DIABOLIC OATH: Northwest Warped Black/Death Metal Sorcerers Return With Bludgeoning New EP "Unholy Barbaric Hymns" - Track Premiered at Toilet Ov Hell.

We’re proud to announce that American hallucinatory bestial occult metal sorcerers Diabolic Oath are set to return with their brand new “Unholy Barbaric Hymns” EP, four new tracks of their staple and unprecedented fretless sonic destruction.

The warped and bludgeoning release has been teased by expert extreme metal purveyors Toilet Ov Hell, whom in premiering the opening track “Emblazoned Upon Ebony Winds”, have remarked how the release is “23 minutes of a lecherous inferno swallowing us all, vomiting us back up in a rapturous conflagration“ - you can check out the track and feature HERE.

Swathed in dissonance and liquefying into free-form chaos, the band's esoteric and ritual-like psychedelic extreme metal keeps evolving beyond new thresholds of aural mind-devourement, further transitioning their cryptic dogma of musical transformation through absolute technical tyranny into formal aberrations rarely observed before in the underground. Those familiar with the band’s personal sphere are well aware of the musical mastery harbored within this mystical human nuclear trident. Conventional stringed instruments hand-stripped of frets and transformed into psychedelic mind-weapons for sensorial depredation, percussions transformed into tribal war drums through the use of massively deep and bellowing shells that deflagrate like wrathful thunder shattering through the celestial vaults, and a triple, simultaneous vocal attack slithering through the cacophony like an infernal trifecta of interwoven snakes spitting venom and hissing obscenities from beyond the shreds of sanity. An absolute mind-war of psychedelic terror and primitive warmongering violence creating a tyrannical unison in which the mind is perpetually disarmed and deceived to submit the corporeal realm into an infinite sequence of chaos and destruction.

The “Unholy Barbaric Hymns” EP is slated for a June 5 2026 release on LP, CD, MC and digital formats, all of which are now pre-orderable via all our channels.

Diabolic Oath was begotten in Portland, Oregon in late 2017 by the will of The Temple and of Ominous Void. Almost immediately, Cthonian Incursor was summoned to join, providing blasphemous vitriol and unholy thunderous percussion. The trio soon recorded the first offering, “MMXVIII”, and began the first incursions of oracular and warped live rituals. Soon after, the band began writing new material which coalesced to become their mind-bending and flesh-battering first full-length album, “Profane Death Exodus” released in 2020 by Sentient Ruin. To make this album it was decided early on to implement the unique and unorthodox approach of fretless bass and guitar instruments combined with a triple vocal attack delivered by all members of the group, often simultaneously, to harness something unseen and unheard of before then in extreme metal, and completely ungovernable and unhinged. The band’s sound at this point began to flow as free-form sonic death ritual, beginning to assume abominable and experimental traits, and yielding an imposing sound drenched in occultism and chaos. Around the same time an anonymous, ritualistic approach to the live setting was adopted, incorporating in live performances meditations on death accompanied by obscure offerings, to further shape the entity’s essence in a realm of mysticism, chaos, and absurdity. The sound of Diabolic Oath is the culmination of a meticulous distillation of influences and styles ranging from black, death, and war metal to doom and psychedelia, and with certain influences (new and old) such as Teitanblood, Morbid Angel, and Bestial Warlust creeping into the mix and alternating more pronounced references to more subtle and foreign ones. The band has worked tirelessly to carve its tyrannical path, playing shows to support high-caliber underground acts across the Pacific Northwest, the US East Coast, Canada, and Mexico. With the debut full-length, “Profane Death Exodus”, the band was intuitively poised to conquer, destroy, and seal the oath, a feat accomplished with unforgiving mastery and which paved the way to the next generation of their wretched incantations, namely the cryptic and highly destructive 2022 MLP “Aischrolatreia” (also released on all formats by Sentient Ruin). But mostly, the sublimation of it all, Diabolic Oath’s second heirloom of unconquerable chaos: their immense 2024 sophomore full-length abomination Oracular Hexations, as well as as this“Unholy Barbaric Hymns” EP, an ulterior stepping stone laid by the band on a developing path toward transformational experimental extreme metal domination.



MORS.VOID.DISCIPLINE: Chilean Black/Death Metal-Goregrind Terror Cult Announce Gruesome Debut Album "Txketh)ëké" - Track Premiered at No Clean Singing.

