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ACRIMONY / CHURCH OF MISERY Split CD
(Game Two Records)
After over three years of waiting, we can finally offer this essential split, featuring the last five songs ever recorded (circa 1999) by the much-missed Welsh stoned heavy groove outfit Acrimony, as well as two tracks from an unreleased early single and two other misery-laden tracks for a total of four (all from 1996) by Church of Misery, Japan's reigning sons of serial-doom.

Price: 10 € (Europe/World)
AMEN RA "Mass III" 2LP
(Sound Devastation Records)
Decaying cathedrals. The march at twilight towards a sure death. Infested soil. Millions of decrepit bones in an eternal sleep. Surrounded by shrapnel, rusty bullets and locusts. Cries still echo in the barren fields, remaining unheard by today's deaf society. It's on this soil that the great war came to an end. It's from this soil that a band arose that embraces this past, this pain, this blasphemy. And so, 'Mass III' is born. Far outstripping the Church of Ra's previous recorded attempts, the opus finally captured their stunning live sound and caustic emotion, cementing Amenra as one of the most important bands in the alternative heavy music scene at the moment. 'Mass III' will infest your mind like a lingering cancer, bound to spit out your soul like a shriveled, yellowed husk, leaving you on a morphine drip in a side ward of the local psychiatric hospital. And that's just the beginning. Double Heavyweight LP in matte gatefold printed sleeve. Standard edition of 400 copies on black vinyl.

Price: 16 € (Europe/World)

BENEATH THE FROZEN SOIL / NEGATIVE REACTION Split CD
(Totalrust Music)
This split presents a bitter and unforgiving struggle between the raw blackened doom etal of Swedish doomsters Beneath The Frozen Soil, and the well-known hateful sludge of New York's gods, Negative Reaction. There are no winners in this dirty battle, just fifty bleeding and harsh minutes straight from the most unpleasant side of the genre…Expect for totally punishing experience! Split to your face... Limited edition of 1000 copies.

Price: 12 € (Europe/World)

BONGZILLA "Shake: The Singles" CD
(Barbarian Records)
"This full length CD collects all of BONGZILLA's 7" splits and unreleased material. 12 tracks of primal, resin-coated sludgecore from the masters of the genre! This is BONGZILLA before they grew into the fuzz-sludge behemoth they are today. The music is a little more simple here than, say, Gateway, but all of these tunes are fully baked, bulldozing sludgecore at it's most crushing. Listen to "Witch Weed" and you know Tony Iommi would only be proud. Scratchy black metal style vocals, a whole different bass tone than later records, melodic but crushing guitar work, crashing drums, and a hidden track that sums up this band's aesthetic perfectly. Put this in your CD player and watch the smoke rise. A must have for stoner/sludgcore/ doom crust freaks." (Crucial Blast)

Price: 10 € (Europe/World)

BUZZOV•EN "Sore" CD
(Roadrunner Records)
Opening with the repeated audio sample "welcome to violence" over a wash of rumbling white noise, occasional bass notes, and gunshot snare hits, "Sore" captures the mammoth drumming abilities of Ash Lee, Kirk's exceptionally painful pick-slides down his Les Paul, and the punishing, hardcore brutality of this band at their peak. Unfortunately, it was precisely the elements the band sang about that took them down. Heroin and years of physical abuse took their toll on the original incarnation of Buzzov•en, and Kirk was left holding the bag - quite literally - as the band imploded. Over the next few years, he would reassemble Buzzov•en numerous times with different lineups, some to great effect, some to quite the opposite, however, none with the same kind of viciousness as this one.

Price: 10 € (Europe/World)

CLOAMA "Revisionist Knowledge" CD
(Freak Animal Records)
"Return of the more cruel and vicious side of Cloama! Freak Animal is proud to present this CD what includes two different kind of directions. 1st 4 tracks are live-without-audience recordings recorded with amplifiers and couple of good microphones. Painful and straight forward power electronics with vocals. 2nd part of disc is studio recordings and this electronic-genious who is also know from Strom.ec, knows how to make analogue synthesizers and other tools sound even personal with his trademark style. Very stylish designed artwork in cardboardbox cover with 4 insertcard full of nice graphics and texts." (Freak Animal Records)

Price: 10 € (Europe/World)

CORTISOL "S 1 2" CD
(Prodisk)
"Reissue of Cortisol's first album, featuring Ariana Fleury (ex-Augury). Innovative slow-motion doom for fans of Khanate and Skepticism. Totally disturbing stuff." (FireBox)

Price: 10 € (Europe/World)

DEPTHER "Altar State" CDr
(Nihil Market)
Profound exploration to the peripherals of sound and thought; the sounds bringing forth bleak scapes of darkest ambient and the thoughts dwelling deep in the roots of mysticism. Three monumental pieces of haunting soundscapes bearing diversity and depth beyond compare, presenting multifaceted drones spiralling in a constantly evolving vortex of sound. This is the first full-length work from this intriguing new Finnish sound artist, being also a member of I.corax. In addition to the two new studio pieces, included is a live recording from a festival held in Oulu, Finland in May 2001. Good quality black/white sticker labelled CDr in slimline jewel box with professionally printed great black/white sleeve. Limited edition of 150 copies. LAST COPIES!

