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DARK BUDDHA RISING - RITUAL IX (Post-RBMM) 17 € Dark Buddha Rising - Entheomorphosis DLP (Post-RBMM) 17 € Orthodox - Matse Avatar 7" (Doomentia) 6 € Dishammer - Under the sign of the D-beat Mark 12" (Parasitic) 15 € Loss - Life without hope, death without reason 10" (Parasitic) 12 € Panopticon - Collapse DLP (Flenser) 17 € Fall of the Bastards - Dusk of an Ancient Age LP (Kreation) 17 € BONGZILLA - methods for attaining extreme altitudes (Modus Operandi) 17 € Wormphlegm - Demo LP (Rusty Crowbar) 15 € Ghast - May The Curse Bind LP (Flenser) 16 € Escritas do Subsolo FANZINE - Issue 3 () 4 € BLACK FREIGHTER - graves and monuments LP (Vendetta) 11 € NETJAJEV S.S./JOHNNY COHEN - split 7" (No fucking labels) 6 € Heathendom - st LP (Pariah Child) 15 € V.A. - Realtity Part 4 LP (Deep Six) 10,50 € Oresund Space Collective - Dead Man In Space LP (Pariah Child) 17 €
Coming soon:
CEMENTERIO - st LP (Disundead, Boue + more)Sloth / Baygon Vert - Split 12" (self)Pollution - @SMUT (self)
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LP
Caskets Open - But You Rule! LP (Streaksrecords) 12 € »
But You Rule! Doom Album of the year? Discussable, ok. At least it is the freshest injection to the genre for a long time. Still this has roots goddamn!
Helsinkis Caskets Open develop further the amazing demo and distill their own distinctive blend of cold, extremely violent but still subtle warm sound on this debut LP.
Razorsharp edges in sound and morbid, social aware lyrics. A clichéless mix of drunken, anti-clerical and sleazy DoomPunk, imagine Joy Division fucking roughly with St.Vitus in a dark night on a graveyard.
A superb monilithic gatefold on 350g cardboard rounds this up. The vinyl mastering at the the Exchange Studios UK secured the transformation of the necrophiliac sound to vinyl.
Each copy has a poster of a FEMALE SPAWN OF THE DEVIL WEARING KINKY LEATHER STUFF! 658 copies in all, handnumbered 205 copies of them on limited colored vinyl!
Check the teaser MP3
12 Euro a copy!
Seems like Marseille is the real Neuschwabenland. Out now is the s/t vinyl rerelease of the first Ufo Gestapo CD that came back in the days on Calculon Records.
This first part of the trilogy has more of the cosmic Korg-synths but still extra desperate vocals and violent as a horde of angry aliens devastating your flat. Again the music dwells between Doom and Hardcore, gloomy slow parts alternate with short outbursts of fast HC-Parts.
This was of course worth a vinyl edition and comes with a great silkscreened real LP 350g cardboard jacket, completely new artwork. There is a limited version of 125 copies in acidic nicotine ellow vinyl and an inlay matching the vinyl. The rest of this 359 copies press comes in black vinyl and b/w inlay.
Check one Song:
Mercy's Hole
12 Euro a copy!
4 Copies left
Thick 350g cardboard gatefold, 4 colored inlay.
last handfull transparent vinyl left.
Autopsy-esk, filthy and gloomy Doom/Sludge with a weaving drum work. Mental Funeral Doom from Dublin.
übergreat gatefold LP with art by Glyn Smith. www.scrawled.co.uk
limited to 548 copies, 150 handnumbered clear vinyl.
Blood ist Liebe !!!
Soundsample of "Stop the Black Coffins":
Stop the black coffins Snippet
12 Euro a copy!
WIFAGENA::
8 songs and every single one a gigantic monster who seems to grow constantly on the way by the tides of the Death/ Black Metal, Sludge/ Doom/ Drone and Hardrock.
It shakes your teeth on edge, your stomach and surrounding innards look distraught in view of this mighty roller that threatens to wear down everything. The mood tips ! Quiet tones, acoustic guitars with minimalist support of the percussion and the one or other discreetly arranged sample, weave a sound carpet which invites you to stay and relax. But only for a short time and the monster is back - inexorably, immensely and, demanding! Who feels fine in the (Death) Metal of the 90th, knows about Sludge/ Doom/ Drone and didn..t forget about the old from the 70th gets one..s money..s worth. This 1st album of BLROW is a must- have and guaranteed ground breaking.
