Managed to snag the last of these direct from Olly Moss. Absolute last copies of this long sold-out release, so get em here while they're hot! Really top recording of probably my favourite doom band going in the UK right now. £7

Great last album by UT, this is just metal as fuck! Originally came out on Relapse on vinyl and CD. Top class presentation from WS as ever, and it comes sealed and with a silk-screened patch. £5

Very weird release but a belter! This is essentially two gigantic posters made up of hundreds of covers from death metal, grind, black metal and thrash zines throughout the years, along with a CDRom featuring thousands of cover images as well as a ton of zines in PDF form. I think it was released as part of an exhibition on metal zines in Japan. I'd highly recomend grabbing one of these, been browsing through it since I got them in! £6

Absolutely smashing zine, wish I'd picked up the first one! The feature on the "X-Claim! 6" is well worth a read, it's good to find someone else who thinks Jerry's Kids "Is This My World?" is maybe the best hardcore record ever! Features and interviews on Hawkwind (!), Pollution, Spike In Vain and Milk music, a ton of reviews and wee bit on Flipper, Gut Instinct (yes!!) and some bits on a few good films (Turkey Shoot, classic) make this the best zine I've read all year. £1.50

Only just got a copy of this myself but this was one of my top releases of 2011. Really immersive and entrancing noise that just builds and builds with tons of layers of tone going on. This is unfrotunately the last release from this band and all I can say is thank fuck for Unrest in having the faith to put out three albums now by an unknown yet brilliant noise artist! Cracking packaging too, with varnished thick sleeves. Highly recommended. £12

Top second-division thrash from 1994 on the egendary Cogumelo label. Not far off from the 80s Kreator/Sodom sound (maybe it's the raspy vocals) but a bit more technically adept. I like it a lot! £8

Deadmocracy play really fast grind with that really tight snare sound, top stuff. Never heard of Hinfamy, turns out they're from as far back as 1990 and their side of this record was recorded in '96. Best bit is the bonus tracks on their side though, real lo-fi and is that bang-on mid-90s grind rehersal tape sound! £8

REALLY good split release here and I think both bands feature on each others' sides. AG side is funeral doom, but of course in the (un)usual AG style whilst HB hits out with probably his best work yet, really trippy and heavy stuff. Total bad acid trip music, and in great metallic packaging. Recommended!! £8

Here we have AG at his most varied: one long song that hits folk guitar picking, dissonant black metal and fuzzed-out heaviness all hit in here. Cracking! Niege Morte is a new one to me and this is a decent start, pretty experminetal black metal-ish stuff that builds over its 11-minute run time to a satisfying crescendo. £9

Collaborative LP featuring Austrasian Goat's Julian Louvet. I really liked 2:13PM (featuring aforementioned avante-metal genius) from the CD I had by them from last year and this collab with two other bands/acts I'm not familiar with is a cracker! Electro0acoustic, guitar-driven noise. Lim 315, grey vinyl. £9

Really old school and punk-influenced grind from the man who brought you Netjajev SS and Syphalitic Vaginas. Intense and pissed-off sounding stuff. Great! Comes with an insert, wee booklet and a patch. £8

Heavily death metal influence grindcore from FTF and straight-up intense and fast old-school grind from Brasilian masters Subcut. £4

AxGx worship and fast, well-produced grindcore. £4

Top old-style grind from Turkey (I think) meets Mesrine's Napalm Death "Scum" but better recorded and more technical grindcore.. £4

Top stuff; ostensibly pretty straight-up Swedish 80-sounding hardcore but with a definite metal influence , and a beatdown (!) half way through the first side. See ya in the pit. £4

Great swedish hardcore with a real thrashy metal guitar sound. £4

Probably their most "listenable" material yet. I reckon Throat's brand of feedback-laden noise rock is gonna be huge in 2012. £4

Brilliant rough hardcore from one of the best Aussie bands ever. Not for the easily-offended. £5

Dirty-sounding punk rock like only the Aussies can do. Quality! £4

This was a surprise! I have a Sigh/Kawir split from like 1993 and I just assumed this was a different band but apparently these guys have been going all this time! Their track has got that defiite hellenic sound, quite epic in scale and with a classic metal feel, but with a bit of early Bathory savagery going on too. The Scythian side is more death metal, really blasting and hammering riffs. £4

Really savage death metal, think Incantation/Immolation! £4

Restock! Great band from members of Kilslug. Punked-out sludge rock, absolutely great stuff and comes in a ziplock bag, nice package. Be quick, sold five of these in a week last time! £4

Top-drawer occult-themed doom metal. Really love these guys, this record would make a good companion to the UZALA record soon to be released on At War! £7

Absolutely astounding raw and viscious black metal. This is just over-the-top brutal stuff. Recommended! £6

Fantastic and insane grindcore with a sense of humour, one of the best! £6

Top class grindcore from Germany. Inckudes a cover of "I Hope You Die In A Hotel Fire" by Righteous Pigs: extra points! £6

Two great Texan bands playing grind old school: ie strong punk/HC influence but heavy as fuck. GOOD. £6

New album from Portugeuse black metal legends, includes a BATHORY cover. £5

Eight new tracks as well as a bunch of stuff from a couple of old tapes. Solid "black n' roll" from Portugal. £5

Great new sludge band from Wales. There's nothing really fantastic about coming from Wales and these guys manage to get that across pretty well with their dark and dingy crusty sludge sound. Really lofi (though not as much as their demo, which I loved for its unlistenability!) basement dirge.. £6

Sparse and simplistic yet effective death/doom from Portugal. £7

After a slew of split EPs over the past year or so on AWWFN, The Austrasian Goat comes out with a second album proper, and what a corker it is! Epic in scale, this has elements of the band's very diverse range of styles; from funeral doom to black metal to folk-tinged ambient passages. And just to top it all off, it features Jarboe from Swans on one track! £6

Hadn't listened to this album in ages before I got this trade in. WOW. Sockeye were just absolutely class. The original "tardcore" band! If you've even the slightest interest in poorly-recorded, ridiculous music with hilarious weird lyrics and the best tunes ever GET THIS CD! £6

Instrumental sludge/stoner metal. Really liked this band when they were going, this is my favourite of their releases. £6

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This is Stumbles and another guy from Rupture whos name escapes me right now playing top class punk. £5

I ould be wrong but I think this is essentially just a lineup of Rupture under a different name. Certainly sounds like it. Scum punk in the finest Aussie tradition. £5

88 tracks of grinding noise with a bit of a hardcore influence. £4

Weird, not what I'm used to from these guys: longer tracks of instrumental rock. Maybe a precursor to Billy Crystal Meth? Lim 100. £4

24 tracks of sleazy rock. £4

YES! How only 100 of these were made and it's not sold out yet is beyond me. Absolutely ESSENTIAL noisecore from a brilliant band. A billion songs of great NC: "This stuff is 100% bad played and 100% lo-fi production, these are our beginnings and we are proud of it!!! In these days where releases have highly produced recordings and fully designed artwork, this is a punch in the face to all you that have forgotten the way of "do it yourself"." CORRECT! £6

Fantastic early (and best) material from these guys. £4

Metallic hardcore meets instrumental sludge/doom. £4

One of these bands just sounds like a bunch of mongs in a practice room every so often deciding to play some instruments at the same time. The other sounds like fast blasting noisecore and there is some more beefy screaming grind at the end. I can't really tell which band is which, when one begins and ends and there's bugger all info in the packaging as to which band is first. Pretty good. £4

Great discography of noisecore which is so in-the-red most of the time it could just be called NOISE. I have a couple of tapes by these guys, is good to get all the tracks on a CD. £4

"Radio One Peel Session" from Stab: incredibly offensive, mid-paced sludgy punk. Totally brilliant if you ask me. Beartrap hit us with a bunch of poorly-recorded live noisecore-ish grind with stupid in-between talking in a daft German accent. Totally spasticated but great. £4

Post-Deche Charge, pre-Mesrine noise grind band. These guys were somewhere in-between both those bands! £4

Really enjoyed this one, kinda metal-influenced 70s-style rock from members of Billy Crystal Meth, Captain 3-Leg and Grand Old Lady. £4

Stab! up the offensive levels here more than usual. The cover art is a rip-off of Skrewdriver's "Blood And Honour" LP and there's a decidedly dodgy cover of Danzig's "Dirty Black Summer" on there. Proceed with caution! Feculence have a couple of doom/dirge type songs then what sounds like a rehesral tagged on the end of kinda scum punk type stuff. Not bad! £4

Deche Charge is one of the best noisecore bands going, very abrasive, ripping stuff. BFJ is a new band who give us 104 blasts in 17 minutes. Great split. £4

CDs

BRUTAL TRUTH - Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses Redux CD [Earache]

Great second album, more "avante garde" if that's the right term than the debut. Special edition reissue in a nice thick digipak with five bonus tracks, including a cover of Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd. £8

One long track of absolute crippling total doom. Very claustrophobic, suffocating stuff. £7

Marial black noise.industrial from Clay Ruby. Brilliant album, had it on LP for a while but here's the CD to share with you fine folks. £7

