Conspiracy Records

CIRCLE Infektio vinyl update // Delays with mailorder.

2011-04-25T08:01:00.000-07:00

Apologies for the delay of the CIRCLE Infektio LP. The LP will now start shipping May 11.
Until that date you can add the record to your wishlist.

Conspiracy mailorder accepts orders but will not be able to ship April 25 until May 10 because of being on tour with MONO throughout Asia.
Thanks for your understanding.

Mamiffer Mare Decendrii 2xLP available now

2011-04-01T07:54:00.000-07:00

The Mamiffer 'Mare Decendrii' 2LP is available now. 500 copies, 100 on crystal clear vinyl, 500 on black vinyl.
When ordering please note we can no longer process credit card payments ourselves and we can only accept paypal payments or bank transfer.
Thanks.

Mamiffer announce tourdates.

2011-03-08T12:05:00.000-08:00

3 Seconds of Air showcase their new album March 25 cc Luchtbal - Antwerpen

2011-01-25T03:33:00.000-08:00

It would be best to acknowledge, right at the outset, that this is not the most easily grasped jazz album you are ever likely to hear. In fact, most listeners will be hard-pressed to think of it as jazz at all: we are dust under the dying sun is moved by the complex forces of sonic ...fields connecting the most diverse genres, by the work of the american minimalists, the improvisational tightness of an act like the necks as well as the purity, mournfulness and plaintive beauty of the blues. But like many things which require careful attention, it intends to repay that attention with a greater reward than you might get from music that reveals its total character the first time around.

This is 3 seconds of air's second album for tonefloat, but, against initial plans, it is not a straight-forward continuation of their flight of song debut. Manifesting itself on we are dust under the dying sun, which, again features Martina Verhoeven, Dirk Serries and Paul Van Den Berg, is a striking shift in perspective. Its most apparent harbinger is Verhoeven's bass, which has moved prominently to the foreground, considerably gained in agility and now spans a wide sonic space behind which her partners' guitars strike up a hypnotic dialogue. Far more than a mere question of production aesthetics, the decision reinforces the formation's creed that, if realised in a musical world in which all element are related to each other in an intricate way, even a seemingly puny move like the adjustment of relative dynamics can result in an entirely different listening experience. Bassist russ sargeant once described the breathtaking effect taking place when the instrument goes from being a mere harmonic support to taking on lead functions: „it's a little like opening a tightly folded piece of paper. suddenly there are so many more surfaces that become visible; more blank canvases to paint upon.“ is it any surprise that the group have always considered the art of jackson pollock one of their major influences?

3 seconds of air are constantly walking on the razor's edge.
The reflections of its blade are revealing the different characters of the band with a new sense of clarity: we are dust under the dying sun is the story of three musicians growing not just as a group, but as individuals. 3 seconds of air continue to unfold that piece of paper, slowly unrapping planes of absolute white like discoverers sailing into the unknown. something new is stirring. and as a listener, it is simply good to be in the middle of it.

"We Are Dust Under The Dying Sun" LP/CD to be released on Tonefloat.
Don't miss the free showcase!
25/3/2011 - cc Luchtbal, Columbiastraat 8, 2030 Antwerpen

www.3secondsofair.com / www.ccluchtbal.be

Russian Knut Tourdates

2011-01-17T07:20:00.000-08:00

Knut will be playing 3 shows in Russia in February:

Feb 22 St-Petersburg (RU) @ ArcticA
Feb 23 Moscow (RU) @ Hleb
Feb 24 Nizhniy Novgorod (RU) @ Rocco

Year of No Light fundraiser

2011-01-07T07:02:00.000-08:00

Year of No Light are currently working on shooting a short movie (based on their song Hierophante) & they launched a babeldoor page to raise some funds. The site is in French but if would be great if you could have a look and maybe help the guys out!
Year Of No Light Babeldoor

Knut - Wonder review

2010-12-14T07:16:00.000-08:00

"Their core sound is a mix of classic noise-rock stutter-riffage with hardcore’s rage and metal’s technical skill. If you like Botch, Converge, or Helmet at their most alienating and least pop-friendly, you’ll love Knut. Their music is tight, disciplined rock made by, and intended for, intense men with short haircuts. It doesn’t seem intended to be pleasurable as much as cathartic and cleansing."

Read the full review at Burning Ambulance

Ebay Auction

2010-12-09T07:52:00.000-08:00

We have a huge ebay auction with low starting prices going on, more items will be added over the next couple of days! Check it out over here.

Flying Horseman live at Duyster

2010-12-07T07:55:00.000-08:00

Last Sunday Flying Horseman played a live session at the Studio Brussel radioshow Duyster. The radiostation now uploaded a live videoclip of Bitter Storm, an interview (in Dutch) and three more audioclips: Ghostwriter, There Lives a House and Climb Up the Wall. You can check this all out at the Studio Brussel website.

On top of that Julian Cope reviewed the Flying Horseman record on Head Heritage:
"Right, now I’ll try and simmer things down via this month’s reviews section. First, I wanna discuss the epic nature of WILD EYES, the extravagant debut by the Netherlands’ [sic] Flying Horseman. Whew, motherfuckers, you really nailed this fucker down! Huge guitar ramalama overloads the drums every time on this disc. Like heaping Justin Hayward’s post ‘Apache’ guitar mangle over Scott’s ‘The Seventh Seal’ or Nick ‘Johnny Cash’ Cave by way of Sonny Vincent and Glenn ‘Jimbo’ Danzig. And emanating out of that same arid Zoroastrian spaghetti desert as Yawning Man’s post-Post Punk takes, Flying Horseman sets up magnificent themes, indoctrinates us with’em, then brutally sweeps us sideways with indiscriminate drive-byes of minor-key evil… rat-atat-atat-ata-ata-ata-ata. Fabulous music this truly be, better still we gotta fully-fledged self-possessed figurehead in ye singer & songwriter, the starrishly-named Bert Dockx."

Year of No Light "Hiérophante" Live @ L'Astrolabe - Orléans

2010-12-02T07:36:00.000-08:00

Amazing proshot liveclip for Year of No Light's show at L'Astrolabe in Orleans.

Flying Horseman - Wild Eyes & Head of Wantastiquet - Dead Seas reviews

2010-12-01T06:01:00.000-08:00

Textura posted two reviews of Conspiracy releases on their website:
Flying Horseman - Wild Eyes review on Textura
Head of Wantastiquet - Dead Seas on Textura

Tokafi posted an extensive review of the Flying Horseman as well:
Flying Horseman - Wild Eyes review on Tokafi

Knut live in Brussels

2010-11-19T03:13:00.000-08:00

Shoot Me Again posted a ton of great pictures of Knut's show in Brussel two weeks ago, check out the full set on their website.

