NEKUS: German/Italian Blackened Death Doom Necromancers Announce Hideous Debut 2LP "Sepulchral Divination" - Track Premiered at No Clean Singing.

We’re proud to announce that German/Italian cave-dwelling sepulchral blackened death-doom primitives Nekus (formed by current and past members of Putridarium, Into Coffin, Hadit, Omnivore, and Bestial Warfare, among others) are about to emerge with their hideous debut 2LP "Sepulchral Divination", over fifty minutes of aphotic, downtuned subsonic horror emanating from the wretched bowels of the abyss.

Comparable in sheer ugliness and inhumanity to other slowed down sepulchral death and doom metal abominations like Grave Upheaval, Moss, Anatomia, and Encoffination, Nekus are conjurors of a lightless subterranean realm somewhere between the pits of hell and the center of the earth where existence may assume horrific forms at the edge of reason and where life as we know it is impossible. Indeed this monstrous, fifty-plus minute crawling nightmare of horrid, telluric mummified death doom is not something of the plane of being or of surface-dwelling, air-breathing and light-needing existence. Rather, a decomposing, lightless, sinkhole of putrefied sonic emanations opening an abyss unto the dimensions below the earth's crust, where eons of putrefaction, fossilization, gravitational crush depth and infernal magmatic upheaval perpetually beholds the inaccessible omnipotence of death and inexorably calls all surface life to it.

To coincide with the album’s announcement the track “Katabasis” has been revealed by No Clean Singing, with the metal blog stating that the band’s music sounds “horrifying and hopeless, supernatural and suffocating“ - you can checkout the feature and track HERE.

Nekus started in Marburg, Germany around 2018, emerging with a sepulchral and decaying bottom-caving sound blending black and death metal with crippling, slow-moving and insanely downtuned doom with a huge and crushing low end, reminiscent of bands like Moss, Grave Upheaval and Encoffination. The band’s horrific, rumbling and mummified sound first arose on the “Death Nova upon the Barren Harvest” debut EP issued in 2020 on all formats by Blood Harvest Records, and was soon followed by the “Malevolence Evocations” split CD with Impure Declaration, released the same year by Old Temple.

Indeed, Nekus’ bottom-heavy sepulchral sound not only is reminiscent in its mood and atmosphere to a trip deep into an aphotic and subterranean realm devoid of all light, but it is actually intentionally crafted so, and the band’s lyrics and concept also follow this theme of a harrowing trip deep below the earth’s crust where existence assumes horrific forms within caverns, crevices and magmatic chambers that constitute a mysterious antihuman realm away from any knowledge of mankind, and which over the centuries has established a consolidated narrative on the superstition of where “hell” actually resides: down below, in the caverns and abysses below the surface which inexorably call all life to it.

"Sepulchral Divination" is slated for an April 7 2023 release via Sentient Ruin on silkscreened 2LP, CD, MD and digital versions worldwide and all formats are now pre-orderable via all our channels.

PESTILENGTH: 2022 Sophomore Full-Length Album “Basom Gryphos“ from Hallucinatory Spanish Death Metal Cult Sees First Ever Release On Vinyl.

We’re proud and honored to announce the first ever - and much needed - vinyl version of one of 2022’s most accomplished and visionary underground death metal works, Pestilength’s massive sophomore full-length album “Basom Gryphos“, thirty six minutes of mutant death metal armageddon to disintegrate the fabric of reality, released in collaboration with Nuclear Winter Records for Europe.

Across it's synapse-obliterating eight songs "Basom gryphos" unfolds an infernal fractal of muted death metal forged from the same aberrant antimatter that birthed defining works by Morbid Angel (early Tucker-era particularly) and Immolation, revealing a shapeshifting, suffocating sonic hallucination conceived at the outer limits of death metal as we know it. The disfiguring dissonant black metal touches and disorienting atmospheres transposed from the band's origins persist in their framework, further exalting the band's deliriant penchant for total extreme metal surrealism, while the cryptic allomorphic symbolism and inverted anti-language that permeates the lyrics and song titles complete an alien extreme metal crucible of truly mind-altering enormity.

