BAD ALGORITHM "BATHE" CDr (AOW 40)

Brutal stagnancy and despotic howls of unending psychic conflagration blended with a touch of the enigmatic and surreal, a certain and frightening unknowability that becomes paralyzing in its malignant physical manifestation.  The void and nihilism perfectly summoned, rendered into whorls of blazing audio rot.  None of this matters; the world is a history of pointless evolutions and mistakes of categorization.  There is no truth beyond death and there is no life beyond memory.  You are a blip on the radar.  What goes on forever becomes the celestial, the sky-minded, the transcendental.  The language fails when left in the presence of the eternal.
Altar Of Waste is psyched to unveil the latest from the always impressive Bad Algorithm; here the project reaches a new plateau in sonic punishment.  Packaged in a DVD case with mind-numbing artwork, in a limited edition of 20 hand-numbered copies.  $10 ppd. in the United States, $18 rest of world. 

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LIVER FAILURE "YELLOW DEATH" CDr (AOW 41)

Annihilating caustic noise destructionism from Missouri, going beyond simple wall stasis into a horrific amalgamation of crumbling bass textures and screaming voids of feedback.  This is true psychedelic terror, referencing the classic severity of Incapacitants and Masonna without sacrificing the immersive and nihilistic hopelessness of the HNW construct.  Like amplifier meltdown as heard through the filter of a mushroom cloud, or deep ocean pressure death whilst trying to take in the final 45 minutes of Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey."  Obliteration becomes thee; escape is a dream best left to the winds of sleep.  The only reality is the scathe.
Altar Of Waste is very pleased to offer this ritual of self-destruction birthed from the minds behind Mass Graves, Oblive, and Boar.  Packaged in a DVD case and released in a limited edition of 20 hand-numbered copies.  $10 ppd. in the United States, $18 rest of world.

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CORY STRAND "CHRISTINE: A REINTERPRETATION" 4CDr (AOW 42)

More soundtrack reconstruction, this time focused on John Carpenter's woefully under appreciated film "Christine."  I would say the soundtrack has received less than its due as well in the wake of more iconic Carpenter scores; with this reimagining of source material I have attempted to pay tribute to some of Carpenter's most staunchly minimalist (and entirely effective) scoring by allowing the suffocating ambiences to float and expand.  The droneworks here are massive and given free reign to unfold, hopefully ensconcing the listener in the overwhelming feeling of dread, unreality,  and horror Carpenter so masterfully conveys throughout the film.  On the wall pieces I have attempted to employ a circular method of composition that reflects the car's constant cycle of damage and repair, reiterating the film's theme that love, true love, is ultimately unstoppable.
Altar Of Waste is pleased to release this latest installment of soundtrack revisionism in a DVD case designed and constructed by me, in a very limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies.  $20 ppd. in the United States, $28 rest of world.

-Cory Strand

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ALTAR OF WASTE RELATED RELEASES ON VAGARY RECORDS AND WORTHLESS RECORDINGS

I have just received my artist copies of two releases I did for some stellar labels.  Super limited amounts available of each.

CORY STRAND "WORDS AND DREAMS AND A MILLION SCREAMS" 4CDr (VAGARY RECORDS)

My massive reimagining /reinterpretation of Weezer's landmark album "Pinkerton," rendered into brutal walls of loathful unforgiving noise and despondent nostalghic ambient.  Recorded for James Killick's esteemed Vagary Records, this is easily my favorite amongst my solo works, and represents the direction I'm headed in as an HNW practitioner.  A conscious attempt was made to part ways with my usual stagnancy and focus on a variety of immersive textures without forsaking the intensity.  I really feel I've succeeded: this record is a definition for me.  Many thanks to Jim for offering me the opportunity.  Released in an edition of 7, with full color artwork by me and given a truly gorgeous packaging job from Vagary.  I have a mere ONE copy available for sale.  $25 ppd. in the United States, $33 rest of world.

CARRION BLACK PIT/LETHE/FOLTER/HEARSE FETISH  "CRIMES OF PASSION" CASSETTE (WORTHLESS RECORDINGS)

A truly awesome four way split from the always amazing Worthless Recordings focused on crimes resulting from emotions gone awry.  One of my last pieces as Lethe (the final two are in the works) and certainly the most belligerently aggressive-the track I contributed here is a total audio assault, different from anything I've done while still referencing my love of death ambiance.  Also super psyched because this is my first cassette release, and many thanks to Tony for asking me to participate.  The packaging on this one is beyond words.  So fucking cool.  I have five copies available for sale.  $6 ppd. in the United States, $14 rest of world.  Worthless just released some other awesome tapes from more AOW-related artists (Vomir, Wet Dream Asphyxiation, and Burial Ground), so snag those from the label direct if you're so inclined.  And of course you should be.

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CROWN OF BONE "THRONE OF CACOPHONY" CDr (AOW 26)

Crown Of Bone needs little introduction.  Across myriad releases, Dustin Alan Redington has sculpted out a severe and punishing sonic monument to agony, immolation, and the totality of immersion.  The haunting bleakness of existentialism has rarely been given such a formidable auditory heft, with Crown Of Bone summoning up echoes of primal Mayhem, Deicide, and dISEMBOWELMENT without sacrificing any of the scathingly caustic assemblies that mark Redington's highly original approach to HNW.  To say this belongs in any genre is fairly illusory (and ineffective) as it so obviously transcends the idea of genre as the best artists do; "Throne of Cacophony" is instead a grand guignol of extremity with nods towards vintage black, death, and doom metal and roots firmly in HNW and power electronics. 
This is simply one of the most intense releases Altar Of Waste has put out, and I am honored to birth it to the world.  Listening to "Throne of Cacophony" is like being gutted from the inside out, blood flayed from flesh and bone burnt down to ash, leaving little left other than a murking husk awash in its own weakness slathering across the floor.  This is pure audio destruction.  The vocals here are insane, screams from the digital void that seem to come from somewhere far beyond our knowledge of dimensionality, communications from the purgatorical despondency that cradles the universe.  Crown Of Bone deliver true psychic scars that no amount of time can ever hope to heal. 
Packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 50 hand-numbered copies.  $10 ppd. in the United States, $18 rest of world.

