SERPENT EATER 'Vanitas' LP
Release Date 17 January 2020

limited edition of only 350 red copies on 180g vinyl.
comes with a heavy cover, insert with lyrics and liner notes and bandcamp download code of the entire album. 


SERPENT EATER know exactly who they are and what they are doing on 'Vanitas'. Opening with a stomping black metal crusher of a riff overlaid with cackling screams and ripping double kicks, this is blackened crust at it's most operatic and metallic.

The production and performances here are supremely polished and well rehearsed, there isn't so much as a squeak of feedback that feels out of place.

Soundwise SERPENT EATER lean heavily on the black metal side, with rocking black'n'roll sections interspersed with huge sounding blasts and absolutely punishing double kick drums.

Their riffs are certainly serpentine as well, meandering around and over the drums like the coils of a resting python, springing to life for moments of attack before coiling back in on themselves.

Vocally they range from the head tilted back howling screams of black metal to almost guttural death growls, this is used almost instrumentally to add dynamics to their compositions.

This is a professional and expertly performed and produced release that sees SERPENT EATER sounding like a true venue destroyer, certainly a band at the very top of their game and worth catching!   

DOGS FOR BREAKFAST 'Suiru' LP
Release Date 04 October 2019

limited edition of only 100 gold and 200 black vinyl copies
comes with a 350g cover and full colored print



Nearly four years since their last release, the “Dogs For Breakfast / Bologna Violenta” split album, Italian noise mongers DOGS FOR BREAKFAST return with “Suiru”, a jarring dirge in 8 movements that sees the band further evolving into an animal all of its own. 

The album represents yet another pivot point in the band’s sound, a further departure from the hardcore-metal focused songs of their early releases. On “Suiru” the group delve deeper, and darker than ever before. This vicious full-length may be the group’s quintessential statement of violence and despair made sonic. 

Drawing from not only the desperate noise and post hardcore sonics of the 90’s and early 2000’s, DOGS FOR BREAKFAST have mixed in the decidedly darker tone and presence of extreme metal, expertly captured by Dano Battocchio at O.F.F. Studio and Deepest Sea Studio, with mastering provided by Brad Broatright at Audiosiege (Obituary, Tragedy, High On Fire and many more).

KAFKA s/t LP
Release Date 12 July 2019

limited edition doom black vinyl,
heavy 380g cover, insert with lyrics and liner notes

 

KALPA 'A Grand Misconception' LP
Release Date 28 June 2019

limited edition doom black vinyl,
heavy 380g cover, insert with lyrics and liner notes

100000 TONNEN KRUPPSTAHL 'Teeth Fletcher' Gatefold 2LP
Release Date 28 June 2019

limited edition vinyl:
01x orange, black, white mixed (A/B Side) and orange, gold mixed (C/D side) *
01x sludge orange, yellow, black mixed (A/B Side) and sludge orange, gold mixed (C/D side) *
02x sludge orange, yellow mixed (A/B and C/D Side) *
04x brown, sludge orange, black mixed (A/B and C/D Side) *
06x sludge orange (A/B Side) and gold marbled (C/D Side) *
10x sludge orange (A/B Side) and orange, khaki, black mixed (C/D Side) *
11x khaki, black mixed (A/B and C/D Side) *
171x sludge orange
223x doom black
*hand numbered edititons, not available to the public

housed in a heavy Gatefold Sleeve including lyrics and liner notes
comes with a bandcamp download code of the entire album
 

AVALANCHE 'Interstellar Movement' Gatefold LP + T-Shirt Bundle
Release Date 14 June 2019

limited edition of only 313 sludge orange vinyl copies,
heavy 380g gatefold cover with lyrics and liner notes,
black T-Shirt, Gildan heavy cotton
comes with a Bandcamp download code of the entire album.

 

Appropriately named Austrian five piece AVALANCHE conjur Sabbathian riffs on their debut full length 'Interstellar Movement'.

This is a solid slab of sludge-infused, hardcore influenced rocking riff worship, every performance is tight to a fault with not a foot wrong.

You could be forgiven for expecting a release filled with prog-anthems given the title but AVALANCHE skew towards a more Sleep orientated sci-fi approach, but with the pace of High On Fire at their most pulverising.

'Interstellar Movement' is full of churning riffs that will have you unwittingly banging your head or even outright snapping your neck on sudden thrashing D-beat sections that close out this weighty release.

These later tracks occasionally even touch on proto-thrash territory, remaining true to their sludging credentials with unmistakable crushing guitar tone and huge, dynamic drums.

The mix of the album is very clean and balanced feeling, nothing overpowers anything else and a very professional atmosphere pervades throughout.

This is a stand-out thematic rock release that promises great things to come from these boys!

