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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PROPHETIC SUFFERING: Canadian Bestial Death Metal Horde Issues Bludgeoning Debut Demo Tape - Track Premiered at Last Rites and Pre-Orders Posted.

We’re proud to announce our partnership with Canadian bestial death metal horde Prophetic Suffering, a mysterious act whose debut offering - the “Demonstration MMXXII” four track demo tape - will be unleashed by Sentient Ruin on December 2 2022 for Bandcamp Friday.

The imminent release has been previewed by underground metal blog Last Rites, who in unveiling the track “The Suffering” have also remarked how Prophetic Suffering are “a formidable force to be reckoned with. Grown in secret, presumably at one of Canada’s alleged undisclosed black metal supersoldier labs beneath Edmonton, Alberta, and the band’s demonstration of warfare capabilities makes for a more than capable frontline fighter”. You can check out their feature and stream the track HERE.

The Canadian bestial death metal tormentors arise from the wretched and famed Edmonton, Alberta extreme metal scene with their debut offering, the "Demonstration MMXXII" demo tape, four tracks, twelve minutes, and twenty seven seconds of absolute war mongering terror. Spewn from same geographical wasteland that has nurtured such abominations as Revenge, Antediluvian (of whom Tim Grieco mixed and mastered the work), Rites of Thy Degringolade, Weapon, etc., Prophetic Suffering seem to fall precisely in the tradition of their Canadian scene with their weaponized and feral glorification of negativity, yet what transpires from these four bludgeoning tracks is also a penchant for exalting the band's masterful wielding of certain US death metal influences reminiscent of animalistic and brutal pioneers like Deicide, Immolation, Drawn and Quartered, Imprecation and other dark 90's US death metal with violent and dark inclinations.

Emerging in year 2019CE in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada as a grind-infused blackened death metal act, Prophetic Suffering has undergone various forms leading up their most recent release of dungeonous blasphemy. Opting for a more visceral and oppressive soundscape of stripped-down barbaric riffing, the 4-piece is set to continue a senseless bludgeoning towards those wandering their halls. The siege has begun with the Demonstration MMXXII demo tape released in late 2022 in conspiracy with Sentient Ruin.




ANTIMONUMENT: Brazilian Experimental Death Metal Cult Re-Issues Debut Album "Concealment" for the First Time On Vinyl - Full Stream and Pre-Orders Available and Music Video Premiered by CVLT Nation.

Sentient Ruin is proud to announce its partnership with Brazilian experimental death metal cult Antimonument, as we ready an enhanced and reworked reissue of their fascinating 2021 debut offering, “Concealment”, seeing the light on cassette tape and digitally as well as for the first time ever on vinyl format. All formats are slated for a December 2 2022 worldwide release via Sentient Ruin.

CVLT Nation has introduced the reissue via an exclusive premiere of the band’s new music video for the song “Entranced in Ruin”, one of the two brand new and previously unreleased tracks which enhance this reissue - you can checkout the feature and video HERE.

Death metal meets its future self. When almost everything has been said and done, contamination becomes the only escape, as new ways to interpret and reinvent the wheel must be found to keep setting the mind free and the genre moving forward, including creating clever and transformative crossover syncretisms with other styles and genres than can open the eye of terror along with new gateways to a higher dimension of chaos. And this is how Brazil's mysterious experimental death metal deconstructors Antimonument have approached their cryptic and bludgeoning craft: infusing it with all kinds of foreign (but adjacent) audial excoriations, including industrial noise, hardcore punk, cryptic no-wave and scathing power electronics, to render their experimental dark extreme metal a futuristic and multidimensional sonic warhead. Imagine a mix of Blasphemy, Carcass, Incantation, Khanate, Swans, Crucifix, Void, Godflesh and Controlled Bleeding, and you will be closer, yet still not completely within, the mutated experimental realm of devastation conceived by the Brazilian cult. And it doesn't end there. As an art studio/collective creating audio-visual experiences encompassing sound, visuals and video, Antimonument is more than just as a band, rather an explorative sensorial weapon of self determination. In this sense the Brazilian collective can be seen as an extreme metal counter-shade to the flourishing Brazilian experimental underground vanguard that in recent years has nurtured defiant bands like Test, Papangu, Deaf Kids etc. who've turned grindcore and hardcore inside out. It was only a matter of time before grim and abysmal black/death metal would receive the same treatment and be syphoned through one of the most exciting and fearless experimental micro-scenes that exists today, and Antimonument are the vessel which got us there.

