EMANATION: Spanish Experimental Black Metal/Noise Entity's 2011 Masterpiece Debut Album "The Emanation of Begotten Chaos from God" Sees First Ever Vinyl Release - Full Stream and 2LPs Available Now.

We’re honored and proud to Join Spanish multi instrumentalist and sole project mastermind CGS and our overseas colleagues in CAVSAS/Cyclic Law for the long awaited and always needed first ever vinyl edition of Emanation’s 2011 incredible debut album "The Emanation of Begotten Chaos from God", an unparalleled and mesmerizing one-hour-plus long masterpiece of decontruscted and visionary experimental back metal excellence.

"Science and religion; facts and faith".... The brainchild of Spanish multi-instrumentalist CG Santos (also of Like Drone Razors Through Flesh Sphere and Teitanblood), Emanation is a disembodied auditory reflection on various cryptic ruminations surrounding science, faith, belief, and their many ramifications within human consciousness. One of the most mutant and defiant black metal entities to emerge in the last decade, the now dormant and always elusive project reached the pinnacle of its deconstructed and aberrant expression with 2011's one-hour and eleven minute long masterpiece and heirloom of total sensorial dissolution "The Emanation of Begotten Chaos from God", now seeing the light for the first time ever on vinyl format to coincide with and celebrate the 10th anniversary of its conceivement. The glorious double album incarnates via Sentient Ruin and France's CAVSAS label (a subdivision of Cyclic Law) through a carefully crafted high end double LP edition envisioned with maniacal care by the artist and both labels to enshrine the work in its ultimate and most timeless physical incarnation yet.

Though ten years of mostly silence have passed since its original release, "The Emanation of Begotten Chaos from God" remains years, decades, aeons ahead, or "away", from reality and the present, perpetually defying times, moments and instances, and standing high as the crowning achievement of a monstrous vision which attempted to subvert consciousness and unravel the fabric of reality to place the listener at the center of a timeless audial hallucination of unparalleled evocative force. Nearly indescribable and almost impossible to conceptualize or contextualize, "The Emanation of Begotten Chaos from God" is a metamorphed audial alteration of reality, a dissolution of any fixed point within the sensorial plane of reference where "black metal" is used as a dissociative medium, as the primal hallucinogen to disintegrate the mind and make it lose its every connection to reality to understand its state and capabilities beyond logic and materiality.

Its aberrant creation process is one with and indissoluble from the music itself, incarnated through a mystical pilgrimage; entirely recorded in non-common nomadic circumstances across the clandestine catacombs of Paris and the abandoned Finisterre with unconventional creative methods under self-imposed starvation and sleep deprivation, for total self-mutilation of soul, body and spirit into the labyrinths of the spirit molecule.

The whole process of conceptualizing the work and translating it into sensorial form resulted in an unparalleled auditory monstrosity. Liquefying arabesques of glitched electronics churning a cauldron of caustic synthetic ash, solemn ritualistic conjurations emanating from a distortion in a rippling alteration of reality, doomed and agonizing droning dirges that seem cyclical and never ending, disorienting and demented off-axis guitar patterns that derail the mind and endlessly fall back on themselves like some kind of inescapable looped spell of perception, insanity-inducing time signatures and backward moving meters, all primal ingredients to a work which possesses the magickal force to turn delirium into logic, uncreation into materiality, and nightmares into reality.

"The Emanation of Begotten Chaos from God" was officially released November 5 2021 on a highly curated limited edition clear vinyl with white blob 2LP (75 of 150 units worldwide - direct label retail item not wholesaled or distributed) and as a standard black vinyl 2LP inside a matte laminated gatefold sleeve with black flood inside the pockets, matte printed inner sleeves, download card. The American release is handled by Sentient Ruin while French dark industrial forge Cyclic Law will handle the European release via their more metal-oriented imprint CAVSAS.

