OIKOS video for "Coagvla"

LISTEN AND LOOK to the new track and video from OIKOS then go pick up the tape here

NEW RELEASES

LAND OF DECAY is proud to present these three new releases.

LOD 025: OKO "5730±40"

OKO begins as a low rumble in near darkness. The two performers begin to improvise, using sound building blocks and voice to create an uneasy soundscape. The video projections of mountain and forest scenes gradually become brighter, the space is filled with smoke and the smell of burning leaves. As the performance progresses, the sound’s grip on the bodies of the performers strengthens, throwing them around like puppets. At the crescendo the performance breaks and opens to whiteness and stillness. The space is filled with a bright light and a low hum.

OKO are the duo of Robert Heim & Aleks Slota who hail from Germany and are known for their multimedia performances. Recorded in Berlin in 2012.

c60 / Black ink on Smoke Gray shell / Packaged in a hand printed Chipboard Brad Pak with full color insert.

LISTEN / WATCH / WEB / ORDER

LOD 029: Ars Phoenix "Amethyst"

LIMITED EDITION OF 50

ARS PHOENIX is a dark electronic trio from Florida, started by electronic mastermind Jon Glover ten years ago. Now a solid trio who delve in dark dirge like synth heavy pop they present their most recent and mature recordings here on their cassette "Amethyst" to celebrate their current tour.

c26 / Color labels on tapes / Black print on violet iridescent translucent vellum / in Black and Clear Norelco style case

LISTEN / WATCH / ORDER

LOD 032: OIKOS "Solve Et Coagvla"

OIKOS are the Spanish duo of David San Martín and Rafael Femiano. A diverse cross section of musical elements living in tension. The aggregate revealing more than could be know from each part. Dense guitar magik draped over layers of digital texture. A shimmering and loud work that represents the menacing nature that lies behind the facade of all living things.

After their epic and transcendent "Ecotono" CD on Utech and tape on Merz they present "Solve Et Coagvla" as a new dark vision. Recorded between 2008-2011 with artwork & design by LOCRIAN member Terence Hannum. Mastered by Andy Lippoldt. Take a listen to "Omniscience" that features guitar work from LOCRIAN member and LAND OF DECAY co-founder André Foisy.

c60 / Green Ink on Gray Shell / Full color j-card in clear cassette shell.

LISTEN / WATCH / ORDER

LAND OF DECAY GENERAL STORE

New LAND OF DECAY releases: OIKOS, ARS PHOENIX & OKO - AVAILABLE TOMORROW

Check out our BIG CARTEL site to listen to samples and place orders.

LOCRIAN on the road in 2013

03.10.2013 - Denton, TX @ 35Denton w/ Prurient 03.11.2013 - Kansas City, MO @ Davey’s Uptown w/ Boreas & Jason Zeh 03.12.2013 - Chicago, IL @ The Burlington w/ Dead Dragon Mountain & DeadLevel

LAND OF DECAY now available at these fine stores

Happy to say that you can now pick up LAND OF DECAY releases at two Baltimore, MD locations.

CELEBRATED SUMMER

and also at

THE TRUE VINE

Hit them up when you are in the charm city!

THE SUBTRACTION / T.O.M.B. & BLOOD RHYTHMS Reviewed at konkrit

Super thoughtful reviews of two recent releases by THE SUBTRACTION and the split between T.O.M.B. and BLOOD RHYTHMS

"Land Of Decay sets only - albeit very good example - for a return to the cassette as a medium, the almost intimate relationship between the label operators and their acts, the lavishly produced artwork represents (the visual artist Hannum shall also your hands on), and Although the unabgegrenzte, but certain aesthetic similarities of musical direction make it a standout, stubborn label. The next tape have already been announced and I am very excited to go on as it is." konkrit

Pick up The Subtraction HERE
Pick up the T.O.M.B. and Blood Rhythms split HERE

PREVIEW: Oko "Mouth of River" from 5730±40

Pleased to present a track from forthcoming LAND OF DECAY artists OKO.