Comparisons to other great bands can be renounced confidently. The protagonists themselves know about their job. They neather follow any trend nor need to prove anything to themselves. Furthermore the still play in bands like WOJCZECH, IDIOT SAVANT and WHOS MY SAVIOUR.
mastered in march 2009 by Mell Dettmer, Seattle/ USofA (SUNN O))), BORIS, Kinski…)
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/badluckrideonwheels
Vendetta:
black freighter's sound is dirty ; downtuned guitars , lots of feedback ; brutal and aggressive vocals ; you can hear influences from eye hate god to godflesh to coalesce and his hero is gone ; a perfect mix of sludge / industrial / hardcore
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/blackfreighterdoom
PerKoro:
BLACKWAVES is an instrumental band from Bielefeld/Münster (feature ex-members of KINETIC CRASH COOPERATION, JUNES TRAGIC DRIVE, LOVESONG COMPANY, CHEERLEADERS OF THE APOCALYPSE) and playing epic instrumental with massive riffs and driving rhythms, crushing, hypnotic soundscapes as well as an exploration into psychoactive prog-rock in the brotherhood of bands like CULT OF LUNA, NEUROSIS or even TORCHE. "0130" contains 6 tracks of devastating power and emotion that will destroy you with its beautiful, black heaviness. This release comes with a different artwork in a full-color 350gr thick coversleeve and an inlay. BLACKWAVES will soon be a name that will not be forgotten!
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/blckws
Restock of 1 copy in ziplock bag.
limited repress!
somewhere:
First vinyl pressing ever for this 1995 cd-only EP. Re-mastered sound combined with a brand new artwork designed for a gatefold sleeve specially by cult japanese phographer Kyotaka Tsurisaki!!! And to top it off, the record comes with a fold-out poster! This is one of Corrupted's first recordings, being one of the world's seminal Sludge bands / recordings. No need to introduce them anymore I guess... Those who want to freak out will be able to play Corrupted at their SLOWEST ever reducing the turntable speed at 33 rpm... haha. A cult release by a cult band on a tiny homemade label...
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all that is heavy:
Hailed by many as the best Finnish sludge/doom album of 2008, this is the debut work of Dark Buddha Rising. Two heavy slabs of black vinyl, the other presenting the heavy psychedelic doom side of the band and the other going deeper into esoteric droney expression.
Myspace:
http://www.lastfm.de/music/Dark+Buddha+Rising
Restock!
www.lowcut.dk:
Dark Budda Rising is a new psychedelic DOOM band from Finland and one of the coolest bands that I discovered in 2009. I also have their first double LP called Ritual IX, which features one LP with two totally amazing DOOM, psych, Kraut rock tracks and the 2nd LP of strange drone dark drone music.
Anyway, this is also a double vinyl made in 500 copies with cool artwork and thick vinyl. Again, the band takes you out on album side dark psychedelic trips unlike any other band that I can think of. They are for sure influenced by the Finnish band, Circle but throw in some of the slower DOOM sounds. What can I say.. Amazing stuff and only released on vinyl. You can hear some of the bands stuff on Last.fm but they don’t even have a myspace page of real web site. Total underground but worth digging up if you like bands that make album long side mind journeys...
http://www.varjotila.org/dbr/
nothing to add to Crucial Blasts words, incredible album !!!
CRUCIAL BLAST:
Killer apocalyptic hardcore from Serbia! This band is pretty wild; they bring together weird occult themes and imagery, their album art full of esoteric sigils, woodcut artwork, and surreal paintings from Jason Barnett, the lyrics exploring themes of anarchism, paganism, and earth magick, while the music is a mix of grim post-punk dirges a la Amebix/Killing Joke, psychedelia, and violent hardcore rituals, and also list Japanese maniacs GISM and cult Swiss metallers Hellhammer as influences. At first, Dazd start things off with a wasted doomed crawl, the opening track all stomping old school doom metal in the vein of Pentagram and Sabbath, heavy bluesy riffing creeping over reverb-drenched drums while screams echo in the distance; but the second track sets the tone for the rest of the album, beginning as a gloomy instrumental hardcore dirge, heavy winding bass and skronky, Ginn-esque guitar matched with droning riffs and spacey synthesizers, eventually starting to sound like a faster, more feral version of Amebix.
