The Bureau is proud to present the release of Frank Black’s "Oddballs", a collection of rare gems recorded between 1994 and 1997.

"Oddballs" is a special treat for fans and historians of Black’s epic career. In its initial release in 2000, it was only sold to the lucky folks who went to Frank Black and the Catholics shows. The album is currently out of print, which should be a crime.

'Oddballs’ was made during Frank Black’s transition from a solo studio magician to a purist who recorded everything totally live to 2-track (the method which would eventually be perfected by Frank Black and the Catholics). Many of Oddballs’ treasures are b-sides either from Black’s 1994 acclaimed studio masterpiece Teenager of the Year or from the almost-live, totally raw and powerful Cult of Ray from 1995. Though these oddities are obscure, they are in no way throwaways. Rather, Oddballs gives us a deeper glimpse into Black’s unique vision of rock n’ roll. There are moments of real poetic beauty in the very surreally rocking “Announcement” and in the punky adieu to actor John Candy “At the End of the World”. These are songs at the heart of who Frank Black is at heart: an oddball. Here he is most open and carefree about it. Not many people can yell “Hate Me! My jacket’s not right” at the top of their lungs and make us like them, yet somehow Frank Black knows how to do it.

Oddballs also features outtakes from that era including covers of Roxy Music’s “Remake/Remodel” and the Beau Brummels classic “Just a Little”.

The Skints have risen to the top the underground ska/punk/reggae scene over the past two years and are now breaking out. They earned their formidable reputation live and the first album has sold more than 7500 copies with zero PR. In the past they have played most of the major festivals and toured with Gym Class Heroes, Less Than Jake, Reel Big Fish, Sublime (with Rome), Bedouin Soundclash amongst others. In 2012 they completed a sold out headline tour culminating in a sold out London Scala. They also played the BT Olympics concert and BBC Radio 1 Weekender.

This is an extended version of last year’s album, featuring a brand new single and two new dubs and amended artwork !

Repress of much sought after Wobbler album in Digi Pak. 3rd album from Norway's leading symphonic prog band. Classic prog influences (Gentle Giant, Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, PFM and so on) and a vast array of vintage sounds. Features members of White Willow and Jaga Jazzist.

A prog rock fan's wet dream! • Huge amounts of Mellotron, Moog, Hammond, Chamberlin and other classic analog keyboards as well as Rickenbacker bass, searing guitar leads, tight 70s drums and new vocalist Andreas Prestmo's soaring vocals. • Stellar and powerful sound. As close to the real 70's experience as you will get.

3rd album from Norway's leading symphonic prog band. Classic prog influences (Gentle Giant, Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, PFM and so on) and a vast array of vintage sounds. Features members of White Willow and Jaga Jazzist. 

Ltd vinyl pressing - The first-press of this LP (which was released by Pancromatic in 500 copies in 2011) sold out instantly and prices for these goes up to 170 GBP on the used-market.

A companion piece EP to the band's successful album "No Holier Temple", with 5 tracks and over 30 mins of music, featuring guest vocals by Rosie from Purson and flutes by Alia from Blood Ceremony.

The album No Holier Temple, released in 2012, was a huge critical and commercial success. 

Hexvessel will embark on an European tour in April 2012 !

Fresh back from their travels in Europe and mid-west America, not to mention three major British Blues festivals last year, the much talked about Russ Tippins and his electric band have wasted no time getting back into the studio to record their second album. Their debut CD, 2010’s ‘Electrickery’ was Classic Rock Magazine’s album of the month on it’s release, and has since earned them plaudits from Blues writers and broadcasters on both sides of the Atlantic. Their outstanding live performance at Hebden last year immediately ensured their return for 2013. The new album ‘Combustion’ is scheduled for release May 6th. 

Russ' debut album ‘Electrickery’ was Classic Rock magazine’s Blues Album of the Month Dec 2010.

Fourth album from Tim Holehouse. Tim plays authentic delta blues with stories from a life of hard touring and living on the road. Tim literally lives on the road, having given up his home and essentially moved into his car. 

'Budget' price CD !

 A rarity in modern music, with Tim's lifestyle contributing to his truly authentic classic Delta Blues meets Tom Waits sound...

Already last year we released with “Open Your Eyes” (SIR 4018) an album by prog legend YES on vinyl for the first time. Finally here comes the next strike: Magnification!