"Basom gryphos" was originally released in spring 2022 (on CD by Nuclear Winter Records and on cassette tape format by Nuclear Winter and Goat Throne Records), to critical acclaim, and the vinyl version is now available in the Americas from Sentient Ruin and in Europe via Nuclear Winter.

Cryptic black/death metal enigma Pestilength emerged in the Bilbao area of Spain’s Basque Region around 2019 by the will of mysterious drummer N, and of local and equally enigmatic guitarist/vocalist and abstract visual artist M.. The band initially self-released a string of raw, chaotic demos and singles of lo-fi inscrutable and demented domed black-death metal throughout 2019 and 200, generating considerable interest in the Spanish underground with their nebulous and murky sound churning with hallucinations ubound and reminescent of bands like Portal, Antediluvian or Impetuous Ritual. But the peculiar trait which instantly set Pestilgenth aside from its peers was the use of a mysterious and unseen form of presumably invented pseudolanguage the band used for their undecipherable lyrics and song titles. An aberrant and rarely before seen experiment in self-conceptualization blending deviant linguistics and abstract extreme metal, where the ritualistic deciphering of old English in unorthodox ways to create new allomorphs and lexical absurdities had become custom for the band to use as their own symbolism and iconography.

Meanwhile, through a refinement in production, the music was catching up to the outlandish and elaborate uniqueness of the band’s concept, brining a sharpening of the band’s sound which in turn brought forth a more intense and intricate approach to songwriting. The hazy dissonant murk from their beginnings was shed in favor of a more muscular and twisted form of dark mutant death metal which came to light with their 2020 debut album “Eilatik”, and furthermore sublimated and ascended to imposing heights on their masterful 2022 sophomore full-length album “Basom Gryphos”, a release which by now was placing Pestilgenth on the same reality-bending stylistic violence and hallucinatory intensity of bands like Immolation and Morbid Angel.



8 HOUR ANIMAL: American Harsh Industrial Metal / Power Electronics Subverter Announces Groundbreaking Sophomore Album “Kill Your Boss” - Track Premiered at Everything Is Noise.

We’re proud to announce the release of “Kill Your Boss” , the brand new album by Industrial Metal/Power Electronics insurgent 8 Hour Animal, which arrives almost two years after introducing the band to the masses via its 2021 debut offering “Resigner”.

“Kill Your Boss” has been introduced via underground transversal music blog Everything Is Noise via an exclusive stream of the track “Grind Down”, stating that the track “flourishes through destructive leanings, living up to its name fully by being a colossal wheel of noise grinding down everything on its path and pissing on the remaining fine powder, only to sculpt it into a dismal statue with serpentinous mile-long tentacles sprawling forth from where its head should be.” - you can check out the feature and track HERE.

With new full-length album "Kill Your Boss", the New York state-based solo artist subverter takes its concept of absolute abjection and rejection for society via violent, home made, aural deconstructionism to new reality-shattering heights. An onslaught of heavy rhythmics and cold sequences assaults the listener while concepts like societal alienation, industrial exploitation, rogue capitalism, and depersonalization through modern day slavery are driven home and pounded into the listener's mind through an escapable power electronics assault armored with a sheath of grinding guitars as thick as concrete. The souls of defining acts in the industrial legacy like Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Godflesh, Controlled Bleeding, :Wumpscut:, Wolf Eyes, Skullflower, Incapacitants, and Coil are reaped from the fabric of musical transformation and re-funneled into a violent dysmorphic mutation where all their extremities are exalted and an obsession with violence, nihilism and acts of self-destruction become the defining shaping medium of five long, immense, obsessive and bludgeoning anthems to the choice of non-existence in the face of servitude.

“Kill Your Boss” is slated for a March 17 2023 release on MC/digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin, with all formats now preorderable via all our channels.

