Noise/Drone/Experimental CD's and CD-r's

Ambiansu is a Portuguese Dark Ambient project, joining the efforts of two well-known artists in that scene: Merankorii and Ambience. Together, they created a dark new world, that you can visit by purchasing their debut release "Tagebuch", a 500 copies limited CD.

Formerly known as Big Road Breaker. "More sub-space transmissions from out of the void, other worldly murmurs and ambiences that shimmer like phantoms then fade into oblivion. Clicks, static and rumbles are allused as devices to convey abstractions of space and time. Layer upon layer of sound, treated to bring out new textures; the musical splitting of an atom" (Bizarre). Released in an edition of 500 copies, though only 300 were ever made available due to a shortage in the printed sleeves. Comes in a in PVC archive sleeve with multiple transparent and card inserts with obi strip.

"A collection of older, long out of print cuts and two previously unreleased tracks. Limited to 500 copies in a Stumptown Printers cardboard sleeve. Black on black print both on the cover and the disc" - Label Description

Amazing Polish act burning the last days of 2009 in dark Power Electronics offense.

3 tracks / 19 minutes Length. Packaged in a mini-dvdr black case.

Harsh Death Noise Collaboration. Essential Listening. Sold Out From Label. Cheap But Necassary.

"Very proud to get this one out! First time on CD for both these bands: Culver, possibly the most under-appreciated "experimental" musician in the UK who's been making some of the most awe-inspiring drone/noise for years. For those of you who don't know, Lee Stokoe plays bass in Geordie post-whatever geniuses Marzuraan as well as being the current foil to Matthew Bower's walls of scraping guitar noise in Skullflower, but Culver is his "main" project. On this CD he gives us a 30 min+ deluge of harrowing.bassy drone. It starts off like the sound of the generator from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and similarly purveys a sense of crawling dread at what is to come. Soon things get more desperate before being crushed into oblivion by a wall of crushing amplifier noise, which slowly develops into a more sedative shifting tone that wouldn't have been out of place on a Conrad Schnitzler record in the 70s. Perfect! Seppuku give us two tracks in very different styles....first track "Inga" sees a full band play some unbearably heavy doom. Ushered in by what sounds like a tolling bell, this gives way to some Throbbing Gristle-esque hydraulic pumping before the guitars kick in and everything is laid to waste. Brutal low frequencies and inhuman low/screaming vokilllllls....heavy duty! Second track Emanuelle is enhanced by the appearance of Deek and Stevie from Messiah Complex; sounds very post-industrial power electronics, with walls of bleak static forming the backbone of the track, interspersed with what sounds like post-apocalyptic winds of death, and some distorted lines of screeched vocal. Unpleasant. Comes in a jewel case with a 12-page glossy booklet featuring pics of my favourite euro-babes. Released in tribute to the most beautiful woman to have ever graced the world with her presence, Soledad! 500 copies". - Label Description

"Crystalline drones and sacred incantation. Nectar procured from golden fruit. Shimmering resonance channeled through dream. A most anticipated return to form for Menche. Breathtaking purity of sound. Wolf's Milk is a triumph of immense magnitude". - Label Description

"A re-issue CD of quite possibly the most crumbled and crushed out harsh noise release to date. Originally released in Italy by Old Europa Café in 1995, "Low-Fi Power Carnage" was an excellent example of imported noise from the Italian harsh noise master Gabriele Giuliani. At a time when the cassette format was king and Japanese noise was sometimes too high range and polished causing Americanoise to crush the genre with acts such as Skin Crime and Macronympha, Dead Body Love was also around to deliver the most crusted and rumbling of the contemporary harsh noise acts. "Low-Fi Power Carnage" is an amazing document of raw and crunched harsh noise range and focus as it pummels over its four different tracks; each their own monster in strategy and manipulation. Giuliani has an uncanny ability to investigate movement within the rock bed of sound, sometimes picking apart the tones and sources with deconstruction techniques that range from ‘static drone’ to the brutal and abrasive. Thus, this release has something for every harsh head as it covers numerous areas of violence, abstraction, and even an occasional heavy driving, throbbing force that brings to mind early ‘Industrial’ (i.e. Broken Flag). I am honoured to be able to help with this re-issue as I can safely say it is my favourite noise release of all time and was the defining release that made me finally decide to make harsh noise the primary focus of my life. Painstakingly re-mastered to CD to duplicate the original cassette experience right down to the tension-filled extended breaks between the tracks. To celebrate this release, each CD comes with an 11" x 17" glossy offset printed and folded DEAD BODY LOVE poster to hang on your wall". - Sam McKinlay

Blissful guitar assault by Kev Wilkinson, Simon Moore and Waz Hoola Limited edition dedut album of 50 copies with printed disc and sleeve on card. Last Copy!

