HÄSSLIG: Spanish Raw Black Metal/Punk Degenerate Announces Death-scarred Debut Album "Apex Predator" - Track Premiered at Transmissions from the Dark.

We’re proud to announce the May 2024 release of Hässlig's wretched debut full-length disfigurement. A lurid audial assault conceived by enigmatic Spanish recluse D.B. (also mastermind of Negativa and Délirant), "Apex Predator" vomits forth thirty six minutes of atavistic, demented and necrotic raw black metal/punk filth conjured through the eyes of all criminals, serial killers, and of the absolute scum of this earth. A sickening and cruelty-worshipping audial delirium inspired by iconic punk-infused black metal bands like Bone Awl and Ildjarn, with subtle touches of Oi! punk and post-punk thrown in the mix to metastasize a disorienting and trance-like defilement of triumphant sonic squalor.

The nefarious debut offering has been introduced by the black metal specialized YouTube channel Transmissions From the Dark, who’ve premiered the second track from the album, “Slaves”, which can be witnessed HERE.

"Apex Predator" is slated for worldwide release on LP, cassette and digital formats via Sentient Ruin on May 3 2024, and all formats can be now pre-ordered via all our channels.

Hässlig is the most recent manifestation of sonic abandon conceived by enigmatic recluse D.B., a visual artist and multi-instrumentalist from Spain who is also behind the one-man studio-only projects Negativa and Délirant, and who is known for creating everything for his bands, from the artwork and visuals to everything about the sound, including the writing/recording, the mixing and even the mastering. D.B. is a skilled and explorative black metal musician, who has been this far far solely involved in creating black metal, manifesting it under various forms and subgenera, from the DSBM leanings of Negativa, to the dense, dissonant and surrealistic approach of Délirant, all the way to the primitive, punk inclinations of his most recent raw black metal creation, Hässlig (which translates to “ugly” in German), an entity which D.B. created around 2020 with in mind influences like Ildjarn and Bone Awl, and thus with the inevitable elements coming from Oi! Punk, hardcore and post-punk inevitably being a big part of the band’s sound. Hässlig first appeared in 2021 with the “Guillotine“ EP, which was released that year on cassette tape via Mystískaos, introducing the band with a highly primitive and lo-fi sound exalting the band’s intent to purvey total filth and abject primitivism. The “Deathlust” EP followed two years later in 2023, released on cassette and 12” vinyl via Into Endless Chaos Records, again, displaying a decaying and primitive sound reminiscent of its predecessor. But a greater sense of ambition and a broader intent to shock and inflict pain started stirring within the project thereafter as a debut full-length album began taking shape. During the genesis of this first long player, a denser and more smothering sound compared to the previous releases was chosen, in order to instigate and dramatize further the project’s innate lust for chaos and violence. A more layered and elaborate production which allowed D.B. to provide the project with a broader expressive palette more akin to those used with Negativa and Délirant to exalt Hässlig’s obscene and hideous aura, and through which to shock, repulse, disgust and initimidate the listener further, by immersing them into a suffocating and overwhelming delirium of violence. Aptly titled “Apex Predator”, this triumphant sonic ode to all sociopaths and serial killers would metastasize as a surprising thirty six-minute, twelve-track beast of corrosive and ultra-violent raw black metal toiling into unseen degenerations of squalor and filth. An expansive and immersive auditory ordeal into crime, violence, and degenerate sociopathic impulses soundtracked through the primal force of pestilent and antihuman punk-infused raw black metal.

OF DARKNESS: Spanish Abysmal Funeral Doom Cult Release Colossal 2023 Debut Album "Missa Tridentina" on Vinyl Via Sentient Ruin - Pre-orders and Full Stream Available.

Formed by veteran members of the Spanish extreme metal underground coming from bands like Graveyard, Teitanblood and Emanation (among others), Barcellona's abysmal black funeral doom miserists Of Darkness finally bring us their 2023 light-devouring full-length abomination on vinyl format for the first time ever.

