CDs and CD-rs

"inventively twisted black-comedy lyrics, throwing in dirty punchlines and shades of modern depravity that our Edwardian ancestors would have blanched at. There's also however an equally strong streak of utter weirdness and lowbrow surrealism, not too far away from the malarkey of Charles Gocher or Revd Fred Lane." - Sound Projector

"Field recordings, violin, citra, percussion, metal, glass, stones, water,... 14 tracks, half field recording, half studio live". - Label Description

"A deeply rooted transnational policy of methadone promotion by a jew George Soros, one of the major drug lords in the world, has changed genetic code of human beings and provoked apocalyptic catastrophe of civilisation. A synthetic opiate turned to be a reason of mutation resulted in la carte noire for the world’s population. A synthetic substitute of opiate has unique feature. A special formula was created in a way that eliminates sensual pleasure, however ensures strong addictiveness and intoxication that erase human emotions by destroying neural points responsible for hope and faith. Billions of methadone seekers, with no feelings yet with a horrible hunger for methadone, provoked massive riots and overtook control of a planet. A black-and-white regime, a new order prevailed in the world, driven by anxiety. Faded and intoxicated bodies trespassed to the new level of existence where pleasure was replaced by addictiveness, emotions – by emptiness, colours – by greyness. A kingdom of mutant dominated on the ruins of a planet. A continuous flow of regime agenda and propaganda has been broadcasted through the corrupt media. This world is expressed in sound structures of the latest album Skracken by a cult Swedish post mortem project ALFARMANIA. As depressive, dark, claustrophobic, toxic as synthetic METHADONE of G. Soros, exterminating population, emotions and future". - Label Description

"Reissue of the long-sold out demo tape that Funeral Folk put out in an edition of 66 copies. These guys are getting a real name for themselves in the metal underground and this is a statement of intent that justifies that! This is some of the most filthy, disgusting stuff I've ever heard; one long track that goes from all-out black metal fuzz to passages of total low-end Doom to seriously disturbed ambient passages, all sounding like it was recorded on somebody's walkman in a dungeon somewhere. 20-odd minutes of totally harrowing bleakness. True Belgian nihilism!! Great three-panel foldout silver-on-black screenprinting by Tetedemort from France, all in a thick PVC sleeve. Grim artwork by the late great Aubrey Beardsley. 500 copies" - Label Description - Sold out from label!

Experimental music masterclass in excellent packaging. Underground at it's best!

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.

Industrial Noise psychotic violence. Limited to 111 copies.

"ANDROMELOS is a psychedelic supergroup formed by Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple, Nishinihon, Musica Transonic, Mainliner, Gong...), Yamazaki Maso (Masonna, Space Machine) and Okano Futoshi (Nishinihon, ex Subert Blaze, ex Ghost)". - Label Description

"Early tape material power electronics associations of Ashley C are gone. This Danish project has been progressing and conquering new territories of sound. Timeless Reality is interesting study of the less noisy and less harsh side of electronics and scrap metal. It´s coarse in fidelity, creating nearly suffocating atmosphere, yet delicate and detailed with rich texture that evolves from song to another. Freak Animal Records is proud to offer this debute CD of rising project!" - Label Description

"The audio is what you would expect from this monster of a collab. Jennings, Finklea, Chami, Lippoldt and Hasegawa created one long slowly moving track of layered noises. The track starts out with ambient synth textures with drone guitars and evolves into a thick harsh assault on the senses with tape loops and broken electronics". - Label Description

"AUBE Ambera Planeta Wawar goldenCD was the first bootleg issued by AUTARKEIA label. However, after the author Akifumi Nakajima apologised to us for his "negligence“, the misunderstandings between AUTARKEIA and Akifumi were cleared out. In the meantime after the author recognised the bootleg, AUBE Ambera Planeta Wawar goldenCD has acquired a new status. This publication has become an official release of the project, while its previous concept (that of a bootleg) became meaningless. The exclusive record by the Japanese genius is based on excellent psychedelic ambient and the collages of extreme, structural noise music. The release is sold in an elegant digipack, which is probably the first in AUBE history". - Label Description

Brand new recordings from Mike Vest (Bong, Lobster Priest, Drunk In Hell etc...). Guitar improvisations of a pyschedelic nature ripping and coursing over beds of drone. Like running water, sound is finding the easiest route to pleasure. Formed inside the Zodiac; unleashed here as a CD-r...

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.

Five live recordings from Helsinki and Rio De Janeiro, Brasil. Finnish masters of total filth. No bullshit, just noise . 12 page booklet with pictures from the gigs and shit smeared all over. Limited to 300 copies.

The latest full length by these US Harsh Noise Heroes! Kevin Novak, Richard Ramirez, Scott Houston, Vance Osborne and Sean Matzus take you on a journey of self degradation and filthy revenge riddled noise violence. Step back in time to the slave auction. Hear the abuse. Black and White covers designed by our very own Tisbor. Edition of 500 copies.

" This album has united two Lithuanian projects under a theme of resistance. Papua New Guinea cannibals' resistance against outsider effects is different from resistance of interwar period Lithuanian guerrillas, but you can find these associations on a musical plane, and Body Cargo and Pogrom each present their own interpretations. Both projects deliver four solo tracks each. Body Cargo's creations are filthy post-morten and Pogrom this time seeks a balance between aggression and romance (there's even a piano!). There are also two joint tracks, where first Pogrom does sounds and Body Cargo delivers vocals and then vice versa.
10 tracks and a playing time of more than an hour. This is the first Body Cargo release on CD!
You can also find a symbolic link between two labels that released this album. Cipher Productions is geographically closer to Body Cargo themes and Terror is on the same land as Pogrom. Jewel case packaged with an 8 page booklet, 300 copies". - Label Description

The first ever doom record on Turgid Animal. A reissue of the "In And Around Newcastle" live CD-r box set (originally issued in an edition of 50 copies by Fuckin' Amateurs last year) by North East England's Drone/Doom masters BONG. These live sets are essentially "bootleg" (albeit official) recordings and as such are not of the clearest quality, which only adds to the charm in my humble opinion. "Novum Castellum" includes the entire "In And Around Newcastle" recordings plus an extra disc of bonus live material. Limited to only 300 copies. Packaged in 3-way DVD case with pro-printed artwork and inserts.

"One of the most anticipated albums of American power electronics/harsh industrial! With very few. yet outstanding. releases. Brethren has firmly proven to be one of the genre's most striking forces. Gathering both fanatic glorification and hostile opposition with his honest and to-the-point political message. "Savage Inequalities" (2005) finally has a follow-up full-length. "The Chosen" 10" (2008) and "Kingdom Coming" 7" (2009). together with the massive. harsh industrial anthem "Zionist Axiom" (Audial Decimation compilation 2008) have built high expectations. "Alienated and Radicalized" delivers guaranteed Brethren. A solid 40-minute album with song after song of memorable and striking assaults. Each track consists of carefully constructed noise loops. rhythms. throbbing synthesizers. spoken word samples and trademark. aggressive vocals. Well-structured and song-like assaults make each individual song stand strong. No song is clouded with muddiness and instead. each is sharp with noisy. ripping power. Vocals spit the words with clear articulation and each sound element is heard in its full energy. Nothing in this album is particularly vulgar or offensive. The message. language and artwork doesn't attempt to offend the enemy with tasteless provocations. but simply manifests the conviction and life mission of Brethren. Freak Animal is proud to present this album packaged with no less than a 20-page. full-color booklet including artwork and all the lyrics". - Label Description

" A reissue of an obscure tour only recording from 2005 brings to the light the flikering dance of Mr yeh and his dives into organic drone music. Unlike the majority of his electronic compositions inside the shadow reveals three textures brought to life with violin , chimes and bells that defy most of the contemporaries limitations to synth only exercises. Yeh prooves the heart of landscape oriented linear composition is only limited by the imaginations of the creators and brings warmth to an otherwise cold genre with the flame of inside the shadow". - Label Description

"Neon Pink, Neon Green , lim. 100 DVD Case , 2 Track CDr by this german NOISE-MONSTER". - Label Description

"After developing his calling card on Adult Life and the eternal releases Carlos Giffoni defines his signature with compositional electronic music. Melding the analog drone colliding tonality of the past expressions and introducing minimalist sequencer details a pure electronic landscape is cultivated that nurtures the formation a man makes in stepping from the mysteries of youth into adulthood." - Hospital Productions.

"1991. We had been running a small indie label called Bad Vugum for a mere four years, but we genuinely felt we had found bands that made a difference, definitely in the budding Finnish scene at least. So in 1991 friends and even total strangers at gigs and festivals suddenly started telling us that the best two undiscovered bands come from a drab small town called Pori and that they both sounded exactly like they should be on Bad Vugum. Naturally our interest was piqued and we got to hear the self-released 7"s by these bands called Circle and Deep Turtle. Alas, we were not overly impressed. They’re still undeveloped, they still sound too much like their apparent musical heroes, and most importantly the songs aren’t strong enough, we convinced ourselves. To this day I still thank our lucky stars that Mr. Dassum of Deep Turtle, who recorded in the same small basement as Circle, called me and asked if we were at all interested in hearing some new Deep Turtle demos. Sure we were, and we sure got more than we bargained for: as a bonus he also included some new stuff from their friends Circle and we were blown away by both bands’ progression. We duly agreed to start releasing 7" EP’s at first, just to make sure the bands only put out all killer / no filler kinds of records, and to slowly build a following before any financially riskier album productions. During the next 18 months Circle for their part got two awesome EP’s out of their system, and absolutely floored live audiences all over the country with their high-intensity gigs. Which were more akin to hypnotic mass rituals, what with their glowing body paints, jarring lighting tricks and various blooddripping props. Sometime in 93 / 94 the guys and we both felt sure Circle were mature enough for a full-length. After unleashing them in the studio we got to hear quite a few mind-boggling new, slower songs they had concocted, then a few more. Then even more. We almost couldn’t believe our ears, it was becoming clear that a single LP could not contain these inspired goofballs’ creative output. Recently I discovered I still get goosebumps from listening closely to Meronia. Not just because I love just about every track on the album, but also because it brings me back to the days of trying to work out the best possible order for the songs. I’m always on a personal mission to "help" bands with that ( IMHO) essential dimension to any record, but Meronia’s sprawling bulk of 15 /16 tracks (we often added bonus tracks on the vinyl versions, even with single LP’s, just to mess with CD buyers) proved a daunting task. I spent literally days and weeks immersing myself in the music, switching and changing the song sequence every which way and those were the gruelling days of a double-deck cassette players, mind you. Then I spent hours on the phone with Circle’s Jussi, discussing and speculating what each track might "mean" in any particular order. I felt I truly lived on planet Meronia. In Finland, the album got rave reviews both in the underground zines and, somewhat surprisingly, mainstream press as well. Abroad, it opened some new doors in the underground, but surprisingly was not licensed for a foreign release. In those times small foreign labels still seemed to settle for 7" records for Circle. But it was still early days in what was later to become a global Circle industry as we know it - What is it now? Some 20 + albums, half of which on foreign labels? And whenever I talk to Jussi, Circle seem to have at least three albums already recorded and waiting for a release. They’ve sure succeeded in carving a respectable niche for themselves, while still taking chances and trying new things. Maximum respec’. To wrap this up, a funny Meronia anecdote. In the mid-90’s someone claiming to be an A& R executive for the David Geffen Company sent us a fax, complete with letterheads and everything, requesting a promo copy of Meronia. He wrote he was a big fan of the 7" stuff he had heard and was interested in checking out the band’s "album potential". We sent the CD, and waited for a reply. I mean c’mon, the label that made Sonic Youth huge, right? Well, since we didn’t hear anything, I first faxed the guy back, and then even called the number on the letterhead but it didn’t even connect... Oh the lengths resourceful Circle fans can go to when hunting for an import missing from their collection!" - Heikonen (Bad Vugum/BV 2 Produktions)

"Exploding walls of psychedelic guitars, "ingenious pop compositions", motorik krautrock, melodic harmonies, intensive riffs and ecstatic vocal performances? This album does NOT contain any of the things previously mentioned! Slow-moving abstract atmospherics, inspiring and determined wandering and a stagnant universe of winter are present on Circle's new double album MILJARD. New Wave of NWOFHWM! The album was produced by Mika Rättö. Rocking has been traded for some quiet reading on the couch at home". - Label Description

