HOLD ME DOWN: American Industrial Metal Voidscapers Announce Sophomore Full-Length Assault "Devour" - Track Premiered at Regen Magazine.

Sentient Ruin is proud to renew its long-running collaboration with Virginia-based industrial metal nihilists Hold Me Down, who reach the milestone of the second full-length album, christened under the name “Devour” and designed as further progression of their dismal exploration into the outer realms of synthetic sonic abandon.

The punishing sophomore album has been introduced by expert industrial music authority Regen Magazine who give us a glimpse into the work via an exclusive wold premiere of the track “Living Meat”, underlining how “with its corrosive rhythms and relentlessly distorted riffs and vocals, the track builds on the overarching themes of alienation, confusion, and dehumanization“ - you can read the full feature and check out the song HERE.

What unfolds on this second mechanized auditory assault from the Richmond voidscapers is an all-corroding synthesis of industrialized terror harkening back to formative years of extreme industrial music when bands like Swans, Throbbing Gristle, Skinny Puppy and Godflesh were looking for new pathways to transform their times’ confusion and alienation into an oppressive audial dehumanization. A torrential onslaught of pounding drum machines and atonal guitars creating a physical and mental cage of submission, within which the listener is trapped and cornered, only to be further punished by a white, colorless, and sterile burden of noise. The only human thing toiling within the ashen framework of this stark and dystopian cyberscape is vocalist Jim Gullickson’s devastated voice, the last spasm of humanity disintegrating within the aseptic turbulence of a paranoid, life-draining contraption. The way the album is built and conceived is intended to mimic human sensory dismantlement, or its destruction from within, similarly to how our digitalized society erases individuals leaving only empty shells. The senses are used as sensors to gain access to the listener’s humanity, into which an injection of sterilizing sequences and nerve-eating samples are inserted to scrape the consciousness clean. A new era of post-industrial enslavement and banishment of any human thrive has just cast its purifying shadow across the organic frailty and insignificance of man.

Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Hold Me Down emerged from the local industrial and art metal scene when vocalist and noise musician Jim Gullickson linked up with local industrial musicians David Hoefer and Ben Rinehardt, who around then had just begun laying the foundations for their next endeavor. Gullickson had just put on hold is previous band, black/sludge/industrial duo and early Sentient Ruin alumni American, and in order to keep his momentum going was looking for the next outlet to give voice to his creative impulses and passion for underground industrial noise. The band debuted unleashing a punishing blight of mechanized death and throbbing industrial in the form of their self-titled 2019 debut Sentient Ruin demo tape, a deadly revisitiation of the sounds pioneered by iconic machinists such as Godflesh, Genocide Organ, Skinny Puppy, and SWANS, but with a modern, deconstructed edge. The quickly sold out demo tape featured seven tracks of total nihilism sequenced and synthesized to pound and drone to the beat of inhumanity, while subtle touches of harsh noise, power electronics, and black metal amalgamated in the mix completed a sonic assault of absolutely mind-defiling cruelty. This release cemented the band’s sound and laid the groundwork for their annihilating and acclaimed debut full-length LP “Powerless”, also released by Sentient Ruin on MC/LP/digital formats in mid 2022. Sporadic live appearances followed, hinting at the band’s elusive nature and recluse existence mainly as a studio act due to their highly deconstructed and experimental constructs. Within this seclusion, Hold Me Down’s further development into the outer realms of desensitizing industrial punishment progressed, with the band’s formula assuming even more alienating and inhuman lineaments, as the sophomore full-length album “Devour” began casting the ominous shadow of a summer 2025 release, to reveal Hold Me Down’s most punishing and towering work to date.


HELL: Legendary American Sludge/Doom Master Announces “Submersus”, It’s First New Full-Length Album in Eight Years - Track Stream and Pre-orders Available.

Sentient Ruin and Lower Your Head are to proud announce Hell’s colossal fifth official full length album, “Submersus”, to be released on July 11 2025 on LP, CD and MC formats via Sentient Ruin and digitally via Lower Your Head, all pre-orderable now along with an exclusive limited edition screen printed long sleeve shirt from both labels. The album’s monstrous opening track “Hevy” can also be streamed now via both label channels.

