Aethyr rises again with a punishing slab of blackened industrial doom, with a generous helping of samples from occultist Aleister Crowley. "Messio" is an all-new album but it continues the cryptic and menacing atmosphere of the debut "Mass" EP utilising the leaden riffage of sub-tuned bass guitar, layers of harsh textured distortion and electronic ambience, discordant guitar soloing and synth stabs, indecipherable ennui-laden voices and steady slow-motion martial percussion. The duo's apocalyptic epiphanies of future times are dark and cold borrowing equally from erratic aesthetic of industrial music and the most extreme forms of black and doom metal. File next to Earth, Corrupted, Einstürzende Neubauten, Melvins and Skullflower. Presented in a black hand-assembled cardboard folder with silver metallic printing and inlay.
UK 11£
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CULVER / SEPPUKU - 'Dedicated To Soledad Miranda' CD (At War With False Noise)
First time on CD for both these bands: Culver is the awe-inspiring drone / noise project of Lee Stokoe (Marzuraan, Skullflower). Here he gives us a 30 min+ deluge of harrowing, bassy drone, purveying 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. Seppuku give two tracks in very different styles... the first is an unbearably heavy doom piece, giving way to some Throbbing Gristle-esque hydraulic pumping before the guitars kick in and everything is laid to waste... heavy duty! The second track 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. Ltd x 500 copies.
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HARVESTMAN - 'In A Dark Tongue - Black' 2 x LP (Burning World Records)
Sumptuous double vinyl treatment of this 2009 album (Neurot Recordings). Harvestman is the brainchild of Neurosis vocalist / guitarist Steve Von Till, who considers "In A Dark Tongue" a venture into an imagined past. The album is inspired by Hawkwind, Fairport Convention, Tangerine Dream, Pentangle, Steeleye Span, Skullflower, Caspar Brotzman and Loop, among others. It is a massive meeting point of styles and influences, all of which boil down to a surreal and inspired sound. The first Harvestman record, "A Grave Is A Grim Horse", was a dizzying confluence of delicate 70s British style folk, shimmery spaced out drift and glacial doom-drone sprawl, a constantly evolving, organic song suite that seemed to exist in some glorious blissed out druggy spacefolk otherworld. On "In A Dark Tongue", the glimmering strands of traditional folk music that had tethered the first record become even more tenuous. Black vinyl in a deluxe gatefold sleeve.
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HARVESTMAN - 'In A Dark Tongue - Gold' 2 x LP (Burning World Records)
Sumptuous double vinyl treatment of this 2009 album (Neurot Recordings). Harvestman is the brainchild of Neurosis vocalist / guitarist Steve Von Till, who considers "In A Dark Tongue" a venture into an imagined past. The album is inspired by Hawkwind, Fairport Convention, Tangerine Dream, Pentangle, Steeleye Span, Skullflower, Caspar Brotzman and Loop, among others. It is a massive meeting point of styles and influences, all of which boil down to a surreal and inspired sound. The first Harvestman record, "A Grave Is A Grim Horse", was a dizzying confluence of delicate 70s British style folk, shimmery spaced out drift and glacial doom-drone sprawl, a constantly evolving, organic song suite that seemed to exist in some glorious blissed out druggy spacefolk otherworld. On "In A Dark Tongue", the glimmering strands of traditional folk music that had tethered the first record become even more tenuous. Gold vinyl in a deluxe gatefold sleeve. FEW COPIES IN STOCK - ACT FAST!!
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MERZBOW - 'Puroland' CD (OHM Records)
This disc from the Japanese master builds after many minutes into noise, but this is structured, rhythmic, surging blasts of localised power. Reminds of old Skullflower, Holland Skin Tunnel, a loud Nurse With Wound. This is because it feels so instrumental, almost as if a guitar or two are involved in this. From there we return to Akita's early style where the walls of noise were not so loud and thick. There are very obvious variations and mechanical changes within the piece, creating patterns and moods. Digipak.
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RAMLEH - 'Switch Hitter / The Machines Of Infinite Joy' 10" (Black Rose Recordings / Broken Flag)
The first new material from the legendary Ramleh since 1998 and it doesn't disappoint. Powerful droning intensity, motorik rhythms and warped guitar riffs dominate these two songs with one containing Ramleh's distinctive distorted vocals weaving in and out of this inventive chemistry. "Switch Hitter" could almost be described as a full on dissonant rock track, but Ramleh's desire for experimentation and improvisation lifts it way above the general rock mindset. Ramleh have not lost any of their energy, excitement and ability to explore all possibilities. A very welcome return for Anthony Di Franco (Novatron, ex-Skullflower), Gary Mundy (Toll, ex-Skullflower). Presented in a j-card sleeve. Ltd x 500 copies. ACT FAST!
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ROCK-A-ROLLA Issue #13 Magazine
The 13th edition of UK bi-monthly magazine Rock-A-Rolla features fantastic interviews with stoner doom artists Earth, drone ambient masters Stars Of The Lid, guitar drone heroes Skullflower, Burial Hex and Atlas Sound. All this, plus a special on "Classic Label" Important Records. We're also treated to the usual vast selection of news, music, DVD and live reviews from the avant-rock, metal, noise and experimental scenes. Highly recommended!
