MORTAL INCARNATION: Japanese Psychedelic Death-Doom Destroyers To Issue Colossal Debut EP On Tape Via Sentient Ruin (LP To Follow).

Tokyo-based Japanese death-doom destroyers Mortal Incarnation debut with Lunar Radiant Dawn, a two-track, sixteen-minute dirge of colossal and otherworldly atmospheric death metal that towers over this year's death-doom output as one of the most imposing and spellbinding manifestations the genre has seen all year. On the mesmerizing EP the Japanese four piece have masterfully harnessed the majesty and alien experimentalism first conceptualized by legendary death-doom progenitors dISEMBOWELMENT, and fused it with the merciless darkness of bands like Morbid Angel, Immolation and Incantation, to sublimate into an imposing sonic entity of unseen majesty and enormity. Unyieldingly heavy and dark, yet profoundly mystical and contemplative, through the sapient interviewing of baneful and crepuscular 90s death metal and massive architectures of lysergic psychedelic virtuosity borrowed directly from the likes of Pink Floyd and King Crimson, Mortal Incarnation have assembled one of the most modern and visionary pure death-doom releases in years, in which the intimacy and meditative powers of the golden era of 70's psych/progressive rock and the primordial darkness and ferocity of the most suffocating death metal coexist in a marvel of superb aesthetic dominance and of crushing evocative force.

Mortal Incarnation materialized in Tokyo, Japan around 2018, by the will of four individuals (Septic Necrovoid on guitar and vocals, Goatlord on guitar, R$Y on bass, and Miasma Vortex on drums) obsessed with arcane and timeless forms of extreme metal and influenced by transcendental and mystical experiences that defy reality. This fascination with otherworldly states and realms of the unknown has pushed the band to create highly contemplative and mystical music that explores states of spiritual ubiquity, out of body experiences, absurd rituals and inexplainable phenomenons that live on the plain of irreality. While early experimentalists and progenitors of absurd and boundary-pushing extreme metal like Incantation and dISEMBOEWRLMENT are obvious influences for the band, Mortal Incarnation have also been particularly drawn to the experimentalism and self-destructive artistic lawlessness seen in early Scandinavian death and black metal bands who've widely explored this almost mindless pull toward near complete loss of self: Thou Shalt Suffer, early Darkthrone, Purtenance, Crematory, early Entombed etc. Their sound has then been ulteriorly shaped by contemporary and more immaterial influences like various forms of darkwave, shoegaze and ambient music which have greatly contributed to shaping the band's almost exaggerated obsession with creating enveloping and otherworldly atmospheres used as a backdrop to a maelstrom of pulverizing primitive death metal. The urgency and intensity with which Mortal Incarnation write, perform, and record their music comes from yet another plane of inspiration which sheds ulterior light on the band's incredibly diverse background and seemingly endless pool of inspirations: hardcore and punk music, mainly brought in the band by bassist R$Y who also militates in Japanese powerviolece band Soiled Hate. Conceptually, Mortal Incarnation focus on building a mirror-like reflection to their own sound, as a perfect thematic continuation and counterpart to the music, with philosophical, fantasy, and gothic literature or Japanese manga being the main source of lyrical inspiration, especially works dealing with the transcendental realms of existence, mystical experiences, surreality, and the mystery that permeates human nature, along with concepts of vastness, enormity and of incomprehensible and sensorial and psychological awe and wonder.

Lunar Radiant Dawn cassettes are scheduled to ship on January 10 2019 and are now pre-ordeable on our Bandcamp or RELEAES page above. A 10” vinyl version is in the works and its release is TBA.

PETRIFICATION: "Hollow of the Void" LP Reissued.

PETRIFICATION’s bludgeoning 2018 debut LP Hollow of the Void has been reissued on a limited new run of colored vinyl after having been sold out for nearly a year. The amazing death metal album is finally available again on clear water blue vinyl with a red and purple marble, housed in a high quality sleeve with electric green flood inside the pocket. You can now order the LP reissue from our RELEASES page or on our Bandcamp.