"Magnification", the 19th studio album of YES from 2001 was different from the 18 albums that had preceded it. Gone were guitarist Billy Sherwood and keyboardist Igor Khoroshev. Remaining members Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Alan White, and Steve Howe decided not to officially replace them, so YES reverted to a four-person band for the first time in its existence. Conductor Larry Groupe was invited to lead an orchestra, which substituted for the keyboards. It proved to be an inspired idea and it made the album unique in relation to its other releases and was a welcomed change of pace for a band approaching the 40-year mark. The result moves the group into new fields of traditional progressive rock style. We release this masterpiece on 3 LP sides to guarantee the best possible sound. The vinyl is 180 gram heavy-weight and the album comes in gatefold sleeve. Attention limited edition: The first 1000 edits will be released on coloured vinyl!

Sireena Records consciously did not chose the best known bands of the era but on first hand chosed the different styles of Krautrock live on stage. What you clearly can hear is the fun and improvisation during all recordings - that was the most important criterion for this compilation. This album offers (nearly) it all: Wonderful symphonic music (Grobschnitt, Jane, Anyone’s Daughter), bands with long extended jam-sessions (Mythos, Gila, Virus, Out Of Focus), jazzrock (Guru Guru, Embryo), folkrock (Ougenweide), political correctness (Eulenspygel) and crispy Rock’n‘Roll (Karthago, Nine Days Wonder). Yes, those were the days and that’s how it sounds today. When endmastering the cd the titles were added in such a way that you have the feeling to listen to only one concert. It is hoped that you like the result as much as the producers fun arranging this Krautrock compilation.

Vidunder is bluesy 70’s rock with a touch of garage. The trio now joins Spiders, Horisont and Dean Allen Foyd, by releasing their debut album on Crusher Records.

Vidunder from Malmö, a city in the south part of Sweden, features Martin Prim (vocals and guitar), Linus Larsson (bass) and Jens Rasmussen (drums). The band was formed in mid-2011 and it didn’t take long before they released their debut single Asmodeus on Crusher Records (the very same year). The release was followed by gigs around Sweden.

In late 2012, it was once again time to step into the studio, this time to begin the recording of the Vidunder debut album. The result was a ten tracks album. On the album can be found, for instance, Summoning The Not Living, reminding of a young Roky Erickson and his 13th Floor Elevators; the bluesy ballad Threefold giving the album a balance to the more heavier and up-tempo songs; Threat From The Underground which is one of the three tracks on this album with guest appearance by guitarist John Hoyles (guitarist of Spiders, ex-member of Witchcraft and Troubled Horse). The music can just as easily bring to mind the past days of Captain Beyond or Blue Cheer, as for today’s always topical and compatriots in Graveyard.

Vidunder is bluesy 70’s rock with a touch of garage. The trio now joins Spiders, Horisont and Dean Allen Foyd, by releasing their debut album on Crusher Records.

Vidunder from Malmö, a city in the south part of Sweden, features Martin Prim (vocals and guitar), Linus Larsson (bass) and Jens Rasmussen (drums). The band was formed in mid-2011 and it didn’t take long before they released their debut single Asmodeus on Crusher Records (the very same year). The release was followed by gigs around Sweden. In late 2012, it was once again time to step into the studio, this time to begin the recording of the Vidunder debut album. The result was a ten tracks album. On the album can be found, for instance, Summoning The Not Living, reminding of a young Roky Erickson and his 13th Floor Elevators; the bluesy ballad Threefold giving the album a balance to the more heavier and up-tempo songs; Threat From The Underground which is one of the three tracks on this album with guest appearance by guitarist John Hoyles (guitarist of Spiders, ex-member of Witchcraft and Troubled Horse). The music can just as easily bring to mind the past days of Captain Beyond or Blue Cheer, as for today’s always topical and compatriots in Graveyard.

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One year on from the release of their critically acclaimed debut album Colossus, Pearl Handled Revolver retour with the eagerly awaited follow-up entitled This Mountain Waits. Starting life as a hard hitting blues rock band, the Bedfordshire based fivepiece have evolved and broadened their palette to produce a second album that is wilder, more exploratory and captures the essence of their exhilarating, psychedelic live performances. “There is something satisfyingly British about Colossus, the debut album from Pearl Handed Revolver. It’s an album that basks in the glory of the late 60’s and early 70’s when British bands like The Animals, Cream, Free, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple ruled the world and I can hear elements of these artists woven into the relaxed but hard hitting, psychedelic blues of Pearl Handed Revolver. There’s no studio trickery, no bull, just five supremely talented guys in a room creating music from the heart.