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Insanely heavy pairing here, sold out from me ages ago! £5

The leading light of the Beat Generation in conversation from the late 70s/early 80s. £7

New mini-album; nice digipak. £6

Decent comeback album (featuring Mike Amott on guitar), coupled with the unreleased second Abstrakt Algebra album on the second disc, which is a corker! £8

For me, this is in my top five albums of all-time. I can't really express how important this record is to me and how it still sounds as good today as it did when I was a lad. BUY IT. (regular edition with the uncensored art inside) £6

This one still has the necrotic sound of Reek but is a massive step forward in terms of songwriting, much longer and more considered songs. Guess what? It's fucking brilliant! This special edition is a real belter, has the Symphonies demo and a DVD with a great documentary. The artwork mirrors the orginal sleeve with the black cover and gore art inside the digipak. £9

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Great lost Swedish death metal classic from 1993! They unfortunately changed the amazing artwork and the new cover sucks (old art is on the inside though so you can swap it over!) but the addition of two demo tapes makes up for it. Think: Entombed, Crematory and Grave. HIGHLY recommended! £7

Victimizer guys play no frills catchy death metal. Solid. £5

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The inlay booklet here has a logo which says MOTOR-CHARGED. So this pretty much sounds like a mixture of Motorhead and Discharge; thrashy d-beat raw metal. Does exactly what it says on the tin! £6

Demos collection - Nunslaughter-worshipping death metal. £8

A new release from Circle, once again. This time these experimental veterans study the both ends of the previously unheard static / hyper-active scale. Soundwise they have clearly proceeded to the 21st century, jumping from limpid synthesizer soundscapes to wall-smashing "speed-kraut" bursts. The triptych construction of the album along with the cover art that portrays war and street riots raise various associations on the history and the current state of Western civilization. £7

Industrial doom. Five long tracks; hypnotic, dense, epic and bleeding with evocative moods. £7

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Great split, old school death metal. Nice packaging. £5

Ominous drone, brooding atmospheres and ritualistic percussion from this German outfit. Nice digipak. £6

Top class grind/death from Cuba. £6

How in the name of hell did we get from 1970 to 2010 without anybody else coming up with the name CONAN for their band?! Anyway, these chaps from Liverpool did it and I'm happy to say they live up to the legend from whence their name is derived! This is total battle music, four long up-tempo (?!) war marches focussing very much on the low end. Great wailed, reverb-drenched sparse vocal as well. Total caveman music....fuck, the first song is calleed KRULL. Nuff sed! £8

PE legend. £6

Excellent mix of short, cold dark ambient tracks and longer, razor-sharp instrumental black metal. Very original and highly recommended. £6

Great Carnivore-esque thrash metal. Hard as nails! £6

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Dark, bleak, suffocating black noise/doom from France. Listening to this is kinda like frantically running through a corridor in Alien. Good stuff. £7

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Really weird hardcore from Serbia. Sraddles a sound between regular hardcore with a bit of crust influence and kinda spacey passages, 70-rock-style parts and doomy bits. Sounds like some punks finding their dad's Hawkwind collection and giving it a go! Not bad! £5

Eerie, ambient dance beats, industrial influences and triphop; Esoteric side project. £6

Absolutely STORMING split here! Deadly Frost are kinda blackened filthy-sounding basement thrash, Exmortum are more mid-paced funeral death. This seriously sounds like it could've been released in 1991. If yer a fan of Winter, Dream Death etc then this is for you!! £7

More lo-fi black avant black metal from Poland. Smolken is definitely a canny customer, but it seems the world has moved on from lo-fi black metal so he'll no doubt be back with something else (krautrock band? 70s-inspired occult proto-metal? disco?) in a couple of months time. There are some 16 year-old girls doing backing vocals on this one, but luckily the Aurora Borealis write-up says they were accompanied by their parents at all times. £7

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Blackened death metal by both bands. £6

The ultimate annihilation in audio torture is now at hand! In this time of over-saturated bestial metal, Deiphago blaze their own barbaric trail of Satanic Metal with the most punishing, primitive & bestial attack of 2009!! With a background of demo tapes throughout the 90's & their debut full-length endorsed by the Ross Bay Cult, the Filipino Antichrist's succeed in making this hi-speed attack even more rewarding than before. No wannabe Fallen Angel Of Doom, no wannabe The Oath Of Black Blood, no Angelcunt or even War Cult Supremacy. Just pure uncompromising, unconventional violence: this is bestiality. Deiphago are the true beasts. Fuck off to the false!! Great 10-panel digipak packaging £7

Initially sounds quite melodic black metal but there's a very big horror metal influence here. I dunno, Gorgoroth meets Death SS? Very good stuff anyway. £6

Savage thrashy black/death from Australia. Nice digipak. £6

Debut black metal supergroup (features member of Gorgoroth, Skitliv, Bethlehem, Shining, 1349, Dødheimsgard, Green Carnation, Carpathian Forest amongst others). Pretty progressive and weird black metal (there are even some kind of jazz elements to it) but it works. Interesting stuff for sure and highly recommended. Nice digipak. £6

A real value for your money: quality silver & metallic foil print on black paper. Raging for well over a decade in the isolated land of Australia, Destruktor have stood the test of time with a few EPs and a demo under their bullet belts. Now after much anticipation the war beast strikes again with their debut full-length album entitled "Nailed" featuring 10 new tracks of the highest degree accompanied by blasphemous Riddick illustrations. Harnessing the essential elements of fore founding extreme metal troops, deliver a dark brutal desecration of exceptional warring bestial black metal of death that easily rivals those in the same battlefield. will win the war... with or without your support!!! £8

Absolutely stonking old-school death metal from Denmark, very dark. Featuring members of Church Bizarre and Victimizer. Recommended! £7

Eastern ritualistic ambient from Bahrain. £5

Greek black metal. £6

Varied, weird and pretty fucked up black metal. Sounds like a bad acid trip or something. £7

Mythic collaboration attaining astral sonics and reaching ambience. Digipak. £6

Excellent dark ambient influenced by medieval Europe. Not too disimilar to Uru-Kai and the like but this captures the sounds of the dark ages even better in my opinion. Great stuff, you can almost smell the plague victims haha. Lavish foldout digipak packaging. £7

I've seen this described as "porno grind" - and I have to say I generally fucking hate that genre, seems just to be full of fat nerds who've never actually had sex before - but, apart from subject matter, this isn't really the usual mid-paced groove with rubbish drum machine and vocals that sound like a pig being bummed. Instead this is more traditional grind with a hardcore edge, pretty fast with cool screamed vox, frantic stuff and 14 songs in 20 minutes. £6

Scream Bloody Gore!! An asset of old fashion Death Metal torn from the grave while intoxicated on genre pioneering masterpieces like "Severed Survival", "Horrified", "Into the Grave" and "Scream Bloody Gore". Prepare for memorable & heavy tracks of utter horror, pain, gore & death sure to satisfy all deathheads who have the guts to listen. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! £7

Brilliant raging d-beat/grind from Japan. NOT the d-beat ENT offshoot! This is great stuff regardless, recorded really raw and loud, should appeal to fans of early Napalm, Jap hardcore and.....Disgust! £7

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New album from one of my absolute favourite noise/industrial artists ever (Zigoku was one of my introductions to thise whole type of music!). Absolutely great stuff as usual, utterly ominous black doomy synthesiser noise. Highly recommended!.£6

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Aphelion should get some sort of medal for reissuing this stuff if you ask me. Doomed was an Autopsy side-project with a guy called The Boogieman on vocals and sounds not a million miles away from the first (and only! ha) Defecation record to me. If you''re into Autopsy you will love this. £7

Doom/sludge vs Noise/doom £7

Shamanic, ritualistic ambient doom? Reminds me a lot of Pussygutt/Wolvserpent, excellent stuff! £6

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Excellent debut album from the new band from Richard Johnson of Agoraphobic Nosebleed/Pig Destroyer/Enemy Soil, who appeared on the "This Comp Kills Fascists" compilation last year. This is still grindcore, but has some kind of Fugazi-esque elements to it and the odd slower section. Really original stuff. £7

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Dust To Dearth is the gothy/dark ambient/doom project of Mandy VKS Cattleprod of the excellent Murkrat. Very gloomy and bleak stuff. Lysergene is the very dark EBM-influenced side project of Gordo Bicknell of Esoteric. £5

Probably the only successful attempt at mixing the avante-garde with death metal that I've heard that wasn't recorded by Dan Swano! Totally atonal dissonance reeks havoc on intense black death riffing. C Spencer Yeh even makes an appearance on violin (?!). Mental but great! £6

Brilliant EP from French blackened sludge/doom mob. Nice digipak. £5

Full album of French doom with a meditative post-rock vibe. Nice digipak. £5

Quite techy thrash but still with decent tunes. Think maybe early 90s Kreator or No More Colour-era Coroner? £5

Restock - Japanese import reissue! £5

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Bleak post-doom sludge metal soundscapes. £5