From there, the album travels through fast hardcore punk fronted by snarling slobbering screams and delirious chanting, stretches of electronic noise and droning synths and Hawkwindian space fx, pounding metallic sludge, galloping old school metal, D-beat driven thrash, finally arriving at the wailing tribal punk dirge of "Duboko Duboko" where the band digs into another Killing Joke-esque jam with Hammond organs and emotional weeping vocals. Strange and unpredictable occult hardcore bound in amazing surreal imagery - Dazd are highly recommended for fans of brutal left-field HC.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/dazdthecult
Parasitic:
7 unreleased songs (yes, i originally had it listed as 6 songs, i blame the bong) from the same recording session as vintage addiction. Sleazy d-beat hell!
Mastered for vinyl by Dan Randall, came out fucking loud and dirty!
Sleazy artwork to make your girlfriend jealous.
Reverse board jacket, double sided insert, 11x17 poster.
limited pressing of 500.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/dishammer
Interviews: The Stone (SER), The Wizard of Doom (SWE), Decayed (POR), Graveyard (SPA), Vorkuta (HUN), Nekrogoat Heresy/War Flagellation Productions (POR), Undersave (POR), Vulturine (BRA), Deathrow (ITA), Verzivatar (HUN).
Articles: Attila, the Hun; H.P. Lovecraft
Reviews to Vinyls, Tapes and CDs.
http://escritasdosubsolo.blogspot.com
Restock of 1 copy black/white mixed vinyl.
Stonerrock.com:
A unique assault of misanthropic, blackened, melodic doom metal from Portland, OR. Torturous Sabbathesque riffs plod along miserably through melodic doom metal atmosphere and progressive death metal song structures. Some elements are very reminiscent of Soulpreacher and Bongzilla but as a whole Fall of the Bastards is METAL. The dual vocal styles switch between sludge-core screaming and death growls. This shit is very heavy, very complex, very good and not for the timid.
Back in Stock!
Classic Japanese hardcore: brutal, metallic and more than a little unhinged. Most of the lyrics seem to be in English, though you would be hard-put to decipher much more than a few words gleaned from the song titles. Most find this record either completely amazing or completely overrated. Essential listening.
-GEOFF W.
Matze:
Kenne die Originale leider nicht und da die vorherigen Volumes auch nicht, aber das hier macht Geschmack auf mehr. Tim Hecker, erster Remix. Sphärischer Klangteppich, der auf was grosses zusteuter, aber irgendwann dann halt einfach fertig ist. Ambient eben, nie mein Ding, geht aber dennoch gut rein. Dudes you can trust Remix von I won't come back alive startet auch mit waberndem Ambient, bis auf einmal das Schlagzeug einsetzt, einen unbewusst kopfnicken lässt und dann so dermassen die Schraube anzieht um dann in einem extrem tanzbaren (!) EBM track zu münden mit Gitarren, schwer zu beschreiben.... der Track ist der Gewinner der Scheibe! Geil! Das Nadja Remix noch spaciger und längster Song der LP, lässt einen schweben bis, ja bis einen eine krachige Sludge/NoiseRock Wand aus den seligen Träumen reisst und das knallt extrem!
Crucial Blast:
Board Up The House Remixes Vol. 5 is the final installment of the five-volume remix series that has been produced in co-operation between Genghis Tron and five labels (Relapse, Lovepump United, Anticon, Temporary Residence Ltd., and Crucial Blast), and features a myriad number of artists reshaping and reimagining various songs off of Genghis Tron's 2008 album Board Up The House (Relapse Records). Each volume is pressed in a run of 1,000 copies on colored vinyl that ties in with the sleeve art. Board Up The House cover artist, Jon Beasley, has provided each remix album with alternative artwork.
The Crucial Blast entry in the Board Up The House remix series features Tim Hecker (Mille Plateaux, Alien8, Staalplaat, Fat Cat) turning the title track "Board Up The House" into a fuzz-entombed bliss-scape, Aidan Baker/Nadja's fifteen-minute glacial vision of "I Won't Come Back Alive", and another remix of "I Won't Come Back Alive" rendered as a blur of distorted electro by Dudes You Can Trust, which is the solo project of Michael Sochynsky from G-Tron taking a heavy mangle approach. This remix platter is easily the most distortion-laden entry in the series!