Price: 5 € (Europe/World)

DISCO INFERNO / EXISTENCH Split 7"
(Blind Date Records)
"DISCO INFERNO from Saarbrücken / Germany comes up with 2 songs of intensive furious emoviolence. Those who've seen D.I. live kickin'ass, are ready to die for it !! Disco Inferno play brutal hardcore -metal in tradition of Catharsis/His Hero Is Gone/Reversal Of Man. EXISTENCH (Canada) w/ 8 songs of furious hardcore - grind. Best and craziest stuff. Even EXISTENCH said, that this is their best material, right now. Existench play super fastgrind crust: old Napalm Death/Crossed Out/Dahmer style. Total time is over 10 min. First (and only) press of 1056 copies." (Blind Date Records)

Price: 2 € (Europe/World)

DREAMS OF WHAT LIFE COULD HAVE BEEN Compilation CD
(PsycheDOOMelic Records)
The ultimative sludge/doom sampler with ten nihilistic songs and a running time of 80 minutes. Never heard before recordings from Soulpreacher, Fistula, Grief, Thee Plague of Gentlemen, Negative Reaction, Ramesses and Moss. Seven black doom bands team up here to present you thee ultimate sludge-doom compilation. Evil doom at its bleakest. Ultra heavy, crushing, dark, grim, and doomy. Hail to Hellhammer, Winter, Thorr's Hammer and Autopsy!!!!!

Price: 10 € (Europe/World)
FALL OF EFRAFA "Elil" 2LP
(Sound Devastation Records)
Fall of Efrafa follow up their debut release 'Owsla' with the second part of the trilogy known as 'The Warren of Snares'. Elil is an even deeper insight into the concept of Watership Down and the relations to human society, tackling mainly with religion and featuring two of my personal favourite quotes from Richard Dawkins. Musically it is a 3-track EPIC. Influences such as Mouth of The Architect, Rosetta, Cult of Luna and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, which were prehaps overlooked slightly during Owsla, can here shine through alongside a strong d-beat/crust background, in what can only be described as the most innovative, beautiful and thought-provoking atmospheric-metal release in the past decade. 2xLP gatefold, 500 copies on black vinyl with etched D-side.

Price: 16 € (Europe/World)

FLATLANDS "Vermuyden" MCD
(Sound Devastation Records)
Crushing atmospheric metal in the vein of Neurosis and Cult of Luna, but not following blindly with the new wave of ‘post metal’ copycats. With a penchant for ‘keeping it local’ by including noises, news reports and so on in, around and about their local area this band bring a new and intriguing take on heavy.

Price: 8 € (Europe/World)

FLATLANDS / SUNSHINE REPUBLIC Split 12"
(SuperFi Records)
Flatlands are seriously heavy in a stripped-down Isis style, which monolithic, catchy riffs crashing into each other and plenty of screaming. Two quite long songs from them. Sunshine Republic are on a more experimental tip, reminding these ears of House Of Low Culture, though there are elements of doom, post-rock and noise in the mix too. They contribute one really long song. Pressing: 330 grey 12"'s on heavyweight 180-gramme vinyl.

Price: 12 € (Europe/World)

FLESHPRESS "Wörm Dirges" CD
(Kult of Nihilow)
Unlike Fleshpress' newer one, "III", described as clean and spacious and open (not words you'd expect to find in a review of a sludgy doom record) "Wörm Dirges" is much less polished, much more primitive and primal, and not nearly as slow, but still plenty sludgy and heavy. Plenty of Eyehategod-isms for sure, but these two extended mostly instrumental jams don't sound metal as much as they sound sort of krautrocky, or post rocky or even post punky in a weird way. Very reminiscent of Dutch hypno metallers Gore, a simple riff repeated over and over and over and over. Completely and utterly hypnotic. Both tracks devolve into dreamy drones here and there before lurching back into sludge mode, but the interesting thing is that the main riffs in each track (two tracks, two riffs!) don't sound metal so much as they sort of sound like Black Flag. Seriously. Maybe Black Flag at 16rpm. You can -almost- imagine them sped up with Rollins ranting over the top. But c'mon, Black Flag at 16rpm?!?! If that doesn't sound like the best fucking thing ever to you, there's something seriously wrong. Obviously this is essential for the drone doom dirge faithful, SUNNO))), Earth, Boris, Corrupted, etc. as well as fans of the new post rock/metal hybrids (Isis, Conifer, Tides, Baroness, Buried At Sea, Pelican) But other folks into stuff like Circle or Salvatore or the more extreme end of the post rock spectrum might really dig this too. Packaged in a cool tri-fold printed cardstock sleeve.

Price: 12 € (Europe/World)

FLESHPRESS "III" CD
(Kult of Nihilow)
This is a good one. A really good one. This is one of those records we've been waiting for, a band that takes the sound of SUNN0))) and Earth, that soon to be done to death slow motion guitar dirge doom, to a whole new level. It's still heavy and glacial, dense and totally overwhelming, but there's just something about it, that sounds, maybe clean, spacious, open? The guitar tone and the composition and the recording all mesh in some magical way to make the guitars float and drift. "III" isn't sludgy in the way we think of sludge, it's crystal clear, the guitars sharp and well defined, the riffs barbed and glinting in the moonlight the vocals like thorns through soft flesh. But it's all still so heavy. REALLY HEAVY. Maybe even moreso for the perfect production and sonic spaciousness. It's almost dreamy in a way, while somehow remaining dark and ominous and massively brutal. It's hard to explain exactly how they did it, or what -exactly- it is, but this record just really hit the spot in a way few of the many doom-dirge-drone clones have managed lately. Packaged in a gorgeous silkscreened duotone cd sleeve with a tiny sealable flap! The image is a misty mysterious forest with metallic print and a huge stone figure hunched over in the woods. Appropriately haunting and creepy!

