Mourning Dawn - new album
Last updated: 29 August 2020
after years of turmoil.....years which might have destroyed other people.....those years have culminated in "Dead End Euphoria", the new album from French extreme doom act - MOURNING DAWN
One of the few bands which get darker and heavier as the years pass - using the negatives in life as a force to create and compose with such majesty and passion for the dismal.
The album is now at press and will be available by the end of 2020 - on digi CD and gatefold 2LP
More news to follow....
Aesthetic Death upcoming releases...
Last updated: 29 August 2020
Epitaphe (FRA) - I - 2LP (October 2020)
Mourning Dawn (FRA) - Dead End Euphoria - digi CD/2LP (late 2020)
Cave Dweller (USA) - Walter Goodman - digi CD (October 2020)
Dark Awake (GRE) - Hekateion - digi CD (Autumn 2020)
Violenta Domestica (AUT) - Cephalaea - CD digifile (September 11th 2020)
Farer (NL) - debut album - CD (November 2020)
Hallowed Butchery (USA) - Deathsongs From The Hymnal Of The Church Of The Final Pilgrimage - digi CD (autumn 2020)
pando (USA) - rites - digi CD (end 2020)
Mordor (SWI) - Odes - re-issue CD/LP (tba)
Estrangement (AUS) - debut full CD (tba)
Wreck Of The Hesperus - 4 CD box set (tba)
MurkRat (AUS) - Drudging The Mire - 2LP (tba)
Endvra (UK) - Liber Leviathan - gatefold LP (tba)
Violenta Domestica - Cephalaea cd
Last updated: 29 August 2020
I'm very pleased to be collaborating with the exciting and hugely creative artist - Dr Winter - on the release of his debut full length album, under the monicker VIOLENTA DOMESTICA
The music of VIOLENTA DOMESTICA is termed as "experimental electronic musick" - which is indeed an appropriate defintion. The music is often poignant, often disturbing, often twisted....but always creative and thought provoking.
My admiration for this work is probably born from a passion in years past for the music from acts such as GGFH, Velvet Acid Christ, HH9 etc.... Merging and moving between ambience, driving ebm industrial rhythms, towards piling noise and sinister intention.
Focusing on the darker and twisted side of human nature - there is something for all in "Cephalaea". Expand those horizons - check this out.
Preview here: www.facebook.com/violentadomestica/videos/990459501382564
Poet - Emily digi CD
Last updated: 21 August 2020
I'm pleased to now have available the new CD from POET - an excellent doom band from Oregon, USA
Limited quantities here - direct import from the US.
Esoteric - Metamorphogenesis 2LP
Last updated: 21 August 2020
the "Metamorphogenesis" 2LP is now released - the vinyl is looking good. As we had planned and hoped.
The vinyl is now available to buy - directly on this website or via the Esoteric website.
All pre-orders are now being prepared and will ship over the next week - thanks for your patience with this release.
Suffer Yourself
Last updated: 19 August 2020
I'm very happy to announce a collaboration with the most excellent Swedish/Ukrainian act - SUFFER YOURSELF
Having put out a couple of great releases since their inception - I'm excited to put out this latest album, which is their strongest material yet.
More news will follow, with a release planned in early 2021. Expect a wonderful piece of doom/death
just in.....
Last updated: 19 August 2020
latest arrivals.....