Flying Horseman releaseshow at Monty

2010-11-12T02:55:00.000-08:00

Next monday, 15/11, Flying Horseman will present their debut album 'Wild Eyes' live at Monty, Antwerp. For full details on this show check the venue's site

Head of Wantastiquet & Master Musicians of Bukkake reviews on Freqzine

2010-11-05T03:53:00.000-07:00

Freqzine posted two great reviews of our new releases:

"Sunburned Hand Of the Man member Paul Labrecque turns his hand here as Head Of Wantastiquet to his own particular variation on American primitivism, taking the form down meanders which can be as strikingly wondrous as the packaging the record is released in."
Full review here

"Splurging out in vibrant Technicolor widescreen to a martial samba snare drum rolls marches a cod-Vietnamese rocking good-time, swinging tune. It’s possible to imagine the kids from Saigon boogieing to this before picking up their ChiCom AKs and heading out for a warm evening’s insurrection in the dance bars South Viet Nam back in the imaginary day"
Full review here

Flying Horseman - Wild Eyes on Luisterpaal

2010-11-04T03:47:00.000-07:00

You can now stream the complete Flying Horseman - Wild Eyes album on VPRO's Luisterpaal.
The band will play a release show at Monty, Antwerp on November 15. Click here for more info about that event.

First Flying Horseman - Wild Eyes review (in Dutch)

2010-11-03T08:23:00.000-07:00

"Intieme, emotionele nummers als ‘Bitter storm’, ‘Beats’ en ‘Meditation blues’ roepen met de ogen dicht visioenen op van modderige wandelpaden in een heuvelachtig landschap dat vanachter de kam wordt bedreigd door onheilspellend donkere wolken. Op de momenten dat de groep rond singer-songwriter Bert Dockx ook daadwerkelijk uithaalt, fungeren de songs als een schokgolf die de grond van onder onze voeten plotsklaps wegsleept."

Read the full 4-star review here

Taiga - Flora Chor review on Texture

2010-11-03T08:19:00.000-07:00

"...the album's nine lush tapestries are hardly one-dimensional riffs on a single style; instead, Flora Chor presents a multi-varied program that touches down in multiple zones; it almost sounds as if Meyer purposely set out to take each piece into a place slightly different from the others..."

Read the full review http://textura.org/reviews/taiga_florachor.htm

Last minute Gnaw gig

2010-10-21T05:30:00.000-07:00

Gnaw have added a last minute gig to their European tour. Tonight (21/10) they will play at Le Detour in Lille, France together with the Swiss band Rorcal. Le Detour can be found at 61 Rue de Fontenoy, 59000 Lille.

Knut review in Terrorizer Magazine

2010-10-20T07:44:00.000-07:00

Knut Review in Hard Rock Magazine (in french)

2010-10-13T04:03:00.000-07:00

Preorders!

2010-10-06T06:39:00.001-07:00

We are now taking preorders on the three upcoming Conspiracy releases, all three to be releases on October 22.

The first release is the debut album of the Antwerp based band Flying Horseman ‘Wild Eyes’. It's not easy to write something about a debut record, but when we first got to know Flying Horseman we were blown away by the sadness and beauty of Bert Dockx's songs. I remember late at night in some Estonian hotel room after a Mono concert listening to these songs for the first time, and everyone in the room turned silent. We realise all too well this might not be a record you would expect to be released on Conspiracy Records. For us, it's always been about music that matters, regardless of style. This is passionate and pure and heartfelt and disturbingly personal and is thus more important than 90 percent of the music that gets made these days. Lots of bands can 'rock' live, but rare is the band who can create a mood, evoke emotions, make standing in a smoky club feel like standing knee deep in the mud, watching the black night sky, thinking back over your life.
The music of Flying Horseman is like that, delivered with such fervor, so intimate and personal, and with such brutal musical intensity, that the songs take on the gravity and
urgency of sonic directives from some higher power.
Flying Horseman's musical inspiration is derived from Joy Division, Blind Lemon Jefferson, John Fahey, the Velvet Underground, Nick Cave, Woven Hand, Townes Van Zandt, ...
The band around singer songwriter Bert Dockx has been together for over 2 years now, and has been overwhelmingly productive.
‘Wild Eyes’ is their first album, available on CD and 2xLP which is limited to 300 copies.
Flying Horseman Myspace

Click here to preorder.

The second is release is Head Of Wantastiquet’s ‘Dead Seas’. Head Of Wantastiquet is the alter ego of Paul Labrecque, an American musician, songwriter now residing in Belgium.
He has recorded several solo albums and collaborations (with Chris Corsano and Valerie Webb) and he plays and records with the bohemian group Sunburned Hand Of the Man. He recorded for labels such as Mad Monk, Three Lobed, Eclipse and Bad Da Ding. Historically, aesthetically and sonically his new work bears genuinely comparison with ‘American primitivism’. It’s a mix of psychedelic banjo hymns, apocalyptic space folk and incredible drugged out soul-whispers. It layers banjos, guitars and smoke as though they were shimmering veins of black pearls, pulsing against the scarlet dawn. Head Of Wantastiquet manages to take a conceptual precept as dark as life itself, and invests it with an inner glow that churns our own black hearts like butter. This album will be available on CD & LP+CD. We have 3 different colors available; 100 on silver vinyl, 175 on clear vinyl and 375 on black vinyl.
Head Of Wantastiquet Myspace

Click here to preorder.

And lastly we will be releasing a brand new Master Musicians of Bukkake 7” to coïncide with their upcoming European tour. This 7” features two brand new songs that sound like nothing the band has ever done before. 3 different colors available: 75 copies on red vinyl, 125 on crystal clear vinyl and 500 on black.
Master Musicians Of Bukkake Myspace

Click here to preorder.

Knut Wonder promo vid + release show pictures

2010-10-06T02:48:00.000-07:00

Knut posted a promovideo for Wonder & their upcoming tour on youtube.

On top of that they posted a ton of pictures from their releaseshow with Dälek & Melt Banana on their facebook.

Ccheck out the whole lot here

More Knut dates!

2010-10-05T06:57:00.000-07:00

Three more Swiss Knut dates have been announced.

17-11-2010 Romandie - Lausanne
03-12-2010 SAS - Delemont
04-12-2010 Sommercasino - BASEL

Knut tourposter + new show

2010-09-30T04:07:00.000-07:00

Knut will be touring Europe next month, these are the upcoming dates:

24-10-2010 La Cooperative de Mai - Clermont Ferrand, France
25-10-2010 La Maroquinerie - Paris, France
26-10-2010 Confort Moderne - Poitiers, France
27-10-2010 Grrrnd Zero - Lyon, France
28-10-2010 Bitte - Milan, Italy
29-10-2010 Unwound - Padova, Italy
30-10-2010 Bunker - Bolzano, Italy
31-10-2010 Jubez - Karlsruhe, Germany
01-11-2010 Matrix Club - Prague, Czech Republic
02-11-2010 Zoro - Leipzig, Germany
03-11-2010 Cassiopeia - Berlin, Germany
04-11-2010 Paradox - Tilburg, Netherlands
05-11-2010 Magasin 4 - Brussels, Belgium

On top of that they will be playing a show with Zatokrev at SAS - Delémont, Switzerland on December 3rd.

