BLACK EARTH: Sophomore MLP from Spanish Black Noise Sorcerers Sees Tape Re-release and First Ever Vinyl Release.

It is with immense pride and excitement that we bring you the first ever vinyl release for Diagrams of a Hidden Order - Black Earth's sophomore MLP. Originally released in 2016 by In Solace Publishing on tape and by Malignant Records on CD, Sentient Ruin and Bile Noire (EU vinyl) now proudly bring you the first vinyl release and deluxe tape re-release of this smoldering masterpiece of disembodied incantations and wretched atmospherics.

Consisting of multi-instrumentalists Alejandro Durán, Alejandro Tedín, Miguel A. García, Black Earth are a trio from Spain devoted to uncovering some of the most abominable and liminal sounds that lurk within the darkest corners of our imagination. Their sonic constructs of scathing black ambience are like soundtrack music dipped in the unholy murk of the Styx and then strung across a starless vault of infinite black. Begotten within a broken realm of crawling chaos Black Earth's highly ritualistic and demonic compositions blend together the most scorching and unsettling strains of electronic music and metal to evoke visions and sentiments of unfathomable vastness and wretchedness, in which the mind is first trapped and then destroyed.

Diagrams of a Hidden Order masterfully brings together black metal, industrial, scorching noise scarifications, and dark ambient to summon a haunting and grotesque sonic chasm of sublime and mind-expanding aural cacophony. Similarly to the aesthetic of other abstract sound sculptors of the most liturgic, evil, and wretched craft like Wold, Gnaw Their Tongues, Emanation, and Sutekh Hexen, Black Earth weave and coerce together otherworldly atmospherics, dismal atmospheres, and ear-splitting electronics to paint a daunting sonic arabesque of utter horror and dismay.

What we bring you is a single sided 12"LP in two different vinyl colors: clear w/ black haze (standard), or black vinyl (limited quantity). The cassette version is an incredibly limited product in every possible way. Comes housed in a fold-over charcoal black matte cardostock case letterpressed/embossed with metallic silver ink graphics. Containing it is a sealed metallic anti-static bag that gives a semi-lucid/transparent effect. An extra download card is inside. Only 40 available - a SR online shop exclusive. These cassettes are the remaining stock of the initial pressing released by In Solace Publishing. SR has purchased and re-pakacked all the remaining stock of tapes to coincide with the vinyl release.

Diagrams of a Hidden Order  vinyl and tapes are available for purchase on our store and Bandcamp and shipping worldwide immediately.

CHAOS ECHŒS: Sentient Ruin Releases Massive "The Occursus Series" Cassette Box Set.

We are proud to present you our first cassette box set ever, for the french experimental death metal band Chaos Echoes, in cooperation with Spanish label Bile Noire - crafted and brought to you keeping in mind solely the highest degrees possible of visual, auditive, and tactile presentation. Chaos Echoes play a unique style of ritualistic Death metal with a high dose of well-used improvisation and experimentation mixed with ambiance sections that get you immersed into a twisted and oppressive atmosphere. The Occursus Series is a collection of three releases that includes the first band's rehearsal recorded in 2012, their second EP Duo Experience /Spectral Affinities originally self-released in 2013, and a live recording from 2013 at La Boule Noire (Paris).

The insane box set comes housed in a beautifully crafted black matte box with embossed gloss varnish Chaos Echoes Emblem. Each tape comes with silver imprint and housed in a beautiful charcoal black cardstock j-card printed with offset silver metallic ink. Included in the box is a 12 page charcoal black cardstock photo booklet also printed with offset silver metallic inks. A download card for each album is contained within. An online shop exclusive (no distro or retail) only 100 of these boxes were made, 50 for sale in the US through Sentient Ruin, and 50 in the EU from Bile Noire.

