PROPHETIC SUFFERING: Canadian Bestial Death Metal Sadists Announce Crushing Debut Album "Rivalry of Thyself" - Track Unveiled at Decibel Magazine.

We’re extremely proud to announce the sanguinary return of Edmonton-based bestial death metal sadists Prophetic Suffering. In under half hour the Canadian horde bring forth a violent and dark monstrosity forged by an abysmal convergence between Blasphemy’s war-torn black metal terror with the gruesome and gore-infested death metal of Cannibal Corpse albums like "The Bleeding" and "Tomb of the Mutilated".

\Setting the imminent release in motion is Decibel Magazine, who in premiering the first track “Gift of Decay” have remarked how the track is an “absolutely pummeling assault” and that “when it’s done well and has enough dynamic energy, bestial extreme metal never gets old“ - you can check out the feature and listen to the song HERE.

“Rivalry of Thyself” sees Prophetic Suffering metamorph out of their already catastrophic 2022 debut demo ablaze in an exponential spell of destruction in which impenetrable and shellshocking atmospheres enshroud a monolithic, screaming altar of mutilated bodies and trodden flesh. This sanguinary and chaos-wielding approach to American death metal had already been observed before within the underground’s most forbidden folds, as exemplified for example through the perversions of cult devastators like Drawn and Quartered or Angelcorpse. But what transpires from Prophetic Suffering’s new lightless death metal vision is something of even less canonical lineaments and which sets various precedents in the development of this peculiar strain of darkened and ultra-gruesome metal of death. Foremost, a pervasive and weaponized use of modern black metal and technical death-derived dissonance compounding into a torrent of gnarled and atonal fretwork destruction. A mind-expanding contrast is created where the guitar work stretches forward to embrace a mutating modernity still in becoming, while the rest of the band regresses backward into a primeval pandemonium of carpet-bombing hammer blasts, searing basslines, and soul-tearing death grunts. This contrast between the album’s transformative articulation and its visceral adherence to primitivism and barbarity is what makes “Rivalry of Thyself” such an abomination unto itself. A defiant, dark death metal monstrosity that harkens back to a familiar golden age of extreme metal just as it evokes sinister presages of a future form of evolved, lightless death metal still all in becoming. 

“Rivalry of Thyself” is slated for a May 9 2025 international release on LP, CD, MC, and digital formats worldwide, all of which are pre-orderable along with newly launched on-demand merch via all our channels.

Emerging in year 2019 AD in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada as a grind-infused blackened death metal act, Prophetic Suffering has undergone various forms leading up their debut release of dungeonous blasphemy - the Demonstration MMXXII demo tape released in late 2022 in conspiracy with Sentient Ruin. Perpetrating the visceral and oppressive soundscape of stripped-down barbaric riffing seen on their debut, the 4-piece is set to continue the senseless bludgeoning towards all of those who are found wandering their halls. The siege begun with the Demonstration MMXXII demo tape thus plunders forth, augmented and evolved in every sense possible by a besieging instinct of barbarism and complexity sharpened and weaponized over years of recluse research into the absolute weaponization of sound. Awaiting ahead of this path of destruction thus lies the singularity of all inevitability christened under the “Rivalry of Thyself” name, the band’s monstrous debut album begotten under the sign of animalistic dissonance, and destined to become the band’s crowing abomination.



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PÁSMO: Czech Post-Punk/Heavy Metal Cult Announce Vinyl Edition for Their Masterful 2024 Debut Self-Titled Album - Full Stream and Pre-Orders Available.

We’re proud to bring you the first vinyl edition for Pásmo's mesmerizing debut self-titled album (originally released in spring 2024 on cassette by the Czech label Vřesová Studánk), an unparalleled voyage crafted through the mediums of dark post-punk and arcane heavy metal into the remote landscapes and mystique of the fading ex-soviet Eastern Bloc.

