DSKNT: Swiss Black Metal Terror-scapers Unveil Surreal and Horrific Sophomore LP "Vacuum γ​-​Noise Transition" - Track Premiered at Antichrist Magazine.

With immense excitement and anticipation we can finally officially announce that Swiss black metal void sculptors DSKNT are back with their immense sophomore LP "Vacuum γ-Noise Transition", a devouring nightmare of omnipotent sonic annihilation conceived at the most liminal edges of sanity.

The reality-destroying album takes shape as a dark and multidimensional hallucination deep into reality's most cryptic and terrifying truths, a place where entropy and chaos assume near-corporeal and hyper-realist forms, becoming empirical laws and axioms of all manifestations therein, with the music serving as the abhorrent mathematical key that allows the listener to unlock this realm beyond and "see" the horrors that populate reality beyond the reach of the five senses and of the terrestrial dimension. Harrowingly evocative and devastating beyond comprehension, "Vacuum γ-Noise Transition" assumes its hideous form through a ravaging maze of managed guitar fractals, eviscerating compositional deconstructionism and an inhuman event horizon of decaying soundscapes and oppressive atmospheres that dismantle the listener piece by piece, forcing mind and soul apart to disintegrate in each other's reflection. Somewhat claiming the torch of absolute avant-garde violence and abhorrence from bands like Deathspell Omega and Portal, the devastating album is an all-encompassing and sensorially annihilating masterpiece that transitions this heritage of aural abominations into its most unavoidable future and inevitable conclusions, reshaping the DNA of surrealistic extreme metal as we know it and pulverizing all its known thresholds through a hideous out of body experience ritualized through total aural abandon.

An introduction to the album was given back in December by extreme underground music blog Antichrist Magazine, with an exclusive stream of the track “Θ-Noise - Phase Shift” - you can check out the feature HERE.

DSKNT first emerged in 2017 out of total obscurity in their native Switzerland with an unexpected and insanely crushing self-recorded/produced debut LP, “PhSPHR Entropy”, which we also released on LP/tape, a work which established the band as unprecedented beacon of aural terror, earning them much praise and respect in the underground, and raising anticipation for this followup opus to unseen levels of hype - which will not just be met, but exceeded in every possible way.

Fully conceived, recorded, produced, and mastered by the band within the confines of their own studio, the horrific album will be officially released on February 5 2021 on digital, cassette tape, CD, and vinyl formats, along with a limited edition long sleeve shirt, and all formats can now be pre-ordered on our Bandcamp and webshop.

CHAOS ECHŒS: Sentient Ruin to Issue "Ecstasy With the Nonexistents" Live Tracks for the First Time On Vinyl.

We’re honored to work again with French ritualistic ambient death metal alchemists Chaos Echœs as they have tasked us to release their professionally recorded soundboard live album "Ecstasy With the Nonexistents" for the first time ever on vinyl format. These tracks represent the final testament from the absolute gods of underground experimental death metal and their final recorded output ever before their breakup, perhaps their most ambitious, imaginative and all-encapsulating material ever.

First released as disc 1 of the 2019 2CD outtakes compilation "Remains”, (issued on double-CD by Utech Records) this massive and gloriously-sounding professionally mixed and mastered live soundboard recording captures the french masters of ritualistic death metal alchemy at the pinnacle of their transformative power as they step out of every comfort zone known to revisit familiar places and re-emerge into a new and unseen transfiguration of themselves. Profoundly moving and ungraspably visionary, "Ecstasy With the Nonexistents" sees the French alchemists metamorph and manipulate some of their most iconic tracks to subvert and transcend their own identity, creating a ritual within a ritual, where death and black metal, experimental noise and ritual ambient dissolve into a singular flow of consciousness dictated by the abstract axioms of transformation, ritual improvisation and free form deconstructionism.

