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LULL
- out 3rd December
Ltd Brown 2LP | Ltd Black 2LP | Bandcamp

SHE SPREAD SORROW 'Huntress' CD / Ltd LP
- out NOW!
CD | Ltd LP | Combo Deal | Bandcamp

*THE CIRCULAR RUINS and MYSTIFIED 'Fantastic Journey' CD - out NOW!
CD | Bandcamp

TREPANERINGSRITUALEN 'Veil The World' Ltd LP / CD
- out 22nd October
LP Bone White | CD | Combo Deal | Bandcamp

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AMPLEXUS - 'Necessary Intercourses' CD (Karo Productions) - £11

Amplexus is a raw unforgiving barrage of harsh noise as one might expect from two well-known figures of the noise world (Leo Sabatto of Macronympha / Armenia and a well known noise legend, alongside lots of uncredited collaborators). There is definitely some shared territory with this new era, though the project is fully capable of standing on its own. 8 indecipherable tracks... short shifts of harsh noise blasts disrupted by ear-splitting feedback blend together to form the basis of most of Amplexus' work though something is going on in the background that causes this project to pull away from the competition.

ARMENIA - 'Necropolis' LP (Karo Productions) - £18

Latest full-length of this legendary anti-music project by the Ecuadorian harsh noiser Leonardo Sabatto (Macronympha / Amplexus). As those aware of the sound mania of Armenia can attest, you won't find anything here but noise and more noise, noise and anti-music. Recorded during the pandemic in 2020 and mastered in Switzerland, needless to say, this is a true jewel of misanthropic harsh noise. Armenia has been embedded primarily in the Americanoise scene for many years and active on the international noise mail circuit since back in the '90s. Ltd x 100 copies on 180g gold vinyl in a 350gr heavy sleeve, with A3 poster and insert.

ARMENIA - 'Omnis Anima Malus' CD (Karo Productions) - £11

"Omnis Anima Malus" is the blistering new album from Ecuadorian noise stalwart Armenia (aka Leo Sabatto of Macronympha / Amplexus) recorded March-June 2020 at La Libertad, Guayaquil. Nine tracks of splintered harsh textures, like sheets of tectonic noise plates grating over a rumbling bass magma. Armenia has been embedded primarily in the Americanoise scene for many years and active on the international noise mail circuit since back in the '90s.

BOMB THE DAYNURSERY (BRIGHTER DEATH NOW) - 'Primitive Perversions 1981-83' 4 x LP Boxset (Cold Meat Industry) - £70

"Primitive Perversions" documents the early tape experiments of Roger Karmanik, created under the name Bomb The Daynursery, and others. The project precedes his work with Lille Roger, Brighter Death Now & Cold Meat Industry. The material dates back some 40 years, to the perverted teenhood of 1980, where expressive experimentations, visuals and sounds began. Tape loops, cut-ups, found objects, radio frequencies, vocals - whatever was at hand and could be used as sonic weaponry. We can easily recognise the roots of what became the notorious sound of both Lille Roger and BDN. Sourced from unearthed mouldy cassettes buried underneath layers of well-thumbed seedy adult mags and shredded true crime periodicals. Despite forty years having passed since these electronic ej*culations were caught on tape, "Primitive Perversions" has aged with dignity. This is both a unique historical document of early industrial music as well a reminder of the fact that Karmanik has never compromised or weakened in his anarchic artistic vision, constancy and cruel passion. 37 tracks with a total play time around 2.5hrs. Ltd x 300 copies in a sealed boxset with download code.

FRANCISCO LÓPEZ - 'Animast' LP (Ferns Recordings) - £20

Few albums would be as fitting for vinyl release as this one. Drawing on both analogue material and digital immaterial undisclosed sources, "Animast" plays with the sonic textures and responses most suited for the characteristics of this particular analogue medium: noisy crispness, compositional loopiness, contrasting sharp and thick textures and cycling dynamics. Two side-long tracks (untitled, as always with López), created at 'Mobile Messor' in: Anatananarivo, Dublin, Madrid, Den Haag, Loosduinen, Paris, Valencia, Oslo, Venice, 2018-2019. Ltd x 200 copies.

