Label Description: The Liber series was always about the dancefloor; Dark rooms, loud systems, repetition, pressure and the point where the machinery takes over. Liber Eleven returns to those ideas with the original tracks remastered and re-issued on CD, limited edition vinyl and digital downloads.
This is The Black Dog in full techno mode. Hypnotic, physical and built for big systems, with enough strange corners to keep things interesting when the lights go down. It all started with the EPs Liber Kult, Liber Temple and Liber Nox, followed by the albums Liber Dogma and Liber Chaos. Eleven picks up that thread and carries it forward.
No nostalgia trip. No archive dusting for the sake of it. Just The Black Dog making techno.
Label Description: A long minimal and hypnotic piece of about 40 minutes splitted in two parts on vinyl (lathe-cut). Looped ethnographic sounds mixed with abstract delicate electronic tunes for your self-induced trance sessions…, and for your pleasure! Available in digital format and limited to 20 copies 12″ LP lathe-cut. Released by Backwards.
recorded at phlåss studio somewhere in italy, 22/06/2025 pasquale lomolino ~ samples, electronics vincenzo tattolo ~ electronics mastered by fabio orsi layout by backwards
Label Description: Collects works from 2025 and 2026. If they’re named for a saint, they were made on or around that saint’s feast day.
FANFARE: Everyone needs a fanfare. This is the Fanfare Of Slant Tales. One synth, one chord sequence. Welcome to the fair.
Jungular: A breakbeat broken. A bassline that refuses to sit still. Clouds of harmony modulated by industrial noise.
St Nestor: His saint day is October 27th. The Emperor Maximinian had him killed for killing the emperor’s favored gladiator. The sounds each run in their own time, colliding and mingling.
Andromedy: Tragedy? Comedy? Andromedy! While my melodica gently weeps.
North Face: named for Autechre’s iconic preferred outerwear brand.
Taschen: German For “bags.” A dance for the rhythmless.
St Rose: Her Saint Day is August 23. She wore a heavy silver crown of thorns. Halfway between baroque and chaos.
St Venturino: His Saint Day is March 28th. A charismatic leader, he led a pilgrimage to Rome and was imprisoned by Pope Benedict XII for 8 years. Sounds like an underwater harpsichord playing several songs at the same time.
XGiving: It is a holiday. Solve For X. A mixed meter breakbeat, like climbing stairs on uneven stilts, but the harmony still rises.
St. Athanasius: His Saint Day is May 2nd. He was exiled 5 times over the question of Christ’s divinity. The music is an edgeless cloud of shifting harmony.
Composition & Realization: Kent Williams/Chaircrusher Mastered by Michael Southard music@rumortone.com Cover art: @laraianuzzi.bsky.social Album Title: Inspired by Larry Baker, author of “Tell It Slant,” inspired in turn by Emily Dickinson. Dedicated to Richard Williams(RIP).
Label Description: “In less than a year of releasing “Longing for Triumph, Reeking of Tragedy”, Veilburner are back to announce their ninth album, “All that Glimmers is Gloam”.
The tone of this album signals that tragedy reeks more than triumph is longed, where every pursuit becomes a maze leading toward another dissolution.
Ruin stands as a foundation that no longer supports awakening—it merely reflects the forms that once gave it meaning.
“All that Glimmers is Gloam” pits the listener as judge and jury, bearing witness to a deposition of spiraling madness—a testimony mired in the bog of counterfeit gnosis, orchestrated amid Mephisto’s instrumental haunts of melodic dissonance and Chrisom’s séanced howls, each reverberating through a theatre of fracturing sanity.
The labyrinth reveals itself as a scaffold of golem-like perception; knowledge fractures into paradox, and identity disperses into indistinguishable voices. Here, what glimmers is not illumination, but twilight; not revelation, but its reflection. Standing before the final threshold, the mirror of the self shatters, revealing the shape of many within the silhouette of none.”
