NECROTECH: Brazilian Industrial Metal Cult Announces Crushing Debut EP "Necrotechnology" - Track Unveiled at Decibel Magazine.

We’re proud to announce that Brazilian industrial metal cult Necrotech are about to emerge with the debut "Necrotechnology" EP, their first declaration of oppressive audial cyber terrorism. Five songs, twenty one minutes of bludgeoning, crust-infused, industrialized megaton death-doom inspired by legends like Godflesh, Swans, Nailbomb, Bolt Thrower, Corrupted, and Deviated Instinct.

The crushing debut has been teased by iconic extreme metal bastion Decibel Magazine, who in premiering the song “Deadly Industries” - have remarked how the debut offering is “a five-song onslaught of mechanical death punishment” and that the track ”is a crusty, Godflesh-inspired mechacrusher, with a relentless drum machine and wailing siren effects populating the the bleak DM landscape.“ - you can check out the feature and track HERE.

"Necrotechnology" ominously embodies the specter of the “new third world”, a cyber dystopia rising where rogue technology, greed, militarism, pollution, injustice and deviant industrialism subdue and crush the individual, rendering them empty, helpless, numb, and downcast. New concepts and realities are beaten into the psyche as a new order is imposed, and Necrotech soundtrack this new world slavery with masterful musical vision and an imposing idea of sonic heaviness that not only marvelously reflects the oppressive ruin of capitalist industrialization on our earth and reality with unseen craftsmanship and lucidity, but also reinstates hope and credibility in a legendary sub-genre of extreme music which has in recent times has gone far too forgotten and overlooked.

The debut "Necrotechnology" EP is slated for a January 17 2025 release on CD, MC and digital formats worldwide and is now pre-orderable via all our channels.

Necrotech emerged in São Paulo, Brazil around 2022, by the will of members of the local extreme metal scene from bands like Defy, Venomous Stench, Rotten Entrails, and Necronomicon Beast. The project encapsulates long time musical interests of its three members: a bludgeoning, visceral fusion of death metal, doom, crust, and industrial elements drawing influence from bands like Bolt Thrower and Six Feet Under, merged with with the sounds of industrial pioneers such as Godflesh, Pitchshifter, Nailbomb and Spine Wrench, and incorporating also the sinister and apocalyptic aura of crust legends like Amebix, Axegrinder and Deviated Instinct. Initially conceptualized as just an amalgamation of riffs, visuals, and conceptual ideas, the project soon evolved into a trio and then fully materialized with the release of their split tape “Circuitos Obsoletos” in collaboration with No_Nam3. The following work evolved its name and lineaments from the original concept of the project, exploring the destructive and deadly intersection of technology and corporate greed. The music reflects themes of anxiety, depression, and the collapse of human dignity within profit-driven systems. A creative input flowing through a collaborative process: bassist Hal 666, who also handles electronic drums, laying down rhythmic structures, with the rest of the band - guitarist Fer and vocalist Diego - then adding their own contributions through carefully selected layers of samples, guitars, and vocals. The resulting work (the “Necrotechnology” EP related worldwide in early 2025 by Sentient Ruin) is a bleak, industrial soundtrack for a world driven to its breaking point by the horrendous machinery of capitalism.


HORSE BUTCHER: New Death/Goregrind Abomination Formed by Members of Hissing Announce Debut Self-Titled EP - Track Premiered at Decibel Magazine.

We’re extremely proud to announce the debut self-titled offering by Washington state-based bestial death/goregrind anomaly Horse Butcher, to be released December 20 2024 on CD/MC/digital and now pre-order able via all our channels.

The horrendous release has been teased by Decibel Magazine who in revealing the track “Penduncular Hallucinosis“ via an exclusive premiere, have remarked that the band “formed by members of Hissing wears their love for Pissgrave, early Carcass and Agothacles on their sleeve, and their self-titled EP is a celebration of gory and savage extreme music, as dense as it is aggressive.“ - you can check out the feature and the track HERE.