Excellent 1976 private press acoustic album, self-recorded at various places in Colorado, and filled with beautiful fingerstyle acoustic guitar, plus some atonal bottleneck slide, string scrapes and drones (at times, very Ry Cooder/“Paris, Texas” about six years before that soundtrack existed). Although almost completely instrumental, what lyrics there are tend towards the dark and the satiric. The obvious points of comparison are John Fahey and Leo Kottke, although Scott Key certainly has his own presence and style, differences in tone and color and attack, which he attributes to his background in rock bands. Overall, there is a brooding, loner folk/psych feel, most evident on the phenomenal, effects-heavy, almost 11-minute long title track, ‘This Forest and the Sea.’ "I was coming to terms with what it mean to exist… and saw the world in pure black and white—there was no room for grey,” Key said. “I saw an American Culture devoid of any understanding of its place in the universe, how we learn nothing save what we see on television, how our existence is tainted by intellectual laziness, and how our gift of life is defiled by the taking of it." This deluxe tip-on mini-LP jacket edition of “This Forest and the Sea” includes five bonus tracks from Key’s second private press album (“Unlock Your Feelin’s); the twenty-page booklet sports engaging, funny, and insightful notes by Key, photos, plus the text to poem that inspired the title track; as a nod to the forest, the booklet is printed on FSC recycled, chlorine-free, 100% post-consumer fiber paper manufactured using biogas energy. A very rare album that seems to have flown under almost everyone’s radar—although thankfully not Doug McGowan’s (Yoga Records), who sent this our way.

Excellent 1976 private press acoustic album, self-recorded at various places in Colorado, and filled with beautiful fingerstyle acoustic guitar, plus some atonal bottleneck slide, string scrapes and drones (at times, very Ry Cooder/“Paris, Texas” about six years before that soundtrack existed). Although almost completely instrumental, what lyrics there are tend towards the dark and the satiric. The obvious points of comparison are John Fahey and Leo Kottke, although Scott Key certainly has his own presence and style, differences in tone and color and attack, which he attributes to his background in rock bands. Overall, there is a brooding, loner folk/psych feel, most evident on the phenomenal, effects-heavy, almost 11-minute long title track, ‘This Forest and the Sea.’ "I was coming to terms with what it mean to exist… and saw the world in pure black and white—there was no room for grey,” Key said. “I saw an American Culture devoid of any understanding of its place in the universe, how we learn nothing save what we see on television, how our existence is tainted by intellectual laziness, and how our gift of life is defiled by the taking of it." This deluxe 180-gram vinyl LP edition of “This Forest and the Sea” comes with an insert which sports engaging, funny, and insightful notes by Key, photos, plus the text to poem that inspired the title track; as a nod to the forest, the insert is printed on FSC recycled, chlorine-free, 100% post-consumer fiber paper manufactured using biogas energy. A very rare album that seems to have flown under almost everyone’s radar—although thankfully not Doug McGowan’s (Yoga Records), who sent this our way.

180 gram vinyl edition, limited to 500 copies worldwide!

I love this record. For me, it has a trace or two of Arthur Lee and Love at their best (‘Krishna Dov’ would not sound out of place on “Forever Changes,” for example), with dashes of maybe Terry Callier in some of the jazzier tunes. I also like that Hollins & Starr wrote a gentle tribute to one of my favorite old-time bluesmen, Mississippi John Hurt. At times this album is a gorgeous, ethereal blend of psychedelic folk and offbeat pop; but there are some funk and avant-garde moves too (where did those crazy orchestrations, wild guitar, and breakbeats on the fierce anti-war rave-up ‘Hard Headed Woman’ come from?), all supported by an odd assortment of instruments, including flute, bells and a generous helping of fuzz guitar. Chicago-based duo Chuck Hollins and David Starr only made this one album, which originally appeared in 1970 on the Ovation label.

Ovation said at the time of its release, “Classical artistry rock and sidewalk poetry.” All true. Very cool. Hip, mellow, and stoned.

Limited edition of 750 copies, packaged in a deluxe 1960’s style tip-on jacket, with an insert. •Positive reviews in Uncut and Shindig! for the CD edition •180 gram 24-bit direct-from analogue vinyl edition

A compilation album subtitled “Best of Amiga and CD32 Video Game Music”. The album contains 19 pieces of music from Commodore Amiga and CD32 video games from the early 1990s. The tracks have been remade or remixed with 5 recordings being previously unreleased. The total playing time is almost 80 minutes. Includes music from games such as Speedball 2, Cannon Fodder, Turrican 2, Hired Guns, Battle Squadron and Pinball Dreams. Composers featured on the album include Chris Huelsbeck, Tim Wright, Allister Brimble, David Whittaker and many others.

