***The second issue of the Heartworm Reader poetry journal, featuring 100 entries by 25 different contributors. Jeffrey Lee Pierce graces the cover as photographed by Laura Levine. Contributor List: Blixa Bargeld - Steven Jesse Bernstein - D. Randall Blythe - Simon & Bronwyn Bonney - Parker Love Bowling - Richard Denner - Craig Dyer - Wesley Eisold - Shannon Funchess - Kurt Heasley - Kristin Hersh - Harry Huntington - David Coppin Lanegan - Mark Lanegan - Amy Lee - Thurston Moore - Daniel Moro - Jeffrey Lee Pierce - William Pym - Geoff Rickly - Jim Ruland - Emma Ruth Rundle - Jeremy Szuder - Colin H. Van Eeckhout - Steve Von Till.
BK $26.95
09/08/2023
***The new EP from American Nightmare and their first 10" vinyl release. Dedicated To The Next World is AN refusing to rest on legacy. The legendary hardcore punk band returns with four new songs that sound like classic and future AN, stripped down and sped up to their trademarked urgency and live violence. With stream of conscious lyrics and existential dread, these are revival songs for the modern disenchanted. The band’s volatile mix of traditional American hardcore, dark aesthetics, and singer Wesley Eisold’s (COLD CAVE) emotional lyrical prose set a new creative standard for the worldwide hardcore community. "How I Got Away" recalls AN's anthemic hardcore sound a la tracks "We Are" and "The World Is Blue." "Self Check-Out" is a minute-long punk blister. "Real Love" flies like speed fueled Stooges and "Praying Hands..." nods to the influences of Bad Brains and Negative Approach. Having started in 2000 and initially breaking up in 2004, the band reunited in 2012 and subsequently launched a second life of lauded shows and records proving that there is life after youth. Recorded live to 2 inch tape by American Nightmare drummer Alex Garcia-Rivera at Mystic Valley Recording Studio in Boston. Mastered and cut for vinyl by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service.
10" $21.95
06/09/2023
***REISSUED ON LIMITED COLORED VINYL!!! Cherish The Light Years was released in 2010 by Matador Records. Recorded at Electric Lady and DFA's Plantain Studios in NYC, Cherish is Cold Cave’s second album of dark stadium pop featuring the songs ‘Confetti’, ‘The Great Pan Is Dead’, ‘Underworld USA’ and ‘Villains Of The Moon’ and more. It is an album of love, regret, triumph and failure. Pressed on black & white pinwheel vinyl.
LP $31.95
06/02/2023
***REISSUED ON LIMITED COLORED VINYL!!! Cremations is a collection of early demo/live/and unreleased tracks from COLD CAVE. From the projects isolated beginnings to the recent full band lineup the development of this singular musical entity is documented here in its icy electronic glory. From Cold Cave's infancy sexual identity and oblique existentialism have been expressed through biting lyrics and electronic minimalism. Rarely has the human condition been exposed so brazenly as in "Sex Ads." Melodies, noise and rhythms clash as stories from below the surface are retold. From the demo LP Coma Potion, which featured a rugged stripped down distortion, to the suggestive Electronic Dreams tour cassette. Cold Cave has developed its own brand of genre defying electronic music, without ever betraying its dark roots. Love and pornography, Industrial music and traditionalism, poetry and profanity all mix together in a hedonistic, cocktail of nihilistic nights and mournful mornings. Cremations includes the debut release demo LP Coma Potion, which featured a rugged stripped down distortion, the first 7" Painted Nails, the Electronic Dreams tour cassette and more. This version also includes a lyric sheet for the first time. Remastered and cut by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service. Pressed on clear with heavy black smoke vinyl.
LP COLOR $31.95
06/02/2023
***REISSUED ON LIMITED COLORED VINYL!!! Fate In Seven Lessons is the new release by Cold Cave encompassing all of their past while moving deeper into the future. It’s their heaviest and most romantic yet with brooding and sexy synth driven neo-psychedelic goth and the epitome of dreary pop driven by synthesizers and poetry. Featuring the singles "Prayer From Nowhere", "Night Light", "Psalm 23" and "Promised Land", Fate is seven melancholy and emotional songs of love and longing. Mastered and cut for vinyl by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering service. Pressed on cloudy clear neon and black splatter vinyl.