Anitmonument's crushing debut album "Concealment" was first released in 2021 on CD in Brazil by Cianeto Discos and later the same year on cassette tape in the USA by Red Door Records. Shortly after Antimonument and Sentient Ruin began working on an enhanced reissue featuring brand new artwork, two brand new tracks, and an entirely new master by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios to serve as the release's first ever vinyl edition along with brand new digital/streaming and cassette tape versions to accompany it.

Antimonument are an anonymous/depersonalized convergent multidisciplinary art/music collective hailing from Brazil, first emerging in 2021 with their cryptic debut album "Concealment". Their music is a degenerative deconstruction and recombination of styles aimed at fusing certain currents of extreme music, counterbalanced by thought provoking visuals, to a create a singular new stream of consciousness and redesign a new sensorial map to mankind’s destructive nature, underlining the horrors of reality that dwell in the psyche and within the plain of human nature. Black and death metal, grindcore, hardcore punk, industrial noise, power electronics and no-wave/post punk are thus amalgamated in a consciousness expanding audio-visual ritual aimed at establishing a new symbolism to the negativity that permeates the world and to facing the listener with its own emptiness and nothingness within the void of their surroundings. Antimonument's debut album “Concealment" features complementary artwork by Brazilian artist Rudimentary Light, and was first revealed in the Brazilian underground via local dealers Cianeto Records as a limited edition CD-R. The album instantly gained attention abroad and was soon picked up for a tape release by Red Door Records in the US. This is when Sentient Ruin also noticed the unique juxtaposition of transformative visuals and daring experimental black/death metal proposed by the band, and offered Antimonument a worldwide first ever vinyl edition of the album along with a cassette reissue, both with revisited/expanded artwork, two bonus tracks, and brand new mastering by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios.


CRYPTAE: Dutch Experimental Raw Death Metal Absurdity Announce New Album "Capsule" - Pre-Orders Posted and New Song Premiered by Last Rites.

We’re extremely proud to announce that Dutch experimental raw death metal absurdity Cryptae are about to return with their second full-length deformity, "Capsule", their most aberrant, delirious and labyrinthine (master)piece of anti-music yet.

To coincide with the announcement the opening track “Pearl” has been revealed by underground metal blog Last Rites, who in introducing the mind-bending track explained that with this song “the band are dead-set on turning death metal inside out, seeing just how creative they can get in sculpting within the primal, primitive framework they set for themselves.”. You can checkout the track and read their in-depth detailed introduction to the album HERE.

Conceived through a deconstructed and radicalized approach of "less is more", this new chapter of conceptualized insanity sees the deranged duo of drummer/vocalist Rene Aquarius and guitarist/bassist Kees Peerdeman starve and disassemble death metal from within, as they explore a cryptic concept revolving around marine life and its abysses teeming with absurd and marvelous life forms. The staple high contrast minimalist/maximalist experimental approach of Cryptae in deteriorating the familiar fabric of death metal and finding new and insane ways to dismount and reassemble the genre through delirious aural experiments, this time reaches truly extraordinary and implausible new dimensions of the absurd. Entire strings of death metal's DNA are removed and replaced with components from other genres in a deranged and playful act of stylistic disfiguration, yielding deformities unending and essentially crippling the genre into an incomprehensible, skeletal mutation. A violently malformed and enigmatic abstraction arises from this delusion, through the forced abortion and abolition of all musical canons and decency, triggering a marvelous rebirth through conceptual annihilation and spasmodic nonconformity which is set to challenge and destabilize our perception of extreme metal at the deepest levels. A glitched and distorted sonic fractal of demented improvisation drives Cryptae's crippled and deconstructed raw death metal experiment, as primitive raw (post)-punk, repetitive and bludgeoning industrial, schizoid no-wave, and jazz-derived free-form backward moving meters and compositional oddities all do their part in completing a musical jigsaw of rare genius and hideous inventiveness.