In the band’s own words:


"Ecstasy with the Nonexistents, is a soundboard recording of a full live set from 2018. Assembled with great care, this set list was only performed in concert once. The concept was to reinvent the songs, re-arranging pieces from Transient and Mouvement into a continuous three-part suite. The first section is slow, more self-centered than introverted, and obsessive. The second section is atmospheric, dominated by improvisations with bells, flutes, shamanic drumming, and mantra-like vocal patterns. The final section is carnal, wild and intuitive, completing the journey from an aggressive, selfish state to one of abandonment and sharing."

Recorded live in 2018, mixed & mastered by Cyrille Gachet. Final lineup:

Kalevi Uibo: guitar+effects, vocals
Ilmar Uibo: drums, vocals
Stefan Thanneur: bass+effects, vocals
Fabien W. Furter: guitar+effects, vocals
Guillermo Gonzalez: guitar+effects, vocals

"Ecstasy With the Nonexistents" is pre-ordeable in all available formats and streamable in full now via our Bandcamp and webshop, to be officially released on February 5 2021 to coincide with Bandcamp Friday. The glorious posthumous live album will be available both digitally and as a massive limited edition 2XLP available in two vinyl colors with a gatefold sleeve designed as always by Chaos Echœs visual mastermind and bassist Stefan Thanneur.

NOVAE MILITIAE: "Topheth" - Third Full-length Album by French Black Metal Legion To See Tape and Vinyl Release.

We’re excited to join forces again with French satanic black metal horde Noavae Militiae, as we prepare then imminent release for the first time ever on analog formats of ”Topheth" , their brand new third full-length LP (released on CD earlier last year on Goathorned Productions), this time presented to you via Sentient Ruin as a glorious limited edition three-sided double LP with etched D-side and on a limited edition cassette tape release.

On the hideous opus the French satanic legion further refine and sharpen their mortal aural blade, slicing reality into shreds to reveal a massive gaping aural wound that oozes and festers with the abhorrent virulence of complete armageddon. In its boundless glorification of destruction and inhumanity, "Topheth" gives orthodox satanism its most arrogant and intransigent voice, weaving an impenetrable fog of artillery-like drum machines, face-taring screams, and walls of deformed fretwork annihilation to trace the ravaging trajectories of complete torment and abandon. The negativity-encompassing album once again assumes a sinister ritualistic and liturgical splendor as well as the iconic theological and biblical delineations that have made this band so recognizable and unique through a marvelous juxtaposition of atmosphere and ferocity, threading a diseased tapestry of inverted sermons and perverse summonings to serve as textural backdrop to its primordial wrath of complete black metal incineration.

This release is the second collaboration with the French miscreants and it mirrors the one we did for Novae Militiae’s sophomore LP as well, “Gash’khalah”, first also released by Goathorned on CD and then reissued in 2018 as a three-sided 2xLP and tape by Sentient Ruin shortly after.

The vinyl edition will be available as a limited edition clear red/black “galaxy” three sided 2LP with etched D side (100 units only, not wholesaled or distributed) or as a standard black vinyl edition inside a high quality matte laminated gatefold sleeve with black flood inside the pockets, poly-lined inner sleeves, and download card.

The cassette tape edition will be a limited run with full color j-card, and download card inside a black slipcase silkscreened with red metallic ink.

"Topheth" vinyl and tapes are scheduled for an official January 22, 2021 street date along with a digital release via all main streaming platforms, and all formats are currently pre-ordeable via our web shop or Bandcamp page.

ABERRATION: US Atmospheric Dark Death Metal Obscurators Debut With Imposing 10" MLP - Track Premiered at Toilet Ov Hell.

With influences coming from extreme metal beasts like Antediluvian, Altarage, and Impetuous Ritual, Minneapolis MN dark death metal obscurators Aberration debut via Sentient Ruin with their self-titled 2021 debut 10" EP, an aural pact with total darkness that establishes them as one of the most imaginative and intimidating new entities in American underground extreme metal.

Today Toilet Ov Hell unveils “III”, the first track taken from the release stating that “reminiscent of the impending claustrophobic dread of Impetuous Ritual or even the soul-consuming self-abrogation of Ifrinn, these three tracks have left me adrift in a hallucinatory haze of annihilation, and I can think of no other appropriate way to end 2020“ - you can check out their feature HERE.