Price: 12 € (Europe/World)

FROGSKIN "s/t" LP
(Liekehtivä Vuohi)
Finally the debut album of the Finnish sludgemonster is out! Crawling balls deep in mud, Frogskin delivers three songs in forty minutes. While sucking influences from such acts as Eyehategod and Electric Wizard, they have still managed to create a very unique and filthy soundscape of Finnish hatred. Limited edition of 500 copies on black vinyl.

Price: 12 € (Europe/World)
FROGSKIN / TAUNT Split 7"
(Streaks Records)
This is a nasty, alcohol imbued and drug-abusing cluster bomb! Each band one song. While both playing the same style of dirty, grooving sludge, they still emphasize their own approach and blend. Taunt with a monumental, 1 riff based but very varied song that crumbles every piece of dope. Foaming with rage, Frogskin on the other hand blow out a rumbling blast of a song, spitting acid in nearly 8 minutes. While Taunt are self-destructive and desperate, Frogskin concentrate on suffering, pain and anger. Both smashing in the mud as hell, so fasten your seatbelts! This is a pressing of 525.

Price: 5 € (Europe/World)

HARD AND OBSCURE #2
(Musically Incorrect Records)
"Hard and Obscure #2 is out now! It's 40 A5 pages and features interviews with Bizarre Uproar ("I don’t think much – the rest of you can do that"), Grand Belial's Key ("we’re not very deep in Dixie, unfortunately"), Nkondi ("trendy little shops with lights and girly things in the windows"), Loinen ("we started to play slow because it was more annoying"), Rulla ("the structure of Linux kernel, hot hot!") and Frogskin ("to be honest, we do this only for the money and chicks"), and a lot of reviews." (Musically Incorrect Records)

Price: 3 € (Europe/World)

HARD AND OBSCURE #3
(Musically Incorrect Records)
Industrial noise/obscure metal zine. A5, 44 pages, featuring: Woods of Infinity "A girl ass is more interesting and tasty than the vagina which I sometimes saw the similarity of a deep wound." (SWE black metal), RONF Records "In music the heritage of GG Allin still is the most important influence." (SPA noisecore & experimental noise label), Squamata "The release is about self-expression under physical and social pressure, rubber and assholes." (FIN harsh noise), Steel Hook Prostheses "Female circumcision? That’s some whacked out shit they do in third world countries." (USA power electronics), Institute of Paraphilia Studies "Any person or creature you rape, has sexualized holes other than the one meant for breeding and person as a dominator or sadist, has other means to punish or intrude than engage into trad. cock & pussy contact." (FIN paraphiliac noise label). Also reviews, etc.

Price: 3 € (Europe/World)

HIGHGATE "s/t" CD
(Totalrust Music)
The album of Kentucky sick trio Highgate offers 1 untitled track, but not less than 54 minutes of nasty combination between hybrid minimalistic doom, experimental noise and grim black metal. Expect for a loud and noisy production and prepare yourself for the worse! The sound of apocalypse…

Price: 12 € (Europe/World)

HINAGESHI BONDAGE "Pariisi vuonna 1959" CDr
(Nihil Market)
Psychedelic trip back in time through sounds that know no boundaries. Endless turntable recycling loops having teamed up with a galore of electronics and instruments, all force their way through walls of harsh distortion, just to come out as the most diverse sonic pieces ever. Harsh electronica containing elements of experimental noise, industrial and ambient, acting loud and painful whenever feeling like it, calm and vibrating the next second. Paris will never be the same again. First full-length work from this astounding new Finnish sound sculptor, already having a few vinyl releases under his belt. Good quality black/white sticker labelled CDr in slimline jewel box with professionally printed great black/white sleeve. Limited edition of 150 copies. LAST COPIES!

Price: 5 € (Europe/World)
I.CORAX "Spectral Metabolism" CD
(Kaos Kontrol)
Haunting revelation of sonic worlds where primal elements and archaic voices flux side by side with contemporary methods of amplifying the relation between sound and mind to culmination. Whirling soundscapes of organic and natural phenomena woven together with the synthetic and manipulated; the outcome being nothing short of utmost brilliance in the field of dark ambient and post-industrial. After a few highly acclaimed limited CDr works, the Finnish duo finally presents their first CD release, undoubtedly setting out to challenge the stagnance of the genre they master eminently. Stunning black/white oversized foldout carton sleeve. Limited edition of 1000 copies.

