CORY STRAND "TRUE DETECTIVE: SEASON ONE" 8CDr (AOW 169)

Like so many others, I was blown away by HBO's "True Detective," a harrowing exploration of humanity's apparent spiritual emptiness and capacity for thoughtful violence, both physical and psychic.  Nic Pizzolato's epic film was an enigmatic mixture of Nietzschean soapboxing, Schopenhauerean hopelessness, and Lovecraftian cosmic indifference, all framed by a choking atmosphere that was more than a little reminiscent of David Lynch's "Twin Peaks."  But for all its dark posturing and philosophical pronouncements, what "True Detective: Season One" ultimately proffered was the absolute rejection of nihilism as a viable ideology.  What Hart and Cohle find isn't that life is meaninglessness punctuated by cruelty, but is instead just one part of a larger and more benevolent whole, a oneness that exists outside of our limited perceptions and foci.
This rework is different from many that I have done in that here I am working with the entirety of the audio from the series as opposed to a soundtrack: each disc represents the real-time playthrough of each episode, making this perhaps the most direct engagement i've done with filmed material.  The audio is then run through a variety of effects to make it more pliable.  Make no mistake-in keeping with the show's atmosphere of darkness and psychic terror, i've made each of these discs severe to the extreme.  Crushing minimalist HNW sojourns into the night.
Packaged as an eight-volume set, with each disc housed in its own DVD case, with artwork and imagery from the corresponding episode.  No fancy box, no extras-just the film as it aired.  Released in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies.  $65 ppd. in the United States, $78 rest of world. 

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CORY STRAND "ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE: A REINTERPRETATION" 6CDr (AOW 192)

There was no film I was more excited for over the last two years than Jim Jarmusch's vampires-existing-in-tedium masterpiece "Only Lovers Left Alive."  While the film was certainly as brilliant as expected, showcasing all of Jarmusch's strengths as a director, the soundtrack was equally as mind-blowing and gorgeous.  Written and performed by Jamrusch's band SQURL and with help from his frequent collaborator (and amazing artist in his own right), lute revivalist/reinventor Jozef Van Wissem, the soundtrack is a mesmerizing mix of gorgeously aching and yearning melodies and strained feedback tied to hypnotic and insistent standard rock forms.  The result is an epic musical construction that both comments on the themes of the film and exists apart from it.
Sometimes when I do these reworks I end up being astounded at the results, and this is one of those times.  The pieces here are some of the loveliest i've crafted, evoking a wealth of despondent, sorrowful moods and feelings that perfectly complement Jarmusch's study of tedium, banality, disappointment, exhaustion, and sadness.  An epic drone/ambient journey into interiority and wistful nostalgiah, perhaps for something that never really was.  It all seems so different, but it all seems the the same.
Packaged in a twin volume DVD case in a limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies.  $30 ppd. in the United States, $43 rest of world.

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CORY STRAND "THE SOLO ALBUMS: A REINTERPRETATION" 3CDr (AOW 191)

My work with Melvins material continues, this time delving into their homage-cum-narcissistic project from the early 90's.  Buzz, Dale, and Joe each released their own solo EP as a play off of KISS doing the same thing years before; while the material on each EP was more outre than usual for the Melvins, there were some typically brilliant moments, from King Buzzo's whisper/menace ballad "Annum" to Joe's epic sludge wipeout "Hands First Flower" to Dale's entirely amazing whole EP (really-each of Dale's four songs are AMAZING.)  My rework of this trio of recordings seeks to be as experimental and spontaneous, with a variety of drones, HNW and ANW existing alongside one another, hopefully adding up to an immersive and exhausting aural document.
Packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 5-hand-numbered copies.  $20 ppd. in the United States, $33 rest of world.

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CORY STRAND "BULLHEAD: THE HNW VERSIONS" 2CDr (AOW 190)

Twin release to my recent drone rework of the Melvins' masterful album "Bullhead"; whereas the first rework was all deep and ominous death ambiences, this reworking finds me going with an all-out HNW hellscaping approach, crafting epically brutal constructions of speaker-shredding filth and thick, guttural distortion symphonies.  Extremity and excess coupled in homage to iconoclasm and sheer unapologetic HEAVINESS.  Recede into the void and try to come up over from under the excrement.
Packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies.  $15 ppd. in the United States, $28 rest of world.

