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Sunday 25/07/10 DEAD RAVEN CHOIR Ts finally in stock and shipping. The run is strictly limited to just 32 shirts with no reprint. The vinyl edition is planned for release shortly and there will another shirt available. Got some more SYLVESTER ANFANG II Ts in stock too, act fast on those. The clear vinyl of the HORSEBACK 'The Invisible Mountain' LP is now sold out. A second edition of 300 on white vinyl is shipping now. New photo soon. Friday 2/07/10 DEAD RAVEN CHOIR is one of the most obscure, hated, envied and enigmatic musical entities in the world. 'Schmerzensgewalt' is said to mark the final chapter in this bizarre and wondrous fable. Check it out now in the webshop. Also available, new MONUMENT OF URNS CDr and SYLVESTER ANFANG II 'Commune Cassetten' LP repress on PINK vinyl! HALLOWED: A night of haunted song, horror folk, blissful sorrow and new music. Friday 2nd July. St Mary's old church, Stoke Newington Church st. N16 9ES 8pm start. Wednesday 9/06/10 New items in the store: ALUK TODOLO: debut 7", 'Descension' CD and 'Finsternis' LP - most of the output of this great French band. A series of ultra limited, coloured vinyl 7"s from the dotdotdot label by DEAD RAVEN CHOIR, PRURIENT and NATE YOUNG (of WOLF EYES). Very few in stock. Expecting the new DEAD RAVEN CHOIR next week. Will make it available as soon as delivery is confirmed. Wednesday 26/05/10 BLACK MOUNTAIN TRANSMITTER 'Theory & Practice' tape has sold out. Should soon have a date for the CD release of the 'Black Goat of the Woods' recording next week. HORSEBACK clear vinyl of 'The Invisible Mountain' is almost sold out. A second vinyl colour, once again in a very small pressing, is now expected soon. Tuesday 18/05/10 New items in the webshop: BLACK MOUNTAIN TRANSMITTER 'Theory & Practice' tape - the last 5, this is sold out at source. Check the 'Other' section in the webshop. ARKTAU EOS 'AI MA RA' 2CD - almost 2 hours of this incredible project and their 'ethnography of the unknown'. See them perform if you ever get the chance! HALO MANASH 'Am Kha Astrie' CD, 'Language of Red Goats' CD and 'Taiwaskivi' CD + DVD - astounding release of this 'Ur-music', utterly elemental, deeply mystical. Monday 10/05/10 New items in the webshop: BLACK BONED ANGEL 'The Witch Must Be Killed' LP - excellent release from the prolific Mr Kneale. AUN / HABSYLL split LP - massive, crushing post-everything psychedelic doom. Recommended! MALEDICERE / UNO ACTU split 7" - obscure crepuscular doomed noisescapes from the underground VELNIAS 'Sovereign Nocturnal' digi CD - great debut album, for fans of WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM, AGALLOCH and more. PROCER VENEFICUS 'Convoy (pt.2)' digi CD - return of an AB favourite. Interstellar psychedelic black... WORMSBLOOD 'They Call Us Naughty Wolves' CD - holy shit! Smolken's back with twisted popular ditties of yesteryear aided by some youthful Polish ladies. In other news, the amazing new album by MENACE RUINE will be available for pre order this week, the band play a launch show in Montreal this weekend. In other Canadian news, AUN's new 'VII' will get a vinyl release here at AB with artwork from Justin Bartlett. That's in production now, as is the fabled GRUMBLING FUR! Combiining the talents of Alexander Tucker, members of Guapo and Cirle into an immense furry behemoth of psychedelic luxuriance, GRUMBLING FUR will finally bask in the light shortly, as a 6 panel digi CD and a special vinyl. Also trying to jam in further releases including what is fabled to be the last ever album from DEAD RAVEN CHOIR among others... More news later this week. Thursday 22/04/10 New items in the webshop: MOSS 'Eternal Return' one sided LP with amazing packaging. Only got a few, so act fast... MARBLEBOG/VORKUTA split CD - Hungarian Black Metal split, great stuff. NEKRASOV/HUMILIATION split CD - split and collaboration tracks from the prolific Nekrasov. Some orders will be taking longer to reach any non-UK residents due to volcanic activity essentially halting airmail services. Hopefully all should be back to normal shortly... Thursday 15/04/10 CONAN CD/T package available for preorder now, ships from Monday. Wednesday 7/04/10 The sale is now over, thank you to everyone that took advantage of the deals. Friday 2/04/10 SALE NOW ON! Runs April 2nd, until midnight April 6th, featuring AB items, distro stuff and overstocks. Check the special sale shop section for bargains: New in the store: NEKRASOV 'Cognition of Splendid Oblivion' CD. Thursday 1/04/10 
