POWERXCHUCK / Always Never Fun - Split 7"

Remember when heavy rock bands wrote songs? In the early ‘70s, Grand Funk, Bang, and Deep Purple brought hooks and choruses to seriously weighty tunes.

In 2015, Portland, Oregon’s Holy Grove walks in the long footsteps of tradition, pitting soulful vocals, searing guitar solos, and swinging grooves into its own Bic-flicking dinosaur stomp.
After wowing NW audiences for several years, the band is now ready to unveil its self-titled debut—seven songs of blazing riffs, and cloud-piercing wails, with enough rhythmic heft to satisfy today’s doom-hungry audience.
Vidal’s lyrics of myth and fantasy coast on a massive flying carpet of guitar riffs, kept aloft by a pounding pulverizing rhythm section.

Scottish Slam-Masters, PARTY CANNON, are back with their latest dose of baby-making, beer chugging, late night grubbing, blast induced, slamming death metal. ‘Perverse Party Platter’ features 5 new tracks from the Dunfermline based quintet, for fans of comedic brutality, trend setting grooves, and neon colors.

In true PARTY CANNON fashion, “Perverse Party Platter” features Stony as their latest artistic subject and “face” of the EP cover. Recorded at 3 independent studios, “Perverse Party Platter” was mixed/mastered by Jörg Uken at Soundlodge Studios (Scordatura, Sinister, Obscenity) in Rhauderfehn, Germany.

Poland’s grandmasters of radical grindcore, ANTIGAMA, have completed the seventh full-length installation of their cutting edge arsenal, “The Insolent”.

Seeing the band further along their ongoing path of progression, “The Insolent” contains another intriguing alloy of their futuristic grind savagery heavily diversified with cosmic exploration and harsh dissonance through ten new tracks of unorthodox, rapid forward-thinking metal.

Engineered and mixed by Pawel Grabowski and the band, mastered by Scott Hull (Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed), the album features a very special guest appearance of the legend of Polish electronic music scene, Władysław “Gudonis” Komendarek, and bears cover art designed by Bartek Rogalewicz.

Design by STRX

Shores Of Null once again submerges listeners with tempestuous and turbulent riffs with their fourth album ‘The Loss of Beauty’.
The band continues to hone its sound and take its melancholic dark metal to new heights by mastering an assorted palette of genres with inbred poignancy.
For fans of Amorphis, Enslaved, Paradise Lost

RELEASE DATE: MARCH 24, 2023
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The original and founding members of Swedish/Finnish grindcore band AFGRUND, being Andy, Pat and long-time drummer Panu are back after six years with their fourth full album. "The Dystopian" was recorded, mixed and mastered by Panu Posti at Mean Seed Labs during 2017 and includes 11 songs of intense Swedish grindcore in the vein of NASUM, ROTTEN SOUND, GADGET and the likes.

"The Dystopian is exactly what you’d want from a grindcore release in 2018. Mixing elements of old and new into a lethal concoction that’s best given a wide berth, this is an album that any fan of grindcore should be able to eagerly lap up. Highly recommended." - Wonderboxmetal

Heavy Psych Sounds is really proud to announce a brand new series of split albums that will be called DOOM SESSIONS.
We are going to release a bunch of compilations with doom bands from Heavy Psych Sounds roster featuring some of the heaviest bands of the world doom scene.

Each volume will host two bands.
This record you are holding is VOL. 1 – a split album with our doomy-sludge band Deadsmoke, that is premiering two brand new tracks “Dead Minds Army” and “Dethroned Concrete” featuring the UK heavy-riff masters Conan and their masterpiece “Beheaded”.

Cover design by Alan O'Neill.

The third album by the Italian band continues exploring dark fantasies of the talented musicians.
Demonstrating significant progress and development, (EchO) created a mosaic canvas on a melodic death doom metal base filled with outstanding melodies and intersections with different styles, with a touch of psychedelia and a perfect combination of fragility and brutality (both in music and vocals).
Carefully crafted arrangements ensured by the coherence and skills of the musicians are the unique feature of (EchO), that was perfected by Greg Chandler (Esoteric), who performed mixing and mastering in Priory Recording Studio.

