***There is refuge in sound. Especially when it collides with the critical human spirit. In desperate times (as the world is facing even more fervently) sound can truly be a weapon of awareness. Nothing makes this case more "black and white" and apparent than the most recent full length by BASTARD NOISE: Incineration Prayer - Self Righteous Suicide. Created exclusively with organic hand made ROARAFC caveman electronics (built BARNES of MAN IS THE BASTARD, BASTARD NOISE and AMPS FOR CHRIST), "Incineration Prayer" (Side A of the album) is a dire message to take heed that the earth mother is bleeding and turning into a furnace at the hands of "mancruel". Full blown cosmic attack and next level desperation-based vocals/lyrics that reflect the power of nature rebelling in the face of death. "Incineration Prayer" is a single cutting-edge, long form composition that sees hope in danger and crisis. "Self Righteous Suicide" (Side B of the album) spans four separate tracks of sound and vision highlighting without regret the endless misery the animals of the world face at the hand of dirty, ignorant and selfish humans. Using TROGOTRONIC electronics solely on this side, the listener is brought to the "front lines" of animal liberation consciousness and the "Davey vs. Goliath" based existence we face every day at the hands of the global factory farm "murder machine". "Self Righteous Suicide" is a humble B Side statement that "rocks the boat" for all (even the unwilling) to see and hear. This a complex and...
LP $22.75
07/14/2023
***Two anarcho punk bands from the 90s are back with 6 brand new songs each against borders, religion, fascism and bigotry. Disaffect from Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Formed in early 90s and disbanded a few years later and some members along with Sedition members, formed Scatha and Quarantine. Reformed in 2019 with original members; Joe, Brian, Lynne and Billy and adding new members Lee from 36 Crazy Fist and Jim from Machine Gun Etiquette, Ramrod and Fleas and Lice. Sanctus Iuda are a long running punk band from Poland. They play ferocious angry political, anarchist punk. All the anger etched into split colored vinyl 150g vinyl and includes a 16 page booklet.
LP $24.45
07/07/2023
***Back on vinyl for the first time in almost 20 years, the 1986 sophomore album Hate, Fear And Power by L.A.'s legendary HIRAX is back in print as it was meant to be. Hirax returned in 1986 to deliver us their second album Hate, Fear and Power. A faster, more intense, more relentless speed metal release than their debut. Raging Violence. Hirax, rejuvenated with the addition of the formidable ERIC BRECHT on drums, the speed and intensity was kicked up a notch across the board. Hirax's second full length drops 8 tracks of great thrash in under 20 minutes. Hate, Fear And Power starts of with furious short blast that touches on DRI or Repulsion territory, and it doesn't let up until the end of the final track. No time is wasted, this album is exactly what thrash should be: straight to the point and played to maximum intensity. Returning with tighter songwriting, relentless riffing. barbaric drumming, and KATON's vocal delivery standing strong, Only a minute or so longer than Slayer's Reign In Blood, this a Hirax condensed and dialed in to it's rawest, fastest form. True raging speed/thrash from beneath the streets of L.A. Original front cover art photographed and restored by HILLARIE JASON. Audio has been freshly mastered and cut for vinyl by NICK TOWNSEND. Pressed on colored vinyl and housed in heavy board jackets with printed inner sleeve. Edition of 500 copies.
CD $13.75
06/02/2023
LP $25.25
05/12/2023
***Back on vinyl for the first time in almost 20 years, the 1985 debut album Raging Violence by L.A.'s legendary HIRAX is back in print as it was meant to be. A blistering slab of crossover/thrash/speed metal that was able to bridge the gap between the straight up metal audience and the embryonic "Crossover" hardcore/punk era that was evolving in 1985. Hirax was always fast, rough and raw, they blasted forward with energy and relentless speed. KATON delivered traditional metal style singing with upper registers often only used by Mercyful Fate or Judas Priest. Unique and uncompromising in their attack, Hirax played with bands across the heavy music spectrum in the L.A. scene and cemented their legacy with fans worldwide with a prolific amount of interviews, correspondence and tape trading. They built a fan base with a true DIY style dedication. That legacy continues today. We're happy to have this record back on its original format for old heads and new fans alike. Play it loud! Original front cover art photographed and restored by HILLARIE JASON. Audio has been freshly mastered and cut for vinyl by NICK TOWNSEND. Pressed on colored vinyl and housed in heavy board jackets with printed inner sleeve. Edition of 500 copies.