8 Hour Animal emerged from the East coast in 2020 via a string of extremely limited home-dubbed tapes focused on abstract pummeling harsh noise wall and power electronics, but it was its debut album “Resigner” (released in 2021 via Sentient Ruin) which brought new focus and definition to the project, adding a whole new arsenal of tangible and iconic horrors to its hideous framework, as elements of classic industrial and metal made their way into band's sound taking it to a new realm of urgency and destructiveness. Written in complete loneliness and isolation 8 Hour Animal’s current sound fuses heavy grinding guitars with industrial percussion, caustic atmospherics, and walls of hateful hissing noise to paint a daunting modern design to complete self-annihilation. The lyrics dealing in self harm, despair, fear and deep self-hatred further define the self-projected sonic downfall that aims at representing the end of self, the quitting of life, the erasure of future, and the complete suppression of hope and happiness. Like its predecessor “Resigner”, “Kill Your Boss” is another harsh industrial weapon for complete self-elimination conceived to challenge and reject the reality of modern day first world spiritual and emotional slavery.

APHOTIC: Italian Dark Death/Doom Metal Oracle Announces Immense Debut Album "Abyss Gazer" - Track Premiered at Metal Injection.

We’re proud and honored to announce the imminent release of "Abyssgazer", the immense debut album by Italian atmospheric post-death/doom metal oracle Aphotic, to be released in late March 2023 in collaboration with our European comrades Nuclear Winter Records.

The four piece from northern Italy has set out to create the ultimate extreme metal calirvoyance into the death of our universe, through an audio, visual and conceptual experience of unparalleled evocative power. "Abyssgazer" represents a concept of ultimate finality doused in cosmological inevitability. A sound of world-building/destroying immensity shrouded in otherworldly dissonance and suffocating atmospherics. Visions of eons ahead, evoking the ultimate fate of matter and as such of existence.

Metal Injection has helped us announce the album with an exclusive premiere of the song “Cosmivore”, explaining that “Aphotic is here to devour everything within the cosmos thanks to their new single "Cosmivore." The single is from Aphotic's upcoming record Abyssgazer, which is probably named that due to the nothingness that'll ensue after the consumption of the universe.“ - you can read the full feature and check out the track HERE.

According to the eschatological tale and astrophysical prediction, the most absolute Omega possibly conceivable will materialize as aeons ahead, on timescales almost impossible to imagine, an inexorably inflating universe made only of exhausted and degenerate stellar remnants will reap apart the fabric of spacetime itself until matter will start decaying, and even every black hole singularity will be evaporated, due to quantum effects, into radiation emanating in nothingness. And so, as maximum entropy will be reached, time will become meaningless. In this frame, the album title-track reflects on how, in remote times and places, inert matter can shape into living beings, then evolve into sentient creatures who might become able to stare into the unknown and wonder about the true nature of time and space – by gazing into the abyss. The Abyssgazers, will become the self-consciousness of the Universe. Then come the medium: dark, imposing, colossal atmospheric death metal to disintegrate the fabric of perception, reality, and time itself, and to soundtrack the universe's last vision and final breath. A nebulous, churning cosmic abyss evoking the destruction of worlds through masterful sonic synthesis: the necromancing twisted dark death metal of Incantation and Immolation, the expansive and morphing storytelling of Triptykon, Neurosis, Evoken and Bolzer, and the suffocating coldness and dissonance of Godflesh. And finally, the visuals by Chilean abstract painter Rodrigo Pereira: an otherworldly vision unto the abyss sealing this eschatological journey towards the eons to come. Analog mixing meticulously crafted under the expertize of audio engineer Greg Chandler from Esoteric (Priory Recording Studios, UK) and mastering by Colin Marston from Gorguts etc. (The Thousand Caves Studio, NYC), complete an unheralded debut album of immense, imaginative, consciousness-expanding avant-garde death metal crafted to glorify and reimagine the immensity and inevitability of death far beyond this carnal plain. 

Aphotic formed in 2020 in northern Italy from current and former members of bands like Fuoco Fatuo, Blasphemer, and Ekpyrosis with the intent of constructing world-building, deeply atmospheric death metal soundtracking a philosophical and eschatological concept revolving around the expansion and ultimate fate, and death, of our universe. The band's influences coming from death, black, doom and post-metal have enabled them to exalt this post-human concept and weave a multitude of moods and styles into a vast and abysmal canvas shrouded in dissonance and suffocating atmospherics.

The result of this vision is "Abyssgazer", planned as a joint March 24 2023 release on LP, CD and MC formats between Sentient Ruin (US) and Nuclear Winter Records for Europe.

