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A full-length collaboration between Oklahoma noise-rock legends Chat Pile and Texas-born enigmatic guitarist/composer Hayden Pedigo.

Captures the tragic beauty and desolation of the American heartland through cinematic, post-apocalyptic soundscapes.

Follows Hayden Pedigo’s breakout success with The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored (Mexican Summer) and earned widespread acclaim and established him as one of modern guitar’s most distinctive voices.

Gatefold vinyl release featuring artwork by Malcolm Byers

For something to be “ecstatic,” the feelings and emotions it evokes must transcend what one tends to experience most regularly in their lives. Ecstatic joy isn’t just happiness; it’s a feeling of jubilation which impacts one emotionally and in a metaphysical, arguably spiritual sense too. Although it has long been associated with connotations of the dark and macabre, extreme music has the ability to be a powerful mode of expression for these feelings of absolute bliss, overwhelming love, and awe-inspiring sublimity. Extreme emotions no less and those which black metal quartet Agriculture evokes with its ecstatic subversion of the subgenre’s tropes.

What was initially a meeting and subsequent series of jam sessions between Kern Haug and Daniel Meyer, two musicians in the Los Angeles underground noise scene, would eventually manifest as a shared vision to portray the sublimity of the human experience through the vehicle of heavy music. Following the additions of veteran guitarist Richard Chowenhill and bassist / vocalist Leah Levinson to the band’s lineup, this idea would crystalize into the “ecstatic black metal” backbone of Agriculture’s music, first heard on the band’s 2022 debut EP, The Circle Chant.

With Agriculture’s self-titled record and first full-length LP, it’s abundantly clear that the band’s use of heavy music to showcase the most resplendent emotions and moments of the human experience has a far deeper meaning. Woven between the flurries of soaring tremolo picking, crescendoing guitar harmonies, celebratory screamed vocals, thoughtful improvisation, and meditative atmospheric passages is the record’s mission statement to experience the wonders and joys of both the esoteric and physical world.

• Highly anticipated new album from rising Los Angeles collective

• For fans of emotionally intense and genre-expansive metal like Deafheaven, Alcest, Liturgy, Lingua Ignota, Have a Nice Life, Swans

B11 variant.
Issued in a single LP jacket with a printed inner sleeve and 24" x 36" poster.

Burrowing through the mire of the endless Floridian swamps like an arcane travesty of nature, the shadow-bound entity more commonly known only as Worm present Foreverglade, a strange amalgam of things that ooze, things that crawl and some things that remain still for centuries before crumbling back into the dust and dirt unobserved by mortal eyes. Utterly ambitious while being steeped in the ancient practices of tradition and ritual observance, on Foreverglade Worm finds its truest incarnation, where the catacombs of funereal and oppressively heavy death doom are further thrown open, letting drift out the lurking obscurity of black metal’s cemetery stench. And yet an adept virtuosity and ghostly ethereality invokes the grim dark beauty of the swamps as much as the veiled creeping horrors. What’s certain is Foreverglade is suffocatingly heavy, filled with shimmering gloomy atmosphere and a reeking foul humidity that superbly embodies the mysteries and monstrosities of the murk. To that end, Worm reach a new apex of creative sorcery while signaling it has only begun to unleash what lies beneath the mists.

• Highly anticipated third album and first domestic release for Floridian funereal death doom band 
• Wild and fantastic artwork from Brad Moore (Tomb Mold, Morpheus Descends, Organic Infest) 
• For fans of Disembowelment, Thorns Of The Carrion, Ceremonium, Spectral Voice, Goatlord, Evoken, Gorement, Atramentus 

B9 Variant.
Issued in a single LP jacket with silver foil-stamp logo and additional metallic ink throughout.
Includes a double-sided insert and 24" x 36" poster.

• For fans of Disembowelment, Abigor, Thorns of the Carrion, Limbonic Art, Ceremonium, Evoken, Emperor, Obtained Enslavement, Atramentus, Unhol

B4 variant.
Issued in a single LP jacket with a double-sided insert & 24" x 36" poster.
Tracks are listed sequentially regardless of side.

NIGHT OF THE VAMPIRE is the shadow of the witching hour, never seeing the light of day. It will expand your mind into the depths of psychedelic solitude and the haunting chambers of darkness within.

If you so dare, mastermind Astral Shadow will be your guide through the untamed worlds of Black Metal and Darkwave. But beware, for if you choose to travel this path you may lose yourself and forever go mad.

• Hellish jazz-inflected metal
• Features virtuoso bass playing split between Damon Good (Mournful Congregation, Stargazer, Cauldron Black Ram), and Ben Ricci
• Drums by Dylan Marks, Atheist live drummer
• For fans of Stargazer, Pestilence, Chthe’ilist, Morbid Angel, Immolation, The Chasm, Aenigmatum, Atheist, Timeghoul

Manchester’s savage sons Wode return with their fourth album, Uncrossing The Keys, marking a confident expansion of their already formidable sound built upon a shadowy foundation of feral black metal and ironclad heavy metal heft. Having evolved from the more straightforward methodology of the debut album, Wode has continuously added elements from various dark corners of the underground across its discography, with songwriting that has grown leaner yet more intricate, focused and melodic than ever.