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Enthrall To The Void Of Bliss by Aevangelist

Aevangelist

Enthrall To The Void Of Bliss
20 Buck Spin

The fourth gate of the Aevangelist has opened within the physical dimension. Witness cataclysmic black death metal force in which slithering arcane horrors conjoined with bizarre mysticism spawn a suffocating cacophonous sprawl. Having unleashed previous documentation via the French Debemur Morti label, Aevangelist now unveils Enthrall to the Void of Bliss, their initial transmutation for 20 Buck Spin; it represents the American band’s first scripture fully released domestically in the United States.  Cycling through recent years, Aevangelist have repeatedly and mercilessly assaulted listeners via audial deformation and twisting, sepulchral composition. 2013’s Omen Ex Simulacra brutalized with punishingly dense yet accessible riffs in the Murk, and this specter looms large on Enthrall, whilst layer upon layer of ghoulish keys and madness-stricken vocals act as flesh bricks to shape a hellish tower of the damned. Smeared with a warm, wet production, the inherent chaos of Enthrall to the Void of Bliss becomes omnipresent. The curtain has been pulled back to reveal the grotesquery summoned by the Aevangelist synod and once stirred cannot easily be shut again. 20 Buck Spin is pleased to bequeath this vulgar contortion of occult rancor upon the human race, virulently presented on CD, LP and digital torments.

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Darkness Evermore by Nightfell

Nightfell

Darkness Evermore
20 Buck Spin

In 2014 Portland’s Nightfell stormed decisively onto the worldwide metal scene with the forceful debut album The Living Ever Mourn (Southern Lord / Parasitic). Having further fortified their ominous fusion of shadowed disharmony, Nightfell marches forward with Darkness Evermore, a commanding display of power, tension and dynamics. Once more defying easy classification, Darkness Evermore seethes with fiery, apocalyptic energy from the opening moments of “At Last” until the final “Collapse,” through the cycle of “The Cleansing” and “Rebirth” in between. Ranging from short respites to epics stretching past the ten-minute mark, the album’s blackened guitar harmonies and bleak melodies provide a somber counterpoint to the massive, imposing riffs strewn about like bodies on a wartorn field. Considering the primary members’ other musical outlets, the immense ferocity of the vocals exact a heavy toll and agonizing dread. As on the debut LP, great care has been taken to ensure that Darkness Evermore’s brutally heavy mix and punishing low end maintains clarity throughout. With Nightfell poised to shift from studio project to live band in the coming months, their second LP signals a new birth for a band only beginning to make its indelible mark.

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***BACK IN STOCK ON VINYL!!!  Over the course of the last ten years 20 Buck Spin has worked with the best of the best in the crowded doom genre—bands as diverse as Samothrace, Graves At Sea, Pallbearer, YOB, Mournful Congregation, Lycus, Atlantean Kodex, etc. In that tradition, the label is proud to present Khemmis from Denver, Colorado, who brings together components of many of the aforementioned label alumni to forge a venerable testament to what heavy doom rock is in 2015.  The six meticulously crafted songs on Absolution reveal a level of musicianship and writing skill seldom heard on debut albums. Often within the scope of a single song Khemmis veers effortlessly between the crushing heaviness of Southern sludge and the somber melodicism of traditional doom, cohesively weaving the disparate styles into their own immediately recognizable form. The band incorporates dual vocals, sometimes harsh, but mostly via a stunningly smooth classic doom / heavy rock style that even adamant fans of Pete Stahl and Wino will applaud. The powerfully adept rhythm section perfectly anchors the towering riff mastery and colorful dual guitar harmonies, all brought together by Dave Otero’s (Cobalt, Nightbringer) pitch-perfect production work. Khemmis is most certainly a live act and will tour at intervals throughout the remainder of 2015 including a planned West Coast run in Summer 2015.

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Aria Of Vernal Tombs by Obsequiae

Obsequiae

Aria Of Vernal Tombs
20 Buck Spin

***Back in stock on LP!!!  Received an 8.0 rating from Pitchfork!!!  Last year, 20 Buck Spin released the first vinyl edition of Obsequiae’s masterfully unique 2011 debut album Suspended in the Brume of Eos. Perhaps the only band that might fit as well on a label like Harmonia Mundi as on 20 Buck Spin, Obsequiae reemerges with Aria of Vernal Tombs, having painstakingly shaped their second opus over four years in the way an expert woodworker plies her trade to craft singular works of exquisite beauty.  As before, traditional Medieval source material, this time interpreted via Vicente La Camero Marino’s sparse, sorrowful harp pieces, appears throughout Aria, providing a foundation upon which to build the longer, metal-based sagas forming the album’s core. Black metal, death metal, traditional heavy metal and Medieval music are all weaved seamlessly together in baroque yet abrasive reverence on Aria, resulting in a remarkably original long-player.  With a wet clarity to the incandescent production that cites underrated obscurities like Sacramentum’s Far Away from the Sun and Eucharist’s A Velvet Creation along with the early works of Varathron, Samael and Rotting Christ, the atmosphere on Aria of Vernal Tombs brings to 2015 what such bands strangely but sincerely captured years ago. Every sound and shimmering tone is intentional and essential to this rite of Spring. 20 Buck Spin is honored to issue Obsequiae’s second album on gorgeously foil-stamped CD and LP editions.

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Heretical Anatomy by Abyss

Abyss

Heretical Anatomy
20 Buck Spin

A tenebrous Abyss of stygian grinding death metal has recently been excavated from the Canadian ice around Toronto. Hideous shapes and bloodthirsty rites of the Old Ones are viciously summoned upon the bones and bowels of the Earth through Heretical Anatomy—eight odes to nameless terrors and protean revulsion mercilessly ripped from the flayed life of the cosmos and dripping with crimson adoration. The frenzied blasting of early American / UK death metal and grindcore, when there was no distinct separation between the two, is a hallmark of Heretical Anatomy. Yet the overwhelming speed scattered across the album is expertly applied, never descending into a one-dimensional space where velocity is the sole basis for existence. Songs are crafted with the care of the elder gods, rigorously refined with a seasoned sophistication, always maintaining a sharply primitive ferocity. Joel Grind of Toxic Holocaust adds his touch to the production, mixing and mastering this malformed death metal horror. Following the release of their two previous demos including The Reins of Horror via Dark Descent Records, 20 Buck Spin now presents the debut album Heretical Anatomy, documenting the first fully realized glimpse into the dark, surging Abyss.

