***NOW AVAILABLE ON CASSETTE!!! Birthed at the very edge of the Mediterranean where the Western world and Europe die and dissolve leaving pace to an ancient and inscrutable frontier land of lost history and arcane mystery, Tunisian black metal enigma AYYUR re-surface after a lengthily slumber with The Lunatic Creature, a new MLP of soul-tearing atmospheric black metal shrouded in malevolent mysticism and superbly impenetrable atmospheres. On this new offering the North African band is aided on drums by former DEATHSPELL OMEGA vocalist SHAXUL as they channel the remote and most unspeakable lore and darkest history of their land to summon a black metal specter of distant and magnificently wretched esotericism. With soaring mid-tempo progressions reminiscent of MGLA or Drudkh, dense and haunting atmospheres akin to those found in the most mystical fringe of atmospheric USBM, and moods of unparalleled hermetism and isolationism, Ayyur have distilled the very essence of their fringe and cast away existence cut away from the familiarity of the Western world to create a black metal construct of ghastly remoteness and of entrancing mysticism.
LP $16.35
01/04/2019
MC $8.50
06/14/2019
***BACK IN STOCK!!! After debuting in 2015 with their staggering first EP Pears of Anguish, Los Angeles deathrock night stalkers DETH CRUX (who feature in their ranks members of US doom legends BURIED AT SEA and of L.A. black/death heathens LIGHTNING SWORDS OF DEATH) return with their long awaited debut album—the haunting and chameleonic Mutant Flesh, forty minutes of shapeshifting and deviant horror punk/gothic rock soaked in neon, blood, sex, and perversion. Shrouded in an aura both erotic and extraterrestrial, Mutant Flesh is a modern post-punk juggernaut in which Deth Crux have distilled the most tumultuous, unclean, and eclectic aspects of their home town Los Angeles to create a dark punk opera of unparalleled seductiveness and darkness. In Mutant Flesh, Deth Crux channel the grandiose majesty and gloom of iconic UK goth bands like Bauhaus, Fields of the Nephilim, and Sister of Mercy, with the spooky and feral irreverence of Christian Death, projecting it all against their own personal audio-visual backdrop of decaying urban madness and sinister body horror to yield something truly both unseen and marvelously unsettling and seductive. Recorded and mixed by famed sound designer SANFORD PARKER (Leviathan, Wovenhand, Nachtmystium, Voivod etc.) in 2017 at Big Band Sound in Los Angeles. Features contributions also by saxophone legend BRUCE LAMONT (Yakuza, Corrections House) and is already slated to become a classic dark goth/horror punk opera of our times. Long live the Mutant Flesh.
LP $16.35
01/04/2019
***Sentient Ruin is honored and proud to bring you an aural and sensorially devastating experience like nothing else. A masterpiece of infernal aural terror which expands the mind—stretching it to its inevitable death and dissolution—and which paralyses the flesh. Italian one-man dark ambient/death industrial demon CLAVICVLA seamlessly blends the obsidian immensity of Lustmord and the wretched mantras of Trepaneringsritualen to unleash forty minutes of dismal and infernal atmospherics, drowning the listener into a formless and hallucinatory sonic void of utter dread and of unparalleled darkness. With inhuman and monstrous sub-bass frequencies, diabolical atmospheres, and black hole-sized drones, throughout these five tracks the listener will be transported to an otherwordly and remote realm lost somewhere at the edge of existence, where the boundaries between nightmare and reality begin to blur and dissolve, revealing a world beyond of absolutely omnipotent and boundless demonic enormity.
LP $16.35
01/04/2019
***The debut full length LP from Spanish ritual black ambience/terror electronics sorcerers BLACK EARTH, originally released in 2015 on tape by Graceless Recordings, now this monstrous behemoth of sublime ritualistic aural cacophony finally assumes its ultimate form on black vinyl. On a A Cryptic Howl of Morbid Truth, Black Earth unravel over forty minutes of shapeshifting, ghastly, and colossal sound sculpting, constructing before the listener an hallucinatory and blood freezing chasm of slithering drones, spectral orchestrations and wretched electronics that ravage the senses. Weaving black metal, drone, dark ambient, harsh noise, and ritual atmospherics, With A Cryptic Howl of Morbid Truth, Black Earth have crossed thresholds unknown in ritual ambient invocations, laying the foundations for a new realm of sensorial sonic abuse and instantly proving themselves as being one of the most visionary and striking entities in modern dark metal and ritual ambience electronics.
