Rot Coven - album released
Last updated: 29 August 2024
Aesthetic Death is stoked to have released the debut ROT COVEN album.
"Nightmares Devour The Waking World" - is out on digi 2CD.
Read more below about their industrial noise death-sludge - an album I highly recommend, some exciting music ahead from this act.
Check out the full album premiere here.....
Rot Coven isse 2nd track - Accretion Disk Necropolis
Last updated: 11 August 2024
check out another track from the awesome ROT COVEN album - coming out next week.....
https://echoesanddust.com/2024/07/exclusive-video-premiere-rot-coven-accretion-disk-necropolis/
Mekigah reveal full album on No Clean Singing......
Last updated: 11 August 2024
Check out all tracks from the new MEKIGAH album - premiered over at NO CLEAN SINGING.
Fantastic review - from someone who gets what Mekigah are about.
"To Hold Onto A Heartless Heart" is released later this coming week.
Rot Coven - Nightmares Devour The Waking World - digi 2CD
Last updated: 30 July 2024
check out more info for the Rot Coven CD - out in just a couple of weeks.....
just in.....
Last updated: 5 July 2024
latest arrivals.....including releases from Aphelion Productions, Metal Scrap, Possession Prod, Metal Or Die Recs etc......
Legion of Wolves (IRE) - Bringers of the Dark Sleep - CD (Death)
Amon (USA) - Liar In Wait - LP (Death, black vinyl edition (500 copies) on Possession Productions - released in 2014)
Desert Near The End (GRE) - Of Fire And Stars - CD (Thrash, Power/thrash/death metal)
Desert Near The End (GRE) - Theater Of War - CD (Thrash, Energetic epic power metal)
Fausttophel (UKR) - Thirst Of Oblivion - CD (Black, Melodic black metal )
Fausttophel (UKR) - No Liars Among The Fallen - CD (Black, Melodic black metal)
Desert Near The End (GRE) - Hunt For The Sun - CD (Thrash)
Diesear (TAI) - Ashes Of The Dawn - CD (Death, melodic death metal/ deathcore - jewel case version)
Ades Numen (ITA) - War - CD (Death Black, symphonic black/death)
Authority Of Hate (RUS) - Crackdown - CD (Death)
Inira (ITA) - Gray Painted Garden - CD (Death, melodic death metal)
Night Attack (USA) - The Initiation - CD (Thrash, Vampiric thrash metal)
Sectorial (UKR) - Erase And Reborn The Humanity - CD (Grind, Experimental grindcore - with thrash, black influences, and some flute)
Tranquillizer 247 (POL) - Dziesięć - digi CD (Grind, death/grindcore)
EFYD (ITA) - Like Shadows - digi CD (Grind, Death metal / grindcore - Enjoy Fearing Your Death)
Omega Diatribe (HUN) - Metanoia - digi CD (Heavy Metal, Progressive, groove metal, with death and industrial touches)
Edellom (ISR) - Sirens - CD (Death Doom, gothic doom death metal)
Vadikan (RUS) - Hydrargyrum - CD (Gothic/Darkwave, Gothic metal)
Memorain (GRE) - Seven Sacrifices - CD (Thrash, Groove thrash speed metal with social conscience)
Shadow Rebels (ISR) - On The Ride - digi CD (Psychedelic, Progressive post-rock grunge - ffo: Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, Sound Garden, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Foo Fighters, Yes etc....)