- Profundae Libidines - Proces De Sorcellerie - CD
- Coldnight - Waterfall of Suicides - CD
- Weemoed - Insania Moralis & Traummord - 2CD
- Voivod (CAN) - Target Earth - pic 2LP
- The 3rd and the Mortal - Painting on Glass + In This Room - 2LPs
- Liers In Wait (SWE) - Spiritually Uncontrolled Art - LP (cult death thrash)
- Tiamat (SWE) - Gaia - LP (goth rock)
- Swallow The Sun (FIN) - Ghosts of Loss + The Morning Never Came - 2LPs (doom)
- Rapture (FIN) - Silent Stage + Songs for the Withering + Futile - 2LPs (doom)
- They Leapt From Burning Windows (USA) - Demo 2020 - Tape (black)
- Malsumis (USA) - Spirit Decay - Tape (black)
- Heel (USA) - Foreign Tongues - Tape (grind)
- Thergothon (FIN) - Stream from the Heavens - digibook CD (essential doom)
- Behemoth (POL) - ILYAYD - digibook CD (black)
- Therion (SWE) - Blood of the Dragon - digi 2CD ( album and tribute)
- Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep of Reason - digi CD (Russian edition)
- Cannibal Corpse (USA) - Red Before Black - digi CD (Russian edition)
- Satyricon (NOR) - Deep Calleth Upon Deep - digi CD (Russian edition)
- Raventale - Planetarium - digi CD
- Niezgal (RUS) - Stogn Z Niebyccia - digi CD (black)
- Devorator (RUS) - By The Steps of Demon Beast - A5 digi 2CD (black)
- Khandra - There Is No Division Outside Existence - digi CD
- Ordinul Negru - Lifeless - digi CD (black)
- Ordinul Negru - Nostalgia of the Fullmoon Nights - digi CD (black)
- Ordinul Negru - Faustian Nights - LP (black)
- Ataraxie (FRA) - Resignes 2CD / Slow Transcending Agony digi CD / Project X 2CD / L'Etre et la Nausee 2CD (awesome doom legends)
- Profetus (FIN) - The Sadness of Time Passing digi CD / To Open the Passages digi CD / As All Seasons Die digi CD (awesome doom)
- Majestic Downfall (MEX) - Waters of Fate - CD (doom)
- Funeralium (FRA) - Of Throes and Blight - 2CD (extreme doom)
- Funeral Moth (JAP) - Polar - digisleeve CD (doom)
- Clouds (UK) - Durere - 2LP / digi CD (doom)
- Clouds (UK) - Lor II - LP (doom)
- Red Moon Architect (FIN) - Kuura - 2LP (doom)
- Angellore (FRA) - Rien Ne Deviat Mourir - 2LP (doom)
- Obseqvies (UK) - The Hours of My Wake - 2LP (doom)
- On Thorns I Lay (GRE) - Aegean Sorrow - 2LP (doom)
- Sangre De Muerdago - Vagalumes - 10"
- Profetus (FIN) - Coronation of the Black Sun / Saturnine - 2LP (doom)
- Noothgrush (USA) - Failing Early, Failing Often - 2LP (sludge)
- Meth Drinker (NZ) - Discography - 2CD (doom sludge)
- Bosque / Defuntos (POR) - Split - CD (doom)
- Todesstoss (GER) - Unverweslich - digi CD (black)
- Funeris (ARG) - Elegies & Blood - CD (doom) - plus re-stock of all Funeris albums
- Without Dreams (RUS) - Withering - CD (doom)
- Nightfall Doom Metal - Where Sad Souls Dwell - CD (doom)
- Locus Requiescat - Into Dimensions Beyond the Utter Void - CD
- Aeternum Sacris (JAP) - Haunting Like a Ghost - CD (funeral Doom) - plus re-stock of other STN titles
- No Festival of Light (SWE) - Divide Et Impera - digi 2CD
- Coph Nia - The Tree of Life and Death - digi 3CD (dead drones and aborted soundscapes)
- NTT Navicon Torture Technologies (USA) - Insanity - digi 2CD (noise death industrial)
- Equitant (USA) The Circle of Agurak - digi CD
- Savage Necromancy - S/T - CD (black blasphemy)
- Morbid Sacrifice - Communion of the Unholy - CD
- Skuggmorker (SWE) - I Forgangen Tid / Harskare - LP (Swedish black metal, vinyl re-issue)
- Anubi (LIT) - Mirties Metafora - gatefold LP (Lithuanian black metal re-issue)
- Killing Addiction - Shores of Oblivion - LP (death)
- Apognosis (GRE) - Dominion in Polarity - digi CD (black)
- Hatespirit - Not of This World - CD (black)
- Hatespirit - Ageless Wilderness - CD (black)
- Nacht Und Gnosis - Det Marder Sadt I Stroplighet - CD (black)
- Thy Catafalque (HUN) - Roka Hasa Radio - CD
- Natural Spirit (UKR) - Under Sickle of Time - CD (pagan black)
- Bosque (POR) - Cleansing - CD/LP (extreme doom)
- Adversvm (GER) - Dysangelion - CD (doom)
- Adversvm (GER) - Aion Sitra Ahra - LP (doom)
- Traumatic Voyage (GER) - Gedankenglut - CD (black)
Megalith Levitation / Dekonstruktor - Split
Last updated: 17 August 2020
Very pleased to say that the MEGALITH LEVITATION / DEKONSTRUKTOR split CD is now released and available.
Looks great and sounds awesome. Acerbic lysergic monolithic doom
Check it out - orders available now.
Lycaean Triune tape releases....
Last updated: 14 August 2020
AD is now stocking all tape releases from the excellent Alaskan tape label - Lycaean Triune
Bands involving some members of Yaldabaoth and Arria Paetus
Esoteric - Metamorphogenesis 2LP update
Last updated: 26 July 2020
There is a slight delay with the Esoteric 2LPs - however, I am confident that the vinyls will be here soon and will start shipping in about 2 weeks time.