CD $13.75
06/02/2023
LP $25.25
05/12/2023
***A long time Armageddon Label project that was started in 2004 that has now come to completion. The full discography of EXPLODING CORPSE ACTION, fully restored, remastered, and finally unleashed. From beyond the deepest recesses of darkest space, ECA transmitted an ominous prophesy of primitive grinding death metal so unsettling it was hidden from human ears for almost three decades. In sonic sympathy with the devastation unleashed by ancient terrestrials such as Carcass, Autopsy, Carnage, and Fear of God, ECA vomited forth grinding auditory atrocities and aural abominations, but from the cold extremities of an unknown dimension beyond space and time. Radiometric dating confirms the ECA master tapes originated from the wasteland of a long-forgotten epoch of human existence: the 1990s. Submitted here for your approval is the full record of ECA’s inimical augury including their initial planet-pulverizing demonstration, subsequent species-neutering auditory experiments, cosmos-lacerating live carnage, and their galaxy-dissevering lost ep, which is unveiled here for the first time. ECA’s Inter-Dimensional Annihilation: The Complete Transmissions 1995-1997…the truth will now be told.
LP $25.25
05/12/2023
***Prog and psych rock masters, Elder, have released their new, critically acclaimed album, Innate Passage, via Stickman Records in Europe and through Armageddon in North America. It‘s the band’s sixth full-length, and finds the mostly-Berlin-based band in the post-pandemic era as veterans at the forefront of a league of progressive and heavy groups working in large part under their influence; a stately presence as reliably forward-thinking as they are unpredictable in sound. They are among the most important acts of their mostly-still-emerging generation. Genuine leaders in style and expressive intention. Innate Passage is further proof why. In Spring 2020, Elder released their fifth album, Omens, and with it established a claim on their most prog-leaning interpretation of sprawling heavy rock and roll. Two years later, Innate Passage builds on many similar concepts, but outdoes its predecessor on every level of performance, weight of its impact, interplay between founder Nick DiSalvo and Mike Risberg’s guitars and keys, the now-settled-in drumming of Georg Edert—who made his debut on Omens —and bassist Jack Donovan’s tonal warmth underscoring the shimmer of DiSalvo’s leads. Alongside DiSalvo, Innate Passage also features a guest singer performance for the first time in Behrang Alavi of Samavayo. The album is a culmination of everything they’ve done before, and that’s reason to celebrate, but more, it is that after more than 15 years, they’re still pushing forward to places where neither they nor anyone they’ve influenced have yet gone. Says DiSalvo: “This record channels the surreal world we...
2XLP $33.25
03/10/2023
CD $14.50
01/06/2023
***Malleus has returned to present us with The Fires Of Heaven. Expanding on and refining their influences from the seminal first wave era of death and black metal, they have delivered unto us 8 savage bursts of classic blackened metal. Combining brooding atmosphere, razor sharp riffs, fiercely delivered drumming and raw, throat ripping vocals, all summoned and sent forth from the gloomiest crypts and corners of olde New England. Like a distant tolling bell emanating from the manic depths of humanity's past, the lyrics contemplate and belie the failings of mankind, and evoke a sense of the darkness that may yet lay ahead. Pressed on gray vinyl.
LP $28.75
02/17/2023
CD $13.75
02/17/2023
***A long planned reissue project, it's nice to have this one finally happen after only 15 years since we started talking about it! The G-ANX / FILTHY CHRISTIANS split 7" was pretty influential to a fledgling Dropdead back in 1991/1992. Two Swedish hardcore/punk bands each approaching fast crazy HC with completely different approaches. We listened to this record a ton, and maybe the influences can't be heard in the DD sound, but it's been there from the start. It has been great that over the years we've had the chance to hang out with Steve and Per a few times on various tours. Play this record loud and often.
7" $11.25
09/03/2022
***Since their formation in 1995, then under the moniker WOLFPACK, WOLFBRIGADE have become one of the most enduring—and influential—forces in the worldwide hardcore-punk scene. Particularly at the turn of the millennium, when the revamped moniker was invoked, Wolfbrigade have etched a unique sound that draws in the locomotive surge of D-beat with the crushing intensity of death metal; some would call it "crust," but the band evade easy categorization with every record they release. And seven albums in and more than two decades touring worldwide under the Wolfbrigade banner, the "Lycanthro Punks" show no signs of slowing down. If anything, Wolfbrigade have aged gracefully—if such a thing is allowed in punk and metal—almost like a fine wine. Case in point: the crushing new three-track EP Anti-Tank Dogs. This 12-minute stormer is a welcome reminder of how these Swedes have consistently remained a cut above the countless legions playing under the wider crust/metalpunk umbrella. Heavy as hell, a metal-tinged Discharge-meets-Motorhead on a hellbound train pounding out three tracks of their downtuned D-beat devastation, Wolfbrigade show a new aspect with the epic, Orgasmatronic B-side "Necronomion"—gloomy, haunting, an evocative atmosphere for post-apocalyptic times. Everything is brought into crushing clarity by the mastering courtesy of MAGNUS LINDBERG (Converge, Cult of Luna, Tribulation, Hellacopters). Edition of 650 copies on colored vinyl. North America only.