In yet another feat of unrivaled auditory heaviness which will further cement his status of visionary, MSW takes the listener once again deep into the darkest abysses of inner turmoil and personal struggle, reaffirming the Oregon musician’s inscrutable and unique ability to transform emotional torment into a masterclass of crushing sonic burden. Across its five abysmal movements "Submersus" recaptures the unfair and woeful essence of life which has driven the project from its inception almost twenty years ago, embodying the affliction that shapes human existence as it’s perpetually torn between ephemeral and fragile moments of respite, and their inexorable dissolution, as joy and hope are cyclically eclipsed and devoured back into the eternal storming vastness of circumstance and inevitability. Pessimism and resignation act as the inescapable tidal forces to this immense emotional abyss which implacably pulls all toward it, drawing life deep into the maelstrom where it's drowned under its own weight and implodes into the lightless crush-depth of unending sorrow and despondency.

Since at least 2009, Oregon’s Hell has been crafting one of the most crushing and evocative strains of extreme doom to ever appear on North American soil. Continuing the abysmal legacy of bands like Corrupted, Moss, Sunn O))) and Burning Witch, the solo endeavor led and conceived by multi-instrumentalist and sound engineer Matthew Scott Williams has from inception set out to shatter the boundaries of musical heaviness while acting as a primordial cathartic vessel for the musician’s boundless imagination and inner demons. Always and forever a representation of one’s inner hell, the project has evolved throughout the years from of a foundational framework of feedback and amplifier-worshipping slow-crawling doom, developing into an imposing experimental beast encompassing the realms of drone music, neo-folk, black metal, funeral doom, sludge metal and beyond. The project emerged from the Salem punk, folk and metal scene in the late 00’s, around the musician collective and living space known as Burial Grounds, which at aside from Williams also included Nate Meyers of Mania, Liam Neighbors of Mizmor, and Paul Riedl of Blood Incantation, among many others. [continue reading]





HEXEREI: Finnish Raw Black Metal Cult Announces Devastating Second Album "Realms....." - Track Premiered at Invisible Oranges.

We’re extremely proud to announce an imminent release of “Realms.....” - the second full-length hexation from Finnish terrorizing black metal coven Hexerei - forty minutes of the band's staple assault on the psyche vomited from beyond the shreds of sanity. Five new abysmal, wretched curses of venom-soaked aural pestilence conceived as a gateway to absolute bedlam.

Iconic underground blog Invisible Oranges has stepped in to set the release in motion with an exclusive advance track reveal for the album’s opening song “Omenstorm Massacre”, elaborating that the album is is “immersive, atmospheric assault of bizarre, martial music” and of “hideous, ornate black metal” - you can read the feature and check out the song HERE.

On their new vomit of creation the deranged Finnish cult explores even more outer dimensions of terror and insanity, scouring the depths of delirium to uncover a cryptic primordial essence of complete world inversion. This second full-length disfigurement cements Hexerei’s profile as absolutists of the unutterable, and sees the Finnish scourge distance themselves even further from any concept of musicality, forcing upon the listener a berserk strain of virulent antimusic rarely observed at a such a crippled and primeval state. An intentionally destroyed audio quality and a completely regressive approach to the canonical decencies of songwriting and recording exalt a sonic delirium of complete inhumanity that redefines the concept of raw black metal entirely, reconsigning it to its ancestral and legitimate origin as vector for boundless violence and absolute evil. The ancestral path paved by Cultes Des Ghoules, Katharsis, Armagedda, Vorum and Concrete Winds thus finds new instigators to the propagation of occult and grotesque audio as terror, and “Realms.....” stands grandiose and inscrutable in its defiant goal of returning this particular strain of necrotic extreme music back to a certain dimension of absolute malignancy where it was birthed and belongs.

“Realms.....” is scheduled for a May 23 2025 release on LP, CD, MC and digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin, all of which can now be pre-ordered via all our channels.