A colossal, subsonic deluge of agonizing misery churned from the wretched depths of a lightless abyss, “Missa Tridentina” stands regal and imposing as an absolute beast of 2023 extreme doom, possibly its greatest moment, beautifully adorned with atypical elements of neoclassical composition, chamber music, dark ambient, and ritualistic electronics to underline an impenetrable genesis of divergence. An experimental approach that has exalted the work's suffocating aura of surrealism and which embodies as a sentence of absolute oblivion, condemning the listener to a horrific disembodiment of perpetual aeonian torment. Few bands in recent times have had the vision and skill to harness the same realms of crushing, slow-moving terror we've seen masterfully captured in previous decades by the works of bands like Evoken, Nortt and particularly Tyranny, the former a band whom Of Darkness most resemble due to the unremitting darkness that burdens their aphotic craft. Yet the Spanish abyss-shapers seem to have taken this dismal, subterranean audial nightmare of theirs to an entire new realm of majesty, using experimental and improvisational ornaments assembled from unconventional approaches and instrumentations quite unprecedented for the style, to push their abysmal sonic magma into an even more blighted niche of extremity, rarely - if ever before - witnessed at such a terrifying and otherworldly state.

Pre-orders are now available both on vinyl format and digitally via all our channels, with a global release date of March 29 2024 for the vinyl.

Of Darkness formed in Barcelona back in 2004, the brainchild of Javi Bastard (Graveyard, Teitanblood), and Fernando Julkarn (Graveyard) as a funeral doom band. The first two demos, 2004’s “Death” and 2005’s “The Empty Eye”, were peculiar for the time for displaying an abysmal and experimental sound and for being nearly an hour in length each, with the latter comprising of just two tracks and the former of a single track totaling fifty nine minutes. The band spent most of the time thereafter lying dormant as members focused on other bands and activities until Psychedelic Lotus Order and Black Mass Records re-released both demos on limited double CD in 2010. In 2012 Of Darkness remerged with “Scorpiace” a split cassette release with cult Spanish experimental ambient/doom one-man project Like Drone Razors Though Flesh Sphere. This collaboration would pave the way for LDRTFS mastermind CG Santos later joining both Of Darkness and Teitanblood as a full time member.

The band’s unique and experimental take on funeral doom began to truly come into light with the 2015 release of the experimental work “Tribute to Krzysztof Penderecki - Passio et Mors Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Secundum Lucam”, an unofficial debut album of sorts, which saw Of Darkness re-interpret two compositions of modern classical master Krzysztof Penderecki, complete with a cover that mirrored those of Deutsche Grammaphone's long-running line of classical records. More silence followed as Of Darkness slipped into the abyss for another eight long years, suddenly re-emerging with their proper debut full-length masterpiece of original compositions, “Missa Tridentina”. This masterclass of experimental funeral doom put the listener back at the center of the band’s plan, offering forty two minutes of abysmal misery split up into seven original standalone tracks of perfectly crafted and executed abysmal blackened funeral doom, offered in a format of easier assimilation as to deliver absolute death and oblivion to the listener. This release cemented the band’s long-running legacy, seeing a CD release on Mexico’s Personal Records and soon becoming one of the most praised and revered funeral doom releases of 2023, if not the best of that year. With no further hesitation the inevitable consecration of the masterpiece via vinyl format now finally sees the light on March 29 2024 via Sentient Ruin Laboratories.

DIABOLIC OATH: American Black Death Metal Legion Announce Latest Full-Length Abomination "Oracular Hexations" - Track Premiered at Toilet Ov Hell.

We’re proud to announce that the abysmal alchemists of lysergic black/death abominations Diabolic Oath are about to return with "Oracular Hexations", their most warped and devastating work to date.

The brand new sophomore full-length uncreation is slated for an early April 2024 release, and has been teased by Toilet Ov Hell via an avance track stream of the song “Winged Ouroboros Mutating Unto Gold”, with the iconic extreme metal blog stating that with the track “the listener is ripped out of the relative safety and comfort of the opening riff and sent through a dizzying assemblage of frightening, unhinged, enigmatic, and unconventional passages, each one stacking on the last to produce a tenuously towering and vertiginous effect”, and elaborating further that “once the original riff returns, the band has lost all patience with its straight-forwardness, instead opting for more malleability, mutating it into an almost unrecognizable version of itself.“ - you can check out the song and feature HERE.

