Sentient Ruin Laboratories Vinyl, CD & Tape 55 Items

The blood-freezing second full-length album from Swedish black/death industrial beast V:XII (pronounced and read "Five Twelve") adds a new urgency and dimension to the infamous underworld of Scandinavian evil martial dark ambient/industrial made famous by the legendary legacy of Cold Meat Industry and affiliated acts like Brighter Death Now, Mz.412, etc., and later, by its contemporary bastions like Nordvarg and Trepaneringsritualen. The crushing new opus titled Lu-Cipher-Sabbatean is a grueling listening experience that for thirty six minutes imposes complete submission upon the listener, drawing them into a wretched realm of majestic, deconstructed electronics and into an infernal dimension of utter darkness and dread. Perverse, violent and hallucinatory in its every aspect, Lu-Cipher-Sabbatean conjures a lightless abyss of paranoia and ritualized insanity, as it unfolds an ominous concept on the conspiratorial mind devolved into to its worst and most deteriorated form, the religious one. A sense of grim solemnity transpires from the album's ritualistic and almost liturgic pace, evoking a seething feeling of absolute evil as widescreen moments of abysmal dark ambience are violently lacerated by violent, spasmodic proclamations and by an onslaught of cold, bludgeoning martial rhythms and disembodied incantations

Oakland black/death metal plague wielders Dearth finally debut with their long awaited and highly anticipated first full-length album To Crown All Befoulment, a sonic reign of terror clawing deep into the most wretched, abominable, and hideous realms of human nature. Nihilistic beyond comprehension and sonically devastating, on the crushing debut LP Dearth explore incomprehensible thresholds of disgust and abjection through a sonic arsenal forged deep into in the most tormented circles of hell, unleashing a cataclysm of dark death metal horror that will leave the listener scarred and ravaged. Thorough an inescapable maze of oppressive death metal riffs and malefic atmospheres, the Oakland death-bringers have drawn influence from extreme metal titans like Dead Congregation, Deathspell Omega, Lucifyre, Demoncy, and Pseudogod to assemble a mortal weapon of mass extermination that symbolizes and glorifies the complete and implacable eradication of humanity in its every form and manifestation.

Triumphant vinyl compilation of obfuscating bestial death metal savagery. As the title unmistakably hints at, Infinite Visions of Violence & 2018 Demo unites Altar OF GORE's skull-crushing 2018 debut demo and the equally putrescent 2022 follow up Infinite Visions of Violence demo into a single vinyl release remastered for the purpose by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios. With this release these animalistic tracks find their first ever presentation on the wax format and sublimate into their final form to testify the gruesome majesty and horrific violence of one of America's most barbaric underground death metal acts. Conceived and executed entirely by Acolyte OF THE Foul Ones, Altar of Gore is the latest weapon of death metal carnage to have emerged from the festering and sprawling New Jersey extreme metal underground along with bands like Blasphematory, Death Fortress, Siege Column and Massive Retaliation, among others, all of which have also seen Acolyte serve in their ranks in one form or another at some point.

After the glorious Wormboiler cassette tape compilation obliterated human ears in 2021, American one-man black industrial weapon Uranium finally emerges from the depths of oblivion with its debut full-length album An Exacting Punishment, a five-track, forty-minute radioactive nightmare of complete sonic ruin channelling the darkness of black metal with the scathing immensity of defining post-industrial acts like Brighter Death Now, Godflesh, Wolf Eyes, Swans, MZ. 412, Controlled Bleeding, and Genocide Organ. As the band's name aptly hints at, Uranium was conceived as an aural vessel to explore the outer limits and the most irreversible states of complete human disintegration, and the incineration of its most defining and triumphant achievements; namely society, progress, technology, and civilization, with nuclear power being the conduit and ultimate engine of the greatest and most horrific forms of total annihilation mankind could ever face. Auditory terror both permeates and defines Uranium's music, with bludgeoning and majestic post-industrial soundscapes pulsing inside a lightless void lit only by drifting embers and falling ash, while immense infernal atmospherics wrap their deathly spires around the listener, crushing them into a distorted auditory abyss. Power electronics, industrial noise and black metal have rarely before been seen chained together and weaponized into such a mortal design. An authentic weapon of mass annihilation engineered to face human life with absolute death. A death-scarred reality that emerges from the utter bleakness and ruination of Uranium's apocalyptic design, as the listener is cast at the center of a caustic nuclear nightmare where flesh boils and evaporates off bone, cells erratically split into endless deformities and the world is turned into a mangled, corroded and disfigured radioactive oblivion.

Death metal meets its future self. When almost everything has been said and done, contamination becomes the only escape, as new ways to interpret and reinvent the wheel must be found to keep setting the mind free and the genre moving forward, including creating clever and transformative crossover syncretisms with other styles and genres than can open the eye of terror along with new gateways to a higher dimension of chaos. And this is how Brazil's mysterious experimental death metal deconstructors Antimonument have approached their cryptic and bludgeoning craft: infusing it with all kinds of foreign (but adjacent) audial excoriations, including industrial noise, hardcore punk, cryptic no-wave and scathing power electronics, to render their experimental dark extreme metal a futuristic and multidimensional sonic warhead. Imagine a mix of Blasphemy, Carcass, Incantation, Khanate, Swans, Crucifix, Void, Godflesh and Controlled Bleeding, and you will be closer, yet still not completely within, the mutated experimental realm of devastation conceived by the Brazilian cult.

Industrial black metal/noise/grind nightmare Vessel of Iniquity is back with its third official full-length album, a rogue abomination set to blow yet another smoldering wound into the fabric of consciousness via unconceivable deconstructions of reality and through a deviant approach to music creation aimed at harnessing absolute terror and mimicking the final stages of sanity. Introducing eight-string guitars for the first time ever, on The Path Unseen sole mastermind A. White has made a stylistic and sonic shift aimed at rendering his beast an even more lethal and oppressive force than ever before. The switch to eight strings has given the project abyss-like traits, as a death-bearing payload of low end frequencies and bottom end crush-depth of near-inescapable traits is added into the mix rendering the project essentially irreversibly damaging. The unrelenting outreach and research for the most weaponized and exaggerated forms of aural annihilation conceivable are now ever so evident in the project as Vessel of Iniquity morphs once again, release after release, seeking new ways to dissolve reality and suck the life out of its surroundings with black hole-like constructs of inescapable and all-devouring terror, which also showcase with unmistakeable evidence the fiercely experimental and constantly evolving nature of the project. Aside from the outlandish experiments in inconceivable fretwork annihilation, the catastrophic work is completed by its staple assault of carpet bombing drum machines, tectonic noise constructs and monstrous industrial abstractions that all play their unforgiving role in assembling this obliterating sonic nightmare of the underground which is becoming more and more the embodiment of pure fear and terror and an increasingly recognizable heirloom to the endless quest for the absolute extreme.