ISOLANT: Obscure American Industrial Metal Acts Re-emerges for First New Music in Seven Years - "Drain" EP Pre-Orders Available and Track Premiered at No Echo.

We’re proud to announce the release of “Drain”, the new EP from American/international obscure industrial metal project Isolant, and the band's first new release of original material in over seven years since their defining self-titled 2015 debut demo tape.

Coinciding with the EP’s release announcement, notorious alternative and punk/metal blog NO ECHO has premiered the track “Inner Tomb” , commenting how “the trio were drawn together by their shared love for British industrial acts like Godflesh, Scorn, and Coil, to name a few. The percussive assault of Swans and doom metal have also been named as influences on the Isolant sound.” - you can check out the track and their feature HERE.

Formed by original member Max Furst (Malleus, The Watcher, ex-Morne) on guitars, bass and drum programming, and now rounded out by vocalist M. Alagna (Abstracter, Atrament, Ash Prison, Somnolent) and Spanish noisemaker M. Souto (Suspiral, Sepelio, S.E.K.H., Arkaik Excruciation, Excurse, ex-Bodybag), "Drain" sees the elusive experimental metal act fuse the cold and bleak industrial metal of acts like Spine Wrench, Godflesh, Scorn ("Vae Solis" era) and Skin Chamber with the atonal percussive grimness of early Swans, and the crawling heaviness and abysmal atmospherics of death-doom. Subtle stenchcore and crust influences permeate the work throughout, reaffirming the band's conceptual connection and stylistic affinity to a glorious age of British heavy punk and experimental metal that dominated 90's underground music. The result are 6 lightless tracks of misery-infused, death-worshipping, and spine-breaking downtuned crush-depth clad in enveloping atmospherics and scarred with an immanent sense of hopelessness and doom.

“Drain” is slated for a February 24 2023 release on limited edition cassette tape and digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin and pre-orders are now available via all our channels.

Isolant was formed in 2014 in Boston MA, by guitarist/bassist Max Furst, vocalist Mark Banfield, and noisemaker Robert Ferent. The band’s name was something Furst came up with as an attempt to personify the feeling of crushing isolation. A self-titled and self-released demo tape surfaced in 2015 brilliantly showcasing the band’s unique, dismal, and dark sound, but Isolant remained a studio only project which fell apart soon after as members parted ways due to personal and scheduling reasons. However, unreleased and incomplete demos were recorded by Furst for a planned followup to the demo tape which still contained final contributions by Ferent, but remained buried and unpublished for years in the wake of the band’s premature dissolution. Long time Isolant fan and Furst’s California-based friend and vocalist Mattia Alagna asked to review these demos. Impressed with the work, Alagna urged Furst to complete the recordings with himself on vocals, and the new partnership also lead to bringing on board Spanish noise-maker Miguel Souto to add further electronic touches to the then still incomplete tracks. The new EP, titled “Drain” was completed remotely by the new lineup during 2022 and then sent off to Will Killngsworth of Dead Air Studios to be mixed and mastered for a 2023 release via Sentient Ruin.





ALTAR OF GORE: New Jersey One-Man Bestial Death Metal Cult Joins Sentient Ruin for Demos Vinyl Compilation - Pre-orders and Full Stream Available.

We’re proud to announce a triumphant vinyl compilation of total sonic savagery from New Jersey’s bestial death metal cult Altar of Gore.

As the title unmistakably hints at, "Infinite Visions of Violence & 2018 Demo" unites Altar of Gore's skull-crushing 2018 debut demo and the equally putrescent 2022 follow up "Infinite Visions of Violence" demo into a single vinyl release remastered for the purpose by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios. With this release these animalistic tracks find their first ever presentation on the wax format and sublimate into their final form to testify the gruesome majesty and horrific violence of one of America's most barbaric underground death metal acts. Conceived and executed entirely by Acolyte of the Foul Ones, Altar of Gore is the latest weapon of death metal carnage to have emerged from the festering and sprawling New Jersey extreme metal underground along with bands like Blasphematory, Death Fortress, Siege Column and Massive Retaliation, among others, all of which have also seen Acolyte serve in their ranks in one form or another at some point.

