PARADIGMS RECORDINGS RELEASES

VARIOUS ARTISTS

"Death Aesthetics" CD  (PARADIGMS033)
£7.50 postpaid worldwide.

"Death Aesthetics" - this beautifully crafted compilation album has been our labour of love throughout 2009 and has been carefully compiled as a somber, introspective and joyous soundtrack to those long, candlelit winter evenings. Featuring 15 of our favourite esoteric musical finds from the past year into one rich tapestry of dark folk, shimmering electronica, haunting modern composition, cascading krautrock and spectral songcraft, "Death Aesthetics" encapsulates the true vision of the Paradigms label.

The tracklisting includes many special bands that will be new to you, so enjoy and investigate. The wonderful artists within include Fever, Electroluminescent, Owlfood, Korouva, Lost Lockets, Hexvessel, Nebelung, Gustav Franklin, Silentist, Nothing, Krügers Medbragte, Goatfooted, The Paper Hats, Vurgart and Ga'an.

Specially packaged in a new, custom Paradigms logo wallet and "Death Aesthetics" wrap-around card sleeve, we've particularly proud of this project.

PARADIGMS "Death Aesthetics" label t-shirt

To coincide with the "Death Aesthetics" compilation release, we're also excited to issue an exclusive new Paradigms Recordings label t-shirt - featuring a brand new label logo design commissioned for this garment. A bold, minimal label identity developed by Holy Mountain Media and printed on heavy black shirts.

The shirt as shown is available in sizes S, M, L and XL on quality black shirt. £12.000 postpaid worldwide.

BORGIA

"Ecclesia" Deluxe DigiPak CD  (PARADIGMS032)
£9.00 postpaid worldwide.

Decadent, occult avantgardist Death Metal from these Parisian patrons that is quite literally some of the most challenging, rich extreme metal we have heard in years. Presented in a special deluxe six panel digi-pak with a beautifully illustrated 20 page booklet.

Steeped in mystical influence based around the sickness and grandeur of the medieval, renaissance and baroque periods of the European church and dictated into Latin, Spanish and French, BORGIA delivers unique, evocative and oppressive Death Metal that is seldom heard these days. Pioneering dark art for practitioners of the hidden knowledge and for appreciators of classic occultist Morbid Angel, Akercocke, Immolation et al. Sinister genius is afoot.

BORGIA CD + EXCLUSIVE T-SHIRT

Special super limited package includes the "Ecclesia" deluxe digipak cd plus an exclusive BORGIA t-shirt with full colour, double sided album design print. Strictly limited edition of 100 only.

The shirt as shown is available in sizes S, M, L and XL on quality black shirt. £20.00 postpaid worldwide for shirt + deluxe digipak CD

ELITIST

"Elitist" Debut MCD  (PARADIGMS030)
£6.00 postpaid worldwide.

Venomous doom grind horror from Portland, Oregon. The raw, blackened energy and sonic power of this band really do suggest something very special is lurking here. It kind of gives us the feral excitement that cutting edge extremists like Burning Witch and Nasum have given us in the past. Slow, fast, colossally heavy and effortlessly executed basement crust metal punk. 5 vital tracks to rip faces. You will be hearing much more from these guys.

HEART IN MOUTH

"The Bigger Picture" CD  (PARADIGMS031)
£7.00 postpaid worldwide.

Vast, beautiful cosmic French electronica / prog isolationism, deep tones and rich textured cathedrals of sound. Almost choral in places, epic and bombastic with chiming bells and pulsing tones to dark, glacial ambient electronica that is pure astral. Hints of classic European avant-prog (Magma, Univers Zero) are subtely apparent throughout too. "The Bigger Picture" is a great triumph in modern composition; inspiring, emotional and provocative to the senses.

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

BACK IN STOCK !!
Limited Edition Design in sizes S, M, L and XL. 
White front print design on premium black shirts. 
£12.00 postpaid worldwide.

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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. 
£12.00 postpaid worldwide.

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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

27

"Songs From The Edge Of The Wing" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

Beautiful debut album from 27 - released on Relapse / Release, this is some intricate slo-core with hazy harmonies and the delicate female vocals of Maria Christopher. Presented in a nice minimal digipak and highly recommeded for you folks who like Low, Mazzy Star and such. We love this.

ABANDON

"In Reality We Suffer" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

Seriously one of the most stunning, desolate, crushing 'doom' albums we have ever heard. This is the second album from Sweden's Abandon -- so filthy and depraved, yet harrowingly intelligent in it's orchestration and composition. SO, SO HEAVY. Punishingly slow. Two sickening vocalists. Yet this band is never afraid to drop back into majestic atmospherics bringing to mind Neurosis at their most epic and maybe Goatsblood at their most downtuned. Blackened indeed. Essential!! We only have a couple of copies of this.