I remember getting this albm when it came out about ten years ago now and really enjoying it, and listening back for the first time in about 5 years it's still a stonker. Mixing death metal with hardcore and a rough thrash sound, I'd wager stuff like this was probably quite a big influence on a lot of the nu-old school death/thrash stuff kicking about today that's suddenly so popular. £6

Really enjoying this one. Totally fuzz-drenched, amps-on-10 cosmic doom with great Big Black-style overblown vocals. Some relentless riffing going on here too, high recommendation from me for these guys! £6

Top-notch epic stoner doom in the style of Sleep's Jerusalem. Great six-pnel digi sleeve. £7

Outstanding collection of material from Antony DiFranco (of Ramleh/Skullflower etc). Can't recommend enough! £10

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Raw fast aggressive black metal with thrash touches. Limited to 500 copies. £6

Death/doom demo from France. Think early (demo-era) My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost etc. £6

Live album comprising sets from 2006 of this classic kraut band. I'm personally not so keen on Faust post-IV but their live sets are generally still pretty out-there and this record showcases them still pushing sonic boundaries several decades on. £7

Melancholic and depressive black metal from Venezuela. £6

Pummeling old-school grindcore featruing members of DAHMER and Mesrine! £5

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Brilliant new album of brutal power electronics/industrial from Mike Page; this having more "short, sharp shock"-style stuff rather than the moe brooding material found for example on this album on At War. This one features Nick Blinko of Rudimentary Peni and J.Randall of Agoraphobic Nosebleed and features Blinko artwork. £7

Comp of two EPs from this Australian band who have a record out on Wantage. Repetitive, driving rock fromed around the great bass lines. It seems like it's improvised but these guys must practise all the time cos they know what each other are doing. Top stuff and nice card die-cut packaging too! £6

Superb wee EP from this excellent and always solid sludge band. £5

Restock of this sludge classic! £6

New EP by Finnish sludge lords Fleshpress. Brilliant stuff as usual. £5

New EP by Finnish sludge lords Fleshpress. Brilliant stuff as usual. £5

Restock, limited numbers. £6

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Legendary harsh industrial noise, record ten years ago now. Highly recommended. £6

Atmospheric and epic cosmical Portuguese black metal in the vein of Kataxu and Darkspace £6

Brilliant old school death metal with a real punk/hardcore influence. Really like this one, totally rotten and dirty death metal, as it should be! £7

Solo album from Frans De Waard of Kapotte Muziek, Beequeen and Shifts. He also gave a lot of At War releases some rather brutal reviews on Vital Weekly but I won't hold that against him cos this is pretty good: a highly conceptual project that combines features of remix, recycling and plagiarism - the re-interpretation of the "Daseinsverfehlung" album by Asmus Tietchens £6

Amazing! This is a proper issue of the demo of post-Autopsy band formed by Eric Cutler and Steve DiGiorgio. The material is in a similar vein to "Fiend For Blood" and "Acts Of The Unspeakable" with Eric's trademark creepy riffs and gloomy atmosphere throughout. £7

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Genre-hopping progressive (?) metal/noise rock. Great stuff. £5

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Restock! Insanely harsh noise, one of the best releases of the past few years; includes a bonus collab with Grunt. £4

Great retrospective of one of the most interesting and forward-thinking PE acts of the past decade in my opinion. £6

Fastcore £6

The final album by one of my all-time favourite bands, this is in their all men play on ten noisecore style: insanely fast and completely bonkers. Best band ever who did this sort of stuff, this looks like the last thing they'll ever do. These went quick before and now selling on eBay for 30 quid plus, get 'em here for a reasonable price! Sealed with OBI strip. £12

Two 12 min+ tracks from Ghast, the first of which starts off quite late-Corrupted and ends in a kind of Khanate dirge. Second track has a great long electronic passage with creepy heavilly-effected vocals. ZB are total wall-of-noise mid-paced sludge; quite often it's actually pretty impossible to discern what the hell's going on. Nice one! £7

Power electronics meets extreme noise doom. Sold out of these in no time before! £5

Not the same as the above Ghast. Great doomy black metal, one of the best the UK has tp offer right now. £5

Restock at a cheaper price! £6

Restock at a cheaper price! £5

Great BM like a mix of Bathory’s "The Return" with early Sodom and Beherit £6

Anaolgue synths and metallic loops: dark, black metallic industrial from Lord Nordvargr of Folkstorm and Goat. £6

Primitive, hateful (fast!) German black metal £6

Really great compilation of EPs from this great duo. £5

New album from ultra-harsh Jap noiser GA. Totally solid stuff as usual. Nice packaging with loads of great collage art cards. £6

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Harsh thrashing blackened metal from Oz! £5

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Brilliant wee EP from Magma-worshiping instrumentalists. £3

Very old school blackened thrash...think classic European bands like Sodom, (old) Destruction, Kreator etc. £6

Limited to 300 copies only, Stalaggh new project. £6

Debut release from this great Edinburgh band playing black metal with elements of melodic death metal,trad metal and doom. I used to be their singer but don't let that put you off! Really nice packaging, minimal digipaks and proper CD. £5

Brilliant second-wave blackmetal debut, these guys were the first (to my knowledge) band to really use the mid-period Bathory sound and play what would now be called "viking metal". It's a pretty dumb term but I guess it's a descriptor. Not got the polish of their later recordings (as Hades Almighty) but that adds to it. This has the demo as a bonus too, great stuff. £7

Supreme second album from this classic Norwegian band, this is majestic, epic Norse black metal at it's very best. If you're into the first few Enslaved albums (and if you're not,why not?) then this will be your cup of tea. £7

Live tracks and other rarities. £5

Back in stock at last! Excellent drum-machine grind like Fear Of God/dense dark ambient. £3

Sludge/doom, very heavy and quite weird. Includes a cover of Neil Young's After The Goldrush. £5

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One of my favourite noise albums of all time. Absolutely astounding. What a childish album title. You probably shouldn't buy this actually, it's offensive. £5

Instrumental heavy post-rock in the vein of Red Sparowes, Neurosis and Mogwai. £6

Gothy post-black metal. £4

Without a doubt one of the most significant Black Metal releases ever!!! Only released in 1993 on Candlelight Records, the debut full length CD "Dethrone The Son Of God" was recorded as a tribute to the mighty PROFANATICA. It features what some consider to be the best versions of many of PROFANATICA's classic blasphemies as well as a few newer tracks that PROFANATICA had never been recorded before this release. This re-issue has reworked booklet and tray card artwork that by far rivals the original. £5

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John Garcia of Kyuss fame's new band. Bit more chunky metal on this one. £5

Spanish punk, bit of a crust influence. £4

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Varied doom/sludge, slow but with the odd fast-paced interjection. Think Burning Witch/Grief/Corrupted. £5

Collection of demo tracks and live stuff from this sludge/doom/black metal band. £6

The first two Hirax albums (Raging Violence and Hate, Fear and Power) on one CD. What can I say? Absolute hardcore-influenced (and hardcore influencing!) thrash metal, some of the best that there has ever been in my opinion. Basically if you don't own these albums you don't have a clue, pal! Sort it out. £6

The masters of thrash return with a new album! Have lost none of the intensity of the early days, Katon is a metal god quite frankly! Great Ed Repka artwork fits the old school thrash mood perfectly. £6

Engrossing soundtrack based on a journey through the Himalyan mountains, along with a film made of the ascent. Really good stuff, particularly the film side. £7

Storming black metal from Germany. Definitely has that distinct Germanic BM sound, and the German language definitely lends itself to being very effective for such music. Great vocals, alternating between Grishnahk howls and bellowed germanic orders. Comes in a nice slipcase with text printed on the underside of the disc. Highly recommended from me! £7

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Top-class mournful traditional doom, very Euro-doom sounding. If you're into Warning, Pallbearer, (old) Revelation then get this! They cover Hiding Mask by The Obsessed....nuff said! £6

Weird one this. Name taken from a Doors song (presumably), described on the label website as black metal (it's not) and featuring just two basses and a drummer (jings!), this is pretty unorthodox fro the outset. As it turns out, the music isn't massively unorthodox at all, it's pretty psychy stoner doom played at a reasonably slow pace with soem cool hazy vocals. It's all very good, recommended. £7

Stellar drum-and-guitar duo from Melbourne here, these guys are kinda garagey, a little bit Amrep and give a bit of a nod to Krautrock along the course of the six tracks on offer. I like it! Superb dayglo 6-panel digipak too. £6

Restock! £5

Pig Destroyer/Agoraphobic Nosebleed man solo EP. £4

Less ominous but nonetheless intense electronic workout. £4

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Total old school Norse black metal worship. £5

Total "Under The Sign..."-era Gorgoroth worship from Finland, including a cover of my favourite Darkthrone song, Quintessence (you know, the one The Count wrote at the end of Panzerfaust!). £5

Power violence-ey grind. £5

Really enjoyed this one, very old-school in approach and delivery. Not very technical or well-recorded, just great old style black metal. Bits of Darkthrone, Mayhem, (old) Dissection etc. Very good. £6