One the most unique and bombastic US/OSDM releases of 2018, Hollow of the Void is a breakneck rampage of gruesome death metal chaos that worships directly at the ancient altar of legends like Convulse, Bolt Thrower, Grave, and Autopsy. Despite its homage-like timelessness and classic feel, the album is a modern and defiant take on the genre that unifies an exquisite taste in its celebrative sonic assault with a visual surreal and masterful visual presentation unlike anything else commonly seen out there in the genre.

Hollow of the Void was released in April 2018 and established Petrification as one of the most threatening and exciting new new acts to appear that year in American death metal. The album received widespread and unanimous praise in the underground from fans and critics alike, being hailed as a 2018 landmark death metal release by outlets like Revolver and Decibel Magazine among others. Particular praise has been given to the album’s raw and visceral sound, to it’s modern and ambitious take on a style of death metal often labelled as “old school” and that has evolved little over the years, and to its astonishing and unique visual presentation, an aspect developed and created for the album directly by the band’s singer, famed underground surreal painter and visual artist Jason Barnett.

RUIN LUST: NYC-Based Black/Death Metal Horde Issue Incinerating Sophomore LP "Sacrifice" for the First Time Ever on Vinyl.

Ruin Lust play hellish grinding metal of death and war; a dagger to the throats of all insipid, trend-chasing, "old school" death metal of recent years. Violent, hateful, and unyielding, but with actual fucking riffs, Ruin Lust draws inspiration from the varied traditions of Sadistik Exekution, Sacramentary Abolishment, and classic, unhinged, American death metal and grind, without ever indulging in pure emulation. Contemporary chaos mongers Knelt Rote and Ascended Dead are also reasonable touchstones. The band formed in New York in 2010 at a moment when NOTHING of the level of violence, and sheer unbridled ferocity existed in the area. After years of reclusive labor, the release of Sacrifice, their second full length, reveals the most potent distillation of the band’s feral and deranged vision. LIFE EXTINGUISHED. DEATH TRIUMPHANT.

Sentient Ruin is proud to release Ruin Lust's incinerating sophomore LP Sacrifice for the first time ever on vinyl, after a self-released tape surfaced in early 2019 bringing back under the spotlight one of America's most elusive and feral extreme metal entities. Featuring current and past members of Anicon, Trenchgrinder, Vorde, Vilkacis, Fell Voices, Vanum, and Yellow Eyes, the NYC black/death/war metal horde return six years after their debut album was released on Psychic Violence Records, with their darkest and most baneful compositions to date, blending the most pestilent strains of black and death metal with the blunt force trauma of grindcore to elevate the notion of sonic warfare at unseen new extremes.

While remaining true to the genre's voluntarily involved and feral approach to aural barbarism, a careful ear will not fail to notice the modern and transformative approach taken by the band to assemble their sonic war zone, utilizing a dense and suffocating sense of atmosphere and an immanent sense of dynamics and unpredictability to mercilessly blindside and destroy the listener. By all means a pinnacle in this year's war metal output, Sacrifice is a modern and defiant spasm of extreme metal terror that will find loyal proselytes amongst fans of Diocletian, Knelt Rote, Heresiarch and other contemporary black/death bands who show to be more inclined to breaking new ground and paving the genre's future than living in the past.

The Sacrifice LP was officially released on December 13 through Sentient Ruin exclusively worldwide and is now shipping everywhere - find it at our Bandcamp, online shop or distributors for both North America and Europe/rest of world.

DECOHERENCE: Multinational Black Metal Entity Set To Release Massive Debut LP "Ekpyrosis" on November 22 - Tracks Premiered at Invisible Oranges and Decibel Magazine.

Sentient Ruin is honored and proud to work again with Decoherence, a band which has helped shape this label’s reach, roster, catalog, and vision to great extents, allowing us to pave our destiny beyond any milestone previously reached, and to be a part in the genesis of one of black metal’s most inspired and visionary new acts.

After unleashing their soul-consuming debut self-titled 7"EP via Sentient Ruin earlier in 2019, multinational industrial atmospheric black metal entity Decoherence finally return with their highly anticipated debut full-length album Ekpyrosis, unravelling tenfold the darkness and sonic enormity of their debut 7" and leaving the listener helpless to decay before a massive sonic singularity as they manipulate dark matter and eviscerate darkness to open a passageway to a realm beyond.