I am sure after waiting 21 years for this vinyl edition, then this delay won't be an imposition - and when you receive the vinyl it will be worth the wait.
Any questions of queries just let me know.
Esoteric - Death of Ignorance - shirts
Last updated: 4 July 2020
Last chance to order the Esoteric - Death of Ignorance shirts.
Pre-orders are taken until midnight GMT on sunday 5th July
This is a one-off print run - with only the number of pre-orders being printed.
Orders taken on the release page of this website.....
Starless Domain - ALMA
Last updated: 1 July 2020
Following from a recent visitation to EOS – the astral journey continues as Starless Domain expose their blackened chaos through the prism of ALMA.
ALMA is an infinite and holistic vision.
Starless Domain create a wondrous cosmic chaos. Through ALMA they venture further into the farthest reaches of space and gaze upon the boundaries of our known visible universe – brought to mere mortal beings through the conduit of Starless Domain’s deep field black metal.
Most potently, ALMA has a schizophrenic twist, as it conversely represents an introverted look into the deepest (darkest) recesses of the human soul. It is a cathartic reflection, a metaphysical journey of personal exploration.
Reaching parts of the soul that are as equally difficult to traverse and understand as the deepest regions of space that can be sighted from the Atacama.
Released on beautiful 6 panel digipack in August 2020
Megalith Levitation / Dekonstruktor - Split
Last updated: 1 July 2020
It was a hazy smoke filled room where, upon one evening, a sonic soothsayer and doomed notary (Mitya) had uncontrollable visions about a foreboding convergence, a desire for an intertwined chaos, which in that moment seemed pre-destined to be so, as in some epic doomed revelation.
And so it was, on that murky evening, that these loyal servitors of the cult – MEGALITH LEVITATION + DEKONSTRUKTOR – would create a pact, an oath to acerbic doom, which would one day become an audial manifestation of this vision.
In the days thereafter, this phantasmagoric collaboration began to take shape in the form of four occult insurgencies of acid-fuelled ritual doom noise transcendence.
Both of these Russian spectres have created an intangible cohesion, which comes together as a seamless congealed whole of droning, hypnotic and lysergic doom.
These drug fuelled doom dissidents keep to the spirit of art for the sake of self, true visionaries of the obscure and the underground
These tales of occult doom are available, even to non-servitors, from August 2020 in splendid digipack
Esoteric - Metamorphogenesis 2LP
Last updated: 25 June 2020
Esoteric - Metamorphogenesis 2LP
Last updated: 25 June 2020
Please note: when ordering the Metamorphogenesis 2LP, then any additional items (on top of the 2LP) from my website (releases + shop) are postage free worldwide.
Meta 2LP + demo shirt - bundle offer
Last updated: 25 June 2020
Esoteric - Death of Ignorance - shirts
Last updated: 25 June 2020
Nagaarum - Covid Diaries - new CD
Last updated: 15 June 2020
Without having any releases planned for the remainder of 2020 - NAGAARUM had entered a self-imposed period of reflection and channeling creativity into different areas. Although constantly planning and scheming for what the future held for NAGAARUM
This was abruptly ended when an enforced pandemic lockdown caused Nagaarum to, quite naturally, go into creative overload - having a whole area of material and human activity to use as material. The resulting creative overload has formed into a great new NAGAARUM album entitled "Covid Diaries" - which follows on somewhat from "Rabies Lyssa" - and is one of the finest NAGAARUM albums to date.
Six tracks of obscure, doomed sounds - an eclectic mix of ambient soundscapes, noisy segues and isolated doom. Released 31st July 2020
Hallowed Butchery - agree a collaboration with AD
Last updated: 14 June 2020
I am absolutely delighted to be collaborating with the inspired and talented US act - HALLOWED BUTCHERY
Having created obscure underground music for more than a decade - with numerous releases - Hallowed Butchery are no strangers to putting together some great music.
However, the latest recording - "Deathsongs From The Hymnal of the Church of the Final Pilgrimage" - sets a new standard of excellence, an even higher pinnacle of extreme doom obscurity.
Aesthetic Death has the honour of putting out a digi CD version in the early autumn. The recent cassette tape version is already sold out.
More news soon......
postage rates + discounts
Last updated: 13 June 2020
To make it easier to understand the postage rates which apply to any orders, I have added a link at the top of the "shop" pages and the "releases" page.
Clicking this link at any time will give a reminder of the postage rates.