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OBLIVE "SLOVENIAN DARKNESS/KROKODIL WARFARE" CDr (AOW 38)

Raw and ancient mysticism affixes itself to the brutal realities of isolationist destruction across the intensely  focused sprawl of Oblive's "Slovenian Darkness/Krokodil Warfare," a militaristic descent into crumbling bass textures and wind-splintered sickly psychic cracking.  The inherent darkness and folklore of Slovenia is evoked throughout the three pieces here, a conjuring of the inky black through extreme, blistered, and punishing wall deconstructionism.  Oblive's depth and deft manipulations result in compositions that bear little in common with the usual all out assault of HNW; instead there's a distinct uneasiness and intense anxiety found in these pieces, a fear of the nether forces acting beyond the realms of the known, manifesting themselves in ways both covert and insidious.  The night is alive and hungry.
Altar Of Waste is pleased to release this exploration of history and hallucination, both factual and legendary.  Slovenia is a land of magic and torment, and Oblive harnesses both in their fractured auditory attack.  Packaged in a DVD case, with artwork and construction by Jeff Landgraf and Cory Strand, in a limited edition of 15 hand-numbered copies.  $10 ppd. in the United States, $18 rest of world.

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CORY STRAND "RIVER'S EDGE: A REINTERPRETATION" 4CDr (AOW 36)

"River's Edge" has been one of my favorite films since I saw it in a hotel room late at night on HBO almost 25 years ago.  It scared the shit out of me then.  Today, I feel there are few films that have so chillingly and accurately captured the pervasive nihilism and existential horror that permeates youth, the struggle to find meaning in the void, and the sense of desperation that drives us towards other people in hopes of making some sort of connection to combat the infinite meaninglessness.
The soundtrack to the film, made up almost entirely of classic 1980's thrash metal and hardcore punk, helped reinforce the themes of a distinct negativity at work in the universe and became as much a character as any of the teens themselves.
I have attempted to preserve the severe feelings of banality that I feel define "River's Edge" in my approach to the soundtrack.  Almost every piece here was created by manipulating the source materials in exactly the same base manner; differentiations exist in the form of tonalities and structure.  If a certain strain of HNW and ambient music is about illustrating emptiness, I feel my work here succeeds.  There is an absence in these compositions that surprises me, and I am honored to share it with those interested in sound as oblivion.

-Cory Strand

Packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies.  $20 ppd. in the United States, $28 rest of world.

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CORY STRAND "L'ACRIME DI REI: A REINTERPRETATION" CDr (AOW 39)

Continuing my series of soundtrack works reinterpreted and manipulated, I'm pleased to offer up this floating, ambient take on Popul Vuh's ecstatic score for Werner Herzog's masterful film "Aguirre, the Wrath of God."  Herzog has long been one of my favorite people on the planet-his vision of nature and man's place in the universe is completely unlike anyone else's-and with "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" he hit a magnificent high point that juxtaposed the arrogance of mankind against the utter and total indifference of nature.  Popul Vuh's soundtrack helped Herzog's vision reach a hallucinatory peak that has never been equalled in film.  Florian Fricke's compositions were hypnotic, otherworldly, and imbued with a deep and ghostly resonance that elevated Herzog's images to a new level of subcontextuality.
I have attempted to make those resonances deeper and more subconscious in my reworking.  From gorgeous, wispy melodicism to a stagnant and seemingly eternal drone, my interpretation of Fricke's source material hopefully becomes a vision of auditory ecstasy as transcendent as the original marriage of music and image in "Aguirre, the Wrath of God."

-Cory Strand 

Packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies.  $10 ppd. in the United States, $18 rest of world.

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NEWS 9/16/2012

I'm pretty much caught up on my releases thus far.  For my UK customers, a good chunk of the back catalogue is now available via Turgid Animal, so you won't have to pay such ridiculous shipping rates.  I'm sorry it's so expensive from the United States!  Hopefully my more recent releases will be available there soon as well.
The Vomir album is down to 4 copies.  Maybe I should have done a larger run...oh well.  It's Vomir.  I figured it would sell out quickly regardless.
The next album going into production (we're working on it now) will be Dead Body Collection's "This Is My Home" 2xCDr.  The packaging will be a little more elaborate than usual, and if it comes out as envisioned, it will be really gorgeous.  Afterwards, there will be another Burial Ground album based on "The Exorcist"-I've outsourced the artwork on that one, so it should look stellar as well.
Other future releases include Churner, Clive Henry, Culver, Footpaths, and so many more.
Thanks to everyone for all of the continued support.  It means so much to me that the label is being well-received and people are digging the releases.

-Cory

SAVAGE CROSS "ABYSS OF THE FLESH OUROBOROS" CDr (AOW 30)

The true black is the void, the embrace of the crawling emptiness, the recognition of the infinite oblivion, and the acquiessence to the malleable obliqueness that scalds our existence.  Much of modern black metal cloaks itself in the robes of ideological severity only to come up far short in terms of approaching the philosophical cornerstones of the genre; even the most supposedly nihilistic projects fail to follow up on their own endorsements of immolation and violence.
Savage Cross make no such pronouncements of intent.  Instead we receive deliverance unto the waste, an open-eyed gaze into the swirling waters of the universal negative.  Nothing comes back here; this is the devourer.  Enter and find the end.  Through the approximation of black metal form and the creation of sickeningly thick walls of molten contempt, Savage Cross attain the cosmically transcendent through violent harness, caring little for concepts of the future or awakening.  This is pure eradication of consciousness.
Altar Of Waste is extremely psyched to bring forth this numbing call to obliteration, Savage Cross's first physical offering after a small wealth of digital releases.  Behold the spoils of psychic despondency.   Packaged in a DVD case with artwork by Evan Craig and Cory Strand, in a limited edition of 20 hand-numbered copies.  $10 ppd. in the United States, $18 rest of world.
More Savage Cross can be perused here: http://algeadestruction.bandcamp.com/

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VOMIR "UNTITLED" CDr (AOW 35)

One of the true masters of the void, Vomir needs little introduction or hyperbole.  If you're familiar with the genre, then you know this is necessary.  Screaming nihilistic transmissions from beyond the pale, a brutal evocation of the absolute zero cradling the heart of existence.  This is the true bleak and the endless hollow.  Nothing begets nothing, a cycle of angst-ridden torment and psychic insomnia becoming a spectacle of near hallucinogenic, quasi-religious spectacle.  Remove yourself now.
Like being thrown into a sludge-filled wind tunnel with sub-oceanic levels of pressure pulsing over you, "Untitled" is another sterling example of why Vomir so defines a specific approach to HNW.  No one else quite summons up the nervous, trembling anxiety that permeates individualized modernity.  This is a hymn of self-loathing and a love letter to misanthropy.
Altar Of Waste is beyond pleased to release this new composition.  At just over 17 minutes, it's the shortest album we've done, but also one of the most uncompromising in both sound and vision.  This is true psychic terror.  Packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 15 hand-numbered copies.  $8 ppd. in the United States, $16 rest of world.

