just in.....
Last updated: 1 December 2025
latest arrivals.....
november arrivals including releases from Epidemie Recs (CZE), Ur Muzik (POL), Game Two Recs (USA), Nihilistiche Klangkunst (GER) and more.....
Megaptera (SWE) - Disease - digi CD (Death industrial, originally released in 1996 - this is the 2018 re-issue on Ur Muzik - bleak horrifying Swedish death industrial - recommended!)
Der Arbeiter (GER) - Amor Fati - digi CD (Neoclassical / Folk, Nietzsche inspired album of ritual ambient neo-classical - on the excellent label Ur Muzik)
Beyond Sensory Experience & Moljebka Pvlse (SWE) - Zielona Gora - digi CD (Dark ambient, two Swedish dark ambient acts - blend experimental sounds and field recordings into their tracks - recorded live in 2008 )
Prioratvm (FRA) - Those Who Linger - digisleeve CD (Dark ambient, haunting ethereal ambient - based around classical structure, esotericism and ghostly concepts.)
Vladimir Hirsch (CZE) - Memories Of Mars - digi CD (Ambient Abstract, prolific ambient industrial sound sculptor and experimentalist with a 2025 album which is a thematic work based around a Ray Bradbury novel - comes in beautiful 6 panel digipack)
Vladimir Hirsch (CZE) - Lux Antiqua - LP (Ambient Abstract, Composition for orchestra, mixed choir and integrated techniques - classical contemporary and ambient)
Svardenvyrd (CZE) - Obycej slunovratu - digi CD (Pagan/folk black, epic pagan black metal - originally released in 2005, this is the digipack 2025 re-issue on Epidemie Recs)
Sukkhu (CZE) - Self-exorcism - LP (Black, originally self released on CD earlier in 2025 - this is the LP version released by Epidemie Recs - excellent Czech black metal)
Elbe (CZE) - Peculiar - LP (Doom, post-rock, progressive with atmospheric doomgaze elements - dark dynamic and fragile - nice LP edition on Epidemie Recs)
Incarnatus (ECU) - Sinfonia De Hades - CD (Black Death, Ecuadorian blackened death metal)
No Souls Lost (USA) - Hostis Humani Generis - CD (Death, features Carcass cover track)
Sacrilegium (POL) - Embrace The Darkness - CD (Pagan/folk black, pagan black metal - 1999 demo re-issued on CD in 2006, features split 1996 and demo 1996 as additional material)
Tyrantz Empire (NED) - Merauderz Of The Monolith - The Omega Chapter - digi CD (Black, chaotic black metal)
Stormlord (ITA) - Supreme Art Of War - CD (Black, symphonic epic black metal with power metal touches)
Deer Creek (USA) - The Hiraeth Pit - digi CD (Sludge Doom, latest 2024 album from these US sludge doom stalwarts - heavy, riff-laden, bleak, lumbering, oppressive, depressive - Deer Creek continue to put out quality albums and challenging doom)
Deer Creek (USA) - The Hiraeth Pit - LP (Sludge Doom, LP version on blue/black vinyl - pressing of 250 )
The Last Seed (GER) - Hellboy - CD (Black, 2018 release on NKK)
The Last Seed (GER) - Revenant - CD (Black, jewel case edition)
Horns (CHI) - Totendienst VI - Antiphonae Omnes Mortum et Animas - CD (Black, longstanding Chilean black metal act - this is the 2024 re-issue on NKK)
Horns (CHI) - Adveniat Spiritus Inmundus - CD (Black, CD features the demo/rehearsal material from 1994-1998 - this is the NKK edition from 2024)
Haradwaith (GRE) - The M-Theory - CD (Black, satanic black metal - album released on physical format by NKK in 2023)
Dispatched (SWE) - Returned To Your Mind - CD (Death, Swedish death metal - 1997 release on Toppling Colossus/Black Wolf - limited edition EP - the band released numerous EPs in the late 90s)
Dispatched (SWE) - Blackshadows - CD (Death, hard to find 1996 EP which features part of the never released 1994 album of the same name )