Members of praised surrealistic black/death metal deformers Hissing re-metastazie in Horse Butcher, a disfigured onslaught of gore-fucked bestial deathgrind worshipping directly at the altar of Carcass, Archgoat, Disgorge, Impetigo and Pissgrave. Where the imperative is repulsing, Horse Butcher step up to take the concept to its most inevitable and gut wrenching conclusions, bludgeoning the mind into a horrendous aural pulp of absolute violence and depravity. The band members’ roots in avantgarde experimentalism are not set aside here, rather preserved to augment the load of horror and disbelief in belching out these six tracks and twenty minutes of neanderthalian carnage and slaughterhouse madness. Several steps backward in human decency and dignity are needed to authentically perceive and metabolize the scum-fucking level of vile barbarism and inhumanity going into these tracks, but what really transpires is the band’s paradoxically nobel mission of reminding us all of what is unfortunately normal, real and happening everywhere every day in this world. A blindness and indifference against which Horse Butcher have seemingly waged a cryptic and gruesome war, by taking the horrors of the world straight back to the listener and shoving the putrid stench, cruelty and repulsiveness of human actions right back into humanity’s face. Gobble up and suffer fuckers.

Horse Butcher emerged in Tacoma, WA when multi-instrumentalist Zach Wise (bassist/vocalist of experimental death metal band Hissing, bassist of experimental rock unit Eye of Nix, as well as guitarist in Pyrkagion and Temple of Abandonment), recruited drummer Seth Hover to create a gore-influenced “side project” in the vein of Disgorge and Pissgrave, during Hissing’s recent and ongoing hiatus. The lineup was then rounded out by Hissing’s guitarist Joe O’Malley on bass, and the band began playing live gigs around their native Pacific North West region while working on a debut offering. Their debut self-titled EP comprised of six tracks for around twenty minutes of music was then released on CD and tape in late 2024, featuring artwork by gore collage master Adam Medford, as well as mastering by Dan Lowndes (Cruciamentum).

TERROR: Brazilian Bestial Black/Death Metal Commando Announces Its Crushing Debut EP "Hymni Belli Occultum" - First Single Premiered at Veil of Sound.

We’re excited to announce an unholy pact with Brazilian one-man bestial black/death commando Terror. The South American war cult will soon emerge with its first act of ritual aural terrorism, the "Hymni Belli Occultum" EP, an eighteen minute EP of gruesome extreme metal warfare weaponized from the cult of Archgoat, Holocausto, Tormentador, Sarcofago, Bestial Warlust and Conqueror.

The crushing EP has been teased by underground music blog Veil of Sound, who in revealing the song “Bélica Sinfonia Armagedônica“ via an exclusive track premiere have stated that “the music on this five-song-EP is fast, relentless Death Metal, with tinges of OSDM chugging and growls plus a bit of Blackened Noise attack.“ - you can check out the feature and track HERE.

Across these five edicts of third world barbarism the totality of our new world dystopia is glorified and instigated down to its most antihuman and savage traits, with the cult of all crime syndicates, gangs, slums, warfare, violence, militarism and corruption thrown into an abyss of occultism and esotericism to embody the true lineaments of the modern world antichrist.

The "Hymni Belli Occultum" EP will officially be released on December 6 2024 on CD, MC and digital formats, all pre-orderable now via all our channels.