Chile-born and now Germany-based scourging black metal plague Vel'har joins Sentient Ruin for a much awaited and long anticipated vinyl release of its 2020 light-consuming debut MLP Letanía I. On the wretched offering cryptic mastermind H.S.V.H. unfolds two monstrous black metal blades adorned by three interludes to invoke an unholy sonic siege upon the ridicule of life and the purity of christendom. Baptized under the pentagram and spewn from the unholy jaws of oblivion, these five tracks sprawl and hiss like a horrifying morass of snakes, consuming reality and devouring everything in the wake of a monstrous tide of venom. The rawness and violence of these riffs is evident, but so is the ritualistic and esoteric majesty emanating from its death-scarred aura; an infernal force summoned as a liturgy or rite of passage toward a higher meaning and other form of existence. And that form is Satan's triumph, the zenith toward which every moving part of this wretched crucible converges. His glory as beacon and conduit of pestilent krafts conceived with the malefic design of insulting life and transporting the listener deep inside twisted and inverted dimensions of infinite dissolution and complete insanity.

Hate PROPAGANDA's far too overlooked 2019 debut MLP World War 666 sees a much needed reissue on vinyl, remastered and enhanced by brand new artwork commissioned for the purpose by Xerox master P. VAN Trigt. When it was first released on cassette tape back in 2019 by War Arts Productions, this war-torn debut offering of primeval warnoise by the mysterious Portuguese war criminals stood out immediately as a crown jewel debut for the genre and as one one of the year's most definitive and underrated manifestations of extreme metal's most hateful and berserk fringe. Packing in nineteen minutes of absolute hatred, the annihilating MLP manifests as a nightmare hallucination of complete violence and negativity, evoking eons of perennial apocalyptic global planetary war and terror on the wings of its nefarious design of achieving maximum annihilation in the shortest amount of time possible. To harness this bleak pantheon of ruin, the Portuguese conquerors have assembled a weaponized and uncontrolled sonic chain reaction where grindcore, black metal, death metal and hardcore punk are all accelerated and instigated into an inescapable payload of death aimed straight at the vital sinews of humanity. A sonic maelstrom churned into shape by an onslaught of obscure violent riffs, psychotic leads and ominous laughter which, parallel to a pulverizing drum performance, emanates from oblivion with an antediluvian, negative aura.

Portland, OR-based bestial esoteric black/death metal sorcerers Diabolic Oath are back with another annihilating chapter in their unrelenting conquest of the outer limits of total sonic bedlam. This time the experimental extreme metal trio return with the Aischrolatreia MLP, a prelude to their forthcoming sophomore full-length album which offers another glimpse into the band's unique and hallucinatory formula of barbaric occult war metal and unconventional fretless instrumentation and composition. The twenty-four minute, five-song esoteric weapon of mass annihilation delivers a churning and abysmal onslaught of warped, tectonic hallucinations, with the band designing seemingly impossible and highly cerebral trajectories with their respective instruments while the load of death emanating from these plague-ridden conjurations crushes the listener down with merciless abandon into complete aural carnage. With Aischrolatreia Diabolic Oath have proven once again of being one of the most transformative and unconventional forces in extreme metal, with their undisputed talents as virtuosic musicians being lent with staggering vision and imagination to one of the most animalistic and inhuman manifestations of extreme metal being forged today.

Back after just a few years with a third album of arcane evil speed-metallic riffcraft, there is no questioning the apex of inspiration is still riding high beyond classic Chilean thrash metal band APOSTASY‘s return back in 2013. Driven by their own fiercely traditional conviction from the start the banners of this classic Valparaíso-borne forever underground entity still fly by a strong willed and highest standard. If we can consider their previous full-length, The Sign of Darkness, the band making good on their promised return with blazing and uncompromising evil thrash then we can view Death Return as further solidification of their legacy featuring prime works beyond 2018. The mid-to-late eighties are still in sight as these new pieces generally veer towards brutal South American thrash of that era but, this time around they’ve made some room for nostalgia including a few remade classics from Sunset of the End as well as the strongest tracks from EP and demo releases during the interim. The greater effect is a summary of this dark-souled thrash entity’s past and present self framed as one experience, a sustained continuum of steadfast ideals."—Grizzly

Greek black/death metal legion Anticreation emerge from the abysses of hell with their colossal debut album From the Dust of Embers, a thirty-four minute aural declaration of war toward the insignificance of all terrain things. Monstrous walls of low end dissonance churn and fume like sprawling hellfires, while dark ambient and ritualistic debris metastasizes around the telluric instrumental sections creating a grandiose and enveloping hellscape shrouded in darkness and death. No newcomers to their scene, the cryptic duo of Necro and Noctus who form the core of Anticreation have been sailing the black seas of Greece's most uncompromising underground for literal decades, with Necro in particular having spent the last twenty years forging hellbent steel in such miscreant greek black metal entities as Burial Hordes, Enshadowed, and Merciless Crucifixion, among others. Anticreation is a vessel unto fusing Necro's and Noctus' long running expertise in black metal and the duo's interest and fascination in the bleakest and most otherworldly forms of dark death metal, namely that one conceived in various waves by bastions of the genre like Immolation, Portal, Pseudogod and Teitanblood, resulting in their debut offering From the Dust of Embers, an imposing dark death metal beast levitating with an immense aura of complete ruin and inevitability.

One of the earliest and first experimental/ambient projects to join the ranks of Sentient Ruin and turn it into the multi-headed abomination we strive to be(come), Italian black ambient/death industrial demon Clavicvla is back with its most perverse and deranged work yet, once again in proud partnership with illustrious French ambient/industrial colleagues Cyclic Law. From the artwork to the titles and themes, the intent of new full-length offering Degeneracy of the 5th Density is clear: worshiping and glorifying perversions, deviancy and immorality in their every form and shape. With these nefarious intents sole mastermind Ittiel has orchestrated the rise of this third aural plague of his around a creeping miasma of monstrous sepulchral ambience reeking from the ruptured bowels of oblivion, unfolding a forty-five minute sonic nightmare of absolutely omnipotent repulsiveness. Dark ambient, black industrial, ritual drone, noise and subsonic horrors of all kinds are distilled by the demiurge into a sonic morass of total suffering and terror, and ritualized into a soundtrack to every broken soul's most hidden, vile and foul impulses.

