November 2016 - Bound and Gagged

Aql Measure - "Construct Of Regret" - Cassette  (Algebra of Need) $18 SGD

Construct of Regret is a atmospheric industrial wasteland with primordial beatings of life in its most visceral state of Drum n Bass, slowed down,skewed and stretched.

2 sided full colour j card with a black and white picture booklet



 
Listen - The image of Crossed Keys  






Aql Measure/Bug Chaser - "Dreaming in Silence" Cassette (Algebra of Need) $15 SGD

Aql Measure & Bug Chaser deliver a dose each of heavy poundings with no room mercy from the dark corners of dnb and dub.

Tape comes in a griplock bag with inserted pictures.










Consulate- "Carpathian Blues" Cassette (Algebra of Need) $15 SGD

A Georgian folk-techno roller sitting in at 20 minutes, the lofi journey builds complicatedly and without hesitation, testing the listener as well as provoking several emotional responses a long the way. All most schizophrenic in its exaction with statue like rhythms juxtaposing a polarising array of samples that tell a story that can change at every new listen… A true mood piece.



Listen - Carpathian Blues




Lofthaus - "Alive with Pleasure" Cassettes (Algebra of Need) $15 SGD

Dark and Lustful Techno from AON's owners, Henry Gillet and Thomas Barnes. A much needed new take on outsider techno.

Tape comes with A3 printed collage.





Listen-Office Romance






Tiger Village VI : "Effective Living" Cassette (Hausu Mountain) $20 SGD

Tiger Village beams a new series of omni-electronic technoid transmissions from the top of Hausu Mountain in the form of his new album Tiger Village VI: Effective Living. The Cleveland-based producer/performer sculpts deliriously dense compositions that play out like the underground hits of an edified future culture that has finally achieved total hybridity. Torrents of sci-fi synth melodies float alongside ego-nullifying noise and drone textures.  

 Listen - This Future (inside) 

Bang!Bros - "Food for Thoth" Cassette (Hausu Mountain) $20 SGD

A black midnight gangbang of raw free jazz and splattered beats. A rollercoaster of sleaze. 12 stunning tracks that engage and entertain.

Blue tape with black imprints. Pro-dubbed chrome + tape. 2-sided 3-panel J-card with artwork from Hausu Mountain's co-founder Max Allison





Listen - Great Set



 




 

Davey Harms - "Cables" Cassette (Hausu Mountain) $20 SGD 

Davey Harms' debut on Hausu Mountain. Heavy noise techno fused with mechanical mangled beats. Punishing. Fuck the EQ and your ears.

 Listen - Trapped in the Grid  

Dreamcrusher - "Suicide Deluxe" Cassette (Hausu Mountain) $20 SGD

An overtly distorted manic banger. Fuzz out beats, harsh noise antics underlined by dead melodies inspired by personal struggles and memories. Let this rip.

Dope pink shell with white imprint cassette.




Listen - Godless Chic



Eartheater - "RIP Chrysalis" - Cassette (Hausu Mountain) $20 SGD

A psychedelic experimental folk-pop infused experience.
Eartheather has managed to produced a deeply moving and immersive album with RIP Chrysalis with spaced out sounds, haunting vocals and manacingly sweet strings.

Pink tape with black imprints. Pro-dubbed chrome + tape. 2-sided 3-panel J-card with artwork from Eartheater and Max Allison.

Listen - Wetware





Khaki Blazer - "Moontan Nocturnal" Cassette (Hausu Mountain) $20 SGD

Rogue genius, Khaki Blazer delivers a smorgasboard of oddball sounds. 32 track tape with a collection of works from 2011-2015.





 Listen - Vibrato Rap







Radiator Greys - " Denying the Other" Cassette (Hausu Mountain) $20 SGD

Whirlpools of sound through omnious portals and dismal wailing synths shadowed by funeral drum cacophonies, Radiator Greys' "Denying the other" delivers relief as well as feelings of pain and loss within 6 stunning tracks.





Listen - Cocksure on the Chopping Block







Haraam- "Reestablishment of Old Ideals" Cassette (Moral Defeat) $22 SGD

Militant ethno industrial, dusty atmospheres and ominous rhythms, Haraam is combining the more lo-fi tape sound of the early tapes, with the beat driven sound of the latest releases. Old world electronics.