Gnaw tourposter

2010-09-28T05:18:00.000-07:00

We will be releasing a tourposter for the upcoming Gnaw tour. This silkscreened tourposter is designed by Seldon Hunt and is limited to 100 copies. Each poster comes with a free download for Gnaw's take on the Einstürzende Neubauten classic 'Kollapse'. This poster will be exclusively available at the upcoming Gnaw/Monno tour. If there are copies left at the end of the tour, we will sell them at our webstore.

13.10.2010 Trix Antwerpen Belgium
14.10.2010 Magasin 4 Brussel Belgium
15.10.2010 AJZ Bielefeld Bielefeld Germany
16.10.2010 La Maroquinerie Paris France
17.10.2010 Le Romandie Lausanne Switzerland
18.10.2010 Jubez Karlsruhe Germany
20.10.2010 Le Sonic Lyon France
23.10.2010 Supersonic Festival Birmingham UK

Year of No Light review on metalmaniacs.com

2010-09-21T04:10:00.000-07:00

Here's a great track by track review of Your of No Light's 'Ausserwelt' written by Janet Willis.

Year Of No Light to play Roadburn 2011

2010-09-16T02:46:00.000-07:00

We are very happy to announce that Year Of No Light will be playing next year's Roadburn Festival. Twice! On Thursday they will play a regular set, on Friday they will be providing the soundtrack for the horror classic 'Vampyr' directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer at the Midi Theatre. Check all the details here.

Knut reviews

2010-09-15T02:33:00.000-07:00

Knut are collecting all the reviews of their latest record Wonder at their Facebook page.
The page is pretty active for the moment so 'like' them if you want to get their updates!

2010-09-03T07:12:00.001-07:00

After a year we lower the mailorderprices of our cd-releases from €12.50 to €10.00, so the following items we released in 2009 have dropped in price:

Transitional - Stomach of the Sun
Master Musicians of Bukkake - Totem One
Isis - Wavering Radiant
Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
Gnaw - This Face
Monno - Ghosts

Knut - H/armless live at L'Usine on 28/8/10

2010-08-30T02:35:00.000-07:00

knut chronicle + interview on Shoot Me Again (in French)

2010-08-26T02:28:00.000-07:00

Here's a few reviews and two interviews with KNUT - all in French:

interview 1
interview 2

Wonder
Terraformer
Challenger

AUN/HABSYLL split LP review on Tokafi

2010-08-23T01:13:00.000-07:00

another great review by Tobias Fischer;
http://www.tokafi.com/news/aun-motorsleep-ultica-habsyll-split-vii/

knut wonder release show + dälek + melt banana 28/8

2010-08-23T00:37:00.001-07:00

Coming Saturday August 28 @ L'Usine, GENEVA (Swi):

Free Knut show in La Louvière this Saturday!

2010-08-12T06:19:00.001-07:00

This Saturday Knut will be playing a free show at La Taverne Du Théatre in La Louvière, Belgium. You can find all info on the venue's Myspace. On Sunday the band will be performing at the Ieperfest together with Converge and Kylesa, we'll be selling records there as well so come and say hi!

Conspiracy Summer Blowout

2010-08-05T07:49:00.000-07:00

This is your chance to fill the holes in your Conspiracy collection!
We are offering 5 lp and 2xlp vinyl releases of your choice for the price of 55 euro (+ shipping) and 10 lp and 2xlp vinyl releases of your choice for the price of 99 euro (+ shipping). And yes, that includes the double lp’s in our backcatalog! To top it off we'll throw in a seven inch of your choice, two if you are buying 10 lp’s!
Please let us know what records you want through the comment box when you place an order. We will then get back to you with a total including shipping. This offer lasts till August 31!

If you want to get a shippingquote before buying, just get in touch through nathan@conspiracyrecords and we’ll figure it out for you!
Make your pick from following releases:

core090 Aun / Habsyll 'Split' LP
core080 Transitional 'Stomach Of The Sun' 2LP
core078 Isis 'Wavering Radiant' 2LP
core075 Gnaw 'This Face' LP
core073 HeatdeatH 'Un' LP
core072 Strings Of Consciousness & Angel 'st' LP
core071 Taiga 'Hsheal' LP
core070 Monno 'Ghosts' LP
core069 Maninkari 'Art Des Poussieres' LP
core068 Envy / Jesu 'split' LP
core067 Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat 'The Nebulous Dreams' LP
core066 Jakob 'Solace' 2LP
core061 Fear Falls Burning 'Frenzy Of The Absolute' 2LP
core060 HeatdeatH 'St' LP
core056 M.G.R. 'Wavering On The Cresting Heft' LP
core050 Pleasure Forever 'Bodies Need Rest' LP
core047 Growing 'Live' 2LP
core046 Jesu 'Conqueror' 2LP
core025 Creature With The Atom Brain 'Kill The Snake' LP
core022 Mauro Pawlowski & The Grooms 'Black Europa' Pic Disc LP
core018 Valina 'Vagabond' LP
core016 Valina 'Into Arsenal Of Codes' LP
core013 Rubbish Heap 'st' LP
Subdviant Recordings001 Llips 'Dos Partes' 2LP
Subdeviant Recordings002 Bohr Bug 'st' LP
Subdeviant Recordings003 Cassini Division 'st' LP

And now pick a seven inch free of charge! Pick 2 if you are buying 10 lp’s

core008 Upset / Rubbish Heap 'st' 7"
core009 Deadzibel 'Four Song Environment' 7"
core014 Stifled Cries 'st' 7"
core048 Thrones 'Wage War b/w Trmph Lfe' 7"

On top of that we’re also offering 5 and 10 cd packs. 5 cd’s will cost you 30 euro (+ shipping), 10 cd’s will cost you 50 euro. Same as with the lp’s: let us know what cd’s you want through the comment box when you place an order. Make your pick from the following list:

core088 RED SPAROWES ‘The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies The Answer’ CD
core080 TRANSITIONAL ‘Stomach Of The Sun’ CD
core079 MASTER MUSICIANS OF BUKKAKE ‘Totem One’ CD
core078 ISIS ‘Wavering Radiant’ CD
core077 MONO ‘Hymn To The Immortal Wind’ CD
core075 GNAW ‘This Face’ CD
core070 MONNO ‘Ghosts’ CD
core067 KISS THE ANUS OF A BLACK CAT ‘The Nebulous Dreams’ CD
core062 TRANSITIONAL ‘Nothing Real Nothing Absent’ CD
core061 FEAR FALLS BURNING ‘Frenzy Of The Absolute’ CD
core057 MANINKARI ‘Le Diable Avec Ses Chevaux‘ 2XCD
core056 MGR ‘Wavering On The Cresting Heft’ CD
core055 FEAR FALLS BURNING / BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL ‘St’ CD
core054 SUNBURNED CIRCLE ‘The Blaze Game’ CD
core053 MANINKARI ‘Psychoide / Participation Mystic’ MCD
core052 SKULL DEFEKTS, THE ‘Blood Spirits & Drums Are Singing’ CD
core050 PLEASURE FOREVER ‘Bodies Need Rest’ CD
core029 MONNO ‘Error’ CD
core028 KNUT ‘Terraformer’ CD
core027 SHORA ‘Malval’ CD
core024 BORIS ‘Boris At Last: Feedbacker’ CD
core023 WHITE CIRCLE CRIME CLUB ‘Written In Black’ CD
core021 IMMENSE ‘Hidden Between Sleeves’ CD
core019 WHITE CIRCLE CRIME CLUB ‘These Are The Secret Sounds Of Fear’ MCD
core018 VALINA ‘Vagabond’ CD
core017 QUETZAL ‘Dead End Tracks’ CD
core010 QUETZAL ‘The Messenger Lies Bleeding... ‘CD
hh666-77e 27 ‘Let The Light In’ MCD
hh666-76e KEELHAUL ‘Subject To Change Without Notice’ CD
hh666-59e ISIS ‘Celestial’ CD

Here are direct links to the packs:
5xLP Pack + free 7"
10xLP Pack + 2 free 7"s
5xCD Pack
10xCD Pack

Amazing Year Of No Light review

2010-08-04T06:23:00.000-07:00

"Ausserwelt reminds us of greatness such as the Cure’s Pornography and Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation. Ausserwelt is lifted by long-noted and varied guitar, powerful, slow drumming, and crisp, rolling bass. Ausserwelt has no vocals and we are beyond pleased by this because we are blown away by this masterpiece."

CWG Magazine posted an great review of Year Of No Light's 'Ausserwelt'. Check out the full article over here

Isis/Melvins split 12" update

2010-08-04T04:50:00.000-07:00

As mentioned two weeks ago there’s an ongoing dispute about the sound quality of the Isis/Melvins split lp’s, which in our opinion is inferior.
We’re currently trying to get the pressing company to take their responsibility and after returning records to the pressing plant we are now sending a record to Hydrahead so they can check for themselves and put some pressure on the pressing plant. We’re very sorry for the delay and any inconvenience caused but we’d rather not send out broken records. We’ll keep you updated and will post more news as soon as we have heard back from Hydrahead.

Master Musicians of Bukkake "Heathrow" Live @ Neumos Seattle

2010-07-23T05:11:00.001-07:00

filmed by Live Eye TV!

Year Of No Light - Ausserwelt stream

2010-07-20T05:41:00.000-07:00

Those of you who haven't heard Year Of No Light's latest album Ausserwelt, you can now stream the album on the french website the Drone.

Isis/Melvins 12"

2010-07-16T05:56:00.000-07:00

We received the Isis/Melvins split 12"s yesterday, today we noticed that the vinyl shows scratches and smudges and doesn't sound that well so we decided not to ship them. We're currently trying to figure out what the problem is so we can solve it. We will keep you updated!

Red Sparowes live

2010-07-14T02:30:00.000-07:00

Jon Mancinetti filmed and edited the whole Red Sparowes set from Grog Shop Show on 18/4/2010. Looks and sounds amazing!

Ever wondered what a Monno & Knut collaboration would sound like?

2010-07-07T04:16:00.000-07:00

Last week Antoine Chessex (Monno), Jérôme Doudet (Knut) and Roderic Mounir (Knut) joined forces and played an ear punishing show in Geneva.

Dirk Serries - Microphics XIV

2010-07-07T04:05:00.000-07:00

Last Sunday Dirk Serries (Fear Falls Burning) played a Microphonics show in Ghent. You can listen to this show exclusively on internet radio station Fluid. Click here for the audio.

Isis/Melvins 12" & Torche/Boris 10" now available for preordering

2010-06-24T05:14:00.000-07:00

Both the Isis/Melvins split 12" and the Torche/Boris split 10" released by Hydrahead are available for preordering as we speak. Click here to preorder the Isis/Melvins 12" and here for the Torche/boris 10". Official releasedate for these records is 13/7, we hope to ship our copies around that date.

Gnaw Live video's

2010-06-22T04:10:00.000-07:00

Mono - Follow The Map tshirt

2010-06-14T06:18:00.001-07:00

Here's a bigger image of the Mono 'Follow the Map' shirt. Click here to order.

Knut Interview and mp3

2010-06-09T05:33:00.000-07:00

Revolver magazine posted a small interview with Knut and a new mp3 of their new album Wonder. Check it out! Revolver Magazine

Year Of No Light - Ausserwelt review

2010-06-08T07:16:00.000-07:00

Monochrom posted a fantastic review of Year Of No Light's Ausserwelt

"What a massive, enormous, epic release! Probably the best thing to come from Conspiracy in quite some time and that is saying much. In a time where Isis have broken up (well in time, they were on the edge of tipping from great and legendary to boring) and there are many bands playing instrumental, long winded shit that it is hard to stay awake, this six-piece doom-orchestra is really taking impact and size to new levels. Brings my faith back into heavy music even more, and that is the best thing to happen to me in a long time. I mean, starting again to listen to metal in my age is a sort of juvenation therapy..."

Read the full review here

New Shirts preorders

2010-06-07T07:43:00.001-07:00

Here are some bigger images of the shirts we are now taking preorders for. Please order these shirts before 24/6 so we have the time to place an order ourselves.

BORIS ‘boris at last – feedbacker –‘ LP review on TOKAFI

2010-05-31T02:42:00.001-07:00

Sound, Drones and Rock n Roll: An unexpectedly positive noise-symphony.

Most likely because of their love for noise, distortion and feedback, Japanese Trio Boris have sometimes been classified as Post-Metal-deconstructionist. In fact, the exact opposite is true. Turning the amplifier into the focal point of their sound, the band may actually represent the original spirit of Sound, Drones and Rock n Roll more faithful than most of their peers. In an age, when Rock has turned into an economic vertical ruled by rational logic, their take on the genre is as reinvigorating as it is, in an admittedly twisted way, pure. Even the outward hubris of a release like „Feedbacker“ signals, if anything, a return to the core values of the genre and to a time when musicians would try and expand the borders of music rather than cater to a bourgeois need for weekendly simulations of revolution: Composed of a single, fourtythree-minute composition characterised as a „symphony“ in the press release and comprising a host of different movements and styles, it defies the law of gravity by proudly revolving around its own axis.