"Capsule" CD, MC, and digital pre-orders are available now via all our channels, while a vinyl edition will arrive later in 2023.

Strikingly unique, visually insane, and sonically decimating, Netherlands-based Cryptae are an extreme metal anomaly devoted to the most liminal and cerebral extents of sonic deconstruction and to the most aberrant thresholds of experimentalism. With a background of its two members forged within the abstract and improvisational realms of free-jazz, noise rock, industrial, and shapeshifting avantgarde, Cryptae have shown astonishingly calculating levels of insanity in crafting their own vision of modern experimental extreme metal, spewing forth a maze of deviant and bludgeoning death metal chaos that aims straight at the listener's central nervous system with the intent of dismantling their every layer of sanity directly from within. The two sociopaths behind the project are primarily involved in many industrial and experimental entities like Dead Neanderthals and Celestial Bodies to name a few, showing just how diverse and enigmatic their background and influences are, an aspect of their creative DNA which has irreparably shaped the madness and delirium which permeates Cryptae. A careful and demanding listener will notice that beyond the utter chaos and destruction summoned by the duo through a meticulous reinterpretation of 90's most structurally ambitious and punishing death metal (Incantation, Immolation, Morbid Angel), lies a realm of ungraspable and disorienting experimentalism which has tapped into influences as diverse and absurd and Swans, Magma, and Discharge - making Crytpae one of the most deranged and visionary death metal oddities to appear in Europe in recent times.


IMPUGNER: Norwegian Death Metal Cult to Issue Debut EP "Advent of The Wretched" - Track Premiered at No Clean Singing.

Norwegian death metal cult Impugner (featuring members of Diskord, Deathhammer, Brainshock, Desolation Realm and Lobotomized) reissue their debut mini-album "Advent of the Wretched" worldwide November 4 2022 on CD via Sentient Ruin and on cassette tape via Caligari Records, after a limited self release tape had surfaced in Norway via the band back in 2021.

Remastered and repackaged with new artwork, the work has been presented by No Clean Signing via an exclusive stream of the opening track “Ostracized Vitality”, with the famed metal blog elaborating that the bands music is “crawling in misery and oozing with pestilence and decay” - you can check out their feature HERE.

"Advent of the Wretched" brings us back to the early and formative years of death metal when bands like Autopsy, Death, Pungent Stench, Nihilist, and Darkthrone in their "Soulside Journey" era were issuing their first works and laying the groundwork for what would become the perfect symbiosis between the gruesome morbidity and the executional excellence which has made death metal so loved and revered thereafter throughout the decades. In the same manner, and with a strong emphasis on traditionalism and timelessness, on this already iconic debut offering Impugner unfold a masterful slab of arcane-sounding death metal untouched by evolution and oozing with schizoid atmospheres, a putrid production quality and a demented prog-derived songwriting highly reminiscent of Morbus Chron, Obliteration, or of the aforementioned founding masters. The choice of using art for the work licensed from the Edvard Munch estate in Norway is just another sign of this band's insanely tasteful vision and of its deliberate approach in crafting the death metal art in a way which favors a sense of timelessness, unpredictability and a strict adherence to its primordial strengths and vision of it being, and forever remaining, a timeless art of the absurd.

RIGOROUS INSTITUTION: Portland, Oregon-Based Apocalyptic Crust Punk Prophets Issue Mesmerizing Debut Album "Cainsmarsh" on CD via Sentient Ruin.