"Recorded live in Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar, Charlottesville, VA (USA), September 19th 2007". - Label Description

"Circle is ever changing, ever Circular. On Rautatie the band - which following the introduction of guitarists J. & P. Jääskeläinen is now a six-piece - once again dives into uncharted waters of music, into a miasma of influences that feels vaguely familiar but, in an uncanny way, is not quite real. Rautatie is epic hard rock and colossal riffs that corrode into fragments of black metallic atonality over time. Occasionally the album’s majestic elements step aside and let sprinkles of athletic boogie take the center stage. Together the eight tracks on the album form a hard rocking bullet train, speeding ever onwards on a circular railroad to infinity". - Label Description

"Ektro Records is proud announce that a re-release of Circle's difficult to find album Taantumus is available NOW! This re-issue comes with updated album artwork and Veitsi, a nine-minute bonus track. Taantumus was originally released by Bad Vugum in 2001". - Label Description

"The mysterious acronym "NWOFHM" was revealed to the world for the first time in 2005 when this mysterious sequence of letters dominated the centerfold of the booklet of Tulikoira, a studio album by prolific Finnish rock band Circle. It is likely that the meaning of NWOFHM was initially nonsensical to most of Circle's listeners, but some of them may have been able to dig up the phrase "New Wave of British Heavy Metal" from the nethermost recesses of their helmets, and to deduct that this variation probably referred to a localized Finnish version of this 80's phenomenon - only over twenty years too late. "The New Wave of Finnish Heavy Metal" may sound pompous and far fetched, but listening to the album the label does sound quite appropriate. Tulikoira is an album that consists of only four tracks but manages to explore quite a few moods and styles during its run. Album opener Rautakäärme would be a beautiful hymn if there wasn't a metal band playing riffs at a breakneck speed behind the vocals. The second song - Tulilintu - is a relatively short burst of energy and high-pitched vocals bringing Judas Priest to mind. The rest of the album goes off a on completely different direction altogether, with closing track Puutiikeri being a 20+ minute avantgarde jam bookended by bursts of heavy metal riffing. (Eetormentor) EDITION 2009!!! NO BONUS TRACKS!!!" - Label Description

Harsh Noise from Serbia. Limited to 30 copies in black DVD cases.

"After numerous CDr and cassette releases, Hong Kong label Assembly of Hatred brings us the first proper CD release from Climax Denial, and what a bruiser it is. A dark and intense power electronics/death industrial hybrid, full of thick, squalling drones, uneasy textures, and throbbing frequency pulsations, occupying a sonic terrain somewhere between BDN, early Navicon, and Atrax Morgue. Delivered with precision and force. Recommended!". - Label Description

New full length album from Finnish Industrial/PE expert Cloama. 8 songs of linear sonic devotion. Recorded on reel-to-reel tape in Joensuu. Limited to 500 copies.

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

"Nearly 80 minutes of the most animalistic and violent industrial noise to ever crack the crust of the earth. Compiles and reworks early and unreleased out of print noise classics as well as brand new noise aberrations. For fans of early Controlled Bleeding ala Knees And Bones And Bladder Bags!". - Hospital Productions

"My second exploration of the soundtrack works of Wendy Carlos focuses on her superlative score to Kubrick's Clockwork Orange. Carlos' compositions for the film were rooted in aristocratic classical masterpieces but also displayed her trademark darkness and sense of sonic disassociation, resulting in a perfect amalgamation of the highbrow and the severely fucked-up that fit Kubrick's vision to a tee. If anyone could make Beethoven sound violent and menacing, it was Wendy Carlos. I've attempted to tap into that sense of foreboding and violence with my work here. Again, while I in no way make the statement that these pieces hold a candle to Carlos' originals, I think collectively these compositions provide a pretty excellent overview of my aesthetic in this medium; from deep bass drones to crawling walls of sludge to all-out HNW fracturing, it's all here, in copious amounts. If nothing else, "Clockwork Orange: A Reinterpretation" serves as an overview of my myriad solo projects and a truly exhausting listening experience. At their best, I think they conjure up the wavering reality suggested by the film and serve as a devoted tribute to one of electronic music's finest innovators. On a personal note, this is one of my favorite of all my releases. Released on Altar Of Waste with in a DVD case with artwork assembled and constructed by me in tribute to Carlos' original soundtrack packaging, in a very limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies". - Label Description

"As a cinematography/film studies student, I am obviously enamoured with the work of Stanley Kubrick, and his version of Stephen King's The Shining remains one of my favorite films of all time. Equally impressive with regard to Kubrick's canon is the soundtrack work he elicited from Wendy Carlos. It's difficult to imagine Kubrick's films without her themes, and in the case of The Shining especially, her compositions set and maintain the tone throughout the whole film. It's easily one of the darkest pieces of music ever made for a film, unsettling and crushing in equal parts, and it remains burned into the brain nearly as much as Kubrick's imagery.
I decided to offer my take on this masterful score, and while I certainly do not believe my work comes close to being the equal of Wendy Carlos's, I am very happy with how this record came out. In the first section I've played up the suffocating, thick darkness present in the piece and taken it further out, creating a lengthy journey through Carlos's rich synthesizer composition and sound assembly. The second section offers up my more "rock" take on the theme, pushing it close to a caustic riff on suicidal doom noise catharsis before it collapses into a throbbing, bass-drenched wall. Released through Altar Of Waste and packaged in a DVD case with minimal artwork assembled by me, in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies". - Label Description

"B-movie snippets, skewed guitars, moronic bass abuse, churning rhythms, noise shards and suchlike billowing senselessly from a factory's long forgotten basement. Also includes Stefan Jaworzyn sleevenotes. 500 pressed. OUT OF PRINT". - Label Description

"CD for old-school harsh noise fans. Creation Through Destruction - harsh noise project from Serbia. Alex is perhaps more known for his activity as Dead Body Collection, but this time he provides something more than a wall. Absolutely raw and brute noise. Without any pleasant feedbacks, samples, melodies and so on. Black Leather Jesus - legendary harsh noise project from Texas. This time the band provides strong and harsh material. More than 50 minutes of pure harsh noise in all its beauty. For purists. 8 page booklet. Jewel case. 300 copies". - Label Description

"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

"Bizarre modular synth. Short blasts of highly atmospherc tones". - 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

"Proud as punch to finally make these inspired sessions available to the people. Cleveland based artist/musician David Cintron has been steadily delivering solid chunks of skewed sonics for years, most recently as a member of avant-rock units Terminal Lovers and Scarcity of Tanks. Here Cintron kicks back and delivers two massive tracks of solo slow-motion drift. Cracked crystal gazing and ritual smoke meditations for fried synapses. These graceful recordings build wave upon wave of ethereal synth wash and grand sweeping drones mixed with clanking metal, spidery guitar tones and heavenly rotations of light, eventually swelling to fill the enormous vacuum of outer orbit. 41 minutes of bright and pristine air-filled sound. Professionally duplicated full color printed disc comes beautifully packaged in a UV gloss finish digi-pack featuring stunning artwork and layout by David himself. Patiently shifting compositions of raw ambient shimmer". - Label Description

"Dead Body Collection (a favourite artist of mine!) comes to QCS with 17 minutes of nasty wall noise inspired by the artist’s own personal hell. Rubber stamped CDr is packaged in a 4 X 6? clear zip lock bag. Artwork is printed onto light grey paper and mounted onto white rubber foam. Each copy comes with a 2.25 x 2.25? clear zip lock bag containing a shard of broken glass, blood and human hair". - Label Description

"Longplay Old School Powerelectronics. DVD Case, lim. 88". - Label Description

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!

"This is the evolution of beatboxing, a one man barbers shop quartet attacked by a rubber lipped banshee" - INPRESS.

French Dark Ambient. Limited to 300 copies.

"The second volume, this time a collection of darker and more sinister live recordings taken from their tour in Europe early 2006. 42 black minutes of creepy soundscapes painting a depressive picture of a world going down in dust and ashes. The 5 songs all has a weird desperate and dense apocalyptic feel to them, making this a haunting and very bleak experience. Trashy dark rumblings and total coldness. Again very well-edited stuff by Pete Swanson, works more like a full proper album than just a collection of random recordings. Amazing. Comes packaged in a Dual Plover full color sleeve with black felt. Cover drawings by Liz Harris of Grouper". - Label Description

"The final installment in the Live During War Crimes trilogy, this one being one of the last releases ever from Yellow Swans. Four unedited live sets from the bands last year in existence. Included are the PDX Pop Now set (July 2007), a live soundtrack to a film by Avalon Kalin (February 2008), a set from the Picador, Iowa City (October 2007), and the final US show in Chicago (June 2008). Big sounding stuff, very loud and very dense, with the melodic guitarwork being more prominent just as on the last couple of releases. Epic, sky-shredding beauty in a total playtime of 78 minutes. Mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic Mastering. Comes in a gatefold sleeve with black felt, cover art by Ryan Boyle". - Label Description

"7 songs of uncompromising awesomeness. Pro-pressed CD with full color insert. 47 minutes. Our debut album. 2 Gentlemen from the city of milwaukee making music thats at the same time retarded, annoying, and great". - Band Description

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.

"The new full length (number two) from the Boston based avant-black/death/doom band Ehnahre, Taming The Cannibals, is one of the more cerebral and challenging "death metal" albums to have come through the Crucial Blast headquarters this year. After being turned on to their excellent debut from 2008 The Man Closing Up, I've been itching to hear more from these warped death abstractionists; their debut instantly dazed me with its jarring, alien approach to bestial slow-motion death metal, drawing heavily from the twelve-tone serialism of composer Arnold Schoenberg and the outer fringes of free-jazz and free improvisation as much as they do from the foul black pit of early 90's death metal and doom. Even after years of devouring the most dissonant strains of death metal that I could get my mitts on (Gorguts, Demilich, Immolation, Portal, etc.), these guys stunned me with their extreme chaotic dissonance and pitch-black chthonic textures, a combination of atonal 20th century classical music and vicious blackened death laced with squalls of free-jazz horns, stretches of intense choral ambience, and blasts of calcifying glacial doom... " - Label Description

Heavy crushing doom metal in the vein of corrupted featuring original full lineup. Members of Gnawed.

54 minute downer metal. Member of Gnawed.

"Three different takes on the dramatic works of Samuel Becketts. Full on audio productions of the man's plays, done in the style of noise works". - Label Description

Limited Edition of 10 copies.

"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

"Existing at the tail end of death metal's classic era, Fallen showcased a unique approach to the form. Crude, simplistic, and not reliant on the crutch of technicality, the band nonetheless evoked the spectres of legendary ensembles like Morbid Angel, Entombed, Sepultura, and Slayer, filtered through a distinctly aggressive hardcore aesthetic. The guitar playing is especially reminiscent of Greg Ginn's work with the mighty Black Flag, with speed standing in for melodic intent fused to dive bar theatrics that owe as much to Neil Young as they do King and Hanneman. Fallen only released one official demo, well after principal members had left-"Demo 1996" represents a less refined and far more caustic version of the band, and has been unheard until now. Altar Of Waste is pleased to unleash this lost black pearl of Minneapolis' death metal underground, presented in a DVD package designed and constructed by Cory Strand in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies". - Label Description

"Politically infused harsh noise wall from the man behind Pregnant Spore and the Rainbow Bridge label. Like the sounds of a protest distorted and played through an old AM radio". - Label Description

"If recent offerings from this long running CPH outfit (this being their ninth studio album) has showed a leaning towards a more industrialized sound. This could be said to be the band's first proper Industrial record. The drone pieces of the past are still present but in a more controlled and subtle way, adding even further to the psychedelic experience, and tying together 5 harsh industrial tracks. At times this will remind you of Whitehouse, Godflesh and more than anything else TG, complete with screamed desperate vocals and harsh oscillating synths. The disc flows extremely well and this together with the unorthodox artwork invokes an almost soundtrack like atmosphere . I urge everybody into oldschool industrial not to let the bands background trick you into not giving this album the attention it deserves". - Klaus Hansen

Edition of 500 copies.

