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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As the band's name aptly hints at, Uranium was conceived as an aural vessel to explore the outer limits and the most irreversible states of complete human disintegration, and the incineration of its most defining and triumphant achievements; namely society, progress, technology, and civilization, with nuclear power being the conduit and ultimate engine of the greatest and most horrific forms of total annihilation mankind could ever face. Auditory terror both permeates and defines Uranium's music, with bludgeoning and majestic post-industrial soundscapes pulsing inside a lightless void lit only by drifting embers and falling ash, while immense infernal atmospherics wrap their deathly spires around the listener, crushing them into a distorted auditory abyss. Power electronics, industrial noise and black metal have rarely before been seen chained together and weaponized into such a mortal design. An authentic weapon of mass annihilation engineered to face human life with absolute death. A death-scarred reality that emerges from the utter bleakness and ruination of Uranium's apocalyptic design, as the listener is cast at the center of a caustic nuclear nightmare where flesh boils and evaporates off bone, cells erratically split into endless deformities and the world is turned into a mangled, corroded and disfigured radioactive oblivion.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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”.