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.

BURST

"Prey On Life" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

This is the 2003 classic, "Prey On Life". We're very pleased the have Burst catalogue in the Paradigms webstore. Releasing three stunning albums on Relapse Records - Sweden's BURST were seemlessly heavy, evocative, exploratory and atmospherically complex. Driving and distinctly Scandinavia. Panoramic cutting edge metalics for dark, cosmic explorers who appreciate Neurosis, Cult Of Luna, Opeth, Breach, The Great Deceiver and the like. Very good stuff here across all three great albums.

BURST

"Origo" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

The stunning 2005 follow-up, "Origio". Sweden's BURST were seemlessly heavy, evocative, exploratory and atmospherically complex. Driving and distinctly Scandinavia. Panoramic cutting edge metalics for dark, cosmic explorers who appreciate Neurosis, Cult Of Luna, Opeth, Breach, The Great Deceiver and the like. Very good stuff here across all three great albums.

BURST

"Lazarus Bird" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

The final album "Lazarus Bird". Sweden's BURST were seemlessly heavy, evocative, exploratory and atmospherically complex. Driving and distinctly Scandinavia. Panoramic cutting edge metalics for dark, cosmic explorers who appreciate Neurosis, Cult Of Luna, Opeth, Breach, The Great Deceiver and the like. Very good stuff here across all three great albums.

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.

FROST

"Talking To God" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

Rare original copies of the classic second album from UK's FROST. Born from the Anaal Nathrakh family, this is pure necro worship at the altar of De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, this time with a wider, colder dynamic. Blackened genius. A rare acquisition for the Paradigms webstore, we only have a couple of these available.

GODFLESH

"Messiah" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

Originally recorded in 1994 and released on Justin Broadrick's Avalanche Recordings, the highly sought after Messiah features four lost tracks and four ambient remixes. Messiah is a dark, chilling glimpse inside the mind of one of heavy music's most revered martyrs. From the all-consuming bombast of the title track (perhaps the best song the band has ever written) through the haunting 'Wilderness of Mirrors', to the crushing dementia of 'sungod' and 'Scapegoat', this faultlessly captures the powerful forward-thinking vision of Godflesh, while the record's remixes stretch glistening, electronic skins over the original tracks' skeletons. We only have a small amount of this classic!

GRUENEWALD

"II" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

The brand new, second album from Germany's Gruenewald, the introspective band of Woburn House member, Christian Kolf. Slow, majestic and as powerful as ever, yet even darker in tone that the debut album from last year. Kind of reminds us of a Teutonic, ritualistic Codeine for some reason. Beautiful and organic throughout. Highly recommended, epic and evocative.

HALO

"Guattari" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

Now, this is one great doom / noise masterpiece. Total monochromatic sonic apocalypse from Australia's HALO duo. Pure cathartic terror - bleeding electronics and crushing instrumentation blasted through urban decay - if you like the claustrophobic soundscapes and cinematic vision of Godflesh, Swans, Neurosis etc, you will revel in this.

HOWL

"Howl" CDEP
£5.50 postpaid worldwide

We've been thoroughly enjoying this debut HOWL ep recently. Just released on Relapse - this is some heavy, crusted big riffing from Rhode Island that reminds us of the mighty Kylesa with nods to High On Fire, Salome and The Melvins. Beautifully illustrated digi-pak. Looking forward to their debut full length.

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.

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.

KLABAUTAMANN

"Our Journey Through The Woods" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

We've just got two copies of this back in stock. Rather special and unique album from this mysterious German collective. Earthy, organic black metal with it's heart in the forest and it's eyes amongst the stars. High recommended for discerning ears.

KLABAUTAMANN

"Merkur" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

Another restock -- this time, we have got a few more of the stunning new album "Merkur" from Klabautamann. Cosmic genius is a foot. Seriously recommended listening - astral progressive black metal at it's most evocative. And packaged with some of the most beautiful illustrations we have even seen.

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!

L'ACEPHALE

"Malefeasance" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

The new album on Aurora Borealis from Portland's L'Acephale. A complex, polarising work introducing new depth and vision to the band's previous offerings. Developing more ambient, ritualistic tones whilst never truly abandining the original caustic black metal roots. Expect lengthy shamanic passages, Slavic choirs, Tibetan pipes and military percussion interlaced with L'Acephale's trademark isolationist Black Metal.

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.

