Prurient
Prurient is the main project of American musician Dominick Fernow, who grew up in Wisconsin and lives in New York. Active since the late 1990s, it works mostly in harsh noise and power electronics, though later records draw on synthesizers, black metal and techno. Fernow runs Hospital Productions, a label that also had a record shop in Manhattan from 2006 to 2011. He makes industrial techno as Vatican Shadow, also records as Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement, and has played synthesizer live with Cold Cave.
Electronic City
You are red tail lights, you are small and simple, you entertained me, i want to destroy this you, i imagine you between two columns, you are small and simple, i want to destroy this you, you are a passion, i must deal with lucifer.
Pleasure Ground
Prurient's Pleasure Ground, recorded on 14 February 2006 and first sold as a double cassette at No Fun Fest in New York: Dominick Fernow's power electronics meeting synths, doom and black metal.
End Of Autumn
2008 live collaboration of the two masters of violent power electronic music released by Troubleman Unlimited as a double-LP set in an edition of 800 copies.
Garden Of The Mutilated Paratroopers
2026 stock Limited 2x FAN CD EP of Airborne Electronics for the 75th anniversary of Screaming Eagles Radio and 82nd Neptune Death Row. Adrenaline drones, memorial distortion, windy feedback, loud speaker vocals with a heavy influence from the naked and neither fact-nor-fiction black humor drama forgotten style of Aquifer Sodality and Slaughter Productions.
Maggots On The Cliffside
Two names. Four decades of uncompromising noise. One collision. Genocide Organ - the masked Mannheim collective who have defined the outer limits of power electronics since 1985, founders of the legendary Tesco Organisation, architects of Leichenlinie and Save Our Slaves - meet Prurient, the Wisconsin-born, New York-forged vessel of Dominick Fernow, the man who built Hospital Productions from a teenager's bedroom label into the most influential noise imprint of the 21st century.
This is not thei…
Frozen Niagara Falls
2025 stock "America's most prominent noise figure, Dominick Fernow has for the better part of two decades helped shape and reinvent the genre with a stream of works under the Prurient moniker. A project unlike any other in the realms of experimental, ambient, and noise, Prurient continually mutates from one incarnation to the next. Fernow often treads a fine line between harsh noise extremity and atmospheric beauty -- his massive, layered walls of sound may be comprised of piercing feedback, tor…
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Blood Brothers
Reissue with alternate layout of this bonus tape previously only available in the creationist special edition.
Bathtub brothers (Prurient and Alberich) round two. Heavy electronics vs. doom electronics for double barrelled white sick sheets and prison blue uniforms. Wear the masks - close your eyes - innocence rejoined.
Government Controlled Shrines
Industrial music is not about what is right with society… and there is still work to be done. At 7:57 the fountain is still pumping… industrialization of religion. The songs from torture chambers are passed down through the generations. Packaged in silk screen and velcro heavy canvas bag, with individual disco sleeves, vellum insert and text by Takahiko Yokoyama.
Noise For Halloween Night
CD reissue of 2022 cassette release. Full length soundtrack of doom electronics to the sacred memory of Halloween night. Full length soundtrack of doom electronics to the sacred memory of halloween night. now available on compact disc the tracks are intended as soundtrack for private or group gatherings during the halloween season and autumnal nights.
file under: environmental, soundtrack, holiday, thematic, spooky, true crime, horror, sound effects, fall, nostalgia, autumnal, halloween, field …
Smokestacks
"The world is already fallen and the temples are all new again."
Carte Blanche
*300 copies limited edition* "There is one world, no rules, no fixed ideals - not even chaos exists. Sometimes the awareness of the ridiculously short existence overcomes you, framed in sick trivialities. And yet there is hope in the midst of the absurd and this publication tells of it. No teaching! No warning! No example! Just a report." - Hospital
LP in quality die cut foil stamped jacket with inner sleeve. Black vinyl edition.
