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#71

GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Starting a mail order, wha...

Last post by AKTI Records - April 17, 2026, 09:36:24 AM

There are many kinds of distros and I would say thinking and planning a bit what it is one wants can be good. There are different advices to be given to different kind of distros.

There are guys who have small label and take only small number of carefully curated, often stylistically related releases. Benefits are that even if you have merely handful of customers, one may get rid of distro stock while selling your own things. Stocking things one can honestly recommend is absolutely the best. And doing exactly that - actively writing descriptions / reviews is entirely different thing than anonymous hyperbole sale pitch. It is not usually generating much money, but means of getting your own stuff out there, plus things you like.

If deciding to go all the way, and start big distro, aimed to have wide selection of releases, it will require way more time, money and cumulating inventory. I am not even sure if anyone can really advice someone who wants to give a try to such thing in 2026. Situation is so different compared to the past. Other international dealers may have cumulated their inventory for 20-30 years, plus may have contract with couriers for better shipping prices, but in other hand, whoever will start distro, generally sees that inventory never becomes smaller. It just grows and grows.

Ability to sell at gigs can be big plus. Even small gigs.

I would also say that its good to know the selection of the respected distros of your country... like for example there was no need for me to stock one thing that satatuhatta + fa have as they have fixed customers and certain things they enjoy.

My first and foremost motivation for the couple of years that I did it was to stock records I liked to have in my shelf and to share them with others too. Especially experimental music that was not that much usually covered by the other distros in finland. For example you could get Discreet Music LPs from Satatuhatta, but what about Art Into Life? Kashual Plastik? Lasse Marhaugs stuff? Well perhaps that. Do you enjoy Vainio? Well this one by Marja Ahti is amazing... I should email her...  Dead C adjecents? New Zealand in general?

I would advice you to just stock releases you are fucking excited about as they tend to be easier (and very rewarding) to recommend to people, heh. And yes as said before, forget about the money as what you will get you will most likely spend times X. Its a very honorable thing to do but unfortunately (at least for me) some people do it better than others.


100% agree on the shows with Mikko, although its bit a personality question of what kind of salesman you are.

#72

Live Show Announcements / UNCLEAN and STINKFINGER in UK ...

Last post by MT - April 17, 2026, 07:14:01 AM

Performing two gigs next month in UK.



Contact Circle of Solstice label for info.




A NIGHT OF HARSH NOISE DEVIANCE AND OCCULT WORSHIP

STINKFINGER
From Finland. Gut wrenching, vomit inducing, head aching harsh noise
SEXUALISED MEDICINE
Harsh Noise/Power Electronics. Antidote to a World of Flesh
BELLARMINEHEX
Esoteric folklore drone. Carefully arranged lengths of tape accompanied by amplified acoustic wheel cranking lead the willing down sunken lanes & Holloway's. Whist buried vocals recite untold tails of rural occultism & witchcraft
SOCIAL SERVICES
Bureaucratic despair: Sonic equivalent of a bleach drinking contest in a multistorey carpark
ACCELERANT
Harsh Noise Purity Manchester
OIL CHANGER
Chippy Noise North East
+ NATURAL SCIENCES DJ

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stinkfinger-sexualised-medicine-bellarminehex-social-services-tickets-1986950346975

#73

GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Your Favorite Metal Releas...

Last post by Kaaoskultti - April 17, 2026, 02:39:03 AM

Hail Spina Bifida! Any good releases this year, so far?

Just checked out Wulkanaz-Luftuz (last year, but new enough to me) and can give that a very high recommendation. Good return to form after the lackluster album that preceded it.

Wulkanaz and Arckanum are pretty solid Black Metal acts, so I'll make myself sure to check out. Thanks!

#74

CLASSIFIED ADS / Re: WTB: New Juche's Water Mar...

Last post by Dingdop - April 16, 2026, 11:40:33 PM

Not sure if this is worthy of a new classifieds post, so will just add it here.

Still searching for a copy of NJ's Water Margin, wanted to throw out there I am willing to trade my 2nd edition paperback version of Michael Gira's "The Knot". Limited and signed. Brand new condition besides two barely noticeable corner frays, spine and pages are perfect, can share pictures.

