epic.3
CD

Release date:
6th June 2016

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END
“NIGHTMARE VISIONS”

Straight from the basement, Epic Recordings has dug up all the indecent nightmares of Norwegian act End (actually going by the name of The End at the time) from its heyday in the noise tape underground between 1998 and 2000, featuring mastermind ohq operating grinding machines and articulating sickening vocalizations, assisted by Toe Cutter and Frau Blücher. The 27 track retrospective is culled from the “Killer Application” vinyl single, a split 7“ with CTC, two split tapes, some obscure compilations and also features some yet unreleased material.

Even more than on End’s recent comeback cassette “Subhuman Tracks”, the electro thrash influences like Pouppe Fabrikk, GGFH, Skinny Puppy or Godflesh feature prominently, albeit in a more grinding and relentless permutation rather reminiscent of early Dissecting Table on speed; the topical background is ohq’s passion for cultural debris, from magick to mass culture, from sexual deviation to nonsense. Indulge in 72 minutes of music as worship of the extreme, brimming over with gore movie samples.

Track titles and lyrics designed to call the censor board to immediate action, the music excessively noisy, from the grinding steamroller “Last in Line“ to the collage style „Perverse Pleasures“, from the tense setting of the “Rapist“ and “Human Flesh” to the almost rhythmic “Thirst for Blood“ and the industrial groove of the “Meat Wagon“ – the transport to death – this is stylistically diverse, impossible to grasp, a purist’s nightmare, a moralist’s nemesis.

Over 70 minutes of entertainment for the ethically challenged and the cultural villains, left in its original unpolished mix, remastered by Peter Andersson (aka Raison D’Etre) to meet nowadays standards – this is right from the mind of a social renegade.

Artwork/Design: The Epicurean
Limited edition: 200 copies
Packaging: 3-panel digi-folder, offset printed on 450g matte chromolux paper. Marvellous, minimalistic giallo-style design.
Playtime: 71:08 Minutes

epic.2
CD

Release date:
21st October 2015

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Terror

CATATONIC EXISTENCE
“ELECT ME GOD, I`LL KILL YOU ALL!”

Epic Recordings makes available a retrospective release by Californian semi-legendary act Catatonic Existence, collecting all material ever released by the band, which is a unique blend of electro industrial and death metal with deep growl vocals. To those in the know, Catatonic Existence is familiar due to its connection with porngrind cult act Meatshits, as most of their tracks were originally put out via mutual split releases (which are now sought-after and highly collectible). Active from 1994 to 1996, Catatonic Existence was the solo project of Guy Mulidor (who was heavily involved in the production of the Meatshits masterpiece “Ecstasy Of Death” by the way), aided by Meatshits` main man Robert Deathrage on backing vocals/programming and Pat Oliquin on occasional euro electro style bass.
 
Put together out of a desire for revenge and a feeling of severe disgust, the concept behind Catatonic Existence was to imagine a state of being a soul without a functional body, and yet the ability to hear and think – breeding universal hatred and the desire to kill absolutely everyone.
 
The Catatonic Existence material cites musical influences like Pitchshifter, Sonic Violence, Godflesh and of course Meatshits. Heavy with samples that were chosen for maximum offensiveness, the obsession with absolute violence for the sake of violence works as the storyline of all tracks. The combination of electro slickness, even groove, with dynamic guitar riffs and the grindcore-type vocal delivery makes this music absolutely singular in style and totally timeless, so “Elect me God, And I`ll Kill You All” is pure underground filth waiting to be re-discovered by those with a disposition for the extreme.
 
This CD release includes a 12-page booklet with true reproductions of all original artwork and designs, so the history of Catatonic Existence can be retraced in its explicit entirety.

Release date: End of October 2015
Artwork/Design: Guy Mulidor / The Epicurean
Limited edition: 300 copies
Packaging: 12-page booklet with design of previous releases and traycard in jewel case
Playtime: 45 Minutes

1 Guy Told Me To
2 The Last Temptation
3 Alter Of Reality
4 I Had A Dream
5 A Pile Of Little Arms
6 Blank (Delerium-Edit-Dub-Mix)
7 M.W.D. (Mafia-Hit-Dub-Mix)
8 M.W.D.
9 Click
10 M.W.D. (Mafia-Hit-Mix)

epic.1
Tape & download

Release date:
21st October 2015

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END
“SUBHUMAN TRACKS”

After 15 years of hibernation the obscure Norwegian project „End“ has awoken to scare your neighbours with their subhuman terror tracks. The Epicurean`s request spawned an in-your-face mini-album of completely remixed and newly arranged archive material. Expect an insane crossbreed of gabber, techno and industrial with the ingenious incorporation of gore movie samples, sounding somewhat like GGFH and Dissecting Table on speed.

Formerly active as „The End“, the Oslo-based “ohq” (formerly „sic mundi”) has now discarded the article and reactivated the machines (and the gritty sound gives away, they’re of the analogue breed), now also featuring “belzebob” as a full member. A child of the tape underground of the 1990s, with half a dozen obscure releases under their belt, they dare to dwell in absolute uniqueness: End namedrop musical influences like Pouppe Fabrikk, GGFH, Skinny Puppy, as well as Godflesh, Sonic Violence and Dutch underground project Bhaobhan Sidhe (later “Hypervoid 0”) with whom ohq has released a split tape. Their non-musical interests were as diverse as Aleister Crowley and Chevy Chase, as serial killers and Nazi UFOs, a drug-fuelled massive intake of cultural smithereens.

These eight Subhuman Tracks clock in at just 20 minutes total, and leave you with the impression of total anachronism – the rawness of the analogue sounds, industrial aggression, gabber kicks, but also slow, scorching tracks, you can never really make out where these bits come from, but somehow it makes sense as a whole, held together by the totally witty and devoid-of-cliché use of gore movie samples.

The artwork for the tape cover was specially designed by French underground artist Alkbazz and mirrors the mania that fuelled this production.

Release date: End of October 2015
Artwork: Alkbazz
Design: The Epicurean
Limited edition: 100 copies
Packaging: Gold/Black offset printed inlay card in transparent cassette case, Golden silk screen print on white cassette shell, includes download code.
Playtime: 20 Minutes

1 Gaschamber Death
2 Schutzstaffel
3 First your Soul, then your Body
4 Point Zero
5 Slaughterhouse
6 Future Graves
7 Dark Voices
8 Daughter of Satan