Listen - Reestablishment-of-old-ideals-Excerpts   





Fecalove - "Requiem For Hos Arne"Cassette (Moral Defeat) $22 SGD

The master of Italian sleaze brings us an ode to the legendary danish sex shop ''Hos Arne'' that closed this year after 49 years in business. Harsh filth worship, artwork made exclusively with material collected from the sex shop.


Listen - Requiem for Hos Arne-Excerpts





Cold Choice - "Harassed by Remembrance" Cassette (Moral Defeat) $22 SGD

Heavy electronics delivered by this anonymous new project from Denmark. Dwelling somewhere in between abstract industrial and rhythmic noise, Cold Choice presents to us two long oppressive tracks.

Listen - Harassed by Rememberance -Excerpts




 Body Stress - "Dismembered in Sudan" Cassette (Moral Defeat) $22 SGD

Listen - Dismembered in Sudan- Excerpts

Released in 2015, 1 of 25 copies in blood red shell.














Colony - " Season of Fear" Cassette (Moral Defeat) $30 SGD

Released in 2015, 1 of 30 copies in poly video style case.



Listen - Season of Fear -Excerpts









PGR -"Vacanze" Cassette (Moral Defeat) $22 SGD

Untreated Field Recordings during vacation to Italy.

Housed in matchbox cardboard sleeve.



Listen - Vacanze- Excerpts







Torturing Nurse - " Ceremony" Cassette (Moral Defeat) $22 SGD

New cassette by the long running Chinese noise project Torturing Nurse. Known for confrontational live performances and being the owner of the label ''Life Is Absurd'', Torturing Nurse's extensive discography speaks for itself. This tape delivers a straight forward harsh noise assault, scrap metal and feedback abuse.

1 of 39 copies. Released April 16, 2016.
Listen -Ceremony -Excerpts 





Lidane Livering/Dogs of Yama - "Sheltering Void" (Moral Defeat) $22 SGD

 
Split tape. Lidane Livering Side A / Dogs of Yama Side B.

1 of 40 copies.

Side A (Lidane Livering)
Final XV
Final XVI
Final XIX
Final XVIII

Side B (Dogs of Yama)
All Names and Forms Disappear in Her
Kalaratri
She who is death 

Listen - Sheltering Void- Excerpts 





Krypta - "Summoning" Cassette (Moral Defeat) $22SGD

Dark,lurid drones and ambient death.

6 of 45 copies.

 Listen - Summoning- Excerpts

Cancermakhluk -SISTERE! SOLRITUAL Limited CD booklet

Cancermakhluk (Melbourne,Australia) SISTERE! SOLRITUAL limited CD booklet - $20 SGD

Death industrial, drone ritualism , isolationist spheres, heavy electronics offered through the dystopian meditations from the evokers of the red dust continent.

Limited pieces on Old House.

Resurrection. Aug 2016. 

Mannerfelt/Haydo "Radio Mohave" Cassette (Avian.)$18 SGD

 

Swedes Pedar Mannerfelt & Simon Haydo arrive on Avian with Radio Mohave, an EP of razor sharp leftfield Techno. 

Whilst much of the output on the label might be seen as a triumph of atmosphere and energy over traditional production values, Mannerfelt & Haydo find little problem articulating both at once. Title track Radio Mohave is as reduced as one might expect, but perfectly balanced - each element occupying its designated frequency range and serving a purpose. This theme of balance continues throughout the record - even as rhythms become more complex on Never Let You Down, and the pair take a more experimental turn on Stepping In.

“…five cuts of finer wave functions oscillating between monotone jacks, rumbling rhythmic noise and EBM-tainted throbbers for the hardest-to-please experimental techno heads…” Boomkat 2015

Edition of 100 

Listen - "Radio Mohave" 

Pterygium - "The Revival Of Unwritten Laws" - Cassette (Algebra Of Need)$18 SGD

A four part tale of violence from an unknown world. The debut EP by Pterygium explores the mindset and morals of divided factions in a forgotten time.

Crafted from library records and found sounds, run through feedback loops and soaked in distortion to paint a picture of tribal ritual and warfare.

Housed in a handmade box and lined with silk.