Ereshkigal (MEX) - Shadow's Land - digi CD (Black, Mexican satanic black metal - this is the 2012 digipack re-recording and re-issue on Azermedoth Recs)
Postmortem (EST) - The Call Of The Sea - CD (Thrash, Estonian melodic thrash death from the 90s)
Postmortem (EST) - The Victory Day - CD (Thrash, last album from this thrash death act)
Horologium (POL) - Du Grand Desir - digi CD (Dark ambient, from ritual ambient to martial anthems and ethnic dances - a solemn, yet strangely uplifting release)
Incarnated (POL) - Try Before Die - CD (Death, brutal death gore grind)
Spear Of Longinus (AUS) - Rune / Goetia - CD (Black, raw occult black on Forgotten Wisdom Prod)
Omega (GRE) - Second Coming, Second Crucifxion - CD (Black, Greek Black/speed metal)
Vladislas (USA) - Season Of The Witch - CD (Black, only EP from this band)
Sabrax (BUL) - Devilsspear - CD (Black, Satanic black metal - split up in 2004 - comp CD features both releases by the band - EP '97 and full album '99 - used CD - slight scuff marks on disc)
Maleficia (FIN) - Songs Of The Nightbird - CD (Black, Finnish symphonic black metal)
Krig (GER) - Throne Of Majesty Thriumph - CD (Black, German epic symphonic black metal)
Hrizg (SPA) - Anthems To Decrepitude - CD (Black, Spanish atmospheric black metal)
Experiments In Darkness (BEL) - From The Heart - digi CD (Neoclassical / Folk, neo-classical - from the musician behind projects such as Dead Man's Hill etc)
Scholomance (USA) - The Immortality Murder - 2CD (Atmospheric black, atmospheric progressive blackened metal - used CD, excellent condition)
Let Me Dream (FIN) - Greyscales - CD (Gothic/Darkwave, Finnish gothic doom)
Xyster (MEX) - Control Nocturno - CD (Heavy Metal, Mexican power/heavy metal act from the late 80s - reformed in 2015 with the release of this comp CD which features demo, split and live tracks from the 80s)
Slaughtered Priest (GRE) - Eternal Goat Reign - CD (Black Death, Greek black death - used CD, light scuffs on disc)
Black Angel (PER) - Satanic Rites In Brazil 2006 - CD (Black Death, Satanic black death from Peru - raw sloppy live recording from 2006)
Atel (USA) - Seeking Morbid Silence - CD (Black, short lived US black metal act)
Aberration (GER) - From The Underground - Into The Light - CD (Black Death, 1998 compilation CD - underground sampler from German fanzine - featuring German underground bands - Sanitys Dawn, Depression, Gods OF Emptiness, Brain Dead, Nebular Moon +++)
Cthulhu Through Amplification (IRE) - The Divine Ungrund - Zine (Doom black, Cathal Rodgers has always raised the underground bar - both in his metal/non-metal musical output, but more recently with his written zines. After the excellent Existentiell he has more recently written CTA - always insightful and intelligent - this is one of two zines written and issued simultaneously through 2023/24. This issue - The Divine Ungrund - features mainly doom metal genres with 84 b/w xeroxed pages - with Assumption, Decemberance, Sektarism, Echo, Burial Choir, Akelei, Benthic Realm, Owlcrusher, Deber + more!! Essential.)
Cthulhu Through Amplification (IRE) - Gateways Through Stone & Circle - Zine (Doom black, Cathal Rodgers has for years been an underground luminary - both in his metal/non-metal musical output, but more recently with his written zines. After the excellent Existentiell he has more recently written CTA - always insightful and intelligent - this is one of two zines written and issued simultaneously through 2023/24. This issue - Gateways Through Stone And Circle - features many underground extreme genres within the 84 b/w xeroxed pages - with Hail Conjurer, Anthropophagous, Shattered Hope, Mythosphere, Grief Collector, Monachopsis Art, Cryptae, Ymir, Hanging Garden, Carcinoid + more!! Essential.)
