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.....
just in.....
Last updated: 3 April 2024
latest arrivals.....
Cult of Occult (FRA) - Antilife - 2LP (Doom, back in stock)
Bifrost (AUT) - Tor In Eine Neue Welt - CD (Black, Pagan folk metal)
Andras (GER) - ...Of Old Wisdom + Legends - digi CD (Pagan/folk black)
Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra (UKR) - The Key To The Gates of Apocalypses - digibook CD (Dark ambient, Dark ambient black metal side project of Nokturnal Mortum vocalist - re-issue in 2022 on leather digibook)
Labyrinthus Stellarum (UKR) - Tales of the Void - digibook CD (Atmospheric black, back in stock)
Tartaros (NOR) - The Grand Psychotic Castle - digibook CD (Atmospheric black, 2018 digibook re-issue)
Mekong Delta (2022) - The Principle Of Doubt - digibook CD (Thrash, Progressive Thrash pioneers - 2022 digibook re-issue)
Mekong Delta (GER) - The Music of Errich Zann - digibook CD (Thrash, 2019 digibook re-issue)
Mekong Delta (GER) - Mekong Delta - digibook CD (Thrash, 2019 digibook re-issue)
Mekong Delta (GER) - Dances Of Death (And Other Walking Shadows) - digibook CD (Thrash, 2021 digibook re-issue)
Swords Of Dis (UK) - Melencolia - A5 digi CD (Ambient Abstract, excellent new album from one of the UK's leading underground acts - symphonic dark metal. Recommended)
Sinister (NED) - Cross The Styx - CD (Death, recent Nuclear Blast America re-press)
Hangman's Chair (FRA) - Hope / Dope / Rope - digi CD (Doom, back in stock - MusicFearSatan issue)
HKY (FRA) - HKY - digisleeve CD (Sludge Doom, 2009 EP (33:36))
Le Reveil Des Tropiques (FRA) - Le Reveil Des Tropiques - digisleeve 2CD (Obscure, featuring band members from genres including free improv, noise, post rock - this album created something resembling a mix of Mogwai, Pink Floyd and Sonic Youth)
Hangman's Chair (FRA) - this is not supposed to be positive - digi CD (Doom)
Year Of No Light (FRA) - Ausserwelt - digisleeve CD (Sludge Doom, sludge drone doom postrock ambient - 2015 edition on MusicFearSatan with 3 bonus tracks)
Year Of No Light (FRA) - Nord - digisleeve 2CD (Sludge Doom, sludge doom drone postrock ambience - the great debut album - MusicFearSatan edition with additional disc of material from splits, covers and demo )
Jessica 93 (FRA) - Rise - digi CD (Obscure, shoegaze, punk, coldwave - FFO: Jesu, The Cure ++)
Jessica 93 (FRA) - Who Cares - digisleeve CD (Obscure, shoegaze, coldwave - in the vein of The Cure, Ride ++)
Beyond Black Void (BEL) - Voidgaze - CD (Drone, Excellent drone/funeral/extreme doom from SVC)
Sickrites (RUS) - Irreverent Death Megaliths - CD (Death Black, features members of Goatpsalm - issued on CD by Osmose)
Hangman's Chair (FRA) - Banlieue Triste - 2LP (Doom, gatefold 2LP edition - MusicFearSatan issue)
Le Reveil Des Tropiques (FRA) - Big Bang - LP (Ambient Abstract, mixing cosmological trance, post rock, psychedelic rock)
Le Reveil Des Tropiques (FRA) - Le Reveil Des Tropiques - LP (Psychedelic)
Revok (FRA) - Bunt Auf Grau - LP (Obscure, post-rock, noise rock)
Revok (FRA) - Grief Is My New Moniker - LP (Obscure)
Jessica 93 (FRA) - Rise - LP (Obscure)
Jessica 93 (FRA) - Guilty Species - LP (Obscure)
Double Dragon (FRA) - Double Dragon - LP (Dark ambient, dark synthwave, electro)
Across Tundras (USA) - Western Sky Ride - 2LP (Atmospheric Doom, Across Tundras both crush and soothe with expertly conjured sonic doses of ambient doom, vintage psychedelic rock and haunted folk. For fans of Black Sabbath, My Bloody Valentine, Hawkwind, Earth, Neil Young, Neurosis, and Pink Floyd.)
Le Reveil Des Tropiques (FRA) - Hallucinations Sceniques Vol 1 - LP (Obscure, Live album - a psychedelic mix of kraut-rock, noise, post-rock and free-jazz)
HKY (FRA) - HKY - LP (Dark Metal, HKY create a gloomy atmosphere somewhere between JESU, TARANTULA HAWK and DARKSPACE.)
Svartahrid (NOR) - Sadness and Wrath - CD (Black)
Today Is The Day (USA) - Sadness Will Prevail - 2CD (Sludge Doom, Anantgarde metal, noise rock, sludge, grind....)
Dawn Of Azazel (NZ) - The Law Of The Strong - CD (Death)
Skoll (ITA) - 11 Years Of Mist - CD (Pagan/folk black, Pagan black / viking metal - tracks taken from EP, compilation and 7" releases - storage wear/scuffs on CD, plays fine)
Tumulus (RUS) - Winter Wood - CD (Folk ambient, Folk metal, progressive rock)
Throne Of Chaos (FIN) - Menace And Prayer - CD (Death, Melodic death/power metal)
Guru (FRA) - Nova Lvx - digi CD (Doom black, Debut album - black doom - for fans of Primordial, Urfaust, Shining....)