URANIUM: American Black Industrial/Power Electronics Weapon Announces Debut Album "Wormboiler" - Track Unveiled At The Call of Night

We’re proud to announce that American one-man black industrial/power electronics weapon Uranium has officially joined Sentient Ruin to begin a long lasting relationship that will span several near-future releases, the first of which is the band’s debut album “Wormboiler”, seeing the light November 5 2021 on cassette and digital formats and now pre-orderable and partially streaming on our Bandcamp and webshop.

Leading up to the release underground black metal blog The Call of Night has premiered the never before heard title track from the release, explaining that “The radioactive mass from which it originates begins belting rhythmic and agonizing waves of skin-liquefying heat through all it encounters, and the grim knowledge that there are no mortal means of escape sets in.“ - you can check out the feature HERE.

The one-man black industrial/power electronics weapon emerges from the depths of oblivion with its first proper release, "Wormboiler" a full-length compilation offering comprising the entity's first 2021 self-released digital EP "The Glorious Void" along with the brand new and until now unreleased EP "Wormboiler", also the namesake of this harrowing long player. A radioactive abyss of complete sonic ruin, "Wormboiler" channels the darkness and scathing experimentalism of defining post-industrial acts like Brighter Death Now, Godflesh, Wolf Eyes, MZ. 412, Controlled Bleeding, and Genocide Organ, taking the aesthetic to a brand new extreme of overwhelming and bludgeoning post-industrial darkness.

As the band's name aptly hints at, Uranium was conceived as an aural vessel to explore the outer limits and the most irreversible states of human annihilation and the incineration of its most defining and triumphant achievements; namely society, progress, technology, and civilization, with nuclear power being both the primary source of such achievements and, on the flip side, also the primary (potential) conduit to the greatest and most tyrannical forms of complete annihilation mankind could ever face. Auditory terror both permeates and defines Uranium's music, with bludgeoning and majestic post-industrial soundscapes animating a lightless void lit only by the glow of fallout, drifting embers and falling ash, while harrowing infernal atmospheres wrap their spires around punishingly heavy rhythmic excoriations of distorted auditory mayhem. A death-scarred reality emerges from the utter bleakness and savagery of Uranium's apocalyptic design, as the listener is cast at the center of a caustic nuclear nightmare where flesh boils and evaporates off bone, cells erratically split into endless deformities and the world is turned into a mangled, corroded and rusted radioactive abyss.

MURDERBAIT: American Epic Goth Post-Punks Release Mesmerizing 2019 Sophomore EP - "When The Sun Goes Down, It Goes Down Forever" For The First Time Ever On Vinyl Via Sentient Ruin.

We’re proud to join forces with Portland, Oregon-based epic gothic rock/post-punks Murderbait, as we announce the release of their haunting sophomore EP "When the Sun Goes Down, it Goes Down Forever" for the first time ever on vinyl via Sentient Ruin.

Initially self-released on cassette tape and digitally by the band itself in 2019, with its majestic songwriting and heart-splitting dramaticism the mesmerizing two-track short player establishes the Portland, Oregon-based atmospheric gothic rockers as a cornerstone example of epic and dark western gothic excellence and as a beacon of superb and dramatic storytelling lost in a night of endless gloom and unravelling romanticism. Through its two epic spells of haunting psychedelic goth majesty, "When the Sun Goes Down, it Goes Down Forever" unfolds nearly twenty minutes of dark western lore and dusty somber storytelling soaked in gloom and shadows, uncovering dark recollections of personal turmoil and decay, inner downfall, purgatory, redemption and rebirth through the trial of struggle and penitence.

The two tracks display an unrivaled and unseen evocative power, channeled by a dramatic and operatic vocal delivery as centerpiece to a cinematic construct of epic progressive buildups and dark psychedelic dirges woven with keyboards, organs, electric guitars, synths and a monumental pulsing rhythm section. With influences sourced from a diverse pletora of legendary acts like Nick Cave (a song of which inspired the band's name), Swans, Fields of the Nephilim, Hawkwind, Pink Floyd, The Cure (especially “Pornography” and “Disintegration” era), Earth, Dead Can Dance, Bauhaus, Tangerine Dream, and John Carpenter, Murderbait's masterful fusion of epic prog, majestic gothic/deathrock, post-punk, darkwave, space rock and subtle touches of dark americana and roots music reminiscent of acts like Wovenhand, stands tall as a towering and unrivaled masterpiece of dramatic American underground epic dark rock.