Price: 10 € (Europe/World)

THE JAM SESSION "När mörkret väller över" CD
(Concubine Records)
"'När mörkret väller över' is the third album from swedish gods The Jam Session. A twelve songs cd clocking in at 46 minutes of doom, sludge and dark hardcore, a new approch to music, a brutal mix between swedish metal heaviness and emotional/ambient atmospheres. The tracks are slower, longer and more emotive than ever, in the same time 'När mörkret väller över' is the most brutal, dark, ambient Jam Session's work and the best offer so far. Recorded and mixed by Joakim Petterson from grind masters Regurgitate. Artwork and layout by Mattias Frisk (www.nerofrisk.se). For fans of Baroness, Black Sabbath, Isis and Eyehategod. So be ready, the black cats are back!" (Concubine Records)

Price: 10 € (Europe/World)
JUCIFER "A Partridge in a Pear Tree" DVDr
(Amber Villain Films)
The first and only official home video from this brilliant power duo! Two multi-angle-shot full concerts from St. Andrew's Hall in Detroit, MI in July 2002 and Call the Office in London, ON, Canada in June 2004, exclusive interview footage and an unreleased live recording of the Nancy Sinatra hit "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" in the lobby at WUOG 90.5 FM radio in Athens, GA in June 1998. Total running time of the video is 90 minutes. Artwork for this home video done by Amber when she was three years old.

Price: 12 € (Europe/World)
MARY BELL "s/t" CD
(Trabuc Records)
Behind the assuming monicker, actually that of an infamous child murderess, lurks an outfit possessed of a formidable fury and truly heinous heaviosity. This Dutch foursome are purveyors of a weapons-grade sludgeattack that steers admirably clear of Vinum Sabbathi stoner/doom cliche, indeed one that has the decency to sound instead like a genuine wander into the eldritch realms of cosmic horror and mental illness. Less playful than Iron Monkey yet less abstract than Khanate, and with a truly unnerving vocal attack not altogether unlike the product of some tasty Moss/Buzzov*en hybrid, this five-track flagellation-fest deftly spices up it's snail's pace dirges with a palpable violence of delivery. A nicely nihilistic dredge through untold sewers of human wreckage, with a fierce force of intent thankfully far removed from the slightly dilettante-ish, clod-hopping attempts at sludge/doom fast cluttering up it's scene. Yet more proof positive that, though there's little here you won't have heard before, now and again a good crawl across broken glass can be just the tortuous and terrifying ticket.

Price: 10 € (Europe/World)

MARZURAAN "Solid Wood" LP
(Kult of Nihilow)
"After the rugged feedback fest of "Solid State", the Gateshead/Newcastle Upon Tyne based four-piece Marzuraan return with "Solid Wood" to solidify their position as the underdog of the post-drone/noise rock/crawl core scene. "Solid Wood" reveals yet another perspective to Marzuraan's unique sound with the emphasis switched from mind-piercing feedback and monolithic repetition of riffs to a more harmonic and brooding approach. The warmer yet undoubtedly equally heavy sound can be experienced throughout the first two tracks "Punch the Goat" and "Beating Them Off with a Stick" where the sluggish rhythm, softly overdriven guitar and pulsating bass create a hypnotic texture, contrasted by the tortured and necroid vocals, sounding like the inferno of passed away black metal vocalists in one man. "Bad Flange" makes a brief return to the feedback driven punishment of earlier Marzuraan recordings and definitely represents the most ominous and tormenting moments on this album. "Nice Wang" completes the final minutes of "Solid Wood" with a seemingly soothing atmosphere of melodic guitars yet eventually the intensity grows and reaches its climax with just the final gasps of the delirious vocals remaining. Kult of Nihilow presents the album on black vinyl, limited to 515 copies and packaged in a lavish full colour sleeve with silver/gold/black insert." (Kult of Nihilow)

Price: 12 € (Europe/World)

MARZURAAN "Five Years Worth of Fuck All" CD
(At War with False Noise)
This collection comprises of demos, live stuff, rarities and rehersals from the UK's most consistantly interesting, forward-thinking, and just plain fucking great band of the last decade. Starting off from now and moving backwards through time to the early bedroom demo days, this CD shows Marzuraan's evolution from simplistic droning minimalism of the two bass lineup to the full-on rock beast of today. The album kicks off with a cover of Loop's "Afterglow", putting it through the post-Ginn blender and coming out with something great. The other cover here is a raging, lo-fi recording of Rollins Band's "Turned Inside Out", performed at the inaugral Glasgow Implodes fest a few years ago. There's a fierce, noise-ridden performance of "Nice Wang" recorded on Julian Cope's last tour, the epic dark drone rock of GMT recorded at the Lord Clyde in Byker, and the aptly-named Kraut-esque monotone riff of "Earth 3" from the confusing Manbyrd cassette. All in all, Marzuraan do it better than anyone else going right now; be it bleak minimal droning walls of sound, controlled experiments into feedback or baws-out "post" rock, without the scene points. They sound like the late, twisted Flag stuff on a mid-period Voivod album, with Swervedriver on in the background. Played by Helios Creed. Totally great packaging by the guys at Thumbprint Press; three-panel chipboard sleeve, double-sided print, with stark black letterpress and clear varnish. You may know these guys' work from the Sunn live album or one of the many Bastard Noise family releases...