Eight songs unraveling visions of soviet industrial ruins, abandoned factories, and dissolving concrete buildings scattered amongst the band’s native Moravian-Silesian region's wild nature, and consumed far beyond, eastward more into the relics of the old Soviet horizon reclaimed by nature and falling into dusty memory. An encompassing of Eastern European culture condensed into thirty five minutes of dark musical storytelling and spiritual reconnection to the "Zone" (or "Pásmo", in Czech). The epic crust punk of Amebix and Killing Joke's apocalyptic post-punk transposed into the crumbling atomic bunkers, abandoned mines, and industrial rusted ruins of the Eastern wilderness. The visions, sounds and legacy of Chernobyl and "Stalker" transfigured into shamanic mountain rock music. Echoes of Master's Hammer's occult heavy metal reverberating through abandoned factories, streams, valleys and waterfalls. Yugoslavian long-lost punk and metal, gipsy punk like VHK/Galloping Coroners, Belarusian dark post-punk like Molchat Doma and Russian melancholic new wave like Kino dissolving into a frenzied sonic continuum where infectious melodies celebrating a cherished birthplace are woven into a dark canvas of stark history and ominous memories from the past, embracing sinister presages from the present and future, coming once again into the Zone from beyond the Russian borders...

Pásmo's debut self-titled album will be officially released April 18 2025 on vinyl and digital formats worldwide and is now pre-orderable and streamable in full via all our channels.

"Pásmo", meaning "Zone" in Czech, or a place of rigorous uniqueness sculpted into its form by decades of crumbling geopolitical and industrial power, wild nature reclaiming its place, and ancient local culture and lore. The name chosen for their band by Czech multi-instrumentalists Jan Sludged Pospíšil and Piotr “Ježura“ Beskyd, is a homage to and celebration of their place and roots, narrated through the eyes of two self-described "backwoods stalkers" who are one with their culture, origins, and place, or what they call the "Zone", the Moravian-Silesian region, one of the poorest regions in Czechia, immersed in majestic mountains and valleys with beautiful nature and folk culture contrasted by the vestiges of Gottwald's soviet industrialization of the region. "Nature, punk, and Metal" as the duo summarizes their music. Their own heritage and culture woven into both western dark punk, and eastern darkwave and post-punk influences to create the ultimate musical journey through their own origins and those of their ancestors. This mystical and profound connection to both their origins and influences sanctioned the birth of Pásmo around 2023, with music entirely composed, arranged and self-recorded within the beloved enclosure of the Moravian-Silesian hills and mountains, and first seeing the light as the self-titled debut album,  released in spring 2024 on cassette by the Czech label Vřesová Studánka, and now finding its first ever vinyl release via Sentient Ruin to be discovered and appreciated far outside and beyond the confines of the unique place and history it was birthed in.

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SAMIARUS: Rising American Black/Death Metal Horde Announce Lawless Debut EP "Reign Destroyer" - Track Unveiled at Toilet Ov Hell.

We’re proud to announce and orchestrate the ascension of Samiarus, a new black/death metal horde rising from within the thriving SF Bay Area punk and metal scene, and whose terror-engulfing debut EP “Reign Destroyer” is on the launch ramp for a late April 2025 release via Sentient Ruin. The gruesome short player has been teased by rising extreme metal blog Toilet Ov Hell, who in premiering the track “New Iron Age” have remarked how the release introduces a “new era that is not built on faith and reason, but on smashed faces and encroaching decay” and that the band’s music is “dirty, gross blackened death metal“ - you can check out the feature and the track HERE.

Samiarus (or Samyaza as more widely known in Aramaic) is the Arabic name of the leader of the Watchers in apocryphal abrahamic scriptures, a rebel angel who shared knowledge with men and birthed the Nephilim, becoming a danger to divine power and law and turning into the absolute usurper. Conceived from within the SF Bay Area punk and metal underground (by current and past members of Abnutivum, Meth Sores, Flesh Dungeon, Doomsday, Slaughteruin, Abstracter and Mentor), emerging black/death metal terrorists Samiarus embody their namesake concept of abysmal occult usurpation to the boldest through their debut EP “Reign Destroyer”, a twenty three minute siege of blown out, bestial sonic upheaval fuming from the iron jaws of terror. While deliberately embracing the cruelty and darkness of the war metal movement developed by bands like Blasphemy and Archgoat, Samiarus’ own formulaic sonic design for the gruesome deposition of all oppressors has brought in a number of other influences to further weaponize their subversive terroristic vision. These influences mainly come from punk and hardcore bands like G.I.S.M., Doom, Raw Nerve, Cult Ritual, Discharge and Siege, as well as from some of the band members’ interest in certain strains of industrial and noise music. A concoction of retaliative audial tactics that has ultimately shaped an anarchic war-torn sonic scourge grueling with dismal reflections on the human condition and on society’s worst embodiments.