AVALANCHE 'Interstellar Movement' Gatefold LP
Release Date 14 June 2019

limited edition of only 313 sludge orange vinyl copies,
heavy 380g gatefold cover with lyrics and liner notes,
comes with a Bandcamp download code of the entire album.

 

Appropriately named Austrian five piece AVALANCHE conjur Sabbathian riffs on their debut full length 'Interstellar Movement'.

This is a solid slab of sludge-infused, hardcore influenced rocking riff worship, every performance is tight to a fault with not a foot wrong.

You could be forgiven for expecting a release filled with prog-anthems given the title but AVALANCHE skew towards a more Sleep orientated sci-fi approach, but with the pace of High On Fire at their most pulverising.

'Interstellar Movement' is full of churning riffs that will have you unwittingly banging your head or even outright snapping your neck on sudden thrashing D-beat sections that close out this weighty release.

These later tracks occasionally even touch on proto-thrash territory, remaining true to their sludging credentials with unmistakable crushing guitar tone and huge, dynamic drums.

The mix of the album is very clean and balanced feeling, nothing overpowers anything else and a very professional atmosphere pervades throughout.

This is a stand-out thematic rock release that promises great things to come from these boys!

HIMURA 'Alerta Biológica' LP
Release Date 20 April 2019

doom black vinyl edition comes with a full colored sleeve and insert with lyrics and liner notes
 

ONE DAY IN FUKUSHIMA 'Ozymandias' LP
Release Date 20 April 2019

limited edition of only 333 doom black copies
one sided 12inch LP comes with full colored cover and insert with lyrics and liner notes
 

ONE DAY IN FUKUSHIMA crush skulls with their debut full length whirlwind of blasting deathgrind. Easily conjuring memories of Rotten Sound and Nasum, the Italian four piece offer 18 tracks on 'Ozymandias' that burn past in moments leaving molten faces and a faint scent of skank beats in their wake.

The band certainly draw plenty of metal influence on this release, but it is all cemented under the banner of the truly overpowering blast that saves it from falling under any sub-generic classification other than deathgrind in the purest sense. No messing around, no time to draw breath, no time for atmosphere, just crushing riffs following spitfire hyper blasts, all overseen by throat tearing hoarse shouted vocals that never devolve into snorts or grunts.

The production is a very clean one, in places reminiscent of Insect Warfare, with drums cutting through everything but nothing destroyed by overly compressed guitar or vocal takes that might be expected in this kind of grind.

This release makes it clear that ONE DAY IN FUKUSHIMA are a force to be acknowledged in current grind, the fact that this is only their first full length a reason to anticipate their future.

NEST 'Metempsychosis' LP
Release Date 01 April 2019

limited edition of 313 colored vinyl copies,
heavy 380g cover, full colored artwork, UV spot varnish,
black innersleeve and heavy insert with lyrics and liner notes.

10 Testpress *
01 Despair yellow, orange, white, a bit black marbled *
17 Nurgle yellow, orange, darker green, black marbled * (friends & family)
60 Immaterium yellow, orange, a bit green, black marbled * (band edition) (color 1)
94 Empyrean yellow, orange, a bit red, black marbled (color 2)
141 Underworld yellow, orange, green, black marbled (color 3)
* hand numbered editions
 

NEST crawl from a light-forsaken oubliette of hideous malformed space time and burrow directly into the neck-snapping sub-cortex of the modern sludge troglodite's brain.

The American guitar/drums duo generate the kind of sounds you might expect to hear echoing from the mouth of some abyssal gateway, fluctuating between rhythmic, pulsing riffs as of something dragging itself across the floor and the throat shredding howls of a black metal cacophony, struggling against the wind of the void.

These guys create something special within the heavily saturated Sludge scene. If pressed to come up with a genre for this release you might say it was noise tinged, blackened sludge-doom amongst others.

That might sound like a band having an identity crisis but the Kentucky two piece present an album here with 'Metempsychosis' which is absolutely thematically and musically coherent.

It embraces the dichotomy of being both abrasively ear shredding while simultaneously pulling the listener in with the promise of headbanging riffs fit to give anyone a taste for mosh coupled with dynamic performances and a serious sense of scale.

Everything on this release sounds huge.

The guitars feel like they were recorded at a distance, possibly deep underwater, and have thick black ink dripping from every note.
The drums reverberate like the blows of someone carving stone.
Over it all the vocals are suprisingly present, tying the listener to the immediacy of the sound while simultaneously evoking the bleakest black metal and sludge records.

Moments of Khanate and The Abominable Iron Sloth collide with Celtic Frost and an ever present sense of dread throghout.

Certainly one to pickup. Certainly impossible to ignore once heard.