LP COLOR $31.95
06/02/2023
***REISSUED ON LIMITED COLORED VINYL!!! Love Comes Close is the debut full length from Cold Cave. Written and recorded in Philadelphia in 2008-09, the album was released by Heartworm Press and then re-released by Matador Records just as the band was beginning its foray into cult status. Late night bedroom dark anthems for isolated dreamers with nods to the early years of synth pop and experimentation a la The Human League, Throbbing Gristle and New Order. Along with the title track, songs like "Life Magazine," "Heaven Was Full" and "Youth and Lust" went on to become live staples with their equal measures of romance and nihilism. Remastered and cut by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service. Pressed on red & white butterfly vinyl.
LP COLOR $31.95
06/02/2023
***Genesis P-Orridge, the mind and voice behind Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle and COUM Transmissions, began their artistic journey in the 1960’s writing poetry. This collection introduces Genesis as a thoughtful innovator and irreverent provocateur with over two decades of poetry, from beat to concrete, and shows the progression of the self, beginning the book under the given name of Neil Megson and eventually growing into the enigmatic Genesis P-Orridge. Heartworm Press is proud to present hundreds of never before seen or published poems including 50 images with an intro by friend and collaborator Wesley Eisold.
BK $28.75
05/12/2023
***Cold Cave's "Confetti" 7" featuring the alternate radio edit of the song available on heavy baby pink virgin vinyl backed with the original version. Originally released in 2012 by Heartworm Press, the record was only available to those in attendance at the band's Guggenheim Museum performance that year. Edition of 500.
7" $17.75
04/14/2023
***Leaving California is the new collection by Mark Lanegan, compiling 76 poems that merge the line of harsh reality and paranoia, beauty and reflection, and the wisdom of the escape artist. There are amends and curses amongst stories that one can only tell once they’ve seen everything and everything collapse. In many ways this is part two of Lanegan's best selling 2020 novel, Sing Backwards and Weep, where loose ends are tied and others left for dead. A brilliant work of true transformation, these poems also chronicle Lanegan's exit from California for the literal greener pastures of Ireland. As someone who has survived it all, he must have known this move was the next level of perseverance. There’s a pacing anxiety leading up to the move, turbulence in the transition, and a calm consideration once he’s settled. Perfect bound with felt cover. Introduction by Wesley Eisold. 3rd Edition
BK $30.50
03/25/2022
***Do we sing what we write or write what we sing? Lanegan and Eisold come together to present words of dystopian desolation. Plague Poems is a collection of 23 poems written by each, for love - lost, losing, and even sometimes found. Written in February and March of 2020, the subconscious presents a narrative of love in the end of days. First two prints sold out immediately. 3rd Edition.
BK $31.95
03/25/2022
***After ten years, Deathbeds is finally available again as a paperback with the original cover. Deathbeds was first released in 2007, compiling the lyrical content of Eisold's work in renowned bands American Nightmare, Some Girls and the beginning of his current moniker, Cold Cave. Along with tour journals, poems and prose of early fanzines, Deathbeds is the comprehensive work of an artist in their twenties trying to connect with the outside world and their discontent, confusion and the existential within. The book celebrates the beauty that is the struggle of depression and growth in a poignant and foreword way that is rarely written down or documented coherently. These words came from a place of desperation and isolation but ended up inspiring others with how relatable not being able to relate is. First published in 2007, Heartworm has sold over 10,000 copies of this cult collection between three paperback and three hardcover editions. 3rd Edition.
BK $23.50
03/18/2022
***Cherish The Light Years was released in 2010 by Matador Records. Recorded at Electric Lady and DFA's Plantain Studios in NYC, Cherish is Cold Cave’s second album of dark stadium pop featuring the songs ‘Confetti’, ‘The Great Pan Is Dead’, ‘Underworld USA’ and ‘Villains Of The Moon’ and more. It is an album of love, regret, triumph and failure and is finally available again for it's 10 year anniversary. Pressed on 180 gram picture disc vinyl for the first time. This special edition also includes the unreleased track 'Believe In My Blood'.