Samiarus’ debut “Reign Destroyer” EP is slated for an April 25 2025 release via Sentient Ruin on LP, CD, MC, and digital formats worldwide.

Samiarus initially began to take shape from within the Oakland punk scene. Guitarist SR had been a long time member of raw punk and hardcore bands from San Jose and Oakland like Meth Sores, Flesh Dungeon, Outfit and Ötzi, etc., and began writing riffs for a new metal project around 2022. The songs were proposed to fellow punk JM, a local drummer with endless hours of militancy in innumerable Oakland punk and hardcore bands like Mentor, Fentanyl, Spy, and many more. The lineup was solidified when fellow San Jose guitarist and Meth Sores bandmate JKL (also from San Jose black metal cult Abnutivum as well as from black metal/noise solo project Slaughteruin) joined on lead guitar. This initial lineup of SR, JM, and JKL rehearsed for several months with SR handling vocals and issued the self-recorded “Eradicating Wind” digital promo track via Bandcamp, first introducing the band’s blown out and vitriolic strain of chaotic, punk-infused black/death metal. Meanwhile JKL had been in touch over convergent musical interests with Oakland vocalist MA (also of Abstracter, ex-Atrament, Ash Prison, Somnolent, Isolant etc.) who heard the band’s rough rehearsal recordings, and inspired by the band’s uniquely feral and uncontained sound, offered to join as vocalist, allowing SR to focus solely on guitar, and developing the band’s concept with lyrics about subversion, terrorism, occult retaliation, and treacherous cults wielding supernatural powers and warfare for the sanguinary overthrowing of despots. The final piece was added when the band’s mutual friend GD (from Oakland hardcore thrashers Doomsday) joined on bass, rounding out a five-piece unit of uncompromising intents. With a lineup complete and several songs written, the band recorded six tracks (five originals and one Absu cover) in their rehearsal room with aid from local audio engineer Carlos Cruz, with one original (“Eradicating Wind”), the Absu cover, as well as a live rehearsal recording being mixed and mastered by the band themselves and then self-released in early 2025 as the debut “Demonstration” demo tape. Meanwhile, all the tracked original songs were sent to audio engineer Steven Henningsgard in Minnesota to be professionally mixed, and then handed off to Will Killingsworth of Dead Air Studios to be mastered for subsequent release as the “Reign Destroyer” debut EP/MLP, the band’s first proper full-fledged recording of original material, to be released in spring 2025 by Sentient Ruin. Around the same time as the “Demonstration” demo was released, Samiarus had already taken their lawless audial carnage to a live stage, sharing live incursions locally in their native Bay Area with the likes of Abysmal Lord, Funeral Chant, Abhorrency, and Dispirit, while more live rituals are already scheduled for spring 2025 with the likes of Primitive Warfare and Kontusion, demonstrating the band’s inherent penchant for to perpetrating a new standard of audial violence not only in the recording studio, but also on stage.

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CLAN DOS MORTOS CICATRIZ: Brazilian Death-Punk Cult Announce Long Awaited Debut Album “Técnicas de Morte” - Official Music Video and Lead Track Unveiled at IDIOTEQ.

We’re proud to finally announce the debut album by Brazilian death punk cult Clan Dos Mortos Cicatriz, fifteen cuts, twenty five minutes of sinister and cemeterial raw nekro-hardcore churned from the gutters and graveyards of Curitiba, Brazil. A grim manifesto of total refusal and an undying ode to death and suffering, "Técnicas de Morte" gives a voice to every slum, prison, mental hospital, war zone, morgue and cemetery on earth, reminding us all that no human state, act or behavior exists outside of suffering, misery and death.