In a manner not dissimilar to the territory already tread by pillars of the genre like Blut Aus Nord and Darkspace, on Ekpyrosis Decoherence juxtapose cold martial industrial drum patterns with surreal and disorienting electronic noise soundscapes and walls of mangled, angular, and dissonant guitars to create a monstrous alien landscape and transport the listener to an otherworldly dimension, deep into the darkest and most remote and inhospitable corners of the cosmos, where dark forces of unfathomable destructiveness and cataclysms of unimaginable magnitude dominate an inhuman realm devoid of any light or warmth. An obsidian monolith of sidereal terror and hallucinating claustrophobia, Ekpyrosis is a sonic event horizon where concepts like coldness, emptiness, vastness, and nothingness obtain an entirely new meaning and are taken to an incomprehensible extreme to instate into the listener a feeling of widespread fear, complete loss of self, and of permanent and consuming dissolution.

Leading up to the album’s imminent release, Invisible Oranges has premiered one of the album’s tracks calling Ekpyrosis “unrelenting, extremely atmospheric, and layered extensively with electronic and analog soundscapes that meld seamlessly to form one solid slab of obsidian“

A second track was premiered shortly after by Decibel Magazine , who defined the bands’s music an “abyssal black metal onslaught”.

The monstrous pitch-black album was self-recorded and mixed by the band, mastered at mexican black metal dungeon Necrousound, and features artwork by LEV.FM from iconic Sentient Ruin label mates 夢遊病者 (Sleepwalker).

Ekpyrosis releases officially on November 22 2019 on black and/or colored vinyl LP, cassette tape and digital through Sentient Ruin exclusively world-wide, and all formats are now pre-ordeable here on our site or on our Bandcamp page.

GOAT TERROR: Belarusian War Metal Terrorists Issue debut 7" - Track Unveiled by Blessed Altar Zine.

Sentient Ruin is proud to partake in the unholy birth of Goat Terror, Belarusian skull-clobbering and devil-worshipping Neanderthals with no consideration for any fucking living thing. On their debut 7” EP of bestial and barbaric sonic warfare the mysterious Belarusian war machine draws influence from the most unholy fringe of bestial satanic war/goat metal like Proclamation, Conqueror, Blasphemy, and Impiety, to summon the very embodiment of complete chaos and pestilence, wielding their sonic armageddon like an abominable weapon of mass destruction to unleash it unto the human race in the most gruesome and atrocious way possible.

In unveiling the first track from the release, underground blog Blessed Altar Zine, has stated that within Unholy March “There’s no trace of melody, no nod at harmony, no progressive elements and no mercy to be found here. Just pure, unadulterated evil and bloodlust”

Hailing from Minsk, Belarus, this duo of skull-crushing troglodytes remains anonymous and doesn’t perform live so that their recorded output may be their only voice and grand declaration of war toward the human race which they despise and whose defilement and insult remains their only guiding light. No biographies or personal information is made available as it is an unnecessary and contingent aspect of what they do, and completely irrelevant to their main design and intents. Musically Goat Terror pays homage the vanguard of eternal satanic war metal annihilation: Proclamation, Conqueror, Revenge, Weregoat, Baphomets Horns, Impiety and Bestial Raids etc, while also greatly building on those historic foundations to refine and extremize their aural mortal weapon even further, and to elevate the genre to new heights of madness and barbarism.

The unholy EP features artwork by Warhead Art (Diocletian etc), and officially drops on Friday November 15 on a limited white 7” vinyl from Sentient Ruin and on cassette tape from Unpure Records.

The limited edition vinyl 7" released by Sentient Ruin , will come in only 200 units all pressed to white vinyl and housed in a custom white cover + insert both silkscreened with a custom made dark metallic graphite ink, and including download card.

CLAVICVLA: Italian Black Ambient/Death Industrial Demon To Release Otherworldly Sophomore LP "Sepulchral Blessing" on November 1 - Tracks Premiered by Brutal Resonance and Blessed Altar Zine.

