Sinking, steadily; with the precise, sharpened and embracing force of utter darkness. Guest appearance on all guitar solos of Martin Lang (Todesstoss) and drawings for the artwork by Tom Void (Thrall). Limited at 500 copies. Available from our distro for 8.90 €

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WINTERGEWITTER – Operation Wintergewitter CD CULTES DES GHOULES – Spectres over Transylvania MCD SZRON / KRIEGSMASCHINE – Split CD SZRON – Zeal CD SZRON – Reign in Frost CD DARK FURY – W.A.R. CD WHY ANGELS FALL – The Unveiling CD INVERNO ETERNO – s/t CD SENTIMEN BELTZA – Bizitza Osoan Zehar… CD XANTOTOL – Liber Diabolus: 1991-1996 CD BESATT – The Unholy Trinity – vol.1 CD BESATT – The Unholy Trinity – vol.2 CD BESATT – The Unholy Trinity – vol.3 CD WURM – Insomnies CD

Away fled the glory of the world, and with it my mourning — the sadness flowed together into a new, unfathomable world — Thou, Night-inspiration, heavenly Slumber, didst come upon me — the region gently upheaved itself; over it hovered my unbound, newborn spirit. The mound became a cloud of dust — and through the cloud I saw the glorified face of my beloved. In her eyes eternity reposed — I laid hold of her hands, and the tears became a sparkling bond that could not be broken. Into the distance swept by, like a tempest, thousands of years. On her neck I welcomed the new life with ecstatic tears. It was the first, the only dream — and just since then I have held fast an eternal, unchangeable faith in the heaven of the Night, and its Light, the Beloved.

Hymnen an die Nacht (1799 ayps)
Friedrich von Hardenberg (Novalis)

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GNAW THEIR TONGUES – Per Flagellum Sanguemque DIGICD
Per Flagellum Sanguemque, Tenebras Veneramus. Roughly translated, with blood and whip, we worship the dark. This is the latest collection of atrocities from Gnaw Their Tongues, an eight song investigation into the rites and rituals that emerge from the copper-scented frenzy of the serial killer, the obsessive acts of death worship enacted by those that live on the edge of abyss, the limits of experience sought by black cults. The sound is, as always, immensely heavy, with fractured drums and tunderous tympani skins reverberating within a maelstrom of seething black doom, screeching classical strings, horns, piano, and some of the most vomitous vocals imagineable. However, Per Flagellum Sanguemque is marked by the most frenetic percussive attack that we have heard from Gnaw Their Tongues, with volleys of chaotic drumming, fractured blasts, and maniacally complex patterns that sometimes seem to border on free-jazz drumming.

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AELTER – Dusk Dawn / Follow You Beloved DOUBLE DIGICD
One of several side-projects to emerge from the Wolvserpent camp, Aelter is the solo effort of Wolvserpent guitarist Blake Green. With Aelter, Blake explores a similar realm of dark majestic sound to Wolvserpent, with his massive downtuned guitar roar and bleak minor key melodies being the common thread between the two projects. But where Wolvserpent blends this chugging Melvins-esque heaviness and haunting slowcore arpeggios with violins, pounding drums, and a propensity for extended hypno-dirges, Aelter dispenses with the drums almost completely and goes for a more cinematic approach using layered keyboards and gorgeous harmonized voices that reminds me of something you would have heard on Beggers Banquet or 4AD being fused to a malevolent black heaviness. Both of the Aelter albums were only released on vinyl in limited editions of a few hundred copies and are close to going out of print completely, but we have now gathered both Dusk Dawn and Follow You Beloved together in a double disc set.

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WOLD – Badb DIGICD
Originally released on cassette in 2004 in a limited edition of 100 copies, Badb is one of the earliest releases from the Saskatchewan-based black metal/noise duo Wold. The nine tracks featured here revolve around the mythology of the war goddess, the spectre of doom that lurks at the edge of the battlefield, and begins at the heart of a roiling black blizzard and proceeds through a charred nightmare soundscape of icy corroded black metal riffs, fractured blasting, melancholic melodies blurred and smeared into malevolent new shapes, and scathing distorted witch-screams ripping through the blackness, all doused and drowned in Merzbowian levels of feedback and distortion abuse. Now presented on Cd for the first time, this early swarm of Wold’s psychotropic black metal/noise terror comes with all-new artwork from Pippi Zornoza.

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WOLVSERPENT – Gathering Strengths / Blood Seed DOUBLE DIGICD
Previously known as Pussygutt, the duo of blackened psychedelic dronemetallers from Boise, Idaho changed their name to the much more ominous sounding Wolvserpent in 2010. The name is the really the only thing that changed, as the occult hypno-doom and grim, folk-stained nightmares that populated their previous albums are all intact here. This double disc from Crucial Blast collects both the Gathering Strengths Lp (Olde English Spelling Bee) and Blood Seed Lp (20 Buck Spin), both of which were previously available only on limited edition vinyl. The material has been remastered for this format, and comes in an eight-panel digipack that features both the original album artwork as well as new imagery that further compliments Wolvserpent’s avant-garde witch-sludge.The band’s fourth album Blood Seed was released as a limited vinyl edition in 2010 on 20 Buck Spin, and is featured here as a single unbroken track. The first half is mostly made up of swirling nocturnal folk-drone, the second shifting into fractured, crushing heaviness.

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NEKRASOV – Extinction CD DIGICD
I’m going to go right ahead and put this on the list for “Heaviest Noise Multi-Disc Set” of the year. I had heard that this project was in the works a while back, but I didn’t realize how extensive and ambitious this set was going to be until I picked up my own copy of it to check out. Packaged in a custom-made die-cut package that opens up into ten panels, with the discs held in individual pockets on each of the panels (and the fifth disc held inside of a pocket in the center of the box), this amazing package unfolds to reveal the trademark Skull grinning at you from the core of the case, and each of the panels features lyrics and other information for each disc. The case is printed with a combination of spot-gloss and matte inks to create a mix of black-on-black artwork and dark grey print – it looks incredible, and obviously a lot of work and care went into the construction of this. Limited to 720 copies, Our Earth’s Blood IV is the most massive Bastard Noise release yet, a five-disc mega-album that is almost entirely made up of collaborations with other noise groups, which gives you a diverse mix of sounds and styles that includes some really surprising stuff that you probably wouldn’t expect to heard on a Bastard Noise album.

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FISTULA – Goat CD DIGICD
Ohio is rotting. Fistula once again team up with Crucial Blast to deliver another heavy dose of their septic, filthy, lumbering death-sludge in the form of Goat, a five-song Ep of low-fi and low-end nihilistic filth and rabies-laced caveman thrash with songs based on the ghoulish discovery and subsequent investigation of the eleven decomposing bodies found in the Cleveland home of Anthony Sowell in the Autumn of 2009. This new disc delivers more of the pulverizing, slime-covered sludge and primitive death metal rot that these Buckeye barbarians have been carving out in the back of Medina garages over the past ten years, continuing to follow in the coagulated blood tracks of Frost, Autopsy and Winter, but filtered through Fistula’s uniquely mangled and inebriated scum-haze and utterly negatory worldview.