Raw black meal disease Hexerei was formed in the forlorn rural areas of nightside Finland in 2017 by three unnamed and deranged maniacs who set out to create ancient aural gateways to depths of madness and Hell. After two demonstrational self-released stabs of live captured black metal sorcery (the “Aural Abyss” 2018 demo and the ”Oath” demo from 2019) and countless hours of contemplating the forces of the Infernal planes and torments of flesh, a full-grown abomination came forth; a necromantical mockery of life from the witches' black cauldron called ”Ancient Evil Spirits”, embodying four venom dripping evil spells ridden with disease, intoxicated morbid visions through the eyes of possessed prophets of the most hideous of realms. A world of everlasting majestic terror, revelations howled in the shadow of the horns and the force of evil light, forever rejoicing the glorious opening of HELL! ”Ancient Evil Spirits” saw its wretched nativity in early 2022 through Sentient Ruin, acclaimed for its epic songs and complex composition, as well as for its uncompromising atavistically raw sound and its refusal to abide to any familiar production standard. As a non-touring or live act, the trio then went dormant, only apparently, to quietly delve into the creation of its successor. Such successor was then completed in 2024 and again ritualized for public unleashing in 2025 by Sentient Ruin. Titled “Realms…..”, this abominable successor found the band once again regressing further into the confinement of their own insane sound populated by demons, spirits and all kinds of horrendous hell-crawling entities, and swaying further way from any concept of familiarity with music, consigning to the masses a mangled, gnarled, and cryptic disfigurement of blown out and pestilent black metal, once again winding itself across an immense canvas of long, abysmal invocations.

PROPHETIC SUFFERING: Canadian Bestial Death Metal Sadists Announce Crushing Debut Album "Rivalry of Thyself" - Track Unveiled at Decibel Magazine.

We’re extremely proud to announce the sanguinary return of Edmonton-based bestial death metal sadists Prophetic Suffering. In under half hour the Canadian horde bring forth a violent and dark monstrosity forged by an abysmal convergence between Blasphemy’s war-torn black metal terror with the gruesome and gore-infested death metal of Cannibal Corpse albums like "The Bleeding" and "Tomb of the Mutilated".

\Setting the imminent release in motion is Decibel Magazine, who in premiering the first track “Gift of Decay” have remarked how the track is an “absolutely pummeling assault” and that “when it’s done well and has enough dynamic energy, bestial extreme metal never gets old“ - you can check out the feature and listen to the song HERE.

“Rivalry of Thyself” sees Prophetic Suffering metamorph out of their already catastrophic 2022 debut demo ablaze in an exponential spell of destruction in which impenetrable and shellshocking atmospheres enshroud a monolithic, screaming altar of mutilated bodies and trodden flesh. This sanguinary and chaos-wielding approach to American death metal had already been observed before within the underground’s most forbidden folds, as exemplified for example through the perversions of cult devastators like Drawn and Quartered or Angelcorpse. But what transpires from Prophetic Suffering’s new lightless death metal vision is something of even less canonical lineaments and which sets various precedents in the development of this peculiar strain of darkened and ultra-gruesome metal of death. Foremost, a pervasive and weaponized use of modern black metal and technical death-derived dissonance compounding into a torrent of gnarled and atonal fretwork destruction. A mind-expanding contrast is created where the guitar work stretches forward to embrace a mutating modernity still in becoming, while the rest of the band regresses backward into a primeval pandemonium of carpet-bombing hammer blasts, searing basslines, and soul-tearing death grunts. This contrast between the album’s transformative articulation and its visceral adherence to primitivism and barbarity is what makes “Rivalry of Thyself” such an abomination unto itself. A defiant, dark death metal monstrosity that harkens back to a familiar golden age of extreme metal just as it evokes sinister presages of a future form of evolved, lightless death metal still all in becoming. 

“Rivalry of Thyself” is slated for a May 9 2025 international release on LP, CD, MC, and digital formats worldwide, all of which are pre-orderable along with newly launched on-demand merch via all our channels.