Upon issuing the original demo tape back in 2018, Nihil Verum Nisi Mors stated that Altar of Gore "has tapped deep into the dark recesses of low bass frequency to create a schematic for dismantling a human body in the most brutal and least efficient way possible". Those words not only are truest and resonate with utmost realism almost five years later, but a full twenty minutes more of the same bestial annihilation is added to the platter with the addition of the second demo completing side A.

What faces the listener is a forty-plus minute terrorscape of unrelenting gore-drenched sepulchral death metal insanity. A trance-inducing ritual into the outermost realms of perversion where influences coming from bands like Beherit, Von and Demoncy create a repetitive and hypnotic canvas to which other influences coming namely from bands like Blasphemy, Bestial Warlust, Impetigo, Carcass and Archgoat anchor themselves delivering and inescapable and horrendous payload of violence and death. It is precisely this mix of dense, diseased and mesmeric atmospheres and the underlying cannibalistic savagery with which the music is delivered which makes Altar of Gore such a unique and contemplative band to behold in the realms of the most violent American death metal cults.

A solo endeavor of Acolyte, Altar of Gore initiated in 2017 and since then has been belting out some of the most gruesome and savage death metal carnage conceived by the American extreme metal underground in the latter half of the last decade. The band creates a unique and hypnotic form of murky and bass heavy blackened death metal with dense and perverse atmospheres and a heavy emphasis on primitivism and filth. The band's debut demo saw the light in 2018 and has been one of the most unique and underrated East Coast obscure death metal artifacts ever since. The debut LP "Obscure & Obscene Gods" saw the light on Nameless Grave Records in 2020 further establishing Altar of Gore's reputation and cult-like status as beacon of total primitive death metal barbarity, and the feat was repeated again with utmost mastery with the "Infinite Visions of Violence" demo in 2022, a third chapter which saw a predictable zero-point in any musical "progress" of sorts, if not an even more perverse and morbid drift at the opposite end toward perpetrated animalistic primitivism and acephalic musical perversion. The two demos were eventually repackaged as a CD compilation by Nameless Grave Records in 2022, and as a remastered vinyl version with an alterante title and artwork by Sentient Ruin in 2023.

URANIUM: One-Man American Black Industrial Weapon Announces Bludgeoning Debut Album "An Exacting Punishment" - Track Premiered at Everything Is Noise.

After the glorious "Wormboiler" cassette tape compilation obliterated human ears in 2021, American one-man black industrial weapon Uranium finally emerges from the depths of oblivion with its debut full-length album "An Exacting Punishment", a five-track, forty-minute radioactive nightmare of complete sonic ruin channelling the darkness of black metal with the scathing immensity of defining post-industrial acts like Brighter Death Now, Godflesh, Wolf Eyes, Swans, MZ. 412, Controlled Bleeding, and Genocide Organ. “

The looming release scheduled for a January 27 2023 release on LP, MC, and digital formats, has been teased by celebrated alternative/experimental music blog Everything Is Noise, who in introducing the work via an exclusive premiere of the song “Prison of Flesh” have remarked how the track is “a grueling mid-tempo hodge podge of harshness and filth“ - you can find the feature and check out the track HERE.

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 complete human disintegration, and the incineration of its most defining and triumphant achievements; namely society, progress, technology, and civilization, with nuclear power being the conduit and ultimate engine of the greatest and most horrific forms of total annihilation mankind could ever face. Auditory terror both permeates and defines Uranium's music, with bludgeoning and majestic post-industrial soundscapes pulsing inside a lightless void lit only by drifting embers and falling ash, while immense infernal atmospherics wrap their deathly spires around the listener, crushing them into a distorted auditory abyss. Power electronics, industrial noise and black metal have rarely before been seen chained together and weaponized into such a mortal design. An authentic weapon of mass annihilation engineered to face human life with absolute death. A death-scarred reality that emerges from the utter bleakness and ruination 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 disfigured radioactive oblivion.

Inspired by the god-like ominous aura of nuclear energy, Uranium is the glorification of the great destroyer of civilizations, empires, and worlds. The atom which splits itself into the source of all creation and destruction. The decaying unravelling of molecules and DNA. The endless propagation of unstoppable death, deformities and destruction. This is its shadow, this is its void, this is Uranium - American-made atom-glorifying weapon of total aural annihilation.