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Silence In The Ancestral House by Occultation

Occultation

Silence In The Ancestral House
20 Buck Spin

The apparition known in physical form as Occultation materializes with its second full-length LP, Silence in the Ancestral House, expanding on the twisting, malformed post-punk and cast-iron dark doom first revealed through its Three & Seven debut. Under the light of the moon Occultation creeps, crawls and crushes like a many-tentacled abomination using seductive power and hypnotic conjuring on the nine curses contained within. Captured from air in a far more powerful and convincing manner than ever before at God City Studios, the band strikes a mood both sombre and grim, reflecting a contorted, wrecked expression in a cracked mirror through eminently listenable heavy metal sorcery. 20 Buck Spin through the mist unveils the waxen edition which includes the fantastic visual interpretation by Adam Burke on both the cover and the included poster.  “If you ever wondered what Negative Plane would sound like with a little occult rock slant on their vocals and a touch of goth at the edges, then Occultation will tick all those boxes for you.” —Cvlt Nation  “What I can tell you is that Occultation play hauntingly creepy, eerie music that would fit perfectly into some John Carpenter horror film setting the mood for terrible things to unfold before your eyes.” —Occultrock.com  “They have a way of getting inside you and haunting you wholly, leaving you cowering in a corner, begging for the mercy of light. It’s not a put on. It’s the real thing.” —Meat Mead Metal

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***Back in print on LP!!!  On Cessation, Dead in the Manger follows up their Transience debut from 2014 with six new stages in the grief process, resolved in their adherence to dispiriting melodic atmosphere and frenzied black carnage, ever reaching upward yet inevitably pulled down into the mire. Whether grinding forth in a cascade of blinding black metal violence or cloaked in despondent post-rock gloom, Cessation leaves no space for hope, compelling the paradoxical embrace of suffering. As before, song titles, production credits, individual personalities and origins remain trivial in service of the one true purpose for Dead in the Manger, internal disorder from external domination. The machinery of plutocratic slavery, churning and grinding the spirit of life until little remains but the last gasp of a doomed humanity, a cessation of the primal light in an absurdist nightmare.  “Dead in the Manger have released one of the most original pieces of metal this year and you would be hard pressed to find a better example of a band forging into new territory.” —Metal-Observer.com

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LIMITED REPRESS!!! Earlier in 2014, Pallbearer dropped their second album, Foundations of Burden, the hugely anticipated followup to their revered and immortal Sorrow and Extinction debut. Pallbearer has taken the independent music world by storm over the last few years with these two monumental albums. But before all that, they began humbly, in Arkansas, making their presence first known via their 2010 Demo, which immediately caught the attention of the doom metal underground. Released as a limited CD-R and then as a more fully packaged but very limited cassette, the 2010 Demo contained the formative versions of “The Legend” and “Devoid of Redemption,” both of which appear in re-recorded form on the band’s debut album. Also on the demo is the band’s version of the haunting 1933 song “Gloomy Sunday,” not appearing anywhere else since. For a few years, Pallbearer and 20 Buck Spin have discussed pressing this demo onto vinyl, partly at the behest of the many Pallbearer fans who have been eager to obtain a physical copy of the band’s pre-LP recording. Now the stars have aligned and for the first time ever on vinyl, the label presents Pallbearer’s 2010 Demo, a one-sided 12-inch record with an exclusive B-side etching by Mike Lawrence Illustration and artwork made specifically for this release by the band’s continuing visual interpreter Animetalphysical.

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Helsinki Savagery by Foreseen HKI

Foreseen HKI

Helsinki Savagery
20 Buck Spin

After a few EPs, including 2013’s well-received Structural Oppression 7-inch, Finland’s Foreseen HKI now break out in the international metal scene with their first LP. An explosive burst of raw crossover, Helsinki Savagery fuses the 1980s iterations of US thrash (Vio-lence, Exodus) and urban hardcore (Cro-Mags, Leeway) to create a merciless album of absolute jawbreakers. A distinctly Finnish rawness and hostility—a hallmark of the country’s incredible hardcore punk bands since the early ’80s—pervades the LP.  Bringing back a concrete toughness to thrash that’s been largely missing for years, on Helsinki Savagery Foreseen HKI take their place among the elite of modern crossover bands. Tracks like “Death Injection,” “Bonded by United Blood” and “Both Sides Lose” are infused with a lethal urgency and unrestrained devotion to crafting ideal songs for wild, anarchic live shows. Helsinki Savagery documents a band in its hungry, formative prime where the extreme aggression of many classic debut albums is captured with terrible certainty. With high speeds and fierce leads that shred, United Forces are back from the dead.

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Pig Heart Transplant is the alter-ego of Jon Kortland, one half of surgical powerviolence duo Iron Lung. Like that group, Pig Heart Transplant delivers both a vicious beating and violent outcome. However, the operating methodology is an entirely different animal: slow, churning, industrial, electronic, painfully percussive, a bureaucratic nightmare of state power with gears grinding the individual into a hallow shell, perfectly molded into One of Them. This is 1984. For Mass Consumption is composed of 28 tracks, each approximately 44 seconds long, each song title a four-letter word, structured in a perfectly palatable way for optimum group adoption and mindless adherence to common purpose. Electronic manipulation, no wave guitar noise, abrasive hammering and eerie synthetic ambience imbue the listener with the seedy malaise of manipulation on a societal scale. One might recognize the pulverizing brutality of early Swans on tracks like “Film” or “Pigs,” the pulsing throb of Brighter Death Now and IRM on “Coma” or even Robert McNaugton’s soundtrack work for Henry: Portrait of Serial Killer on “1970”’ or “1980.” Without doubt a horrifying work of aural terror, For Mass Consumption is the logical result of a culture bent on banal conformity and the futile struggle against its domination. 20 Buck Spin is pleased to bring this tormented future vision into the present in collaboration with Iron Lung Records.