Dream Upon Tombs (AUS) - Palaces Of Dust - CD (Death Black, Debut album - Australian melodic death black - for fans of Dissection, Unanimated, Sacramentum.....)
Age Of The Wolf (CRI) - A Pilgrimage To Nowhere - digi CD (Sludge Doom, Sludge doom from Costa Rica - 2nd album - for fans of High On Fire - released on Sleeping Church Rcs.)
Goatroach (FIN) - Plagueborn - digi CD (Death, debut album of Finnish death metal - released on Sleeping Church Rcs)
Barabbas (FRA) - La Mort Appelle Tous Les Vivants - 2LP (Doom, Vinyl edition of the new, and 2nd, full length from doom act Barabbas)
Presumption (FRA) - Presumption - LP (Doom Stoner, debut album on vinyl)
Pulmonary Fibrosis (FRA) - Pulmonologists - LP (Death, Brutal death / grindcore)
Northwinds & Marble Chariot (FRA) - Split - 10" (Doom)
Crimson Dawn (ITA) - Chronicles Of An Undead Hunter - LP (Heavy Metal, Italian epic doom/heavy metal)
Maze Of Terror (PER) - Ready To Kill - LP (Thrash, Peruvian thrash metal)
Satanic Holocaust (GER) - Raw Black Metal Holocaust - CD (Black)
Solitude Aeturnus (USA) - Through The Darkest Hour / Downfall - digi 2CD (Doom, 2 albums on a 2CD digipack - 1998 re-issue on System Shock - 2nd hand but in good condition)
Sekhmet (CZE) - Okularis Infernum - LP (Black, Limited to 150 copies)
Thus Defiled (UK) - Weeping Holocaust Tears - CD (Black, 2003 album from one of the UK's longest running black metal acts)
Aosoth (FRA) - Ashes Of Angels - digi CD (Black, French black metal)
Batushka (POL) - Litourgiya - digisleeve CD (Doom black, 6 panel digisleeve - comes in a printed slipcase - gold cd - first press)
Lik (SWE) - Kapitel I - Ma Ljuset Aldrig Na Oss Mer - CD (Black, Swedish black metal / rock - Lekamen Illusionen Kallet (LIK) - 2010 re-issue)
Lik (SWE) - Kapitel II - Besvartade Strofer - CD (Black, Swedish black metal / occult rock - Lekamen Illusionen Kallet (LIK) - 2010 re-issue)
Lik (SWE) - Kapitel III - Lekamen Illusionen Kallet - CD (Black, Swedish black metal / occult rock - Lekamen Illusionen Kallet (LIK) - 2010 re-issue)
Thromdarr (FIN) - NorthStorm Arrives - CD (Black, Finnish black metal, since 1992, features member of Skepticism - first press - slight storage wear to rear inlay/booklet)
Bloodoline & Reverence & Blut Aus Nord & Karras (INT) - Dissociated Human Junction - CD (Doom black, 4 way split album from 2007 - black, doom and industrial )
Bifrost (AUT) - Heidenmetal - CD (Pagan/folk black)
Hordagaard (NOR) - Trollskap - digi CD (Black, debut album - digipack issue)
Impious Havoc (FIN) - Manifestations Of Plague And War - CD (Black, not played - but CD disc has slight marks from storage wear)
Haemophagus (ITA) - Stream Of Shadows - CD (Death, death grind)
Slaughter (CAN) - One Foot In The Grave - digi CD (Death, features demo '84, plus rehearsal + 7" tracks from 1986 - widely considered one of the forerunners of the death metal scene, with the rehearsal from '86 featuring the legendary Chuck Schuldiner)
Toroidh (SWE) - The Final Testament - CD (Martial industrial, CD jewel case issue - featuring two bonus tracks - project of Henrik Nordvargr - CD never played but has slight scuff marks from storage wear)
Puteraeon (SWE) - The Crawling Chaos - CD (Death)
Puteraeon (SWE) - The Esoteric Order - digi CD (Death)
Puteraeon (SWE) - Cult Cthulhu - CD (Death)
Svartnatt (SWE) - Vargold Har Kommit - CD (Pagan/folk black)
Advent (ITA) - The Dawn - CD (Death Black)
Angmar (FRA) - Metamorphosis - CD (Black)
Under Threat (COL) - Deathmosphere - CD (Death, Melodic death metal)
Enthroning Silence (ITA) - Throned Upon Ashes Of Dusk - digi CD (Black)
Audn (ICE) - Audn - CD (Atmospheric black, jewel case - second edition in 2015, includes bonus live track - perfect condition)
Svart (SWE) - Forlorad - CD (Black, Depressive BM)
Garlikde'th (NOR) - While God Sleeps - CD (Thrash, features the 1990 + 1991 demo material - underground Norwegian thrash)
Despairation (GER) - A Requiem In Winter's Hue - CD (Gothic/Darkwave, progressive experimental Gothic rock)
Infernal Torment (DEN) - Man's True Nature - CD (Death, Diehard Music issue from 1997 (with white logo on cover) - partially censored artwork - brutal death metal)
Manilla Road (USA) - Out Of The Abyss - CD (Heavy Metal, Thrashier side of Manilla Road - mint, still sealed )
Nokturnal Mortum (UKR) - Kolovorot - digi 2CD (Black, Recorded live at Kolovorot Fest, Kaharkiv, Ukraine on December 25th 2010)
Nokturnal Mortum (UKR) - To Lunar Poetry - digibook CD (Black, re-working of the "Lunar Poetry" material)
LVTHN (BEL) - The Grand Uncreation - digi CD (Black, Comes on heavy card digipack - features the demo and split release from 2014, along with a Katharsis cover)
LVTHN (BEL) - Eradication Of Nescience - digi CD (Black, Debut full length)
Selbst (VEN) - Selbst - digi CD (Black, still sealed - although has slight corner dink - one of the most interesting black metal acts in recent years)
Triarii (GER) - Ars Militaria - CD (Martial industrial, Neo-classical industrial - second edition with different artwork)
Triarii (GER) - Piece Heroique - CD (Martial industrial, Neo-classical industrial - second edition with different artwork)
Triarii (GER) - Muse In Arms - CD (Martial industrial, Neo-classical industrial - second edition with different artwork)
Houwitser (NED) - Damage Assessment - CD (Death, standard jewel case version - slight scuff on CD (non playing surface))
Goat Torment (BEL) - Sermons To Death - digi CD (Black)
Aguirre (FRA) - Fatalitas - digi CD (Sludge Doom, Sludge Metal / Stoner / Hardcore)
still hot from last update.....
