I suppose it’s possible that you may not have heard that High on Fire are releasing a new album this month. It’s also possible that you haven’t seen the out-fucking-standing album art created by Arik Roper for said release. Might even be that you haven’t visited the stereogum website to listen to the new tune. Well, let me fill you in – it sounds like High on Fire, which is to say, amazing. 2xLP in a gatefold cover, pre-order at theomegaorder.com.

Not Not Fun is back again with two titillating new vinyl releases (decided to get that one out of the way right off the bat). One new split LP from Psychic Reality and LA Vampires and one new LP from Heather Leigh, previously released as a super-limited cassette tape. I could try to explain to you what these two releases are going to sound like but aside from being totally “blown out” I really have no idea, and I could not deprive you of the singular joy of reading the descriptions posted on the NNF website. They are always top notch. Read more and fill your cart up at notnotfun.com.

Newest and supposedly final album of noise dripping drones from the duo known as Yellow Swans – it’s like swaddling up your brain in a scratchy wool sweater. The Type imprint shows no signs of slowing down in 2010, so just add this to their ever growing and already impressive roster of mind-expanding and/or growth-stunting ambient/noise/drone releases. Early orders get a bonus CD, so point your browser at boomkat.com promptly, ya know? Americans, you know this will be coming in at Forced Exposure and other distros soon, so keep your eyes peeled. We will bump the post at the appropriate time.

UPDATE: Now available at forcedexposure.com.

Isis. Now here’s a band that knows how to release some vinyl. If you don’t own at least one Isis record, than you probably aren’t reading this blog. Their live series has been pretty great for the fans who just cannot get enough, and Volume 5 (or V) is looking to be a keeper, seeing as how it is a recording of them playing their most cherished album in full. That album would be Oceanic, and here it is presented to you, the faithful listener, on two slabs of vinyl. Your faith may waver a bit when you see the €23 price tag, but if you think you can bang, get over to vivahaterecords.com as there are limited colors available (limited Isis vinyl = OOP and on Ebay next week).

UPDATE: This is now available at auralexploits.com on black vinyl for $30.

A Broken Consort finally returns for his newest album Crow Autumn on Tompkin’s Square. Truth be told, A Broken Consort hasn’t really gone anywhere, he just likes to call himself Richard Skelton, sometimes. If you’ve been keeping up with his releases, you won’t need much convincing to pick this one up as well. If you haven’t, then this is as good a place to start as any, seeing as how this LP is only going to set you back $13. That’s good news for those of us on a tight budget who can’t get enough of these strange bowed notes and layered acoustic tones. You can currently get copies from forcedexposure.com, but tompkinssq.com should have their copies listed soon enough as well. This is limited to 500, so don’t wait around too long.

New Melvins vinyl always means lots of excited people.  This new “From The Nursery” EP features a long version of “Dies Iraea”, a remix of “It Tastes Better Than The Truth”, and a nine minute version of The Wipers’ “Youth In America”.  It is limited to 2,000 copies on silver/gray vinyl, and it will run you $20.95.  Visit Midheaven.com.

The nine songs from the Pixies’ first demo, “The Purple Tape”, that weren’t chosen for “Come On Pilgrim” have now been pressed to vinyl.  This includes original raw recordings of famous tunes like “Here Comes Your Man” and “Down The Well”, among others.  It’s a 180 gram LP in an edition of 1500 (500 purple, 500 orange, 500 green).  Preorder for $24.99 at ElusiveDisc.com.

At last, the long overdue vinyl coronation of this stone-cold doom fusion classic from Southern Lord drone group Ascend. If you didn’t know, that’s Gentry Densley from Eagle Twin and Greg Anderson from Sunn. Given the pedigree of the two musician’s involved, you could guess that this album holds it’s fair share of richter magnitude drones, what you might not expect is just how far out a spaceship this heavy can take you. I won’t ramble on, this one has been out long enough that most people know what the grooves here hold in store. Add two extra songs to the vinyl edition and the usual high-spec packaging from Southern Lord, and ya’ll are set. Pick it up with the vinyl edition of the newest from Black Cobra at southernlord.com.

