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Fine Art Prints
Utech Records has allied with Circle-9 and Stephen Kasner to offer a set of limited edition fine art prints. Each print will be based on the original cover art Kasner has created for the URSK series. The paintings will be reproduced by Circle-9 as 18"x18" giclee prints on Hahnemuhle 308gsm photo rag paper, limited to a single edition of 35 signed and numbered pieces. The prints will be available from Utech Records, Circle-9 and Stephen Kasner. If interested please contact for availability.
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Utech Records T-shirtaa$17
Justin Bartlett, revered artist and kreator of sublime menace, has graced Utech Records with a new illustration for label shirts. Bartlett's dark genius is unrivaled and this raven piece stands testament in its composition and technique. The illustration is complex and the print work is beautiful. Charcoal ink on black shirt. Sizes L and XL. Please specify when ordering. Limited supply.
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Utech Records T-shirtaa$13
White ink on black shirt. Sizes L and XL. Please specify when ordering.
All respect to Earache Records.
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Stephen Kasner "Works: 1993-2006" Scapegoat, Clothbound Editionaa$41
Works: 1993-2006 is an extensive compendium of the paintings, drawings, photographs and prints of a contemporary artist whose symbols translate into a stellar vocabulary depicting strife of the human animal against the austerity of nature. Covering thirteen years of artistic development and exploration, Stephen Kasner: Works offers a comprehensive collection of Kasner’s organic depictions of figures and animals, birds and flowers, landscapes and interiors, co-mingling in bursts of self-discovery. Dreamlike and vast, these vistas interpret human emotion and psychological struggle in tandem with the harshness of nature and how combinations of delights and disasters affect our personalities, striving toward relief and a yearning for euphoria. Working primarily in oil on canvas and paper, the works compiled in this thirteen year retrospective cover Kasner’s sketches, studies, figurative works, full-scale works, photography and printmaking, the latter of which lies predominantly unexhibited and unpublished to date. Stephen Kasner: Works is a comprehensive look at the paintings and images of ethereal works in flux, ever pulsating and growing. Included are texts and quotes by a stunning array of individuals, both at the forefront and underbelly of literary and art worlds. The book also chronicles Kasner’s extensive group of music-related art, having collaborated with numerous bands worldwide, interpreting their sounds into images. Foreword by Dwid Hellion. Introduction by Douglas Max Utter. 160 pages, 10.5" x 10.5"
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Oaken Throneaa$7
Silver/black cover, offset pages, 7" x 7"
Following issues in stock. Please specifiy when ordering.
OT3 Ancestral Fog, Averse Sefira, Bolt Thrower, Bunkur, Eternal Majesty, Malhkebre, Ofermod, Ondskapt, Otesanek, Xasthur. LAST COPIES.
OT4 Animus, Black Boned Angel, Celestiial, Graves At Sea, L'Acephale, Nachtmystium, Temple of Baal, Thralldom, Villains, Vorkreist, Withered and Wolves In The Throne Room.
OT5 + cd. Acrimonious, Adorior, Archgoat, Asunder, Blacklodge, Caina, Coffins, Cult of Daath, Dapnom, Harvey Milk, Moss, Necromorbus (of Necromorbus Studios and Chaos Omen), Portal and Wold.
OT6 + cd. Akitsa, Aluk Todolo, Avsky, Dead Raven Choir, Dialing In, Gnaw Their Tongues, Immolation, IXXI, Lugubrum, Necros Christos, Necrovation, Throneum, and Vargr.aa$11
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Gunslingers "No More Invention" World in Sound, CDaa$21
Here is the self-confessed Slinger's electric companion, a huge onset tour de force hailing from the realm of San Pedro (France) and that should cause weird effects through invention's great (golden) ass. First came Gunslingers, raising against the big bullshit, then came No More Invention, wearing a nine-acts sling of a hilarious outrage. Introducing the ultimate assault of her illegitimate three sons, also known as massacre-rock deviant inquisitors, a French deconstructionist trio who needed to abuse the artifacts of some lost rock synthesis in one total, furious and quintessential record, like an evil paradox of rock. Expect pure apotheosis of wild horror biker freakouts, acid avant-punk and trippy psych-noise with no respite from the action's breakneck speed. Gregory Raimo aka GR's incriminating unspoken yaya words and unparalleled orgiastic guitar savagery over control, spacey analog effects fulminations and feedbacks culminating with Matthieu Canaguier's hypnotic and castrationist ritual thunder bass, and Antoine Hadjioannou's prophetic mad with scalp crashing down drums-machete. From the gigantic 13 minute long blowing Krauty prayer of "Lighter Slinger Festival" to the frightening embodiment of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Minister's Black Veil", this is some magnetizing unknown & sacred distillation. Comes with a four page booklet of awesome artistic statement in a limited digipack edition. Loud and irreverent up to hilarity, and paradoxically, largely out of any category, this freakish explosive mixture, recorded in 2007 in three days, re-pioneers the hijacking of rock landmarks. Probably based on Lady Hysteria's (herself) voluntary uncontrolled intent, Gunslingers' No More Invention spreads the enlightenment of catastrophic happenings and a nonsense of epic blackout scenes into electric round of fury. Be prepared for a constant state of shock.
