Available now: https://malignantrecs.bandcamp.com/album/molten-vasts
A collaborative album between Grant Richardson (Gnawed) &
Themistoklis Altintzoglou (Θ), Molten Vasts is exactly as it’s name and imaging implies…a roiling and mesmerizing mass of molten textures, arching drones, and searing oceanic swirls. Dark ambient in it's purest form.

Torrid Core by Mass Ejection

For The Ashes by Control

https://malignantrecs.bandcamp.com/album/there-is-a-wasteland-and-it-is-us

First full length since 2018's Soul of Ruin, Body of Filth finds PA based Abjection Ritual returning to his more death industrial based roots, while still embracing the bludgeoning heaviness and crushing weight that populated that release. Shuddering frequencies, strewn debris, and bleak atmospherics deliver a definitive statement of nihilism and negativity.

Author of Death and Disease by Abjection Ritual

Sewer Goddess’ 2010 CD debut, “With Dirt You Are One”, seem to come and go in the blink of a rotted eye, and while there have been numerous tape, compilation, and live recordings since then, nothing could possibly prepare you for the evolution in sound that has occurred since then. Recent material and performances have certainly hinted at it, but “Painlust” goes beyond all expectations and delivers what is up to this point, their benchmark recording.  Now backed by a full fledge band and recorded in studio,  Kristen Rose and co. have taken a blade to the original Sewer Goddess template and ceremoniously cut the fat, leaving a lean, sinewy carcass that’s as much doom metal as it death industrial.  The 6 tracks here are an asphyxiating death march that’s concise and devastatingly heavy, the lurching, sludge driven guitar, dissonant riffs, and bass all in a rigid lockstep with heaving, pneumatic percussion.  Bound with bewitching and often maniacal vocal shrieks and moans, and heaps of ghastly electronic filth, it’s a brilliant dichotomy between human and machine,  resulting in listening experience that’s at once enthralling and terrifying. 
CD release February 20th on Black Plague.
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LP release Spring of 2015 on Silken Tofu.
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Melena's Mask by Sewer Goddess

As one half of Swedish/Norwegian industrial duo K.N.O., Kristoffer Oustad is no stranger to the Malignant roster, and yet within the broader context of the K.N.O. sound, his exact contributions were never fully known, or at least immediately recognizable. Listening to his debut solo recording, it becomes evident that the more emotive and moody qualities within those recordings seemed to be his primary responsibility. The 7 tracks that comprise Filth Haven operate on a palpable psychological level and are perhaps some of the most personal and deeply emotional recordings Malignant has released.  Oustad shows an innate ability to craft intricate and detailed pieces of grey hued, analog darkness that feel suspended in time… dreamlike and meditative,  yet always  hinting at something ominous on the horizon,  as  gradually shifting textures, drifting tones and haunting melodies intersect in a hazy, somnambulant procession. While the method for composition (analog synths, guitar, and field recordings) may have been the same, each track is uniquely different than the next, but in the end, feels tightly bound together by a cinematic framework that sinks deep into your consciousness.  An absolutely astounding and rewarding work for those that appreciate all manner of dark music. Out April 2015. TumorCD84.
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Row Me Over by Kristoffer Oustad

Arriving on the scene in 1993 with their self-titled demo, Yen Pox immediately made their presence known with an ability to create monumental, light devouring soundscapes that transcended all that had come before it.    Proceeding releases, including their debut CD, Blood  Music, 2000's New Dark Age, and the collaborative CD with Troum only solidified their standing and reputation. With Between the Horizon and the Abyss just being their first full length recording in over 15 years, Yen Pox will never be accused of being prolific. After all, with the two members spread out between Indiana and Washington State, creating new material doesn't exactly lend itself to convenience. But on the rare occasion that recordings do arise, it's nothing short of masterful, reminding listeners why they've achieved such notoriety with such a limited discography, and why their recordings are consistently recognized as benchmarks within the dark ambient genre.