Astrofaes (UKR) - The Attraction: Heavens And Earth - CD (Black, Ukrainian black metal - this is the 2004 CD issue (first time on CD) of the bands 1997 demo)
Withered Beauty (SWE) - Withered Beauty - CD (Death, Swedish melodic death metal)
LatroDectus (FRA) - Darkened Abyss - CD (Black, French black metal - debut EP released in 2001)
still fresh from last month....
Dome Runner (FIN) - Apocalypse. Pulse. Worship. - digisleeve CD (Industrial, Industrial metal includes Theologian cover - now signed to Svart Recs)
Dome Runner (FIN) - Apocalypse. Pulse. Worship. - LP (Industrial, LP version on Superfi Recs - ltd to 200 copies)
Dead Carnage / Soul Massacre (CZE) - The Only Thing I Ever Wanted / 1000 Ways - CD (Death, Czech death metal - EPs on split album)
Hellburner (MEX) - Disobey - CD (Black thrash, Mexican black thrash - 6 track EP)
Vexilla Regis Prodeunt Inferni (MEX) - The True Path - CD (Death, latest album on Abyssmo Prod - Mexican import)
Unholy Archangel (GRE) - Obsessed By War - CD (Black Death)
Denial Of God (DEN) - The Dawn Of Aemizaez - CD (Black, demo material from 1992-1993)
Bloodoline (SPA) - Storm & Brilliance - CD (Black)
Jungle Rot (USA) - Dead And Buried - CD (Death, 2022 cd re-issue on Animate Recs - with another new artwork - sealed digipack)
Jungle Rot (USA) - Fueled By Hate - Tape (Death, 2022 tape re-issue of their 3rd album - released on Animate Recs)
Jungle Rot (USA) - Dead And Buried - LP (Death, 2nd album re-issued on gatefold vinyl - black vinyl)
Napalm Death (UK) - Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism - LP (Grind, re-issue as gatefold picture disc LP - on Animate Recs in 2023 - includes bonus track)
Napalm Death (UK) - Utilitarian - Tape (Grind, 2023 re-issue on tape - released on Animate Recs)
Napalm Death (UK) - Leaders Not Followers - Part 2 - Tape (Grind, 2023 re-issue on tape - released on Animate Recs - one of ND's cover - covering Kreator, Discharge, Devastation, Hellhammer, Hirax etc....)
Napalm Death (UK) - Coded Smears And More Uncommon Slurs - Tape (Grind, 2024 re-issue on double tape - tapes come in slipcard - released on Animate Recs - compilation of bonus tracks and EP tracks from 2008-2014)
Asphyx (NED) - Live Death Doom - Tape (Death, 2024 re-issue on double tape - comes in slipcard sleeve - released on Animate Recs - recording from a gig in Germany, 2009 - )
Asphyx (NED) - Crush The Cenotaph - Tape (Death, 2022 re-issue on tape - released on Animate Recs - awesome EP when this was originally released)
Agathocles & Wraak (BEL / GER) - When All Is Lost - digi CD (Grind, split EP - one of three EPs released that came from one AG recording session - short running time)
Grave (SWE) - Burial Ground - Tape (Death, 2023 re-issue on tape - Swedish death metal legend)
Grave (SWE) - As Rapture Comes - Tape (Death, 2023 re-issue on tape - on Animate Recs)
Grave (SWE) - Dominion VIII - Tape (Death, 2023 re-issue on tape)
Grave (SWE) - Fiendish Regression - Tape (Death, 2023 tape version - on Animate Recs)
Grave (SWE) - Out Of Respect For The Dead - Tape (Death, tape re-issue on Animate Recs)
Оторопь (RUS) - Henbane And Flame - digi CD (Black, raw black metal - dark folk magic)
Nebelwerfer (RUS) - The Aeon Of Filth - digi CD (Black, Infektion. Decease. Annihilation. - includes Urgehal cover)
Progenie Terrestre Pura (ITA) - UMA - Uomini, Macchine, Anime - digi CD (Atmospheric black, atmospheric cosmic black ambient - comes in embossed digipack)
Barus (FRA) - Drowned - CD (Death, progressive death metal - excellent band)
Grimegod (ROM) - Under The Sad And Silent Sky - digi CD (Death Doom, gothic doom death - the 1995 demo re-issued on digi CD)
Masachist (POL) - The Sect (death REALigion) - CD (Death, 2017 album on Witching Hour Prod)
Rex Mundi (USA) - IHVH - CD (Black, US black metal on Debemur Morti Prod)
Horrisonous (AUS) - A Culinary Cacophony - CD (Death, Australian death metal )
