New Shirts preorders

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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!

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

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
Unruhr

Knut Interview (in French)

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

Asymmetry Festival

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.

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

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

"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

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!

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

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

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

Poudude

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Hotmail problems

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

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

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

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

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

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

Keelhaul picture disc reissues

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

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

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

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.

Transitional - Stomach of the Sun preorders

All Transitional preorders will ship from today on. Preorders including one of the shirts will ship this friday because of a slight delay in printing the shirts.
Thanks for your patience.

Transitional - Stomach of the Sun vinyl

The Transitional vinyl just got in! We'll start sending out the preorders as soon as we have printed the shirts. You can still preorder the record here

Boris - Feedbacker LP

We will be re-releasing Boris at Last - Feedbacker on vinyl on 20/10. 200 copies on limited red vinyl, the rest will all be pressed on black vinyl. Keep your eyes peeled for preorder deals. You can already add the item to your wishlist here.

A single 43-minute composition / symphony (broken into five tracks for easier access) from Japan's drone druids that goes from etheral to crushingly heavy and everything between. Stark in contrasts and attention to texture." Some bands are fly-by-night operations, garnering instant fame, critical acclaim and shattering all album sales expectations within their first couple years of operation. You've seen 'em before - they're certainly here today, everyone's darlings tomorrow, and merely relegated to curbside refuse service just before the end of the week. Boris is certainly not one of those spontaneous success stories. Though the thunderously heavy and melodic Japanese experimental rock outfit has only very recently been introduced to American ears - most notably via its groundbreaking 2006 release, Pink - the trio has been steadily grazing its unique sonic turf for well over the past decade. And the release of its latest full- length endeavor, Smile, will force the boundaries of Boris' already-expansive repertoire -which features nearly a dozen albums - into new extremes. This is the LP version of the cd released in 2005. A limited Picture Disc version on 333 copies was released at that time as well. - boris at last – feedbacker – is featured on the 2009 Motion Picture Soundtrack of ‘The Limits Of Control’ By Jim Jarmusch. - Boris is invited to ATP in NY this September (curated by THE FLAMING LIPS), where they will play Feedbacker in its entirety (for the very first time for years)- Lp comes with a huge poster!

Transitional - Stomach of the Sun

Hi All, Available now for pre-order (ships September 22) is the TRANSITIONAL 'Stomach Of The Sun' CD/2xLP.

We have exclusive packs available, these shirt designs will only be available through these pre-orders!

Pre-orders for the packs (lp or cd + shirt(s)) will end Sunday September 13th, after this you will still be able to pre-order both cd & lp until the release date.

Release Information:
All pre-orders ship September 22 in following formats:
- CD
- 180 gram vinyl limited to 500, 100 on gold vinyl, 400 on white vinyl.
- MP3

For the upcoming week, you can listen to the entire record for free on this page (August 24 - August 31).


Thanx!

First Gnaw headlining show

We just received the message that Gnaw will play their first headlining gig at Public Assembly, New York on September 6th. Mick Barr, Castavet & Period will be supporting.

Master Musicians of Bukkake Live

Jef Mertens (Taping Policies) filmed the two shows Master Musicians of Bukkake did in Antwerp and Tilburg. You can watch an impression of those two shows right here. Thanks a lot to Jef for filming and editting the whole clip!

Master Musicians Of Bukkake Live

Backcatalog Summer Blowout

As of today August 5 until september 6 we are doing a summer blow out with reductions on almost all our available CD's in our Conspiracy backcatalog.
All CD's released prior 2009 will be permanently reduced in price, and until september 6 we offer you to assemble your own packs for extremely cheap! Please note that the discount only applies on cd's released on Conspiracy.

Buy 2 cd's for 12 euro + shipping
Buy 5 cd's for 25 euro + shipping
Buy 10 cd's for 40 euro + shipping

Seperately we also offer 20% reduction on following CD's released in 2009:
GNAW This Face CD
MONO Hymn to the immortal wind CD
ISIS Wavering Radiant CD

Vinyl is not included in the blowout sale, but all available titles are listed, feel free to order.

