CHAOS ECHŒS: Defunct French Experimental Death Metal Legends Commemorate 2012 Debut Offering "Tone of Things to Come" With Exclusive 10th Anniversary Vinyl Reissue - Pre-orders Available.

We’re proud to commemorate the ten year anniversary of Chaos Echœs' first ever release, 2012’ “Tone of Things to Come”, celebrated as a limited edition vinyl reissue with enhanced artwork to homage and consecrate the origin of an unforgettable legacy that will never fade our memory's reach. Vinyl and digital pre-orders are already open with a ship date set to December 22 2023.

With "Tone of Things to Come" Chaos Echœs instantly established themselves as the very future of underground extreme metal, elaborating a formula rooted in arcane sepulchral dark death metal characterized by lengthy instrumentals and innovative detours deep into remote areas of history, art, culture and lore that would dictate the rhythm and tempo of a staggering metamorphosis of ascension. Still rooted in the legacy of Incantation, Morbid Angel, and Immolation, at its inception "Tone of Things to Come" had however already revealed widespread mutations in the fabric of conventional extreme metal and opened the eye of transformation, with its omniscient glare gazing through a spectral veil concealing abhorrent forms of ritualism and exploration within it. Enigmatic minimalisms crafted from unconventional instrumentations and improvisational free-flowing jam sessions were an already well established means of transcendence and transmutation within this earliest form of the band, and "Tone of Things to Come"'s oracular load of experimentation was already foreboding musical changes in consciousness and perception on a massive scale lurking not too far away on the horizon. A would-be future for extreme metal which we all now too-well know, love, and will forever miss.

There will never again be an entity quite like Chaos Echœs, one capable of opening worlds within the listener and which had become such a synonym of transformation and of the fearless defiance of dogmas and conventions. A beacon for metamorphosis and boundary-dissolvement bridging effortlessly the sidereal distances between performance art, world music, ritualism, and death metal, that would help cement thereafter the undeniable and manifested explorative genetics of extreme metal. And as the sands of time and the immortality of this legacy fixate the greatness and majesty of those who dare, burning them forever into our minds, "Tone of Things to Come" remains a reminder for all that great legacies are built on great transformations, and the courage that motivates them. 

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

France's Chaos Echœs were truly one of the most unique, forward-thinking, mind-bending, and genre defying metal bands to emerge in the underground in recent times. Their ritualistic death metal found such a high degree of expression nowhere else, while their keen sense of experimentalism and free-form approach to extreme metal has always yielded time after a time an utterly magnificent, mesmerizing, and extremely profound body of work. Within their framework of jazz-laden, lysergic, and almost unpredictable death metal one can always distill the purest essence of improvisation, as it is meant to be only in the most ambitious and purest forms of unshackled artistry. With no boundaries or rules limiting them, Chaos Echœs have always reached beyond and tapped into the unknown, bringing together time after time some of the most extraordinary and unsettling forms of musical synthesis ever achieved by extreme metal. With songs blending death, doom and black metal, prog, kraut, free-jazz, drone, and immaterial tribal ritualism, demos and EPs released as live improvised recordings, full-length albums always showing a fathomless ambition and experimentalism, and artwork always lying on the border between the absurd and the grandiose, Chaos Echœs were consistently from 2011 to 2019 one of the greatest bands in experimental underground metal.



SULFURIC HATRED: American Warnoise Terrorists Announce Decimating Self-Titled Debut Album - Track Premiered at Machine Music.

We’re very excited to announce the debut self-titled album by emerging East Coast chaos-mongering warnoise terrorists Sulfuric Hatred (formed by vocalist Alexander Jones of Undeath, guitarist/bassist Liam McMahon of Vile Ritual, and Sam Shereck of Stabbed, Exsanguinated, Bowel Erosion, Blame God, ex-Pink Mass, ex-Reeking Aura etc. ), scheduled for a December 15 release on LP, MC, CD, and digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin.