Black Ambient of the highest order. Italy’s Clavicvla channels the cosmic void, the source and finality of all things manifest. A true sonic force that reverberates through the core, allowing to escape one’s physical form and delve deep without, where logic and comprehensions are null...

Sentient Ruin and Cyclic Law are honored to delve once again into the otherworldy wretched dimension of Clavicvla, as we proudly prepare the release of Ittiel’s sophomore LP for a November 1 2019 release on tape, vinyl, digital and CD for North America and Europe.

Diabolical black ambient/death industrial demon Claviclva returns with his blood-chilling sophomore LP Sepulchral Blessing, unravelling another forty minutes of tyrannical nightmare fuel that will leave the listener catatonic and agonizing in horror. With Sepulchral Blessing this time Clavicvla constructs a sonic tomb of immense evocative force that inters the listener into a lucid nightmare and transports them straight into the kingdom of the dead, acting as an abominable sonic vessel to the underworld. Unbelievably repulsive, blood-chillingly horrific and unyieldingly evil, on this astonishing new work sole mastermind Ittiel has harnessed the quintessence of malignity and created a cinematic soundtrack to a ghastly decent into the underworld, where diabolical atmospheres drenched in the stench of death, nightmarish soundscapes, and monstrous drones and sub-bass frequencies are masterfully interwoven and manipulated to envelop, entrance, and entomb the listener into the nethermost pits of hell.

Leading up to the release two tracks have been unveiled, one at Brutal Resonance, and one at Blessed Altar Zine. Both outlets have remarked on the superb quality of Ittiel’s infernal art stating that his “cosmos oriented lectures on the twisted and turned beings of the outer worlds have a penchant for otherworldly and omnipotent beings, the project's occult following has only been growing" - and that the music “goes deep into the mind of the listener, infecting it with a primal fear down to its very core”.

Conceived by Italian black metal artist Ittiel, unholy dark ambient / death industrial abomination Clavicvla represents the artist's moral, spiritual, corporal, and human dissolution, and his transition from his initial artistic earthly form into immaterial and full-fledged abstract horror, to mirror the newly acquired reflection of himself - the transition itself triggered by Ittiel's morbid and sanity-defying fascination with satanism, acosmism, and the cult of death. Clavicvla as such was formed as a ritual vessel, to disintegrate and transition Ittiel's physical existence itself from the corporal world to pure dread and emptiness. Ittiel has stated that he puts together the sounds of Clavicvla to dismantle and annihilate his corporal self in an attempt to embrace, and become one with, the absolute void, and break the endless loop of life and death by instead derailing existence into senseless chaos and entropy. As such Clavicvla is for Ittiel liberation of consciousness, to assume his true and perceived form, bound by nothing and shaped solely by his own unbeing.

Sepulchral Blessing drops on November 1 2019 on digital, tape and EU vinyl through Sentient Ruin, and on CD, digital and EU vinyl from Cyclic Law.

CTHONICA: Venezuelan Raw Blackened Death Metal Duo Release Hideous Debut 2XLP: Album Unveiled by Metal Injection, Invisible Oranges, No Clean Singing and CVLT Nation.

Sentient Ruin is proud to partake in the unholy birth of CTHONICA, a black/death metal abomination spawned from the gutters and lost sepulchers of Caracas in Venezuela. The Monstrous 2XLP was officially released this Friday October 25 on digital/2XLP by Sentient Ruin and also sees a tape release via comrades Caligari Records, and a CD/EU LP release via co-conspirators Clavis Secretorum.

On their horrific debut 2xLP Typhomanteia: Sacred Triarchy of Spiritual Putrefaction, Venezuelan blackened raw death-doom abomination Cthonica summon a slithering scourge of pestilent and blood-curdling extreme metal barbarism rarely before fathomed at a state this inhuman, repulsive, and horrific. Converging somewhere in the middle between the agonizing and pummeling doomed death metal of early Incantation and Immolation and the twisted and serpentine blackened chaos of bands like Beherit, Blasphemy, and Portal, Cthonica have then crawled beyond their influences and any threshold of familiarity by adding layers of decaying noise and sepulchral dark ambient to their abhorrent extreme metal creation, as well as subduing to deranged religious and occult philosophical notions to transcend into the quintessence embodiment of all ritualistic aural abominations. The conceptual alchemies along with the decomposing atmospheric mantras added to their pummeling raw black/death framework have yielded a lengthening of their compositions, causing the music to stretch into a wretched dimension of perverted immateriality. Thorough this abject creation process Cthonica have thus harnessed an absurd realm of sonic disfigurement, where extreme metal is deformed into morbid occult practices and begins to embody deviant liturgic and ritualistic traits, taking the glorification and worship of death and perversion to an entire new realm of conceptual and audial atrocity.