On their new sophomore full-length uncreation "Oracular Hexations", Diabolic Oath’s staple approach of using completely fretless stringed instruments and a triple simultaneous vocal attack to depredate the listener's psyche, reaches truly majestic and catastrophic forms. Their technically daring and transformative approach to the usually dogmatic "war metal" craft has metastasized as a highly divergent and enigmatic mutation within the genre itself, where the crushing heaviness of the riffs concocted to their unconventional creation has resulted in an alternate reality of bestial black metal unbound with truly unseen and unthinkable auditory monstrosities. Shapeless, formless and free of any boundaries, the six lengthy spells contained within "Oracular Hexations" assume an almost globulous, chimeric form, appearing horrendous and misshapen to the listener as they morph and four-dimensionally sprawl like a sensorially annihilating mass devouring the psyche. The gnarled and grotesque nature of chords and musical structures created evoke a sense of disorienting and otherworldly disembodiment, becoming a fertile ground for degenerate forms of ritualism and esotericism that weave an unsettling conceptual canvas rife for the propagation of the absurd. Unbound with cryptic and abstruse mutterings about cosmological, multi-dimensional and impossible states of being, "Oracular Hexations" is an hallucinatory convergence between technical, crushing and flesh-scouring musical genius and truly grotesque forms of composition and storytelling. An indissoluble dualism between primeval destruction and inscrutable bewilderment which will test the psyche and flesh of those subjected to the album's surrealistic destructive force. 

Diabolic Oath was begotten in Portland, Oregon in late 2017 by the will of The Temple and of Ominous Void. Almost immediately, Chthonic Conqueror 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 unforgettably bleak and bludgeoning 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 lawlessness 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 creature’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 with certain influences (new and old) such as Teitanblood, Morbid Angel, and Bestial Warlust creeping into the mix alternating more pronounced references to more subtle ones. The band has worked tirelessly to carve its Diabolic path, playing shows to support high-caliber underground acts across the Pacific Northwest, 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 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 new heirloom of unconquerable chaos: their immense 2024 sophomore full-length abomination Oracular Hexations.

ABERRATION: US Surrealistic Death Metal Deformers Announce Debut Full-Length Monstrosity "Refracture" - Track Premiered at Decibel Magazine.

We’re proud to renew our unholy pact with Minnesota-based dark death-metal surrealists Aberration, as we announce the band’s devastating debut album “Refracture”, to be released on LP, CD, MC, and digital formats worldwide on March 22 2024.

The album’s announcement has been accompanied by an exclusive stream of the song “Interstitial Enmity” premiered by monumental metal music bastion Decibel Magazine, who in revealing the song have remarked how “it takes a couple listens to fully grasp what Aberration are doing on the track; at times, harsh feedback runs into the riffs and drums, making it feel as though the band is creating sonic illusions“ and that “throughout the album, these elements ebb and flow to be ‘dynamic’ and ‘Interstitial Enmity’ is a great example of that: brutal dissonance gives way to plodding drawn out atmosphere and ends with droning mechanical groans that morph into a chaotic hellscape.” - you can check out the premiere and the song HERE.

Refracture, the process of light deviating as passed through a medium. A similar concept explored by US necromorphed death metal disfiguration Aberration (formed by members of Void Rot, Suffering Hour and Nothingness among others), who finally present their long awaited debut offering "Refracture", a mind-bending, obliterating displacement of mutated dark death metal tonnage set to permanently reshape the lineaments of experimental and underground USDM. But there is no light contemplated in Aberration's contorted audial design, only darkness, and specifically, rather than light, the self, consciousness is passed through a perceptive medium of surrealism, and is refractured into "other" self, the core concept of all abominations. Bands like Antediluvian, Portal, Hissing and Altarage are no new comers to the art of death metal defilement through the ritual of perceptive and deceptive psychic mind wars, but what Aberration have accomplished with "Refracture" defies definitions and ads an ulterior progression to the end of death metal and of music as we know it. With dissonance used as a weapon and compositional surrealism metastasized into a ravenous dissociative medium, "Refracture" tunnels through the listeners brain like a psyche-boring destructive mass, devouring conscience and ravaging synapses through the sheer force of musical absurdity. An anti-reality is achieved through its sideways-moving sprawl and its labyrinthine, shapeshifting pace, with the listener's senses and mind used as helpless hosts in which a mutant parasitism is unleashed into a form of absurd, demented and frenzied perceptive devourment. 