LP $16.35
11/16/2018
***Ichi-go ichi-e (for this time only, never again). This Japanese idiom is the central theme of the new, second, unbelievable album of the same name by the elusive psychedelic/avant garde black metal enigma SLEEPWALKER (夢遊病者 ). Once again fusing drone, raw black metal, kraut/psychedelic rock, free-jazz, noise rock, and tribal ritualism to absolutely mind-melting effect, Sleepwalker's idea behind this new record was to take central superstitions that rule the rhetoric of eastern lore and funnel them through the prism of the modern world. The final result: the band's staple psychedelic black metal mind-fuck ritual gloriously preserved and burning brighter and more insanely than ever. Suspended between the visionary opposites of bands like Voivod, Zeni Geva, Oxbow, King Crimson, Ornassi Pazuzu, Lurker of Chalice, and Xasthur, Sleepwalker have once again proven to be one of the most mind-expanding and visionary experimental black metal acts of our times.
LP $16.35
11/02/2018
***The second album—ten wretched tracks of astonishing sonic abuse that knows no end. With their own brand of crazed, sadistic, and raw industrial black metal american have reached a new zenith in musical depravity that will leave old fans of the band and new admirers alike horrified by the sheer cruelty reached in this new work, and disgusted by the band’s mindless and lawless evolution into complete and triumphant aural perversion. A work of absolutely magnificent sonic abhorrence that coerces together the abyssal darkness of black metal bands like Leviathan and Ash Borer, the earthshaking noise abuse of Prurient, Bastard Noise and The Body, and the glacial magnificence of blackened noise sound sculptors like Sutekh Hexen and Locrian.
LP $16.35
10/19/2018
***The masters of contemporary ritualistic black ambience return with the first part of their "Wound" duology, two separate releases linked sonically, visually and spiritually, together forming the group’s most focused and fully realized work to date. The two releases together will offer up a sprawling, audial exploration of wounds at once physical and spiritual, social and societal, natural and environmental. Sonically, A Wound Of Body is a beautifully stark soundscape, dolorously dense, suffocatingly oppressive and utterly claustrophobic. An immersive black hole of bleak, cavernous dronemusic and disquieting, desolate ambience, each track a hushed and harrowing ritual; the surface minimalism underpinned by a churning morass of sound, a layered liturgy of blackened invocations and nebulous strings hovering in the shadows. Black vinyl housed in a duotone printed silver/black jacket with black flood inside, printed inner sleeve and download card.
LP $16.35
09/21/2018
***Italian death-doom behemoths ASSUMPTION return with their otherworldly debut LP—once again dragging the listener to a warped and hallucinated twilight zone lost at the edge of the cosmos. Inspired by the majestic and dismal craft of bands like Disembowelment, Thergothon and early Esoteric, within the crushing vastness of these three colossal songs the listener will feel the weight of omnipotent emptiness pushing them down toward the event horizon where they are slowly and meticulously pulled apart by invisible tidal forces before they decay into the singularity. Housed in gatefold jackets with download.
LP $22.95
08/24/2018
***Originally released in 2015 by cult tape label Sol Y Nieve on a limited run of tapes, SHAIDAR LOGOTH's towering and imposing black metal masterpiece The Ritualist went all but unnoticed and now finally sees its first ever release on vinyl through a staggering audio-visual presentation customized to fit the utter majesty and uniqueness of the music. It's wretched spires and hideous silhouette appearing instantly magnificent and awe-inducing; its monstrous aura reaching far beyond the grasp of most trivial, uninteresting, tamed, and craven black metal that so much litters the underground today. Far from being anything traceable back to any "school" or restraining set of rules within black metal, with The Ritualist, Shaidar Logoth have instead unchained an inner beast of utmost dread and freed it of any form or restraint to let its savage and primordial instinct roam free to find its inevitable fate in inexorable chaos and destruction. Within these four vast movements of sickeningly magnificent atmospherics and dismal intensity the listener will face the same demons and blood-chilling premonitions of horror and torment which have famously plagued other secretive and reticent black metal projects like Leviathan, Katharsis, Blut Aus Nord, S.V.E.S.T., Skaphe etc.
LP $16.35
08/24/2018
***Sentient Ruin is honored and proud to release the life-shattering debut album of UK-based one-man black/death/noise monstrosity VESSEL OF INIQUITY. Fifteen minutes of unfathomable audial terror designed to disintegrate existence directly from within. Fifteen minutes of inconceivable sonic trauma administered through the unholy abuse of the most blighted blackened death metal and of the most anti-human and liminal strains of noise, drone and power electronics. A sensorially annihilating and humiliating sonic holocaust that has brought together the diverse but equally decimating aesthetics of extreme acts like Gnaw Their Tongues, Impetuous Ritual, and Teitanblood to conceive the most absurd and completely unthinkable realms of musical devastation.
