BIG HOLE "GRIEF" 9CDr SET (AOW 440)

I am truly honored to be releasing this massive suite of compositions from Big Hole.  I am not going to say much about this recording's genesis, as I do not feel it is really my place to say anything about it.  It is a deeply personal work from the project; it is a document of personal process and an attempt at understanding something that defies understanding.
The nine pieces that make up "Grief" are some of the most searching, despondent, and emotional walls i've ever heard.  This is a work of minimalism and grey textures, abyssal feelings and a true sense of being hollowed out.  It is massive in the truest sense of the word.  Listening to this record is an experience, a deeply affecting and transformative one.
Many thanks to Christopher for trusting me with this release.  It is certain to be in my top releases for 2016, and i hope those that hear it will come to feel its intensity the way i have.
Packaged as nine separate albums, each with their own artwork.  The packaging is minimal and features photographs taken by me in Duluth, MN, at the end of November 2016.  Released in a limited edition of 15 hand-numbered copies.  $60 ppd. in the United States, $76 rest of world.

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HOGGLE "THE WISEMAN AND THE HAT" C62 (AOW 415)

VERY excited to be releasing this lengthy cassette from Hoggle, as it's been in the works for a truly long time!  Hoggle has been one of my favorite HNW projects since i started Altar Of Waste, and I believe Joe and I began talking about doing this release together 3 or 4 years ago; i'm very excited to finally see it come to pass!  Hoggle is Joe's project based off of the beloved film Labyrinth, retaining the film's darkness and quirkiness in the walls that manifest themselves on this cassette.  What I like best about Hoggle is that across all of the project's releases, Joe has really mapped out the universe of the film and paid homage to all sorts of pieces of its world; Hoggle's releases seem to very much work as a narrative and a journey across the landscape of the film. 
The four walls here, too, are excellent, and very thoughtfully composed.  Loud, scathing, and choked with lovely textures, the pieces here are alive with a fierce and blistering energy.
Dubbed on green cassettes and released in a limited edition of 20 non-numbered copies.  I don't expect this tape will be around for long, as Hoggle material gets snatched up pretty quickly.  Don't sleep on this one.  $10 ppd. in the United States, $26 rest of world.

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CORY STRAND "EXPRESSWAY TO YR. SKULL" C20 (AOW 449)

Third of my new SY reworks, this time working with one of my fave SY tracks (although i always work with my fave tracks, so i don't know why i'm really qualifying this statement), "Expressway To Yr. Skull," off of "EVOL."  Rather than use the album version, though, i decided to use the slightly more dangerous and unhinged live version of the track that the band performs on the 1991: The Year Punk Broke documentary.  These two walls are essentially just VERY deep and thick drones.  Heavy shit, man.
Released in a limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies.  $8 ppd. in the United States, $24 rest of world.

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CORY STRAND "VACUUM ANTHEM" 2XC60 SET (AOW 448)

The second of my new SY reworks, this time a truly gargantuan double cassette set of dense, oppressive droning walls made out of "The Trilogy," off of "Daydream Nation."  These four compositions are extremely overbearing; listening to these pieces through the headphones is at once calming and disorienting.  Melodic but crushing; drifting but drowning in oceans of sound.
Packaged as two separate cassettes, each with their own artwork.  Released in a limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies.  $20 ppd. in the United States, $36 rest of world.

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CORY STRAND "DIRTY BOOTS: A REINTERPRETATION" C21 (AOW 447)

First of three new cassettes working off of some of my favorite SY material.  This one uses the seminal track "Dirty Boots"; i transform the song into two melancholy, deep drone walls that hint at the nostalgic sadness that gives the song its considerable emotional power.  I remember watching the video when I was in my teens and early twenties and wishing that my life was more like what was happening in the video...
Dubbed on lavender cassettes and released in a limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies.  $8 ppd. in the United States, $24 rest of world.

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DEJECTION "DEFEAT" C62 (AOW 446)

A new recording in Dejection's ongoing "TMNT" series.  This one is very exciting for me as it marks a bit of a collaboration between myself and Gina.  For this album, Gina provided me with some field recordings she made, which I then processed into the two massive, deep droning walls that make up the cassette.  The second piece also features some very minimalist and cinematic synth work from me.  This particular cassette is meant to act as a soundtrack to the brutal issue "What Goes Around Comes Around," wherein the Shredder mysteriously returns and nearly kills Leonardo.  Perfect for Christmastime (devotees of the TMNT will know that this storyline takes place right before Xmas!)
Expect more collaborations between Gina and me in the future!
Dubbed on green cassettes and released in a limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies.  $10 ppd. in the United States, $26 rest of world.

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SHURAYUKI-HIME "MORI" C20 (AOW 406)

Shurayuki-hime returns to AOW for a third outing, this time eschewing the minimalist static explorations of the previous AOW recordings and delivering two massive, crackling, deep walls that rank among some of the best the project has done thus far.  Twenty minutes of thick, rumbling, bassed-out sonics that seep into your mind and numb it out beautifully.  Truly devastating, but meditative as well.  Fans of SH will not be disappointed by this one!  Very lovely artwork on this release to boot; i think it's quite a gorgeous little tape.
Released on lavender cassettes in a limited edition of 20 hand-numbered copies.  $8 ppd. in the United States, $24 rest of world.

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