At the time „Feedbacker“ was first published as a co-production between their own, bizarrely titled, Fangs Anal Satan imprint and Conspiracy Records in 2003, Boris were still more of a small cult-band which had managed to secure one-off releases with fledgling label Southern Lord. The album would, however, quickly cement their name as one of the first harbingers of the surge of a new wave of Noise-Rock-bands to whom the sound, physical feeling and immersive qualities of Guitar-feedback meant everything, but the „evil“ aesthetics and distopian Weltanschauung of Metal were more of a gimmick than something to be truly taken seriously. Eight years on, it is not hard to discern what made them such an enticing proposition: Defying fixed terms like improvisation or song, the work drew from the unconscious rather than the subconscious, inventing itself with spell-binding imagination in each moment. It was in-your-face enough for slow-motion headbanging, yet complex enough to warrant repeat listens. Accessible enough to appeal to those in love with the quaffable groove and slacker-mentality of the Stoner-community, yet radical enough to qualify as experimental. And it combined a deep admiration for the classic cornerstones of distortion-worship with the passionate ambition of transcending them.

On the one hand, one could therefore simply perceive the record as a smoothly segued juxtaposition of five distinct tracks. On the other, it also makes sense to regard it as a creative continuum, bracketed by an opening solo-Guitar exercise drenched in warm, crunching frequencies and, a full three quarters of an hour later, a relaxed band-outro rising from the debris of the preceding onslaught like a drowsy phoenix from the ashes. Contained between these poles are a dreamily drifting space-section ingenuously slowed down by Drummer Atsuo's intricate half-time beat, raw, unholy powerchords and an almost funky groove-section, which sees frontman Takeshi contrasting elegant vocal lines with mysteriously metaphorical lyrics: „Must shoot at the season of the fangs that has forgotten to make a decision. Fragments have come together to become me. Millions of me, million ways of living.“ Just when you thought melody and hooks had taken over, Boris relentlessly send the entire piece through the shredder. Riffs are broken apart into their formants, licks smashed to pieces, Guitar- and Bass-lines stretched into chilling, frosty tones, as percussive patterns mutate into a grinding sequence of metallic hihats slowly fading away into darkness.

Boris have always placed seminal importance on communicating with their listeners as directly as possible, which is why live-gigs are probably still the place where their ideals shine through in their most precise and undiluted form. And yet, their studio-output is marked by the very same ideal of music constituting a two-sided exchange. By finding a balance between the textural sound-properties of their music and the notion of a journey marked by development, transition and transformation, „Feedbacker“ forces its audience to surrender to it completely. Sections brimming with beauty take turns with terrifyingly mangled din, wilfully burning whatever background wallpaper-qualities the album may have had, but this is anything but an act of destruction. In the act of listening, a bond is struck between listener and band, which can be taken for an invitation to share the inexplicable intensity of an experience regardless of what's ahead. Compared to the occasionally offputtingly mathematical permutations and calculated aggression of many of their peers, that is an unexpectedly positive message by all means.

By Tobias Fischer

Gnaw at Supersonic Festival

2010-05-19T03:26:00.000-07:00

We're very happy to announce that Gnaw will be playing this years Supersonic Festival in Birmingham. Other bands include the legendary Swans, Eagle Twin and Bong among others. For more info visit the Supersonic website

Knut - Wonder preorders

2010-05-18T07:41:00.000-07:00

The new Knut album 'Wonder' is now available for preordering! First vinyl pressing is limited to 1000 copies: 100 on gold, 200 on clear/red mixed and 700 on black. Releasedate for this record is 8/6 and all preorders will ship around that date!

Despite gaining a steady fan base and extensive media coverage over the almost two decade long adventure of their career as well as making it to the Swiss edition of Trivial Pursuit, Geneva-based quartet Knut (russian word for “whip”, pronounced “cnoot”) are still occasionally filed away in the popular Metalcore-drawer. On their fourth full-length the band are now setting the record straight.

Three years in the making and again culled from myriads of jam sessions, „Wonder“, released on Hydra Head in the USA and on Conspiracy Records in Europe, has turned out a monolithic album-statement between explosive Hardcore, Noise-Rock, Math-Metal and Psychedelia.

It's all about knowing exactly what works and what doesn't, finding a balance between order and chaos as well as pushing your limits while staying true to your roots.

Featuring notably more vocals than headline-grabbing predecessor „Terraformer“ and a more varied and refined production than classic „Challenger“, „Wonder“ has ended up a daring but entirely organic tightrope-walk between beguiling atmospherics and brutal aggression, short up-tempo miniatures and slow-grinding fuzz-epics, hoarsely screamed songs and drone-driven instrumental passages.

Staying true to Knut's claim that „over-intellectualizing harms the beauty of creation“, the occasionally complex and intriguingly convoluted structures of „Wonder“ feel very much as though they had been passionately churned out in a single, liberating explosion at Serge Morattel's RecStudio in Geneva (where “Challenger” was recorded back in 2001). 2006's Remix-album „Alter“, on which various producers from the realms of experimental Sound Art (JK Broadrick, KK Null, Dälek, Asmus Tietchens, etc) had transformed some of Knut's cuts beyond recognition, has certainly not rubbed off on the new material. Instead, electronics have turned into a trippy, but subtle layer in the equally dense and spacey sound of the formation. Add to that some of the group's most immediate riffing and the outcome is a hallucinogenic journey filled with astoundingly diverse references ranging from Death Metal to the delirious blend between blissful Ambient and crushing Doom displayed on anthemic closer „Daily Grind“.

Hypnotically switching between fearful intensity, dreamy interludes and massively stretched-out excursions, „Wonder“ moulds these influences into an absorbing, razor sharp and immersive experience. Knut have found their true voice after a trio of releases dedicated to carving out different aspects of their style. For a band who, at one point, felt they'd already said everything there was to say, that's a pretty powerful statement indeed.

“Tobias Fischer / Tokafi”

Mono Tourposters

2010-05-18T07:16:00.001-07:00

Here are two bigger images of the Mono posters, click here to order the tourposter and here for the poster of the Leuven show.

Mono Holy Ground 3xlp/cd

2010-05-11T05:15:00.000-07:00

The Mono - Holy Ground 3xlp's/cd's arrived today and we are shipping them as we speak. We're sorry for the slight delay but these could not get out of the States because of the ashcloud a couple of weeks ago as we mentioned before.

Isis & Transitional shirt designs

2010-05-05T07:27:00.000-07:00

Wolves in the Throne Room 2xpicture disc & Aun/Habsyll split lp out now!

2010-05-04T07:26:00.000-07:00

Both the Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade 2xpicture disc (tour edition and limited to 400 copies) and the Aun/Habsyll - S/T split lp (limited to 500 copies) are now available for ordering. All preorders should be shipped out by now, in case you haven't received a shipping confirmation drop us an email at nathan@conspiracyrecords.com
Click here if want to order the Wolves in the Throne Room and here for the Aun/Habsyll.

Free Gnaw show in New York

2010-05-04T04:32:00.000-07:00

This Thursday (May 6th) Gnaw, Ocean and Sin of Angels are playing a free show at Fontana's, 105 Eldridge St, New York , NY 10002. If you want to attend you'll have to RSVP here.