Originally self- released by the band in 2019 on digital and cassette tape format, "When the Sun Goes Down, it Goes Down Forever" was officially released for the first time ever on vinyl by Sentient Ruin on October 15 2021 as a limited edition white 10” vinyl with black splatter (100 units worldwide - direct label retail item not wholesaled or distributed) or standard black 10” vinyl inside a matte laminated sleeve with spot UV gloss print, black flood inside the pocket, matte insert and download card.

FUOCO FATUO: Limited Edition "Backwater & Obsidian Katabasis" Cassette Tape Box Set from Italian Funeral/Death-Doom Behemoths Available Now.

We’re proud to announce our partnership with Italian Funeral/Death-Doom Behemoths Fuoco Fatuo via the release of “Backwater & Obsidian Katabasis” , an exclusive limited edition casette tape boxset of the band’s two most recent full-length albums: 2017's "Backwater" and the recent 2021 third album "Obsidian Katabasis", both issued on LP/Cd/digital formats by Profound Lore Records. With this exclusively crafted release officially licensed from Profound Lore both albums finally see the light for the first time ever on cassette format.

“Backwater & Obsidian Katabasis” is available now limited to 200 units worldwide, and comes as a black matte cardboard box flooded black inside with band logo and title hot foil stamped on the lid, and SR emblem hot foil stamped on the bottom. Cassettes inside come in clear cases with full-color j-cards, metallic ink shell prints, and download cards.

Italy’s Fuoco Fatuo are an elusive entity in European extreme metal, creators of an aphotic and otherworldly strain of hallucinatory and ultra-suffocating funeral doom that has few equals around. Over the last few years both of these pachydermic albums have set a new standard of extremism and opened the gates to a completely unexplored realm of heaviness and sonic oppression that has established Fuoco Fatuo as one of the most cataclysmic and inhumanly crushing bands to have emerged in the European extreme metal underground in recent years.

Officially released on September 24 2021“Backwater & Obsidian Katabasis” is available now worldwide from Sentient Ruin and can be purchased on our webshop and Bandcamp (Americas), from the band (Europe), via Profound Lore Records (Canada) or from all our distribution partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

BESTIAL PUTREFACTION: Deranged War Metal/Gorenoise Duo Joins Sentient Ruin - "Eternal Flesh Ripping Chaos" Full-Length Compilation LP Available Now.

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We're proud to announce our alliance with sociopathic sonic deviants Bestial Putrefaction, as we invoke total armageddon and discharge their first proper LP unto humanity via an exclusive and comprehensive reissue of their entire discography so far. On the foul debut full-length album for Sentient Ruin the Canadian/American gore/war noise butchers reach the zenith of total audial barbarity, hoisting atop a fuming stockpile of severed limbs and rotting flesh the foul banner of total gore and immorality. A remastered compilation featuring their recent self-released "Gore Drenched Barbarism" EP on side A and their previous self-released debut demo tape on side B, the "Eternal Flesh Ripping Chaos" LP (an obvious ode to the legend of early Carcass) condenses all tracks released so far by the band under a new single effigy of total continuous terror, bringing to light the senseless audial savagery that paved the deranged duo's emergence from the nethermost pits of depravity and established them as an authentic living monument to complete chaos and inhumanity.

