PARADIGMS RECORDINGS RELEASES

WOBURN HOUSE

"Monstrous Manoeuvres In The Mushroom Maze" CD  (PARADIGMS029)
£7.00 postpaid worldwide.

The stunning second album from Germany's Woburn House. Levitating somewhere between transcendental European avantgarde metal and earthy, organic post-rock. Layer upon layer of beautifully textured melody that is driven by a bass drift that reminds us of classic early Lungfish in parts too, which can never be a bad thing. A really special album, beautifully presented with a cover painting by Toby Driver of Kayo Dot and mastered by the sound genius of Tom Kvålsvoll (Strype Audio).

BOSNIA

"Nazarene Hallucinations" CD  (PARADIGMS028)
Limited Edition of 500 copies. £7.00 postpaid worldwide.

Blackened doom crust from Denver, Colorado. Brutal, grinding filth and downtuned terror with an underlying air of atmospheric menace which reminds us of His Hero Is Gone, Kylesa and such, with a deathly nod to black metal aesthetics. Glorious.

OLD MAYOR

"Old Mayor" CD  (PARADIGMS027)
Limited Edition of 500 copies. £7.00 postpaid worldwide.

The debut from England’s almighty power duo, Old Mayor. Stripped down heavy sonics of the highest order, like the missing link between Burning Witch and Slint, perhaps. Recently seen supporting the likes of Boris, Russian Circles, A Storm Of Light and ASVA, there is something rather special going on here.

FOG IN THE SHELL

"Private South" CD  (PARADIGMS026)
Limited Edition of 500 copies. £7.00 postpaid worldwide.

Glacial second album from Italy's Fog In The Shell. Awe-inspiring celestial wonder organically fusing heavy "post-rock" textures with psyched kraut-rock sonics, beautiful songcraft, pulsating synths, organs, theramin,gamelan gong and a touch of Thrill Jockey electronica.
A truly marvellous work for appreciators of Cult Of Luna, Tortoise, Ulver and Tarantula Hawk, perhaps..

DECREPIT SPECTRE

"Coal Black Hearses" DIGI-PAK MCD  (PARADIGMS025)
Limited Edition. £6.00 postpaid worldwide.

Jet black, dark art from members of Dodheimsgard and Code. Cutting edge avantgarde extremity of the highest order. Dynamic Moonfogery, laced with the masterful vocals and lyrics of ex-DHG vocalist, Kvohst. Debut MCD - 3 tracks over 16+ minutes, presented in beautiful limited digi-pak edition and also available as an exclusive t-shirt package.

DECREPIT SPECTRE CD + EXCLUSIVE T-SHIRT

Special super limited package includes the "Coal Black Hearses" limited digipak cd plus an exclusive Decrepit Spectre t-shirt.

The shirt as shown is available in sizes S, M, L and XL on quality black shirt!. £16.00 postpaid worldwide for shirt + limited digipak CD

EKPYROSIS

"Mensch Aus Gold" CD  (PARADIGMS024)
Limited Edition of 500 copies. £7.00 postpaid worldwide.

One colossal 32 minute track from Germany's EKPYROSIS -- totally unique; some of the most challenging and engaging avantgarde Black Metal we have heard in a long time. Rich and intelligent with an almost Teutonic post-punk feel that reminds us of Xmal Deutschland or Joy Division in it's atmospheres, yet still remaining decidedly black metal. Very hard to put this one into words, but we can't recommend this highly enough! Beautifully presented with stunning art direction. Limited edition of 500 copies only. We LOVE this cd so much and we are very proud to present it on Paradigms.

THE VICTIM'S SHUDDER

"Terror Romance" CD  (PARADIGMS023)
Limited Edition of 500 copies. £7.00 postpaid worldwide.

Sublime, beautiful and resounding with an imposing dread, the new album from California's The Victim's Shudder is an intoxicating and harrowing affair. A vast, misted cathedral soundtrack of dark and light, resounding classical atmospheres of decadent horror and celestial vocals, like a baroque tradgedy played out on 4AD or Cold Meat Industry. Presented as a limited edition of 500 copies only, in dvd presentation box with full colour art.

ONDO

"Mahavishnu" CD  (PARADIGMS022)
Limited Edition of 500 copies. £7.00 postpaid worldwide.