7" $12.75
09/03/2022
***A brand new blast of US style hardcore by some longtime Swedish friends. Straight up hardcore punk, no bullshit, no metal, just well written songs delivered with all the frustration, energy and angst these times we live in inspire. This is music that makes you wish you were at a show stagediving and running around like a maniac... "What did you do when the world came to a stop? EXIL got sick like everybody else, then they got angry, then they got busy, now they're gonna get YOU. Firing out of Stockholm city in the time of protests and pandemic, EXIL hangs the open-ended grab-a-board-and-go power of early LA hardcore onto the relentless skeleton of a UK hardcore wall of sound. Society shut them out when they were young, and now here they are, full-grown and wielding reins of punk with great merciless fury. It's personal, it's piercing, and it's a party. The rebels are inside your house, they are all around you… join the singalong or face your annihilation."—Ian Christe, Bazillion Points Books
LP $18.50
07/23/2021
***REISSUED!!! The original 1993 DON FURY mix, remastered by BRAD BOATRIGHT at Audiosiege. The terrorizing blistercore classic from '93 reissued and sounding as putrid as the day it was killed. Thirty-four songs of pulverizing political hate, social disgust and personal loathing. Originally released in 1993 on Selfless Recs, this 34 song album has been re-released with restored & updated artwork. Influenced by the old Japanese, European, and some US hardcore. An extreme mix of fast and mid-paced parts with angry vocals and personal/political lyrics.
LP $22.75
02/12/2021
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Completely remixed by KURT BALLOU in June 2020 and mastered by BRAD BOATRIGHT at Audiosiege. This record has never sounded better with this fresh audio, clearing up the muddy sound of the original tremendously. This pressing now cut to play as a normal outside to inside record, unlike the original pressings. The second album of sonic-grind, total obliti-core from Rhode Island's deafening devastators. Eighteen angry hardcore/thrash songs. 18 songs in a decidedly more Swedish HC vein, but with the usual odd breaks and fast parts throughout. More melodic than the first LP in some ways, and noisier in others.
LP $22.75
02/12/2021
***DROPDEAD’s long awaited third album, recorded by KURT BALLOU and ZACH WEEKS at God City and mastered by BRAD BOATRIGHT at Audiosiege. Musically, the third Dropdead album is a bit different from previous recordings, style-wise and vocally, with the latter being delivered so the words have an impact more so than just raw screaming. With 23 songs in 24 minutes, the songs themselves vary much more in tempo and style, but ultimately, it's a Dropdead record that makes sense in 2020. Lyrically, this record is relevant to the times we live in, focused on the alarming state of the world, the disturbing rise of right-wing extremism, animal abuse, and the continued social failures of humankind. "These are dark times we find ourselves living in," says the band, "and this is how we vent our frustration and anger in a positive way."
LP $21.50
02/12/2021
***REISSUED!!! Completely remixe by KURT BALLOU and mastered at New Alliance. Includes three new bonus tracks found on the original reels. Comprised of material recorded between 1991 and 1993, consisting of 42 songs from their self-titled 7", split 7" & 5" with Rupture and Crossed Out, and compilation tracks. Reissued with restored & updated artwork. Originally released in 1994 as an 11” LP on Clearview, and regular LP on Flat Earth in the UK in 1995. Originally a 39 track compilation, three additional tracks that were unearthed on the original reels have been added to this new version. The complete early studio tracks on one release.
LP $22.75
02/12/2021
***Discography Volume 2 compiles 42 tracks and spans the years 1995-2013. This includes Hostile EP, and splits with Unholy Grave, Totalitar, Look Back And Laugh, Converge, Systematic Death, Ruidosa Inmundicia, and Brainoil as well as compilation tracks and the Arms Race EP.