In the midst of a time of ephemeral peace, prophecies, conspiracies and rumors of war, Terror, the legitimate manifestation of sanguinary autocracy, emerges from the wretched womb of the apocalypse. In 2023, faced with lucid nightmares, the infamous Brazilian militant prophet Induxdivato had an obscure revelation, and through its blasphemous and belligerent mutterings, the debut EP “Hymni Belli Occultum” was conceived, a collection of tyrannical declarations that reveal the hidden symbols of war, cataclysmic visions, and hatred against the current material and spiritual orders. Its prophetic character is given by an idiosyncratic synthesis of the eschatology of the end of times for the three Abrahamic curses, which long to dispute the throne of theocratic tyranny, but will certainly achieve mutual extermination. From the chaos will emerge, by the power of will, a new man who will not submit to old dogmas and who will live under his own law. Terror, which is composed exclusively by Induxdivato, is a propaganda tool to achieve its subversive goals of tyranny through its sonic doctrine. The choice of its name is due to the easy understanding and its efficiency as a tactic to impose its will, since terrorism is the language of our current times, especially when war is asymmetrical and hidden. Its sound is sanguinary black/death metal of war, with a mix of modernist exploration and traditional dogmatism which transports the target of its propaganda to a hostile and violent realm of apocalyptic war rife with shellshock, war trauma and subversive terror.



INFERNALIVUM: French Satanic Dark Death Metal Legion Emerges With Pulverizing Debut EP "Conquering the Most High" - First Song Revealed at Invisible Oranges.

We’re very proud to announce the imminent release of "Conquering the Most High" - debut MLP from French satanic death metal horde Infernalivm, a new entity of absolute sonic brutality conceived from within the French orthodox satanic movement, and featuring members of its elite underground from bands like Novae Militiae, Merrimack, Benighted, and Ritualization.

The abominable debut offering has officially been previewed by respected underground metal blog Invisible Oranges, who in premiering the song “Ashes of the Saints” have remarked how the track “sallies out with the band's full genre-eroding arsenal behind it, packing in plenty of death metal absolutely steeped in their dire atmosphere“, and how the EP “within four songs runs a gamut from brutal death metal to dismal tremolo-picked dirges, unifying it all under a banner of abject Satanism and speaker-testing volume”- you can check out the feature and song HERE.

Through these four tracks of dark, sanguinary, and inescapable technical dark death metal tyranny, the specter of Immolation, Dead Congregation, Nile, Adversarial, Arkhon Infaustus and Morbid Angel is evoked with unseen mastery, while the genre’s mutated silhouette is at the same time disfigured and retraced within the novel realms of France’s most intransigent satanic inner circle, materializing nothing less than an authentic horror of creation. The result is a dissonant, bludgeoning beast seething with all the might and power of the antichrist. A dark and violent abomination with an immensely evil and antihuman atmosphere and an infernal aura casting massive, ominous shadows across the face of European death metal and sending a clear message on the magnitude of things to come.

Infernalivm was formed around 2022 by Melek Dlth Aton (Novae Militiae) on guitars and vocals, Daethorn (Merrimack, Ritualization) on bass, and Kevin Paradis (Benighted, Svart Crown, etc.) on drums, as a studio-only project, spawned straight out of the French orthodox satanist black metal scene. The band members’ background laid the foundations for a death metal band heavily rooted in satanism (akin to Deicide, Profanatica, and Incantation), but musically versed in a highly technical and complex strain of ultra-violent, abysmal, and dissonant death metal, in the vein of Immolation, Nile, and Morbid Angel. This dualism paved the way to the band’s debut EP, “Conquering the Most High”, an inaugural and demonstrative twenty one-minute, four-track onslaught of inescapable dark technical/brutal death metal spawned straight from the sanguinary jaws of the antichrist. The MLP was released in late 2024 via Sentient Ruin as starting course to a new reign of dark death metal terror and of greater things to come...

"Conquering the Most High" is slated for a November 29 2024 release worldwide via Sentient Ruin on LP, CD, MC and digital, and all formats are now preorderable via all our channels.
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NEKUS: German Sepulchral Death-Doom Lurkers Announce Colossal Sophomore Album "Death Apophenia" - Track Premiered at Decibel Magazine.

Finally, the German underworld lurkers of humongous subsonic death Nekus, return with "Death Apophenia", a death-scarred sonic interment into absolute subterranean torment, and their most lightless and catacombal statement to date. The colossal sophomore full-length entombment expands on the putrid and crushing heaviness of its critically acclaimed predecessor “Sepulchral Divination”, taking the band's formula of droning sepulchral death doom to its most inevitable and horrendous triumph yet.