Lone Survivors (FRA) - Ground Zero - digi CD (Heavy Metal, Post metal, progressive metal, metalcore)
Mind Affliction (POL) - Into The Void - CD (Death Black)
Qaanaaq (ITA) - Escape From The Black Iced Forest - CD (Doom, Avantgarde progressive doom metal)
From The Shores (ITA) - Of Apathy - CD (Death, Melodic death metal / metalcore)
Aeternus Prophet (UKR) - Exclusion of Non-Dominated Material - CD (Death)
Pedophile Priests (IRE) - Cancer - CD (Death, Brutal death metal)
Hesperion (UKR) - Who Alive - CD (Heavy Metal, Progressive power metal - with symphonic gothic folk elements)
Omega Diatribe (HUN) - Trinity - CD (Heavy Metal, Progressive, groove metal, with death and industrial touches)
Symphony Of Symbols (HUN) - Historiocriticism - CD (Death Black)
Crepuscolo (ITA) - You Tomb - CD (Death, death metal / deathcore)
Shame Yourself (POL) - Wonderfuck - CD (Thrash)
Instorm (RUS) - Madness Inside - CD (Death, Neoclassical / melodic death metal)
Stormhold (BLR) - The Lost World - CD (Death, melodic death metal)
Torture Of Hypocrisy (POL) - Humanufacture - CD (Thrash, Thrash groove metal)
Social Scream (GRE) - Initiation To The Myths - CD (Heavy Metal)
Druknroll (RUS) - Freakingface - CD (Thrash, melodic death/thrash)
Circle Story (RUS) - Uncovered Fears - CD (Heavy Metal, Alternative metal/rock with grunge influences - FFO: Alice In Chains, Katatonia, Gojira, Mastodon etc...)
Xpus (ITA) - Sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth - CD (Death Black)
Force Out (UKR) - Delusion - CD (Death, melodic death metal)
Auron (RUS) - Auron - CD (Heavy Metal, progressive heavy metal)
Locus Titanic Funus (RUS) - Never Pretend - CD (Doom, gothic doom metal)
Dan Deagh Wealcan (RUS) - Fragmented Consciousness - CD (Ambient Abstract, a bizarre melting pot of Industrial, Post-HardCore, Progressive, Alternative Metal, Art Rock, Electronic, Noise, Symphonic Rock, New Prog, Mathcore)
Edvian (RUS) - 2012 - CD (Heavy Metal, progressive metal with electronic influences)
Alberto Rigoni (ITA) - For The Love Of Bass - digi CD (Ambient Abstract, exclusively electric bass, spanning ambient, fusion, jazz and new age styles)
Parasite Crowd (HUN) - Trichotomia - CD (Grind, death metal / grindcore)
Krampus (HUN) - Retarded Spawn - CD (Death, brutal death/grindcore)
Antichrist (HUN) - Dark Age...In The Very Beginning - CD (Black thrash, Hungarian black thrash band active between 1987-1989, influenced by Bathory, Celtic Frost, Slayer, Sodom... only demo from 1989 re-issued on the 35th anniversary)
Atomic (HUN) - Slashing Victory - CD (Thrash, Hungarian thrash band since 1983 - 30 year anniversary re-issue of this album)
Mutilation Case (HUN) - Mutilation Case - CD (Death, concept album around Hungary's notorious murders)
Frost (HUN) - Consecratus Ad Mortem - CD (Black, latest album from Hungarian underground cult)
夢éŠç—…者 (Sleepwalker) (JAP) - Skopofoboexoskelett - LP (Black, post-metal/black metal / experimental - an exploration of the notions of self-reflection, intuition, phobia, luck, and failure in the context of the evil eye, its historical, cultural, physical and metaphysical meanings)
Lugubrum (BEL) - De Ware Hond - LP (Black)
Lugubrum (BEL) - Wakar Cartel - LP (Black, black vinyl edition)
Lugubrum (BEL) - Bruyne Troon - 2LP (Black, Brown Throne)
Lugubrum (BEL) - De Zuivering - LP (Black, black vinyl edition)
Lugubrum (BEL) - Plague Chomage - LP (Black, black vinyl edition)
Necrofrost (GER) - Blackeon Lightharvest - LP (Black, black vinyl)
Enshadowed (AP ) - Magic Chaos Psychedelia - LP (Black)
Still fresh.......
