DEJECTION "BODYCOUNT" C20 (AOW 369)

New tape from my depressive ANW/HNW/synth drone project Dejection, part of my ongoing series of recordings based on "TMNT," my favorite comic book series.  "Bodycount" is an odd one in the TMNT universe, a hyper-violent, ultra-bloody one-off story that sees Raphael and Casey Jones getting deep into guns.  It's beautifully ridiculous and the level of violence is astonishingly absurd.
The two pieces here are probably some of the most ominous Dejection recordings i've done.  It's best termed ANW, but really, the work here sounds way more like some of the extended guitar drone pieces of "Earth 2" or Sunn 0)))'s "The Grimrobe Demos."  Thick, sludgy, stagnant, deep drones to zone out to.
Released on green cassettes in a limited edition of 10 hand-numbered copies.  $8 ppd. in the United States, $24 rest of world.

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NAUGHTY "MY KING" 6CDR REGULAR EDITION (AOW 401)

Proper AOW debut for France's fantastic HNW project Naughty, here turning in an absolutely massive and wholly majestic six disc set based on Maiwenn's emotionally devastating 2015 film Mon Roi.
Naughty is the newest project of Charlotte Skrobek; already she's been leaving a trail of totally untouchable and flawless HNW releases in her wake, demonstrating a true mastery of crushing textures and beautifully monolithic tones, all dense bassed-out fuzz and beautifully droning distortions, creating an astounding wall sound that has taken my breath away with each and every new recording.  To say that i'm psyched to release this huge set from Charlotte is an understatement; for me, the sounds she's crafted here pretty much lay waste to the idea of what a wall can and should be.  Bleak and suffocating, and perfectly capturing the enervating and vampiric tone of the film.  Utter despair and devastation.
From the artist herself:

"I wanted to work on the theme of mental domination / submission, and when I watched the movie Mon Roi by the French director Maïwenn, it inspired me a lot, so I decided to base my release on this movie. It’s a devastating love story, about a woman who falls madly in love with a narcissistic pervert. He totally breaks her but she keeps on fighting for their love. It’s an explosion of emotions, all the feelings related to love are expressed, from the sweetest and the most delightful to the most destructive...Sound-wise, the tracks are very stripped-down, with the focus on the low end. There is always one or two layers of modulated static on top, but never a real “crunch”. I have seen mentions online about a new subgenre called Drone Noise Wall, I’m not sure what it is, but in my mind, 'My King' could be called that." (from an interview with Musique Machine)

This record is certain to be in my top ten of 2016 noise releases as well, if not at the VERY top.  Charlotte is a master.  Do NOT miss this record.
Packaged in a six-disc DVD case, in a limited edition of 15 hand-numbered copies.  $25 ppd. in the United States, $41 rest of world.

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NAUGHTY "MY KING" 6CDR DELUXE BOX SET (AOW 402)

Proper AOW debut for France's fantastic HNW project Naughty, here turning in an absolutely massive and wholly majestic six disc set based on Maiwenn's emotionally devastating 2015 film Mon Roi.
Naughty is the newest project of Charlotte Skrobek; already she's been leaving a trail of totally untouchable and flawless HNW releases in her wake, demonstrating a true mastery of crushing textures and beautifully monolithic tones, all dense bassed-out fuzz and beautifully droning distortions, creating an astounding wall sound that has taken my breath away with each and every new recording.  To say that i'm psyched to release this huge set from Charlotte is an understatement; for me, the sounds she's crafted here pretty much lay waste to the idea of what a wall can and should be.  Bleak and suffocating, and perfectly capturing the enervating and vampiric tone of the film.  Utter despair and devastation.
From the artist herself:

"I wanted to work on the theme of mental domination / submission, and when I watched the movie Mon Roi by the French director Maïwenn, it inspired me a lot, so I decided to base my release on this movie. It’s a devastating love story, about a woman who falls madly in love with a narcissistic pervert. He totally breaks her but she keeps on fighting for their love. It’s an explosion of emotions, all the feelings related to love are expressed, from the sweetest and the most delightful to the most destructive...Sound-wise, the tracks are very stripped-down, with the focus on the low end. There is always one or two layers of modulated static on top, but never a real “crunch”. I have seen mentions online about a new subgenre called Drone Noise Wall, I’m not sure what it is, but in my mind, 'My King' could be called that." (from an interview with Musique Machine)

This record is certain to be in my top ten of 2016 noise releases as well, if not at the VERY top.  Charlotte is a master.  Do NOT miss this record.
 