Waiting for your pm!

#75

GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Your Favorite Metal Releas...

Last post by ritualabuser - April 16, 2026, 10:45:28 PM

Hail Spina Bifida! Any good releases this year, so far?

Just checked out Wulkanaz-Luftuz (last year, but new enough to me) and can give that a very high recommendation. Good return to form after the lackluster album that preceded it.

[Bloomer]

#76

GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: PLAYLIST with COMMENTS/REV...

Last post by k.p.g - April 16, 2026, 09:41:10 PM

Bloomer - Wound with Foreign Object Embedded (New Forces)
We all have those early noise discoveries that stick with us.  Even if it takes years between revisits, you can come back to them and feel the power you felt the first time come creeping back into your bloodstream.  I remember picking this up from Stefan at the Ende Tymes Form Hunter played back in 2019; maybe their second show?  I remember being awkward as hell, trying to contain my excitement over the fact that a guy who was involved bands like Intensive Care & The Endless Blockade also made harsh noise!  WOW!  That was pretty cool at the time.  I grabbed the cassette, tried to say a couple more words and then scurried away.  Probably played it the next morning and thought "cool, harsh noise!"  I cannot recount any subsequent listens after this (although they did happen).

I come to this one now with focused ears, and a lot more appreciation for all the pieces at play here.  While there is plenty harsh to rave about, what grips me this time is how much of a "dreamlike" quality there is to the loops being used here.  Sounds of passing music, trains, conversation... they all coalesce into what feels like a dehydrated daydream in the city heat.  It's equal parts nasty and beautiful.  I have heard other works from Bloomer across various projects, but this stands as his peak.

With how much noise is easy to consume in today's landscape, it can make a tape that is under 10 years of age seemingly disappear from the public consciousness in a matter of weeks after release.  I think about one of the last White Centipede Noise episodes that came out about "modern favorites," and how the goal was seemingly to capture those types of "forgotten" releases of the time and give them another shine.  While my section was not included in the mix, I don't even think my answers then would apply to what I feel now.  Constant streams of listening result in me often thinking "why did I not think to mention this??"  It's a symptom of the artform, I suppose.

If asked today about the question though, I think this release would have to be included.  It's one of the great "hidden gems" of the last 10 years, and could contend as the best of the entire New Forces catalogue. 

#77

CLASSIFIED ADS / PE/Noise T-SHIRTS for sale

Last post by Antipatik - April 16, 2026, 09:37:56 PM

Caligula031 "bachelorette" M
Bizarre Uproar logo XL
Bizarre Uproar "hate your face" M
Bizarre Uproar logo L
Bizarre Uproar "how does it feel to taste my genius?" XL
Bizarre Uproar logo L
Bizarre Uproar (tank top) red logo M
Bizarre Uproar (tank top) "fat white male pig"  M
Snuff "knife as a cock" M
Rotat "harsh noise killing music" M
K2 "demise symphonika" M
Slogun "will to kill" XL
Sick Seed "mind is a disease of semen" M
Grey Wolves "zero tolerance" XL
Genocide Organ "tokyo highway patrol" XL
Genocide Organ "autodefensa" L
Propergol "tormentor" L
Mourmansk 150 XL

For any questions just ask me.

#78

GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Starting a mail order, wha...

Last post by FreakAnimalFinland - April 16, 2026, 09:14:22 PM

There are many kinds of distros and I would say thinking and planning a bit what it is one wants can be good. There are different advices to be given to different kind of distros.

There are guys who have small label and take only small number of carefully curated, often stylistically related releases. Benefits are that even if you have merely handful of customers, one may get rid of distro stock while selling your own things. Stocking things one can honestly recommend is absolutely the best. And doing exactly that - actively writing descriptions / reviews is entirely different thing than anonymous hyperbole sale pitch. It is not usually generating much money, but means of getting your own stuff out there, plus things you like.

If deciding to go all the way, and start big distro, aimed to have wide selection of releases, it will require way more time, money and cumulating inventory. I am not even sure if anyone can really advice someone who wants to give a try to such thing in 2026. Situation is so different compared to the past. Other international dealers may have cumulated their inventory for 20-30 years, plus may have contract with couriers for better shipping prices, but in other hand, whoever will start distro, generally sees that inventory never becomes smaller. It just grows and grows.