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Concrescence Of The Sophia by Mournful Congregation

Mournful Congregation

Concrescence Of The Sophia
20 Buck Spin

The ever-bereaved Australians in Mournful Congregation hath seen fit to wake once more and bequeath to thee, feeble mortal, two new effigies of chiseled white marble doom upon which, souls torn asunder, the passed are reverently consecrated. Herein find Mournful Congregation advancing their unrivaled and painstaking style of extreme doom, from soaring, majestic beauty straight down into the lowliest somber depths of hell. Intended to an extent as an “in-between” release while the funeral directors sculpt their next full-length eulogy, Concrescence of the Sophia opens with its more-than-20-minute title track, where “the weight of all waters, and the mass of all stars” exacts a heavy toll in the timeless pursuit of mystical knowledge. The monumental main riff onerously gives foundation to Damon Good’s ardently howling leads and sepulchral lament, while acoustic interludes offer only temporary respite to doom’s forgone conclusion. On the B-side, “Silence of the Passed” at a mere nine minutes in duration nonetheless foretells how vast is the agency of doom. 20 Buck Spin proudly presents Concrescence of the Sophia to the North American cemetery, adding yet another shining, jeweled crown to the growing reliquary of Mournful Congregation.  “Mournful Congregation has confidently captured the essence of grief, and composed a monumental soundtrack that entombs the soul. Beneath each stratum of sadness, there is a glimmer of hope, and there is a fragile warmth which emanates from the embers of the album’s exquisite aural pyre.” —Last Rites

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Suspended In The Brume Of Eos by Obsequiae

Obsequiae

Suspended In The Brume Of Eos
20 Buck Spin

Storming out of the frozen North, Minnesota’s Obsequiae released their debut album Suspended in the Brume of Eos on CD in 2011 via Bindrune Recordings. Obsequiae crafts meticulous, beautifully harmonic odes to times now passed into legend, conjuring images of a medieval Europe upon which modern life has yet to infringe. The album harkens back to the pre-wimp-out melodic Scandinavian death metal of the mid 1990s; dark, aggressive, conscious of songcraft foremost and unintimidated by complexity. The band’s deep knowledge of European traditional music and instrumentation is evident throughout, particularly in the ornate, colorful interludes that tie the album together like tapestries in a ruined castle. Had John Renbourn started a project with Quorthon, something like Obsequiae might be the result.  As the album remains a favorite at 20 Buck Spin HQ and had yet to surface on vinyl, the label offered to release this one-of-a-kind work on the greatest audio format for the first time. Repackaged with new artwork, the LP reintroduces Obsequiae in advance of the band’s much-anticipated second album, which will surface on 20 Buck Spin later in 2014. Live performances are planned for later in the year.  “The handiwork of the native Minnesotans ... returns wonder to the mundane, seen in untouched fields of wheat and moss, in wild creatures and the first rays of sun and all that is simple and profound.” —Todd DePalma, Chips & Beer Magazine “Suspended in the Brume of Eos is an enthralling journey ... where glowing, somnolent black...

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Relics Of Sulphur Salvation by Vanhelgd

Vanhelgd

Relics Of Sulphur Salvation
20 Buck Spin

Much in the way that the first wave of Swedish death metal bands began to diverge stylistically by the time of their second and third LPs, so too has the current crop of Swedish bands, polarizing critics and fans alike. Fortunately, some bands simply proceed logically forward, advancing their sound without abandoning what made them appealing to begin with. Among these few, Vanhelgd stands tall with their crushing third LP Relics of Sulphur Salvation.  Having released two well received LPs via the Nuclear War Now label, including 2011’s outstanding and underrated Church of Death, the band makes a big leap in production quality on Relics of Sulphur Salvation. The eight complex and memorable songs strike with an urgent ferocity not seen in other so-called “boundary-pushing” or “progressive” releases in recent memory. This is death metal from the guts, played with relentless and nuanced savagery. Vanhelgd’s natural skill for crafting monumental death metal songs suggests early At The Gates, Entombed, and even elements of My Dying Bride. Tracks like opener “Dödens Maskätna Anlete” and “Where All Flesh Is Soil” hit like a hammer to the skull; immediate, without mercy and not soon forgotten. The terrifyingly raw, mutilated vocals of Mattias Frisk are as vital an “instrument” as the similarly voiced Tompa Lindberg and Martin Van Drunen.  A thousand records will be released this year for the average death metal fan. Only a handful will warrant more than a spin or two, and even less will make it off the...

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Very little information was provided to 20 Buck Spin regarding Dead in the Manger when the label was initially contacted about a release—only that the band plays a mix of depressive black metal and grind (which seemed on paper an impossible combination) and that their intention is to instill feelings of unease and despondency in the listener. Nonetheless, a cursory listen to Transience leaves no doubt that on their debut mini-LP Dead in the Manger creates music both brutally violent and coldly agonizing. Transience opens with a repetitive, atmospheric motif, conjuring a bleak sadness that sets the stage for an urgent right turn to scalpel-sharp, high-BPM aggression and multiple stab wounds of hate-driven malcontent. Filled with ill will and revulsion, Dead in the Manger walks a fine line between all-out sensory violence and post-trauma exhaustion.  At just six songs in under 20 minutes, Transience destroys the listener with a calculated premeditation, and is a first glimpse at what Dead in the Manger have in store. A debut full-length album is in the works currently and will see release via 20 Buck Spin later in 2014.

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The crude horde that be the Cauldron Black Ram emerges yet once more from wat’ry tomb to besiege hapless poseurs and put to manacles weak would-be picaroons. Being the third of albums to sail under the banner of Cauldron Black Ram, the new recording is a commanding effort of sludgy, crossboned black death metal and slimy, rum-sodden doomed debauchery. The brigands from the far side of the world prove well versed in the execution of this unfair trade, delivering knavish punishment unto unprepared ears in the form of Stalagmire. Bear witness to the sordid melody at the opening of the “Maw” and be ushered violently into cave where “luckless beggars only want for open sky.” Doomed seafarers spew forth “A Litany of Sailors Sins” wherein their anthemic call “What dire straights we are in” foreshadows the final echo of men given to lust for plunder. And that old reprobate from earlier days of the black ram, Black Douglass again here appears in “The Devil’s Trotters.” A scurrilous tale indeed, Stalagmire puts Cauldron Black Ram in league with similar ugly contemporaries who pay heed to old, distasteful gods and outlaw tradition, yet forge a singular path of their own making. Be it black / death / doom / thrash, all goes into the strange brew mixed in the Cauldron Black Ram. Horrible, horrible end for ye who enter thus.