Price: 10 € (Europe/World)
MÖSE / HOG MOUNTIN Split CD
(PsycheDOOMelic Records)
After mighty outputs by NYC sludge kings Negative Reaction, and a V/A sampler, we dig out US based Hog Mountin, a pissed off sludge band that lies somewhere inbetween Grief, Crowbar and Eyehategod. You can expect pretty heavy "scream the lungs out" sludge throughout most of the music. On the other side of the split you get a couple of killer tunes by the Belgian Möse, a misanthropic sludge-metal outfit that released a killer 7" in the past. Raw, energetic material like you might got to hear live on their European shows.

Price: 10 € (Europe/World)

NEGATIVE REACTION "Endofyorerror" CD
(PsycheDOOMelic Records)
"Endofyorerror", originally released in 1996 on their own record label, was Negative Reaction's first full length CD. After 7 years, and two other full length CDs including "The Orion Chronicles" in 2000 featuring the 38 minute long "Moon Song" and "Everything You Need for Galactic Battle Adventures", Negative Reaction's first co-release with Game Two Records in the USA, and PsycheDOOMelic Records in Europe in 2003, this 2003 re-release of "Endofyorerror" by PsycheDOOMelic Records comes to you with slight differences from the original release. The two original bonus tracks have been replaced with one song from the "Orbit EP", Negative Reaction's first release with Game Two Records in 1998. We hope you enjoy this archival masterpiece from the gods of sludge.

Price: 10 € (Europe/World)
NEGATIVE REACTION / RAMESSES Split CD
(PsycheDOOMelic Records)
After 10 years under the curse of the Wizard, original band members Mark Greening (drums and piano) and Tim Bagshaw (bass) quit the crown jewel of British Doom - Electric Wizard to concentrate on their new band, which they have baptised Ramesses. The line up is completed by bassist/vocalist Adam Richardson -- Tim Bagshaw is playing lead guitar now. Ramesses is a psychedelic space blues doom band with massive volume. On the first half of the CD, you have Negative Reaction; doom/sludge metal gets a new dose of crushing low-tuned Sabbath-molded riffage and "Jerusalem"-like devastating intensity. File next to Bongzilla, Grief, Sleep and Burning Witch.

Price: 10 € (Europe/World)
NIGHT MUST FALL "Dissonance of Thought" MLP
(Rusty Crowbar Records)
Torturous funeral doom. Invoking agony and hate and the pleasure in reflecting them towards the humanity - the lethal injection of planet earth - the two lenghty tracks manage to be cruel and mesmerizing yet still somewhat beautiful in their crudeness. A giant leap after their demos towards the torch bearers of Finland's funeral doom genre. Imagine a mix of eerie funeral doom with the ugly crushing sludge attitude and you're somewhere close to the sound of this release.

Price: 12 € (Europe/World)
ORBIT e.v. "Super 8" 10"
(Spirit of 76)
Very interesting, now disbanded German band bringing together melodic and spacey rock with traces of prog and a dose of post-rock which sometimes reaches almost Neurosis/Isis/Cult of Luna -style heaviness; the only catch is that this was recorded in 2000, way before the trend started! Vocals are used sparingly and emphasis is on the textures created by the music, varying from pop-like mellowness to storming heaviness. Perhaps not as polished and style-conscious as the bands nowadays, but worth checking out! Black vinyl in brown carton sleeve with full colour insert and a slice of super 8 film.

Price: 8 € (Europe/World)

PAGANUS "s/t" CD
(Totalrust Music)
Paganus full-length features 4 tracks of vicious extreme doom metal clocking in at almost 50 minutes! A raw extreme heaviness filled with crushing riffs, "doomy soundscapes", wicked vocals and lots of negative emotions… Recommended for fans of Burning Witch, Khanate, High on Fire, Neurosis...

Price: 12 € (Europe/World)

RAWRADARWAR / DEER CREEK Split LP
(Game Two Records)
This awesome split features Boston's brutalizing RawRadarWar and the punishing heaviness of Denver's Deer Creek. RawRadarWar is fronted by former Only Living Witness and Milligram vocalist Jonah Jenkins in his most ferocious persona yet. RawRadarWar occupies Side A of the LP with an epic cut of scathing, rumbling sludge doom and two tracks of dark, ambient noise-scaping. Side B features four desolate doses of the heavy from Deer Creek. The vinyls come on black/red mixed vinyl and are limited to only 500 copies. Features original "Doom Tornado" artwork and layouts by Paul Vismara.

Price: 12 € (Europe/World)
REUTOFF "ReuTRauM II" 7"
(Kaos Kontrol)
Fifth instalment in the seven-part series presenting various locations in Reutov, the city of origin for this acclaimed Russian post industrial outfit. Launching off with the ceaseless hum and rhythm of heavy machinery grinding onwards as alarm sounds form into hysterical choirs complementing the slowly proceeding pounding of the machines. As an aftermath, the second piece bears a calmer approach with pulsating drones and loops yet retaining a profoundly ominous nature. After proving themselves to master a wide variety of styles within the post industrial genre, Reutoff present here a rather traditional blend of dark ambient industrial - nonetheless remaining at least equally strong as their previous efforts. Transparent green vinyl in beautiful full colour sleeve with special lamination finish. Limited edition of 500 copies. Last copies!