No newcomers to game, Aberration formed in late 2019 with JH of Void Rot on guitar and vocals, DH of Suffering Hour on bass and vocals, AW of Nothingness on guitar, and EC of Tvaer on drums and threw the sum of their talents and influences into an obfuscating aural glorification of total darkness and oblivion, combining death, doom, black metal and tenebrous ambient/drone to create an imposing aural hellscape of complete light-devouring terror.

An impenetrable and abysmal sonic colossus, the fifteen-minute self-titled MLP is a churning maelstrom of oppressive and abhorrent death metal chaos that will see an official release January 15 2021 on limited edition 10” vinyl and digital formats via Sentient Ruin.

PURO ODIO: Debut "Demo 2018" from Basque Nihilist Punk Commando Sees First Ever North American Physical Release Via Sentient Ruin.

Degenerate nihilistic punk commando Puro Odio continue their unholy pact with Sentient Ruin, this time to reissue their incendiary 2018 debut demo on 10" vinyl and cassette tape, making it available for the first time ever on analog physical formats in North America.

On the verminous and heinous demo the Basque raw punk terrorists first came together as a rogue entity of total barbarism and inhumanity, glorifying cruelty, violence and sadism at their most gratuitous and senseless stages through six primordial stabs of complete hatred and perversion. Firmly rooted in the proudest and fiercest tradition of raw punk and hardcore, Oi!, crust and d-beat, what sets Puro Odio apart from their far less controversial and harmless peers is their unique and sophisticated visual aesthetic and their meticulous yet unsettling sound blending nefarious black metal-like vocals, violent lyrics, barbaric d-beats and a meat grinder of unrelenting chainsawing guitars - a proud exercise in sonic atavism that has yielded a blood-drenched hardcore punk twilight of total darkness and bestiality. With an overall sound reminiscent of celebrated punk/metal plunderers like GISM, Bone Awl, Hellhammer, Von, Gag, and Glue, the eleven-minute demo has established Puro Odio as an unforgiving beacon of violence and immorality within underground punk and as a perverted sonic exaltation of humanity's most negative and repulsive traits.

After the amazing demo was first self-released in 2018 on cassette by the band, it was then released in Europe easier this year on black 12" single sided vinyl by Spanish punk label Mendeku Diskak with altered artwork, and now the heinous demo is finally officially planned for its first ever physical release in North America via Sentient Ruin, again featuring the original self-release artwork by graphic artist Adrian Vision, and scheduled for a December 11 2020 street date.

”Demo 2018” is now available for pre-order as a limited edition etched single sided 10” MLP and as a limited edition cassette tape, as well as digitally and available to stream in full. Also pre-ordearble is an exclusive limited edition long sleeve shirt. You can check out all products on our Bandcamp and or webshop.

Dubbed as “la banda mas dura del planeta” by their inner circle, degenerate nihilistic punk commando Puro Odio are a duo of guitar/vocals and drums hailing from the Basque region of Spain. With the two individuals masked and anonymous and a sound of utmost nihilism and disgust suspended somewhere between the most abrasive fringes of anarcho punk and the most regressed and primitive strains of raw black metal, the duo has established itself as one of the most inverted and barbaric punk entities to have ever been spewn out of their region. Puro Odio officially debuted in 2018 with a self-titled six-song demo tape that immediately introduced them as an accomplished and fully-defined audio-visual aberration entirely its own, with a meticulous aesthetic shaped by BDSM, crime, modern art, and dark and perverted fiction, and a sound torn between the wretched insurrectionism of early American hardcore legends like Void and Crucifix, the elite of British anarcho and d-beat filth like Conflict, Discharge, and GBH, and the malefic abnegation of early punk black metal bastions like GISM, Hellhammer and Von. A a sonic conduit for the most unnameable cruelty and inhumanity, shaped by nihilism by misanthropy and channeled by the most blood-curdling horrors of reality. A year later in 2019 an equally deranged self-released self-titled two-song 7" appeared, eventually reissued on tape by Sentient Ruin in mid 2020.