The work has been now introduced by praised hardcore rescue IDIOTEQ, who have premiered the official music video for the song “Nada” (directed by colacolectiva), stating that “The new track is a death knell ringing out of Curitiba, Brazil’s festering underbelly, a taste of the fifteen-track, twenty-five-minute slab of nekro-hardcore to come. No mercy, no light. Just a raw howl from the slums and graveyards, where suffering’s the only currency.” - you can check out the feature and song HERE.

Throughout their crepuscular auditory journey the Brazilian cult display an unrivaled craftsmanship in conjuring and condensing the greatest moments of dark punk, hardcore and crust (Black Flag, G.I.S.M., Misfits, Rudimentary Peni), death rock (Christian Death, The Damned) and black metal (Hellhammer, Ildjarn) into their own magistral ritual of transcendence through the celebration death, bending each one of their influences into a masterclass of gangrenous sonic disarray, majestic evocative power, and frenetic emotional chaos. Each one of the fifteen short spells of rage and misery that comprise this unforgettable long player is both a poem, a denunciation, an epitaph, an oath of penitence, and a declaration of war, all strewn across a death-scarred canvas of frantic and stylish guitar licks, pummeling demented rhythms, and a wailing sermon of spectral, hysterical vocals doused in morbid poetry and ominous existentialism.

"Técnicas de Morte" is scheduled for a 21 March 2025 release worldwide via Sentient Ruin on LP, MC, and digital formats, all of which are now pre-orderable via all our channels.

Brazil’s definitive (and only?) nekro-punk band. Hailing from Curitiba, Brazil, the band’s origins can be traced as far back as 2005 when the name was used for a recluse solitary noise/experimental solo endeavor of vocalist Felipe Augusto Soares, primarily influenced by Merzbow and other ambient and experimental acts from the 90’s. This era of the band was mainly slow moving and a far inbetween bedroom project of Soares, leading to an obscure debut demo released in 2005, followed by a split release with Pathétique Poupée in 2011, and a CD-R split with Alkmorhilyion on Glossolalia Records in 2012, though musically the band was still strictly a solo ambient/noise act of Soares throughout all those years and sparse recorded output. The band’s identity changed when Soares teamed up with friend, sound engineer and multi instrumentalist Michael Wilseque. The endeavor with Wilseque was supposed to be a new project entirely, but around the same time as the two teamed up to work on something new, Soares decided to end his solo noise activities to refocus only on the new band with Wilseque, and brought his old noise act’s name with him, thus naming the new band with Wilseque, Clan Dos Mortos Cicatriz. As a duo using Soares’ old noise act’s name, the two musicians began to work with more conventional instrumentation and delve more into a more raw punk/black metal style which was gradually refined into an accomplished hardcore project. A necrotized form of cemeterial punk with a uniquely diseased and pessimistic aura and a minimalistic, yet highly refined songwriting style. Soares’ and Wilseque’s two-man collaboration as a studio-only harcore band proved fruitful and a first self-titled debut release surfaced in 2017 as the band’s first ever release under its new punk incarnation. While still underdeveloped and embryonal, this release introduced the sound that would define the band thereafter: an agonizing and demented form of raw punk and minimalistic black metal influenced by bands like Black Flag, Misfits, G.I.S.M., The Stalin, Void, Christian Death, Rudimentary Peni, and Hellhammer, with Soares’ unique lamented and anguished vocals adding a peculiar vibe to the songs.