"Mouth of River" from their cassette 5730±40

OKO merges sound, body centered performance and video to talk about humanity in relation to the natural world. Performance, sound, video and installation individually are not enough to convey the troubled relationship humans have to nature. Alone these media have limited power, but combined, they can become a force that envelops the viewer within the performance. OKO is an attempt to create an enveloping environment of sound, sight and body. The voice tears out of the performer's mouth, the muscles spasm and contort. The video penetrates the eyes of the audience the sound stuns them. The viewer is pried open by the stimuli, they have no choice but to be receptive.

OKO begins as a low rumble in near darkness. The two performers begin to improvise, using sound building blocks and voice to create an uneasy soundscape. The video projections of mountain and forest scenes gradually become brighter, the space is filled with smoke and the smell of burning leaves. As the performance progresses, the sound’s grip on the bodies of the performers strengthens, throwing them around like puppets. At the crescendo the performance breaks and opens to whiteness and stillness. The space is filled with a bright light and a low hum. 

HEATHEN HARVEST: Kapustin Yar - "Trithemius" CS Reviewed

Enter experimental musician Antonio Gallucci, known otherwise for his work in Architeuthis Rex (Utech Records), whom has drawn on both the mystery and aberrance of this location, as well as the bleakness and violence of the time period for inspiration within this project.  Further darkening the idea around the release is the album’s specific subject, the influential 15th-16th century German occultist and skilled cryptographer Johannes Trithemius, whose legacy has been the Steganographia.

Heathen Harvest

LAND OF DECAY IS BACK!!!

Our shop is open again.

Keep your eyes open for future releases from OIKOS, SKIN GRAFT, OKO and VOMIR

New LOD Releases!

Three new LOD releases available now:

http://landofdecay.bigcartel.com/

LOD 030 - T.O.M.B./Blood Rhythms





LOD 031 - The Subtraction - The One Who Infests Ships

A split tape between two dark entities. T.O.M.B. (or Total Occultic Mechanical Blasphemy) is a shadowy collective based on the East Coast who are masters in black ambient ritual music. BLOOD RHYTHMS feature Chicago, IL based noise historian, radio DJ and man about town Arvo and other collaborators including working influential noise artists like Boyd Rice and GX-Jupiter Larsen from The Haters. This is an excellent split cassette of some dark sounds. Essential.




LOD 035 - Kapustin Yar - Trithemius

Bleak and epic soundtracks of abjection. Shivering on an abandoned shore. Watching a hull warp in a caustic wave. Alone where the horizon meets the sea and dissolves. This is a minimal shimmering void. Features Jason Soliday and Omar Gonzalez in this dark incarnation.
Photos by THE SUBTRACTION / Design by Locrian member Terence Hannum.





Nuclear tests and space flight. Echoes in a heavenly void. Hymns to to cupola of our ascent. Dark tinged beauties of epic scale to space and the visitors from it. Extraterrestrial Heavens open, . Featuring a member of Architeuthis Rex. Sublimity.
Artwork by Locrian member Terence Hannum

Friday, August 31st in Chicago: Kwaidan, Sutekh Hexen, This Station of LIfe

Date: Friday, August 31st
Time: 9pm Sharp
Location: Burlington Bar, 3425 W. Fullerton, Chicago, IL
Cost: $7

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Horseback/Locrian LP Repress

Utech Records has the copies of the Horseback/Locrian LP repress in stock here.

The Locrian store has copies too: http://www.locrian.bigcartel.com

Check it out!

The Locrian & Christoph Heemann LP will be out in a month and the Lps turned out great. Handmade Birds will also have a cd version.

Brooklyn Vegan Debuts Video from Cultus Sabbati

Link here.

You can watch the video below:

Cultus Sabbati - In My Shadow Widows Scream from Cultus Sabbati on Vimeo.

For sale here.

J. Bennett Interviews Cultus Sabbati at Cvltnation.com

Link here.

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Cover of the Upcoming Collaborative LP between LOCRIAN & Christoph Heemann (Handmade Birds)

"cover of the upcoming Locrian with Christoph Heemann release. essential listening."

