ConSouling Sounds is delighted to present the rerelease of Amenra's Mass II, together with Ritual II, for the very first time on vinyl. Belgium's premier doom/sludge/postmetal outfit's massive sound unfolds itself in its full potential this time around. Billy Anderson (Eyehategod, Melvins, Neurosis, Swans, ...) remastered the album and he truly managed to unleash the beast. The combination of moving compositions, the unique Amenra riffing and the violent outpours never sounded more intense, dramatic and profound. You didn't really experience Mass II, until you've heard this version!
The impression is limited to 500 copies (75 clear/splatter, 125 clear, 300 black), all on 180 grams vinyl to contribute to the ultimate listening experience.
It is with great pride we bring you "Floating Veins", the debut album of Syndrome, the lastest moniker under which Mathieu Vandekerckhove (Amenra, Kingdom, Sembler Deah) operates. Opposed to the emotional and violent outpour that Amenra delivers, Syndrome explores the very boundaries of introspective music.
Prepare to be taken on a narrative musical journey through five acts each painting a different picture but trancending into one dramatic moment where everything seems to fall into place perfectly. While the ambient soundscapes and the erie droning riffs are the blood, the apocalyptic drums and beats are the pulse. The tides stow the listener right into the roaring heart of Syndrome. Until it stops.
CD comes in a vinyl style 3mm spined sleeve. Limited to 500 copies (100 copies with extra dvd). LP (with one bonus track) is co-released with Truelove Entertainment and is limited to 300 copies.
Aderlating - Spear of Gold and Seraphim Bone part one
(SOUL0013 - 2011)
Aderlating is slowly but surely making a name for itself. Starting out as an outlet for Mories (Gnaw Their Tongues/De Magia Veterum) to bring his unique dark aurual vison to the live environment, together with Eric (Mowlawner), Aderlating evolved into a solid recording/performing band.
Ranging from subtle ambient to noise-drenched slabs of black metal, rumbling low-ends, screeching highs and driven industrial brutality, Aderlating is captivating and disenchanting at the same time. The game of attracting and repelling casts the audience under a dark spell. And this metaphor really isn't far fetched. The whole atmosphere breathes a hypnotic darkness, which has a distinct ritualistic feel to it.
Comes in a vinyl style 3mm spined sleeve. Limited to 500 copies.
Magnetic Fields & Zero Dimension Planes: drone and ambient compilation
(SOUL0012 - 2011)
It's very hard to define what exactly ambient and drone music is. It's a broad spectrum with hardly any boundaries and which is open to a lot of experiments. Sometimes gentle sounds without much variations, other times dreams-evoking and oppressive rhythms.
With this compilation we try to do justice to this diversity, as the sound palette goes from monotone soundscapes and guitar drones over dark ambient and field recordings to electronic and new age-like ambient.
Nearly all tracks are unreleased and/or exclusive to this release.
Featured artists are: [multer], Blyndhæð, Distant Fires Burning, IAM., Mirko Uhlig, Monotonos, N, Nihilum, Premonition Factory, Simulacra, Soundsketching and Tzesne.
Comes in a folded A2-poster designed by Merijn Dietvorst from .vorst ontwerp
Aidan Baker - Lost in the Rat Maze
(SOUL0011 - 2011)
With Lost in the Rat Maze Aidan Baker produces an unconventional album - even to Baker-standards. Having been known for his extensive ambient soundscapes, Baker chose a different approach to his sound weaving - albeit true to the "Bakersound".
In stead of a densely layered and broad sound palette, Baker has almost embraced a "postrockish" method of composing. More compact, pointed and clear progressions can be discovered, together with a diverse array of instruments, sounds and techniques. Expect the classic Aidan Baker elements: captivating, fascinating and repetitive mesmerizing sounds - but with a different twist to it.
Limited to 900 copies (100 copies in oversized sleeve, 800 copies in regular jewel case)
Viscera/// 2: As Zeitgeist Becomes Profusion of the I
(SOUL0010 - 2010)
What started out as a straightforward brutalcore band meandered into an experimental quartet.
With the introduction of psychedelic sounds, postcore bits and ambient/drone pieces it's quite easy to brand this outfit as the next "post"-band. But there's more that meets the eye:
The band never completely let go of their roots, balancing brutal grindcore with delicate post metal influences. This results in a truly unique sound that can shift from fragile to frenzy in a heartbeat.