With influences coming from surrealistic extreme metal beasts like Altarage, Portal and Impetuous Ritual, Minneapolis MN dark death metal obscurators Aberration debuted via Sentient Ruin with their self-titled 2021 debut 10" EP, an aural pact with total darkness that established them as one of the most imaginative and intimidating new entities in American underground extreme metal. No newcomers to game, Aberration formed in late 2019 with JH of Void Rot on guitar and vocals, DH of Suffering Hour on bass and vocals, AW of Nothingness on guitar, and EC of Tvaer on drums and threw the sum of their talents and influences into an obfuscating sonic glorification of total darkness and oblivion, combining death, doom, dissonant black metal and tenebrous ambient/drone to create an imposing aural hellscape of all-devouring terror.

Their surrealistic interpretation of dark abstract death metal will find its absolute triumph and sublimation with “Refracture”, the band’s debut full-length album for Sentient Ruin, be released on LP, CD, MC, and digital formats worldwide on March 22 2024 and now pre-orderable via all our channels.



MAURDA: German Black/Death Metal Cult Reissues 2022 Sophomore "Cultus Brachypter" MLP on Vinyl - Full Stream and Pre-orders Posted.

We’re thrilled to announce our new partnership with elusive German black/death metal cult Maurda, as we prepare a remastered reissue of their 2022 tenebrous and annihilating sophomore MLP release "Cultus Brachypter", to be reissued digitally and for the first time ever on vinyl format February 23 2024. "Cultus Brachypter" full stream as well as digital and vinyl product preorders are now available via all our channels.

Brachyptery, the condition in insects of having vestigial wings and having lost the capacity of flight. This is the cult of the dewinged, of the downcast and of the condemned. Now remastered (courtesy of Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios) and consecrated through its first ever vinyl edition and a graphic facelift, Maurda's catastrophic second short player "Cultus Brachypter" went largely ignored upon its original 2022 self-release, but its obscurity can be solely attributed to the hermetic extremism that defines it. In reality, a world is contained within these sixteen minutes and six movements of absolute eschaton. A world so impenetrable it takes complete sacrifice to enter it. With its ruinous sensorial assault, "Cultus Brachypter" initially evokes the war-torn bestial insanity of bands like Pseudogod or Teitanblood, but as the onslaught progresses the listener soon realizes they are being drawn into a desolate, void-like inner world of dehumanized alienation. The grim specter of DSBM rears its head as the minutes pass and the sense of misery and isolation becomes suffocating and reaches its inevitable consequences and conclusions. This form of enigmatic, inward-vanquishing extreme metal appears inscrutable in its uncommunicative isolationism, and can be solely superficially interpreted as an unprecedented fusion of war metal and depressive black metal in which feelings of dread, melancholy and self-loathing are taken to their extremes and weaponized into an abstract white-wall representation of absolute nihilism and self-destruction that ultimately evokes the grim soul-tearing lineaments of pure noise.

Formed by reclusive members Atypus and KHL, Maurda first emerged around 2019 with a self-released debut demo tape titled “Errega”, a raw and emaciated document of inscrutable DSBM-infused primitive war metal that hinted at potentially catastrophic developments to follow. The band’s original and cryptic formula was indeed developed further with the 2022 followup MLP "Cultus Brachypter", a noise-devoured extreme metal abstraction shrouded in cryptic onomatopoeic and metaphorical semantics about self-induced winglessness and losing one’s ability to fly, or in other words, to thrive and succeed. This release possibly showed the full realization of the band’s soul-tearing formula: a metastatic abstraction of bludgeoning war metal eroded away and consumed by the despair and dehumanizing alienation of DSBM acts like Pa Vesh En. A form of aural chaos consumed by misery and degenerated into a claustrophobic inner plight devoid of reference points and blurred into the isolationist grimness and hopelessness of pure noise.



RAW WAR: Defunct Canadian Crustcore Savages Finally Unleash Posthumous Debut Album "Total Raw War" - Track Unveiled at IDIOTEQ.

We’re proud to honor the legacy of defunct Canadian crustcore legion Raw War with a worldwide release of their long-lost debut full-length album and unreleased 7” EP, both conjoined in the final “Total Raw War” 12” vinyl and digital release.

The exclusive and long awaited work has been teased by iconic punk and hardcore blog IDIOTEQ who’ve revealed the song “Tsar Bomba”, remarking that the track “is a raw, unforgiving sonic assault that captures the essence of their primeval, bulldozing onslaught. Prepare to have your senses obliterated.“ - you can read the feature and check out the song HERE.