"Ektro Records (Pori, Finland) is releasing a live album from the legendary German rock group Faust. "Kleine Welt" is compiled from concerts of the year 2006. These avant-garde trailblazers continue their unique work that they started in 1970. Chaos, fear, irrationality, the grotesque, the absurd, darkness, surrealism and underground are all fitting definitions for Faust but still only modest attempts to describe one of the most notable rock bands in the world. Faust gave their best consideration when choosing the path, on which only a few have ventured". - Label Description

"Peripheral Records is proud to announce it's seventh release - Fear Konstruktor / Barrikad 'The Path to the Black Lodge', influenced by the Black and White Lodge from Twin Peaks. 'The Black Lodge is a fictional setting featured in the television series Twin Peaks. It is an extradimensional place which seems to include, primarily, the "Red Room" first seen by Agent Cooper in a dream early in the series. As events in the series unfold, it becomes apparent that the characters from the Red Room, the room itself and the Black Lodge, along with the White Lodge, are connected.' Four tracks of dark-ambient drone's and blasts of Soviet era analogue synth experimentations. At once a mysterious journey into the Lodge itself and a hallucinatory auditory trip into the darkside of the psyche! Highly recommended. Limited to 150 copies". - Label Description

3 gigs, 3 years. The entire first three years of Female Borstal, an noise rock/doom band feautring Lee Stokoe (Culver, Skullflower etc...) on bass and loops, Jerome Smith (Charles Dexter Ward, End Now etc...) on Guitar and George Proctor (Mutant Ape, Sump etc...) on Drums. An array of dirty pub rock spirit and Northern sensiblities prevail alongside a hogwash of pyschedelic serenity. Simple CD-r for a simple band. No tricks, no nowt.

Expert Noisecore from Japanese masters!

"“Fire In The Head” is probably one of the garish artists of “noise/power electronics”, representing the famous school of the USA. The project’s author Michael Page previously participated at live performances of the legendary Giovanni Balistrer’s project SLOGUN, also closely linked to the livery of NY sound terrorists. “As The Nest Burns” is short, but highly hysterical, brutal and dark album of “noise/power electronics” stylistics. Michael Page masterly plays with amplitude of different tracks intension. Slackened, leaden, psychedelic sounds overgrow into the avalanche of terribly aggressive and hysterical noise, gradually flooding back as unusual and uncomfortable sound stream. “As The Nest Burns” is a sort of element of otherworld civilization, starting its sudden extension, transformation and smashing attack. There are many fragments of distorted vocal in this album, making the tracks especially threatful. This is a completely new, reformed attack of USA “power electronics” tradition against the normal and moral world. Do you know what happens as the nest burns??? Then the children burn!!!". - Label Description

Since resuming recording this past Autumn, F/I/T/H’s work has taken a new direction. "Carrion Wind" is an ambitious work which consolidates the sounds explored with F/I/T/H and Sky Burial into a single project, focusing them into a complex and meticulously composed 63 minute industrial opus, a dark and ominous dirge, both beautiful and brutal, incorporating aspects of metal percussion, dark ambient, drone, doom and industrial electronics. Noticeably absent are Page’s vocals as F/I/T/H takes a more "restrained" approach favoring slow layering of synths, field recordings, guitar loops and electronics to build a tension which occasionally peaks at an explosive level comparable to the shorter tracks of F/I/T/H’s previous releases.

"I/CON is an exploration of religion as a both a catalyst for mental illness born of the human condition and as a disease itself. These are the incessant and uncontrollable screams of a deified ego mired in its own fallacies, of the pious and the possessed, of hypocrisy and holocaust, of resurrection and insurrection, of suffocating paranoia and immaculate deception, a final descent into a mind consumed with lies left to putrefy since youth, a head first plummet into the burning depths of malignant neuroses where the borders between reality and aberration have been razed, a maelstrom of auditory hallucinations and recurring apocalyptic nightmares. The dark ambient interludes of previous F/I/T/H releases are absent from this release having been replaced by a highly hysterical hallucinatory component resulting from the use of human voices used as a key of the aspect of the source material. I/CON shunts pure psychosis through eleven tracks of densely layered power electronics / industrial / noise leaving no room to breathe". - Label Description

"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

"Ohio is rotting. Fistula once again team up with Crucial Blast to deliver another heavy dose of their septic, filthy, lumbering death-sludge in the form of Goat, a five-song Ep of low-fi and low-end nihilistic filth and rabies-laced caveman thrash with songs based on the ghoulish discovery and subsequent investigation of the eleven decomposing bodies found in the Cleveland home of Anthony Sowell in the Autumn of 2009..." - Label Description

"A fork is a cold shiny tool / To pierce, tear and ingest / Whoever has the fork in hand / Controls the meal of its choice." The opening lines for the Lard song, "Forkboy" which in turn gave the name for an Oulu-based quartet formed in 1993. Born out of love for AmRep noise, AC/DC, Dead Kennedys and driven by twenty-something angst, Forkboy recorded three demos and one previously unreleased session during their 6 year existence and it's all documented here on one disc. Furiously rocking songs packed with gritty guitars and feedback, rhythm section heavy as an elephant turd and as the band puts it, "lots of shouting". The original recordings have been carefully restored and remastered by Pentti Dassum and the sleeve features original artwork and photos by the band along with liner notes. If you were there during the late 90s noise rock craze or if you have only recently discovered its splendour or if you just have a boner for hidden gems of Finnish punk/noise/rock, this CD is for you!". - Label Description. 300 copies.

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.

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Since the early 2000's, up until the UK tour in the summer of 2008, Gelsomina has been the musical outlet of Finnish Harsh Noise fiend, Pekka PT. A brutal mix of junk metal abuse and pedal worship, sometimes resulting in total unflinching chaos and other times resulting in a more structured industrial noise masterwork. Having released dozen's of tapes, cd's and vinyl it was never going to be an easy task to wittle it all down to CD length but through the critical eyes of the man himself, Pekka has managed to pull together 74 minutes of what he considers the best of his Gelsomina, and I couldn't agree more. Featuring a full colour tray card and 4 page booklet with liner notes by Mikko Aspa (Grunt/Freak Animal Records) and Pasi Markkula (Bizarre Uproar/Filth and Violence). Essential Harsh Noise document by a now defunct but legendary project. But it's not all bad; Watch out, Sick Seed is on the rise!

"Full length CD by the Minneapolis based power electronics project. Dude is out of control good. This disc contains a few different vocal styles, synth work, metal junks and a healthy dose of feedback". - Label Description

"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

"Gnaw Their Tongues, an enigmatic project from the Netherlands that has wowed fans of messed-up heaviosity with the phenomenal Reeked, Pained and Shuddering CD that was released on Paradigms along with a host of super-limited CDR and cassette releases, is joining the Crucial Blast roster for the CD release of the new full length An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood, which was released as a limited edition vinyl release at the beginning of 2008 on Burning World Records. This undefinable mass of black amorphic horror is one of the most intense listens we've engaged in recently, a nihilistic pit of howling orchestral strings and blackened abstract doom, operatic female voices plunging into a fetid sewer of filth and blackness, equal parts avant black metal and splattered sludge and symphonic horror movie score. An overwhelming deathscape scrawled in jagged figures across pieces like "My body is not a vessel, nor a temple. It's a repulsive pile of sickness" or "Sawn asunder and left for the beasts", and flecked with moments of unbelievably crushing beauty that may surprise fans of Gnaw Their Tongue's previous work". - 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

AM-780. Green Mist and John Olson (Wolf Eyes).

"A re-issue of the out-of-print 2004 monsterpiece from the Melbourne, Australian trio Grey Daturas. Originally released through the band's own Crashing Jets imprint, Dead In The Woods is a massive exhortation of lumbering metallic sludge rock, freely improvised amplifier noise and crushing riff splatter, and massive, sky-streaking psychedelic corrosion. The Crucial Blast re-issue of Dead In The Woods features a full remastering by Scott Hull at Visceral Sound, and will also come with a brand new packaging design via a 4-panel case printed by Stumptown Printers". - 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 CD is not an album. although it could have been. Lets look back to mid 2000's before "Seer Of Decay" album and many of these recordings are showing the direction taken on that album. Long Lasting Happeness session originally published as split tape with Prurient (Freak Animal) that has been out of stock for years. Two tracks. "Never Wake Up" and "Streets of Decadence" recorded around same time. basically belonging to same session of sounds. have remained unreleased for all these years. Waiting for one compilation to be out. which probably never will. Further 4 tracks are alternative version of "Street of Decadence". which made it to Nihilistic Paraphilia 1. and thematically those releases belong to the same re-issue. "Caught (original version)" from same disc shows early version of raw PE style later adjusted further on split with Taint. "Paid Victims Of Modern World Fetishes" and "MaleClit" are songs only released in ltd to 50 copies Nihilistic Paraphialia vol. 2! "Nihilistic Paraphilia" compilations were Japanese tour releases made in tiny CDR editions sold in Grunt tours 2005 and 2008. This CD compiles some of the best materials of this era of Grunt. filled with piercing feedback. sharp and crispy ear-slashing metal scrap noises. abundance of vocals and very song oriented approach as opposed to "plain noise" pieces. Still vast variety and abundance of sonic elements. 50 minutes". - Label Description

"In some ways. the first real Grunt album. One disc harsh power electronics tracks and other CD acoustic non-effected metal junk noise. Power Electronics disc studying & explaining the Grunt philosophy of "Seer of Decay". which is valid angle to cover pretty much all content/substance used in recordings. Other tracks continue to approach different topics from perspective of Seer of Decay. Re-issue of 2012 in double-jewelbox packaging with all lyrics". - Label Description

"Unbelievably heavy and slow amplifier overload from France! Two long tracks of uber-doom which is seemingly devoid of any coherant structure and exists only to open up a black void in your stereo speakers through which to suck out your very soul. Habsyll sound to me like a less happy-go-lucky Khanate, or Monarch without the hipster irony. Totally morbid! Co-release with a bunch of other labels so loads of copies (well over 1000!). Lovely 8-panel digipaks with black-on-black printing". - Label Description

"Hailing from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Hackles was the improvisation trio of Matthew Himes, H. Caleb Gamble, and Benjamin Grubb. The boys used a range of home built bells and gongs along with re-purposed instruments and piles of thrift store electronics, bamboo poles, brass, cardboard, makeshift percussion, magnetic tape, string, phonographs, water, wood and steel to create epic electro-acoustic structured soundscapes. This lovely art-object release is a collaborative production with "Friends and Relatives Records". Compiled in Belfast, Maine in the winter of 2009, it collects three ridiculously limited cassette releases as well as over 40 minutes of previously unreleased live action. Two hours of sound! Set of stenciled and stamped CD-Rs come packed in a handmade inner gatefold sleeve with woodgrain tissue lining, stamped spines, hand-sewn fabric / heavy cardstock outer dust sleeve and an in-bound 24 page xerox art booklet featuring grainy vintage interior decorating photography. Comes protected in self-sealed plastic sleeve with two color 1" sticker". - Label Description

"Colossal is the word that is bludgeoned into your mind when Hebosagil's debut album forces itself out of your speakers and 43 minutes later you know you have experienced something colossal. This five-piece from Northern Finland boldly mold their colossus from diverse influences and elements, their approach ranging from slow, crushing doom to violent hardcore bursts and riff-heavy sludge, all forced through unhealthy doses of distortion and performed with fiercely rocking energy. "Colossal" includes 7 tracks perfectly showcasing Hebosagil's varied and uncompromising style, but most importantly everything has been tied together with excellent sense of songwriting and dynamics, complemented by the crushing production. Will cause vibrations to fans of Electric Wizard, Sourvein, Godflesh, Autopsy, Eyehategod, Entombed and Motörhead". - Label 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!

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!

New and unreleased recordings from the duo of Lee Stokoe (Culver, Skullflower) and George Proctor (Sump, Mutant Ape). Recorded at the tail end of 2012 in Newcastle, "Nightmare" is a near on hour journey of dark and troubled droning noise from two damaged brains. Recorded live and with very little editing, the full session is presented here on hand stamped CD-r inside a printed envelope with A4 insert.

Two discs, two tracks. 69 minutes each. Composed and cultured. Sounds of wandering guitar to harsh drone build up to desolate tonal improvisation. Duo of Lee Stokoe (Culver, Skullflower etc...) and George Proctor (Murder Book, Mutant Ape etc...) Covering a lot of ground. Comes in oversize black envelope with artwork by Lee Stokoe. A fascination with sex and death or so it seems...