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WET DREAM ASPHYXIATION "BASER" 2CDr (AOW 34)

Questions of alien abductions, astral projection, cross-dimensionality, and the myriad conspiratorial relationships between them all manifest themselves across the span of Wet Dream Asphyxiation's massive new statement "Baser," a brutal and grinding assault that pretty much lays waste to every currently operating sense, leaving nothing but a scalded husk in its wake.  Pure torrents of cascading noise obliterate the sonic landscape, melting the space between your ears while they simultaneously attempt to elevate you to a position beyond your physical being.  This is some seriously transcendental shit, as concerned with altered-conscious passage as it is with running you into the ground.
Totally psychedelic in the best possibly way, this is one of the most assaulting and extreme records Altar Of Waste has put out, recalling the work of masters like Aube and Masonna while firmly blasting away a completely individualized space within the HNW parameters.  Utterly insane, next-level compositions.  Hymns to the great gods of the frigid electric.  You are not really here anymore.
Presented in a DVD case package in a limited edition of 20 hand-numbered copies.  $15 ppd. in the United States, $23 rest of world.

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CORY STRAND "CULTURAL SUBORDINATION" 2CDr (AOW 32)

I've fought a losing war against pop music all my life.  When I was younger I used to wear the elitist cloak proudly, wrapping myself in assertions that Napalm Death were better than anything that anyone else was listening to and that the Dead C were all you needed to know about emotional expressionism.  Several years later, I read Alan Licht's book An Emotional Memoir of Martha Quinn and my mind, along with my preconceptions about popular music, were sufficiently blown apart.  Licht wrote that "Peter Cetera wasn't the enemy," an affirmation that all music has some sort of value to it regardless of your personal feelings about it.  Pop may cater to the obvious, but the obvious exists in our collective subconscious, no matter how much we deny it.
"Cultural Subordination" is my attempt to subvert and pay tribute to this anti-radical form of crowd control.  Every track here was sourced from elements of Ellie Goulding's track "Lights," as infectious a piece of hypercolor ear rot as I've ever heard.  There's a yearning and desperation buried in the track that appeals to me, and I've tried to bring those more severe emotions out in my treatments of the track.  It's astounding to me just how far out these reworks can go, and how something so seemingly tepid can yield such grotesque, beautiful, and ultimately polarizing sounds.  Everything you want is here, if you're willing to go deep enough.
Ellie Goulding is not the enemy.
Released by Altar Of Waste in a DVD case, in a limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies.  $15 ppd. in the United States, $23 rest of world.
Portions of this record can be streamed at my Bandcamp page:
www.corystrand.bandcamp.com

-Cory Strand

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LETHE "HAUNTING AND WOE" 4CDr (AOW 11)

Composed and recorded at the same time as "Inconsequence," "Haunting and Woe" is a moodier and hazier evocation of Lethe's worldview, one in which the banalities and frustrations of life rise to the fore and threaten to overtake the very notion of existence.  "Haunting and Woe" seems to hang on to notions of defeat and failure in a questioning manner, constantly reflecting on choices that have already been made, an infinite process of cyclical thinking that ultimately leads to despair, regret, and removal.  There is no joy here, only the solace of purgatorical emptiness.
If "Inconsequence" dealt with the void, then "Haunting and Woe" narrows Lethe's focus to a growing sort of melancholia, an infection in life that gnaws and teethes but never fully bites.  This is the sound of enervation, of confidence receding, of desire ebbing away in a wash of self-criticism and loathing.  This is a catalogue of perceived mistakes, a gathering of storm clouds across the sky of your being.  Isolationism is imminent.
Altar Of Waste unleashes this behemoth set of recordings after much delay, packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies.  $20 ppd. in the United States, $28 rest of world.

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CORY STRAND "CLOCKWORK ORANGE: A REINTERPRETATION" 4CDr (AOW 33)

My second exploration of the soundtrack works of Wendy Carlos focuses on her superlative score to Kubrick's Clockwork Orange.  Carlos' compositions for the film were rooted in aristocratic classical masterpieces but also displayed her trademark darkness and sense of sonic disassociation, resulting in a perfect amalgamation of the highbrow and the severely fucked-up that fit Kubrick's vision to a tee.  If anyone could make Beethoven sound violent and menacing, it was Wendy Carlos.
I've attempted to tap into that sense of foreboding and violence with my work here.  Again, while I in no way make the statement that these pieces hold a candle to Carlos' originals, I think collectively these compositions provide a pretty excellent overview of my aesthetic in this medium; from deep bass drones to crawling walls of sludge to all-out HNW fracturing, it's all here, in copious amounts.  If nothing else, "Clockwork Orange: A Reinterpretation" serves as an overview of my myriad solo projects and a truly exhaustive listening experience.  At their best, I think they conjure up the wavering reality suggested by the film and serve as a devoted tribute to one of electronic music's finest innovators.
On a personal note, this is a favorite amongst all my releases.  Released on Altar Of Waste  in a DVD case with artwork assembled and constructed by me in tribute to Carlos' original soundtrack packaging, in a very limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies.  $20 ppd. in the United States, $28 rest of world.

-Cory Strand

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LINDSKOLD "THE MAJESTY OF THE LIDLESS EYE" CDr (AOW 31)

Lindskold returns with another approximation of traditional black metal aestheticism if not methodology.  Created almost entirely from processed vocals, "The Majesty of the Lidless Eye" is at once another slab of gurgling, tortured sludge vomiting its way through the speakers, but also a hypnotic and slightly empirical tribute to J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.  Tolkien's mythology has been the fodder for a prodigious amount of black metal output since the movement's inception, and here Lindskold honors that tradition (especially in the evocation of magnificent bands like Summoning and Kinstrife & Blood) while simultaneously pushing it towards a more extreme and noise-focused universality.
Altar Of Waste is pleased to present this re-recidivist black metal tapestry in a DVD case with artwork assembled and constructed by Cory Strand, in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies.  $10 ppd. in the United States, $18 rest of world.