The cataclysmic debut offering has been teased by always attentive music blog Machine Music, who in premiering the song “Foul Poison Insatiable” have remarked how the release represents “one of the best, most ferocious death metal albums of the year.“ - you can read the feature and check out the song HERE.

The self-titled Sulfuric Hatred album brings a new meaning and purpose to the concept of dehumanizing music and of its forced transmutation into a weapon. Bringing the listener to their knees to surrender, succumb and dissolve before the omnipotency and immensity of absolute armageddon, across its elven tracks and thirty four minutes of musical terrorism, Sulfuric Hatred experiment on human senses the limits and effects of complete audial insanity. Black metal, grindcore, and death metal in this context can be used as nothing more than simplistic references for the sake of generalization, as the actual and true fabric really materializing this abomination is something that can hardly be associated to music and which is actually closer to pure noise, to other forms of experimental sensorial warfare or to abstract idealizations of pure terror. An underlying contradiction that can not be overlooked defines this senseless display of audial savagery: where in most bands and subgenera of extreme music an antihuman aspect is sought out musically, in the case of Sulfuric Hatred, the formula of bass, guitar, drums and vocals is actually the last human thing standing. The incessant carpet-bombing blasting, the ear-splitting screams, and the mangled, chaotic guitar carnage, in the chaos-torn world of Sulfuric Hatred are nothing but the last shred of humanity left. Everything else being engulfed and devoured in this blown out, noise-broken abomination, is the embodiment of absolute, abstract, and conceptual antihuman bedlam.

Sulfuric Hatred formed in late 2021 from the dismal imagination of guitarist/bassist Liam McMahon (Vile Ritual), and vocalist Alexander Jones (Undeath), who had envisioned a weaponized form of audio terrorism inspired by black/death metal bands like Angelcorpse, Blasphemy and Conqueror, but with an augmented load of ruin brought forth by their parallel interest in powerviolence and industrial noise. The duo set out to create a debut demo to test their ideas, which materialized as the 2022 "Demo MMXXII" cassette tape released via Transylvanian Recordings. This release cemented the duo's vision and ambition to explore their war-mongering creation further, so drummer Sam Shereck (of Stabbed, Exsanguinated, Bowel Erosion, Blame God, ex-Pink Mass, ex-Reeking Aura etc.) was brought on board to free the band of the studio-only environment and transform it into free-raging weapon of mass annihilation that could decimate stages and assume a more dynamic and self-sustained band form. This new lineup as a trio found immediate alchemy and set out to write and record their official self-titled debut album released by Sentient Ruin in late 2023, an ear-splitting cauldron of noise-ravaged black/death metal terror compounded from pure chaos and spread across eleven tracks and over thirty six minutes of cataclysmic audial warfare.




ABYSSAL RIFT: US Dark Death-Doom Monstrosity Reveal Crushing Debut Album "Extirpation Dirge" - Track Premiered At Decibel Magazine.

Abyssal Rift emerges from the bowels of hell with its debut-full length monstrosity, "Extirpation Dirge", a thirty six-minute miasmatic behemoth of dark and antihuman death-doom conceived by Columbus, Ohio-based multi-instrumentalist Matt Auxier (of industrial acts 6th Circle and Ash Prison) handling all instruments, songwriting and recording, with the exception of drums (performed and recorded remotely by David Mahony of Irish black/grind terrorists Unyielding Love).

A hint of things to come has been given by Decibel Magazine, who in premiering the track “The Scourge” have remarked how “some of the best death metal is experimental but still straightforward, striking a balance that comes easily to few. Abyssal Rift achieve just that with this record.” - you can hear the track and check out the feature HERE.

Abyssal Rift is the manifestation of Auxier's long-running history as a metalhead and of his extensive appreciation (parallel to that for industrial music) for dark and atmospheric death metal bands like Incantation, Disembowelment and Immolation as well as for 60's and 70's prog bands like Goblin, King Crimson, Eloy, and Amon Düül II, which in the context of his expertise and knowledge as a producer and home studio owner, has yielded a dense and disorienting dark death metal beast shrouded in surreal atmospheres and an hallucinatory form of dirge-like experimentalism. An all-devouring obfuscation of abyssic crush depth, "Extirpation Dirge" seems horizonless and bottomless as it propagates and gravitates downward like a churning maelstrom, alternating moments of obliterating machine-like dark death metal destruction to others of misery-torn doom and cinematic widescreen experimentalism, with dense synth work alternating contemplative passages of clean guitars and ominous presages of spectral dark ambience. 