We'll be running a sale from tomorrow, April 2nd, until midnight April 6th, featuring AB items, distro stuff and overstocks. Please check back tomorrow to take advantage of some great prices! Saturday 27/03/10 New items in the webshop: KRUGERS MEDBRAGTE CD, WESTERING CD, ONDO CD & HEART IN MOUTH CD - all from the excellent PARADIGMS label. Gems. Thursday 25/03/10 New items in the webshop: LOCRIAN, GNAW THEIR TONGUES, BLACK SUN/THEY ARE COWARDS vinyl, CULVER/SEPPUKU, VOM, WRAITHS, MENTAT, LUBYANKA CDs, and tapes from SUNDAY MOURNING, CULVER and SEPPUKU/ULTRASHITINFERNO. Finally also have a restock of the AB logo Ts in black and of the tote bags. Thursday 18/03/10 The Throne Records vinyl version of the CONAN LP 'Horseback Battle Hammer' is now available to preorder in the vinyl section of the AB webshop. Shipping will commence 25th March 2010. The CD version will be released as a noble digipack on Aurora Borealis in April. Read more about this stunning release at the band's page. The LP is also available to preorder with a T shirt. To make sure you stay bang up to date with releases and new items in the webshop, as well as some exclusive deals, we recommend you follow us on Twitter. You can also check us out at Myspace. The BURIAL HEX/ZOLA JESUS split LP repress is selling fast, the distributors are already almost out of stock again... Made some other updates to the AB section of the webshop with some better images of some of the artwork, more updates and new improved band pages to follow, also more news on upcoming releases. Tuesday 16/03/10 BURIAL HEX/ZOLA JESUS split LP is back in stock. The second pressing is now available in the webshop. Clear vinyl this time, and limited to just 350 copies. With all the current interest in ZOLA JESUS I don't expect these to last long. New distro items: FELL VOICES s/t LP - ultra obscure underground US black metal with a psychedelic feel MGLA presence MCD - grim & no nonsense black metal assault on Northern Heritage STABAT MATER s/t CD - bleak and "non entertainment approach" doom on Northern Heritage RIDE FOR REVENGE wisdom of the few LP - restock of the bizarre masters' second full album - killer! AUN blackhorse CD - found a few copies of this excellent shimmering drone dreamwork - new vinyl on AB soon... Friday 26/02/10 The new AB release from YRSEL is available now in the webshop, post paid. This is an amazing album, a dazzling collaboration. New SYLVESTER ANFANG II 'Commune Cassetten' LP on Blackest Rainbow now available in the webshop (look in the VINYL section). New band pages up, including new material from DEAD RAVEN CHOIR from the forthcoming and final album. Friday 19/02/10 New items added to the webshop: BAD ACID magazine & DVD issue 8 SKULLFLOWER 'Strange Keys..' 2CD Plus tapes from JAZZFINGER, MUTANT APE and WORMSBLOOD Tuesday 12/02/10 New items added to the webshop: ADERLATING/NEKRASOV split LP: Aderalting is another project from GNAW THEIR TONGUES. Great split, ltd to just 300. O'MALLEY & CSIHAR '6úFskyquake' CD on Mego. Very few in stock. Expecting final masters soon for the forthcoming MENACE RUINE CD/vinyl. Artwork is almost complete. HORSEBACK test pressings will be here tomorrow. CONAN layout is getting the finishing touches from Tony Roberts, who has previously created amazing artwork for Unearthly Trance, Cathedral and Electric Wizard among others. Expect further news on these plus DEAD RAVEN CHOIR and GRUMBLING FUR later this week. Friday 12/02/10 New items added to the webshop: LOTUS EATERS 'mind control for infants' 2LP. Super deluxe vinyl edition of this O'Malley/Plotkin/Turner project. Packaging is insanely fancy. This is sold out at source, so act fast. BAPTISM 'chalice of death' 7" BAPTISM 'grim arts of melancholy' CD SUNN O)))/PANSONIC 'che' 10": just a few copies of this intriguing collaboration. STEPHEN O'MALLEY 'petite geante' tape: a handful of copies of this sold out tape on Tapeworm. KHANATE 'clean hands go foul' PIC LP: the final KHANATE masterpiece. 'DEATH AESTHETICS' comp CD: another winner from Paradigms. BORGIA 'ecclesia' CD: incredible Death Metal reminiscent of WATAIN and DEATHSPELL OMEGA from the Paradigms stable. RIDE FOR REVENGE 'wisdom of the few' LP: more bizarre experiments in Black Metal from the Finnish underground. MIKE IX & THE SOUTHERN NIHILISM FRONT 7": Mike Williams of EYEHATEGOD delivers a 7" of spoken word and power electronics. I have also added options for recorded and tracked delivery to the store. It seems that postal services worldwide are getting worse and neither you nor I can afford to lose our money when a parcel goes missing, so this seems to be the way forward. All items include regular postage still but if you want to add a tracked service you only need to add it once to your order, not to each item. Please note that the majority of all packages safley arrive with the regular postal service, but these additional services are offered for those of you who live in areas where the postal service is notoriously bad or if you are ordering ultra rare stuff that just cannot be replaced. Please let me know what you think or email me with any question about these services. More updates soon including pre-orders for the new CONAN vinyl and more... Tuesday 9/02/10 Back from tour and updating the shop and site right now. New band pages on the artists page: CONAN, HORSEBACK, MENACE RUINE, YRSEL. LOTS happening here right now, a very exciting time for the label and we're proud and honoured to be working with so many incredible artists. Tuesday 5/01/10  SYLVESTER ANFANG II repress now available. 