With the band’s music morphing into a more defined and approachable style, the desire and need for a live lineup arose, which soon led to bassist and drummer Ênio and Weliton joining the band to complete the band’s lineup and creating optimal conditions for the first live gigs in the band’s hometown. The new lineup also began fleshing out more songs for future releases which led to the release of the subsequent "Febril" and "Febres Intermitentes" EPs from 2018 and 2019 respectively, as well as the more recent 2022 "Senil" EP which surfaced after an obligatory COVID pandemic-induced band hiatus. These three short releases proved crucial in the band’s development, reinforcing their multi-member alchemy and completing their current form as a visionary dark hardcore punk band, after years of struggling to “find themselves” as a recluse experimental duo using drum machines and other rudimentary and limited means of self-expression. The three releases showed a marked progression in every direction imaginable: from the songwriting, to the production value (still all handled by the band in a DIY fashion), to Soares’ vocals now becoming as primeval, schizoid and feral as ever. The marked progression from their 2017 debut inspired the band to re-record the self-tilted work with the band’s current new sound, its completed lineup, and Soares’ more developed and personal vocal approach, culminating in a second self-titled release which saw the light also in 2022. This in turn led Clan Dos Mortos Cicatriz to find themselves with a considerable discography of coherent, transformative and imaginative punk songs with a strong sense of uniformity and uniqueness, despite them being mostly digital-only or out of print tape releases split up among several short players. Around this time the band’s “Senil" EP and the re-recorded self-titled MLP came across Sentient Ruin’s desk and an idea instantly struck of having all these highly convergent yet fragmentary punk releases conjoined into one celebratory compilation retrospective to immortalize the band’s newfound identity as one of Brazil’s most promising and exciting hardcore acts. All their purely non-experimental punk tracks from "Febril" , "Febres Intermitentes" , Senil" and their re-recorded debut release were thus handed over to Will Killingsworth of Dead Air Studios in the US to be remastered into the glorious 28-track, 46-minute 12” vinyl anthology compilation “Débil”, released in summer 2024. Meanwhile the band’s quest for unearthing even further sickening and diseased pathways into punk’s darkest and most transcendental realms had not relented, and fifteen more brand new songs were crafted after the “Senil" EP toward the band’s most towering and definitive work yet: their official debut full-length album titled “Técnicas de morte”, released in spring 2025 also via Sentient Ruin Laboratories.


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SUTEKH HEXEN: American Black/Noise's Masters' First Three Demos Remastered and Reissued - "Constellation Ritualistic Altars : Demo(n)s" LP and CD Compilation Available for Pre-Order Now.

At last, Sutekh Hexen's earliest tracks from their first three legendary demos (2010's "Constellation", "Ritualistic" and "Altars”), plus the "Order of Nine" single, get finally mastered for the first time ever (courtesy of death industrial master Grant Richardson) and released on vinyl and CD also for the first time ever, consolidated into a singular assault of unrivaled raw black metal/noise mastery and consecrated into a definitive document of unwavering sonic disembodiment. The seven primeval spells here finally reproposed in their definitive form represent the earliest (and for some, favorite) stylistic incarnation of the band, when their horrific output was violently synthesized from a miasmatic vortex of feral raw black metal and scorching harsh noise, immersed into a cryptic plasma of suffocating ambience and wretched incantations. When the sinister Californian black noise sect first emerged in San Francisco around 2010 with these initial soul-disintegrating hexes, their evident greatness instantly reverberated with massive waves throughout the underground, leading to the birth of a revered cult that would dominate American abstract black metal, power ambient and blackened electronics for years to come. These debut recordings not only crowned Sutekh Hexen as absolute masters of their craft, but also established a formula that has remained imitated and definitive beyond purely experimental circles for years, ordaining the infamous black noise style into a coherent new movement that is revered and thriving to this day. 

Tracks 1-2 originally self-released as the "Constellation" demo tape, 2010
Tracks 3-4 originally self-released as the "Ritualistic" demo tape, 2010
Track 5 originally self-released as the "Order of Nine" single, 2010
Tracks 6-7 originally self-released as the "Altars" demo tape, 2010