Genre: Avantgarde Death/Black Metal
For fans of: Blut aus Nord, Imperial Triumphant, Deathspell Omega, Hexrot, Oranssi Pazuzu, Akhyls, Akercocke
Line up: Mephisto Deleterio: Music and production, Vocals Chrisom Infernium: Vocals, lyrics, and album design
Label Description: Following the ferocious declaration of intent laid down by 2025’s Demo MMXXV, Milan-based musician Gabriele Gramaglia offers the first full-length manifestation of Lugubrious Garment, ‘In The Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night’. Known for his work with Cosmic Putrefaction, Vertebra Atlantis and numerous other entities operating within the more adventurous reaches of extreme metal, Gramaglia established Lugubrious Garment as an outlet for a more ravenous and instinctive strain of Death Metal; one driven by brute momentum, frenzied aggression and an uncompromising rawness. On ‘In The Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night’ that initial impulse erupts into a considerably more formidable and fully developed beast.
While retaining the layered, multifaceted songwriting characteristic of Gramaglia’s broader body of work, Lugubrious Garment directs that complexity toward outright pandemonium. Gritty, abrasive guitars churn through pummeling and intricate rhythmic contortions as tortured vocals howl from within the tumult and cascades of shrieking lead guitar slash across the album’s fractured landscape. Yet beneath its seemingly unrestrained violence lies a meticulously engineered attack: riffs twist and collide at excessive velocity, tempos lurch between hammering force and sudden acceleration, and flashes of classic Heavy and Speed Metal emerge through the wreckage before being swallowed by the surrounding maelstrom.
‘In The Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night’ thrives upon this collision of precision and savagery, harnessing technical ability as another weapon in an arsenal built for maximum destructive force. Lugubrious Garment channels the restless imagination behind Gramaglia’s other work into something noticeably more feral and antagonistic; a sustained barrage of serrated riffing, relentless battery and deranged metallic energy. ‘In The Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night’ tears open the gates on Lugubrious Garment’s first full-length campaign with a frenzied Death Metal assault built to leave nothing standing in its wake.
Gabriele Gramaglia: Guitars, vocals, bass, synths, sound design Yr-nhhngr: Additional vocals here and there throughout the record Giorgio Trombino: Additional solo in the ending section of “Transient Wounds, Spiritual Wilt” Andrea Morgan: Additional violins and violas in “…And Therein Plant unto Their Souls Asunder” and in “Eternal Scars and Imperative Backfires” Claudio Invidia: Session drums
Artwork crafted by the refined mastery of Mariya Popyk.
Written, recorded, mixed and mastered between fall 2025 and spring 2026 by Gabriele Gramaglia in Crepuscular Sound Studio.
Label Description: Written and recorded by Brad Deschamps. Mastered by James Edward Armstrong. Design by Anne-Julie Dudemaine. Artwork by Pier-Luc Tremblay. Original painting “Harvest Scene” by Abraham Bloemaert (oil on canvas, about 1625-1630).
shimmerglisten is the cinematic ambient project of Tim Rabjohns, creating immersive soundscapes for “films that don’t exist.” Drawing on film soundtrack traditions and dark ambient styles, shimmerglisten crafts deeply emotional, hypnotic compositions that serve as sonic sanctuaries for life’s most intense and quiet moments.
At the heart of shimmerglisten’s unique sound is extreme manipulation of guitar textures—transformed beyond recognition through effects pedals and experimental sound design—layered with hypnotic synths – using a mixture of old analogue and modern plugins, choral elements, and collaborations with acoustic musicians (eg gongs, singinbowls, harp, double bass and flute). This blend of organic and synthetic creates mysterious, cinematic worlds that invite listeners into a state of “yutori”—the Japanese concept of leaving space to breathe.
Tim’s background spans two decades as founder of the multi-award-winning music production company Shriek, creating sound for Sony PlayStation, BBC CBeebies, Channel 4, and UEFA. After leaving commercial music in 2017, he founded shimmerglisten in 2020 during the pandemic as a return to his experimental roots. Over ten years volunteering with environmental organisations in and around Lewes and Brighton deeply informs the project’s connection to nature and climate themes.
shimmerglisten has released two albums already: the cinematic debut Sound of Shadows (2023) and a more purely ambient LP Equanimity (2025), The latter was composed for his unborn daughter and was played as she was born in an NHS birthing room featuring various nature sounds with a spacey backing.
