LABEL ON INDEFINITE HIATUS; CLOSED TO SUBMISSIONS

It is with a heavy heart that i write this post.  Running a small label is very much a labor of love and sacrifice.  In the past I have been able to put my own money into this venture and keep the label operating at a financial loss to myself, but that is no longer possible.  Continually rising international postage rates, the severe cost of sending out artist copies internationally, and lack of support/interest from the noise community have forced me to close the label for the forseeable future.  I put out a goodly amount of releases over this summer, many of which have not sold a single copy.  This makes me deeply sad, and things really are not getting any better.  Combined with the entitled attitude i am encountering from people demanding releases or that their tapes be pushed to the forefront of my schedule has turned what was once a passion for me into a horrible obligation that i now dread dealing with.  I do not want it to be this way, and i do not want this thing i loved to be destroyed by others views' and opinions of how i should operate.  I do not owe anyone anything.  This label is MINE.
In light of all this, i am closing Altar Of Waste for an unknown time.  I just don't want the hassle anymore.  The fun has been destroyed, the joy erased.  I am tired of working hard for absolutely no gain.  My only goal for this label was for it to be self-sufficient, and i am far from attaining that goal.
The AOW store will remain open, and I will still put out the occasional new release.  But it will be on my time, and i will be releasing what I want, when I want. 
The label is also now CLOSED to submissions.  If i want to work with your project, I will get in touch with you and ask you.  That's it.
If we have an agreement in place for me to release your work, then that work will still be released.  Again-it will be on my time frame, so please do not write to me asking me when your album will come out.  I just don't know anymore.  It all depends on when i have the money.  I'm sorry, but that is the reality of it.  i am not independently wealthy-far from it.  I do not have the means to operate the label without sales.
Mostly i just want a break.
I feel like Oscar Issac in the Coen brothers Inside Llewyn Davis: I'm so fucking tired.

CORY STRAND "THIS WHOLE WORLD IS SHIT, VOL. I & II" 8CDR SET (AOW 531)

Final installment of a trilogy of DNW and drone/ambient recordings.  This one is a fairly large scale set of lengthy drone compositions focused on the torment of existence.  Nearly 9 hours of glacial, hollow drone and vaguely melodic ambient horror.
Packaged as a two volume set, with each volume housed in a quadruple oversized jewel case.  Released in a limited edition of 5 unnumbered copies.  $40 ppd. in the United States, $62.50 rest of world.

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CORY STRAND "WHISPERED EVERYTHINGS" 4CDR (AOW 532)

Massive new recording of hollow, glacial, melodically depressing ambient drone pieces.  This is the second album in a trilogy of DNW and drone recordings; the first album will be out through a different label later this year, and the third album will be released through AOW shortly.
The album can be streamed in its entirety here:

https://corystrand.bandcamp.com/album/whispered-everythings

Packaged in an oversized quadruple jewel case.  Released in a limited edition of 5 unnumbered copies.  $20 ppd. in the United States, $43 rest of world.

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CORY STRAND "FINALLY THE SHADES ARE RAISED" C60 (AOW 528)

Beautiful and depressing drones, crafted from audio sourced from a very moving moment to me.
The album can be streamed in its entirety here:

https://corystrand.bandcamp.com/album/finally-the-shades-are-raised

Released in a limited edition of 8 hand-numbered copies.  $8 ppd. in the United States, $31 rest of world.

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EUGENE CRITCHLEY/...weeping "SPLIT" C60 (AOW 526)

Despairing and broken split of necrodrone wall philo-obscurity from Eugene Critchley and the monolithic, churning, suffocatingly dense and violent wallcraft of ...weeping.  Each project turns in a 30 minute wall void of hope and resigned to a yawning emptiness.  Super heavy downer stuff here.
Released in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies.  $8 ppd. in the United States, $31 rest of world.

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(A)SEX/EUGENE CRITCHLEY "SPLIT" C30 (AOW 519)

Severely bleak, caustic, visceral, violent, grimly self-reflective split between Mitchell Rotunno's incredible (A)sex project and my own Eugene Critchley project.  This pairing makes perfect sense to me; (A)sex traffics in heavy tormented power electronics and noise destructionism born from dark feelings and emotions, and Eugene Critchley is all my awful shit and patchwork existential pessimism woven together in a quilt of self-loathing and despair.  Both projects point toward a similar vision of life.
The resulting 30 minutes is a deeply cinematic, jarring journey through harrowing emotions.
Released in a limited edition of 12 hand-numbered copies.  $8 ppd. in the United States, $24 rest of world.

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EUGENE CRITCHLEY/COSMIC SILENCE "SPLIT" C60 (AOW 484)

Truly massive and depressive split of drone noise wall beween Eugene Critchley and Cosmic Silence, a project of Casper Van Der Veen (Uitgeschakeld).  Each project turns in one crushing thirty minute drone wall, seeking to shine a light on the anxiety and despair of being.  No hope, just tedium.
Released in a limited edition of 15 hand-numbered copies.  $8 ppd. in the United States, $24 rest of world.

ORDER HERE: www.altarofwasterecords.storenvy.com