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All Uproarious Darkness by Vasaeleth

Vasaeleth

All Uproarious Darkness
20 Buck Spin

The poisonous death metal duo known as Vasaeleth returned this year with the barbarous five-track statement All Uproarious Darkness, now issued on vinyl via 20 Buck Spin. Like the Bone Sickness 12-inch release earlier in 2013, Vasaeleth unleashes death with a less-is-more approach, summoning forth five songs in just under 19 minutes, warranting repeated beatings. Raw, noxious, swirling murk and punishing brutality announce Vasaeleth as possibly the most horrifying young death metal band in the US; methodical in their madness.  “… the 19 minutes of All Uproarious Darkness contains equal parts unpurified hostility and unprocessed cold-bloodedness. It’s the perfect representation of the underbelly of the Earth vomiting the grotesque into the face of modernity…” —PopMatters.com  “Vasaeleth are excellent at blasting through their manic paces, but they’re deadliest when they slow it down, ramp up the intensity, and just fucking punish.” —Pitchfork.com  “Like a demon’s birth in the darkest depths of hell, the death metal of Vasaeleth is a wretched natal ritual giving life to a truly horrific beast.” —CvltNation.com  “The sound here is deliberately ugly, lo-fi and old school, yet despite all this, the music never sounds dated or tired.” —GhostCultMag.com [9/10 Rating]  “Your skull takes a serious pounding due to Antinom’s furious drumming, and the band sounds like a demon-spawned machine moving and slicing its way through anything standing in front of it, with mercy never even entering into the equation.” —MeatMeadMetal.com  “Open your window, turn off the lights and breathe, but don’t...

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Cryptborn And Tethered To Ruin by Vasaeleth

Vasaeleth

Cryptborn And Tethered To Ruin
20 Buck Spin

In 2010, death metal duo Vasaeleth released their debut LP Cryptborn and Tethered to Ruin, a violent, domineering march of unholy blasphemy. Equal parts blasting chaos and slowed-down battery, Cryptborn was a monstrous album that instantly signaled Vasaeleth as a top contender to the US death metal throne.  Released on vinyl by the resolutely underground Swedish label Blood Harvest in limited quantity, the scorching LP has been out of print for some time, demanding increasing sums on the secondhand market. 20 Buck Spin now makes Cryptborn available domestically on vinyl to the pleasure of all wrathful deities.  “It’s the kind of primitive metal that will thrill those who’ve grown jaded with death’s current direction…” —PopMatters.com  “Cryptborn and Tethered to Ruin makes you feel like you are locked in the confines of a prison for the damned, where the cries of the insane keep you awake at all hours.” —About.com  “With its brutally low guttural vocals, thick old school guitar riffs, and wall of drum beats working in the background, this low-production album invokes a dense and hellish atmosphere and imagery.” —SputnikMusic.com [4.5/5 Rating]  “It’s classic death metal to the marrow: dark, dingy, and dangerous, simultaneously bucking ‘core and retro trends, the kind of music that inspires adolescent animal sacrifices and ritual suicides.” —MetalPsalter.com

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Patricidal Lust by Vastum

Vastum

Patricidal Lust
20 Buck Spin

***BACK IN STOCK!!! Received a 7.9 rating from Pitchfork. Vastum’s second full-length is the manifestation of much personal tribulation and strife, reflected not only in the morbid hyper-realism of the album’s content, but also in the making of the record itself, which involved devastating real-life tragedy, numerous delays, departed members and a sense of frustration by all involved. It’s work born of pain. Nonetheless, Patricidal Lust is noticeably heavier, more abusive and more mentally calamitous than its predecessor Carnal Law. Recorded with Jeff Davis (R.I.P.) and later Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios, Patricidal Lust has an atmosphere of eerie foreboding shrouding the doomed death metal husk at its center; the cryptic dual vocal dynamic of Daniel Butler (Acephalix) and Leila Abdul-Rauf (Saros, Amber Asylum, Hammers of Misfortune) narrates this journey through the body. The ghosts of Steer and Schuldiner echo in twisted half-remembered inference while the calculated, blunt rhythm section invokes abhorrent basement torture dungeons.  Lyrically far beyond that which most death metal bands are capable, Patricidal Lust delves ever deeper into subject matter first seen on Carnal Law—the anguish and confusion associated with sexual abuse, incest and the blurry area where eroticism and madness vaporize into an unrecognizable fog of horror. Certain to leave a lasting impression, Vastum’s Patricial Lust is what lies at the core of obscene abomination.

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***AVAILABLE AGAIN ON SILVER VINYL!!!  Known thus far in North America only to the most attentive and adventurous of black metal fans, Finland’s Oranssi Pazuzu has channelled Valonielu, their first album on a US-based label (and third overall), to legions of fellow travelers seeking transcendence. The band name, a combination of the Finnish word Oranssi, which means “orange” and for the band symbolizes cosmic energy, and Pazuzu, a mythic demon of the wind, conjures perfectly the band’s unequaled, singular take on Psychedelic Cosmic Black Metal—celestial and boundless but malevolently grim and harsh. Oranssi Pazuzu’s second album Kosmonument, released by Spinefarm Records, was received with great critical acclaim as a brilliant work by a band developing into something all their own. On Valonielu, Oranssi Pazuzu sharpens their songcraft into a more succinct and salient statement, invoking ’90s-era Darkthrone yet reaching farther out into the psych and experimental multiverse. From the beginning chainsaw riff of album opener “Vino Verso” (“Askew Sprout”) to the climactic, world downfall of final track “Ympyrä On Viiva Tomussa” (“A Circle Is a Line in the Dust”), Oranssi Pazuzu masterfully establishes a cosmology all their own. Having found a new home on 20 Buck Spin in North America, Oranssi Pazuzu breathes ascendent new life into an often stagnant present-day black metal scene. With Valonieulu, the band offers not a sleepy, pale grey shoegaze record masquerading as black metal, but a vibrant, colorful cataclysm incorporating psych and space rock that cannot be easily categorized as any...