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YOG-SOTHOTH "BONUS SPELLS" CDr (AOW 193)

A short collection of studio covers and live tracks, available only through Altar Of Waste.  The first two tracks are covers that we recorded during the "Extraordinarily Magickal" sessions: "Expecting," by the White Stripes, and "Shitlist" by L7.  The live tracks are from a show from November 2006, as Ben and I were trying out some new material that would eventually appear on "Extraordinarily Magickal" and "III."  The live tracks show just how willing we were to abandon a song's form and go wherever we took one another in the moment.
Packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies.  $7 ppd. in the United States, $20 rest of world.

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YOG-SOTHOTH "APRIL 2010 DEMO" CDr (AOW 101)

A 45 minute demo of material that Ben and I were working on for the fourth Yog-Sothoth recording, "April 2010 Demo" showcases the final chapter of the band as we headed further into more improvisatory domains with the music and began to simply exist with one another in an extended musical moment.  This may very well be my favorite Yog-Sothoth document, with a very RAW and visceral sound that i absolutely love.  The three songs here are a focused convergence of our musical influences, with "Krautrocker" sounding like Sonic Youth if they were a metal band, live favorite "Circle Song" getting into some serious head-nodding zone-out space as a testament to our admiration for the Finnish psych overlords, and the final completely improvised piece sounding like Bardo Pond at their most punishing and wasted.  Glorious guitar destructionism!
Packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 30 hand-numbered copies.  $10 ppd. in the United States, $23 rest of world.

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YOG-SOTHOTH "III" CDr (AOW 100)

Yog-Sothoth's final studio recording showed us going further down the rabbit hole of excess that was first mapped out on "Extraordinarily Magickal," here trading that album's massive scope for something more digestible in duration but no less layered or dense in terms of audio psychedelia.  "III" is comprised of four songs, three of which are epic length waste/void workouts, and a short stab at metallized southern rock in the form of the final track "That's A Fact."  "Rabbit Brown Star" embraces our more post-rock leanings and was crafted as an ode to Mogwai; "Why Doesn't My Dad Like Daltrey?" is a typically Yoggian blast of maximalist minimalist guitar holocausting; "Messmonger" comes off like some unholy meeting point between the Melvins and "Disintegration"-era The Cure.  A fitting end to our studio work that hinted at a "progression" (hahaha!) as the band continued.
Packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 30 hand-numbered copies.  $10 ppd. in the United States, $23 rest of world.

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YOG-SOTHOTH "EXTRAORDINARILY MAGICKAL" 2CDr (AOW 99)

Finally available after what seemed like an endless amount of delay, Yog-Sothoth's magnum opus "Extraordinarily Magickal" finds Ben and myself at the height of our powers, turning in nearly two hours of numbingly repetitive, tongue-in-cheek Dungeons & Dragons themed psychedelic metal to attain oblivion with.  Echoes of the Melvins, Skullflower, The Heads, Spacemen 3, and Mogwai manifest themselves unabashedly in the sonic goop we conjured up on this one, an epic love letter to the electric guitar and an all-around endorsement of ridiculous excess.  The weekend we spent making this album years ago is one of the happiest memories of my life, and i fucking love this record.  I am so thrilled that it's finally available in some form (though we'd still love to see it on vinyl someday!)
Packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 30 hand-numbered copies.  $15 ppd. in the United States, $28 rest of world.

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JOSEPH CURWEN "JOSEPH CURWEN" 8CDr BOX SET (AOW 183)

Massive compilation of dark and foreboding Lovecraftian drone from the UK's Joseph Curwen, an intensely prolific artist with a thorough understanding of the atmosphere and philosophy of Lovecraft's cold and indifferent Mythos.  This box set collects four full-length drone recordings from Joseph Curwen, each never before available as physical releases: "The Cold Room," "The Dunwich Horror," "Shadow Over Innsmouth," and "At The Mountains Of Madness," all severely deep and drifting pieces of cosmic contemplation and otherwordly horror.  Each album has been given a new layout and cover art, and the entire set is packaged in the familiar AOW box set style, with paste-on covers.
Available in a limited edition of 15 hand-numbered copies.  $60 ppd. in the United States, $73 rest of world.  If you are new to the work of Joseph Curwen, a wealth of material (including the albums collected in this set) can be streamed at the project's bandcamp page:

http://josephcurwen.bandcamp.com/

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SHE WALKS CROOKED "BASHFUL EXHIBITION" CDr (AOW 182)