The horrendous sonic suffocation has been teased by iconic extreme metal blog Decibel Magazine, who in premiering the track “Accursed Murmur“ have remarked how the song is “a pure death-doom nightmare“ that is “both power and atmosphere in equal measure” - you can check out the track and feature HERE.

With its forty-plus minute running time split up in just five pachydermic movements, "Death Apophenia" casts the listener down into an aphotic sunken abyss to be torn apart by immense tidal forces and crushed by catastrophic tectonic pressure. The band’s staple use of reverb to create immense, growling subterranean hallways reaches the pinnacle of its mastership, and so does their ability to construct humongously grotesque atmospheres that make the listener feel like they are being devoured by the earth and mummified alive. Tortured screams drenched in feedback and enormous and solemn sounding drum shells create a ritual-like telluric funeral march into the underworld, while slabs of inhumanly crushing and downtuned guitars bore a massive hole into the earth like molten lava melting the crust and sinking downward into the blackest chasm, evoking the sensation of an enormous, planet-sized horrendous burial taking place. Nothing can escape the sheer tonnage and crushing force of this immense sonic beast, and while Nekus are shown to be diligently delving further into the redefinition and delineation of their own personal idea of death metal as a monolithic and cinematic sentence to complete aural entombment, the comparisons to bands like Grave Upheaval, early Temple Nightside, Moss, Anatomia and The Funeral Orchestra, due to the surreal hideousness of the atmospheres and sheer heaviness of the music, will be many and not far from truth. 

"Death Apophenia" is slated for a November 15 2024 release worldwide via Sentient Ruin on LP, CD, MC and digital, and all formats are now preorderable via all our channels.

Nekus were formed by current and past members of Putridarium, Into Coffin, Hadit, Omnivore, and Bestial Warfare, among others, starting out as a trio in Marburg, Germany around 2018. The band was started by Italian musician G.N. on vocals and guitar, E. on bass, and M.K. on drums, emerging with a humongous sepulchral, bottom-caving sound blending black and death metal with crippling, slow-moving and insanely downtuned doom with massive atmospheres and a huge and crushing low end reminiscent of bands like Moss, Grave Upheaval and Sunn O))). Their uniquely horrific, rumbling and mummified sound first found expression on the “Death Nova Upon the Barren Harvest” debut EP issued in 2020 on all formats by Blood Harvest Records, being soon followed by the “Malevolence Evocations” split CD with Impure Declaration, released the same year by Old Temple.

The band then delivered over fifty minutes of catacombal and suffocating death-doom on “Sepulchral Divinations”, their 2023 critically acclaimed debut 2LP album for Sentient Ruin, which was then quickly again followed up by a ten-minute cassette tape split with Canadian war metal label mates Ceremonial Bloodbath. These two releases underlined the band’s evolving mastery of guitar, vocal, and drum reverb use, extremised to create a uniquely spectral and subterranean hellscape, evoking visions of monstrous caverns and hallways bellowing beneath the earth’s crust, and soon becoming the prime ingredient and concept of the band’s staple sepulchral sound. “Death Apophenia”, Nekus’ sophomore full-length album, will just as swiftly follow in November 2024, introducing the band now in a four-piece configuration with the addition of L.D. (from Putridarium and Barbaric Oath) assuming second guitar duties; a move wich further evolves the complexity and textural enormity of the band’s reverb-drenched, bottom-heavy onslought. But it’s not only the lineup expansion which also expands the band’s musical horizon and their capacity to truly build and consecrate their vision. “Death Apophenia” also represents a big step up for Nekus in recording value. A move which has refined and improved the band’s concept further by introducing an enhanced clarity and articulation in production quality, exalting further the cinematic quality of the band’s widescreen, otherworldly sound and of its mortieferous, crushing droning frequencies.