Handmade cardboard digipak
Limited to 150 handnumbered copies

Born in the high desert of southern California, "Scattered Days" is the final collection of songs written and recorded in the Morongo Basin by Dandy Brown (Hermano and Orquesta del Desierto) as a solo-project.

Still containing all the blues, rock and pop elements of Brown’s earlier productions, Scattered Days is a unique blend of tones and flavors that DB fans have come to expect from his productions. Assembled in Joshua Tree, Palm Springs and Yucca Valley, the album reflects all the emotion and wide open sounds appreciated by those who love collections recorded in the desert.

MISERY INDEX return furiously with their brand new album, 'Rituals of Power'! With their sixth full-length, the American icons of hard hitting brutality display the strength of maturity grown out of the experience gained as a relentless touring machine. The general trend of their continuous evolution to incorporate less core elements and move towards classic death metal finds a new high water mark.

The solo project of JM Dopico, a veteran underground musician well known for his work with MACHETAZO, BODYBAG or DISHAMMER among many others, who plays all instruments and vocals on the album.

"Antihuman" is debut full length and contains 10 songs in around 45 minutes, mixing influences from the glorious 80's heavy metal, doom rock and punk, an unique blend inspired by classic stuff like BLACK SABBATH, CELTIC FROST, MOTÖRHEAD, VOIVOD, SAINT VITUS, KILLING JOKE, MERCYFUL FATE, THE OBSESSED, VENOM, CARNIVORE, AMEBIX... Artwork by Nor Prego (MACHETAZO, BODYBAG, LOOKING FOR AN ANSWER, BRODYS MILITIA) and logo by Timo Ketola (DISSECTION, DEAD CONGREGATION, SUNN O))), WATAIN, OPETH).

After 9 years of silence Plasma released a new groove grind bomb...11 Track, 43 minutes of ultra heavy down tuned goregrind from Frankfurt/Germany

Set for a release on January 25th 2019 via Heavy Psych Sounds, the 'Demos & Outtakes 98-02' will include 5 tracks that have never seen the light of day before (!!), alongside rare demos as well as cover songs such as the unique live version of Black Flag's 'Nervous Breakdown'! Beside these never published demos to date, the known tracks on this album are different to what NEBULA originally released on their previous records such as on 'Charged' or 'To The Center'.

"A pugni nudi" (With bare fists) - presented with a more than explicit subtitle "For a sad experience in a juvenile detention center" - is a 1974 film directed by Marcello Zeani; it can be associated to the Italian police genre, but it stands on its own due to its being set in the world of boxing.
It's a drama movie too, with a non-optimistic nor hopeful ending at all, accompanied by the music of Franco Bixio, with a distinctive jazz-rock imprint, a strong presence of symphonic arrangements and a singular more 'disengaged' episode ("Split second", on the B side of the LP).

A small gem, equally able to describe dramatic and tensive moments, now rediscovered and reissued for the first time on vinyl by AMS Records!

New stuff from DEATHTOPIA!

The slaughtering sickos are back with a brandnew MCD!

Once again they stay true to their amazing style and deliver fresh new tracks of finest Gore Metal / Death Metal.

Fans of EXHUMED, IMPALED and CARCASS will love DEATHTOPIA and can grab this awesome MCD without any concern!

179 tracks. This CD includes the Rats In The Control Room & Oblivion Riders cassettes + material from splits and compilation tracks from 2015-2018.

When it comes to Gothic Metal, most people think of Bands like The Gathering, Theatre of Tragedy, Tristania, Leaves' Eyes etc... Of course it is the genre with a lot of female-fronted outfits, but be honest:

Could it be, that the idea of Gothic-Metal is misunderstood?
But in the case of Draconian you get exactly this: Gothic Metal by the way it is meant to be!
A Death/Doom Hybrid with real "Beauty and the beast" moments.
You can hear the desperation, not only hear, you can feel it!