Sorry haters, but this one isn’t waiting until Tuesday. There was a virtual riot in the newly relaunched Fallen Empire online distro last night, but somehow there are still copies of this Vemod tape in stock. You should do what you can to change that. Buy it. Buy it until it is out of stock: fallenempirestore.bigcartel.com. [...]

Some tapes don’t wait until Tuesday. Rhinocervs has a tendency to sell out while you’re sleeping, so we suggest picking this up immediately. The newest untitled missive from the esoteric imprint, RH-15 to be precise. After shipping, this was $10 for me at rhinocervs.bigcartel.com. Tweet

Almost a year in the making, finally ready to unleash, this double cassette compilation from SVN OKKLT (link below) features new tunes from Witch In Her Tomb, Axis of Light, Death Fortress, Nuklearenpest, Sylvus, Tardigrada, Eos, Gevurah, Dressed In Streams, Xothist and Jute Gyte. That’ll pretty much cover the gamut of black metal mutations, for [...]

Well, we’re all still here. And what better way to mourn the passing of yet another faux-apocalypse then with a new tape from every blogger’s favorite indigenous record label. I’ve woken up with worse $11 receipts in my inbox after a night of libations and merriment: crepusculonegro.storenvy.com. A pro-tape with almost 50 minutes of music, enjoy! [...]

I really should’ve written about this new cassette by Clint Heidorn sooner, as it’s one of the best releases we’ve been sent in quite some time. Besides some outstanding music, the deluxe release includes ”the cassette in a canvas bag, and six redscale photographs, resting on a bed of oak leaves, inside a hand-stained and silkscreened [...]

Just got this DENSE tape in the mail from Aerugo, and I must say, I’m impressed. These two long-form pieces are packed-full of desperate ambiance, heavy riffs, and above all, incredibly bleak black metal. It’s very lo-fi, and a lot to take in, but if you can handle it, the rewards are blissful. Limited to [...]

I haven’t covered many cassettes here lately, but this one is particularly sprawling. Guilty Ghosts’ “Veils”, originally released digitally last year, is now available as a deluxe cassette (plus other goodies), and it has never sounded better. The entire affair is breathtaking, an album that’s sure to stun any lover of underground (and underrated) dream [...]

New Zealand’s Alicia Merz has taken her Birds of Passage project to a new level lately, creating some of the most beautiful drone music in the world. She has two new releases available, both are equally remarkable. First up is the S/T record from Brother Sun, Sister Moon, which is a collaboration between Merz and [...]

We’ve been pretty into the Finnish bedroom-rock duo of Lichen Gumbo (featuring Olli Aarni of Ous Mal) for awhile now, and it looks like their debut cassette has just been released. It’s pretty far out, and certainly lo-fi, but there’s a real spark of creative genius buried beneath the dirt that should keep you hooked [...]

If we had awarded “tape of the year” at this point, this would probably be it. Wow. The packaging, the fierce blackened metal, the limited edition of 180….everything about this screams “BUY ME NOW!”. Don’t miss it, this is a must-own. Throw down $10 at Auris Apothecary. Tweet