Cold and slow depressive black metal from Brazil and Finalnd. £5

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Limited tour EP of intense power electronics. £5

Cosmic pulsing heaviness, like listening to Troum on a distant planet. Nice digipak. £5

AMAZING packaging! First (?) Jazzfinger album.£5

Amazing record from one of the UK's best bands. £6

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Blistering and heavy hardcore from Newcastle (ex-Generic). Played with these guys a few years ago at Distraction, they were great and much better than us! £5

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Mental noise like only the Japanese know how to do. One guy on a mobile phone, the other on effects pedals hooked up to said phone. It sounds kinda like you'd expect, really. Nice packaging with OBI. £6

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Not sure how the hell to describe this so here's what the label says: A theme of this album is a "song" and "escape from a established noise".Maruyama?fs singing voice such as the Kiyoshi Mizutani(Les Rallizes Dabstructly harsh noise,Motoki?fs Surreal collage and voice performance... EXTREME, but NEWEST style of pop music! £6

I bought all the ultra-limited CDrs Crucial Bllast put out by these guys about ten years ago and really enjoyed them, then never heard much about them until recently. This is quite different from the industrial death noise of the early material and is a bit more guitar-based. Not a million miles away from Gnaw Thier Tongues or that recent CHARNEL HOUSE record which I got in distro. Good stuff! £5

Collaboration between Nordvargr and Navicon Torture Technologies. Waves of grim, doom filled atmospheric sludge crossbred with buzzing black drones, grinding distortion, and a seething underbelly of rhythmic pulsations, ultimately delivering everything you might expect from these two acts. Nice digipak. £5

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This album is apparently meant to be a solution to alcohol addiction. Well I'm from Scotland so it'll do alright here, might just open my windows and play it loud out to the jackies currently takig up precious space and air in the park. What does it sound like? I dunno, the Butthole Surfers being bummed by Caroliner while listening to a Smell & Quim album. Comes (aptly) in a wee brown envelope. £5

Excellent reissue of a lost classic from 1975. Of interest to anyone who's into psychedelic hippy folk music; the scandanavian scene was amazing for progressive music in the 70s and this is no exception. Big influence on the contemporary Finnish psych scene, highest recommendation for me! Loads of bonus tracks too. £7

More challenging black metal (is this even black metal?) from L'Acephale. Tribal samples, feedback, traditioal black metal parts coming from nowhere. Will almost certainly polarise opinion. I like it! £7

Old Richard Ramirez project from '95 £4

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Very dark piano-based ambient. Grim!£5

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Collection of re-workings of Liles' work by such luminaries as Bass Communion, Hafler Trio and Nurse With Wound. Excellent stuff. £6

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Heavy-riffing sludge/bit of a later Neurosis post-rock influence. £6

More powerful and heavy-hitting than their debut. Think Neurosis, Electric Wizard, Unsane etc etc. Nice cover art. £6

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Minimal composition/field recording from influential Spanish musician. Good stuff. £6

Ultimately heavy doom here from Spain (I think). Loads of mad noises going on, I guess some people would say it had a "psychedelic" edge to it but I'm increasingly seeing that as a negative thing what with all the rubbish second division spacey guff that's coming out at the moment. This isn't that though, check it out! £6

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Dark, heavy trip hop (?)/electronica from the guitarist of Esoteric. £5

One of the best grind bands going right now as far as I'm concerned. £6

Ambient guitar drone. £7

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Psychedelic workout from Acid Mother's Temple mainman. £6

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Melodic and atmospheric black metal. £6

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Holy shit!!! £6

Mass Grave are great crust-influenced grind. Stormcrow deliver some serious Bolt Thrower/Deviated Instinct style crust-metal. £6

Third album by one of the best death metal bands ever, who only recently seem to be getting the praise they deserve. This one isn't really that death metal though, being their most thrash-influenced by some way. Still a great record though. £6

Fast and brutal German black metal. Not a million miles away from Those Of The Unlight/Opus-era Marduk. CD comes with text printed on the underside of the disc. £7

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Collection of rare tracks and demos celebrating 15 years of this classic death industrial project. Gritty, creepy industrial music, highly recommended! Nice digipak. £5

Crushing metal, features Brian Gibson of Lightning Bolt £6

Noisy sludge rock: think Melvins, Unsane, old Helmet. They take their name from the Lone Wolf And Cub comics so they're alright by me. Recommended. £6

Discs are meant to be played at the same time. Really engrossing dark occult music. £7

Seriously heavy, epic sludge / doom / post-hardcore, with some impressive use of a brass section and a piano. £6

Fast and ripping thrash, think POSESSED! This releae compiles an EP and an old demo. £5

Fur Is Dead! Double CD from the Japanese noise legend, had this one in before and it sold out almost instantly, so be quick! £8

Collaborative effort from these two noise big-hitters, the results being very dense dark noise. Nice textured digi sleeve. £7

Nice a5-size packaging £5

Restock, harsh noise legend. £6

All over the place frantic "avant trash". Bonkers! £5

Well, I saw Zeni Geva last night and they were utterly mindblowing so I'm gonna highly recommend this. Very psychedelic, lots of swirling walls of noise and guitar going on all over the place. £6

Really good stuff, old school GRIND. £5

Raw, atmospheric Nordic-style black ambient. Think Burzum, Iljarn (Nidhog), Striborg etc £5

Horrible sludge/doom. Have the 10" as well! £5

Loud/quiet post rock. Fans of Snowblood would dig this. £5

Crap name but don't let that put you off, this is seriously good stuff! MONEYISGOD is fronted by amazing 80s Japanese hardcore band ASBESTOS, so you get an idea of where we're coming from here. This is a very varied record, but to me sounds a bit like a less relentlessly-pumelling Zeni Geva, maybe later-period Crow. Really top stuff, been listening to this one a lot myself lately. £5

Moon Mistress are excellent super-fuzz guitar psych doom, cool way-back-in-the-mix chanted vocals too. Snakerider are more straight-up Sabbath/stoner style. Excellent split release! £6

Early solo record from Sonic Youth main man. £4

Absolutely brilliant new death metal band from Spain! This is their debut and also inclludes their 2009 demo for good measure. Influenced heavilly by Death/Asphyx/Dismember. You know the score! High recommendation from me, these guys are class. Great gory cover art too. £7

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Featuring members of LOSS.£5

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Absolutely fucking great doom from Oz. Totally tortured, heavy, oppressive and grim stuff. I can hear a lot of trad influence here in terms of the morose morbidity but this is definitely gonna be a hit for the Burning Witch/Khanate kinda chap. If this band ever want to release anything I'd do it in a second! £6

WOW! Along with the new Burzum this is a frontrunner for best album of the year so far for me. I absolutely loved the demo and first album, and this follow-up is even better in every way. The vocals are absolutely great on this one, almost Diamanda Galas in places, and the music is just masterful funeral doom. You'll not find a better band in this style going about right now, I guarentee it. £7

Great stuff!!! HARSH!!!!!! £5

Originally issued in 1981, Musiikkivyöry’s two tapes were the work of Mika Taanila, a 15-year-old who would grow up to become an internationally acclaimed filmmaker. This compilation features the key tracks from those micro-edition bedroom recordings. Musiikkivyöry’s output is typical of the early ’80s’ raw zeitgeist, but with a timeless, teen-anguish twist. Taanila heartily embraces punk’s total do-it-yourself ideal, yet his style is light years away from the conventional guitar groups of the day: Atonal riffs, home electronics, randomly cut-up radio sounds, noise, and primitive industrial weltschmertz blend into a rough, highly personalized whole. £7

Really dark electronics from St Petersburg in the vein of Lustmord, utilising analogue synths. Amazing really thick cardboard packaging! £5

Reissue from Nordvargr's classic "black ambient" band who are amongst the best proponents of martial satanic music ever. £7

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Dark ambient Vinterriket project.Contains bonus video clip and comes in a nice slipcase. £5

Double dose of grindcore in card sleeve packaging. £6

New album, fancy printing on playable side! £5

Quality new mini album from one of the best grind bands going, amazing groove going on here that most of these types of bands just don't have. Digipak. £5

Another EP of great groove-grind from Ukraine. Comes in a thin DVD case, lim 300. £4

New album of experimental black metal/noise from Oz. Also some of the most lovely packaging I've seen, great foldout sleeve finished with varnish. Top marks! £6

Great blasting black metal, chuffed after a couple of self-released albums this guy got a deal and more exposure for his music! £6

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Compiles the self-titled 7" and "Destroy All Planets" 8". £5

Absolutely brilliant noise grind/blur from Japan. Love this guy, first came across him on the amazing split flexi with Corrupted. Highly recommended! £5

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Hellish black doom. Slipcase. £5

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First time I listened to this I wasn't so sure as it doesn't sound like....well, Noothgrush! Or what we've come to expect them to sound like. This is their earliest demo (I think) from 1994 and with Tom Choi still in the band it sounds very much like a Tom Choi band! And since I'm a great advocate of his is a very good thing indeed! So think Operator:Generator, It Is I, first Sleep record, Asbestos Death and you won't be far off with this one. Really good and highly recommended! £7