The majestic debut full length album from Sweden's Ondo. Intricate, textured doomed drone, blackened ambience and lush nocturnal electronica, delicately crafted into a dark cinematic vision. A shadow dreamscape of overpowering density, akin to an intoxicating fusion of early Earth, Raison D'Etre and a touch of the shimmering haze of Fennesz, perhaps? Presented as a limited edition of 500 copies only, in dvd presentation box with full colour art.

TROPES

"Tropes" CD  (PARADIGMS021)
Limited Edition of 750 copies. £7.00 postpaid worldwide.

A perfect soundtrack for long winter evenings. Tropes is the beautifully haunting work of German ethereal songwriter, Susan Bauszat. Eight celestial works of late night, candlelit songcraft with the shadowy ambience of maybe This Mortal Coil, Anja Garbarek, Susanna And The Magical Orchestra, Dead Can Dance and the output of the Rune Grammofon or 4AD labels. Guitar, flute, and violin shimmer alongside frosted electronica and the angelic tones of chanteuse Bauszat. Magestic. Presented as a limited edition of 750 copies only, in full colour card wallet and hand stamped Paradigms packaging.

SOMNAM

"Melancholy's Masquerade" CD  (PARADIGMS020)
Limited Edition of 500 copies. £7.00 postpaid worldwide.

Vast, dark forest ambient electronica filmscapes from Finland's Somnam. Cascading nocturnal melancholy which brings to mind the filmscores of Goblin, David Lynch's Twin Peaks and such, alongside the works of Ulver, Star Of Ash and other sprectral electronic visionaries. Organic, synth driven astral mindfog. Deep, rich, cinematic winter isolationism. Presented as a limited edition of 500 copies with full colour sleeve in white dvd box.

KAILASH

"Kailash" CD  (PARADIGMS019)
Limited Edition of 750 copies. £7.00 postpaid worldwide.

Five expansive tracks over 30+ minutes of evocative, deep, textured avant extreme metal from Italy's Kailash. Rich and challenging - as left-field death metal as it is progressive or jazz fueled; Interwoven with the forward thinking vision of such luminaries as Ved Buens Ende and Fleurety, the technical urgency of maybe Death, Opeth or later period Emperor and the creative magic of Agalloch and Ulver. Complete with piano and saxophone. Glorious. Presented in a beautiful colour card wallet and hand stamped Paradigms packaging.

AYTHIS

"Doppelganger" CD  (PARADIGMS018)
Limited Edition of 750 copies. £7.00 postpaid worldwide.

Melancholic, neo-classical romanticism, dark ambient funeral harmonies and ethereal female voice. An alchemy of baroque soundscapes and haunting melodies played to themes of isolation, solitude and death. An enchanting work from Carline Van Roos of Lethian Dreams and Remembrance. Highly recommended for appreciators of Dead Can Dance, Elend, Arcana and the like. Presented in beautiful colour card wallet and hand stamped Paradigms packaging.

PROCYON-X

"The Ghost Of Orion" CD  (PARADIGMS017)
Limited Edition of 500 copies. £7.00 postpaid worldwide.

Dark astral ambient voyages through solar infinity. Deep, all encompassing sensory projection for earthbound space travellers and cosmic explorers. Haunting, spacial isolationism from the same universe as Klause Schulze, Neptune Towers, Biosphere etc. A most beautiful and rewarding work.

GNAW THEIR TONGUES

"Reeking, Pained And Shuddering" CD  (PARADIGMS016)
Limited Edition of 500 copies. SOLD OUT

Harrowing, apocalyptic bestial ritual music from the deepest, darkest cellars of the Netherlands. Avant black metal, agonising funeral doom and blackened experimental drone noise stab forth again and again until all the blood is spilt and total carnage is all that remains. Pure dread put to music. Recommended for disturbed folk into Abruptum, Khanate, Axis Of Perdition, Swans and Univers Zero.

LEFT SENSORY BYPASS

"Temporal Exclusion" CD  (PARADIGMS015)
Limited Edition of 750 copies. £7.00 postpaid worldwide.

New seven track album from the shadowy gentleman's club that is California's Left Sensory Bypass. These sinister sounds radiate from a core of two enigmatic musicians with a revolving circle of guests including the percussion genius of Secret Chiefs, John Zorn and Xiu Xiu collaborator Ches Smith. Uneasy listening for appreciators of Ulver, Guapo, Magma, Fantomas and the like. Truly spellbinding and magical recordings.