A new album and the AOW debut from Scott Kindberg's She Walks Crooked, a project dedicated to the ethereal beauty of uber-chanteuse and erotic muse Charlotte Gainsbourg.  She Walks Crooked exists very much in the same space as Love Katy and my eponymous recordings: obsessed with certain "pop" celebrities and ingenues to a point that others would deem difficult to understand in an attempt to illuminate some sort of aspect of their many facets and presentations.  Being a fairly huge Charlotte fan myself, She Walks Crooked was most definitely a project I wanted to work with.
"Bashful Exhibition" is a huge and incredibly dense work, featuring five ultra-intense walls that traffic in a variety of deep, crunchy, bass-heavy textures.  The walls have a loping, sputtering quality that reminds me very much of Love Katy, but She Walks Crooked has a darker sensibility (perhaps owing to the fact that Miss Gainsbourg seems to present a darker presentation of herself than does Katy Perry) and more of a fascination with posturing and perception as opposed to celebration.
Packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 15 hand-numbered copies.  $10 ppd. in the United States, $23 rest of world.

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HEAVY METAL VOMIT PARTY "LONG COLD WINTER OF FIRE AND ICE AND CLICHES BUT LACKING BLACK METAL" CDr (AOW 180)

The first of two HMVP albums scheduled for release through AOW, "Long Cold Winter..." is an awesomely layered blast of dense and tortured HNW crafted by Joe the Stache in honor (dishonor?) of 1980s pop/hair metal icons Cinderella.  I personally remember when I was about 10 years old my dad LOVED Cinderella-on long car trips we'd listen to "Shelter Me" over and over, and I loved every minute of it, so when Joe offered me this album for release I agreed right away. 
I will reiterate that I think Joe makes some of the most rewarding HNW in the circle today (check out Extreme Chafing if you haven't already!)-his work is always extraordinarily well-crafted, hyper-layered, and overloaded with psychedelic texture and detail.  This one is no different-using Cinderella's "Long Cold Winter" tape as source, HMVP deconstructs and utterly destroys every aspect of the original, creating a bleak, cold, but ultimately tongue-in-cheek suite of devastation and a rejection of the cookie-cutter banality that defined hair metal.
Packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 15 hand-numbered copies.  $10 ppd. in the United States, $23 rest of world.

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CORY STRAND "BULLHEAD: A REINTERPRETATION" 2CDr (AOW 189)

If "Eggnog" showcased the Melvins at their most Slayer-ish and thrashing, then "Bullhead" was a demonstration of their utter mastery of post-Sabbath sludge tectonics, with glacially slow songs seemingly bludgeoned by the sheer cosmic mass of Dale Crover's inimitable drumming and King Buzzo's strangled, gnarly guitar style.  "Bullhead" stands as a landmark album of punishing drone metal pummel, a numbing trip down the rabbit hole of oppression and despair.  It's one of the bleakest recordings of all time (at least to me) and represents absolute perfection of genre.
My rework of "Bullhead" heads in the exact opposite direction than that of "Eggnog."  Instead of HNW warmongering, here you get some seriously deep and black drones, thick coagulations of tarry gooping nullifications and voiding meditations.  This is one of my desnest drone works by far, easily on par with my "Day Of The Dead" set from awhile back.  Headphones most seriously recommended; play this one LOUD.
Packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies.  $15 ppd. in the United States, $28 rest of world.

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CORY STRAND "EGGNOG: A REINTERPRETATION" 2CDr (AOW 188)

A rework of one of my very favorite recordings by my very favorite band, the Melvins' superlative EP "Eggnog."  Though only four tracks long, three of which were astonishingly short, "Eggnog" showcased the Melvins' penchant towards epic noise-laden metallized destructionism; the mess of punkish anger and thrash-metal brutality on display on this EP has gone pretty unequalled in their catalogue since (with the exception of fucking perfect album "The Maggot") and stands as a testament to their awesome cataclysmic HEAVINESS.
In keeping with that aesthetic, my rework of "Eggnog" is astonishingly brutal.  I've created some of my densest, most ferocious and scathing walls for the first disc, with the second comprised wholly of a massive and loud ANW rework of the equally massive source track "Charmicarmicat."  Fans of my more punishing output will not be disappointed.  As always, I can only hope I've done the original record justice-there is no way I could ever meet the level of genius the Melvins offer up so effortlessly.
Packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies.  $15 ppd. in the United States, $28 rest of world.