From NUCLEAR WAR NOW! PRDS.: "Deriving their name from the last album by their predecessors, Bloody Sign, Chaos Echoes established themselves as France’s masters of Avant Garde Death after quietly releasing a series of EPs featuring the band’s characteristically unorthodox material. Combining magnificent complexity, an exceptionally high degree of musicianship, and a distinct sense of experimentalism, Chaos Echoes is among the most captivating bands in the underground – a band truly incapable of simple categorization."  

France's Chaos Echoes are truly one of the most unique, forward-thinking, mind-bending, and genre defying metal bands to emerge in the underground in recent times. Their ritualistic death-doom finds such a high degree of expression nowhere else, while their keen sense of experimentalism and free-form approach to extreme metal have always yielded time after a time an utterly magnificent, mesmerizing, and extremely profound body of work. Within their framework of jazzy, lysergic, and almost unpredictable death metal one can always distill the purest essence of improvisation, as it is meant to be only in the most ambitious and purest forms of unshackled artistry. With no boundaries or rules limiting them, Chaos Echoes have always reached beyond and tapped into the unknown, bringing together time after time some of the most extraordinary and unsettling forms of musical synthesis ever achieved by extreme metal. With songs blending death-doom, prog, kraut, free-jazz, drone, and immaterial tribal ritualism, and demos and EPs released as live improvised recordings, albums on such respected strongholds of extreme metal authority such as Nuclear War Now! always showing a fathomless ambition and experimentalism, and artwork always lying on the border between the absurd and the grandiose, Chaos Echoes have been consistently since 2011 one of the greatest bands in experimental underground metal.

Get The Occursus Series on our store or Bandcamp.

MISRULE: Annihilating One-Man DeathGrind Abomination Unleashes Bludegeoning Debut Demo - Track Premiered at Metal Injection.

Unrelenting and completely out of control, Forced to Suffer is the ghastly debut demo tape by Portland, OR one man extreme death/grind aberration MISRULE. Drawing life from the most abhorrent and scary strains of grindcore and extreme metal (as seen for example in other similarly sanity-defying acts like Vermin Womb, Knelt Rote, Plague Widow, Infernal Coil etc.), MISRULE is an unrestrained and completely uncontrolled exercise in total aural terror. Within its framework of devastating extreme metal and tumefying aggression lies a critical mass of collapsing emotions and unravelling psychological horror that have yielded a mere eight minutes of absolutely unfathomable sonic terror, funneled by sole mastermind S. Mahoney into a coercitive and utterly pulverizing amalgamation of ferocious grindcore obliteration and merciless blackened death metal chaos that defies any categorization.

To get the first glimpse into the utter nightmare that is MISRULE head over to Metal Injection and read the feature + stream Lead to the Grave - the first bludgeoning track extrapolated from the demo. You can find their feature HERE.

S. Mahoney is the sole mastermind behind MISRULE, for which he writes, records, and masters everything on his own and also curates the project's artwork and visual aspect. Having taken the project's moniker from a Nightbringer song, with the creation of MISRULE Mahoney has set out on a lonely voyage toward total self-disintegration, birthing an extreme metal aberration whose sole purpose is that of exploring the many possibilities and unknown ramifications of total and unadulterated aural terror. With speeds and intensity that approach imploding point, atmospheres and moods which are those of actual hell, and a heaviness so crushing it seems coming from some remote realm of the absurd, MISRULE is nothing short than a terrifying experiment - a test in the survival of the psyche and in the resistance of the flesh against the most liminal odds of sonic obliteration. The sheer insanity and brutality of the music are however far from being the only scope and reach of the project. With MISRULE Mahoney has in fact created a vessel for him to explore and expunge a wide array of personal torments, and use the project as a cathartic weapon to give voice to some of the most blighted and afflicting inner torments, funneling unbearable sentiments of hatred, pain, disillusionment, abandon and resignation into a hideous musical experiment. The end result is complete armageddon - a sonic abomination that while punishing the senses with unseen sonic spite, comes also laced with a barrage of emotional and psychological horror which makes MISRULE truly a multidimensional sonic horror like none other.