Australian dark death metal horde Golgothan Remains return with their cataclysmic sophomore LP Adorned in Ruin, a thirty-minute weapon of absolute oblivion forged by the force of pure darkness and chaos. This new full length offering sees the Sydney extreme metal cult heighten and elevate their own vision of a dark future-shaping death metal to its most devastating form yet, pushing the genre beyond a state of weaponized majesty and assembling an imposing and magnificent sonic beast shrouded in destruction and otherworldly atmospheres. The band's staple onslaught of enveloping dissonance and unyielding intensity indeed reaches the pinnacle of its expression on Adorned in Ruin, as various currents of black and death metal, old and new, are brought together by the band to create a transformative hellscape where futuristic and visionary atmospherics, sprawling songwriting and primeval violence are masterfully interwoven into omnipotent bedlam.

After a long silence New Zealand bestial death metal horde Exaltation finally unveil their first proper full-length offering, Under Blind Reasoning, after a demo tape had surfaced back in 2017 amongst generalized obscurity. Indeed what we find on this debut offering is something distant from the lo-fi quality of the promising but under-produced demo, and sees the band tap instead into a realm of vehemence and aural destruction of unseen magnitude and terror. Feral, enveloping, monumental and sprawling in its unrelenting wrath, Under Blind Reasoning sees the obscure New Zealand death-bringers whip the sum of their influences (Immolation, Morbid Angel, Incantation, Deicide, Blasphemy) into a coercive realm of shelshocking torment and rise from the depths of obscurity like a cataclysmic weapon of mass-destruction. The album's dense and multidimensional recording quality has yielded a death metal beast of truly unsettling proportions. Every instrument and the utter violence with which it is wielded appears on full display, as the listener is helplessly left annihilated, blow after to blow, to witness the band's tight, savage and merciless performance and technical proficiency literally maul down the fabric of reality piece by piece.

Richmond, VA-based harsh industrial metal deconstructors Hold ME Down reanimate their design for total sonic retaliation through their latest creation, Powerless, a debut full-length offering of caustic post-industrial punishment and complete sensorial undoing which follows brilliantly in the steps of their transformative 2019 Sentient Ruin-issued self-titled demo tape. As is now commonplace with bands and their releases associated with Sentient Ruin, an aura of ambivalence, reverence and transformation enshrouds this work, with the echoes of legendary industrial acts like Skinny Puppy, Ministry, Godflesh and Swans reverberating from the past and undergoing a future-projecting metamorphosis, as present time contaminants (power electronics, blackened noise, death industrial) enter the picture in an aberrant recombination of stylistic DNA, paving the way to groundbreaking and grim sonic transfigurations. Throughout its ten cold bursts of synthetic mechanized dissolution Hold Me Down explore concepts of withdrawal, personal failure, societal fracture and emotional unravelling through a bleak post-industrial disassociation where disorienting drum machines, vitriolic metal guitars, bleak soundscapes and oppressive electronics instigate a depersonalizing collapse within the listener.

The light-draining debut release from Argentinian black hardcore punk entity Prousted brings us three tracks of blistering and misery-infused sonic darkness and negativity. With its raw, disintegrating sound, this catastrophic debut demo fuses the bitterness of dark hardcore punk bands like Dropdead and Siege with the grimness and destruction of war-torn black metal bands like Revenge and Blasphemy to cast the genre down into a dark abyss of total suffering and terror.

American blackened electro-industrial Act 6TH Circle is back with new LP The Idle Construct, another masterful forty-minute crucible of insurgent post-industrial darkness laced with haunting atmospheres and seismic, disorienting beats. Officially licensed from Sonic Groove Records, The Idle Construct is 6th Circle's most tenebrous and atmospheric release to date, seeing its first ever proper release on a physical format worldwide via Sentient Ruin as a limited edition black vinyl pressing, after its initial and so far digital-only release in 2021. The Idle Construct sees 6th Circle further evolve and deconstruct its dark sonic canvas, pushing its foreboding atmospheres and anachronistic grooves deeper into lightless realms, and taking the listener further into a dark future dystopia of bitter disillusionment and grim alienation. The dark flame of defining acts like Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, and :Wumpscut:, burns more vigorously than ever within these ten caustic tracks of industrial insurrection, but what defines 6th Circle's unrivaled approach to the craft is not so much its masterful evocation of an unrivaled past glory, rather the fearless exploration of its still unaccomplished and uncharted possibilities in the

Oakland CA-based apocalyptic black doom harbingers Abstracter re-emerge with their inhumanly crushing fourth full-length album Abominion, a ghastly forty-minute hellscape of lightless crush-depth deep inside the darkest abysses of the apocalypse. Extreme and devastating in every sense possible, the soul-crushing album sees the enigmatic American band elevate their long lasting apocalyptic concept to its scariest and most overwhelming extremes yet, coercing the harshest strains of black and doom metal with ravaging scarifications of noise and droning dark ambient into a bleak and suffocating sonic cataclysm of complete darkness and annihilation.

Berserk Finnish raw black metal disease Hexerei bring us their venom-soaked debut full-length abomination "Ancient Evil Spirits", a deranged aural gateway to unseen depths of madness and total hell that will reshape the listener's idea of terror and toss them into the outermost circles of insanity. Comprising of four primordial stabs of blown out and feral homicidal rawness, "Ancient Evil Spirits" overboils from the witches cauldron with the quintessence of evil like an acid-drenched spell, invoking ancient evil forces, uncontrolled hysteria, and malevolent plague-ridden rituals to torment the listener with merciless violence and abandon. Reminiscent in its malevolence and primeval cruelty to ancient black metal cults like Darkthrone, Mayhem, Cultes Des Ghoules, and Katharsis, Hexerei however push these limits further and redefine the very concept of total aural filth by working the formula into a wider canvas, with lengthier compositions, an even more perverse emphasis on primitivism, and a more unpredictable and ambitious songwriting that has unearthed truly unsettling and terrifying new manifestations of the craft.

