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Cult Records is an independent record label and online record store based in New York, founded by Julian Casablancas (The Strokes/The Voidz).

After four years of silence, instrumental metal standard bearers Pelican have come thundering back, with Forever Becoming, an eight-song album destined to be considered one of the most punishingly rewarding albums of the year. 

Before their hiatus, the group had laid a sizeable chunk of the groundwork for the instrumental metal scene that’s come into its own in the 13 years since they started playing together. After 2009 the band found itself slightly adrift, and found the day to day struggle of being full-time underground musicians colliding with new families and non-musical careers. Wisely, they didn’t make any rash decisions, and as suits a band known for making dense, meditative sounds they simply patiently figured out how to move past their obstacles.

This reborn Pelican is purer, more focused, and far more assured. Recorded at Electrical Audio in Chicago with engineer Chris Common, and featuring The Swan King guitarist Dallas Thomas (replacing the amicably departed Laurent Schroeder-Lebec) Forever Becoming is an immense, speaker-rattling meditation on the infinite cycle of death and life. It takes a lot of experience and a lot of confidence to attempt a head-on ascent of the biggest, most monolithic theme in art, but Forever Becoming is proof that Pelican has plenty of both, and knows how to wield them.


Descendant of punk/hardcore. Boston to Brooklyn transplant. Founding member of the bands Mutoid Man & Cave In. Sonic enthusiast of “mid-fi” recordings (somewhere between high & low fidelity). Turtle whisperer.

Artists Management company & Record Label 
Based in Los Angeles - http://sargenthouse.com

The label began with the release of Ringfinger’s (that's me!) debut in 2008 and I have been putting out a few records a year (by other artists) ever since. It is all about quality for me, not quantity. I don't have one particular style of music I favor so the only goal I have with this label is to release music that truly takes my breath away. That could be ambient Metal or that could mean candy coated twee Pop and or anything in between. I don't care about music trends or following just one lonely little genre. Great music comes in all forms and I am happy to explore as much of it as possible and to share it with others.

My other passion besides music is creating thoughtful and interesting record packaging.  Music is truly important to me but so is the art that surrounds it.When you buy something from LBC, I want you to feel like you own something special, something you won't regret taking up room on a shelf or in a music folder on your desktop. Ideally I would like to be the kind of label that reminds people why they enjoy owning music in the first place. Little Black Cloud Records may not be a very big label but I am truly a massive fan of music.

The artist roster is as follows:

*Ringfinger * Cinemasophia * Dynamic Truths* Runhild Gammelsaeter * Gauchiste *

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