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Aluk Todolo "Descension" Public Guilt, CDaa$11
The first full-length shows the band developing the esoteric theorems established on it's debut 7" and going far deeper in the methodical exploration of the occult powers of musical trance. With the goal to create a timeless, organic mixing of krautrock's strangeness and black metal's coldness, Aluk Todolo conjures rabid obsessive rhythms and abyssal disharmonic guitars, subliminal spiritualist vibrations and bizarre, magick summonings. By reducing psychedelic improvisation to a bare, telluric instrumentation, and basking in the archaic rawness of lo-fi production, the trio elaborates on an audio ritual meant to be monolithic and stabbing, hypnotic but unpredictable, minimalist yet teeming.
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Skullflower "Pure Imperial Reform" Turgid Animal, CDaa$17
Recorded last year live on an Antwerpen radio station comes a new guitar wall composition from Matthew Bower and Lee Stokoe. Edition of 1000 copies with artwork desinged by MB himself.
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Skullflower "Malediction" Second Layer, CDaa$17
Skullflower studio recording featuring the line-up of Matthew Bower, cellist/violinist Samantha Davies, Lee Stokoe and Stuart Dennison back on drums. Three long tracks of blackened guitar wall. No one is making music that sounds like this. Comes in six-panel digipack with artwork by Matthew Bower. Limited to 1000 copies.
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Skullflower "The Paris Working" self released, cdraa$13
The entirety of the 23-04-2009 Skullflower show at Instants Chavires Paris. Featuring the line-up of Matthew Bower, Stuart Dennison, Samantha Davies and Lee Stokoe. Erecting a billowing monolith informed by the byzantine temples and jewelled grottos of the master, Gustave Moreau.
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Skullflower "Last Shot at Heaven" Noiseville, CDaa$23
This is the original issue of the highly sought after 1992 release on Noiseville. There were only 1000 copies made and there are very few remaining.
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The Wendigo's Grave "Spells Of Swift Travelling" Mind Control Tapes, cdraa$17
Every composition presented here is a joint ritual of people scattered around the globe – musicians, magicians, madmen and dead men. The Wendigo’s Grave recording sessions span from 1977 to present day; many hours of tape have been sorted through in order to cast these songs of magic. A thick (300g/m2) textured cover folder containing a thick (300g/m2) textured insert. The disc is housed in a sturdy cardboard sleeve, partially varnished. Everything is professionally printed, artwork by Denis Kostromitin. The whole set sits in a heavy duty 7" PVC sleeve. Limited edition of 99.
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Klangmutationen "Weisse Messe" Holy Mountain, LPaa$17
Klangmutationen is composed of individuals who are quite possibly the only figures within Malaysiai's recent history of underground experimental/avant rock music if there even was one. The word "Klangmutationen" means "sound mutations" or "sound changes." Klangmutationen marries the heavier and primitive side of Krautrock with the relentless ferocity of avant jazz. Other influential elements are the countless avant jazz/rock outfits who have surfaced throughout the decades-- particularly jazz ensembles with loud electric guitars-- Last Exit, New Direction Unit, the Blue Humans (and the Arthur Doyle Quartet feat. Rudolph Grey), Music Revelation Ensemble, Tony Williams Lifetime, Moderne Nordeuropaische Dorfmusik, Blauer Hirsch, The Giancarlo Nicolai Trio, Ray Russell, Derek Bailey's Arcana, Sprawl.
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Blue Sabbath Black Cheer "Crows Eat The Eyes From The Leviathan’s Carcass" Release the Bats, CDaa$13
Blackened mayhem from BSBC. Crows is a collection of several older, long out of print cuts and two unreleased tracks. Mastered by Hans Grüsel. Limited to 500 copies. Black on black cardboard sleeve.
