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.