We’re happy to announce our partnership with Chilean bestial goregrind morgue-stalkers MORS.VOID.DISCIPLINE and announce their pulverizing debut album "Txketh)ëké", coming on March 13 2026 on LP, CD and MC formats and pre-orderable now via all our channels.

Leading up to the gruesome release, legendary extreme metal blog No Clean Singing have premiered the song “Sanguinem In Anum Caprae Putrescentis Eiaculans“ claiming that the band’s music is “all inhuman, it’s all unhinged, it’s all hideously toxic. And it’s exhilarating, muscle-moving, well-structured and perversely addictive.“ - you can check out the feature and song HERE.

MORS.VOID.DISCIPLINE emerge from the bottomless dungeons of South America's extreme metal underground with their debut full-length monstrosity "Txketh)ëké", a twenty-minute obfuscation of terror-spawning bestial war metal destruction swathed in the flesh-eating violence and maggot-infested putridity of 90's goregrind. Cryptic and malignant beyond thresholds comprehensible to man, "Txketh)ëké" projects forth a cancerous aural perversion in which the war-mongering assaults of Blasphemy collide with early Carcass' mangled and deconstructed sonic butchery. Its astonishing hideousness and violence are not only shaped by its unequivocal descendancy, but further complexed by the peculiar antediluvian and occult aura historically permeating Chile's underground scene, as well as by the band's enigmatic inner workings and imagination harvesting perversions from beyond the reach of sanity. Slithering coils of vomitous, pitchshifted vocals proclaim the unutterable in arcane tongues long forgotten by men, regurgitating a noxious mass from within a hellish cauldron of dissonant, nuclear vice, and invoking absolute adherence and submission to a cult of death and darkness untouched by any light. The album's title is an anagram of words related to Solomon's demonology and multicultural esoteric warfare, and the band's concept and lyrics metastasize within the terrorscape as a deranged worship of evil reclaiming sacrifice through the destruction of human anatomy. Few crafts conglomerate in human mind as entities so committed to cruelty and devoted to destruction as this one, yet MORS.VOID.DISCIPLINE endure as yet another inscrutable product of an unrivaled scene whose isolation, remoteness and purity remain undying vectors for unparalleled world-building and musical transformation.

MORS.VOID.DISCIPLINE formed in the early 20’s emerging from their country’s burgeoning extreme metal and experimental circles, spread across the cities of Algarrobo, Valparaíso and Talca. The three members at the core of the band include MYI from Sentient Ruin-signed death-doom solo act Miasma of Occvlt Limbs on guitars and bass, and co-conspirators Odor Cadaveris on vocals and J.F. on drums and electronics, the latter two of which are regulars in their local black noise, dark ambient, and cybergrind circles. Loyal as ever to, and inevitably derived from, Chile’s somewhat isolated and uncontaminated music scene, MORS.VOID.DISCPLINE have developed traits derived from both the Canadian war metal scene as well as from the UK’s iconic early 90’s goregrind scene spearheaded by Carcass, but convergently evolved from those influences and further developed autonomously from within the Chilean scene’s self-contained extreme music culture. The bestial destruction of Blasphemy and Carcass’ repugnant violence thus collide into an utter aural monstrosity which is however neither the simple sum nor the predictable outcome of its influences. Ample use of keyboards and a wielding of the arcane, antediluvian atmospheres typical of Chilean heavy and extreme metal bands have pushed MORS.VOID.DISCPLINE’s music into completely uncharted waters, and into a realm where extreme metal dwells on a plane of cryptic and malevolent spirituality where occultism, ritualism and esotericism build new and unseen pathways to catastrophic audial torment. Demonology and esoteric warfare fall into the band’s abysmal picture of human annihilation through forced darkness, using goregrind’s mockery and humiliation of human anatomy and bestial black/death metal’s warmongering ritualism to evoke an ultimate and inescapable ritual of desecration to all of human essence and dignity.



ROTTING SKY: 2014's First and Only Full-Length Masterwork "Sedation" Reissued on Vinyl and Released for the First Time on CD.