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Architeuthis Rex/Slowmantra "split" Cave Series 1, Centre Of Wood, cdraa$11
First chapter of the Caves Series. A split with two of the most obscure and bizzare italian music creatures. Architeuthis Rex is the side project of throuRoof (Antonio of Akoustic Desease label) and for this release present 2 of the most extreme tracks of his repertory. Extremely heavy, long, noisy and desperate music directly from the deep abyss. An incredible and full of power fusion of doom, drone, apocaliptyc free folk and ultra dilatated weird black metal (!?!?) A tribute to the innocent anarchists and ecologists Sole and Baleno... victims of this system. About Slowmantra don't existence much informations, only a 7"ep split with Ovskum released by the german black metal label Raging Bloodlust and no more... The sounds range from the black drone to obscure instrumental noise and ritual dark music. Limited to 60 copies cdr in heavy 2 pannels hardcarboard A5 format.
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Tetlvmth "Easter" Cave Series 2, Centre Of Wood, cdraa$11
Llong tracks of eerie drone noise from this dirty duo (Italy/Canada). Limited to 100 copies cdr in heavy 2 pannels hardcarboard A5 format.
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Ovskum/Morke "s/t" Cave Series 3, Centre Of Wood, cdraa$11
Infamous black collaboration from Italy. Ovskum/Morke are 2 of the most extreme, misanthropic and depressive bands of the Italic peninsula. Their music is a creepy slow motion black-drone create with ultra rough-deform guitars, far (drown in the dronic magma) depressed melodies, freezing screams and a decadent violin. Raw, haunting & desolate sounds. Limited to 100 copies cdr in heavy 2 pannels hardcarboard A5 format.
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Sachiko "You Never Atone For..." There/Musik Atlack, CDaa$16
First solo cd from Sachiko of Japanese psych rockers Overhang Party and all-female tone/float duo Vava Kitora as well as ex-Kousokuya. First few tracks combine a totally beautiful smoke of high wordless vocals with a sponge of star-scattered tones and a depth-of-field you could free-float in for days. Later tracks flit between ferocious loops of Junko/Waters-style vocal hysteria and dynamic electronic noise and still pools of purple trance before the last track blows the whole album to a single feather. Impossibly beautiful and one of the best albums to come out of the Japanese underground. Comes in a gorgeous full-color cover with obi and jewel case.
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Sachiko "With Lament" Sloow Tapes, CSaa$11
New album by one of Japan’s key players in the psychedelic underground. Sachiko was also a member of legendary bands such as Overhang Party and Kousokuya among others. ‘With Lament’ finds itself in the lost worlds of eerie devotional chants drowned in eternal reflections of kaleidoscopic electronic powers. Paste-on cover and silkscreened insert.
This is the closest she has yet come to cutting a full set of choral/early/devotional vocal settings, albeit dosed with hallucinatory levels of F/X and positioned on the lip of the most beautifully smudged void of sound-on-sound your ears ever curled round. If you dig the sounds of Grouper/US Girls/Inca Ore et al but have a more classically-bent psychedelic taste and worship at the feet of Japanese underground gods like Shizuka, Nijiumu, Toho Sara, Angel’n Heavy Syrup et al then this is the bomb you set out for.
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Sachiko "zUnya" Musik Atlach, CDaa$17
Sachiko is voice performer with psychedelic drone (Kousokuya, Overhang Party). This album is live recording played in summer, 2008. This is different from studio albums which is rich in the variety, her voice is modest expression and she concentrates into performance of drone, she develops psychedelic sound concerning the organic and the hypnosis.
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Masayuki Takayanagi "Archive 1" Jinya, 5xCD + DVDaa$119
Between 1977-1978 Japanese improvising guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi performed with his New Direction Unit in a series of concerts of different formats (trio, quartet, quintet, sextet). This box set includes the recordings of five concerts in Japan: the Another Situtation concert at Purcinera and Regular Concerts from Jean Jean in Shibuya. Comprised of live improvisations, this beautifully packaged box also has a booklet with details on the concerts and an insert with discographical information. Limited to 500 copies.
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Orthodox "Amanecer en Puerta Oscura" Alone, CDaa$17
Orthodox’ second album Amanecer en Puerta Oscura, gives a new perspective to the music they create towards many different directions. Comparing with their monolithic album debut, Amanecer en Puerta Oscura comes like a trip crossing through different steps where jazz influences, progressive sounds of King Crimson or the crushing and free forms experiences from Black Flag, and at the same time not forgetting the true and pure metal roots from the band and the Andalusian cultural origins. The result is a liturgic music with obsesive repetitions, minimalism, feedback, distortion and endless drones creating a primitive feeling that leads to trance and remains as a perfect soundtrack for every dark point of christianism: opression, sin, suffering, guilt and pain. The use of new instrumentation showins influences from John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Morricone, Ligeti and religious music. For a band like Orthodox, always looking for new and diverse forms of music expressions, Amanecer en Puerta Oscura is the logical evolution after their high critical acclaim and recognition with their debut album Gran Poder.