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SMALL HOURS "PERFORMS THE SONGS OF BACHARACH AND DAVID" CDr (AOW 29)

Like Love Katy, Small Hours occupies an extremely unique position in the HNW microcosm.  My first exposure to Small Hours' aesthetic was a lone track called "My Walls Would Suck Without You," a brutal reworking of the Kelly Clarkson pop dream nugget that somehow managed to fuse the almost desperate yearning of the source to an equally apocalyptic squall of wall.  Popular music has the capacity to infect and remain and become something of a mass sedative; in a similar sense, the stagnancy inherent in so much HNW can become lulling and achieve a state close to transcendental stasis.
Enter then Small Hours' brilliant deconstruction of perhaps the most "popular" of all popular music, easy listening.  Burt Bacharach and Hal David are universal, and "Performs the Songs of Bacharach and David" is a radical effort to transform that universality into something beyond its original ambition, a reimagining of a standard defined by decades of cultural nostalgiah.  Your grandparents knew these songs, your parents knew them, and they're floating somewhere in your subconscious as well.  Across these six tracks, Small Hours indulges in a variety of massive textures and tonalities, from crumbling, ghostly static to all-out torrential downpours of scathing extremity.  Fusing it all so seamlessly to source material thought of as anathema to the conception of HNW marks the record as an intensely visionary work.  No one else is doing this.
Altar Of Waste is proud to release this gauntlet to the world.  Packaged in a DVD case with artwork assembled and constructed by Cory Strand, in a limited edition of 20 hand-numbered copies.  $10 ppd. in the United States, $18 rest of world.

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FUTURE RELEASES

This Tuesday I'm heading back to school for what will most likely be an incredibly work-intensive semester (I'll receive my degree in cinematography at the end of the year.)  This unfortunately means that it's going to be harder for me to crank out releases the way I have been, but I have so much awesome stuff coming out soon I'm going to do my absolute best to keep on top of everything and stay on schedule.  It might mean a lot of coffee fueled sleepless nights, but I love doing this label so much I know it will be worth it.  I have releases coming up from the following:

VOMIR "TBA" (I should be receiving the master tomorrow, artwork in progress)
LETHE "HAUNTING AND WOE" (4CDr set of dark ambient)
CROWN OF BONE "THRONE OF CACOPHONY" (debut full length, set for a Halloween release)
LINDSKOLD "THE MAJESTY OF THE LIDLESS EYE" (more black metal recidivism)
SAVAGE CROSS "THE ABYSS OF THE FLESH OUROBOROS" (very soon, artwork being finalized)
SMALL HOURS "PERFORMS THE SONGS OF BACHARACH AND DAVID" (very soon, artwork will be printed this week)
CARRION BLACK PIT "TBA"
NORTHUMBRIA "TBA"
CULVER "TBA" (probably a 2 or 3 disc set)
BURIAL GROUND "THE EXORCIST"
DEAD BODY COLLECTION "TBA" (double CDr set)
CHURNER "TBA" (power electronics)
CLIVE HENRY "TBA" 
VERWUSTUNG "DISTANCES"

I had no idea the label would have this much momentum, and it is an honor to work with all of the artists.  Your generosity astounds me.  Really and truly!

-Cory

NECRONOM IV "BECOMING" 2CDr (AOW 22)

The final volume of Necronom IV's Alien suite, two massive hymnals to universal obliteration and the utter failure of mankind to survive in a cosmos indifferent to its existence.  There is only this emptiness, this void, this great and eternal gnawing, screaming from every corner and every fold in the fabric of the physical.  Mankind is a vessel, a vehicle for a higher evolutionary form, one which is simplistic and unerring in its blind ferocity.  Survival becomes the only mark of the true intelligence.
The two pieces here end Necronom IV's exploration of Ridley Scott's mythology in fine and majestic form, with the frigid despair of "Becoming" segueing into the haunting and vaguely soothing "Worming Parasite."  You are truly alone, and in space, there really is no one to hear you scream.
Altar Of Waste is beyond pleased to present these transformative recordings in a DVD package with artwork assembled and constructed by Cory Strand, in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies.  The blinding light is the end, the eclipse of reason by fear in all its totality.  $15 ppd. in the United States, $23 rest of world.

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CORY STRAND "THE SHINING: A REINTERPRETATION" CDr (AOW 28)

As a cinematography/film studies student, I am obviously enamoured with the work of Stanley Kubrick, and his  version of Stephen King's The Shining remains one of my favorite films of all time.  Equally impressive with regard to Kubrick's canon is the soundtrack work he elicited from Wendy Carlos.  It's difficult to imagine Kubrick's films without her themes, and in the case of The Shining especially, her compositions set and maintain the tone throughout the whole film.  It's easily one of the darkest pieces of music ever made for a film, unsettling and crushing in equal parts, and it remains burned into the brain nearly as much as Kubrick's imagery.
I decided to offer my take on this masterful score, and while I certainly do not believe my work comes close to being the equal of Wendy Carlos's, I am very happy with how this record came out.  In the first section I've played up the suffocating, thick darkness present in the piece and taken it further out, creating a lengthy journey through Carlos's rich synthesizer composition and sound assembly.  The second section offers up my more "rock" take on the theme, pushing it close to a caustic riff on suicidal doom noise catharsis before it collapses into a throbbing, bass-drenched wall.
Released through Altar Of Waste and packaged in a DVD case with minimal artwork assembled by me, in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies.  $10 ppd. in the United States, $18 rest of world.

-Cory Strand

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NECRONOM IV "THE SOIL OF A MAN'S HEART IS STONIER" CDr (AOW 27)

Necronom IV deviates from the claustrophobic terror of its Alien series in order to explore the haunting death vibe of Mary Lambert's version of the Stephen King triumph Pet Sematary.  Lambert's film plays down the Satanic horror of King's novel in favor of a more atmospheric approach, and for a good chunk of the film she manages to create a stifling aura of tragedy and supernatural longing.  Some of her set pieces are particularly evocative, showcasing a feeling of distance and enchantment that plays well to King's colorful grasp of character.
Necronom IV's work here is equally enchanting and distant, a far cry from the compositions offered in the Alien works.  A vague melodicism worms its way into the cold ambiance, conjuring up the spectre of tainted soil and blistering earth, as well as a yearning born from a deep sense of failure.  This is an immersive and strangely calming piece, an elegiac drift through the nether realms. 
Altar Of Waste is pleased to release this atypical album in a DVD package with artwork assembled and constructed by Cory Strand, in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies.  $10 ppd. in the United States, $18 rest of world.