Listen - "Never once did I recover a revelation 

Pearl River Sound - "Somed Tapes Vol. 1" - Cassette (Seagrave)$18 SGD SOLD OUT

10 insanely catchy tracks by Italy's Roberto Semeraro aka Pearl River Sound. A juxtapose amalgamation of downtempo & electronica with an acid backbone. 

Transparent 'prison' cassette with yellow hubs and white on-body print. 

Listen - "447" 

Jake Meginsky "Seven Psychotropic Sinewave Palindromes" Cassette (NNA tapes) $18 SGD

Brand new work from Northampton, Massachusetts percussionist and electronic producer Jake

Meginsky. Known best for his solo work both under his own name as well as the Vapor Gourds

moniker, Meginsky has also been highly active in collaborative groups such as Slaughterhouse Percussion with John Truscinski, and F/I/P with guitarist Bill Nace. After last year’s brilliant “Vandals” LP on Open Mouth and Vapor Gourds’ “Incision Objects” LP on Fogged, Meginsky starts 2016 off fresh with “Seven Psychotropic Sinewave Palindromes” for NNA  

Listen -"Seven Psychotropic Sinewave Palindromes" (excerpt) 

Babyfather - "BBF" Hosted By DJ Escrow 2xLP
(Hyperdub) $30 SGD (PRE-ORDER)

Dean Blunt's Babyfather delivers an abstract, conceptual hip hop album that explores the struggle of a fictional UK rapper and DJ. 

Blunt's take is a crude mix of grime,noise and sound collages amidst his take on rap and spoken word. This album is entertaining if you're a fan of Dean Blunt but can't be taken too seriously and I believe that was the objective.

Listen -"Shook/Meditation" 

James Ferraro - Skid Row 2xLP (Break World Records) $42 (PRE-ORDER)

Skid Row is the studio debut from James Ferraro released Nov 13-2015 it was recorded entirely in Los Angeles CA and is the follow up of 2013’s moody brutalist masterpiece NYC HELL 3AM musically Skid Row deconstructs and rebuilds a scrap yard of genres and aesthetics Thrash / Country / Modern Classical / Neo-Brutalism all shuttering under a metallic detritus overloaded like a skipping CD.

Listen - "Thrash & Escalate"

Hex- Hex LP (Liberation Technologies) $30 SGD SOLD OUT

Liberation Technologies continue to work with innovative artists and encourage experimental and challenging perspectives in modern electronic music, welcoming newcomer HEX with their latest release. 

Hex is comprised of London based artists Charlie Noon & Tom Field. Drawing influence from and exploring the outer realms of techno, experimental, rave and grime they breathe new energy into the dance floor. Their spacious sound design fuses unfamiliar sound elements and building waves of melody with blistering percussion and kinetic soundscape.

Listen - "Ruin Value" 

Personable - Oyster LP (Black Opal)$25 SGD
SOLD OUT (Available for Pre-Order)

Ged Gengras' Personable project is the boiled down syrup of many years spent learning his craft within synthesis. Captured directly from live home studio recording, each track lives and breathes in it's own space, 'Gambetti' serves a light structure of rattling snares and resonant bass boops dressed up with gorgeous, almost gothic hanging notes. 'Window' is a funked slice of Ged at his best, referencing grime/garage structure but extended out into am 11+ minute epic that conjures buccolic idyll, like funky sunshine. B-side opener 'Oyster' flips the vibe inward into a more paranoid number, similarly long form and rolling but with all melody turning in on itself and riffs decaying away into thin whispers. To close; the stunning 'Cormorant' forms itself from a bed of padded out bliss. Listen -"Cormorant"

Metrist - This is For Sore is Just There LP (Black Opal)$25 SGD
SOLD OUT (Available for Pre-Order)

Metrist AKA L. SAE AKA Joe Higgins brings the noise in this tech-punk sound-clash straight outta' Hades. His background in bass music of all moulds can be felt throughout but the round edges of dubstep have been fragmented into harsh shards, prismatic in approach, each track swaggers and pumps under it’s own mad weight. Jabbering speak & spell voices lead into tape busted kicks and sinuoid crow calls. Seismic filtered drums and a broken mirror landscape of screech synth and dull tonal slope. The record is a vivid nightmare, absurd and chilling. Listen -Petrol Arses  

Patricia - Bem Inventory LP (Opal Tapes)$28
SOLD OUT (Available for Pre-Order)