Sutekh Hexen emerged in the late 00’s from the burgeoning experimental underground of San Francisco through the visions of visual artist and guitarist Kevin Gan Yuen and multi instrumentalist Scott Miller. With influences as diverse as Merzbow, Sunn O))) and Leviathan, it did not take long for the project to assume its initial form as a wretched audial specter blending in equal measure noise and raw black metal to create a disembodied aural abomination entirely their won, as exemplified by the band’s infamous and now unfindable first three demo tapes (2010's "Constellation", "Ritualistic" and "Altars”). Tape loop manipulator and soundscape artist Lee Carnfield joined the band for a short time afterwards, expanding the band’s sonic horizon and giving rise to the band’s first three highly praised full-length albums: 2011’s “Luciform” and “Larvae”, and 2012’s “Behind the Throne”, all of which began to showcase the band’s evolution from its foundational raw black metal/noise assault into a ritualistic power ambient beast still rooted in black metal but more broadly influenced by dark ambient, power electronics, witchcraft, and experimental soundtrack and ritual music. As one of the first entities to fully develop and establish the so called black noise subgenera on American soil, the status of cult and visionaries became soon indissoluble with the band’s name, leading to a highly praised and prolific output both in the studio (with numerous releases and collaborations published by respected underground labels like Magic Bullet, Holy Terror, Aurora Borealis, Cold Spring, Handmade Birds, Black Horizons, etc.) as well as on the stage with their cacophonous and hallucinatory live sets being shared across the American West Coast throughout the years with the likes of Lycus, Necrite, Lluvia, Hell, Ash Borer, Volhan, Hissing, Terror Cell Unit, Thou, Arizmenda, Trepaneringsritualen, Atriarch, Monarch, Trees, and many more. Scott Miller exited the band in 2012 and the band’s lineup was extended with the entry at first of noise musician Andy Way (of Thoabath), and shortly after of noise legend Ryan Jecks (of Dispirit, Crash Worship, Deathroes) and of baritone guitarist Joshua Churchill (of Plumes). This four-piece lineup lasted several more years and toured extensively, peaking with the creation of “One Hundred Year Storm”, the band’s now infamous live collaborative performance with Trepaneringsritualen at the Stella Natura festival, which soon became one of the most famous and praised dark experimental underground live albums ever created. Toward the end of 2017 this incarnation of the band of Yuen, Way, Jencks and Churchill dissolved, leaving Sutekh Hexen as a one man operation of only Kevin Gan Yuen at the helm, aided throughout the following years and to present by an ever-changing congregation of studio and live collaborators and contributors (among them Damien Johnson of Great Falls/BLSPHM, Mackenzie Chami and Sam Torres of Terror Cell Unit, Ryan Jobes of Sunken Cathedral and Night Worship, and many more). This solo/collaboration-based era of the band has marked a more diverse and experimental output compared to the band’s early days, cementing a continuative decade-long relationship with Sentient Ruin, and later also with French dark ambient label Cyclic Law, both of which continued the band’s incursions into the audial unknown with 2019’s self-titled double LP, and 2023’s collaborative double LP with field recording master Funerary Call titled “P:R:I:S:M”. The long-planned reissue of the band’s iconic first three demos finally now sees the light in a mastered form on LP and CD formats for the first time ever as the upcoming "Constellation Ritualistic Altars : Demo(n)s" compilation, officially out March 7 2025 on CD, LP, and digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin.

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RITUAL ASCENSION: American Abstract Death-Doom Absurdists Announce Debut Full-Length Abomination "Profanation of the Adamic Covenant" - Track Premiered at Toilet Ov Hell.

We’re very proud and excited to rejoin forces with our kindred spirits again, as Members of Void Rot, Suffering Hour, and Aberration come together in Ritual Ascension, a horrendous sonic desecration decomposing death metal into a subsonic hallucinatory miasma, and deforming into a hideous disfigurement of its former self. Devoured in dissonance and shrouded in catacombal atmospheres, the band’s horrendous debut full-length monstrosity "Profanation of the Adamic Covenant" takes the masterful death-doom horror of early Temple Nightside and Grave Upheaval, and transfigures it further into the darkest abysses of surrealism.

The putrid behemoth-like debut monstrosity has been introduced by always attentive extreme metal blog Toilet ov Hell, who in premiering the colossal thirteen-minute closing track of the album, have remarked how “‘Kolob (At the Throne of Elohim)’will wrap its pitch-black tendrils around you and slowly crush you with exactly the expertise you’d expect given the project’s pedigree” - adding that the album is “brutally heavy and suffocatingly dark” and that “the band really stick to the ‘ritual’ part of their name”. You can check out the feature and track HERE.