Price: 5 € (Europe/World)
RIDE FOR REVENGE "The King of Snakes" LP
(Ahdistuksen Aihio Productions)
The brand new full length from Ride for Revenge, first heard a while back on a split with fellow countrymen Torturium, their half of the split a downtuned black trudge, like Winter or diSEMBOWELMENT but with that impossible to describe Finnish something that transforms everything into some special sort of what-the-fuck. Creepy synths, plodding drums, grinding guitar and harsh vocals, not exactly black metal, not in the traditional sense at least, but most definitely metal. On "King of Snakes" however, the band have gotten even weirder, and distinctly less metal, but no less heavy. Supposedly there are guitars, but often it just sounds like just drums and lots and lots of bass. Each song a plodding doomic lurch, the drums pounding out a simple rhythm, the riff repeating over and over, most songs with just a single part, very mesmerizing and hypnotic. Like a caveman Circle or a guitarless Gore, these guys just bash out endlessly cycling looped low end and killer crushing doom drum pound. The vocals are a super affected gurgling growl, not in the death metal sense, instead, super dramatic, intoning unspeakable evils, a rumbling demonic baritone, peppered with the occasional super delay drenched goat metal grunt. Some tracks also have cool creepy keyboards as well, that add all sort of mood and texture, and it's not cheesy metal synth either, it's all strange analog buzz, a sort of krautrocky blur draped over the endlessly pounding groove. Ride for Revenge are another one of those black metal bands, who seem to be black metal more out of pedigree than sound, but even though this doesn't sound like metal, it is most definitely black. It sounds a bit like Godheadsilo jamming with Finnish alchemical dronelords Tiermes, with the occasional injection of Hawkwinded FX and SUNN-drenched rumble, mysterious and murky swaths of throbbing low end thrum wrapped around the drums like some evil warlock's cloak. Imagine if Amphetamine Reptile was a black metal label... then these guys would be Halo of Flies... Comes with a gatefold jacket and A2 sized poster.

Price: 15 € (Europe/World)
RIDE FOR REVENGE / TORTURIUM Split 10"
(Ahdistuksen Aihio Productions)
Here we have a split from two Finnish black metal one man bands, one name you might recognize, the other you might not, but both are equally amazing. It takes a very special band to share a split with the mighty and mighty demented Dead Reptile Shrine, but Torturium were up to the job, as evidenced on their recent split with Dead Reptile Shrine. Here they continue on their damaged and convoluted journey through some off kilter black thrash buzzscape. Midtempo and completely blown out, guitars are thick snarling beasts, flaying the flesh from your skin, while some of the most anguished vocals ever soar and shriek, the drums a murky thud, everything chaotic and crazed. Blasting and buzzing relentlessly, the whole thing threatening to come unhinged and fly into sharp jagged pieces. Fucked up and furious and so great. Torturium shares the split with fellow countryman Ride for Revenge, who with a name like that you might expect some classic thrash, but this is anything but. Muddy downtuned guitars, harsh vocals and simple pounding drums, all woven into some sort of murky dirgey black doom. Midtempo rhythms, drums way up in the mix, everything sort of droney and hypnotic, tons of reverb, weird swaths of creepy clean guitar, everything cloudy and indistinct, a super old school production like Winter or diSEMBOWELMENT, fuzzy and relentlessly, trudging through thick FX drenched drifts of black buzz and weird whorls of creepy haunted house synth. So cool and so weird. Definitely a new favorite, and another notch in Finland's holster, or bedpost, or whatever. So recommended!!!

Price: 12 € (Europe/World)

R.Y.N. "Astral Death" CD
(Unrest Productions)
R.Y.N. is the project of UK drone duo Pete Burn (Marzuraan) and Dean Glaister (Romance). With one previous 7" on Drone Records, this is their first full-length album. 6 long tracks of waving and slowly shifting massive drones, based on guitar, bass, metal and effects. The sounds here are just flooding immensely, there's nothing 'concrete' you can hold on to; the mind and body seem to be washed out slowly by these rustling feedbacking and deeply reverberating overtune-waves. "Astral Death" is a journey into the pulsating, meandering heart of disintegration. Edition of 500 copies.

Price: 10 € (Europe/World)
SEPPUKU / MUTANT APE Split 7"
(At War with False Noise/Turgid Animal)
The incredibly busy George Proctor smashes us across the chops for the duration of his side of this slab with a punishing six minute lesson in harsh noise brutality. It sounds like a large collection of faulty electric appliances being launched down the stairs of a building on fire. Fucking GREAT! On the flipside is a couple of tracks by the band formerly known as Tetsuo. This side sees a change of direction from the previous lo-fi clatterings of before and contains two mercilessly heavy tracks of full-on noise doom!! First track, "The Sound Of Slow Decay" does exactly what it says on the tin...repetitive sub-Sabbath riffing which eventually kills itself, followed by "Vincent Price's Wife Is Dead", which sounds like a hokey 70s nightmare sequence from a Hammer film gone wrong. Stick-on laser printed sleeves and a confusing insert that doesn't really shed much light on anything. Black vinyl, 220 copies.