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LETHE "FOR BLOOD, FOR HONOR" 2CDr (AOW 23)

My favorite comic book series is undoubtedly "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."  At their best, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird charted an extremely dark and punishing journey through the psyche of four personalities trying to cope with ideas of tradition, honor, and their own emotional turmoils.  Nowhere were these themes better exemplified than in the masterful "Return To New York" storyline, in which the four brothers go back to finish Oroku Saki, aka The Shredder, once and for all.  Fans know everything was brought full circle from the first TMNT issue, including the epic final confrontation between Saki and Leonardo, where blood and honor converge in a brutal and eviscerating showdown.
I have attempted to do justice to this beloved series with "For Blood, For Honor."  All of the sounds on these two albums were created using elements from the theme song to the TMNT cartoon (not as good as the comics, but it had its moments) and I think they represent some of my finest work in the HNW genre.  "For Blood" is certainly my favorite wall piece, an unrelenting torrent of distorted sludge that I think captures the agony and exhaustion of the battle between Leo and Saki, and "For Honor" allows for a meditative state of eerie contemplation.
This is my love letter to the TMNT.  Released by Altar Of Waste with collage artwork assembled by me, packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies.  $15 ppd. in the United States, $23 rest of world.

-Cory Strand

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NECRONOM IV "DREAMING IN THE VOID" CDr (AOW 21)

The third installment in Necronom IV's Alien inspired recordings is a masterful exercise in deep drone tonality, pure stagnancy for the purgatorical.  An expanse of drooling bass throb washes out under a waft of frigid  and scraping winds, evoking the numbing depths of space and the endless horrors lurking in the universe's forgotten pockets.
There is a distinct undercurrent of violence found in this piece, an expectation of immolation that creates a highly electric and nauseating tension.  Release will never come.  There will only be terror, and it is mindless and all-consuming.
Altar Of Waste is proud to present this third piece of dark ambient death drift in a DVD package designed and constructed by Cory Strand, in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies.  $10 ppd. in the United States, $18 rest of world.

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NECRONOM IV "FIRE FROM THE MOUNTAIN" CDr (AOW 20)

The second volume in Necronom IV's series of recordings influenced by Ridley Scott's Alien mythology, "Fire From the Mountain" is a claustrophobic exercise in enormity and dead black space.  A veritable cosmic ocean stretching out forever, unchanging and ancient in its obstinacy.  There is no hope here, only the eternal night and the promise of oblivion as the universe scatters you callously, slowly ripping you apart with a glacial force and a jaded dispassion.
If "Suffocation" was an encapsulation of fear and paranoia then "Fire From the Mountain" is the resignation to defeat, an ushering in of a new dominance that will exist for time immemorial.  Resistance is a dark and fetid dream.  Acquiescence is the only possibility that will not end in immolation.
Altar Of Waste is extremely proud to present this staggeringly monolithic work of dark ambient horror in a DVD package designed and constructed by Cory Strand, in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies.  $10 ppd in the United States, $18 rest of world.

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DREAMLESS "INSIGNIFICANCE" CDr (AOW 25)

Another new home-recorded Dreamless piece, this time in the form of a 53 minute guitar blowout that beguilingly bridges the gap between my work in Dreamless and my work as Lethe.  Not exactly HNW, but veering close in terms of sound saturation and intensity.  I've tried very much to make something both melodic and abrasive, a paean to much of the drone music I adore as well as to the "shoegaze" artists whose work Dreamless is so often compared to.  Guitars are stacked on top of each other and given the freedom to vomit feedback without restraint, creating a dense environment of distortion and scathing amplifier worship.  Computer processing and editing was used to achieve the necessary immensity.
I've always envisioned Dreamless as a musical vehicle I could use to explore my varied aesthetic interests.  "Insignificance" is the first part in an ongoing process.  Packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies.  $10 ppd. in the United States, $18 rest of world.

-Cory Strand

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DREAMLESS "A LITANY OF FAILURE: HOME RECORDINGS/COVERS" CDr (AOW 24)

Another collection from my band proper Dreamless, mostly all covers I did at home by myself in the summer of 2012.  I took a really straightforward approach to these songs, but they all have the distinctly raw and abrasively dense sound that's come to define the Dreamless aesthetic.  These are songs by artists that I listened to relentlessly in high school and college, material that's come to have a huge influence on both my guitar playing and songwriting.  Pavement, Silkworm, Neil Young-these artists meant the world to me then.  They still do!  A lot of this stuff is really simple and shot through with a certain sadness, and it was a joy to record it.
I added one new Dreamless track to the record as well, a rough recording of "I'm Fucking Everything Up."  This will more than likely appear on the second full length that we'll do for Handmade Birds at an unknown time in the future.  I think it charts the direction the sound is heading in pretty well.
I'm putting this out on Altar Of Waste with two different covers, with artwork and packages assembled and constructed by me, in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies.  Tracklist is the same for both packages.  $10 ppd. in the United States, $18 rest of world.  There is a downloadable version on my Bandcamp page, with two alternate mixes of "I'm Fucking Everything Up" as bonus tracks.

-Cory Strand

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LETHE "ABANDONMENT TO FAILURE" 2CDr (AOW 13)

Lethe's first HNW recordings since the "Theodore Robert Bundy" set eschew all out violence in favor of a more stagnant and contemplative approach, dialing the volume down ever so slightly to achieve a more mesmerizing and overall "ambient" effect.  Like one million washing machines running at the bottom of the ocean, the two gargantuan pieces comprising "Abandonment To Failure" churn and circle endlessly, becoming monolithic in their suicidal obstinancy.
Life is a parade of disillusionments and disappointments, a catalogue of mediocrity that we try to dress up as meaningful.  Alone, at night, we're forced to assess the actualities and recognize that the efforts aren't being rewarded, that our wants are not being satisified, that existence trudges on and crumples us in its desecrating march towards death.  "Dreams Become As Shit" and "Make Another Excuse" form a dual commentary on this sense of inner sorrow, a knell for the ascendancy of hopelessness.
Altar Of Waste is pleased to present "Abandonment To Failure" in a DVD case with minimalist artwork assembled by Cory Strand, in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies.  $15 ppd. in the United States, $23 rest of world.