​​"Bem Inventory is not only well-produced, it's surprisingly varied as well. In just six tracks, Ravitz goes from pounding techno to unusually smooth deep house. On first glance, Bem Inventory is another slice of proficient, raw dance music from a scene that seems to spit out new records of its ilk every few minutes. It certainly works in that context, but lift the lid and there's a whole lot more going on underneath.​"  - Resident Advisor 

Listen -" Bem Inventory

Grace - Grace LP (Avian.)$24 SGD
SOLD OUT (Available for Pre-Order)

Originally released via Ascetic House in 2015, Vereker’s Grace tape owes much to the canon of vintage anti-music, exploring catharsis via a transgression of traditional compositional & technical values. Working with the same thematic concerns of much of the more leftfield additions to the Avian catalogue - in it’s more subdued moments, anxiety & dissafection; in it’s more high energy - pure hysteria - the recording pairs basic synthesis with warped vocals in the same manner as Industrial progenitors Throbbing Gristle and Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound).

Listen - Untitled 3

Aphex Twin - Cheetah EP LP (Warp) $35 SGD (PRE-ORDER)

The Aphex Twin Cheetah EP uses digital sound generation techniques combined with wave sequencing technology to bring you sounds with movement and depth rarely found on records today. To assure you that your Cheetah EP will give you many years of enjoyment, please be sure to read the owners manual carefully before attempting to operate the Cheetah EP. All forms of Cheetah EP come encased in high gloss packaging with silver foil detailing to ensure a high quality product experience. 

Listen - CIRKLON3

Under the Running Board : Circuitrip

 Under the Running Board : Circuitrip

Caught up with Rahman aka Circuitrip and Label Head for Ehsan Records (SG) for a few beers and a long overdue interview session.

It's Thursday evening,12th of May at some rooftop bar in Arab Street. We're into our 2nd round of drinks before we decide to get serious and start the interview. The following documents my adoration for one of my favourite noise artist, Circuitrip.

OHD - Hey Man.. Thanks for finally catching up with me to do this. As mentioned earlier I'd like to create more content for OHD and this will be the first published interview, let's not fuck it up![Laughs] So.. question number 1.. Tell us who you are?

R - I'm Rahman, I do freelance work to get me through the day and perform as Circuitrip.

OHD - Cool. I've known you for quite some time now and you've always been in the underground scene from crust to metal etc..When did you get into noise/experimental music?

R - I guess it's was somewhere around '98 where everyone was starting to breakout out of the norm. I personally love extreme music and always looked for something that pushes the boundaries and noise/experimental music was the "new" platform for me.

OHD- Was there any particular artist or band that inspired you at that time?

R- Japnoise like Astro & Incapacitants have always been a big influence, I know a lot of people would cite Merzbow as a God or something but I'm not too fond of his methods and much prefer Masonna for his uninhibited use of feedback.

OHD - I love Masonna too man!First record I got into was Spectrum Ripper, it was harsh and soothing at the same time, Madness!

OHD - So you have a pretty decent discography and constantly put out releases, is there anything you're working on now?

R- Yeah. I'm currently working on a 4-way split release and a S.E Asian compilation that will feature artists from Thailand,Vietnam, Indonesia and many more..it's probably my biggest project for Asia and both will be out late this year or early next year on my label, EHSAN RECORDS.

OHD- Right. Speaking about split releases, you often collaborate with other artists for live shows as well, what are some challenges compared to playing solo?

R- Working on my own is great.. there's more time to experiment. When it's a collaboration I tend to be more sensitive or diplomatic so things are more cohesive.

For live shows, a lot of people think it's just noise but you really need to listen to the layers and figure out how best you can get the most out of it. You can plan as much as you want and sometimes it doesn't go accordingly because in noise music there is no boundary.

OHD- I hear you. How is your creative process like? Is there any rituals you do to prepare yourself?

R- A lot inspiration comes from my past. I've had a pretty fucked-up past with sadness and despair that continue to haunt me until this day, so yeah.. whatever that comes through my music is a part of my blood.

OHD- When you're all plugged in and ready to go, do you have an idea in your head of how to get this "fucked-up-ness" out through your music?

R- It starts with whatever mood I'm in but naturally takes on a life of it's own through my hands.

