Dirk Serries Microphonics @ Antwerp Live Looping Festival

THRONES 7" & MASTER MUSICIANS OF BUKKAKE Pic Disc LP

Just a quick message to thank all of you who pre-ordered the Thrones 7", all copies have been shipping from yesterday on.






The Master Musicians Of Bukkake Pic Disc LP arrived yesterday as well, and they look truely amazing! We're waiting for the new OBI strips to arrive any day now, and we'll start shipping all pre-orders immediately after that!

Red Sparowes preorder

Tonight we'll start taking preorders on the Red Sparowes ‘The Fear Is Excruciating But Therein Lies The Answer’ lp and cd. The first pressing of the lp is limited to 2000 copies and we have 3 different colors plus black vinyl available. Blue/yellow flamed lp is limited to 100 copies, clear blue to 200 and the clear version to 300. Blue/yellow flamed is limited to 1 per customer!
We also have an exclusive preorder shirt available. The preorders with shirt will end on 30/3, after that you can still preorder the lp and cd. All preorders will ship on the releasedate of the album (6/4)!

Nice FINAL / FEAR FALLS BURNING review from Aquarius

FINAL + FEAR FALLS BURNING s/t (Conspiracy)
We're surprised it took this long for these two avant guitarists to join forces, Final, aka Justin Broadrick, aka the man behind Godflesh, Jesu, Grey Machine, Techno Animal etc, and Fear Falls Burning, aka Dirk Serries. In some ways both have a similar approach to the guitar, both able to sculpt sprawling expanses of layered drone music, transforming six strings into something much more, a sound generator capable of conjuring heaving, roiling dronescapes as well as hushed ambient drifts.
The opening track seems more influenced by later period Broadrick, as it sounds a lot like a washed out, minimalized Jesu track, a slow, warm, lugubrious riff, looped over and over, poppy and melodic, but slowed down enough that it becomes trancelike, with Serries (we assume) adding a sky full of tangled and layered high end contrails, adding a dark tension, and a mysterious beauty to the melancholic main riff, the whole thing wreathed in a gauzy dreamlike production.
The second track is more static, less riff based, and more wide open, a blackened landscape of rumbling low end string buzz, and singing high end skree, the skree muted so instead of being piercing, it's more smoldering, a glowing buzz, that pulses and throbs, the guitars constantly shifting, the layers overlapping and intertwining, gorgeous but still tense and dramatic, easily could have been extended to fill up a whole record and we definitely would not have complained.
The flipside begins with a smokey bit of folk flecked darkness, that definitely reminds us of groups like Earth or Barn Owl, a tiny bit of twang, a subtle choral vibe, warm and washed out, melancholy and minor key, the guitar unfurling skeletal melodies that blossom lazily, and then seem to fade into the background, just in time for more to take their place, a subtly active twangscape of muted buzz and almost country sounding drones, again, drifting ghostlike through a sepia toned haze.
The record closes with a gorgeous, thick bit of dronemusic, the background a sitar like buzz gives the track a definite raga like vibe, while in the foreground, another guitar moans, unleashing warped low end melodic tangles, delivered in slow motion, mimicking the sound of a horn almost, a muted bleat, but pulled into strange alien melodies, mirrored by the ever shifting, and highly melodic background buzz. This one definitely could have been stretched out forever, absolutely mesmerizing, the sort of drone you never ever want to end.
Gorgeous packaging, a black on black sleeve, with a very subtle die cut, revealing yet more black from the sleeve within. LIMITED TO 500 COPIES.

new MONO 'Hymn' review (In german)

http://www.wienerzeitung.at/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=5009&Alias=Wzo&cob=471738

Shirts Preorder Update

We have two new Sunn shirts available for preordering, as well as most of the previous designs we sold last month (Khanate, Mono, Torche, Pelican, Goatsnake, Saint Vitus and loads more. Please order before 23/3 so we have time to order the shirts, we will be able to ship them a week later. Check out the shirts here

Thrones / Master Musicians of Bukkake / Mono preorders

After 5 years we are finally releasing the Thrones 7". Believe us, this slab of vinyl was worth the wait. Blue vinyl is limited to 100 copies! Available here
Furthermore we are re-releasing Master Musicians of Bukkake's Totem one, which sold out on vinyl in a couple of weeks, as picture disc. This lp is limited to 300 copies. Preorder here
Release date for both the Master Musicians of Bukkake and the Thrones 7" is 22/3.
We're also taking preorders on Mono's Holy Ground: Nyc Live With The Wordless Music Orchestra, both on cd and vinyl. Both of them come with a DVD featuring the concert Mono played in New York backed by the Wordless Music Orchestra. We hope to be able ship them on 10/4. Click here for preorders!

Justin Broadrick video interview

The people from Don't Watch That TV talked to Justin K. Broadrick about the upcoming Godflesh reunion, his vinyl collection and playing with Greymachine! Have a look over here.

Final+Fear Falls Burning review in German

"nach eigenen aussagen haben sich die beiden jahrelang umkreist, ohne sich
je persönlich kennen zu lernen. irgendwann war es dann so weit und
scheinbar haben sie sich verstanden...

conspiracy aus belgien müssen als das label auch recht beeindruckt gewesen
sein, die LP (plus downloadcode) kommt in gleich drei farben (clear,
silver, black) in schwarzer innenhülle in einem seidenmatten schwarzen
cover, mit klarlack bedruckt und ausstanzungen. schon so richtig was fürs /
aufs auge; und das ohr?

fear falls burning steht für einen ganz bestimmten drone-experiment sound
und final (eigentlich) auch; um so größer die überraschung beim ersten
durchgang, wie sehr „rock“ dieses album geworden ist. vermutungen sind ja
immer so eine sache (gern für sich), mit „infinity“ und „opiate sun“, den
beiden neuen jesu platten im hinterkopf und eben ihrer zuwendung zu rohen,
körperlichen sounds, wage zumindest ich die these, dass justin k. broadrick
diese neu (bzw. wieder) entdeckte soundhaltung momentan (oder zum zeitpunkt
des entstehens dieser platten) so mochte (und vielleicht immer noch mag),
dass er auch als „final“ gitarre als gitarre hören wollte: akkorde. riffs.
und das gilt für alle vier der unbetitelten stücke; fein gesponnene
atmosphären, die der eine und die andere vielleicht erwartet hätten sind
allenfalls als flüchtige zwischentöne, zufällig entstanden durch summen-
und differenzen auf dem programm; es herrscht eine surreale, paradoxe
mischung aus fast puristisch allein stehenden (tendenziell heavy) sounds
und deren verwinkelter umkreisung. und wenn auch die #1 mit ihren
double-stop-riffs auf dieser zusammenarbeit vielleicht am meisten kante
macht: allein schon der dunkle sound, der druck, der hinter jedem ton
präsent wird, der gestus stellen die platte außerhalb des reinen
ambient-drone genres und verlangen den offeneren hörer, einen, der eine
tendenzielle sperrigkeit mag und lust hat (und die möglichkeit), diese auch
mal in der angemessenen lautstärke zu hören. für beide, fear falls burning
und final, ist tapete ja ohnehin nicht das ziel, hier, in der
zusammenarbeit noch weit weniger. schon möglich, dass es da ein paar
ratlose gesichter gegeben hat. und bei allem, was ich von final kenne, sage
ich mal, dass reine fans von ihm hier am meisten probleme haben könnten
(sofern sie nicht sowieso auch jesu fans sind und es mit der
namenszuordnung nicht so eng sehen). und wer von der seite von dirk serries
kommt, ist ja ohnehin so einiges gewöhnt..." Unruhr - Germany
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