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EPISIOTOMIST/LINDSKOLD "SPLIT" 2CDr (AOW 18)

Sleeplessness and paranoia becoming one.  The night, cruel and endless, filled with voices and shadows, screaming, voiding, whispering with callousness and declaration.  Reality fading, collapsing, constructing, reinvoking.  The architectures changing within themselves, rearranging, becoming oblique and unknowable.  Lights blurring, colors dissolving, bleeding into one long and desperate parade of monotony.
Episiotomist and Lindskold reconstruct the idea of insomnia on this shared double album.
Episiotomist's composition "Insomnihil" illustrates the influence of modernity on the suffering psyche, a crushing wash of disembodied voices and feedback stretched into one of the more haunting and extreme "ambient" compositions ever put to tape.  Lindskold's piece "Fractured Isolationism" embraces the hallucinogenic aspect of the ailment, turning in a composition more grounded in standard Merzbowian rock aestheticism that gradually becomes a paean to waking exhaustion and burnout.  Together the two records form a harrowing exploration of the restless mind.
Altar Of Waste is extremely pleased to release this collaboration.  Conceptualized by both artists, each record draws from personal bouts with insomnia and helps explain the prolific need to create demonstrated by so many within the genre.  On a personal note, the Episiotomist record is one of the most beautiful demonstrations of power ambience I've heard, and it is an honor to put it out.  Packaged in a DVD case with super minimalist artwork assembled by Cory Strand and released in a limited edition of 15 hand-numbered copies.  $15 ppd. in the United States, $23 rest of world.

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ONLINE STORE

I have created an online store to make purchasing AOW titles easier.  The link is to the right, at the top of the page.  Not sure how it'll go, but we'll see.  I have decided to go with a flat "global" shipping rate of $8.00, plus $2.00 each additional item.  Orders within the United States are still postage paid.

Episiotomist/Lindskold split 2CDr will be out next week.

NECRONOM IV "SUFFOCATION" CDr (AOW 19)

The fear of the unknown is secondary perhaps only to the fear of personal mutilation and pain, the paranoia ever-present in situations where survival instinct and physical endurance are pitted against forces beyond understanding and human experience.  Necronom IV is a new and incredibly impressive dark ambient entity  projecting that fear and anxiety into a series of massive recordings based on Ridley Scott's Alien, perhaps the ultimate expression of the fear of the unknown existing in modern popular culture.  Necronom IV's approach is severe and dense, evoking the hollow and lonely infinity of the cosmos married to a growing sense of unease and horror.  You are simply adrift in the magnitude, being pulled ever further into darker reaches, receding into the glistening eyelessness of a nature far-removed from your own.
Altar Of Waste is extremely pleased to bring this series to light, showcasing an artist with astonishing focus and an understanding of the cosmic.  "Suffocation" is the first volume in a projected five-album cycle, and is presented in a DVD package designed and constructed by Cory Strand in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies.  $10 ppd. in the United States, $18 ppd. rest of world.

CONTACT FOR ORDERING: corystrand@gmail.com

FUTURE RELEASES

I'm hoping to get out a few more things before school starts up again.  I have upcoming releases from:

ALGEA
CARRION BLACK PIT
CROWN OF BONE
VOMIR
LETHE
NECRONOM IV
VERWUSTUNG
EPISIOTOMIST
LINDSKOLD

The next release will be the Episiotomist/Lindskold split.  Just finishing up some artwork and construction.  Thanks to everyone for all the support thus far.  It has been a great experience getting to work with all of the artists.  This is an extremely generous and encouraging community.

FALLEN "DEMO 1996" CDr (AOW 10)

Existing at the tail end of death metal's classic era, Fallen showcased a unique approach to the form.  Crude, simplistic, and not reliant on the crutch of technicality, the band nonetheless evoked the spectres of legendary ensembles like Morbid Angel, Entombed, Sepultura, and Slayer, filtered through a distinctly aggressive hardcore aesthetic.  The guitar playing is especially reminiscent of Greg Ginn's work with the mighty Black Flag, with speed standing in for melodic intent fused to dive bar theatrics that owe as much to Neil Young as they do King and Hanneman.  Fallen only released one official demo, well after principal members had left-"Demo 1996" represents a less refined and far more caustic version of the band, and has been unheard until now.
Altar Of Waste is pleased to unleash this lost black pearl of Minneapolis' death metal underground, presented in a DVD package designed and constructed by Cory Strand in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies.  $10 ppd. in the United States, $18 rest of world.

CONTACT FOR ORDERING: corystrand@gmail.com

BURIAL GROUND "ZOMBIE" CDr (AOW 09)

Like flesh flayed and sloughed and oozing off a fetid corpse's lumbering person, Burial Ground's scathing record "Zombie" is both horrifically dense and grotesque, a powerful 76 minute assault on the audial senses that pays homage to director Lucio Fulci's walking undead masterpiece.  The walls here are near impenetrable, a seering ocean of unhinged electricity shambling forever forward, deeper into the pool of stagnancy.  Violence is reduced to a lulling nostalghia, a constant echo in the brain forced to adapt to situations so dire they're nearly past comprehension.  All the tension and hopelessness present in Fulci's work manifest themselves here, re-imagined by Burial Ground's deft and punishing hand.
Altar Of Waste is honored to release this modern HNW masterwork in a limited edition of 25 hand-numbered copies, packaged in a DVD case with two different covers featuring designs by Cory Strand and Anthony Shaw.  A fitting tribute to a future rife with unnatural torments.  $10 ppd. in the United States.  Overseas, please inquire as to exact cost.

