Goatpsalm - Beneath - release soon
Last updated: 12 March 2026
the long-awaited new album from GOATPSALM is being released on April 10th
"Beneath" is a wonderful follow up to "Downstream" - a dark ethnic ritual occult doom-trance
Check out "Heart Of Damballah Wedo" here.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwBLCUOp_ik
Demonologists w/ Vainoras - release date
Last updated: 12 March 2026
the excellent collab "Plantae Arcanvs" between DEMONOLOGISTS + VAINORAS is released on April 10th
check out the preview track here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbemPpEhwIo
Cave Dweller - Showing Teeth - digi CD
Last updated: 12 March 2026
release of the new CAVE DWELLER is scheduled for April 10th - further news to follow.
Check out the track "amanita bisporigera" here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIHrZC-X9Ac
just in.....
Last updated: 2 March 2026
latest arrivals..... March 2026
Convocation (FIN) - No Dawn For the Caliginous Night - digi CD (Death Doom, Finnish funeral doom death metal)
Lightless (GER) - A Foreseen Loss - digi CD (Death Doom, Fantastic doom funeral death/sludge from Germany - recommended!! this CD version released with the excellent Nespithe Recs - limited to 200)
Lucifugum (UKR) - On The Sortilage Of Christianity - digi CD (Black, beautiful re-issue of this 1999 cult symphonic black work - comes in digisleeve with booklet and sticker)
Sofy Major (FRA) - Permission To Engage - digi CD (Crust Hardcore, Noise-rock, post-hardcore - debut album - from France - multi label collaboration)
Winter Of Sin (NED) - Razernij - CD (Black, melodic Dutch black metal)
Wardra (RUS) - The Sky Is Copper - debut - CD (Atmospheric black, debut album - jewel case edition - comes in slipcard )
Skymning (SWE) - Artificial Supernova - CD (Death, Swedish melodic death metal, with organic industrial elements - released on Blackend Records - used cd but excellent condition)
December Wolves (USA) - Blasterpiece Theatre - CD (Black, industrial post-black metal - final album before split, on Wicked World)
Mr Death (SWE) - Descending Through Ashes - CD (Death, Swedish horror death metal)
Night In Gales (GER) - Nailwork - CD (Death, melodic death metal - since 1995)
Forefather (UK) - Deep Into Time - CD (Black, Anglo-saxon metal - this is the debut album from 1999 - this CD is the 2004 re-issue on Karmageddon Media - includes bonus tracks. Used CD - slight scuffs on disc, plays fine)
Black Mass (USA) - Voices Of Fate - CD (Black Death, Satanic black death from the USA - on Primitive Recordings)
Aphrodisiac (NOR) - Nonsense Chamber - CD (Industrial, Aphrodisiac were a project between SEH (Fleurety ++) and Vic (DHG) - industrial ambient experimental - eerie avantgarde chaos - twisted album in its day and largely overlooked - released on Misanthropy Recs sub-label Elfenblut)
Wolfthrone (FIN) - Unleash the Hate - CD (Black, 2009 EP - satanic black metal)
Conjuration (FIN) - Funeral Of The Living - CD (Black, Finnish blackened Heavy metal - 2005 EP)
Hermitage (UK) - The Stone Raven - CD (Black, UK pagan black metal)
December (UK) - River Of Blood - 7" (Ambient Abstract, following this 1996 EP - December disbanded and reformed as Dreams Into Dust - blood red vinyl - comes with insert - gothic ambient industrial)
Torture Wheel (USA) - Crushed Under - digi CD (Funeral doom, Murky minimal funeral doom - from EM Hearst, prolific doom artist in the early 00s)
Absonus Noctis (USA) - Penumbral Inorgantia - CD (Black, USBM - last album before the band split up)
Gramary (FIN) - Suffocation - CD (Black, Finnish melodic black metal - comes in slipcard sleeve)
