Originally released on CDR by ANNIHILVS in 2011, WITHOUT ME was a tremendously ambitious effort. Spanning half a year of production, WITHOUT ME brings together a superstar collaborative team. The album was masterminded by Lee M. Bartow (THEOLOGIAN, ANNIHILVS), who adapted a slew of incomplete tracks by multi-instrumentalist Carrie Lisa Ingber (ex-PAPER DAGGERS), a Berklee School of Music graduate with a degree in Film Scoring, who turned her lifelong infatuation with THE CURE into a profound talent for constructing perfect contemporary shoegaze.

By incorporating the guitar talents of Mike Hill (TOMBS), John LaMacchia (SPYLACOPA, CANDIRIA), Derek Rush (DREAM INTO DUST, CHTHONIC STREAMS), and three-fourths of now-defunct Brooklyn rockers TOURNAMENT, Ingber's collection of four minute gloomy pop songs have been transported into darker territory by Bartow and company, adding a bit of industrial grit and the occasional expansive drone dirge.
The album was partly engineered with the aid of Bartow's longtime friend and collaborator, Kevin Reilly, Jr. (CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO, KRISHNA DAS).

As the tenth anniversary of this important release approaches, ANNIHILVS has joined forces with LaMacchia's RISING PULSE RECORDS to produce a new cassette+digital edition, featuring brand new mixes by Raab Codec (SNOWBEASTS, COMPONENT RECORDINGS), who also mastered the album. Three SNOWBEASTS remixes (one on the cassette, two on the digital version) have also been included.
An additional five new remixes from Kevin Reilly’s original sessions have been included for the digital edition.

Credits:
all songs originally composed by Carrie Lisa Ingber
(synths, drum programming, bass guitar, vocals, lyrics)
produced by Lee M. Bartow
(mixing, editing, vocals, lyrics, synths)
engineered by Kevin D. Reilly
at LAST STOP RR, MMX-MMXI
additional guitar by
John LaMacchia (a1 & a2)
Jordan Lovelace (a4)
Montana Masback (a4)
Michael Hill (a5 & b1)
additional guitar & synth by
Derek Rush (a3)
additional bass guitar by
Ryan Kelly (a4)
mixed & mastered by Raab Codec
photography by Michael McClatchey
layout & design by Lee M. Bartow
track b4 remixed by Raab Codec
originally released MMXI by
ANNIHILVS POWER ELECTRONIX
www.annihilvs.org
jointly re-released MMXXI with
RISING PULSE RECORDS
www.risingpulserecords.com

love is nothing. Not in This Place (Without Me 2021 Reissue)

02 - PRIOR - STREET MEAT

01 - PRIOR - CHAIN OF DOGS

ANNIHILVS presents, with the utmost pride, PREDATION MONOLITHS, a new split CD from UNDERNEATH THE DEADLIGHT and GRUNTSPLATTER. An insanity-inducing nightmare of horror electronics, music from the madhouse,

Gruntsplatter - The Ghosts Of Dignity

Gruntsplatter - They Warmed Themselves At The Burning Poor

Gruntsplatter -  Predation Monoliths

Gruntsplatter -  Grieving Thoroughfares

Gruntsplatter - Carrion Class

Gruntsplatter - Pilgrims Of Saint Avarice

Gruntsplatter - A Telescope From Gutter Bones

...Deadlight - Sorrowful Vegetation

...Deadlight - He Revelation Of The Mysteries And The Things Hidden In Silence

...Deadlight - Rotted In Vain

...Deadlight - The Seat Of Desolation

...Deadlight - The Revelation Of The Mysteries And The Things Hidden In Silence

...Deadlight - The Necromachina

Underneath The Deadlight - Hypocritic Holiness

...Deadlight - Down To The Last Ash

In 2002, now-defunct Australian label Cranial Fracture released their obligatory inaugural compilation, featuring 30 tracks on two discs, including:
Dive, C/A/T, NTT, Isomer, Wilt, Savak, and many more.

NTT. SHATTER MY SPINAL CORD

On the morning of October 23, 2014, with the aid of Stephen Petrus (MURDEROUS VISION, LIVE BAIT RECORDING FOUNDATION), BRIGHTER DEATH NOW, DEUTSCH NEPAL, and raison d'être, as well as myself, appeared live on WCSB 89.3 Cleveland's FM Alternative Radio.

BRIGHTER DEATH NOW, DEUTSCH NEPAL, raison d'être LIVE on WCSB 89.3 Cleveland's FM Alternative Radio

ANNIHILVS proudly presents the debut full-length by LONGPIG, a brutal collaborative effort featuring CYST, LVMMVX, and THE VOMIT ARSONIST. Suppressive, pulverising, and terrifying, SHRINE OF THE LONGPIG heralds impending armageddon in a clamourous series of joylessly discordant anthems.