Ewiges Reich (GER) - ....Nur Frei Bei Nacht - digi CD (Black, German war black metal)
Jotnarr (UK) - Rotten Fucking PLanet - Tape (Black, UK black metal crust)
Jotnarr (UK) - Jotnarr - LP (Black, Blackened sludgy crust metal)
Malpest (FRA) - One More Reason To Hate Us - CD (Black, mini EP)
Horncrowned (COL) - Satanic Armageddon - CD (Black, Colombian black metal)
Gride (CZE) - 1996-2003 - CD (Grind, Czech grindcore hardcore thrash - compilation of tracks 1996-2003)
Dominion Caligula (SWE) - A New Era Rises - CD (Death, melodic Swedish death metal)
Mithotyn (SWE) - In The Sign Of The Ravens - CD (Black, Viking metal - original 1997 issue)
Drowned (BRA) - Bio-Violence - CD (Death, Brazilian death thrash)
Temnohor (SLO) - Krv a pot Malých Karpát - digi CD (Black, final album - hand numbered digipack)
Thy Endless Wrath (COL) - Next To The Throne Of Chaos - CD (Black, Colombian black metal)
Molot Vedim (RUS) - Asylum - CD (Black Death, melodic black death)
Seduced (AUT) - Discarding The Mask - digi CD (Black Death, Austrian black death)
Seduced (AUT) - Slay The Fucking Jesus Christ - digi CD (Black Death, debut album on Cursed Recs)
Seduced (AUT) - The Proclamation - CD (Black Death)
Infliction (USA) - Denouncing The Flesh - CD (Death, Brutal US death metal - 2004 CD on Dead World Syndicate)
Keep On Rotting (CZE) - The Beginning - digi CD (Death, self released 2011 EP on digi CD - Czech death metal)
Subconscious Terror (JAP) - Invisible - CD (Death, Japanese brutal death metal - original 1996 issue on Eclipse Recs)
Dragongrass (CAN) - Beyond The Valley Of Hinnom - CD (Death, death metal with speed touches - self released album)
Neuroma & Dawn Of Chaos (UK) - Northern Discomfort - CD (Death, split release of UK death metal)
Dark Domination (LTV) - Rebellion 666 - CD (Black, Latvian black metal )
Vorgus (SWE) - Vorgusized - CD (Thrash, thrash speed death heavy metal - 2004 demo released on CD by Iron Blood Death Corp)
Xaos Oblivion (POL) - Rituals Of Ancient Wisdom - CD (Black, Black/doom ambient)
Xaos Oblivion (POL) - Radical Antihuman Ritual - CD (Black, black doom ambient)
Xaos Oblivion & Hate Frost (POL) - The Cold Mountains - CD (Black, 2024 split mini album - Polish black metal)
Sins Of Omission (SWE) - The Creation - CD (Death, Swedish melodic death metal)
Ritual Combat (USA) - Occultus Requiem - CD (Black, US black metal - 2013 CD re-issue on Red Stream, includes bonus track)
Demonic Slaughter (POL) - The Night Of Mesmeric Whispers - CD (Black, Polish black metal - released in 2023)
Demonic Slaughter (POL) - De Sepulcro Carnis Resurrecctionem - CD (Black, new 2025 album)
Luciferian Flame (UK) - Supreme Silesian Darkness - digi CD (Black)
Grimwald (ITA) - Ephemeral Retribution Against Modern Emptiness Rites - digi CD (Black, black metal with ambient passages)
Crown Of Nails (USA) - Crown Of Nails - digi CD (Death, US/Czech death metal - debut album )
Blasphemare (POL) - Temple Of Thousand Blasphemies - digi CD (Black Death, Polish black death - debut EP)
Ancient Spirit (UK) - Through Heathen Eyes - digi CD (Black, UK heathen nature black metal - active between 2014-2018 - this is the demo 1 rehearsal re-issued on digi CD)
Exsanguinare (POL) - The Victorious Night Of Necromantical Hordes - CD (Black, haunted black metal)
Old Throne (BRA) - Pedras E Ossos - CD (Black, early and rare versions of tracks, recorded in 2008, which appeared on later EP, demo and album releases between 2010-2013)
Mirror Of The Void (POL) - Ephemeral Mirage - CD (Black, experimental black metal - 2024 EP)
Hatenwar (POL) - Grobowe legiony pomsty - CD (Black, Polish black metal - 2025 album)
Sturmgraf (POL) - Bluterbe - CD (Black, nature pagan black metal - debut full album)
Ordo Sanguinis Noctis (POL) - Zakon nocnej krwi - CD (Black, chthonic black metal rituals)
Deep Desolation (POL) - Dwunaste Wrota - CD (Black thrash, blackened thrash metal - featuring members of Doomster Reich, Zos etc....)