Emerging in year 2019 AD in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada as a grind-infused blackened death metal act, Prophetic Suffering has undergone various forms leading up their debut release of dungeonous blasphemy - the Demonstration MMXXII demo tape released in late 2022 in conspiracy with Sentient Ruin. Perpetrating the visceral and oppressive soundscape of stripped-down barbaric riffing seen on their debut, the 4-piece is set to continue the senseless bludgeoning towards all of those who are found wandering their halls. The siege begun with the Demonstration MMXXII demo tape thus plunders forth, augmented and evolved in every sense possible by a besieging instinct of barbarism and complexity sharpened and weaponized over years of recluse research into the absolute weaponization of sound. Awaiting ahead of this path of destruction thus lies the singularity of all inevitability christened under the “Rivalry of Thyself” name, the band’s monstrous debut album begotten under the sign of animalistic dissonance, and destined to become the band’s crowing abomination.



PÁSMO: Czech Post-Punk/Heavy Metal Cult Announce Vinyl Edition for Their Masterful 2024 Debut Self-Titled Album - Full Stream and Pre-Orders Available.

We’re proud to bring you the first vinyl edition for Pásmo's mesmerizing debut self-titled album (originally released in spring 2024 on cassette by the Czech label Vřesová Studánk), an unparalleled voyage crafted through the mediums of dark post-punk and arcane heavy metal into the remote landscapes and mystique of the fading ex-soviet Eastern Bloc.

Eight songs unraveling visions of soviet industrial ruins, abandoned factories, and dissolving concrete buildings scattered amongst the band’s native Moravian-Silesian region's wild nature, and consumed far beyond, eastward more into the relics of the old Soviet horizon reclaimed by nature and falling into dusty memory. An encompassing of Eastern European culture condensed into thirty five minutes of dark musical storytelling and spiritual reconnection to the "Zone" (or "Pásmo", in Czech). The epic crust punk of Amebix and Killing Joke's apocalyptic post-punk transposed into the crumbling atomic bunkers, abandoned mines, and industrial rusted ruins of the Eastern wilderness. The visions, sounds and legacy of Chernobyl and "Stalker" transfigured into shamanic mountain rock music. Echoes of Master's Hammer's occult heavy metal reverberating through abandoned factories, streams, valleys and waterfalls. Yugoslavian long-lost punk and metal, gipsy punk like VHK/Galloping Coroners, Belarusian dark post-punk like Molchat Doma and Russian melancholic new wave like Kino dissolving into a frenzied sonic continuum where infectious melodies celebrating a cherished birthplace are woven into a dark canvas of stark history and ominous memories from the past, embracing sinister presages from the present and future, coming once again into the Zone from beyond the Russian borders...

Pásmo's debut self-titled album will be officially released April 18 2025 on vinyl and digital formats worldwide and is now pre-orderable and streamable in full via all our channels.

"Pásmo", meaning "Zone" in Czech, or a place of rigorous uniqueness sculpted into its form by decades of crumbling geopolitical and industrial power, wild nature reclaiming its place, and ancient local culture and lore. The name chosen for their band by Czech multi-instrumentalists Jan Sludged Pospíšil and Piotr “Ježura“ Beskyd, is a homage to and celebration of their place and roots, narrated through the eyes of two self-described "backwoods stalkers" who are one with their culture, origins, and place, or what they call the "Zone", the Moravian-Silesian region, one of the poorest regions in Czechia, immersed in majestic mountains and valleys with beautiful nature and folk culture contrasted by the vestiges of Gottwald's soviet industrialization of the region. "Nature, punk, and Metal" as the duo summarizes their music. Their own heritage and culture woven into both western dark punk, and eastern darkwave and post-punk influences to create the ultimate musical journey through their own origins and those of their ancestors. This mystical and profound connection to both their origins and influences sanctioned the birth of Pásmo around 2023, with music entirely composed, arranged and self-recorded within the beloved enclosure of the Moravian-Silesian hills and mountains, and first seeing the light as the self-titled debut album,  released in spring 2024 on cassette by the Czech label Vřesová Studánka, and now finding its first ever vinyl release via Sentient Ruin to be discovered and appreciated far outside and beyond the confines of the unique place and history it was birthed in.

SAMIARUS: Rising American Black/Death Metal Horde Announce Lawless Debut EP "Reign Destroyer" - Track Unveiled at Toilet Ov Hell.

