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Locrian Back Patchaa$11
Locrian full-size back patch. Metallic ink on black fabric.
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Utech Records T-shirtaa$17
Illustration by Justin Bartlett. Charcoal ink on black shirt. Size XL.
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Utech Records T-shirt.
White ink on black shirt.
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Magus "Sun Worshipper" Ujikaji, CDaa$19
On their debut album, Leslie Low and Mark Dolmont line up in battle formation, summoning the powers of ancient spirits and riding on psychedelics to navigate the chaos of this brave new world. Mixed from a stew of magic and distortion, chunky guitar riffs awake from primordial sludge and hefty drums tap to the beat of a primeval pulse as the modern world asserts its presence, leaking from found sounds leaping betwixt channels. Evocative of natural cycles, embedded rituals and eternal battles, this is timeless music of a vital spiritualism.
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Corrupted "Garten Der Unbewusstheit" Nostalgia Blackrain, CD $21
And so, the consciousness left from the body being wounded and exhausted by the countless difficulties of life, assimilated with the spring called infinity, like healing oneself. An infinity and eternity. An eternity and symbol of death. A symbol of death and wellspring of creation. Rising from the wellspring of creation, the product will rest forever even after the ruin of the body of the creator, reprocessing in front of another new lives. But as the time passes by, our lives in reality are loosing It's imaginative fascination by the material, times, and the evil named science. Our lives are full of lies. Our suffering demented soul will completely support death. Just because of the strong love for "life". Corrupted should be the the rare existence as the band nowadays struggling to expose the lies of life. Their 4th album is titled Garten Der Unbewusstheit, which means "garden of unconsciousness". This is the final album by "original" Corrupted featuring 3 tracks, total 63 minutes. But ”garden of unconsciousness” should have existed from the early hardcore approaching days of Corrupted. The reason is not clear, but definitely what was going on was not progression, nor development but seeking and recurrence. So the fact is that the beat on this album is most calm, gentle, and transparent than ever. And this paradoxical evolution form is nothing but the result of huge studio works, mixing thousands of feedbacks and guitar overtones like constructing the three dimensional architecture. The remarkable point of this 3 track hour of suit is that this album totally transcends our usual sense of time. Like feeling a minute & a second like infinity, and feeling 60 minutes & 3600 seconds like moment. This transcending sense can be described as the sense of liberation from material and life through music. So first of all, let's experience this album and expose the lies of our "given life". At last, as many may already know, the vocalist Hevi and guitarist Talbot left the group after recording of this album and 17 years of activities since 1994. Now Corrupted has a new singer Taiki stepping forward to another unknown level. Like inviting us to another garden of unconsciousness.
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Corrupted "Paso Inferior" Nostalgia Blackrain, 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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Aluk Todolo "Ordre" Ajna, 10"aa$17
The long awaited return of these mysterious French audio alchemists, whose sound is a strange amalgamation of black metal buzz, krautrock mesmer, and psychedelic ambience. And the aforementioned mystery lies not with the group itself, whose lineup features members of black metal outfit Diamatregon and psychedelic rockers Gunslingers, both big time aQ faves, but rather in their sound, and how a sound so minimal and spare, how seemingly reductive on the surface, manages to transcend, to exist as something wholly other, a band who at times can sound like other bands that came before, but only fleetingly, those sounds subsumed and reimagined, and spit back out in a shape that is distinctly Aluk Todolo.
This ritual is not a new recording, but in fact archival material recorded at the same time as their Descension record, and is a This single track, spread out over both sides of a 10", and begins with a loping dirgey rhythm, pounding through clouds of swirling cacophony, shards of jagged guitarnoise and layers of chordal shimmer, an electrified field that seems to crackle around the groups core pulse/groove, the surrounding noise, not so much just noisy as haunting and ominous and textural. A brief bit of super creepy, deep garbled vocals intone what must be some sort of warning, as the sound continues to drift, mesmerizing and hypnotic, dense but at the same time almost ethereal, seasawing between noisy and chaotic, washed out and woozy, until eventually the noise recedes, leaving just long streaks of hiss and glitch and static, all wreathed in a blurred melodic haze. Finally an even slower, more spare rhythm begins, this one plodding along through a black haze, pelted by squalls of super distorted buzz, quick blasts of blown out crunch, those blasts themselves strangely melodic, as if they were spaced out notes to some other, mysterious melody, the sound eventually building to a much more rocking final blast, organ like whirs underpinning muddy riffage and still more explosive bits of grinding guitar crunch.
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Aluk Todolo "Finsternis" Public Guilt, LPaa$19
Aluk Todolo are a recondite creature. Part okkult black metal fiend and part snide kraut menace. Somehow the doppelganger works and Finsternis proves for a second time there is brilliance in the absence of light. Dry, spare percussion grievously mines the scrapes, shrieks and shimmer of mutated guitar and bass. Finsternis is the German word for eclipse, mimetic of cyclic elements, phases and unphases, endless rebeginnings, broken circles and perfect circles. A dangerous, noxious coil of all things black.
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Aluk Todolo "Descension" Public Guilt, CDaa$7
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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The Human Quena Orchestra "A Natural History of Failure" Handmade Birds, LP $19
First released on cd by Utech Records, this is an absolutely essential, definitive moment for an artist that is a true manifestation of the current paradigm shift. Issued on vinyl by Handmade Birds, featuring new cover photo by Olli Kekäläinen and special packaging design by Keith Utech. Remastered for vinyl by Noah Brodsky.
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Gog "Heavy Fierce Brightness" LPaa$17
Limited edition vinyl LP. 300 copies pressed. Only available in a few select stores world-wide. Amazing artwork and embosed packaging by artist Colin Stinson. Features two new GOG tracks, Dragged By A Black Net and Heavy Fierce Brightness. Running time is 39:58. Mastered by Thomas Dimuzio. Released by Colin Stinson and GOG, no label.
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Sun Splitter "II" Land of Decay, CSaa$7
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Velnias "Untitled" Land of Decay, CSaa$7
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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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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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Sachiko & FUKUOKA Rinji "a'TOMO∑" Musik Atlach, CDaa$17
The duo of Sachiko and FUKUOKA Rinji (from Majutsu no Niwa) which were active together in Overhang Party performed sporadically in the past, in late years theyincreases the places. This is the album that gained live in Paris and Japan on 2011. Cello, violin and electronics to play of Fukuokaare on Sachiko's voice drone, and his voice is even more intertwined.
The sound takes in neighboring atmosphere, and filled with passion, It reaches the radio wave that Fukuoka uses and appeared on us whom there is there now.
The first piece offered a glimpse of unbearable reality from beginning to end in threatening intension. on the other hand, The second piece that recorded a performance in church E´glise Saint-Merri of Paris, is sound of the prayer was dedicated in a solemn drone loops using representative song 'Prayer of a Fool' of late Overhang Party.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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.
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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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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