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CORY STRAND "SPIDERLAND: A REINTERPRETATION" 6CDr (AOW 185)

One of the bleakest, most emotionally enervating albums of all time and a personal favorite (as well as a major influence on my songwriting and guitar style), Slint's seminal "Spiderland" set a standard that virtually no band has been able to attain since.  In working with the record as a template i've sought to bring out what I feel to be the album's major moods and concerns: emptiness, loneliness, regret, thoughts of personal failure, a vague sort of personal mysticism, and feelings of worthlessness.  Accordingly, my rework exists in a very minimalist ambient isolationist space, as well as a brutal, numbing wipeout of HNW severity.  Changes are minimal and perhaps only suggestive in an interior sense; the sounds here simply exist and unfurl themselves, seeking only to reach out ever further.  I'm somewhat astounded by the level of anxiety and tedium that inhabits these six discs.  For lonely late night listening and contemplation; the deep and troubling sounds of wanting more out of being.
Packaged in a twin-volume DVD set in a limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies, with three discs being entirely ambient/drone and the remaining three given over entirely to HNW.  $30 ppd. in the United States, $43 rest of world.

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LINDSKOLD/FANTOME DE SANG "OUR ENEMY HAS RETURNED" CDr (AOW 187)

Second Tolkien-themed split release from Lindskold and Fantome De Sang, with both projects charting an obvious progression from the positions claimed on their last pairing.  Lindskold's track shows the project moving even further into a more straightforward epic style of black metal approximation, layering the resplendent "Lidless Eye Awakened In Flame" with discordant synths, psychedelic guitars, plodding basslines and cavernous melancholic choral vocals.  An altogether different sound from virtually everything that has come before, working off the direction hinted at on "Where The Shadows Lie." 
Fantome De Sang's track sees the project working in a far more melodious, throbbing sort of vein, with thick punishing synth lines choking themselves amidst a dense tangle of ridiculously over the top and motorik black metal drumming.  A far more minimalist approach than any previous Fantome De Sang recordings but no less punishing for it.
Packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies.  $10 ppd. in the United States, $23 rest of world.

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LINDSKOLD "SHIELDMAIDEN" 2CDr (AOW 186)

All new double album from my on-again/off-again black metal type project Lindskold, here delving into some seriously narcoleptic, quasi-majestic and melancholic Tolkien-drone.  "Shieldmaiden" is two huge gaping swathes of thick immersive vagary, twin clouds of sorrow spreading out across the land like the shadows of ancient and haggish diseased malevolence.  Epic runtimes mirror the fatigue of battle and the tedium of brutality, with the hints of melody and wistfulness recalling the spirits and legends of time before.  Certainly an experimental and freeform sort of work from Lindskold, eschewing the usual penchant for Summoning-esque black metal psychedelia in favor of something more foreboding, atmospheric, and subtle.
Packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies.  $15 ppd. in the United States, $28 rest of world.

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CORY STRAND "FEAR OF THE DARK: A REINTERPRETATION" 2CDr (AOW 184)

I've been on a serious Iron Maiden kick lately (although i could easily make the argument that in some capacity, the entirety of my life is an Iron Maiden kick) and thought I'd explore one of their more undersung and transitory efforts, "Fear Of The Dark."  While the title track is obviously a fan and live favorite (and rightfully so!), the rest of the album is a bit meandering and stale in some places, lacking the fiery passion of the decade prior-a band trapped in its own perpetuity and caught up in the tension between expectation and ambition. 
My work here, then, seeks to draw out that tension and find the beauty in it.  Obviously my versions sound nothing like the originals; instead of raging NWOBHM the pieces here are murky, cold, and strangely lovely, huge swathes of iron ambience drifting through the night's callous ether.  The whole thing is cloudy, gauzy...dreamy metallized blurgaze trading on your memories of distortion and majesty.
Packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies.  $15 ppd. in the United States, $28 rest of world.