"Extirpation Dirge" is slated for a December 1 2023 release date on LP, MC, CD, digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin.

Abyssal Rift started in Columbus, Ohio, started in 2022. The brainchild of multi instrumentalist Max Auxier (6th Circle, Ash Prison). While primarily known as an industrial musician/producer, Abyssal Rift is the manifestation of Auxier’s long running history as a metalhead and fan of warped, abysmal death metal, particularly that of bands like Incantation, Immolation and Disembowelment, and of his lengthy experience as a music producer. Conceived within his Columbus OH home studio during the COVID pandemic, the band’s debut album “Extirpation Dirge” features Auxier has sole songwriter, also handling all guitars, basses, vocals and keys/synths on the album, with only the drum parts being outsourced to seasoned grindcore drummer (David Mahony of Unyielding Love). The tracks were then sent to Will Killingsworth of Dead Air for mix/master, completing Abyssal Rift’s debut abomination “Extirpation Dirge”, a thirty six-minute behemoth of abyssic, dark death metal shrouded in hallucinatory atmospheres and broken up by desolate, slow-crawling dark ambient-infused doom dirges. As a long time Sentient Ruin artist via his industrial projects 6th Circle and Ash Prison, Auxier joined the label’s ranks also with Abyssal Rift, and “Extirpation Dirge” saw the light in late 2023. At the same time Auxier began recruiting other musicians in the Columbus area to assemble a live lineup for the band and bring Abyssal Rift to a stage.






CEREMONIAL BLOODBATH: Vancouver BC-Based Bestial Death Metal Horde Announce Second Full-Length Abomination "Genesis of Malignant Entropy" - Track Unveiled at Toilet Ov Hell.

“Born beneath a black hole. Callers of nuclear Armageddon. From beyond, decipherers of the unnameable sickness. Driven mad by unholy flute and war drums of a sadistic deity. Mindless automatons, blind worship. Fornicators and abusers of dirt and moral filth. Desecrators of the holy man's moral oasis and extractors of perverse soul.”

We’re honored and proud to renew our unholy pact with Canadian bestial death metal nightmare Ceremonial Bloodbath, and announce the imminent release of the band’s devastating second full-length album “Genesis of Malignant Entropy”, to be released November 17 2023 on LP, CD, MC and digital/streaming services worldwide.

The abominable work has been teased by reputable underground metal blog Toilet Ov Hell, who have premiered the song “Bloodlust Raids of Vengeance“ remarking that the upcoming work is a “a sharpened onslaught of twisted steel and death appeal“ - you can check out the feature and the track HERE.

War-mongering bestial black/death metal cult Ceremonial Bloodbath re-emerge from the fetid underground of Vancouver, BC with their sophomore full-length abomination, "Genesis of Malignant Entropy", an all-devouring, abyss-like monstrosity conceived from pure terror and insanity. Seemingly dwelling on a plane of atrocity entirely its own, "Genesis of Malignant Entropy" sees the Canadian horde once again draw its primeval life-force from the iconic legend of bands like Blasphemy, Bestial Warlust and Proclamation, but reworking it across a broader, more enigmatic canvas laced with a consciousness-obliterating amount of disassociatives and hallucinogens. Nothing less than an authentic horror of creation, this is a work in which the feral and animalistic traits of its main influences appear to be exaggerated to the point of acephalic bestiality, while a hideously deformed and surrealistic aura is achieved via pure sensorial torment and a complete deconstruction of reality. A fuming cauldron of skull-stomping neanderthalian drums, tortured howls, and on onslaught of demented, mangled guitars shrouded in destruction emerges from this unholy conception, rendering the listener nothing less than meat to be violently torn in an otherworldly primitive ritual disembodiment. The utter atrocity conceived and the strange and unorthodox ways through which such carnage was conceived will leave the listener butchered and sensorially violated in an authentic delirium of destruction.