To be officially released on March 2 2018, you can now preorder Forced to Suffer demo tapes + digital products on our store and Bandcamp.

NOOSE ROT: Primitive Death Metal Butchers Debut With Barbaric New Demo Tape - Track Premiered at Decibel Magazine.

There really is not much to overthink or over-elaborare about NOOSE ROT. Theirs is simply just totally fucked and putrid death metal from the most rotten crevices of the underworld. NOOSE ROT hail from Minnesota and have coalesced around a shared love of members of Gatecreeper and Wolvhammer for primitive and involved death metal in the vein of Autopsy, Pungent Stench, Coffins, Nihilist, Grave, and Repugnant - deciding to join forces to birth their own unholy death metal abomination that would worship at the altar of the Finnish and Scandinavian gods of ancestral death and decay. 

Gruesomely regressed and appallingly involved, In their wretched and bludgeoning debut EP NOOSE ROT spew forth a vomited cascade of complete aural filth that engulfs the listener in a blinding deluge of chainsawing guitars, steamrolling drums, and putridly tortured vocals. At its most delicate and refined The Creeping Unknown is nothing more than a coffin-born aural stampede of complete aural rot where caveman-death metal is taken to a sickening new extreme, conjuring similar diseased atmospheres as seen in bands like Cruciamentum, Vastum, Acephalix, Disma, and Grave Miasma.

Sentient Ruin is proud and honored to have been made a part of NOOSE ROT's first putrid breath into this world, and as such we could not be happier today to announce the release of their debut demo tape The Creeping Unknown coming out on February 16 2018, and now pre-ordeable along with digital products on our store and Bandcamp.

NOOSE ROT
The Creeping Unknown

1. Mass Grave Interment
2. Worship the Crypt
3. The Creeping Unknown
4. Bound in a Dark House

For an early taste of NOOSE ROT's upcoming sonic rampage of total disgust, just head over to Decibel Magazine and check out their feature where they've unveiled the demo's title track for streaming saying that NOOSE ROT "distill death metal to its most deadly form: raw and heavy as hell".

ROTTING SKY: Colossal Debut Album from Oregon Black/Drone/Noise One-Man Enigma Re-issued - Track Featured at CVLT Nation.

We're proud and honored to present you with tape reissue and first ever vinyl release of ROTTING SKY's 2014 long lost and absolute magnum opus - Sedation - a colossal and swarming masterpiece of obsidian black droney industrial black noise.

T. Messing (guitarist of crust punk legends Nux Vomica) brings you this mind-shattering and incredibly introspective solo work, incarnated into one of the most accomplished, devastating, and visionary masterpieces to have been conceived within the realm of black metal and noise crossover genres in the last five-six years at least. Originally released in 2014 as a limited run of 100 tapes by now defunct tape label Grimoire Cassette Cvlture - Sedation was one of the tail end releases for the label, with the cassette being released close to the label's final demise and as such going nearly completely unnoticed, as all available copies soon vanished from the public eye with the label shutting down its online store and online operations. Sentient Ruin however did not fail to notice this astonishing album, and it eventually took us a good three years to track down Messing and bring him on board for a proper (re)release.

Today we are honored and excited to have accomplished this very heartfelt mission, as we bring you the ultimate and final release of Sedation, re-mastered, and re-packaged with spectacularly wretched new artwork done for the project by noise/industrial visionary artist Anderson Cook, and further enhanced by a much needed and absolutely glorious vinyl release. An unforgettable sonic flailing that lives once again, suspended between the realms of extreme metal, drone and noise music, that will delight fans of atmospheric experimental extreme bands like Sutekh Hexen, Locrian, Wraiths, Thisquietarmy, Pyramids, BLSPHM, Darkspace, etc. 

The Sedation re-release will officially see the light on February 9 2018, and pre-orders for limited black or standard clear w/black haze vinyl, digital, tapes, test cassette/pressing are now up on our Bandcamp or store. 