Oxidation
*250 copies limited edition* For the first time on vinyl, the Prurient long form cassette ‘expunged from the record’ final shrine before the closing of the now highly controversial and inimitable brick and mortar basement recordings. Remastered for vinyl for ultra caustic stimulating misery going back to a time in new york that could only be described as ‘unsub’.
I Used To Sell Flowers By The Roadside
* Packaged in a vinyl case with three inserts. Regular edition of 110 * 6x cassettes of varying lengths packaged in poly bag with 50 page color booklet and inserts * Prurient's archival 25th anniversary document of live and unreleased cynical innocence spanning from 1997 - the mid 2000’s. Included on ‘live’ but not limited to: the OCT 31 ‘97 debut performance, Chicago “making babies ears bleed’, debut performance of ‘pleasureground’ material from No Fun Fest, Morden Tower and segments from the ‘…
Annihilationism
Years in the making split full length of brand new material of ‘harshtronics and exclamation’ from japan’s Masonna and ‘doom electronics’ by america’s Prurient. Arranged in alternating sequence with one track from each artist until burning annihilation.
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Creationist/sìSon of Sam of mice and men
*253 copies limited edition* 6 part cassette of doom electronics based in parallel on the 6 days of creation and the 6 fatalities in the son of Sam case. The 7” being ‘the 7th day of rest’. ‘if they insist on original sin I will fulfill their creationist fantasy…father, they hate me… and the dragon called times square…'
Black Crows Cyborg
** Barbed Wire Swimming Pool splatter vinyl. LP with super deluxe embossed cover with mini poster ** The skylines of Tokyo and New York City are impenetrable. On the streets it is cold - the ravens have blocked out the sun. The barbed chicken wire that surrounds the cities wave scraps of plastic shreds of circuit boards like surrender flags. Ravens have become the society, they are now the rulers. Black Crows Cyborg is the first collaboration from noise titans Merzbow and Prurient. With more tha…
Blizzard
** 2021 Stock ** Autoerotichrist is the noise enigma of r mason from enemy soil and anjilla. they did three classic split 7” in the 90’s with richard ramirez, japanese torture comedy hour and incapacitants. this is their first release in nearly 15 years and doesn’t disappoint! Pure arcane and explosive noise in the way that is gone from our terrible world now. Prurient side is ‘black medieval grind’ short burst tracks of electronic prayers from 2001 in the style of Mater Dolorosa and the split 7…
Rainbow Mirror
CD version. Prurient announces Rainbow Mirror, in addition to the vinyl reissue of Buddha Strangled In Vines (1997), released as a four-CD through Profound Lore and as a seven-LP box set here on Hospital Productions, to coincide with 20th anniversary of the project.Rainbow Mirror is a release exceeding three hours in length, consisting of new material that delves into the glacial, meditative, and ambient side of Prurient creating an epic of pure "Doom Electronics". Rainbow Mirror, which coi…
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Unknown Rains
Utterly destructive and heart-wrenching power noise and catharsis from the don gorgon of Hospital Productions, making Prurient's first album confession since the release of the stunning Frozen Niagara Falls. Taking almost 40 minutes to spell out a litany of ills that mark up as classic, pain-saturated Prurient in contrast with the more layered, nuanced narrative and more complex production values of his last album, the set boots off with the infernal backdraft and flagellating vox of the album’s…
Cocaine Death
One of Prurient's most sought-after albums now issued on vinyl for the first time, remastered and cut by Matt Colton, housed in a hot-foil printed sleeve. At long last Prurient presents his incredible 'Cocaine Death' pressed on vinyl for the first time. Collecting three C10 tapes individually issued in 2007 - 'Cocaine Death', 'Caribbean Overdose' and 'Tylenol Murders' - released on CD in 2008, it serves to highlight some of the most viscerally affective, evocative material in Dominick Fernow's a…
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Through the Window
Through the Window is the new album by Prurient, his first for Blackest Ever Black. It is, in a sense, both the conclusion and the climax of the journey that Dominick Fernow began with 2011's Many Jewels Surround the Crown 7" and continued with that year's Bermuda Drain LP and Time's Arrow EP. It was recorded before the Hospital Productions founder's move to Los Angeles, but in tone, subject matter, and scale it firmly anticipates his current stint navigating the desert c…
Jesus
Two confrontative icons. Two artists willing to go where those icons point. Jesus is one of the most extreme and conceptually charged releases in the Von catalogue - a double LP that documents and extends a collaboration between Prurient and Nico Vascellari built around the figures of GG Allin and Klaus Kinski: two men who treated the stage as a site of absolute exposure, who understood performance as a form of self-destruction, and who attached to the name of Jesus a weight that had nothing to …
Crossbow
Prurient (aka noise musician Dominick Fernow) has become one of the most well-known and influential names in the noise field. Anti-technology and anti-electricity. An unconventional use of banging objects together to create music; playing with live wire, pennies, frying pans, toolboxes, scrap metal, and used shotgun shells are an example of some of his instruments he has used before. On this new material sounds and voice gradually emerge, in a distant and threatening outhouse.