The atrocious occult hymns of Vile Ritual churn with incantations of eons past to realize a most disfigured vision of deviated and perverse blackened death metal ritualism. Born of the most sinister and arcane carnal rites, "Tongues of the Exsanguinate" sees the sounds of ghostly utterances travel over cavernous ambiance to create a disembodied, trance-like state, while inhumanly crushing riffs bludgeon the listener and entomb them in a suffocating and gruesome aural burial. Both horrific yet timelessly evocative, Vile Ritual's ancient and blood-drenched blackened death metal melds the feral atrocity of 90's bestial black metal acts like Von and Beherit with hallucinatory atmospheres and the crushing low end of old school death metal butchers like Infester, Rippikoulu, and Imprecation to create a brutal yet hypnotic hallucination of total arcane death metal savagery and abandon. Conjuring similar otherworldly death metal deformities as we've seen in deviant bands like Antediluvian, Necros Chrstos, Sect Pig and Chaos Echoes, "Tongues of the Exanimate" is the most recent manifestation in this obscure entity's foul but masterful reveling in total surrealistic ritual death metal butchery, a 12" vinyl and cassette tape compilation LP envisioned by the band and Sentient Ruin unison that combines three brand new and previously unreleased tracks along with a completely remixed and remastered revision of Vile Ritual's masterful 2019 self-tiled debut demo/EP.

Chilean black/death metal cataclysm Chaos Perversion emanate from the underworld of the glorious South American extreme metal scene with an aural declaration of war aimed straight at humanity like a hell-forged arsenal of complete mass destruction. Loyal and adherent to the tradition and reputation of the legendary and often far too overlooked Chilean black/death and speed metal cult, Chaos Perversion throw the entirely of their negativity and darkened vision into a nineteen-minute debut offering of feral and primal aural darkness worshipping the omnipotence and majesty of total chaos and inevitability. Originally circulated independently only locally in their scene back in 2019, the duo's debut EP "Petrified Against the Emanation" is now presented via Sentient Ruin for global audiences as a limited edition vinyl 10-inch.

Somnolent rises from the abyss with its new album The Infernal Expanse, an immense aural beast of infernal and diabolical black/death industrial dark ambient chaos fuming from the monstrous jaws of total hell and oblivion. The band comprises of founding solo multi-instrumentalist Jessi Nihl (noctis, ex-LYCUS, ex-NECRITE, among others) on guitars, synths and electronics, joined on this release by vocalist MA (abstracter, Atrament, ASH Prison), and the work sees the duo revel into unseen deconstructions of reality, fusing dark ambient, ritual industrial, noise and cancerous black/death metal debris to unearth the quintessence of infernal sonic abandon. The Infernal Expanse both complements and diverges from Somnolent's lengthy mostly digital-only and purely electronic dark ambient and harsh noise discography, and sees the project expand its instrumental arsenal and apocalyptic yield to catastrophic effects. Adding percussions, strings, violins, and a churning cauldron of crushing metal guitar abstractions to the preexisting electronic dark ambient substrate, with The Infernal Expanse Somnolent deliberately embrace certain malevolent and diseased strains of extreme metal, morphing into an otherworldly sonic cataclysm of hellish atmospherics, suffocating hallucinatory soundscaping, and flesh-scaring ritual black industrial madness.

Science and religion; facts and faith".... The brainchild of Spanish multi-instrumentalist CG Santos (also of Like Drone Razors Through Flesh Sphere and Teitanblood), Emanation is a disembodied auditory reflection on various cryptic ruminations surrounding science, faith, belief, and their many ramifications within human consciousness. One of the most mutant and defiant black metal entities to emerge in the last decade, the now dormant and always elusive project reached the pinnacle of its deconstructed and aberrant expression with 2011's one-hour and eleven minute long masterpiece and heirloom of total sensorial dissolution The Emanation of Begotten Chaos from God, now seeing the light for the first time ever on vinyl format to coincide with and celebrate the 10th anniversary of its conceivement. The glorious double album incarnates via Sentient Ruin and France's Cavsas label (a subdivision of Cyclic Law) through a carefully crafted high end double LP edition envisioned with maniacal care by the artist and both labels to enshrine the work in its ultimate and most timeless physical incarnation yet.

Backwater & Obsidian Katabasis is an exclusive limited edition cassette tape boxset of Fuoco Fatuos’ two most recent full-length albums: 2017's Backwater and the recent 2021 third album Obsidian Katabasis, both issued by Profound Lore Records. With this exclusively crafted release both albums finally see the light for the first time ever on cassette format. Italy’s Fuoco Fatuo are an elusive entity in European extreme metal, creators of an aphotic and otherworldly strain of hallucinatory and ultra-suffocating funeral doom that has few equals around. Over the last few years both of these pachydermic albums have set a new standard of extremism and opened the gates to a completely unexplored realm of heaviness and sonic oppression that has established Fuoco Fatuo as one of the most cataclysmic and inhumanly crushing bands to have emerged in the European extreme metal underground in recent years. Limited edition of 200.

American technical brutal death metal absurdity Edenic Past join Sentient Ruin for a vinyl release of their synapse-twisting first ever LP Red Amarcord. Formed by Colin Marston and Nicholas Mcmaster of Krallice fame along with vocalist Paulo Paguntalan of Encenathrakh, on the surreal debut offering Edenic Past unfold an absurd and ultra-brutal hallucination of futuristic aural atavism that touches lows of knuckle-dragging sonic primitivism and brutality and peaks of masterful ambient avant-garde deconstructionism that will be both too much to handle or understand for the average “slam” knuckle brains, and too fucking brutal and ignorant for the average elitist prog nerd. Perhaps standing as the most imaginative and visionary “slamming” technical brutal death metal releases ever conceived, with Red Amarcord Edenic Past redefine the outer limits of brutal death metal and set an unprecedented foot in the future for the genre.

The sound of dissolving reality, shattered nerves and unraveling hope. Ruinous one-man blackened harsh industrial hallucination 8 Hour Animal debuts with Resigner, a nerve-wrecking full length offering of vitriolic post-industrial annihilation that both celebrates and re-imagines the imperious deconstructionism and experimentalism of glorious acts like Controlled Bleeding, :Wumpscut:, Wolf Eyes, Godflesh, Skinny Puppy, Skullflower, Ministry, Incapacitants, Coil and beyond. Through a masterful transfiguration of disorienting atmospherics, oppressive soundscaping and raw intensity, on Resigner, 8 Hour Animal blurs beat-driven electronic industrial, scorching power electronics, raw punk and black metal, blackened metallic drone, dark ambient, and pure noise into an hallucinogenic and caustic forty-plus minute mechanized nightmare of pure post-industrial chaos and oblivion.