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White Goddess (a Grammar Of Poetic Myth) by Atlantean Kodex

Atlantean Kodex

White Goddess (a Grammar Of Poetic Myth)
20 Buck Spin

“I wish to speak to you today about the tragedy of Europe.” So begins the speech sample from English PM Sir Winston Churchill that opens “Twelve Stars and an Azure Gown (An Anthem for Europa),” the fifth track on The White Goddess (A Grammar of Poetic Myth). Indeed, the entire concept of Germany’s Atlantean Kodex is expressly European in nature—from the classically influenced melodies, to the lyrics and concepts that inspire the towering, grandiose heaviness of the songs, on through the band’s use of German Romantic Caspar David Friedrich’s “Monk by the Sea” as cover art. Continuing on from the band’s previous album, 2010’s near-universally praised The Golden Bough, Atlantean Kodex build upon their sound to achieve an album like no other in 2013. Many bands and labels lay claim to the word “epic” to describe a particular sound, but on The White Goddess, Atlantean Kodex embodies the term in a way very few others could imagine. Drawing from traditional heavy metal, doom and Norse metal, The White Goddess showcases their strongest songwriting, lyrical, vocal performance and production yet, already nearly without equal on their previous LP. Unequivocally, The White Goddess is the best pure heavy metal record of 2013.  Self-described as falling somewhere between Twilight of the Gods-era Bathory, early Manowar (Ross the Boss-era) and other classic US bands like Fates Warning, Cirith Ungol and Warlord, Atlantean Kodex retains a singular modernity and heaviness via their incredible production and recording techniques, and through singer Markus Becker, who has...

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***BACK IN STOCK!!!  Received a 7.3 rating from Pitchfork.  It’s been nearly four years since the last Mammoth Grinder full-length, Extinction of Humanity, was released via Relapse Records (CD) and Cyclopean Records (vinyl). That album showcased the band’s direction into a distinctly death metal permutation, full of aggression and punk rawness, and they continued in this spirit on 2011’s split LP with fellow Austin, Texas-based group Hatred Surge. Now, after a long wait and much anticipation, Mammoth Grinder has found a home on 20 Buck Spin for the release of their wildly destructive third full-length Underworlds. The album marks a peak at which Mammoth Grinder have sharpened and perfected their sound into a seething grind / death / thrash maelstrom of intense degree. Unrelenting in concentrated raw precision and focused power, Underworlds careens violently through ten tracks with effortless versatility and the fixated songcraft expected of a band on their third record. Tracks like “Wraparound Eyes” with its Unleashed-style midsection, or the short sharp shock of “Paragon Pusher,” illustrate Mammoth Grinder’s mastery over multiple variations of metal to assemble their own sound. Underworlds is adorned with artwork by the legendary Joe Petagno, whose work has graced albums from artists like Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin to Motörhead and Marduk. Mammoth Grinder is a live act and that is where the songs on Underworlds will expose their most virulent strain—the band has plans to tour extensively upon the album’s release, including an appearance at this year’s Power of...

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Lycus has existed in some form since 2008, but became a more serious entity upon the primary members’ relocation from Sacramento to Oakland, CA. In 2011 they recorded Demo MMXI, which immediately caught the attention of 20 Buck Spin when it was posted online, and was eventually released on tape by Graceless Recordings (run by Mike Meacham of Loss), and followed soon after by a vinyl press on San Francisco’s Flenser Records. In late 2012, Lycus went into Earhammer Studios in Oakland to record their debut LP for 20 Buck Spin, Tempest. Lycus has crafted an incredibly mature album for such a young band, instantly recognizable as among the top funeral doom / death doom releases of the past several years. One can hear echoes of Mournful Congregation, Asunder, My Dying Bride, even Pallbearer within their melancholic dirges and woefully heavy riffs; however, Lycus don’t rely solely on punishingly slow tempos. In fact, even the slow sections have a sense of movement not often seen in the genre, and at other times the band breaks out into bursts of hysteric black metal, such as on the album’s 20-minute title track. Violins scattered throughout bring further variation to the funereal proceedings of Tempest—a record not content to simply sit on conservative genre ideals.  Featuring an incredible oil painting by Italian madman Paolo Girardi as cover art and a regal layout by Kevin Gan Yuen of Sutekh Hexen (who also contributes musically to the album’s closing moments), Tempest is the most...

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Alone In The Grave by Bone Sickness

Bone Sickness

Alone In The Grave
20 Buck Spin

The death metal resurgence of the last five years has birthed an ever-expanding spectrum of styles collecting under the genre’s umbrella. Slower and mid-paced death metal has typically been the road for American bands lately—at least those adhering to the original ideals and not the modern tech-mech bastardization that the more stubborn among us choose to ignore. But the American scene has been severely lacking in bands that play the fast ’n’ loose style at which the original US bands were most adept. Enter Bone Sickness, who, after releasing a demo tape and an EP on Detest Records, now offers up their debut 12-inch Alone in the Grave.  Bone Sickness are local to Olympia, WA (also the HQ of 20 Buck Spin) and have the relentless energy and ferocity of a young band that’s lived their lives in a smaller American town away from big-city trends. Not having the luxury of performing at city venues on a regular basis, the band cut their teeth in the Oly punk scene playing as many house shows with non-metal bands as they have clubs opening for “name” bands. The maelstrom of death metal savagery Bone Sickness conjures on Alone in the Grave recalls Repulsion’s Horrified LP and early Master / Deathstrike recordings, and exhumes Napalm Death when still commanded by domineering, barbaric drummer Mick Harris. No Incantation worship or goats ’n’ gasmasks posing; just American death metal disfigured by grindcore. Alone in the Grave represents a new turn (or return) to death...

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Three And Seven by Occultation

Occultation

Three And Seven
20 Buck Spin

Occultation first summoned their debut album Three & Seven on CD via Profound Lore Records earlier in 2012, and 20 Buck Spin now conjures the analog representation (with a vinyl-only bonus track) just as Halloween approaches. Occultation creates music perfectly suited to this most undead time of year—eerie, haunted, ghastly, reverberating hymns to double walkers and living portraits. “Eyes inside the wall / Echoes in the hall” vocalist V wails on “Shroud of Sorrows,” and indeed this funereal, stained-glass heavy metal exalts the world between. Into their cauldron they stir sinister Italian cinema and soundtracks; the vivid colors of Suspiria; shining, ornate crosses; and obscure horror metal like Black Hole, Mortuary Drape, Jacula and the infamous Paul Chain. The result is a concoction both strong and subtle, not unlike Negative Plane for reasons obvious, but with more incense and fewer rotten corpses. It’s certainly the most unique album of 2012 so far, and just the beginning of this dark creation’s descent into flames.