Price: 5 € (Europe/World)

SINK "The Process" CD
(Kult of Nihilow/Kaos Kontrol)
There is obscure and then there is Obscure. The difference is subtle, but when you hear Sink, you know the limit between obscure and Obscure has been surpassed. The Process is a beast that drags you below the surface and lets you gasp for air just enough to keep conscious and experience the horror. Monumental wall of sound built from demented vibrations, violent distortion, wailing feedback, reverberating clashes and almost choral (in)human voices echoing in your mind like amplified painful memories; and when the wall collapses, the undertow pulls you deeper into paranoid and disturbing surroundings filled with static drones, scorching electrical trills and gravely impressive Obscurity that defies mental health. You may never reach back to the surface… This is not a sludge record. This is not a drone record. This is not an experimental record. This is The Process. Released in co-operation by Kult of Nihilow and Kaos Kontrol. CD comes in special fold-out full colour carton sleeve in a limited edition of 1000.

Price: 10 € (Europe/World)

SLOTH "A Whole Other World of Fun AKA 13 Songs 13 Samples" CD
(At War with False Noise)
Ohio's Sloth have been creating some of the most fucked up, weird, funny music of the past 10+ years and this is their first ever CD full-length album! Known for split records with bands such as Corrupted, Grief, Floor, Upsidedown Cross, Noothgrush etc etc, this album sees Sloth in a much more musically diverse frame of mind than usual. The painful sludge noise is still there but there's an altogether more considered approach. There's piano on it for fuck's sake. Weird lo-fi songs that sound like they were written by a fucked up kid mix sit happily with garage rock high end jams and tar pit slo-mo doom dirges. The "13 samples" are bang on and the humour is as bizarre and hilarious as ever. Full CD with full colour 4 page booklet, drawn by artist-in-chief Uberneecie and coloured in by a group of five year olds from Glasgow.

Price: 10 € (Europe/World)

SNOWBLOOD "The Human Tragedy" CD
(Lawgiver Records)
Snowblood is a Scottish metal clan whose crusty blend of metalcore, stoner rock sludgery and Neurosis-esque hypnotics ooze out six tracks of raw aggression. Stick to your ribs guitars found on tracks like “Claim Nothing as Thine Own” are commonplace here, as are tortured vocals, menacing rhythms, and a plethora of dynamic dips from doom to groove that puts you on the front car of this whacked-out roller coaster ride.

Price: 10 € (Europe/World)

SNOWBLOOD "Being and Becoming" CD
(SuperFi Records)
The Scottish quartet's second release, and a quantum leap forward from their debut "The Human Tragedy". A full 68 minutes of epic Godspeed-esque build-ups with crushing Neurosis-style payoffs, with much more in the way of dynamics and a fluid flow between movements.

Price: 10 € (Europe/World)

SNOWBLOOD "Being and Becoming" 2LP
(SuperFi Records)
The Scottish quartet's second release, and a quantum leap forward from their debut "The Human Tragedy". A full 68 minutes of epic Godspeed-esque build-ups with crushing Neurosis-style payoffs, with much more in the way of dynamics and a fluid flow between movements. Pressing: 525 double LP sets on 180-gramme heavyweight vinyl.

Price: 15 € (Europe/World)

SSHE RETINA STIMULANTS "Central Node Recording" CDr
(Nihil Market)
Masterly document of transforming the character of a cultural commodity into sound, and via decomposition and manipulation giving it an entirely new structure and meaning. Acoustic signatures collected from railway stations shift into soundworks bearing the fluence and dynamics of the sound sources, yet presenting them in the form of harsh ambience often taking an overwhelming approach by piercing all senses with all-engulfing frequencies. These 8 new pieces belong to the series of this Italian sonic genius exploring field recordings, and presents by far one of his strongest works thus far. Good quality black/white sticker labelled CDr in slimline jewel box with professionally printed great black/white sleeve. Limited edition of 150 copies. LAST COPIES!

Price: 5 € (Europe/World)

STUMM "I" CD
(Aesthetic Death)
"Heres a new release from UK label Aesthetic Death, who havent put anything new out since Esoteric's Pernicious Enigma (at least as far as we know). And this debut full length from Finnish extreme sludge/trio Stumm definitely fits in with the likes of Esoteric. Just looking through the grim black-and-red booklet for this CD clues us in that this is going to be an unfiltered stream of negative energy, from the creepy cover image of the little boy curled up, fetal-position style in a corner, to grisly images of substance abuse, suicide, and homelessness. Grim shit. It doesn't get lighter when this CD unfurls it's four songs across 35 minutes of RAW, primitive, massively heavy Finnish DOOM, with thick and filthy syrupy riffs churning over and over again, slow and snail-crawling, sometimes stripped down to a single powerchord banged out ad infinitum, a nihilistic sludge feast that references the points between Eyehategod, Grief, Melvins, and Khanate (James Plotkin from Khanate actually mastered I). Spattered with feedback and hoarse tortured howling over spare, planet-shaking drumming, these four tunes are super slow, saurian numbers that sometimes pause to hang in mid-air before crashing back to earth. Fans of monstrous ultradoom like Fleshpress, Corrupted, Moss, Bunkur, etc., can't go wrong with this one." (Crucial Blast)

Price: 10 € (Europe/World)

SUPER TIMOR "Cauchemar d'Esque" CD
(Parade Records)
Smashing debut from this french sludegore-doom killing machine. Influences are Eyehategod, Bongzilla and Electric Wizard. Brutal artwork by Tom Denney (Southern Lord, Lair Of The Minotaur, Kylesa, Rwake, Mugwart, Buried At Sea, etc).

