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Last updated: 23 July 2021
latest arrivals.....
- Marche Funebre (BEL) - Einderlicht - 2LP (doom)
- Mar De Grises (MEX) - The Tatterdemalion Express - 2LP (prog doom)
- Mar De Grises (MEX) - Draining the Waterheart - 2LP (prog doom)
- Majestic Downfall (MEX) - Aorta - CD (doom)
- Mourners (ROM) - Act 1: Tragedies - digi CD (funeral doom)
- Felgrave (NOR) - A Waning Light - CD (experimental doom death)
- Sporae Autum Yuggoth (CHI) - The Plague of Aeons (cavernous death doom)
- Slough of Despair (GRE) - Catacombs of Terror - CD (doom death)
- Pustilence (AUS) - The Birth of the Beginning - CD (death metal)
- Wharflurch (USA) - Shitslime - CD (death)
- Ophiukhus (UK) - Exile - digi CD (dissonant technical death - self released - recommended)
- Praesepe/Ophiukhus/Cythraul - Lunar Occultation - 3 way CD (black death)
- Of Hatred Spawn - S/T - CD - (death metal)
- Nuclear Cthulhu (RUS) - Desecration - digi CD (awesome apocalyptic blackened doom noise - tones of Mordor - Killer!)
- Cthulhu (RUS) - Hallucinations at the Mountains of Madness - CD (black)
- Cthulhu (RUS) - Hallucinations in the Colour Out of Space - A5 digi (black)
- Cthulhu Biomechanical (RUS) - Elon Musk Superstar - digi CD (obscure)
- BlackDeath (RUS) - Phantasmhassgorie - CD (black)
- Ordo Ad Chao - Fear The Invisible - CD / Tape (black)
- Slave Hands (FIN) - Ruins - Emptiness - digi CD (sludge doom noise)
- Shattered Hope (GRE) - Vespers - CD (doom death)
- Solitude Prod (RUS) releases - re-stock of cds from When Nothing Remains (SWE), Doom:vs (SWE), Fvneral Fvkk (GER), Fallen (NOR) etc....
- No Point In Living (JAP) - Life Without Hope - digi CD (black)
- No Point In Living / Suicidal Ideation / Average Misanthropy / Ebola - 4 way split CD - (one man japanese black metal)
- Portrait of Flesh and Blood (JAP) - Gallery of Sorrow - CD (black)
- Devastating Light (FIN) - I Have Already Failed You - CD
- Sardonic Witchery (US) - King of the Midnight Legions - CD (black death)
- Orcrist - Union of Evil - CD (black)
- Veter Daemonaz / Shadow Ov Fenris - Vade Retro - CD (black)
- Carcolh - The Life and Works of Death - digi CD
- Elffor (POR) - Condemned To Wander / Impious Battlefields / Unholy Throne of Doom / Malkhedant / Unblessed Woods - CDs (black)
- Nexion - Seven Oracles - digi CD / LP (black)
- Void of Silence - The Sky Over - digi CD / 2LP (doom)
- Profetus (FIN) - The Sadness of Time Passing - digi CD / 2LP(funeral doom)
- Nortt (SWE) - Endeligt - digi CD / LP (black doom)
- Nortt (SWE) - Gudsforladt - digi CD (black doom)
- United Bible Studies (UK) - Divining Movements - diig 2CD
- Tony Tears (ITA) - The Atlantean Afterlife (...Living Beyond) - digi CD (Italian dark sound)
- Bardo Methodology - Issue 7 - Zine (latest issue of one of the best underground zines - plus restock of issues 1 - 6)
- Bardo Archivology - Issue 2 - Zine (latest issue of this side publication of BM - plus restock of issue 1)
Uncle Grasha's Flying Circus - vinyl out now
Last updated: 23 July 2021
"Uncle Grasha's Flying Circus" take us on drone ambient story through the lens of World War and philosophy with an Eastern perspective
"Ost" is a captivating piece of work - a narrative and dialogue that paints an intriguing picture
Released on vinyl only - part of a multi-label colla
boration
Funeral Chasm -
Last updated: 17 July 2021
the utterly wonderful debut album - "Omniversal Existence" - from Danish extreme doom act FUNERAL CHASM - has now been released
"Omniversal Existence" is a stunning piece of work - hard to put into words - it is not only one of the finest albums I have had the opportunity to release, but have ever enjoyed. It is an innovative doom album of introspective aura, of dark psychedlia, of soaring emotion - an album that needs to be listened to as a whole.....
