Noise /
Gong
Gong, newly reissued on CD with bonus tracks, finds Sissy Spacek at their inventive peak, transforming the noise duo format into a meticulous, sprawling environment. The album’s two extended pieces are collages of violently manipulated junk noise, shattered electronics, and warped musical fragments, merging chaos and structure. Through masterful tape edits and dense, eerie atmospherics—including glass, metal, piano, and field recordings—the band delivers an immersive, unpredictable journey into …
Raiser
Raiser captures a 2013 Bronson session of Sissy Spacek—Phil Blankenship, Charlie Mumma, and John Wiese—in Los Angeles, channeling an intense fusion of harsh noise and noisecore. The album is a relentless, cathartic experience: shriek-laced blasts, searing electronics, and disintegrating metal fragments, all reassembled into monstrous, meticulously pieced sound collages. The result is sonic destruction made compositional, a full-spectrum assault that melts into jittery static and transformed debr…
New York About the Polywave
New York About the Polywave chronicles both recent and archival New York performances by The Haters, the iconic noise and conceptual art collective led by GX Jupitter-Larsen since 1979. The collection includes the ferocious 2025 “Digging Through Time” show at TV Eye, where shovels and a large wooden clock met their entropy-fueled fate, as well as earlier interventions involving calculators against fans and amplified hole-punch devices. These actions expose The Haters’ unique sonic and conceptual…
Los Angeles, Not the Totimorphous
Los Angeles, Not the Totimorphous surveys The Haters’ uncompromising presence in Los Angeles, led by GX Jupitter-Larsen since 1979. This documentation compiles both contemporary and archival performances: the 2024 45th Anniversary Show at Coaxial Arts Center with GX, AMK, John Wiese, and Elden M weaponizing transistor radios, turntables, tape, and rust; a 2011 suitcase-smashing set at LACE; and a 1991 event devoted to tearing paper. Each iteration presents entropy and action as its own aesthetic…
Paulownia
Paulownia by Merzbow is a 2025 full-length statement comprising two lengthy compositions that fuse intense electronic manipulation with Merzbow’s enduring fascination for natural phenomena. Across both pieces, the album merges organic inspiration and harsh digital process, producing a hypnotic yet confrontational experience.
1984 Cart PPG Detroit News Grand Prix 200
1984 Cart PPG Detroit News Grand Prix 200 by Spallmaker delivers a concentrated burst of harsh noise, inspired by the mechanized wreckage and traumatic undertones surrounding a legendary motorsport event. Each piece harnesses violence and speed, making the album not just a sonic outburst but a meditation on risk and survival.
Self-titled / Vasovagal Syncope
Self-titled / Vasovagal Syncope by Wince is a dual release reissued to celebrate the project’s fifteenth anniversary. The CD brings together bruising harsh noise, interwoven with relentless hiss and explosive feedback, forming a document of both the genre’s ferocity and its staying power.
Satan’s Imperials
Satan’s Imperials by Pain Appendix & Tantric Death compiles five live-collaboration tracks into a burnt offering of noise extremity. The sound is wrenched from malfunction, with synths, feedback, and howl colliding under the “malevolent gaze of a punctured inflatable Satan.” Here, fun and brutality are inseparable; each track a riot of writhing electronics, live-wire tension, and mischief.
Absolute Earthbound Spirits
Absolute Earthbound Spirits by Death Kneel is a collection of five cassettes originally released on Life of Sensation between 2023 and 2024. Now presented as a unified CD album, it traverses harsh noise domains with a granular attention to texture, rhythm, and atmospheric collapse. Sculpted from aggression and nuanced sonic distortion, the album embodies a vital cross-section of contemporary noise music.
Vigilant New Forces
Vigilant New Forces is a compilation celebrating fifteen years of label activity. Featuring all new tracks from New Forces artists - past, present, and future. The finest noise and experimental sound, offered with gratitude to all those who have supported this endeavor. Stay vigilant. Featuring Jackson-Pratt, Mayuko Hino, Kjostad, Mass Marriage, MO*TE, Organ Of Corti, Kyle Flanagan, Rodger Stella & Scant, Wince, Joe Colley, Jeph Jerman, Form Hunter, and Matriarch.
Shredded Nerve / Form Hunter
In the summer of 2023 Shredded Nerve and Form Hunter embarked on an east coast tour that culminated at the Initial Shock festival in Montreal. This CD is a reissue of a limited edition tour cassette available at those shows, and also features a brand new track from each artist, totaling 4 tracks and more than 40 minutes of music. Psych-noise incantations colliding with metal junks avalanches that rip the forest to shreds. Smashing cassette players into oblivion with a baseball bat to the cheers …
Bending Your Sauna
In 2022 New Forces received a pair of discs in the mail from Nick Forté (Rorschach, Raspberry Bulbs, Half Mortal) that contained the initial creative burst from his new project Green Tea. The albums were astonishingly well crafted and could hardly be considered "demos"; indeed, they felt like masterworks that emerged out of thin air, blending psychedelic harsh noise with ambient and new age music in a way that felt incredibly fresh and exciting. As the artist describes it, "I knew I was working …
Music For Organic Performance
New Forces presents Kjostad's Music For Organic Performance. These six new recordings emerged from solitary performances conducted on-location in northern Minnesota. An attempt to rethink the collection of "source sounds" and invite the listener into moments that would be otherwise inaccessible. Electronics and other machines were introduced later in the process, a form of synthesis that added additional depth and contradiction to the original recordings. Listeners will feel the edges of glaciat…
All Pressures Past
Primitive Isolation Tactics is the foremost example of how the current generation of Canadian noise builds on the foundation forged by some of the country's textural masters while expanding into new and ever more dynamic territory. There is plenty of monolithic crunching to sink your teeth into on "All Pressures Past," but the sounds skitter, jump, and implode into a satisfyingly damaged wreckage of burned wires and fried voltage. Primitive Isolation Tactics wields both patience and restlessness…
Wilderness & Industry
Perfected Grave Vault is the high octane noise duo of Charlie Mumma and Aaron Aspinwall. Following on the heels of their highly regarded 2023 CD Mutative Forecast (Oxen), this latest offering is a constantly shifting, fast paced flamethrower of a recording. Evoking the Americanoise crunch of classic acts like Skin Crime or Macronympha, "Wilderness and Industry" manages to to achieve a monolithic heaviness without bogging down in static minimalism. This is a quick moving recording that seizes you…
Sick Thoughts
*300 copies limited edition* Murder Corporation returns with a brand new full album after about 10 years of silence. You know exactly what to expect from such Italian monster! Harsh & Sharp Maniac Killer sounds... If you need more words, you don't need this album!
Red Magnesia Pink
First released by Extreme in the massive, infamous 'Merzbox,' "Red Magnesia Pink" is extracted and recontextualized as a standalone release for the first time. Recorded in 1995, "Red Magnesia Pink" sees Merzbow in peak form. A psychedelic whirlwind of synthetic transmissions; harsh, wet, screeching sounds that could only be produced by Masami Akita. Featuring two previously unreleased bonus tracks from the same era.
Mausoleum
Master Grave Services proudly announces the release of its debut album, "Mausoleum," a sonic collaboration between acclaimed experimental artists J.D. Evans (Confounder) and K. Geiger (Dead Door Unit). This highly anticipated CD offers a unique blend of avant-garde soundscapes, enriched by special guest appearances from noise legends John Olson and Joe Roemer. "Mausoleum" marks the first full-length release from Master Grave Services, merging the visceral sound manipulations of Evans and Geiger …
Steuererhöhungsland
*75 copies limited edition* K2 (Kimihide Kusafuka): live recording, modular synth, electronics, effects, MTR. K2 live sounds by modular synth and delay/reverb only - no distortion/fuzz/overdrive pedals."Steuererhöhungsland" was made using live K2 recordings from Bar Isshee in Tokyo, Jan.12, 2025, Osaka Hokage on Dec.14, 2024, at some unknown venues during 2023-2024, live Kaori Komura recordings from Bar Isshee on Jan.12, 2005, and K2 studio recordings from Oncosonik Laboratory on Jan. 01 & Jan. …
Clang Quartet / Crank Sturgeon
*100 copies limited edition* Noise. Ritual. Performance. Transformation. Two of experimental music’s most uncompromising voices — Clang Quartet and Crank Sturgeon — collide in a brand-new split release that drags listeners deep into the unpredictable wilderness of sound.
For decades, both Clang Quartet (North Carolina’s Scotty Irving) and Crank Sturgeon (the ever-morphing project of Matt Anderson) have built reputations for visceral, unhinged, and deeply theatrical approaches to noise. Now, on…