11.23.2007

News / Huge Sale

In This Update:

* Sanctum “On The Horizon” Announcement
* The Endless Blockade “Primitive” Update
* Black Boned Angel Update
* Confirmed releases for 2008
* Huge Mailorder Sale + New Birchville 3xCDR

Seattle’s Sanctum will release the CD version of their new album “On The Horizon” through 20 Buck Spin. We previously worked with the band earlier this year on their split CD with Oakland’s Stormcrow. You can expect no frills, straightforward crust-crushing mayhem in the vein of pre-Earache Bolt Thrower. The CD version of “On The Horizon” will include 7 additional bonus tracks compiling the bands first two vinyl only EPs, “Enslaved” and “Sanctum”. We’re shooting for an early February release and the band will commence a full US tour in mid February through March with Europe to follow in the Fall.

Toronto’s The Endless Blockade will track their new album “Primitive” in mid-December. From there it will be sent to Scott Hull for mixing and mastering. Expect about 22 minutes of punishing Neo Power-Violence. This will be released on both CD and LP. There will be a limited mailorder only version of the LP details of which are still being worked out. Artwork will be handled by Glyn www.scrawled.co.uk. A “remix” CD of Primitive will also be released later in 2008 with noise takes on Primitive by some of the bands favorites, tentatively set to include Sixes, Sickness, Nordvargr, Contagious Orgasm and Joshua Norton Cabal and maybe, just maybe, Noah Creshevsky. Further still into the future a CD Discography will be released containing all the bands vinyl only output. An exclusive shirt design and the bands split LP with Hatred Surge should be in stock through 20 Buck Spin mailorder during December.

A master for the third Black Boned Angel album is on the way to 20 Buck Spin now. No word on a title or artwork yet, but we’re sure it’ll be another masterpiss of glacially heavy experimentation. 20 Buck Spin will release the album in North America with Riot Season handling the rest.

A collaborative album between Black Boned Angel and Nadja has been completed. The album will consist of 2 tracks each over 20 minutes long. 20 Buck Spin will release the album worldwide on CD and LP. A third track will likely be released through Campbell’s Battlecruiser imprint in a limited form. This should be out during the first half of 2008.

The following releases are confirmed for 2008

Coffins “Buried Death”
Sanctum “On The Horizon”
The Endless Blockade “Primitive”
Black Boned Angel “TBA”
Black Boned Angel / Nadja “TBA”
Samothrace “TBA”

Finally, as it is the end of the year 20 Buck Spin is having a huge mailorder sale. This sale applies only to North American orders. Everything has been marked down, including all 20 Buck Spin CDs for $8 and 2xCDs for $9, postage paid. Shirts, vinyl, etc have all been reduced for a limited time.

There is also a new Birchville Cat Motel 3xCDR available titled “Astro Catastrophes”. New stuff is also in from Winters In Osaka and Grey Daturas. And we’ve restocked Corrupted “El Mundo Frio” finally.

The marked down prices will be good between now and December 15th. After the 15th 20 Buck Spin will shut down for the rest of the year. All prices will revert back to normal. Any order placed after December 15th will not be shipped until the first week of January 2008.

www.20buckspin.com for more info.
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11.06.2007

Some new mailorder items

We got a few new things in this week:

Grey Daturas - Dead In The Woods CD
The Howling Wind - Pestilence & Peril CD
Negative Plane - Et In Saecula Saeculorum CD

and we've restoked

Monarch - Dead Men Tell No Tales 2xCD

Coming soon we'll have a new Triple CD set from Birchville Cat Motel released by Campbell through his Celebrate Psi... label, the new Zoroaster will also be in stock shortly.

ORDER AT WWW.20BUCKSPIN.COM

10.14.2007

Vargr Out + More News...

20 Buck Spin is now relocated to Olympia, Washington. We appreciate everyone’s patience, particularly mailorder shoppers, during the move period. We are finally catching up and all your orders will be on the way very shortly. Thanks again.

First up, we’ve got a new release available. Vargr’s Northern Black Supremacy CD. This will be the last 20 Buck Spin release for 2007. A sample track “Do What We Say” is up on the 20 Buck Spin website and myspace page. Here’s the word:

Henrik Nordvargr Bjorkk is a familiar name in underground experimental noise circles, and black metal circles alike. From his work with the pioneering black industrial band MZ.412 to his many solo ventures under his own name, to collaborations with Merzbow, to other projects like Folkstorm and Toroidh, Bjorkk has been prolific to say the least. The common element in all his work has been overwhelming darkness and dread. Under the Vargr moniker, Bjorkk returns to his roots in a way. The foundation of Northern Black Supremacy is black metal of the coldest variety (think Ildjarn or Beherit), but it's buried in a no-fi terror soundtrack complete with eerie samples and anguished screams recalling his work in MZ.412. One of the harshest statements in Bjorkk's vast cannon of releases, Northern Black Supremacy captures perfectly the coldest essence of Scandinavian black metal through a filter of unthinkable horror and militancy. In his words: No Trend. No Feeling. No Production. No Mercy.

We’ve also got a limited amount of the obscure first Vargr release from the Russian Eternal Pride label.

The end of the year will see three 20 Buck Spin bands getting into the studio.

Coffins will record their third full length album, which will be called “Buried Death”. The album will tentatively have 8 tracks with the following titles:

Under The Stench
Buried Death
Purgatorial Madness
Altars In Gore
Cadaver Blood
Mortification To Ruin
Eternal Inurnment
The Frozen Styx

We’re shooting for an April release with Buried Death, both CD and LP this time. As with The Other Side Of Blasphemy, the Southern Lord label will help with distribution.

Enucleation Records is set to release both The Other Side Of Blasphemy and the split with The Arm & Sword Of A Bastard God on vinyl.

Toronto’s The Endless Blockade will record their second LP, Primitive, in the waning months of 2007. They’ll track it themselves and Scott Hull will mix and master. The final product should be 20-22 minutes of prime Neo-Powerviolence. Later, a CD version containing reworkings of tracks by noise artists carefully selected by the band will see the light as well. Tentative tracklisting, subject to change, for Primitive:

Death To Spies
Shot, Bound and Drowned
The Stain
Do Not Resuscitate
93 93/93
Like Partridges
Irrationalism Uber Alles
Raised By Wolves
Perfection
Phantom
Christ Suslov
The Endless Blockade

Samothrace from Lawrence, Kansas will record their debut LP around the end of the year. Crushing, slow, but melodic doom crust is their game. Samothrace recently completed a West Coast tour where they made many new friends and fans and created anticipation for the LP. In the meantime, we’ve put up a demo track on the 20 Buck Spin myspace page, www.myspace.com/20buckspin

Campbell Kneale is finishing up both the third full length Black Boned Angel release as well as a collaboration album with Nadja. The 3rd BBA release will be out on Riot Season, and on 20 Buck Spin in North America. The collab album is also set for release on 20 Buck Spin.

Stormcrow recently recorded tracks for a split release with Oakland behemoth Laudanum, tentatively set for release by No Options Records. A split with Coffins is in the works to be released later in 2008 on 20 Buck Spin.

Seattle’s Sanctum have finished their first full length album. The LP is due out on No Options Records. The band will tour the country in February 2008.
Grey Daturas are about to embark on a large US tour. Their recent split with Monarch is out now on 20 Buck Spin. An LP version will be out soon on Throne. We’ll have copies of the vinyl shortly after it’s release. Check greydaturas.com for tour dates.

In mailorder we’ve got new stuff from:
Atavist
Half Makeshift
Merzbow Vs. Nordvargr
Oakhelm
Portal
Ten Horned Beast
Toroidh
Von Thronstahl

And much more.

More news soon…

9.25.2007

New Mailing Address

20 Buck Spin is relocating in less than two weeks. We have a new mailing address which should be used from this day forward for all correspondence, payments, billing, trade packages, promo mailings, hate mail, love letters, meg white related amateur vids, etc.

20 BUCK SPIN
PMB #136
120 State Avenue NE
Olympia, WA 98501

9.10.2007

Grey Daturas / Monarch Split Available Now. New Coffins Shirts

The Grey Daturas / Monarch “Dawn Of The Catalyst” CD is available now through 20 Buck Spin. Won’t be available in distros for a few weeks yet.

Two respected underground heavyweights pair up on ‘Dawn Of The Catalyst’. Australia’s Grey Daturas have built a solid following over the last few years through constant touring worldwide with artists like Neurosis, Wolf Eyes and Yellow Swans (having also released splits with the latter two). Their combination of Sonic Youth style guitar-improv freakouts with more detuned doomed ambience and all out noise has attracted fans from all dank corners of underground music. France’s female-fronted Monarch is that country’s entry into the slo-mo nihilistic utterly oppressive doom genre where they’ve distinguished themselves from their peers in both sound and aesthetics. On ‘Dawn Of The Catalyst’ each band contributes one extended track, both veering to the more experimental, droning, lurching side of their collective personas. A split to be felt more than simply heard, it requires full volume and full bass frequencies for maximum effect.

Two new Coffins shirt designs are also available. Go to the Coffins page on the 20 Buck Spin website to check them out. One new black t-shirt, and one on white if you just have too many black shirts already (like us).

New shit in mailorder this week too:

Alcest – Souvenirs D’un Autre Monde CD
Ammit – Hammer of Darkness CD
Book Of Black Earth – The Feast LP
Circle – Arkades 2xCD
Circle – Panic CD
Cobalt – War Metal CD
MASTER – Unreleased 1985 Album CD
Nachtmystium – Eulogy IV LP
Runemagick – On Funeral Wings CD
Runemagick / Ocean Chief – Northern Lights CD
Sleep – Holy Mountain LP
Striborg – Ghostwoodlands CD
Striborg – Nefaria CD
Striborg – Nocturnal Emissons / Nyctophobia CD
Striborg – Spiritual Catharsis CD

Restocks:

Circle – Forest CD
Circle – Tulikoira CD
Oakenthrone #5 Zine

20 Buck Spin is relocating to Olympia, Washington in early October. We won’t be shipping orders between September 25th and October 8th. You can still order, but it won’t be shipped until October 9th if you order on or after September 2nd. Get it? Good. We’ll have a new snail mail address posted on the site soon. More news to come…

8.21.2007

More Mailorder Stuff

Bone Awl - Not For Our Feet LP
Corrupted / Discordance Axis / 324 split CD
Disgust - War Deterrent CD
Tarantula Hawk - 1 CD
Unholy Grave - Terroraging Crisis CD
V/A - Grind Bastards CD (Jap grind comp)

www.20buckspin.com

8.19.2007

Some New Mailorder Items

couple new things in today:

ares kingdom - return to dust LP
bone awl - meaningless leaning mess LP
caina - mourner cd
cobalt - eater of birds cd (best album of 07 so far)
coffins - mortuary in darkness cd (finally repressed)