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ATARAXY "A PORTRAYAL OF CANNIBALISM" CDr (AOW 179)

A devastating slab of thick and suffocating HNW madness and carnage from the always exceptional Ataraxy, here exploring perceptions of cannibalism as witnessed by outsiders circa the 16th century.  The three towering pieces that make up "A Portrayal Of Cannibalism" are very much in the scourging/scathing vein, with gritty washes of crumbling, dense distortion textures glued to primordially heavy bass tones and rumbles.  Curiousity and foreboding give way to pure apocalyptic immolation and the wretched majestic fires of cultural dissassociation.  Lost in the jungle but lost in the terrors of your own mind as well, scrambling for clarity and an end to the grotesque images that have burned themselves into your mind.  Burning flesh drips away; entrails and flesh slough off of bone and out of cavities and drop into craning, desperately biting mouths.  There is no hope, only the rotten stench of the night and fading memories of what life once was before these horrors were born witness to.
Packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 15 hand-numbered copies.  $10 ppd. in the United States, $23 rest of world.

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ALOCER CHRISTUS "ALOCER CHRISTUS" 2CDr (AOW 172)

A heart-crushingly gorgeous work of intense personal exploration from Nighttime In The Abyss's Alocer Christus, here abandoning the apocalyptic blackness of NITA in favor of something more sorrowful, disturbing, melancholic and harrowing.  It is not for me to tell the story behind this album; all I can say is that it was born of intense psychic pain and a sense of loss most people never have to fathom, and those despondent emotions come through in the music in a way that few artists are able to summon up.  This is brutally emotional self-evisceration and one person's attempt to understand the frailty of being through art.  Listening to this album, really listening to it and becoming engaged with it (i would recommend deep and focused listening with headphones in the dark), is a transcendent passage of time that will stay with you long after the audio has drifted out of your ears.  A staggering and powerful work from one of the noise scene's most creative iconoclasts.
Packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 15 hand-numbered copies.  $15 ppd. in the United States, $28 rest of world.

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EARTHENWOMB/ENBILULUGUGAL/GRAVETERRE/VENOWL "SPLIT" CDr (AOW 181)

Searingly intense, blink-and-you'll-miss-it four way split between Earthenwomb, Enbilulugugal, Graveterre, and Venowl, with each project turning in very black metal inspired compositions that aim straight for the thrashing, depression-laced interiority of social isolationism.  Vague whispers of melody and grand rock posturing permeate each of the four tracks here, from Earthenwomb's stately and anxious "Panicgrass" to Enbilulugugal's drunken thrashgasm "Lamenting the Goatbong" (featuring an awesome guitar solo!) to Graveterre's diseased industrial ambient mess "Gesitegeton" and ending with Venowl's crushing blastbeat-ridden black mass, "Orthodoxy."  While the whole thing is over in just under 10 minutes the brutality of it will linger long after the last reverberation.  Massively enjoyable, in the red destruction from four awesome artists.
Fold-over artwork packaged in a clear plastic bag in a limited edition of 30 hand-numbered copies.  $7 ppd. in the United States, $20 rest of world.

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TWELVE SUICIDES: SKJELVER CDr (AOW 178C)

The third volume of "Twelve Suicides" marks the welcome return of Skjelver to Altar Of Waste.  While not as prolific as some of its contemporaries, Skjelver's work is always emotionally harrowing and most often just fucking scary; the actual pain and severe feelings of being distraught reference the more insane output of suicidal black metal.  The piece here is both beautiful and horrifying, a triumphant blend of the personal and the universal, a downward spiral into blackest reaches of depression and loss.  This sort of outpouring is what the "Twelve Suicides" series is about: reaching deep within and carving out something truly despondent.  The work here is glorious and will not leave you untouched.
Packaged in a clear plastic bag in a limited edition of 15 hand-numbered copies.  $7 ppd. in the United States, $20 rest of world.

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TWELVE SUICIDES: WHERE IS THIS (AOW 175B)

The second volume in the "Twelve Suicides" series comes from Where Is This, turning in an incredibly complex and considered tour-de-force of anxiety, anger, yearning, and depression.  Where Is This takes the piece through a huge variety of tones and textures, some harsh and some unsettling, and the resultant work is a nasty slog through a bitter narrative of loss and self-loathing that leaves the listener feeling wiped out and dirty.  There's nowhere to hide when the only one to blame is yourself.  A masterful exploration of noise as catharsis and accusation, truly cinematic in its scope and ambition.
Packaged in a clear plastic bag in a limited edition of 15 hand-numbered copies.  $7 ppd. in the United States, $20 rest of world.

