Metgumbnerbone
Metgumbnerbone was an English improvising group active in the early and mid 1980s around Newcastle upon Tyne. Its members recorded ritual, percussive industrial music in abandoned sites such as derelict factories, railway tunnels, caves and woods, using portable cassette machines. The group's best-known record is the LP Ligeliahorn. Metgumbnerbone recorded Ligeliahorn live and improvised among industrial ruins by the River Tyne in Newcastle, and the album came out on A-Mission Records. The performers credited on it are John Mylotte, Mike Watson, Philip Rupenus and Richard Rupenus.
Ligeliahorn (LP)
Rare 2025 multicolored LP+CD re-issue on Minimalkombinat in an edition of 111 numbered copies with special cover and inserts of the seminal esiteric/industrial album from 1983 featuring Richard and Philip Rupenus.
Drëun
This is supposed to be a 40th anniversary reissue. Well, it still is, but with year of a delay. It was told enough about the early Metgumbnerbone recordings. We just keep some quotes here.
"It’s hard to imagine anything more haunting than the folk horror ritual sounds which Metgumbnerbone conjured forth in the Ruins of Industry." - Kristian Olsson, Shock Tilt
"Working mainly with percussion, Metgumbnerbone evolves an improvisational continuum that depicts subterranean and old, eerie, murky templ…
For The Raven
*300 copies limited edition* For the Raven was due to be the next release after Ligeliahorn on the Nekrophile Rekords label. Sadly the project fell through and, even more sadly, it coincided with a number of the celebrants being rounded up to enjoy a short holiday at Her Majesty's Pleasure, expense and, indeed, insistence. By the time our intrepid Disciples Of Doom re emerged the momentum had been lost and For the Raven was consigned to the Metgumbnervaults to, until recently, only make an occas…
Ligeliahorn
*300 copies limited edition* Ligeliahorn was the second release from Metgumbnerbone, the first being the cassette Dreun (recently re released as a handsome double album on the Infinite Fog label). Ligeliahorn was originally released on the A Mission record label in 1984. The whole album was the product of but one night.. Improvised in a derelict factory down on the fog enshrouded banks of The River Tyne in north east England. The instrumentation comprised mainly of what was already there augment…
For The Raven
After 42 years, Metgumbnerbone’s legendary “For The Raven” finally releases! This post-industrial/drone/improv gem, once canceled and lost to time, resurfaces as a rare cassette—a must-have for fans and collectors. The myth lives on!