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.

CONTACT FOR ORDERING: corystrand@gmail.com

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