HIMUKALT - 'Dreaming Of A Dead Girl' LP (Tesco Organisation) - £25

Himukalt was born from the obsession, addiction, and the impure thoughts of American noise artist Ester Kärkkäinen. Her impulse for self-destruction, co-mingles with self-discovery, as she confesses broken tales about sex work, manic-depression, social anxiety, dysphoria and psychic parasites. She swaddles those appropriations from her life and those around her in the aestheticized violence of power electronics and a death industrial negativity, similar to that of Lille Roger, or Atrax Morgue. If facets from Kärkkäinen's earlier albums gave you a glimpse of seeing the world of sex workers, "Dreaming Of A Dead Girl" lets you inside to feel their world. Clandestine, this is a door you close behind you. Through torment and despair, in darkness, a finality dissolves through hope. Metallic fluttering and empty thuds of disregarded heartbeats transmute sounds at times more substantive than the soiled words you are hearing. Yet, in the end, through all the purring, scrambled anxiety, I feel like the defiled have assumed control. Even if just by mentally disconnecting from the physical acts and escaping back, all alone, to a fractured inner psyche "an agony that tore her in two". Ltd x 300 copies with download code.

JOE COLLEY - 'Psychic Stress Soundtracks' 2 x LP (Misanthropic Agenda) - £26

First time vinyl pressing of Joe Colley's Prix Ars Electronica award-winning album, originally released in 2005 on CD (Antifrost). Failure, self-loathing and abject monstrosity continue unabated as the primary themes for Joe Colley's electro-shock minimalism. as with his previous, equally impressive "Desperate Attempts At Beauty", he shifts through a seemingly endless supply of antiquated electric gear and forces these dilapidated machines to grind, crush, whirl and twist under conditions they were not originally designed for. On "Psychic Stress Soundtracks", Colley astutely transcribes the machines' smouldering march to oblivion, granting them the emphatic capacity for pain and the recognition of existential despair. The ozone smell of melting circuity lingers above the nervous Geiger counter clicks and toxic hums of his electric dynamos. Colley is a gifted, if sometimes under-appreciated composer whose successes rely upon the manifestation of the paradox of building something extraordinary out of junk. Mastered for vinyl by Giuseppe Ielasi, packaged in a gatefold jacket with expanded artwork.

JULIEN HÉRAUD - 'Hidden Parasites' CD (Ferns Recordings) - £11.50

The new album from Nantes electroacoustic artist Julien Héraud. "Héraud employs the collage method for his compositions. I can imagine that a more significant portion of his sound sources stems from the world of field recordings and that insect sounds have a strong preference... Maybe using the word 'parasites' in the title guided me to that thought. In his pieces, Héraud likes a certain harshness combined with drones, and a minimal development is part and parcel of the music. I immensely enjoyed his approach towards worn-out paths of ambient, drones, and field recordings. There is room for brittle tones in the configurations cooked up by Héraud, but nothing overtly harsh or strange, and a cruder user of field recordings than most others would do. The element of collage guarantees that this release has an astounding amount of variations to offer. This is a most pleasurable release and a new name to watch out for" (Vital Weekly). Ltd x 100 copies in a digipak.

KONTINENT - 'Stasis' CD (Zoharum) - £11.50

Kontinent is half of Polish Power Electronics duo Kevlar, but Kontinent's solo work is not any less powerful than his mother band. Disbanded in 2019, this is the first ever CD reissue of this seminal album, previously released on tape and vinyl courtesy of Unrest Productions (2017). "Stasis" is Power Electronics in its purest form. If you're a connoisseur of the genre, you know what to expect. 8 tracks of brain welding, crunchy distortions on both high and low frequencies mixed with angry vocals. Demanding and rewarding in its extreme as there is a lot more than "meets the ear". Kontinent seems to capture the essence of negativity - be it fear or anger and channel it in the great walls of noise that flush over your body and mind with cathartic effect. Ltd x 300 copies in a 6-panel digipak.