Heavy melodies firmly planted on a foundation of steamroller rock n’ roll aggression is the fuel behind the latest offering from Northern Ireland export, Trucker Diablo. Songs of Iron picks up where the breakthrough hit album, The Devil Rhythm left off, blasting listeners with the sonic fury of modern heavy rock mixed with a road worn southern swagger. After releasing two viral videos ("Drink Beer, Destroy," and "Voodoo") taking the stage at Hard Rock Hell, Download, and opening for The Foo Fighters amongst others, Trucker Diablo surged to new heights of popularity in 2012. Now 2013 finds the band upon their international acclaim by cranking out another set of piledriving melodic rockers. Songs of Iron, ups the ante on heaviness, crunching guitars and sing-along chorus, and is sure to please Trucker fans the world over, new and old.

Heavy melodies firmly planted on a foundation of steamroller rock n’ roll aggression is the fuel behind the latest offering from Northern Ireland export, Trucker Diablo. Songs of Iron picks up where the breakthrough hit album, The Devil Rhythm left off, blasting listeners with the sonic fury of modern heavy rock mixed with a road worn southern swagger. After releasing two viral videos ("Drink Beer, Destroy," and "Voodoo") taking the stage at Hard Rock Hell, Download, and opening for The Foo Fighters amongst others, Trucker Diablo surged to new heights of popularity in 2012. Now 2013 finds the band upon their international acclaim by cranking out another set of piledriving melodic rockers. Songs of Iron, ups the ante on heaviness, crunching guitars and sing-along chorus, and is sure to please Trucker fans the world over, new and old. LP Includes poster and download card.

With a heady mix of animal aggression and technical precision, APE MACHINE’s music carries an organic depth and warmth rarely heard since the time of rock’s glorious early years infused with an exceptional modern sensibility. When the mystical lyrics lock in with the band’s stone-cold groove, APE MACHINE demonstrates an earth-shaking ability to rock. A true four-piece, the group has been called real heavy-psych for the iPhone generation that delivers true guts and glory rock and roll.

With a heady mix of animal aggression and technical precision, APE MACHINE’s music carries an organic depth and warmth rarely heard since the time of rock’s glorious early years infused with an exceptional modern sensibility. When the mystical lyrics lock in with the band’s stone-cold groove, APE MACHINE demonstrates an earth-shaking ability to rock. A true four-piece, the group has been called real heavy-psych for the iPhone generation that delivers true guts and glory rock and roll. LP includes poster and download card

Mombu is a project of Luca T. Mai bariton sax player of "ZU" the amazing italian band of the Ipecac Recordings, and Antonio Zitarelli drummer of "NEO" crazy italian trio. This duo, sax and drums joins african rhythms with their jazz, hardcore and metal experience , to create a new musical alchemy. If 'Mombu' , the debut album, was a sort of Afro/Grind Manifesto 'Niger' ritualized it with seven harder and deeper tracks. Driving beats, pounding drums and trumpeting African-core voodoo ritual, carry us in the heart of Black Africa. The monstruos afro/grind of Mombu will mesmerize like a purifing voodoo. 

 RIYL: Zu, Fela Kuti, Fantomas, Mike Patton • LTD Vinyl LP.

Birmingham-based sludge-soaked ghetto rockers BOVINE will unleash The Sun Never Sets On The British Empire on April 12th via FDA Rekotz. A fire-branded mix of KYUSS, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, early SOUNDGARDEN and BARONESS, BOVINE's bottom-heavy and primal assault will surely leave many a listener convulsing on the floor. The band's tuneful and, at times, space-proggish, approach to songwriting will make the experience as enjoyable as it is bone-rattling. Let the stampede begin.

Birmingham-based sludge-soaked ghetto rockers BOVINE will unleash The Sun Never Sets On The British Empire on April 12th via FDA Rekotz. A fire-branded mix of KYUSS, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, early SOUNDGARDEN and BARONESS, BOVINE's bottom-heavy and primal assault will surely leave many a listener convulsing on the floor. The band's tuneful and, at times, space-proggish, approach to songwriting will make the experience as enjoyable as it is bone-rattling. Let the stampede begin.