OHD- People know you as Man or Trojan and many associate you with the Singapore noise music scene both locally and internationally, but tell us something about you that people would've never guessed.

R- I'm actually a shy person [laughs] and don't communicate well with others so some may say I'm snobbish but once you get to know me you'll see that I'm just shy.

OHD: Alright. So you travel a lot and play shows overseas a fair bit, how does the the scene abroad compare to Singapore?

R- The true noise scene in Singapore is really a small collective.People get into trends here more than anything and it's just been recently that noise music here got some form of recognition due to more international acts coming over and promoters capitalizing on it.

OHD- So it's more like different people are into it for different reasons, most of them are trying to be part of something they don't understand right? What about countries like Indonesia? Who have such a vibrant noise scene.

R- The noise music community in Indonesia is a part of a bigger music scene with great support compared to Singapore. Over here people are biased based on what equipment you use and who you know, you don't get this shit in Indonesia, they're are so supportive of upcoming artists and offer a helping hand whenever they can.

OHD- Noise music has certain characteristics in terms of imagery and philosophy in some sense, are you influenced by any of these or anything else?

R- Beside my personal struggles being the main driving force behind my music, the "system" here makes me frustrated and angered, this influences my sounds as well.

OHD- It's really like some form of therapy for you I'd imagine.

R- Yes it is.

OHD- Anything else that drives you?

R- My friends that keep doing what they love to do despite having family and financial commitments, I truly respect that.

OHD - Any future plans?

R- I'm just getting my life on track and seeing how things go for now... maybe I'll stop doing music maybe not.. just taking things day-by-day and keep doing what I love.

OHD- It's really good to see some artists pushing the envelope and coming out with new sounds and such, are you contented with yours for now?

R- I don't feel the need to produce anything more than what I'm capable of, it's not a competition for me and my sounds are a good representation of myself.

OHD - Last question - One Word - What do you represent?

R- [10 sec intense contemplative pause]...Freedom.

We wrapped things up with a couple of more rounds into the night and talked about hopes, dreams and massage parlors.

http://circuitripx.bandcamp.com/releases

Ehsan Records

March 2016 - We care because they don't.

March 2016 - We care because they don't.
A miasma of dark sounds from the brave few that push the envelope and reinvent the delivery.
March on electric children.

Zosima / w OAKE rmxs - "Metamorphosis" - 12" LP (Noiztank) $18 SGD SOLD OUT (Available for Pre-Order)



What we know as avant-garde seems to look back every time more to the past. An aim of finding new reinterpretations produces deeper and deeper researches into the most primary roots of electronic music, but actually that conflict between old and new is gone. Then, what does it mean a radical idea versus the image of a radical idea? Whether something is genuinely radical is so only if it hasn’t been done, or is difficult to do, or the results are uncertain, which is different from reproducing years later what the discipline learned to do in former times. The struggle to implement and to understand new work, as a valued act of conduct is very different from repeating a learned image.
This dichotomy founded the basics of Zosima's original tracks. The sequence continues with two OAKE's remixes and it is closed by a narrative of divine ectasy. A monstrous sensuality, that takes you to the end without noticing it.
"Metamorphosis" shows the birth, life and death of a musical body.

Listen - A1 embryo

Asolaar - "Obliterate" - LP (Metaphysik) $23


Asolaar offers a hybrid of drone, noise and industrial interlaced with tone patterns and subtle voices, creating a rebellious state under a blanket of electric noise.

Listen - A3 piedra de renos (Excerpt)


Female - Angel Plague 2 x LP (Downwards) $40 SGD




Remastered version of the original album from 1999.
BLACK VINYL
New printed sleeve.
Limited repress.

Ontal - "Simulacron" - (Amok Tapes) Cassette $18 SGD
 
Ontal is a collaborative project which consists of Boris Brenecki and Darko Kolar, both hailing from Serbia. They focus on the bleakest, blackest apocalyptic techno and grinding mechanoid rhythms. Formed in November 2011 and influenced by numerous music genres, their sound can be described as an uncompromising, hard and intense assault. Breathing new life in the industrial strains of techno and the darker realms of the dancefloor and mind.
"Simulacron" is an extreme exercise in analog synth arpeggios and industrial drumming. In addition, the cassette comes with two exclusive sequences.