Portland OR dystopian crust punk prophets Rigorous Institution arise with their first full-length album,"Cainsmarsh", an apocalyptic experimental punk/metal monolith risen on the heels of several EPs and demos littered throughout the underground in the past few years which had hinted at, but not yet fully revealed, until now, the breadth and magnitude of the band's visionary and highly philosophical blend of crust and anarcho punk, proto-metal, and ambient-infused spoken word and literary experimentalism.

“Cainsmarsh” will be released by Sentient Ruin on limited edition mini-gatefold CD with disco bag and eight-page booklet on October 21 2022. The album was previously issued earlier in 2022 as a vinyl/digital release via Black Water Records (US) and Symphony of Destruction (EU), while a CD release for Malaysia was done via Black Konflik Records.

Drawing inspiration from a diverse and transformative plethora of influences such Amebix, Killing Joke, Rudimentary Peni, Dead Can Dance, Antisect, Voivod, Venom, Motorhead and Swans, Rigorous Institution take the listener on a grim ride deep inside the realms of human failure and of societal contradiction, unfolding an apocalyptic dystopian inversion which reveals mankind still chained to its feral and animalistic origins while failed technological and cultural illusions punctuate the inevitable human wasteland, motionless like ancient ruins, lost in a twilight of dissolving history and broken dreams. "Cainsmarsh" brings us back to a russeaunian savage age disfigured by biblical antediluvian anecdotes where mankind's flawed primeval negativity and innate failures drag society and progress back into a primitive dark age of violence, injustice and turmoil, and the band's music orchestrates and soundtracks this atavistic downfall with masterful vision and prophetic anachronism, fusing derailing metal riffs, filthy crust punk primitivism, tense progressive passages, schizoid oracular spoken word and ominous keyboard-laden atmospheres into a dark tale of downfall, sinister presages and unravelling hope.

Rigorous Institution arose in 2018 coalescing around veterans from their punk and metal scene and soon developed a highly visionary syncretism of punk, metal, and avantgarde experimentalism enhanced by DYI art and visuals, poetical spoken word-like vocals and lyrics, apocalyptic atmospheres and a profound influence coming 19th and 20th century philosophy and religion, particularly those currents dealing with dystopian anthropocentrism, human nature and literary retro-futurism. Several EPs and demos surfaced over a span of four years, invaluable documents showcasing the growth of a highly experimental band with a prophetic sound rooted in the evocation of future or alternative realities centered around the inevitable flaws and downfalls of man. Similar characteristics had been observed throughout heavy music history in other now legendary bands, particularly those emerged from the glorious 70s and 80s UK punk scene which eventually birthed sub and side genres like post-punk, anarcho-punk, crust and other vanguards like industrial and noise, particularly acts like Killing Joke, Amebix, Antisect, Rudimentary Peni, Throbbing Gristle, and Dead Can Dance. This similarity with the glorious UK scene can be traced back to the band's intent of using punk music as a mind-expanding medium for dark and cinematic intents, to provoke deep and conscious-moving thoughts in the listener and approach the music creation process from a visionary angle in which history, philosophy, art and literature are all combined into a prophetic and future-reaching approach. The band's sound and aesthetic incorporates keyboards, retro-futurist, post-industrial and post-modern inspired DIY visuals, and deeply philosophical and apocalyptic lyrics that all combined evoke a near-hallucinatory, tense, and otherworldly dreamscape clad in darkness and hopelessness. All this breadth of visions, sounds, influences and concepts found its sublimation in the band’s 2022 debut-full length album, “Cainmarsh”.


APOSTASY: Legendary Chilean Thrash Legion Reissues 2021 Masterpiece "Death Return" on Vinyl.

We’re proud to bring you the immense third full-length album in thirty five years from Chile's legendary thrash legion Apostasy, finally reissued for the first time ever with proper vinyl mastering from the source mixes and with a brand new graphic layout. "Death Return" vinyl is available now on limited edition neon yellow vinyl and standard black vinyl via all our channels for North America and via Fallen Temple in Europe.