We’re proud to announce and orchestrate the ascension of Samiarus, a new black/death metal horde rising from within the thriving SF Bay Area punk and metal scene, and whose terror-engulfing debut EP “Reign Destroyer” is on the launch ramp for a late April 2025 release via Sentient Ruin. The gruesome short player has been teased by rising extreme metal blog Toilet Ov Hell, who in premiering the track “New Iron Age” have remarked how the release introduces a “new era that is not built on faith and reason, but on smashed faces and encroaching decay” and that the band’s music is “dirty, gross blackened death metal“ - you can check out the feature and the track HERE.

Samiarus (or Samyaza as more widely known in Aramaic) is the Arabic name of the leader of the Watchers in apocryphal abrahamic scriptures, a rebel angel who shared knowledge with men and birthed the Nephilim, becoming a danger to divine power and law and turning into the absolute usurper. Conceived from within the SF Bay Area punk and metal underground (by current and past members of Abnutivum, Meth Sores, Flesh Dungeon, Doomsday, Slaughteruin, Abstracter and Mentor), emerging black/death metal terrorists Samiarus embody their namesake concept of abysmal occult usurpation to the boldest through their debut EP “Reign Destroyer”, a twenty three minute siege of blown out, bestial sonic upheaval fuming from the iron jaws of terror. While deliberately embracing the cruelty and darkness of the war metal movement developed by bands like Blasphemy and Archgoat, Samiarus’ own formulaic sonic design for the gruesome deposition of all oppressors has brought in a number of other influences to further weaponize their subversive terroristic vision. These influences mainly come from punk and hardcore bands like G.I.S.M., Doom, Raw Nerve, Cult Ritual, Discharge and Siege, as well as from some of the band members’ interest in certain strains of industrial and noise music. A concoction of retaliative audial tactics that has ultimately shaped an anarchic war-torn sonic scourge grueling with dismal reflections on the human condition and on society’s worst embodiments.

Samiarus’ debut “Reign Destroyer” EP is slated for an April 25 2025 release via Sentient Ruin on LP, CD, MC, and digital formats worldwide.

Samiarus initially began to take shape from within the Oakland punk scene. Guitarist SR had been a long time member of raw punk and hardcore bands from San Jose and Oakland like Meth Sores, Flesh Dungeon, Outfit and Ötzi, etc., and began writing riffs for a new metal project around 2022. The songs were proposed to fellow punk JM, a local drummer with endless hours of militancy in innumerable Oakland punk and hardcore bands like Mentor, Fentanyl, Spy, and many more. The lineup was solidified when fellow San Jose guitarist and Meth Sores bandmate JKL (also from San Jose black metal cult Abnutivum as well as from black metal/noise solo project Slaughteruin) joined on lead guitar. This initial lineup of SR, JM, and JKL rehearsed for several months with SR handling vocals and issued the self-recorded “Eradicating Wind” digital promo track via Bandcamp, first introducing the band’s blown out and vitriolic strain of chaotic, punk-infused black/death metal. Meanwhile JKL had been in touch over convergent musical interests with Oakland vocalist MA (also of Abstracter, ex-Atrament, Ash Prison, Somnolent, Isolant etc.) who heard the band’s rough rehearsal recordings, and inspired by the band’s uniquely feral and uncontained sound, offered to join as vocalist, allowing SR to focus solely on guitar, and developing the band’s concept with lyrics about subversion, terrorism, occult retaliation, and treacherous cults wielding supernatural powers and warfare for the sanguinary overthrowing of despots. The final piece was added when the band’s mutual friend GD (from Oakland hardcore thrashers Doomsday) joined on bass, rounding out a five-piece unit of uncompromising intents. With a lineup complete and several songs written, the band recorded six tracks (five originals and one Absu cover) in their rehearsal room with aid from local audio engineer Carlos Cruz, with one original (“Eradicating Wind”), the Absu cover, as well as a live rehearsal recording being mixed and mastered by the band themselves and then self-released in early 2025 as the debut “Demonstration” demo tape. Meanwhile, all the tracked original songs were sent to audio engineer Steven Henningsgard in Minnesota to be professionally mixed, and then handed off to Will Killingsworth of Dead Air Studios to be mastered for subsequent release as the “Reign Destroyer” debut EP/MLP, the band’s first proper full-fledged recording of original material, to be released in spring 2025 by Sentient Ruin. Around the same time as the “Demonstration” demo was released, Samiarus had already taken their lawless audial carnage to a live stage, sharing live incursions locally in their native Bay Area with the likes of Abysmal Lord, Funeral Chant, Abhorrency, and Dispirit, while more live rituals are already scheduled for spring 2025 with the likes of Primitive Warfare and Kontusion, demonstrating the band’s inherent penchant for to perpetrating a new standard of audial violence not only in the recording studio, but also on stage.