Within this abominable work, in their own words, conceptually and lyrically Cthonica aim “to submit to the darkness of unreasoning and to be servants of our unconscious, metaphorically and symbolically speaking and 'to return to earth', and thus, now in the 'home' of the chthonic gods“, so they created the “Cthonica" moniker for themselves, to create a symbiont between their native language and English; as well as to create their own mantra: "Claiming (the) Throne (of) Noxious Illuminative Catharsis“. "Typhomanteia: Sacred Triarchy of Spiritual Putrefaction” - its voice - is thus composed by three main tracks divided as acts, that represent three aspects or steps for what they call "Spiritual Putrefaction”, or "pneuma-morphosis into corruption”: "Act I: The Chalice" (Will: To drink from the cup of Sin), "Act II: The Lantern" (Light: To enlight the paths of Acherontic teachings…), and "Act III: The Verb" (To Dare: As the alchemical / magical principle, to point the sword high and spread the seeds of damnation). The rest of the tracks result from the continuation of the first ones, all in order to "serve as bringers of the leviathanic breath (and winds) of Typhon towards Tehom". The band further states that “in our research for a more frantic and deranged sound, we composed 'Typhomanteia' in a more 'strong' and stressing way, to expose the worst of us and to fulfill our own meta-alchemical system”.

All the recordings were executed by the band themsleves alone between late 2017 and early 2018. The mixing and mastering was done by Hermit ov Tehom (Necrosound Studios) from Precaria (Mexico), who also contributes vocals to the fourth track of “Typhomanteia”. The artwork, one of the defining aspects of the album, is a masterclass of surreal visual horror by praised designs studio BMS Illustration (Tetragrammacide etc.).

The abominable album has been progressively unveiled over the last month by various high profile online publications, with Metal Injection stating that “the Caracas entity plays a demented and hybridized blend of death-doom and black metal, that channels the mystic blur of Portal and the cavernous feel of Incantation or diSEMBOWELMENT” and with No Clean Singing soon unveiling a second track from the album claiming that the band’s music is “primitive, punishing, and poisonous, deformed and disfiguring, but also otherworldly and intoxicating”. Invisible Oranges then unloaded another track from the album saying that “equal parts raw and atmospheric, this Venezuelan outfit’s foray into the dingy realms of doom-driven death metal pretty much single-handedly open the gates of hell and begs for an endless night. Characterized by guttural, misanthropic growls and a human stew of harsh riffage, the album tears space and time in an effort to sink your brain into a claustrophobic mess”. Finally CVLT Nation premiered the full album stating that “Venezuelan blackened death metal crypt stalkers CTHONICA have created the quintessential monstrosity, birthing an album of shocking repulsiveness entwined with morbid and unsettling philosophical deviancies that will stand high and strong as one of the most fucked and abhorrent pieces of (atmospheric) extreme metal to see the light all year. “