Until Death Overtakes Me (BEL) - Days Without Hope - CD (Funeral doom, funeral doom ambient)
Paganland (UKR) - Wind Of Freedom - CD (Pagan/folk black, Ukrainian pagan black - FFO Vintersorg, Ensiferum, Drudkh)
Misanthropic Art (RUS) - The Streams Of Terror - 2CD (Black, 2CD jewel case version)
Schmerz (GER) - Chronika - CD (Black)
Sigillum Diaboli (RUS) - 666 - CD (Black)
Aethernaeum - Naturmystik - CD (Black, Folk black metal - in the vein of Dornenreich, Agalloch, Empyrium etc)
Abscess (USA) - Bourbon, Blood and Butchery - CD (Death, back in stock)
Bonesaw / Bone Gnawer (UK / SWE) - split - LP (Death, back in stock)
Bonesaw (UK) - Sawtopsy - CD (Death, back in stock)
Towards Darkness - Tetrad - CD (Doom, back in stock - excellent band)
Arkhon Infaustus (FRA) - Orthodoxyn - CD (Death Black)
The Stone (SRB) - Zakon Velesa - CD (Black)
Salon Decadence Compilation (INT) - Neo-Form Prasentiert - CD (Gothic/Darkwave, Released to accompany a 2-day concert organized by Neo-Form in Leipzig in 2006. Features Rose Rovine E Amanti, Sagittarius, Tho-So-Aa, Echo West + Shava Sadhana )
Sojaruun (EST) - Talv - CD (Pagan/folk black)
The Ravenous (USA) - Blood Delirium - CD (Death, Death gore metal "supergroup" featured Lilker, Reifert, Coralles, Killjoy and Bower - second album)
Christmass (RUS) - Vigil - CDr (Funeral doom, Russian one-man funeral doom - on pro cdr)
Dogme (RUS) - Eons - CD (Funeral doom, cosmic funeral doom)
1000 Funerals (IRA) - Butterfly Decadence - CD (Funeral doom, Funeral doom with elements of death metal and ambient - second alb
Until My Funerals Began (UKR) - False Horizon - CD (Funeral doom)
Until My Funerals Began (UKR) - Behind The Window - CD (Funeral doom)
Dissolving Of Prodigy (CZE) - Stvanice - Tape (Death Doom)
Dissolving Of Prodigy (CZE) - Loucení se svetem pozemskym - Tape (Death Doom)
Defiled (JAP) - Divination - CD (Death, Japanese death metal - first album on Season Of Mist - storage wear, slight scuffs on CD)
Mortiis (SWE) - The Smell Of Rain - CD (Gothic/Darkwave, Darkwave synthpop - era 2. Storage wears - scuffs on CD)
Vasaria (USA) - Vasaria - CD (Gothic/Darkwave, Gothic metal/rock - on Century Media - storage wear, scuffs on CD)
Katatonia (SWE) - Brave Yester Days - 2CD (Death Doom, Compilation of early material including tracks from Dance of December Souls, Brave Murder Days, Saw You Drown, For Funerals To Come, Sound Of Decay, Jhva Elohim Meth - released in 2004)
Inferno (CZE) - V navratu pohanstvi - CD (Black, slight marks on CD, plays fine)
Ulvegr (UKR) - Arctogaia - CD (Black, Ukrainian black metal)
Ninnixu (USA) - Collection - CD (Black, includes material from the demo and split releases)
Morbid Lust (RUS) - In Death You Will Dwell - digisleeve CD (Death, Blasphemous Death Metal from 1992. Reminiscent of early Tiamat. Nekrokvlt. CD re-issue in gatefold-style. Limited to 222 hand-numbered copies.)
Ulcer (POL) - Heading Below - CD (Death, comes in card slipcase)
Foetopsy (USA) - In The Bathroom - CD (Grind, brutal death grind on Barbarian Recs)
Plan E (FIN) - Best kept Secret - CD (Obscure, long time project of Jani Lehtosaari (ex Belial, Impaled Nazarene etc) - experimental alternative rock)
Plan E (FIN) - Bassonova - CD (Obscure)
Empaligon (GER) - Black Dominated Annihilation - CD (Black, raw black metal - 2nd edition on Autopsy Stench - rare CD - slight scuffs on CD but plays fine)
Ende (FRA) - Whispers Of A Dying Earth - CD (Black)
Hirax (USA) - El Rostro De La Muerte - CD (Thrash, classic thrash speed power metal crossover - this edition on SelfMadeGod Recs)
Maniac Butcher (CZE) - Masakr 2010 - CD (Black)
Serpent Throne (CHI) - Infernal Desecration - digi CD (Death Black)
Lugubrum (BEL) - Bruyne Troon - digi CD (Black, experimental black metal - 2021 digi CD re-issue on Aphelion Prod.)