CLAN DOS MORTOS CICATRIZ: Brazilian Death-Punk Cult Announce Long Awaited Debut Album “Técnicas de Morte” - Official Music Video and Lead Track Unveiled at IDIOTEQ.

We’re proud to finally announce the debut album by Brazilian death punk cult Clan Dos Mortos Cicatriz, fifteen cuts, twenty five minutes of sinister and cemeterial raw nekro-hardcore churned from the gutters and graveyards of Curitiba, Brazil. A grim manifesto of total refusal and an undying ode to death and suffering, "Técnicas de Morte" gives a voice to every slum, prison, mental hospital, war zone, morgue and cemetery on earth, reminding us all that no human state, act or behavior exists outside of suffering, misery and death.

The work has been now introduced by praised hardcore rescue IDIOTEQ, who have premiered the official music video for the song “Nada” (directed by colacolectiva), stating that “The new track is a death knell ringing out of Curitiba, Brazil’s festering underbelly, a taste of the fifteen-track, twenty-five-minute slab of nekro-hardcore to come. No mercy, no light. Just a raw howl from the slums and graveyards, where suffering’s the only currency.” - you can check out the feature and song HERE.

Throughout their crepuscular auditory journey the Brazilian cult display an unrivaled craftsmanship in conjuring and condensing the greatest moments of dark punk, hardcore and crust (Black Flag, G.I.S.M., Misfits, Rudimentary Peni), death rock (Christian Death, The Damned) and black metal (Hellhammer, Ildjarn) into their own magistral ritual of transcendence through the celebration death, bending each one of their influences into a masterclass of gangrenous sonic disarray, majestic evocative power, and frenetic emotional chaos. Each one of the fifteen short spells of rage and misery that comprise this unforgettable long player is both a poem, a denunciation, an epitaph, an oath of penitence, and a declaration of war, all strewn across a death-scarred canvas of frantic and stylish guitar licks, pummeling demented rhythms, and a wailing sermon of spectral, hysterical vocals doused in morbid poetry and ominous existentialism.

"Técnicas de Morte" is scheduled for a 21 March 2025 release worldwide via Sentient Ruin on LP, MC, and digital formats, all of which are now pre-orderable via all our channels.

Brazil’s definitive (and only?) nekro-punk band. Hailing from Curitiba, Brazil, the band’s origins can be traced as far back as 2005 when the name was used for a recluse solitary noise/experimental solo endeavor of vocalist Felipe Augusto Soares, primarily influenced by Merzbow and other ambient and experimental acts from the 90’s. This era of the band was mainly slow moving and a far inbetween bedroom project of Soares, leading to an obscure debut demo released in 2005, followed by a split release with Pathétique Poupée in 2011, and a CD-R split with Alkmorhilyion on Glossolalia Records in 2012, though musically the band was still strictly a solo ambient/noise act of Soares throughout all those years and sparse recorded output. The band’s identity changed when Soares teamed up with friend, sound engineer and multi instrumentalist Michael Wilseque. The endeavor with Wilseque was supposed to be a new project entirely, but around the same time as the two teamed up to work on something new, Soares decided to end his solo noise activities to refocus only on the new band with Wilseque, and brought his old noise act’s name with him, thus naming the new band with Wilseque, Clan Dos Mortos Cicatriz. As a duo using Soares’ old noise act’s name, the two musicians began to work with more conventional instrumentation and delve more into a more raw punk/black metal style which was gradually refined into an accomplished hardcore project. A necrotized form of cemeterial punk with a uniquely diseased and pessimistic aura and a minimalistic, yet highly refined songwriting style. Soares’ and Wilseque’s two-man collaboration as a studio-only harcore band proved fruitful and a first self-titled debut release surfaced in 2017 as the band’s first ever release under its new punk incarnation. While still underdeveloped and embryonal, this release introduced the sound that would define the band thereafter: an agonizing and demented form of raw punk and minimalistic black metal influenced by bands like Black Flag, Misfits, G.I.S.M., The Stalin, Void, Christian Death, Rudimentary Peni, and Hellhammer, with Soares’ unique lamented and anguished vocals adding a peculiar vibe to the songs.