LP $16.35
06/15/2018
***REISSUED!!! Wretched, bleak, hopeless and incredibly dark. Canadian dark hardcore crust bruisers DARK CIRCLES and American black sludge destroyers ABSTRACTER bring forth waves upon waves of utter misery and horror on this crushing 12" split. Dark Circles' stark, rabid and virulently embittered dark hardcore is a firestorm of crust punk, grindcore and black metal that marvelously brings together the best and most confrontational elements of bands like Catharsis, Gehenna, Cursed, The Secret, etc. On the other hand Abstracter's bleak and hallucinatory side fuses doom, crust, drone and black metal to incarnate a staggering twenty minutes of total and horrific devastation, yielding a similar sonic hell as seen in dark and miserable slower bands like Triptykon, Primitive Man, Coffinworm, Indian, etc. Originally released in 2016 by Halo of Flies (US), L'Oeil Du Tigre (CA), Moment of Collapse (EU), Sick Man Getting Sick (EU), and Shove (EU).
LP $16.35
04/27/2018
***Originally released in 2016 by In Solace Publishing on tape and by Malignant Records on CD, Sentient Ruin now proudly brings you the first vinyl release of this smoldering masterpiece of disembodied incantations and wretched atmospherics. Spanish ritualistic black noise sorcerers BLACK EARTH's second MLP Diagrams of a Hidden Order masterfully brings together black metal, industrial, scorching noise scarifications, and dark ambient to summon a haunting and grotesque sonic chasm of sublime and mind-expanding aural cacophony. Similarly to the aesthetic of other abstract sound sculptors of the most liturgic, evil, and wretched craft like Wold, Gnaw Their Tongues, Emanation, and Sutekh Hexen, Black Earth weave and coerce together otherworldly atmospherics, dismal atmospheres, and ear-splitting electronics to paint a daunting sonic arabesque of utter horror and dismay.
LP $16.35
04/27/2018
***Black Metal done the old, bloody way. ABKEHR's debut LP is the first breath into this world of a swelling and pulsating black metal shadow-feeding frenzy. The recluse Northern Germany-based duo creates ominous and ravaging songs that explore the many manifestations of darkness, hopelessness, evil, and annihilation - condensing them into heathen sonic form to distill their very own expression of actual hell. Hideously and relentlessly crawling across four vast movements of pure incarnated darkness, Abkehr’s In Asche is a towering and commanding work in the current underground black metal panorama, which has managed to harness the primordial savagery of bands like Craft and Judas Iscariot, the vast and enveloping hopelessness of bands like Weakling, Ash Borer and Mgła, and the visionary wretchedness of brilliant black metal anomalies like Twilight and Leviathan, to create their own personal passageway into a tormented and shadow-torn world.
LP $16.85
02/02/2018
***The triumphant reawakening of one of California's most obscure and best kept secrets. Thirty minutes of chaotic, vast and abyssal atmospheric black metal suspended between the boundless obsidian majesty of DarkSpace, the deep and cutting darkness of Ash Borer, and the grandiose progressive constructs of Weakling.
LP $16.35
02/02/2018
***Savage and ruinous blackened noisegrind from Belfast, Northern Ireland. A firestorm of swarming hatred that can not be stopped. Total fucking bedlam.
LP $16.35
02/02/2018
***AVAILABLE AGAIN!!! Note new price. The debut record from Oakland, California dbeat act ATRAMENT. Atrament is this generation's answer to the classic and unforgiving Swedish and British style dbeat crust, Norwegian black metal, and '90s Gothenburg death metal. Conceptually Atrament's music is built upon a nightmarish landscape of hallucinating ruin, a wretched sonic world in which humanity is rejected as a whole and a tomb of ash and radioactive fallout is summoned to encase it and devour it forever. While remaining true to the roots of UK anarchopunk and '90s Scandinavian-branded black and death metal, Atrament's punishing, grim and embittered songs blend dbeat crust, black metal and death metal with seamless ferocity. Birthed in the gutters of West Oakland in the fall of 2014, Atrament features current and former members of MORAL VOID, BLACK SEPTEMBER, NECROT, and ABSTRACTER.
LP $16.35
08/05/2016