Alienoise Destruction Musick. It was almost 20 years ago, on 1990 when Bizarre Charlie Alien (Spokane, Washington, US) started to make these amorphous masses of alien Noise / Splatter / Shitcore recordings delighting a big amount of noise freaks then, releasing some classic recordings on the extinct well known US Noise/ Shit labels bunG Records, Xenomorph Records, Stupidity Records, Fuckin' Shit Recordings and still active nowadays releasing tons of stuff . This CDr is collecting three of the THE EARWIGS' earliest recordings:
- 'Holocaust' Tape. Recorded November 1991.
- 'Gyngembre Règles' Tape. Recorded July 1992.
- 'Piss Shit Vomit And Cum'. Previously unreleased recording. November 1991.

59 minutes length. 75 copies pressed. Black and White glossy cover / Artful cd printing.

"Richard Dawson's project that debuted on Blackest Rainbow earlier this year, which was followed by CDRs on Bells Hill, Low Point and Dead Pilot, and another release on Blackest Rainbow, a split cassette with fellow UK droner Gareth Hardwick. The Invisible Castle is far more intense, and in some ways heavier than the previous releases on BR, but retains Dawson's own dark take on the world of psychedelic drone music, and this is a proper drone release, clocking in an hour for the full piece. Intense and superb! Limited to 1000 copies in pro-printed wallets". - Label Description

Expert Noisecore from Japanese masters!

"T. Boettner’s fire island, AK project is high-concept queer noise at its finest. This two track record opens with Beatific Vision, a simply crushing track made with contact mic’d silver bullet vibrators that swallows up and spits back out the voices that surround it. Veering from restraint to all-out attack, this is the centrepiece of the record. Secondly is Ghettoes of Nightclubs, a high-pitched mic feedback track that’s the soundtrack to queer revolution. The feedback sounds like dangerously enticing whispers, leading you in, aided by a little bit of synth, until you’re backed into a corner and there’s no way out. The title is taken from Guy Hocquenghem’s The Screwball Asses". - Label Description

"Horrendous, violent, nasty and aggressive NOISECORE record featuring 4 of the dirtiest champion bands ever!! Countless songs!! 68 minutes Length!! 150 copies pressed!!". - Label Description

Gelsomina provides 10 tracks of perfect harsh noise including bonus live collaboration track with other fellow Finnsih legend Grunt. Must have for any noise collection.

"Picking up where 2008's An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood left off, Gnaw Their Tongues is back with nine new tracks of fearsome blackened orchestral chaos and abstract horror that still sounds like little else out there. On Dread, we're feeling an even heavier bass-assault compared to the other releases, and this is easily the heaviest Gnaw Their Tongues release yet. This monstrous, noxious bottom-end roar that skulks and slithers throughout the album suggests a foul fusion of Abruptum (which is still the closest reference point to Gnaw Their Tongue's black chaos) and Leonard Rosenman's most nightmarish film scores, piled in towering heaps of sadistic noise, warped orchestral strings, degraded samples, shrieking voices, and punishing lurching doom draped in suffocating atrmosphere. Hyper-abstract black metal sound-collage? Wagnerian avant-doom psychosis? That's one way of putting it, but Gnaw Their Tongues is ultimately impossible to pin down, defying simple categorization as this album plunges even deeper into a black pit of total cinematic horror, sexual perversion, and shapeless heaviosity". - Label Description

"Grain Belt is a band consisting of those behind WINCE, WILLFUL, and BACULUM. This CD collects three live performances. Ultra-harsh blasting for extended periods of time, in the style of the Incapacitants, but more raw metal and less electronics". - Label Description

