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. £7.00 postpaid worldwide.

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".

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ACROSS TUNDRAS

"Dark Songs From The Prairie" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

Amazing debut album from Denver's Across Tundras. Heavy majestic and massive syrup riffage and spacious melodies, as if a mysterious 70's country rock outfit was thawed and refined through colossal amplification, molten sludge and shimmering haze. Coming across like a join-the-dots between Neil Young, Neurosis and the suffocatingly dense sonics of Hum, this has been one of our favourite listens of late.

ALUK TODOLO

"Descension" CD
£9.00 postpaid worldwide

Essential debut cd from the esoteric French occult-kraut coven. "For their playing unites Krautrock with Zeuhl via classic No Wave, and rocks mightily. This power trio’s time-honoured guitar/bass/drums line-up is outstandingly meditative and un-clichéd. Very Cleveland, very Can, very This Heat, very Magma, but very much its own original thing, and definitely another necessary part of the puzzle that leads us to the Rue d’Awakening."says Julian Cope, and we're not going to argue. Pure black art.  

ALUK TODOLO

"S/T" Seven Inch Vinyl EP
£5.00 postpaid worldwide

Thundering occult krautrock from France. Mammoth psyche fueled by magikal theory through live improv ritual. Presented at 33rpm on limited seven inch vinyl in wonderful alchemic packaging. Recommended.  

AMBER ASYLUM

"Still Point" CD
£9.00 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

"Black Elk" CD
£6.00 postpaid worldwide

The eponymous debut from Portland, Oregon's Black Elk is a raging, heavy, flattening destructo rock eruption. Ten creeped out tracks of carnivorous, charred primo Pacific Northwest tarpit rawk by way of Karp or the Melvins, and twitchy Midwestern noise rage somewhere between Am Rep Records (circa-1991) and a more rabid Die Kreuzen. The sound of a goatheaded psychedelic backwoods black mass/dance party risen to a freakin' fever pitch. Total crush. Produced by Mike Lastra at Smegma Studios (Earth, Thrones, Jackie O Motherfucker). 

BURIAL HEX

"Initiations" CD
£9.00 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.

BURIAL HEX / SYLVESTER ANFANG

"Limited Tour EP" 7 inch vinyl
£4.50 postpaid worldwide

Very special 7 inch vinyl released for sale on the recent Burial Hex / Sylvester Anfang tour. Limited to 500 copies only, we managed to get our hands on a few of this arcane gem. Necro power electronics from Burial Hex, heavy psyche mantras from Sylvester Anfang -- laid down on heavy weight vinyl. Released on Aurora Borealis.

CATACOMBS

"Echoes Through The Catacombs" CD (Russian Import)
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

Harrowing, destroying ultra funeral doom from the Catacombs cult. Despair reverberates through the chambers as shadows close in. Lovecraftian nightmare. Like drowning in tar. Or listening to My Dying Bride at 16rpm. Either way, this is absolutely killer. Another fantastic release on the Russian label, Solitude Productions. Look elsewhere in the store for the Hierophant cd too, which is also the mysterious chap X. Mlandroth behind Catacombs. .

CELESTIAL SEA

"Deep Inside The Cold" CD
£6.50 postpaid worldwide

Four rather lengthy tracks of ‘celestial’ post-rock from God is Myth and Caina folks. Beautifully delicate dream machine-music brought about by a shared love of Mogwai, Cerberus Shoal, Mono, Explosions In The Sky, Cult Of Luna, 70's rock and astral metal. Released as a pro-duplicated cd-r limited to 300 copies, housed in a nice eco-wallet. Fine listening indeed!

CIRCLE OF OUROBORUS

"Shores" AUDIO CASSETTE
£6.00 postpaid worldwide

Super limited, audio cassette version of the Shores album. More low-fi buzzing grimness with dark crooning post-punk vocals and suffocating blackened gothic atmospheres of Joy Division, The Fall etc. Bizarre and compelling as always and another highly recommended underground release from these Finnish pioneers. Hand numbered audio cassette on the Heidens Hart label.

DEAD RAVEN CHOIR

"My Firstborn Will Surely Be Blind" CD
£9.50 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.