Pitch-black, foreboding and brooding drone/doom from Lord Nordvargr. Excellent. £5

Painfully slow, massive funeral doom. Highly recommended. £6

Excellent comp of material from across their whole career. I think this was made specifically as a Russian-only release but managed to get a hold of a few and it's a great introduction to an amazing band. £6

Comes on a BLACK disc with black ink printed on a black booklet. The Masters of Devil Metal Death with their latest EP for February 2010 simply dubbed "Black" in reference to the visual aesthetic of the peculiar packaging. Features four brand new studio blasphemies that you won’t find on any of their other 100+ releases: Fuck The Bastard, Before You Cast A Spell, Yet The Odor Still Lingers, Grave, Grave. £5

The black prayers of Devil Metal worshippers have finally been answered... At last, for the first time ever, all 6 of the cult demo recordings now gathered together as a single release entitled "DEMOSlaughter". Each of these long-sold out recordings were previously only been available as individual cassettes & 7" EPs with very limited circulation throughout their 22-year history. Also included exclusively for this release, obscure rehearsals and the 1985 demo from DEATH SENTENCE (pre-NunSlaughter) all of which have never been heard before. "DEMOSlaughter" showcases the chronicle evolution of the band from the very embryonic stages of them unleashing the rawest and most chaotic death metal of the mid- eighties to a gradual escalation of their very own unique genre known today as "Devil Metal". Released as a deluxe DOUBLE CD (2-disc) set with 32-page book archiving the original artwork and photos alongside commentary from founding member Don of the Dead. 56 songs in total with a running time of almost 2 hours £9

Blasphemy and disgrace from the MASTERS of raw Satanic DEVIL METAL DEATH!!! Raw & Violent METAL in the spirit of Possessed, Hellhammer & Venom! Long awaited second album with bonus track, all new exclusive cult artwork/layout & killer deluxe booklet. If you're not familiar with NunSlaughter you know NOTHING about Death Metal! "Thou Art In the Kingdom of Hell" lyrics written by Jeff Becerra of mighty POSSESSED! Burning the flame of True Satanic DEATH METAL since 1987!!! £6

Excellent raw, malevolent and claustrophobic funeral death/doom. Superb packaging, lovely mini gatefold sleeve with silver print and a booklet. Only 250 copies. Highly recommended! £7

Collection which compiles the demo, EP and a recent comp track from these obscure (Obskure?) Danish death/doomers. The demo sounds truly filthy, later stuff a little more clear..very much in the mould of early Goatlord. I like it! £7

If you like the brutality of Man Is The Bastard and Zeni Geva, check out these Macedonian mentalists! Face-ripping sonic torment of the best kind. £5

Ultra-dark funeral doom, epic! £6

I only just found out these guys were still together (their debut album from 1998, Into The Old Forest is for my money the best UK black metal album ever made) and listening to this record makes me wonder why I hadn't kept closer tabs on them! Absolutely brilliant BM rooted firmly in the old school. Definitely has a very 90s feel to it, with a the odd mid-period Bathory-esque flourish into viking metal, but with a beefier production than their previous works. Highly recommended! £7

OM: epic post-rock, ML: Battles/Zu stop/start rhythmic battery. £5

Fast, hateful raw German black metal in the vein of the early 90s Swedish scene. £6

Combined talents of two French outfits who were amongst the first-ever "industrial" artists. £7

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First two albums of insane jazz/grind from John Zorn, Bill Laswell and Mick Harris. The first album is pretty similar to Torture Garden-Naked City, whilst the second is more brooding and dark, unsurprising as it features BC Green and Justin Broaderick. Highly recommended. £7

Brooding electronics. £5

Weird pairing but it WORKS!! Nice digipak. £5

Astonishing second album of utterly genius doom, maybe a bit more honed and focussed than on their debut. Highly recommended. £7

After a lengthy hiatus, the Ram Family regrouped and came up with this absolute belter! One of their most heavy albums, featuring classics like "Be Forewarned", "Live Free And Burn" and "Frustration". Digipak. Highly recommended. £7

Absolutely stunning hardbook DVD-size packaging £3

EP of different versions of a track off the forthcoming PIM full-length on Land Of Decay along with a new unreleased track. As ever, superlative funeral doom. £5

The mid '80s are alive... in 2010! Already a cult name in the underground, on their latest "Demon Metal" mini album PERVERSOR take the evil surge of classic German blackthrash and bolster it with chaotic undercurrents of archaic Brazilian bestiality. However, these Chilean troops of doom are no "retro" joke band, as they're more than able to stand ground with modern bands like Revenge and Diocletian in terms of ultraviolence. Fuck your goofy neo-"thrash" - PERVERSOR bleed leather, spikes, and SATANIC METAL!!! £5

Bit of a weird one, this. Dave Phillips will be more well-known to most of you (well, he was to me anyway) as original bass player/volcaist from Swiss grind legends Fear Of God. This album sees him following up an incredibly productiv past few years with releases on Blossoming Noise, Tochnit Aleph and RRR with a record based around field recordings that " murky cello, piano and accordion parts, nocturnal voices, a vast array of concrete snippets and more resonances of existences that give Albert Aylers' "Music is the healing force of the universe" new depths and meanings" according to the label. £6

Microscopic ambient sound manipulation, very engrossing.3 £6

Wow! INTENSE grindcore. Very highly recommended. £6

Mixing forceful brass and dark orchestral strings with rolls of powerful tribal percussion, somber wind instrumentation, ominous atmospheres, industrial clangor, and a strong and commanding vocal presence. Nice digipak. £7

Great thrash from South America in the style of Gama Bomb, Municiple Waste etc. £7

Very retro-sounding rock, think Blue Cheer/Sabbath/Grand Funk. Good stuff. £6

Harsh industrial noise and power electronics. Slimline DVD case. £6

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New album, amazing stuff! Digipak. £6

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Two heavy-hitters come to blows. £5

NOISECORE! Great 3" in an ace six-panel wee mini-size digipak. £4

Third in a series of 3 EPs by this great noiecore band. £4

Originally released in 1994, classic gore-grind from Mexico. This is remastered from the original tapes. £7

Distorted, pulverising sludge metal. Top stuff! £6

Very different stuff here: extreme cacophanous noise, all over the place grindcore, and asian-style flute. (!) This will appeal to fans of Painkiller, Mr Bungle etc. Great stuff and totally mental! £7

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Restock. Masterclass in harsh noise from the prolific Ramirez. £6

Great third comp of old stuff from Ramleh's early PE years. Inlucdes the recently reissued on vinyl "Hand Of Glory" EP and a live set. £5

New album! Bloody hell, never thought this would happen. £5

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Evil satanic death metal £7

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Old school noisey hardcore-ish grind. £6

Top class new album from the always amazing Sam McKinlay. Can't really think of any superlatives that I haven't already used for The Rita; if you like harsh noise you won't find anyone who does it better than this guy, simple as! Sounds here are sourced from knives and nylon. Nice packaging, 5" square card sleeve, 300 copies. £7

Absolutely amazing pairing/collaboration here. The Rita is my favourite harsh noise artist going right now and this record is one of those reasons. Brilliant contrast of evil synth/bass and harsh walls of utterly heavy noise. Classic! £6

Nice harsh noise/cut-up from this PJ/Smegma collab. lim 500. £6

Early works from expermintal/industrial musician using turntable, shortwave radio, phaser, and recorded reel-to-reel. Highly recommended for fans of Maurizio Bianchi. £7

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Partner to the Cosmic Death album on Unrest. £6

Top-notch pulsing bass ambience from Marzuraan/ODF man Pete Burn and Romance AKA Dean Glaister. Restock of a very popular title, great stuff! £6

I've got to be honest, I think Nigel Wingrove is a total tool. Not only is he racist twat (see his views on MUSLIM'S TAKING OVER THE WORLD AAARGGH!) but he's also responsible for the fact that whenever I bought a cool Redemption video (like Shiver Of The Vampires) as a teenager I'd get a funny look from the girl behind the counter at HMV for buyng something with Emily Booth on the cover with her top off, wielding a machine gun or something. Anyway, I digress. This film is utter guff for stupid goths who want to be in Cradle Of Filth BUT the sountrack's not bad, and was done by Steve Pittis who runs Dirter Promotions. I'm really selling this one, eh. £7

Great second album from one of the best of the early thrash bands. It doesn't scale the heights of "Ignorance" but what does? It's more commercial-sounding than the early stuff, but the songs are still great. And it has the pretty hilarious "31 Flavours" as a closing track: even at 14 I found that funny! Loads of good extra tracks, demos tagged on the end too. £7

Sadael is pure funeral doom metal and Anlipnes, majestic doom death. Digipak. £6

INCREDIBLY important thrash album that was absolutely instrumental in the death metal sound. Sadus are every bit as important as bands like death in my opinion, they took the Euro thrash early Kreator sound and really turned it up a notch or two. This is my favourite album by them, highly recommended! £7