Krypta Nicestwa (POL) - Remanenciis Rituum Execrabilium - CD (Black, dark haunted Polish black metal - 2025 release)
Havocum (IRE) - Basement Dreams And Morbid Visions - CD (Black, Irish black metal - recorded 2022-2025 - includes Impaled Nazarene cover)
Dizziness (GRE) - Abhorrent Flickering of Obscurity - CD (Black, Greek black metal - 2025 CD version)
Winter Blackness (POL) - Misterium Borealnych Ponurosci - CD (Black, Misanthropic winter black metal - EP recorded between 2015-2023 - includes Blut Aus Nord cover )
Czarna Trumna (POL) - Nekropolie szkarlatnego chlodu - CD (Black)
Black Skies Burn / UK Hate Grind (UK) - Brian Blessed Are The Sick - CD (Grind, thrash death grind hardcore - UK split - re-stock)
When Bitter Spring Sleeps (USA) - Star Thrown - digi CD (Black, black metal ethereal ambient)
Hate Beyond (JAP) - Cage Of The Sorrow - CD (Death)
Bretus (ITA) - In Onirica - CD (Doom Stoner, Italian stoner doom)
Landforge (UK) - Servitude To Earth - CD (Atmospheric Doom, atmospheric doom/post-rock - 2012 release)
Mozergush (UKR) - Mozergush - CD (Doom Stoner, stoner doom sludge psychedelia)
Sectarian Defacement (UKR) - Chaotic Demiurge - CD (Death, brutal death / serial killer grindcore from Ukraine - debut 4 track EP 2025 - includes Cryptopsy cover)
Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition (FRA) - Sheep N' Guns - CD (Death, Death metal goregrind - band with three decades of spewing releases - jewel case CD 2025 re-issue on Eclectic Prod)
Mulyfication (UKR) - Swamped In Forlorn Misery - CD (Death, death metal with doomy touches - 2025 CD issue - got a great 90s death metal production and feel, plus the artwork is sick - recommended!!!)
Fecal Body Incorporated (BUL) - Tales From The Spermswamp - CD (Grind, Bulgarian twisted death gore grind - includes live tracks from 2012)
Maze Of Torment (POL) - Silencing The Voice Of Reason - CD (Death, debut album of this new Polish death metal force - experienced band, featuring members of Doomster Reich + other underground stalwarts)
Hellspawn (POL) - Euphorias - Stories Of My Multitude - CD (Death)
Cien (POL) - Maledictio - CD (Black, anticipated new release from established Polish black metal act)
Morbid Execution (POL) - Vulgar Devotion - 2CD (Black, 2CD compilation of all material - albums, along with splits, EP and rehearsal tracks from across their active years. Side project of Throneum member)
Frontschwein (POL) - Faces Of War - CD (Black, War black metal)
Holy Death (POL) - Triumph Of Evil? - 2CD (Black, one of the early blackened metal bands in the strong Polish scene of the early 90s - 2024 2CD re-issue of their cult 1996 album - this version includes previously unreleased outtakes from the recording sessions)
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 CD for the 35th anniversary - back in stock!)