Ability to sell at gigs can be big plus. Even small gigs.

#79

CLASSIFIED ADS / Re: Metal to the Core 1986 || ...

Last post by metaltothecore1986 - April 16, 2026, 07:47:09 PM

WE ARE CURRENTLY OFFERING 33% OFF ON MOST TITLES WE HAVE IN STOCK ON OUR STORE!! THIS OFFER IS ONLY AVAILABLE TODAY, APRIL 16, 2026!! NO COUPON CODE IS NEEDED, THE DISCOUNT IS AVAILABLE BY DEFAULT!!

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ABYSMAL LORD – Bestiary of Immortal Hunger CD
AD HOMINEM – Antitheist [REMIXED EDITION] CD
AD HOMINEM – Climax of Hatred CD
AKOLYYTTI – Akolyytti CD
AMSG – Cultist T-SHIRT
ANNIHILATUS – Blood and War DIGIPAK CD
AOX – Apotheosis ov XAOC CD
ASSASSINATION – Red Magick Faction A5 DIGIPAK CD
AT4 – Their Holo Will Come DIGIPAK DOUBLE CD
ATRA – Logo T-SHIRT
BAPHOMET PENTAGRAM – Embroidered PATCH
BARBARIC HATRED – Barbaric Hatred CASSETTE
BLACK METAL – Embroidered PATCH
BLACKDEATH – Chronicles of Hellish Circles II CD
BLUTKRIEG – Wotan's Harrow DIGIPAK CD
BULLDOZER – The Final Separation CD
BURIAL – Enlightened With Pain CD
CAUSTIC PHLEGM – Purulent Apocalypse CD
CROWN OF NAILS – The Invitation DIGIPAK CD
CULTES DES GHOULES – Haxan DIGIPAK CD
CULTES DES GHOULES – Henbane DIGIPAK CD
DARK FURY – Shoot to Kill 12″ LP
DECEASED – As the Weird Travel On CD
DECEASED – Demos from the Grave DOUBLE CD
DECEASED – Surreal Overdose CD
DECEASED – The Blueprints for Madness CD
DENIAL OF GOD – The Hallow Mass CD
DENIAL OF GOD – The Shapeless Mass CD
DS – Loyalty Unto Death 7″ EP
EAGLE – Above it All CD
EAGLE – Waning Memories of Dead Traditions CD
EMBATERION – The Sound of Charge DIGISLEEVE CD
EMPYREAN VAULT – Mausoleum of Worship MCD
EXPLODING ZOMBIES – Several Severed Heads CD
FULLMOON RISE – The End of Life's Ages DOUBLE CD
GRAAVEHLDER – Naturmystik I Midsommartid CD
GRAVECODE NEBULA – Sempiternal Void DIGIPAK CD
HIDEOUS MANGLEUS – All Your Friends Are Dead CD
HOHL – Outlaw Black Metal T-SHIRT
HOUSE OF ATREUS – Into the Brazen Bull CD
HUNOK – Forgotten Honour DIGIPAK CD
IMPURITY / SEX MESSIAH – Vomiting Blasphemies Over the World CASSETTE
INSANE APOLLYON – Insane Apollyon CD
KADUB KULT – Sontzekres DIGIPAK CD
KRISIUN – Apocalyptic Revelation DIGIBOOK CD
KRISIUN – Black Force Domain DIGIBOOK CD
KRISIUN – Conquerors of Armageddon DIGIBOOK CD
KUUPYR – Taikuus PATCH
KVASIR'S BLOOD – Blade of Tanngrisnir CD
KVASIR'S BLOOD – Lords of Vinland T-SHIRT
KVASIR'S BLOOD – The Eternal Return CASSETTE
KVASIR'S BLOOD / TLATEOTOCANI – United By an Invincible Iron Will CD
LEBEN – Werwolf CD
LEVIFER – Southern Bestial Storms CD
LUCIFER'S SIGIL – Embroidered PATCH
MALEDICERE – Leave Only What is Fit to Burn CD
MANIFESTING – Descension Through the Seven Forbidden Seals CD
MELTING ROT – Infatuation With Premeditation CD