Ceremonial Bloodbath are a Vancouver BC elite horde of abominable sonic extermination, featuring members of Scum Division Cult, Nightfucker, Encoffinate, Radioactive Vomit, Grave Infestation, Mass Grave, Temple of Abandonment, Deathwinds etc. The band come together around 2016 to summon a darkened scourge of complete death metal bestiality and aural abandon. The debut LP “The Tides of Blood” was relased on Sentient Ruin in late 2020, the 7” demo “Mutilation of Sacrifice” followed in 2022, while the sophomore full-length abomination “Genesis of Malignant Entropy” will devour human ears in late 2023. Yet there is no end to the torment-ridden, all-consuming bestial death metal nightmare nightmare headed into the end times…..

CH'AHOM: Progressive Black/Death Metal Horde Announce Bludgeoning Debut Album "Knots of Abhorrence" - Track Revealed at Decibel Magazine.

We’re extremely proud to announce that hallucinatory prog-infested bestial black/death metal horde Ch'ahom will unchain absolute chaos-wielding sorcery this November with their debut full-length album "Knots of Abhorrence", a triumphant arrival point of sorts testifying a long and transformative sonic journey started almost a decade ago, and now finally reaching its pinnacle and absolute consecration.

The mind-expanding debut album has been teased by Decibel Magazine via an exclusive premiere of the second track from the album “Chavín de Huántar“ - you can check out the feature and the track HERE.

Having started as far back as 2015 and existed for many years as a raw, bestial obscure war cult following in the steps of bands like Sadogoat, Blasphemy, Beherit, and Proclamation, in recent times Ch'ahom have been undergoing an expansive metamorphosis of their sound and songwriting, now juxtaposing a crisp and dense production quality to their primeval terrorscape, that exalts new elements incorporated from early 90's technical death metal in the vein of Timeghoul and Demilich, as well as from 70's UK prog influences derived from the band's peculiar interest in acts like Yes, Camel and Genesis. Ch'ahom's long running mesoamerican concept about pre-columbian rituals and death cults has also conversely benefitted from this recent sonic transfiguration, with their staple tribal contaminations and ornamental interludes (written and performed by the members themselves with traditional instruments) now assuming a whole new presence against the backdrop of the album's devastating scope and vision. Across it's sprawling forty-plus minutes and five dismal tracks, "Knots of Abhorrence" unfolds a pure masterclass of rare violence, atmosphere and intensity, carrying the listener across a gruesome wormhole and into another dimension of history's past where violence, carnage, bloodshed, magic and ritualism incarnate the sum of mankind's biggest and most ancestral fears. Those lurking in our subconscious and within the hidden cracks of our ego and which have often transmuted into madness and ravaged and derailed human society, culture and sanity and created some of the darkest and most chaotic eras of our history.

"Knots of Abhorrence" is officially scheduled for a November 3 2023 release worldwide via Sentient Ruin on LP, MC, CD, and via all main digital/streaming services.

The origins of obscure German black/death metal cult Ch'ahom can be traced as far back as 2016, when the band spent the next five years up until 2021 issuing a steady string of cryptic demo tapes in the German underground. During this time frame the band had displayed a blown out, raw and feral sound clearly worshipping bands like Von, Sadomator, Sadogoat, Beherit and other similar primitive black/death cults. These demos captured the eye of Sentient Ruin who made contact with the band right when a change in their sound and songwriting was happening and the ground for a glorious and genre-defying debut album was being prepared. Perfect timing. While the tracks from all these earlier demos were later remastered by Sentient Ruin for a 2023 cassette tape restropective compilation titled “Camazotz Cult“, the once simple, short and fast songs from the band’s early days had begun giving way to new compositions stretching out into atmospheric lengths and being punctuated and exalted by the unique technicality, atmospheres and more slowed down paces reminiscent of iconic US and Finish Death Metal bands like Morbid Angel, Infester, Demilich, and Abhorrence, creating a masterful symbiosis between the animalistic violence from their origins and the band’s newfound sense of atmosphere and evocative musical storytelling. Far from ending there, in recent times Ch'ahom's music has begun showcasing also a marked prog influence derived from the band's appreciation of 70's English bands like Yes and Camel. This multilayered syncretism of styles gave birth to a sound appearing vast, relentless, and frenzy-like, almost bordering on insanity, as showcased on their 2023 debut EP “Ts'ono'ot”, a glorious, twelve-minute single track prelude to the majestic carnage lurking ahead with the advent of their official debut full-length album for Sentient Ruin,“Knots of Abhorrence”, released later the same year in late 2023. This outreach toward more complex and unpredictable composition was completed and complemented by the band's long running theme and subject matter, offering a glimpse into a parallel dimension beyond the purely musical material itself: lyrical themes, concepts, and aesthetics dealing with different prehispanic cultures, their rituals and their art. With their music dowsed in magick, blood, and violence, Ch'ahom try to establish a connection to a subconscious horror we all face in our lives, still to this day, that has been a driving force behind many mythical and mystical traditions that have originated throughout the centuries all around the globe. The accumulation of these influences make this Essen, Germany-based horde a far more complex and thought-provoking entity than the average goat-worshipping black/death band most of us are used to being accustomed with. Ch'ahom are a nightmare simulation, a terror emanating from deep below, screaming from the caverns in the earth in which humanity has hid for centuries from the powers beyond our rational understanding, emanating from the crevices in our super-ego that reveal a direct pathway to the urges we repress. Ch'ahom are the opposite of meditation, an endless onslaught of thoughts, wishes, dreams, fears, impossible to shut out, an overwhelming and maddening samsara.

URANIUM: American One-Man Black Industrial Terrorscaper Announces Bludgeoning New Album "Pure Nuclear Death" - Track Unveiled at Invisible Oranges.

American one-man nuclear black industrial weapon Uranium returns, transmuted into its most astonishing and terrifying form yet. A statement of unseen magnitude and scope, the second full length album "Pure Nuclear Death" sees the enigmatic East Coast visionary harness a realm of terror and death-torn sonic immensity rarely, if ever, seen before in this plane of reality.

The ghastly album has been teased by iconic underground metal blog Invisible Oranges, who in premiering the eight-minute closing track terroscape of “Black Knight Satellite”, have remarked how the track “wraps up the album with an especially torturous soundscape”, and how the song “creeps, crawls, and sometimes just seems to invade, blending pounding rhythm with hair-raising sound effects“ - you can check out the track and premiere HERE.

Clear from the title alone, "Pure Nuclear Death" embodies the triumph, definition and consecration of a vision and concept which in the span of a just a couple of years and releases so far has already become classic and by all standards and measures, simply unrivaled. Awe-inducing, imposing and inexorably devastating, "Pure Nuclear Death" comprises thirty six minutes, split up into five tracks, of omnipotent, death-heaving black industrial immensity designed to devour the listener and deliver to them a world-ending payload of absolute death. The legacy of bludgeoning, visionary post-industrial acts like Godflesh and early (Cop, Filth-era) SWANS transposed into total oblivion and coerced into a monstrous, lightless abyss of tectonic and crushing blackened electronics. An antihuman concept on nuclear energy and its most godly and terrifying traits incarnated in a sound which is its perfectly executed and envisioned embodiment. An indissolubile fusion reaction between a concept extrapolated from science, ethical literature and philosophy to convey realities of daunting scientific an technological darkness, and a god-like sound assembled from a critical mass of cataclysmic power electronics, apocalyptic industrial and black metal chained together into an otherworldly sonic weapon of absolute atomic death. "We knew the world would not be the same".

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.