ENCOMIAST

"Havens" CDR Album
£6.00 postpaid worldwide

Three exquisite new driftworks from Encomiast. Formed from vaporous clouds of guitar, gamelan, shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute), violin, vina, voice, flute, and field recordings stretched into infinite ribbons of metallic shimmer, twisting and swirling into gorgeous hum. "Havens" drifts within the angelic regions between Andrew Chalk's minimalist explorations, the dream music of Troum (and their predecessor, Maeror Tri), and the bleary melodic fog of My Bloody Valentine, distilling the bliss of deep dreams and early morning haze into captured hymns. Presented as a limited edition of 250 copies in special packaging.

EVOKEN

"Embrace The Emptiness" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

Reissue of the classic Evoken debut album, made available once again via Russian doom specialists, Solitude Productions. For those who are unfamiliar with the mighty US doom legends Evoken, think suffocating layers of dense funeral doom cascading into cathedrals of epic, expansive isolationist glory. Essential reissue of this glorious 1998 album, for fans of Skepticism, Thergothon and crushing, symphonic death doom. work which echoes through vast, torch lit halls. Epic funeral doom bringing to mind Skepticism's classic 'Stromcrowfleet' in part, yet capturing a spectral atmosphere all of it's own. Fantastic stuff.

GODHEADSCOPE

"A City Out Of Sight" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

Now, this is a rather special little arcane treasure. DEAD RAVEN CHOIR contributor Matt Rosin unveils is solo work as Godheadscope. This musical endeavour presents misted chamber music, ambient and noise-folk together in an all new relationship to beautiful, organic effect. Luscious, cerebral, ritualistic mindfog. Imagine if Arvo Part were to arrange and conduct a performance by Corrupted and you will only begin to scratch the surface of these deep and mysterious sonorities. For fans of Wolfmangler, vidnaObmana, Lycia, Jesu, Dead Raven Choir etc. We like this alot.

THE GOSLINGS

"Spaceheater / Perfect Interior" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

Collecting the first two ep releases from Florida's The Goslings. 9 tracks of essential melted lo-fi psych-drone ambience evoked through overdriven amplifiers and shot out into pools of swirling basement shudder. Gorgeous power-murk with eerie field recordings, ghostly subterranean vocals and crackling cable buzz. Simultaneously ethereal and blown-out, as if SUNN O))) had recorded on 4AD, or cult shoegazers Medicine had ever collaborated with drone-axe sorcerers, Earth.

HIEROPHANT

"The Tome" CD (Russian Import)
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

Total crushing funeral doom at it's most minimal. Death ridden, punishingly heavy droning processions of utter despair. Amazing Skepticism / Evoken / Thergothon worship for those who enjoy their life soundtrack with a little more oppression and nihilistic doom sickness. This cd features the band's 1994 ep, the 'Weight Of Winter' recordings from 1996 and the 'Autumn Dusk' recordings from 2000. Released on Solitude Productions from Russia.

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.

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!

KATATONIA

"Brave Murder Day" CD
£8.50 postpaid worldwide

One of our all time favourite albums. Truly mesmerizing, somber atmospherics and soaring grandeur, creating a vast, eerie isolationist chill. The deathly gothic overtones and driving funeral hypnotics pioneered here created the landmark sound that defined the true grace of Katatonia. Doomed musical genius.

KATATONIA

"Discouraged Ones" CD
£8.50 postpaid worldwide

The follow-up album to 'Brave Murder Day'. Katatonia's third album is decidedly more melodic but the commanding bleak atmospheres remain. A staggering, forward thinking album that is as influenced by mournful 'Disintergration' era Cure as it is powered by their all encompassing doom majesty. Yes, you guessed it. We adore this album. Thankyou.

KNIVES OV RESISTANCE

"Prisca Sapientia" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

An end-times opus, inspired by John Dee and Karlheinz Stockhausen and their quests to find the hidden truths of the universe, through schismatic means. Knives ov Resistance entreat the choruses of Enochian angels - to the human ear, this resembles Popol Vuh's scores for Werner Herzog, or a more restrained Godspeed You Black Emperor. Another fantastic Aurora Borealis release.

L'ACEPHALE

"Mord Und Totsclag" CD
£9.00 postpaid worldwide

Seventy nine minutes of epic, sonically disturbing, violent Black Metal with an extremely intellectual overview from Portland, Oregon's L'Acephale. Taking their moniker from George Bataille's political and cultural journal from the late 1930's, L'Acephale have created a ritualistic totem that stands as "a war machine against received ideas". Taking equal inspiration from the current wave of Eastern European black metal (including Drudkh and Hate Forest), the more experimental approach of post-industrial neo-folk (Waldteufel, Toroidh etc.) and cultural writings and philosophies from neo-paganism through to the surrealism of the Inter-War years. Blasting whirlwinds of frenetic energy combine with more measured and eerie passages to create something potent, original and devastating. Presented in dvd box with slipcase, 18 page booklet and poster on Aurora Borealis

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.