LINEKRAFT - 'Asura' LP (Tesco Organisation) - £25

"I am the "horse bone", don’t know why I am alive. Not ruin others, but ruin myself. Human will exists inside of himself. It doesn't exist outside". 9th February 1932 (The League of Blood Incident): A young nationalist from the farming village in Ibaraki prefecture shot and killed the former finance minister Junnosuke Inoue. He was heading for Komamoto elementary school in Hongo, Tokyo city, to attend a campaign rally. Then the life expectancy in Japan was 44.8 for men and 46.5 for women. Individual versus individual. Nation versus nation. One ethnic group versus the other. The conflict lead people to the struggle: the world of the Asuras. Not to ruin others, but to ruin himself. The young man reached there to change his inner thoughts through his own death. This incident inspired the central plot of Yukio Mishima's novel "Runaway Horses". This is Japanese industrial harsh noise / Power Electronics from Linekraft (aka Masahiko Okubo of MOTHRA / metal percussionist with GRIM), recording the pure human act. Ltd x 200 hand-numbered copies with two A4 heavy card inserts and download code.

NOTHING HAS CHANGED - 'Hissing Guilt' CD (Zoharum / Old Temple) - £11.50

Nothing Has Changed is a solo project of Michal Kielbasa of industrial metal band Whalesong (FFO Godflesh). Strongly influenced by British electronics, the music here is dark and caustic, heavy in low end mutations of garage / grime / juke / jungle, sometimes even dub. Across 10 compositions we get a very original industrialesque take on broken beats and bass music (Imaginary Forces / Basic Rhythm comes to mind). Going deeper, the album brings even echoes of FSOL with its sultry, dense atmospheres and illbient feel. "Hissing Guilt" is oriented for open-minded and demanding dancefloors. Original, bass heavy, hard hitting, bleak and doom driven. Ltd x 400 copies in a digipak.

OF THE WAND AND THE MOON - 'The Lone Descent' 2 x LP BLACK (Heiðrunar Myrkrunar) - £32

Double black vinyl reissue of this classic OTWATM album. Kim Larsen takes a different road to the previous albums on this 5th full-length - 60's influenced, where the love for Lee Hazlewood and Serge Gainsbourg shines through. Still keeping the dark Neofolk roots, "The Lone Descent" is without doubt the most bleak and melancholic album from Of The Wand & The Moon, and clearly shows Larsen's brilliant talent as a singer/songwriter. Features guests: Lorenzo Woodrose (Baby Woodrose), Aron, Soma Allpass (Mew, Martin Hall), Bo Rande (The William Blakes, Mew, Blue Foundation), John Murphy (Death In June, Knifeladder, SPK), John van der Lieth (Sonne Hagal) and Anne Eltard (Solanaceae, OTWATM). Comes in a very nice spot-varnished foldout cover with inlay and download code. Vinyl pressed with a new vinyl master made by Robert Ferbrache.

OF THE WAND AND THE MOON - 'The Lone Descent' 2 x LP TRI-COLOUR (Heiðrunar Myrkrunar) - £36

Special 'tri-colour' (orange / brown / white) double vinyl reissue of the above release. Ltd x 500 copies in a very nice spot-varnished foldout cover with inlay and download code. Vinyl pressed with a new vinyl master made by Robert Ferbrache.

PHILIPPE D'ARAM - 'La Morte Vivante (The Living Dead Girl) O.S.T.' ETCHED LP (Specific) - £16

Original Soundtrack to Jean Rollin's 1982 horror film La Morte Vivante (The Living Dead Girl). "A girl is resurrected from the dead when two thieves break into a crypt trying to dump some toxic industrial waste. The girl needs blood to survive and kills the thieves and wanders out of the crypt. Her vague memories of her previous life lead her home where she continues to kill in order to feed her blood-lust, but as the film progresses she becomes more and more aware of her humanity and realizes that she is in limbo, and acting like a monster. This is a brutal film where the camera doesn't shy away from the blood and guts". Philippe D'Aram's soundtrack for La Morte Vivante is in a similar vein to his work on Fascination and it feels like a natural extension (which is no bad thing). The score is primarily synthesizer based and features slow moving and eerie drone compositions, melancholic violins and cellos, and one guitar and synth based track. Presented on black as night super limited one-sided laser-etched 180g vinyl.

POSITION BABY DOLL (POSITION PARALLELE + DEUTSCH NEPAL) - 'Position Baby Doll' 12" (Silences Et Gresillements) - £22

A collaboration between Sweden's Deutsch Nepal (aka Lina Baby Doll / Peter Andersson) and France's Position Parallèle (aka Geoffroy Delacroix of Dernière Volonté). 6 sweet, catchy, minimal electro tracks, running the gamut of Pasolini, Fairy Tales and Dead Dogs... Ltd x 300 copies on baby pink vinyl with digital download code.