"Freak Animal is proud to present new full length CD of Grunt! Recorded between 2007-2009, making it longest recording task of project so far. Presenting some of the new sides of Grunt, but with the touch known from before. Album contains no harsh noise, but is innovative mixture of fierce power electronics with echoes of early 80's Ramleh & Sutcliffe Jugend, mixed with experimental organic noise influences a'la Organum, Ferial Confine, to heavy dominant euro PE/industrial attacks to rhythic elements and metal percussions linking towards Vivenza, Test Dept and Militia. Exclusively Finnish language lyrics and samples, with themes related to history of Finland since early turbulent years of civil war to post WWII atmosphere. 64 minutes with 9 songs presenting wide variety of moods, sound sources, compositions, approaches, blended into album that could be said unique even in extensive Grunt discography! Packaged in jewelbox with b/w artwork". - Label/Artist Description

This is the re-release of Herb Mullin / Flying Sandwich "Warning" (1992 Split Tape). Both are on the Industrial Noise / Harsh / Experimental side with some of drum machine insanity. Killer stuff! Not for the weak!

"Helm (Luke Younger, Birds Of Delay) release from TDS 4 tracks ranging from supermarket trolley rage and then to outer space meditations via late nights and loads of coffee. This is probably my favorite TDS release so far. Strongly recommended with a royal seal of approval. Yeah Prince Harry is a big fan". - Label Description

"As Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain was a satire of the western approach to self-actualization, Horseback's The Invisible Mountain is a work composed as a means to channel the self-destructive tendencies of its maker, Jenks Miller. The channeling process has required a functionally solipsistic worldview based on the efficacy of individual will in ascertaining its specific reality. This worldview, in turn, has caused a sort of fissure between social consciousness and individual consciousness. In specific, the invisible mountain is an abstraction of the God-self in this whole process, a tenuous and ever-collapsing fabrication that perpetuates the individual psyche amidst processes that would otherwise destroy it or steal its creative power. The mountain itself is false: existing only to the individual as he climbs toward self-realization, and unknowable in any external reality; but it is as necessary as it is false. Without the fabrication, individual reality would crumble and one would be stripped of creative power. The record itself is based on repetitive guitar riffs and drum patterns similar to mantras in meditation, blackened vocals referencing the uncomfortable tension between one's quest for transcendence and their unresolved relationship with the rest of society The tracks are devices to help maintain discipline in an attempt to conquer. The last track breaks from the mantras into a less rigorously controlled wash of sound. Liberation. Pressed with black ink on a black translucent paper sleeve. All white inserts with poster. Illustration by Denis Kostromitin". - Label Description

"For noise fans like myself this kind of collaboration is an absolute dream-team match-up... something like the Girls Aloud/Sugarbabes love-in for Comic Relief re-wired for those of us who pin up photographs of famous serial killers in our bedrooms, or something. 'Snail on a Razor' doesn't disappoint either; Dominick Fernow, Marcia Bassett and Matthew Bower make the kind of smudged-out noise you'd expect to hear not in your dying moments, but in the moments when some un-named, Hessian draped visage was chemically drawing you out of unconsciousness just to experience that extra searing pain before you drift off again into the realm of fire. It's sadistic, brutal, unflinchingly evil and as absorbing as this music can possibly get - I don't think I can be any clearer than that. I've never been shy about my addiction to Prurient records, or to Hototogisu for that matter (if you haven't heard 'Green' you should really do something about it by the way) and this succeeds on every level to be the kind of collaboration it really should be - Prurient's raw energy and Hototogisu's attention to fuzzy, psyched-out detail. Really this is a horrific soundscape in three acts, and to experience it from beginning to end is to throw yourself headfirst into a world of trembling, shadowy noise for seventy harrowing minutes, and if that's what you want then you know what you have to do. Hospital are one of my current favourite labels out there and it's a real pleasure to be presenting it to you - I think it's high time you developed a new addiction. Essential". - Label Description SOLD OUT FROM HOSPITAL!

Shit-your-pants loud, or just another day at the office for Japanese noise heavyweights INCAPICTANTS. Five tracks. Nice digipak, Steve's seal of approval and highly recommended!