MAGICADA

"Everyone Is Everyone" CD
£5.00 postpaid worldwide

Organic, experimental works from Atlanta based musician / sound designer Christopher White. A captivating collection of field recordings, outsider folk and otherworldly drones in the cinematic terrain of Sun City Girls or Sunroof!. Quite beautiful indeed. Special packaging with limited edition print and insert.

MOSS

"Cthonic Rites" CD
£9.50 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
£9.00 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.

NEBELUNG

"Reigen" Seven Inch Vinyl
£5.00 postpaid worldwide

A rather special two track seven inch with more recordings from our German forest folk favourites, Nebelung. The title track "Reigen" is one of the most beautiful songs we've heard in a long while. Limited edition pressing. Great stuff.

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.

PROCER VENEFICUS

"A Summerhaze Array For August Nights" CD BOXSET
£12.00 postpaid worldwide

We managed to get our hands on 10 of these now sold out and totally unique boxsets!! Two discs, packaged in a cardboard box with leaves, incense sticks and insert card. Both discs are housed in beautiful card wallets. Disc one, entitled “Duskworlds” is psychedelic and dissonant black metal drenched in the droning haze of summertime sunsets. Music for the arc of Venus and a glass of scarlet wine during a passionate August twilight. Disc two, entitled “Lunar Transit” is soft, moonlit ambience for August meadows at midnight, lulled by the sea of crickets into dreamsleep. Heavily interlaced with sub-aqueous orchestral blurs. Super limited and we have the last copies!

PROCER VENEFICUS

"Ghost Voices" CD
£7.00 postpaid worldwide

Highly atmospheric dream-induced fog music played solely on acoustic guitar and wreathed in wet ambience and distant whispers. Composed in solitude by a mountain lake, and completed in the saltiest of back-bay fogs. Emphasis on backwater oceanic lull, as well as sub-aqueous emanations. Contains an acoustic cover version of P.S. Nautical by Velvet Cacoon.

THE PSYCHIC PARAMOUNT

"Live 2002 - The Franco Italian Tour" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

Absolutely wild, searing white hot psyche improv chaos. Recorded live throughout Europe in 2002, allegedly only 2 weeks after the band's inception and captured on one microphone straight to tape. And yet this is absolutely incredbile in every respect. Recipe for disaster ?? Fear not. This is staggering.

"They sound like a heavy metal This Heat! Some tracks are just full on blasts of NOISE, wild and dense, thick swirls of psychedelic sound, freaked out and chaotic, but even at its most noisy it's still so musical. Loud, weird, repetitive, hypnotic, mesmerizing, so so so good!" - Aquarius Records

PULSEFEAR

"Perichroresis" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

From the disturbed minds behind Axis Of Perdition, Pulsefear ushers forth a blackened urban soundtrack of urban desolation and ghostly industrial rust and decay. Limited edition, beautifully packaged with stunning atmospheric aesthetics. Highly recommended for listeners of Cold Meat Industry, Raison D'Etre, In Slaughter Natives, Lustmord etc.

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.

SKULLFLOWER

"Orange Canyon" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

The UK avatars of crushing, improvised drone rock return with a symphonic blast of hypnotic, hallucinatory feedback and pure amplified power stretching to infinity, immersed in sky-reaching heaviness and eruptive bliss. Transcending the rock idiom through white hot repetition, psychedelic propulsion and the annihilating riff.

THE STARGAZER'S ASSISTANT

"The Other Side Of The Island" CD
£8.00 postpaid worldwide

A deep, abyssic debut solo release from Guapo and Miasma & The Carousel Of Headless Horses percussionist, David J Smith. The Other Side Of The Island is the soundtrack to the sculptural works also created by David J Smith, which were recently exhibited at the Horse Hospital in London - elegantly disturbing pieces of industrial life that emerged slowly, painstakingly, out of wax, coal, copper and lead. In much the same way, the soundtrack itself slowly writhes organically before the listener: the groan of the motherlode, the shifting of tectonic plates, the song of the Earth's crust. The Stargazer's Assistant offer up the soundtrack of eternal, elemental labour. Presented with metallic print on Aurora Borealis