I have designed the postage rates to make them more affordable - they are all pretty much below actual cost - but the heavier the parcel the greater the discount. For example, a 10kg parcel to Australia is approximately a 75% reduction in actual price.
I have discounted the postal rates to support my customers - all of you who continue to support underground extreme music and physical releases.
Thanks as always.
Parcel weight parameters in Grams.
Prices in UK pounds.
new collaboration with Dark Awake
Last updated: 11 May 2020
I'm very pleased to announce a collaboration with the excellent Greek artist - Dark Awake
Later this year will see the release of the "Hekateion" digi CD
An exquisite album - which is a concept based upon the ancient goddess of witchcraft HECATE
Presented in 4 tracks which are an accompaniment to an esoteric ritual and dark ambient expression to Hecate
Last chance to order......discounts finish this weekend!!
Last updated: 30 April 2020
In these times of worldwide apocalypse it seemed appropriate to give my customers an offer to help people keep supporting underground music, as a fitting soundtrack to this chaos......
Therefore, until the end of April 2020, all orders on my website will be postage FREE for orders over £10 (UK) and £20 (worldwide).
Any orders over £40 will get a 20% overall reduction as well.
My website cannot cope with such calculations - so check out my store on the above tab - and email me directly with your order.
I'll then send you the total and the paypal address. Should be simple enough.
Cave Dweller - debut cd out summer 2020
Last updated: 22 April 2020
Cave Dweller is a solo project from one half of the amazing pando.
the debut album might be seen as delving into folk music territories - but it is far more nuanced than that. The general tone is darkly expressive. It is the raw emotion of an artist for all to bare witness. It is an album that explores the dualities in one's life - it touches on themes of loneliness and a symbiosis with mental illness. It is an album that delves introspectively into what makes us the people we think we are, the tribulations of existence and the constant struggle for purpose and inner justification...
Cave Dweller is inspired by the similar duality found in nature. it's brutality, yet frailty. the expansive isolation, yet beauty.
Dekonstruktor / Megalith Levitation - split CD
Last updated: 22 April 2020
I'm very pleased to be working with Russian acid laced doom noise acts DEKONSTRUKTOR + MEGALITH LEVITATION on the release of their excellent split album.
More news and previews soon - but expect a release during summer 2020
Esoteric - Metamorphogenesis 2LP
Last updated: 8 April 2020
....is currently at press. We are expecting the test pressings in the next 2 weeks.
Production is going smoothly thus far and I'm grateful to all involved in getting this vinyl released to the high quality required.
Cover artwork can be seen here - Mauro/Eibon Recs did a wonderful job with a layout true to the original cd
V:XII - Rome Rune & Ruin - now released!!
Last updated: 24 March 2020
Very pleased to announce the release of the debut album from V:XII "Rom, Rune & Ruin - The Odium Disciplina"
Swedish blackened death industrial dark ambience from Daniel Jansson - who is the mastermind behind such great acts as Deadwood, Culted, Blodulv + more...
A truly disturbing and chilling piece of audial terror!! Pushing the boundaries of conventional methods of expression and experimentation with sounds of hatred and despair.
Available to buy here on the "releases" page - or from the band directly!
Yaldabaoth - digi CD - now released
Last updated: 27 February 2020
the debut album from obscure twisted blackened extreme metal act YALDABAOTH is now released.
From the Alaskan frozen wastelands - Yaldabaoth have created a wonderful piece of dark technical satirical chaos
Featuring members of Arria Paetus, They Leapt From Burning Windows - along with contribution from Skopt
Beautiful release - which is symbiotically represented with an amazing artwork from BUSINESS FOR SATAN
check this out!!
Esoteric - Metamorphogenesis 2LP
Last updated: 27 February 2020
Very pleased to say that "Metamorphogenesis" vinyl is at the pressing plant.
Production is underway and I hope to have this available during May/June
Along with Greg re-mixing the album - we have gone all out to make this a special and worthy production.
Await more news over the coming weeks.....
Yaldabaoth - That Which Whets the Saccharine Palate - digi CD
Last updated: 14 February 2020
at press now is the excellent debut album from Alaskan act YALDABAOTH
Extreme obscure blackened death metal - check this out.
Comes with beautiful artwork from Business For Satan
V:XII - an allegiance with Aesthetic Death
Last updated: 17 November 2019
I'm very pleased to have the opportunity to put out the debut CD from V:XII.