SNOWDRIFT

"Snowdrift" CD  (PARADIGMS014)
Limited Edition of 750 copies. £7.00 postpaid worldwide.

The debut album from Seattle, WA's Snowdrift. Beautifully understated, melancholic songwriting with the haunting atmospheres of Low, the dream-like fog of Mazzy Star and the intimate chamber resonance of maybe Amber Asylum or Neurot Recordings artists Bee & Flower. A wonderfully personal and introspective voyage into candlelit, nocturnal listening.

WRAITHS

"Plaguebearer" CD  (PARADIGMS013)
Limited Edition of 500 copies. £7.00 postpaid worldwide.

Harrowing death-ambient and blast-furnace power drone. The searing soundtrack to desolate, nihilistic electronics through undulating sheets of ice cold atmosphere and claustrophobic dread. Haunting ritual evokation of all consuming, shape-shifting blackness. Electronic ritual in spectral tongue. Five tracks over fifty five minutes. Tracklist : Nihil Rex, Plaguebearer, Bone Flutes & Skull Drums, To Corrupt The Waters Of Lethe, Ghoulsong. 

PLANTS

"Double Infinity" CD  (PARADIGMS012)
Limited Edition of 500 copies. £7.00 postpaid worldwide.

"Double Infinity", the new full length cd  from Portland, Oregon's acclaimed psych folk duo, Plants, is their most ambitious undertaking yet. Opener "The Sky Above seeks the Below" is an expansive chasm of languid organs and twinkling piano clusters swelling up into a crescendo of vocal introspection and sparse, glistening folk drone space pop. The title track, is a twenty minute Kraut Rock odyssey packed with fuzz guitar, bongo hypnotics, electric harpsichord, and driving strings. The album closes with the arcane folk madrigal "Gnostic Flame", an open ended acoustic bewitchment that serves well as a coda to this enchanting, celestial album. 

HALLVARDUR ASGEIRSSON

"Lifsblomid" CD  (PARADIGMS011)
Limited Edition of 500 copies. £7.00 postpaid worldwide.

8 pieces written by Icelandic composer Hallvardur Asgeirson and performed at the Academy Of Arts in Reykjavik. Challenging yet beautiful, powerful and evocative avant modern classical composition taking elements of the 20th Century Viennese musical school of Schonberg, Berg and Webern, the urban deconstructionalism of Einsturzende Neubauten and the desolate arctic glow of Sigur Ros, Biosphere or the Kranky Records roster. Droning doomed classical, shadowy atmospherics and carefully layered works complemented by choral Teutonics for female voice. A mighty proposition indeed.

WOBURN HOUSE

"Message To Ourselves Outside The Dreaming Machine" CD  (PARADIGMS010)
Special Digi-Pak Edition. £8.00 postpaid worldwide.

From Bonn, Germany, Woburn House present four epic pieces over fifty five minutes ontheir debut album. Deeply intricate and powerfully dynamic music, transcendental layers of progressive avant doom, textured slow-core and shimmering shoegaze, cascading through the enveloping psychedelic riff. Taking influence from a wide ranging musical palette of Neurosis, Mono, Jesu, Sonic Youth, Slint and much more besides, then forging this with a distinctly European leftfield metal signature. This is indeed a rather unique, personal work of forward thinking heavy music.

VARIOUS ARTISTS

"Walking With Ghosts"CD (PARADIGMS009)
Limited Edition of 500 copies. £7.00 postpaid worldwide.

For the past six months we have been finely crafting a unique and powerful collection of melancholic, shadowy experimental music. Finally completed, entitled "Walking With Ghosts" and presented in dvd box packaging with beautiful photography from Alexandre Rito. Printed as a limited edition of 500 copies, of which only 400 will be available for sale through us. 

Featuring an eclectic yet balanced collection of nocturnal music over 80 minutes from And Machine Said...Behold, Catonium, Selaxon Lutberg, Escape The Day, Throne Of Galaktus, Paul Mercer, Monarkh, Le' Rue Delashay, The Victim's Shudder, The Waking Cold, Vulf Sentient, Annastatsea and Visions. You may well be unfamiliar with most or all of these challenging artists but will be intoxicated by the resonance of this album.