"Most people should know these dudes, noisy drone from Newcastle, they've had releases on Heavy Tapes, Rebis, Gold Soundz, Alt Vinyl, Gareth Hardwicks Low Point, and a load more... It's called 'Grief to Grind the Fire' and has two new tracks totalling in at just under 65 minutes... a real brutal beauty. Bleak black and white sleeves in old school Blackest Rainbow style... 'Legs in the River' is like a swarm of black crows ascending on the earth, causing eternal darkness, and 'Burnt Hole' is like the radio transmission fucked-ness of the aftermath of this crow desolated earth. Dark. Limited to 100 copies, no joke. Sold out in a matter of hours!" - Label Description

First ever Jazzfinger CD released back 1998. Northern Drone from Newcastle. Expert stuff from Ben and Has. Edition of 500 copies. Amazingly, only the second ever released pro-CD by Jazzfinger was "The Ducal Palace" on Turgid Animal, released this year (2009)!

"Planned for a long time, here’s finally the split between UK’s Karst (Mutant Ape’s alterego) and Québec’s Wapstan (Martes Americana). Karst delivers a massive thick as a brick harsh atmospheric track while Wapstan delivers a stereophonic hypothermic synth track vaguely inspired by Kitaro if he was from Montreal in 2008! Anyway, this is a split..." - Label Description

Amazing CD release from this Canadian master of the distorted bash n' clang genre. Brutal heavy and extremly well executed harsh noise from someone on top of their game. Highly Recommended! Edition of only 200 copies with very few in stock here at Turgid Animal! (Real CD)

"First full-length studio album from one of the most consistently good bands around today, Chicago's Locrian. Drenched Lands is a beautifully thought-out piece of music, from a gentle guitar strum/synth opening (not a million miles away from Culver/Earth "Pentastar"-era territory) which cuts out abruptly just as you're becoming entirely engrossed, only to give way to an epic cavernous drone. The whole thing brings to mind some sort of disused industrial factory or barren post-apocalyptic landscape. Dark tones, noise, keys and the odd well-placed guitar strum combine brilliantly to evoke feeling of desolation, loss, a submission of will....it's almost like the logical conclusion of Neil Young's Dead Man soundtrack; almost tangiential in sound to Earth's recent(ish) "Hex" record. 1000 copies, co-release with Small Doses (US customers buy from them, it'll be cheaper!). Comes in a lovely fold-out printed Stumptown "Arigato Pack" with full-colour 4-page booklet". - Label Description

This is the collaboration between MAURIZIO BIANCHI/M.B. and MAOR APPELBAUM for 2009.
Releasing collaborations since 2006 this is the 5th work they've done together.
An enormous piece including 2 tracks dealing with Drone and Dark Ambient/ Noise.

2 tracks / 44 minutes Length. 200 copies pressed.

"A brand new outfit from the ever growing, continully awesome Newcastle scene... Mechanical Children have had a track on a compilation CD that you most likely won't have, and this I guess is their debut release. Mechanical Children is Ben and Sarah from the almighty Jazzfinger... totally sick broken sounds from the North... Limited to 100 copies in over sized gaffer taped gatefold card sleeves". - Label Description

Split releases with the theme of genocide. Varied harsh sounds. One disc by each band. Not for the faint of heart. Limited to 46 copies.

"Nekrasov emerges out of the Sherbrooke Forest in Australia to bring us more excellent Ambient/black/void metal. Humiliation comes from nowhere and bring forth their ferocious take on harsh noise, ambient and power electronics. 'We follow a tradition of misanthropy and deliberate self isolation as preservation' is how they present themselves. Both artists do solo tracks and collaborate.". - Label Description

Live set at Kulturpalast Wedding, Berlin in February'08 by NEUROBIT, an experimental electronic one-man act from The Netherlands.
Lo-bit along with effects and synth sounds were used to create a 16 minutes piece dealing with a wide range of styles such as Ambient, Drone, Noise, sci-fi.

1 track / 16 minutes Length. Packaged in a mini-dvdr black case.