Synthesized from the most outlandish outer limits of bestial war metal, goregrind and pure noise, the band's barely held together terrorscape stands out as an authentic and barely explainable absurdity, as it launches into senseless exaggerations of audial violence and barbarity borderlining both the shocking and the unexplainable. In its horrid twenty-six track, twenty-eight minute onslaught of total inhumanity and abandon "Eternal Flesh Ripping Chaos" sees Bestial Putrefaction chaotically condense the violence and perversion of diverse extreme entities like Revenge, early Carcass, Chaos Cascade, Archgoat, and Pissgrave with Japanese noise and crasher crust to wage a violent and gruesome war against the purity and dignity of christendom and execute a vile act of ultimate and definitive defilement toward the human race and all its manifestations in every shape and form.

Officially released September 24 2021 on 12” vinyl and cassette tape with an accompanying exclusive limited edition long sleeve shirt, "Eternal Flesh Ripping Chaos" is now available for streaming and purchase on digital and physical formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin exclusively.

Bestial Putrefaction was formed in 2020 by guitarist/vocalist/bassist Infester and drummer Lasher of Christ, two gore freaks whose reveling into the most perverse strains of goregrind dates back many moons, bands and years of commitment, in various shapes and forms, to the most tabu and depraved aural crafts out there. But it's with the formation of Bestial Putrefaction that the duo's interest in the most obscene and the violent forms sonic extremism took a harrowing turn, largely due to the band's parallel and unending worship of the bestial ways of Black Metal. Thus, the two came up with with the sickening idea to try and experiment with combining the two styles and in January 2021 Bestial Putrefaction was ignited, a storm of audial napalm aimed at defiling humanity and the dignity of christendom. The two audial butchers immediately set out to make short chaotic songs with an unsettling and suffocating atmosphere that would channel both the savagery of goregrind and the ruthless hatred and chaos of bestial war metal.

Combining the likes of Gore Gods like Regurgitate, Carcass and Last Days of Humanity along with the wrecking war-torn sound pioneered by Bestial Gods of War like Blasphemy and Proclamation, the band took this new self-made formula of theirs into reality and created their first self-released demo tape, and, shortly after, issued yet another longer self-released player which became known as the infamous "Gore Drenched Barbarism" EP. The appalling level of violence and ignorance displayed in the recordings, along with the subtle experimentalism and clever creativity that went into the creation of these two unseen aural abominations, immediately caught Sentient Ruin's attention, and the duo agreed to join the label in issuing the two EPs under a single banner of complete sonic ruin and barbarity, as the comprehensive "Eternal Flesh Ripping Chaos" LP compilation was envisioned for release on LP, tape and digitally, with brand new artwork sourced by the talented Infester for the purpose and all tracks from both the original releases remastered and repackaged into the ultimate aural artifact of complete fucking bestial gore madness and depravity.



ZAQQOEM: Dutch Abhorrent Black/Death Metal Legion Joins Sentient Ruin for "Anarchic Rapture of Withering" EP Tape Release - Full Stream and Pre-order Available.

We’re proud to welcome Dutch abhorrent black/death metal legion Zaqqoem into our fold as we announce the tape and digital release of their annihilating new EP "Anarchic Rapture of Withering", scheduled for official release on September 17 2021 and available for full stream and pre-order now. Tapes come with a black raw uncoated stock j-card silkscreened with metallic silver ink and features artwork by Portuguese esoteric visual artist Belial Necroarts.

Zaqqoem emerge from the pits of hell with their bludgeoning sophomore EP "Anarchic Rapture of Withering", a harrowing sonic scourge evoking realms of darkness and terror of truly unprecedented traits. Spawned from a wretched dimension of total ruin and oblivion, the three-song, eleven-minute terrorscape combines the diabolical fury of blackened death metal legions like Lucifyre and Pseudgod with the abstract surrealism and erraticism of more experimental extreme metal anomalies like Portal to literally devour and crush the listener inside an inescapable auditory nightmare.