Summer time fun recorded at Rocco's Bar in the centre of the toon. Jackal are up first which marks the first live effort of the duo of Mike Vest (Bong, Basillica) and George Proctor (Mutant Ape, Murder Book). Expect pyschedelic loops, heavy bass tones and drawn out synth lines. As if that wasn't enough for poor old Proctor on that night he took to the stage again later on for a headlining Inseminoid set with his good old pal Lee Stokoe (Culver, Skullflower) for a 20 minute set of harsh drone and Girls Aloud worship. One of my favourite gigs I have ever been to, let alone played; nice relaxed atmosphere and great music above a tidy Italian place opposite St. James'. Full color covers in slimline jewel cases.

"Full on live circuit bending from the master of the tape machine circuit. Originally released as part of the 3x3" tour split with Peter J Woods". - Label Description

"Freak Animal is proud to present debut CD of Jaakko Vanhala who previously worked under name Zoat-Aon. Feral Earth presents the finest of the metal object noise made in world today. It approaches the sound from perspective of skillful craftsmanship, high density of detail and perfection of sonic balance. Use of physicality and large metal objects ensures the finest inspiring sounds yet Vanhala evades all the failures of contemporary music and firmly keeps his feet in lines of noise. Despite of all metal junk recordings Freak Animal has published during recent years Vanhala is able to offer yet another angle. These masterworks are beyond vast majority of caveman antics within noise, only competed by such cult classics like early The New Blockaders albums". - Freak Animal

Duo of Mike Vest (Bong, Basillica etc...) and George Proctor (Mutant Ape, Sump etc...). The meeting of two highly prolific and damaged minds. Minds damaged in very different ways. Electronics and guitars melting and devouring each other etc... Pretty and not so pretty. Limited to 20 numbered copies in pvc bags.

This was first released in an edition totalling 17 copies on CD-r. Why? I couldn't be sure but when I first heard this release when it came out in 2006, I thought to myself; this is some the best Harsh Pedal Noise I have ever heard and it was obvious this had to be released in a bigger edition on a proper format as soon as possible as people needed to hear this. Turgid Animal hadn't released a CD yet and I was hoping this would have been the first one, so I sent quickly sent an email to Jake asking him if I could release it and he said yes. Unfortunately, delay after delay occured and it's only just seeing the light of day on CD now, but it was well and truly worth the wait. Both tracks from the original release feature here along with a bonus track from vault, sealing this discs fate as one of the best modern harsh noise releases to come out in a while. Simple card stock cover featuring full colour artwork by the man himself. Turgid Animal is extremly proud to welcome Mr. Vida to our roster!

Only the second ever pro-pressed CD by North-East England's drone masters Jazzinger. This time chronicling the first ever rehearsal and recording of the core duo of Ben Jones and Hasan Gaylani. Raw guitar recordings from 1996 fill the discs 30+ minutes and if you listen carefully on the last track you can hear the police turn up and tell them to cease making the racket! Old school experimental work out from a simpler time. Artwork by long term fan of the band, George Proctor. Limited to 300 copies.

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)!

"The Kali Ensemble is a duo of Mike Page (Sky Burial, F/I/T/H, Irukandji) and Pentii Dassum (Umpio). This disc contains 2 33:33 minute tracks of industrial metal clanging, ambient atmospheres and creepy synth work. The style/personality of each member really comes through in each track of this collaboration and provide an interesting combination of their viewpoints. Check out the samples so you can hear what it sounds like and i dont have to sound any more like a dumb ass trying to come up with a crazy description of the compositions". - Sam Stoxen (Phage Tapes)

Edition of 500 copies in jewel cases. Co-Released with Phage Tapes.

"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

"Stark and powerful electro-acoustic/free jazz musings from the Toledo duo. Experimental percussion meets bizarre guitar and piano work". - Label Description

" Imperial Horizon by Kevin Drumm is a further examination into sustained tone as most recently heard on his previous Hospital Productions benchmark album, Imperial Distortion, stretching out minimalism to unreached heights of serene ambient.lulling electronic drones slowly transform over the course of the hour plus piece in constant flux,echoing both an existential terror and Zen calm. mutations grow so quietly only the body opens to identify this change while the mind closes. The ephemeral and seeming lightness of the tones hang with taut balance in contrast to the method in which they are overlapped and rotated with deadly weight. How wildly divergent emotions rise, hover, and fall using so little is a mystery that only Kevin Drumm can provide. While you may not find an answer, you can certainly get lost in the question". - Label Description

"Texas duo with an album recorded in 2009. Six tracks of contemplative, melancholic mid-tempo Blackened Droning Shoegaze. Trance-like drum-machine, mocking melodies, repetitive guitar riffage, some guitar-based Drones. Despite all the darkness of the project, the music leads in the world of vivid weird dreams that are hard and heavy as a tombstone while leave you a sort of bright enlightenment". - Label Description

"Evil Walks is the first widely available cd release for Crucial Blast from Korperschwache after almost a decade of smaller, limited-run discs released through the label's Crucial Bliss sub-imprint. It's also the most focused work yet from this utterly demented Texas outfit that started out in the mid 90s as a pure noise project but gradually evolved into this weird, lumbering black-dirge that we hear now.
The eight songs that make up Evil Walks feature the signature Korperschwache moves: thumping minimal drum-machine pound courtesy of the relentlessly decisive Doktor Omega, droning dissonant riffs that veer from hypnotic noise to dismal quasi-black metal buzz, RKF's narcoleptic croaking and malevolent sneer bathed in reverb and amp skuzz, guitars humming and droning against cranked-up amps while creepy news sound bites, the distant sad howling of wolves and ear-piercing screams drift across the background...Strange post-punk reverberations rumble all throughout this disc, nothing new to those who are familiar with the myriad other Korperschwache discs that have come out since 2001 when RKF first began flirting with his odd mix of simple, mesmeric gloom-guitar and black mechanical slime, but it's never sounded better to my ears than it does here, when the music forms into this stoned blackened hypno-rock thing, the buzzing guitars and acid-scorched melodies looping over the skittery industrial beats and weird dubbed-out snares and concussive Godflesh-esque rhythms, turning into something that sounds remarkably like a mutant cross between late-80s British psych/drone rockers Loop and those notorious improv-black metal freakazoids Abruptum..." - Label Description

Mexican noise maniac La Mancha Del Pecado has been working tirelessly to create of the most interesting and unique drone/noise music in years. Music made with the dedication and care of a true fan of the genre. Lee Stokoe's Culver project has been chipping away at the drone stone for over 20 years now and shows no sign of slowing down and certainly no sign of relenting in his vision for a dark and brodding, albeit sexy girl smothered, drone universe. Karst, one of George Proctor's (Mutant Ape, Sump etc...) lesser known projects makes a return from haitus to appear on this 3 way split with two of his favourite projects operating today. Expect 60+ minutes of the densest and most dedicated blackened drone art going.

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Brand new harsh-noise recording from Norway’s finest. Guitar, pedals and metal objects used with ‘Reign In Blood’ style efficiency. No cut-ups, no drastic changes, yet the energy is sustained for the duration. Despite the minimal elements this is not to be confused with wall-noise as this is highly restless material - pure forward driving energy from start to finish. I’m seriously proud of this one. Limited edition of 500 copies in 6-panel digisleeve". - Label Description

Re-issue of classic this Last Rape album from 1995, originally released on E.F. Tapes. Back then Last Rape was a Richard Ramirez and Mary A.D. Harsh Noise project, only recently has the project reared it's ugly head once more as a Harsh Noise Wall project with Sean Matzus in added to the lineup or in place of Mary A.D. This tape features two tracks in nearly 50 minutes, of what could be described as lo-fi space noise with that straight to tape 90's HN-Sound. Tones shine through the haze of a newly taken off, old, improv rocket as it lands on flanger planet. Alien's raping the abducted folks and moaning in some feedback language only they can understand. A ghastly trip through time. Very true to the original-remaster from the master tapes. Now 14 years on, Ramirez is still going strong with an array of Last Rape releases on his very own Deadline label, not to be missed. Comes in card covers (thus the lower price) with both bits of the original art and new artwork by Tisbor.

"Conceived as a companion piece to Cory Strand's upcoming "A Song for David Lynch" EP on Small Doses, "A Second Song for David Lynch" reaches further into the grotesque spectacle located in the heart of David Lynch's universe. More reflective of the bleak and disturbing confusion of "Inland Empire," Lethe's vision highlights the nightmarish qualities of Lynch's work, the epic noir horror found lurking in the shadowy recesses of bizarre imagery and lurid color.
Beauty is far from absent, though. Lethe continues Strand's exploration of "Twin Peaks" through vaguely melodic overtones and jazz-tinged structural elements. In the mind of David Lynch, numerous worlds exist alongside one another, strange and evocative, haunting and complex, often violent, and always weird. The overlaps create distortions, pockets of surreality that threaten to become the known. The only recourse is love and the individual, quirk and fetish. "A Second Song for David Lynch" attempts to map out the famed director's melodramatic approach to psychological horror, with surprisingly lovely results. Altar of Waste is pleased to present this set of recordings in a DVD package designed and constructed by Cory Strand in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies". - Label Description

"Lethe's first HNW recordings since the "Theodore Robert Bundy" set eschew all out violence in favor of a more stagnant and contemplative approach, dialing the volume down ever so slightly to achieve a more mesmerizing and overall "ambient" effect. Like one million washing machines running at the bottom of the ocean, the two gargantuan pieces comprising "Abandonment To Failure" churn and circle endlessly, becoming monolithic in their suicidal obstinancy. Life is a parade of disillusionments and disappointments, a catalogue of mediocrity that we try to dress up as meaningful. Alone, at night, we're forced to assess the actualities and recognize that the efforts aren't being rewarded, that our wants are not being satisified, that existence trudges on and crumples us in its desecrating march towards death. "Dreams Become As Shit" and "Make Another Excuse" form a dual commentary on this sense of inner sorrow, a knell for the ascendancy of hopelessness. Altar Of Waste is pleased to present "Abandonment To Failure" in a DVD case with minimalist artwork assembled by Cory Strand, in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies". - Label Description

"Lethe delves deep into the void in their second set of recordings for Altar of Waste, this time conjuring up vast stretches of near nothingness that float towards the outer vestiges of the cosmic expanse. Dark patches of the weighted slumberous gorge themselves at the trough of black opulence and recede into the infinite blankness, forever wandering further into the end. Memory is a liability, constantly under attack by the soporifics of being, a slave to the sorrows of merely existing. There is no pleasure, there is no joy. Strap on the headphones, kill the lights and shiver under your blankets. "And Come Death Shall I Forget" is a map of a vacuum, a place barren, hollow, and near total collapse. A different kind of haunting excess, death ambient to totality. Packaged in a DVD case designed and constructed by Cory Strand in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies". - Label Description

"The gravity of indecision reaches a witheringly existential crisis on Lethe's sprawling deep drone piece "Faillite." Over an hour of sub-tones clawing their way to a broken surface, feeding off a greying aura of regret and self-dismissal. The question of presence is distilled to a nullifying extreme, embodying the lack of a person. Lethe again reaches far into the astral and brings back a cosmic mirror by which all failures shall be measured. Excess and gratification of the base yields a reaping of sorrows. This is the exit, the doorway into the void. Forever falling, drowning in the emptiness of indifference. Beyond lies poison and despair, black and engulfing, ever-hungry and screaming for more. Altar of Waste presents "Faillite" in a DVD package designed and constructed by Cory Strand in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies". - Label Description

"The medieval destruction of magick through the allure of the stench of sex and the resultant hollowness form the base for Lethe's latest exploration of death ambience, the frigid and scalding "Fhalesethence." Like winter winds flaying the skin in the arctic wastes, Lethe's formless and assaulting onslaught slices and shreds, carving away the physical to free the ghostly visceral within. In ancient times, beauty was lured with beauty and hacked away, robbing it of its most prized vitality. Human nature has changed little since then; greed and selfishness walk in hand with narcissism and the posture of refinement. Slowly, wonder vanishes from the world, swept away in a cloud of ever-growing stupidity and a failure to appreciate the unknown. "Fhalesethence" is a funeral song for what was lost, now only rusted memories and whispered fairy tales. Altar of Waste is pleased to present this staggering recording in a DVD package designed and constructed by Cory Strand in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies". - Label Description