More technical and focussed perhaps than their debut but nevertheless as ripping, Steve DiGiorgio is on bloomin' fire on this one. Another classic from Sadus and much more overtly death metal than the first one; I pretty much stop here though the later albums were good too. £7

Restock - Japanese import reissue! £4

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Mad, all-over-the-place avant rock. Reminds me a wee bit of Gasp (Slap A Ham) if anyone remembers them. Maybe not so spazzed-out HC influence mind. £4

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Great comeback from early 90s Swedish death metal band. Fast-paced scandinavian DM that doesn't let up and has a very old school sound to it. £6

Weirdo synth experimentalism. These guys did a split 7 with The Cherry Point (?!) £2

Dark electronic; think Skinny Puppy, (good era) Depeche Mode, Lustmord etc. £6

Duo of Mayhem's Maniac and Vivian Slaughter of Japanese crusters Gallhammer, this is noise/darkwave-type stuff. Not metal, but still black! £5

Good mix of old-school BM. £6

Dark industrial in the vein of Clock DVA, Neubauten and particularly Godflesh's Streetcleaner. Mechanical electronic assualt! Nice digipak. £5

Almost improvised sounding, mental stop/start grind. These guys blew me away completely when I chucked this on earlier today! The drummer used to be in The Endless Blockade apparently too, tells you where we're coming from here! £5

Great split. Goes without saying that 7MON are one o my absolute favourite noisecore bands ever! KGK give us 18 tracks of total rapid-fire grind. No track over a minute, as it should be! Highly recommended, great release. £6

Amazing, droning soundtrack-esque experimentation from the former Siouxsie And The Banshees guitarist. Nice recycled packaging. Highly recommended. £4

Haunting soundtrack to Cocteau's 30s silent film. £7

Nine tracks of wretched, filth ridden, post mortem electronics, spewing forth a barrage of unclean frequencies, skuzzy reverberations, blackened drones, and anguished, inhuman vocalizations. Filled with negativity and dread, this is a hellishly grim and visceral assault, and essential listening for anyone into the darker, more depraved side of heavy electronics £6

After several years of anticipation, the chain gang finally returns with their debut album which is sure to become a timeless classic! Ruthlessly headbanging Supreme Sydney deaththrash in a similar alliance as their old country mates Slaughter Lord, Armoured Angel, Hobbs' Angel Of Death, Destroyer 666, etc. A must for those who crave the Australian sound and/or the old style of black thrashing metal of death! £5

Dark cosmic ambient with an might and epic atmosphere! £6

FH feature guys who went on to do HABSYLL! £5

Reissue of long sold-out tape £6

Really good double set from a band I've never heard of before but seem to have put out tons of stuff! This is a discography (?) double album featuring tons of stuff. They remind me a bit of Fear Of God or maybe the band Haisha who did a great CD on Crucial Blast ages ago. Mid-period grind/hardcore, top stuff! £6

Decent black/thrash hybrid, think early German stuff like Sodom, Kreator etc. £5

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Sparse, minimalist dark ambient. £5

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Great Sabbath tribute, every track is a stonker. Actually, that's not true, Ultraviolence are shit but that's what the skip button is for. Zero The Hero by Godflesh, Anal Cunt doing Killing Yourself To Live, Fudge Tunnel doing a much better Changes than the original (!), Scorn doing a unique dub take on The Wizard......great stuff. £5

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One of the absolute best compilations of the past decade as far as I'm concerned. Actually, fuck it...THE BEST! It's just bang on like classic HC cops from the 80s, with the big booklet of essays and a book with a page for each band, and what a lineup! Strong Intention, John Bender, Agathocles, NOYFB, Cripple Bastards, Dahmer, Unholy Grave...bloody hell. Also has an absolutely AMAZING track by the band Soihadtoshoothim, who went on to record a total crap album later on, but this track is the business! Got this myself when it came out in a nice big 8" package, this is the slimline DVD-size edition. Highest recommendation from me!! £5

24 bands put down a gazillion tracks in considerably less minutes. £5

Amazing compilation! Long tracks from six great bands: Unicorn, Aube, Bastard Noise, Luasa Raelon, Guilty Connector/Tabata, Oblong Box £5

Collection of ultra-short tracks from a bunch of bands who I've mainly never heard of and who probably were mainly made up just to be on this compilation. Anyway, features Venetian Snares, Thrones, Torturing Nurse, Napalmed and about 200 others. Usual mix of grind, noise, blasts, weird noises. Pretty cool. £5

Excellent compilation that could very well have been a big influence in kicking off the whole recent thrash revival. Including old masters like Hirax and new pretenders to the throne Municipal Waste, this is a great comp. Recommended! £5

Great second edition in the compilation series kick-started a couple of months ago by At War With False Noise. Great selection of artists paying tribute to the masters, including Lasse Marhaug, Pita, Grunt, Vortex Campaign, Sudden Infant and Christian Renou. Highly recommended. £9

Cold Spring's 100th release and follow-up to the successful "John Barleycorn Reborn". 34 tracks and 142 minutes of music from the best of Britain's current folk artists. £7

Feat. Cadaver Eyes, Moneyisgod, Ryokuchi, Zenocide etc £6

Great old-school metal from Chile, these guys have been going since 87. Think Priest, Maiden, Marcyful fate etc. £5

Satanic, blasphemous black metal from Venezuela. Definitely has the South American "fago" sound going on. £6

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A three-way summit on bleak doom and buzzing misery. Sandy Saunders (Torso), Darcy Spidle (Divorce Records) and Jordan Hines mix drums, bass, electronics and vocals into a thick morass. Vennt stakes out territory at the intersection of black metal, drone, doom and power electronics, then fortifies the barricades. US Edition, co-released with Hear More!, features a copper cover with insert in a heavy poly sleeve, and is hand-numbered and limited to 400 copies £5

Really effective, hateful black metal. £5

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Sombre, bleak black metal from Hungary. £5

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Part dirge ambient-drone atmospherics, part noisy black-doom horrors, the album's five epic-sized compositions sucked the inspirations from Lustmord, Skullflower, Earth, Sunn0))), Khanate, Nadja, Jesu, and belched them out into breathtakingly emotional, bass generated audio nightmares with the signs of melodic and rhythmic organization. An avalanche of dark apocalyptic images hovering over countless layers of sound and distorted sporadic vocals. £5

Four varied bands from Russia: dark ambient, thundering doom, raw noise. £3

I've got to be honest here and admit that this is completely bent. From the massively pretentious title to the mix of post-rock, with heavy bits and the odd black metal part put in, this is pure hipster heaven. I don't really know what else to say, other than I just slapped my own face with my palm really hard. £4

Final album by this long-running black metal group.£5

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Turmoiled and thoughtful power electronics fluctuations meet strangled vocals and reflective counterpoint. £5

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Nature-inspired black metal. Not affiliated with Cascadia though, thank fuck. £6

Doom/sludge metal from Ireland. Two long tracks (33 min total) that bring to mind the Graves At Sea 12" (belter!) and has a bit of a Come My Fanatics production on it. Heavy as hell! £5

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Claustrophobic, painfully slow and sparse black funeral doom. Brilliant build-up of volume and intensity, highly recommended for anyone into slow, heavy stuff. Nice digipak. £5

Belting first two albums from this long-overlooked thrash band. Power And Pain is one of THE best thrash albums ever, period...unrelentingly fast, I always thought it sounded like a rougher, sped-up Kill 'Em All. Ticket To Mayhem sounds a little "nicer" but is still superb. They did some decent stuff after this but never quite matched the debut. Bloody brilliant cover art too! (PS - I'm after a good copy of this on vinyl (Roadrunner) if anyone has one!) £7

Very interesting mix of total doom and noise elements. £5

Minimalist black ambient from Italy. £6

Fast evil black metal, think Marduk. £6

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Really good varied stoner/doom/sludge. Sounds a bit to me like mid-period Cathedral without the distinctive vocals. Rise Above would've released this if the year was 1998 and they weren't now hyping crap Mercyful Fate cover bands, cough. Good cover art with mad angry sheep on the front. £6

Shadowy atmospheres and drifting currents, featuring multiple layers of archaic sounds, foggy, nebulous textures, and ritual invocations, perfectly combined to form a release of intense depth and complexity. Nice digipak. £5

Really mental all-over-the-place stuff from Russia. I had no idea how to describe this bloody thing but a Crucial Blast review had as good a stab at it as I could come up with: "Political techno-noisecore-cheersquad-industrial-deathfunk-pop cutup". Haha! Loads of short sharp blasts bookended with two near-half hour long tunes. Belting! Same mad packaging as the Mux CD. £5

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Following up their last album on AWWFN and their debut for Aurora Borealis, Dust... sees Wraiths finish the trilogy in a sombre mood, it's almost the sound of the dust settling after a particularly traumatic experience. Which, in some ways the previous two records were! This sounds much more like the ritualistic death-knell of Wraiths' engrossing live performance, and I'm not sure how but it has a totally dark, damp basement feel to it. Excellent, as always. £7