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***NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL AFTER BEING OUT OF PRINT FOR MORE THAN TEN YEARS!!! With their third full-length, 2009’s The June Frost (referring to the Winter season in the band’s home of Australia, of course), Mournful Congregation finally secured a proper North American release on the small Enucleation Records label. And though this helped to increase the band’s status in the States, the label unfortunately ceased to operate not long after the album came out and Mournful Congregation were once again without support—until joining forces with 20 Buck Spin in 2011.  Thankfully, the quality of material on The June Frost—another eight tracks of freezing white, solemn and progressive funereal doom—achieved the first real accolades for the band from the wider metal press. Consisting of four primary extended songs and four shorter instrumental passages in between, it echoes elements of the earliest Anathema recordings in terms of both heaviness and heartbreak. Plenty of acoustic passages, drawn-out single notes and creative arranging make Mournful’s refined, classical sound the epitome of the genre, leading up to their 2011 masterpiece The Book of Kings. The June Frost is finally back in print as part of 20 Buck Spin’s series of Mournful Congregation back-catalog pressings.  Gatefold 2xLP with spot gloss print, 180G vinyl. “A perfect semblance of somber ethereal beauty and soul crushing sadness....” —Teeth of the Divine  “An ultimate experience of profound grief.” —Heathen Harvest  “Carrying the funeral doom torch with fervor, they have set the bar almost immeasurably high.” —Chronicles of Chaos

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The favorite album of many longtime Mournful Congregation fans, The Monad of Creation stands as a monument of creativity and depth in the doom genre. Originally released in 2005 on the obscure Japanese label Weird Truth Productions, it was widely overlooked due to having no official North American release. Nonetheless, The Monad of Creation is an absolute masterpiece of sorrowful and expressive doom metal the likes of which is rarely achieved by any band. Similar to their 2011 release The Book of Kings, The Monad of Creation consists of four long tracks ranging from 10 to 21 minutes in length. Each is a universe unto itself, its various shades of light and dark intricately crafted and painted with arduous attention. Damon Good’s deep, tortured vocals hang like a noose over the bleak and vast spirit of decay throughout. 20 Buck Spin releases Monad as part of a series of Mournful Congregation back catalog pressings, making the band’s first three full-length albums regularly available in North America for the first time ever.

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Tears From A Grieving Heart by Mournful Congregation

Mournful Congregation

Tears From A Grieving Heart
20 Buck Spin

Recorded in 1997 and 1998, Mournful Congregation’s debut album Tears from a Grieving Heart is the band’s first cohesive album-length statement after having put out several demos and splits going back to their founding in 1993. As fate would have it, the work was not officially released until 2002, on vinyl on Paniac (missing one track) and on CD as part of a longer Mournful Congregation discography to that point. Over the course of these six tracks, Mournful Congregation displays beautifully ornate and progressive songcraft within the confines of the then practically non-existent funeral doom genre, firmly establishing their impeccable reputation within the international metal underground. The album’s lack of a proper label release meant they’d remain relatively obscure to all but the most aware fans of the genre in the United States for several years to come. Now as part of a series of Mournful Congregation back catalog pressings, 20 Buck Spin presents Tears from a Grieving Heart for the first time as a stand-alone full-length album on CD—the format on which it was always meant to be.

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Reverence To Stone by Samothrace

Samothrace

Reverence To Stone
20 Buck Spin

***WAREHOUE FIND - LAST COPIES!!!  Received an 8.2 rating from Pitchfork.  Re-pressing - some Purple and some are Clear!!!  Samothrace hit the scene with their debut LP Life’s Trade, released by 20 Buck Spin way back in 2008. Four years have passed since then—a lifetime in today’s fast-moving, 24-hour PR blaaahgosphere. Life’s Trade received a great deal of critical acclaim upon its release, even landing in Decibel Magazine’s top albums of the year list for 2008. The band toured behind the LP and then, for a time, it seemed like they’d disappeared. In fact, the members were occupied with the ups and downs of their daily lives, which proved often to be tumultuous. Having left Samothrace shortly after recording Life’s Trade, guitarist Renata Castagna returned to the fold in 2010 and the four-piece slowly began to re-emerge as an active band once more. Reverence to Stone is Samothrace’s new album, a two-track, 35-minute journey into and out of a vast expanse of dark, light, shadow, heartache, depression and triumph. The 14-minute “When We Emerged” is an updated version of a song that goes back to Samothrace’s demo recording from 2007, the one that attracted the attention of 20 Buck Spin in the first place. Awash in plodding heaviness, shimmery melodicism and the wrought vocals of Bryan Spinks, the track has been reborn, its full weight brought forth. “A Horse of Our Own” could be considered the centerpiece here—twenty minutes that represent the most recent songwriting of the...

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20 Buck Spin released the debut album from Oakland’s Alaric in late 2011, a dark and hauntological re-imaging of old post-punk, goth and anarcho-punk. The LP astonished all who were exposed to its brooding, memorable songs, Killing Joke-esque rhythms and wild, Banshees-like sheets of electric guitar. Some called it the album Amebix should have made. Zero Tolerance Magazine proclaimed without hyberbole, “Morbid, threatening and obsidian... Album of the Year by a long shot.” Portland’s Atriarch released their debut LP Forever the End in 2011 via the Seventh Rule label. With a harrowing amalgam of death rock, black metal and doom, the group was quickly considered one to watch. Featuring past members of 20 Buck Spin alumni Graves at Sea and Trees, Atriarch is currently in the studio recording their second LP for Profound Lore. This split 12-inch represents a stop-gap for both Alaric and Atriarch in between full-lengths, with songs crafted not as after-thoughts but specifically with this joint release in mind. The two bands have been closely entwined since their beginnings, touring together on multiple occasions and sharing a kinship beyond most artists that share a split release. Each has its own spin on their dark craft that is unique, and complimentary to the other. On the A-side, Alaric contributes three tracks, drearier perhaps and draped further in introspective despair than those on their LP. On the B-side, Atriarch contributes two tracks, their best so far; cataclysmic apparitions of creeping goth atmospherics and black metal aggression with an incredible...