With this latest effort, 2 - As Zeitgeist Becomes Profusion of the I, these Italians produced their most ambitious and mature offering to this day which makes it the most complex yet accessible listening experience Viscera/// ever offered.
SIMULACRA - There is a Fountain filled with Blood
(SOUL0009 - 2010)
Degradation, degeneration, fear, sadness, loneliness, the end... these and many other negativities, "dressed in a dark ambient garment" can be felt in the new work of Simulacra. The five foggy pieces of work that overwhelm the listener with a feeling of a total solitariness while waiting for something that is not avoidable and can’t be stopped create the musical whole. The sounds used in the new album of Simulacra are, as usual, the minimalist form of dark ambient, that emanates with hypnotic attraction.
The main motif of the new album is a fountain filled with blood that symbolizes the source of death, the place we constantly head on in our gloomy existential pilgrimage. The atmosphere of the album grabs the listener’s heart... to stop its beating with one grip.
Limited to 500 copies
MONDRIAN OAK - Through Early Seed
(SOUL0008 - 2009)
These Italians shared the stage with a lot of great bands (Zippo, Gerda, Last Minute To Jaffna, Viscera/// e.a.), which most certainly helped them to shape their own voice within the genre: they have crafted a sound which is evocative and psychedelic merely with the classic rock instruments, devoid of excess. With their loud, doomy and gloomy outbursts that alternate with intimistic accoustic parts, their music is situated on the crossroads between postrock and postcore.
The maturity and originality they put in the arrangements of the composition makes this a debut album that truly stands out, and predicts a promising future!
Limited to 300 copies
After Exxasens' debut cdr Polaris sold out at lightspeed it was clear we had to take up to the next level. So, here we are: Beyond the Universe!
This debut full album picks up where Polaris left: beautiful unearthly melodies somewhere on the line between post-rock and post-metal. Impossible to pinpoint an exact genre or reference point: Barcelona's Exxasens maintains a unique musical journey. A journey that leads the listener somewhere... Beyond the Universe.
Limited to 1000 copies
METHADRONE - Better Living (Through Chemistry)
(SOUL0006 - 2009)
Methadrone has come a long way since its conception as a 2-bassed sludge/drone monolith. Craig Pillard (who has been part of Evoken, Incantation, e.a.) gradually expanded his sound through experiment with acoustic guitars and other vocal collaborations. Better Living (Through Chemistry) is pushing beyond the boundaries of traditional doom music, resulting in well balanced atmospheric pieces of music which make this third full album the apogee of Methadrone's oeuvre this far. On this innovative journey, that bridges the gaps between doom, drone, dark ambient, wave and even neo-folk, Pillard sided with Jason Wallach (The Unquiet Void), Tara Vanflower (Lycia) and Thierry Arnal (fragment.) to present their next step in the evolution of gloomy music.
V.A. - Après le Déluge: Belgian postmusic compilation
(SOUL0005 - 2009)
An exciting compilation where the finest young Belgian experimental bands collide. Ranging from post-rock, to post-core, to post- (black) metal.
Get yourself familiarised with the sounds of the Belgian underground.
Featured bands: The Blanchwood Spacefolk, Eye of Daw, Karoshi, Krati, Mount Venus, Musth, P:407, Salvador, Saturn Trip, Sensual Noise and Zeus Walks The Earth
On this LP Hellmut Neidhardt ([multer]) works together with Mirko Uhlig, Segment and Fear Falls Burning.
Ranging from calm and silent atmospheres to pulsating rhythms and dark, upbuilding soundscapes, finally closing with deep, warm space.
The only source used is the original material of the ‘Bergen’ 2LP, except the additional guitar work of Dirk Serries/FFB.
Limited to 220 copies
VANESSA VAN BASTEN - Psygnosis EP
(SOUL0003 - 2008)
This heavy Italian postrock ensemble does not constrict itself to the laws of some Great Postrock Bible. Instead it blends in psychedelica, ambient influences, metal and shoegaze to result in a unique musical experience.
Dreamlike and cinematographic sounds collide with heavy and dark sonic assaults: the music is incredibly crafted and reveals more of its intrinsic beauty every time it is being played.
Vanessa Van Basten has kept their lo-fi attitude as the tracks were recorded in the rehearsal room and at home with the aid of a technician and feature a human drummer (no more drum computer this time) that has toured with the band in the past.