We’re proud to announce a much-needed reissue of one of the label’s most definitive and legendary releases, Rotting Sky’s 2014 masterwork "Sedation", released by Sentient Ruin on vinyl for the first time and reissued on cassette tape in 2018 , and now coming back on limited edition white vinyl and on standard black vinyl, as well as for the first time ever on CD, with all formats now pre-orderable via all our channels and slated for a February 27 2026 ship date.

Masterminded by Portland, Oregon-based musician T. Messing (Rohit, Nux Vomica) and taking its name from a Khanate song, Rotting Sky's 2014 masterpiece and sole full-length album "Sedation" still towers grandiose and inscrutable as defiant testament of a vision that remains unrivaled and unprecedented to this day, over a decade after it was first conceived. A swarming and sweeping creative tour de force conquering expressive totality from deep within the most tense and concealed folds of inner turmoil and personal struggle, "Sedation" plumbs the darkest depths of torment as a massive cathartic deflagration, immortalized into the present as one of the most enduring, moving and soul-shattering underground experimental black metal creations of the past decade. Adhering religiously to its foundational principles of withdrawal, isolation, confinement, and frugal self-empowerment, "Sedation" accretes from a myriad of field recordings, samples, guitar pedal layering, and home-made DIY recording tactics, to embody a massive colorless monolith of industrialized sonic ruin. A majestic convergence of dungeon-creeping raw black metal, disembodied power electronics, industrial noise and dirging funeral doom, ascending and spiraling into an obsidian maelstrom of despair. The foundational seclusion driving other recluse experimental and industrial leaning black metal projects such as Nortt, Gnaw Their Tongues, Murmuüre, Emanation and Paysage d'Hiver has convergently evolved similar stylistic traits in Rotting Sky, materializing a majestic and impenetrable aural specter in which the artist's unique personal state drives musical vision and transformation almost more than their creative skills alone. 

Active since at least 2007, and always existing withering within a shadowtorn twilight of near non-existence, Rotting Sky is one of the most enigmatic and ungraspabale extreme/experimental metal mysteries to have ever materialized on American soil. Sole Rotting Sky mastermind Timm Messing is known as the guitarist of legendary epic crust punk/metal powerhouse Nux Vomica (and later of noise-trodden punks Rohit), but it's within this solo ambient industrial black metal endeavor of his that one can truly grasp the full extent of his visionary and transcendental creative reach. The project began in Portland, Oregon during Messing’s youth and materiazlied via a string of home made demos (2007’s “Portraits of Self-Destruction” and “The Burden of Flesh” demos, 2009’s “Hellgaze” demo, and 2013’s “Ghost” demo), all treading the grainy confines of primitive drone, home-made funeral doom, and deconstructed, lo-fi industrial. 2014 saw the project’s blossoming and Messing’s undisputed talent and vision coming to its full fruition with his unrivaled masterwork “Sedation”, a full-length masterclass of home-made experimental underground extreme metal introducing novel raw black metal elements and erected upon a monumental maze of pedal abuse, field recordings, and layers upon layers of wretched static and caustic frequencies. With no Sentient Ruin around yet (but the release already noticed), the album was picked up by now defunct San Diego-based tape label Grimoire Cassette Cvlture for a limited cassette release, before the label folded and the release fell back into obscurity. Four years later, around 2018, Sentient Ruin had evolved into releasing vinyl, so the inevitable happened. “Sedation” saw a tape reissue as well as its first ever release on vinyl, which quickly sold out. The vinyl version is now being reissued by Sentient Ruin, accompanied by the album’s first ever edition on CD.

URANIUM: American Death Industrial Weapon Announces Crushing Third Full-Length Album "Corrosion of Existence" - Track Premiered at Veil of Sound.

American nuclear black industrial weapon Uranium returns to embody industrial music’s most terrifying triumph. In its life-entombing thirty six minutes “Corrosion of Existence” takes the mysterious one man band’s concept of nuclear devastation to its most harrowing and inevitable conclusions, unfolding five new monstrous tracks of plutonium-fueled auditory terror that will dominate tyrannical above and beyond anything that the most lawless frontier of extreme industrial has ever fathomed or imagined.

The immense album has been teased by reliable German experimental/extreme music blog Veil of Sound, who in premiering the song “Descent Into Entropic Death” have asked themselves "could this be one of the best records ever released via Sentient Ruin? Answer: yes”, and further elaborating “imagine Merzbow had mated with Gnaw their Tongues and are being midwifed by Teitanblood and Escotrilihum - then you get an idea of how utterly disastrous and gloriously mindblowing Uranium is!” - you can check out their feature and listen to the track HERE.