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SKULLFLOWER - 'Carved Into Roses / Infinityland / Singles' 3 x CD (VHF Records)
Reissue of two classic Skullflower albums onto CD, with a third disc collecting four 7" singles: 'White Fang #2', 'Choady Foster', 'The Art Of', and 'Village Sorting'. Recorded together and originally conceived as a double CD back in 1995, "Carved Into Roses" and "Infinityland" find the band making a transition from the heavy riffs of their early days to a more free-form sound that continues to this day to drive leader Matthew Bower's many guises (Skullflower, Sunroof!, Hototogisu etc). Sporting a revamped lineup of Bower, Stuart Dennison, Russell Smith, and Phillip Best, the band whacks away at both styles simultaneously, with lumbering hooks meeting rainbows of coruscating feedback. The 'Singles' disc collects both sides (over 50 minutes) of the EPs that were released around the same time and made largely by the same lineup. Released in a luxury tri-fold heavy art paper folio printed by Stumptown Printers with obi strip. Recommended!
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SKULLFLOWER - 'Fucked On A Pile Of Corpses' CD (Cold Spring CSR151CD)
The most remorseless, brutal Skullflower ever! Alternating between granular lo-fi primitive rock and granular lo-fi primitive Power Electronics, this taut disc is a chain mail glove of hate to any lazy minds who've tainted the air with describing Skullflower as 'psychedelic'. But that's not to say this is an all out total assault. There are also moments of tender acoustic balladry, its just that they don't exist. The remorseless brutal sound is primitive, but as detailed and rich as a blood soaked medieval canvas, somewhere betwixt The Rita and Clandestine Blaze, but more brutal! Long live the New Flesh! Kether is in Malkuth, Malkuth is in Kether, but in a different way...
SKULLFLOWER - 'Fucked On A Pile Of Corpses' T-Shirt - 2XL Size (Cold Spring CSR155TS)
Highest quality shirt featuring the cover design of Skullflower's most remorseless and brutal release ever! In your face red shirt with black and white print.
Please note that we do not accept returns on items of clothing! We are happy to provide chest measurements on request.
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SKULLFLOWER - 'Fucked On A Pile Of Corpses' T-Shirt - Extra Large Size (Cold Spring CSR155TS)
Highest quality shirt featuring the cover design of Skullflower's most remorseless and brutal release ever! In your face red shirt with black and white print.
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SKULLFLOWER - 'Fucked On A Pile Of Corpses' T-Shirt - Large Size (Cold Spring CSR155TS)
Highest quality shirt featuring the cover design of Skullflower's most remorseless and brutal release ever! In your face red shirt with black and white print.
Please note that we do not accept returns on items of clothing! We are happy to provide chest measurements on request.
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SKULLFLOWER - 'Fucked On A Pile Of Corpses' T-Shirt - Medium Size (Cold Spring CSR155TS)
Highest quality shirt featuring the cover design of Skullflower's most remorseless and brutal release ever! In your face red shirt with black and white print.
Please note that we do not accept returns on items of clothing! We are happy to provide chest measurements on request.
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SKULLFLOWER - 'Fucked On A Pile Of Corpses' T-Shirt - Small Size (Cold Spring CSR155TS)
Highest quality shirt featuring the cover design of Skullflower's most remorseless and brutal release ever! In your face red shirt with black and white print.
Please note that we do not accept returns on items of clothing! We are happy to provide chest measurements on request.
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SKULLFLOWER - 'Malediction' CD (Second Layer Records)
Brilliant 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 digipak with artwork by Matthew Bower. Limited to 1000 copies.
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SKULLFLOWER - 'Orange Canyon Mind' CD (Crucial Blast)
The 2005 full length from the legendary UK free / drone / psych outfit, featuring some of the most searing, synapse scorching droneworks that Matthew Bower (Sunroof!, Total, Hototogisu) has unleashed to date. "Orange Canyon Mind" is the follow up to 2002's awesome "Exquisite Fucking Boredom" (Tumult), and continues that album's 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.
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 Matthew 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.
SKULLFLOWER / WHITE MEDAL - 'Skullflower / White Medal' 7" (Turgid Animal / Legion Blotan)
Split release. One track each by Matthew Bowers' Skullflower and George Proctor's black metal project White Medal. Skullflower deliver "Great Hunter", a viscous Industrial track enveloped in a wall of roaring feedback. White Medal's "On't Borough" is a grimy, lo-fi BM affair with a tormented hardcore feel. Ltd x 400 copies.
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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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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.
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WICKED KING WICKER - 'Outer Bounds Of Sound' LP (Noiseville)
For their contribution to the "Outer Bounds Of Sound" series, the black noise doomers WKW went more for out there noise for this album. Still dark as hell, this album sounds more like the after effect of trying hard to be sullen in a world that is just so peachy-keen. Brutal wall of noise doom, just in time for Armageddon! Like Blue Sabbath Black Cheer? Old Skullflower? You'll dig WKW. 300 copies made with a mylar silver 'WKW' on the front of the cover. "Outer Bounds Of Sound" is an experimental LP series from Noiseville. Each release is pressed in an edition of just 300 copies with a hand-made cover. US import.
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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.