Time between releases has been well spent, with the new material taking the early template and expounding upon it greatly, adding layers of industrial churn and structure to the infernal kosmische sprawl they're so adept at creating. And yet throughout its entirety, Between the Horizon and the Abyss is remarkably polished and fluid.  Within its realm, no seconds feel wasted, and every sound feels purposefully placed, even as it moves and flows in perpetual motion; strains of a distant angelic choirs fall beneath a complex array of arcing tones, liquidous, molten textures, & harrowing orchestral shimmer, with fervent masses of malevolent atmospherics billowing forth in glorious detail.

While this technically falls under the banner of dark ambient,  what Yen Pox has managed to create goes far beyond genre specifications and boundaries, crafting a  new benchmark and adding a high water mark to an already stellar discography.

Out May 5th, 2015 on Malignant Records. TumorCD85
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Grief Ritual by Yen Pox

Last track from the forthcoming Sektor 304 CD, Subliminal Actions, due out December 27th on Malignant Records.

A Prismatic Sun by Sektor 304

Track from the forthcoming Funerary Call CD, Nightside Emanations, on Malignant Records.

Thee I Invoke by Funerary Call

http://www.malignantrecords.com/releases/6233
https://malignantrecs.bandcamp.com/album/soul-of-ruin-body-of-filth
With their second full length record for Malignant Records, Abjection Ritual emerge a far different beast, now fully untethered by genre constraints and conventions. Soul of Ruin, Body of Filth is a vast progression from past releases, incorporating guitars, bass and a live drummer into their arsenal, and in doing so have crafted a far more diverse, idiosyncratic vision, while retaining the atmospherics of heavy electronics and industrial ambience. Like a hybrid of Enemy of the Sun era Neurosis, early Swans, Godflesh, IRM and Khanate mixed with the caustic doom sludge of Halo and Indian, Soul of Ruin, Body of Filth is a crushingly visceral and eclectic journey that destroys preconceptions and leaves any true classifications in tatters. Featuring vocal contributions from Rennie Resmini (Starkweather) and Christopher Ropes.  In 6 panel digipak with cover art by Jef Whitehead (Leviathan).
TumorCD113. Out April 6th, 2018
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Soul of Ruin, Body of Filth

Blood Mother by Abjection Ritual

Himukalt - Knife Through the Spine LP (TumorLP116)
As admirers of Himukalt’s four previous tape releases, Malignant is pleased to present the first full length LP from this promising, Nevada based, female fronted act.  The project of the enigmatic Ester Kärkkäinen, Knife Through the Spine delivers a steady cascade of abstract sounds, festering with grinding pneumatic throb, coarse frequency blasts and sputtering electronic oscillations, with spliced snippets of processed, flanged vocals and a general sense of social anxiety and disaffection. There’s something uniquely old school and primitive at work here, capturing the claustrophobic, unsettled and fragmented sound of early Illusion of Safety or mid-late ‘80s industrial on a whole, contemporizing it, and filling it in with an obsessive, post-mortem feel.  A unique and challenging take on heavy electronics for fans of Puce Mary, She Spread Sorrow, and Atrax Morgue.  Lmtd 200 copies. 
Releases April 27th, 2018

Staggered Crushed by Himukalt

Out 1/11/19
New full length from this Spanish heavy electronics project, following the LP "Freedom Locked" on Tesco. 10 songs of diseased and infected analog frequencies, frying minimal electronics, and throbbing, modulating rhythms.  Unsettling and menacing, this is  old school industrial for the purists at heart

Dead Bodies by Moral Order

Final track from Sphäre Sechs CD Tiefschlaf, out on Malignant Records August 26th, 2012. Gorgeous passages of sweeping, cosmic drones and textural ripples that fan out over a vast, luminous landscape, the amorphous tones and glassy, serene ambience melding together in pristine, meditative washes of sound. This is some of the purest ambience you’ll find and the perfect atmosphere for drifting off into a seemingly endless dream state. 

Phase VI from Sphäre Sechs

Track from the Sphäre Sechs CD,Tiefschlaf out August  28th on Malignant Records. Gorgeous passages of sweeping, cosmic drones and textural ripples that fan out over a vast, luminous landscape, the amorphous tones and glassy, serene ambience melding together in pristine, meditative washes of sound. This is some of the purest ambience you’ll find and the perfect atmosphere for drifting off into a seemingly endless dream state.