Price: 10 € (Europe/World)

TAINT "The Ruin of Nova Roma" 2LP
(SuperFi Records)
After ten years of bravely ploughing their own musical furrow, South Wales' kings of heavy stoner-tinged post-hardcore rock 'n' roll finally unleash their debut album after several singles and EP releases. This is the vinyl version of the album that came out on the legendary Rise Above Records, home to such luminaries as Electric Wizard and Cathedral. Pressing: 630 black double LP sets.

Price: 15 € (Europe/World)

TAINT "Secrets and Lies" 2LP
(SuperFi Records)
"Secrets And Lies" is Taint's second full-length album, and once again SuperFi's handling the vinyl while Rise Above do the digital. Taint truly plough their own furrow, fusing stoner grooves and heavy riffing with an epxerimetal post-hardcore styled edge, like Fugazi jamming with The Obsessed, together with plenty of Zep, Floyd, Sabbath and Minor Threat in the mix! Pressing: 525 black 2xLPs.

Price: 15 € (Europe/World)

VISTO #5 Magazine
Only in Finnish! Suomenkielinen pikkuzine täynnä juttuja laidasta laitaan. Musiikkia sivuava sisältö käsittää tässä numerossa pitkän Reverend Bizarre haastattelun, Kylmä Sota haastattelun sekä paljon levy- ja livearvioita. Myös paljon muuta enemmän tai vähemmän mielenkiintoista lukemista! 36 musta/valkosivua A5 koossa.

Price: 1 € (Europe/World)

VOLITION "s/t" CD
(Totalrust Music)
The full-length album of this British gang delivers eight songs of punishing sick doom that consists of ultra heavy downtuned guitars, slow pounding drums, guttural vocals (from deep grunts, to fucked up screams) and an excellent dirty, yet crushing production! This hour of filth has been recorded, mixed and mastered at Studio 1in12 by Bri (Lazarus Blackstar) and is recommended for fans of Coffins, Corrupted, Winter, Noothgrush, Toadliquor…

Price: 12 € (Europe/World)
WIJLEN WIJ "s/t" CD
(Aesthetic Death)
Aesthetic Death has only been releasing about one or two albums a year over the past few years, but every time they come out with something new, you can guarentee that it's going to consist of the most morose, mindbending extreme doom imaginable. Esoteric, Stumm, Wreck of the Hesperus - all have been documented by Stu at AD, and all are essential listening for fans of ultraslow ultra doom. Wijlen Wij's self-titled debut is the first new Aesthetic Death release since the killer Wreck of the Hesperus CD from last year. Their songs are huge, lumbering blasts of slomo funeral doom, very much in the tradition of Skepticism's classic "Stormcrowfleet" and Thergothon's "Stream from the Heavens", ultra slow and intensely depressing, dark and raw, the long lumbering songs buried in an austere graveyard atmosphere. But then there are the guitars, so saturated in distortion that they sound alot like Nadja's overmodulated walls of fuzzy drone, massive crumbling waves of crunch pouring forth over sparse plodding tomb-marches beaten on huge tympani drums, over which Wijlen Wij drape layers of ominous, beautiful church organ drones, minor key fugues, and haunting Gregorian chant-like choirs. Awesome! The first track even sounds like a deathdoom version of music from the Conan The Barbarian soundtrack. 6 tracks of epic, desolate doom metal perfectly crafted out of obsidian riffage, which isn't too surprising as the band is a virtual funeral doom/drone-doom supergroup, featuring members of Pantheist, Solicide, In Somnis, Until Death Overtakes Me, and Fall of the Grey Winged One! In a limited edition of 1000 copies.

Price: 10 € (Europe/World)

YEAR OF NO LIGHT "Nord" CD
(Crucial Blast)
"As part of our current plundering of the French art-metal underground, Crucial Blast presents the North American release of 'Nord', the colossal debut from French ensemble Year Of No Light that was originally released via the French label Radar Swarm in 2006. Year Of No Light bring an amazing set of songwriting chops to the 10 songs that make up 'Nord', a heavy, chugging metallic monster that channels both gloomy atmospherics reminiscent of The Cure, and crushing Neurosis-inspired dirgecore, heavy, raw, and lumbering, but at times extremely beautiful and epic. To us, YEAR OF NO LIGHT's Nord seems to orbit the guitar-heavy early 90's alt rock of bands like Swervedriver and Dinosaur Jr., The Cure and My Bloody Valentine, just as much as it draws from the arty, crushing metallic post-hardcore pioneered by Old Man Gloom and Neurosis. Sure, there are a ton of bands out there that touch upon similiar influences, but we can't think of anyone recently that has delivered an album in this style that is quite this catchy and well-written. Nord flows seamlessly between passages of ultra melodic rock and frenzied bursts of dissonant, crushing hardcore, to austere radiant guitar figures and gorgeous ambient drones, to massive doomy dirge metal, utterly gorgeous Loveless-esque melodic bliss, and some almost folksy, but unbelievably EPIC riffs, with powerful, strained vocals fighting through their wall of sound. Presented in a 4-panel gatefold case from Stumptown Printers, and featuring all new artwork." (Crucial Blast)

Price: 10 € (Europe/World)