Not dissimilar to an auditory experimental horror film or to a stripped down version of Portal playing experimental doom, the work traces the grotesque lineaments of a disfigured subterranean hellscape through a masterful use of surrealism, dissonance and compositional abstraction. Slow, crushing, atonal dirges alternate lumbering behemoth-like trudges and enigmatic tectonic upheavals that build an immense ominous aura as the album unfolds a dense, mephitic atmosphere draped in malevolent ambience. The album’s monolithic and agonizing crawl is then violently disrupted by onslaughts of wrathful disturbances, where bursts of demented blasting, tortured screams and mangled fretwork blindside the listener, casting them further down the abyss, into a bottomless sepulcher of confusion and of complete chthonic torment.

“Profanation of the Adamic Covenant” is scheduled for a February 28 2025 release via Sentient Ruin on LP, CD, MC, and digital formats worldwide, now all pre-orderable via all our channels.

Ritual Ascension coalesced around 2023 after Aberration completed their debut album. Three of its members (ex-Nothingness drummer E.C., Void Rot guitarist J.H. here also handing bass and lyrics, and bassist D.H. from Suffering Hour, here handling only vocals) reconvened to continue creating together and to keep pushing their deviant ideas forward. Initially a side project of truly grotesque lineaments began to take shape, but as things progressed, the members’ well established alchemy, vision, and experienced musicianship lead to the creation of an entirely new band under the name of Ritual Ascension, a vector for unseen auditory abominations expanding on the inspirational foundations laid by iconic Australian extreme doom bands like Temple Nightside, Disembowelment and Grave Upheaval. The defining aspect of the project thus became the slower and much more crushing and oppressive tempos of death-doom, while still retaining the dissonance and abstract songwriting approach from the original concept derived from Aberration. With five pachydermic tracks completed in 2024 and spread across an abysmal forty-seven running time, the band soon shaped their colossal debut full-length abomination, “Profanation of the Adamic Covenant”, an anti-religious, blasphemous, behemoth concept album dealing with some of the darkest and most sinister aspects in the history and theology of the so called Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the Mormon Church), and shaped by direct experiences by some of the band members themselves within said religious movement as well.


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DÉLIRANT: Spanish Dissonant Black Metal Master Announces Long Awaited Sophomore Album "Thoughteater" - Track Unveiled at Invisible Oranges.

We’re very proud to celebrate the re-emergence of Spain's black metal contortion Délirant from the depths of subconsciousness, the return of which reanimates a crawling ascent of mind and soul destruction through the medium of auditory disfigurement. Shrouded in dissonance and swathed in nightmares, the band’s long awaited new album "Thoughteater" is a sonic dissection of the abyss conceived by long running black metal recluse D.B. (also of Negativa and Hässlig), which will see the light via Sentient Ruin in mid-February 2025.

In the meantime Délirant’s new auditory hallucination has been teased by respected underground metal blog Invisible Oranges, who in premiering the track "Thoughteater IV" remarking how the work is "a vortex of chaos that clamors for attention and consumes it" and is a "a carefully planned route toward insanity" - you can check out the track and future HERE.

This sophomore full-length offering is a surreal descent into the darkest corners of the subconscious, the hypnagogic state, lucid dreaming, and deviant states of perception, achieved through the unorthodox but regal medium of twisting, dissonant black metal. Of the same abominable and shapeshifting breed as that wielded and perfected by acts like Blut Aus Nord, Akhlys, Deathspell Omega, Abigor And Mispyrming to harness superior realms of imaginative destruction and auditory deception, and which has redefined metal music in this peculiar form as an unparalleled vector for all-devouring musical surrealism. The obsession of becoming one with the void is the zenith of the work, its median and most abyssic turning point after the initial descent. Once the absolute depth of interior horror has been reached, the second half of the album unfolds embodied as a cathartic pilgrimage to seek the light through darkness, overcoming fear and doubt, anxiety and panic. In the grand masterplan of the album's deeply intimate and self-explorative nature, light and hope are contemplated, but absolutely crushing and abysmal realms of darkness and suffering must be endured before this re-emergence can be achieved, rendering "Thoughteater" essentially a personal expiation through the penitence of absolute torment.

Thoughteater is slated for a February 14 2025 release worldwide on LP, CD, MC, digital formats worldwide, all of which are now pre-order able via all our channels.