An epic collection of mist frosted ambient, through spectral modern classical and haunting vocal composition to sorrowful slo-core and heavy atmospheric astral prog. Influences across this black ethereal work rangefrom Magma to Diamanda Galas, Codeine to Shostakovich, Eno to Goblin, Dead Can Dance, Sigur Ros, Raison D'Etre or even Sunn 0))) and much more besides, and we think this will give you a very basic idea of what expansive artistic vision is captured here.

JARBOE

"Seeress" b/w "The Sweet Meat Love And Holy Cult" Seven Inch Vinyl
(PARADIGMS008) Ltd Edition of 600 copies only. £5.50 postpaid worldwide.

Paradigms is very proud to issue an exclusive, vinyl only release by the legendary Swans vocalist Jarboe. Two brand new recordings for Paradigms on a very limited 7" vinyl format. Beautifully packaged with full colour, heavy board sleeve and limited to 600 copies (of which only 500 will be available for sale through us). The A-side is a beautiful piano and vocal piece by Jarboe, with accompanying guitar from collabroator Nic Le Ban. The B-side introduces her new free-collective, The Sweet Meat Love And Holy Cult. The result being a 10-piece mantric improv freak-out. Fantastic. We're sure Jarboe needs no introduction to most after her heritage with Swans and her acclaimed solo works, the staggering collaborations with Neurosis and last year's highly praised "The Men Album".

TITAN

"Untitled" CD  (PARADIGMS007)
Limited Edition of 750 copies. £7.00 postpaid worldwide.

A very special untitled debut release from Brooklyn, NY krautrock mystics, TITAN. Cascading kosmische freakout in three parts over 45 minutes -  shimmering mind expansion like a heavy, solar tapestry of Ash Ra Tempel, Klaus Schulze and Zombi. Immense.

THE ANGELIC PROCESS

"Coma Waering" CD  (PARADIGMS006)
Limited Edition of 750 copies. £7.00 postpaid worldwide.

Lava-flow metal. Dense waves of crushing warm ambient drone propelled into the glare of a dying sun. A constantly shifting sculpture of swarming, celestial dissonance and violent sonic beauty. 40 minutes of layered hyperkinetic  eruptions and shimmering white noise from the same universe as My Bloody Valentine, Swans, Merzbow and Jesu.

UTLAGR

"Traditions Normandes" CD  (PARADIGMS005)
Limited Edition of 750 copies. SOLD OUT

Pagan warhammers thunder over Vinnland. Blasting, epic black metal from the far off shores of Canada, fueled by pagan heritage in honour of  Rolfr Utlagr, founder of Normandy, their ancestral homeland. 6 stirring battle hymns of devastating black metal glory in the spirit of Immortal or early Satyricon. This release is sold out and no longer available.

BLUEPRINT HUMAN BEING

"Heaven Is All" CD  (PARADIGMS004)
Limited Edition of 750 copies. £7.00 postpaid worldwide.

Blueprint Human Being fuse the heavy dynamics of a young King Crimson with the warm, glowing eccentricities of the early 1970's English progressive underground and the avant metal leanings of Fleurety and Ved Beuns Ende at their most kosmische. 30 minutes of heavy exploration and warped Finnish mind expansion.

THRONE OF KATARSIS

"Unholy Holocaustwinds" CD  (PARADIGMS003)
Limited Edition of 750 copies. £7.00 postpaid worldwide.

Gloriously frosted Norwegian black metal, atmospherically textured, cold and grimm indeed. Masterfully recorded onto 4-track cassette including winter field recordings captured in the nocturnal gloom of Norway's Liarlund Forests.

HJARNIDAUDI

"Pain:Noise:March" CD  (PARADIGMS002)
Limited Edition of 750 copies. £7.00 postpaid worldwide.

From the ashes of dark ambient pioneers Hlidolf comes Norway's HJARNIDAUDI. The debut release "Pain:Noise:March". Forty two minutes of thundering drone reverberations, propelled into endless voids by warm layers of suffocating astral funeral doom. Colossal, epic, mind-altering power.  {Points of reference : Klaus Schulze, suffocating funeral doom, Jesu, Esoteric.}.

AMBER ASYLUM

"Garden Of Love" CD  (PARADIGMS001)
Limited Edition of 750 copies. £7.00 postpaid worldwide.