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LOVE KATY "YOU'RE NO GOOD FOR ME" CDr (AOW 14)

Love Katy inhabits a very distinct space in the world of HNW, eschewing the usual themes and philosophies of rage, solitude, and nihilism in favor of something more affirmative and perhaps even welcoming.  Working with the music and persona of cultural icon Katy Perry, Love Katy mutates modern pop convention into walls of sound that are as caustic and suffocating as you'd expect from any HNW but somehow transcend both the genre they originate from and the genre to which they supposedly belong.  While not entirely removed from the recurring ideals of HNW (there is a slightly deranged and obsessive element at work), Love Katy demonstrates the breadth of expression capable in a genre many accuse of staunch minimalism.
Altar Of Waste is beyond psyched to release "You're No Good For Me," a thick and oozing 30 minute crawl through Love Katy's transformative view of obvious cultural currency.  This is our most lavish packaging work to date, with three different covers in our DVD packaging, all designed and constructed by Cory Strand in a limited edition of 24 hand-numbered copies.  $10 ppd. in the United States.  Overseas, please inquire as to exact cost.

CONTACT FOR ORDERING: corystrand@gmail.com

LETHE "INCONSEQUENCE" 3CDr (AOW 12)

There's beauty in the infinite, an endless stretch of possibility basking in the light before you, beckoning and summoning, calling out in whispers and lilting caresses.  Like a mist washing over a mountainside forest, calm and expansive.  But that mist could be smoke, the waste of scorching fires eating away the beauty, eradicating it inch by inch, malicious and indifferent.  Everything that once was will cease to matter, nothing but a blackened husk barely containing an echo of its former splendor.
Existence is tedium and boredom, waiting for the fires to approach and consume.  Sorrow waits at the end of all your work, all the pointless striving.  The nothingness is gigantic and unrelenting.  It awaits, yawning, craning its jaws to swallow you and your paltry life whole.
Lethe's massive triple album "Inconsequence" seeks to map out the domain of the pointless, and the sounds found within are nothing short of glacial and oceanic.  Deep, focused, and chillingly absent, "Inconsequence" drifts out to the edge of despair and waits.  Does anything actually happen?
Altar Of Waste is proud to present this towering new work of hopeless drone in a DVD package designed and constructed by Cory Strand, in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies.  $18 ppd. in the United States.  Overseas, please inquire as to exact cost.

CONTACT FOR ORDERING: corystrand@gmail.com

LINDSKOLD "THE AURA OF COLLAPSE" CDr (AOW 16)

Mysterious instrumental black metal ambience, cloaked in the blinding violence of blurring repetition and stumbling circle patterns.  Guitars are distorted to the point of destruction, sounding like crumbling pustules of torn earth and free-flowing tar oozing across a scarred landscape.  Lindskold's lone member Skarmus builds tornado-like towers of frothing audio severity, wading into pools of black metal, HNW, and bass-throbbing dark ambient simultaneously, emerging with something indebted to atmospheric BM but altogether more primal, deranged and viscerally aggressive.
Altar of Waste is pleased to present this mysterious drone metal entity's debut record, offering it up to the vacuous winter night it so scathingly evokes.  Packaged in a DVD case designed and constructed by Cory Strand, in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies.  $10 ppd. in the United States.  Overseas, please inquire as to exact cost.

CONTACT FOR ORDERING: corystrand@gmail.com

YOG-SOTHOTH "HYPNOTIC CRUSHERY" CDr (AOW 03)

Massive sludge drift masquerading in the guise of rock recidivism, with glacial riffs recalling Sabbath at their most plodding and the Melvins at their most astral.  The electric guitar takes up a position of idolatry, with all notions of structure and song given over to pure adulation of feedback and amplifier vomit.  The formula references Bower and Buzzo in equanimity, with psychedelic swirls of screaming squall collapsing under the shriek of theremin and the primacy of drumming as physical expression.
Yog-Sothoth are one of Minneapolis' best kept secrets, a project that builds monuments to excess and worships before the shrine of overindulgence.  Reveling in simplicity, the band here lumbers through six tracks of shambling doom kosmiche, taking riffs to their obvious extremities and then dumping sky-melting guitar solos over the entire mess.
Altar Of Waste is beyond pleased to give this unsung piece of basement psychedelia the release it deserves, having existed as a whisper in the Minneapolis dark for far too long.  Packaged in a DVD case designed and constructed by Cory Strand, in a limited edition of 50 hand-numbered copies.  $10 ppd. in the United States.  Overseas, please inquire as to exact cost.

CONTACT FOR ORDERING: corystrand@gmail.com

FUTURE RELEASES

The label is off to an astounding start.  I'm very excited about what I've got coming up in the next several weeks:

LETHE "Abandonment to Failure": double disc set of suicidal HNW scathe.  Immerse yourself in the wearying weight of regret.

YOG-SOTHOTH "Hypnotic Crushery": psychedelic guitar worship from Minneapolis.  Like Skullflower choking on Melvins riffs.

BURIAL GROUND "Zombie": insane, crushing wall static based on Lucio Fulci's epic splatter film.  I am beyond psyched to release this-Burial Ground are one of the best HNW outfits in operation.

LETHE "Haunting and Woe": another huge collection (four discs) of dark ambient washout from Lethe.  Radigue worship taken to its frigid extreme.

FALLEN "1996 Demo": obscure and crude death metal from ages past.  Severely lo-fi and caustic as fuck.

LETHE "Inconsequence": three discs of oceanic droneworks from Lethe exploring the pointlessness and tedium of being.  Massive.

The Yog-Sothoth record will be the next one going into production, with a larger run than normal (50 copies.)  I will post the records as they become available.
Thanks to everyone for the support. 

DREAMLESS "MELANCHOLIA: A MISCELLANY" 2CDr (AOW 08)

A compilation of rehearsal takes, live performances, and home demos highlighting the noisier, more belligerent side of Minneapolis' shoegaze destructionists.  Some of the material here sounds almost industrial, with its focus on abrasive guitar layering and open-ended freeform improvisation, resulting in a sound related to, but ultimately removed from, the aesthetics found on "All This Sorrow, All These Knives."  Even the home demos are caustic, with drums programmed into crunching, crushing oblivion.  Disc two is a lovely, gorgeous ambient reworking of an unreleased track constructed by Lethe, a wash of pure post-MBV blurgaze that recalls the hazier works of Tim Hecker or Campbell Kneale.  Some of the most severe Dreamless material floating around.
Altar of Waste is pleased to present this atypical set, packaged in a DVD case designed and constructed by Cory Strand with a full color insert, in a incredibly limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies.  $20 ppd. in the United States.  Overseas, please inquire as to exact cost.