Winternight (GER) - Pestilenz - CD (Pagan/folk black, German pagan black metal - debut album)
Shub Niggurath (MEX) - A Deadly Call From The Stars - digi CD (Black Death, Mexican death/black metal - reformed in 2011 to record this album - this is the 2012 digipack re-issue on Vic Recs)
Tudor (CZE) - Bloody Mary - CD (Black thrash, blackened metal band from Czech formed in the late 80s - this was the debut album from 1992 - re-issued with bonus tracks in 2009 on Slava Prod)
Beherit (FIN) - H418ov21.C - CD (Ambient Abstract, following the early and defining black metal (1993) release - Drawing Down The Moon - the follow up from Finland's Beherit was fairly unexpected, the first signal of a varied and non-conforming musical career. This was minimal, lo-fi ritual ambient. Used CD, slight scuff marks but very good condition - original 1994 Spinefarm release)
Ancient Rites (BEL) - The Diabolic Serenades - CD (Black thrash, this is the 1996 re-issue and re-mastered on Mascot Recs - debut full length, originally released in 1994 - excellent condition)
When (NOR) - Prefab Wreckage - CD (Ambient Abstract, Norwegian ambient avantgarde experimental industrial)
Rusting Sun (GER) - Behind The Shadows - Digi CD (Black, Avantgarde black metal - digipack version which was limited to 37 copies)
Horologium (POL) - Der Volksmund Sagt II - 10" (Dark ambient, Dark ambient martial experimental - this 10" vinyl was inspired by traditional Polish music - on black vinyl)
Horologium (POL) - Telluric anthems - LP (Dark ambient, gatefold sleeve - includes poster)
Noctis (FRA) - Out Of The Shadow Of Legend - CD (Black, CD featuring the 1997 and 1998 demos - French melodic black metal - used CD but excellent condition)
Valfeanor (AUT) - Noreia - CD (Atmospheric black, Atmospheric black metal)
Diononesiste (ITA) - Mota - CD (Death, originally released in 2011 - this is the 2013 re-issue on Aphelion Prod)
Impacto Fecal (SPA) - Encerrado En Mi - CD (Death, brutal death gore - released as a demo in 1999, this was re-issued on CD in 2000 by Guin Recs - includes bonus track from 1998 demo - band changed name to Dyspraxia in 2000 - used CD - scuff marks on disc but plays fine)
Sekhmet (CZE) - Consumed By Void - digi CD (Black, Czech black metal - latest album - digipack version, which has different cover art to the standard CD edition)
Umbrtka (CZE) - Selement - CD (Black, experimental atmospheric avantgarde black-metal - or Grey metal)
Slavland (POL) - Echa Wiekow Pradawnych - CD (Pagan/folk black, Pagan black metal - Echoes Of Ancient Ages - used CD, slight scuffs marks on disc)
Argentum & Sigvegr (ARG / BRA) - Black Sun Is Rising - CD (Neoclassical / Folk, Dark ambient, Neoclassical - split from South America)
Agatus (GRE) - The Eternalist - CD (Black, Black Heavy metal - used CD, light scuffs but plays fine)
From last time.....
Megaptera (SWE) - Disease - digi CD (Death industrial, originally released in 1996 - this is the 2018 re-issue on Ur Muzik - bleak horrifying Swedish death industrial - recommended!)
Der Arbeiter (GER) - Amor Fati - digi CD (Neoclassical / Folk, Nietzsche inspired album of ritual ambient neo-classical - on the excellent label Ur Muzik)
Beyond Sensory Experience & Moljebka Pvlse (SWE) - Zielona Gora - digi CD (Dark ambient, two Swedish dark ambient acts - blend experimental sounds and field recordings into their tracks - recorded live in 2008 )
Prioratvm (FRA) - Those Who Linger - digisleeve CD (Dark ambient, haunting ethereal ambient - based around classical structure, esotericism and ghostly concepts.)