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/genghistron
Flenser:
With crushing intensity and ominous fervor the United Kingdom’s Ghast unleash their debut album May the Curse Bind on wax. For those familiar with the British trio, you know to expect nothing but unrelenting monolithic doom encrusted with ashy black metal majesty. On their debut album, Ghast have crafted some of the most sinister and terrifying audio terror around. Furthermore May the Curse Bind’s pressing to wax is indisputably a harbinger of mankind’s ever nearing end. Having formed in 2004 as Souldust, it is unthinkable that in four years the outfit developed such a profoundly mature and cohesive sound, a sound that could result from none other than absolute dedication to misanthropy and grimness. This release is one more step toward eradicating the trendy weaklings plaguing the supreme black arts in these harrowing times. Needless to say, it is absolutely mandatory for anyone who claims dedication to the supreme legacy of Black Metal as well as Doom Metal. May the Curse Bind is pure fucking black doom.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/souldustgrave
Absurd Creature:
A sequel of Italian doom/sludge story, that we all’ve been waiting for. This is a début long play album from Ghost Empire after taking part in “The Stranglers” compilation released by Choking Hazard Records. This is severe monolith sound that slowly runs into each cell of your body. Uncompromisingly strong doom/sludge which’s monolith (with no lack of originality) is carried to absolute. The atmosphere of rage that is not reachable for common sense makes you remember of Fleshpress, Haarp, Corrupted. The album contents 11 minute doom/drone track released only on vinyl version of the album.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/ghostempirerevolution
BadAcid Magazine:
"...a melting pot of free tribal drumming, Hawkwind swirl, Krautrock pulse and Sun Ra scrunge, Gnod are less of a band and more of a cosmic collective.. heavily percussive and bass led, covered in reverb and delayed guitars.. everything working in unison towards a climactic explosion, or shimmering off into the distance.."
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/gnodgnod
Throne:
First vinyl pressing ever!
After the successful vinyl release of Grief's “come to grief” last year (which sold out in a few months), Throne Records is releasing now the other Grief album left unissued on vinyl format to date.
“...And man will become the hunted” was the farewel album from this essential band in the Doom Metal genre, released originally on CD in 2000 by Pessimiser Records.
All the artwork comes from the original Eric's canvas and illustrations.
))))) Limited to 666 copies worldwide, one-time pressing
))))) Gatefold sleeve, printed inside out over the rough side, with black inked paper bags
))))) Quality 180gr. heavy weight vinyl
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/cometogrief
Blinddate:
H.C. Minds from Eugene, Oregon started back in the early 90's by Isamu (Yob) and Mikey (Aldebaran) and sporadically released a couple of records, you should check the great split ep with dot(.) in 2003.
Now H.C. Mind is back with 5 of their slowest but not less apocalyptic DOOM songs. I.e. there is "Eyes Filled with Ashes" in which a 6 minutes lasting minimalistic atmospheric piano intro leads to an as minimalistic but more destroying sound with dual vocals. One break and 12 minutes later you are still paralyzed and wonder why your coffee is already ice-cold. But you don't care because "The Beginning of the End" just started to press your back into the seat.
This vinyl LP is ltd. to a total of 380 copies. As always 120 of them are handnumbered and in white compact vinyl
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/hcminds
Superb mix of Doom and kinda PowerMetal. Sounds weird, but don't be mislead. Great album, hooks en masse and absolutely un-emberassing Metal. only 1 copy left!
band says:
We are proud to release our rare self-titled 2005 demo re-mastered on VINYL. Five long years after the highly acclaimed original release, the time has come to dust your needles and scratch your way into haunted power/doom paths! 41 minutes of haunting and intense music. Incl. newly re-recorded "Haunted Within" merged with "Hell Within" forming an almost 20 minutes concept suite "Haunted In Hell" that could fit in a horror movie soundtrack.
Heathendom" will be a vinyl only release of HEATHENDOM's 2005 demo with an additional song, brought out from Metal on Metal records in cooperation with Danny Angus/PARIAH CHILD.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/heathendom
Featuring members of Philadelphia's LICKGOLDENSKY, JAVELINA's sound embodies the massive, sludgy nature of BUZZOVEN and EYEHATEGOD with the raw hardcore intensity of HIS HERO IS GONE and the straightforward nature of HIGH ON FIRE all wrapped up into one. Vinyl is limited to 500 copies ( handnumbered ) and comes on thick 180gr. wax!