"My favorite comic book series is undoubtedly "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." At their best, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird charted an extremely dark and punishing journey through the psyche of four personalities trying to cope with ideas of tradition, honor, and their own emotional turmoils. Nowhere were these themes better exemplified than in the masterful "Return To New York" storyline, in which the four brothers go back to finish Oroku Saki, aka The Shredder, once and for all. Fans know everything was brought full circle from the first TMNT issue, including the epic final confrontation between Saki and Leonardo, where blood and honor converge in a brutal and eviscerating showdown. I have attempted to do justice to this beloved series with "For Blood, For Honor." All of the sounds on these two albums were created using elements from the theme song to the TMNT cartoon (not as good as the comics, but it had its moments) and I think they represent some of my finest work in the HNW genre. "For Blood" is certainly my favorite wall piece, an unrelenting torrent of distorted sludge that I think captures the agony and exhaustion of the battle between Leo and Saki, and "For Honor" allows for a meditative state of eerie contemplation.
This is my love letter to the TMNT. Released by Altar Of Waste with collage artwork assembled by me, packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies". - Label Description

"Equally inspired by the primal aggression of black metal's original wave and the stoic majesty of Iceland's natural landscapes, Lethe's latest excursion into drone ambient is a powerful, measured work of glacial temperance and refined minimalism. Using Sigur Ros' landmark "Takk..." album as a source, "Glaciere Flameaux" reinterprets the band's iconoclasm and tendency towards emotional catharsis as two massive, dark compositions that barely suggest their origin. Instead, Lethe creates darkness out of optimism, evoking the spectral nature of Iceland's gorgeous cartography and meshing it to the spectacle of burning churches. Far from being a simple remix album, this is contemplative drone at its most epic and subdued. Altar of Waste is pleased to present this elegant work in a DVD package designed and constructed by Cory Strand in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies". - Label Description

"There's beauty in the infinite, an endless stretch of possibility basking in the light before you, beckoning and summoning, calling out in whispers and lilting caresses. Like a mist washing over a mountainside forest, calm and expansive. But that mist could be smoke, the waste of scorching fires eating away the beauty, eradicating it inch by inch, malicious and indifferent. Everything that once was will cease to matter, nothing but a blackened husk barely containing an echo of its former splendor. Existence is tedium and boredom, waiting for the fires to approach and consume. Sorrow waits at the end of all your work, all the pointless striving. The nothingness is gigantic and unrelenting. It awaits, yawning, craning its jaws to swallow you and your paltry life whole. Lethe's massive triple album "Inconsequence" seeks to map out the domain of the pointless, and the sounds found within are nothing short of glacial and oceanic. Deep, focused, and chillingly absent, "Inconsequence" drifts out to the edge of despair and waits. Does anything actually happen? Altar Of Waste is proud to present this towering new work of hopeless drone in a DVD package designed and constructed by Cory Strand, in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies". - Label Description

"Lethe's sprawling four CD set "Theodore Robert Bundy" is an agonizing journey through the brutal crimes and deteriorated mental processes of one of the United States' most notorious serial murderers. A crushing whorl of horrific audio terror rendered hallucinatorily psychedelic via almost infinite repetition and glacial deviation. Time becomes immobile as the illusion of years recedes into a haunted and sickening nostalghia. Bundy's crimes went beyond a simple saturation of violence and catharsis, descending into a realm of gratification meant to satisfy an almost infathomable emptiness. His obsession with owning a female person entire brought him to precipices no "normal" individual could ascertain. One of Lethe's most excessive works in a discography rife with them, Altar of Waste is extremely pleased to present this shattering series of HNW recordings in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies. Packaged in a DVD case with full color artwork designed by Cory Strand". - Label Description

"Mysterious instrumental black metal ambience, cloaked in the blinding violence of blurring repetition and stumbling circle patterns. Guitars are distorted to the point of destruction, sounding like crumbling pustules of torn earth and free-flowing tar oozing across a scarred landscape. Lindskold's lone member Skarmus builds tornado-like towers of frothing audio severity, wading into pools of black metal, HNW, and bass-throbbing dark ambient simultaneously, emerging with something indebted to atmospheric BM but altogether more primal, deranged and viscerally aggressive. Altar of Waste is pleased to present this mysterious drone metal entity's debut record, offering it up to the vacuous winter night it so scathingly evokes. Packaged in a DVD case designed and constructed by Cory Strand, in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies". - Label Description

"Lindskold returns with another approximation of traditional black metal aestheticism if not methodology. Created almost entirely from processed vocals, "The Majesty of the Lidless Eye" is at once another slab of gurgling, tortured sludge vomiting its way through the speakers, but also a hypnotic and slightly empirical tribute to J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. Tolkien's mythology has been the fodder for a prodigious amount of black metal output since the movement's inception, and here Lindskold honors that tradition (especially in the evocation of magnificent bands like Summoning and Kinstrife & Blood) while simultaneously pushing it towards a more extreme and noise-focused universality. Altar Of Waste is pleased to present this re-recidivist black metal tapestry in a DVD case with artwork assembled and constructed by Cory Strand, in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies". - Label Description

"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

"Love Katy inhabits a very distinct space in the world of HNW, eschewing the usual themes and philosophies of rage, solitude, and nihilism in favor of something more affirmative and perhaps even welcoming. Working with the music and persona of cultural icon Katy Perry, Love Katy mutates modern pop convention into walls of sound that are as caustic and suffocating as you'd expect from any HNW but somehow transcend both the genre they originate from and the genre to which they supposedly belong. While not entirely removed from the recurring ideals of HNW (there is a slightly deranged and obsessive element at work), Love Katy demonstrates the breadth of expression capable in a genre many accuse of staunch minimalism. Altar Of Waste is beyond psyched to release "You're No Good For Me," a thick and oozing 30 minute crawl through Love Katy's transformative view of obvious cultural currency. This is our most lavish packaging work to date, with three different covers in our DVD packaging, all designed and constructed by Cory Strand in a limited edition of 24 hand-numbered copies". - Label Description

Cassette tape orchestras, built from the bizarre field recordings found at a pet expo (amongst other things). Recommended for Dilloway fans.

"This Karelian project has been very active giving gigs and producing studio works during 2006-2007 but as the founder moved to Poland there has started a sort of hiatus for MAAAA. "Human Waste" was issued by Rokot in 2008 as a tape with additional bizcard CDR and got a lot of good response from listeners worldwide. Due to some wishes of people who were late in getting a copy of the first edition, we decided to make a CDR version to provide everybody with a great piece of Power Electronics. Don't be confused if you heard some of MAA(AA) earlier works that contain raw and chaotic Noise. On "Human Waste" nicely constructed tracks are pulsing directly through your liver right to the spine. The sound is thick and mangling. Maybe the whole picture is not that agressive and insane but if you want a nice "CONTROL making ATRAX MORGUE-like throbs" album -- you'll be satisfied". - Label Description

"Makes me feel like i've bored a hole into the center of the earth with my teeth!" says one friend close to this Starving Weirdo's alter-ego band. Self described as "Dune Rock" & coming from the deserts of Manila, California; this is a band very influenced by it's surroundings. Slow motion metalic riffs ring throughout the entire 50 minutes of the debut album, laying the founding for waves of rolling synth lines and sporadic clangings echoing in the distance, presumably a shamanic attempt at drums but too lost in a trance to muster any concrete tempo or rhythmn. Album of the year for me, what about you?

"New album of Martin Bladh is his best and most challenging. Many of the known elements of his works are there. Amazing tones of bow / string instruments. wailing yelling voice known from IRM. usage of samples/spoken word collages like on "Dirge". rhythms. musical patterns and electronic noise. But simply everything goes further. Leaving all expectation behind. what should qualify as "genre album". Less of noise. more of experimental disturbing elements. often avoiding playing it safe. This work is most definitely recommended for anyone who wants to hear albums what stand out of line. Packaged in dvd case with full color cover and full color 24 pages booklet including Bladh's unique collages and Cavefors' texts. Limited edition of mere 200 copies!" - Label Description

"Peripheral Records is proud to announce it's thirteenth release with, 'Maurizio Bianchi's - Aeternum Aevum' CD. Two long beautifully understated tracks, that show a more pastoral side to the great Italian master of Industrial. Slow whirling pieces of Ambience dedicated to the late Konrad Schnitzler. The CD is limited to 250 copies within a DigiPak. The sleeve is adnorned inside and out with Abstract paintings by Hayat Saidi". - 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

"Originally self-released on the occasion of a performance in Berlin 2011 in a micro-edition of 12 copies, now publicly available for the first time. One long, electro-acoustic composition totalling just over 17 minutes. Basically rustling and crackling, made with the same setup used for said concert. Triangle, spiral spring, tape loops and amplified tin can. Recorded on June 27/28, 2011 at FF Hamburg. Mastered by Phil Julian. White disk in mini DVD case, w/ double sided insert card". - Label Description

Interesting tale behind this one: Milton Grove Skum Band was recorded in Manchester in the basement of Gaz, Daz and Linds amongst others. The line up was a free for all and the instruments were everything from a destructed piano to a rain shaker to a rusty nail. A very claustrophic half hour... The second band of the disc is even more obscure. Lobster Preist were for some reason scheduled to play a Star Wars themed rave on the quayside in the centre of Newcastle. When the band were imformed they were meant to play it transpired that only the least likely member of the band to be available; was available. So Mike Smith had to gather the troops and build a band quickly, a band suitable for a Star Wars themed rave. He only managed to pull together the cream of the crop from the North East noise underground and had drugged up idiots dressed as yoda bopping all o'er't place in no time. A bizarre and pleasant evening only made more so by the bouncer kicking the door in when I was trying to have a shite... Old style CD-r fold over cover.

"First appearing as a limited edition LP on the Spanish label Throne Records in 2008, Monarch's Mer Morte is now made available on cd and digital as a single unbroken thirty-four minute sludge-and-feedback feast that sprawls out further into the dismal black void that these French doom junkies have been lurking in for the past six years. As with previous releases, Monarch move through massive blackened tarpits of low-end riffage and sheets of gluey feedback that are stretched out into monolithic slabs of sound, a grim, glacial ultra-doom that crawls at a saurian sub-tempo. And vocalist Emilie sounds as gaunt and ghostly as ever, her vocalizations materializing across the spatial doomscape as distant ululating wails, breathy whispers, and putrid death shrieks ..." - Label Description

First Murder Book release in a while. Harsh and dense drones spread over 2 tracks in about 75 minutes. From meandering whispers to full blown violent winds. The North wind is blowing, but who is listening?

Special Edition of above in A5 packaging; limited to 7 numbered copies with Murder Book badge.

New drawn out Yorkshire gothic darkness from Mutant Ape. Over an hour long, one track. Recorded straight to tape October 2009 in The Sparrow Pit. Hand numbered edition of 50 in black envelope with various inserts. Recommened by Lee Stokoe as one of his best.

Upon The Wings Of The Bat You'll Find The Rest You've Been Looking For. 8 Days & 8 Nights. 1874.

A long since ready recording. Not many copies remain. Recorded over the telephone, a mixture of low-fi harsh noise machine destruction and crazed human squaking. Red fold out covers. Delicious Northern Jovial Negativity. LAST 2 COPIES!

Voltagestress*R style worship herein. Two lads in a room with loud amps and primitive recording equipment. 3 tracks of Pure Noise Worship in praise of fuck all. On top of that t'old Ben Durie adorns the cover, poor old Northern Rock eh? Or perhaps not. Xerox fold out cover in 3" PVC sleeve.