180g vinyl, one LP is transparent red, the other is transparent green. Heavyweight matte gatefold sleeve. The repress version is limited to just 350 copies. Getting up to date with all the orders from between Christmas and New Year here at AB towers, hope to have everything shipped by Thursday. Got lots of updates to do and lots of email to get through. I also seem to be getting a lot of mails from customers who ordered late November and have still not received anything. There were a few problem orders, but those have now all been dealt with so I am begining to suspect that the glorious Royal Mail has been spectacularly inefficient around that period. It seems that a lot of you are, like me, also waiting for parcels from other companies from that period, so the evidence mounts... If you think you have a problem order from late November, please email me. I will get back to you within 24 hours. More info to follow regarding new releases for 2010 and new shop items. Wednesday 2/12/09  FAUNA 'The Hunt' CD will now ship from tomorrow. Ts will be here Friday for shipping out. Thanks for all of your orders. A limited reprint of the SYLVESTER ANFANG II 'xerox monk' T shirt is now available in the webshop in new colourways. I'm hoping for a delivery date for the repress of the vinyl soon. Thursday 26/11/09 FAUNA 'The Hunt' CD is now available to order in the webshop. The CD will ship from Wednesday 2nd December. We are very proud to present this incredible album in its definitive remastered form. Wednesday 25/11/09 Its a total order frenzy here right now... O'MALLEY tape now sold out. Will put FAUNA' The Hunt' CD up for pre-order as soon as I get a chance tonight! Thursday 19/11/09 It's been a quiet time here at AB towers as I've been ill for 2 weeks now. Not much has happened in that time, so I'm a bit behind with everything but crawlinbg back on top. New items in the webshop: GRAVETEMPLE 'Le Vampire de Paris' CD - limited to 350. Currently exclusive to this site. STEPHEN O'MALLEY 'Petit Geante' tape - now sold out tape on Tapeworm label, I have just a handful... MRTYU 'Ornate Shroud' LP - excellent vinyl debut on Faunasabbatha from these NZ death fetishists, at their most musical yet! Excellent! POLDR 'Roaming Daylight' 3" CDr on Faunasabbatha, looming clouds of shifting drone storm... HUNTING RITUALS S/T CDr on Faunasabbatha. Murky forest clearing rituals from the edge of time. Waiting for the sleeves for FAUNA 'The Hunt' CD. As soon as they show up, it'll go on sale. I imagine this may be next week now. Next up after that will be YRSEL 'Requiem for the Three Kharites' CD in silkscreened cover, which unites ONDO and the AUSTRASIAN GOAT. They are currently in talks about one of the tracks being used on a film soundtrack too. Still on the way, we have DEAD RAVEN CHOIR CD/LP and HORSEBACK (probably two releases from them now!). The machine rolls on... Tuesday 13/10/09 SYLVESTER ANFANG II vinyl is now sold out. Looking at a small repress in the coming weeks. FAUNA and YRSEL in production now, hope to have something ready for sometime in November. Monday 12/10/09 Just in: HEAVY WINGED 'the thinner the air' tape, and PINE SMOKE LODGE tape on Blackest Rainbow, recommended for fans of wierd arboreal drone, ROBEDOOR and the like... Also CORPSEPLAYER Issue 2: enormous zine featuring DEAD RAVEN CHOIR, WRAITHS, TENHORNEDBEAST and hordes of others. Saturday 10/10/09 New in the webshop on the awesome YOUTH ATTACK label: ANCESTORS 'II' 7" - brutal and aggressive no-fi BM/hardcore HALLOW 2LP with booklet - amazing art-quality package, incredible illustrations with a soundtrack of brutal no-fi BM assault, aggressive drone and oscillator crashworship. Essential. TAYLOR BOW 'Thin Air' LP - lo-fi brutal hardcore attack: "Urbane shrieks, wilting shadows, and crumbling panoramas. " New poop on the way from BLACKEST RAINBOW, TRILOGY TAPES and FAUNASABBATHA: keeping it wilfully obscure since forever. Wednesday 7/10/09  New and exclusive G Lansard design now available in the webshop! Reprints of the first design that G Lansard did for AB are also available now, as is the final reprint of the Burial Hex T. Working on getting FAUNA's 'The Hunt' album into production now. Its to be a co-release with the STELLAR AUDITORIUM label and sees the band's second album get its first official release. The original audio has been updated with live drums and the whole has been mastered by Mell Detmer. We hope to have this available early November, and initially the release will only be available from the band, AB and Stellar Auditorium. Full distribution will follow later. Also working on the debut release from YRSEL, a project unIting THE AUSTRASIAN GOAT with ONDO. Entitled 'Requiem for the three Kharites', the release will be a limited CD in a silkscreened arigato pack and is an amazingly accomplished work. I'll be posting more details soon, including an interview with the band. More release info soon... Sunday 4/10/09 "It's definitely strange that what might be the best L'Acephale record so far, also happens to be the least metal. So much so that we can only recommend this to the most adventurous of metalheads (which we like to think would be the majority of metal loving folk that read the aQ list), but fair warning to the rest, that this is not really a black metal record at all, instead, it's some gloriously abstract, blackened ritualistic collection of dark metallic drift and alchemical doom folk, of blacknoise and apocalyptic dronemusik, and thus, metal or not, is WAY recommended." - Aquarius digging L'ACEPHALE 'Malefeasance'. A great review actually, only it's a Tibetan trumpet not bagpipes, but one shouldn't quibble! Saturday 3/10/09 
