Author & Punisher
Author & Punisher is the solo industrial doom and drone metal project of San Diego-based mechanical engineer Tristan Shone, active since 2004. Shone performs entirely on custom-fabricated machines and controllers called Drone Machines, devices that grew out of his masters thesis at the University of California, San Diego, and which draw directly from industrial robotics and automation. His catalog includes numerous releases on Relapse Records, with Nocturnal Birding arriving in October 2025 and marking the first time a second full bandmember, guitarist Doug Sabolick, has joined the project.
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Author & Punisher Discography
4 tracks
- 1 Warcry 11:05
- 2 Horns 13:16
- 3 See the Lights Shine 7:08
- 4 Flight of the Black Swan 3:15
11 tracks
- 1 Sand, Wind and Carcass 5:41
- 2 Burrow Below 7:50
- 3 Doppler 6:00
- 4 Beginning of End 5:13
- 5 Skies O'er 9:14
- 6 NTG Part 1 - Time 7:59
- 7 NTG Part 2 - Pressure 7:37
- 8 Lust for Scales 8:32
- 9 Blue Flame 5:31
- 10 Throttle and Hymn 4:58
- 11 Final Hours 2:37
7 tracks
- 1 Women & Children 6:31
- 2 In Remorse 5:03
- 3 Melee 7:38
- 4 Tame as a Lion 5:54
- 5 Fearce 4:14
- 6 Miles from Home 6:47
- 7 Pain Myself 4:48
8 tracks
- 1 The Barge 8:09
- 2 Cauterize 3:28
- 3 Shame 7:34
- 4 Future Man 7:20
- 5 Disparate 8:33
- 6 Callous and Hoof 6:54
- 7 Teething 4:20
- 8 Void, Null, Alive 7:05
7 tracks
- 1 Terrorbird 4:30
- 2 Lonely 7:01
- 3 Mercy Dub 4:07
- 4 Set Flames 10:24
- 5 Flesh Ants 2:46
- 6 Below and Above You 5:42
- 7 Ill Consuming 6:46
5 tracks
- 1 Enter This 7:23
- 2 Pressure Lover 4:02
- 3 Nazarene 4:30
- 4 New World 5:37
- 5 Black Wand 5:57
8 tracks
- 1 Pharmacide 4:29
- 2 Nihil Strength 3:36
- 3 Ode to Bedlam 3:28
- 4 The Speaker is Systematically Blown 4:14
- 5 Nazarene 4:09
- 6 Apparition 4:38
- 7 Night Terror 6:05
- 8 Beastland 6:03
1 track
- 1 Ode to Bedlam 3:28
1 track
- 1 Night Terror 6:05
1 track
- 1 Nihil Strength 3:36
1 track
- 1 A Crude Sectioning 4:33
8 tracks
- 1 Nihil Strength (Live) 3:47
- 2 Disparate (Live) 6:56
- 3 Ode to Bedlam (Live) 3:28
- 4 A Crude Sectioning (Live) 4:38
- 5 Nazarene (Live) 4:37
- 6 The Barge (Live) 8:04
- 7 Pharmacide (Live) 4:51
- 8 Terrorbird (Live) 4:10
1 track
- 1 Drone Carrying Dread 8:15
2 tracks
- 1 Excess 6:21
- 2 Excess 4:22
8 tracks
- 1 Drone Carrying Dread 8:15
- 2 Incinerator 6:56
- 3 Centurion 5:42
- 4 Maiden Star 6:53
- 5 Misery 4:49
- 6 Glorybox 6:28
- 7 Blacksmith 4:56
- 8 Krüller 7:22
3 tracks
- 1 Blacksmith 4:56
- 2 Maiden Star 6:53
- 3 Drone Carrying Dread 8:15
2 tracks
- 1 Maiden Star 6:53
- 2 Drone Carrying Dread 8:15
1 track
- 1 Motomami 1:54
8 tracks
- 1 Meadowlark 4:30
- 2 Titanis 3:01
- 3 Mute Swan 4:04
- 4 Black Storm Petrel 3:18
- 5 Titmouse 4:11
- 6 Titmice 4:24
- 7 Rook 4:55
- 8 Thrush 5:48
2 tracks
- 1 Thrush 5:48
- 2 Titanis 3:01
1 track
- 1 Titanis 3:01
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