The unchallenged sonic assault sees the Chilean masters rise to unseen peaks of excellence and destruction as they unleash the most towering and punishing beast in their three-decade-plus career and harness the quintessence of total thrash domination. This is not only the glorious past of speed metal's finest hour reclaiming its darkened throne, but the future of the genre all together. A dark future in which thrash metal reconnects with its evil and nefarious roots to summon complete hell on earth and reignite the black flame first sparked by bands like Slayer, Sodom and Sepultura back in the mid 80s when the genre was still very much a vessel for apocalyptic visions of a world drowned in blood, war, violence and evil. In a perfect and flawless forty-minute assault of war-torn aggression and shellshocking intensity, Apostasy deliver an absolute payload of death and terror, discharged at breakneck speed and weaponized into form by an implacable firestorm of blackened riffs, ominous atmospheres, razowrire leads and malefic screams ripping from he bowels of hell.

"Best kept secret" or "underrated" are terms too easy to toss around when it comes to Chile's legendary thrash legion Apostasy. All of those remain understatements that don't even begin to describe the true power and brilliance of one of South America's greatest ever underground metal bands, and conversely, the unacceptable and unexplainable lack of broader recognition they've struggled with over the decades. Apostasy emerged in the late 80s from Chile's metal underworld with a dark and evil trash assault which was perhaps even too ahead of its time and uncompromising for the time and place in which it emerged. Reminiscent of darker practitioners like (early) Sepultura, Slayer, Sodom, Kreator, Destruction etc, Apostasy have always treaded the outlines of the extreme, carving out a recognizable identity for themselves by always keeping a foot in the occult and esoteric shadow of black and death metal while staying true to thrash metal's militarized and belligerent ways as we've come to know it through its western most popular acts. The band's origins and first era can be traced back to the early frontline of Chile's Valparaíso metal scene in late 80's, in an epoch in which thrash was still a rising new threat traveling at supersonic speed on the heels of the success of Slayer's and Metallica's first legendary albums from the mid 80's. Apostasy's first incarnation emerged spearheaded by multi-instrumentalist Cristián Silva in the wake of this metal renaissance ignited by the legendary first ever thrash wave, a short yet fruitful burst which culminated and ended with the 1991 debut album "Sunset of the End", after which the band dissolved into the same obscurity it had emerged from, living almost literally by by thrash's infamous dogma: live fast, die young. Thirty years later, Silva decided that Apostasy hadn't quite said everything it had originally been created for, so he assembled a new lineup and initiated the band's triumphant return from the shadows of oblivion, issuing a string of demos before returning in 2018 with its sophomore comeback album, "The Sign of Darkness", a wrathful and weaponized speed metal beast that saw the band full-frontally embrace the darkest fringes of extreme metal while elevating its ancestral trash identity to a new modern height of destructiveness. How the band could demonstrate to be a vanguard at the forefront of trash transformation across three decades is anyone's guess, but despite its long hiatus it was as if the band had never ceased to exist, and at its every (re)emergence Apostasy demonstrated that no matter the era it was active in, it always represented and stood by the the genre's most uncompromising and visionary underground fringe. In 2020 "The Unknown Path" EP followed (self-released by the band on cassette and reissued on cassette in 2022 by Sentient Ruin for western audiences) showcasing a more meticulous approach to production and an even more pronounced convergence from traditional thrash toward the darker spectrum of black and speed metal. This EP was essentially a premonition to the band's most triumphant and dominating work, "Death Return", a new 2021 full-length offering which saw Apostasy fully morphed into an otherworldly dark speed metal fire-breathing beast. Fusing the unforgettable wrath of Slayer, early Sepultura and Sodom with the obscure and malevolent crafts of Chile's contemporary and now flourishing underground death and and black metal cults, "Death Return" emerged from the South American extreme metal underground like a dark weapon of total annihilation, standing tall as one of the greatest accomplishments in modern thrash, and as one of the greatest South American underground thrash records in recent years.



VESSEL OF INIQUITY: UK Industrial Black Metal/Noise/Grindcore Act Issues Annihilating New Album "The Path Unseen" - Track Premiered at Last Rites.