Ethere (INT) - #1 - Zine (Funeral doom, Pro-printed - 2023 - issue 1 - 60 pages - A5++ - includes Until Death Overtakes Me, Skepticism, Weird Truth and just loads more funeral/extreme doom music. Highly recommended!!!)
Esoteric (UK) - Epistemological Despondency - Shirt (Extreme Doom, Short sleeve - size M + L + XL available - album cover on front - original artwork + logo on back - sleeve print - Gildan shirt)
Esoteric (UK) - Epistemological Despondency - Shirt (Extreme Doom, Long sleeve - size M + L available - album cover on front - original artwork + logo on back - sleeve print - Gildan shirt)
Esoteric (UK) - Epistemological Despondency - Shirt (Extreme Doom, Hoodie - size M available - logo on front - album artwork + logo on back - sleeve print on both arms - hood print - AWDis hoodie)
Antropofagus - Methods Of Resurrection Through Evisceration - LP (Death, black vinyl - limited to 400 copies)
Funeris (ARG) - Through Callous Time - CD (Funeral doom)
Svartahrid (NOR) - Ex Inferi - CD (Black)
Thaw (POL) - St Phenome Alley - digi CD (Black, back in stock)
Forgotten Winter (POR) - Vinda - digi CD (Black, back in stock)
Funeral Tears (RUS) - The Only Way Out - digi CD (Extreme Doom, Sound is based on melodic funeral doom/ death doom with new elements for the band – epic atmosphere and black metal elements! Funeral Tears delivers their requiem in honour of the final darkness and collapse of mankind. Limited to 500 copies - CD digipak with slipcase! )
Crown of Asteria (USA) - Karhun Vakat - digi CD (Doom black, Digi CD issue on Ksenza Recs - atmospheric black doom)
Otargos (FRA) - Apex Terror - digi CD (Black)
Funeris (ARG) - The Exquisiteness of a Dreary Sight - CD (Funeral doom)
Sonma (RUS) - Ether - digi CD (Drone, Drone Doom on Ksenza Recs)
Aphonic Threnody (UK) - The All Consuming Void - CD (Doom)
Slow (ROM) - III: Gaia - CD (Doom)
Rippikoulu (FIN) - Musta Seremonia - digisleeve CD (Death Doom, 1993 demo re-issue)
Solautumn (ITA) - Under The Sky Of A Dying Heaven - CD (Doom)
Solautumn (ITA) - Autunnaria - CD (Death Doom)
Rigor Sardonicous (USA) - Ridenti Mortuus - CD (Extreme Doom, EP released on the centenary anniversary of the end of WW1 - includes bonus tracks from the 2007+2010 split releases)
Disolucion En La Nada (SPA) - R Aquarii - CD (Funeral doom, Instrumental cosmic ambient funeral doom)
Neka (RUS) - Gestalt - CD (Funeral doom)
Nightfall Doom Metal (BRA) - Echoes In Infinity - CD (Doom)
Abyssal (MEX) - A Deep Sea Funersl - digi CD (Funeral doom)
Frowning (GER) - Death Requiem - digi CD (Funeral doom)
Kuoleman Nyplaajat (FIN) - Seksikas Kuoleman Leiri - CD (Death, blackened death metal from Finland - features cover track)
Battlestorm (SIN) - Summon Decimation - CD (Black thrash, Singaporean death black thrash)
Letalis (CHI) - Bestia Oculta - CD (Heavy Metal, Female fronted Chilean speed metal)
Phantom Corporation (GER) - First Commandment - CD (Death, Death metal / crust)
The Scum (COL) - The Hunger - LP (Death, Colombian Death metal - Black vinyl - limited to 225 copies)
Ejecutor (CHI) - Muerte...El Orgasmo De La Vida - LP (Death, Death Thrash from Chile)
Morbid Macabre (COL) - Damn Goat - LP (Death Black, Colombian death black)
Hortus Animae (ITA) - Waltzing Mephisto - 20th Anniversary - 2CD (Black, 20th anniversary 2CD edition of the symphonic black metal classic - "Waltzing Mephisto" - features new layout, 2nd CD of rare/live tracks - worthy re-edition)
Black Wanderer (UK) - Hostile Territory - digi CD (Drone, Black Wanderer is a new cinematic drone project from Algol. According to the author, BW explores much more inhospitable territories. It focuses on darker minimalistic tunes which suit perfectly sci-fi and horror films.)