Délirant is the dissonant/abstract black metal brainchild of Spanish musician D.B., who is also the mastermind of depressive black metal project Negativa and of the black metal/punk act Hässilig. The band’s debut self-titled full-length album first saw the light in 2018 via cassette and vinyl LP on Mystískaos, and later on CD in 2020 via Iron Bonehead Productions.

The project then went dormant but re-emerged several years later with its second full-length album “Thoughteater”, to be released on all formats in early 2025 by Sentient Ruin. The project at times resorts to automatic writing for its conceptualization, and is based on the exploration of the abyss of the subconscious, the hypnagogic state, lucid dreaming, nightmares, and hallucinations. Collections of memories, dreams, and experiences are also used as collagen within the project’s obsession of becoming one with the void, ultimately transfiguring into a cathartic pilgrimage to seek the light through darkness, overcoming fear and doubt, anxiety and panic.



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NECROTECH: Brazilian Industrial Metal Cult Announces Crushing Debut EP "Necrotechnology" - Track Unveiled at Decibel Magazine.

We’re proud to announce that Brazilian industrial metal cult Necrotech are about to emerge with the debut "Necrotechnology" EP, their first declaration of oppressive audial cyber terrorism. Five songs, twenty one minutes of bludgeoning, crust-infused, industrialized megaton death-doom inspired by legends like Godflesh, Swans, Nailbomb, Bolt Thrower, Corrupted, and Deviated Instinct.

The crushing debut has been teased by iconic extreme metal bastion Decibel Magazine, who in premiering the song “Deadly Industries” - have remarked how the debut offering is “a five-song onslaught of mechanical death punishment” and that the track ”is a crusty, Godflesh-inspired mechacrusher, with a relentless drum machine and wailing siren effects populating the the bleak DM landscape.“ - you can check out the feature and track HERE.

"Necrotechnology" ominously embodies the specter of the “new third world”, a cyber dystopia rising where rogue technology, greed, militarism, pollution, injustice and deviant industrialism subdue and crush the individual, rendering them empty, helpless, numb, and downcast. New concepts and realities are beaten into the psyche as a new order is imposed, and Necrotech soundtrack this new world slavery with masterful musical vision and an imposing idea of sonic heaviness that not only marvelously reflects the oppressive ruin of capitalist industrialization on our earth and reality with unseen craftsmanship and lucidity, but also reinstates hope and credibility in a legendary sub-genre of extreme music which has in recent times has gone far too forgotten and overlooked.

The debut "Necrotechnology" EP is slated for a January 17 2025 release on CD, MC and digital formats worldwide and is now pre-orderable via all our channels.

Necrotech emerged in São Paulo, Brazil around 2022, by the will of members of the local extreme metal scene from bands like Defy, Venomous Stench, Rotten Entrails, and Necronomicon Beast. The project encapsulates long time musical interests of its three members: a bludgeoning, visceral fusion of death metal, doom, crust, and industrial elements drawing influence from bands like Bolt Thrower and Six Feet Under, merged with with the sounds of industrial pioneers such as Godflesh, Pitchshifter, Nailbomb and Spine Wrench, and incorporating also the sinister and apocalyptic aura of crust legends like Amebix, Axegrinder and Deviated Instinct. Initially conceptualized as just an amalgamation of riffs, visuals, and conceptual ideas, the project soon evolved into a trio and then fully materialized with the release of their split tape “Circuitos Obsoletos” in collaboration with No_Nam3. The following work evolved its name and lineaments from the original concept of the project, exploring the destructive and deadly intersection of technology and corporate greed. The music reflects themes of anxiety, depression, and the collapse of human dignity within profit-driven systems. A creative input flowing through a collaborative process: bassist Hal 666, who also handles electronic drums, laying down rhythmic structures, with the rest of the band - guitarist Fer and vocalist Diego - then adding their own contributions through carefully selected layers of samples, guitars, and vocals. The resulting work (the “Necrotechnology” EP related worldwide in early 2025 by Sentient Ruin) is a bleak, industrial soundtrack for a world driven to its breaking point by the horrendous machinery of capitalism.


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