LP $22.75
02/12/2021
***Morne releases "Live at Roadburn," on Morne Records, the band's own label, in conjunction with Armageddon Label. Recorded live on April 13, 2019 at the annual Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, The Netherlands, the album accurately captures the bands live experience. Limited to 300 2xLP 180gram vinyl with screen printed art on Side D.
CD $14.00
12/04/2020
***BACK IN STOCK!!! This LP compiles the first and second demos plus one compilation track all recorded in 1991. Raw primitive versions of songs that the band started with and slowly developed into tracks for the early EPs and first LP, plus a couple relevant covers. Some of these tracks are still played at live shows today in 2020 almost 30 years later. Demo one has 17 songs recorded at WRIU live to reel to reel and has been restored by Kurt Ballou at God City. Demo two has 8 tracks recorded on a home 4 track, original unmixed master cassette given to Chris Corry at the Paincave to restore. Several on this tracks were never before released. The final track is a completely Hellhammer style version of the outro to Kiss' Black Diamond recorded for a local Providence Kiss covers cassette, many years later it was included on a vinyl 8" record that accompanied Rocktober Magazine issue 22. All in all a rough, noisy & raw document from the early days released on vinyl for the first time. Pressed on colored vinyl.
LP $18.85
09/25/2020
***NOW AVAILABLE ON CASSETTE!!! Following 2017’s Reflections of a Floating World and the 2019 experimental EP The Gold & Silver Sessions, it was anyone’s guess what the band’s next full-length might have in store. Having cemented their own heavy progressive rock sound, the latter EP showcased an exact opposite side of Elder, more rooted in sparse krautrock and even jazz-tinged jams. Omens answers this speculation with a contradiction that embodies the spirit of ELDER: somehow, there’s even more everything. In five cinematic songs, lush, intricately interwoven melodies grow and dissolve into spaced-out jams. Massive riffs thunder down into a churning sea of psychedelic sounds and unpredictable grooves carry away the listener. Elder paints pictures with their music, and Omens shows the band experimenting with an even more colorful palette—with good reason. After thirteen years, this is the first full-length recorded with a new lineup including guitarist MICHAEL RISBERG and new drummer GEORG EDERT, along with guest performances by FABIO CUOMO on Rhodes piano and synthesizers. This is music for a vacation from reality—to lose oneself in another world. And yet Omens is not purely an exercise in escapism, but also reflects the increasingly bleak, confusing and antagonistic times in which it was written. Composed as a concept album spanning the lifespan of a civilization, the album also reads as a commentary on our own society hell-bent on profitability at the expense of our own lives and environment.
CD $13.75
06/19/2020
2XLP $33.50
05/08/2020
MC $9.75
07/17/2020
***"Like a relic from a lost time, Storm of Witchcraft rages forward on an axis of Hellhammer, debut-era Bathory, and early Celtic Frost. However familiar it may sound on paper and in execution, MALLEUS nevertheless evoke an atmosphere that's equal parts drivingly serious and all-out evil, splitting the difference between alcoholocaustic gallop and dread-inducing downtempos. And it's aptly titled, too: Storm of Witchcraft possesses that ancient, old-world aura that puts this safely beyond simple “party music.” No matter how you choose to process it, Storm of Witchcraft is a poisonous first strike for MALLEUS!" This reissue has been remastered in 2019 by CARL SAFF and freshly cut for vinyl release in the USA. Originaly released by the Blood Harvest label in Sweden and hard to attain, now available in the US where the morbid tracks were spawned. Vinyl comes in a gatefold sleeve with hard board printed inner sleeve and download card. 3 colors of vinyl. The CD version now includes the Night Raids EP as bonus tracks.
LP $22.35
02/14/2020
***MALLEUS ushers in the return of darkness and evil with their Night Raids 12" EP. Evil metal from Boston bangers with two entries on this EP that thrash and tear for over 17 minutes. "Return to foresaken lands where shadows and madness threaten from beyond the forest's veil. Witness unknown horrors and the fall of emperors in two new tracks of bone crushing first wave black metal from Malleus". This 12" vinyl EP is distributed by Armageddon Label, we have bought out the remaining original pressing and added a screenprinted poster, hard board inner sleeve and download card. Limited to 350 copies on black vinyl.
12" $19.00
02/14/2020
***FREQUENCIA DE MUERTE (FDeM) formed in late 2017 in Protland OR. The band has EDUARDO AGOSTOCRATES (TEROKAL) on vocals, JEFF CARLISLE (A TOCRACY) on bass, BRAD BOATRIGHT (FROM ASHES RISE) on guitar and IAN MAKAU (LOWERED, DÖDLÄGE) on drums. In 2018 they released a four song 7" EP that featured MANNY from PELIGRO SOCIAL on second guitar. A few months after his departure they entered the historic Falcon/Audiosiege complex to begin recording their debut LP titled Death Frequency. A slight departure from the raw, reverb-drenched sound of the EP. Death Frequency features seven songs of hardcore punk played by four hardcore punk lifers with lyrics in Spanish leading the battle cry.