Brutal, raw black doom from Ireland. Great stuff. £6

Final Xasthur album, this has a bit of a goth feel to it. Self-released, don't think anyone else in the UK is carrying this! £7

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Austrasian Goat/Ondo side-project. Very atmospheric doomy-drone. Black metal in atmosphere if not overtly in sound. Nice card packaging similar to the At War Locrian album "Drenched Lands".£7

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I remember buying a 7" of Zann's years ago that was pretty good. This seems to be in a similar frantic metallic hardcore vein but a little more focussed. Very good. £6

Z'Ev takes a single sound sample fo each song and only alters the pitch/duration in order to compose what sounds like a weird take on dark ambient. Interesting stuff. £5

Tranced-out psychedelia in the vein of Taj Mahal Travellers, Can, early Floyd maybe, but with a bit more of a modern avant twist. Great stuff. Lim 300 copies. £8

Superb recording from a TV show (!) AG played on whilst on their South American tour a couple of years back. Mix of old classics and newer stuff, very high quality recording. Can't beat Agathocles really, you know the score. £8

Two heavyweights here, Aguirre is very dense doom and Hongo is more dark, slow crusty stuff. £7

Gatefold sleeve, heavy vinyl.£7

Gatefold, includes big 12"x12" book! £7

Top grind. £7

After a slew of split EPs over the past year or so on AWWFN, The Austrasian Goat comes out with a second album proper, and what a corker it is! Epic in scale, this has elements of the band's very diverse range of styles; from funeral doom to black metal to folk-tinged ambient passages. And just to top it all off, it features Jarboe from Swans on one track! Nice gatefold with art by Gnaw Their Tongues' Mories. £12

Restock! This went very fast last time so I got a bunch more in....be quick! Amazing new record and it sounds like they were never away. It's not a rehash of the old sound but it's still undeniably AUTOPSY. GET IT!!! £20

This was the first Autopsy album I ever owned and it opened up a whole new world to my impressionable teenage brain. I still don't know what a Necrocannibalistic Vomitorium is but I know it's unpleasant. This is the one where they started to play more fast stuff but there are still passages of crawling sewer dirge. It's kinda like having horrible constipation followed by brutal skitters....or maybe that's a more appropriate description of SHITFUN. Gatefold sleeve with THAT artwork, probably the best cover of all time! £18

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Gatefold LP, heavy vinyl. £9

Great second album, more "avante garde" if that's the right term than the debut. Bunch of bonus tracks, brown vinyl. £15

Excellent debut (I think) from this Turkish band. Unashamedly old-school this has a great Grave/Bolt Thrower sound to it, totally morbid. Excellent presentation as always from MSUO. £9

Wow! Great reissue in beautiful packaging of this classic doom metal record. The first one with Messiah on vocals, I wish people would stop going on about the fact they've got a fat guy who does a funny dance on vocals cos this band were always SO much more than that, this is majestic and classic mournful heavy metal at its very best. £18

Ha, just came across the blurb for this release: "imagine Joy Division fucking roughly with St.Vitus in a dark night on a graveyard". Brilliant! Pretty decent description though, this is utterly morbid stuff, more in the vein of the first Vitus album, it definitely has a punk - often bordeline goth - edge to it. Amazing stuff, keeping one of these chaps for myself! £9

Crusty sludge, doom sounding but with definite punk influences ala Amebix. Good stuff, nice artwork. £8

Excellent first (?) release from the same man who brought us OS (also highly recommended, think I've still got a couple of copies of that one left too). This is very rough, sub-basement black metal which is at times fast and unrelenting blasts of noise and then dark atmospherics. It reminds me a lot of early Gnaw Their Tongues, anyone into that band (obviously I very much AM!) will really dig this. £9

Excellent boot of one of the all-time classic hardcore records. Seems pretty much bang-on exactly like the original to me, big fold-out poster sleeve but printed on a decent grade of card unlike the flimsy paper of the original! Neddles to say, if you ain't go it, GETTIT!!! £9

VERY LIMITED (100 copies only!), got a couple of these so be quick. Really good stuff. £9

Absolute CLASSIC black metal record, pretty much what most others are judged by! Had this in a couple of times and it always goes really quickly. £18

Demo from between Soulside Journey and A Blaze... that got vocals added on in 1994. Maybe shows a bit the transition from death to black metal. Usual good job by Peaceville, new cover art that's much better than the CD I have! £19

Great new record of groovy heavy grind from Poland. Price is cheaper due to the fact that the corners are dinged on all records due to shitey packaging on their way to me. £6

Evil thrashing black death. One sided with an etching. £9

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Excellent full-length of angry male/female dual vocal anarcho from Scotland. Good to see stuff like this coming from here still! £8

Drone Throne play heavy stoner doom in the vein of Sleep and Eyehatgod whilst Toad play Murder City Devils-style melodic punk. £8

Doom/black metal hybrid, pretty good stuff. Very fancy-dan packaging with an etched label on the records themselves! £8

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Superb new band from members of Geriatric Unit and Army Of Flying Robots on Andy of AOFR's new label. The fact that Andy's on it is essentially a solid gold badge of quality as far as I'm concerned and should need no description but if you don't believe me this is powerful and brutal hardcore/d-beat that gives more than a nod to the Anti Cimex school of anarcho punk. GREAT stuff. Comes in a class Crass Records-style sleeve. £8

LP comes with a big poster and insert. £6

First side of this LP is the legendary frist demo tape by UK death metal stalwarts Evoke. In 1994 when this came out most of the first wave of UK death bands had either turned into flowery goths or smelly hippies, but Evoke weren't for any of that. This is absolutely STORMING early 90s death metal, evil pounding basslines ala Autopsy and brilliant chugging catchy riffs. Essential stuff if you ask me. Mordbrand are a new band from Sweden and what is instantly recognisable as the "Swedish sound"; this recording reminds me a lot of Nihilist, but there's a slight punky edge to it remeniscent of early Impetigo. Good stuff! I'm not sure how I feel about taking an old demo, changing the artwork and sticking it on a split with another band, but it's great that this is available on vinyl for the first time in 15 years and tha material from both bands is so strong it more than justifies it's existence. Only 200 copies on black vinyl. Highly recommended from me! £9

Great picture disc, amazing band £6

Relapse permit one of their roster to get the remix treatment from bunch of the experimental world's luminaries, this time Nadja, Tim Hecker and Dudes You Can Trust (nah I don't know who they are either). Pink and green splatter vinyl. £6

Quite frankly AMAZING. Melvins/Crimson/Magma/brilliant. £9

Sludge/doom, very heavy and quite weird. Includes a cover of Neil Young's After The Goldrush. Vinyl version in a nice silkscreen cover. £7

Two new albums coming out at the same time from this band who started out as a side-project from The Lord Weird Slough Feg, this definitely has is roots in trad metal but there's a lot more going on here; it's quite progressive but has some heavy doom parts going on and there's definitely a heavy dose of psychedelia going on here too. Really interesting stuff. Includes a download coupon for both albums too. £12

Dada recitals and cut-together bedroom rock moves. £8

Crushing sludge! £6

Essential reissue of classic UK HC band, nice packaging with poster/insert. £7

Got to admit I'd never heard of these guys before but after blasting this beast a few times wish I'd been into them years ago! Rough-sounding but superior thrash metal from Poland, this is a demo on each side I think. It's definitely got that really scuzzy, feral euro-thrash sound. As it says on the back "POLISH EVIL THRASH 1988": nuff said! Managed to snag a couple of these on limited RED vinyl, only 200 copies. £9

Great album from mainly ex-Voorhees guys playing old style brutal hardcore. Like ENT, Ripcord, anything on Manic Ears/Peaceville etc but want it faster and harder? Get this then! £6

Violent grindcore split. £7

Really raw, dirty-sounding and noisey grind. £7

Wow! Absolutely essential early material from this band, probably the best going in the UK right now of this style. Really grim funeral death is the order of the day here, mid-slow paced dirges in the vein (and often better than!) Evoken, Esoteric etc. These guys have a lot more hooks for me and really keep you interested the whole way through, so many funeral doom bands are just utterly boring. Lovely package too, heavy gloss gaetfold sleeve. £9

Named after the classic Mob 47 record and well, you know what you're getting from the title really! It's got a bit of a crust edge but there's the odd skate-punk style guitar line in there. Reminds me a bit of the band Grimple if anyone remembers them! Top class huge foldout sleeve like the old Crass/Corpus Christi LPs. £8

Sludge-influenced noise rock. Or maybe noise rock-influence sludge. Heavy and discordant either way. £6

Nice solo album from Circle/Pharoah Overlord/Steel Mammoth/Ektro man Jussi. "The international heavy metal bass superstar and aspiring singer-songwriter Jussi Lehtisalo has taken a break from his duties in the hard rock group Circle and gone solo to seek direct means of expression for his inner moods. The resulting album Rotta is a touching collection tunes, which lead the listener through the sidewalks, back alleys and small corner pubs of Lehtisalo's hometown Pori" lim 500. £9

