Releases – July 2022

HISSING is an extreme metal group based out of Seattle, WA. Founded in 2014 out of a mutual interest in mutilating sounds and exploring the outer limits of black and death metal, the group aims to desecrate expectations with each subsequent release. Their new album “Hypervirulence Architecture”, which is their first album in four years following their “Permanent Destitution” debut LP, sees the trio take their sound into more nightmarish, trance inducing, mercurial and mind altering sonic dominions.TRACK LISTING: 1. Cells of Nonbeing, 2 ...

Reeking Aura is a NY/NJ based death/doom metal band in the old school tradition comprised of known scene veterans from Long Island and NYC. Originally conceived as a project for guitarists Ryan Lipynsky (Unearthly Trance, The Howling Wind) and Rick Habeeb (Grey Skies Fallen, Buckshot Facelift) to share lead duties, additional guitarist Terrell Grannum (Thaetas, Buckshot Facelift), was brought into the fold along with fellow Buckshot Facelift alumni Tom Anderer (Grey Skies Fallen) on bass and William “Big Will” Smith (Afterbirth, Ex-Artificial Brain) on ...

Reeking Aura is a NY/NJ based death/doom metal band in the old school tradition comprised of known scene veterans from Long Island and NYC. Originally conceived as a project for guitarists Ryan Lipynsky (Unearthly Trance, The Howling Wind) and Rick Habeeb (Grey Skies Fallen, Buckshot Facelift) to share lead duties, additional guitarist Terrell Grannum (Thaetas, Buckshot Facelift), was brought into the fold along with fellow Buckshot Facelift alumni Tom Anderer (Grey Skies Fallen) on bass and William “Big Will” Smith ...

Limited black vinyl with double sided inner sleeveAfter 8 long years black metal giants KHOLD finally return with a new album!With their 10 heavy new tracks, KHOLD remain true to their original principle. Down tuned, rough, mid paced, painful… a strong musical backbone and clever musicianship.It has the groove, the drive and the heavy guitar riffs – the way you know them, the way you want them.True to the soul of Norwegian Black Metal!– First new studio album in 8 years!– ...

BY THE SPIRITS was founded in 2016 by Polish artist Michał Krawczuk, who calls his style Forest Folk. The core of the project is to create folk-inspired music that tells stories about people, nature, spirituality, love, and death, showing that all this is closely connected. In the few years of its existence, BY THE SPIRITS has already played many shows all over Europe, sharing the stage with Of the Wand and the Moon, Spiritual Front, and Grift, among others. The melancholy of the album “We ...

After a period of smoldering dormancy Vanum reappears, blazing and alive, with their third full length album, Legend. Continuing the triumphant march of previous works, but raising the stakes even higher, Legend finds Vanum both expanding and refining their approach, and in turn delivering their most fully realized recording to date.The core of the band’s sound remains unchanged: unyielding and grandiose Black Metal that traces a hellish through line from the power of mid-era Bathory, through the riff-craft of the Hellenic masters, to the ...

Canada’s Panzerfaust, unleashing their highly anticipated sixth album “The Astral Drain”, forming the third chapter of “The Suns of Perdition” tetralogy. Throughout the “Suns of Perdition” tetralogy, Panzerfaust has managed to expand upon their distinct sound and infuse it with a clear vision and intensity. In the third act of the tetralogy, the band takes listeners on an incredibly immersive, yet harrowing journey to an outer darkness, documenting mankind’s descent into collective madness and forcing listeners to face the mirror of a hideous reality, in ...

Canada’s Panzerfaust, unleashing their highly anticipated sixth album “The Astral Drain”, forming the third chapter of “The Suns of Perdition” tetralogy. Throughout the “Suns of Perdition” tetralogy, Panzerfaust has managed to expand upon their distinct sound and infuse it with a clear vision and intensity. In the third act of the tetralogy, the band takes listeners on an incredibly immersive, yet harrowing journey to an outer darkness, documenting mankind’s descent into collective madness and forcing listeners to face the mirror of a hideous reality, in ...

Canada’s Panzerfaust, unleashing their highly anticipated sixth album “The Astral Drain”, forming the third chapter of “The Suns of Perdition” tetralogy. Throughout the “Suns of Perdition” tetralogy, Panzerfaust has managed to expand upon their distinct sound and infuse it with a clear vision and intensity. In the third act of the tetralogy, the band takes listeners on an incredibly immersive, yet harrowing journey to an outer darkness, documenting mankind’s descent into collective madness and forcing listeners to face the mirror of a hideous reality, in ...

Continuing with the vinyl re-issue of Arcana’s catalog, we proudly present for the first time on vinyltheir 6th album “Raspail”. Arcana’s approach to neo-classical and symphonic-ambient could wellbe defined in the meaning of the word “Arcana” itself: specialized knowledge of something generallyconsidered a mystery or a secret. On their sixth album, Raspail, the powerfully moving musicof this Swedish quintet creates an atmosphere which weaves together lush elements familiar toArcana fans old and new. Mystery, silence and revealed secrets are interconnected ...

“Medea forgives Jason” is a cycle of improvisations, first inspired by Euripides and his tragedy called “Medea”. This canvas captures not only numerous musical paths leading to the image of the great queen of Colchis but also a research path where anthropology, literature, dreams, and deconstructive bodily practices are combined together in order to destroy the dying myth and thereby return it to the “beginning “. The anthropological philosopher René Girard, being one of the most fundamental theorists in relationships between ritual and violence, speaking ...

Undirheimar presents 3 new offerings as a prelude to his forthcoming full length album. “Vardlokkur”marks a return to the oppressive and dark sonority of found on “Heljarrùnar” (2020), multilayeredand otherworldly shamanic minimalism. This offering offers a purified approach to Undirheimar’ssound with a more simplistic and constant pulse, inviting the listener to let go of any attachmentsto ordinary reality and fall in the black abyss of the primordial chaos-void. An immersive ritual experience of raw, Thursian shamanism and sonic sorcery.Edition of 300 ...

We welcome some new faces and dark ambient veterans to the label on the 6th album in the Tomb series, Tomb of Primordials. A dark exploration of the multifaceted entities of Sumerian mythology and the many dark places they inhabit. Places that still resonate with raw, ancient power. You are invited to the dark realms of Mesopotamia, were over 5 000 years ago a civilization both physical and spiritual was founded.Be careful of who you summon as each track on this album focuses on ...

The new Dark Ambient project Void Stasis is a collaboration from Kristof Bathory of Dawn of Ashes, Scott Denman of Die Sektor and Marie Ann Hedonia. The project utilizes experimentation of various hardware synthesizers and Eurorack Modules to capture a dark journey through the realms of Xenomorphic soundscapes and surreal frequency atmospheres.The debut album ‘Ruins’ tells a story about our planet drifting into an alien atmosphere and the aftermath of what would happen to our civilization during the process of human extinction.”Track Listing:1. Liquid Fire 08:382. Lung Fibrosis ...

Second album from the self-styled UK ‘Undustrial’ act DROWND.Promo videos for the tracks ‘Filth’ and Sinner’.UK / Euro Tour TBC.1. Palpitation2. Filth3. Save Yourself4. Deathwish (Intro)5. Deathwish6. Enough Is Enough7. Anhedonia8. Stripped9. Sinner10. Regaining Unconsciousness11. Choke12. Avolition13. Dirty14. You’ll Destroy ThisGENRE: IndustrialBARCODE: 5060179708584 ...