An immense industrial and blackened noise construct inspired by acts like Godflesh, Swans, Brighter Death Now, Gnaw Their Tongues, and Merzbow levitates out of a world-ending idealization, colliding with excoriations of techno and breakcore as well as with black/death metal influences from bands like Teitanblood, Portal and Irkallian Oracle into an unimaginable cauldron of destruction. Like an unstoppable chain reaction that has evaded any containment, “Corrosion of Existence” exponentially escalates the destructive yield of its black/death metal-inspired 2023 predecessor album “Pure Nuclear Death”, transmuting its never-before-heard sonic assault into Uranium’s most oppressive and inescapable conquest. A gigantic gaping void is blown out into the architecture of existence, revealing a massive radioactive wound seared with layer upon layer upon layer of caustic sequences and smoldering synth tapestries. A downpour of robotic samples pounds like radioactive rain falling from a nuclear maelstrom, engulfing the biosphere and sending a gigantic swath of fallout to travel horizonless, burying everything in a suffocating sarcophagus of molten corium and melted concrete. Torrents of gnarled, sampled guitars and bass compound the destruction, while the album's tectonic drum racks push its cataclysmic yield into world-ending upheaval, as a roaring vault of coiling death grunts and apocalyptic proclamations invoke a god-like idealization of death itself. Every composite element of existence from single nucleuses, to atoms, to organic molecules and compounds like cells and DNA, all the way to planet-sized ecosystems are destroyed and vaporized in an onslaught of ionizing death radiating from Uranium’s all-devouring pandemonium.

“Corrosion of Existence” is scheduled for a November 7 2025 on LP, CD, cassette and digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin, all pre-orderable now via all our channels

Inspired by the god-like ominous aura of nuclear energy, Uranium first emerged around 2020 as the solo endeavor of East Coast industrial artist AA with the debut full-length album “An Exacting Punishment” self released on Bandcamp digitally. This release was still heavily influenced by black metal with the industrial aspect more sublte compared to later releases. Meanwhile mastermind AA had already refined the project’s sound by shifting it more in the direction of power electronics and industrial noise and intended to showcase this evolution on the subsequent “Glorious Void” EP, also digitally self-released via Bandcamp. This faster than expected improvement in the band’s sound led AA and Sentient Ruin to take down the original “An Exacting Punishment”full-length, and have it remixed and remastered for a brand new release on vinyl which would better match and suit the band’s rapidly evolving black industrial sound. As a result, while waiting for the new version of the debut album to come out on vinyl, AA and Sentient Ruin bundled the “Glorious Void” EP with another brand new EP called “Wormboiler” into a cassette tape full length compilation, released with each EP on each side and eponymously titled “Wormboiler”. The “Wormboiler” cassette tape sold out instantly and was praised far and wide in the underground as a groundbreaking and transformative black industrial and power electronics release. Following over a year in delays caused by the COVID pandemic, finally the“An Exacting Punishment” full-length album was officially physically released worldwide in early 2023 in its restored/updated form, also gaining praise for its dismal industrial sound still heavily contaminated by the band’s early black metal influences. Meanwhile AA had been working away at his most deadly and magnificent work yet, the sophomore full-length album “Pure Nuclear Death”, an authentic sonic weapon of mass extermination. A majestic and annihilating work further refining the projects concept on nuclear annihilation and encompassing all of Uranium’s sounds and influences seen until that point, while adding even more newly introduced black/death metal elements to the plate. Being the project a studio-only endeavor, further silence followed, but it was just meant to be another calm before an even greater storm, as AA silently but diligently worked on a “Pure Nuclear Death” followup. The followup will finally materialize in early November as “Corrosion of Existence” , a brand new full-length abomination that will once again shatter boundaries and reveal Uranium as a crown jewel of American extreme industrial and extreme music in general.


NOIR NOIR: Spanish Black Industrial Master Announces Death-Heaving Full-Length Compilation "Black Curtain / Divine Swelling" - Full Stream and Pre-Orders Posted.

