ALBUM REVIEW: Maudissez – Maudissez


What Maudissez are able to do with instruments (at least I assume they’re instruments) is unsettling to the nth degree.

The anonymous and self-described anti-Christian blackened sludge-cum-Death/Doom entity doesn’t simply make music; the four tracks featured within Maudissez (Sentient Ruin Labs) are as raw as a mooing filet mignon. Continue reading


REVIEWS ROUND-UP: Cryptae – Beyond Mortal Dreams – Qrixhuor – Occulsed – Inverted Matter


The ritual complete, the circle sealed, Richard Benton steps back from his grand working, the fifty most repellent shades conjured within the last year now bound harmlessly to ink and paper.  But wait!  A shifting of movement in the periphery catches his eye, as fresh horrors pull themselves from the shadows and chitter seductively.

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EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Vessel of Iniquity – “Babalon”


Ghost Cult is proud to bring you the premiere of the newest track from Vessel of Iniquity! ‘Babalon’ is an unrelenting Blackened Death Metal assault on the senses, representing true modernity in kvlt music, while having a throwback aesthetic. The track comes from their new album Void of Infinite Horror coming out next Friday, January 25th via Sentient Ruin in the United States and Xenoglossy Productions in Europe. Continue reading


Exclusive Stream: Karcavul- Intersaone, Full Album Stream


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The purveyors of great underground music at Sentient Ruin Laboratories have partnered with Ghost Cult today to stream the new album from French extreme metallers Karcavul, Intersaone, out tomorrow. You can hear the stream of the album at this link or below:

https://soundcloud.com/sentientruin/sets/karcavul-intersaone/

Sonically adventurous, brutally unrelenting, and mysterious in aura, Karcavul’s Intersaone makes good on the promise of their earlier death metal/sludge-toned releases with an increased maturity and polish. Fans of  Dragged Into Sunlight, Coffinworm, Undergang, Coffins, Neurosis, Wolvhammer, Eyehategod, Noothgrush, Portal and Acturus are sure to unhinge their jaws and swallow this release en mass.

 

Karcavul-   Intersaone track listing:

1. Mangepierres

2. Illuminaschichs

3. Crackleurres

Intersaone will be released on July 8th 2016 as a 12″ vinyl LP and as a digital product on Sentient Ruin in North America, and through a collective of european labels overseas: Crustatombe, Deaf Death Husky, Et mon cul c’est du tofu, No Way Asso, Repulsive Medias, Saka Čost, Underground Pollution Records, and Witch Bukkake Records. The record was recorded live by Karcavul themselves, and mixed by Lizard. Mastering was done by Guillaume “Commissaire” Odile, while the cover art is by Rafaël Houée, and the LP will also feature and insert designed by the band.

Pre-orders are now live on our shop or on Bandcamp.

karcavul.bandcamp.com

Karcavul Official Site

http://sentientruin.com/releases/karcavul-intersaone

https://sentientruin.bandcamp.com/album/intersaone

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Crustatombe

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No Way Asso

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Repulsive Medias

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Saka Čost

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Underground Pollution Records

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Witch Bukkake Records

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Abstracter Streaming Wound Empire


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Abstracter is streaming their entire Wound Empire album here. It is officially released February 10, 2015 on vinyl via Fragile Branch Recordings, Vendetta Records, 7 Degrees Records and Shove Records, on CD by COF Records, and on cassette tape co-released by An Out Recordings and ABSTRACTER’s own Sentient Ruin.

ABSTRACTER Wound Empire Record Release Show:
Mar 07: First Church Of The Buzzard – Oakland, CA (w/ Dispirit, Alaric, Church)

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Abstracter Streaming “Lightless”


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Abstracter is streaming “Lightless,” off of their second album Wound Empire, out February 10, 2015, here. The album will be available on 12″ vinyl LP through Fragile Branch Recordings (US), Vendetta Records (EU/DE), 7 Degrees Records (EU/DE) and Shove Records (EU/IT), on CD by COF Records (formerly known as Church Ov Fuck – UK), on cassette tape co-released by Sentient Ruin in collaboration with An Out Recordings, and digitally again through Sentient Ruin.

The album was recorded and mixed at Earhammer Studios in Oakland, California by Greg Wilkinson (Brainoil, Pallbearer, Noothgrush, etc.) and mastered at Audiosiege Mastering Studios in Portland, Oregon by Brad Boatright (Wolves In The Throne Room, Nails, Sunn O))), Sleep, etc.), Wound Empire‘s cover art and layout was handled by the band’s friend Kevin Gan Yuen of Sutekh Hexen, and is a must-hear for fans of Altar of Plagues, Inter Arma, Thou, Samothrace, Amenra, Indian, Wolvhammer and the like.

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