Featuring members of Misrule and Ascended Dead, Portland Oregon black death metal/grind terror commando Disimperium emerge from hell with their pulverizing debut EP Malefic Obliteration, a blinding assault of feral and merciless sonic devastation that will leave the listener crushed and disintegrated in its path. With an impenetrably dark and ultra-violent sound reminiscent of blackened death and grind war mongers like Knelt Rote, Diocletian and Heresiarch, Dismperium tap into a mysterious realm of terror to harness the quintessence of chaos and negativity, condensing years of influences and concepts into a twelve-minute terrorscape of absolute sonic tyranny. Housed inside a pro three-spine matte laminated sleeve with black flood inside the pocket, insert and download.

The Third Lp From Mechanized Aural Weapon Vessel Of Iniquity. On This New Horrific Experiment Of Overwhelming Sensorial Annihilation, Sole Mastermind A. White Invokes Absolute Armageddon, Funneling A Blinding Scourge Of Swirling Atmospheric Harsh Industrial And Lacerating Abstract Black Metal Into Forty-Five Minutes Of Pure Concentrated Chaos. With An Immanent And Horrifying Sense Of Dissolution And Of Total Loss Of Control, "The Doorway" Sees Vessel Of Iniquity Discharge A Pulverizing Swarm Of Machine Gun-Like Drum Machines, Suffocating Ambient Dirges, Ravaging Harsh Electronics And A Maelstrom Of Crushing Fretwork Obliteration To Pound Complete Oblivion Into The Listener.

The absolute gods of contemporary otherworldly death metal chaos are back with their scariest and most imposing album to date. Succumb redefines and reshapes the very concept of aural devastation as we know it, transitioning death metal into its most overwhelming, visionary and abominable form ever. Housed in clear vinyl DVD-styled rave cases with two-sided full color trap sheet, 8-page booklet and sticker. Edition of 250 copies.

Portuguese atmospheric raw black/death metal necromancers Concilium issue their tenebrous debut LP "Desecration," a churning spectral emanation of total and agonizing death exhaling at the edge of a decaying void. Like the bastard child of Portal, Beherit, and Black Cilice, "Desecration" levitates from pure darkness with a miasma of tortured lamentations, serpentine whispers and suffocated screams radiating from the innermost depths of torment, while an incessant outflow of sepulchral lo-fi raw black/death metal murk reverberates through the abandoned pits of buried temples and lost sepulchers materializing a truly unsettling and ominous aural nightmare. The band's masterful texturing of decaying and sulphureous black/death metal with subterranean aphotic atmospheres and a diseased sense of occult ritualism creates a lightless aural twilight that embraces the listener like a disembodied disease, giving away way to a blood-freezing (and at times even moving) out of body experience.

Multinational industrial black metal rising force Decoherence join Sentient Ruin again to bring you "System I", a 12" vinyl, digital and cassette tape full-length album/compilation of all the band's recent digital only singles and EPs, remastered to their final and ultimate form along with a glorious and previously unreleased cover rendition of Killing Joke's classic cut "The Wait". While these tracks were previously already digitally (self)released, don't be fooled or misled to think you're hearing any "b-sides" or otherwise "left over" material, rather, consider "System I" not only the righteous third official full-length album from the band, but also by far Decoherence's most visionary, cohesive, and imposing songs to date. Awe-inducing and ghastly in its enveloping immensity, the tracks on "System I" see the enigmatic multinational black metal band morph into their most defiant and commanding form yet, as they construct an impenetrable mechanized swarm of liquefying industrial hallucinations and swirling dissonance that eradicates the listener from their corporeal and terrestrial self to cast them at the edge of a light-devouring void. Stylistically "System I" sees Decoherence's sound still thrive and evolve within the familiar synthetic black metal deconstructionist framework of progenitors like Blut Aus Nord and Darkspace, but as the Killing Joke cover included unmistakably hints at, these tracks also reveal a marked shift for the band toward a more unintelligible, unpredictable, and ominous immateriality, as elements incorporated from post-punk and experimental industrial assume stronger delineations adding ulterior dimensions and identities to the band's already alien and otherworldly sound.

Formed By Ms (Suspiral) And At (Black Earth, Suspiral), Spanish Industrial Black Metal-Noise Mystifiers S.E.K.H. Create An Asphyxiating Sonic Delirium In Which Hallucinatory Soundscapes, Dissonant Guitars, And Oppressive Electronics Submerge The Listener Into A Dismal And Dissociative Transfiguration Of Themselves. Through Their Soul-Consuming Music S.E.K.H. Offer A Conceptual Exploration Of Bataille's Notion Of Subversion And The Embracement Of The Abyss. S.E.K.H.'S Subversive Ordeal Casts A Beheaded Conjuration Unveiling The Altered States Of Mankind's Desolation, With The Mangled Atmospherics And Psychosis-Inducing Compositions Acting As A Surreal Soundtrack To This Abhorrent Philosophical Spell. A Sonic Torment Which While Proudly Hermetic And At Times Even Puzzling In Its Grotesque Abstractions, Is Also Exquisitely Refined And Highly Evocative, Reminiscent Of The Sounds Of Other Equally Hallucinatory And Experimental Black Metal Entities Like Mysticum, Diapsiquir, Blut Aus Nord Or Leviathan, Although With Its Unique Aberrant Approach To The Genre.

Canadian Nuclear Wasteland Raw Hardcore Noise-Punk Incursors Last Agony Present "The Imminent Slaughter", Their Incinerating Official Debut Full-Length Lp Issued In Conspiracy With Sentient Ruin. On The Savage Debut Album Last Agony Let Loose All Their Most Negative And Harrowing Visions Of A Polluted, Dark And Violent World, Birthing One Of The Most Unnerving And Lawless Strains Of Primitive Aural Chaos To Have Been Vomited From The North American Punk Scene This Year. In The War-Torn Twenty Minutes Of Weaponized Aural Mayhem, Last Agony Put On Display An Unrivaled Sonic Assault Of Primitive Cruelty And Raw Hostility, Thrusting Influences Ranging From European Early Heavy Punk Bastions Like Doom, Anti-Cimex And Electro Hippies, To Japanese D-Beat Noise Deviants In The Vein Of Gauze And Deathside, All The Way To Primitive Grindcore Vanguards Like Repulsion, Extreme Noise Terror, Early Napalm Death And Terrorizer Into A Blown Out And Noise-Corroded Terrorscape Of Total Anarchy And Chaos. If You Like It Fast, Loud, Raw, Visceral And Lawless, Search No Further, Because Last Agony Have Brought Us One Of The Most Nerve-Shattering And Apocalyptic Storms Of Unhinged And Primordial Punk-Metal Wrath That You Will Hear All Year.