Vladimir Hirsch (CZE) - Memories Of Mars - digi CD (Ambient Abstract, prolific ambient industrial sound sculptor and experimentalist with a 2025 album which is a thematic work based around a Ray Bradbury novel - comes in beautiful 6 panel digipack)
Vladimir Hirsch (CZE) - Lux Antiqua - LP (Ambient Abstract, Composition for orchestra, mixed choir and integrated techniques - classical contemporary and ambient)
Svardenvyrd (CZE) - Obycej slunovratu - digi CD (Pagan/folk black, epic pagan black metal - originally released in 2005, this is the digipack 2025 re-issue on Epidemie Recs)
Sukkhu (CZE) - Self-exorcism - LP (Black, originally self released on CD earlier in 2025 - this is the LP version released by Epidemie Recs - excellent Czech black metal)
Elbe (CZE) - Peculiar - LP (Doom, post-rock, progressive with atmospheric doomgaze elements - dark dynamic and fragile - nice LP edition on Epidemie Recs)
Incarnatus (ECU) - Sinfonia De Hades - CD (Black Death, Ecuadorian blackened death metal)
No Souls Lost (USA) - Hostis Humani Generis - CD (Death, features Carcass cover track)
Sacrilegium (POL) - Embrace The Darkness - CD (Pagan/folk black, pagan black metal - 1999 demo re-issued on CD in 2006, features split 1996 and demo 1996 as additional material)
Tyrantz Empire (NED) - Merauderz Of The Monolith - The Omega Chapter - digi CD (Black, chaotic black metal)
Stormlord (ITA) - Supreme Art Of War - CD (Black, symphonic epic black metal with power metal touches)
Deer Creek (USA) - The Hiraeth Pit - digi CD (Sludge Doom, latest 2024 album from these US sludge doom stalwarts - heavy, riff-laden, bleak, lumbering, oppressive, depressive - Deer Creek continue to put out quality albums and challenging doom)
Deer Creek (USA) - The Hiraeth Pit - LP (Sludge Doom, LP version on blue/black vinyl - pressing of 250 )
The Last Seed (GER) - Hellboy - CD (Black, 2018 release on NKK)
The Last Seed (GER) - Revenant - CD (Black, jewel case edition)
Horns (CHI) - Totendienst VI - Antiphonae Omnes Mortum et Animas - CD (Black, longstanding Chilean black metal act - this is the 2024 re-issue on NKK)
Horns (CHI) - Adveniat Spiritus Inmundus - CD (Black, CD features the demo/rehearsal material from 1994-1998 - this is the NKK edition from 2024)
Haradwaith (GRE) - The M-Theory - CD (Black, satanic black metal - album released on physical format by NKK in 2023)
Dispatched (SWE) - Returned To Your Mind - CD (Death, Swedish death metal - 1997 release on Toppling Colossus/Black Wolf - limited edition EP - the band released numerous EPs in the late 90s)
Dispatched (SWE) - Blackshadows - CD (Death, hard to find 1996 EP which features part of the never released 1994 album of the same name )
Horologium (POL) - Du Grand Desir - digi CD (Dark ambient, from ritual ambient to martial anthems and ethnic dances - a solemn, yet strangely uplifting release)
Incarnated (POL) - Try Before Die - CD (Death, brutal death gore grind)
Spear Of Longinus (AUS) - Rune / Goetia - CD (Black, raw occult black on Forgotten Wisdom Prod)
Omega (GRE) - Second Coming, Second Crucifxion - CD (Black, Greek Black/speed metal)
Vladislas (USA) - Season Of The Witch - CD (Black, only EP from this band)
Sabrax (BUL) - Devilsspear - CD (Black, Satanic black metal - split up in 2004 - comp CD features both releases by the band - EP '97 and full album '99 - used CD - slight scuff marks on disc)
Maleficia (FIN) - Songs Of The Nightbird - CD (Black, Finnish symphonic black metal)
Krig (GER) - Throne Of Majesty Thriumph - CD (Black, German epic symphonic black metal)
Hrizg (SPA) - Anthems To Decrepitude - CD (Black, Spanish atmospheric black metal)
Experiments In Darkness (BEL) - From The Heart - digi CD (Neoclassical / Folk, neo-classical - from the musician behind projects such as Dead Man's Hill etc)
Scholomance (USA) - The Immortality Murder - 2CD (Atmospheric black, atmospheric progressive blackened metal - used CD, excellent condition)
Let Me Dream (FIN) - Greyscales - CD (Gothic/Darkwave, Finnish gothic doom)
Xyster (MEX) - Control Nocturno - CD (Heavy Metal, Mexican power/heavy metal act from the late 80s - reformed in 2015 with the release of this comp CD which features demo, split and live tracks from the 80s)
Black Angel (PER) - Satanic Rites In Brazil 2006 - CD (Black Death, Satanic black death from Peru - raw sloppy live recording from 2006)
Atel (USA) - Seeking Morbid Silence - CD (Black, short lived US black metal act)
Aberration (GER) - From The Underground - Into The Light - CD (Black Death, 1998 compilation CD - underground sampler from German fanzine - featuring German underground bands - Sanitys Dawn, Depression, Gods OF Emptiness, Brain Dead, Nebular Moon +++)
Cthulhu Through Amplification (IRE) - The Divine Ungrund - Zine (Doom black, Cathal Rodgers has always raised the underground bar - both in his metal/non-metal musical output, but more recently with his written zines. After the excellent Existentiell he has more recently written CTA - always insightful and intelligent - this is one of two zines written and issued simultaneously through 2023/24. This issue - The Divine Ungrund - features mainly doom metal genres with 84 b/w xeroxed pages - with Assumption, Decemberance, Sektarism, Echo, Burial Choir, Akelei, Benthic Realm, Owlcrusher, Deber + more!! Essential.)