"Ektro Records is thrilled to release Tulemme sokeiksi ("We’re Becoming Blind"), a retrospective CD compiling material by Musiikkivyöry ("Music Avalanche"). In addition to being a curious chapter in the endless saga of the post-punk era, this DIY document is also one of the finer, more elusive threads of the global cassette-culture scene. Originally issued in 1981, Musiikkivyöry’s two tapes were the work of Mika Taanila, a 15-year-old who would grow up to become an internationally acclaimed filmmaker. This compilation features the key tracks from those micro-edition bedroom recordings. Musiikkivyöry’s output is typical of the early ’80s’ raw zeitgeist, but with a timeless, teen-anguish twist. Taanila heartily embraces punk’s total do-it-yourself ideal, yet his style is light years away from the conventional guitar groups of the day: Atonal riffs, home electronics, randomly cut-up radio sounds, noise, and primitive industrial weltschmertz blend into a rough, highly personalized whole". - Label Description

"like something from a claustrophobic horror-movie soundtrack" - Pitchfork

"Split between Italy's purveyor of dark funeral HNW Nascitari and Florida's Vasectomy Party.
This collaboration highlights two very different approaches to the HNW genre. Nascitari's side focuses on low end sounds, crackles, and dark pummelings. Vasectomy Party's side is a white static driven noise wall inspired by the mating sounds of cicadas. This CD-R version is hand-stamped in 7" jackets. Limited to 15 pieces". - Label Description

"The final volume of Necronom IV's Alien suite, two massive hymnals to universal obliteration and the utter failure of mankind to survive in a cosmos indifferent to its existence. There is only this emptiness, this void, this great and eternal gnawing, screaming from every corner and every fold in the fabric of the physical. Mankind is a vessel, a vehicle for a higher evolutionary form, one which is simplistic and unerring in its blind ferocity. Survival becomes the only mark of the true intelligence. The two pieces here end Necronom IV's exploration of Ridley Scott's mythology in fine and majestic form, with the frigid despair of "Becoming" segueing into the haunting and vaguely soothing "Worming Parasite." You are truly alone, and in space, there really is no one to hear you scream. Altar Of Waste is beyond pleased to present these transformative recordings in a DVD package with artwork assembled and constructed by Cory Strand, in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies. The blinding light is the end, the eclipse of reason by fear in all its totality". - Label Description

"The third installment in Necronom IV's Alien inspired recordings is a masterful exercise in deep drone tonality, pure stagnancy for the purgatorical. An expanse of drooling bass throb washes out under a waft of frigid and scraping winds, evoking the numbing depths of space and the endless horrors lurking in the universe's forgotten pockets. There is a distinct undercurrent of violence found in this piece, an expectation of immolation that creates a highly electric and nauseating tension. Release will never come. There will only be terror, and it is mindless and all-consuming. Altar Of Waste is proud to present this third piece of dark ambient death drift in a DVD package designed and constructed by Cory Strand, in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies". - Label Description

"The second volume in Necronom IV's series of recordings influenced by Ridley Scott's Alien mythology, "Fire From the Mountain" is a claustrophobic exercise in enormity and dead black space. A veritable cosmic ocean stretching out forever, unchanging and ancient in its obstinacy. There is no hope here, only the eternal night and the promise of oblivion as the universe scatters you callously, slowly ripping you apart with a glacial force and a jaded dispassion. If "Suffocation" was an encapsulation of fear and paranoia then "Fire From the Mountain" is the resignation to defeat, an ushering in of a new dominance that will exist for time immemorial. Resistance is a dark and fetid dream. Acquiescence is the only possibility that will not end in immolation. Altar Of Waste is extremely proud to present this staggeringly monolithic work of dark ambient horror in a DVD package designed and constructed by Cory Strand, in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies". - Label Description

"Necronom IV deviates from the claustrophobic terror of its Alien series in order to explore the haunting death vibe of Mary Lambert's version of the Stephen King triumph Pet Sematary. Lambert's film plays down the Satanic horror of King's novel in favor of a more atmospheric approach, and for a good chunk of the film she manages to create a stifling aura of tragedy and supernatural longing. Some of her set pieces are particularly evocative, showcasing a feeling of distance and enchantment that plays well to King's colorful grasp of character.
Necronom IV's work here is equally enchanting and distant, a far cry from the compositions offered in the Alien works. A vague melodicism worms its way into the cold ambiance, conjuring up the spectre of tainted soil and blistering earth, as well as a yearning born from a deep sense of failure. This is an immersive and strangely calming piece, an elegiac drift through the nether realms. Altar Of Waste is pleased to release this atypical album in a DVD package with artwork assembled and constructed by Cory Strand, in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies". - Label Description

"The fear of the unknown is secondary perhaps only to the fear of personal mutilation and pain, the paranoia ever-present in situations where survival instinct and physical endurance are pitted against forces beyond understanding and human experience. Necronom IV is a new and incredibly impressive dark ambient entity projecting that fear and anxiety into a series of massive recordings based on Ridley Scott's Alien, perhaps the ultimate expression of the fear of the unknown existing in modern popular culture. Necronom IV's approach is severe and dense, evoking the hollow and lonely infinity of the cosmos married to a growing sense of unease and horror. You are simply adrift in the magnitude, being pulled ever further into darker reaches, receding into the glistening eyelessness of a nature far-removed from your own. Altar Of Waste is extremely pleased to bring this series to light, showcasing an artist with astonishing focus and an understanding of the cosmic. "Suffocation" is the first volume in a projected five-album cycle, and is presented in a DVD package designed and constructed by Cory Strand in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies". - Label Description

The highly anticipated third album from the enigmatic Nekrasov, offering up some of the highest quality ambient noise/black metal in the land for a truly terrifying experience!

"Riding atop the recent wave of black metal/noise hybrids who combine the bleak frosty riffs and blackened ferocity of underground BM with blown-out and corrosive strains of industrial noise (see also WOLD, Emit, Grief No Absolution, Enbilulugugal, Vargr), the Australian one-man band Nekrasov has so far made a substantial mark in the realm of extremist necro-racket with a series of limited edition, brutally abrasive albums (Cognition Of Splendid Oblivion, The Form Of Thought From Beast, etc) that have mostly been self-released, save for some recent offerings on labels like Siege Of Power and Chrome Leaf. Early on, Nekrasov's sound was steeped in caustic noise, a blazing industrialized black metal assault that was doused in heavy levels of irradiated distortion and Merzbowian skree. But more recently, it's mutated into less metallic regions, alternating the hyperblast black metal with forays into crushing, demonic wall-noise and blasted ambience. Now, Nekrasov is back with a new full length (the first for Crucial Blast), and it's the most advanced slab of their blacknoize terror that we've heard so far. An octagonal prism of isolationist drone, flesh-rending mechanical black metal, abstract otherworldly beauty, claustrophobic industrial dread, and the most violent, suffocating strains of harsh noise, Extinction is pure cyclonic contempt for humanity...." - Label Description

The only reason one can speculate why Nekrasov is a self-released album considering that its brand of towering, infernal, low-fi-yet-epic, raw-yet-atmospheric, power-electronics/death ambient-spiced contemporary black metal equals the quality of several bigger names in this scene, is that the people behind it are trying to stay kvlt. Thankfully not kvlt enough as this cd found its way to Terrorizer HQ and to these grateful ears.The band's website, on the other hand, claims that it is aold out already. The abstract parts on 'The Form….' Don't feel like atmospheric segues serving as mere introductions to the bestial tracks, which, in turn, echo classic BM and transcended it with a killer combination of cavernous treble onslaught, paper thin snares and mono cymbals juxtaposed on thunderous kick, all forming unconventional rhythms. One obvious highlight is 'Today The Sun A Golden Illusion', tumbling down all components compressed into a singular drone. (TERRORIZER ISSUE 174)

"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

"Most abusive experience to hear. Hundreds of tracks of blasting noisecore explosions. Including demo 2002, demo 2005, demo 2006, compilation tracks (with unreleased recordings) and live 2008. Sore Throat, AC, 7MON, etc taken into new levels of 2000´s cold cynicism". - Label Description

"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 latest album from U.S. death industrial / power electronics act Nyodene D. The release features four 10+ minute tracks of dark synth atmospheres, upfront vocals, scrap abuse, churning percussion and analog synth torture". - 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

"These collected works of Finland's OWL could be simply squashed into the categories of "radio noise" and "electronic interference collages" but that wouldn't really be right. We're rather talking about an isolated vision of sound exploration with primitive equipment, no awareness of the existence of any kind of "noise scene" (this came later), no rules, and pure enthusiasm for sonic ugliness. A glimpse into the dark vaults of atonal pleasures, executed with crude boomboxes, one cheap multi-fx unit, no distortion (!!) and rudimentary recording techniques. Almost all overdrive here is purely from tape saturation, and the results are creepy, fuzzy, intense and very active. A powerful trip, unharmed by outside influences. Carefully selected pieces from six cassettes out of a huge box of tapes. Maybe one day there will be more discoveries, but for now here is an album of essential tape overload mania from a young mr JH, who later got busy making several zines, Anal Barbara, XXXX, Schmuck noise, and more". - 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

"Over a year in the making this is the first collaboration between Pain Jerk (Kohei Gomi) and Rock’n’Roll Jackie (Jackie Stewart of Smegma, Tenses, Los Angeles Free Music Society, etc). The source sounds were provided by Jackie and then Kohei obsessively worked these into the 2 long tracks you hear on this disc. This is by no means a conventional harsh noise record. The influence of the musique concrete masters of old echoes heavily throughout these tracks whilst still maintaining the playfulness and non-purism found throughout LAFMS recordings. Old sound effect record samples, TV recordings, Flower Travellin Bands guitar riffs and J-Pop drum beats are all included in the mix alongside Kohei’s synth sounds. This was recently described by long term LAFMS champion Takuya Sakaguchi as “high-velocity psychedelic electronic punk”, and that suits this well. Limited edition of 500 copies in 6-panel ogun digipack with full-colour artwork/collages from Jackie Stewart". - Label Description

Noise Collaboration of Pekka PT (Sick Seed, Gelsomina) and Pentti Dassum (Umpio).

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"We tread dark waters on a day to day basis, holding ourselves up to a higher standard because of nothing more than pride. Our society has built an intricate system in which we seek out guilt, hoping to find some for ourselves in an effort to justify our existence. Past pains give us status, but we forgo the pain and jump straight to the romanticized ideal. Fairweather Mask explores this phenomenon, touching on both the forms of communication which create this system and the guilt that arises as well. A commanding presence from Peter J. woods in this theater of Noise.... Power Electronic and vocal barrage, justification is what you seek for all the things you do...to yourself...." - Label Description

"A static blast of HNW based power electronics followed by a meditation on swirling synths. Originally released as part of the 3x3" tour split with Instinct Control". - Label Description

"Collaboration between the two artists. Junk, lo-fi harsh noise and tape machin circuit manipulation. Originally released as part of the 3x3" tour split between the artists". - Label Description

"An awkward combination of harsh blasts, tape hiss, and modular synth attack. Massively bizarre in the best way. Collaboration between Peter J Woods and the men behind Dan of Earth and Lucky Bone". - Label Description

"Pollutive Static returns to QCS with another slice of harsh noise hell! Hand stamped vinyl-style CDr is housed in a black folding 8.2" x 5.3" sized cardboard sleeve, artwork is mounted on the card with glue. Each copy is packaged in a clear zip lock bag". - 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

"1993 - 1997, one long track, handmade artwork, lim. 100". - Label Description

"Cocaine Death collects three of PRURIENT’s limited edition 10-minute cassettes—a triptych exploring the relationship between futile pleasure, substance and escape (escape being a myth): The original Cocaine Death c10 is based on the glamor and destruction of toxic nightlife, and features guest vocals from FFH); Caribbean Overdose explores a different but strangely direct topic of the sexual reproductive life of plants; Tylenol Murders expands on the sounds of others to further limits of cracked static, strained vocals and strange melodic loops. For the diehards, two unreleased tracks are included". - Label Description

"3 Track Power-Noise/Electronics Monster , lim. 100 numbered copies only". - Label Description

"Demonstrating a remarkable ability to creatively curse and an almost implausible vocal dexterity" - Cyclic Defrost.

"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

"Atmospheric, industrial musings from this Chicago duo. Members include Jason Soliday (curator of the Enemy gallery) and Ben Billington (Quick Sails, Tiger Hatchery)". - Label Description

"Highly political digital hardcore/gabber the group has always been known for. Combination of live material and studio recordings. Includes a cover of The Mob". - Label Description

Following the "Astral Death" CD from earlier this year, Pete Burn and Dean Glaister return with a new disc of older tracks recorded from 2003-2004 at various times and places with various moods and instruments but somehow they manage to make the album as a whole flow like a cosmic river. Long drawn out psychedelic tones buckling under guitar motifs and heavy metallic bass form the album's core and what more could we possibly ask for? Expert drone by one of the best acts in the field. Limited to only 300 copies in jewel case's with specially printed metallic artwork by Pete Burn inside a protective PVC sleeve. Mastered by James Plotkin.