Listen - Simulacron


Bakunin Commando - "Bakunin Commando"(Amok Tapes) - Cassette $18 SGD


Bakunin Commando is a side project of Francesco Baudazzi (Violet Poison) debuting with this C26 cassette. Musically oriented on “1984-alike weird minimal/EBM tapes”, those squatter-alike 1980’s obscure home-tapes’s filth, those one that used to go along with fetish comics by Eric Stanton or Bill Ward. Key elements are nonsense vocals, nervous laughs, hysterical tiny screams and usage of distorted, damaged proto-EBM sequences that join 80’s Industrial-alike beats. Fetish dadaism - heavily sexual and deranged - punk nonsense and female domination are the main inspirations.
Listen - I


Noumeno - "The Phantom"(Haunter Records) - Cassette  $20 SGD SOLD OUT (Available for Pre-Order)


Through the eyes of Stefano K. ​Testa AKA Noumeno, anxiety shows its fractal nature, its ever-revealing DNA of contradictory micro-emotions, body stimuli and thoughts. Music is his way of processing and exposing this hypercomplexity, crudely exposing the feeling of being haunted by uncertainty and finite knowledge. Assembling piles of granular noisy harmonics as fuel for a rhythmicality on the verge of digital chaos, he uses sporadic bits of muffled melodies as a realistic revisiting of human horror. His gothic roots are turned into futuristic neuroses by bits of decomposed grime, industrial-like heaviness and saturated bass. Recorded through the course of several months in Berlin and Milan, it is Testa’s first ever release, also hosting a densely droning rework by Contort alumnus WSR.

Listen -A craving

Ovis aurum - (SEAGRAVE) Cassette -  $18 SGD


Ambient soundscapes with smooth pulsating undertones and eclectic beats. Melancholic and beautiful melodies for astral projection.
Transparent 'prison' cassette with white on-body print and full-colour j-card inlay.

Listen - Realm Loop


Kinlaw - "YMA/KK"(SEAGRAVE) - Cassette $18 SGD

 
Grimey, Gangsta-crunked and bass like a dirty motha' . On heavy rotation, highly recommended for fans of Triangle and Trilogy Tapes.

Listen - Dere Ker


Nene Hatun - "Tingöçü" (SEAGRAVE) - Cassette $18 SGD
 


Nene Hatun is a Berlin-based musician. Born in Istanbul, she grew up in Izmir, later going on to study piano and composition in Ankara, Tel Aviv and Stuttgart. Having grown up in Turkey, Nene Hatun displays a wealth of oriental and Anatolian influences, combining these with her own electronic, psychedelic and rhythmic modes of expression.

Listen - Tingöçü

Ondness - "Quase Driven"(SEAGRAVE) - Cassette $18 SGD SOLD OUT (Available for Pre-Order)


Raw grainy memories from a forgotten sampler. Open to interpretation at best but profoundly distinctive in all corners of the spectrum.

Orange cassette with black on-body print. Full colour double-sided j-card.

Listen - Quase Driven

Flogging February

Through out various religious and secret societies, zealots and devotees have practiced mortification of the flesh for spiritual attainment. This February we pay tribute to the fanatical and the disturbed.


 Gnaw their tongues - Collected Atrocities 2005-2008
 (Crucial Blast)2 x cd $32 sgd (PRE-ORDER)
 
 

All those who have delved into the under belly of dark ritualistic ambient,noise or avant-black/doom metal are familiar with the entity Gnaw Their Tongues. Mories, the conjurer of dark souls have been terrorizing his listeners through various projects such as Cloak of Altering, Pyriphlegethon, De Magia Veterum, Aderlating, Mors Sonat, Pompidou, Dimlit Hate Cellar for years but none so vile as Gnaw Their Tongues, his epitome of terror.

Listen -Master I am done



Ehnahre - Taming the Cannibals SOLD OUT (Available for Pre-Order)
(Crucial Blast) cd $28 SGD



Taming the Cannibals, the sophomore full-length from avant-black / death / doom band Ehnahre, is one of the more cerebral and challenging death metal albums to come through the Crucial Blast headquarters this year. Featuring former members of prog / gothic art-rockers Kayo Dot and avant-death metalists Biolich, the Boston-based group unleashes extreme chaotic dissonance and pitch-black chthonic textures--a combination of atonal 20th-century classical music and vicious blackened death laced with stretches of intense choral ambience and blasts of calcifying, glacial doom.