Sentient Ruin is honored to announce the first manifestation of our new pact with long running Spanish black industrial master Noir Noir, materializing as the death-heaving full-length compilation "Black Curtain / Divine Swelling" - streaming in full and pre-orderable now via all our channels along with an exclusive offering of brand new on-demand merch, and an official street date set for October 17 2025 on LP, CD, MC and digital formats worldwide, while a

For almost twenty years Spain's recluse visual master, composer and death fetishist Noir Noir has dredged the most forlorn depths of death industrial, dark wave, and raw black metal to uncover an auditory death ritual of unprecedented wretchedness and magnificence. The project's two crowning achievements - 2016's mini album "Black Curtain" (originally released on cassette by Fallow Field), and 2022's "Divine Swelling" (originally released by Hedonic Reversal as side one of the split cassette with Vesakh), now finally see their righteous enshrinement, remastered (courtesy of death-industrial master Grant Richardson) and released for the first time ever on vinyl and CD formats (and reissued on cassette) as due solemnization to one of underground industrial's most defiant, enigmatic, and transformative entities.

While the band's sparse but enduring output has touched upon various digressions in the realms of dark ambient, noise and power electronics, these two releases in particular are the ones which showcase the band's most coherent, focused, and visionary output, being the foremost two releases in Noir Noir's discography which most define and consecrate the project's monumental morbid triumph. By far the band's two most pervasive and straightforward releases, "Black Curtain" and "Divine Swelling" unfold a prodigious death-scarred voidscape of oppressive ritualistic rhythms, glacial sequences and tortured proclamations that condemn the listener to an all-consuming auditory punishment. Obviously influenced by, or convergently evolved from, the darkened explorations of acts like Brighter Death Now, Lurker of Chalice, Mütilation, Trepaneringsritualen, Skinny Puppy, Throbbing Gristle and Dead Can Dance, these crowning forty minutes of Noir Noir's discography represent an inestimable underground hidden jewel of perverse and grandiose nekro-industrial that are a must for any enthusiast of hermetic and cult-like auditory divergences into the depths of occultism, ritualism and sadism.

Barcelona-based multi instrumentalist, visual artist, and occultist DVG first emerged under the name Noir Noir in 2006 with a self-titled and self-released debut offering, independently distributed as a handful of home-duplicated black CD-R’s whose content and existence are now unknowable and essentially shrouded in mystery. The project reappeared in 2011 with the “V.I.T.R.I.O.L.” debut full-length (released on 12" vinyl by Triangulum Ignis) showcasing a lo-fi, experimental amalgamation of necrotic industrial clatter, raw black metal, and primitive power electronics. The “Life and Death” EP was released four years later in 2015 (released on cassette by III Arms) beginning the band’s most prolific and inspired era and introducing a far more multi-layered, diverse and deliberate composition and production style than its predecessor, with far more rhythmic and straightforward passages borrowed from EBM, dark wave, techno, and electro-industrial. The “Enciclopiedia Chromo Vol.5” cassette live tape followed in the same year, released by Cintas Chromo and featuring two live rituals - ten minutes in length each - from Noir Noir’s rare performance at Barcelona’s iconic SÓNAR Festival. The following year in 2016, Noir Noir’s crowning achievement titled “Black Curtain” was birthed, released on cassette by Jason Wood’s iconic black metal and punk tape label Fallow Field, and becoming an instant fan favorite of a then emerging but still embryonal Sentient Ruin, and irreversibly influencing by the label’s vision and trajectory. The twenty minute mini-album condensed raw black metal, dark wave, power electronics and black ritual industrial into a mesmeric architecture of crushing analog electronics, disarticulated rhythms, and inhuman guttural invocations. A 10” split release with Heulen followed the same year, containing more ambient-oriented power electronics improvisations, and the same formula repeated in 2019 and 2021 respectively, when two split cassette releases with Scmute appeared, again leaning mostly on abstract field recording and power ambient experimentations with long playing times and a reduced emphasis on the straightforward and aggressive black industrial compositions from 2015 and 2016. Noir Noir’s more deliberate and aggressive stile returned however in 2022, when Hedonic Reversal released the Noir Noir / Vesakh split cassette “Divine Swelling”, in which more condensed and straightforward song structures exalted once again the band’s masterful fusion of raw black metal, dark wave and black industrial, resulting in a spiritual successor or sister release of sorts to “Black Curtain”’. When looking back almost twenty years across Noir Noir’s discography, one can not elude the greatness of these two releases, the enduring influence the former had on Sentient Ruin’s development, and the undying fuel the latter has been in recent times to black industrial’s unholy flame. Their inevitable conjoining into a singular remastered full-length release (the “Black Curtain / Divine Swelling” compilation envisioned and released physically and digitally by Sentient Ruin in late 2025) thus comes as both unsurprising and necessary given the limited circulation of their individual initial pressings, and their importance as cornerstones to a thriving death-cult that they directly contributed to shaping.