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'Ruin' may sometimes dwell in surprising yet suffocating doom-as-fuck territories that will have old-school death-metal freaks in its dirtiest form possible shit their pants ("Tanatorio" or the eight-minutes plus drone and tortured pulse of "Ruinas") but at the end of the day, this is, guess what, another pure fucking old-school grindcore masterpiece. No need to remind you the band's influences, you know them and they proudly wear them on their sleeves anyway. No, all you need to know that in a world where even extreme music is being sterilized, their fifth full-length doesn't show any sign of them slowing down. As a matter of fact, co-released on LP by DOOMENTIA and PARASITIC and on CD (and limited digipack) by DOOMENTIA this April, perfectly illustrated by Timo Ketola stark black and white artwork, one could simply say that 'Ruin' is the real fucking deal. And so are MACHETAZO. Always been, always will be.

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Of course to some remaining anonymous is a publicity stunt. Just a perverted way to tease people’s attention and let them rambling on if, yes or no, there’s a so-called ‘famous’ guy hidden behind the mask… But to others, it is truly an act of faith. A way of underlining on the most plain and honest way that at the end of the day, only music matters and that as such, true artists that truly believe in its sheer power just have this urge to give up their individuality and step aside to let it shine unconditionally. And EVANGELIST is a prime example of such mentality… All you need to know about those mysterious lads is that they’re a bunch of experienced musicians coming from Cracow, Poland and the first of their kind in this country. End of story. The rest is up to the music and boy, oh boy, if you hadn’t been exposed just to it yet thanks to their debut album ‘In Partibus Infidelium’, get ready to sweep off your feet. Yes, EVANGELIST doesn’t even pretend hiding where they are coming from. Classic and epic doom with a heavy-metal background à la CANDLEMASS and strong religious themes is the name of the game and right from opening track “Blood Curse”, you know you’re dealing with pros here and not simple imitators. Not only is ‘Doominicanes’ an extremely well-produced and not only has it more than a hint of the kind of vibe DOOMSWORD and other Italian power metallers have learnt to master on the battlefield and with all its epic buttons pushed to the max

Mordecai Smyth follow-up their critically acclaimed long-player with a four track, orange vinyl EP! Dial M For Mordecai takes their neo-psych sound to another level with four killer tracks that draw on a diverse bag of Sixties influences. This is whimsical British psychedelic music at its best. The EP will be launched on the Marrs Bonfire show and the band will be gigging throughout May and July to promote the latest release.

Limited to 250 copies. • Orange vinyl. • Free five track download including unreleased bonus song ‘See My Friends’.

Pulsating with raw passion and a desire for anthemic melodies, Berlin based Noblesse Oblige have crafted their most polished and unapologetic work to date. New album release 'Affair of the Heart' presents a sophisticated pop opus, destined to unite the ears of dance floor dreamers and bedroom escapists alike. Powerful male & female harmonies melt over an ocean of warm electronics, voluptuous dance floor beats and euphoric disco arpeggios, as you’re welcomed into a rich fantasy world of exotic spies, demonic preachers and lonely souls lost at sea… “Affair Of The Heart is a romantic journey in the classic sense of the term. Our study of human passion from its most uplifting to its gloomiest...” Formed after a chance meeting at a masked ball in London, French performer Valerie Renay and German producer Sebastian Lee Philipp have spent the last few years touring the European club circuit, picking up a Russian Music Prize for their chanson pop album ‘In Exile’ along the way… However, when it came to working on their latest release, the duo locked themselves away in a live-in factory on the outskirts of Berlin (at studio haven ‘Turmwerk’, founded by Chris Corner of Sneaker Pimps/IAMX.) Undisturbed by the rest of the world, they collaborated for the first time with mixing engineers David Wrench (Caribou, Bat For Lashes) and Harald Blüchel (Cosmic Baby, Energy 52) in order to bring a fresh dimension to their sound. The result is an album that defies the isolation it sprung from and instead, shoots straight for the dance flloor and into the soul. Harnessing pop sensibilites and a slick electronic production, ‘Affair of the Heart’ recalls the emotional energy of iconic 80s bands like Eurythmics, Tears for Fears and Depeche Mode, whilst also reaching out to fans of more contemporary favourites like Hurts, The Knife, Austra and Trust. It’s a far cry from their arty beginnings in London's electro-punk scene, but if the album’s chilling and hypnotic cover of an Eagles’ classic demonstrates anything, it’s that not only are Valerie and Sebastian braving new territories; they’re creating their own as well…

Nattens lovsång is Andreas Runeson’s debut album as a composer. Runeson is mainly known for being the producer and founder of the label Compunctio. The last ten years he has produced albums for artists including Nicolai Dunger, David Åhlén, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Håkon Kornstad and Jon Christensen.

