Chimp Beams – Fragile (Personal Affair)

Label Description: 25th Anniversary

Chimp Beams is a New York-based breakbeats, dub, and jazz trio that has been sculpting its own unique sonic landscape since forming in 2001. Comprising core members Marihito, Keigo, and Yusuke, the group amassed a rich discography of six albums across four different labels before entering their current hiatus.
Their latest release, Fragile, serves as a compelling archival showcase, compiling instrumental versions of tracks originally crafted for vocalists alongside “1997” a rare gem making its digital format debut. Built on the backbone of Marihito’s beat making, the ensemble features an organic blend of Keigo’s guitar and Yusuke’s vibes, flute, and keyboards, speaking volumes of their distinct originality. The title Fragile serves as a metaphor for the very world we live in. Released during their hiatus, this timeless album remains entirely immune to the shifting trends of modern music.

*All tracks are taken from Slowly & ASDR with Shing02 except 1997

All songs produced by Marihito & Chimp Beams
Mixed & Mastered by Hideyuki Waki
Designed & Photo by Marihito “MARI” Ayabe

Marihito: MPC 60 & MPC 1000, Keys, Drum Machines, Guitar, Bass, Rhodes. Perc. & Arrangement
Yusuke: Vibraphone, Keys, Perc., Melodica, Flute, Mbira, Drums, Trp. & Guitar
Keigo: Guitars

Scratch: DJ Icewater
Trp. Takuya Kuroda

particle dogs – featuring, vol. 2

Label Description: the second album in our featuring series! we have amazing contributions from a wide spread of vocalists and a few guitarists that have been paired with beats by particle dogs

particle dogs is Austin Riley on bass, drums, keys, guitar with Scott Riley on guitars

Vocals as listed per track plus additional contributions from Lucas Taylor, frielf, Himbo Deluxe, PB, jims

Album art from sunsetpixel, silasfrazee.com

Proceeds from this album will be donated to charities recommended by our vocal contributors: Lamda Legal, Habitat for Humanity, The Marsha P Johnson Institute, PCRF, the Trevor Project, and the Houston Food Bank.

Cicale Cicale Cicale – Kapùt Katastrofa! (Island House Records)

Label Description: CICALE CICALE CICALE move somewhere between jazzy vibes, weird imaginary movie soundtracks, afrobeat drift, psychedelia, tropical rhythms, and pure moving energy.

Simona on sax, Sole on drums, Daniele on bass, and Rocco on guitars and electric keys dropped their record “Bufo Bufo” in 2025 via Marsiglia Records. Since then, they’ve been playing a bunch of shows across Italy and Europe.

Kapùt Katastrofa! drops in 2026 on Island House Recordings.

Sole Calbi – Drums, Simona Vaccari – Sax, Rocco Spigno – Guitars/Keyboards, Daniele Vigo – Bass. Recorded & mixed by Bernado Russo at K Studio Genova.

Phlåss – Ketuk [Ancient Rituals 1] (Backwards Records)

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

Chaircrusher – Slant Tales (Self-Released)

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).

Veilburner – All That Glimmers Is Gloam (Transcending Obscurity Records)

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

Cover artwork by Luciana Nedelea


PRESS:

► “yet another mind-blowing Veilburner spectacle” – No Clean Singing
www.nocleansinging.com/2026/08/10/an-ncs-premiere-veilburner-of-godslave-and-blood-mortar


► “this is strongly and convincingly among the top rung” – Everything Is Noise
everythingisnoise.net/reviews/veilburner-all-that-glimmers-is-gloam


► “both utterly bewildering and fascinating” – Metallerium 9/10
www.metallerium.com/veilburner-all-that-glimmers-is-gloam-2026


► “This is truly cinematic gold.” – Zephyr’s Odem 8.9/10
www.zephyrs-odem.de/reviews/detail/veilburner-all-that-glimmers-is-gloam-2026-15612


► “Veilburner once again showing that there are no boundaries, and that’s fucking terrifying” – Metal Epidemic 4/5
www.metalepidemic.com/veilburner-all-that-glimmers-is-gloam


► “a darkly psychedelic and transcendent aural experience that delivers on every front” – Head-Banger Reviews
headbangerreviews.com/2026/09/12/veilburner-all-that-glimmers-is-gloam


► “absolutely mind-bending Blackened Death” – Drako’s Death Metal News and Reviews 8.5/10
www.facebook.com/groups/943569489409806/posts/2556276301472442


► “listeners are left precisely where they started: wandering over unstable ground, approaching an unknowable threshold” – Toilet ov Hell
toiletovhell.com/track-premiere-veilburners-golgothic-holocaust


► “delights in its amorphous, and utterly bewildering nature” – Ghost Cult Mag 8/10
ghostcultmag.com/album-review-veilburner-all-that-glimmers-is-gloam-transcending-obscurity-records


► “its richness requires multiple listens to fully grasp it” – Acta Infernalis 80/100
actainfernalis.com/2026/10/12/review-3465-veilburner-all-that-glimmers-is-gloam-2


► “The atmosphere is thick, the riffs are unsettling, and the whole thing feels like being lost in a maze with no exit” – Metal Eclipse Reviews
metaleclipsereviews.com/2026/07/26/veilburner-all-that-glimmers-is-gloam



Main Store: tometal.com
Bandcamp: transcendingobscurity.bandcamp.com
Europe Store: eu.tometal.com
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Lugubrious Garment – In The Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night (20 Buck Spin)

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.