NEUROSIS

"Through Silver In Blood" CD
£9.00 postpaid worldwide

Neurosis needs no introduction. The Bay Area's legendary masters of behemoth, psychedelic operatic guitar girth has singlehandedly defined vast extremes of the finest, most challenging music that we love and listen to every day at Paradigms, so we are pleased to have a selection of the band's essential and inspiring back catalogue now availble through our webstore.

"Through Silver In Blood", the band's fifth album from 1996 is widely considered to be the band's finest work and the foundation of their sonic trademark. Essential.

NEUROSIS

"Times Of Grace" CD
£9.00 postpaid worldwide

Neurosis needs no introduction. The Bay Area's legendary masters of behemoth, psychedelic operatic guitar girth has singlehandedly defined vast extremes of the finest, most challenging music that we love and listen to every day at Paradigms, so we are pleased to have a selection of the band's essential and inspiring back catalogue now availble through our webstore.

"Times Of Grace" the band's sixth album from 1999. Recorded by Steve Albini and probably one of our personal favourite records of all time. Essential.

NEUROSIS

"A Sun That Never Sets" CD
£9.00 postpaid worldwide

Neurosis needs no introduction. The Bay Area's legendary masters of behemoth, psychedelic operatic guitar girth has singlehandedly defined vast extremes of the finest, most challenging music that we love and listen to every day at Paradigms, so we are pleased to have a selection of the band's essential and inspiring back catalogue now availble through our webstore.

"A Sun That Never Sets" the band's seventh album from 2001. Recorded by Steve Albini. Essential.

NEUROSIS

"The Eye Of Every Storm" CD
£9.00 postpaid worldwide

Neurosis needs no introduction. The Bay Area's legendary masters of behemoth, psychedelic operatic guitar girth has singlehandedly defined vast extremes of the finest, most challenging music that we love and listen to every day at Paradigms, so we are pleased to have a selection of the band's essential and inspiring back catalogue now availble through our webstore.

"The Eye Of Every Storm" the band's eighth album from 2004. Recorded by Steve Albini. Essential.

NIRVANA 2002

"Recordings 89-91" CD
£9.00 postpaid worldwide

The complete legendary recordings from NIRVANA 2002, one of the most important bands of the Swedish death metal underground of the late 1980's and early 1990's. Including the essential Sunlight Studio Records with Tomas Skogsberg, true Swedish death metal doesn't get any better than this. If you love classic Entombed, Dismember, Grave etc, then you really do need this.

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.

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!

SPIDERPACT

"Goatspeed Into Mageneta Vacuum" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

Rather strange goings-on over in Finland, obviously. Beautifully warped avant-black metal dementia taking influence from Ved Buens Ende / Virus and Ulver -- with an off-kilter Smiths influence throughout too. Kosmik genius! Thumbs up from Paradigms HQ.

SYLVESTER ANFANG

"II" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

Flanders occult kraut psychists return, this time as SYLVESTER ANFANG II. This latest offering is even more hypnotic, cascading into shimmering diabolic mindstates - SYLVESTER ANFANG II reach new levels of consciousness with their mantras of goat worship and the orthodoxy of denial that states "Only analog is real". Dust off your robes, sharpen the sacrificial blade, order in some Trappist beers... Tune in, turn on, evolve.

TOMBS

"Winter Hours" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

This second album from Brooklyn's blackened power trio, TOMBS is definitely one of our favourite new albums of 2009. Laden with glorious, down-tuned innovation -- at times recalling the commanding rhythms of Godflesh whilst layering stark black metal riffs and reverberating shoegaze fog in others, this is a great work to spend time with and to truly apprecaite the rich songwriting and forward thinking vision on offer here. Plus they write big riffs to die for....highly recommended.

TRIAL OF THE BOW

"Ornamentation" CD
£7.00 postpaid worldwide

Very please to have some of these in the webstore -- this is the 1995 cd from Australia's TRIAL OF THE BOW. Released on Relapse / Release, 28 minutes of vast, cinematic Eastern mysticism and exotic esoterica creating a spellbinding weave of ritualistic hypnotics. Recommended for those who lose themselves in the bright light of Dead Can Dance etc. Great introduction to the amazing Trial Of The Bow.

VALBORG

"Glorification Of Pain" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

Another great band from the Woburn House family. Valborg features Christian Kolf from Woburn House and this debut album introduces the band’s angular, progressive death metal hybrid. Adventurous avant metal that reminds us personally of the sonics explored on the "Monotheist" album by Celtic Frost, which undoubtedly means that this is defintely worthy of your full attention! Enjoy.

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!.