"An unbelievable line-up on this one, UK noise icons The New Blockaders team up with erstwhile Sonic Youth bandmates, Thurston Moore and Jim O'Rourke with more than a little help from the reliably jaw-dropping Chris Corsano. The disc is divided into two pieces, the first being the collaboration with Thurston, which turns out to be a particularly obscure drone piece, constituted from hissing feedback tones, tape crackle and some sort of chaotic, mechanical sound sources. The piece evolves infinitesimally over the course of its fourteen minutes, rendering an uncompromising, though highly textured vision of analogue sound sculpting. The other, shorter piece '840 Seconds Over' continues in its predecessor's campaign of high frequency feedback manipulations this time with the addition of some caterwhauling noise oscillator free jazz and typically virtuosic improv drumming from Corsano. It's a real force to be reckoned with, and the crispness of Corsano's kit works perfectly against the hiss and fizz from the tape-heavy, droning elements. It's all over rather too soon (the whole thing clocks in at just over twenty-one minutes), but you can hardly expect anyone to keep up these levels of intensity for prolonged periods, can you? Superb, top-flight noise". - Label Description

This 4 Way CDr is featuring other 4 dirty champion noisecore acts. For all those Noisecore thirsty heads you can find here another violent attack of guitar noises, insane vocals and fast drums. ÑOGHS, Featuring the RONF crew and Potabilizadora members plus Jorge from the late gone noisecore act Genital Masticator are discharging here an intense Noisecore improvisation / Spain. COLICO, Unserious, perverted, out of principles and amoral fast and disgusting Noisecore / Ecuador. GOFUCKYOURSELF, 34 songs of grinding Noisecore recorded on 4 different sessions / Canada. PERMANENT DEATH, R.I.P. Tony / this is one of the latest recordings of the gone great Noisecore act - Sounding like Deche-Charge earliest recordings this one kills fascists!!/ Netherlands. This was co-released with the Ecuatorian label MIERDA EN LA CABEZA late May 2008 but it has been unavailable from us until now . 54 minutes Length!! 60 copies pressed!! Black and white glossy cover.

"When I started doing the label this was what I always intended it to be: releasing great music by people from around here who need to be heard! Well, here ya go! This CD combines two of Glasgow's best experimental bands, neither of which really seem to get the credit or attention they deserve. John Comar AKA Noma has been wowing audiences for a few years now with his constantly changing live sets, a slew of CDr releases on various labels, and as an auxilliary member of metal powerhouse Black Sun, but this is his first "proper" CD release. He takes on two tracks here, the first is a slowly-building tone-fest. Very ambient, and hauntingly beautiful...bascially what Noma does best. Next track "Amusia" is a little atypical of what most people will expect. Imposing thuds are interjected by what sounds like some form of screeching metallic machine being thrown down some stairs, electronic blasts. Surreal, bizarre, unpredictable....very Noma. This is only the second ever release by Adam Cresser's Rejectamenta, and his one track here, "SSilence" is a follow-up to his CDr on At War from a couple of years ago entitles SServant. This couldn't be any further away from silence, total overload of a billion circuit-bent instruments all melded together into one massive orchestral binary cacophany. Lovely hooks come here and there, the whole thing takes a few listens just to figure out what the hell is going on, great stuff. 500 copies, regular jewel case with "reversed" art". - Label Description

"The power electronics act Odal is the oldest project of the notorious Peter Zincken who is also known as Dr. Bibber and frontman of the legendary FCKN' BSTRDS these days. Together with Zyrtax he recorded 9 pieces of industrial noise that mixes layers of feedback, distortion and looped analog synths. The end result is a mix of old SUTCLIFFE JUGEND and MAURIZIO BIANCHI". - Label Description

"Killer collaboration between the goldenboy of the californian noise scene/drummer extraordinaire wiese and toyko's noise legend pain jerk that seems to reflect more on the early-90s pornographic merzbow sound et al than anything currently beating its head against a rock. just chaos blurts of white noise catharsis cut up with quizzical gloops down the plughole where you feel like a cartoon roadrunner, still peddling in mid-air. 1000 copies only, on the esteemed harbinger sound imprint". - Label Description

"Music from the decaying and dying cities representing one's own innerself. 56 minutes, 7 long tracks of Harsh Industrial Noise and Power Electronics. All tracks recorded: 1998-2007. Remastered December 23.2009. All electronics and vocals recorded by Andrew Seal. Comes in a slim DVD case. Limited to only 200 copies in slimline DVD cases". - Label Description