LP $19.50
09/20/2019
***Following the success of their 6-song cassette EP, HELL BENT have continued their brand of metal with more varied songwriting and an bigger production this time around. Apocalyptic Lamentations contains 9 tracks of old school metal played with a raw punk edge. They have been playing around New England and beyond for the last couple years. Influenced by 80's-90's Thrash, Speedmetal, Crossover, Scandinavian & Japanese Hardcore. Features past and present Members of: DROPDEAD, AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED, BELTAINE, ULCER, PAINDRIVER, VINCEBUS ERUPTUM, STRAIGHT TO HELL, ADVOCATE, NEON BITCHES and HARD DRUG.
LP $19.35
07/05/2019
***Armageddon Shop is proud to announce the long-awaited reissue of the BRAINBOMBS' first singles collection album. The Brainbombs use a horn, scraping guitars and the mindset of a mentally-impaired killer to bring some dark damage to the putrid remains of the corpse of rock music. When the band started, the Brainbombs were much more in line with the European industrial scene of the time. Though they use the tools of the rock trade, Brainbombs instead breath from the fart-helmet of minimal repetitious overload. To this a drugged-out horn floats in the mix. The collection of songs on this release documents the band’s first seven years. Subject matter is definitely for the mature listener, with sacred cows being punctured, slaughtered and violated. The lyrics are usually the deal breaker for most sensitive souls, though the brutish and wiry sounds compete with some of the best sounds off the Killed By Death series of records out of Hell, Norway. Brainbombs is not some garage fonzie KBD cover band, but a real deal noise pollutor, so don’t miss out on this once in a lifetime chance to own a gold bar made from filth. Originally released on vinyl by our friends at Load Records, now kindly reissued with their blessing.
LP $20.25
06/28/2019
***The long-awaited reissue of the BRAINBOMBS 1999 album Urge To Kill. Nobody knows what a Brainbomb is, but with the sounds of this record strapped close to your skull you will not need your fancy pants college thesaurus to figure out exactly what the meaning is. This record is maximum, in-the-red and dealing with more issues than a year of after school specials. Sounds like a fried out speaker blowing a mix of Detroit fueled orgy fun and evil bad-assery. Driving around in your car, being tired, picking up hitchhikers and killing them with hammers and screwdrivers—just some of the raunchy matter touched on in the 36-minute squirt of brain-burned bile. This shit is better than Burning Hell, their middle finger classic of 1992. A Brainbomb is the hit to your head and the sound your head makes when it hits tarmac. I understand if you don’t want to listen to a record that rocks dangerously. I also know where you live and when you get off work… You’ve heard of the Hellacopters, Turbonegro, Gluecifer, and Union Carbide Productions. The North Countries know how to churn out the rock…hard. Brainbombs decimate all these bands with their brutal thug rock. This isn’t heavy metal, there is no boogie rock on this, and they are not punk rock. Brainbombs go for your jugular. Isn’t rock music an outlaw sound? Its not funny, its like hitting yourself with a hammer. Bands like Drunks with Guns and Whitehouse aren’t funny either. Originally released on...
LP $20.25
06/28/2019
***Long time friends from LOOK BACK AND LAUGH (along with TALK IS POISON, NEEDLES, LIVING EYES, DEAD AND GONE, and others) have a new band! We are stoked to present the vinyl debut of MUTILATED TONGUE. 10 fast well crafted hardcore tracks played to the brink by these Oakland hc/punk veterans. Very stoked on this album! "Mutilated Tongue was formed in the summer of 2017, with the goal to play music reflecting our shared appreciation of the international, underground and hardcore-punk community of the '80s right up to now. All three members played together in Look Back And Laugh in the early 2000s. We've got BRIAN on guitar and vocals, TOBIA on bass and MOSES on drums. The band's main influences orbit around groups like So Much Hate, Youth Of Today, Raw Power and the FU's. Like most everyone else, we try to offer our own sound, but our music represents a lifetime of listening to DIY hardcore/punk and it's reflected without shame. We watch, listen and learn from the best!!! We are out to have a good time playing the music that we love and continuing with the intensity and spirit of the bands who laid the groundwork."