Raw blackened death-doom plague Cthonica began in Caracas, Venezuela, back in 2016 (formed by D.V. on Guitars, Bass, and Drums, and H.K. handling Vocals, noise and electronics, lyrics and concepts), rising from the ashes of a previous incarnation of the project called Okkvlt. Cthonica is, and likely always will be, a proudly home-recorded project. Both for necessity due to the precarious access to resources in the tumultuous Venezuelan society and general lack of most things out there, and for the complete refusal by the core duo behind the project to compromise or embrace standardized and commonly acceptable creation processes. As such Cthonica's existence will likely always be one of near complete lack and isolation, a state and condition which has perhaps made certain aspects of their art even more violent, defiant, and abominable. That of Chtonica appears to be an existence of evolved regression, where a state of isolation, lack, and primitivism has evolved aberrantly, and created fertile conditions for the development of deviant and feral art forms. Regarding this aspect of their creation process the band has stated that “we are a home-made recording project because we are oblivious to so-called professional hi-fi techniques and firmly believe that the approach of basic and primitive resources keeps us on the line of what we want“. Lyrically, musically, and conceptually Cthonica are focused on expressing the abyss within every human life, not (only) through the classic but overused Nietzschean cliché, but also and mostly as a Tehomic-Typhonian metamorphosis of every man's reason through what they call, "spiritual putrefaction”, or the progressive human corruption through the guidelines of opprobrious disciplines and their teachings, a concept which has shaped and defined the band’s abhorrent debut 2XLP Typhomanteia: Sacred Triarchy of Spiritual Putrefaction.

PROFANE ORDER: Canadian War Metal Terrorists Set to Unleash Devastating Debut Album "Slave Morality” on October 18 - Tracks Premiered at Last Rites and No Clean Singing.

Sentient Ruin is honored to partake in the unholy birth of Profane Order’s long awaited and highly anticipated debut LP Slave Morality scheduled for an October 18 release in collaboration with Krycyator Productions handling a CD edition, and Les Fleurs du Mal handling a tape edition.

On the debut offering the Canadian terror cult unleash a sonic armageddon of implausible proportions that will stand high as one of the most uncompromising displays of aural terrorism to see the light in 2019. After a debut full-length and a followup EP, with this brand new sophomore LP of monumental violence Profane Order have sealed their most abominable and aberrant pact with complete chaos and ruin so far, and conceived a work which will elevate the band’s reputation as an embodiment of complete terror at a whole new height, consecrating them as a complete aberration of creation. Slave Morality sees the band and their horrid sonic apocalypse come full circle and blossom into the weapon of mass destruction it had always prophesied it would become on past releases, standing as their most accomplished and merciless work to date as well as establishing them as an absolute threat in the Canadian extreme underground and beyond. Fusing the cold and malefic grimness of black metal with the most bludgeoning strains of death metal and the blind terror of grindcore, withSlave Morality Profane Order pay homage to long time war metal cults like Archgoat, Blasphemy, and Conqueror, while crossing new and never before seen thresholds of musical barbarism, extremizing the sub-genre even further and standing as a monument to violence and negativity entirely their own.

A taste of the album’s uncompromising violence has been provided by iconic metal blog Last Rites who’ve premiered the track Perverse Demoniac stating that “If the new track, “Perverse Demoniac,” is any indication, Profane Order are stepping it up once again, marrying the more riff-focused approach of their first work with the punishing brutality of ‘Tightened Noose’ to create a masterwork of sacrilegious hyperviolence” - you can check out the feature HERE.

Bastion metal blog No Clean Singing has likewise praised the album and unveiled this song Hexed (Defiling God’s Child), claiming that on the track “the sound is abrasive and hateful, but it’s not utterly saturated in distortion. You can make out what’s happening — and the riffing changes. It rises, writhes, and falls in a display of dismal yet boiling, plague-like infestation“ - you can check out their feature and listen the song HERE.

Begotten of a wretched womb, Profane Order are formed in 2015, and has undergone several lineup changes since their inception, with the exception of lead guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Illusory (Also of Spectral Wound) being the only constant member and main driving force. Their journey officially began in 2016 with the self-release of the Marked by Malice debut full-length which first introduced the band’s inhuman aural war zone to the masses establishing them as an absolute threat in the Canadian extreme underground. The feat was repeated and exponentially augmented with the blinding chaos summoned in their followup EP Tightened Noose of Sanctimony released the following year by French extreme metal dealers Krucyator Productions. Now, Profane Order return with the unholy sonic armageddon of Slave Morality, their most uncompromising and lawless album to date. The horrifying album will once again see Krucyator Productions handle the CD while a cassette tape version will surface from Canadian tape darkness forge Les Fleurs du Mal Productions and with Sentient Ruin gifting the band’s music with a vinyl release for the first time in their brief existence.

Slave Morality can now be pre-ordered on vinyl and digital formats through our Bandcamp and or store.