One epic song over a whole LP infusing elements of metal, blackened crust, doom and hardcore. Very intense listen. Nice package, comes with a gigantic poster. £7

Bonkers shrieking madness and clattering noise. White vinyl lim 300 £8

More sedate than before, equally strange noises going on. White vinyl, lim 300. £8

I loved this band and this is perhaps their finest hour. Heavy yet melodic, it has post-hardcore elements without sounding like weepy girl music. Absolutely stunning final record! Includes members of Culver, Tide Or Iron, RYN, Skullflower etc etc. £7

Fantastic kraut psych freeform jams. £10

Great debut from members of Nackt Insecten, Pyramidion and Lanterns. £10

Thought I'd sold all of these, turned out I've got a few left! Black vinyl, one-sided ritual doom, best band doing this kinda thing around by a long way, highly recommended! Interesting Blue Peter packaging £8

Superb Mutant Ape side-project. Well worth a purchase! £8

After loads of tapes and CDrs, this is the first full-length LP from Edinburgh's long-running out-rock ensemble Muscletusk. At times creepy and atmospheric, at others frantic and all over the place, this is a good overview of what they're all about and retains their always impressive live performances. £8

Transcendental sonic space-travel from Shaman Sanachan, absolutely brilliant! £10

*Great 80s-style crossover.£6

Very limited restock so act fast! Brainbombs side-project that isn't a million miles away from their parent band, but without the vocals and maybe a bit of a new-wavey edge? Absolutely top stuff! £9

This absolutely blew me away when I had it in before, so glad to get another bunch of copies in. If you like the brutality of Man Is The Bastard and Zeni Geva, check out these Macedonian mentalists! Face-ripping sonic torment of the best kind. £8

Only 50 copies! Fuckin' hell! £10

Lovely gatefold packaging £10

Really great stuff, should be heard by more people! Reminds me a lot of the band TOADLIQUOR. Heavy! £7

Brilliant third album, this is still very much death/doom sound of (their best!) Gothic but a little more melodic. Pity The Sadness, 'nuff said!! £17

Fourth and probably last death/doom album from Paradise Lost (though they still released good stuff afterwards I reckon). This has some great stuff like True Belief and Embers Fire: definitely leaning towards a more commercial sound but these guys could always write a tune! £19

I don't really know how to describe this record! PEEESSEYE never make the same record twice and always sound new, iteresting, weird....just plain bonkers! The title is a bit of a clue, as ominous droning dirge gives way to uplifting keyboard lines and shimmering guitar. I find it very difficult to describe this in a way that you'd understand what it sounds like so Ill just say: it's good. Best album art of the year too, it's got something putrefying on one and a big gay satan drawn by a mad child on the back. Class. £9

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One sided 10", white vinyl with the other side silk-screened. £5

Great intense hardcore from these stalwarts! £8

New 12" of different takes from their recent second album on At War With False Noise. Excellent companion piece to that album, this features similar artwork that folds in a cross around the vinyl. Excellent stuff! 140g virgin vinyl. £10

Comp of RR-related projects. A lot of really great stuff on here. £7

"Breed...'s nine tracks alternate between the swinging doom-by-way-of-power metal of Grand Magus' last two albums and the more thrash-like riffs of Entombed, all with a melodious bellow for vocals." - All That Is Heavy. Gatefold sleeve. £8

Mixing many influences from within the vast fabric of Black Metal's history including the first wave of 80's Black Metal,Norwegian Black Metal and of course the obscure magic of their fellow countrymen Master's Hammer which is most evident in the bands lyrics being in their mother tongue. HIGHLY recommended! £8

Almost improvised sounding, mental stop/start grind. These guys blew me away completely when I chucked this on earlier today! The drummer used to be in The Endless Blockade apparently too, tells you where we're coming from here! £8

More punk than metal-leaning crust from France with the odd Discharge touch here and there. £8

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You'd be easilly fooled into thinking this was recorded about 25 years ago, such is the authenticity of the sound. Total Hellhammer worship! Also think nods to Mayhem's Deathcrush and early Venom. Very highly recommended! £8

*Very limited one-time pressing of 777 picture disc from Maniac's dark doom/ambient project, in collaboration with David Tibet. Suitable grim artwork from Tibet too. £9

Raw grind meets some new Sloth weirdness. All Sloth is good Sloth, my favourite band who are still making music and aren't The Fall £8

Stargazer and kinda bonkers death/black/thrash hybrid, very technical and with some amazing drumming and fretless bass playing (!?!), mental. Invocation play death metal, not a million miles away from early (ie GOOD!) period Morbid Angel. Three members of Invocation now play in Portal £8

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What happens when a Circle member meets the rhythm section of the Can-Can Heads (remember them?!): sounds a wee bit like them in the respect that's it's quite angular and frantic, come across to me like what Nomeansno would sound like if they were a garage band. Good stuff! £8

Thou do a bunch of short songs this time round. Still heavy as fuck! Cower play early 90-influenced PV, think Pessimiser/Bovine. £8

*Brilliant as ever sludge from Thou (including a cover of Minor Threat's Screaming At A Wall!) and dirty hardcore from MA. £7

UFO Gestapo have been constantly delivering the goods over the past few years and this new album is no exception. Sounds to me a lot like what was coming out around the mid-90s underground sludge/punk scene: like Toadliquor, 13, Lice, Spaceboy....actually these guys would've fitted beautifully onto the Enlightenment compilation! This record has got a really unearthly sound to it, their absolute best material yet. £9

Brilliant debut from the best sludge band going right now, black vinyl in a nice sleeve limited to 238 copies. £9

Wow! Here we go! Absolutely fantastic compilation 12" that squeezes 18 bands onto one side of a record on 45! I guess you can figure from that it's all short, fast and loud (eeeerm...) on display here. Anyway, whether this is an original idea or not who gives a fuck when the talent on display is of such high quality: Burmese, Brain Dead, Sete Star Sept, Potop, Apt 213, Iron Lung, Hatred Surge, Wadge, Nihilist Commando. Bloody hell. Also a great zine with interviews from Endless Blockade, SSS and Burmese as well as a weird feature on horror films. RECOMMENDED!! £9

PICTURE DISC, with outer cover, poster and insert! £8

New side of dark goth from Vom. Think a more "rock" Skeletal Family/Bauhaus. Double Nickels After The Gramme from the Stumps. Nice silkscreen covers and booklet. £8

New very limited edition (99 copies only!) of essential harsh noise wall. Always solid label. £18

Brilliant dense walls of noise, nice minimal packaging from the always excellent Hellville/Ptomain.£9

Cult death/black metal recorded in 1996 and unreleased on vinyl until now. Very rough recording, heavy fuzz and drums dominate. Darkly ambient atmospheric underground metal. £8

LP comes with a great book. £6

Great, varied grind/d-beat assault. £7

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Blue and black swirl vinyl. 333 copies only £7

Heavy gatefold sleeve.£8

Decent if not vintage side from Coffins (they do Ebony Tears by Cathedral at least) and Tesco Value Anal Cunt stylings from XXX Maniak. The artwork's terrible as well. £9

Brilliant deranged black metal from both bands. £6

Three new tracks (including Black Flag's Fix Me) from everyone's favourite rednecks and four blasts from the great Brody's Militia. £4

What can you say about these guys other than "this is ace, buy it!" £4

Primitive and raw blackened death with brutal thrash riffing from both of these Polish bands. Excellent. £4

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Bestial black/death/thrash from both bands. £4

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Live recordings from this grind/gore outfit in the vein of Last Days Of Humanity. £4

Another solid 7" from this great Danish horde. I'd highly recommend pickig up their double CD collection of demos, 7"s etc that I've got in stock too. If you like raw, unpolished and rabid death metal this is for you! Lavish gatefold packaging. £4

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Sci-fi monster noisecore vs pissed-off fastcore. 100 copies. £5

This two-piece are UK-based but never heard of them, which is a shame as they brilliant! Early death metal influence going on, in parts this sounds a little like Winter's "Into Darkness" LP played on 45! (PS - I just tested this theory out and it does!) £4

Great stuff. £4

Old-style grindcore. Particularly good is the Sakatat side, just recently got their live tape on BoG and it's brilliant. Good solid grind. £4

Ultra-heavy hardcore from Southern Lord's newest signees and grindcore from Cellgraft. Good stuff. £4

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The first Fleurety 7" and demo are amongst the best, most interesting black metal recordings ever for me (I'd go as far to say that they're the best "avante" black metal recorings ever) and this is the first material by the band in 13 years. This isn't as good as the early stuff, This is still pretty good though, some top lasting parts mixed with clean singing/ver melodic passages. Similar idea to the first record albeit different in execution. Definitely worth picking up, and a very nice package: grey heavy vinyl, inner and outer sleeves. £5

Very limited single (250 only!) from this Italian band who just put out an album on Osmose. £4

Great depressive black metal. £3

Muscular rock, the label describes as "a meeting bewteen Oxbow, Jesus Lizard and Stooges" which seems pretty bang-on to me. £4

Magma worship.. Nice minimal packaging, lim 200. £5