The Dutch black/death metal abomination was churned into existence in 2020 when long time collaborators and multi instrumentalists Zezax and Sha finally found the time to fulfill their mutual wish to write and release something together that would be abstract, devastating, and otherworldly. After essentially improvising their debut “Sacraccultus” EP within 24 hours, the duo identified their sound and vision and started to work on another slab of hate, which eventually found its form in the “Anarchic Rapture of Withering” EP, an annihilating maelstrom of evolved and abstract blackened death metal destruction spawned from the outer limits of complete oblivion and insanity. A few of decisive shared influences for the band that helped forge their inhumanly violent sound are Mayhem, Abruptum, Disgorge (US) and the unrivaled Decide album“Legion” . Further influences are mainly historical and/or religious, also evoking nightmares and visions in the lyrics and concept which make for a truly unsettling and ominous project. "In these times where humanity proves that intelligence has plateaud a long time ago, there is more reason for us to just spew instead of contemplate. Now that we know what it's like working on new music together, time will be taken to complete a full work of utter devastation, slated for a later release."

"Anarchic Rapture of Withering", scheduled for official release on September 17 2021 on cassette and digital formats is and available for full stream and pre-order now via our Bandcamp and webshop.

ABSTRACTER: American Apocalyptic Black/Doom Metal Harbingers Announce New Album "Abominion" - Track Premiered at No Clean Singing and Metalitalia.com.

We’re proud to renew our long running partnership with American apocalyptic Black/Doom metal harbingers Abstracter as we prepare the release of their fourth full-length LP "Abominion", the band’s most accomplished, intimidating and imposing album to date, scheduled for release in early October via Sentient Ruin worldwide.

To coincide with the release of pre-orders, “Eclipse Born”, the first and opening track from the album has been unveiled by No Clean Singing for America and Metalitalia for Europe, with NCS appropriately explaining that “Within this vortex of pummeling percussion and gale-strength abrasion, shimmering and glittering tones pierce through in fiery frenzies, the music ascends in a display of towering and hideous magnificence, and stomps like a leviathan through a field of skulls once more. What an apocalyptic upheaval the song is! To use different metaphors, it’s like tectonic plates crushing together beneath the earth’s surface while the stars fall, wailing. And when the music begins to race, it’s simultaneously electrifying and harrowing, a scouring and screaming sandstorm gale that strips flesh from bone, with rhythms that ruinously smash boulders to rubble, to the accompaniment of truly terrorizing vocals.”. You can check out both features HERE and HERE.

The Oakland CA-based apocalyptic black doom harbingers re-emerge with their inhumanly crushing fourth full-length album “Abominion”, a ghastly forty-minute hellscape of lightless crush-depth deep inside the darkest abysses of the apocalypse. Extreme and devastating in every sense possible, the soul-crushing album sees the enigmatic American band elevate their long lasting apocalyptic concept to its scariest and most overwhelming extremes yet, coercing the harshest strains of black and doom metal with ravaging scarifications of noise and droning dark ambient into a bleak and suffocating sonic cataclysm of complete darkness and annihilation. In its imposing and terrifying forty minutes “Abominion” obliterates all sense of hope in the listener and casts a harrowing vision into a dark future of total doom and torment where the last human life forms scavenge a devastated radioactive twilight buried in ash and ruins as dark forces of mysterious origin surround them and crush them under the inescapable heel of armageddon. Distilled from pure pessimism and misanthropy, the album’s daunting concept establishes mankind as a parasitic scourge or delusional rogue pestilence or antichrist-like figure and is told in the form of memories, precognitions, reckonings and regret within the human race as concepts like environmental collapse, war, militarism, religious fanaticism, pollution, deviated industrialism, fatalism, greed, avarice, evil, and delusions of glory are littered throughout the artwork and lyrics to help the listener grapple with the complete ruin and darkness they are immersed in through the music. 