San Francisco's Amber Asylum return with their first new recordings in nearly five years . Five dark, brooding chamber works of misanthropic resonance and chilling emotional beauty. A blackened neo-classical  masterpiece following their previous recordings on Relapse and Neurot as well as their acclaimed collaborations with Neurosis, Swans and Jarboe amongst others. Just under half an hour of new recordings, featuring the bonus soundtrack recording, "Serenade".

PARADIGMS LABEL T-SHIRT

Limited Edition Design in sizes S, M, L and XL. 
White front print design on premium black shirts. 
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PARADIGMS FORESTLORE T-SHIRT

Limited Edition Design in sizes M, L and XL. 
Black print design with brown script on premium light blue shirts.  £12.00 postpaid worldwide.

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AMBER ASYLUM T-SHIRT

Exclusive Design for Paradigms in sizes S, L and XL.
Silver ink front print design on premium black shirts. 
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EICHENWALD INDUSTRIES RELEASES

DWELLERS OF THE TWILIGHT

"Grey" CD  (E-WALD001)
Released on Eichenwald Industries. £7.00 postpaid worldwide.

Blasting, apocalyptic modern black metal laced with forward thinking dynamism and sheer spiteful vitriol shot to images of industrial decay. Hailing from the French underground, this duo destroy with a destructive technical urgency akin to Anaal Nathrakh with the driving power of Carpathian Forest. A truly devastating and important new black metal force. Released on the Eichenwald Industries label

THE WOUNDED KINGS

"Embrace Of The Narrow House" CD  (E-WALD002)
Released on Eichenwald Industries. £7.00 postpaid worldwide.

Majestic occult dooom metal from the weathered wastes of darkest Dartmoor. Doom grandeur for connoisseurs of classic Candlemass, the raw, down-tuned horror worship of Electric Wizard with an unhealthy obsession for 70's Italian macabre. Releasesd on the Eichenwald Industries label

DEAD SHELL OF UNIVERSE

"Tamo Gde Pupoljak Vene..." CD  (E-WALD003)
Released on Eichenwald Industries. £5.00 postpaid worldwide.

Hypnotic, cold and psychedelic Black Metal from Belgrade, Serbia. Three cosmic journeys over thirty five minutes into the outer reaches of atmospheric black metal with a twisted experimental edge under the influence of Ved Buens Ende, Fleurety and Deathspell Omega, whilst never losing the band's true nihilistic, blasting, isolationist spirit. Releasesd on the Eichenwald Industries label

GRUENEWALD

"Gruenewald" LIMITED DIGI-PAK CD  (E-WALD004)
Released on Eichenwald Industries. £7.00 postpaid worldwide.

Beautiful, introspective songwriting from Germany's Gruenewald. Slow, melancholic and powerful compositions that bring to mind the mellow mid-period of Anathema, Ulver and the nocturnal resonance of maybe Bohren And Der Club Of Gore, building with a hazy glow of Jesu. Haunting, ethereal introspection from Christian of Woburn House. Presented in limited edition digi-pak and releasesd on the Eichenwald Industries label

DISTRIBUTED ITEMS & RELATED ESOTERICA

AIDAN BAKER

"Exoskeleton Heart" CDR
£6.00 postpaid worldwide

Following on from the stunning 'Periodic' disc on Crucial Bliss last year, Nadja mastermind Aidan Baker returns with "Exoskeleton Heart" - one hour of crushing glacial drift and glowing drone rumble. Heavy shimmering beauty of the highest order. Highly recommended for appreciators of mammoth, celestial dronescapes and the impressive work of the aforementioned Nadja. Presented as a limited edition of 300 copies only.

AMBER ASYLUM

"Still Point" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

The stunning new album from one-time Paradigms collaborators, Amber Asylum. Here they further their melancholic, neo-classical chamber resonance to new heights. Beautiful beyond compare and powerfully evocative. Luscious gatefold cd packaging

BLACK ELK

"Always A Six Never A Nine" CD
£7.00 postpaid worldwide

The second album from Portland, Oregon's Black Elk. Psychotic, crushing noise-rock from the unhinged unerground inhabited by the likes of the Jesus Lizard, Melvins, Black Flag and Hammerhead. Seething weirdness, dissonant crushing riffage, lunging rhythmic push and the freaked out, Yow-esque vocals make this a compelling, ferocious listen

BURIAL HEX

"Initiations" CD
£7.00 postpaid worldwide

Beautifully packaged new release from Aurora Borealis. Horror electronics : a preparation for the final mystery of the Kali Yuga. Occult technologies collide with power electronics, blackended death industrial and overlaid with filmic analogue synth. Great stuff, presented in deluxe letterpress cover. Highly recommended.