CVLT Nation are now exclusively premiering the track Tryants of Sedation calling Sedation  "something of truly blinding and wretched beauty". Check out their feature HERE. 

Active since at least 2007, and always existed 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 T. Messing is known as the guitarist of legendary epic crust punk/metal powerhouse Nux Vomica, 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. Erected upon a monumental maze of pedal abuse and layers upon layers of wretched static, Messing's blackened drone comes to life as a levitating and howling chasm of total sonic disintegration, in which the plane of existence is disemboweled with a hideous swarm of decaying sound to reveal the immateriality, nothingness, and emptiness that lies within all and everything. Rotting Sky is a place where nightmares take shape and hope is devoured. A place where sanity is a desire and suffering a fact, where pain is boundless, and the reality of flesh becomes nothing but a disintegrating and evaporating specter, dismembered across the cosmos, and lost across vast distances in a fathomless, sorrowful and vacuous void devoid of all hope.

VESSEL OF INIQUITY: UK Black/Death/Noise Monstrosity to Release Horrific Debut Mini LP in January - Full Stream at Toilet ov Hell.

We're honored and proud to release the life-shattering debut album of UK-based one-man black/death/noise monstrosity Vessel of Iniquity. Fifteen minutes of unfathomable audial terror designed to disintegrate existence directly from within. Fifteen minutes of inconceivable sonic trauma administered through the unholy abuse of the most blighted blackened death metal and of the most anti-human and liminal strains of noise, drone and power electronics. A sensorially annihilating and humiliating sonic holocaust that has brought together the diverse but equally decimating aesthetics of extreme acts like Gnaw Their Tongues, Impetuous Ritual, and Teitanblood to conceive the most absurd and completely unthinkable realms of musical devastation.

Toilet ov Hell have premiered the album in full calling the release a "a downward spiral of churning blast beats and coiling electronic swells" - you can check out their feature HERE.

Vessel of Iniquity is the new brainchild of UK-sonic experimentalist A. White, a recluse sound-sculptor who's been a defining point in UK-undergorund extreme/experimental for nearly two decades, and who has amassed countless releases and projects to this day, all under various pseudonyms and monikers.

200 vinyl records and 200 tapes of the release will be pressed, all in conjunction with Xenoglossy Productions, handling release and distribution in the EU. The Vinyl records come housed in a fold-over heavy charcoal black cardstock sleeve and include a 12"x12" insert. All black vinyl but with two color art variants: 100 come with gold on black (US), and 100 with silver on black (EU - co-released by Xenoglossy Productions). Both available but silver is limited.

The tapes are the ultimate analog annihilation artifact, coming with black shells printed with golden ink, wrapped in a j-card of charcoal black rough cardstock printed with offset golden metallic inks. The same version exists co-released in the EU by Xenoglossy Productions printed with silver inks instead of gold. Both versions in stock though the EU silver on black version is extremely limited.

The self titled Vessel of Iniquity mini album will be released officially in the US by Sentient Ruin, and in the EU by Xenoglossy Productions on January 19 2018. vinyl, tapes and digital products can now be pre-ordered on our store and Bandcamp.

CRYPTAE: Dutch Experimental Death Metal Deviants Unveil Aberrant Debut Demo Tape - Track Premiered at Decibel Magazine.

Strikingly unique, visually insane, and sonically decimating, this is Netherlands-based Cryptae - an extreme metal anomaly devoted to the most liminal and cerebral extents of sonic deconstruction and to the most aberrant thresholds of experimentalism.

With a background of its two members forged within the abstract and improvisational realms of free-jazz, noise rock, industrial, and shapeshifting avantgarde, Cryptae have shown astonishingly calculating levels of insanity in crafting their own vision of modern experimental extreme metal, spewing forth a maze of deviant and bludgeoning death metal chaos that aims straight at the listener's central nervous system with the intent of dismantling their every layer of sanity directly from within. The two sociopaths behind the project are primarily involved in many industrial and experimental entities like Dead Neanderthals and Celestial Bodies to name a few, showing just how diverse and enigmatic their background and influences are, an aspect of their creative DNA which has irreparably shaped the madness and delirium which permeates Cryptae.