Nidhogg (NOR) - Nidhogg - digi CD (Black)
White Medal (UK) - Guthmers Hahl - digi CD (Black, Yorkshire Heathen Black Metal)
Korpse (UK) - Mirror Distance - CD (Ambient Abstract, Grey, granite, progressive death metal - includes demo, 7" and album session tracks from the period 1991-1995)
Repuked & Bonesaw (SWE / US) - Split - digi CD (Death, Death gore crust)
Bonesaw / Haemophagus (UK / ITA) - Split - CD (Death)
Impious Havoc (FIN) - Infidels - CD (Black)
The True Endless (ITA) - Legacy Of Hate - digi CD (Black, trendkiller black metal)
Taatsi (FIN) - Olden Folk - CD (Black, Atmospheric nature black metal)
Stozhar (RUS) - Духом Ñвободы, Ñ€Ð°Ð·Ñ€Ñ‹Ð²Ð°Ñ Ð¾ÐºÐ¾Ð²Ñ‹... - digibook CD (Heavy Metal, Folk symphonic metal)
The Extinct Dreams (RUS) - Fragments Of Eternity - digi CD (Funeral doom, Funeral death doom)
Slaves Of The Prison (CHN) - Deathward - CD (Death, melodic death metal)
Uruk-Hai (AUT) - Lost Songs From Middle Earth - CD (Dark ambient, Fantasy ambient - includes 2002 demo as a bonus)
Vinterriket (GER) - Nachtfulle - digi CD (Black ambient, Landscape inspired black ambient)
Wach (AUT) - Nordwand - MCD (Dark ambient, Two lengthy tracks of dark ambient drone noise - with a majestic cinematic feel. Album is in honour of the Eiger North Face amidst the Alps. Wach is Hugin of Uruk Hai)
Fornicatador (AUS) - Baphomet Fellatio Apocalypse - CD (Death Black, Australian black/death metal FFO ARCHGOAT, DIOCLETIAN, BESTIAL WARLUST etc. )
Derailment (AUS) - Come Clean In Death - CD (Sludge Doom, Embittered sludgecore from members of INTERNAL ROT, HEADLESSDEATH etc., for fans of THUG, CATTLE PRESS, NAILBOMB.... Label collaboration between TM (AUS) + Behind The Mountain (POL))
Fumigated & Death Fetish (USA) - Split - CD (Grind, Punishing goregrind/deathgrind split from two Midwestern USA bands )
Meatal Ulcer (AUS) - The Fog Had Begun To Churn With Flesh Enthusiasm - CD (Grind, Totally psychotic cybergoregrind mental illness from Melbourne, from a longtime scene stalwart and a DIE PIGEON DIE member. Includes tracks from demo/split releases)
Sanctioned (AUS) - Annexation - CD (Grind, Grindcore crust from Melbourne scene legends - FFO ASSUCK, ACME, HIS HERO IS GONE)
Necrovation (SWE) - Necrovation - CD (Death, Old school death metal - brings to mind the early 90s Swedish death, plus reminiscent of Frost in parts with their pacing and heavy riffs. CD is never played but has slight storage wear on the disc - plays fine)
Obtruncation (NED) - The Callous Concept - CD (Death, Good Dutch death metal. Recorded in 1995, but sadly not released until 1999. Used condition but plays fine - slight scuffs on CD )
Dead Man's Grief (UK) - Embrace Sorrow & Solitude - digi CD (Doom Stoner, Heavy. gloomy, dense and under the limbo of hallucnation. For devotees of Electric Wizard, Cathedral, Acid King, monolord etc....)
Horrid Sight (MEX) - Evil made Flesh - CD (Death, Death thrash)
Excavator (MEX) - Eternal Fire - CD (Death, Melodic death metal, with a hint of thrash - FFO At The Gates, The Haunted, Dark Tranquility, In Flames...)
Forest Of Shadows (SWE) - Where Dreams Turn To Dust - CD (Doom, Melodic Doom Metal - 2021 issue on GSP Prod includes "The Silent Cry" demo as bonus tracks - FFO October Tide, Katatonia, Anathema etc...)