Cover by Artist SEAN DACK


HANDMADE BIRDS

CULTUS SABBATI track streaming at CVLT NATION

 "What sounds exist in decay? What sounds exist in our silence? What sounds exist in the darkness of nature? I don’t have the answers to these questions, but I know when I listen to Cultus Sabbati these are some on the things that take over my mind. They have just released a new tape on Land of Decay entitled The Hagiography of Baba Yaga which you can purchase HERE. CVLT Nation is stoked to be streaming the Cultus Sabbati track “Never Turn Your Back to the Forest” below. Expand your brain way past the unknown…"

CVLT NATION

thisquietarmy @ BRAINWASHED

"TQA is often considered amongst the multitude of "guitar drone" projects, but like the best examples of that sub-genre, it is anything but repetitious or simplistic.  Instead Phantom Limbs is a detailed and thorough meditation on a single instrument that does not become stagnant, but spends the perfect amount of time to develop and expand on a theme or sound.  This is one of those works that really demand close attention to absorb all the nuance and complexity that lies within...[MORE]" - CREAIG DUNTON / BRAINWASHED

ORDER HERE

GATES, thisquietarmy & CULTUS SABBATI reviewed @ MEATMEADMETAL

"So it was a nice week to get a slew of releases from Land of Decay, a label that is awash with music that can help you escape, chill out, lose your mind, or handle your business. Their most notable band Locrian (who recently signed with Relapse, and whose members own Land of Talk) is one I often turn to when I’m facing a heap of work and want music that’ll keep me motivated and excited but not ready to take off someone’s head with a chainsaw. Another band of that ilk is Toronto’s Nadja, whose dreamy transmissions would sound right at home on Land of Decay. The three releases Land of Decay have ready for you, all in cassette form, can be labeled ambient and drone, but all approach that unique style in a completely different way...[MORE]"

ORDER ALL 3 HERE

GATES "Eintraum" Review @ Antigravitybunny

"I can’t even handle this one, you guys. It’s too much. Absolutely brutal, the best black noise I’ve heard in a long time. Harsh wall of sound that’s dark as fuck, a solid mass of devil drone, furious feedback & blown out riffage that’s caustic and pulverizing. Three tracks, each one with a slightly different vibe. The first is a frenzy, pure Skullflowery chaos, like the black noise version of Love Is A Stream, and buried way down is a Mick Barr style shredding and the occasional blast beat. Then there’s an atmospheric black metal track that takes the most destructive riffs and cranks everything way up, distortion and effects turned into a badass nightmare. The final track is some Sunn O))) blackened doom drone worship, pure fucking evil and depressive beyond belief, massive slabs of static rising up from the depths, apocalyptic feedback crumbling in on itself. This whole thing has an end of days feel to it and it’s the fucking best. Eintraum is definitely one of my favorites this year by a long shot. There’s not enough black/drone right now but Gates are sitting right on top and fucking delivered." - ANTIGRAVITYBUNNY

ORDER IT FROM US HERE

NEIL JENDON in the CHICAGO READER

LAND OF DECAY ARTIST NEIL JENDON IN THE CHICAGO READER.

Winters in Osaka & Plastic Crimewave, Piss Piss Piss Moan Moan Moan, Toupee, Neil Jendon, Personal Injury Lawyer 

 

When: Sat., June 30, 9 p.m. 2012
Price: $6

Neil Jendon has been a fixture in Chicago experimental-music circles for years, playing countless solo shows, appearing sporadically with drone merchants Zelienople, and more recently joining the noisier Kwaidan (with Zelienople drummer Mike Weis and Locrian guitarist Andre Foisy). For most of that time he's just hawked his music himself on CD-R, but now he's finally released an album with better distribution. On Corporate Laughter (C.I.P.) you can hear traces of Jendon's distant musical past as a guitarist in 90s alt-rock also-rans Catherine—"Static After Static" has an old-school industrial flavor, with a dark, pulsing synth line that harks back to the glory days of Throbbing Gristle, and "Always and Only" is essentially a rickety pop song buried under ambient murk—but by and large he's moved on to other interests. The epic opener, "The Morbid Age," juxtaposes calm and violence, colliding sweet, slow-moving synthetic string washes with slashing, seething electronic tones that could've come from Merzbow. The relatively subdued and minimal "Staggers and Folds" balances crawling low-end undulation and what sounds like whale song. Jendon uses hand-tweaked modular synthesizers and outmoded 80s keyboards—all of them heavily processed—and he believes the unpredictability of his gear is a key factor in his sound. "I don't play it so much as manage it," he says. For tonight's show he'll play material similar to what's on Corporate Laughter. —Peter Margasak