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Derek Jarman - Through the Billboard Promised Land without Ever Stopping
Derek Jarman
Through the Billboard Promised Land without Ever Stopping
2026 • Soundtrack
Various Artists
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
2026 • Soundtrack
68
user score
(4)
Chimehours - Underneath the Earth
Chimehours
Underneath the Earth
2025 • LP
75
critic score
(1)
Various Artists - Decoder (OST)
Various Artists
Decoder (OST)
2025 • Reissue
Psychic TV - A Prayer for Derek Jarman
Psychic TV
A Prayer for Derek Jarman
2025 • Reissue
90
user score
(1)
Little Annie - With
Little Annie
With
2025 • LP
79
critic score
(1)
Martyn Ware - It's Always Ourselves We Find in the Sea
Martyn Ware, Charles Stooke & Gabriel Ware
It's Always Ourselves We Find in the Sea
2025 • LP
Igor Cavalera - Neon Gods / Own Your Darkness
Igor Cavalera & Shane Embury
Neon Gods / Own Your Darkness
2025 • LP
Эдуард Артемьев [Eduard Artemyev] - Электронная Музыка АНС (ANS Electronic Music)
Эдуард Артемьев [Eduard Artemyev], Станислав Крейчи [Stanislav Kreitchi], Александр Немтин [Alexander Nemtin] & Шандор Каллош [Sándor Kallós]
Электронная Музыка АНС (ANS Electronic Music)
2025 • Reissue
Satori - Pillars Of Salt
Satori
Pillars Of Salt
2025 • LP
30
user score
(1)
COLOSSLOTH - The Harmony Knife
Colossloth
The Harmony Knife
2025 • LP
58
user score
(1)
T.A.G.C. (The Anti Group Communication) - Iso​-​Erotic Calibration
T.A.G.C. (The Anti Group Communication)
Iso​-​Erotic Calibration
2025 • LP
Pitchshifter - Peel Sessions 1991-93
Pitchshifter
Peel Sessions 1991-93
2024 • Live
69
user score
(2)
Bestia Astrum - Fury 161
Bestia Astrum
Fury 161
2024 • LP
The Sea Of Wires - The Sea Of Wires
The Sea Of Wires
The Sea Of Wires
2024 • Compilation
400 Lonely Things - The New Twilight
400 Lonely Things
The New Twilight
2024 • LP
49
user score
(1)
Jac Berrocal - Broken Allures
Jac Berrocal, David Fenech & Vincent Epplay
Broken Allures
2024 • LP
68
user score
(2)
Llyn Y Cwn - Megaliths
Llyn Y Cwn
Megaliths
2024 • LP
63
user score
(1)
Meat Beat Manifesto & Merzbow - Extinct
Meat Beat Manifesto & Merzbow
Extinct
2024 • LP
82
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(75)
Lull - Journey Through Underworlds
Lull
Journey Through Underworlds
2024 • Reissue
66
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(3)
Merzbow - Cafe Oto
Merzbow
Cafe Oto
2023 • Reissue
58
user score
(4)
Bill Laswell - Outland
Bill Laswell & Pete Namlook
Outland
2023 • Box Set
Various Artists - Arise - A Cold Spring Sampler
Various Artists
Arise - A Cold Spring Sampler
2023 • Compilation
85
user score
(1)
Various Artists - М​у​з​ы​к​а​л​ь​н​о​е П​р​и​н​о​ш​е​н​и​е [Musical Offering]
Various Artists
М​у​з​ы​к​а​л​ь​н​о​е П​р​и​н​о​ш​е​н​и​е [Musical Offering]
2023 • Reissue
British Electric Foundation - Music for Stowaways
B.E.F.