Nadiwrath (GRE) - Death Eternal - digi 2CD (Black, unreleased tracks from the “Circle of Pest” era. Plus tracks from their splits, EPs and first demo)
Dodsferd (GRE) - Asphyxiating Late Night Sessions: Collaboration With Sarvok - digi CD (Black)
Dodsferd (GRE) - Suicide and the Rest Of Your Kind Will Follow II - digi CD (Black)
Grab (GRE) - The Inevitable Filth Of Mankind - digi CD (Black, featuring Wrath of Dodsferd)
The Giant's Fall (GRE) - The Giant's Fall - digi CD (Doom, Drone doom sounds - slow riffs, psychedelic and ambient. Based around Talos - the Ancient Greek mythology)
Manos Six & The Muddy Devil (GRE) - Swamp Suicide - digi CD (Neoclassical / Folk, an acoustic duo whose music is a blend of Dark-Americana, Death-Country, Neo-Folk and Black Metal. The band’s main instruments being banjo and acoustic bass and themes around the Deep South)
G.N.L.S. (GRE) - Conspiracy Of Thoughts - digi CD (Black ambient, the claustrophobic project of Wrath (Dodsferd) and Sarvok - G.N.L.S. (Geometric Nictation of Lament’s Space) came via our long discussions on the constant decay of this world and humanity)
Funeral Fukk (GER) - Carnal Confessions - CD (Trad doom)
Reido (BLR) - F:\all - CD (Extreme Doom, debut album from the excellent Reido)
Dissolving Of Prodigy (CZE) - Loucení se svetem pozemskym - digi CD (Death Doom, Farewell To The Earthly World - 2023 digipack re-issue - includes 16 page booklet and two bonus tracks)
Elffor (SPA) - Medieval Cults of Heresy - digi CD (Black, this is the dungeon synth side of Elffor on this release - released on Nightside Records)
Taiga (RUS) - Right To Remember - digi CD (Black, atmospheric depressive black with post/shoegaze elements - with members of Funeral Tears, Apokefale etc...)
Necromantia (GRE) - To The Depths We Descend.... - digi CD (Black, Digipack version)
Autumn Tears (USA) - Guardian Of The Pale - digi 2CD (Neoclassical / Folk, 2CD digipack version)
Wooden Veins (CHI) - Imploding Waves - digi CD (Atmospheric Doom, classic melodic doom metal, combined with progressive and gothic elements - 2nd album )
Aathma (SPA) - Dust From A Dark Sun - digi CD (Sludge Doom, unique style of sludge, doom and atmospheric metal, with massive wall breaking riffs and mesmerizing ambient passages )
Aathma (SPA) - Dust From A Dark Sun - LP (Sludge Doom, unique style of sludge, doom and atmospheric metal, with massive wall breaking riffs and mesmerizing ambient passages )
Voidhaven (GER) - Lithic - digi CD (Death Doom, Voidhaven blend their foundation of melancholic doom metal with elements of death metal)
Mournument (CHI) - Smouldering Into Dust - digi CD (Atmospheric Doom, aspects of traditional Chilean folklore, combined with melancholic Doom Metal. influences are Uaral the melancholy of Agalloch or Estatic Fear, and the folk spirit of Empyrium. Melancholy with elegantly adorned melodies )
Esoteric (UK) - Paragon Of Dissonance - 3LP (Extreme Doom, the 3LP edition of this fantastic album with tracks in original order - most recent issue by The Vinyl Division (Ardua) - comes on marbled grey vinyl, with insert in tri-fold sleeve - essential!!)
Urza & Calliophis (GER) - Dawn Of A Lifeless Age - LP (Death Doom, vinyl version of this awesome split - two of the finest extreme doom/death acts - this LP on "void noir vinyl - limited to 100 copies")
Rot Coven - Nightmares Devour The Waking World - digi 2CD
Last updated: 2 July 2024
Really excited to announce the release of the debut album from US act - Rot Coven
Rot Coven dwell amidst the darkest corners of the underground - roughly described as noise-drenched, industrial death metal sludge.
Personally, it's everything I'm seeking out in the music I want to listen to currently - seamlessly incorporating elements of noise, ambient, death metal, and a doomed aesthetic - noisy chaos with a metal pulse - it's dark, evocative, psyched out, lysergic, f*cked up.....and it's pure bliss!!
"Antimatter Halo" is the first preview track - from Phase I of the album, which builds colossal sludge riffs out of ominous death industrial soundscapes, erupting into a supernova of psychedelic leads.