Black Wanderer & Sleepwalker (UK / RUS) - The Triffid Garden - digi CD (Dark ambient, This album is a joint collaboration, in the truest sense, between two drone/dark ambient projects: Black Wanderer and Sleepwalker. Creating an unique blend of guitar drones, synth and FX experiments)
Sleepwalker (RUS) - Monument From The Void - digi CD (Dark ambient)
Elffor (SPA) - Frostbitten Pain - digi CD (Black, digipack re-issue - limited to 100 copies)
Destruktor (AUS) - Opprobrium - LP (Death Black, From my own collection - but in good condition)
Lugubrum (BEL) - Herval - LP (Black, Belgian Brown Metal)
Lugubrum (BEL) - Live In Amsterdam - LP (Black, Recorded live in Amsterdam in 2005 - black vinyl - LP issu
Sonne Adam (ISR) - Transformation - CD (Death, old school death metal - with the cadence of doom, kinda Hellhammer/Frost pace. Clean production.)
Nargothrond (GRE) - Doctrine Of Lies - CD (Black, Greek black metal)
Veneficum (USA) - Dysphoria - CD (Black, Melodic US black metal - EP from 2001)
Veneficium (CAN) - De Occulta Philosophia - A Missae Tenebrae - CD (Atmospheric black, Symphonic black metal - Second wave, akin to the style of Emperor)
Belial (FIN) - Never Again - CD (Death Black)
Necromass (ITA) - Abyss Calls Life - CD (Black, Includes unreleased demo '95 tracks as bonus)
Gurthang (POL) - I Will Not Serve - CD (Doom black, Used CD - plays fine)
Nastrond (SWE) - Conquering The Ages - CD (Black, Compiled for the ten years anniversary of Nåstrond in 2003. The tracks are taken from records and productions from the years between 1993-2003, some of them never released before. Used CD - but in good working condition.)
Nocturnal Depression (FRA) - Spleen Black Metal - digibook CD (Black, digibook CD - 2nd hand - used condition - CD is in good condition - booklet within digibook is worn and slight damage)
Acrimony / Church of Misery (UK/JAP) - Split CD - CD (Doom, 2022 re-issue - cult split)
Doomster Reich (POL) - Blessed Beyond Morality - CD (Doom, Psychedelic doom metal - recommended)
Cthulhuss (POL) - Cthulhu Cult - CD (Doom, Experimental psychedelic doom noise - restock)
Profane Grace (USA) - Cast In The Mold of the Ancients - CD (Dark ambient, anti-christian dark ambient - in the vein of Cold Meat Industry acts)
Dark Opera (POL) - The Journey To The Both Pathes Of Life, Sins and Resurrection - CD (Death Doom, Compilation of the "Calling The Legend" album 1994 and the "Day Of The Pariah" demo 1992)
Harmony Of Struggle (POL) - Tearing Your Mind To Pieces - digi CD (Power electronics, hypnotic, industrial, power electronics - project of Neithan (Whalesong, Nothing Has Changed etc))
Godwin Point (FRA) - II - digisleeve CD (Dark ambient, Dark ambient/Post industrial - in the vein of early CMI releases - side project of Dawn & Dusk Entwined)
Ikon (AUS) - Love, Hate and Sorrow - digisleeve 2CD (Gothic/Darkwave, 2022 reissue of IKON's 6th studio album - remastered with a bonus-CD (of unreleased tracks and rare b-sides) - gothic darkwave pioneers)
Ikon (AUS) - Destroying The Vampire - digisleeve 2CD (Gothic/Darkwave, contains two of IKON's studio albums "Destroying The World To Save It“ and "Psychic Vampire“ - remastered and with bonus material)
Ikon (AUS) - On The Edge Of Forever - 20th Anniversary - digisleeve 2CD (Gothic/Darkwave, IKON's 4th studio album (from 2001) remixed and remastered, plus bonus CD with unreleased material and rare b-sides)
Phallus Dei (GER) - Osmose - Pontifex Maximus Revisited - CD (Industrial black, orchestral dark-ambient / industrial - compiles material from the PONTIFEX MAXIMUS-sessions, but in previously unreleased versions. A timeless influential work)
Phallus Dei (GER) - Adorations - CD (Dark ambient, dark ambient industrial)
Cold Mourning (USA) - The End Of Reason - CD (Doom, crushing monolithic traditional doom - long awaited new album)
Waveshard (ITA) - Waveshard - digi CD (Ambient Abstract, a melancholic and nocturnal journey into your inner world. Waveshard emanate nostalgic and nocturnal ambient dark jazz, scattered with field recordings, and inspired by the niht. Influences include... Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, Dale Cooper Quartet, Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation.)
Exorcism & Catacomb Church (RUS) - We were like you, you will be like us - digi CD (Death industrial, Nihilistic, noisy death industrial and dark haunting ambient. Drowning into a void of no light Features an Orthodox choir in the midst of the storm.)