LP $17.75
05/31/2019
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Armageddon Shop is proud to announce the long-awaited reissue of the BRAINBOMBS' first album Burning Hell. Originally released in 1992 on the Blackjack label. After many years out of print in the USA, it has been freshly re-cut for this vinyl release by CARL SAFF at Saff Mastering (Fu Manchu, Elder, The Residents, Pallbearer). Ltd to 600 copies on black vinyl with download. Nine tracks of abrasive noise rock that will drill into your skull. Abrasive music that surges with hypnotic Stooges riffs that have been laced with acid and drenched in the sweat of physical fear and danger. Mutated and disorienting songs with lyrics that deliver first person accounts of the most disturbing and darkest events that are part of the human experience... Murder, sex, drugs, blood, and violence.
LP $20.25
11/09/2018
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Armageddon Shop is proud to announce the long-awaited reissue of the BRAINBOMBS' fifth album Fucking Mess. Originally released in Sweden in 2008 on the Lystring label, it quickly sold through two pressings. After many years out of print, it will be available for the first time domestically in the USA. It has been freshly re-cut for this vinyl release by CARL SAFF Saff Mastering (Fu Manchu, Elder, The Residents, Pallbearer). Ltd to 600 copies on black vinyl with download. Seven tracks of blown out noise rock from the depths of Sweden's sub/urban landscape. Blood soaked lurching riffs taking you through a horrific police report. An audio notebook filled with disturbing and murderous events. A serial killer walking down a dark road listening to a blown out cassette on a dying walkman as he wipes the blood off his hands and into the dirt... In their own words: "Brainbombs Fucking Mess as a testament/funeral. BB found previous releases to be too naive, this time it's for real."
LP $20.25
11/09/2018
***Armageddon Label presents the debut LP by the Rhode Island hardcore band RUIN IT! titled Locked Up Dead. Locked up Dead is a 15 track album of no bullshit hardcore, think Out Cold and 9 Shocks Terror mixed with a little NYHC. Fast, tight and to the point, with the occasional breakdown. Just well written, raw and solid as fuck hardcore with pissed vocals. Check it out! Recorded last winter at NEF Studio by ANTHONY Z, mixed by CHRISTOPHER CORRY for maximum sonic HC impact at the Paincave, and mastered by CARL SAFF at Saff Mastering.
LP $18.50
11/09/2018
***Five years since their last release, MORNE is proud to announce their fourth studio album entitled, To The Night Unknown, which will be released by the Armageddon Label and the bands’ own label Morne Records, in September 2018. The album was recorded at New Alliance Audio Productions by JON TAFT and mastered at Audiosiege by BRAD BOATRIGHT and features the photography and design of HILLARIE JASON. Morne, formed in 2005, is a heavy, atmospheric band based in Boston, Massachusetts. Their style blends doom metal and classic British crust but stretches beyond those boundaries, combining a bleak lyrical style with driving riffs. The band has toured the US, Canada and Europe, and they have been part of large festivals such as Roadburn, Hellfest and Psycho Las Vegas. Vinyl edition of 600 copies.
CD $13.75
09/07/2018
2XLP $31.95
09/07/2018
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Note new price. It's been 4 years since the first album The Awaiting Coffins was released. CHURCHBURN is proud to finally unveil the new album None Shall Live...The Hymns of Misery. Churchburn is the musical collaboration between two of the undergrounds masters of misery. DAVE SUZUKI (VITAL REMAINS) and RAY MCCAFFREY (SINS OF ANGELS, GRIEF). The two have set out to share with the world their love of the riff. Not only the heaviest but also the most haunting. Each song is crafted with the most sinister of intent. Churchburn want the listener to feel a true sense of dread as each song progresses. Includes guest appearances by ANDY GRANT (THE VOMIT ARSONSIST) and former member MIKE CARDOSO, along with new members TIMMY ST. AMOUR (HOWL) on guitar and DEREK MONIZ (HEADROT, WREAK, BLACK ACID PROPHECY) on bass. Recorded, engineered and mixed at Machines With Magnets by SETH MANCHESTER, mastered at Audiosiege by BRAD BOATRIGHT for maximum hearing damage. Features artwork by NESTOR AVALOS. LP housed in gatefold jackets and pressed on colored vinyl.