DEAD RAVEN CHOIR

"My Firstborn Will Surely Be Blind" CD
£7.00 postpaid worldwide

Recorded in Poland on cheap and archaic Soviet Bloc technology,"My Firstborn Will Surely Be Blind" sees DEAD RAVEN CHOIR in full throttle audio assault with total disregard for all conventions of audio fidelity, with great songs of the 20th Century by artists diverse as Townes Van Zandt, Richard Thompson and Cole Porter torn limb from limb and dragged through Smolken's forest home."A ghostly fog. A hollow sonic death rattle: Doom with pneumonia" - THE WIRE. "A fusion of folk and country song templates and trebly, bass-deprived black metal sounds... Triumphant" - Boomkat. Another essential Aurora Borealis release, packaged in beautiful, three panel digi-pak with booklet.

FAUNA

"Rain" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

New on Aurora Borealis. Black metal nature ritual from the Cascadian Forests, allegedly. Apocalyptic atavism for those hippy black metal folks like Wolves In The Throne Room.

HYATARI

"The Light Carriers" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

Forming one colossal musical piece in seven movements, low-end drone doom with crushing riffs, reverberating feedback and unnerving atmospheric samples to the absolute epic heights of the finale. Mind altering, trance inducing, modern urban doom - warping the spectrum from pitch black to blinding light. Rercommended listening for disciples of Earth, Godflesh, King Crimson, Swans and Halo.

JAGERBLUT

"Jagerblut 1896-1906" CD
£9.00 postpaid worldwide

Debut cd from Germany's mighty Jagerblut. A bavarian fiction infused with pagan and christian mysticism. Drawing heavily from rural lore, legends of blood-covered martyrs and the inevitabilty of nature, the musicians try to find their roots within the context of modernity. The music itself ranges from whimsical folk to ritualistic versions of the local styles, not to forget the non too subtle moments of neo-folk / industrial sounds. Daring to see the comical in the tragedy and always wandering between sadness and exultation, the experience of Jagerblut is that of the world being full of dark poetry. Stunningly packaged and highly recommended.

JOURNEY TO IXTLAN

"Journey To Ixtlan" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

Brand new on Aurora Borealis. Self styled New Age Doom and Occult Desert Rock. Trance inducing shamanic esoterica from this mysterious Californian collective. Like an evil Ry Cooder on downers or a peyote fueld Bardo Pond, perhaps? Beautifully packaged in fold out card wallet.

ICEBURN

"Land Of Wind And Ghosts" CD
£5.00 postpaid worldwide

Two guitar / saxophone / percussion improv behemoth from longtime Paradigms favourites, Iceburn. 72 minutes of volatile free ambient, near silence, and free-jazz tension that converge with floods of crushing noise guitar and heavy amplifier drone. Eruptive battlejazz that lumbers in foreboding shadow, suggesting maybe a noise fusion of Peter Brotzmann, Earth and other pioneers of modern composition. Blackened mood music from the improv rock / free jazz hinterland. Packaged in manilla envelope with colour art and 9 part essay cataloguing the Iceburn history.

KGB

"Swiss Pharmaceuticals" CDR Album
£6.50 postpaid worldwide

Another strange and intriguing release on Utech Records. This time from Berlin's KGB. This improvisational trio base their work around a structure of laptop, homemade machines and drums. Fusing fidgeting electronics and light free jazz percussion into something very subtle and understated, with a weird alien beauty and hypnotic charm. Strange? Yes. Do we like it. Yes!

KORPERSCHWACHE

"Ritual Of The Ouroboros" CDR
£6.00 postpaid worldwide

"Ritual Of The Ouroboros" is the welcome return of Texan blackened / industrial heavy drone masters Korperschwache - this excursion is maybe warmer and melodic than previous releases -- 4 long tracks of driving, heavy black haze, reminding us of a darker Nadja or Jesu, the industrial force of Godflesh and the desolate funeral doom of Thergothon or Skepticism, crafted into spellbinding yet haunting songs. Very impressed by this great work. Limited edition of 150 copies only!