New 'mixtape' available to download HERE. Just over 30 minutes including Rye Wolves, Burial Hex, Sylvester Anfang II, Heavy Winged, Wormsblood... Enjoy! Planning on doing one of these every month or so now. Wednesday 30/09/09 Gradually adjusting prices in the webshop after the sale. Many new items added: ROBEDOOR 'Endlessly Blazing' LP GHQ 'Crystal healing' LP CIRCLE 'Tyrant' LP + PIC LP set CDs from: TORTURE GNOSIS, STRIBORG (loads!), NACHTMYSTIUM, ELITIST, BOSNIA, PROFESSOR, LUGUBRUM... Thursday 24/09/09 Last few days of the sale in the webshop - and don't forget, POSTAL CHARGES ARE INCLUDED! New items in the shop from the Idiosyncratics label, well worth checking out, including the 'Idioscapes' compilation featuring Troum, Charelmagne Palestine, Jazkamer, Daniel Menche and more... More new stuff on the way from Faunasabbatha... Monday 21/09/09  If you are in the Leeds area this coming weekend please check out THE HAXAN CLOAK at the above event. Its free and you'll get to see one of our AB future artists. Looking forward to the finished album! The label has been on a sort of mini hiatus of late while we plan our next moves. Its been a very difficult year financially, as I'm sure it has been for everyone, but I think we are slowly mving towards a new phase of activity. Lots of new releases planned, just missing the necessary budget. More news as soon as plans are finalised, but looks like we may be moving to some production work this week. Lastly, its the final week of the sale now, so please dive in. Lots of items have sold out and been removed from the site, so grab anything that takes your fancy now before its too late! Wednesday 12/08/09 Three new releases in the webshop from UTECH: ALUK TODOLO 'Finsternis' CD - excellent post Kraut rock, heavily influenced by the occult and BM (check their interview in Oaken Throne). Excellent! BLOOD FOUNTAINS 'Floods' CD - great eerie swathes of mellow/heavy alternate with unsettling vocals. Very good indeed. HORSEBACK 'The Invsible Mountain' CD - superlatives are runniing out for these three amazing releases... This is totally recommended! Monday 10/08/09 IMPORTANT NOTICE: Due to an error with the email program, I have just managed to email virtually every customer since 2007 with a "Thanks for your order" message. Please accept my apologies for this mistake. I have attempted to make the smae mistake again, but with a "Don't worry, my mistake" email... Apologies for this huge mistake on my part and sorry for the inconvenience. Monday 3/08/09  Finally, after so many strange and bizarre problems with manufacturing all along the way, the vinyl edition of L'ACEPHALE "Malefeasance" is finally here. 180g black vinyl double LP with a giant fold out double sided poster (90cm x 60cm), 20pp full colour booklet as with the CD, and all housed in matte LP sleeve with 5mm spine and poly outer bag. This is a weighty and exquisite release, limited to only 500. Also of note is a CDr from THE HAXAN CLOAK, now available in the webstore. Hand made packaging by the band and in a numbered edition of 30, this serves as an introduction to this great artist. If you imagine a more hi-fi, multi instrumental approach to the themes and sounds of WOLFMANGLER on a collision course with the finest of European arthouse film soundtracks and you are not even close... Expect a release on AB in the coming months. Tuesday 28/07/09 Thanks to all who came along and browsed, purchased or said 'hi' at Supersonic. What a great festival! Same goes for all those who attended The Accused/Thorr's Hammer/Corrupted show on Sunday. Allegedly the postal strike ends tonight so I'm going to start sending out tomorrow and Thursday again. Friday 24/07/09 Off to Supersonic festival shortly, will have a stall tomorrow with some bargains, so come along if you are there. Sunday sees CORRUPTED, THORR'S HAMMER & THE ACCUSED all playing at the Scala in London. GOBLIN play on Monday. Full details HERE. Lastly, just heard that there is due to be another London postal strike on Monday. This is absolutely rotten. I'm going to start sending packages using a different service. Monday 20/07/09 Post Office is back to normal service, packages shipping as per normal now. Tuesday 9/07/09 Due to the current Postal strike (yes..again), I will not be sending out any orders until Monday. If I stick them in the mail now its a total lottery, there's a greater risk of them getting lost/smashed/discarded than there is of them actaully reaching you. Apologies for the inconvenience. I have my very own mail mountain building up here... Here's what the Royal Mail have to say about it: "The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is taking industrial action in London this week. This will affect different parts of Royal MailÕs London mail network for a number of days, starting early on Wednesday 8th July and continuing until Friday 10th July. If it goes ahead, this industrial action will affect mail services in London postcode areas, which are EC, WC, W, E, SW, SE, N & NW." Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible. Tuesday 7/07/09 Numerous site updates today, including adjustments to the navigation. I have updated the audio player with tons of new tracks and relocated it to its own pop up window accessed by the skeletal beast to top left of the screen. You can now check out lots more tracks from great AB releases, simply click and play. I have also added links to some of the AB releases in the shop which allow you to purchase as digital downloads through our preferred partner Boomkat. Some titles are also available through itunes and Amazon, more links will be added as further downloads become available. Still awaiting more news on the overdue L'ACEPHALE 'Malefeasance' sleeves. Saturday 4/07/09 Added to the webshop: DIAPSIQUIR 'pacta daemoniarum / crasse' 2CD, SALOME s/t CD, new CAINA s/t MCD, WORMSBLOOD 'mastery of creation' CD, KINIT HER tape, BURIAL HEX 'cult cassettes' vols. 2 & 3 Cdr, Oaken Throne mag issue 4. L'ACEPHALE vinyl update: following numerous issues with test pressing problems, artwork issues and finally the plant screwing up the printing, all parts are finally near completion. As soon as I have a definite delivery date I'll announce it and this vinyl masterpiece will finally see the light of day. Its a double LP, with a full colour 20 page CD booklet, a double sided A1 poster and a reverse printed card sleeve. There is now a small webstore for the Equinox Festival, hosted by AB. In addition to music by some of the artists, its also possible to buy limited edition screen prints and T shirts by Barry William Hale as well as other items. You can vist the webstore HERE. Lastly, I urge everyone to sign up for the newsletter/mailing list (scroll down to the bottom of this page). I am planning a series of exclusive offers for subscribers which will only be announced via the mailing list. Don't miss out on these exclusive deals! Tuesday 23/06/09 Added to webshop: ROSE KEMP T shirt, new olive green AB logo T shirt, and exclusive stock of the new AETHENOR T shirt! Act fast, I only have a limited number of these. Sunday 21/06/09 Added to webshop: NADJA clinging to the edge of the sky 12", BLUE SABBATH BLACK CHEER/DRIED UP CORPSE split 10", ECHTRA Cdr, RUNHILD GAMALSAETER Amplicon CD (restock), PETER REHBERG 'works for GV' CD, KTL 'IV' CD, DEADWOOD 'Ramblack' CD & LP, NORDVARGR 'Pyrrhula' CD, AGHAST 'Herexei Im Zwielicht Der Finsternis' CD... Saturday 20/06/09 New in the webshop: ALEX SANDERS "A Witch is Born" CD, ANAON CDr, HAIL! CDr, SADASTOR CDr (amazing!), Z'EV "sum things" CD, BLEEDING HEART NAARATIVE CD, TENHORNEDBEAST "My horns are a flame to draw down the truth" CD... Thursday 18/06/09 What a few weeks its been... L'ACEPHALE "Malefeasance" CD out now in the webshop. Dates on the vinyl expected this week. SUNN O))) 'Bremerton' patch added to the clothing section of the webshop. I have a few of these from tour. More updates in the next 24 hours. Tuesday 26/05/09 Email responses are slow right now as I am away on tour until June 5th. I have intermittent web access but my mail is proving a problem. In the meantime the webshop remains open and I have an assistant sending out orders. Saturday 2/05/09 New in the shop: BURIAL HEX/ZOLA JESUS split LP on Aurora Borealis. SYLVESTER ANFANG II double LP on Aurora Borealis. MONARCH Australian tour 7", "mer morte" LP and the split with GREY DATURAS. CORRUPTED "Nadie" LP. Saturday 17/04/09  Monday sees the release of the new SYLVESTER ANFANG II CD (LP not here yet...) and the new HEAVY WINGED "Waking, Shaking" vinyl only LP (pictured above). More news to follow over the weekend and site updates - check the artists pages for more details. Next up on AB: L'ACEPHALE "Malefeasance" CD and double LP in a poster sleeve. The problems with the vinyl pressing have now been fixed after the second set of test presses and we are expecting stock soon. Check out their page for more on this massive record. BURIAL HEX/ZOLA JESUS split LP - 2 amazing tracks from BURIAL HEX, one new style, one banger from the "Initiations" period, split with one lengthy track from the amazing ZOLA JESUS - think Wisconsin teenage Diamanda Galas... Incredible stuff. Hoping to have these available at Roadburn next week. Also got the new ALABASTER SUNS CD on Iron Pig, an amazing album featuring the guitarist and drummer of the now defunct CAPRICORNS. Its a blend of early Prong, Voivod and the DC sound, absolutely killer. Friday 10/04/09 New SYLVESTER ANFANG II T shirt added to the webshop. Three colours, very limited run. New CD/2LP coming very soon! Monday 30/03/09 Added to the 'Other' section of the webstore: the new OAKEN THRONE issue 6 with CD, plus some back issues and a few of the limited Oaken Throne Ts plus some other mags. Friday 27/03/09 Updated the L'Acephale artist page, adding information about the forthcoming opus "Malefeasance", another in depth interview with lots about the aforementioned release, and a link to download an exclusive mix of one of the tracks from our comrades over at Radical Matters, an excellent Italian label. More site updates on the way. Saturday 21/03/09 New items in the webshop: ATAVIST "II: Ruined" 2LP fancy gatefold, 180gm black vinyl. Now available at last! KHANATE "Clean Hands Go Foul" pic LP GNAW "This Face" LP/CD THE AUSTRASIAN GOAT "Piano and Stump" 2LP (green vinyl!) URTHONA "Amid devonia's alps" CD LOCRIAN "Drenched Lands" CD HABSYLL "MMVIII" CD VOMIR "Proanomie" CD Saturday 14/03/09 New items in the webshop: