Dimension | with Almazz, Goo, Turtle Dreams, 266sx

10.27 | VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver | Pass Key presents Purity Cube | with sunder, nsc, Tenderness, 300ofu164637, Alexis George

♲06.08-09-10 | Dark Mofo Festival, Tasmania | Tianzhuo Chen Presents TRANCE

03.04 | Los Angeles | Ascetic House with 266sx, s280f, Glochids, Varg2TM, DJ Stolen Valor

♲02.24-25-26 | Komische Oper, Berlin | Tianzhuo Chen Presents TRANCE

2022

11.04 | Museum of Surgical Sciences, Chicago | Jordan Reyes' Ark of Teeth featuring Eli Winter, travis, P Michael, Patrick Shiroishi, Ambre Sala, Will Ballantyne

♲07.08 | Norbergfestival, Sweden | Tianzhuo Chen Presents PHYSIS

♲06.02-03-04 | Kampnagel, Hamburg | Tianzhuo Chen Presents TRANCE

♲05.21 | Trauma Bar und Kino, Berlin | Tianzhuo Chen presents PHYSIS

✺02.26 | No Fun Bar, Portland | with Sea Moss, Mouthbreather

✺02.25 | Blue Moon, Seattle | with Dave Abramson & Lori Goldston

2021

✺12.09 | New Forms Festival Sound Space, Vancouver | with Amir Abbey, Sound Migrations, Alexi Baris

✺11.05 | Red Gate, Vancouver | C.I.G.N. record release party with tenderness, desire process, 266sx

✺09.25 | Crace Mountain, Nanaimo | with Shearing Pinx

✺09.10 | send+receive Festival, Winnipeg | with Matthew Kardinal & Stephanie Kuse, Memorypond 

✺09.08 | The Aviary, Edmonton | with Pigeon Breeders, Ghost Cars, Low Earth Orbit

2019

✺11.23 | Crace Mountain, Nanaimo | with Holy Boredoms, LL, MASSIRRAYTORR, The Sheen

✺11.22 | Sands Funeral Chapel, Victoria | with Redress, LL

11.09 | ALL, Shanghai | Asian Dope Boys with 011668 & S280F & VVXXII, Dis Fig, Jirui N1L, Lotic, Ylva Falk & KHNG KHAN

11.08 | FINAL, Taipei | with Elin, Luu.Qoo

♲10.31-11.01-02 | MWOODS Museum, Beijing | Tianzhuo Chen presents TRANCE

✺09.25 | New Forms Festival, Vancouver | with A.F. Jones & Dave Abramson, Daniel Menche, Seffrika

09.16 | Copper Owl, Victoria | with i.o, JP Meldrum, x/o

06.07 | Index, Vancouver | Baby Blue record release party with Baby Blue, JS Aurelius

2018

10.06 | OIL Club, Shenzhen | Genome 6.66 Mbp 2nd Anniversary with Kelvin T, Kilo Vee, Noctilucents

09.30 | De Commune, Bangkok | Sathon Chainsaw #2 with Mudlogger, C. Ceeradakorn & V. Voraphitak, J. Vatanakuljaras, Nuh Peace

09.28 | Tai Kwun Contemporary Art Centre, Hong Kong | Art After Hours: A/V experiments with Abyss X

09.24 | Radd Lounge, Tokyo | with Big Kin, Nuji, Wrack, more

09.22 | Shimokitazawa Three, Tokyo | with Cemetery, Quintano, Shattered Form, Wa?ste

09.20 | 23 Music Room, Taipei | with Hojo, Crying Mento

09.15 | ALL, Shanghai | Genome 6.66 Mbp with Bela, Khemist, Kilo Vee, Soulseek

09.08 | Zhao Dai.2, Beijing | Asian Dope Boys with Baby China Yu, Mykki Blanco, Simon Frank, XDD, Ziur

08.26 | Few Norms Festival, Roberts Creek | with Anna Morgan, Librarian, NAP, more

03.06 | H0L0, Queens | with Dis Fig, Eaves, Jesse Osborne-Lanthier

03.03 | Loft Durocher, Montreal | with Jesse Osborne-Lanthier, Kazuki Koga, QUALIATIK, Valeda

02.24 | Corridor Festival, Seattle | with C Spencer Yeh, MHYSA, Yu Su, more

02.22 | Bambi’s, Toronto | with Burglar, Ktana, Viscera

2017

12.02 | Paradiso Noord, Amsterdam | Progress Bar with Gaika’s Spectacular Empire

12.01 | Les Urbaines Festival, Lausanne | with Geo Wyeth, Jeremy Nedd, Poussy DRAAMA, more

11.25 | 3hd Festival, Berlin | with Flora Yin-Wong, Prince Harvey, Rui Ho, Stud1nt

10.13 | 333, Vancouver | s.M.i.L.e. 05 with Toxe, s.M.i.L.e. residents

09.29 | New Forms Festival, Vancouver | with Aïsha Devi, Endgame, Sinjin Hawkes & Zora Jones, Zutzut

02.16 | Sunnyvale, Brooklyn | with Dasychira, Dis Fig, Eaves, Embaci, Swan Meat, Wormwatcher, visuals: Ezra Miller

2016

09.09 | Red Gate, Vancouver | Threshold YVR no. 1 with Jock Club, Marshstepper, Ñero, more

07.21 | Amersham Arms, London | with Dane Law, Elvin Brandhi, Eaves, Shelley Parker, visuals: Joey Holder

06.03 | La Suerte, Mexico City | with Omar Alejandro, Uurah & Gazrapse

05.28 | Bahia Bar, Mexico City | with D Ark Gable, Ice Cyborg, Uurah & Gazrapse, Wasted Fates


c Will Ballantyne 2022 - ∞