KORPERSCHWACHE

"Sacrifice Of The Ouroboros" CDR
£6.00 postpaid worldwide

A darker companion release to the above mentioned "Ritual Of The Ouroboros" - twelve suffocating tracks on this seventy three minute long disc. Unnerving, psychotic buzz rituals and tortured goblin vocals bring to mind Skullflower, Abruptum, Burzum and Godflesh. Grim, blackened hypno drone rock -- and all tracks have different girls names, which further adds to the sinister effect. Frightening, heavy trance noise which is strangely compelling and melodic at the same same. Another great Korperschwache release. And Limited to 150 copies only!

LASSE MARHAUG

"Spaghetti Western Rainbow" CD
£9.00 postpaid worldwide

The new release on Utech from Lasse Marhaug, one of the most commanding contemporary sound artists in Norway. As well as profound solo artist, he contributed to the recent Jazkammer unit with Enslaved and collaborated with Sunn O))). Here Marhaug extracts Sergio Leone's slow, beautiful power and love for expanse with shades of Ennio Morricone's subtle witchery to create what will inevitably be considered one of his masterworks. Harsh, dry passages of avant installation noise blend with drifting soundscapes, bird calls and an asseverate guitar figure that promotes an invigorating context for film musik.

LIGHT OF SHIPWRECK

"From The Idle Cylinders" CDR
£6.00 postpaid worldwide

Another great "heavy ambient" release from the ever dependable Crucial Bliss imprint - this time from Delaware's Light Of Shipwreck. Undulating guitar and feedback build with tribal percussion, rising and falling through heavy waves of sonic warmth and ambient noise. Recommended by and reminiscent in parts of Nadja's Aidan Baker, whilst bringing forward more industrialized drums and beats that reminds us of Godflesh. Limited edition of 200 copies only. Good stuff.

LAUSA RAELON

"Into The Void" CDR
£6.00 postpaid worldwide

Another great new Crucial Bliss release -- and more grim, Cthulhian death ambient from Luasa Raelon. Deep frozen synthesizers and electronics construct pitch-black sonic sculptures -- like doomed, space exploration or faint, apocalyptic transmissions from dying mechanical cities. Lausa Raelon craft some of the blackest, heaviest drift this side of Lustmord, Lull, Troum and Gruntsplatter. Beautiful artwork and limited to 200 copies only!

MOSS

"Cthonic Rites" CD
£9.00 postpaid worldwide

Colossal, cosmic, Lovecraft obsessed funeral doom. Two tracks over 66:06 minutes and released on Aurora Borealis. Crushing, desolate granduer. Vast and expansive melancholia pierced by torturous screams and thundering low-end at a mournful pace. And produced by Jus Osborn of Electric Wizard no less. Recommened.

BEN NASH

"The Seventh Goodbye" CD
£7.00 postpaid worldwide

Another essential Aurora Borealis new release. Stunning psychedelic folk drone in deluxe letterpress packaging. From the delicate, shimmering sounds comparable to Voice Of The Seven Woods or Alexander Tucker to the krautrock ragas of Popol Vuh, this is one great record. Recently seen touring the UK with Burial Hex and Sylvester Anfang.

JAMES PLOTKIN

"Kurtlanmak / Damascus" CD
£9.00 postpaid worldwide

Originally sold as a CDR on the Khanate "It's Cold When Birds Fall From the Sky" tour and now officially released with deluxe packaging on Utech Records. Recorded live in New York and Buenos Aires respectively the tracks show a side of James Plotkin rarely seen. That of the solo artist. Plotkin utilizes two distinct setups for each performance and channels the sound of acoustic instrumentation through the hum of electronic sorcery. Limited edition of 1000 copies.

JAMES PLOTKIN / JIM WYSKIDA

"8 Improvisations" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

As the title suggests, this 70+ minute release is the improv battleground of Khanate bassist and all round avant wunderkind, James Plotkin and Khanate heavyweight drummer, Jim Wyskida. A diverse and challenging exploration through drone and ambient soundscapes to an almost free-jazz workout, but never losing the energy of their inherit heavy background. Two different versions, one red and one blue, and strictly limited to 1000 copies in total on the Archive label.