URFAUST 'Drei Rituale Jenseits Des Kosmos' LP - amazing gatefold and one-sided LP with etching. Killer vinyl treatment for this important recording. URFAUST 'Drei Rituale Jenseits Des Kosmos' CD restock. OCTOBER FALLS 'The womb of primordial nature' digibook CD restock. PESTE NOIRE 'Mors Orbis Terrarum' 2LP from this kvlt French horde. Test pressings arrived for the forthcoming BURIAL HEX/ZOLA JESUS split LP, HEAVY WINGED LP and SYLVESTER ANFANG II 2LP is now in production. ATAVIST 'II:Ruined' 2LP will go up on sale on Friday, its only available to preorder as a package with a shirt. Monday 9/03/09 Available now in the webshop, two new AB releases: K 11 "Voices From Thelema" CD and a special pre-order package for ATAVIST "II: Ruined" double LP and T shirt. Check the webshop for full details on these items. We are very happy to announce our support for the Equinox Festival to be held here in London, 12th to 14th of June. This is truly going to be a historical event bringing together an incredible array of thinkers, activists and performers for three amazing days. K 11's Pietro Riparbelli is confirmed to perform in addition to AB favourites such as Aethenor, John Zorn, Z'ev, Arktau Eos and many more. Stay tuned for more information and line up additions. New items in the webshop include LPs from CAM DEAS and NACKT INSECTEN and a REVENGE pic LP, in addition to CDs from DISHAMMER and ATOMIZER. Also there are new lower prices for some of the AB vinyl releases including BURIAL HEX 'Initiations' 2LP and the BLOOD OF THE BLACK OWL "A Feral Spirit" 2LP. All prices INCLUDE postage. Tuesday 24/02/09  WORMSBLOOD "In The Stars" LP is out now. Blue/black vinyl mix, matte sleeve with exclusive artwork by G Lansard, this is limited to just 333 copies! Their demos release just got 'Record of the Week' over at SF's AQUARIUS records, where they describe WORMSBLOOD as "Totally twisted lofi underground black metal free noise new weird America freak folk genius from Clay Ruby of Jex Thoth, Burial Hex, Davenport, and others... ". This is totally insane stuff and well worth picking up. Read more about it here. In other news, thanks to everyone who inquired after the KTL silkscreen edition. This actually sold out immediately, being offered to all those who got in touch in a chronological order. Sorry if you missed out. Also gearing up for the next batch of releases from Italian occult sound artist Pietro Riparbelli's K 11 project, and the long awaited double vinyl version of ATAVIST "II:Ruined". More news on these soon, with a preorder offer coming up on the ATAVIST vinyl. Monday 9/02/09 New items available in the webshop today: AETHENOR 'Faking gold & murder' CD, 'Betimes black cloudmasses' CD & LP, 'Deep in ocean..' CD and a limited number of 2009 tour shirts direct from the band. WRECK OF THE HESPERUS 'Sunken Threshold' LP - an amazing package for the vinyl edition of this great album from the Irish doom horde. You may have read on Ideologic about a special edition of the KTL '1' vinyl. This is currently in production, consisting of a hand silkscreened fold over heavyweight cover, printed both sides with brand new artwork. The vinyl, some black, some white, is housed in the original double printed inner bags and comes with the original A1 poster. To round it off, the package comes with 5 pin badges, 3 x 38mm, 2 x 25mm. This special edition is a run of only 20 units, not the 40 we originally thought we could make. Of these a maximum of 15 will be for sale after copies for the band. Its becoming unlikley that these will even make it into the webshop: if you are interested in a copy, please email me with the subject KTL. In other news, we are gearing up for the vinyl edition of WORMSBLOOD "In the stars" LP, heavyweight sleeve with art by G Lansard, 2 colour vinyl, limited to 333 copies worldwide. Very excited about this amazing and confusing masterpiece, will be getting this up for sale on the site here a week today. We are also proud to present the long awaited vinyl edition of ATAVIST 'II: Ruined' as a double LP, heavy gatefold with new artwork, as an edition of 500. The album really leaps out of the speakers on the vinyl format, the wait has been worth it. We will be offering the album for preorder shortly as an exclusive package with a T shirt. Knowing the unrelaibility of pressing plant schedules, we will not begin preorders until we have a guaranteed shipping date. The album is scheduled for release through Southern on March 23rd. Friday 6/02/09 New L'ACEPHALE shirt in the webshop ahead of the monumental "Malefeasance" 2LP in poster bag thats now well under construction. Other new items in the store: L'ACEPHALE 'Book of Lies' 7", found a couple on the shelf! ROBEDOOR / POCAHUNTED 'Mouth..' CDr, as above... long OOP. ISAK ANDSERSSEN 'The Kromatician' CDr on Tavarnkeben NIVATHE 'Envelpoed in a Diseased Abyss' CD on Universal Tongue PERSISTENCE IN MOURNING 'Breaking with the Wheel' Cdr on Universal Tongue HALRACK 'In the claws of death' CDr on Universal Tongue . I will be adding some more news over the weekend, loads of things almost ready for release... Saturday 10/01/09 2009 looks set to be an amazing year here at AB, so much going on... FAUNA "Rain" CD is available now in the webshop and will be available