With the band’s music morphing into a more defined and approachable style, the desire and need for a live lineup arose, which soon led to bassist and drummer Ênio and Weliton joining the band to complete the band’s lineup and creating optimal conditions for the first live gigs in the band’s hometown. The new lineup also began fleshing out more songs for future releases which led to the release of the subsequent "Febril" and "Febres Intermitentes" EPs from 2018 and 2019 respectively, as well as the more recent 2022 "Senil" EP which surfaced after an obligatory COVID pandemic-induced band hiatus. These three short releases proved crucial in the band’s development, reinforcing their multi-member alchemy and completing their current form as a visionary dark hardcore punk band, after years of struggling to “find themselves” as a recluse experimental duo using drum machines and other rudimentary and limited means of self-expression. The three releases showed a marked progression in every direction imaginable: from the songwriting, to the production value (still all handled by the band in a DIY fashion), to Soares’ vocals now becoming as primeval, schizoid and feral as ever. The marked progression from their 2017 debut inspired the band to re-record the self-tilted work with the band’s current new sound, its completed lineup, and Soares’ more developed and personal vocal approach, culminating in a second self-titled release which saw the light also in 2022. This in turn led Clan Dos Mortos Cicatriz to find themselves with a considerable discography of coherent, transformative and imaginative punk songs with a strong sense of uniformity and uniqueness, despite them being mostly digital-only or out of print tape releases split up among several short players. Around this time the band’s “Senil" EP and the re-recorded self-titled MLP came across Sentient Ruin’s desk and an idea instantly struck of having all these highly convergent yet fragmentary punk releases conjoined into one celebratory compilation retrospective to immortalize the band’s newfound identity as one of Brazil’s most promising and exciting hardcore acts. All their purely non-experimental punk tracks from "Febril" , "Febres Intermitentes" , Senil" and their re-recorded debut release were thus handed over to Will Killingsworth of Dead Air Studios in the US to be remastered into the glorious 28-track, 46-minute 12” vinyl anthology compilation “Débil”, released in summer 2024. Meanwhile the band’s quest for unearthing even further sickening and diseased pathways into punk’s darkest and most transcendental realms had not relented, and fifteen more brand new songs were crafted after the “Senil" EP toward the band’s most towering and definitive work yet: their official debut full-length album titled “Técnicas de morte”, released in spring 2025 also via Sentient Ruin Laboratories.


SUTEKH HEXEN: American Black/Noise's Masters' First Three Demos Remastered and Reissued - "Constellation Ritualistic Altars : Demo(n)s" LP and CD Compilation Available for Pre-Order Now.

At last, Sutekh Hexen's earliest tracks from their first three legendary demos (2010's "Constellation", "Ritualistic" and "Altars”), plus the "Order of Nine" single, get finally mastered for the first time ever (courtesy of death industrial master Grant Richardson) and released on vinyl and CD also for the first time ever, consolidated into a singular assault of unrivaled raw black metal/noise mastery and consecrated into a definitive document of unwavering sonic disembodiment. The seven primeval spells here finally reproposed in their definitive form represent the earliest (and for some, favorite) stylistic incarnation of the band, when their horrific output was violently synthesized from a miasmatic vortex of feral raw black metal and scorching harsh noise, immersed into a cryptic plasma of suffocating ambience and wretched incantations. When the sinister Californian black noise sect first emerged in San Francisco around 2010 with these initial soul-disintegrating hexes, their evident greatness instantly reverberated with massive waves throughout the underground, leading to the birth of a revered cult that would dominate American abstract black metal, power ambient and blackened electronics for years to come. These debut recordings not only crowned Sutekh Hexen as absolute masters of their craft, but also established a formula that has remained imitated and definitive beyond purely experimental circles for years, ordaining the infamous black noise style into a coherent new movement that is revered and thriving to this day. 