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Tomb:
(..) This is another superb land-mark release by Future-Noise and offers a tantalising taste of what LB's third long-player could sound like. Onwards and upwards and ever progressing, LB are the juggernauts of UK doom. 'Son Of Sorrow' is an absolute fucking corker and really shows off LB's song writing nous. The loss of Paul Catten was initially a huge blow because the man is such a singularly original and mesmerising vocal talent, but this EP shows that LB are greater as a unit and indeed as a concept than any of its constituent parts. Acid-throated doom gypsy Mikey is indeed a worthy replacement. Charge your brandy glass and toast this recorded triumph of true UK punk-doom…all hail the new Blackstar, and long may they reign as the crowned kings of gloom.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/lazarusblackstar
back in!
2 bands, each 1 song on 1 side. Warkorpse plays sludgy doom, Belgian Möse pure sludge. Co-production with La Fée Verte and La Source Records, 500 on colored vinyl.
Möse should be known from their debut 7". Great Split!
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/moserocks
MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL:
No quarter for the Damaged is a beautifully packaged and well-presented record, top to bottom - from the awesome bi-fold insert containing a CD of the LP material to sheer quality fo the music itself. The lyric sheet is adorned with powerful art and a strong presence of thoughtfulness and passion. The art itself shares a similar aesthetic to releases by fellow Cheese-heads PROTESTANT, yet NORTHLESS distinguishes themselves as a separate and dangerous beast on these four songs of sludge, blues, and metal. i hear elements, if just a bit, of newer-era NEUROSIS, the better parts of PELICAN, and even slowed-down MASTADON licks maybe...all while maintaining a solid identity in a popular style. This is a bulldozer! - check it out! (RM)
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/northlessmilwaukee
300 copies made, great LP! RESTOCK!
Gary Hill / Music Street Journ:
It really combines Hawkwind-like elements with modern sounds. We get shades of jam-band music, even jazz and some points earn comparisons to early Pink Floyd. All in all this is a consistent (and fully improvised) recording from one of the greats of modern space rock.
Track by Track Review
High Pilots
This rises gradually up with space keys and guitars weaving the sound and creating a definite Hawkwind like atmosphere. After a time it works out to a more full arrangement and there are jam band elements in the mix, making this feel a bit like the love child of The Grateful Dead and Hawkwind. It intensifies at times and also takes on some definite jazz-like qualities at points as they continue to make their way down this space roadway. Around the eight minute mark the guitar leads us out in a new journey that’s got some more modern rock elements but also feels a lot like very early Hawkwind. It shifts eventually back more towards the earlier sounds and space keys dominate at points. This is quite a tasty piece of music that really hearkens back to early Hawkwind while still maintaining a modern sound. Towards the end they wander into more pure psychedelia for a while.
Space Jazz Jam 2.2
It’s interesting that this actually leads off the second side of the LP because it really feels like it stretches out from the previous cut. It has a more open and purely spacey sound. The Hawkwind leanings are still here, but tempered with elements closer to early Pink Floyd. There is some Traffic in the midst here, too – bringing some hints of jazz –as the title suggests. A cool jazz meets space guitar solo emerges later and takes the cut into some tasty territory. It works through some changes and alterations, but all of them are incremental and organic and this piece glides through space at a modest pace. It also includes a section that feels like a modernization of very early Hawkwind.
Dead Man in Space
This is a sound effects and spoken word section that feels very much like something from Hawkwind.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/oresundspacecollective
will get restocks soon.
Flenser:
Here it is Panopticon’s Masterpiece Collapse on double splattered vinyl in a nice gatefold.
This includes the track with Rob “the Baron” Miller of AMEBIX. A blackened version of the AMEBIX classic “Beginning of the End .” This track in 6 minutes and 40 seconds cements the increasingly apparent relationship between black metal and crust.
Panopticon’s “Collapse” is a great work. Panopticon demonstrates something unique to the time and place within which Panopticon exits. Collapse is an expression of contemporary anxiety in coming to grips with living in a treacherous America. Panopticon deals with real evil not Tolkien. I, Mr. Jonathan Flenser, am truly honored to unleash this record on THIS superior format.
As great lord of record stores, Aquarius records says: [Panopticon is] “an exciting new variant of the ever evolving sound of black metal, one we definitely never expected, but are digging big time. ”
Limited to 500 copies on Beer splatter vinyl!
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/panopticonation
Recommended! Pitchblack and Doomy, no neo-Sludge bullshit here.