OBSOLETION: Brazilian Dark Hardcore Punk Cult Announce Grim Self-Titled Debut Full-Length Album - First Single Revealed at IDIOTEQ.

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face, forever”...

These famous words by George Orwell set the tone and resound throughout the debut full-length album from Brazil's dark hardcore punk sect Obsoletion. A grim and foreboding crossover hybridization of blackened hardcore punk and primordial heavy metal drawing influences from bands like Cro-Mags, Integrity, Sheer Terror (from which the band took its name), Mayhem, Celtic Frost, Hellhammer, G.I.S.M., Carnivore and Possessed, and serving as a dismal soundtrack to a dark world that is rapidly deteriorating and just getting worse.

The crushing forthcoming hardcore omen has been teased by iconic punk and hardcore blog IDIOTEQ, who in presenting the first single “Interdimensional Chaos” have remarked how the album “captures the essence of a bleak reality teetering on the edge of collapse”, continuing that “the second track, ‘Interdimensional Chaos’, stands out as a powerful embodiment of this dystopian vision” and “serves as a sonic representation of the album’s themes—a harrowing blend of cyberpunk and occult imagery that feels as if it’s ripped from the pages of a dystopian novel. The track’s relentless riffs and brutal rhythms are like the soundtrack to a world where survival depends on a precarious balance between ancient magic and cutting-edge technology”. You can check out the feature and listen to the song HERE.

Indeed, the bleak and primeval self-titled assault masterminded by the São Paulo cult conjures shadows of a stark future dystopia and of sinister visions of fear, alienation and paranoia coming from within oppressive militarist technocracies and corrupt surveillance-states aiming for total social enslavement, while the natural world and man's last shreds of sanity revel and toil in a final battle for retribution and survival. The album's lyrics and its staggering retro-futurist art design (by Fernando Giotefeli, Jordy Kuster and José Vinícius) also explore concepts of magic and occultism from the 19th and 20th centuries, transfigured into present and future unrest, making themes such as cyborgism, post-humanism, and surveillance capitalism extremely relevant and ominous. The band's raw and gruesome riffs weaponize these themes and ignite the barricades, engulfing the listener in a maelstrom of tear gas, fire and shrapnel, compounding twenty minutes of wrath and refusal into a violent sonic cyberpunk epic that celebrates the glory days of US 80's and early 90's hardcore punk, thrash, death, black and heavy metal. 

Obsoletion’s self-titled debut album is slated for an October 11 2024 release worldwide via Sentient Ruin on vinyl, cassette and digital/streaming formats, along with an exclusive spread of on-demand merch, all of which are now pre-orderable via all our channels.

The blackened raw hardcore punk cult of Obsoletion emerged in São Paulo, Brazil, in the middle of 2018, formed by Zoio (guitar), Azt (bass), Flávio Barbosa (vocals) and Lucas Alonso (drums). This lineup recorded and released the band’s debut demo tape which was released in Brazil in 2019 by the Brazilian label Thinking Straight Records. The demo showcased a unique blend of dark and sinister sounds, ranging from US hardcore like Sheer Terror and Integrity, to evil heavy metal and punk in the vien of G.I.S.M. and Hellhammer, ultimately attracting the attention of Sentient Ruin who re-relased the cassette in the USA in 2022. Around this time original guitarist Zoio was replaced by new guitarist Nyne (Falsa Luz) and bassist Azt was replaced by new bassist Daniel 'Barizon' (Stomp and ex-Joker). Despite playing a successful string of dates, the new lineup however didn’t last long, and soon Nyne left allowing original guitarist Zoio to return, along with new second guitarist Filipe Maia now added into the fold. This revamped original lineup would then prepare the writing of recording of the band’s 2024 debut full-length self-titled album for Sentient Ruin. Uniting the Punk, Hardcore and Black Metal sounds and influences of bands like Sheer Terror (which also inspired the band's name), Darkthrone, Mayhem, Sodom, Agnostic Front, G.I.S.M., Cro-Mags, Integrity, Celtic Frost and Hellhammer, Obsoletion are purveyors of a dystopian dark world ruled by violence and greed. After the original lineup was reunited and expanded, the band’s concept began to evolve into increasingly complex and dark territories, touching on themes of political pessimism, dystopian science fiction, and rogue capitalism, with the sound following suit, and becoming increasingly ominous and bleak, and paving the way for a rebirth and new era for the band symbolized and represented by their 2024 self-titled debut full-length album to be released in October 2024 worldwide by Sentient Ruin.