DEATHWINDS: Canadian Bestial Black Metal Punks Release Crushing Debut Album "...Towards Doom..." on Vinyl via Sentient Ruin - Full Stream and Pre-Orders Posted.

Sentient Ruin is proud to announce that after over a decade, we can finally release "...Towards Doom...", the debut album by Vancouver's bestial black metal punks Deathwinds on vinyl and digital formats (after the CD and tape formats were released earlier this year by Headsplit Records).

"...Towards Doom..." reopens the gates to an unholy dominion of chaos cleansed in nuclear vice. Casting the listener back to a dark age of primitivism and savagery, on the long-awaited debut long player the Canadian war-punk horde invoke the legend of bands like Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, Discharge, Doom, Black Witchery and Blasphemy to summon an apocalyptic twilight of destruction. The original core lineup of Bestial Desolator on drums (Encoffinate, Radioactive Vomit, Temple of Abandonment) and of Nocturnal Black on guitars and vocals (Ceremonial Bloodbath, Nightfucker, Radioactive Vomit) is joined on bass by Nuclear Hammer Throne (Ahna, Ceremonial Bloodbath, Encoffinate, Grave Infestation, Temple of Abandonment, The Nausea), replacing original bassist Filth Destroyer, to embody the band’s most sanguinary incarnation yet and christen its most pestilent abomination. Wielded like a war mace in a post-nuclear new neolithic age, these eleven songs bludgeon with merciless cruelty and barbarity as the hands of time are rolled back to re-embody black metal and punk’s most primeval instincts of destruction. Discharge's, Hellhammer’s and Celtic Frost’s iconic chainsawing guitars reincarnate into a new weapon of annihilation, instigated into absolute chaos and carnage by a thunderous onslaught of barbaric hammer beats, merciless blasting and disemboweled screams. A dense, death-bearing atmosphere of lead and toxic fumes overhangs the blasted plains and scorched dominion, underpinning the album's foul aura of belligerence and evoking visions of end-time turmoil and of a collapsing society being sent back to a feral age ruled only by lawlessness and cruelty.

"...Towards Doom..." will finally see its release on vinyl and digital via Sentient Ruin worldwide on October 3 2025, with all formats now pre-orderable via all our channels. 

Deathwinds was formed by Bestial Desolator on drums, Nocturnal Black on guitars and vocals, and Filth Destroyer on bass, in Vancouver, Canada around 2013, spawned from the city’s sprawling and legendary punk and black/death metal scene; the same one that vomited out bands like Necroholocaust, Blasphemy, Death Worship, Antichrist, and Mass Grave, among many others. Their debut “Endless Wastelands” demo tape appeared in 2014 via Vault of Dried Bones, showcasing the band’s unique fusion of primitive bestial black metal and punk, with select live assaults unleashing chaos in their home town and establishing them as a lethal and pestilent force, before the band went dormant for almost ten years as members focused on other projects like Ceremonial Bloodbath, Nightfucker and Encoffinate. Deathwinds then re-emered out of nowhere in 2023, just as unexpectedly as they had vanished a decade prior, with the “Ripping Annihilation” sophomore demo tape, released that year by Headsplit Records. This release revealed the band being joined on bass by Nuclear Hammer Throne (Ahna, Ceremonial Bloodbath, Encoffinate, Grave Infestation, Temple of Abandonment, The Nausea) replacing original bassist Filth Destroyer, and embodied as an even more primitive and extreme entity than before, with influences by Black Witchery and Hellhammer ever so prominent and accentuating the band’s feral primitivism. With a fully defined sound entirely their own and a new lineup assembled to trample crowds to death, Deathwinds thus returned evolved into its most abhorrent shape and revived to its most destructive intents. The inevitable then materiazlied with the band’s crowning abomination, the “…Towards Doom…” debut full-length album, ten years in the making, and packed with almost forty minutes of grinding, blasphemous, bestial extreme metal-punk vomited from the outer realms of the apocalypse, released in mid-2024 again by Headsplit on MC/CD, and shortly after by Sentient Ruin on vinyl and digital formats.