Cthulhu Through Amplification (IRE) - Gateways Through Stone & Circle - Zine (Doom black, Cathal Rodgers has for years been an underground luminary - both in his metal/non-metal musical output, but more recently with his written zines. After the excellent Existentiell he has more recently written CTA - always insightful and intelligent - this is one of two zines written and issued simultaneously through 2023/24. This issue - Gateways Through Stone And Circle - features many underground extreme genres within the 84 b/w xeroxed pages - with Hail Conjurer, Anthropophagous, Shattered Hope, Mythosphere, Grief Collector, Monachopsis Art, Cryptae, Ymir, Hanging Garden, Carcinoid + more!! Essential.)
Astrofaes (UKR) - The Attraction: Heavens And Earth - CD (Black, Ukrainian black metal - this is the 2004 CD issue (first time on CD) of the bands 1997 demo)
Withered Beauty (SWE) - Withered Beauty - CD (Death, Swedish melodic death metal)
LatroDectus (FRA) - Darkened Abyss - CD (Black, French black metal - debut EP released in 2001)
FLEURETY - MTSK merch
Last updated: 2 March 2026
Thanks to everyone for the support on the recent FLEURETY merch campaign.
Should be receiving the MTSK merch here in the next week or so.
All orders for merch will be sent on their way.
"Inquietum" vinyls have been slightly delayed. Hoping to have them in approx 4 weeks.
Anyone who has ordered both merch and vinyl, then I will wait and send everything together to avoid postal issues/charges.
However, if you'd like me to send the merch in advance of the vinyls then please just let me know.
Lucifugum - Adanom 7"
Last updated: 30 January 2026
Released tomorrow - 31st January 2026
LUCIFUGUM - Adanom - 7" - (Gatefold sleeve - black vinyl )
31 years on the Damned path.
Still Black Metal. Satanic. Underground. And proud of this.
The most significant record from the Coven to date.
Stabaath has returned to vocals specially for this release, following a very serious problem with her throat. Returning with more poison, more power.
Created, recorded and mixed during missile and drone attacks on hero cities of Mykolaiv and Kharkiv.
Satanic Black Metal Authentism
FLEURETY - MTSK merch
Last updated: 26 January 2026
Last call on orders for the FLEURETY - Min Tid Skal Komme - anniversary merch.
Pre-orders close at the end of this week - and none will be available to buy afterwards.
Check it out here.....
https://www.aestheticdeath.com/fleuretypreorder.php
FLEURETY - Min Tid Skal Komme - 30th anniversary
Last updated: 27 December 2025
It has been 30 years since FLEURETY's seminal debut - Min Tid Skal Komme
On the anniversary of this special album - we are printing, with the band, the first official merch for the album since 1995 - with shirts, hoodies and patches.
Follow this link: https://www.aestheticdeath.com/fleuretypreorder.php
All merch will be printed only via this pre-order - get it whilst you can.
Orders should ship in mid/late February 2026
FLEURETY - Inquietum - vinyl edition
Last updated: 27 December 2025
Pleased to announce the imminent release of the vinyl version of FLEURETY's "Inquietum"
Inquietum was a series of 7" vinyls - created and recorded through a decade between 2004 to 2013, a period when FLEURETY had limited opportunities to record, but continued to develop the FLEURETY sound
Released as a beautiful gatefold double 10" vinyl - with the original Trine & Kim artwork.
This has been a long-planned vinyl edition - pressed now to co-incide with the Fleurety MTSK merch - so this vinyl can be shipped in February along with your FLEURETY merch
Epitaphe - III
Last updated: 27 December 2025
EPITAPHE have been working hard over the last couple of years - the follow up to the highly-acclaimed "II"
The new album is currently in production - more news will arrive with the Spring frosts....
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Demonologists w/ Vainoras
Last updated: 27 December 2025
Due for release in the coming weeks is the excellent collaboration DEMONOLOGISTS W/ VAINORAS
An unexpected merge of dark extremities - which forms together into a beautifully constructed piece of work.