The idea behind Ensemble Lakonia and Nattens Lovsång (“midnight praise”) was formed in 2005 when Andreas Runeson took a sabbatical to live in a Swedish monastic community called Bjärka-Säby. Upon returning to ordinary life in Uppsala, Sweden, he contacted a few musicians who had been on his mind. After several years – in strange ways – Ensemble Lakonia had taken form. The music was recorded in a concert hall during three days in the summer of 2010. The big challenge was to keep the raw simplicity of the tunes and at the same time transform it into chamber music. If you listen to the music it seems logical that it took long time to find the right musicians, to find a form for the music and to make this album. The result is a wayward navigation between blues, chamber music, jazz, Swedish folk music and Gregorian chants.

When Andreas Eklöf and Mats Persson co-operated on Eklöfs’s album NOR (Compunctio 2008) it was listed as one top modern composition albums of the year in the magazine Wire and others. On this album they take the co-operation to the next level. Composition, interpretation and improvisation are made by them both. The music on the album is an exploration into the rich sound spectrum of the clavichord.

Andreas Eklöf is a composer and a musician. He has composed for the Gothenburg Combo (David Hansson and Thomas Hansy), Maria Ingemarsson, Trio Gohtia (Kristina Halvordsson, My Hellgren, Louise Jansson) and Mats Persson, amongst others. Mats Persson has played a great number of concerts since 1972. Music by Erik Satie, the early 20th century avant-garde from Russia, John Cage, Morton Feldman and Christian Wolff was from the beginning the main part of his repertoire – music that he performed a long time before it had gain status in the official music life.

“Morgan Christopher Geer, the man behind Drunken Prayer's moody blend of Americana and altfolk, has the sort of gravelly, lived-in voice that evokes memories of The Band and Tom Waits. On Drunken Prayer's second album, Into The Mission Field, Geer barks and croons his way through a song cycle inspired by garage rock, soul, psychedelia, and the band's folksy roots. It's an eclectic mix, but everything comes together on the title track, which even flirts with a bit of gospel music.” - American Songwriter,

“Every artist should sound so coherent when in the midst of such intoxicating revelry.” - No Depression

Touring The UK in 2013

Iamthemorning is a progressive neo-classical folk band from St. Petersburg.

The band members have completed a classical musical education and now they bring this skilfully in their work, without it seems exhausting. Piano melodies mingle with string arrangements. Marjana Semkina brings her voice expressive in position. Sometimes angry, sometimes softly melting reminds Marjana of Kate Bush.

Classic UK Psych reissue !

First 500 pressed on pink vinyl !

Long-awaited 180g vinyl reissue - Fullest ever version

Prepared with Twink’s full involvement - Features members of Tomorrow, the Deviants, Tyrannosaurus Rex & the Pretty Things

60s psychedelic masterpiece

Long-awaited 180g vinyl reissue

Fullest ever version put together with full involvement of Steve Morgen

New project from Frederic Arbour (VISIONS). Havan (Fire Sacrifice) aims to explore spontaneous forms of aural explorations through instinctive sound manipulations, balancing improvisation with the channeling of sonic energies. Havan is also meant as a mainly collaborative endeavor and so for this first recording Frederic was joined by Harlow MacFarlane (FUNERARY CALL) and Sarah Rosalina Brady (AMBER ASYLUM). The album was recorded during a live ritual in November 2012 using Analog Synths, Guitar, Gongs, Bells, Voice and Electric Violin and the result is a stirring elemental foray into the transforming powers of sound and ritual. Edition of 600 copies in 6 panel digi sleeve.

"Procession" heralds the reawakening of the acclaimed swedish dark ambient project Desiderii Marginis, an album that sounds at the same time warmingly familiar and inspiringly new. While Desiderii Marginis is perhaps not as prolific as some other acts, it's "quality over quantity" motto always makes it well worth the wait and this is certainly no exception. The eight pieces that make up this new album stand firmly on their own, and yet form an even more remarkable whole. Johan Levin envokes a grand soundscape, beneath the faded remnants of the celestial spheres where timbres have space to grow, evolve and reflect off each other, a sombre, melancholic thoughtfullness, a calm to dwell in, and long back to. The atmosphere of the album is not that of solid darkness, or an abyss opening beneath you, but rather a wintery pale, grey dusk casting long, sweeping shadows. A haze that makes you uncertain if it’s really getting lighter or darker. We're honored to welcome Johan Levin's long standing project to the ever expanding Cyclic Law family. Normal Edition of 400 copies in Gatefold Sleeve + A2 Poster.