Swiss Black Metal Void Sculptors Dsknt Are Back With Their Immense Sophomore Lp "Vacuum ?-Noise Transition", A Devouring Nightmare Of Omnipotent Sonic Annihilation Conceived At The Most Liminal Edges Of Sanity. Somewhat Claiming The Torch Of Absolute Avant-Garde Violence And Abhorrence From Bands Like Deathspell Omega And Portal, The Devastating Album Is An All-Encompassing And Sensorially Annihilating Masterpiece That Transitions This Heritage Of Aural Abominations Into Its Most Unavoidable Future And Inevitable Conclusions, Reshaping The Dna Of Surrealistic Extreme Metal As We Know It And Pulverizing All Its Known Thresholds Through A Hideous Out Of Body Experience Ritualized Through Total Aural Abandon

American One-Man Aural Monstrosity Human Failure Debuts With Its First Ever Offering, A Mangled And Gnarled Disfiguration Of Raw Death Metal, Raw Punk And Harsh Noise Spewn From The Outer Limits Of Complete Nihilism And Inhumanity.

Finally Available Again In Its Ultimate And Most Destructive Form, Suspiral's Immense Debut Album "Delve Into The Mysteries Of Transcendence" Gets Remastered, Re-Designed, And Re-Packaged For Sentient Ruin, A Revisitation Aimed At Celebrating And Rediscovering One Of Underground Black Metal's Most Unique, Underrated And Feral Releases. Influenced By Some Of The Most Savage Extreme Metal Progenitors Like Beherit, Necrovore, Morbid Angel And Sadistik Execution, And Fueled By Overwhelming Consumptions Of Psychedelics, "Delve Into The Mysteries Of Transcendence" (Acronym Of Dmt), Is An Abhorrent Trip Deep Inside The Psyche's Most Deconstructed And Annihilated States, Where A Psychoactive And Aberrant Strain Of Raging Black Metal Serves As The Primal Hallucinogen To Obliterate Consciousness And Dissolve Reality In A Violent And And Feral Ritual Of Total Aural Disassociation. Originally Released In 2016 On Vinyl By Now Defunct Spanish Label Equinox Discos, And On Cd By I Voidhanger Records, With This New Sentient Ruin Reissue, This Unforgivably Underrated Experimental Black Metal Masterpiece Sees Its First Ever Release On Cassette Format, While Entirely New And Restored Digital And Vinyl Products Are Offered With Re-Mixed And Remastered Audio And A Brand New Graphic Layout That Consecrate And Enhance The Immensity Of One Of Extreme Metal's Most Overlooked, Obscure And Devastating Hidden Gems.

Bridging The Spellbinding Atmospherics And Evocative Power Of Icelandic Black Metal (Sinmara, Carpe Noctem, Mis_yrming, Svartidaudi) With The Crushing Violence And Brute Antagonism Of French Black Metal (Aosoth, Drastus, Antaeus), Labored Breath Has Created An Intimidating And Majestic Black Metal Crucible That Shape-Shifts And Morphs In Perpetual Motion, Stirring An Immense Sinister Aural Maelstrom Of Tenebrous Surrealism And Masterful Sonic Destruction As Ultimate And Supreme Homage To The Omnipotence And Splendor Of Our Endless Destroyer.

Firmly Rooted In The Proudest And Fiercest Tradition Of Raw Punk And Hardcore, Oi!, Crust And D-Beat, What Sets Puro Odio Apart From Their Far Less Controversial And Harmless Peers Is Their Unique And Sophisticated Visual Aesthetic And Their Meticulous Yet Unsettling Sound Blending Nefarious Black Metal-Like Vocals, Violent Lyrics, Barbaric D-Beats And A Meat Grinder Of Unrelenting Chainsawing Guitars - A Proud Exercise In Sonic Atavism That Has Yielded A Blood-Drenched Hardcore Punk Twilight Of Total Darkness And Bestiality. With An Overall Sound Reminiscent Of Celebrated Punk/Metal Plunderers Like Gism, Bone Awl, Hellhammer, Von, Gag, And Glue, The Eleven-Minute Demo Has Established Puro Odio As An Unforgiving Beacon Of Violence And Immorality Within Underground Punk And As A Perverted Sonic Exaltation Of Humanity's Most Negative And Repulsive Traits.

One-Track (Flipside Etched)12"! 18 Minutes & 49 Seconds Infernal Death Metal Orgy!Deranged Dutch Experimentalists Cryptae Return With Another Enigmatic Mess Of Malformed And Deviant Experimental Raw Death Metal, Unfolding A Single Staggering Eighteen-Plus-Minute Track Of Complete Aural Delirium. Within The Mammoth Headfuck Of A Song The Duo Cover An Enormous Amount Of Ground, Letting Lose On Literally All Of Their Most Demented Musical Delusions And Tapping Into A Monstrous Pool Of Influences To Unleash An Aural Pandemonium Of Absolutely Unseen Lunacy. Extremely Cerebral And Sophisticated, Yet Raw, Repulsive, Visceral And Mercilessly Unforgiving, On "Vestigial" Cryptae Blur The Lines Between Improvisation And Deliberate Erraticism And Draw Influence From A Surreal Array Of Seemingly Antithetic Influences Ranging From Morbid Angel, To Magma, John Coltrane, Macabre And Beyond, To Construct An Hallucinatory Sonic Maze Of Utmost Brutality, Where Shapeshifting Tempos, Vertigo-Inducing Repetitions, And Demented Song Structures Are Meticulously Designed To Disorient The Listener And Annihilate Their Last Shred Of Sanity.