The Rubber Baron
few copies available, longtime sold out vicious and malignant collaboration between Dominick Fernow & Andy Ortmann, originally recorded in 2003. So dark, it is packaged in double sided black sleeves with black ink, also pressed on red vinyl. "My dear mum always said that I have "champagne taste on beer money".... Doh!!! It's all coming true with this reassuringly expensive Prurient / Panicsville split "The Rubber Baron". This beast comes on blood red 8"vinyl through the Rococo label. Housed in a…
Wrapped In The Flame Of Illusion, Masked In The Clay Of Behavior
Recorded within the bleak transitional period immediately prior to the sessions that would now become known as Bermuda Drain, Dominick Fernow sketched out four compositions which can only be framed as “ambient power electronics”. Some of Fernow’s most destitute works to date, this release captures Prurient at its most vulnerable and sedate, reflective and rapt. Compositions that throw away that past decade of experience, only to start at the foundation of his art. Uniquely different from anythin…
Bermuda Drain
This eagerly awaited new LP from Prurient begins with a blood-curdling scream - but thereafter all expectations are defied. If like us you've always been fascinated by the more reflective, electronic side of Dominick Fernow's catalogue - thus far restricted to the odd album track, his work with Cold Cave and a couple of choice side projects - then all your Christmases have come at once. Reportedly inspired by long drives around mainland Europe listening to minimal techno, Bermuda Drain pu…
Vezdekhod
Somewhere in the Chukotka tundra, at the coordinates N 66°37' W 172°40', September 2006. A Vezdekhod tank - the all-terrain vehicle that remains, across much of Siberia, the only viable means of transport - moves through a landscape that resists every other form of passage. Carlos Casas is inside, recording. The noise is overwhelming: the resonance of the engine inside the cabin so intense, so physically present, that the only music capable of cutting through it, the only sound that could exist …
Viva Negativa! A Tribute to the New Blockaders Vol. III
Viva Negativa! A Tribute To The New Blockaders: Volume III: USA. Volume III in a series of UK-European-US and Japanese artists' tributes to the pioneering UK Noise group The New Blockaders including exclusive tracks by Z'ev, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Alan Courtis, Controlled Bleeding, Plethora, Macronympha, Prurient, Richard Ramirez, Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, Carlos Giffoni, AMK, Aaron Dilloway, Wolf Eyes, Idea Fire Company, Mnortham, Thurston Moore, Jim O'Rourke, Damion Romero, The Haters, Emil …
The History of Aids
Available for the first time on vinyl, Dominik Fernow presents his f*cked-up masterpiece 'The History Of Aids' on his own Hospital Productions label. Noise fiends should need no introduction to this guy, this album, or this label, but those of you in the dark you should be aware that this New York-based label has released some of the very best albums of recent years, counting Kevin Drumm's 'Imperial Distortion' and Cold Cave's 'Cremations' among them. Fernow also plays in the live line-up…
Stars Explode
When Cold Cave embarked on their first UK tour in 2009 one of the most sought after pieces of merchandise was an exclusive split release with Prurient limited to just 100 copies on Cassette. Hospital Productions have mercifully pressed up the tracks from the tape - plus one additional cut exclusive to this LP to satisfy the vinyl vulture's appetite. In stark comparison to the glam-electro melancholy of 'Love Comes Close', this is a collection of incredible bleak and isolated dark ambience…
Adam Tied To Stone
If there's one person I revere when talking about noise it's Dominick Fernow, better known to the shadowy corners of the noise world as Prurient. There's something about his approach to the sound which for me puts him at the top of the tree, forcing music that could easily be simple, throwaway distorted jams into so much more. His last full length album proper 'Pleasure Ground' cemented this for me as Fernow buried layer upon layer of woozy synthesizer melody beneath his token screams and distor…
Rose Pillar
180 Page Hardcover Book with 11" Record, featuring Kevin Drumm. What separates Dominick Fernows Prurient project from the rest of the contemporary underground cannon is its unyielding personal subject matter. From the inception of Prurient the concept has always utilized intimate details, photographs, letters and other ephemera culled from places where most artists would choose to obscure. Prurient draws these details into focus more than ever on Rose Pillar, a 180-page hardbound book of Fernows…
Arrowhead
Brooklyn noise herald and Hospital Productions label-head, Dominick Fernow presents his first release for the Editions Mego label. Fernow has been an active instigator in the power electronics and noise genre for well over a decade, with 100+ releases issued so far, usually limited and covering all known formats. Known in particular for his harrowing live performances where he uses his voice, amps, microphones, coins, tools, suitcases etc., to create a brain-bashing journey through mangled, nega…
All Are Guests In The House Of The Lord
With so damn many records pouring out, there are precious few artists who strain against sagging shelves and actually merit the “must hear” designation. One of them for me is Kevin Drumm. Widely known “guitarist” and relentless disassembler of technique, expression, and expectation, Drumm has recorded seminal solo records (first on Perdition Plastics, then the epochal Sheer Hellish Miasma), tussled in some notable duos (with, for example, RLW with Ralf Wehowsky), and even shown up to upend some …
And Still, Wanting
A tale of lost love and desperation, this is prurient's full length follow up to the acclaimed Pleasure Ground. And Still, wanting takes the recent new direction of combining layered synth's and electronic loops with his usual poignant vocals to a whole new level of intensity. A new chapter in obsession with all that is mundane in our human life. This special 1000 copies first edition of the CD comes with a bonus 5' vinyl titled 'Shield' with tracks that won't be available anywhere else + 12 pag…
End Of Autumn
A live collaboration from SUTCLIFFE JUGEND (KEVIN TOMKINS and PAUL TAYLOR) and PRURIENT (DOMINCK FERNOW of Hospital Productions) recorded April 19, 2006 in Tunbridge Wells, UK. Features lyrics appropriated from death poems by Japanese monks. Beatuiful gatefold packaging designed by Fernow with photography by LINDSEY WATKINS.
Black Vase
7th album from noise maker extraordinaire who attacks 2 large amplifiers w/2 microphones swirling into the invisible electro-magnets fields around the amps. His masterwork of harshness that feat. drums in addition to his wailing subsonic shit fest.
The Black Post Society
The Black Post Society embraces and accepts the depression of not having anything left to hunt. The mask without a face to hold. The depression of the hunter after the deer is killed. It is better to be hungry than to have eaten. As fantasy shatters under the whip of reality, erotic malaise settles in the nest of the mind inverting this dormant fuel to rekindle the endless cycle of sexual chaos. Black industrial / power noise from this highly respected US act!
Snail on a razor
Live in-person collaboration of mid-ranged feedback hell laden with raw human drones of cosmic existential turbulence from from Matthew Bower (legend of Total, Skullflower, Ramleh, etc.) Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards, Zaimph, GHQ, etc.) and Dominick Fernow (Vegas Martyrs, Nihilist Assault Group, Ash Pool, etc.).