RAPOON & PACIFIC 231 - 'Palestine' LP + CD (Zoharum) - £25

"Palestine" was the first collaboration between two titans of the industrial and underground music scene: Pierre Jolivet (Pacific 231) and Robin Storey (Rapoon, Zoviet France). Originally released as limited CD in 2007 by Old Europa Cafe and "Dedicated to the struggling Palestinian Nation and to the memory of Bryn Jones 1961-1999". Given that "Palestine" is dedicated to Muslimgauze and Israeli-Palestinian conflict it's easy to predict what you'll find here. Each side of the record presents the artists' take on middle eastern rhythms and sound. Side A is raw. For over 20 minutes Jolivet focuses on subtle processing over hypnotic distorted drum loops. On side B Storey takes us on a long, IDM-ish trip following what seems to be Muezzin call. The accompanying extended CD contains additional 3 rare tracks that were taken from the limited Old Europa Cafe version of the album and Pacific's "el-Arish" business card CD. This album is as important due to the subject it touches as it's true and uncompromising and is still relevant now as it was in the time of its creation. Remastered by Robin Storey. Ltd x 300 copies on 180g transparent red vinyl, with CD in card sleeve.

RIGOR MORTISS - 'Klechdy O.S.T.' MCD (Zoharum) - £11.50

"Klechdy" (Folk Tales) is the soundtrack to a 2018 short and critically acclaimed horror film of the same title. It tells the story of a young African who finds himself in a remote Polish village and the troubles he encounters. The film won Best Horror Short at Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, Gold Movie Awards, Independent Horror Movie Awards, Diabolical Horror Film Festival, Bloodstained Indie Film Festival, Five Continents Film Festival, Queen Palm International Film Festival, Global Shorts, OutlanaCon Short Film Festival, plus many more nominations. The music varies in style and tone: from narrative and suspenseful dark ambient, and sinister synth-laden electronics, to some proper heavy alternative / industrial rock tracks. This soundtrack is an integral part and a proper representation of the horror you see onscreen. The final track features guest vocals from actor CB Mvula. Ltd x 350 copies on golden CD in an outsized square ecopack (16x16cm).

ULESA - 'Ulesa' CD (Zoharum) - £11.50

A short but rewarding album of dark and ritual tribalism from mysterious band Ulesa - an entity of unknown origin who prefers to stay that way. This is a 32-minute ride of rhythmic ambience with strongly reverbed ethereal voices playing the main role. Ritual chantings or echoes of tormented souls crying upon their fate, they set the eerie yet beautiful tone for the record. Drum parts are very hypnotic and trumpet and piano sounds add a cinematic touch making the tracks progress smoothly from one to another. Despite the grim atmosphere and pretty intense tribal drumming the sound design of the album is extremely pleasant and it's hard to pull yourself away from it. A soundtrack for the night... leave Ulesa looped until dawn. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak.

VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Anthology Of Exploratory Music From India' CD (Unexplained Sounds) - £12

A compilation of exploratory music and sound works presenting a comprehensive collection of sonic practices that have emerged from the desire to break away from India's traditional sounds, e.g. classical music and folk tunes, while simultaneously drawing on ideas and inspirations from these lineages and auditory heritages. The fragile but complex connection between tradition and modernity is the crucial point of entry in this body of works contributed by Indian-born sound artists and experimental musicians. Though Sound Art is a Western construct, experiment is something Indian musicians have long been engaged in whilst keeping their traditions alive and transformative. The tension between historical trajectories of sound thinking and the intervention of modernist technologies is negotiated through interpretations and reconfigurations of temporality and spatiality. This spatiotemporal tension uncovers a few questions around (de)coloniality and its shadows on emerging sonic practices in South Asia with new perspectives. Features: Bidisha Das, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Clarence Barlow, Debashis Sinha, Farah Mulla, Hemant Sreekumar, Ish Sherawat, Jessop & Co, Rajesh Mehta, Sandeep Bhagwati, Sukanta Majumdar, Surabhi Saraf, and Varun Desai. Ltd x 200 copies in a digipak.

VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'The Beyond - Music Inspired By The Lucio Fulci Death Trilogy' CD (Eighth Tower Records / Unexplained Sounds) - £13

Lucio Fulci, (b.1927, Rome) remains as controversial in death as he was in life, achieving notoriety for his gore epics of the late '70's / early '80's. In 1979, Fulci's film making career hit a high point, breaking into the international market with "Zombi 2" (1979), an in-name-only sequel to George A. Romero's "Zombi" (1978). With its flamboyant imagery, graphic gore and moody atmospherics, the film established Fulci as a gore director par excellence. Fulci's camera technique, and the decayed splendour of his art design, make the films more than just a gross endurance test. His opus latifundium is the "Trilogy Of Death": "Paura Nella Città Dei Morti Viventi" (City Of The Living Dead, 1980), "L'aldila" (The Beyond, 1981), and "Quella Villa Accanto Al Cimitero" (House By The Cemetery, 1981). Fulci passed away at his home on 13th March 13 1996 at the age of 68. This compilation, dedicated to Fulci's "Trilogy Of Death", a unique and unrepeatable corpus in the history of Italian supernatural cinema, tries to imagine an alternative soundtrack for those movies. The souls of Fulci's movies are evoked by musicians: Nàresh Ran, Mario Lino Stancati, Kloob, Bad Girl, DuoSerpe, Sara Fontana, Progetto No Name - through electroacoustic, dark ambient, concrete music, prog-rock, and drone music. Some have kept in mind lessons of the master Fabio Frizzi, composer of the original soundtracks, while others escaped any attempt to revive that glorious tradition and interpreted Fulci's horror universe in a totally contemporary way. Ltd x 200 copies in a 6-panel digipak.

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BRIGHTER DEATH NOW - 'With Promises Of Death' LP (Cold Meat Industry) - £24

"With Promises Of Death" is a full length studio album from seminal Swedish death industrial legend Brighter Death Now. This was also the inaugural release on Roger Karmanik's new label, Familjegraven, created with the sole intention of producing releases from Brighter Death Now in the wake of Cold Meat Industry's demise. THIS IS NOT OVER! Ltd x 300 copies on blood red vinyl in a debossed sleeve with download card.

SMALL CRUEL PARTY - 'Islands Of Sleep' CD (Ferns Recordings) - £11

Small Cruel Party's work is focused on the inherent mysterious and beautiful quality of sound itself. Manipulation of physical objects in acoustic space and a great deal of concentrated activity. Even in pieces involving dense sound at high volume the resultant effect is one of intense calm. This is a reissue of SCP's 1998 vinyl on G.M.B.H. records. Three longform tracks of acoustic noise. Ltd x 300 copies in an ecopak.

THEOLOGIAN - 'Some Things Have To Be Endured' LP (Crucial Blast) - £18

"Magick. Motherhood. Pain. Suffering. Blood. Tension. Nausea. Desire. Obsession. Addiction. Loathing. Violence. The loss of hope. Unfulfilled dreams. Unhealed wounds. SOME THINGS HAVE TO BE ENDURED". NY's synth-death master Theologian (Leech of Navicon Torture Technologies) offers 8 tracks of punishing black industrial dread, ethereal coldwave beauty, electronic deathscapes, blasts of rumbling blackened synthcrush met with washes of haunting electronic melody, always remaining rooted in an bleak, jet-black industrial sound. A collection of collaborations between Theologian and female vocalists / artists from both within the industrial / noise / dark ambient / coldwave realm: Rachael Kozak (Hecate), Kristen MacArthur (Sewer Goddess), Rachel Maloney (Tonikom), Nikki Telladictorian (Prometheus Burning), Patricia Benitez (Fetish Drone), Gillian Leigh Bowling (Teloahqaal), Christiana Key (Delphic Oracle), Joan Hacker (Factoria), Shari Vari (Void Vision), and opera singer Melissa C. Kelly. Co-produced with Derek Rush (Dream Into Dust), and mastered by James Plotkin, this is some of the most moving and dramatic music to emerge from Theologian's black sonic abyss. Ltd x 500 copies on blood red vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with completely different artwork to the CD version by Gretchen Heinel.