Check out the sales here

Clashmusic.com interviews Aaron Turner

Clashmusic.com just posted an interview they did with Aaron Turner about the new Isis record Wavering Radiant. You can read the interview here

Mono Roadburn Stream

You can stream the entire concert Mono gave on the Roadburnfestival in April over here.

Email troubles

Our spamfilter went totally berserk and we might have not received your emails... If you sent us an email the past couple of days and have not yet received an answer, please try sending us the email again. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Isis repress

We repressed the Isis - Wavering Radiant 2xlp which is available now. 200 copies are available on clear vinyl. Order your copy here

Mono 10 year anniversary show in NY

As you might know Mono have played two sold out shows with a symphonic orchestra in New York City. Here are a couple of pictures pictures, an interview with Taka and some clips of the shows.

Pictures
Interview & clips

Master Musicians Of Bukkake - Totem One vinyl

Here's a picture of the MMOB vinyl. Yellow vinyl is sold out but we are still taking preorders of the black and red vinyl as well as the cd. Preorder here.

Master Musicians Of Bukkake - Totem One preorder & stream

We are taking preorders on the Master Musicians of Bukkake lp & cd from now on until Sunday 17/5. The cd and vinyl can be preordered here. Yellow vinyl is limited to 75 copies, red to 125 and black to 300.
We also have a shirt available as usual, follow this link if you want a shirt with your record.
On top of that we are streaming the entire album on our frontpage for a week.

Master Musicians Of Bukkake’s newest record and part of a Northwest trilogy, Marks an evolution from their first record “Visible Sign Of the Invisible order” (Abduction records 2005). MMOB has now solidified into a 7 piece cosmic psyche force. Like a reverse dark side of the New Age sound, on the Totem series Master Musicians of Bukkake perform ritualistic electric excursions into the outer and inner reaches. Relying more on the electric power of psyched guitars, analog synth chants, and exotic heavy percussion. Totem one echos with the delusions of a West Coast Death cult. Outer spaced Gamelan, dusty fuzz rock from celestial deserts, meditations of a deranged Krishna gathering, and the Blurry acoustic guitar majesty of The Cascade mountains all reveal themselves here in epic form On Totem One. Every sound and note played put to tape by a group with a singular purging purpose. Totem one also features Vocals By MMOB honorary member Alan Bishop of the Sun City Girls.
Totem One will be available early 2009 on Conspiracy records followed by EU and US touring from Master Musicians of Bukkake.
Totem Two will be released on Abduction records in mid 2009. Master Musicians of Bukkake began in the fertile music scene of the Pacific Northwest in 2003. Originally founded as a collective of musicians from the overflowing community in Seattle. In 2005 they released “Visible Sign Of the Invisible Order” a recording of improvised ritualistic musical gatherings by the collective. Recorded mostly outside deep in the Cascade Mountains and in large ensemble sessions at Aleph Studios. The record was released on the Sun City Girls Abduction record label and featured honored guest appearances by Alan Bishop and Charlie Gocher of the SCGirls.

Isis - Wavering Radiant

Today is the release date of the Isis – Wavering Radiant vinyl. All preorders will be shipped out from this week on, please keep in mind that it will take a while to get everything shipped out.
The cd (release date 5/5) is still available for preorder here.

Roadburn Festival

As usual we will have a distro at the Roadburn festival however this year we will only be selling our own releases. However we can take other stuff if you ask us to bring it along beforehand. Just place an order on our website and ask us to bring it along to roadburn through the comment box on the orderform.

Boris Interview

An interesting and rare Boris interview is currently up on the metal review website. You can read the interview with Atsuo here: http://www.metalreview.com/

We are currently processing all the Isis preorders, please give us a couple of days since we received a ton of orders.
Some of you will have received a payment overview mail saying that the order will be shipped out as soon as we have received your payment, this is incorrect, the package will be shipped out on the releasedate.

Isis Preorders

Isis - Wavering Radiant can be preordered now over here