We’re proud to announce that UK industrial black metal/noise/grind nightmare Vessel of Iniquity is back with its third official full-length album "The Path Unseen", a rogue abomination set to blow yet another smoldering wound into the fabric of consciousness via unconceivable deconstructions of reality and through a deviant approach to music creation aimed at harnessing absolute terror and mimicking the final stages of sanity.

The new work has been introduced by notorious underground music blog Last Rites who in reveling the opening track “Blood Magic” via an exclusive premiere has remarked how the track “evokes hypnotism though brutality […] both in terms of technicality and deliberately sterile, cold, inhuman delivery.” - you can read their lengthily feature and check out the track HERE.

Introducing eight-string guitars for the first time ever, on "The Path Unseen" sole mastermind A. White has made a stylistic and sonic shift aimed at rendering his beast an even more lethal and oppressive force than ever before. The switch to eight strings has given the project abyss-like traits, as a death-bearing payload of low end frequencies and bottom end crush-depth of near-inescapable traits is added into the mix rendering the project essentially irreversibly damaging. The unrelenting outreach and research for the most weaponized and exaggerated forms of aural annihilation conceivable are now ever so evident in the project as Vessel of Iniquity morphs once again, release after release, seeking new ways to dissolve reality and suck the life out of its surroundings with black hole-like constructs of inescapable and all-devouring terror, which also showcase with unmistakeable evidence the fiercely experimental and constantly evolving nature of the project. Aside from the outlandish experiments in inconceivable fretwork annihilation, the catastrophic work is completed by its staple assault of carpet bombing drum machines, tectonic noise constructs and monstrous industrial abstractions that all play their unforgiving role in assembling this obliterating sonic nightmare of the underground which is becoming more and more the embodiment of pure fear and terror and an increasingly recognizable heirloom to the endless quest for the absolute extreme.

British multi-instrumentalist, soundscaper, and audial deconstructor A.White has been hammering away at some of the underground’s most puzzling, obscure, and terrifying artifacts for the better part of the last two decades. Largely recluse and solitary in his activities aside from a few defunct collaborative efforts, most of his body of work has revolved around his home studio and both the possibilities and the limitations which such a setup implicates, spanning various declinations of ambient and experimental work that have as connecting thread the extensive use of drum machines, electronic soundscapes, industrial deconstructionism and esoteric sound design, always coupled with his undying love for metal guitar, bass and vocals, specifically the extreme end of the spectrum. Influenced by bands like Coil, Godflesh, Napalm Death, Mayhem and Esoteric, White’s artistic output has assumed various forms throughout the years with self-containment and solitude as the founding basis of nearly his every work and loads of personal knowledge and deeply rooted and explored interests spanning from history to philosophy, to ancient civilizations, science and occultism, all being thrown in the mix as conceptual backdrops to his nightmarish compositions. This union of self-contained musical skills and mediums, meticulous solitary work, and endless personal interests has led to the creation of various obscure and highly underrated ambient/black metal/industrial projects over the years, many of which date as far back as 1995, from Crown of Ascension to the Egyptian mythology-themed black metal experimentalism of Thoraxembalmer, all the way to industrial funeral doom of Uncertainty Principle and of the multi-member project The Null Collective. And his most recent extreme metal project Vessel of Iniquity is the sum of all these years of self-learning, sonic exploration and boundless curiosity toward new realms of the extreme and of the unknown, all of which in recent years have helped White push his creativity into new and even more unthinkable and unseen territories of total auditory abandon. Continuing the trend of never adhering to any scene or benefitting from any kind of mainstream underground exposure, through its 2017 defining self-tiled debut album, the followup LP “Void of Infinite Horror” and a string of more experimental EPs and digital releases, Vessel of Iniquity has taken the sincretisms of black metal, grindcore, and industrial noise to its most remote outer limits, establishing itself as a puzzling and unseen beacon of extremism unlike anything else existing in the underground.