NEGATIVE VORTEX: Brazilian/American Doomed Death Metal Cult Announce Immense Debut Album "Tomb Absolute" - Track Premiered at Metal Injection.

We’re extremely proud to announce our partnership with Los Angeles-based Brazilian death metal duo Negative Vortex, who will issue their debut masterpiece "Tomb Absolute" on January 20 2023 worldwide via Sentient Ruin.

The immense beast of an album has been anticipated back in February via CVLT Nation with a premiere of the band’s music video for the album’s title track, while a second track titled “Cicuta” was revealed by Metal Injection this week, with the famous metal site outlining that the track is “a perfectly plodding slab of rotting death metal slowly making its way across this Earth to find and eviscerate you”.

Brazilian US-based doomed death metal duo Negative Vortex rise from the depths of torment with their long awaited debut album "Tomb Absolute", a fifty four-minute, nine-song double LP of absolute, towering atmospheric death metal oblivion. Years in the making, meticulously produced, and assembled from sheer pain and perfectionism, "Tomb Absolute" is a colossal slab of grim and hopeless death metal evoking bleak and pessimistic visions of a doomed future to come, and stirring with bitter reflections about mental illnesses, society's role in human failure, dysfunctions of the mind and spiritual hopelessness. Musically the album takes its life force and inspiration from the glory and timelessness of 80's and 90's death and doom metal (Cathedral, Nihilist, Autopsy, Celtic Frost), wielding a death-bearing payload of intense, monolithic, gut wrenching death metal riffs alternated by ultra-depressing slow-paced doom sections to conjure an ultimate monolith erected to complete death, pain and suffering. The album's imposing and pessimistic aura is further enhanced by a dense and a multi-layered production, lengthly and trance-like compositions that drag the listener into a labyrinthine realm of utter darkness and despair, and synth-laden ambient dirges and spoken word passages that exalt the album's lightless depths and monstrous atmospheres. Completing and further adorning the massive hellscape are also illustrious guest appearances from veterans of the scene like Nick Holmes (Paradise lost / Bloodbath), Kam Lee (Massacre), Moyses Koslene (Krisiun), Leon del Muerte (Impaled / Terrorizer L.A.), Vik (Whipstriker), and Caleb Bingham (Athanasia), providing additional guitars leads and vocal contributions.

Envisioned by Brazilian death metal pioneer M. Feschner (former The Endoparasites), Negative Vortex conjures a modern take on the legacy and unrepeatable alchemy of the 90’s: the aggression and obscurity of 90’s Death Metal with the depth and despair of the early days of Doom Metal. In 2004, Feschner moved to California. and since then went through several bands before finally forming what would become Negative Vortex. After experimenting with different lineups, he decided to keep the band as a solo endeavor, and invited an old friend from Brazil, the producer, engineer and multi- instrumentalist Libra (solo artist, and former The Endoparasites) to produce, record, and mix the album. In 2020, after rearranging some old compositions which had previously appeared on the band’s 2015 debut demo tape (released by Caligari Records) and writing new material together, they officially started recording Negative Vortex’s debut album, “Tomb Absolute” at Libra’s studio (13Eighteen Studio, in Hollywood, California). A few months into production it became clear that Negative Vortex had become a creative partnership between the two, and before the album was fully mixed, what started as solo project, had already morphed into a stable official duo.

Where Feschner brought to the table his raw and aggressive old school influences, Libra on the other hand filtered, updated, and rearranged everything, elevating the project to epic proportions with a meticulous and grandiose production approach. On the album M. Feschner plays rhythm guitar and vocals, while Libra plays drums, bass, keyboards, rhythm and lead guitars. The result is an album that, at the same time pays homage to the glorious days of 90’s Doom and Death Metal, but also sounds completely new, in a lane of its own, and different than anything that is out there in today’s metal scene. With “Tomb Absolute”, Negative Vortex deliver uncompromised, visceral, heavy-handed death metal, and the promise that there is nothing but darkness and suffering at the end of the tunnel.

“Tomb Absolute” is officially slated for a January 20 2023 worldwide release on 2LP, CD, MC and digital formats via Sentient Ruin.