PICLP $30.75
11/05/2021
***Long-running luminaries of the underground, Cold Cave have returned with a 7 song release titled Fate In Seven Lessons. Due out on June 11th via Heartworm Press, Fate In Seven Lessons encompasses all of Cold Cave’s past while moving into the future. It’s their heaviest and most romantic release yet with brooding and sexy synth-driven neo-psychedelia goth. The first single, “Night Light,” is the epitome of dreary and dreamy '80s nostalgic comeback pop, driven by synthesizers and poetry. A melancholy and emotional dance track of love and longing out of time but yearning for a brighter tomorrow, the song is about “clinging to love the way people cling to religion and escaping the trappings of time. It’s an ode to the light in the dark, and end of the night anthem for everything you wish you said,” comments Wesley Eisold. Since Cold Cave’s inception in 2007, the group has released an astounding number of singles, LPs, EPs, and compilations, and have become synonymous with the modern-day resurgence of darkwave and synth-pop. Founder and frontperson Wes Eisold is a multi-disciplinary artist whose body of work continues to reverberate throughout the subterranean arts scene and beyond. Eisold has gained mass appeal in various sects of underground music, influencing underground and popular culture with his deft and nimble artistic vision. This has propelled Cold Cave to perform at world class museums The Getty and The Guggenheim, and perform alongside legends The Jesus and Mary Chain and Nine Inch Nails among others. Eisold, along...
PICLP $28.95
09/24/2021
***The first issue of Heartworm Press' (COLD CAVE) new literary journal. "We invited 25 cultural figures from the 1960s to the present to each contribute four poems, from awarded poets who have been featured in The New Yorker and Paris Review, to works from lyricists of bands such as THROBBING GRISTLE, SUICIDE, BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, COLD CAVE, DEAFHEAVEN, DAUGHTERS, CEREMONY and more." 100 poems total from 25 different contributors: KAVEH AKBAR, SARAH JEAN ALEXANDER, JARED ARTAUD, GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE, ALFRED BROWN, LEE BULLITT, GEORGE CLARKE, PABLO CONEJERO LOPEZ, LUCIEN EDWARDS, WESLEY EISOLD, ROSS FARRAR, BIBBE HANSEN, PETER HAYES, KEVIN HOWLEY, MARK LANEGAN, AMY LEE, VIOLETTA LEIGH, ZACHARY LIPEZ, ALEXIS MARSHALL, KYLE OPHEIM, ERIC PAUL, SAM PINK, CHARLES ROWELL, MATHIAS SALINA, and ALAN VEGA. Comes in two different covers—one with Alan Vega, the other with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. 230 page, 5.5 x 8.5 in. paperback.
BK $23.50
10/23/2020
***You & Me & Infinity is the new EP by COLD CAVE. Cold Cave continues to perfect their own brand of dark synth pop that manages to sound retro and futuristic at the same time. Four romantic existential anthems for the disenchanted daydreamers, including the glimmering pop crowd favorite tune "Glory". Mixed by CHRIS COADY and mastered by BOB WESTON. Pressed on picture disc 10-inch vinyl and housed in gatefold jackets.
fpo $23.45
09/28/2018
BACK IN STOCK!!! Electronic neo-wave recorded and performed by WESLEY EISOLD in Los Angeles, 2013. “Black Boots”— cool nihilism. Existential, groovy, psychedelia. “Meaningful Life”—a sombre ballad. Organ, flute, vintage drum machine, and intimate declarations.
7" $9.25
03/04/2014
***NOW AVAILABLE ON CD!!! YE OLDE MAIDS is the original synth-pop experiment of COLD CAVE’s WESLEY EISOLD. This 2006-2008 collection of twenty-four electronic bedroom recordings, God Blesses Us, Mother Dresses Us, features previously unreleased songs as well as all tracks from the out of print LP and demo.
CD $10.50
11/16/2010