Victoria BC's Raw War were a lawless blown out nuclear crust assault that obliterated ears from 2009 to 2013. During that time the band decimated stages and spread total chaos all over the Pacific Northwest with pulverizing live sets and a sound made of pure apocalyptic terror doused in the ashes of humanity's end. Influenced by 80's and 90's UK D-beat and anarcho-punk bands like Doom and Discharge as well as by early Scandinavian crust bands like Anti Cimex and Totalitär, Raw War soon established widespread terror in their native British Columbia region, bringing their derailing and off the chain assault of primitive, ear-splitting noise-punk cacophony to its inevitable end and extreme conclusions. An unnamed full-length album and 7" EP tentatively tiled "Raw Terror" were recorded but never saw the light. Marred by debauchery, lineup instability and their very nature as an entity that far too soon had decided to explode in a shockwave rather than quietly fade away, Raw War disbanded sometime around 2013 leaving a thirty-five minute unforgiving, primeval, bulldozing, crustcore onslaught unreleased and completely unheard of for ten long years. Fast forward to 2023, and Sentient Ruin stepped in to honor the legacy and work of one of BC's most uncompromising and visceral hardcore crust bands by finishing the work and releasing the entirety of the band's long-unreleased material (the untitled full-length album and the "Raw Terror" EP) as the comprehensive 12" vinyl/digital full-length release "Total Raw War".

Total Raw War is scheduled for a February 9 2024 release worldwide via Sentient Ruin on 12” vinyl LP and digital formats and can now be pre-ordered via all our channels.

Raw War were started in Victoria BC. The band immediately distinguished itself in the region for their off the rails nuclear crust assault, the apocalyptic vibe of their songs, and the raw intensity of their live performances. This reputation as a primal and lawless force in the Pacific Northwest punk scene was further cemented by the release of their 2010 debut 7" titled "Population Control", which lead to more shows, tours, debauchery and opening slots for bands like Oi Polloi and Doom, all of which in turn began to stir up even more attention around the band, generating considerable label interest. On the heels of label agreements and continued interest from the punk scene, Raw War decided to enter the studio and record a full length album, immediately following those recording sessions with further recordings, this time in the form of a planned second 7" tentatively titled "Raw Terror". However, neither of these two releases ever surfaced.

Frustrated by the departure of then bassist Justin and by the inability to maintain a solid bassist slot (bassists Brandon and Alan had already preceded him), the founding unit of guitarist Cordie, drummer Bryce and vocalist Dylan opted instead to continue as a trio and changed the band's name to Kaiten, relocating it to Vancouver BC in the process. This change generated hesitation from labels, and threw the two recently recorded and still unfinished Raw War releases into a limbo, that would last for ten long years. Ten years that were declared over when Sentient Ruin stepped in to have the entire unreleased recorded output mastered and released on vinyl/digital as the posthumous “Total Raw War” 12” containing both the untitled debut full-length album and the “Raw Terror” 7” tracks, to give proper homage, peace, and resting place to one of the most decimating and unforgiving hardcore crust entities to ever desecrate Northwestern soil. Long live the Raw War. Long live TOTAL. RAW. WAR.

ABERRATION / DIABOLIC OATH: American Black/Death Metal Surrealists Send Ominous Presages of Bigger Things to Come With Imminent “Divinations” Split 7" - Audio Preview Unveiled at No Clean Singing.

In anticipation of greater, more horrific things to come in the new year, we proudly bring you the “Divinations” split 7” between Aberration and Diabolic Oath, two rising forces of US surrealistic extreme metal darkness.

The twelve-minute split has been teased by No Clean Singing who have revealed a minute-long sample of each of the band’s respective tracks, remarking that the collaborative effort is “evil to the core, as raw and filthy as week-old roadkill, and as oppressive and abyssal as it is berserk, but it’s technically accomplished as well as disturbing and disorienting.“ - you can read the feature and check out the audio previews HERE.

Slated for a January 5 2024 release, this two-song declaration of war upon human psyche showcases the two US-based sorcerers of omnipotent aural terror in complete command of control of their respective crafts as they summon each their own staple idealization of humongous and hallucinatory black/death deformations. “Divinations” serves as a precursor and taste to what's to come, namely the spring 2024 release of the bands’ two new full length albums, Aberration’s colossal “Refracture", and Diabolic Oath’s still secretive but completed second full length abomination.