A careful and demanding listener will notice that beyond the utter chaos and destruction summoned by the duo through a meticulous reinterpretation of 90's most structurally ambitious and punishing death metal (Incantation, Immolation, Morbid Angel), lies a realm of ungraspable and disorienting experimentalism which has tapped into influences as diverse and absurd and Swans, Magma, and Discharge, making Crytpae one of the most deranged and visionary death metal oddities to appear in Europe in recent times - and comparable to equally twisted and experimental black/death masters like Portal, Altarage, Mitochondrion and the such.

CRYPTAE - S/T DEMO TAPE

Tracklisting:

1. Glubroneous
2. Ventrum
3. Cryptae
4. Maze

As such, we could not be more honored and proud to bring you their debut release - the self titled "white" demo tape that will officially drop through Sentient Ruin on December 22 2017, serving as the label's last release of a truly insane year for us. Self-titled Cryptae demo tapes are truly a sight to behold: absurd, and minimalistic artwork in the j-cards by one of the band members, with the tape case itself housed in a snow white sleeve - something that completely stands out among the band's peers and which will surely delight all the extreme metal nerds out there who have an eye for visually compelling analog artifacts.

With the release date imminent, Decibel Magazine has been as so kind to unveil the first track from Cryptae's bludgeoning debut demo tape - and you can now exclusively stream the track Ventrum and read their feature HERE.

Tapes and dital products are now available for pre-order on our store and Bandcamp.

ABKEHR: German Black Metal Duo's Amazing Debut Album "In Asche" Now Available on Vinyl.

We're very pleased to announce the release of In Asche - the debut release by German black metal specter ABKEHR on vinyl! Earlier this year when we released In Asche on tape ABKEHR made heads turn with their darkened and hopeless alloy of miserably majestic raw/atmopsheric black metal, receiving praise from publications like CVLT Nation, Invisible Oranges, Terrorizer and No Clean Singing, and with cassettes going sold out in record time and becoming quickly unavailable. Today, this vinyl release done in collaboration with our comrades Sick Man Getting Sick Records in the EU serves as the final and ultimate release version of one of 2017's most imaginative black metal albums.

In Asche LPs come as a standard clear vinyl or as limited black vinyl, and are available for purchase now on our store or Bandcamp and already shipping worldwide.

Slithering out from the most remote crevices of the German extreme metal underworld, ABKEHR's genesis appears to have been sparked by unprecedented emotional and mental collapse and by an unfathomable pull toward absolute, devouring darkness. The band formed in 2015 in Northern Germany by sole masterminds Raash and H. with the intent of unifying under the black looming star of self-disintegration the raw misanthropic grimness of the most praised Norwegian black metal tradition with the atmosphere and desperation of depressive black metal, and the swarming majesty of US atmospheric black metal. Shaped by a diverse and sapient pletora of influences ranging from Darkthrone, Gorgoroth, and Craft, to Cornigr, Mgła, and Ash Borer, Abkehr have funneled the primordial abjection and hatred of traditional black metal through a cascading surge of the most blighted and tormented human emotions, creating something grandiose and ungraspable who’s beauty is matched solely by its own omnipotent wretchedness.

With the "mini album" In Asche Abkehr explore the many manifestations of darkness, hopelessness, evil, and annihilation - condensing them into heathen sonic form to distill their very own expression of actual hell. Hideously and relentlessly crawling across four vast movements of pure incarnated darkness, In Asche is a towering and commanding work in the current underground black metal panorama, which has managed to harness the primordial savagery of bands like Craft and Judas Iscariot, the vast and enveloping hopelessness of bands like Weakling and Ash Borer, and the visionary wretchedness of brilliant black metal anomalies like Twilight and Leviathan, to create their own personal passageway into a tormented and shadow-torn world.