Monumentum Damnati (INT) - In The Tomb Of A Forgotten King - CD (Death Doom)
Autumn, Leaves, Scars (ROM) - Unter dem Füsse der trauerd Winde - CD (Postblack)
Striborg (AUS) - Southwest Passage - CD (Black, CD re-issue)
Striborg (AUS) - Ghostwoodlands - CD (Black, CD re-issue)
Laster (NED) - Project: Uitzichtloosheid - digi CD (Black)
Dictator (CYP) - The Pain Sessions - Tape (Funeral doom, Ancient and obscure demo - two unholy hymns of dismal and desolate Black Funereal Doom Death Worship - Unearthed after nearly two decades - re-issue of the 2006 cult demo from Dictator)
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!!
Eventide - Waterline CD
Last updated: 2 April 2024
the upcoming album from EVENTIDE is released on April 11th
check out this video clip from "Waterline"........
Aesthetic Death upcoming releases...
Last updated: 21 March 2024
Upcoming:
Esoteric (UK) - 9x vinyl box set (during 2024)
Unfold (USA) - debut album - CD (Spring 2024)
Mekigah (AUS) - To Hold Onto A Heartless Heart - digi CD (early 2024)
Rot Coven (USA) - Nightmares Devour The Waking World - CD (Spring 2024)
Voidwards (RUS) - tba - CD (mid 2024)
Until Death Overtakes Me (BEL) - Diagenesis - CD (2024)
Goatpsalm (RUS) - tba - CD (2024)
Cave Dweller (USA) - Showing Teeth - CD (2024)
In production, at press:
Horthodox / Haiku Funeral (RUS/FRA) - Serpentine Sorcery - digi CD (April 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)
Suffer Yourself - Axis Of Tortures 2LP
Last updated: 19 February 2024
the vinyl 2LP edition of the excellent SUFFER YOURSELF "Axis Of Tortures" album is now ready
Beautiful lavish gatefold vinyl - comes on transparent smoke vinyl + fold out poster/inlay - really pleased with how this release turned out!!
Support underground death/doom.
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Eventide - Waterline CD
Last updated: 19 February 2024
""Waterline" is the debut recording from EVENTIDE
A new band to most, but EVENTIDE has musicians which are already well respected within the underground scene.
"Waterline" is a beautiful album - a realisation and outlet for the guys from EPITAPHE.
Having additional recordings, which took shape during the "II" sessions, along with live performances conceived with the Collectif Eptagon, it was a natural progression for these unique and rich soundscapes to be given their own entity and identity - thus EVENTIDE evolved into being.
The four tracks display a more improvised electronic ambient atmospheric sonicscape - a convergence of the musical styles outside of "metal" that inspire these musicians.
Out during March 2024 - on digipack CD.
Vaina - new album "Unio Mystica"
Last updated: 15 February 2024
the new album is released from Finnish raw avant obscure "blackened metallers"
Vaina take us on an indescribable meandering journey - jump aboard if you're open minded to the trip
"Unio Mystica" is a mystical spiritual experience - hush the voice of rationality and reason - to let the God within come forth!!
Anyone who enjoyed "Futue Te Ipsum" will find great solace here.....
Vaina - Unio Mystica
Last updated: 15 February 2024
Out this week - the new Vaina album.....
updates
Last updated: 15 February 2024
Aesthetic Death will only be selling via this website for the coming months.
Appreciate anyone who chooses to buy from me here - or buying direct from the bands themselves.
I'll update this news section, with stock that has arrived, at the end of each month.
Mourning Dawn - new AI video
Last updated: 15 February 2024
a new video for the track - Midnight Sun - is released this week by MOURNING DAWN
Created using AI - with the tremendous work of Stijn Van Cauter
this is a trippy, enticing video to this industrial-tinged track from the new album
Check it out here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APtjaPwDu4g
Esoteric shirts
Last updated: 7 February 2024
UPDATE:
I now have limited quantities of the "Epistemological Despondency" shirts available.
Short sleeve - in M / L / XL
Long sleeve - in M / L
Hoodie - in M / L
Check out the store for more details.
All sizes and styles are still available directly from the Esoteric website + the Archivist website (all details below)
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new ESOTERIC shirts are now available - for the "Epistemological Despondency" album
First time official ED shirts have been printed since 1995 - featuring original artwork and design from the album on hoodies, longsleeves and t-shirts.
Available directly from the Esoteric website - www.esotericuk.net
Or from Archivist/Musical Hall at the following links:
Mourning Dawn - CDs + gig
Last updated: 26 January 2024
Next week I will receive the CD version of MOURNING DAWN's new album - The Foam Of Despair".
My apologies to all those who have been waiting on pre-orders - they will be shipped asap.
Thanks for your patience - enjoy the album - it's worth the wait!!
If you're in Paris this weekend (January 28th) then check out MOURNING DAWN playing live @ Le Klub, along with ATARAXIE, DEHA + MARCHE FUNEBRE
Should be an awesome gig!!!
"The Foam of Despair" - full stream at Invisible Oranges
Last updated: 10 January 2024
Thanks to our friends at Invisible Oranges for the exclusive full album premiere of the new MOURNING DAWN album
Check out the full album - and read how the band see the development of their sound twenty years into their existence.....and their audial portrayal of despair.
https://www.invisibleoranges.com/mourning-dawn-foam-of-despair/
Mourning Dawn - release 2nd track from new album....
Last updated: 21 December 2023
Check out another track from the forthcoming MOURNING DAWN album....... Enjoy!!
Mourning Dawn.....first track from the new album.....
Last updated: 16 November 2023
Really pleased to share here the first track available from the upcoming MOURNING DAWN album - "The Foam Of Despair"
Amazing introduction to what is a wonderful and eclectic MOURNING DAWN masterpiece.