Essential listening.
the digi CD version comes in a beautiful digipack.
LP version hopefully available by the end of 2021
Keep supporting physical media and underground culture!!!!!
Aesthetic Death upcoming releases...
Last updated: 17 July 2021
Suffer Yourself (SWE/UKR) - Rip Tide - LP (at press - eta August 2021)
Funeral Chasm (DEN) - Omniversal Existence - 2LP (at press - eta end 2021)
Esoteric (UK) - Esoteric Emotion: The Death of Ignorance - 2LP (end 2021)
Megalith Levitation (RUS) - Void Psalms - CD (Autumn 2021)
Hivemind (UK) - Edict of the Elohim - CD (Autumn 2021)
Haiku Funeral (FRA) - Drown Their Moons In Blood - CD (October 2021)
The Slumbering (US) - Looking for Sorrow Within One's Fears - CD (Autumn 2021)
Horthodox/Goatpsalm (RUS) - Ash - digi CD (Autumn 2021)
Vaina (FIN) - Futue Te Ipsum - CD (Autumn 2021)
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)
Suffer Yourself - Rip Tide - digi CD
Last updated: 17 July 2021
the new SUFFER YOURSELF album "Rip TIde" has finally been released
A stunning piece of death doom - whole album built over a drone score created by Ukrainian artist Ugasanie
An oppressive and claustrophobic piece of work - "Spit In The Chasm" is such a finely crafted track,which demonstrates SUFFER YOURSELF are leading the way at the forefront of this genre.
digi CD available now - on this website or directly from the band - LP version should be released in September 2021
Keep supporting physical media and underground culture!!
Kadaver / Listing - out shortly
Last updated: 6 June 2021
the Kadaver / Listing cd will be out in the next days.
Ugly harsh noise with avantgarde nightmares
Suffer Yourself - artwork
Last updated: 14 May 2021
Cover artwork for the new SUFFER YOURSELF album.....
Suffer Yourself - release date announced
Last updated: 14 May 2021
Five years since the acclaimed doom/death of “Ectoplasm” – Suffer Yourself have returned with their latest offering “Rip Tide”.
Displaying a maturity and expression from over a decade honing their sound - “Rip Tide” is a superbly crafted album which, on the surface, leans more on their death metal tone but which has much more going on once you delve deeper.
“Rip Tide” is due for release on June 25th – and rightly heralds Suffer Yourself as one of the leading protagonists within the doom/death genre
More info on the AD website or Suffer Yourself bandcamp page
Funeral Chasm - artwork
Last updated: 14 May 2021
Cover artwork for the new FUNERAL CHASM album
Funeral Chasm - Omniversal Existence 2LP/CD
Last updated: 14 May 2021
Very pleased to announce that “Omniversal Existence” is at press and due for release on 21st June.
Something special resonates throughout this album.
A sublime, melancholic and introspective piece of extreme doom.
One of my favourite albums – period.
Prepare yourself for a trip with Funeral Chasm
Check out the Funeral Chasm bandcamp page....a preview track should be available very soon....
Mourning Dawn - Dead End Euphoria - vinyl edition
Last updated: 4 May 2021
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pando - rites cd
Last updated: 4 May 2021
the new album from much loved US act PANDO is out very soon.
Released on digi CD
Check out more info below....
there was a time when all I wondered was how the molds of men were formed
with a catalyst as thin as water
there is a need for something rough to shape the very shell that forms what's within
but with a shell so thick in beauty we can lose track of what's inside
since we already washed our hands of grime with its lye there's no escaping the modern thoughts of men
Epitaphe - enter studio
Last updated: 24 March 2021
Great news to hear that the guys in EPITAPHE are due to enter the Plastic Lobster studio again in the coming weeks to begin recordings for the new album.
Highly anticipated follow up to 2019's "I"
More news as it happens later into 2021
Mourning Dawn - Dead End Euphoria
Last updated: 16 March 2021
Following delays on top of delays – combined with elements of bad luck and governmental censorship – we can finally say that the new Mourning Dawn album – “Dead End Euphoria” is imminent.
