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.

HATEFUL ABANDON: UK Post-Punk/Industrial Masters Return After a Decade of Silence With Towering Fourth Album "Threat" - Full Stream and Pre-Orders Posted.

Bankers are getting richer, cops more corrupt. Politicians are stuffing their pockets and running entire nations into the ground. While the rest of us toil and wilt in the gutter of helplessness and resentment, as the shadows of war and class enslavement elongate further into a futureless, horizonless twilight...

With immense pride and trepidation, we’re overjoyed to finally announce our newly sealed alliance with a band that we’ve been a fan of from far before this label even existed.

After ten long years cloaked in a mysterious silence, no one would have hoped or imagined we'd ever see the return of Bristol’s bleakest. Yet their grandiose re-emergence from the shadows is not only completely unexpected, but it sees post-punk/industrial masters Hateful Abandon restored to their most shimmering and relevant form, resounding as more necessary, intimidating and bloated with bile than ever before, as they reascend the throne of dissent in a broken world overrun by bastards. The eternal duo of multi-instrumentalists Tom “Swine” Price and Martin “Vice Martyr” Brindley rebound to resplendent despondency after a decade of silence with “Threat”, a brand new full-length execration once again weaving the grim fibers of post-punk, industrial, anarcho and crust punk, black metal and darkwave into their own idealization of disillusion and resentment toward a world they do not recognize nor accept. “Threat” not only erases a ten-year absence completely by perfectly continuing the legacy of their previous three acclaimed full-lengths (2008’s “Famine”, 2011’s “Move”, and 2014’s “Liars/Bastards”), but it evolves the duo’s unrivaled vision further, cementing their status of defiant outsider cult consecrated by a career spanning almost twenty years that has has seen few credible rivals or imitators. Once again entirely written and self-recorded as a secluded duo with zero outside input or involvement, “Threat” picks up straight from where the band had vanished back in 2014, unfolding eight new songs and thirty eight minutes of pessimistic, blue-collar cultural upheaval that tell the story of a deafened world headed straight into doom. The echoes of Killing Joke, Joy Division, Godflesh, Amebix, Swans, Coil, Rudimentary Peni, Ramleh, etc., all reflecting through the shards of a splintered sonic mirror, at times directly cited, others more distantly evoked, as they ominously reverberate through a barren post-industrial wasteland of broken cities and ruined lives.

“Threat” is slated for an August 29 2025 reissue on LP, CD, MC and digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin, and is now pre-orderable via all our channels.

Since the mid 00’s the Bristol, UK-based duo of multi-instrumentalists Tom “Swine” Price and Martin “Vice Martyr” Brindley have been dredging the forlorn depths of Britain’s 80’s and 90’s lost underground to subvert musical conventions and unearth a new beacon of class upheaval and of apocalyptic prognostication. The band has its origins in Brindley’s solo depressive black metal project Abandon, which changed name to Hateful Abandon and shifted direction once Price joined the project in the mid 00’s. The post-punk, crust and early industrial bands like Godflesh, Amebix, Rudimentary Peni, Coil, Swans, Killing Joke, Joy Division, etc. that helped shape and refine the duo’s initial vision, all had their formative years during the Tatcher-led period of the 80’s when social strife and class war had reached a new pinnacle in the UK since the previous century’s industrial revolution, and Britain’s underground music was becoming deeply rooted in anarchist and philosophical dissent, and being shaped by the time’s fervent squat culture. Foreseeing a new post-capitalist society rising and already dragging the planet straight back into doom, Swine and Vice Martyr detoured from Abandon’s original raw black metal sound and picked up instead from where their 80’s and 90’s UK counter-culture ancestors had left off, setting out to create a new sonic barricade against a new dark world rising by conjoining their legacy childhood influences with new elements from their contemporary underground and surroundings: Abandon’s pre-existing depressive black metal elements, as well as industrial, neo-folk, and dark wave. This unison lead to the creation of their 2008 debut album, “Famine”, released in the UK on CD by Todestrieb Records, and entirely written, recorded and produced by Vice Martyr and Swine alone, as would be with their every following release. With its dismal melodies, hipnotic dirges, and apocalyptic invocations, “Famine” established and spearheaded a new millennium current of UK underground post-industrial counterculture, stylistically converging with other similar acts like Lifelover, Ride for Revenge, or Ramleh, and establishing Hateful Abandon as an instant novelty with a small but devoted cult following. The band followed up its debut album with the sophomore full-length offering “Move” in 2011, released again by Todestrieb Records, and showcasing a marked advancement for the duo from a production standpoint, and displaying a far more articulated and heavy sound than its predecessor. This release further shaped the band’s burdensome bleakness that would become its defining trait thereafter, while aslo blurring their initial DSBM elements to further exalt their new industrial and post-punk complexions. A surprising turn came around 2013, when from being a semi-independent entity, the band was signed by renowned UK extreme metal label Candlelight Records, and began performing live gigs as a duo to promote its third Candlelight-issued 2014 full-length album, appropriately titled “Liars/Bastards”, another dominant statement of post-industrial vision and visceral musical precognition that cemented the band’s cult status even further. What followed shortly after the album’s release and initial run of UK gigs however, remains still not fully understood and shrouded in mystery. But label animosity is to be suspected, as the band quickly withdrew from its live experiments and disappeared into nothingness, with no communications or announcements for the following ten long years. A decade later, in 2024, when the band’s name was fading from conscious memory and the world had seemingly moved on, the band unexpectedly and out of nowhere dropped its fourth album - “Threat” - on Bandcamp as a digital self-release. The album was no “return to form”, as the band had already vanished at it’s peak a decade prior, but was rather a coherent yet again masterful continuation and expansion of Hateful Abandon’s unrivaled vision, perfectly following in - and expanding on - the footsteps laid on its preceding three albums, with its abysmal amalgamation of crust, post-punk, anarcho-punk, industrial and dark wave shimmering with more vigor, vibrancy, and relevancy than ever before, as it relaunched the band straight into their grim dissection of reality and further cemented Swine and Vice Martyr’s reputation as visionaries and dissidents in a broken capitalist world overrun by bastards, liars and thieves. Sentient Ruin had been a fan and admirer of Hateful Abandon from before the label even existed, so the surprise release of the album and re-emergence of the band triggered an instant collaboration effort to have “Threat” immediately republished on all physical formats in summer 2025 - the first ever time the band’s music was ever released on analog cassette and vinyl formats.



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 album is slated for a September 5 2025 release worldwide on LP, CD, MC and digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin, and is now pre-orderable via all our channels.

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.