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Orthodox "Sentencia" Alone, CDaa$17
Orthodox were metal. With Amanecer En Puerta Oscura, they began to display a deviant streak, incorporating trumpet, clarinet and piano in addition to guitar, bass and drums, and approaching free jazz as often as metal.
Electric guitars only appear on this third album's opening track, "Marcha De La Santa Sangre." It has a Western or Spanish feel, like an alternate soundtrack to the booze-soaked, Mexico-set Sam Peckinpah revenge flick Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia. The 26-minute "Ascension," making up the bulk of Sentencia, features piano, clarinet, brushed drums and an upright bass that's strummed, plucked and bowed. The disc closes with "...Y La Muerte No Tendra Dominio," a duo for organ, drums and massively distorted percussion. At this point, all Orthodox share with doom or any other style of metal is a sense of spiritual questing and a fondness for ritualized pursuit of catharsis.
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Yoga "Megafauna" Holy Mountain, CDaa$13
Understand this: Yoga dispenses a sinister frailty of howling swellsin hissing static that combusts into crawling shock heaps, to the effectof Mayhem performing Twin Peaks incidentals in a prairie recordedby The KLF. The texture-based rendering of their compositions sails them on a strange sea between song and sound effect as itbobs along the waves like a dead man's bottled message. Aspects ofGoblin rehearsals in dead hills is interrupted as Monster Zero carvesmountain sides with lightning breath. Oscillating leads pummel intochurning riffs as if Caledonia was performed in an echo chamber near Lodi, New Jersey. The extrinsic properties of this work may resultin disambiguation.
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Gnaw "This Face" Conspiracy, CDaa$17
GNAW was formed in 2006 by Alan Dubin (ex-Khanate, OLD) along with Jamie Sykes (ex-Burning Witch, Thorr's Hammer, Atavist), Carter Thornton (Enos Slaughter), Jun Mizumachi (ex-Ike Yard: 80's NYC industrial legends) and Brian Beatrice (Emmy Award winning sound design/mix wizard). Dubin thought it would be fantastic to collaborate with some of his respected musician/friends, all who have diverse music backgrounds to see/hear what would develop. GNAW's debut album This Face is the sonic culmination of over a year of sound experimentation. It's a genre destroying journey that almost defies description. Sykes is a percussive madman blasting out anything from tribal beats to ultra slow tom killings. Mizumachi is a renown sound designer for film & TV and is a master of electronics including synth, factory noise, metal bashing and other craziness. Beatrice is also a sound designer and mixer for film & TV and was the mixer for This Face as well as experimenting and adding additional sounds. Thornton is a crafty musician who actually makes his own instruments. He played guitar, bass, piano and some unnamed home-made "things". Additionally, Thornton supplied field recordings and arranged many of the songs. Dubin rounds out the group with his gut-wrenching vocals, noise and arrangements. Screaming, singing, whispers and chants can be heard throughout This Face.
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Monno "Ghosts" Conspiracy, CDaa$17
Hail the dawn of the new era. Although the human soul was sometimes symbolically or literally depicted in ancient cultures as a bird or other animal, it was widely held that the soul was an exact reproduction of the body in every feature. Monno have come a long way, extending their malignant nature through thick layers of fog. Collecting the footprints they've left to musically outshine the past. For this new burial they've built a soundtrack like creeper with traces of gargling glass and atonal spheres that swing through the tracks like unidentified floating objects in the sky. At times you get the feeling your brain is attached to a mechanical beehive suffering various degrees of degradation resulting from the ingress of water and salt attacks. Without doubt their most brutal and menacing album to date, etheric yet droning vocals covered in doom frost. Gradually moving into uptempo black metal waters, than backdropping in sludge mystery like a free-jazz bat in the night. Every time catching the listener by surprise and pushing them in warped directions. Like the legendary Kraken, they come out of the blue and in the blink of an eye drag you down in the storm. A globbering beatdown, difficult, dense and heavy on details. No rocket science but heavy riffs, laptop monstrosity and drastic saxophone stabs for folks that have a little black in them. An impaired psychomotor as troublesome as the stars that hang above us, with the reeking odor of a thousand corpses. Think along the abandoned shores of Corrupted, Burning Witch, Albert Ayler and Ulver. The darkness, it all started in their hearts. As dense as sound can get.
