*** "'...rousing blast of earthy fuzz... impressed with their passionate blend of grunge, punk, and shoegaze with hints of blues scattered throughout. ...new song... teased even more complex song structures with shifting time signatures and interplay between all three voices in the band.'—Torrey Proto, NHVNoise. I think that about sums it up! This new album has been brewing for a couple years now with lots of fun instrumentation expertly produced by Ryan Prushinski of Doom Beach." Edition of 150 copies pressed on black/gray smash vinyl.
LP $30.85
04/05/2024
***Tongue Depressor (New Haven, CT) is the duo of Zach Rowden and Henry Birdsey. They write, improvise, and perform drone-based music with fiddles, pedal steel, lap steel, contrabass, organ, and bells, usually involving micro- tonal tunings and rearranged /retuned fragments of American church music. Austin Larkin (New Haven, CT) uses elements of tone, interstices of fields, asymmetries, and patterns. Performance and practice informed by re- search into dimensions of vibrating bodies. On this recording Tongue Depressor and Austin Larkin have combined to record what they had been practicing on the road live across the US together. Henry Birdsey (TD) plays bagpipes and lap steel. Zach Rowden (TD) plays violin and tapes. Austin Larkin plays viola and sirens (which he himself constructed and are a story unto themselves). Soothing sounds give way to unsettling / unnerving feelings when the sirens find their way through meditative loops.
LP $22.85
03/01/2024
***Connecticut "noise legends," and God's least favorite two-piece, DOOM BEACH, follow up their sophomore LP Copperhead with the release of four head-splitting songs in collaboration with CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP. Since their first release in 2019, Doom Beach have carved a path somewhere in the space between noise rock and screamo. Described as, "the sound of pain leaving the body," the high-volume two-piece channels the noisy, harsh atmosphere of bands like The Body, while blending in elements of punk and hardcore. Clocking in at just 12 minutes in total, their split side is a blistering, head swelling, nail through the skull. Perfect for fans of sludge, noise, and having worms in your brain. Pre-programmed blast beats, harsh feedback, violent screams, and flying silverware are all things one might find at a CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP performance. Blending power-violence and harsh noise, this one man band out of Connecticut is unleashing 89 new songs on his side of a brand new split with Doom Beach. Following up last year’s We Live as Ghosts and Insects are Crawling All Over My Body, he branched out to each extreme corner of his sound on this release. While some tracks slow things down to the sludgiest depths, others are pure noise-core chaos. Regardless of which direction each particular minute of his side goes, it all comes off like a swift punch to the senses. Edition of 300 copies on black and white smash vinyl.
12" $26.35
02/16/2024
***Intercourse formed in 2013 and has been annoying ever since. With the goal of ditching the pretension of noise rock and fusing it with the immediacy of hardcore they’ve managed a release a year since 2014. 2021's Rule 36 (Reptilian / Constant Disappointment) and 2023’s Halo Castration Institute (Learning Curve / Redscroll) helped the band reach a new level of notoriety with positive reviews across the board. With the release of a new EP Egyptian Democracy looming for winter of 2024 the band is sure to become the high watermark for annoying adults who dress like they’re 17 and simply will not quit. The B side is the long out-of-print material (previously only available as a 7”), Bum Wine. Intercourse have recently toured with contemporaries, Chat Pile, and have opened for Deadguy, Great Falls, and Pissed Jeans. 300 pressed on various splatters.
12" $26.35
02/16/2024
***Chained... return with an EP of crushing doom in with this last surprise release of 2023. 3 songs that'll keep you more still than 10 weighted blankets (ha). Edition of 500.
12" $25.50
12/15/2023
***Antoni Maiovvi's The Dead Of Winter is a semi-faux soundtrack album in the vein of the British composers more classically cinematic works. Sonically the album resembles a sort of Deathrock Danny Elfman locking horns with Howard Shore piloting Sunn O)))’s dopemobile... at night... in the fog. The Dead Of Winter is a collection of unused themes made for a very real movie that for various tax break reasons were unable to be used. Not wanting to waste the work already completed, the cues were finished without picture and arranged here as their own narrative, with the idea to transport the listener to a snowy, isolated, old building filled with secrets and demons.
LP $20.95
04/07/2023
***Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean is a blackened-doom heavy metal band based out of Western Massachusetts. Obsession Destruction is the band's first full-length coming on the heels of 5 sold out EP releases spotted over the last 5 years. Chained has found a fanbase by winning over crowds with unprecedented volume and uncompromising live sound. Obsession Destruction is an eight song double LP clocking in at over an hour in length, housed in a stunning gatefold LP with artwork created by the late Mariusz Lewandowski (Bell Witch, Obituary, Fuming Mouth...). This full length finds the band honing the songwriting and experimentation within their fundamental sound and elevating it to the highest caliber possible. Chained has toured up and down the East Coast and throughout the Midwest playing shows alongside: The Acacia Strain, Undeath, Thou, Hell, Black Tusk, Come to Grief... Recorded by Chris Teti at Silver Bullet Studios and mastered by Magnus Lingberg. Records pressed at Burlington Record Plant. For fans of: Amenra, Inter Arma, Neurosis, Rwake, Warning.