DELUXE BOX SET EDITION

This version of "My King" is packaged in a wooden box, hand-lettered by me.  Each of the six walls is presented as its own disc; each is packaged in a heavy fold-over cover with full colour exterior and interior artwork utilizing images from Mon Roi, with each disc then housed in a clear plastic bag.  The images used were selected by Charlotte Skrobek and myself and the screen grabs were done by me from a high definition transfer of the the film.  The box set also includes an informational insert.  The box set version is released in a limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies.  $35 ppd. in the United States, $51 rest of world.

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PROSTITUTES OF THE 19TH CENTURY "THE VICTORIAN IDEAL" 2CDR (AOW 399)

Massive double album from Denmark's Prostitutes Of The 19th Century, following up the project's stunning debut cassette released earlier this year on Carnal Void.  "The Victorian Ideal" presents six dense, crumbling, hollow-sounding walls, beautifully far away sounding and epic in their bass-driven almost-ambience.  There is both a violence and a calm present in these compositions, a numbing and belligerent focus on texture and atmosphere as opposed to blind rage.  The six walls here present a truly erotic aura, a haze of sound that recalls late nights of absinthe-induced orgies and clouded perceptions, of desires unhindered and darknesses unforeseen.
An absolutely astonishing listen, a journey into history's forgotten pornographies.
Packaged in a double DVD case, with gorgeous artwork utilizing old Victorian erotic photography, in a limited edition of 15 hand-numbered copies.  $12 ppd. in the United States, $28 rest of world.

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PAHA HENKI "SPACEBASE 666/A TRAVEL TO SPACE AND BACK" 2CDR (AOW 403)

Seering, bleakly psychedelic double CD album of bizarre outer space transmissions and wall permutations from the mysterious Paha Henki.  "Spacebase 666/A Travel To Space And Back" more than lives up to its title, with the first disc trafficking in some seriously intense and hyper-destructive harsh noise that will slash knives across your mind and make all manner of shades of black flash before your eyes; the second disc presents a more stagnant and monolithically static wall, a troubling blast of white noise that brings to mind the absolute void terror of floating through endless swathes of nothingness, waiting to die in the giant surrounding emptiness of outer space.  This is a very severe and disturbing journey into the anti-kosmiche, meditation through total obliteration.
Packaged in a standard double CD jewel case at the artist's request, with extremely minimal artwork, in an undisclosed number of copies.  $12 ppd. in the United States, $28 rest of world.

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CORY STRAND "GUMMO III: FULL OF BEAUTY AND ILLUSIONS" 3CDR (AOW 407)

A return to the nihilistic scorched earth of Harmony Korine's Gummo, this time using all of the tracks from the film that were not included on the official OST release.  This is maybe the absolute bleakest of my three Gummo reworks to date, a massive exploration of grey ambience and droning wall crushery that threatens to overwhelm at every moment.  Truly fucking monolithic and despairing, and shot through with the occasional rare moment of eerie, transfixing beauty.  I think this is one of the best projects i've done in awhile; with beautiful minimalist artwork.
Packaged in a heavy fold-over cover, with each of the three discs in a black sleeve, and the entire set housed in a clear plastic bag.  Released in a limited edition of 5 hand-numbered copies.  $20 ppd. in the United States, $36 rest of world.


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HEAVY METAL VOMIT PARTY "(GROUPIES SNORT UP ALL THE BLOW IF IT ISN'T KEPT) UNDER LOCK AND KEY" CDR (AOW 404)

Heavy Metal Vomit Party returns to Altar Of Waste for a third outing detailing the ridiculous excesses of the 1980s hair metal lifestyle, this time laying waste to Dokken's 1985 cassette "Under Lock and Key."  As usual, HMVP absolutely obliterates the source material, turning arena rock posturing and bloated mid-80s production values into a scathing, screaming collection of eight destructive walls that numb your brain faster than a mountain of cocaine laid out on a table backstage at Hammersmith.  I love the whole aesthetic of this project, from the hilarious song titles to the don't-fuck-with-me intensity of the walls; i'm always happy to release HMVP through AOW.  Once again, Joe the Stache has reached back in time and turned excess into even more excess.  True sonic severity.
At the artist's request, and in keeping with the project's aesthetic, this release is packaged in a standard DVD case in an unnumbered edition of 10 copies.  $10 ppd. in the United States, $26 rest of world.

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