Music for Stowaways
2023 • Reissue
69
critic score
(1)
63
user score
(1)
SleepResearch_Facility / Llyn Y Cwn - Sargo / Posidonia
SleepResearch_Facility & Llyn Y Cwn
Sargo / Posidonia
2023 • LP
69
user score
(5)
400 Lonely Things - Mother Moon
400 Lonely Things
Mother Moon
2023 • LP
Lull - That Space Somewhere
Lull
That Space Somewhere
2022 • LP
72
user score
(1)
Dead Voices On Air - Abrader Redux
Dead Voices On Air
Abrader Redux
2022 • Reissue
Various Artists - Visions of Darkness in Iranian Contemporary Music Vol. II
Various Artists
Visions of Darkness in Iranian Contemporary Music Vol. II
2022 • Compilation
We Be Echo - Ceza·Evi [compleat edition]
We Be Echo
Ceza·Evi [compleat edition]
2022 • Reissue
75
critic score
(1)
Kollaps - Until The Day I Die
Kollaps
Until The Day I Die
2022 • LP
71
user score
(4)
Merzbow - Animal Liberation - Until Every Cage Is Empty
Merzbow
Animal Liberation - Until Every Cage Is Empty
2022 • LP
51
user score
(12)
Burial Hex - Gauze
Burial Hex
Gauze
2022 • LP
73
user score
(1)
Llyn Y Cwn - Du Y Moroedd
Llyn Y Cwn
Du Y Moroedd
2022 • LP
78
user score
(1)
Lull - Moments
Lull
Moments
2021 • Reissue
90
critic score
(1)
George Fenton - The Company of Wolves
George Fenton
The Company of Wolves
2021 • Reissue
Det Kätterska Förbund - Lidaverken del I: Att i vådeld förgås
Det Kätterska Förbund
Lidaverken del I: Att i vådeld förgås
2021 • LP
80
user score
(5)
FM Einheit - Exhibition Of A Dream
FM Einheit
Exhibition Of A Dream
2021 • LP
70
critic score
(1)
Jagath - Devalaya
Jagath
Devalaya
2020 • LP
Controlled Death & Rudolf Eb.er
Death Ceremonies
2020 • LP
75
user score
(3)
Llyn Y Cwn - Dinorwic
Llyn Y Cwn
Dinorwic
2020 • LP
76
user score
(1)
La Breiche - Le Rite
La Breiche
Le Rite
2020 • LP
85
user score
(1)
Khost - Buried Steel
Khost
Buried Steel
2020 • LP
80
user score
(2)
Sonologyst - Ancient Death Cults And Beliefs
Sonologyst
Ancient Death Cults And Beliefs
2020 • LP
Kristian Eidnes Andersen & Lars Von Trier
Antichrist (Original Soundtrack)
2019 • Soundtrack
83
user score
(4)
Kollaps - Mechanical Christ
Kollaps
Mechanical Christ
2019 • LP
40
critic score
(1)
Anni Hogan - Lost In Blue
Anni Hogan
Lost In Blue
2019 • LP
59
user score
(3)
MZ.412 - Svartmyrkr
MZ.412
Svartmyrkr
2019 • LP
73
user score
(4)
Coil - How to Destroy Angels
Coil, Zos Kia & Marc Almond
How to Destroy Angels
2018 • Live
58
user score
(2)
Merzbow - Graft
Merzbow
Graft
2017 • Reissue
40
user score
(1)
Andrzej Markowski - Penderecki: Kosmogonia; De natura sonoris II; Anaklasis; Fluorescences
Bernard Ładysz, Stefania Woytowicz, Kazimierz Pustelak, Chór Filharmonii Narodowej, Józef Bok, Orkiestra Filharmonii Narodowej & Andrzej Markowski
Penderecki: Kosmogonia; De natura sonoris II; Anaklasis; Fluorescences
2017 • Reissue
75
user score
(12)
Khost - Governance
Khost
Governance
2017 • LP
70
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(7)
She Spread Sorrow - Mine
She Spread Sorrow
Mine
2017 • LP
56
user score
(1)
Zos Kia / Coil - Transparent
Zos Kia / Coil
Transparent
2017 • Reissue
Trepaneringsritualen - Deathward to the Womb
Trepaneringsritualen
Deathward to the Womb
2017 • LP
54
user score
(4)
Balázs Pándi & Merzbow - Live at FAC251
Merzbow & Balázs Pándi
Live at FAC251
2016 • Live
50
user score
(2)
Tunnels Of Ah - Surgical Fires
Tunnels Of Ah
Surgical Fires
2016 • LP
Sun Ra & Merzbow - Strange City
Sun Ra & Merzbow
Strange City
2016 • LP
78
critic score
(2)
70
user score
(31)
Dave Ball & Jon Savage - Photosynthesis
Dave Ball & Jon Savage
Photosynthesis
2016 • LP
1
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