2XLP $43.25
04/07/2023
***Tongue Depressor (New Haven, CT) is the duo of Zach Rowden and Henry Birdsey. They write, improvise, and perform drone-based music with fiddles, pedal steel, lap steel, contrabass, organ, and bells, usually involving microtonal tunings and re-arranged/re-tuned fragments of American church music. In another time, Tongue Depressor’s ethereal tunings set into motion an unstable peace. With their bows, the duo conjured spirits to settle serpents. “In the Quarter Column” showcases Tongue Depressor’s progression into an exploratory and singular craft, balancing technical ability with discipline, and magnetism with precision. This is an edition of 312 records pressed at Burlington Record Plant on Black Smog vinyl (appears black until held up to the light).
LP $22.75
06/04/2021
***Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean is a monolithic doom metal band based out of Western Massachusetts. The Vestige is a collection of all of their previous works which are all long out of print and highly sought after. Chained has found a fan-base with their high volume live shows and presence. The Vestige collects all the tracks from Decay and Other Hopes Against Progress, I Carry My Awareness of Defeat Like a Banner of Victory, and Tell Me What You See Vanishing and I Will Tell You Who You Are, within a tri-fold jacket double LP with new original art work by Blial Cabal. Inner panel art work by Alex Rojas – referencing the original releases’ art. Chained has toured up and down the East Coast and throughout the Mid-West playing shows alongside other titans in doom metal such as Thou, Come to Grief, & Black Pyramid. Recorded in part by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios and Chris Teti at Silver Bullet Studios.
2XLP $28.35
10/16/2020
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Ambient drift rock band LANDING formed in 1998 by married couple AARON and ADRIENNE SNOW, two musicians who met at Brigham Young University and moved to Connecticut after graduating. Landing quickly set about recording their dark, ambient dream pop, resulting in several cassette and EP releases. Their early work was stylistically close to that of contemporaries like Flying Saucer Attack, Bowery Electric, and Windy & Carl, with buried vocals and washes of noisy texture riding slow, drawn-out rhythms. Following the 2015 EP Body Diffuser on Vast Arc Hues, the full-length Third Sight was released by El Paraiso in 2016, followed shortly by Complekt on These Are Not Records. The Krautrock-influenced Bells in New Towns appeared on El Paraiso in 2018. HEADROOM first took flight in 2016 as the solo outlet for New Haven musician KRYSSI BATTALENE, née of regarded noise project COLORGUARD and guitarist for psychedelic voyagers, MOUNTAIN MOVERS. Headroom sprung forth from the fertile and underrated New Haven scene—a musical patchwork of punk, hardcore, noise & experimental music all sharing the same stages & DIY spots and creating a musical identity all their own. Battalene's talent flourished & soon enough, her signature style of guitar was infiltrating and influencing a new crop of New Haven musicians; part Twisted Village / PSF Records-influenced white noise maelstrom, part nuanced, beautiful six-stringed draperies. Battalene’s talents have graced recordings and stages with Estrogen Highs, Medication, Secret Treaties and Stefan Christiansen & Friends. Headroom have established a strong base of releases...
LP $17.75
07/17/2020
LP $14.50
03/06/2020
CD $8.50
03/06/2020
MC $8.50
03/06/2020
***REDUCTION PLAN's music comes from within solitude's frigid embrace. Pulling from '80s goth, industrial, dream-pop, as well as cacophonous no-wave, Reduction Plan uses both noise and space to illustrate the power of silence. Synth swells, hypnotic guitars, pulsing drum machines, and haunting murmurs form the foundation of the project’s sound. The record finds MANNING expanding Reduction Plan’s sound into heavier, more distorted territory. Album opener “An Act of Self-Immolation” leads with an ominous synth hum, followed swiftly by an explosive wash of distorted guitars. Second track “Meridian” is an eerie, bass-driven dirge inspired by the turmoil and brutality of Cormac McCarthy’s seminal novel Blood Meridian. It isn’t all doom and gloom throughout the opening moments, however, as “The River” opens with a soaring saxophone solo, bouncing drum machine groove, and shimmering, chorus-heavy guitars. For fans of Cold Cave, Drab Majesty, Have A Nice Life and New Order.
LP $14.75
09/20/2019
***Three-piece fast hardcore with brief feed-backing breakdowns; their live sets are furious sprints into oblivion. KIDNAPPED aren’t done, but what they’ve accomplished in 2 short years is release 5 cassettes worth of hard-as-nails, fast-as-hell, concise, blasting-face-rippers. We’ve collected all of those onto one album which very conveniently fits onto a single LP (good job, boys!)—48 tracks which were split among the self-released tapes. For Fans Of: Infest, Crossed Out, Hatred Surge, Dead In The Dirt. Edition of 300.
LP $17.75
07/19/2019