Mono Holy Ground 3xlp/cd

2010-05-04T03:25:00.001-07:00

We've received several emails about the Mono Live release. Unfortunatly these have been stuck in the USA for a while because of the ashcloud over Europe a couple of weeks ago. The parcels are currently at the Belgian customs and should arrive here any minute now, as soon as we have received them we'll start shipping them. The problem is a bit out of our hands but we're sorry for any inconvenience caused.

2010-04-20T04:23:00.000-07:00

This Thursday Master Musicians of Bukkake are playing a show at Trix in Antwerp together with Wooden Shjips. As you might know there currently is a huge dustcloud hanging over Europe which blocked all air traffic for several days, resulting in Yob, who played Roadburn last weekend, getting stuck here on the continent. The great folks of Trix and Heartbreaktunes decided to add them to the show this Thursday so Yob will play an aftershow right after Wooden Shjips.

Conspiracy Distro at ROADBURN festival

2010-04-14T23:06:00.000-07:00

conspiracy will be at roadburn festival thurday, friday and saturday - if you happen to be there, feel free to pass by our distro!
All of us will be there, so all orders/payments/emails will be taken care of on Monday.
Greetings!

Year Of No Light - Ausserwelt preorder

2010-04-07T05:42:00.000-07:00

The Year of No Light 'Ausserwelt' preorder starts today. We have an exclusive preorder shirt available. Music Fear Satan will release the vinyl of the record and were so kind to offer us an exclusive brown 2xlp limited to 100 copies which will only be availble through our mailorder! Release date for this record is 26/4 and all preorders will ship around this date. Preorders on the shirt will end on 19/4 so please order before this date so we have the time to order the shirt.

Year of no Light spent most of the last 4 years spreading its enthralling psychedelic warfare to a continually growing audience. Alongside they parted ways with their singer (R.I.P) and recruited two other thirsty mercenaries. Shiran, of über-doom combo “Monarch!”, brings now his chthonian six strings to an already massive cathedral of noise and ambient drone tones. Mathieu, of deviant-electronics act “Aeroflot”, strengthens ritualistic tribal rhythm patterns.

Out of their cave, they secluded into an old theater to record these 4 tracks catching every possible vibration of the trembling frame of this enlivened a new mansion. All the energy collected at that very moment forms “Ausserwelt”, the sophomore album of Year of no Light. Mystical emanations flow out of these riffs colliding into each other to an in ear-splitting shriek. Cranked amps and molested drums hurl their mourning chant as a choir intoning its final psalms at the dawn of the Last Judgment. Year of no Light follows the path opened by “Nord” towards more somber psychedelics, creating its own blend of black metal, sludge, drone or any other influence marked with the seal of darkness.

Still no caps, no core neither stupid modern nihilism but instead an ambiguous electrical network of acting singularities, now ready to afford the collective metaphysical crash to come.

RED SPAROWES 'The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies The Answer' CD/LP RELEASE DATE TODAY!

2010-04-06T06:15:00.000-07:00

today is the release date of the RED SPAROWES 'The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies The Answer' CD/LP.
The pre-order shirts are bound to arrive in the late afternoon, so we'll start packing and shipping all pre-orders with shirts from tomorrow on. Please be patient, we'll do our best to get these out asap, but there's a lot of you who ordered, so we'll need some time.

THANK YOU to everyone who ordered this, and for those who live in the US, check out http://www.myspace.com/redsparowes
for US tour dates!

here's a few links to reviews and intws;
panicdot intw
altsounds.com intw
selfish.de feature (In German)

greetings!

MASTER MUSICIANS OF BUKKAKE Pic Disc lp's shipped!

2010-04-01T04:00:00.000-07:00

Just a quick post to inform you that all the Master Musicians Of Bukkake Pic Discs have shipped - thanx to all who ordered this!

Dirk Serries Microphonics @ Antwerp Live Looping Festival

2010-03-31T04:48:00.000-07:00

THRONES 7" & MASTER MUSICIANS OF BUKKAKE Pic Disc LP

2010-03-23T03:06:00.000-07:00

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

2010-03-15T08:36:00.000-07:00

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

2010-03-15T00:33:00.001-07:00

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)

2010-03-11T21:33:00.000-08:00

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

Shirts Preorder Update

2010-03-10T05:48:00.001-08:00

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

2010-03-09T07:13:00.000-08:00

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

2010-03-09T03:03:00.000-08:00

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

2010-03-03T02:45:00.000-08:00

"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
Unruhr

Knut Interview (in French)

2010-02-26T03:23:00.000-08:00

Falling Down Zine posted an interview with Knut on their blog. You can check it out here: Falling Down. It's in French but features the amazing trivia fact that Knut's album Bastardizer is the subject of a question in the Swiss version of Trivial Persuit, which is pretty awesome in our book...

Dirk Serries Microphonics tourdates

2010-02-25T05:05:00.000-08:00

Asymmetry Festival

2010-02-24T03:02:00.000-08:00

Asymmetry Festival is a new festival in Wroclaw (Poland) with a pretty amazing line up. The festival will take place the last weekend of april, both Jesu and Year of No Light will perform on this years edition. For more information please visit the Asymmetry Festval website

Conspiracy releases update.

2010-02-19T07:41:00.000-08:00

The Master Musicians Of Bukkake – Totem 1 LP kind of instantly sold out when the album came out last May. The band is coming back over for a few weeks of tour in Europe so we decided to do a one time pressing of 300 picture disc’s of Totem One, designed by mr Seldon Hunt. The records will be available for their European tour and we will start taking pre-orders early March.

Over to Thrones. Yes, Joe Preston’s Thrones! The 7” record has been announced a couple of years ago, and it got delayed and delayed ever since, but now it is official. We have the mastered recordings for the first new Thrones record in 5 years! And it shreds! The record will be released in March to coincide with the Thrones / Nadja / Ovo European tour. Pre-orders will start early March.

Red Sparowes’ new album ‘The fear is excruciating but therein lies the answer’ LP/CD will be released April 6 on Conspiracy Records. The album is pretty amazing, you can check a preview posted on our blog.

In other release news we will also be doing the new album for Year of No Light and Knut is currently in the studio recording their follow up to Terraformer. More news to follow.

European Mono tour starts today

2010-02-19T03:43:00.000-08:00

Catch them live at one of the following dates!