MIRK – Draconic Hail CD
MOLOCH – Stiller Schrei des winters CD
MONDFINSTERNIS – Where the Heaven Ends CD
MUTIILATION – Black Metal Cult T-SHIRT
MUTIILATION – Black Millenium (Grimly Reborn) 12″ GATEFOLD LP RED MARBLE
MUTIILATION – Black Millenium (Grimly Reborn) CD
MUTIILATION – Pandemonium of Egregores 12″ LP
MUTIILATION – Pandemonium of Egregores CD
MUTIILATION – Remains of a Ruined Dead Cursed Soul 12″ GATEFOLD LP RED MARBLE
MUTIILATION – Remains of a Ruined, Dead, Cursed Soul CD
MUTIILATION – Vampires of Black Imperial Blood 12″ GATEFOLD DOUBLE LP PURPLE MARBLE
MUTIILATION – Vampires of Black Imperial Blood CD
NECRO RITUS – Fiery Necromancy CD
NEFARIOUS RITES – Nefarious Rites CD
NIGHTNACHT – Christophilia CASSETTE
NOKTURNAL MORTUM – Return of the Vampire Lord – Marble Moon CD
NOKTURNAL MORTUM – The Voice of Steel CD
NOKTURNAL MORTUM – Twilightfall CD
NOKTURNAL MORTUM – Verity CD
NOKTURNAL MORTUM – Welt CD [OSMOSE]
NORTFALKE – De Widde Juvver CD
NUNSLAUGHTER – Red is the Color of Ripping Death CD
ODOUR OF DEATH – Satanic Devotion CD
OHTAR – Emptiness CD
PANTHEON – Aciremanic Triumph of the Will (1995-2000) DOUBLE CD
PANTHEON – Draugrs Daug CD
PANTHEON – Galdur Vikodlaks CD
PANTHEON – Pflichterfüllung CD
PENTAGAMMADION – Legion P14 CD
PESTIS CULTUS – Pestis Cultus DIGIPAK CD
POPRAVA – Predathorum CD
PORTAL – Swarth CD
RUHO – Mouth of Extinction CD IN CLOTH BAG
SAMMAS EQUINOX – Maailmantaonta DIGIPAK CD
SKALLAGRIMSSON – A Triumph CASSETTE
SLAEGT – Ildsvanger CD
SOKEUS – Ekpyrosis DIGIPAK CD
SOLIPSISM – Cruelty & Necrospection CD
SORGETID – Natt Av Tunsen Dodsfall CD
SUMMON – Dark Descent of Fallen Souls CD
SUPERNAL REFUSE – Inversion Protocol CASSETTE
SURUNI – Lahteet CD
SVARTA / ELANDE – Invokation DIGIPAK CD
SVETOVID / VRILDOM – Split CD
SVOLDER – The Beast's Mercenaries CD
TETRAGRAMMACIDE / LORD OF DEPRESSION / INFERNAL SACRAMENT – Split CD
THE BLACK – The Priest of Satan 12″ LP GREY BLACK SPLATTER
THE MIST FROM THE MOUNTAINS – Monumental – The Temple of Twilight CD
THEUDHO – De roep van her wond CD
THULE DEL SUR – Four Meditations Under the Polar Star DIGIPAK CD
UDEGSTE – Zwartmagische Brouwsels CD
UNGRUN – Itjinge Tonei Barre Scil DIGIPAK CD
VEITSI – Perikato CD
WEHR – Wehr CD
WHITE RUNE – The Spell of Eternal Fire 12″ GATEFOLD LP PURPLE MARBLE
WOLFSSCHANZE – Sovereignty DIGIPAK CD
WOLFSSCHANZE – Sovereignty T-SHIRT
WOTANORDEN – Legends of the Valorous Fallen CD
ZERSTORER – Lieber tot als rot CD

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#80

GENERAL SOUND DISCUSSION / Re: Soundcloud, bandcamp ?

Last post by Olion - April 16, 2026, 04:06:49 PM

https://olionele.bandcamp.com/album/frolic

Ambient Noise Wall track about a kitten named Psotka ("frolic" in Polish).

Hope you'll find it calming and enjoyable!