in stores from Jan 26th. The band will have a small feature in the next issue of Terrorizer magazine and there is a review in the current issue of Plan B magazine. Next release due is the WORMSBLOOD "In the stars" LP. This will be vinyl only, coloured, and limited to only 333. Amazing, horrifying and hectic, this album is one of the most extreme releases ever to see moonlight here at AB and is sure to be controversial. Street date for that is currently Feb 23rd. A track has been added to the player above. You can read more on the band's page in the artist's section. K 11 "Voices From Thelema" CD will finally see its AB release on March 9th. This monumental work by Italian sound artist and philosopher Pietro Riparbelli is comprised of recordings from the ether taken from Thelema Abbey in Cefalu. Crowleyan and Thelemic in intent, the CD comes in a deluxe digipack with an attached 32 page colour booklet documenting the ruined Abbey during the recording process and features many images of the murals painted by Crowley himself. The CD also features a Quicktime film of the Abbey and its environs. Check the artist's section for more information. As yet without a confirmed date, the following releases are all waiting in the wings and expected very soon, some of them at the same dates as the above: RYE WOLVES "Oceans of Delicate Rain" 2LP JOURNEY TO IXTLAN s/t 2LP L'ACEPHALE "Malefeasance" 2LP followed by 2CD! ATAVIST "II: Ruined" 2LP - long overdue vinyl edition of this great record. GRUMBLING FUR "Furrier" LP/CD (feat members CIRCLE, GUAPO, ALEX TUCKER...) HEAVY WINGED tbc ltd LP, followed later in the year by a full LP and CD FAUNA "The Hunt" remastered CD and hopefully a brand new album BURIAL HEX tbc split LP for Roadburn SYLVESTER ANFANG II - brand new 2LP followed by a CD version DEAD RAVEN CHOIR new CD/LP.... Monday 5/01/09 Happy New Year to all our customers. We are now back at work with full force, normal service is resumed following the holiday season. Its a great time for non-UK customers right now as the Pound is at near parity with the Euro, and its at a 7 year low against the Dollar (£1.00 : $1.45 approx). Its worth taking advantage of the turbulence in the currency markets, so get stuck in. There will be more news on the forthcoming releases for 2009 very soon: its already looking like a busy year with a wide variety of releases on deluxe CD, double LP and some very special highly limited LP releases... Check back for more news soon. Wednesday 17/12/08 Some updates and new items in the webstore: Shining III & IV CDs, Wraiths LP, Vinterriket CDs, Fleshpress CDs, Uno Actu tape, Arckanum 7", Zyle Kukly CD, Heavy Winged CD, One Lifeless Eye CD and a split Austrasian Goat/never Presence Forever 10". Last posting day for UK before Christmas is Saturday, so get your orders in before then. Thursday 11/12/08 Excerpt from 'Rain' by Fauna added to the audio player (see above). Tuesday 9/12/08  FAUNA 'Rain' CD is now available in the webshop. Aurora Borealis is proud to present 'Rain' by the ultra obscure FAUNA. Based in the temperate rainforest region of the Pacific Northwest, FAUNA are a strongly eco-centric two piece band working in the black metal genre. 'Rain' consists of one epic track lasting over an hour. Beginning with a field recording of rain in a forest, the piece thereafter becomes an acoustic journey, sung vocals complete this section before a raw black metal surge of power and pummel. FAUNA create honest, atavistic music in dark times for humanity and the world that nurtures us. we are very proud to present "Rain" as a CD with matte insert, housed in a black heavyweight cardstock hand screened card package, with black artwork.  The last posting day in the UK for your goods to arrive before Christmas is the 20th December, for US customers its 10th December, so make sure you get your orders in as soon as possible if you want your goods before the holiday period. Tuesday 12/11/08 The recent and utterly mysterious problem with the Paypal shopping cart has now been resolved and consumerism is resumed. Saturday 8/11/08 ROSE KEMP LP selling well in the webshop, thanks to all the discerning customers! New ROCK-A-ROLLA mag out now with an AB competition inside, worth checking out... New in the vinyl section of the webshop: SKULLFLOWER 'Taste the bllod of the deceiver' LP. Only got a few of these, was limited to 500 and is already sold out at the label. Friday 31/10/08 We are very proud to present ROSE KEMP "Unholy Majesty" limited edition deluxe vinyl LP, available now in the webshop. Presented as an edition of 1000, 700 black vinyl, 300 transparent red vinyl, 180gm audipohile vinyl, in a heavyweight gatefold with printed carton inner bag. Rose has recorded a stunniing album, her incredible voice and distinctly doomy leanings take centre stage on this incredible record, where her work with ATAVIST and with mother MADDY PRIOR collides in a dark and decadent tapestry of doomed prog, folk and rock. I'm sure many of you will love it. Check the audio samples on the player above and check the ROSE KEMP artist page. Friday 24/10/08 JOURNEY TO IXTLAN CD available in the webshop now. Double LP version should be available by the end of the year. Lots of new stuff in the shop, just added