With influences coming from surrealistic extreme metal beasts like Antediluvian, Altarage, Portal and Impetuous Ritual, Minneapolis MN dark death metal obscurators Aberration debuted via Sentient Ruin with their self-titled 2021 debut 10" EP, an aural pact with total darkness that established them as one of the most imaginative and intimidating new entities in American underground extreme metal. No newcomers to game, Aberration formed in late 2019 with JH of Void Rot on guitar and vocals, DH of Suffering Hour on bass and vocals, AW of Nothingness on guitar, and EC of Tvaer on drums and threw the sum of their talents and influences into an obfuscating sonic glorification of total darkness and oblivion, combining death, doom, dissonant black metal and tenebrous ambient/drone to create an imposing aural hellscape of all-devouring terror. Their surrealistic interpretation of dark abstract death metal will find its absolute triumph and sublimation with “Refracture”, the band’s debut full-length album for Sentient Ruin slated for a spring 2024 release.

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 unforgettably bleak and bludgeoning 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 lawlessness and chaos. Around the same time an anonymous, ritualistic approach to the live setting was adopted, incorporating in live perfomances meditations on death accompanied by obscure offerings, to further shape the creature’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 with certain influences (new and old) such as Teitanblood, Morbid Angel, and Bestial Warlust creeping into the mix alternating more pronounced references to more subtle ones. The band has worked tirelessly to carve its Diabolic path, playing shows to support high-caliber underground acts across the Pacific Northwest, 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 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 still unnamed but already ominously looming new heirloom of unconquerable chaos: their immense 2024 sophomore full-length abomination.


JUNTA: NYC Hardcore Punk Insurgents Announce Pulverizing Self-Titled Debut Full-length Album - Track Premiered at DIY Conspiracy.

We’re proud to announce the imminent release of the obliterating debut self-tiled album by NYC dark hardcore punk dissidents Junta, slated for a January 26 2024 release date on LP, digital and cassette formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin.

The release has been announced in collaboration with iconic European punk zine DYI Conspiracy who in premiering the track “Mi Violencia” have remarked that“the upcoming eleven-track album is a powerful statement of social upheaval and dissent, reflecting the band’s deep connection to marginalized and indigenous communities fragmented by segregation and injustice. It’s a raw and intense manifesto of struggle that blends hardcore punk aggression with the poetry of the dispossessed, embodying both idealism and stark realpolitik in their music.“ - you can check out the feature and track HERE.

Raw hardcore punk insurgents Junta arise from the concrete purgatory of New York City with their pulverizing debut self-titled full-length offering, a twenty-minute incursion of blistering upheaval and caustic retaliation. This dark document of crystalline urban terror introduces the NYC four-piece at the height of their rage as they emanate a grim edict against imperialism, genocide, capitalism and social injustice. Junta's uncompromising and militant vision has been known for years in New York City, frequently manifesting with benefit shows across the city aimed at the empowerment and defense of the city's vibrant multicultural underground to which they belong and have committed unconditional militancy. The self-tiled eleven-track weapon of social unrest and abject refusal represents the band's sense of belonging and commitment to a social fabric torn by segregation and injustice and their strenuous combat against powers much larger than themselves which has resulted in a bleak manifesto of cultural warfare. The work encompasses the most bitter aspects of idealism and realism, with this ambivalent concept animating a raw onslaught of blown out, dissonant hardcore aggression interwoven with passages of poetry and spoken word that define and exalt an existence spent at the forefront of strugge and in a perpetual fight for enlightenment and retribution.

Formed in 2015, Junta is a hardcore punk band from New York City with its roots stemming, and running beyond. Over the years the band has brought its dark, dissonant and caustic raw hardcore attack and uncompromising commentary to many stages in and around NYC, playing endless shows with bands Like Dead Heat, Regional Justice Center, Skourge, Spy, Blu Anxiety, Jarhead Fertilizer, Deli Girls and many more. In joy and resistance, the band has also played numerous benefit shows over the years as a motive and drive for continuing their fight. The band then prepared to release its debut album on Sentient Ruin in early 2024, a record that is a focused demonstration and byproduct of the cruelty from our past, the community of our present and the obstacles of our future.