LONGPIG. WAR CHANTS OF THE DAMNED (UNMASTERED PREVIEW)

Hot on the heels of The Icy Bleakness of Things, Theologian’s collaboration with The Vomit Arsonist, Cloister Recordings presents Reconcile. Timed to coincide with the upcoming live appearance at the DARKNESS DESCENDS festival, this 60-minute cassette (and digital) release contains brand-new material featuring input from Andy Grant (The Vomit Arsonist), Mike McClatchey (Lament Cityscape), Stephen Petrus (Murderous Vision), and Derek Rush (Dream Into Dust). The album was mixed by Mike McClatchey. The word “supergroup” has been jokingly bandied about in reference to this collection of artists, but the final product is indeed a unique composite of industrial sounds, reflecting another step in the evolution of Theologian.

Perhaps most notable is a return to an earlier, less harsh and distorted iteration of the project, with cavernous drones and thunderous percussion creating the sort of dense sonic environments found on the 2010 debut album, The Further I Get From Your Star, The Less Light I Feel On My Face.

Eschewing the longform drone/ambient tracks of older releases, here we find Theologian attempting to approximate the immediacy and memorability of pop, using rhythm and melody to elicit slightly less sprawling emotional landscapes. The album’s eight tracks are interconnected by brief interludes, serving as touchstones along the journey to the album’s denouement. As the title suggests, Reconcile is ultimately about coming to terms with past versions of oneself, while examining the present and fretting over the future. Cloister Recordings is issuing this cassette in an edition of 100 copies, which will become available for the first time when Theologian headlines the DARKNESS DESCENDS festival on Saturday, June 16 at Pat’s in the Flat’s in Cleveland, Ohio.

Also performing are The Vomit Arsonist, Steel Hook Prostheses, Gnawed, Compactor, Shock Frontier, Vitriol Gauge, Cunting Daughters, and Murderous Vision. The Theologian performance will include Andy Grant, Stephen Petrus, and Derek Rush as live collaborators. The event is sold out.

Soft Tissue, the 2016 collaborative release by Lament Cityscape and Theologian, will be reissued later this year, featuring completely new mixes of the original album and remixes by Achromaticist, Compactor, Cutworm, Kidaudra, Neurospora, Orphx, Over Hold, rRhexis, and Snowbeasts.

Murderous Vision and Lament Cityscape have both recently completed new albums yet to be released, while The Vomit Arsonist produced a new cassette, entitled Further, in April of this year via Gutter Bloat. While Derek Rush has mostly been busy as SysAdmin for heavy electronics project Compactor, a 20th anniversary vinyl reissue of the Dream Into Dust album The World We Have Lost is in the works for April 2019.

THEOLOGIAN. RECONCILE SIDE A

ANNIHILVS presents this new cassette release by BOB BELLERUE (KILT, BLESSED THISTLE, HALFNORMAL). A dense storm of intense sound recorded in a small room with big amps, ASCETIC ADDICT features two movements of relentless feedback brutality and unyielding drone, resulting in a wicked juxtaposition of antithetical sensory experiences.

BOB BELLERUE. ASCETIC SESSION II (EXCERPT)

The final mastered  version of a track from SOME THINGS HAVE TO BE ENDURED, the next CDEP by THEOLOGIAN, coming from CRUCIAL BLAST in 2013.
This piece was created in collaboration with Rachel Maloney of TONIKOM, who provided the source material from which 99% of the track was constructed, with lyrics and vocals by Nikki Telladictorian of PROMETHEUS BURNING.
Produced in collaboration with Derek Rush (COMPACTOR/A MURDER OF ANGELS/DREAM INTO DUST).
Mastered by James Plotkin.

Artwork by Ione Rucquoi, Donna Miller, and Karlynn Holland.
www.tonik.org
www.prometheus-burning.com
www.chthonicstreams.com
www.ionerucquoi.com
www.karlhol.com
www.crucialblast.net
www.plotkinworks.com

A profile of Ione Rucquoi's incredible artwork can be seen here:
http://vimeo.com/53551069

THEOLOGIAN. WRITHING CORPUS LANDSCAPE - FINAL MASTERED VERSION

NTT. PHASE01: ARCHIVE 1997 DIGITAL COLLECTION
RELEASES AUGUST 22, 2020

As the story goes, ANNIHILVS was originally founded in the summer of 1997 to release AMALGAM: A COLLECTION OF WAR POEMS, a split CD by NTT and NEGATIVE EIGHT, the genre-bending electronic side project of industrial/metal band NEGATIVEHATE, whose members happened to live around the corner from my mom's house.

On July 17, 2020, former NTT collaborator Scott "Solitude" Walker, contacted me to ask if I'd be interested in hearing recently unearthed cassette recordings of our earliest work together.
All told, over five hours of material has been collected, ranging from the first bedroom recordings and sessions mixed by my longtime friend, engineer Kevin Reilly, Jr., at the NYU student recording studios... which, coincidentally took place exactly 23 years earlier, on July 17, 1997. Our seminal live performance, at the release party for the AMALGAM CD on August 22, 1997, closes the tracklist.