new BLACK ELK, GEISHA and SORC'HENN CDs... Saturday 18/10/08  Brand new AB shirt design from the highly esteemed artist, G Lansard. The shirt applies various AB release genres to various body parts, like a twisted take on acupuncyure points or the astral significance of the bodily organs, all beautifuly/horendously illustrated by G Lansard. We are stunned by his achievement and happy to offer this for immediate sale. You will be able to find this shirt at the bottom of the AB releases page in the newly updated webshop. I have updated the webshop, dividing it into more manageable sections. Hopefully this will make things easier for everyone to browse. Happy shopping! Thursday 2/10/08 Many thanks to everyone who has picked up RYE WOLVES so far... New items in the store: NADJA, KLANGMUTATIONEN, THE STARGAZER'S ASSISTANT, THE LAW OF THE ROPE, DE MAGIA VETERUM, ONE LIFELESS EYE, SORC'HENN. Also, check out the STRIBORG sale! All CDs down to £5.00 and the DVD is down to £7.00. Please enjoy this annual event responsibly. Wednesday 1/10/08 Aurora Borealis proudly presents RYE WOLVES debut 'Oceans of Delicate Rain': canyons of psyched out doom into stratospheric bottom heavy spacerock, RYE WOLVES traverse a globe swathed in oceans of discordant metal and mountains of math rock. RYE WOLVES, hailing from Oregon, USA, are one of those rare bands who manage to both challenge and entertain the listener by turns, from the ferocious opener 'Frank Miller' to the subtle menace of 'Blood Moon' and on to the epic 11 minute plus 'No Matter' that closes the album, 'Oceans of Delicate Rain' shreds speakers and buries nations under its epic, monumental sound. Read more here. Available for purchase now in the web shop. Please subscribe for the email updates (see above), we have a whole new system in place with bi-weekly updates on all AB releases, news and offers. Wednesday 24/9/08 New items added in the shop from HEAVY WINGED and the excellent KISS THE ANUS OF A BLACK CAT. In other news, RYE WOLVES "Oceans of Delicate Rain" CD will be released in the next couple of weeks. FAUNA covers are at the printers, JOURNEY TO IXTLAN CDs were delayed at the plant, but should be delivered next week I hope. Updated the stockists on the links page. Shipping outside of the EU is really expensive now, plus the weak $ doesn't help... Thursday 11/9/08  FINALLY, it's here! BLOOD OF THE BLACK OWL 'A Feral Spirit' deluxe 180g double LP, matte satin varnish gatefold with poster is now in stock and on sale! Very limited initial quantity come with an Elk hide patch, cut, branded and blessed in sacred sage smoke by Chet himself. This is a truly special release and we are overjoyed to be a part of it. Read more aboout this special release and BLOOD OF THE BLACK OWL. We aim to have a shirt available in the coming week or so. In other AB news, test pressings are here for JOURNEY TO IXTLAN and they sound amazing, so hope to have the vinyl version soon. The CDs are currently in production and we are awaiting a delivery date. ROSE KEMP test presses have also arrived and are also sounding great, so hoping to get that underway immediately: another incredible record. Lastly, expecting new AB badges featuring artwork by the inimitable G Lansard along with some stickers shortly - proper vinyl ones, cannot wait! Will post images of these as soon as they are available. They will be sent out free with orders mostly. Thursday 4/9/08 New items in the shop from: NADJA, OCTOBER FALLS, the excellent HEAVY WINGED, ROBEDOOR, heavy as hell SALOME, and some of my favourites of the mighty Finnish BM scene, the dirty HORNA. I was expecting to be selling the new BLOOD OF THE BLACK OWL double LP 'A Feral Spirit' this week, but its still not shipped out from the pressing plant. Hopefully it will be available from Monday night. Friday 29/8/08 New stuff added to the webshop from POTOP and BLUE SABBATH BLACK CHEER. Thursday 21/8/08 New media player added above, please check out tracks from the back catalogue and from some upcoming releases... Coming up very soon on Aurora Borealis: BLOOD OF THE BLACK OWL "A Feral Spirit" double 180g vinyl, gatefold sleeve, poster. Limited initial quantity come with a branded elk hide patch. Due next week! FAUNA "Rain" CD. Special card packaging, initial quantities with cloth patch. In production. JOURNEY TO IXTLAN s/t CD. Card digi file. In production. Double LP to follow. Next up: L'ACEPHALE "Malefeasance" CD/LP ROSE KEMP "Unholy Majesty" LP - CD out on One Little Indian on September 1st. UK tour to follow. Aiming for Halloween release for the vinyl! K11 "Voices From Thelema" CD RYE WOLVES "Oceans of Delicate Rain" CD/LP GRUMBLIN' FUR "Furrier" CD/LP - featuring Alexander Tucker and members of CIRCLE & GUAPO! Many more things lines up for the future as well, more announcements when the time is right. Monday 18/8/08 Proud to announce that Aurora Borealis will be releasing the vinyl for the forthcoming ROSE KEMP album "Unholy Majesty". More news very shortly, but suffice to say we are very proud to be releasing this stunning album! Sunday 20/7/08 Heathen Harvest have posted a new review of the mighty WOLFMANGLER. Manglin' never dies... >Contact Aurora Borealis: info@aurora-b.com |
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