� � If you're reading the rest of this particular week's new arrivals list, you'll notice me gushing over a bunch of low-fi CDR releases that we picked up from Occult Supremacy, the black noise/HNW/experimental black metal CDR label run by Dustin Redington (Crown of Bone / Demonologists). This isn't Redington's first DIY label, though. Before this, he ran the Ministries Of Blood imprint, a similarly themed imprint that put out all kinds of power electronics, harsh noise and blackened weirdness. Most of that stuff is out of print, but I've managed to pick up some of the remaining Ministries of Blood titles for your perusal...

� � Here's another awesome full-length collection of fucked-up blackened ambience, shambling low-fi black metal and bizarre improvisational doom from the Canadian band Breath Of Chaos. Recorded in 2009, this six-song disc features more of this strange band's brand of formless Satanic horror, where outbursts of ultra-sloppy black metal suddenly smash into expanses of glacial, noise-drenched doom and howling choral synthesizers, hideous shrieking vocals drift through a thick haze of rumbling electronics and amplifier hum, the riffs suddenly break down into smears of black distorted slime, and vintage horror-movie keyboards just sort of hang there, aimless, hovering in the swirling primitive chaos. Detuned, deformed doom riffs crawl on stunted limbs through pools of agonizing discordant guitar noise and dank dungeon atmosphere and the reek of things long dead, occasionally obliterated by blasts of intense harsh noise and feedback, or swept beneath the monotonous slow motion pummel of massively-distorted drums and oceanic currents of monstrous black murk, or enshrouded by the reverberant clank of rusted metal and the spectral hum of distant pipe organs. An ugly and strangely hypnotic strain of sewer psychedelia in the vein of Abruptum, Moevot, Dark Morbid Death, Enbilulugugal and Havohej, this stuff actually reminds me more of something that could have evolved from the monstrous industrial/improv rock mutations that the Broken Flag was coughing up in the late 80s than anything resembling what most people would call "black metal".

� � Limited to fifty copies.