Tracks 1-2 originally self-released as the "Constellation" demo tape, 2010
Tracks 3-4 originally self-released as the "Ritualistic" demo tape, 2010
Track 5 originally self-released as the "Order of Nine" single, 2010
Tracks 6-7 originally self-released as the "Altars" demo tape, 2010

Sutekh Hexen emerged in the late 00’s from the burgeoning experimental underground of San Francisco through the visions of visual artist and guitarist Kevin Gan Yuen and multi instrumentalist Scott Miller. With influences as diverse as Merzbow, Sunn O))) and Leviathan, it did not take long for the project to assume its initial form as a wretched audial specter blending in equal measure noise and raw black metal to create a disembodied aural abomination entirely their won, as exemplified by the band’s infamous and now unfindable first three demo tapes (2010's "Constellation", "Ritualistic" and "Altars”). Tape loop manipulator and soundscape artist Lee Carnfield joined the band for a short time afterwards, expanding the band’s sonic horizon and giving rise to the band’s first three highly praised full-length albums: 2011’s “Luciform” and “Larvae”, and 2012’s “Behind the Throne”, all of which began to showcase the band’s evolution from its foundational raw black metal/noise assault into a ritualistic power ambient beast still rooted in black metal but more broadly influenced by dark ambient, power electronics, witchcraft, and experimental soundtrack and ritual music. As one of the first entities to fully develop and establish the so called black noise subgenera on American soil, the status of cult and visionaries became soon indissoluble with the band’s name, leading to a highly praised and prolific output both in the studio (with numerous releases and collaborations published by respected underground labels like Magic Bullet, Holy Terror, Aurora Borealis, Cold Spring, Handmade Birds, Black Horizons, etc.) as well as on the stage with their cacophonous and hallucinatory live sets being shared across the American West Coast throughout the years with the likes of Lycus, Necrite, Lluvia, Hell, Ash Borer, Volhan, Hissing, Terror Cell Unit, Thou, Arizmenda, Trepaneringsritualen, Atriarch, Monarch, Trees, and many more. Scott Miller exited the band in 2012 and the band’s lineup was extended with the entry at first of noise musician Andy Way (of Thoabath), and shortly after of noise legend Ryan Jecks (of Dispirit, Crash Worship, Deathroes) and of baritone guitarist Joshua Churchill (of Plumes). This four-piece lineup lasted several more years and toured extensively, peaking with the creation of “One Hundred Year Storm”, the band’s now infamous live collaborative performance with Trepaneringsritualen at the Stella Natura festival, which soon became one of the most famous and praised dark experimental underground live albums ever created. Toward the end of 2017 this incarnation of the band of Yuen, Way, Jencks and Churchill dissolved, leaving Sutekh Hexen as a one man operation of only Kevin Gan Yuen at the helm, aided throughout the following years and to present by an ever-changing congregation of studio and live collaborators and contributors (among them Damien Johnson of Great Falls/BLSPHM, Mackenzie Chami and Sam Torres of Terror Cell Unit, Ryan Jobes of Sunken Cathedral and Night Worship, and many more). This solo/collaboration-based era of the band has marked a more diverse and experimental output compared to the band’s early days, cementing a continuative decade-long relationship with Sentient Ruin, and later also with French dark ambient label Cyclic Law, both of which continued the band’s incursions into the audial unknown with 2019’s self-titled double LP, and 2023’s collaborative double LP with field recording master Funerary Call titled “P:R:I:S:M”. The long-planned reissue of the band’s iconic first three demos finally now sees the light in a mastered form on LP and CD formats for the first time ever as the upcoming "Constellation Ritualistic Altars : Demo(n)s" compilation, officially out March 7 2025 on CD, LP, and digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin.