New Zealand's Black Boned Angel return with their fourth full length release. Sharing a similarly bleak ground to Corrupted, Sunn 0))) and Earth, this is perhaps their most sombre and fully-realised work to date. The Battle of Verdun was fought between the German and French armies, and was one of the critical battles on the Western Front during World War I. It resulted in more than a quarter of a million battlefield deaths and at least half a million wounded. Verdun was the longest battle and one of the most devastating in World War I and indeed in history. Over the course of 50 minutes, BBA soundtrack that brutal conflict with their trademark dark ambient drones and doom-laden riffs. Ltd x 500 copies on black vinyl.
UK 13.00£
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BLACK SUN / THEY ARE COWARDS - 'Code Black / First And Only' 7" (At War With False Noise)
Black Sun take the first side with a surprisingly short, fast and loud number. Still as heavy as previous At War LP "Paralyser" but much more in the short, fast and loud vein. This one's been a set-closer for a while now and is a total rager, will hopefully be a nice surprise to a lot of you! This is the first release by Manchester-based doom-sludgers They Are Cowards and it's a beast. Totally focused, grim northern waste-inspired misery, building from a massive Celtic Frost-esque riff. A totally brilliant pairing of northern negativity! Ltd x 300 copies on heavyweight black vinyl in a gatefold sleeve.
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CORRUPTED - 'Paso Inferior' CD (Nostalgia Blackrain)
"Japanese underground icons Corrupted create droning, sludgy, painfully slow death / doom metal and ambient music along the same lines as bands like Earth, Boris, and Sunn O))). Formed in Osaka, Japan, circa 1994, the reclusive group has issued an inordinate number of singles, EPs, split discs, and full-length albums over the years, but always under their own idiosyncratic terms. These include holding anything remotely resembling rock stardom in utter contempt, mysteriously writing all of their lyrics in Spanish, and refusing to even take promo shots, so that the only known images of the group are those snapped by fans at their concerts" (All Music Guide). Originally released in 1997 on CD by Frigidity Discos, this 1-track, 40 minute CD has now been remastered. Ultra heavy, ultra recommended!
UK 11£
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GNAW THEIR TONGUES - 'L'Arrivee De La Terne Mort Triomphante - Black' LP (Burning World Records)
Gnaw Their Tongues transcend genres, creating their own distinct sound. Descriptors include ambient black metal, funeral doom metal, industrial drone etc. Instrumentation relies heavily on keyboards and percussion, with the drumming looming in the distance like a hideous parade before a battle is set loose. Monk-like choirs, industrial emanations, bizarre samples, occasional shrieks and droning, abused guitars are all on display, brought together almost unwillingly to share the same stage. Lyrically, L’Arrivee de la Terne Mort Triomphante is a concept album about death (“morte”). Songs describe the white throne of death, address the song of death and praise death’s majesty and grandeur. For many listeners, "L’Arrivee de la Terne Mort Triomphante" will be little more than noise or frustratingly dull drone. However, fans of the outré of the genre, where bands such as Sunn O))) and Throbbing Gristle practice their art, will find much to uncover and savour. Under the anger and fear there is joy, sadness, selfishness, and self-discovery. All you have to do is let these find you. Ltd x 750 copies on black vinyl in a deluxe gatefold sleeve.
GNAW THEIR TONGUES - 'L'Arrivée De La Terne Mort Triomphante' CD (Crucial Blast)
Gnaw Their Tongues transcend genres, creating their own distinct sound. Descriptors include ambient black metal, funeral doom metal, industrial drone etc. Instrumentation relies heavily on keyboards and percussion, with the drumming looming in the distance like a hideous parade before a battle is set loose. Monk-like choirs, industrial emanations, bizarre samples, occasional shrieks and droning, abused guitars are all on display, brought together almost unwillingly to share the same stage. Lyrically, L’Arrivee de la Terne Mort Triomphante is a concept album about death (“morte”). Songs describe the white throne of death, address the song of death and praise death’s majesty and grandeur. For many listeners, "L’Arrivee de la Terne Mort Triomphante" will be little more than noise or frustratingly dull drone. However, fans of the outré of the genre, where bands such as Sunn O))) and Throbbing Gristle practice their art, will find much to uncover and savour. Under the anger and fear there is joy, sadness, selfishness, and self-discovery. All you have to do is let these find you. Hardback digifile.
HOLLOW SUNSHINE / THE AUSTRASIAN GOAT - 'Wherever I Am' 12" (Vendetta Records)
Two solo dirging monsters team up - US Doom Vs. French Blackened Doom Metal. On the a-side, Hollow Sunshine delivers a pummeling, industrial sewer while The Austrasian Goat goes rather eclectic. The b-side features a wild blackened shoegaze meets industrial psych piece by way of a collaboration between the two. Ltd x 300 hand-numbered copies in a silk-screened cover.
UK 12.00£
Europe 15.50£
World 19.00£
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HREFNESHOLT - 'Uraungst' CD (Percht)
Going back to far away times, Hrefnesholt digs out long forgotten, ancient tales amongst the myths of the Upper Austrian forests. These legends of sinister and primal fears were too terrible to be retold and people wanted to forget them over the centuries. Now these ancient tales are finally being retold in "Uraungst". A mixture of dark, organic Ambient, Folk, a slight Black Metal touch and spoken/sung lyrics and tales in Austrian dialect. Hrefneshold is pure Doom Folk and incomparable with any other music style. Outsize sleeve.
Kaula's debut is the vision of one Pietro Riparbelli (K11), an Italian artist who not only composed and recorded the whole thing, but also designed its cryptic booklet and contributed with organs, medianic chants, field recordings and radio signals. Kaula is a whole different beast to K11. What could be seen at first glance at some kind of weird black-metal outburst - including rasping vocals courtesy of Rosy from old-school death-metal warriors Profanal and buzzsaw guitars - soon makes sure all rules go out the window by using various metal (doom, thrash) and non-metal (noise industrial) elements and create a sonic black hole. All lyrics are based here on ancient text called ‘Avadhuta Gita’, said to have been originally written in the IXth century. As a result, all seven tracks have been named after it and are basically about attaining a spiritual state “equivalent to the existence of god”. Mastered by Mell Dettmer (SunnO))), Earth). Digipak with silver foilblock print.
UK 11£
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SKITLIV - 'Amfetamin' CD (Cold Spring CSR90CD)
Exclusive release from the Doom / Noise project of Maniac (ex-MAYHEM), featuring Kvarforth (SHINING), and with special guest vocals by Attila (SUNN O))), MAYHEM). From Black Metal through Funeral Doom and Demonic Noise, Skitliv cover all the bases in modern extreme sonics. The CD version includes bonus tracks from Skitliv's live performance at the Camden Underworld, London, 13th December 2007, with a special intro from CURRENT 93 (David Tibet & Andrew Liles).
"Songs of Remorse" is the debut album from Italy's Stroszek, who play dark melancholic doom / emotional acoustic music. Stroszek comes from the Werner Herzog film of the same name and is the perfect moniker for a band with such a gloomy atmosphere. While the band contains members of Black Metal act Frostmoon Eclipse, this should be looked upon as a separate entity and not just a 'side project'. Carefully strummed minor key acoustic guitar...deliberate yet restrained piano lines...bursts of heaviness added for texture...and deep, lush clean sung vocals that relay a sense of dread lurking beneath the surface. Digipak.
THE HUMAN QUENA ORCHESTRA - 'The Politics Of The Irredeemable' CD (Crucial Blast)
This second monstrous disc from THQO is equal parts blackened glacial industrial, nightmarishly dosed drone music, and punishing slow-motion mecha-sludge. Imagine a cross between Corrupted and Sunroof. "...exquisitely epic (and obliterating) sonic journey through landscapes of burnt out Black Metal, and onwards trudgefully past a Burke Shelley rehearsal and fallen statues of the Doom God Dubin, through a Wodenist environment wherein tortured vocalists serenade crows and tree-impaled musicians set off Nadja samples to long-rotting corpses" (Julian Cope). Comes in a hardback, gatefold digifile.