LP $22.50
07/13/2018
CD $13.75
07/13/2018
MC $7.50
07/13/2018
***BACK IN STOCK!!! With Dead Roots Stirring, their second full length album, ELDER returned from a three year silence with five songs charting new epic territory. Tremendous musical and songwriting growth take this album into a great new territorry. Equal parts hypnotic rhythm, uncompromising heaviness, and soaring melody, Elder navigated between moods and sounds effortlessly. Heaviness is not sacrificed by any means, the power of the riff is undiminished, it is further elevated by the sonic space inbetween giving us time to let them sink in completely. Continuously moving both backward towards their roots in heavy rock while also moving forward into more progressive and psychedelic territory, this is a huge and influential step forward. "Where the first album was heavily indebted to Sleep’s stoner caravanning and dropping out of life, the new five-song collection has expanded Elder’s reach sonically, branching into a more complex realm of psychedelic melody.”—The Obelisk. Pressed on clear 180 gram vinyl and housed in deluxe gatefold jackets with poster.
CD $13.75
12/01/2017
2XLP $33.50
12/01/2017
MC $7.50
05/04/2018
***BACK IN STOCK!!! ELDER's self-titled debut album from 2007 was an impressive offering of psychedelia-tinged stoner rock and doom that set the tone for the band's later progressive developments. In 2006, three longtime friends and members of the small music scene anchored in the port city of New Bedford, Massachusetts got together with the mission of making music that was heavier and more brutal than anything happening around. The first version of Elder was an interesting beast, combining sludgy riffs, primitive black metal vocals and Genghis Khan-themed lyrics. After toiling in these murky waters for a year, the band shed their extreme metal origins and emerged with their first proper album, Elder, an album that would already establish the band as some of the best riff-dealers this side of Birmingham. To celebrate the record's 10 year anniversary, this reissue comes with a second LP containing the band's first ever recordings from their early days.
CD $13.75
12/01/2017
2XLP $33.50
12/15/2017
***BACK IN PRINT!!! A double-LP domestic pressing of the CD released a few years ago in Europe. Includes the single that came out on tUMULt, the "Stinking Memory" 7" on Anthem, as well as the Wabana Gun Court single, the Ken Rock single and the Big Brothel single. A collection of totally killer BB tracks, "Stigma Of The Ripper,” "The Grinder," "I Need Speed" and more. All in classic BRAINBOMBS style, One killer riff punctuated by deadpan vocal delivery of their fucked up lyrics, and repeat... Also included are some rare live tracks, including "Urge To Kill" among them, recorded live in Norway way back in 1993, They sound raw, and distorted in proper style, Don't miss the hidden last track, a minute-long, post performance Brainbombs sign off. Includes a download.
2XLP $25.95
07/07/2017
***BACK IN STOCK!!! It’s time to get euphoric. With EDLER's fourth full-length album, an epic piece of rock music will be released unto the world. And we think that’s a reason to celebrate. Band members and friends NICK DISALVO, JACK DONOVAN and MATT COUTO already dismissed any last remains of stoner metal stereotypes on Lore (2015). Their current album, which was written following the long and acclaimed Lore tour in moments of intense creativity, is a journey into prog rock and psychedelic worlds. Six monumental songs, huge in sound, each of them their own cosmic expedition. What begins as driving mid-tempo rock filled with heavy guitar riffs repeatedly erupts into melodic tangents and clever variations. The high demands that DiSalvo places on his own songwriting seem to become more unfettered from minute to minute—as does the pleasure of listening to him. Guest musicians MICHAEL SAMOS and MIKE RISBERG have added additional guitars, pedal steel and keyboards to the trio, making Elder’s sound more voluminous than ever, and the influences found here range from '70s prog dinosaurs such as Yes, King Crimson or Pink Floyd to their kindred spirits in the European psychedelic and space rock scenes. And it is of course a cliché, but Elder bring their own organism to life from all these influences. Elder will be taking Reflections of a Floating World live to European fans in July and August 2017, followed by a USA tour in the fall. The East Coast trio will be...
CD $13.50
06/02/2017
2XLP $33.50
06/02/2017
MC $7.50
06/02/2017
***A heavy psychedelic bummer rock masterpiece from 1995. Six loud and pummeling transmissions from the streets of Weymouth directly to your skull. A sonic boot to the head. SIEGE drummer ROBERT WILLIAMS powers this sonic trip through some extremely heavy territory. Pink Floyd meets Flipper under a collapsing bridge, Lydia Lunch meets the Brainbombs and they take acid together, Black Sabbath meets Funkadelic while Kilslug throws empty beer bottles at them both. We file this in the "fucked up music" category alongside Flipper, Brainbombs, Kilslug, Drunks With Guns. If Siege's Grim Reaper was ever to be completely extended to band status, this is it. You will either be on board for this trip, or you will not be. We are definitely on the boat. First time on vinyl, limited to 500 copies on color vinyl with download.