Allthatisheavy seems to be the first distro to stock the vinyl version of the Southern Lord debut of Black Cobra. This is one of those amazing albums that despite being made by merely a guitar and drum duo, still sounds louder than 95% of your heavy metal collection. Comes on “red black colored” vinyl with an LP sized booklet and vinyl only bonus track. Ain’t life sweet? Put your order in now at allthatisheavy.com, or wait for your favorite distro or local record store to get copies. Whatever.

UPDATE: Now available from the label at southernlord.com.

I was lucky enough to help Gold Robot Records commission a new t-shirt, and they chose the always-awesome Doe Eyed Design. They are just about to wrap up preorders, so now would be a good time to grab one. They come on American Apparel tri-blend tees, and are only $12. Visit Gold-Robot.com.

This extremely limited cassette from Cold Cave and Prurient returns to Earth in the form of a (presumably) extremely limited vinyl edition. You can currently order this for $18 from the Hospital Productions label and it will ship to you in three long weeks. I have no idea what this sounds like but it’s described as “pulsing heavy ambient electronics” which pretty much checks off every box in my list. Cold Cave LPs have a tendency to not hang around so… hospitalproductions.com.

Oh, how observant of you! You noticed that Hospital has also repressed Cold Cave’s Cremations and has a new(ly pressed) Prurient album up for sale! Well, go ahead and order those, too… hospitalproductions.com.

Holy shit, I could not have purchased one of these faster.  Madlib’s newest jazz-fusion project, The Last Electro-Acoustic Space Jazz & Percussion Ensemble has released an album on vinyl!  “Miles Away” is a 2xLP that comes packaged in a beautiful, heavily 60’s-70’s influenced gatefold jacket.  I can promise you right now that if you like jazz at all, you’re going to really like what Madlib has been doing with fusion lately.  At $16.95, this is your buy of the week.  Visit StonesThrow.com.

While you’re there, they also have a cool record by Now-Again / Jazzman producer, Mr. Chop.  On “For Pete’s Sake”, Chop has reworked a number of popular Pete Rock’s greatest beats in a psych, funk, jazz, and rock flavor.  It’s a single LP for $16.98, well worth your hard-earned dough.  Same spot, StonesThrow.com.

You might already know this, but Relapse has reissued the previously OOP Baroness record, “Red Album”, in a bunch of awesome colors.  It’s a gatefold 180 gram 2xLP that comes in Red/White Splatter (edition of 500), Red w/ Black Haze (edition of 300), and Red (edition of 200) for $22.  I am loving that red/black haze, and we REALLY love Baroness.  Visit Relapse.com.

Circa Survive have capped off their vinyl discography with the scarce 2005 EP, “The Inuit Sessions”.  Pressed to vinyl for the first time, Inuit features four songs, two of which later showed up on “Juturna”, two of which are otherwise unreleased.  Like we’ve said before, we love Circa Survive, so it’s awesome to see all this stuff finally get pressed.  It’s on pink vinyl, has an etching on the b-side, was made in an edition of 1,000, and is $14.99.  Like all Circa Survive vinyl, this won’t be around long.  Visit MerchNow.com.

Communitas Records is a brand new label from one of the dudes behind Southern Empire, and their first release is going to shred your face off.  Torch Runner’s “Locust Swarm” alternates between breakneck hardcore and crushing, sludgy breakdown riffs.  If you’re into heavy music at all, you’re going to find something to like here.  Definitely recommended for fans of Converge, Trap Them, and about anything else Deathwish would put out.  The great-sounding 10″ record comes on black vinyl (edition of 319), maroon/black burst (edition of 109), and cream/black burst (edition of 109).  It also has a beautiful screenprinted jacket.  Hear some tunes at their MySpace, then pick it up for $12-15 at RevHQ, Interpunk, or IndieMerchStore.com.