POTOP

"Channels" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

Seismic, negative, down tempo extremity from Macedonia's POTOP. Combining the extreme, grim, desperate dirge of power-violence legends such as Drop Dead, Crossed Out and Man Is The Bastard with the slow burning ultra doom misery of Burning Witch, and it'll give you an idea of how crushing this cd actually is. And it gets a wholehearted thumbs up from us.

RYE WOLVES

"Oceans Of Delicate Rain" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

Another killer new Aurora Borealis release -- monumental, epic math-metal from Portland, Oregon. Eight tracks of heavy, glacial menance and angular progressive psychedelics. Reminds us of everything from the bottom heavy dirge of Big Business, Melvins or Karp to the heavy post-rock of Isis and the like. Shreds spreakers and buries nations, as AB say...

SILVESTER ANFANG

"Kosmies Slachtafval" CD
£9.00 postpaid worldwide

Silvester Anfang hail from Flanders, channeling an ancient spirit of blasphemous anarchy, transposing the nameless fiends of yore as free-flowing ritual psych occultic Flemish rock. Kosmies Slachtafval (trans. "kosmic slaughterhouse sweepings/debris") sees Silvester Anfang in dark, post-krautrock, heavy jam mode : guitars, bass, keys, flute and percussion combine with vocals to create a doomy funeral psych rich in the textures of ritual and worship. Deluxe digi-pak edition with poster booklet. Released on Aurora Borealis. Amazing!

SKULLFLOWER

"Tribulation" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

The new emission from UK noise / trance legends, Skullflower. A black-void beaming utterly destroyed drone rock and crushing amplifier obliteration that rains down blizzards of black ash and feedback skree. A triumphant eruption of apocalyptic meta-metal and radioactive raga swarms. Need we say more? Fantastic.

SOUVENIR'S YOUNG AMERICA

"An Ocean Without Water" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

Another great record from Crucial Blast. Lush shimmering guitar ambience and hypnotic, propulsive instrumental heaviness from Souvenir's Young America. Intensely beautiful melodies that drift on lonesome harmonica strains and sparkling, celestial electronics, shot through with mystic western slide guitar, passages of crushing angular riffage and rolling tribal drumming. Epic, emotional narratives draw from a collective influence of Popol Vuh, Earth, Labradford and Neurosis, Presented in very nice fold out digi-pak..

SUBAUDITION

"The Scope" CD
£6.00 postpaid worldwide

The spectral debut album from misted, magical Finnish multi instrumentalists Subaudition. References have been made to Sigur Ros or the wonderful accoustic organics of Tenhi although Subaudition tread a distinctly different path. Very personal and evocative song writing of the highest order. Released on Auerbach in a beautiful digipack format.

WALDTEUFEL

"Rauhnacht" CD
£9.50 postpaid worldwide

A specially packaged and beautifully illustrated edition of the classic Markus Wolff / Waldteufel recordings. "Rauhnacht" is a rural, ancient soundtrack for the holy Jul nights, combining dreamingly sad Folk ballads and Pagan Folk hymns focused around the Bavarian / Austrian Rauhnacht rituals. All artwork for this edition was painted by Markus Wolff himself on wood-plates and is accompanied with a lyrics booklet in German and English. A truly special release.

WORMWOOD

"Starvation" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

Another favourite here at Paradigms - Wormwood from Seattle, WA have fascintated us over recent years with their unique take on avant doom, crusted punk and truly bizarre keyboard driven American gothica. Recorded by Billy Anderson and mastered by Steve Austin of Today Is The Day, "Starvation" is their most focused and engaging recording - dual male / female vocals and unnerving, heavy atmospheres. Like Neurosis if they played in a circus freakshow, perhaps. Whatever this is, we absolutely adore it! Presented in beautiful digi-pak featuring original eerie paintings from their keyboard player Lara Haynes. High Recommended!.

VARIOUS ARTISTS

"Shadows Infinitum" CDR Compilation
£6.00 postpaid worldwide

Colossal album collecting some of the finest artists from the netherworld of experimental outsider metal. Further explorations into blackened folk, glacial hum and gorgeous ambient bliss, feedback ritual, imploding drone and epic metallic drift. Featuring Dead Raven Choir, Nadja, Korperschwache, Encomiast, Burning Star Core, Existential Dilemma (with the track Wolven-Elf Deer!), Feverdreams, Marax and UnholyDeathMachine. Limited edition in special packaging on Crucial Bliss.