A punishing behemoth of black industrial darkness - "Rom, Rune and Ruin: The Odium Disciplina" will be released in the early days of 2020
V:XII was created in 2018 from the ashes of the Black Industrial project Deadwood. The tracks that originally were considered for a new Deadwood album took on a form of itself and could not be anything else but its own entity. And therefore V:XII was conceived. A new beginning to explore the darkness in man, beast and culture. Taking inspiration from whatever comes his way the sole member Daniel Jansson has been active in the underground metal and industrial scene since before 2003 releasing albums with band/projects such as Deadwood, Culted, Blodulv, Aum Arrhythmia and Keplers Odd.
Recorded during 2018-2019, the debut album Rom, Rune and Ruin-The Odium Disciplina combines segments reaching from Black Industrial, Doom, Black metal and Drone to Dark Ambient and Power Electronics. Pushing the boundaries of conventional ways of expression and experimenting with sounds of hatred and despair.
Reido - a sublime realisation....
Last updated: 6 November 2019
I'm very pleased to announce that the new album "Anatman" has been released.
This is one of those albums that has struck me from the first time I heard it - it is sublime, reflective, meditative, yet extreme, doom. It may not push boundaries - but at an emotional level it does everything I want from extreme doom.
I can comfortably say that it is one of the best doom albums for me - check it out yourself and see if you agree.
Check it out on the Reido bandcamp and elsewhere:
https://www.facebook.com/Reido-175046819224347/
You can buy it here:
https://www.aestheticdeath.com/releases.php
Arria Paetus / Moloch - Split LP
Last updated: 6 November 2019
Finally out is the killer gatefold vinyl from Moloch (Ukr) and Arria Paetus (Alaska)
Limited to 300 copies. Get it direct from https://www.aestheticdeath.com/releases.php
..... or from the bandcamp of all involved.
Tape version imminent on Lycaean Triune
Tome of the Unreplenished / Starless Domain - split CD
Last updated: 6 November 2019
This week witnesses the release of the "Epistolary of the Fall" split CD. It has been a troubled, difficult and dark period to get this released - but what could be more fitting for a chaotic musical split.
Tome of the Unreplenished have created a dark black industrial ambient track of the highest order. An improvised and instrumentally eclectic feel. This is the perfect submersion into darkness before Starless Domain take you on a further journey into deep field black metal chaos - CERES sees Starless Domain take this cosmic journey into new facets of extremity and cold nothingness, with the help of Mories.
Comes on a beautiful A5 digipack - with artwork by Meriel Endtyme
Get it here: https://www.aestheticdeath.com/releases.php
new REIDO album released soon.....
Last updated: 17 September 2019
the excellent "Anatman" album from Belarusian act REIDO is released on 18th October 2019
One of my all-time favourite doom albums - I'm looking forward to getting this album out and heard by everyone into extreme doom.
Moloch / Arria Paetus - split LP
Last updated: 17 September 2019
the split vinyl from Ukrainian raw black metal act "Moloch" and underground Alaskan death/black metallers "Arria Paetus" will be released soon.
Vinyl production is currently underway and LPs will be available from the end of October - available to pre-order now.
Features excellent cover artwork from Pierre Perichaud
Tome of the Unreplenished / Starless Domain - split CD
Last updated: 17 September 2019
the astral collision between blackened ambient noise act "Tome of the Unreplenished" and deep field cosmic black metal act "Starless Domain" is happening in a nearby black-hole - the expected formation to arrive in this parallel universe in just a few light weeks in early November 
Starless Domain - EOS - out now
Last updated: 29 August 2019
the excellent debut album from US act - STARLESS DOMAIN
EOS is a seminal piece of deep field black metal - on a tortured journey through the cosmos
Reido - Anatman digi CD
Last updated: 3 August 2019
the new REIDO album - "Anatman" - is going to press this week.
Extreme, yet subtle and contemplative, doom.
The album cover artwork can now be unveiled.
One of the best doom albums I've heard........
Starless Domain - CD out soon.....
Last updated: 3 August 2019
Deep field black metal.
The CD version of the Starless Domain album - "EOS" - is currently at press, with a release due in late August.
A blackened astral journey into infinity, beyond the limitations of human understanding.....
Available to buy at the Aesthetic Death website - or via the band directly on their bandcamp.
Esoteric - Metamorphogenesis 2LP
Last updated: 3 August 2019
It is with great delight that I can announce that we are closing in on getting the Esoteric "Metamorphogenesis" album released on vinyl.
This week saw Greg Chandler complete a wonderful re-mix of the album in its entirety - along with mastering for vinyl.
A task that was lengthy, time-consuming and a genuine labour of love at Priory Recording Studios. But, the end result is the beloved "Metamorphogenesis" with a new and enhanced sound.
It's going to be an awesome vinyl 2LP release - which should go to press soon.
