(ftr023)
SOLD OUT but the digital is available at bandcamp.
The second collaboration between Andreas Brandall & Dave Obm presents a more mellow set than the first Torture Gnosis release. Ambient explorations which are sometimes lo-fi but always cosmic.
"...tripped out and tranquil, soft focus swirls drifting weightless through clouds of effects...creep ominous cinematic spawls laced with weird sounds...occasionally blossoming into something that sounds more like the music from a seventies planetarium show..."
Astral Womb - s/t
(ftr022)
SOLD OUT but the digital is available at bandcamp.
Instrumental death metal project from the brains behind Dukkha, Ice Bound Majesty and Black Vomit filtered through the psychedelic noise rock urges of these freaks.
"a collection of death metal, but influenced by instrumental rock of the 90s"
Black Vomit - Let It Come Down
(ftr021)
SOLD OUT but the digital is available at bandcamp.
The second full length from Black Vomit sees the sound continuing down the path of whatever the fuck they want! Dirty doom dub ambience?
"...think of Tim Hecker, taking the washed out, soft focus ambiance of his albums and applying it to something much more sinister, tripped out and pyschedelic."
Dukkha - Grim Disco
(ftr020)
SOLD OUT but the digital is available at bandcamp.
Album number four from Dukkha sees him go disco, while keeping on with his drone and doom leanings. Sound strange? yes, but it works!
"...the sound slipping from caustic distorted buzz to weirdly tranced out cyclical churn, but that's only the first 6 or so minutes..."
Ice Bound Majesty - How Can We Live In A Kingdom And Never See The Throne
(ftr019)
SOLD OUT but the digital is available at bandcamp.
The long awaited full length from IBM with the trademark ambient, blackpsyk, doom metal.
"...lumbering doomy glitch flecked pound gives way to swirling druggy, tripped out ambience, which in turn blossoms into a weird sort of electronic krautrock..."
Kptmichigan - Nacton Sur Mer
(ftr018)
SOLD OUT but the digital is available at bandcamp.
A non Sheffield resident (though with ties to the region) brings primitive dubbed out techno constructed on a visit to these shores, based on laptop recordings. A favourite around here...
War Ethic/Irons - Toward The Abyss
(ftr016)
SOLD OUT but the digital is available at bandcamp.
A split release between two since deceased Sheffield bands. Instrumental raw metal is the order, with War Ethic going for the more "chaotic crust/death metal/grind" angle and Irons bringing "a sludgy and hard-hitting barrage of riffs and percussion."
Night Angels Serve/Frequency Thirteen - Audio Apogee
(ftr015)
SOLD OUT but the digital is available at bandcamp.
Audio Apogee is a 2xcdr label compilation; one disc heavy, the other mellow, though of course this is True Sheffield Black Psychedelia, so there is plenty of cross over between the two!
Torture Gnosis - s/t
(ftr014)
SOLD OUT but the digital is available at bandcamp.
The first meeting of the minds behind Torture Gnosis brings a unique blend of True Sheffield Black Psychedelia, and experimental weirdness from the deep, cold woods of Norway. 10 tracks that offer all the creepy moods, weirdness and chaos you’d expect from such a collaboration.
"...a kind of harsh, abstract industrial black metal cosmic free jazz..."
Syn - Trees
(ftr013)
SOLD OUT but the digital is available at bandcamp.
On this release Syn changes the pace and presents 13 orchestral explorations of the tree ogham. There is a lot of recorded music by Syn, most of which is unreleased as yet, though youtube is a place to find more. The normal syn sound is electronic ambience, which makes this offering an interesting selection.
thekevorkiansolution - invokation(randomselector4.8)
(ftr012)
SOLD OUT but the digital is available at bandcamp.
A re-release of the first album from these guys because not enough people have heard it goddammit! What you get here is avantgrind from 2002 which stands proud 10+ years after its creation.
"twenty-nine tracks of spastic, angular riffage, shrieking vocals and twitchy, nervous drumming that blasts incessently one second, and switches to inscrutable time-signature changes and abrupt stop-start rhythms the next."
Dukkha - Culture Is Not Your Friend
(ftr011)
SOLD OUT but the digital is available at bandcamp.