LP $17.75
04/22/2017
***This Massachusetts HC classic finally sees the light of day again, reissued after 17 years. FIT FOR ABUSE started in the winter of 1995 inspired to play hardcore in the vein of classic bands like Negative FX, Poison Idea, Gang Green and Negative Approach. After numerous local shows and one demo, in September of 1996 FFA recorded these 12 tracks with KURT BALLOU of Converge in his original 8-Track home studio. The Mindless Violence EP was originally released in a pressing of 1,000 copies in early 1997, and repressed one time in 1998. Urban HC legend has it that several more tracks were recorded at the same time, but so far have been impossible to track down... beyond one cover song, "Nuclear Threat" originally by The Abused. Not long after the original record came out, singer MATT KELLY was asked to join the DROPKICK MURPHYS as their drummer. He made the choice to leave FFA due to his nonstop touring schedule. The band decided to continue on without him. Over the years, JOE continued playing music with THINK I CARE, R'N'R, VACCINE and others. MUZZI was in OUT COLD for a while. Matt is still in The Dropkick Murphys. Where everyone else is, well who knows. Mindless Violence made a mark in the 1990s for some of us, an often underrated and constantly overlooked piece of Massachusetts musical history. Hopefully now this properly mastered version will leave it's mark on a new generation of hardcore fans, and make some older...
LP $15.50
06/09/2015
***CHURCHBURN present their first full length recording, five songs plus one unlisted bonus track recorded between 2011-2014. A combination of atmospheric unrelenting heaviness with melody and songwriting skill. The tracks have the pace and aura of properly done doom, with black and death metal influences woven throughout. Layered vocals, guitar harmonies, memorable riffs, heavy percussion. A cohesive and bludgeoning piece of modern metal. Churchburn the new musical collaboration between two of the undergrounds masters of misery. DAVE SUZUKI, best known for his mesmerizing guitar work and brutal drumming in VITAL REMAINS and RAY MCCAFFREY, who carved out sonic drum patterns for SIN OF ANGELS and GRIEF. CD in standard jewel case packaging.
LP $15.50
05/19/2015
CD $13.50
02/10/2015
***BACK IN STOCK!!! ELDER is a heavy psych band from Boston, USA. Founded by long-time friends NICHOLAS DISALVO, JACK DONOVAN and MAT COUTO, the group spent years plodding in Sabbathian territory, releasing their self-titled debut 2007, followed by Dead Roots Stirring in 2011. They also released a two song EP Spires Burn / Release in 2012 showing m`usical growth in a more refined vision of the band's sound. With Dead Roots Stirring and Spires Burn, Elder took a surprising turn away from their more traditional stoner rock roots, incorporating uplifting melodies and progressive song structures into their lengthy epics. Their third full length Lore is a watershed moment in the band's history. Joining the interplay of heaviness and melody which has become the hallmark Elder sound are a host of new meanderings through uncharted kosmische territory; krautrock, prog as well as classic heavy rock and doom can all be heard unfolding throughout the record's five songs. By giving equal credence to riffs and atmosphere, Lore bypasses genre constraints, the group's penchant for progressive songwriting and melody shining more brightly than ever. While Elder's sound is now much more evolved and varied, it is still consistently based around rock and metal, originally influenced by such heavy landmark bands as Black Sabbath, Sleep and Electric Wizard.
CD $14.50
03/03/2015
2XLP $33.50
07/07/2017
***Finally, the last of the four 20th anniversary split 7"s has been completed. DROPDEAD with the last two tracks from the same session as the split with Converge. "Harvest" and "Indoctrination," both espousing the daily struggle for personal freedom. BRAINOIL present "Inherit The Rejection Of Stasis," a heavy as fuck sludge metal riffer. Three of the best dudes from many past bands you've heard of, fellow DIY lifers, and our Bay Area friends. This release is completed and complemented by some beautiful artwork by JACOB BANNON done specifically for this release.
7" $7.75
02/10/2015
***DROPDEAD with two more tracks from the same session as the split with Converge. "A Fall Of Empires" and "Last Breath". RUIDOSA INMUNDICIA (Austria) with three unreleased tracks recorded for this split. A reference point musically would be Los Crudos fronted by a raging female vocalist. Current SOTATILA members. Great people, great band! Includes a download.
7" $6.30
12/31/2013