Due for release on August 15th - be sure to check this out and share around....
Mekigah - To Hold Onto A Heartless Heart
Last updated: 2 July 2024
more info on the forthcoming MEKIGAH release......
Mekigah - To Hold Onto A Heartless Heart
Last updated: 27 June 2024
the new album from Mekigah is due for release on August 15th
expect some beautifully awkward genius
more news to follow - but to start with check out the first track from the album, appropriately titled "Collapsing Under" .......
Rot Coven due to release with AD.....
Last updated: 10 June 2024
After running the label for so many years I'm privileged to have worked with so many amazing and exciting bands.
But, as you get older, there's not so much (in life, not just in music) that gets you as excited as those young hedonistic days when dark oppressive music was the soundtrack to the highs....and the lows...
Listening to Rot Coven brings it all back - reminds me of why I love running the label after all these years.
"Nightmares Devour The Waking World" was exactly what I looking for in that moment - when I heard it for the first time I fell straight for it and it gave me that buzz of excitement, like an old music junkie still searching for the next big high.....
Released in August 2024 - be sure to look out for this!!
Mekigah - new album.....
Last updated: 10 June 2024
some 7 years since the last album - Mekigah return with their brand new album.
Long time friend of both myself and the label - Mekigah create a music and identity I can perfectly relate to.
With a non-conformist approach to music, an anti-establishment mindset and turning his back to the mechanisms of society - Mekigah are the ideal fit to Aesthetic Death
The new album sees Mekigah travel down even more difficult and head-fucking labyrinths than before.
More news to follow - expect a release by August 2024
Horthodox & Haiku Funeral
Last updated: 6 June 2024
the new collaboration between Horthodox & Haiku Funeral is now available - released on digi CD
"Serpentine Sorcery" is a wonderfully disturbing piece of work.
Check out the first track of the album here......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR2cctG3jXc
And support these awesome underground obscure projects!!
Urza & Calliophis - split CD
Last updated: 2 June 2024
After an unexpected delay I finally have the "Dawn Of A Lifeless Age" CDs here.
Beautiful split release - both bands combine really well to make this an enthralling funeral doom death listen throughout.
Nice looking 8 panel digi CD - available now here on the AD website - or through the bands directly!
Journey through the funeral winter.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uewG-vunlnM
Aesthetic Death upcoming releases...
Last updated: 24 May 2024
Upcoming:
Esoteric (UK) - 9x vinyl box set (during 2024)
Unfold (USA) - debut album - CD (Summer 2024)
Voidwards (RUS) - tba - CD (Autumn 2024)
Until Death Overtakes Me (BEL) - Diagenesis - CD (Summer 2024)
Goatpsalm (RUS) - tba - CD (Autumn 2024)
Cave Dweller (USA) - Showing Teeth - CD (end 2024)
In production, at press:
Mekigah (AUS) - To Hold Onto A Heartless Heart - digi CD (release - July 2024)
Rot Coven (USA) - Nightmares Devour The Waking World - CD (release - July 2024)
Violenta Domestica (AUT) - Despicable - digisleeve CD (printing issues delayed release - out soon)
Longer term plans - at various stages of progress:
Mordor (SWI) - Odes - re-issue CD/LP (tba)
Wreck Of The Hesperus - 4 CD box set (tba)
MurkRat (AUS) - Drudging The Mire - 2LP (tba)
Endvra (UK) - Liber Leviathan - gatefold LP (tba)
Eventide - Waterline CD
Last updated: 18 April 2024
the excellent "Waterline" digi CD from France's EVENTIDE is now released (on April 11th)
See previous posts for descriptions of what a beautiful ambient, electronic improvised recording is to be found within.
And check out this fantastic premiere from our friends at Everything Is Noise.....
Eventide preview track
Last updated: 3 April 2024
the 2nd preview track from the upcoming "Waterline" album is now available to listen here......
Urza & Calliophis - split CD
Last updated: 3 April 2024
Really pleased to be working on an excellent split release with the titans of funeral doom/death - URZA & CALLIOPHIS
Coming out in early May - CD version released on Aesthetic Death - vinyl version on Meuse Music Records - all formats available directly from the bands.
Support underground doom noise!!