The project first emerged around 2020 as the solo endeavor of East Coast industrial artist AA with the debut full-length album “An Exacting Punishment” self released on Bandcamp digitally. This release was still heavily influenced by black metal with the industrial aspect more sublte compared to later releases. Meanwhile mastermind AA had already refined the project’s sound by shifting it more in the direction of power electronics and industrial noise and intended to showcase this evolution on the subsequent “Glorious Void” EP, also digitally self-released via Bandcamp. This faster than expected improvement in the band’s sound led AA and Sentient Ruin to take down the original “An Exacting Punishment”full-length, and have it remixed and remastered for a brand new release on vinyl which would better match and suit the band’s rapidly evolving black industrial sound. As a result, while waiting for the new version of the debut album to come out on vinyl, AA and Sentient Ruin bundled the “Glorious Void” EP with another brand new EP called “Wormboiler” into a cassette tape full length compilation, released with each EP on each side and eponymously titled “Wormboiler”. The “Wormboiler” cassette tape sold out instantly and was praised far and wide in the underground as a groundbreaking and transformative black industrial and power electronics release. Following over a year in delays caused by the COVID pandemic, finally the“An Exacting Punishment”full-length album was officially physically released worldwide in early 2023 in its restored/updated form, also gaining praise for its dismal industrial sound still heavily contaminated by the band’s early black metal influences. Meanwhile AA had been working away at his most deadly and magnificent work yet, the sophomore full-length album “Pure Nuclear Death”, and authentic weapon of mass extermination in sonic form, a majestic and annihilating work further refining the projects concept on nuclear annihilation and encompassing all of Uranium’s sounds and influences seen until that point, fusing both the crushing power electronics assault seen on “Wormboiler” and the black metal influences seen on “An Exacting Punishment”, while adding even more newly introduced elements to the plate, like the crushing force of experimental and no-wave bands like Swans, black/death metal in the vein of Teitanblood and Tetragrammacide, and even more oppressive and overbearing industrial load derived from the legend of bands like Godflesh, Brighter Death Now, and Scorn. This is its shadow, this is its void, this is URANIUM - American-made atom-glorifying weapon of total aural annihilation.

KONTUSION: East Coast Raw Death Metal/Punk Savages Issue 2022 Debut Demo for the First Time on CD and Vinyl - Pre-orders and Full Stream Available.

We’re proud to announce that East Coast raw death metal/punk savages Kontusion finally will release their pulverizing debut self-tiled demo on vinyl, CD and cassette (reissue) via Sentient Ruin in the wake of its original 2022 self-release on tape and digital formats. Upon release the four-track, seventeen-minute slab of necrotized terror saw the duo of drummer Chris Moore (Repulsion, Coke Bust) and of vocalist, guitarist and bassist Mark Bronzino (ANS, Mammoth Grinder) revel into a gore-splattered, chaos-torn disfiguration of lo-fi, blown out primitive death metal and punk-infused carnage reminiscent of (and influenced by) 80's and 90's bands like Terrorizer, Napalm Death, Discharge, and Convulse. The four skull-crushing tracks see Kontusion regress to a state of demented, feral abandon, incorporating influences from raw punk and hardcore to deconstruct death metal and reduce it to a mangled and scattered pulp reeking of terror and shrouded in destruction.

Kontusion’s debut self-tiled demo can be now pre-ordered on vinyl, CD and cassette formats via Sentient Ruin for a September 29 2023 worldwide release.

Moore and Bronzino formed Kontusion after years of being friends, throughout which the two would jam on riffs while staying at each other's places during stops on various respective tours. Finally around 2021, the duo had the time and energy to start a new band and bring to life years of ideas and interactions shared as friends and as mutual fans of bands like Terrorizer, Napalm Death, Discharge, and Convulse. The idea for Kontusion’s self-tiled 2022 demo (reissued in 2023 by Sentient Ruin) was inspired by the 80’s and 90’s demo tapes and early recordings of legendary death metal bands from that era and their raw, lo-fi sound and minimalist visuals.



ASH PRISON: American Dark Industrial Metal Usurpers Announce Pulverizing Debut Album "Future Torn" - Track Premiered at No Echo.