Blinddate:
ultra doom. 5 songs of very slow, epic and thick music with freightening dual vocals. this album absolutely thrills and pushes you on the next rack to crush your mangy head. project with members of Aldebaran, Yob, H.C. Minds etc..
R.I.P. !
total mayhem of 33 minutes
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/shadowofthetorturer
great album of both. Thou deliver again very high quality in their appreciated style, Leech with Black Metal that has it own approach too.
Violent and very good mastering on this LP, especially the Thou side slays.
Vendetta:
Another killer release from Vendetta, once again combining two ugly, brutal, slow and heavy bands, this time from the U.s.. Southerners THOU come with thick slugde-core that doesn't fear occasional hymnical moments and quiet interludes before falling again into an abyss of black, hateful slowliness. Virginia-based SALOME instead serve stripped-down stark sludge-doom and prove that it needs no more than drums, a guitar and a vitriol-filled voice to deliver nothing but pure hatred.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/thouband
Great Sampler!
Haymaker, Unruh, Hawgjaw, Lack of Interest...
Blinddate:
Moloch - lighnting strikes twice (Rorschach)
On Pain of Death - troops of doom (Sepultura)
Golden Gorilla - absentee debate (Unbroken)
Aguirre - like weeds (His Hero is Gone)
Loss - the fog (Goatlord)
Thou - well fed fuck (Born Against)
Shadow of the Torturer - judgement of the dead (Pagan Altar)
Hey Colossus - institutionalized (Suicidal Tendencies)
Total mayhem of 43:28 minutes.
brings back the times of the 90s old school compilation like "Left Back, Let Down", Reality Comp. and so much more, reaching from Grind an Powerviolence to Sludge!
Fuck Yoga:
An international compilation featuring extreme hardcore/ grind/ noise bands. All songs are unreleased. Bands featured are:
BURMESE (supreme punishing noise), APARTMENT 213 (cult hateful hardcore), JUDAS (frantic metallic hardcore), BRAIN DEAD (heavy fast/slow hardcore), BUD JUNKEES (scummy stoner trash), SENATA FOX (fast scandi trash), MONSTERS OF POT (melted minds), WADGE (freaky hawaii-themed grindcore), SETE STAR SEPT (bizarre grindcore), WARFAIR? (crusty wargrind), ATENTAT NA SLUH (animalistic noisecore), NIHILIST COMMANDO (harsh noisecore), CRIME DESIRE (uplifting occult hardcore), HATRED SURGE (very aggressive hardcore, shaun/ COLD SWEAT on vocals), IRON LUNG (ultra violent hardcore), POTOP (BIG BLACK/ SWANS medley), MAKUA VALLEY BLAST TEST (mutant hardcore), DE NOVISSIMIS (cathartic sludge/ grind).
The zine has interviews with THE ENDLESS BLOCKADE, APARTMENT 213, BURMESE and SETE STAR SEPT + horror movie talk by Colin M. Tappe (CRIME DESIRE/ LIFE IS A RAPE) and an in-depth analysis of IN A GLASS CAGE. 36 pages, add-free.
limited blue vinyl in stock!
Bad Boy / MAXIMUM ROCKNROLL:
It's an unassailable fact that WASTED TIME wrote the best post-80's hardcore song ("Hostage"), so allow me a quick, if predictable, caveat: there's not a song on this record as good as "Hostage," obviously, because there isn't a song that's been written in the past 20 years that can even scratch it. But forget what I just wrote. Get up, remove your sunglasses, and slam your head into the nearest concrete slab with as much force as you can muster. That comes close to understanding what it's like to listen to this record; it makes the ADOLESCENTS sound like GOOD RIDDANCE, makes MINOR THREAT sound like FUGAZI. This isn't 80's hardcore revival, it's 80's hardcore removal. If you don't buy this, I hope someone invades your home. WASTED TIME is the best hardcore band around.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/wastedtimesucks
Crucial Blast:
The band released this EP as a handmade CD-R that has been sold at shows over the past year, but the songs on Peas Feast are so cool that we wanted to give this a proper vinyl documentation, and have been remastered for vinyl by Scott Hull at Visceral Sound. The record will be pressed on yellow wax with black splatter in an edition of 1,000 copies, and will also come with a digital dropcard that will allow you to download the tracks from the Peas Feast EP as well as a digital-only EP titled Drongolet Demos that has a bunch of unreleased tracks from Wildildlife.