19-02-10 Orpheum Extra - Graz (Aus)
20-02-10 Menza Pri Koritu - Ljubljana (Slo)
21-02-10 Arena - Vienna (Aus)
22-02-10 A38 - Budapest (Hun)
23-02-10 Teatar Itd - Zagreb (Cro)
24-02-10 Living Room - Belgrade (Ser)
25-02-10 Mkc - Skopje (Mac)
26-02-10 Eightball Club - Thessaloniki (Gre)
27-02-10 Myga Athens - (Gre)
02-03-10 Circolo Degli Artisti - Rome (Ita)
03-03-10 Lokomotiv Club - Bologna (Ita)
04-03-10 Magnolia - Milan (Ita)
05-03-10 L' Epicerie Moderne - Lyon (Fra)
06-03-10 Sala Be Cool - Barcelona (Spa)
07-03-10 Sala Stereo - Murcia (Spa)
09-03-10 Musicbox - Lisbon (Por)
10-03-10 Serralves - Porto (Por)
11-03-10 Salon Teatro - Santiago De Compostela (Spa)
12-03-10 Santana 27 - Bilbao (Spa)
13-03-10 Le Sans Reserve - Perigeux (Fra)
14-03-10 La Maroquinerie - Paris (Fra)
15-03-10 The Scala - London (Uk)
16-03-10 The Asylum - Birmingham (Uk)
17-03-10 Oran Mor - Glasgow (Sco)
18-03-10 Brudenell Social Club - Leeds (Uk)
20-03-10 Les Trinitaires - Metz (Fra)
21-03-10 Doornroosje - Nijmegen (Net)
22-03-10 Het Depot - Leuven (Bel)
23-03-10 Fzw - Dortmund (Ger)
24-03-10 Debaser - Malmo (Swe)
25-03-10 Strand - Stockholm (Swe)
26-03-10 Umea Open Festival - Umea (Swe)
28-03-10 Nosturi - Helsinki (Fin)
29-03-10 Plink Plonk - Tartu (Est)
30-03-10 Gertrudes 101 - Riga (Lat)
31-03-10 Mulen Ruzas - Vilnius (Lit)
01-04-10 Cba Warsaw - (Pol)
02-04-10 Blue Note - Poznan (Pol)
03-04-10 Hebbel Theatre - Berlin (Ger)
04-04-10 Palac Akropolis - Prague (Cze)

Taiga - hsheal review

2010-02-17T06:26:00.000-08:00

"One would perhaps have expected Bryant Clifford Meyer, Keyboarder of a-category-of-their-own Heavy-Post-Sludge Rockers Isis, to come up with a similar momentous in-your-face approach. Instead, „hsheal“, released under the taiga moniker, has turned out a zero-gravity, darkly ethereal Ambient album flourescing in the same impressionist watercolours bleeding into liquid forms on the record cover."

Yet another awesome Tokafi review! Read the full article
here.

Torche - King Beef videoclip

2010-02-09T04:36:00.000-08:00

Check out this videoclip Torche did for their song King Beef wich is featured on their new split cd with Boris. The cd should be on the way to us and will be arriving shortly, you can add the item to your wishlist here
, that way you'll receive an automatic mail when the item goes online. We normally will get the vinyl in as well but that might take a bit longer.

Two new Transitional reviews!

2010-02-09T03:10:00.000-08:00

Daily Rock and Westzeit Magazine posted a review of Stomach of the Sun, the latest Transitional record we put out last year.
Daily Rock (in French)
Westzeit (in German)

Pre-order shirts for Khanate, Sunno))), Boris, Torche, Pelican, Oxbow starts now

2010-02-05T08:44:00.000-08:00

We have a ton of new bandshirts (Boris, Torche, Pelican, Goatsnake, Sunn0))), Oxbow, ...) available in the clothing section of our webstore. We accept your pre-orders until February 21. All orders will ship the first week of March.

Red Sparowes

2010-02-04T06:07:00.000-08:00

Los Angeles quintet Red Sparowes offers a preview of song snippets from its forthcoming epic, heavy and sprawling third album in a video trailer posted a couple of days ago. The disc, titled The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies The Answer will be released via Conspiracy Records in Europe and through Sargent House in the USA. There has never been as pronounced of a leap in style and scope as with Red Sparowes' latest offering. The Fear is Excruciating, But Therein Lies the Answer maintains their layered arrangements and swirling amplified crescendos, Americana noir soundscapes (punctuated by the extended pedal steel on “In Every Mind”), and gloriously triumphant melodies (“Giving Birth to Imagined Saviors”). Earlier records focused on the larger scope of the album, but the new album is song-centered, with the individual tracks harboring stronger independent identities. And where previous endeavors found the band propelled by enormous walls of sound, they now temper their monolithic progressions with distinct passages of separated and soft-spoken instrumentation. Red Sparowes were suspiciously absent from the playing field over the last three years, and now it’s apparent that they were busy drafting the grandest statement and finest achievement of their existence.

Keep an eye on our blog for more info about this release! We will also post an overview of all our upcoming releases somewhere next week!

Big Business - the Drift music video

2010-02-04T06:05:00.000-08:00

Poudude

2010-01-27T06:31:00.000-08:00

You might have noticed that we put the latest issue of the Poupi Whoopy magazine, created by our good friend Janus Prutpuss and his girlfriend Sky, online. Because a cover and a vague description just doesn't do this amazing magazine justice I decided to take some picture and throw them online here. Have a look and buy the motherfucker over here

Conspiracy Records Open House Day 13/2

2010-01-20T05:22:00.000-08:00

We will be opening our doors again on Saturday 13/2 from 13.00 till 19.00. Like the previous years we'll have sales, bargains, cheapies and plenty of beers! Place to be: the Conspiracy HQ, Amsterdamstraat 22, 2000 Antwerp. Please spread the word and bring your friends!

Isis - 20 Minutes / 40 Years videoclip

2010-01-20T05:19:00.000-08:00

Last year Matthew Santoro, who did special effects for some major Hollywood productions, directed this videoclip for Isis' 20 Minutes / 40 Years, a song of Wavering Radiant.

Final+Fear Falls Burning review

2010-01-18T02:39:00.000-08:00

The people at Norman Records really seem to like the Final+Fear Falls Burning record.

"Justin K. Broadrick (Final) and Dirk Serries (Fear Falls Burning) have only gone and made a bloody album together, haven't they? Final + Fear Falls Burning it's called. Epic guitar chugging and feedbacky atmospherics to the absolute max, yeah? What a dense beast this is.. Their dueling guitars are giving me the feeling that I'm lugging a wounded mammoth up an immense obelisk hanging over a bottomless canyon. Wearing a gauntlet. Quality stuff for lovers of oppressive, downery drone metal packed up in a luvverly die-cut sleeve. Edition of just the 500."

SALES are up at our Discogs page.

2010-01-13T08:37:00.000-08:00

We listed over a thousand releases on our Discogs page, hundreds of releases lowered in price! We will continue to list more releases at reduced prices and some rare and out of print releases will make it up there also: Conspiracy Records Discogs

Isis Celestial (the Tower) live with Mika Rättö of Circle

2010-01-08T07:56:00.000-08:00

At the end of their european tour Isis played their last show at FritzClub in Berlin. As encore they played Celestial and invited Mika Rättö, singer for Circle who were opening for them and one of Conspiracy's all time favorite bands, to join them on stage. Here are two clips of this amazing performance!