Enjoy......
Pre-orders available from:
Mourning Dawn (all formats),
Aesthetic Death (digi CD and LP)
Tragedy Productions (LP - those in North/South America should order directly from Tragedy Productions for better postage rates)
Depressive Illusions (tape)
Mourning Dawn
Last updated: 16 November 2023
Mourning Dawn - The Foam of Despair CD/LP
Last updated: 16 November 2023
new MOURNING DAWN album.......
Mourning Dawn - new album to be confirmed soon.....
Last updated: 19 October 2023
The time draws closer.....
More news to follow in the very near weeks - but it looks hopeful that the early days of 2024 will be blessed with the arrival of the new MOURNING DAWN album.
This is MOURNING DAWN's finest achievement to date - which is a bold statement given the wonderful albums they've given us in the past two decades!!!
Available on digi CD and LP (vinyl in collaboration with Tragedy Productions)
Keep an eye out for more news soon.....
Suffer Yourself - Axis Of Tortures
Last updated: 19 October 2023
Following the successful release of the excellent "Axis Of Tortures" - which is currently available on digi CD and tape - we are now looking forward to getting the 2LP vinyl edition out.
Under production as I write this and hopefully available to buy in the first couple of months of 2024
Pre-order available soon on this website - or via the band directly - or via Tragedy Productions....who we are glad to be working in collaboration with on this vinyl edition (all customers in North and South America are encouraged to buy directly from Tragedy Prod to save on postage costs)
Suffer Yourself - YT clip
Last updated: 23 September 2023
Check out the video short for the new SUFFER YOURSELF album.....
Suffer Yourself - new album out now
Last updated: 23 September 2023
Today sees the release of the excellent new SUFFER YOURSELF album - "Axis Of Tortures"
A wonderful slab of funeral doom-laden death metal.
Check out the exclusive premiere of the full album over at Invisible Oranges
Available on digi CD now - either here at the AD website - or support the band directly on their Bandcamp page.
2LP version available in the near future (probably early 2024) - which is a joint label collaboration between Aesthetic Death and Tragedy Productions (Chile) - so anyone based in North/South America should be able ot buy a copy direct from Tragedy Prod for cheaper postage rates.
30 year SALE !!!!!!
Last updated: 3 August 2023
So..... I don't really believe in sales and the gimmicks I see around - I prefer to keep low prices and underground ethos all the time.
However, this summer is 30 years since the first release on Aesthetic Death. And, this week Stijn at Aesthetic Death has just completely overhauled the new AD website.
So, it seemed like a good time to have a "sale" to celebrate both things.
I'm not trying to clear out "space in my warehouse" - it's not just limited to old stuff I can't sell - and you don't need to spend £200 to get the discount.
Here's how it works:
- 30% off everything on the website - until the end of August
- P&P is the same as usual
Simple!
New arrivals soon from Status Prod (RUS), Memento Mori (SPA), Terror From hell (ITA), Behind The Mountain (POL), Old Temple (POL), Archivist (UKR), Crucial Blast (USA), Blood Rock (ITA), and more......
Support underground music/culture and physical media!
Suffer Yourself - Axis Of Tortures digi CD - available to pre-order....
Last updated: 3 August 2023
Pleased to have the new SUFFER YOURSELF digi CD available to pre-order.
CD released on 22nd September and hopefully any pre-orders will arrive with you by that date.
2LP version to be released soon after.
Suffer Yourself - new album announced
Last updated: 1 August 2023
SUFFER YOURSELF will unleash their fourth full-length album, "Axis of Tortures", on September 22nd via Aesthetic Death.
Today, this death-doom metal institution unveils the first track taken from the album. Stream "Axis Despair" at https://youtu.be/PAfmVw1WdA4
Following the success of their third album ("Rip Tide", 2021) – SUFFER YOURSELF took the opportunity to do tours of both Scandinavia and Belgium, once the global pandemic restrictions had lifted. A period of gigs which far exceeded what the band might normally undertake – with all gigs meeting to great success and the live set being a feature for the band into the future.
Within "Rip Tide" SUFFER YOURSELF could be heard to tease out and develop the death metal edge to their music. In the proceeding months following that release the band have worked tirelessly writing and recording the new album "Axis Of Tortures". This has culminated in a more aggressive approach and applied compositional ideas, incorporating death metal more prominently into their sound – meeting with doomed psychedelics and some interesting "twists".
"Axis of Tortures" is based around a concept and representation of any perceived tortures as a 4-dimensional geometrical graph, where there are three real coordinate axis (Insanity, Despair and Pain) and one assumed - Time (a 4th dimension, as we know it). Thinking about it from pure geometrical, and metaphysical point - any point in the 3D space can be anywhere in the coordinates and have any values, for example, (0,0,0) - is a very centre of all planes whilst, moving away from the central fulcrum, brings any combination of the three aforementioned variables and subsequently different amounts of each torture within the axis. We all exist somewhere in within the spectrum of tortures.
Regardless of the concept, the funeral death metal on "Axis of Tortures" will appeal to most discerning death metal fans, especially those who enjoy their death metal with a doomed morose overtone and steeped in the sounds of the early 90s.
To finish, it is worth mentioning the cover art for the album, a piece from Austrian surrealist painter Otto Rapp. The artist himself approved the use of this particular work, entitled "Eye of the Dark Star" (1993) to adorn the album cover. In our opinion, this fantastic piece of artwork brilliantly reflects the musical vision.