BONE FETISH: Deranged Canadian Goregrind/Death Metal Entity Unleashes Pulverizing Debut Full Length Release - Full Stream and Pre-Orders Posted.

Sentient Ruin is proud to announce that deranged Canadian goregrind sociopath Bone Fetish will soon bring forth its first full-length perversion, a career-spanning self-titled compilation atrocity containing all of the project's recordings up to this date, including 2021's "Buried" demo, 2022's "Convergence" demo, 2024's "Mummified" demo, and five more brand new and never before released aberrations, all remastered and resequenced by Will Killingsworth into a cohesive and gut-wrenching monstrosity of utter nihilism and destruction.

The debut full-length self-titled Bone Fetish release can now be streamed in full and pre-ordered via all our channels and is scheduled for a September 12 2025 release on LP, CD, cassette and digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin, along with an exclusive label-only offering of on-dmeand merch.

The twenty five-minute, seventeen-track gore-infested death and grind onslaught is a deep dive into a deranged mind slipping off the edge and being consumed by its most inverse and unutterable delusions, ranging from hallucinatory corpse-fucking fantasies, to rotten-flesh eating impulses, all the way to violent sodomy, necrophilia, and self-dismemberment idealization. A harrowing sonic depiction of an unfortunate human mind erratically coded and wired on the completely wrong values and interests, resulting in some of the most vile and inhuman deviancies conceivable. Shreds of early Carcass, Impetigo, Haemorrhage, Pathologist, Disgorge and Necronist reverberate throughout the torture dungeons, the entrails spattered sewers and the desecrated sepulchers, unfolding a rabid and frantic assault of cruelty and perversions that is attempting to violently destroy itself just as fast as it can destroy every other breathing thing around it in the most inefficient, sadistic, and irrational way possible.

Bone Fetish was conceived and created by Canadian multi instrumentalist Wes Mousseau from Manitoba, also associated with bands like Gore Gash, Mortuary Ghoul and Morgue Dweller. Loyal and faithful as ever to the profile of the recluse with a lot of time on his hands and to a long running admiration for Carcass, Disgorge and Impetigo, with Bone Fetish Wes set out to create the ultimate sum of his influences and set a new benchmark for absolute gore-death destruction that would honor the genre while pushing it further into insanity. Created in complete seclusion and isolation, Bone Fetish first emerged with the 2021 “Buried” demo, seven minutes of deranged slasher terror spewn from the outer limits of inhumanity. The 2022 “Convergence” demo heightened the load of horror further with another seven minutes of the same sadistic aural terrorism, while the 2024 “Mummified” demo put the final seal on a trilogy of gore-ravaged audial documents of unparalleled antihuman extreme metal mastership. Wes then communicated to Sentient Ruin the presence of some new unreleased Bone Fetish tracks along with his intention to put the project temporarily on hold. This development convinced the two parties to fill the momentary gap of silence with a full-length release containing all the three demos remastered along with five new never before heard songs, all resequenced into the self-titled 2025 LP, CD and tape compilation to incarnate Bone Fetish’s most gruesome and vile conquest yet.





GAWTHROP: South Korean Sludge/Doom Miserists Announce Crushing Debut Album "Kuboa" - Track Premiered at Toilet Ov Hell.

Sentient Ruin is proud to announce that Seoul’s Gawthrop are about to return to reconsign the sub-genre of sludge metal to its most resplendent and burdensome form with their forthcoming debut album "Kuboa", a monumental death and doom-scarred feedback-worshiping monstrosity that will stomp, crush and flatten the listener to death.

"Kuboa" has been teased by the always poignant extreme metal blog Toilet ov Hell, who in premiering the band’s new single “Hogweed” have remarked how Gawthrop “take you back to those first and second waves of sludge, when it all felt impossible and titanic, a form of as-yet unknown enmity and antipathy that touches something substratal in your sense of self“ - you can check out the track and the premiere HERE.