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Hototogisu "Under The Rose" Heavy Blossom, LPaa$21
Hototogisu's first LP release on their own imprint Heavy Blossom. Under The Rose is a pair of incantations for the dark and vengeful animal spirits. Sung in two parts, malignant coronation and origami skulls are blackened arias, dizzying vortices and canyons of screams, guitars and chaotic rhythms. Arising from this richly recorded and mastered vinyl slab come black tarpits of malevolence and savage beauty, harking back to a pre-Christian universe of animating spirits and tutelary daemons. Comes in a black jacket with a full-color photograph attached to the front cover and thickly inked silk-screened backs. Edition of 600.
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Hototogisu "Pale Fatal Sister" Important, 2xLPaa$31
Double LP pressing housed in a gatefold jacket. Being a Nabokovian and visceral garden of delights, a musical evocation of memory and desire spread over four sides of vinyl. The sound is conjured forth from dark wells to be birthed, twisting and screaming in silver winds.
Recorded at Black Dirt Studios, over an intensive three day period of hermetic isolation, whilst snow blanketed the surrounding fields, this work is both more detailed and conjures a heavier, more brooding occult atmosphere and sound, than any previous Hototogisu release. Limited edition of 700 copies.
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Hototogisu "Robed In Verdigris" Nashazphone, LPaa$21
Hototogisu deliver intense guitar/electronics based drones of gargantuesque scales. Near-impenetrable walls of sustained guitar-feedback/excess, barely audible shrieking, and a cave-bed of electronic zombie fuzz. Robed in Verdigris is three tracks spread over both sides of extreme sunshine and ecstasy. A total assault of metaphysical vibrations. Limited to 500.
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The Skull Defekts "The Drone Drug" Actual Noise, LPaa$17
In their own words, Sweden’s Skull Defekts are all about rhythm, repetition, and all energies in sound. The DFX, as they’re sometimes known, also have an alter-ego under which their sound becomes a harsh wall of droning noise and psychedelic industrial churn. It is that persona that is embodied on The Drone Drug. Drone is often associated with music that is ambient in nature. While The Skull Defekts do create an ambient aura, The Drone Drug has more in common with terrifying atmospheres. The sound is grim, black, and abrasive; mechanical, filthy, and unnerving. This limited-edition LP (500 copies) comes with free download of the album including a bonus track.
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The Skull Defekts "The Drone Drug" Release the Bats, CDaa$17
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. Four-panel digipack with artwork by Daniel Fagerström. Limited to 500 copies.
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The Skull Defekts "Polonium" Kning Disk, 3"CDaa$7
Live broadcast recorded at Resonance FM, London. January 6, 2007. Second edition.
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The Psychic Paramount "Gamelan into the Mink Supernatural" No Quarter, CDaa$13
The studio-recorded debut from this risk-taking group comprised of former Laddio Bolocko members Drew St. Ivany (guitar) and Ben Armstrong (bass), along with current Sabers member Jeff Conaway (drums). A power-blast of epic kraut/psych jamming, propelled with layers of guitar, forceful rhythms, and a general sense of urgency.
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The Psychic Paramount "The Franco-Italian Tour" Public Guilt, CDaa$11
Recorded live at performances in Paris, Lyon, Perpignan, and Napoli in Nov./Dec. of 2002. The group, going on tour less than one week after their first meeting, is captured at birth in raw immediate form. Predicating experiments with the authority of sound and primitive revival upon a rock 'n' roll platform. A document of turbulent emergency music grinding its entrance. All tracks originally recorded to cassette live using one stereo microphone.
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Slomo "The Creep" Important, CDaa$12
Uneasy, brooding, and honestly unsettling, this disc slowly works its way out of the speakers and into the psyche. Ingrained, it's impossible to put it down, lock it away, carry it to the street with the beer and Scotch bottles to be recycled. Inactivated, it defiantly surfaces in the cat's purr, the Volk's engine knocks, a fritzing hard drive. Seeps into your subconscious, where it flutters like a trapped and burning moth at the back of your brain. Ghostly sounding and ominously rumbling with atmospheric threat, The Creep is an undeniably effective chunk of subterranean echo, whose quaking aftershock could cause sleepless nights.