Phase V from Sphäre Sechs

Track 3 from the forthcoming CD, Secular Hymns, out on Malignant Records in early November, 2012.

What You Believe by Xiphoid Dementia

The 6th full length release from Rhode Island’s The Vomit Arsonist carries on the tradition of unwavering nihilism laid down by previous releases, but That Which Has Been Forgotten seems to go even further into depths of dysphoria and abject self-loathing. Maybe it’s the increased use of junk metal scrapings and shuffling debris that heightens the atmospherics and tension, or that the reverberating machine shudders just feel denser and heavier. Whatever it is, That Which Has Been Forgotten reaches a pinnacle of smoldering intensity and harrowing claustrophobia previously untouched, even by The Vomit Arsonist standards. Prepare yourselves, for the worst is yet to come.

To Not Exist by The Vomit Arsonist

https://malignantrecs.bandcamp.com/album/studies-for-a-vortex
As a founding member of the now defunct Sektor 304 and a major contributor to Beyond Enclosure, Andre Coelho is no stranger to the Malignant roster, and we couldn’t be happier to welcome him back with his brand-new project, Metadevice. For those familiar with his previous work, you’ll recognize a lot of the same traits and characteristics: assemblages of bruising musicality, as fed through a cacophony of factory dirge, alienating drones and insectile frequencies, often with distorted rhythms and resonating clangs, and vocals that range from spoken word to more aggressive and in your face. No matter the project, Andre has always managed to tap into an authentically old school industrial sound, and Metadevice is no exception. A must For fans of IRM, Einsturzende Neubauten, STROM.ec

01 - Dysfunctional Cyborg by Metadevice

From the cassette/digital release "Ubiquitarchia" by Metadevice
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A quick follow-up to 2019’s Studies For a Vortex, composed during the quarantine months in Portugal. Gone are many of the “warmer” elements and the obvious human touches that comprised the full length debut, with no scrap metal, no drums, and no vocals outside of the occasional samples. In its place, we’re confronted with 8 tracks of cold, synthesized throb and terminally doomed electronic currents, threaded with crackling skuzz, shuffling debris, and ominous interference. It’s a stripped down and despondent recording, about the loss of what we have as human beings, our capability to feel, experience and create, and most certainly appropriate and befitting of current times.

Hegemony of Homogeneity by Metadevice

TumorLP130. Releases November 13th, 2020. https://malignantrecs.bandcamp.com/album/septic
Septic is the second full length vinyl release from , and the second LP for Malignant, following 2018’s Knife Through the Spine. Two years removed, the Himukalt aesthetic and template remains broadly intact through the 5 tracks found on Septic; deadening rhythmic pulsations, bristling oscillations, and a steady stream of crackling and frying circuitry, often infused with layers of filth, hostility, and sexuality. Lmtd 200 copies, 100 on black vinyl, 100 on violet/gray swirl. Includes 2 sided insert.

Himukalt -The Gun In Her Mouth

Preview track from the 3rd full-length album and 2nd for Malignant from Germany's Urschmerz. Highly morose and wretched death industrial, more minimal than 2019's "Misery Plan", but filled with every bit as much negativity and nihilism. Cold, noxious tones and ultra bleak frequencies that worship at the altar of death. Lmtd 75 cassette with O-card sleeve. Includes download code by request. Releases February 5th, 2021

Phase II by Urschmerz

Since 1994, one of America's premier labels and mailorder outlets for dark ambient, industrial, and power electronics. Artists include Yen Pox, Nordvarger, IRM, Sektor 304, Concrete Mascara, Human Larvae, Oozepus,  Navicon Torture Technologies, Phragments, Phelios, False Mirror, Terra Sancta, Rasalhague, Funerary Call, Aderlating,  Steel Hook Prostheses, Abjection Ritual, Climax Denial, Black Earth, Leila Abdul-Rauf, Ionophore,  Control, Sewer Goddess, Gnawed, Hypsiphrone, Skorneg, Negru Voda,  Kristoffer Nystroms Orkester,  Human Larvae, Theologian, U731, The Vomit Arsonist,  T.O.M.B. Aderlating, Monocube, Xiphoid Dementia,  Skin Area,  DEATHSTENCH,  Strom .ec, and more!

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