The enigmatic South Korean amplifier-torture cult had already given the world a glimpse into their cryptic auditory horror through 2019’s self-titled and 2022’s "Jumbo" demo tapes (both remastered and re-released by Sentient Ruin as the "Deterioration" vinyl LP compilation in 2023), but what awaits the listener on the band's first official full-length offering is something so wretched and crushing that it will test the composure and impressionability of even the most unfazed skeptics. Across its grueling thirty six minutes "Kuboa" unravels a suffocating burial of downtuned auditory nihilism that will leave both die hard fans of sludge/doom and extreme metal enthusiasts in general alike in awe and overcome by the ghastly payload of absolute slow-crawling death they've just been crushed by. The legacy of pillars of the genre like Corrupted, Noothgrush, Coffins, and Meth Drinker lives on through seven epochal and genre-defining slabs of all-devouring subsonic auditory torment that restore sludge/doom to its most iconic and crowning glory.

"Kuboa" is slated for a September 19 2025 release on LP, CD, MC and digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin, with all formats and a brand new spread of on-demand merch now available for pre-order via all our channels.

Gawthrop first emerged in Seoul, South Korea, in 2019, Using crushing levels of amplified distortion and feedback, stacks of amplifiers lined up to flatten crowds, humongous downtuned guitar riffs chained together to deliver absolute death, telluric drums, violent vocals, and a general mood and atmosphere of total nihilism and abjection. Quite mysterious in their pre-documented whereabouts, the band first revealed its existence with a debut 2019 self-released and self-titled demo tape - an imposing example of contemporary nihilistic crushing sludge especially reminiscent of the glory of 90’s early-to-mid career Corrupted (or of their initial EPs and “splits era”) which instantly captured the attention of Sentient Ruin, who thus began following the band’s progress closely from then on. But the band’s origins stretch far before 2019, and have a direct connection to South Korea’s extreme metal scene from the early 00’s. Founding gutiarist/vocalist Hyunwoong is a veteran in Seoul’s extreme music underground, having first created the depressive black metal project 폐허 (Pyha) in 2002 as a teenager (which eventually received several releases back then with legendary US label tUMULt), and later having formed the now defunct sludge/death-doom band Gonguri in 2014 (among other projects), an early precursor to Gawthrop. With Gonguri dissolved, Hyunwoong carried forth, and teamed up with fellow Korean bassist Sunggun and Chinese transplant drummer Owen to lay the foundation of Gawthrop. This lineup proved implacable, taking the sludgy sewer-rotted death of Gonguri to inevitable conclusions, and eventually birthing the now classic aforementioned 2019 debut demo tape, at first self-released, but later reissued on cassette by local South Korean label MYDY Records, and later on CD by Irish label Cursed Monk Records. A split 7” with Singapore’s Drug Noose surfaced in 2020, followed by the three-way “Far East Nihilism Front” split CD with Sithter and Misersplit in 2021, with both releases displaying a more experimental and abstract sound, until a complete return to form was redelivered with the tectonic, earth-shaking heaviness of the second demo tape, 2022’ “Jumbo”, released again by Cursed Monk Records on cassette, as well as by Taiwanese label Bad Moon Rising on CD. This second demo and its implausible heaviness was the turning point which began to make Gawthrop’s name circulate beyond their home country and the far East. Sentient Ruin didn’t wait for album to be ready but instead made contact with the band and stepped in to reissue both the demos as the 2023 12” vinyl compilation titled “Deterioration”, containing the first demo on side A and the “Jumbo” demo on side B, and with all tracks remastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios. By this time Gawthrop had turned into a quartet with the addition of bassist Minhwi (a well known South Korean folk artist), which prompted Sunggun to move to second guitar, further augmenting the band’s already monumental sound and ghastly heaviness, and preparing the ground for the creation of the band’s immense and crushing debut full-length album “Kuboa” (released worldwide in 2025 by Sentient Ruin). Shortly after “Kuboa” was completed, the COVID pandemic forced drummer Owen to return to China, and despite some sporadic trips to reunite with his band mates in Seoul for select shows, Gawthrop has since then functioned as a remote four piece, with all members still officially in the band, but with Minhwi on bass, Sunggun on guitar, and Hyunwoong filling in on drums in Owen’s absence and with the band functioning as a de-facto power trio formation for the band’s local shows when Owen can not join.