Listen - Animals



Ehnahre - Douve SOLD OUT (Available for Pre-Order)
(Kathexis) cd $30 sgd


Ehnahre new release, Douve, pushes things even farther into the muddy perimeter, incorporating elements of contemporary classical music, serialism, free improvisation, aleatory, free meter, noise and other experimental techniques. An 18 part cycle based on poet Yves Bonnefoy’s Theatre, the record is a window into the distressed mind of a man as he observes the death and decay of his metaphorical beloved, the “watcher of the cold secret”. Employing a dizzying variety of timbres, instruments, moods and stylistic homages, the album ranges from the delicate shimmer of piano overtones to full-bore metal howl, its emotional intensity only overcome by the density of its harmonies. Sometimes beautiful, frequently disgusting, Douve is not only an aural narrative, but a display of the group’s radical evolution.

Listen - Douve (Trailer)


Ultha -Pain Cleanses Every Doubt SOLD OUT (Available for Pre-Order)
(Vendetta) lp $30 sgd



Pain Cleanses Every Doubt Ultha's debut release is for fans of Ash Borer, Xasthur, Leviathan, Christicide, Blut Aus Nord. The four songs often vary in speed and mood, yet always functioning as one big entity. A constant feel of urging darkness is present. This manifests in the omnipresent melodies which lure the listener in and also in the sophisticated, metaphor ridden lyrics about melancholia, depression, doubt and anti-religious believes.

Listen - Perpetual Ressurection


 Full of Hell + Merzbow (PRE -ORDER)
 (Profound Lore) 2 x cd $32 sgd



Full of Hell • Merzbow, a full-length release and Profound Lore debut, is their most intense, punishing and obliterating work to date. With none other than legendary master of noise Masami Akita (a.k.a. Merzbow) laying down the extra layers of noise and depth to Full of Hell’s already chaotic and brutal sound, the album is without a doubt one of the most formidable artistic statements in extreme music the grind/noise genre. A bonus disc entitled Sister Faun, exclusive to the CD edition, features a five-song noise piece expanding upon Merzbow’s work on the proper album.

Listen - Burnt Synapse


Hauter - διαδήλωση 
(Young Cubs) cassette $15 sgd SOLD OUT (Available for Pre-Order)


Haunter hail from San Antonio and διαδήλωση find them unleashing three apocalyptic tracks on their first cassette release…full length due later in 2016. Three tracks of blackend metal madness.



Pissgrave -Suicide Euphoria
(Profound Lore) cd $30 sgd | lp $40 sgd SOLD OUT (Available for Pre-Order)
 
With their debut full-length Suicide Euphoria, Pissgrave delivers the sickest, rawest, most depraved and violent death metal release of the year. Sounding unlike anything going on in the underground today, the band reveals itself as one of the most promising prospects in contemporary death metal.
This is seriously recommended for fans of Revenge, Angelcorpse & Portal.

Listen - Pain Enchantment

Abyssal - Antikatastaseis SOLD OUT (Available for Pre-Order)
(Profound Lore) cd $28 sgd



Abyssal deliver the most intriguing, most brutal and darkest death metal release of the year, solidifying their place as one of the best bands coming out of the UK today alongside Grave Miasma and Cruciamentum. By taking their musical fortitude to yet more melodic and technical heights, Abyssal have raised a bar in the genre of death metal.

Listen - I am the Alpha and Omega


Cruciamentum - Charnel Passages SOLD OUT (Available for Pre-Order)
(Profound Lore) cd $28 sgd



Following a brief hiatus, Cruciamentum has been resurrected to finally deliver their debut full-length. Their mightiest work yet with true death metal majesty in every sense of the word, unleashing dark atmosphere, pummeling brutality and skillful playing, all rendered with clear warm, natural-sounding production.

Listen - Charnel Passages


La Morte Young
(Ba Da Bing!) Cassette $15 (PRE-ORDER)




With members of Sun Stabbed, Talweg and Nappe, this French group “draw[s] singing feedback from expiring amps and extend[s] moments of tense string-brut into colossal, slow-burning ascensions, padding drums force the eternal upward vectors into waves of dreamtone as the group attempt[s] a flat-lined reconciliation between barbarous psychedelic drone, early music and single tone hypnotics.