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Wolf Eyes "Black Wing Over the Sand" Kning Disk/iDeal, CDaa$17
Heavily psychedelic. Minimal. Slow mindbending stuff. Since Wolf Eyes formation their musical output has grown into an impressive oeuvre. Black Wing Over The Sand is one long session that from the very beginning lays bare the roots of Wolf Eyes. Instead of the harsh dissonances and compact walls of noise they are well known for, the wholly instrumental piece moves slowly forward over a basis of silence. With oscillating movements, Wolf Eyes conjure up short bursts of noise with screaming high pitched tones where a rhythmic deep and slow bass soon sets in, disappears, returns, increases pace, disappears and returns again. Electric guitar, echo effects and sweeping sounds creates powerfully nerved effects over the slow rhythm.
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Corrupted "Paso Inferior" Nostalgia Black, CD $17
This is a re-release of the original recording from 1997 first issued from Corrupted's own label Frigidity Discos. Although their sound is mostly known as a hellish eruption of torturable, holocaustic, raging sonic pressure, this masterpiece starts off with silent, effective, dubby introduction leading slowly into choking, heavy, painful, atmospheric requiem for all living existence. A totally spiritual ultra heavy masterpiece from the depth of darkness and chaos searching for the light in the distance.
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Moss "Cthonic Rites" Aurora Borealis, CDaa$17
Second pressing of the debut full length album by Moss. Brooding ultra darkness on a cosmic scale. Huge slabs of distortion warp the listener like gamma rays, leaving a twisted parody of a human in their wake, as one touched by the unholy tentacles of the Elder Gods who dwell beyond time and all comprehension. Revised and expanded artwork featuring a written piece by Seldon Hunt. 66:06
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Moss "Cthonic Rites" R.C.P. Tapes, CSaa$7
Edition of 300.
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Locrian "Drenched Lands" BloodLust!, 2xLP + 3"CDaa$30
Deluxe vinyl edition. Drenched Lands finds Locrian effortlessly synthesizing music styles as they create an album that combines drone, black metal, and noise elements to portray qualities of beauty, sadness, radiance, and horror. Following the already acclaimed compact disc version that was recently co-released by At War With False Noise (Scotland) and Small Doses (USA), BloodLust! and Locrian worked closely together to conceive this handsome new record. Comes in clear vinyl, housed in a handsome letter-pressed two-fold sleeve, printed at Chicago’s Dexterity Press. The inner flap of the sleeve holds a bonus 3-inch compact disc that contains music that will remain exclusive to this edition. LP recording and mixing were completed by Steve Beyerink at Phantom Manor, Chicago, while mastering and cutting duties were executed by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering Service. The 3-inch cd was recorded by Philip von Zweck in January 2009, at WLUW 88.7 FM and was mastered by Jason Soliday at Enemy, Chicago. Limited edition of 200 copies. Clear vinyl.
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Locrian "Rain of Ashes" Fan Death, CSaa$6
If Drenched Lands portrayed decay and waste when you first see it, Rain of Ashes is the is the aftermath once you’ve had time to think about what you’ve just seen. Recorded with no overdubs and no other takes, Locrian went into WMUC studios located at College Park, Maryland to record what became much more than just a session. Rain of Ashes is a journey, not of complex feelings, but of realizing the decay and collapse you have just witnessed is real and will never go away. Instead of pummeling the listener, the piece slowly rips the listener apart until there is nothing left. 200 copies on audio cassette.
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Zaïmph "Serpent's Bite" Heavy Blossom, CDaa$13
Serpent's Bite is made up of 8 separate pieces of vapory splendor, pierced metallic sounds, flickering radiance, and exquisite anguish. Culled from the Zaïmph archives and recorded between 2005 - 2006; two previously released CDR tracks, now re-edited, rest aside six unreleased tracks. Multiple amplifiers channel dense, 3-dimensional sound played live with no overdubs. This is organic darkness. Grave-vaults of guitar tunnel through distorted clouds of smoke rising from the watery abyss. Vocals of dissolving thoughts recite mysterious incantations. De-tuned piano recordings and infectious drum machine beats dissolve through phantom empires of multiple effects. Complete derangement of the senses. The entirety was mastered by Christelle Gualdi at Loosduinseweg No. 9. Recorded primarily in England, these recordings are as much of a reflecting back as a pulling towards - Agrippa's Mirror to an unseen Universe. The fox hunted and revered wears a golden breast of jewels reciting from Wordsworth via de Quincey: 'Fabric it seem'd of diamond, and of gold, with alabaster domes, and silver spires.' Settle into the tranquility of repose. Sound is fractured oscillations.