Tracklist:
01. Enter the Axis (intro)
02. Axis Insanity
03. Axis Despair
04. Axis Pain
05. Axis Time
06. Serutrot fo Sixa
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Suffer Yourself - to release new album
Last updated: 16 July 2023
Very pleased to announce the forthcoming release of the new SUFFER YOURSELF album.
Whilst the band have always had a death metal edge to their doom, the new album - "Axis Of Tortures" - explores this much more thoroughly and to amazing effect - with death metal edges that are reminiscent to me of the early 90s bands, such as Transgressor etc...
Released in September 2023 on digi CD - with a vinyl release following soon after.
More news and preview track to follow.
Look out for this one!!
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Mourning Dawn - new album on the way.....
Last updated: 16 July 2023
Very pleased to bring news of good progress being made with the new album from MOURNING DAWN
The new album promises to be one of the highlights in their illustrious 20+ years as a band creating some memorably despairing doom.
Entitled "The Foam Of Despair" - the album will be available on both gatefold LP and digi CD towards the end days of 2023.
More news and preview tracks to follow nearer the time.....
Aesthetic Death website + YT
Last updated: 16 July 2023
The Aesthetic Death website will shortly be updated with the new fully tested and amended version soon.
Thanks to everyone who contributed feedback anbd suggestions, this was really helpful. Should give a much better experience across the site!
Also be sure to check out the AD YouTube Channel - which Stijn has regularly been working on. Preview tracks from upcoming releases can usually be found there too....
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz58Bs3CULjftbw2t4IHSZQ
Any bands who have releases on my label - please send myself or Stijn any content you'd like to add to the channel playlists - would be a great help to archive more material.
Ord & Demonologists - OUT NOW
Last updated: 16 July 2023
Check out the promo video clip for "Secret Ceremonies" - the excellent collaboration between ORD + DEMONOLOGISTS....
Grava - release 2nd video track....
Last updated: 16 July 2023
Grava have just released a 2nd video for a track from the recent "Weight of a God" album.....
Check out "Bender" here......
Message from the band..... It is directed by Atli Brix Kamban and edited by Thomas Futhermocking Grønkjær with illustrations by Karsten Sand. Thomas writes: "The idea for the video originated from the very beginning I saw the track as perfect for drone filming. Something about tempo, flow and visualization of the sound landscape… And I had also just got the good Karsten Sand to illustrate a nightmare parallel universe."
"Bender" is the second music video from the debut album "Weight of a God", and is based on the thoughts that had to go through the heads of the perpetrator and victim of "The Rack" respectively; a brutal instrument that, due to its effectiveness, was unfortunately used in various forms for over 1,000 years.
The album is available on vinyl, cassette and CD through AD and VinylTroll Records – all formats available from the band at Bandcamp
Megalith Levitation news.....
Last updated: 16 July 2023
Megalith Levvitation continue to be busy pursuing the lysergic nirvana - at the same time work continues unabated on the new album.
In the meantime, the band have done a series of gigs and festivals - some sets from that tour (in May 2023) can be viewed at the Aesthetic Death YT here....
Last month Megalith Levitation were interviewed for the excellent "No Clean Singing" webzine - check it out here....
And for anyone who hasn't bought the album on CD - this is what you're missing out on.....
Ord & Demonologists - OUT NOW
Last updated: 26 June 2023
The summer solstice bore witness to the ritual of the "Secret Ceremony".
Ord (russia) and Demonologists (usa) work together to summon up unsettling horror inspired ritual themes, for spiritual, anti-spiritual, or personal use. This music is intended for experimental mind expansion and deep soul explorations / removals.
A collection of tranquil ceremonies guiding towards confrontational trances into the unconscious mind. drifting into the sacred ocean of creation via the symbolic imagery of death, "Secret Cermonies" captures the essence of the Victorian era opium den, but with the unsettling contrast and presence of Jack the Ripper...
OUT NOW - Esoteric - Epistemological Despondency - 2CD digibook re-issue
Last updated: 16 June 2023
I'm very pleased to announce the 2CD digibook re-issue of the debut ESOTERIC album.
Out of print for around 15 years - this new version comes on a beautiful digibook 2CD, with internal booklet pages and new layout design from Mauro Berchi. Amending mistakes on two previous pressings.
Re-issued exactly 29 years after the original recordings - and just before the highly anticipated tour to Australia.
This is the definitive edition of this cult extreme doom album.
Hateful, drug-influenced, tortured doom. Essential.
AD YouTube Channel
Last updated: 4 June 2023
Stijn at Aesthetic Death has been working hard putting together videos, shorts and playlists relating to all bands AD have worked with.
The channel is still developing - but please take a look, subscribe and check out new/forthcomng clips - along with archive material from older releases.
Enjoy!!
Epitaphe - II 2LP - US distribution
Last updated: 4 June 2023
For anyone based in North and South America - the excellent USA label, Gurgling Gore will now be stocking the new EPITAPHE "II" gatefold 2LP
Following the Gurgling Gore tape editions of both "I" and "II", it is great that they are going the extra mile and supporting the vinyl for fans to get hold of!!
Please contact Gurgling Gore directly for order details - gurglinggore@gmail.com
Ord & Demonologists - Secret Ceremonies A5 digi CD
Last updated: 1 June 2023
Ord is an occult / ritual based, dark ambient musician from russia.