CONTACT FOR ORDERING: corystrand@gmail.com

LETHE "GLACIERE FLAMEAUX" 2CDr (AOW 07)

Equally inspired by the primal aggression of black metal's original wave and the stoic majesty of Iceland's natural landscapes, Lethe's latest excursion into drone ambient is a powerful, measured work of glacial temperance and refined minimalism.  Using Sigur Ros' landmark "Takk..." album as a source, "Glaciere Flameaux" reinterprets the band's iconoclasm and tendency towards emotional catharsis as two massive, dark compositions that barely suggest their origin.  Instead, Lethe creates darkness out of optimism, evoking the spectral nature of Iceland's gorgeous cartography and meshing it to the spectacle of burning churches.  Far from being a simple remix album, this is contemplative drone at its most epic and subdued. 
Altar of Waste is pleased to present this elegant work in a DVD package designed and constructed by Cory Strand in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies.  $15 ppd. in the United States.  Overseas, please inquire as to exact cost.

CONTACT FOR ORDERING: corystrand@gmail.com

LETHE "A SECOND SONG FOR DAVID LYNCH" CDr (AOW 06)

Conceived as a companion piece to Cory Strand's upcoming "A Song for David Lynch" EP on Small Doses, "A Second Song for David Lynch" reaches further into the grotesque spectacle located in the heart of David Lynch's universe.  More reflective of the bleak and disturbing confusion of "Inland Empire," Lethe's vision highlights the nightmarish qualities of Lynch's work, the epic noir horror found lurking in the shadowy recesses of bizarre imagery and lurid color. 
Beauty is far from absent, though.  Lethe continues Strand's exploration of "Twin Peaks" through vaguely melodic overtones and jazz-tinged structural elements.  In the mind of David Lynch, numerous worlds exist alongside one another, strange and evocative, haunting and complex, often violent, and always weird.  The overlaps create distortions, pockets of surreality that threaten to become the known.  The only recourse is love and the individual, quirk and fetish.  "A Second Song for David Lynch" attempts to map out the famed director's melodramatic approach to psychological horror, with surprisingly lovely results.  Altar of Waste is pleased to present this set of recordings in a DVD package designed and constructed by Cory Strand in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies.  $10 ppd. in the United States.  Overseas, please inquire as to exact cost.

CONTACT FOR ORDERING: corystrand@gmail.com

LETHE "FHALESETHENCE" CDr (AOW 05)

The medieval destruction of magick through the allure of the stench of sex and the resultant hollowness form the base for Lethe's latest exploration of death ambience, the frigid and scalding "Fhalesethence."  Like winter winds flaying the skin in the arctic wastes, Lethe's formless and assaulting onslaught slices and shreds, carving away the physical to free the ghostly visceral within.  In ancient times, beauty was lured with beauty and hacked away, robbing it of its most prized vitality.  Human nature has changed little since then; greed and selfishness walk in hand with narcissism and the posture of refinement.  Slowly, wonder vanishes from the world, swept away in a cloud of ever-growing stupidity and a failure to appreciate the unknown.  "Fhalesethence" is a funeral song for what was lost, now only rusted memories and whispered fairy tales.  Altar of Waste is pleased to present this staggering recording in a DVD package designed and constructed by Cory Strand in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies.  $10 ppd. in the United States.  Overseas, please inquire as to exact cost.

CONTACT FOR ORDERING: corystrand@gmail.com 

LETHE "FAILLITE" CDr (AOW 04)

The gravity of indecision reaches a witheringly existential crisis on Lethe's sprawling deep drone piece "Faillite."  Over an hour of sub-tones clawing their way to a broken surface, feeding off a greying aura of regret and self-dismissal.  The question of presence is distilled to a nullifying extreme, embodying the lack of a person.  Lethe again reaches far into the astral and brings back a cosmic mirror by which all failures shall be measured.  Excess and gratification of the base yields a reaping of sorrows.  This is the exit, the doorway into the void.  Forever falling, drowning in the emptiness of indifference.  Beyond lies poison and despair, black and engulfing, ever-hungry and screaming for more.
Altar of Waste presents "Faillite" in a DVD package designed and constructed by Cory Strand in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies.  $10 ppd. in the United States.  Overseas, please inquire as to exact cost.

CONTACT FOR ORDERING: corystrand@gmail.com

LETHE "AND COME DEATH SHALL I FORGET" 2CDr (AOW 02)

Lethe delves deep into the void in their second set of recordings for Altar of Waste, this time conjuring up vast stretches of near nothingness that float towards the outer vestiges of the cosmic expanse.  Dark patches of the weighted slumberous gorge themselves at the trough of black opulence and recede into the infinite blankness, forever wandering further into the end.  Memory is a liability, constantly under attack by the soporifics of being, a slave to the sorrows of merely existing.  There is no pleasure, there is no joy.  Strap on the headphones, kill the lights and shiver under your blankets.  "And Come Death Shall I Forget" is a map of a vacuum, a place barren, hollow, and near total collapse.  A different kind of haunting excess, death ambient to totality.  Packaged in a DVD case designed and constructed by Cory Strand in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies.  $15 ppd. in the United States.  Overseas, please inquire as to exact cost.

CONTACT FOR ORDERING: corystrand@gmail.com

LETHE "THEODORE ROBERT BUNDY" 4CDr SET (AOW 01)

Lethe's sprawling four CD set "Theodore Robert Bundy" is an agonizing journey through the brutal crimes and deteriorated mental processes of one of the United States' most notorious serial murderers.  A crushing whorl of horrific audio terror rendered hallucinatorily psychedelic via almost infinite repetition and glacial deviation.  Time becomes immobile as the illusion of years recedes into a haunted and sickening nostalghia.  Bundy's crimes went beyond a simple saturation of violence and catharsis, descending into a realm of gratification meant to satisfy an almost infathomable emptiness.  His obsession with owning a female person entire brought him to precipices no "normal" individual could ascertain. 
One of Lethe's most excessive works in a discography rife with them, Altar of Waste is extremely pleased to present this shattering series of HNW recordings in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies.  Packaged in a DVD case with full color artwork designed by Cory Strand.  $20 ppd. in the United States.  Overseas, please inquire as to exact cost. 

CONTACT FOR ORDERING: corystrand@gmail.com