"After a new ‘rock’ 10-inch EP co-released earlier this year by Black Rose Recordings and an also resurrected Broken Flag, Second Layer Records are extremely proud to present Valediction - the first all new Ramleh album since 1997, and the first new power electronics recordings from the project for 25 years. And yet Valediction is no ordinary “power electronics” record, nor is it anything as straightforward as simply a return to their roots. Valediction is very much an entity of its own – both consolidating and expanding upon everything Ramleh have touched on in the past, but also digging into entirely fresh ground for the band. Valediction is, perhaps, Ramleh’s most bleakly psychedelic creation so far. Comes in a 4-panel gatefold sleeve with 8 page booklet with photos and cut-up lyrics from some of the tracks. Limited to 1000 copies". - Label Description

"The entire Glasgow Implodes performance captured on a wee mini CDr! And for those of you fortunate enough to not witness this epic set, it lasted around a minute and a half. Unholy violent vocal outbursts, blast beats a-plenty, and some horrific wall of noise from Lee Stokoe. Painful to listen to, but it doesn't last very long. Cover in tribute to the most handsome snooker player around, also featuring Greame Dott. Spot the spelling mistake on the back and win a pie". - Label Description

"First there was Skkull then there was The Drone Drug... Continuing on the same path, the sound of The Drone Drug is of a similar relentless minimalistic nature as its predesessor. This could be seen as the electronic backbone to last years amazing Blood Spirits & Drums Are Singing (Conspiracy Records), creating a heavy beast with the most basic and stripped-down use of variations in drones and frequencies instead of guitars and percussion. Monotonous motor humming via drugged-out machinery and assaults of feedback attacking with a strong feel of claustrophobia. Compared to Skkull, The Drone Drug evolves more around a grim and abrasive sound, constantly toying with lo-fi aesthetics and a rough industrial edge. The atmosphere created is thick and black, bringing up visions of a dystopian society trembling on the edge of the world. Spreading the disease in a world slowly dying, The Drone Drug is poison and affect you it will. On this recording, The Skull Defekts is Joachim Nordwall and Henrik Rylander. 4 tracks cut by an unsharpened razor. Total playtime of 52 minutes. 4-panel digipack with artwork by Daniel Fagerström". - Label Description

"For the recording, Henrik Rylander and Joachim Nordwall of drone operators The Skull Defekts got together with the legendary performance and noise duo The Sons of God - consisting of conceptual artist and self-proclaimed king of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland Leif Elggren and electro-acoustic sound artist Kent Tankred. The place for the meeting was Rylander's Studio Dental and the album was received in one night. The process developed immediately and there was no struggle to find a common idea of sound. Rylander and Nordwall on no-input mixing desk and analog synths and Elggren and Tankred on amplified metallic rakes, an old fan and FX. Something was caught on tape. That something is what you are now listening to. Photograph by Carley King". - Label Description

"A reissue of Skullflower's acclaimed 1992 album IIIrd Gatekeeper, featuring the lineup of Matthew Bower (guitar), Stuart Dennison (drums and vocals), and Anthony DiFranco (bass). IIIrd Gatekeeper is an immensely heavy album that was originally released on HeadDirt, the label run by Justin Broadrick of Godflesh/Jesu/Final fame back in the early 90's, and featured Skullflower at their heaviest, grinding out slow, sludgy riffs and crushing, almost industrial rhythms amid a tempest of psychedelic guitar noise and dense sheets of feedback - easily the most crushing, rock-based music that Skullflower ever produced. IIIrd Gatekeeper served up a skulldozing dose of post-industrial dirge rock that sat comfortably next to Godflesh, Swans, and Ramleh in terms of dark, druggy, hypnotic lumbering heaviness. This is one of our favorite albums ever at Crucial Blast, and we are presenting this reissue with new liner notes, a new package design that retains all of the original artwork from the HeadDirt release, and a remastering job courtesy of Scott Hull at Visceral Sound". - Label Description

"Brand new Skullflower studio recording featuring the line-up of Matthew Bower, Samantha Davies (Voltigeurs), Lee Stokoe (Culver) and Stuart Dennison (Ramleh, original Skullflower) back on drums. Three long tracks of blackened guitar wall. No one is making music that sounds like this. Comes in 6-panel digipack with artwork by Matthew Bower. Limited to 1000 copies". - Label Description

"The new full length from the legendary UK free/drone/psych outfit Skullflower, featuring some of the most searing, synapse scorching droneworks that Matthew Bower (the man behind Skullflower, as well as Sunroof!, Total, and The Hototogisu) has unleashed to date, in our humble opinion. Orange Canyon Mind is the follow up to 2002's awesome Exquisite Fucking Boredom (Tumult Records), and continues that albums utter mutation of stoned out riffs pulled taffy-like into eternity/oblivion and star-rupturing blasts of sonic white light. Over the 8 tracks/60 minute running time, Bower and cohorts build massive horizontal drones and melodic supernovas. Superb, beautiful, brain melting stuff". - Label Description

Recorded live on the 23rd April 2009. Entire Skullflower show at Instants Chavires in Paris, France. Featuring the line-up of Matthew Bower, Stuart Dennison, Samantha Davies and Lee Stokoe.