Known for forging their imposing and ominous sound across a massive spectrum of influences that include apocalyptic and eschatological literature and fiction, Abstracter’s otherworldly and monstrous strain of apocalyptic blackened doom contains influences coming from unforgettable dark metal and punk bands like Celtic Frost and Tryptykon, Godflesh, Khanate, Corrupted, Leviathan, Swans, Sunn O))), Amebix, Blut Aus Nord, The Ruins of Beverast, Portal, Dystopia, and Disembowelment as well as from certain underground scholars of dark ambient and industrial noise that the band have meticulously distilled and reworked into their sound over the last decade to forge a completely unheard of and unclassifiable colossal aural weapon of mass extinction.

Recorded and mixed once again by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios here in Oakland and mastered by Adam Tucker at Signaturetone in Minnesota, "Abominion" also introduces new members Justin Ennis behind the drum kit (Vale, Ulthar, ex-Mutilation Rites, ex-Tombs), and G. on bass (ex-Mefitic) and is by all means the most curated Sentient Ruin release ever conceived. Envisioned with the band in close partnership and collaboration the album features artwork entirely conceived by the band’s singer and visual artist MA, along with contributions by gore collage artist Adam Medford and occult Venezuelan art studio BMS Illustration.

The massive record is scheduled for an October 1 2021 release date and will be available in a high end packaging for all formats with unseen levels of curation and detail, including black, glow in the dark and marbled 180gr vinyl, printed inner sleeves and gatefold jacket for all vinyl versions and the CD edition, A2 poster and slipcase for the limited vinyl editions, silkscreened slipcase for the tape edition, OBI and download card to lossless audio and PDF inlay and lyric sheet for all formats. A Japanese CD release will be also available soon from Obliteration Records, while exclusive merch including hoodies, shirts, pins and patches will be available from the band.

CRYPTAE: Dutch Experimental Raw Death Metal Deliriants Announce "Decrepit Collection" Vinyl Retrospective - Full Stream and Pre-Orders Available.

We are excited to work again with Cryptae, one of contemporary death metal’s most enigmatic and defiant entities who we’ve worked with ever since their first demo tape, as we ready the release of their new LP “Decrepit Collection", a retrospective vinyl compilation scheduled for release on vinyl and digital formats on September 3 2021 and pre-ordreable and streamable in full now via our Bandcamp and website shop.

"Decrepit Collection" is a glorious 12" vinyl compilation containing Cryptae’s unparalleled 2017 self titled debut demo tape on side A (for the first time ever on vinyl), and 2019's 20 minute single-track EP "Vestigal" on side B, both remastered to their their most sonically crushing form yet. This surreal artifact of complete sonic delirium revisits Cryptae's birth as an authentic error of creation and documents the early development of their hallucinatory and completely unprecedented sound as they threw derailing raw punk, spastic primitive death metal, rogue strains of underdeveloped noise and industrial and free-form improvisation into a deformed and glitched out experiment of aberrant abstract brutality.

TRACKLIST:

1. Glubroneus (05:30)
2. Ventrum (04:17)
3. Cryptae (01:47)
4. Maze (02:39)
5. Vestigial (18:49)

Cryptae made heads turn in 2017 with their insane self-titled debut demo tape, an hallucinogenic and erratic spasm of experimental raw death metal rooted in improvisation and free-form composition that instantly established them as an unpredictable and visionary anomaly in death metal. From its sophisticated minimalist and surreal aesthetic to the unclassifiable horrific music, the release instantly made the band standout as a complete absurdity in death metal, and while voluntarily cryptic and unaccessible, the demo tape was soon sold out shortly after release. The band then followed up in 2019 with “Vestigial” (released on vinyl in collaboration with Tartarus Records), a single track, twenty-minute delirium of experimental death metal improvisation that confirmed the band as a total untethered rogue entity within death metal. Debut full length LP “Nightmare Traversal" followed in 2020 to critical acclaim as the culmination of the band’s visionary experimentalism coupled with their isolationist confidence, talent and perseverance in wanting to create unheard death metal absurdities that lay on a plane of existence entirely their own. "Decrepit Collection" aims at revisiting the beginnings of the band’s creative output to re-trace and rediscover their incredible trajectory as one of the most visionary and defiant experiments in contemporary death metal.