The 5th album – essential to anyone who knows Mourning Dawn by now!!
Available on digi CD (in 500 copies) and 2LP vinyl (in 100 copies)
Hallowed Butchery - digi cd out soon
Last updated: 13 March 2021
the utterly wonderful HALLOWED BUTCHERY album – “Deathsongs from the Hymnal of the Church of the Final Pilgrimage” – will be out very soon.
Released on digi CD – with two booklets.
Check out more info below....
Death to all.
pando - rites cd - currently at press
Last updated: 4 March 2021
the new pando album - entitled "rites" - is currently at press.
An intense and disturbung creation which is a direct reflection of matters at the forefront.
Release in mid April
Hallowed Butchery - digi cd out soon
Last updated: 19 January 2021
Now under production is the digi CD version of the new HALLOWED BUTCHERY album - "Deathsongs from the Hymnal of the Church of the Final Pilgrimage"
If you're not aware of HALLOWED BUTCHERY then take the time to assimilate with this album - one of the best "doom" releases in recent times. The cd version includes an expansive booklet hinting towards the source inspirations of "Deathsongs..."
More news to follow - release due in February 2021
Mourning Dawn - Dead End Euphoria
Last updated: 19 January 2021
the long awaited new album from France's MOURNING DAWN will be available soon....
Album under production now and making good progress - looking towards a release for both cd and 2LP in March 2021
Expect one of the strongest MOURNING DAWN albums to date - French doom sickness
Epitaphe - I - vinyl version
Last updated: 17 December 2020
very pleased to now have released the vinyl version of the awesome crushing death doom debut from EPITAPHE
Green vinyl 2LP down to last few copies - Black vinyl still available
Support this great band!! Tape version now released on Gurgling Gore (US)
New album to be recorded soon!!
Farer - Monad - digisleeve CD
Last updated: 22 November 2020
the FARER album is now released....
"Monad" perfectly reflects the polarities found in the world today.
It is a wondrous paradox. A complex juxtaposition between the brutal bass driven anguish, and those moments of peaceful sublime beauty.
Check it out!
Tape version on the excellent Tartarus Records - CD out now on Aesthetic Death
Dark Awake - Hekateion - digi CD
Last updated: 2 November 2020
Out now - the beautifully evocative dark ambient album from DARK AWAKE - "Hekateion" - based upon the ancient goddess of witchcraft - Hecate
All orders being shipped this week - support physical releases and the magical world of underground art, culture and obscurity
Kadaver / Listing - release announced
Last updated: 2 November 2020
I'm very pleased to be working with KADAVER (ISR) / LISTING (US) on a forthcoming digi cd release.
Both established underground artists in the noise scene, amongst others - this is a well-crafted noise collaboration.
Release planned in the first quarter of 2021
Epitaphe - I - tape version
Last updated: 2 November 2020
Some great news to announce, there will be a tape edition, in addition to the upcoming 2LP vinyl version of the EPITAPHE debut album "I"
EPITAPHE have been in collaboration with the recently established, but utterly amazing, US label - GURGLING GORE - who will be putting out a beautiful and lavish tape edition of the "I" album.
Both myself and EPITAPHE are very grateful for the support and enthusiasm put into this edition by GURGLING GORE - support this!!
Funeral Chasm - join forces with AD
Last updated: 21 October 2020
I am happy to announce that I will be working with Danish funeral doom act - FUNERAL CHASM - on the release of their debut album
More details will follow over the coming weeks - however, I can't recommend this album enough - it is a stunning creation of doom. It has a truly magical feeling to the album - and I am extremely grateful to have the opportunity to work with the guys from FUNERAL CHASM.
Expect a cd release by March 2021
The release of Funeral Chasm's album will be part of four exceptional doom albums I am fortunate enough to be releasing in the next 5 months. Those albums - from HALLOWED BUTCHERY (US), MOURNING DAWN (FRA), SUFFER YOURSELF (SWE/UKR) + FUNERAL CHASM (DEN) - really are some of the most innovative, powerful and beautiful doom albums that I've heard in recent years. This really is an exciting period in the life of Aesthetic Death.