DEMONOLOGISTS are renowned for their obscure horror electronics - dark and noisy but structured within rhythmical chaos.
VAINORAS is a talented multi-instrumentalist from Australia - mainly renowned for his metal creations, particularly the doom act SUBTERRANEAN DISPOSITION. Alongside that he has forged a solid body of work with his side projects heading in the dark jazz loungecore fields - punctuated noticeably with his use of saxophone.
Blended together they create a lavish collection of tracks that explore the lysergic properties of the botanical world.
Released on digi CD with beautiful artwork and layout. Look out for this soon.....
Goatpsalm - Beneath
Last updated: 27 December 2025
A moment that I feared might never arrive - so this gives me great joy to announce the imminent release of the new GOATPSALM album
Exactly a decade since the release of "Downstream" - a stalling period where the band has undergone a number of transformations and artistic blocks.
Yet the finsihed album - "Beneath" - is a real triumph. The band's finest moment to date.
Obscure, ritual and dark metal.
More news to follow - expect a release in February 2026.
Cave Dweller - Showing Teeth - digi CD
Last updated: 27 December 2025
Due for release in January is the latest CAVE DWELLER album
the 3rd album continues the Cave Dweller sound and story - but is a much more visceral and gritty listen.
a beautiful narrative that meanders with the flow of the music.
A must for anyone who has enjoyed the previous Cave Dweller works......
Lucifugum - Adanom 7"
Last updated: 27 December 2025
After many years of respect for their art - I am proud to finally have the opportunity to work on a vinyl release with LUCIFUGUM
The new "Adanom" EP (recently published on tape by the band) will now see a 7" vinyl edition.
Black metal authenticism.
Slava Ukraini !!
Glory to Lucifugum.
Sutratma - Adrift
Last updated: 27 December 2025
SUTRATMA have been dedicated to playing funeral doom for over 15 years - following a series of mainly self-released albums during that time.
The Californians are a hidden gem, continuing to hone their craft and identity - creating a beautiful and serene funerall doom album in 2025 with "Adrift"
I'm really pleased to be working as a partner, alongside the band, on the vinyl version of "Adrift" - which is currently at press.
Look out for the album release around March 2026.
Aesthetic Death upcoming releases...
Last updated: 1 December 2025
In production, out soon.....
Demonologists w/Vainoras (USA/AUS) - Plantae Arcanvs - digi CD (arrived - announcement soon)
Cave Dweller (USA) - Showing Teeth - digi CD (Dec 2025)
Goatpsalm (RUS) - Beneath - digi CD (Dec 2025)
Fleurety (NOR) - Inquietum - 2x 10" vinyl (early 2026)
Lucifugum (UKR) - Adanom - 7" vinyl (early 2026)
Sutratma (USA) - Adrift - LP (early 2026)
Epitaphe (FRA) - III - CD/2LP (Spring 2026)
Upcoming:
Lordamor (FIN) - II - digi CD / 2LP (Spring 2026)
Esoteric (UK) - 9x vinyl box set (Spring 2026)
Megalith Levitation (RUS) - Hypnosis IV - digi CD (mid 2026)
Mesmur (USA) - Chthonic - LP (Spring 2026)
Estrangement - new album (tba)
Forfalla (AUS) - debut album (tba)
Longer term plans - at various stages of progress:
Mordor (SWI) - Odes - re-issue CD/LP (in progress - release tba)
Wreck Of The Hesperus - 4 CD box set (tba)
MurkRat (AUS) - Drudging The Mire - 2LP (tba)
Endvra (UK) - Liber Leviathan - gatefold LP (tba)
Onwards and upwards....
Last updated: 2 October 2025
summer 2025 turned out to be an unexpectedly challenging period in my life, which afforded me very little time or energy to devote to the label and music - my apologies if I have missed emails and dropped contacts..
Perhaps it's true - that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger ..... but all the same, it can still certainly fuck you up!
I'm back and working torward 2026, which is looking to be one of the best years in the history of the label, with some fantastic releases lined up..
One of which is the Esoteric vinyl box set edition, which I have spent many years planning and curating - a release that will be my proudest moment, as the pinnacle of over three decades of working, and friendship, with Greg and Esoteric.
These are the things that keep this label alive with an underground spirit - whatever bureaucracy and crazy shit is happening across the world!!
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