Noise Magazine presents Ni as a group which in two years was able to drag from a small niche of Don Caballero’s followers to enter into countries where Zappa, jazz, noise tendance Zu and African trance came all together to create a tonic, brutal and shattered magma, but from which arises a warmth that where is often missing to this type of hybrid experiments sometimes a little bit tight.

After many EP’s and more than 40 gigs everywhere in France, Switzerland and Scandinavia, Ni wants to explode again throughout other musical and geographic fields . Ni is showing a real performance.

MSI’s music is a hybrid of Atari driven electronics with a venomous splash of ADD Punk Rock.

One of the most popular bands to sign with Metropolis in 2005 was Mindless Self Indulgence (MSI), a band whose name manifests itself during their incendiary live shows. Their music is a hybrid of Atari driven electronics with a venomous splash of ADD Punk Rock. In the vein of their cult classic records such as Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy, MSI and Metropolis Records proudly released You’ll Rebel to Anything. This newly remastered version contains tracks previously only found originally on the clean and vinyl versions, as well as two bonus tracks - including the previously unreleased live version of the fan favorite “Wack” (recorded at the bands legendary three night stand at NYC’s Webster Hall), and “Make Me Cum” from the unreleased “Pink” album - and a live video for their classic song , “Molly.”

The CD contains remixes by Frontline Assembly, Assemblage 23, Front 242, Combichrist, KMFDM, The Birthday Massacre and many others. Also included are the acapella and instrumental tracks for ''Straight To Video'' so that fans can make their own remix.

A tasty five track single from Juno Reactor, their second from the album ''Shango.''

Includes remixes by Front 242, Eternal Basement, and others.

The single shows the constant innovations and influences that make Juno Reactor a timeless act.

Keeping up with the pace after just releasing the “Live in Tokyo” DVD, a brand new single from Juno Reactor has arrived. Recorded in Japan in a studio overlooking Mt Fuji, “Hotaka” features Steve Stephens on guitar, and the traditional Taiko drummers, Gocoo.

Not many bands can claim they can cross many musical boundaries with the ease that Juno Reactor has.

Trance, techno, industrial, pop, rock, dance, and world Juno Reactor has touched them all. Their newest release, “Odyssey 1992-2002,” is a celebration of their on-going achievements. Featuring the best of the best Juno Reactor tracks from all of their albums, as well the newest track, “Hotaka,” it highlights some of the most interesting collaborators that the band has ever worked with. It's Juno Reactor doing what they have always done and what they do best - pushing the music in new directions and constantly challenging the concept of what an electronic-based band should be and sound like.

Attending a JUNO REACTOR show isn’t like going to a “concert,” it’s experiencing a whole new concept in performances with a concoction of music, lighting, and live action.

Those that let the opportunity to catch JUNO REACTOR live during the “Shango” tour now have a chance to see what they missed out on. The “Live in Tokyo” DVD features selections off of “Shango,” as well as classic JUNO REACTOR tracks, such as “Conga Fury” and “God Is God.” The DVD precisely captures the intensity of JUNO REACTOR’s live performances: from the mind-expanding music, to the acrobatics of AMAMPONDO, right down to the hypnotic lighting effects. It’s an experience, a journey, a revelation, a discovery, an opportunity not to be missed. The “Live in Tokyo” DVD proves that the only thing better than watching it was being there.

December 21, 2012. The Earth faced the greatest catastrophe the world has ever seen – total extinction. While most withdraw into huddled masses, many flock to Chichen Itza near Valladolid in Mexico for what would be the last über death fest, Oktotenfest 2012. The ballistic skull splitting industrial-metal performance of Hanzel Und Gretyl was accompanied by gallons of blood beer and shot after shot of deathschlager. Über chaos – Über celebration! During their performance, the Temple of Quetzalcoatl unearthed itself to reveal its true identity – a spaceship built for HuG to tour the solar system. The band and hoards of fans boarded the ship and began a tour of all the planets, finally ending on the sun. All but HuG were burnt up, for they are time traveling space gods bent on total cerebral domination. Many perished with the Earth because without the purchase of 2012: Zwanzig Zwölf, they were unable to attend the exodus and enter the 9th dimension to transcend the human form with steins und skulls forever

A new day has dawned for Hanzel Und Gretyl! For 2003, their highly-anticipated third epic album, ''Über Alles,'' will finally see the light of day. ''Über Alles'' is served up in the style of a misplaced Wagnerian space-metal opera lost in time, chewed up by distorted synth filters and pummeled by a million homicidal robot drum machines manipulated by the reclusive scatterbrain mastermind known as Loopy, and the much feared Vas Kallas. HUG has once again created the epic of all possibilities. No longer innocent on the deep black forest but powerful and sturdy in sound and message -- HUG survives and continues to bring pleasure and pain amongst the world!