Demonologists are an industrial blackened noise / horror electronics duo from indiana
Currently at press is the collaborative album from Ord (russia) and Demonologists (usa) - in symbiosis they summon up 8 horror soundtrack inspired ritual themes.....perfectly crafted for spiritual, anti-spiritual, or personal use.
This music is intended for experimental mind expansion and deep soul explorations / removals. a collection of tranquil ceremonies guiding towards confrontational trances into the unconscious mind.
Drifting into the sacred ocean of creation through the symbolic imagery of death.
Mesmur - Chthonic
Last updated: 1 June 2023
Released now is the wonderful funeral doom death underworld epic "Chthonic" from acclaimed international act - MESMUR
Beautifully structured and meandering album - doom fans check out the track "Refraction" here.....
Epitaphe - II - vinyl - OUT NOW!!
Last updated: 22 April 2023
the album "II" - from excellent French progressive death doom metal act EPITAPHE - is now available on 2LP
Released ahead of schedule - this vinyl version has been beautifully created and is a fitting vinyl issue to this wonderful album - considered by many as one of the highlights of 2022
Comes on heavy gatefold sleeve - 180g vinyl - two coloured vinyl - 4 page booklet - obi strip
Essential.
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Megalith Levitation - promo video
Last updated: 22 April 2023
Check out the new promo video for "Descending" - from the new MEGALITH LEVITATION album - "Obscure Fire".....
Violenta Domestica - Despicable
Last updated: 21 April 2023
I'm pleased to announce that Aesthetic Death will once again be collaborating with Teratogen on the release of the forthcoming VIOLENTA DOMESTICA album - Despicable
Delving into electronic tones of ebm, noise and ambient - Violenta Domestica always keep their music unique and challenging. Offering a reflective commentary on the sorry state of the world - and dealing with a selection of unpleasant people and their ugly traits.
"Despicable" will be released on June 1st in the following formats:
- Double vinyl (orange & red) in gatefold sleeve, limited to 200 copies (released by Teratogen & grazil Records)
- CD in six panel digisleeve with 12 page booklet, limited to 300 copies (released by Teratogen, grazil Records & Aesthetic Death)
- Free digital version at www.teratogen.at/musick and violentadomestica.bandcamp.com
New website layout
Last updated: 3 April 2023
Aesthetic Death is working on a new website layout. We are currently putting this layout to the test, and would appreciate any feedback.
Have a look at https://www.aestheticdeath.com/v2home.php
Any feedback (or problems) can be sent to greywinged@yahoo.co.uk or stu@aestheticdeath.com
new album from The Slumbering
Last updated: 28 March 2023
Pleased to announce that the new album from The Slumbering is preparing for release.
Entitled "When We Forget It Repeats" - and features a further exploration into the dark oppressive world of Clint Listing's doom noise project.
Pulsating, droning noise - but with undertones of nuanced rhythm. This is the third album from this exciting and developing project.
Digi CD available on Aesthetic Death / Tape available on Trepanation Recordings / Digital available direct from the band
Released May 12th 2023
Support obscure underground music and physical media!!
Grava - video for "Crusher"
Last updated: 28 March 2023
check out the official video from GRAVA for the track "Crusher" - taken from the "Weight of a God" album.
As the title suggests, and if you know Grava, it's crushing, heavy and oppressive.
Enjoy!
Mesmur - preview track
Last updated: 17 March 2023
Very pleased to share with you a preview track from the upcoming MESMUR album.
"Petroglyph" is an 11 minute journey - a glimpse of "Chthonic" and Mesmur's beautifully crafted doom underworld.
Check out the youtube video here - thanks to the great folks at Grizzly Butts for the exclusive premiere.....
Mesmur - Chthonic
Last updated: 24 February 2023
The time has come to reveal the artwork and share some additional information about the concept of the upcoming new Mesmur album, "Chthonic".
The title is based on the Greek word for "underworld", and the album is a loosely connected collection of stories about paranormal entities and the contact they make with the human world. Cadaversky's stunning cover painting, with its ghostly figure emerging from a murk of toxic yellows and greens, perfectly fits the album's musical aesthetic, as well as its horror oriented subject matter.
"Chthonic" is scheduled for digi CD release on April 14 by Aesthetic Death and Solitude Productions - both the digital version and digi CD version are also available directly from the band themselves at Bandcamp (support artists directly!!) - plus there are plans for a vinyl edition to follow.
Tracklisting : 1. Chthonic, 2. Refraction, 3. Petroglyph, 4. Passage, 5. Chthonic (Coda)
Royal Mail - international mail situation
Last updated: 24 February 2023
Following the cyber attack on Royal Mail - there has finally been some developments with international mail starting to flow again.
All orders from the last few weeks - including all order on Esoteric vinyls - have now been sent (on tuesday 21st Feb) and will hopefully arrive with you in the coming week or two.
Please give a little time for the backlog to ease - if tthere are any further issues just drop me an email.
Thanks for your patience with this.
Estrangement review
Last updated: 21 February 2023
check out the excellent review for "Disfigurementality" from our friends over at La Muerte Tenia Un Blog....
https://lamuerteteniaunblog.blogspot.com/2023/02/estrangement-disfigurementality.html
International postal delays from the UK
Last updated: 16 February 2023
There has been a significant delay to international mail leaving the UK, following a cyber attack on Royal Mail in January.
Current news is that things will return to normal on monday 20th February.
All orders should be moving or shipped next week - including the recent Esoteric vinyls ordered.
Any questions just drop me an email.
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