Atomck (UK) - Towering Failures - digisleeve CD (Grind, blackened digital death grind)
Fanatic Attack (HUN) - Years Of The Attack - CD (Black thrash, 2025 EP which includes new material, along with some older tracks re-recorded for this release)
In Viscero (ITA) - Italia Violenta - CD (Death, Italian death metal - this album is based largely around conjuring sounds inspired by Italian cinema and horror films from the 70s)
Atomic (HUN) - Satan Metal (demo 1986) - CD (Thrash, unreleased 1986 demo "Satan Metal" - from Hungarian thrash band - Atomic. Issued in special edition in 2019 - this is the jewel case re-issue in 2025)
Sin Of God (HUN) - Blood Bound - CD (Death, Hungarian technical death / grind - 2025 album - this is the jewel case CD on Metal Or Die/Pest Recs)
REM (HUN) - Odon - CD (Black, Hungarian raw black metal based around traditional folklore - 2025 CD release)
Azagatel (POR) - XV Years Of Pagan Chants - CD (Pagan/folk black, Pagan black metal - compilation featuring demo and split releases between 1995 and 2010 - used CD but good condition)
Nycticorax (LAT) - Umbra Mortis - CDr (Black, Latvian black metal - debut album from 2004 - this is the 2006 CDr re-issue on Oskorei - low budget release and album only of interest to specific collectors)
Aesthetic Death upcoming releases...
Last updated: 1 December 2025
In production, out soon.....
Demonologists w/Vainoras (USA/AUS) - Plantae Arcanvs - digi CD (arrived - announcement soon)
Cave Dweller (USA) - Showing Teeth - digi CD (Dec 2025)
Goatpsalm (RUS) - Beneath - digi CD (Dec 2025)
Fleurety (NOR) - Inquietum - 2x 10" vinyl (early 2026)
Lucifugum (UKR) - Adanom - 7" vinyl (early 2026)
Sutratma (USA) - Adrift - LP (early 2026)
Epitaphe (FRA) - III - CD/2LP (Spring 2026)
Upcoming:
Lordamor (FIN) - II - digi CD / 2LP (Spring 2026)
Esoteric (UK) - 9x vinyl box set (Spring 2026)
Megalith Levitation (RUS) - Hypnosis IV - digi CD (mid 2026)
Mesmur (USA) - Chthonic - LP (Spring 2026)
Estrangement - new album (tba)
Forfalla (AUS) - debut album (tba)
Longer term plans - at various stages of progress:
Mordor (SWI) - Odes - re-issue CD/LP (in progress - release tba)
Wreck Of The Hesperus - 4 CD box set (tba)
MurkRat (AUS) - Drudging The Mire - 2LP (tba)
Endvra (UK) - Liber Leviathan - gatefold LP (tba)
Onwards and upwards....
Last updated: 2 October 2025
summer 2025 turned out to be an unexpectedly challenging period in my life, which afforded me very little time or energy to devote to the label and music - my apologies if I have missed emails and dropped contacts..
Perhaps it's true - that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger ..... but all the same, it can still certainly fuck you up!
I'm back and working torward 2026, which is looking to be one of the best years in the history of the label, with some fantastic releases lined up..
One of which is the Esoteric vinyl box set edition, which I have spent many years planning and curating - a release that will be my proudest moment, as the pinnacle of over three decades of working, and friendship, with Greg and Esoteric.
These are the things that keep this label alive with an underground spirit - whatever bureaucracy and crazy shit is happening across the world!!
Waste Cult - album released
Last updated: 10 June 2025
the debut album from Italian doom act WASTE CULT is released early June - an album I've been really glad to be involved with and to work on releasing with the band.
WASTE CULT have a release gig in Bologna, Italy on June 26th - if you're able to get there then check it out.
Also, if your Italian is good enough, then check out the lengthy interview they did yesterday with Italian radio show NOISE ATTACK!
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