“At first listen, The Practice of Love, Jenny Hval’s seventh full-length album, unspools with an almost deceptive ease. Across eight tracks, filled with arpeggiated synth washes and the [...]
Sankayi, Konono Nº1, Orchestre Bambala, Orchestre Bana Luya – Kinshasa 1978 (Originals and Reconstructions)
“Back in 1978, Bernard Treton recorded four ‘tradi-modern’ bands in Kinshasa. These sessions spawned the “Zaïre: Musiques Urbaines à Kinshasa” album (released in [...]
“The fourth album that Samara Lubelski and Marcia Bassett have recorded as a duo — the second for us, following 2017’s Live NYC (FTR 302LP) — is much less […]
die Reihe is the moniker of NYC based composer and sound engineer Jack Callahan. Taken from the journal edited by Herbert Eimert and Karlheinz Stockhausen, die Reihe makes work that […]
New 2019 album … their first in 19 years! Tearaway trouble-punk ‘n’ bubblegum scuzz-rock from the notorious US duo, now signed to Fat Possum. Includes “Year Of The Dog”.
LP version includes digital download card; includes CD bonus track. Mental Experience present the first ever reissue of Bomis Prendin‘s Clear Memory, originally released in 1984. Formed in [...]
After several years in the making, it is Nuclear War Now’s honor to finally present this split album from Bunkur and Mordor, two of the most extreme and unorthodox bands […]
The emergence of the Norwegian Black Metal movement is often regarded as a sudden paradigmatic shift in sound and aesthetics. But it didn’t take place in a vacuum; many of […]
Closing in on 40 eventful years of existence, Canada’s progressive sci-fi metal innovators VOIVOD introduce their 15th (!) studio album “Synchro Anarchy”. Following 2018’s highly [...]
Piledriver – Metal Inquisition (Pilepuke Colored Vinyl)
SHADOW KINGDOM RECORDS is proud to present a long-overdue reissue of PILEDRIVER’s cult-classic debut album, Metal Inquisition, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats. Since its original [...]
Debut from this Belgian duo. Like the dark solitary figure which adorns the cover, NDE are shrouded in mystery and desolation. No website. No social media. No contact details. The […]
First released in 1993 as a vinyl EP and a split CD with Emperor, Enslaved’s Hordanes Land is considered a key release in the development of Viking metal. This By […]
Lo and behold, Brown Acid – The Fifteenth Trip is here, and it’s another mind-melting dose of brilliant long-lost, rare, and unreleased hard rock, heavy psych, and proto-metal tracks from [...]
Bunuel is the sound of a difficult situation made worse by an unwillingness and an inability to play nice. If slotting it in a genre makes it easier for one […]