Black Boned Angel - the Witch Must Be Destroyed

2010-01-08T07:48:00.000-08:00

The Black Boned Angel vinyl got in this morning! We will start shipping them out from monday on!

Hotmail problems

2010-01-08T05:56:00.000-08:00

We're currently experiencing some problems with hotmail emailaddresses. Mails keep bouncing back when we try to mail an @hotmail address, we're looking into it and hope that the problems will be fixed later today.

Black Boned Angel - the Witch Must Be Destroyed lp

2010-01-05T08:02:00.000-08:00

The Black Boned Angel - the Witch Must Be Killed lp is now available for preordering here . We have clear green (ltd. 75), solid orange (ltd. 125) and black vinyl (ltd. 300) available. The clear green vinyl is limited to 1 per customer. All lp's come with a free mp3 coupon. The lp's will be shipped out from January 13nd on.

Builds on Black Boned Angels initial premise of 'do nothing, very loud, for a long time, better than other people'. Perhaps the best example thus far and in spite of the obviously extreme-metal reference points, these two 'songs' (yes, they ARE songs) come across as decidedly 'beautiful'. More than a passing nod to Judas Priest also.

Mailout

2009-12-30T06:18:00.000-08:00

There will be no Conspiracy mailout today as we are in the middle of our stock count, we'll be back in 2010 with a bunch of new releases. We will start taking preorders on the Black Boned Angel lp on monday 4th of January.
Happy New Year,
the Conspiracy

FInal+Fear Falls Burning preorder update

2009-12-07T02:41:00.000-08:00

We received a message from the pressing plant saying that there is a small delay in the manufacturing of the records. They will be shipped out to us on friday 11/12 and we'll start sending out the packages from monday 14/12 on. Our apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Final+Fear Falls Burning - S/T lp preorder

2009-11-23T05:57:00.000-08:00

The Final+Fear Falls Burning lp is now available for preordering here.

Dirk Serries (Fear Falls Burning) and Justin Broadrick (Final) are both musicians with an impressive discography that spans over 2 decades.
They both emerged from the same underground scene in the early eighties, releasing small print tape releases, often on the same labels. When they finally met for the first time in 2007 on a Jesu / Fear Falls Burning European tour they hit it on straight away.
Their common love and interest in the avant-garde drone, experimental music scene resulted in Final's stunning contribution to the epic 'Once We All Walk Through Solid Objects' 5lp set by Fear Falls Burning.

A full-length collaborative album was only a matter of time.

About a year in the making this collaborative album showcases Final and Fear Falls Burning's ability to expand the drone genre with allowing power chords, figurative plucking and electronic-esque soundscapes to lead the 4 songs on this album.
The collaboration is much more than just a sum of both their projects together but it realizes an entity on its own.

In your face, metal-esque and avant-garde at the same time, Final and Fear Falls Burning took the leap forward in creating a intriguing variation on drone music.

This lp is limited to 500 copies: 75 on clear, 125 on silver and 300 on black. The lp will be housed in a sleeve with varnish print & cut-out and will come with a coupon for a free mp3 download!

Transitional review

2009-10-26T04:16:00.000-07:00

W-Fenec posted a review of the new Transitional record. Check it out over here (in French)

Keelhaul picture disc reissues

2009-10-19T05:47:00.000-07:00

As previously announced we will reissue the first 3 Keelhaul albumbs on picture disc to coïncide with their upcomming European tour. All picture discs will feature pictures that Janus Prutpuss took for his nude magazine Poupy Whoopy and are limited to 300 copies. We will have 50 of each lp available when the tour starts (individually of as a pack), the rest will be available through the band on the dates that are posted below. We will also sell any leftovers the band has after the tour. You can already wishlist the items through the following links:

S/T
II
Subject To Change Without Notice
3xLP Pack

Keelhaul European Tour Dates:
16-11-09 Hafenklang Hamburg (Ger)
17-11-09 Feierwerk Munich (Ger)
18-11-09 Kapu Linz (Aus)
19-11-09 Arena Vienna (Aus)
20-11-09 Mkk Crnomelj (Slo)
21-11-09 Les Caves Du Manoir Martigny (Swi)
22-11-09 Dachstock Bern (Swi)
23-11-09 Grillen Colmar (Fra)
24-11-09 Le Sonic Lyon (Fra)
25-11-09 Baloard Montpellier (Fra)
26-11-09 Sala Apolo Barcelona (Spa) + Isis + Dälek
27-11-09 Sala Penelope Madrid (Spa) + Isis + Dälek
28-11-09 Incrivel Almadense Lisbon (Por) + Isis + Circle
29-11-09 Teatro Sa Da Bandeira Porto (Por) + Isis + Circle
01-12-09 Rock Star Live Bilbao (Spa) + Isis + Circle
02-12-09 Bt59 Bordeaux (Fra) + Isis + Circle
03-12-09 Trabendo Paris (Fra) + Isis + Circle
04-12-09 Substage Karlsruhe (Ger) + Isis + Circle
05-12-09 Trix Antwerp (Bel) + Isis + Circle
06-12-09 Vera Groningen (Net) + Isis + Circle
07-12-09 Postbahnhof Berlin (Ger) + Isis + Circle
08-12-09 Zoro Leipzig (Ger)
09-12-09 Klub 007 Prague (Cze)
10-12-09 An Club Athens (Gre)

Boris - Feedbacker LP

2009-10-16T05:35:00.000-07:00

All Boris Feedbacker preorders have been shipped out. If you haven't received a shipping confirmation drop us an email at nathan@conspiracyrecords.com and we'll look into it. Please note that all packages shipped out with Swiss Post can take about 3 weeks to arrive. We would like to thank everyone who preordered the album.

Apex Fest III

2009-10-02T02:31:00.000-07:00

Gnaw are playing Apex Fest III in New York on November 13/14. Other bands playing include the Austerity Project, Uneartly Trance, Hecate and Aphelion.

Here are some press quotes and a liveclip from their show in New York a couple of weeks ago for those of you who are still unfamiliar with them.

"...the sound of abjection... a claustrophobic feel, pressing in on you relentlessly." - Signal To Noise

"For those who didn't have the patience to absorb Khanate (your loss), Gnaw's sound is abrasive, but relatively concise: The five-minute "Vacant" has a propulsive percussiveness that would go over well with fans of Industrial music..." - Pitchfork.com

"...an overwhelming monolith of uncompromising and malevolent nastiness." - Brainwashed.com

Boris Feedbacker

2009-09-29T04:39:00.000-07:00

The Boris posters that are included in every Feedbacker lp arrived yesterday and they are looking great! We are waiting for Boris' approval of the testpress and as soon as we have that we will start taking preorders. Hopefully this will be somewhere next week. We want to thank everyone who wishlisted the item, if you haven't done this already we advise you to do that over here, that way you'll be the first to receive a notification when the item goes online.