While a small fraction of the material here has been released previously in other archival collections, PHASE01 possesses vastly superior sound quality, having been digitised by Scott from his original four track masters.

Of particular note is the fact that a bevy of additional tracks featuring original NTT vocalist Elle Gaston, unheard and forgotten for more than twenty years, have been included. Way back around the same time these recordings were originally captured, Elle posed for a series of images shot by photographer Lisa Cerreta, which have been adapted for an entirely new layout to accompany this edition, with liner notes written by Scott.

01. NUCLEAR WINTER

A05 - I Am So Exquisitely Empty

A04 - (Love is) The Linchpin

A03 - The Trail's Gone Cold

A02 - Abuse

A01 - Lost Memories Like Severed Limbs

In 2021, Chicago-based solo black metal project ANNIHILUS will release a cassette of atmospheric drone tracks on ANNIHILVS, in what will truly be a marriage made in the capitol city of Hell.
ANNIHILUS has recently released his debut vinyl LP, GHANIMA to critical acclaim via AMERICAN DREAMS RECORDS and the video for DESTROY THE FUTURE was featured in MONOMER TV Season Two Episode 5.

ANNIHILUS. THE VOICE OF THE SHAI-HULUD (UNMASTERED)

The absolutely brilliant UK solo industrial project PRIMITIVE KNOT will join the ANNIHILVS roster in 2021 with TRIUMPH ÖV DEAF, a collection of cover songs on cassette.
PRIMITIVE KNOT has been making major waves this year, with releases on DEATHBED TAPES and DAMIEN RECORDS, and multiple videos featured on MONOMER TV, it was only a matter of time before we jumped at the chance to work with him, especially given that he's collaborated multiple times with our great friend Joan Pope of TEMPLE OV SATURN.

PRIMITIVE KNOT. ORGONE ACCUMULATOR (Hawkwind Cover)(MASTERED)

ANNIHILVS is disgusted to admit our association with the foul, reeking ambulatory waste product that is GROT. A creature composed of pure ugly, GROT defies the laws of nature; it is the sound of sewage made sentient, of loathing made atmosphere, of black clouds above rotted cities where stinking corpses occupy every possible corner, and the air is thick with flies.
Our first release of 2021, THE FACE OF GROT cassette will include a special edition of five copies that each come with a 4 inch GROTLING figurine.

GROT. PROLAPSED HEART

ANNIHILVS presents this new five-song digital EP from THEOLOGIAN, featuring material started in 2019, refined during the initial period of isolation following the Covid-19 pandemic, and ultimately fleshed out in Autumn 2020. Originally planned as a collaborative effort with Mike McClatchey (LAMENT CITYSCAPE), due to the big life changes brought about by current events, he was unable to commit his time to the project.
As chance had it, I was contacted shortly after by Eric Morgan (A PALE HORSE NAMED DEATH), who was looking to collaborate with me again, as he had done so effectively on 2014's PAIN OF THE SAINTS double CD on MALIGNANT RECORDS.

As of now he material is almost finished, more info to come...

Nonextant

THEOLOGIAN. TRADITION LEADS TO THE ABYSS (IN-PROGRESS)

WET PNEUMATIC, the new full-length album from Oakland, California's LAMENT CITYSCAPE (whose members have all now relocated to different parts of the country), is coming soon. Compiling the band's three self-released EPs which were unleashed at specific points throughout 2020, the ANNIHILVS Compact Disc edition will include additional material.

"All three EPs were written and recorded in 2017 while I was in this space of not knowing what to do next with this project. Everyone in the band had moved to a different state and my personal life was transitioning in ways that were so new to me. It was a very confusing time. It definitely encompassed the entire spectrum of feelings."
– Mike McClatchey

"LAMENT CITYSCAPE enters a drearier and more enigmatic trajectory with [The Old Wet]. Grappling with different low and lurching tones, ambient rumbles, hypnotic hymns, and decomposing textures throughout the three tracks, the ever-evolving experimental industrial act ends a chapter and opens a new door at the same time."
- The Sleeping Shaman

A stylistic amalgamation of post-doom metal and late 80s/early 90s era guitar-driven industrial (fans of WAX TRAX! RECORDS and NINE INCH NAILS take note), with the pristine production of frontman Mike McClatchey, WET PNEUMATIC promises to be an outstanding entry in the LAMENT CITYSCAPE discography.

LAMENT CITYSCAPE. BLEEDBACK LOOP

ANNIHILVS POWER ELECTRONIX is an underground record label founded in the Summer of 1997, originally as a means to distribute the works of NAVICON TORTURE TECHNOLOGIES (1997-2009) and associated projects. 
Specialising in industrial, power electronics, darkambient, drone, experimental and doom, the label has since expanded to include several other artists from around the globe.

This page will serve to preview works-in-progress, newly released material, and will feature the occasional obscure or out-of-print track or album.



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