Alitila – Spruce
Cassette, limited to 100pcs, out on March 28th
We are proud to release ‘Spruce’, the debut album from US/Finland-based trio Alitila. Based around themes of nature, somewhat ironic given its roots in industrial and extreme metal, the release has been years in the making and arrives with a scathing, sometimes danceable, presence of its own.
Against a backdrop of low drones, harsh synth, weighted beats, melodic flashes and chaotic screams, a Finnish producer and a conceptualist and US-based vocalist explore spaces mechanically churning and emotionally dense in kind, colliding the organic and the inorganic in a willful desire to create a singular, multifaceted sonic identity.
By combining diverse influences, pushing each other to be weirder, harsher, meaner — sometimes prettier — ALITILA emerge with this debut release likewise punishing and immersive. Themes of chaos inside and out transpose onto visions of the natural world affected by anthropocene shortsightedness, resulting in a progressive brutality not entirely animal but beyond common software exploration and looking to plunge further.
ALITILA is a palindrome — the same backward as forward. The multinational three-piece adopt this mentality in the form of manipulated ideas, the shaping and reshaping of work that can happen in open, honest collaboration.
True Lovers – Blessed Are The Lovesick
CD, limited to 100pcs, out on May 28th
We are proud to present you an album that we have been waiting for some years now. This is True Lovers, a brainchild of Mikko13 also known from Ravage Ritual.
True Lovers is modern day vampires playing early 2000’s American rock with the 1980’s post-punk attitude, wearing nothing but leather and sunglasses and ‘Blessed are the lovesick’ is a sincere tribute to the eternal power of unrequited love.
”In True Lovers, the songs tend to find a mixture of the overly romantic side of the late 80’s Whitesnake combined with melancholic longing on a level of Karl Freund’s 1932 directorial masterpiece ‘The Mummy’. On the other hand some songs feast like preying vampire to unrelenting Ministryesque pounding.”
True Lovers is based around compositions by Mikko13, member of hardcore act Ravage Ritual. Live line-up is completed with members of Supreme Havoc, PH etc.
Golden Lampreys – I Had My Fun If I Don’t Get Well No More
Cassette, limited to 70pcs, out on August 18th
The passionate sprint of Golden Lampreys that started at the feet of the Pori cotton factory towards the core of electronic acid-blues has come to it´s end. Too much of everything is never enough. Although these unsung heroes of the river delta are too fast to die, eventually the frenzy beat of their music turned sour in the grayness of morning. The blues certainly got a grasp of them and now it´s time to pay the price. This EP, that´s going to be their last, is an evidence of this short chaotic run they had, the toughest hard-on’s of a lifetime, intoxicated hallucinations in the wee hours, sweaty morning afters and spellbound hearts that force to carry on – as broken and weak they are to pump blood to their weary muscles.
Night has come and the deeds are done.
Love failed in the heat of the night.
The blues left scars in their hearts.
Something was gained and something was lost.
The party is over.
But they had their fun even if they won’t get well no more.
Take ride with Golden Lampreys – the elite partner of acidy electro-blues and hear their swansong. They played the Blues and stumbled, so You would not have to.
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Musti – |
Cassette, limited to 70pcs, out on September 1st
The triptych finalized.
The root file for | was first sketched during a production meeting in a private hotel suite in 2017. A night of big fun followed a set of panic attacks next midday. Zenning, percussive moment around a white metal table assembled the trio back to one and was the only document recorded from that period.
It got later composed as a backdrop for the groups first public performances held at an Eastern Finland botanical garden and a Western Finland manor house vestibule, titled Variations for table. The two public shows came to their fulfillment later at a rural cabin performance of the same theme, overseen by nightly rainfall.
A Free Form Art Group.
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VALLIHAUTA – II
LP, limited to 200 pieces, out on January 25th
VALLIHAUTA returns with their second full-length album entitled “II”.
Their mix of traditional doom and punk is now further refined and given birth in form of sludgy bi-polar aggression. With various edges added to the mix, deeper, darker and heavier in spirit, this moat is ready to devour you.
Vallihauta remain true to their trio form and live aesthetic. To praise authenticity II was recorded fully live by Tom Brooke at Tonehaven Recording Studios.
This album is manifestation of group’s natural way of handling many cast iron styles. Outcome represents rough elegance, delivered from the Arctic Circle, where nights are either endless or non-existing, extreme as variations in their self-expression.
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