"SABLE MOUVANT is a music project coming from Lithuanian artist GyS. The project may be classified as hypnotic drone ambient. The first album titled Bridge That Leads Nowhere perfectly conveys gloomy, melancholic world where the prevailing trends include reduction, extinction and impalpability. Compositions of Bridge That Leads Nowhere are very slow and solid, their monotonic vibes are the source of a weird hypnotic feeling. Here we have live and pulsatile drone ambient where the track names precisely represent their mood best described as solitude and isolation. SABLE MOUVANT music offers a full dose of Gnostic unknowability, cryptic atmosphere. It is best suited for listening in derelict wastelands, while meditating invisible, elemental and indeed pervading supernatural reality that uncompromisingly regulates the evolution of all worlds known and unknown. The album will please anyone who’s not indifferent to the music of Jarl, Moljebka Pvlse, NWW, Kammarheit". - Label Description

"The true black is the void, the embrace of the crawling emptiness, the recognition of the infinite oblivion, and the acquiessence to the malleable obliqueness that scalds our existence. Much of modern black metal cloaks itself in the robes of ideological severity only to come up far short in terms of approaching the philosophical cornerstones of the genre; even the most supposedly nihilistic projects fail to follow up on their own endorsements of immolation and violence. Savage Cross make no such pronouncements of intent. Instead we receive deliverance unto the waste, an open-eyed gaze into the swirling waters of the universal negative. Nothing comes back here; this is the devourer. Enter and find the end. Through the approximation of black metal form and the creation of sickeningly thick walls of molten contempt, Savage Cross attain the cosmically transcendent through violent harness, caring little for concepts of the future or awakening. This is pure eradication of consciousness. Altar Of Waste is extremely psyched to bring forth this numbing call to obliteration, Savage Cross's first physical offering after a small wealth of digital releases. Behold the spoils of psychic despondency. Packaged in a DVD case with artwork by Evan Craig and Cory Strand, in a limited edition of 20 hand-numbered copies". - Label Description

"Old and new. Derrame Sanguíneo was a project of Gustavo Costa, infamous drummer of multiple projects like Motornoise, Most People Have Been Trained To Be Bored or Lost Gorbachves and Iur, a visionary (or mad man) devoted to Industrial music. The tracks presented here are the only recordings ever made from this project and are a good example of the Industrial music production in Portugal during the late 90’s and early 2000’s. Industrial music from the turn of the century, delivering harsh vocals, powerfull lyrics and programmed beats fuelled by hatred! The second part of this release belongs to Sektor 304, a rather new force that delivers 3 unreleased tracks from their early beginings, including the only recorded track from Intonarumori, Sektor’s prior identity that had in its line up legendary names such as Tshueda from Hospital Psiquiatrico and J.A. from Wolfskin, now remixed to fit the sound of Sektor 304. Junk metal abuse and tribal drum loops. The whole package comes with a 20 page booklet with artwork by A. Coelho and screenprinted covers by Oficina Arara. Limited edition of 50 copies". - Label Description

"10 old school tracks, like Psychic TV & Throbbing Gristle". - Label Description

"Large ensemble Sissy Spacek recordings featuring the cream of LA. The line-up: John Wiese, Mitchell Brown, Joey Karam (The Locust), Peter Kolovos, Rick Potts (LAFMS), Damion Romero, Corydon Ronnau and Shannon Walter (16 Bitch Pile-Up). All the source recordings used for Sepsis were taken from a group improv session recorded for the Dublab radio in 2008. The recordings from each individual channel were later chopped and rearranged into audio collages by Wiese without any regard to preserving group interaction. These collages were then layered into the final pieces you here on the disc... A beautiful set of electro-acoustic works that have been freed from any of the patterns that can develop through group improvisation. Comes in 6-panel Ogun style digisleeve designed by John Wiese and includes photos from the original recording session. Limited edition of 500 copies" - 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

Reissue of CLASSIC Skullflower material. If you don't know what this is, you don't need it. Incredible.

"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

New Skullflower CD now available on Turgid Animal Records. Recorded last year live on an Antwerpen radio station comes this new guitar wall "composition" from Matthew Bower and Lee Stokoe. This is a real CD (a first for Turgid Animal) limited to 1000 copies with artwork desinged by MB himself and pro-printed on quality grey paper in standard jewel cases. This is a seriously solid release and is for fans of modern Skullflower recordings and anyone who just loves a good harsh racket!

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

Matthew Bower's Skullflower, deeply influential early UK pioneers of both noise rock and noise music in general meet relative newcomer, Norway's Utarm, for 5 pieces of extreme, beautiful, dark and wandering-in-the-woods noise. The 3 tracks by Skullflower and the 2 tracks by Utarm on the split showcase different powerful sides of both bands operating inside a twilight zone within an experimental black metal influenced framework. Full length CD album of inspiring triumphant soundscapes, evil tepid ambience and deadly esoteric world music. Limited to 500 copies in jewel cases with drawing and layout artwork by Sindre Foss Skancke (Utarm). Highly recommended.

"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

"Like Love Katy, Small Hours occupies an extremely unique position in the HNW microcosm. My first exposure to Small Hours' aesthetic was a lone track called "My Walls Would Suck Without You," a brutal reworking of the Kelly Clarkson pop dream nugget that somehow managed to fuse the almost desperate yearning of the source to an equally apocalyptic squall of wall. Popular music has the capacity to infect and remain and become something of a mass sedative; in a similar sense, the stagnancy inherent in so much HNW can become lulling and achieve a state close to transcendental stasis. Enter then Small Hours' brilliant deconstruction of perhaps the most "popular" of all popular music, easy listening. Burt Bacharach and Hal David are universal, and "Performs the Songs of Bacharach and David" is a radical effort to transform that universality into something beyond its original ambition, a reimagining of a standard defined by decades of cultural nostalgiah. Your grandparents knew these songs, your parents knew them, and they're floating somewhere in your subconscious as well. Across these six tracks, Small Hours indulges in a variety of massive textures and tonalities, from crumbling, ghostly static to all-out torrential downpours of scathing extremity. Fusing it all so seamlessly to source material thought of as anathema to the conception of HNW marks the record as an intensely visionary work. No one else is doing this. Altar Of Waste is proud to release this gauntlet to the world. Packaged in a DVD case with artwork assembled and constructed by Cory Strand, in a limited edition of 20 hand-numbered copies". - Label Description

CD version of classic modern Finnish Power Electronics LP released earlier also by Filth and Violence. Highly recommended and filthy material! Not for the faint of heart.

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

The duo of Mike Vest (Bong, Basillica etc...) and Lucy Johnson (Smut, Rife etc...) channel the spirit of 70's Japanese pysch a la Les Rallizes Denudes in an 18 minute singular track of whirling improvised guitars and swirling improvised electronics. Full colour artwork in PVC sleeve.

More italian goodness! Band formed in 2003 by Nicola (Fecalove) and Marco. First official CD release and first one featuring Lorenzo (Thanatologist, Nave, Entropic Degrade Behind Phylogeny) on vocals. Seven tracks of decayed and wrong industrial/noise/power electronics with brutal vocals in italian. Analogue and digital noise , various electronics, tape looping and much more. Quite a change from the past releases. A concept about the last years of Mirko Sartori, a reclusive mad man who lived with the mummified corpse ofhis mother Anna for three years in a little town in northern Italy , covering their apartment's walls with weird prayers and requests of help. Lyrics are nothing else than what he wrote on the walls. No changes or interpretations. Pure italian suburban depression, madness and void. Comes in japanese style pvc protection sleeve, full colour paper digipack, 8 page booklet featuring lyrics in italian and translation in english. Free Mirko/Anna badges with the first 100 copies! Limited to 450 copies. Special asian edition of 50 copies on HIE Productions.

"Peripheral Records is proud to announce it's fifth release with, Staalkracht's debut album - 'A Means to an End'. A deeply dark and unforgiving landscape of Death Industrial, melancholic Dark-Ambience and brooding Drones, with influences ranging from Brighter Death Now and Genocide Organ to Mz.412 and Archon Satani. The CD is limited to 100 copies". - Label Description

Debute full length of genocidal blackened deadly doom. No groove, no ambient-drone, etc. Just obscure discordant vibrating guitars, bass, drums and vocals creating real songs, pure soundtrack for withnessing crucifixion. Band known from split 10" w/ Worship, split 7" w/ Mournful Congregation, split LP with AM, V/A Crushing The Holy Trinity, etc.. This album is all new material and certainly progression forward, yet remaining true to unpleasantly rough production values and non-entertaining approach.

"Since 1996, Subklinik has continued to create some of the darkest Death Industrial / necro-soundscapes in existence. Enter "Musik For Dekomposition", the latest full length from Subklinik, featuring six torturous expressions that convey a foreboding atmosphere abundant with feelings of death, and isolation, manifested through a sonic vortex of analogue filth and decay". - Label Description

3 tracks in 16 minutes with one page zine. "Sunken Cheek - Residuals is a 1 page zine that was made last September for Syracuse's Assault City Fest. The zine was free and 25 copies or so were made. Later, the words were put to sound in 3 parts. These tracks are a mess of drones, harsh noise, delays, loops and feedback .A gushing flow of internal/external hatred. Nothing lost, nothing gained". - Label Description

Long delayed cd debut from Fecalove's side project Taeter. Italian ugly and filthy power electronics. Cock, self-deprecation and booze over and over again. 10 tracks including Brainbombs and The Sodality covers! 12 page booklet with lyrics and sexy pictures. Mastered in Singapore by Shaun Sankaran. Limited to 300 copies, co-released with Trash Ritual U.S.A.

"Testicle Hazard full length CD is duo of Tommi Keränen and Lasse Marhaug. Already on top of the current harsh noise. TH did something usual: They went to real studio. Loud amplifier blasting highly textured. rough and noisy distorted wreckage. yet the overall atmosphere goes way beyond the usual line-in fuzz walls found on many releases these days. Top quality noise assault and this unusual angle towards recording of harsh noise makes this album essential to check out". - Label Description

"Peripheral Records is proud to announce the 4th release, a split 'Ten Graves', by heavyweight drone / doom expert, 'TenHornedBeast', and relative Texas based newcomer and mysterious doom-monger, 'Husere Grav' (who has so far released material on 'Small Doses', 'Prison Tatt' and 'Not Not Fun', to name but a few). An uncompromisingly dark and doom fuelled album, distinctly funereal but ultimately transcendent and with the all the hallmarks of a classic! Limited to 250 copies in a digipak, with artwork by Nikita Evsuk (Fear Konstruktor)". - Label Description

AM-798. They recorded every gig on their week long tour and sold it at the shows. This is the condensed version on 3 CDr's with new art and an extra CDr of the Detroit gig in Hall's backyard. Includes a xeroxed (b&w) collaged insert. Each cdr in a wallet style vellum case.

"Three years after the last full length, "Wretch", and after a series of limited cassette releases, THE VOMIT ARSONIST returns with his most recent full length, "Go Without". Depressive, bleak, and monotonous electronics. Clanging, ripping scrap metal noise. Maddening, insane vocal work.... "Go Without" is a semi-concept album about spending a near-lifetime in the throes of dependence to psychoactive drugs. This is a look in the mirror. This is letting you know who you really are. There is no escape from the truth."." - Label Description

"...represents a journey through the mind of Andrew Grant, aka The Vomit Arsonist. A decidedly personal and unnerving recording, "Wretch" was written during a period of mental instability that lasted nearly two years. The result is a release that bleeds raw emotion: loss, hatred, self-loathing, and reflection; starting at rock bottom with waves of dark ambiance and quietly spoken words, moving further into the depths of a tortured mind. The result is a gradual advance into forceful, vengeful power electronics". - Label Description

"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

Long overdue reissue of the first cassette by Matthew Bower's (Skullflower) solo Total project originally released by classic label Broken Flag in 1986. The 7 original tracks appear on the CD in a newly remastered form with updated artwork. An essential document of the early British experimental noise and Broken Flag scenes. Limited to 500 copies.