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Zaïmph "The Undetermined Dyad" Volcanic Tongue, LPaa$23
Zaïmph is working cover for the solo experiments of Marcia Bassett. The Undetermined Dyad functions as the fulcrum of her career to date, looking back towards her experiments in group levitation with Double Leopards while extrapolating on her recent solo work. Most of all it's a guitar record and one that sits comfortably alongside previous six-string monoliths like John Fahey's Days Have Gone By, Donald Miller's A Little Treatise On Morals or Masayuki Takayanagi's Live At Zojoji Hall while sounding quite unlike any of them. Bassett's re-imagining of the instrument pushes it to the point of almost-translucence, where the physical fact of the guitar itself is almost completely subsumed by echo, F/X, loops and the kind of improvisatory logic that prizes infinite expansion and organic growth over repeated tropes or riffs. Aspects of the first side - the eerie ghost voices, the deep space echo - recall the electrified ritual of nomadic Japanese avant gardists Taj Mahal Travellers but more immediately it sounds like a magnification of her individual contribution to Double Leopards, generating towers of electricity that move from malevolent arcs of anti-gravity and spumes of throttled single notes through to deep wormholes that do violence to feeble notions of time and space. The B side is a little more aggressive, with the tactile sound of strings on pick-ups anchoring a gorgeous wash of all-consuming drone and garage band fuzz before Bassett cranks the tone into realms of total sonic reducer. If your concept of the guitar begins with Jimi Hendrix setting the fucking thing on fire and ends with the sound of voltage completely liberated from any kind of tonal or harmonic anchor whatsoever then this record may well be the girl you've been praying for. Edition of 300 copies, with jackets featuring original artwork by Marcia Bassett, all silkscreened by Alan Sherry of SIWA and with a full-colour insert wrapped in a Japanese plastic sleeve.
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Zaïmph "Sexual Infinity" Hospital Productions, CDaa$13
Marcia Bassett of Double Leopards and Hototogisu on her first proper solo full length. Sexual Infinty stands refreshingly organized into six escalating pieces of her signature guitar, voice, and electronic moodscapes entrancing the listener with sinister seduction. comparisons to early 80's power electronics and industrial acts as uncommunity, mauthausen orchestra and ramleh reside in the underbelly of Zaïmph's 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.
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Zaïmph "Emblem" w.m.o., CDaa$13
New crude, apocalyptic guitar noise from Marcia Bassett of Double Leopards/Hototogisu et al. First track features infernal lord-of-the flies style fuzz and junk that sounds like it's been slowly schlepped into a black hole of vocal gravity while sparks dance around the rim like so many dense constellations. Second one is all slowly phased come down sounds based around waves of hypnotic extraterrestrial tone slowly uncoiling in infinite space. Comes in a silver and black oversized sleeve.
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Zaïmph "Bird of Prey/Inclination" Arbor, 7"aa$9
In the past, Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards, GHQ, Hototogisu) has proved her versatility under the Zaïmph name; from the depraved feedback and tone fury of Sexual Infinity to her delicate electric guitar and vocal waves on Mirage of The Other. This 7" release further proves this fact by recalling her earliest roots: vocal mantras and delicate strumming are placed over a hypnotically evolving base of looped piano, feedback, and strings. The end result is something beautiful that twists the lines of classification, picking up little points of reference from her past bands and laying out a path towards the future. In an edition of 500 in pro-printed full-color sleeves with art by Marcia.
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Kousokuya “Echoes from Deep Underground” Archive, CD/DVDaa$23
Kousokuya are a cult garage pysch rock trio formed in the 70s in the Tokyo underground music scene by main member and recently deceased Jutok Kaneko. Despite having existed for 20 plus years the band's output has been fairly sparse with a few releases on PSF and one domestic US release on the Forced Exposure label. Originally, the Archive release was to be comprised of a fantastic live performance on cd from Osaka in 2001 but having discovered the existence of video footage from the same performance, coupled with the efforts of James Plotkin a bonus dvd was added. This release represents to date the only video document of Jutok and Kousokuya released in official capacity and realistically represent a chance for fans of obscure psych to see a band and artist that basically played outside of Japan only a handful of times. This pressing of 700 copies comes packaged in a heavy black stock cover with metallic silver and gloss varnish silkscreen work by the wonderful Alan Sherry of SIWA records. The cd and dvd come in black envelopes bound by a silkscreen obi strip.