WRAHHA: German Black/Death Metal Terror Cult Emerges With Pulverizing Debut Demo Tape "Harbingers of a Horrid Cleansing" - Track Premiered at Antichrist Magazine.

We’re proud to announce a new partnership with emerging German black/death metal terror cult Wrahha. Hailing from Leipzig, Germany, Wrahha is the spiritual successor to the defunct Leipzig-based bestial Black Death cult Lihhamon, which existed briefly between 2015 and 2017. Wrahha is spearheaded by Lihhamon guitarist M., and new co-conspirators P. and F., continuing the previous band's unholy campaign down the path of omnipotent destruction and absolute sonic bedlam.

Wrahha's three inaugural tracks forming the debut "Harbingers of a Horrid Cleansing" demo tape here presented are a weaponized instrument of terror that in a bare ten minutes tests the limits of human resistance taking it to its bloodiest breaking point. The three tracks bring forth an unprecedented audial assault channeling the cruelty and mercilessness of black/death cults like Revenge, Diocletian and Heresiarch, while establishing Wrahha as a violent means of transcendence in its own right, not one who will ever follow in anyone's steps, but rather one meant to forge its own destiny and self-determination in crushing tyranny and cast its own destructive shadow across the path of anything or anyone who dare to oppose.

"Harbingers of a Horrid Cleansing" demo tape’s imminent arrival has now been teased by European extreme metal blog Antichrist Magazine, who have premiered the track “Totalitarian Crucifixion Rite“ - you can check out the feature and listen to the track HERE.

As its title suggests, this demo tape release is like an omen or harbinger of Wrahha's horrid aural atrocity awaiting ahead in the form of the band's upcoming debut full-length, which will be a concept album about gaining and losing power. This demo is loosely based around the same theme. With "Berserker Elite...." the band depicts the mythos of the infamous frenzied warriors who went into battle in a trance before the regular troops, like harbingers of what is about to come. "Totalitarian Crucifixion Rite" is about the concept of maintaining power through terror, which in the end leads always to downfall. While the final song "Imperious Mastery..." introduces the theme of overthrowing and cleansing a totalitarian regime, as happened for example during the trials of Nurnberg, where the foundations and vestiges of the old ideology were denied and erased to build something new.

The "Harbingers of a Horrid Cleansing" demo tape will be officially released on September 20 2024 by Sentient Ruin in America in collaboration with AbArt Corruption for Europe

Wrahha emerged in Leipzig, Germany, from the ashes of praised bestial black/death metal force Lihhamon, who in a span of 2-3 years had produced the seminal 2016 debut full-length album “Doctrine” (which was later reissued by Nuclear War Now! Productions), and the “Miasmal Coronation” split 12” with I I, which was published by Ván Records the following year. Shortly after Lihhamon dissolved, guitarist M. set out to establish a spiritual successor for the band, which would retain its audio-visual attack while developing the concept and music further, much like Revenge had become for Conqueror or Triptykon for Celtic Frost. The lineup for Wrahha was consolidated into the same configuration of Lihhamon, as a trio, featuring M. on guitars and vocals (previously also in Omnivore), P.: (ex-Mutilated Remains) on drums, and bassist F., who had recently emigrated to Germany from Damascus in Syria, where he had his own studio called “Old Hearth”, and was responsible for a lot of extreme metal recordings from Syria, as well as taking part in many bands from the country like Eulen, Abidetherein, Viieden, Netherion and many more. With a consolidated lineup, a name, an idea, and a vision, the three set out to give life to the bestial aural assault of Wrahha, an abysmal terrorscape influenced by acts like Diocletian, Conqueror, Heresiarch, Damaar, Truppensturm, Teitanblood, Impetous Ritual, and Axis of Advance that will see its first light in September 2024 with the release of the “Harbingers of a Horrid Cleansing” demo tape while the band hammers away at what will soon become their first ever official debut full-length album to be released in a near future to come.