The Peas Feast vinyl features four lengthy songs, starting with the zonked ultraheavy sludge and atonal, barbed wire guitar freakouts of "White Eyelidz" which goes from crushing glacial metal to drunken bassloaded punk rock in the bat of an eye, and then moves on to the pop genius of "Violent". "Violent" is the catchiest song these guys have, starting off slow with plaintive FX-soaked vocals swimming over pulverizing sludge metal riffage - think Harvey Milk but waaaaaay more freaked out and poppy and mutated by unnameable effects boxes....the hook here is so catchy it gives me a toothache, it's like hearing the saddest old alt rock song ever being played by Corrupted, complete with vocal harmonies. But then comes "Shining Son", another amazingly catchy pop song, still heavy but way more upbeat and driving, more noise rock than sludge, with a big burly bass riffs and ecstatic guitars that strafe the sky until the sludge rears it's head again, a massive swampy riff that rises up and flattens everything towards the end. MASSIVE. And then the final song, "My Song", formerly an acoustic song that appeared on Wildildlife's self titled debut 10", another amazing pop gem, but this time damaged and drunken sounding, the pop hook molten and oozing, the vocals a desperate howl, slow and sludgy and creeping but still unbelievably catchy and exuberant as it trails off into an almost Mammatus-like psych rock coda. Although this early material is more immediate and raw than the band's debut album Six, the music is crushing, catchy and totally spaced-out. On Yellow vinyl with black splatter in a run of 1,000 copies.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/wildildlife
The crushing Demo finally on vinyl.
Noble gatefold with new coverart.
now words to waste. political turbo speed violence with hooks and german vocals.
recommended!!!
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/yacopsae
10inch
Bizarre X / Trigger - Split 10" (Wifagena) 11 € »
2 times true drum’n’bass powerviolence from Germany. 6 tracks by BizarreX, the veterans of oldschool powerviolence vs. 9 tracks from the Trigger youthcrew. For fans of SPAZZ, INSECT WARFARE, MITB... gatefold cover with killer artwork by Josh Hartnett, lim. to 500 copies!!!
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/triggertrashcore
Stitchy Press:
Finally after many twists and turns this record is ready to be unleashed, featuring two of Dublin's heaviest bands: Wreck of the Hesperus, filthy-sewer-sludge-stripped-down-raw-doom and De Novissimis, a powerfull wall of dual vocal crust doom with added blast beats. The recordings on this album are exclusive one-off tracks and have already become rare.
This might be one of the heavist Irish records ever released!
7inch
Haare - Aquarian darkness 7" (Hellville) 7 € »
newest 7inch of Haare on the really passionate and dedicated label Hellville.
While only a press run of 100 copies, there is a full color sleeve and overall a nice packaging.
sludge/doom/bongcore, both from Finland.
RESTOCK!
Great new single for both bands, some of the most degenrate on Earth!! Sweden VS. Holland playing angry 77 punk rawk in a way all the punks will kill themselves... this is powerful, aggressive, nasty punk rawk shit... GG ALLIN covers included.
trouble on your system:
This is the split 7" between Kakistocracy and Nux Vomica released sometime last year...a joint effort between To Live a Lie and Humdinger Records. Kakistocracy are an anarcho crust punk outfit from North Carolina who play an aggressive yet melodic style of punk with political lyrics. Their counterparts, Nux Vomica, play a metallic blend of crust originally from Baltimore, Maryland though now based out of Portland, Oregon. Members of Nux Vomica also played in Wake Up on Fire, a sludge/crust outfit from Baltimore. If you'd like, you may check out their S/T 12"...it's a fucking great listen. Both bands contribute 2 tracks to this split.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/nuxvomica2
very noble gatefold 7"
Doomentia:
Try to picture this: a blood red sky upon a desert landscape where few scattered blade of grass somehow survive. In silence, three mysterious men in robes are converging to what?s left of a former little church, now only a shadow of its former self with half of a wall remaining and gathering dust. As the sun sets in the West and the shadows grow bigger, they all quietly gather of the remains of an altar and soon and begin the chanting, whispering words in ancient tongues man has forgotten the real meaning a long time ago, for no one to hear but the ghosts still lingering on in between this world and the other on this god forsaken piece of land. Indeed, Orthodox have arrived and the ceremony has begun.