Obscure Australian Dark Metal Futurists Spire Return With Their Immense Sophomore Full-Length Album "Temple Of Khronos", A Reality-Bending Psychedelic/Progressive Extreme Metal Masterpiece Of The Highest Order That Will Disassociate The Listener And Teleport Them Outside Their Own Consciousness, Reality, And Self. The Album's Immense Atmospheres And Its Seemingly Boundless Imaginative Force Stem Primarily From Its Crisp But Layered And Dense Production Quality That Works As A Catalyst To Channel An Unseen And Massive Sensorial Overload Of Sound In Which Cinematic And Multilayered Vocal Arrangements (The Temple's "Choir"), Lysergic Atmospheres And Winding, Epic Instrumental Constructs Cyclically Collapse To Surround The Listener And Submerge Them In An Otherworldly Ritual Of Consciousness-Altering And Space-Time Distorting Aural Immensity

Japan's Visionary Powerviolence Calamity. Originally Released In 2017 Via Sentient Ruin As A Cassette And Vinyl Compilation Of Two Of The Band's Previously Self-Released And Out Of Print Cd Eps, "I&Ii" Introduced Friendship To Western Masses As An Unparalleled Beacon Of Audial Terrorism With A Unique And Enigmatic Aesthetic Of Visual Minimalism Juxtaposed To Harrowing Sonic Maximalism. In Its Ruinous And Incinerating Twenty Six Minutes "I&Ii" Takes The Listener On A Wild Ride Deep Into The Most Tortured And Embittered States Of The Human Mind, Unleashing A Blinding And Terrorizing Audial Assault On The Senses That Has Remained Untouched As One Of The Absolute Pinnacles Of Japanese Hardcore In Recent Years. Blending The Bludgeoning Ferocity Of Bands Like Hatred Surge, Column Of Heaven, Endless Blockade And Iron Lung With Crushing Slow-Downs Laced With Feedback And Static Reminiscent Of Corrupted, Swans And Godflesh, Friendship Have Created A Quintessential And Hyper-Evolved Hardcore Punk Calamity That Stands High As One Of The Most Visionary And Intimidating Pieces Of Sonic Extremism That Japan Has Ever Produced.

Degenerate nihilistic punk commando Puro Odio seal an unholy pact with Sentient Ruin to reissue their incendiary 2018 debut demo on 10" vinyl, making it available for the first time ever on analog physical formats in North America. On the verminous and heinous demo the Basque raw punk terrorists first came together as a rogue entity of total barbarism and inhumanity, glorifying cruelty, violence and sadism at their most gratuitous and senseless stages through six primordial stabs of complete hatred and perversion. Firmly rooted in the proudest and fiercest tradition of raw punk and hardcore, Oi!, crust and d-beat, what sets Puro Odio apart from their far less controversial and harmless peers is their unique and sophisticated visual aesthetic and their meticulous yet unsettling sound blending nefarious black metal-like vocals, violent lyrics, barbaric d-beats and a meat grinder of unrelenting chainsawing guitars - a proud exercise in sonic atavism that has yielded a blood-drenched hardcore punk twilight of total darkness and bestiality. With an overall sound reminiscent of celebrated punk/metal plunderers like Gism, Bone Awl, Hellhammer, Von, Gag, and Glue, the eleven-minute demo has established Puro Odio as an unforgiving beacon of violence and immorality within underground punk and as a perverted sonic exaltation of humanity's most negative and repulsive traits.

Swiss black metal void sculptors Dsknt are back with their immense sophomore LP "Vacuum γ-Noise Transition," a devouring nightmare of omnipotent sonic annihilation conceived at the most liminal edges of sanity. The reality-destroying album takes shape as a dark and multidimensional hallucination deep into reality's most cryptic and terrifying truths, a place where entropy and chaos assume near-corporeal and hyper-realist forms, becoming empirical laws and axioms of all manifestations therein, with the music serving as the abhorrent mathematical key that allows the listener to unlock this realm beyond and "see" the horrors that populate reality beyond the reach of the five senses and of the terrestrial dimension. Harrowingly evocative and devastating beyond comprehension, "Vacuum γ-Noise Transition" assumes its hideous form through a ravaging maze of managed guitar fractals, eviscerating compositional deconstructionism and an inhuman event horizon of decaying soundscapes and oppressive atmospheres that dismantle the listener piece by piece, forcing mind and soul apart to disintegrate in each other's reflection. Somewhat claiming the torch of absolute avant-garde violence and abhorrence from bands like Deathspell Omega and Portal, the devastating album is an all-encompassing and sensorially annihilating masterpiece that transitions this heritage of aural abominations into its most unavoidable future and inevitable conclusions, reshaping the DNA of surrealistic extreme metal as we know it and pulverizing all its known thresholds through a hideous out of body experience ritualized through total aural abandon.

French satanic black metal horde Noavae Militiae re-emerge with "Topheth" their brand new third full-length LP, presented to you via Sentient Ruin as a glorious limited edition three-sided double LP with etched D-side. On the hideous opus the French satanic legion further refine and sharpen their mortal aural blade, slicing reality into shreds to reveal a massive gaping aural wound that oozes and festers with the abhorrent virulence of complete armageddon. In its boundless glorification of destruction and inhumanity, "Topheth" gives orthodox satanism its most arrogant and intransigent voice, weaving an impenetrable fog of artillery-like drum machines, face-taring screams, and walls of deformed fretwork annihilation to trace the ravaging trajectories of complete torment and abandon. The negativity-encompassing album once again assumes a sinister ritualistic and liturgical splendor as well as the iconic theological and biblical delineations that have made this band so recognizable and unique through a marvelous juxtaposition of atmosphere and ferocity, threading a diseased tapestry of inverted sermons and perverse summonings to serve as textural backdrop to its primordial wrath of complete black metal incineration.

Strikingly unique and by all standards of decency completely unheard of, American industrial noise death-doom aberration Evaporates Sores debut with their skull-crushing debut LP Ulcerous Dimensions, a gnarled and horrifying extreme metal experiment that establishes the band as an unprecedented beacon of aural barbarism, bridging various opposites of harsh and inverted sonic extremism to synthesize a violent and implacable design to mankind's complete annihilation. Fusing scathing industrial noise and power electronics with the most worm-ridden death metal and the suffocating inescapability of sludge and doom metal, Ulcerous Dimensions is a sadistic trial in aural torment, where the listener is cast at a center of a lucid nightmare and made the subject of an unrelenting sensorial assault of complete aural humiliation in which suffocating crawling tempos, claustrophobic and surreal atmospheres, skin-peeling electronics and erratic bone-fracturing death metal chaos cascade toward total oblivion resounding the listener's complete obliteration.