The EP comes in an oversized folded cover with a sixteen page booklet inserted.
Limited to 500 copies
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Mt. - Teach Your Children How To Think, Not What To Think
(SOUL0002 - 2009)
It has been a while since we heard new tunes by the band branded by The Silent Ballet as “one of the shining new lights of the UK post-rock scene”. The EP contains 4 brand new tracks that push beyond 2006 critically acclaimed Lethologica. During the years of silence the band progressed as songwriters, which is reflected in every track on the Teach Children How To Think, Not What To Think EP. Intelligently layered structures entwined with amazingly crafted melodies leave no room for interpretation: Mt. are back and determined to permanently claim a place in the spotlights.
Limited to 1000 copies
NADJA - The Bungled & The Botched
(SOUL0001 - 2008)
This awesome release contains a re-recorded version of Absorbed in You, which originally featured on the long time sold out split album with Methadrone, and the brandnew track The Bungled & The Botched. This disc provides a monolithic yet melodic assault of epic proportions.
The release comes in an oversized artwork package which was designed by the Belgian visual artist Stefan Serneels.
First edition was limited to 500 copies
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Second edition: TBR
Upcoming releases:
Aderlating - Spear of Gold and Seraphim Bone part two (December 2011)
Alkerdeel - Morinde cd & lp (February 2012)
Mathieu Vandekerckhove - debut (2012)
Vanessa Van Basten - TBA (2012)
Syndrome - 2nd full length (2012)
Aidan Baker - Green & Cold and Figures vinyl (summer 2012)
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Alkerdeel - Luizig
(CON010 - 2011)
On the eve of the joint release of Morinde - the debut full album of Alkerdeel - ConSouling Sounds and At War With False Noise decided to give Alkerdeel's debut demo Luizig a new reissue.
This this brutal and ugly piece of sludge/doom/black metal comes with revamped artwork in a plastic sleeve and is limited to 500 copies, available for a very special low price!
Buy it here!
Syndrome / Monotonos / Sequences - Fall of Man
(CON009 - 2011)
Monolithic riffing and ambient drones by Syndrome, Monotonos and Sequences.
Fall of Man was conceived to commemorate their combined Paris show on the 3d of November 2011. Each band contributed one brandnew and previously unreleased track, with the last track of the album being an exclusive collaborative effort.
Only 200 hand numbered copies available on cd. The the cd is held by an envelope and accompanied by 6 customized cardboard cards.
Buy it here!
[multer] - Berge im Bunker
(CON007 - 2011)
The two tracks on this release are based on the music that was originally composed for the Berge im Bunker exhibition by Barbara Meisner that ran from August 2008 to May 2009 in Dortmund.
The collage is a repeating, light melodic environmental soundscape that creates an unheimlich feel, while incorporating all [multer] elements: loops, electronica , drones... Still it is not a typical release for the German duo as it is their most minimal effort up to date.
The music will get the best out of your imagination.
CON001: EXXASENS - Polaris. First edition CD-R was limited to 120 copies. Second edition CD-R was limited to 50 copies.
CON002: NO ONE WISHED TO SETTLE HERE - Constant Slapstick And Traveling. CD-R limited to 100 copies.
CON003: P:407 - Themes For The Coming Apokalypse. CD-R limited to 100 copies.
CON004: TIMER - Yet Here We Stand. CD-R limited to 150 copies.
CON005: FRAGMENT - s/t. CD-R limited to 100 copies.
CON006: TALBOT - Tundra. CD-R limited to 100 copies.
Co-releases
LAST MINUTE TO JAFFNA - Volume I
The brand new album from Last Minute To Jaffna, described as something in between Neurosis and Breach.
5 tracks, 45 minutes long, printed on cardboard digifile.
Co-released by Concubine Records, Swarm Of Nails, Hypershape Records and ConSouling Sounds.
First edition was limited to 500 copies.
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Distributed titles
ENDER - s/t
"Ender describe themselves as experimental drone rock - which means their palette is mainly comprised of layered slabs of overdriven guitar........the pair have the capacity not only to construct great caverns of noise but to deftly evoke mood and emotion with sustained tones in harmony and dissonance. The arrangement of pure tone, minus premeditated riffs or the focus of a voice allows a listener to be carried away on its waveforms. The music is corralled into four unnamed parts, perhaps heralding a seasonal life cycle." - Jacob Connor, NZ Musician Magazine
Comes in a wonderful digipack