S.H.I.: Sentient Ruin Announces CD and Cassette Editions for Full Length Albums by Japanese Experimental Hardcore Act Featuring Members of ZOUO - Pre-orders and Full Streams Available.

We're extremely proud to announce CD and cassette reissues for "死" and "4 死 Death", the (only) two game-changing full-length albums from Japanese experimental hardcore/metal/industrial supergroup collective S.H.I. (Struggling Harsh Immortals) both of which finally find a worldwide release for the first time ever via Sentient Ruin on CD and cassette tape formats. The two reissues are a mandatory spiritual mission for Sentient Ruin to reconsecrate two of the most visionary, devastating, and overlooked Japanese hardcore releases of the past decade.

"死" was initially released back in 2015 as a full-length compilation of the band's first two EPs (2013's self-titled 7" and the 2014 follow up "Lucifer Rising" 7", both released by Crust War in Japan) at first appearing on CD format in Japan through Black Lodge Records, then on tape in Australia in 2016 via NGM Records, and finally on picture disc vinyl in the US in 2022 on Anti Remorse.

The followup full-length "4 死 Death" on the other hand finally finds its first release on CD and cassette tape ever via Sentient Ruin, after its original 2021 release on vinyl via Relapse Records.

Masterminded by legendary vocalist and performance artist Katsunori "Cherry" Nishida of Japanese hardcore and heavy metal cults Zouo and Danse Macabre, and co-conspired with other long running members of the Japanese experimental punk and metal underground coming from bands like Nashi, Outo, Mobs, The Rude Boys, Gewalt and Rise from the Dead (among others), S.H.I. construct a majestic syncretism of violence and experimentation by fusing hardcore punk, heavy metal, noise rock, industrial and psychedelia into an unseen demolition of reality. "死" and "4 死 Death" represent the transfiguration and perfect continuation of Nishida's enigmatic and uncompromising vision into the future, carrying Zouo's and Danse Macabre's bludgeoning and caustic torch into the experimental unknown as a violent and bleak means of transcendence. The two albums stand stark, enigmatic and imposing as a dark and death-scarred psychedelic trip into Japan's iconic and most deviant underground fringes of hardcore punk, metal, noise, and industrial, perfectly following in the steps of many legendary Japanese experimental violent acts like Zeni Geva, Crow, and G.I.S.M. as well as in those of iconic international acts like Killing Joke, Neurosis, Voivod, Amebix, Galloping Coroners, SWANS and Discharge, who in the early 80's had laid the groundwork for visionary crossroads of aggression and experimentation through the hybridization of punk, metal, psychedelia and industrial to devastating, history-changing effects. 

S.H.I. emerged long after the dissolution of Zouo and Danse Macabre, around 2010, remaining active until present. During these years the band has ransacked Japan with incendiary live shows, sharing the stage with the likes of Acid Mother's Temple, Doom, Sabbat, S.O.B., Framtid, Death Side, Endon, Unholy Grave, Gauze and more, becoming (in)infamous throughout the country for their chaotic and unpredictable blend of heavy metal, punk and electronics and their multi-member ensemble presence onstage which have cemented the band’s visionary and confrontational formula and consecrated them as one of the most pummeling and mind-expanding acts in Japan since the demise of Zeni Geva.

"死" and "4 死 Death", CDs, cassette tapes, and digital products are slated for a simultaneous August 20 2024 release worldwide through Sentient Ruin, and all products can now be pre-ordered and streamed via all our channels.