VOREUS: German Black/Death Legion Unveil Devastating Debut MLP - Track Unveiled at Antichrist Magazine.

Sentient Ruin is proud to join forces with German black/death metal legion Voreus top bring you their incinerating debut MLP "The Proclamation". dropping in early December on LP, cassette and digital formats. The devastating mini album is a twenty three-minute light-devouring hellscape of complete chaos and inhumanity that establishes the band as an implacable rising force in the elite of German extreme metal. With a massive cavernous sound, a delivery of pure and unbridled ferocity and atmospheres of complete lightlessness and abandon "The Proclamation" evokes complete hell on earth, conjuring the same otherworldly and hellish realms of aural obliteration we've seen in highly elitarian and evocative blackened death metal entities like Teitanblood, Temple Nightside, Vassafor, Impetuous Ritual, Pseudogod, and Proclamation.

A glimpse into the devastating release has been provided by Antichrist Magazine, who have premiered the crushing self-titled track from the release, you can check out their feature HERE.

Formed by members of Cult of Extinction, Imperceptum, and Funeral Procession among others, Voreus coalesced in 2018 as a new untamable force in the elite of the german extreme metal underground to harness a higher sphere of almost regal aural obliteration and birth the devastating debut short-player, which however remained unreleased for two years, and it wasn’t until late 2020 that the band and Sentient Ruin came together to finally birth the abomination in physical format. Influenced by the highest order of otherworldly extreme metal demigods like Teitanblood and Pseudogod, Voreus have likewise forged a sound of such intimidating magnitude and destructive yield, that their tyrannical dominion has been already been established among the elite ranks of European extreme metal and beyond, right there among the primeval forces of the genre which originally inspired to them take the thresholds of sonic annihilation to their limits and with such a refined and intimidating formal and substantial approach to the craft.

"The Proclamation" is officially out on December 4 2020 on LP, cassette and digital formats, and can now be pre-ordered on our store and Bandcamp.

SHAIDAR LOGOTH: American Black Metal Duo Unleash Total Darkness on Third Full-Length Album "Chapter III: The Void God" - Track Unveiled at Invisibile Oranges.

We’re honored to work again with USBM soul-incinerators Shaidar Logoth as we proudly announce the release of "Chapter III: The Void God" their brand new massive double album scheduled for release on November 6 2020 on etched vinyl 2XLP and tape for the Americas, while the vinyl release for Europe will be handled by new imprint Cavsas (a division of dark industrial label Cyclic Law).

A preview of the staggering album has been made available via Invisible Oranges, who in unveiling the song “Consume Pieces of God” have remarked that “Shaidar Logoth take riff-writing to another plateau [...] as your mind is torn between shedding tears at beautiful riffage and sitting in goosebumps because of the sheer abstract density of the result. Combined with well-balanced clean/rough production, and tons of moments that feel like gut-punches (like the two-minute mark in the song streaming above), Chapter III: The Void God leaves basically nothing else to be asked for.” You can check out the full feature HERE.

"Chapter III: The Void God", is a massive three-sided 2XLP that sees the Minnesota black metal specters completing both musically and narratively their inaugural trilogy opened in 2011 with "Chapter I: The Peddler". The Peddler has become The Ritualist, and now summoned The Void God to consume the world and rebuild it in its own image. Three years in the making, "The Void God" sees Shaidar Logoth dwell in familiar torments as well as evolve into a new transfiguration of themselves, dominated by a more defiant and unpredictable experimentation of moods and torn by a more profound and enigmatic dualism than ever before. Throughout the four monstrous songs that comprise the forty-eight minute double LP, the band's sound shapeshifts dramatically, designing increasingly claustrophobic and erratic trajectories and leaving the listener as helpless bystander to a disfigured and mangled ritual, while the songs evolve in and out of each other in a constant duality of ominous abjection and puzzling beauty.