Saknad fornaldar Marías is Anna's first solo album. The album title is named after one of the poems and translated means "yearning for the old days."

She started in music in 2009 to work while she studied at the Rythmic Music in Copenhagen. The absence of Iceland has sparked her interest in her roots and she began to read old poetry books, which she had inherited from her grandparents. The processed on the album Icelandic poems are between 100 and 300 years old

The fact that the Scandinavians have a great love for progressive rock has become something determined. In Finland such a large scene has emerged, which seeks its equal. This should be the listener even noticed. With the typical Nordic calm and premeditated nature creates a huge growth in quality. The five young men from Taipuva Luotisuora spente much time for their third album, which oddly enough is called "IV". Taipuva Luotisuora was born in early 2000 in Helsinki. With the album "I" they have reached the famous "Warning" status and was a "child" of the well known "Hidria Spacefolk". The second album entitled "II" was experimenting with a singer to get rid of it compares to Hidria Spacefolk, which worked great. But good music does not need Vocals! Therefore been omitted from now on without a voice.

The fact that the Scandinavians have a great love for progressive rock has become something determined. In Finland such a large scene has emerged, which seeks its equal. This should be the listener even noticed. With the typical Nordic calm and premeditated nature creates a huge growth in quality. The five young men from Taipuva Luotisuora spente much time for their third album, which oddly enough is called "IV". Taipuva Luotisuora was born in early 2000 in Helsinki. With the album "I" they have reached the famous "Warning" status and was a "child" of the well known "Hidria Spacefolk". The second album entitled "II" was experimenting with a singer to get rid of it compares to Hidria Spacefolk, which worked great. But good music does not need Vocals! Therefore been omitted from now on without a voice. LTD VINYL LP W/CD.

The project came to life from The Slaiver's ashes in 2009 as a three piece with a stronger identity After a few months of activity, and after an European tour, the band released their first EP "Rose Lane was Tucker's Girlfriend" on Subsound Records, produced by Giulio "Ragno" Favero (Zu, Il Teatro Degli Orrori, One Dimensional Man) and with the special participation of Luca Mai from ZU and MOMBU. The beginning of this year saw the band going back to the studio, this time with Massimiliano "Mano" Moccia and the important help of Gionata Mirai (Il Teatro degli Orrori; Super Elastic Bubble Plastic, Gionata Mirai) to make a much more mature album, even more complex and aggressive, pushing the whole project towards an extremely personal sound, rather difficult to categorize. The band has grown, the sound is changed. Almost fifty minutes of intensity, rough sound and moments of distressing and annihilating darkness.

RIYL: Converge , Unsane

The debut full-length album from Berliner act kool thing is united by a feel of escapism, the need to ditch our urban addictions and regain a lost sense of wonderment, even if just for a few hours. With fourteen songs, including two instrumental interludes, kool thing sounds like youth remembered through a kaleidoscopic lens in which each mirrored fact points to limitless futures. Just like the Hipgnosis-echoing cover artwork (courtesy of photographer John Duncan), this record is full of beautiful juxtapositions, artifice and nature yinning and yanging their way through a dramatic love affair. Rusty guitar licks are found curling up against fractilling synth arpeggiations,with Julie Chance and Jon Dark’s vocal harmonies dancing on the horizon above the thunderous drumming by Valentin Plessy.

Dead Wolf Club have spent their first year of full existence meticulously putting their record together and playing with likes of Die!DieDie!, The Besnard Lakes, Atari Teenage Riot and Charlotte Hatherley. Building themselves a reputation as a vitriolic live band, from the debris of smashed guitars Dead Wolf Club rise to present their debut album. Often compared to everyone from Mogwai to Sonic Youth to Interpol to My Bloody Valentine to The Pixies, the band actually draw their bulk of influences from knitting, tea, comics, cardigans, Nintendo consoles and the crumbling city that is London (via Tintagel).