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CORY STRAND "INTO AN INFINITE BLACK, VOLUME SEVEN" CDr (AOW 178G)

Seventh volume in the series, dedicated to one of my all time favorite bands in any genre, the mighty Gorgoroth.  Few black metal bands were as unhinged, unpredictable, and truly, chaotically violent as Gorgoroth; even today, I feel that few (if any) modern BM bands can match them.  Total unrelenting hellstorms.  The work here is with the band's "A Sorcery Written In Blood" demo, and is another screaming short blast of multi-textured HNW destructionism.
Packaged in a clear plastic bag in a limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies.  $7 ppd. in the United States, $20 rest of world.

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CORY STRAND "INTO AN INFINITE BLACK, VOLUME SIX" CDr (AOW 178F)

Sixth volume in my series.  You know the image, and you know the album.  Working with Mayhem's timeless "Live In Liepzig" recording, my reinterpretation is a tormented scream from a netherous abyss.  Easily one of the most harrowing and intense volumes in the series, hopefully on par with the violence inherent in the original album.
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CORY STRAND "INTO AN INFINITE BLACK, VOLUME FIVE" 6CDr SET (AOW 178E)

The fifth volume in my ongoing series is wholly dedicated to the early works of Norwegian iconoclasts Ulver.  Absolutely one of my favorite black metal bands, the sheer genius of Ulver's first outings cannot be understated.  This 6CDr set contains my reworks and reconstructions of the "Vargnatt" demo, the split with Mysticum, the "Ondes Triumph" demo, "Bergtatt," "Kveldssanger," and the epic "Nattens Madrigal."  A descent into the pure miasma of creativity and vision.
Packaged in a clear plastic bag, with each disc having its own full artwork, as with the preceding volumes in the series.  $40 ppd. in the United States, $53 rest of world.

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CORY STRAND "INTO AN INFINITE BLACK, VOLUME FOUR" CDr (AOW 178D)

Fourth volume in my ongoing series dedicated to the violence and barbarism of classic-era black metal.  This installment sees me utilizing Emperor's classic demo "Wrath of the Tyrant," transforming what was already a scorching blast of intent and vision into a piece of focused unfurling Satanic destruction.  My interest in Emperor pretty much ends with "In The Nightside Eclipse," but that record and all that came before were fucking brilliant.  Hear the howling night and cower.
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CORY STRAND "INTO AN INFINITE BLACK, VOLUME THREE" CDr (AOW 178C)

Third volume in my ongoing series. Working again with another Thorns demo, 1992's "Trondertun," this volume is a short and intense blast of screaming psychedelic black noise, ululations from the industrial void of Snorre's masterful vision.
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CORY STRAND "INTO AN INFINITE BLACK, VOLUME TWO" CDr (AOW 178B)

Second volume in my ongoing series dedicated to exploring the violence of early black metal.  This installment sees me working with Thorns' absolutely mindblowing demo "Grymyrk."  Here, the psychedelic and murky textures of the original recording are blossomed (blown?) out into the noise and ambient domains, creating new twin works that reference both the bizarre beauty and scathing severity of Snorre's riffing.
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CORY STRAND "FAULKNER IN HOLLYWOOD" 4CDr + DVDr (AOW 168)

"Faulkner In Hollywood" is a 30-minute documentary I created about the author's time working for the major Hollywood studios.  This was a piece I created for my course on Modernism; response to the film and its soundtrack were both really positive, so i decided to press up a few copies and see what happens.
The film is included, as is the original soundtrack.  Also included are a wealth of other compositions I created out of elements of the OST-the overall feel is one of dreamy but foreboding ambience, with one harsh but melodic noise piece to round things out.  The film is very much in the Ken Burns style of documentary, utilizing found images, film clips and narration.  All in all, this film took me close to 80 hours to create.  I'm very proud of it.  Please keep in mind that this is first and foremost an educational film created on a budget of nothing-there's nothing subversive here, but there is a darkness present, a sort of tension.  I offer it for the curious.
Packaged in a DVD case in a limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies.  $25 ppd. in the United States, $38 rest of world.

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