Sonically ungraspable but stylistically grounded in the fiercest and proudest black metal tradition, on "Chapter III: The Void God" Shaidar Logoth have conjured the same inverted and lurid atmospheres we've seen in bands like Leviathan, Funeral Mist, Misþyrming and Sargeist, while their unique and unmatched penchant in eviscerating beauty and grace has given birth to their most luminous and magnificent album to date.

Always enigmatic, withdrawn, and rigorously shadow-dwelling, Shaidar Logoth silently emerged in Minnesota in late 2010 from a vision of mastermind and multi-instrumentalist Steven Henningsgard. Henningsgard set out to write and record years of ideas and riffs completely on his own, enlisting vocalist Adam Clemans (of Wolvhammer, Noose Rot, Skeletonwitch fame etc.) to help him complete his wretched vision. The result materialized as their hideous and foul debut demo/EP Chapter I: The Peddler - 30 minutes of raw and unforgiving black metal which viciously showcased the band's own plagued extreme metal formula made of ancestral and pestilent Scandinavian black metal fused with modern and unorthodox elements ranging from trance-inducing vortex-like passages, to progressive/psychedelic dirges, and obscure ambient ritualism. Their proper debut album Chapter II: The Ritualist surfaced four years later in 2015 revealing a massive evolution and broad improvement across their already magnificently detrimental sound architecture, with their songwriting and their sound especially now hinting at beast-like traits. Across its massive four tracks The Ritualist explored every notion of aural misery imaginable, tormenting the listener with lengthly and winding flailings of venomous black metal punctuated with dismal drone and dark ambient passages and thick layers of infernal and hallucinatory atmospherics. Only apparently dormant but never really dead and continuing their religiously recluse existence as a non live/touring art, as per their tradition Shaidar Logoth then slithered back into the shadows to nurture and feed the third chapter in their hideous existence....

CEREMONIAL BLOODBATH: Canadian Bestial Death Metal Horde Set to Unleash Inhumanly Horrific Debut LP "The Tides of Blood" - Track Premiered by No Clean Singing.

We’re honored to partake in the wretched birth of “The Tides of Blood”, the debut LP by Vancouver BC-based horrendous death metal deformity Ceremonial Bloodbath, a band set to push death metal to the most horrifying outer limits of unspeakable aural repulsiveness. The wretched LP is scheduled for an October 23 2020 release on cassette tape, vinyl and digital, and all formats (featuring the artwork of Tim Grieco of Revenge, Antediluvian etc.) can be pre-ordered now on our store and Bandcamp.

No Clean Singing has given the first introduction to this complete sonic abomination with an exclusive unveiling of the track “Primitive”, stating that “the album is startling in the degree to which it plumbs the toxic depths of death metal darkness and dementia, and in its ability to discharge sonic sickness and chaos with such fiendishly ingenious calculation and such cleverly sadistic flourishes.“ - you can read the awesome full article and stream the track HERE.

“The Tides of Blood” is a long awaited and highly anticipated debut full length album of abhorrent and malformed dark death metal twilight and of complete sonic torment emanating from a place of utter wretchedness and abandon. With its members coming from established VC BC bands like Scum Division Cult, Nightfucker, Encoffinate, Radioactive Vomit, Grave Infestation, Mass Grave, Temple of Abandonment and Deathwinds, Ceremonial Bloodbath is an unholy coalition of some of Vancouver BC's most established and experienced musicians, who have come together to forge the most darkened, demented and hideous strain of bastard death metal they could fathom, taking cues from bands like Blasphemy, Sarcófago, Mystifier, Beherit, Archgoat, Vassafor, Mortician, Deicide etc. and blurring the sum of their influences into a sonic monstrosity devoid of any sanity or shape. Both extremely primitive and regressed, but highly unpredictable and experimental, Ceremonial Bloodbath's death metal is a place in which reference points and familiarity are nihl and set against the odds of complete insanity and chaos. With its barbaric riffs twisted and bent out of shape, its schizoid leads and diseased atmospheres, and an execution delivered with complete barbarism and deformity, Ceremonial Bloodbath have created one of the most inverted, hallucinogenic, crepuscular, and inhuman death metal absurdities that you will hear all year.

“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.”