Sentient Ruin is proud to release RUIN LUST's incinerating sophomore LP Sacrifice for the first time ever on vinyl, after a self-released tape surfaced in early 2019 bringing back under the spotlight one of America's most elusive and feral extreme metal entities. Featuring current and past members of ANICON, TRENCHGRINDER, VORDE, VILKACIS, FELL VOICES, VANUM, and YELLOW EYES, the NYC black/death/war metal horde return six years after their debut album was released on Psychic Violence Records, with their darkest and most baneful compositions to date, blending the most pestilent strains of black and death metal with the blunt force trauma of grindcore to elevate the notion of sonic warfare at unseen new extremes. While remaining true to the genre's voluntarily involved and feral approach to aural barbarism, a careful ear will not fail to notice the modern and transformative approach taken by the band to assemble their sonic war zone, utilizing a dense and suffocating sense of atmosphere and an immanent sense of dynamics and unpredictability to mercilessly blindside and destroy the listener. By all means a pinnacle in this year's war metal output, Sacrifice is a modern and defiant spasm of extreme metal terror that will find loyal proselytes amongst fans of Diocletian, Knelt Rote, Heresiarch and other contemporary black/death bands who show to be more inclined to breaking new ground and paving the genre's future than living in the past.

Skull-clobbering and devil-worshipping Neanderthals with no consideration for any fucking living thing. On their debut 7” EP of bestial and barbaric sonic warfare the mysterious Belarusian war machine GOAT TERROR draws influence from the most unholy fringe of bestial satanic war/goat metal like Proclamation, Conqueror, Blasphemy, and Impiety, to summon the very embodiment of complete chaos and pestilence, wielding their sonic armageddon like an abominable weapon of mass destruction to unleash it unto the human race in the most gruesome and atrocious way possible.

If you ever thought a slower and more atmospheric and cerebral “sludge version” of infamously fringe and violent extreme metal bands like early Carcass or Pissgrave was just a silly pipe dream, think again... Like an acid trip that goes totally wrong just as you enter a torture dungeon of unnameable horrors and begin to hallucinate before the most harrowing cruelty and inhumanity, MISCARRIAGE's new album and Sentient Ruin debut Imminent Horror is a work which defies logic and sanity in its insurmountable display of misery, cruelty, and barely comprehensible chaos. Set to become one of the most shockingly violent, depraved, unsettling, and horrific albums of 2019, Imminent Horror seems to have crossed a new and never before seen threshold in extreme metal, taking the genre to a sickening new extreme never before explored, and never before fathomed, not even by the sickest and most fucked up minds. Structured around a churning morass of hallucinatory atmospheres, derailing, discordant, and appallingly dense and downtrend guitar crush-depth, an unpredictable and utterly oppressive rhythm section, and a swarming haze of distorted screams, the songs on this abomination incarnated seem to want to reach out into a realm of the absurd to harness a level of deviancy and inhumanity of unseen magnitude and plausibility. With their post-Carcass gorenoise/goregrind roots firmly anchored at the base, Miscarriage have augmented the foundations of this abhorrent sound and built an entire new world above it by bringing in elements of slower and more experimental and atmospheric extreme music coming from a sickening cesspool of influences as diverse as early Swans, Primitive Man, Corrupted, Ride for Revenge, Godflesh and the most fucked extreme black metal, to materialize an aural abomination of near-incomprehensible horror. Classic homemade gore-drenched artwork and lyrics that can not and should not be ever unearthed for one's mental sanity and safe sleep round out a release of absolutely incinerating cruelty and insanity whose sole existence is already an inexplainable mystery.

Seoul-based South Korean sludge metal miserists Gawthrop join Sentient Ruin for Deterioration, a glorious torment and misery-fucked 12" vinyl compilation of the band's first two incredible demo tapes (2019's Demo and 2022's Jumbo). A wretched amplifier worshipping monstrosity of complete antihuman heaviness, the glorious release channels the hate-drenched and bottom-caving megaton Doom of legends like Corrupted, Meth Drinker, Nootgrush, Grief and Thorr's Hammer into six colossal slabs of pure earth-shaking, downtuned slow-crawling sonic torment that will stomp, crush and flatten the listener to death.

Lima, Peru-based deranged raw black metal cult Vulvanic join Sentient Ruin under the black banner of total violence and depravity to bring you a much-needed reissue of their two long sold out self-released demo tapes, 2019's Scent of Black Angel, and Ripper's Secret Night of Murder remastered from the raw mixes by Will Killingswroth at Dead Air Studios, and graphically re-envisioned by the Violent Visual Shock art studio into a horrific forty-minute LP compilation of violent, sadistic sonic abandon.

Brazilian US-based doomed death metal duo Negative Vortex rise from the depths of torment with their long awaited debut album Tomb Absolute, a fifty four-minute, nine-song double LP of absolute, towering atmospheric death metal oblivion. Years in the making, meticulously produced, and assembled from sheer pain and perfectionism, Tomb Absolute is a colossal slab of grim and hopeless death metal evoking bleak and pessimistic visions of a doomed future to come, and stirring with bitter reflections about mental illnesses, society's role in human failure, dysfunctions of the mind and spiritual hopelessness. Musically the album takes its life force and inspiration from the glory and timelessness of ‘80s and ‘90s death and doom metal (Cathedral, Nihilist, Autopsy, C.eltic Frost), wielding a death-bearing payload of intense, monolithic, gut wrenching death metal riffs alternated by ultra-depressing slow-paced doom sections to conjure an ultimate monolith erected to complete death, pain and suffering. The album's imposing and pessimistic aura is further enhanced by a dense and a multi-layered production, lengthly and trance-like compositions that drag the listener into a labyrinthine realm of utter darkness and despair, and synth-laden ambient dirges and spoken word passages that exalt the album's lightless depths and monstrous atmospheres. Completing and further adorning the massive hellscape are also illustrious guest appearances from veterans of the scene like Nick Holmes (paradise Lost / Bloodbath), KAM LEE (massacre), Moyses Koslene (krisiun), Leon DEL Muerte (impaled / Terrorizer L.A.), VIK (whipstriker), and Caleb Bingham (athanasia), providing additional guitars leads and vocal contributions.