We’re proud to announce that American industrial metal conspirators Ash Prison (formed by Matt Auxier of electro-industrial act 6th Circle on guitars and electronics, by bassist J. Thompson of East Coast darkwave cult Child Ov Night, and by California-based Italian vocalist M. Alagna of Abstracter, Somnolent and ex-Atrament) arise with their pulverizing debut album "Future Torn", a collaborative, cross-genere usurpation of heavy industrial electronics, dark hardcore punk and black/heavy metal united under the black banner of total anarchy, chaos, and absolute retaliation.

The forthcoming debut long player has been anticipated by stalwart underground alternative and punk blog No Echo, who in premiering the track “Scorn” have remarked that that on the track “the combination of Ash Prison's cacophonous musical arrangements (often utilizing harsh electronic flourishes) and the extreme vocals is a match made in hell“ - you can read the feature and check out the track HERE.

Influenced by acts like Ministry, Skinny Puppy, G.I.S.M., Mayhem, Motörhead, Discharge and Godflesh, on the pummeling debut long player Ash Prison infer of a future, and soon to be, dystopian failed state fallen into complete anarchy and chaos, being paid back with violence and scorn for its own perpetration of injustice and corrupt societal squalor. Within this dark conceptual framework, a crushing barrage of cold sequences, torrential, obsessive drum machines, bulldozing bass lines and abrasive, distorted electronics serve as the backbone to a vitriolic onslaught of grinding guitars and hateful vocals reminiscent of and inspired by the iconic despisal of pioneering underground vocalists like Sakevi Yokoyama and Attila Csihar. A highly original, deadly, and thought-provoking syncretism of dark social commentary and sonic antagonism, "Future Torn" unites various eras, decades, and interpretations of musical insurrectionism to create its own divergent idea of "anarcho-punk", post-industrial dystopia, and heavy metal destruction to soundtrack and instigate the rise of turmoil, riots, violence, and widespread destruction. Elegant and subtle touches of adjacent influences coming from post-punk, gothic rock, power electronics, death industrial, dark ambient and darkwave punctuate the work throughout augmenting its dark aura and rendering the whole work diverse, dense and unpredictable throughout its tense and telluric thirty-plus minutes of grim upheaval.

"Future Torn" is slated for a September 22 2023 worldwide release via Sentient Ruin on LP, MC and digital products along with a full spread of album-themed on-demand apparel.

Ash Prison was formed around 2021 by Matt Auxier of electro-industrial act 6th Circle on guitars and electronics, by bassist J. Thompson of East Coast darkwave cult Child Ov Night, and by California-based Italian vocalist M. Alagna of Abstracter, Somnolent and ex-Atrament. Having met online after being both Sentient Ruin artists, Alagna and Auxier had gone back and forth for some time prior throwing around ideas for a dark metal-infused industrial project following their shared appreciation for bands like Ministry, Skinny Puppy, G.I.S.M. and Slayer, along with a mutual love for goth and darkwave, death industrial, and punk. Auxier wrote, composed and mixed the bulk of the band's 2023 debut full-length album "Future Torn" at his home studio in midst of the COVID pandemic while also handling guitars and all the electronics, while Thompson (an old friend of Auxier) was tasked with the bass tracks (also recorded remotely from the East Coast), and Alagna composed lyrics and recorded vocals from his home base of Oakland CA. The ensuing work materialized as a sonic molotov launched straight and bigotry, ignorance and corruption, with dark, spiteful political commentary in the lyrics delivered by a hateful, ominous vocal delivery inspired by black metal and Japanese punk, and a vitriolic onslaught of cold heavy industrial electronics, pummeling drum machines, scorching electric guitars and smoldering bass lines. "Future Torn" was complemented on the visual side by pertinent artwork by xerox/high contrast Canadian visual master P. Van Trigt, depicting an embittered, ominous corpse-like figure glaring through wires (an empty worthless remnant of the delusion of consumerism) while the mastering behind the album’s raw and blown out sound was handled by iconic underground punk audio engineer Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios.