| SUTEKH HEXEN & FUNERARY CALL “P:R:I:S:M” CD / 2LP / DL (114th Cycle) We’re proud to announce renewal of our relationship with raw black power ambient ritualists Sutekh Hexen in announcing the band’s colossal new 2LP “P:R:I:S:M”, a full collaboration with Canadian nightmare-weaving enigma Funerary Call (AKA field recording and experimental soundscaping artist Harlow MacFarlane), to be released this summer in collaboration with our good dearest frequent co-conspirators from the US Sentient Ruin.With “P:R:I:S:M”, magisterial sonic-alchemists Sutekh Hexen and Funerary Call join forces to deliver a fully collaborative album of eight highly experimental tracks. Throughout this octonary journey, concepts and unseen source energies are refined into spectrums of deeper consciousness. The resulting narrative guides the listener through a vastness of (dis)charging energies, rebirth through dissolution, and harrowing harmonic passages in tremendous spaces. Inner-workings suspend transformations in time. Pushing their respective boundaries, Sutekh Hexen and Funerary Call initiate the listener with the crystalline, static miasma of the album’s opener ‘Meridian غ’, only to enshroud them in the manifesting psychosis of ‘Infernal Folly’. The churning mysticism of ‘Perilous Shade’ offers temporal sanctuary, and ‘Toward the Eastern Gate’ calls forth tectonic-prophecies as the album’s centerpiece, tipping the scale into ‘Fractal: Void’—a blistering disarmament in a storm of guitars, scathing electronics, and the disembodied calls we all anticipate and fear. ‘Æscend Obsidia’ tests the preceding tension and overwhelms in shimmering radiance before declaring release in ‘Pangæa Ultima² (Dread)’. Closing with ‘Shores of Purgatory’, thresholds are breached anew with hectic guitar feedback, spectral synthesis and meditative melodic embellishments. Where the mirror blinds, the “P:R:I:S:M” offers vision—refractions of new perspectives, dissolving the shadow-self.CD edition of 400 copies in 6 panel Digisleeve, Spot UV + Matt Lamination. 8 Tracks. Running Time 53:43 EAN: 0679628554259Vinyl 2LP edition of 500 copies, 200 in clear red (200 units worldwide – direct label retail item not wholesaled or distributed) and 300 standard black vinyl inside a high quality matte laminated gatefold sleeve with black flood inside the pocket, spot UV gloss print, black poly-lined inner bags and download card. 8 Tracks. Running Time 53:433 EAN: 0679628554242 Release Date July 14 2023 Digital Available via BandcampShop |
| SHIBALBA “Dreams Are Our World Of Experience” CD / LP / DL (222nd Cycle) The flesh withers to the pulses of thunderous cave reverberations, while the spirit is united with the psalms of the Glorious Dead, the Ancient Entities that have conquered Death and become Life, dominant, absolute and victorious. This Work consists of a ritual deriving from the darkest corners of the Mind, the deathlike spheres of the Netherworld and the truest essence of the Afterlife, to become a homage to the Force of Life Eternal.Guided by Her Luminous rays, it is dictated to be experienced solely in chamber-like conditions, below the waxing Moon, accompanied with Myrrh and lunarian incenses and agharbattis, to be properly roamed within its uncharted corridors. Listen, experience and conquer, setting aside the mundane aspects of realities, explore the unmapped pathways, with every preconception burnt to the altars of this Magnum Opus.SHIBALBA’s music is saturated with the mysticism of the East. It’s richly detailed and multidimensional, while layered with chanting and broadly defined elements of traditional ritual and shamanic music.Apart from contemporary synths and guitar drones, the band makes use of bones and skulls as percussion instruments, Tibetan Horns, Tibetan Singing Bowls, bone & horne trumpets, Darbuka’s (goblet drums) as well as ceremonial bells and gongs, to name a few.The Spirits behind the Shamanic Halls of Shibalba are V.P. Adept & Aldra-Al-Melekh.CD edition of 300 copies in 6 panel Digisleeve, Matt Lamination. 7 Tracks. Running Time: 43:04 EAN: 0679628554341 Vinyl LP edition of 300 copies in 3mm sleeve with printed innesleeve, Matt Lamination. 7 Tracks. Running Time: 43:04 EAN: 0679628554334 Release Date July 14 2023 Digital Available via BandcampShop |