Nopes - Djork (Marble Vinyl: Clear with Oxblood Red) - VINYL LP

Album Tracks 1. Screens 2. 2 59 3. Saigon/Stow 4. Cubes 5. Corners 6. I Hate Living in the City 7. Full Time Greeter 8. 3 00 9. Blinds 10. Duran Duran Duran 11. Poetry in Motion 12. Ditches

A deluxe reissue celebrating the of their eponymous iconic debut album which catapulted the band in 1999. The album immortalizes the band's creative process at the time when the Iowa nine went from a newly-signed fledgling metal act to an unexpected and unstoppable cultural force that redefined heavy music for a new generation. Featuring the original Ross Robinson produced album plus rare and unreleased demos and alternate mixes. Album Tracks 1. 742617000027 2. (Sic) 3. Eyeless 4. Wait and Bleed 5. Surfacing 6. Spit It Out 7. Tattered & Torn 8. Me Inside 9. Liberate 10. Prosthetics 11. No Life 12. Diluted 13. Only One 14. Scissors 1. Wait and Bleed (Demo) 2. Snap (Demo) 3. Interloper (Demo) 4. Despise (Demo) 5. Only One (Demo) 6. Me Inside (Demo) 7. Prosthetics (Demo) 8. Surfacing (Jay Baumgardner Mix) 9. Only One (Jay Baumgardner Mix) 10. No Life (Jay Baumgardner Mix) 11. (Sic) [Ulrich Wild Mix] 12. Purity 13. Eeyore

Gatefold double LP (red/black marble vinyl), padded inner sleeves, and protection sleeve (400 copies available). There is hardly a more fitting title for the new Xasthur compositions than InchInevitably DarkInch. Darkness is the element that holds all the tracks together despite the fact that they are expressed in a multitude of genres, which even includes black metal. This time. Be warned this album is neither meant as a return to black metal of mastermind Scott Conner, even though he does this time, nor a guarantee that it will happen again next time - although, he might. Conner has used black metal, dark ambient, acid folk, doomgrass, and other genres to express what he has seen and felt, as well as a way to find his own sound or style at a point in time - for example when he was without a steady home and often living in hotels or cars. His insights into the underbelly of the American dream are reflected in the lyrics of InchInevitably DarkInch, which are there even though there is no singing on the album. Conner recorded all the tracks of InchInevitably DarkInch live and by himself, which might make it sound coarse to modern ears, but it is just the grit and stain of unfiltered reality. Xasthur were originally conceived by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Scott Conner in California, USA in the year 1995. The project started out in the vein of bleak black metal in the tradition of the Nordic second wave. Over the course of nine albums and a host of split-singles, EPs, and occasional demos, Xasthur's individual, particularly depressive style became highly regarded within the extreme genre. In 2010, Scott announced the end of Xasthur and returned with an acoustic dark folk project under the banner of NOCTURNAL POISONING. In 2015, the American artist returned to the name Xasthur, but insisted that his black metal days were over. With InchInevitably DarkInch, Xasthu