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In 2018 Mournful Congregation dropped their first album in more than six years, The Incubus Of Karma. The widely acclaimed album was heralded as yet another landmark for the extreme / funeral doom genre, adding perhaps the brightest jewel to the band’s crown. The band travelled to both the US and Europe once again to administer last rites to the faithful. Back in 2011 the band released another monument to melancholy, the stunningly grandiose The Book Of Kings. Landing in Decibel’s Top 40 albums that year, the album was the pinnacle of their progressively-minded dirge to that point and includes what may be the most epic track in a catalog that defines the word, the thirty-plus minute title track that weaves a tale of regality through the life, death, crowning and dethronement of nameless kings. Having begun the year with Mournful Congregation, 20 Buck Spin now sees fit to bookend the 2018 campaign with this gorgeous vinyl edition of The Book Of Kings—a gatefold 2xLP featuring the original artwork and accented with metallic bronze print and a beautiful full-sized 12 page booklet.

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Comprised of Bay Area punk vets from bands like Dead and Gone, Enemies, Cross Stitched Eyes and Noothgrush, Oakland’s Alaric came together to play dark, ’80s-inspired post-punk that sounds instantly familiar and completely unique. And though dark music has seen a resurgence among the indie scene lately, the group stands apart from such trite fashion and lo-fi tinkering, more inspired by and indebted to the sounds of Killing Joke, Rudimentary Peni, Christian Death and the like. The eight tracks on their much-anticipated debut LP are all standouts, with “Eyes”, “Your God” and “Animal” easy to imagine as being well-received by the more interesting rock radio stations in 1982 or in 2011. The songs display an intense, foreboding aura, with a heavy production that is never “metal.” Russ Kent’s guitar style recalls the adventurous playing on Kaleidoscope-era Siouxsie records, with the formidable, multi-faceted rhythm section providing a perfect foundation on which to experiment. Shane Baker’s snarled singing hangs over it all and gives the album an unforgettable cohesion.

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** Available anew on CLEAR VINYL. Limited pressing!! There’s no doubt that Oregon’s YOB is one of the most recognizable names in the underground metal game of thrones. Their 2009 comeback LP The Great Cessation brought them to heights of recognition that they’d always deserved but had never achieved. The world was finally ready for YOB.  “YOB might be one of the best bands in North America.” —New York Times  “Atma is raw, passionate and foreboding and well worth taking the time to check out.” —PureGrainAudio.com  “Six full-lengths in, they inspire no less awe than ever, and one can only stand and pity whoever tries to top them in the rest of this year.” —TheObelisk.net  “This will be high in the top five lists of many doom fans and writers by the end of the year....” —Doomantia.com  “This ability to convincingly unite the old and new schools of doom is a prime key to the success of YOB, against all adversity, with Atma once again serving as bold, mature proof.” —Metal-Army.com

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Australia’s Mournful Congregation have existed in some form or another since the mid 1990s. They are well known in the international underground metal scene as forerunners of the funeral doom sub-genre, where they sit with Skepticism, Asunder and scant few others as longtime torchbearers of a unique sound. Alongside members’ involvement in numerous other projects, including Stargazer and Cauldron Black Ram, 2011 marks a period of increased activity for the band. With Mournful Congregation’s fourth studio album, The Book of Kings, set for a November release on 20 Buck Spin, the label presents The Unspoken Hymns, a compilation of Mournful Congregation tracks previously released on limited-run, vinyl-only splits with like-minded, respected funeral doomers Worship, Stabat Mater and Stone Wings. The disc also includes a newer, remixed version of the song “Left Unspoken” which originally appeared in an earlier form on the Four Burials split that also featured Loss, among others. Their cover of “Elemental” by the influential Thergothon is also included. 2011 will also see Mournful Congregation make their stateside live debut in support of the forthcoming album with West Coast dates in December, culminating in a headlining appearance at the third annual Rites of Darkness festival in San Antonio.

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Death Of This Dry Season by Brainoil

Brainoil

Death Of This Dry Season
20 Buck Spin

It has been eight long years since Oakland’s Brainoil released their self-titled debut LP via Life Is Abuse. Back then, their combination of crushingly oppressive but up-tempo sludge and Oakland hardcore punk was well regarded in the underground and saw the band tour both domestically and abroad. Subsequently, members Greg Wilkinson, Ira Harris and Nathan Smith all drifted toward myriad other projects, and Brainoil, though not officially dead, was put on ice.  The band regrouped slowly over these last few years, resulting in Brainoil’s first batch of tunes for the new decade. Death of This Dry Season picks up the furious hardcore sludge sound for which Brainoil is well known as though they’d never left. A little older and a little wiser, Death of This Dry Season is a short, sharp shock of intense aural battery, like an amalgamation of other ugly sounding Bay Area stalwarts such as Abscess, El Dopa and Black Cobra, yet never enough like anyone else to pinpoint a direct influence. This can only be named Brainoil. Continuing 20 Buck Spin’s long support of bands from their original East Bay Area home base, the label is glad to help re-introduce Brainoil to the current underground scene’s many adherents both old and new. Death of This Dry Season marks a welcome and inexorable return to form by one of Oakland’s most noted acts and will see the band playing shows near and far throughout the year. The artwork on the LP is courtesy of FEEDING (Jon Kortland...

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Wolvserpent is the Boise, Idaho, duo formerly known lightheartedly as Pussygutt (after an old slang term for the violin or fiddle). Blood Seed, their fourth album and first under the new moniker, seamlessly melds disparate strains of experimentation into their most cohesive and cinematic vision thus far. Blood Seed has been in the works for more than a year, during which the band constantly honed and refined the material both live and in the studio. The two side-long tracks, "Wolv" and "Serpent," revel in a shimmering, dark gothic vision of rural Northwestern solitude and bleakness. The A-side sways to and fro in a perpetual trance state while violin flourishes in the background hint at the creeping menace of night's onward march toward total darkness. Soon the crushing tone of Green's guitar veers forward, blasting through the forest canopy, and the track is ensconced in the weight of massive doomed devastation and McConnell's militaristic percussive punishment. The B-side summons the howling wolves before stretching out into the doom riffage of the year, like a warped Kyuss cassette submerged in a watery grave. These are the ghosts of the uncivil dead. One of the most creative, talented and unheralded acts on the 20 Buck Spin roster, Wolvserpent emerge from their self-imposed isolation to spread the mortuary drape over the entire US throughout October when they embark on their first major tour. In its physical manifestation, Blood Seed will be an LP-only release, limited to a scant 500 shiftable units. Don't sleep on it.