"this record’s contrived cheepniss makes Bow Wow Wow sound like Mozart" - Sound Projector

"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 long lost cdr from the 2010 tour of Two White Monsters Around A Round Table, now remastered for a brighter, yet powerful sound! Four tracks built around drums and electric double-bass that show us how Black Sonic Jazz music can dominate the world. Recorded and mixed by Master Gustavo Costa, who also adds some electronics, granting us a new level of wideness and tone to the sound of the Monsters. Artwork by André Coelho". - Label Description

"Umpio, Muelas, Freak Animal, noise, K2, Knurl, Sickness Finnish harsh noise at its finest! Umpio has slowly but steadily reached the top level of harsh noise. Scrap metal, self build metal junk instruments, feedback, intense cut-ups. Think of Knurl, Sickness, K2 etc with addtional P.Dassum physical craftmanship and you may get close to Umpio". - Label Description

"Italian project started in 2005. UR has released a number of albums through Topheth Prophet, Afe Records, Mask Of The Slave. Music is mostly free-improvised in the style of Industrial of 1970’s. Four long pieces recorded in 2006 create a hellish maelstrom of black shadows, heartrending groans, bloodletting rave in a throng of ashletting horny and caudate entitites. Sometimes more scary than TG, early CURRENT 93 and STALLAGH". - Label Description

"Norway's Utarm returns with another disturbing work that is as innovative as it is dark. "...so the texts included in the booklet begin in the gutter of modern age. It is the ramblings of a drunk satanist who seeks the blackest sun without ever being the esoteric scholar. The music is the man learning to play instruments, while recording. All is will to create. Apocryphal stories are stories that fail to be acknowledged. There is failure in all these songs, as well as personal grandiose moments. this is the abstract beginning". - Label Description

Utarm is Norway's Sindre Foss Skancke and "Minus The Divine" is the incredible new album released as follow up to 2007's "Mutilation Epoch". Experimental Black Metal and Noise rolled into one well composed and certainly exciting if not bizarre sounding album. All the best bits of Skullflower, early industrial and influences drawn from his countries native Black Metal underworld fighting for space amongst a backdrop of blackened Harsh Noise filth. Limited to 300 copies.

Steev Thompson, Previously Roxanne Jean Polise and Branden Diven, of Drenches, make up 3 long tracks of beautiful drone ambience and show why they are one of the best in the field. This release collects two previously, ridiculously limited LP (on the Arbor label) and tape (Warmth's side of a split with Quintana Roo on Not Not Fun) releases that were simply too good to let slip into the realms of obscurity. This PRO-CD comes in a standard jewel case with clear tray and full colour back garden artwork by Steev. With releases on labels such as DNT, Arbor, Monorail Trespassing, Abandon Ship, Digitalis, Not Not Fun Records, Cherried-Out Merch and his own X Died Enroute Y label, Warmth seems unstoppable. Edition of 500 copies.

"A gathering of the musicians that annually perform the "Matanças Festival" in Oporto. This is ritual, occult music from the depths of this city. This compilation shows a large variety of experimental/metal music and it is an excellent showcase for the musical scene from Oporto. Contains tracks from Satan’s Zombies Paranoid, Besta Bode, New Traditional Fang Music, Pvppa, Caverna, Brutos da Natureza, Filigranas Negras, Tendagruta and Sparagmos. This is a collaboration between Latrina do Chifrudo, Let’s Go To War and Soopa". - Label Description

Dedicated to the 2nd NORDIC AUDIO MODERN industrial festival, which took place in Vilnius on 7 May 2005. Limited to 900 copies in digipak packaging. Featuring legends such as Deutsch Nepal, Grey Wolves, Con-Dom etc.. highly recommended!

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!

"Lolita Slavinder unleashes the long awaited compilation of Finnish noisecore!! NIHILIST COMMANDO presents the nihilo noisecore in bands finest tradition. NUCLEAR VOICE reeks the south american DT/Reh damage with hints of Necropussy or Hellnoise. A.N.H. still reminds their early 90's sound. but with additional influence of Deche-Charge at their best. TUHO wrestles in dirty basement. BEIP screams out total pussy core. From NOISE WASTE archives was found unreleased recording of ultra chaotic vocal storm and instrument distorter. ANAL KEG unreleased demo 2006 in it's full glory. AUNT MARY returns with fresh material from 2011. with nasty and fierce sound. making their comeback 7" sound like Toto. FUNERAL MONGOLOIDS. fast and furious. retarded noisecore in at its best. S.E.X. is like Tokyo Anal Dynamite era Gerogerigegege with throatier vocals. YESMEANSYES finishes this 60 minutes compilation with their best live recording ever. full of energy. 12 pages booklet and inlay". - Label Description

Debut release by Matthew Bower (Skullflower, Mirag), Justin Broadrick (Godflesh, Jesu) and Samantha Davis (Voltigeurs, Harm). 4 tracks of off kilter and noisy black metal influenced experimental rock with trademark sounds from each members thrown into a melting pot. Harsh and glorious! Limited to 500 copies.

"Not music for normal folks, to be sure." - Multibeat.

Turgid Animal is proud to present the second album of the duo of Matthew Bower and Samantha Davies, both core members of the mighty Skullflower. Since the release of the first album in 2009 ("S/T", Turgid Animal), Voltigeurs have been working along Skullflower to create an otherwordly genre defying scene all of their own. Presented here are 6 new tracks of winding hypnotic guitars and electronics, which seem to audibly bubble under a darkened sky. With excellent liner notes and artwork by both members of the band, the honourable touch of esoteric personality is brought forth. 500 copies, jewel cases. Another highly recommended work from a band truly in touch with their own sound.

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Brand new project from Matthew Bower of Skullflower and Samantha Davis' of GYR/Harm. This album definitely demostrates the direction in which Mr. Bower has been taking with his other projects as of late and could easily be described as Black Metal in it's purest form but this is no Skullflower rip off. Samantha's Davis' input has certainly altered Mattthew's musical vision and it is easy to hear the sound of a true collaboration at work. Six long tracks of heavy music running in at a total of nearly 65 minutes.

Official Bootleg. Three live sets recorded in a crypt in Skipton from the duo of Matthew Bower and Samantha Davies' (both of Skullflower) heavy guitar improvisation unit; Voltigeurs, Romain Perrot's legendary HNW project; Vomir and George Proctor's (Murder Book, Sump) harsh noise/drone project Mutant Ape. Lo-fi sound capturing the essense of the stone walls and inner sanctum of the crypt.

"First full-length album by this Glasgow-based post-goth trio, and one of my absolute favourite At War releases ever! Building on their two-track CDr on Kovorox from a couple of years ago, Vom have come out with a much more attractive proposition than the metal/krautrock hybrid which was going on there; this album is much more focussed, dark and heavy. In fact it's as brooding and dripping with dark atmosphere as anything I've heard released in ages. Like a hybrid of Scream-era Siouxsie And The Banshees, early X-Mal Deustchland and the first Killing Joke LP, with vocals buried deep in the mix and heavily distorted (think Ramleh's early post-PE stage), Vom reference a lot of music yet sound nothing like you've ever heard. Total intensity and they deserve to be huge; hopefully this will be the first step on the jourey. 500 copies, in gatefold mini LP-style sleeves, with art by the excellent Fred Ressler (check him out here:www.outsiderart.co.uk/ressler.htm)" - Label Description

"Questions of alien abductions, astral projection, cross-dimensionality, and the myriad relationships conspiratorial relationships between them all manifest themselves across the span of Wet Dream Asphyxiation's massive new statement "Baser," a brutal and grinding assault that pretty much lays waste to every currently operating sense, leaving nothing but a scalded husk in its wake. Pure torrents of cascading noise obliterate the sonic landscape, melting the space between your ears while they simultaneously attempt to elevate you to a position beyond your physical being. This is some seriously transcendental shit, as concerned with altered-conscious passage as it is with running you into the ground. Totally psychedelic in the best possibly way, this is one of the most assaulting and extreme records Altar Of Waste has put out, recalling the work of masters like Aube and Masonna while firmly blasting away a completely individualized space within the HNW parameters. Utterly insane, next-level compositions. Hymns to the great gods of the frigid electric. You are not really here anymore. Presented in a DVD case package in a limited edition of 20 hand-numbered copies". - Label Description

Experimental PE from member of Ride For Revenge. Finnish excellence.

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

" Always Wrong is a mantra of severity. Wolf Eyes has been scouring audiences across the globe with their acid drenched industrial noise and dub terror psychedelia, establishing themselves as the trailblazers of a genre and pioneers of the long-form noise tour. coming forth from the piles of tape loops and effects the bulk of tables reeling with electronics have been shed. This clarity never sacrifices intensity as paradoxically this is the most organic of the full lengths but also the harshest and most dissonant. Immediately it is clear that Wolf Eyes have crafted a statement with maturity that stands at the top of their mysterious discography. Always Wrong is a denial against conformity and the triumph of walking a path alone. Young, Olson, Connelly". - Label Description

"Previously known as Pussygutt, the duo of blackened psychedelic dronemetallers from Boise, Idaho changed their name to the much more ominous sounding Wolvserpent in 2010. The name is the really the only thing that changed, as the occult hypno-doom and grim, folk-stained nightmares that populated their previous albums are all intact here. This double disc from Crucial Blast collects both the Gathering Strengths Lp (Olde English Spelling Bee) and Blood Seed Lp (20 Buck Spin), both of which were previously available only on limited edition vinyl. The material has been remastered for this format, and comes in an eight-panel digipack that features both the original album artwork as well as new imagery that further compliments Wolvserpent's avant-garde witch-sludge..." - Label Description

"Massive sludge drift masquerading in the guise of rock recidivism, with glacial riffs recalling Sabbath at their most plodding and the Melvins at their most astral. The electric guitar takes up a position of idolatry, with all notions of structure and song given over to pure adulation of feedback and amplifier vomit. The formula references Bower and Buzzo in equanimity, with psychedelic swirls of screaming squall collapsing under the shriek of theremin and the primacy of drumming as physical expression. Yog-Sothoth are one of Minneapolis' best kept secrets, a project that builds monuments to excess and worships before the shrine of overindulgence. Reveling in simplicity, the band here lumbers through six tracks of shambling doom kosmiche, taking riffs to their obvious extremities and then dumping sky-melting guitar solos over the entire mess. Altar Of Waste is beyond pleased to give this unsung piece of basement psychedelia the release it deserves, having existed as a whisper in the Minneapolis dark for far too long. Packaged in a DVD case designed and constructed by Cory Strand, in a limited edition of 50 hand-numbered copies". - 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

"Sexual Infinity stands refreshingly organized into six escalating pieces of her signature guitar, voice, and electronic moodscapes entrancing the listener with sinister seduction. comparisons to early ‘80s power electronics and industrial acts as Uncommunity, Mauthausen Orchestra and Ramleh reside in the underbelly of Zaimphs ability to generate ominous, gritty, and doom laden atmosphere cloaked in a thick lush drone. what begins with raw ethereal guitar shadows of longing delight closes with vital gripping electronic tension." - Label Description

"New collection of long out-of-print demos from the French master of bedroom black metal, ZBT! This is totally raw stuff, utterly devoid of production values and often, song structure. This disc comprises some of ZBT's more considered, "musical" demos, from the repetitive dirge of "Primitive Era", the unrestrained wail and incoherence of "Apocalypse" to the thrash-esque precise riffing of "El Borak". While this is often a difficult listen, the riffs are fucking great - opener "In Your Grave" is total Vulcano/Sarcofago-style South American-influenced filth - and the underground attitude and amateurish sound contributes to the true black metal atmosphere that so may lack these days. ZBT is obviously influenced by Les Legiones Noires, with jarring tremolo guitar, off-kilter production and is as mysterious and just plain weird as those bands were. For fans of bedroom BM like Striborg or cult LLN such as Mutiilation, Belketre etc. Classic B&W art in tribute to the old masters! This is a full CD, NOT CDr". - Label Description

"Excellent, operatic take on neo-tribalism that makes a provocative statement, melding grindcore, folk and contemporary zeuhl sounds to convey a theme of societal collapse into a primal state of simplicity." - ACRN