UK 10.50£
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THE SOUND PROJECTOR - '15th Issue' Magazine
15th edition of this outstanding UK mag. Interviews with Russ Waterhouse, Peter Strickland, Clay Ruby, Mudboy and U. W. Owl. Articles on Carl Michael Von Hausswolff, Sunn O))), 'Vinyl Viands Emanating From America' (US underground Vinyl). Reviews of 'The Nordic Realms' (Finland, Norway, Denmark), 'International Music', the label 'Sublime Frequencies', 'Noises From The US Underground', Black Metal, Doom, Noise, Post Rock, Stoner Rock, Environment And Field Recordings, Art / Modernist, Minimalism, Improv, Tape Manipulation / Turntablism, Freak / Weird, Electronica, Drone, Singer / Songwriter, experimental Guitar music, plus a general reviews section. A4, perfect-bound B&W with full colour cover, 148 pp.
UK 8£
Europe 11£
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VIR' - 'Horna CD (Mosquito Recs.)
The second full-length album from this Russian act. "Horna" was inspired by the Finnish-Karelian folk-epos “The Kalevala”. Part dirge ambient-drone atmospherics, part noisy black-doom horror, the album's five epic compositions sucked inspiration from Lustmord, Skullflower, Earth, SunnO))), Khanate, Nadja, Jesu, and belched them out into breathtakingly emotional, bass generated audio nightmares, with signs of melodic and rhythmic organisation. An avalanche of dark apocalyptic images hovering over countless layers of sound and distorted sporadic vocals.
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WELTER IN THY BLOOD - 'Through The Fields Of Mourning' CD (Shadowgraph Records)
Welter In Thy Blood is a three piece Black Funeral Doom band emerging from Los Angeles in 2007 with the intent of giving a soundtrack to human extinction. The elegies of Welter In Thy Blood speak of their virulent hate of human existence and the lauding of death and solitude. Revealed through a staggering funeral cadence and guttural ululations is a feeling of absolute torment and despondency. Like a putrid mass for an unholy God. Welter In Thy Blood musically coalesced self mutilation and misanthropy with the urge for voluntary human extinction, coining the term "Suicide is a Virtue". Not for the weak or feeble, this is music for the slightly deranged and the disturbed. Ltd x 1000 copies in a 6-panel digipak with artwork by Kevin Yuen (TenHornedBeast, Sunn O))) etc).
UK 11£
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WICKED KING WICKER - 'Borne Black' CD (WKW)
"Those who worship at the altar of all that is slow and low and heavy and sludgey and doomy and droney, you must now bow before a new lord, the duo from New York known simply as Wicked King Wicker. After three records, each heavier than the last, comes Borne Black, a sprawling black sun explosion of creepy crawly riffage, lumbering lugubrious tempos, tarpit sludge, and spaced out abstract buzz and shimmer, if you fancy Moss, Bunkur, Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, SUNNO))), Wolf Eyes, Khanate, Skullflower, Human Quena Orchestra, Monarch, Corrupted, Otesanek, Habsyll, and all the various other denizens of the inky black dronedirgedoom underworld, and have yet to hear WKW, you are in for a treat. (Aquarius). Ltd x 999 copies.
UK 11£
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WICKED KING WICKER - 'Wicked King Wicker' CD (Noiseville)
This is the debut CD from Wicked King Wicker, one of the most brutal doom drone bands out there today. "A serious new contender for sure in the ever expanding world of crushing slow motion ultra doom-dirge-dronemusick. Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, SUNN O))), Skullflower, Khanate, Wolf Eyes, Bunkur, etc. Any of those names get your blood boiling, then WKW just might be your favorite new band.... pounding abstract percussion, all draped over near static whitenoise buzz, weird krauty grooves, woozy metallic crawls, pulsing metallic ambience, and heavy heavy hypnotic dirgedoomdronemusick" (Aquarius). Ltd x 1000.