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BACK IN PRINT ON WHITE VINYL!!  In the Olympia, WA, music scene, punk and indie rock have long ruled the day, and the state capital has yet to make a relevant contribution to heavy metal. That changes August 2010 with the release of Christian Mistress's debut LP Agony & Opium. In 2009, Christian Mistress released a four-song demo cassette, which quickly went on to move several hundred copies worldwide. The demo attracted the attention and praise of several underground luminaries and lovers of classic metal including infamous illustrator Dennis Dread, Ajna Offensive curator Tyler Davis and outspoken Darkthrone mastermind Gylve "Fenriz" Nagell, who has repeatedly name-dropped the band in recent interviews. A two track 7-inch EP was subsequently released, further garnering the band underground accolades across the world. Hardly another throwback or mere tribute band, Christian Mistress plays music rooted firmly in the present with a respectable and dignified grasp of retrospect. On Agony & Opium the band unleashes six ripping tracks of precision-crafted American heavy metal that sets the bar for the modern classic sound that doesn't simply ride the lightning of past scene glories and aesthetics, but brings new fresh ideas to the genre musically and lyrically. The shredding dual guitar-lead trade-offs, performed with the utmost class, never lose sight of memorable songcraft. Anchored by a tight, driving rhythm section and the raw and throaty, instantly memorable vocals of Christine Davis, the Christian Mistress sound is immediately familiar and yet sounds like no other heavy metal...

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***Oakland’s STORMCROW and Seattle’s SANCTUM are relative newcomers, having both only existed for a few years time. However, listening to their epic split album, both bands sound like seasoned veterans of a scene that began when they were but children. Both bands play an impossibly heavy brand of War Crust as they like to call it, influenced primarily by England’s mighty Bolt Thrower with additional direct ties to crust forefathers like the legendary Amebix and Axegrinder. Stormcrow tend to build longer, more epic and metalized songs while Sanctum keep it to shorter, sharper attacks, both utilizing the infamous D-beat to ultimate effect, and tuning low enough to sound like a battalion of warriors charging to battle. Already considered a classic in the crust division.

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Last year, Stormcrow and Coffins laid waste to the West Coast of the United States on a ten-day tour culminating in the two appearing at the Los Angeles Murderfest. During that time, the mutual admiration both bands already held for one another was permanently forged in steel and a split release was conceived and agreed upon. Side A features a single track from Oakland's Stormcrow, their longest ever, clocking in at massive 13 minutes. A monolithic combination of heavy crust, classic death metal and a creeping, omnipresent doom vibe, "Path to Defeat" is a song the band was playing in a less developed form on last year's tour. It was recorded at Earhammer Studio by Greg Wilkinson of Laudanum / Brainoil and Salvador Raya of Asunder. The Coffins side starts with new track "The Black Fog of Burning Flesh," a song that would fit perfectly with the abominations on their 2008 LP Buried Death. In customary Coffins fashion, it's a no-frills, crawling, drenched-in-the-mire death metal deconstruction. "Black Fog" is followed by a re-recording of "Slaughter of Gods" from their 2005 debut LP Mortuary in Darkness, a live staple that will make any primitive death metal fan lament the evolutionary tendencies of Celtic Frost. This 12-inch split, mastered at 45 RPM, arrives just in time for the appearance of both bands, together again, at the Maryland Deathfest over Memorial Day Weekend 2010. It also features classic underground death metal artwork by Digestor of Ghoul.

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Ganjahovahdose by White Mice

White Mice

Ganjahovahdose
20 Buck Spin

Pun-obsessed, toilet-humored, ill-tongued, rodent-masked wackos? A weed-fueled, grinding sludge, noise-damaged, brutally super-sonic trio? Demented cheese-lovers with a beef against God? Yeah, White Mice from Providence, Rhode Island, are all those things and more. Too fucked up and unconventional for the average metalhead, too stoned, sleazy, and salacious for the hipster and punk set, the White Mice have for years existed on the fringes of every underground scene and belonged to none of 'em. After condemning the Earth with five albums and a deluge of other releases on labels like Load Records and Blossoming Noise, White Mice defile the world once more in collaboration with 20 Buck Spin. Their sixth LP, Ganjahovahdose, is the crowning drool in the band's discography, with the most stunning, searing, heavy, and beautiful sound they've achieved yet, thanks in part to the massive mixing job of one Ken "HiWatt" Marshall (Skinny Puppy). Musically speaking, one might hear traces of Godflesh, Brainbombs, or Buzzov*en, even Flipper and some of their Providence brethren, yet they stand easily apart from any proper comparison, remaining a savage beast of their own making. The band's live show is devastatingly loud, crude, and visually incredible, leaving mouths agape and the uninitiated properly converted, every time. A cursory Youtube search reveals the sinister aesthetic the White Mice inhabit. Further mission plans include lo-fi video productions and relentless touring in the US and Europe. A completely unhealthy revisionist compulsion to alter history and obscure religious texts and images with their own punishingly scatological mockery...

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In April 2009, 20 Buck Spin released the Sacred Death split LP between Oakland's Laudanum and Stormcrow. That record featured two exclusive Laudanum tracks and led Cosmo Lee of the Invisible Oranges blog to claim Sacred Death "may be the heaviest split I've ever heard." While the band's two sludge / doom contributions clearly stood out from the pack, it is on their sophomore full-length album, The Coronation, that the band's world-eating heaviness is fully realized. Joining the husband-and-wife duo of Judd Hawk (overdriven string corrosion, ambient texture, and documentation) and Becky Hawk (battering ram and subsonic transmissions) are Greg Wilkinson (low-end frequency discharge, vocal disruption, and auditory experimentation; also of Brainoil, Pig Heart Transplant, Earhammer Studios) and the latest addition, Nathan Misterek on "battery acid, bellows, and blasphemy," or what most call vocals. Misterek, widely known as vocalist for the legendary Graves At Sea, adds an element of occult grimness previously absent from Laudanum's corrosive noise-doom wasteland--the final piece in the puzzle. On The Coronation, punishing, bruised sludge doom and bleak industrial noise experiments are fused ever more tightly together into a cohesive soundtrack for the slow collapse of modern life and culture. The intense low-frequency pummel of Wilkinson's bass rumble is itself an apparent cause for some of this collapse, such is its massive, earth-shaking power. Becky's crushing drum beats rival Dale Crover in sheer intensity and brute force; Judd's repetitive, stone-slab riffs carry the weight of the world; and Misterek's vocals, colliding with Becky's, coat the whole...

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