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The Observatory “Dark Folke” CDaa$21
FThe Observatory release their fourth album to date, Dark Folke, recorded and mixed in Bergen, Norway with their longtime collaborator, Jorgen Traeen, well known producer of bands such as Ultralyd, Motorpsycho and Jaga Jazzist. The CD album is a hardbound book, designed and drawn by illustrator and designer, Justin Bartlett aka Vberkvlt, the artist behind the wicked art of SUNN O))), Moss, Aura Noir and more.
With a change in musical direction, the prog rock of The Observatory’s third album A Far Cry From Here has morphed into a fluid mystical beast called Dark Folke. Most songs have no drums on them. But there is rhythm. Only the type of rhythm associated with an invisible pulse. An implied rhythm. Five folks sitting around a fire. A metaphorical fire. Chanting for the rain to come. gathering for all dark folke.
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Journey to Ixtlan, Aurora Borealis, CDaa$17
Finally, the cult is revealed!
Pan pipes carry on the air as the eagle circles the mesa, your mouth full of sand and peyote mulch as the sun beats down. Riding out of the desert like the ghosts of future past in a dune buggy powered by dreams come Journey to Ixtlan. Totally heavy, very psychedelic, and utterly sun kissed this is the sound of new age doom & occult desert rock.
Journey to Ixtlan are an anonymous badass rock band of desert dwellers, in some cases living outside the law at the very margins of society, who converge infrequently to render their physical surroundings in psychotropic sound. Their heavy sound owes as much to doom metal as it does to psychedelia, as much to Now as it does to Then, as guitar, bass, drums, keys and vocal chants intertwine like shamanic smoke. To listen to Journey to Ixtlan is to participate in a ritual out of time, to tread the path of Don Juan, to lay on the mesa as a 'man of power' and be touched by the sun at the heart of the cosmic stage. Beautiful matte finish cd digi gatefold, with printed inner spine.
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Silvester Anfang "Kosmies Slachtafval" Aurora Borealis, CDaa$13
Silvester Anfang channel an ancient spirit of blasphemous anarchy, transposing the nameless fiends of yore as free-flowing ritual psych occult rock. Kosmies Slachtafval (trans. "kosmic slaughterhouse sweepings/debris") sees Silvester Anfang in dark, post-krautrock, heavy jam mode: guitars, bass, keys, flute and percussion combine with vocals to create a doomy funeral psych rich in the textures of ritual and worship. Through a series of cassette tapes and cd-r's released in micro editions, the arcane Belgians have garnered a fearsome and mysterious reputation for dark intense musical outpouring and idolatry. Deluxe digipack with 12pp poster booklet.
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Sylvester Anfang II "Sylvester Anfang II" Aurora Borealis, CDaa$17
In the time since the release of Kosmies Slachtafval, Silvester Anfang have grown into Sylvester Anfang II, a more psychedelic beast, a more tangible creature in some ways, but one that defies and confounds standard classification. Taking their cue from Krautrock communes of yore, the Flemish troubadours have expanded both ranks and minds and now present this giant new opus for general consumption. With cultish numbers swollen with new blood, the sound is much fuller and more reminiscent of Krautish dope jams then ever before. Ruby's vocal additions create a whole new universe for the band, rather like if Dr. John had been born in a plague pit in Flanders, and the resulting tracks "The Devil Always Shits in the Same Graves" parts 1 & 2 are masterful examples of Flemish voodoo boogie.
The new material is more hypnotic than before, and the band are sure to add new members to their fan cult as they slink across Europe like a fog in the coming months. Sure to upset parents and upstanding citizens with their occult themes and liberal European-style artwork, Sylvester Anfang II reach new levels of consciousness with their mantras of goat worship and the orthodoxy of denial. Tune in, turn on, evolve. Presented in a jewel case with fold out poster booklet.
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Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine "Rampton" Southern Lord, CDaa$13
The awaited birthing of doom architects' morbid calling: Justin Greaves (Iron Monkey),
Greg Anderson (Sunn 0))), Goatsnake,Thorr's Hammer), Lee Dorrian (Cathedral, Napalm Death), Stephen O'Malley (Khanate, Sunn 0))), Burning Witch).
Black fumes non-verbal carnage spilled forth the unholy mines, minds and lanterns of Nottingham, UK. Souls cracked and burned, a fitting feast for low end wavetorment and high sound pressure hexing. Invocations of despair lain by Dorrian. Months rotting in the pits and graves to be unearthed and dissected by high necromancer Billy Anderson. Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine is the manifest of doomed mortality, divine suffering and flaggellation through trance and drone.
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