Album number three comes across like a soundtrack to a film about fog. Ambient doom drone. Dukkha does what dukkha does and Dukkha does it well.
"...three epic tracks, two of em around fourteen minutes but the one in the middle stretching out for more than thirty-four minutes, and it's mostly Dukkha in ambient-sludge mode, creating massive fields of grinding ultra-heavy drift."
Dukkha - Mandala
(ftr010)
SOLD OUT but the digital is available at bandcamp.
Crushing doom ambience from Dukkha, described by some as his most ambient effort to the suprise of others who thing of it as his most heavy. Eno knows the score...it all depends on where you are listening from and how loud the volume has been cranked up.
"a kind of slow motion blackened drone rock/indie sludge cast through a fractured prism."
Skultroll - s/t
(ftr009)
SOLD OUT but the digital is available at bandcamp.
Raw and dirty blackened krautrock metal from this Sheffield bass/noise and drums/noise duo. This is the sound of decay and destruction on an industrial scale...everything is in the red and blown to pieces, whilst still managing to be, er, groovy!?
"As it stands this is an immensely self assured debut which boasts a rare maturity and clarity of vision. Skultroll's music is a gloriously visceral and noisy affair that I highly recommend you investigate soon."
Ice Bound Majesty - A Tomb To Erect ep
(ftr008)
SOLD OUT but the digital is available at bandcamp.
A disturbing mixture of pummeling doom, blissful ambience and industrial black metal, sounding like all of that and none of that at the same time. 35 minutes of "mind blowing space psych black noise fucked folk kraut rock...". You'd be a fool not to...
Rraapcek - Promo 040
(ftr007)
SOLD OUT but the digital is available at bandcamp.
After the split with Black Vomit we get a change of name (of sorts) and more dirty black ambience, experimental black metal and industrial clamour. Beautiful melodies buried beneath corrosive atmospheres fighting for survival.
"Totally blown-out blast beats, varied screams and all sorts of noisy low fi textures swirl around."
The Unholy Warlock - Song Of The Spheres
(ftr006)
SOLD OUT but the digital is available at bandcamp.
A supergroup of sorts bringing together a number of Frequency Thirteen artists to bang out some improvised psych rock jams. Like Comets on High on Fire!
"like a doom metal band mixed with some no wave groups mixed with the grateful dead."
Black Vomit/Dukkha - Be My Second
(ftr005)
SOLD OUT but the digital is available at bandcamp.
Less of a split release than a collaboration, with Dukkha and Black Vomit taking it in turns to present their individual versions of black psychedelia, but which flows as a whole. Black Vomit goes from black krautrock doom via black metal feelings to droned out ambience, while Dukkha crushes all with doomed noise guitar ambient horror.
"I embrace this "filth" and accept it as my own. What that says about me I care not, for this honest black psychedelica has razed my brain and ground down my nerve endings."
Dukkha - Anattá
(ftr004)
SOLD OUT but the digital is available at bandcamp.
A one track ambient doom masterpiece which starts mellow, but doesn't stay that way. Blissful, hypnotic and crushing, this brings together psych, cosmic drift and heavy weight doom riffing.
"...imagine Saturnine Temple or an instrumental Electric Wizard rehearsal tape spliced with Ash Ra. Killer!"
Deadeadead - Live In Nottingham '05
(ftr003)
SOLD OUT but the digital is available at bandcamp.
Deadeadead were a short lived Sheffield guitar and drum duo who stayed together long enough to play a couple of gigs supporting the likes of Rammeses and Asva. Not bad...this disc is a recording of the show with Asva. Instrumental black war doom is one way of describing it..quite a good way really.
Black Vomit/Rape Rack - Scumfuck/Ambient Shitstorm
(ftr002)
SOLD OUT but the digital is available at bandcamp.
Black Vomit play a sort of experimental blackend punk/power violence while not really sounding anything like what that will probably make you think. Rape rack are more blackended ambient. This works well together and there is even a bonus collaboration Von cover at the end.
"You will feel soiled."
Karaoke Vocal Eliminator - s/t
(ftr001)
SOLD OUT but the digital is available at bandcamp.
The first release from Frequency Thirteen is an ambient/electronic patchwork from a collective known as KVE. Not much is known about them, but they play what was once likened to an alternate soundtrack to Eraserhead.
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