After two impressive and droning albums - ?Gran Ponder? in 2006 and ?Amanecer en Puerta Oscura? in 2007, both licensed in the US by cult-label Southern Lord ? and the surprising left-turn that was last year?s ?Sentencia?, Orthodox first ever EP on Doomentia sees them once again ditching whatever expectations their fans could have for? Well, something else. If ?Matse Avatar? is a warrior call powered by throbbing bass and circular riffing, evoking both OM and Amon Düll II leading galactic troops on their way to invade planet Earth with a subtle Rush reference thrown in the pot (can you spot it?), its flipside ?YHVH? goes the exact opposite way, an almost contemplative instrumental of delicate beauty in pure Earth-style, like the calm before the storm.
In keeping with both Doomentia and Orthodox tradition, 'Matse Avatar' also comes in a super classy gatefold sleeve printed by metallic colour, with lyrics and pure magical powers engrained on wax. So tell me, can you feel the vibrations of doom?
40 minutes of soulcrushing funeral doom from Finland.
50 tapes made.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/plaguefin
Persistence in Mourning:
first release from total war and terror and feudal throne records. the rigor sardonicous track is titled "I" and if you know the band, you know what to expect. raw, uncompromising, punishing extreme doom. the PiM track is called "neo-pessimism" and was written and recorded around the time of "the undead shall rise". the music from this track was originally going to appear on that LP but it didn't really fit into the context of teh album, so i scrapped the vocals, wrote new lyrics and re-worked the guitars. nice archival piece if you like my work from that time period. artwork handled by my dying bride's aaron stainthorpe, and i am very proud to be working with him again (he supplied the art for "listless acts of attrition" before). joe and myself should have our copies soon. massive thanks to everyone involved.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/persistenceinmourning1
Black/Avantgarde-Metal, limited edition of 500 copies, released for the Black Curse Over Hellsinki II festival.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/sighjapan
Limited Appeal:
The latest Sloth single on Limited Appeal Records.
Hand number in edition of 150 copies. The records a hand stamped and stenciled
The songs on the single are;
Gibberish
PSA
Scared Straight (the Musical)
Spakle Job
More Gibberish
Prelude
Bad Mood
At war with false Noise:
New 7" that I'm incredibly chuffed about! Sharing a split 7" with one of my favourite bands is the highlight of doing all this stuff so far, could only be eclipsed by maybe Maiden letting me go on tour with them, or perhaps Peter Gabriel playing some flute on our next record. Anyway, I digress. Seven short tracks of weirdness from Sloth; creepy, odd atmosphere to these and in a similar vein to the more obtuse approach of recent EPs they've been coming out with. Some great sub-stoner riffs in there and some ridiculously high-pitched screaming going on. Another winner. One long, claustrophobic and ultra-heavy track from Seppuku, not a million miles away from the recent split 7" with Mutant Ape, but more cohesive. Snails-pace riffing, unholy sarcofagous shrieks and sub-bass low-end. All in tribute to one of the most amazing women ever, Lina Romay.
Full-colour thick card sleeves and sturdy PVC wallets. 200 copies, split release with Sloth.
new sloth split 7" with weluvpot. there were 200 black vinyl made.
Sloth vs. Ganja Grind
Wolfsbane:
a collaboration between Unearthly Trance (NY) and Volition (UK). These two heavyweights will team up to pay homage to one of the greatest doom death metal bands ever!! WINTER!!! Unearthly Trance recorded an amazing version of Servants of the Warsmen, and Volition recorded an extremely heavy version of Eternal Frost.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/wolfsbanerecords
Problem Rex::
3 brand new tracks from The Japanese grind masters Unholy Grave, 2 new thrash metal hymns from Black Sister including an Anti-Cimex cover in Gaelic! 500 only
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/problemrecordsuk
Endzeit Elegies:
WORSHIP - "Baumvater"
PERSISTENCE IN MOURNING - "Of Once Living Stone"
A conceptional EP, 2 songs about the primal theme "Wood". Cover by Gustavo Sazes, who also designed the "Dooom" Digipack. Grab it now, before it's sold out.
CD
WICKED KING WICKER - s/t CD (noiseville) 10 € »
Superb album
noiseville:
This is the debut release from NY's WICKED KING WICKER. It is one of the most brutal doom drone metal CDs you will ever hear. The band has been building a following of fans quite rapidly and the metal press is starting to weigh in on where this band is going.
Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/wickedkingwicker