Live “sound-bath-concert” experiences—featuring sold-out shows at Brighton’s The Rose Hill and Lewes’ Subud Centre—invite audiences to lie down and immerse themselves in multisensory performances with dreamy lighting and nature-inspired visuals.
“Soughing of the Wild” continues shimmerglisten’s compositional journey, offering listeners a sometimes tender and sometimes troubled look at our relationship with the natural world.
Credits and track notes.
Song credits: all composition, guitars, synth and production by shimmerglisten apart from:
Holding My Smile – Vocal, lyrics and melody, Nina Luna Fridel
Moonbroch – Vocal & lyrics, Isa Howie
Soughing Of The Wild – Voice, Don Agustin Machacca Florez.
Sweet Rain – Vocal, lyrics and melody & harp, Vic Cooper
Swollen Bones – Co-writer, Marston Mortaine
Velleity – additional field recordings, Darinau
Yutori – Gongs, Jo McEwen, backing vocals, Isa Howie
Rand In The Sand, Woe’s Hollow, Parosmia, Valley Of The Rocks – 100% shimmerglisten
Some notes about the songs.
Soughing Of The Wild – featuring a message from an Andean shamanic elder called Don Agustin Machacca Florez. During a trip to the high Andes in Peru in 2024 I was spending time with Don Agustin and his family. He’s a very wise soul and so I asked him if he could send a message to those in the Western world, what would it be? He replied in Quechua (the only language he knows) and I got his son to tell what he said afterwards. In a nutshell he said we need to all start living closer to nature, and respect the natural world if we were going to have a chance of surviving. This is where I got the idea for the concept and the name of this album.
Moonbroch – featuring the voice of talented upcoming folk singer Isa Howie – known for soulful melodies, heartfelt lyrics, and a deep connection to storytelling. I first met her at a Celtic ceremony on a hill near where I live and knew I had to record her some how!
Sweet Rain – was a co – write and features the harp playing and voice of local sound healer Vic Cooper. She’s such a soulful person and I loved the story and words behind this track that I really wanted to collaborate with her. The words were written after the loss of her grandfather – I turned the song into something more ghostly – imagining her grandfather looking on.
Holding My Smile is another co-write – this time with a very talented 13 year old – Nina Luna Fridel – the daughter of a friend of mine. Her best friend moved from London to Milan and she wrote of having to ‘hold her smile’ in place when she was so utterly bereft inside. I took a performance she did with voice and piano on an iPhone and remixed it and transformed it to what you hear here. It has a beautiful naive quality, I think.
Velleity – is an Instagram collab with a Norwegian ambient duo called Darinau who do a lot of lo-fi ambient sounds and field recordings. I loved that they were very nature focussed, so I asked them to send me something.They sent me something quite minimal and I added layers onto it. The work Velleity means the lowest degree of volition, a slight wish or tendency – which really described the minimalism of what they sent me to begin with.
Yutori – a collaboration with another local sound healer – Jo McEwen. This time recordings of gongs and singing bowls, with added vocals from Isa Howie – I wanted to make this more of a track with a journey, rather than just another sound bath. The Japanese concept of “Yutori” emphasizes the importance of having enough space and time to live a balanced, stress-free life – which I thought was appropriate for a gong piece – I hope that the addition of hypnotic synth lines will allow the listener to get in to that state as well!
Label Description: An extended remix of ‘Necroausterity’ from our album “Labyrinthine,” which track features lead vocals from Full of Hell’s Dylan Walker. Thematically, the track is based around the concept of ‘sokushinbutsu,’ an extreme from of Buddhism involving self-mummification.
Aidan Baker – guitars, drum machine Leah Buckaeff – bass Alan Dubin – vocals Rachel Davies – vocals Lane Shi Otayonii – vocals Dylan Walker – vocals