"Tribulation. The new emission from the UK trance-noise legends SKULLFLOWER. A black-void beaming of utterly destroyed drone rock and crushing amplifier obliteration that rains down black ash and punishing blasts of feedback skree on the listener. A dynamic, bleary-eyed meditation. An avalanche of powerdrone that threatens to take your cranium apart and transport your grey matter into filthy new dimensions infested with melodic razor cuts and submerged mantras. A triumphant eruption of apocalyptic meta-metal and radioactive raga swarms, guaranteed to loosen eardrums. This album is one of the heaviest, harshest slabs of guitar armageddon from Matt Bower since the glory days of Total, and bridges the void between the krautrock/celestial free drone influence of the last few Skullflower albums, and the blackened molten death of his Mirag material". - Label Description

Grind/Noisecore legends from England, Sore Throat, take on Brazilian weirdo's New York Against The Belzebu. 383483 tracks and plenty of fun racket. Highly recommended

"This DVD Displays the Unease of What Has Been and What Will Be... The Nihilistic Emptiness Raging in Your Mind. Visions of Thought Induced Plagues Lead You Through a Maze of Inner Torment and The Struggle to Grasp It.... EXISTENCE IS FUTILE!!" - Label Description

"The first At War CD release is finally out!! Ohio's SLOTH have been creating some of the most fucked up, weird, funny music of the past 10+ years and this is their first ever CD full-length album! Known for split records with bands such as Corrupted, Grief, Floor, Upsidedown Cross, Noothgrush etc etc, this album sees Sloth in a much more musically diverse frame of mind than usual. The painful sludge noise is still there but there's an altogether more considered approach. There's piano on it for fuck's sake. Weird lo-fi songs that sound like they were written by a fucked up kid mix sit happily with garage rock high end jams and tar pit slo-mo doom dirges. The "13 samples" are bang on and the humour is as bizarre and hilarious as ever. Full CD (NOT A CDr) with full colour 4 page booklet, drawn by artist-in-chief Uberneecie and coloured in by a group of five year olds from Glasgow". - Label Description

Norway's Lasse Marhaug & Finland's Tommi Keränen make up Testicle Hazrd. Nordic Harsh Noise Hell! Recorded Oslo/Helsinki 2006. No overdub, no midi synth. Edition of 500.

"Noise improvisation recorded live by these well-known Chinese sickos. Retarded and depraved sounds using analog sources as guitar, feedback, pedals, killer detunings and mad vocals. 2 tracks / 40 minutes Length / 50 copies pressed". - Label Description

"Mike Pollard is basically the man right now, not only does he do this awesome project called Treetops thats had some killer stuff on Ecstatic Peace, Not Not Fun, DNT and Gilgongo, but he runs one of my favourite labels Arbor. So i'm psyched to be releasing this disc from him. Sounding like some kind of 70s cavern ritual nightmare throughout, tapping, churning weirdness with occasional patterred drums, shattering cymbals, and more full on room engulfing density-intensity. Comes in full colour collage sleeves designed by Bethany of Pocahaunted. Handnumbered edition of 100 on black bottomed cdrs". - Label Description

This is the re-release of the amazing BE A FREAK COMP. TAPE (1994). 21 bands from the early 90's noise scene, mainly from the US:

Featuring: Pissed Off Orgasm / Black Leather Jesus / Fartmonster / Nut Screamer / Sonic Disorder / Fragmented / Sockeye / Squirm / The Earwigs / God Damn Jerks / Mad Recital / Vaginal Dissection / God's Favorite Band / Genital Masticator / Extreme Hair Stench / Pile Of Eggs / P'ch**W! / Black Mayonaise / Orifice / Präparation-H / Moth

Amazing Power Electronics/Dark Harsh Noise compilation released in Russia featuring: Molester, Mutant Ape, Barrikad, Werewolf Jerusalem, Fecalove, Fear Konstruktor, Climax Denial, Mourmansk 150, Comforter & Splinter vs. Stalin. Limited to 300 copies in very special and great looking packaging!