Intaglio - s/t LP - released Nov 15th
Last updated: 21 October 2020
I'm very pleased to be collaborating (in a small way) in the forthcoming vinyl issue of the 2005 debut from INTAGLIO - which has been completely re-worked and improved for this new vinyl edition. Release date - November 15th 2020
A reimagined version of the self-titled debut "Intaglio" album originally released in 2005. The new version contains parts and sounds that were not included in the original version of the album, which is now in their place as originally intended. Every second of all the original source tracks underwent restoration and processing using top-class digital and analog equipment. Moreover, for the new version of the album, all drum parts were live recorded, without the use of triggering and sampling technologies, which is very rare nowadays. The album was restored and remixed by Evgeny Semyonov (When Nothing Remains, Woe Unto Me, Sorrowful Land) at Slow Burn Studio, mastering was performed by Mika Jussila (Shape Of Despair, Isole, Unholy, Moonspell) at Finnvox Studios.
Ignis Gehenna - new album
Last updated: 21 October 2020
Aesthetic Death is one of the distributors of the excellent new IGNIS GEHENNA album - which is released on 1st Novemeber.
Buy direct from the "shop" on this site.
Ignis Gehenna returns with it's sophomore album 'Rites of Transvaluation'. A quaturnite Janus face peering back into the fires of the past, toward the darkness of the future- all the while earthed as a threshold of serpent fire light in flux between them. Weaving a style where barbarity, obscurity and melody meld amidst a further delving into unhinged atmosphere.
'Rites of Transvaluation' was predominantly written and recorded in the same sessions as the debut 'Baleful Scarlet Star'. Neither album has a concurrent concept though both are intrinsically interwoven through time, space and intent.
Digipak CD release with eminent artwork by Vhan Artworks and Sinister Emanations Art. Released under the auspices of the band's label Aeon of Fire Music and available in the United Kingdom through Aesthetic Death
Farer - Monad - digisleeve CD
Last updated: 7 October 2020
I’m very pleased to announce a collaboration with the excellent Dutch doom act FARER
This sees the renewal of long term contacts, as FARER feature members of ORTEGA – who worked previously with Aesthetic Death. Plus “Monad” is jointly released with our friends at TARTARUS Recs who are taking charge of the tape version.
More info below.
Hailing from the Netherlands, doom/noise trio FARER conspire with Tartarus Records and Aesthetic Death to release “Monad”, the band’s first album, on November 20th 2020.
FARER create an imposing discord of severe, caustic bass textures, harrowing vocals and winding drums. The band, featuring members of Ortega, was originally founded as MENHIR in 2013, but chose FARER as their new moniker mid 2019, after spending two and a half years of writing and recording their debut record "Monad". By taking time to further explore the possibilities of being a band with two bass players and the absence of a guitar, the album exhibits the bands evolution into a new entity. Resulting in carefully crafted, drawn-out, oppressive and compelling songs.
Traversing the absolute – "Monad" is a testament to suffering. Heavy grinding riffs and deep pulsating rhythms; a restless stirring. Amidst all these layers we hear the human voice as a primal wordless scream – the shock of being. We feel the dissonance of forces vying for existence and the harmony of lightless oblivion. Whispers of unfathomable truths emerge from the static.
FARER presents a tactile experience of the grim and brutal cycle of creation and destruction. There is desperation and anger, but above all a greater comprehension of the eternal patterns reverberating through flesh. The relentless driving layers of crushed sound offer no respite. In resonance is the movement of great mass. The vocals are brutally honest and raw. Complex and utterly bleak. A confrontation with the void.
Out of nothing, nothing becomes.
FARER is:
Frank de Boer - Bass/Vocals
Arjan van Dalen - Bass/Vocals
Sven Jurgens - Drums/Percussion
FOR FANS OF: The Body, Sumac, Amenra
Cave Dweller - Walter Goodman - digi CD
Last updated: 24 September 2020
the CAVE DWELLER digi CD has been released today.
A stunning piece of dark folk, singer songwriter, obscurity - a testament to loneliness and isolation
Check out the tracks here:
https://cavedweller3.bandcamp.com/album/walter-goodman-or-the-empty-cabin-in-the-woods
Dark Awake - Hekateion - digi CD
Last updated: 24 September 2020
Check out the video clip trailer for the forthcoming album from DARK AWAKE
digi CD should be released in early November.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLUp7o42bc8
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....
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
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.