"Volume I in a series of UK / European / US and Japanese artists' tributes to the pioneering UK Noise group The New Blockaders including exclusive tracks by: Nocturnal Emissions, Smell & Quim, Dieter Muh, Putrefier, srmeixner, Cheapmachines, Evil Moisture, Ashtray Navigations, Jazzfinger, Mutant Ape, Anomali, Halalchemists (incl. members of Skullflower, Culver, Snotnosed, Romance & Marzuraan)

"We are The New Blockaders. Blockade is resistance. It is our duty to blockade and induce others to blockade: Anti-books, anti-art, anti-music, anti-clubs, anti-communications. We will make anti-statements about anything and everything. We will make a point of being pointless." So read the 1982 manifesto of TNB. A group who, more than any other, define the essence of true Noise music both in art and in act. Their influence on the current crop of popular crossover Noise artists such as Prurient and Wolf Eyes is immeasurable. Emerging at the beginning of the 1980s alongside the Industrial grind of Throbbing Gristle and the harsh, abrasive Power Electronics of Whitehouse, TNB stood out through a purity of vision. Their first record, 1982's 'Changez Les Blockeurs', is noise in its most rudimentary form: metallic grating sounds and analogue feedback redefined what could be classified as music. Its abstract form and Dadaist construction challenged all that had appeared before. Its anti-music approach presented a recording closer to the theory-driven work of Einsturzende Neubauten than their supposed contemporaries. They would appear rarely and when they did it would be in anonymity. The records would emerge even more infrequently with little information and in tiny runs. Collaborations in recent years with artists such as Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Merzbow have brought their anti-sound to a younger and diverse audience. The metal-bashing of K2, the awkwardness of Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, the density of Macronympha and the abrasiveness of Merzbow all owe something to the anti-music of TNB. They can truly be credited as pioneers of Noise music as we know it today. This is the first in four unique albums of today's most forward-thinking noise artists paying tribute to their masters. Expect further volumes across the globe in the coming months. Mastered by Philip Julian. Artwork by Richard Rupenus (TNB). 500 copies, 12 page full-colour booklet" - Label Description

"A Must if you like grind/noisecore!! cult masterprice...fuck trendy grindcore!!" - Label Description

With Colico, Homicidal Republik (Mutant Ape Noisecore Band), Angola (Fecalove Noisecore Band) and many more!

"The 50th At War release so it had to be Vomir! First ever "proper" CD of harsh noise wall and it does not disappoint at all! I find it difficult to describe the sheer brutality of either the concept of Vomir's music or indeed the sound of the music itself. It's long, it does not change, and it leaves me with a feeling of intense loss and depression afterward. Truly some of the most powerful music I know. For Vomir there is nothing, and this is how he makes that statement. It's an ugly listen for sure, but well worth the effort. Regular edition in normal jewel case. 500 copies, pro CD, great minimal artwork by Strom Varx". - Label Description

New, now sold out from source, 3" CD-r by Irish newcomer Where Is This? Highly recommended little disc.

"New mini-CDr from one of the most interesting and forward-thinking US "noise" bands out right now. The idea behind this release was to utilise no distortion at all, using a lot of unorthodox instrumentation. The results are astounding and quite unlike anything WIO have done in the past. Some great tunes going on here; eight minute-plus "Now You Know" is amazing; low-fi percussives and what sounds like some spanish guitar? Great ritual music nonetheless that comes as a big surprise and my only disappointment is it's not longer. Another companion piece will be coming soon on At War, cannae wait! 3" CDr comes in a PVC case, wrapped in black material made out of flowers (?!) and a gold band, and a printed insert". - Label Description

"Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards, Hototogisu) rears Zaïmph's vile head once again on La Nuit Electrique. A raspy, delicate instrumental passage begins like a crippled music box. Elegant and soporose. Blackened guitar and amplification apprise the rest. Acrid feedback hangs in the air and vocal modulations clot inside dark rivers of current. The night electric". - Label Description