RELEASES
APES062 | FERAL Spiritual void
Jan. 21, 2022 · Basement Apes · CASSETTE
FERAL is joining the ever-growing roster of SOURCE ATONE RECORDS for the release of their second album entitled ‘Spiritual void’. As a band celebrating their 8th anniversary, FERAL has reached new territories of violence compared to their previous album. The grindish influences have become more and more a landmark in an overall wall of sounds driven by the hm2 fame. The deal is quite simple: songs have to hook, groove and obliterate. ‘Spiritual void’, both lyrics-wise and song-wise, is a psychological pressure relief valve in the form of 12 tracks and around half an hour of ferocious grooves, blasts, and screaming growls.
‘Spiritual void’ is due out January 21st 2022 through Season of Mist distribution and all digital platforms. Pre-order start now on silver vinyl, black vinyl, digipack cd, and many bundles including music and exclusive merchandising: https://bit.ly/3r9SO8Q
Watch the video 'The great reset' on youtube: https://bit.ly/3CR7DiS
APES060 | ÀNTEROS Cuerpos celestes
Nov. 11th 2007 · Basement Apes · 12"
Spain's Ànteros, comprised with ex-members of Toundra, Syberia and Viva Belgrado, is back with their second full album promisingly entitled 'Cuerpos celestes'. On the leading path of the debut 'Lunas', it returns to the postrock field with the epic, brutal and beautiful feel to it. With 'Cuerpos celestes', you are sailing through melodic and heavy postrock landscapes incorporated with elements of commanding rock and intense progressive metal. The layered guitar work and calculated instrumental frenzies are something to be admired as the rage and aggression pours forth on this release.
APES059 | STUNTMAN I 400THECAT I THE DAWN
April 26th 2017 · Basement Apes · CD
Long-time time pals Stuntman/400 The Cat/The Dawn are pleased to team up for this release and give some of their old stuff a second life, as a celebration of their long time connections in the local underground. The basic idea around this project was to dig out previously released material and bring it back on the tracks with pimped up to date versions. Personnel may have come and gone, line ups may have changed to unexpected names and numbers, but still the music lives, and still we share this passion. Enjoy songs taken from Stuntman’s The Target Parade, and The Dawn’s Loud Tunes And Furry Tales in their 2017 skin, and from 400 The Cat's 1st recording originally released on cd-r. All songs written and performed by Stuntman, 400 The Cat, The Dawn.
APES058 | KARMACIPHER Necroracle
April 2017 · Basement Apes · 12"
The debut album 'Necroracle' from Hong Kong's Karmacipher is pure aesthetic and maestry in the realm of dissonant metal. It stands out with a massive musicianship with the will to strike a perfect balance between the origins of death-metal and experimentations. That is really destroying, deep, dense, inducing a redemptive fatigue. Ambitious and terrifying at the same time.
?view=f8327/products/products"> APES057 | EUGLENA / KOLCHAK Split
Feb. 2017 · Basement Apes · 7"
Euglena have been pushing tunes to destroy your ears since their inception. This song offers more arpeggios than usually expected from them, but with force, with tremendous force. The riffage and the composition get the high level of score. This is plainfully straightforward.
Kolchak hails from St-Petersburg, Russia. This creature has decided to dispense vocals and provides us with an entirely instrumental sound where guitars, bass and drums take on the entire role. They belong to the postrock field with the epic, brutal and beautiful sides, with that little bit of commanding punk.
?view=f8327/products/products"> APES056 | MEMBRANE / REVOK Split
Oct. 2016 · Basement Apes / Music Fear Satan / Dingleberry / Grains of sand · 7"
This split features 2 outstanding cover versions of the Cure favorites 'One hundred years' and 'Burn' by Membrane and Revok. This homage from 2 amazing noise bands comes as a genuine, and at times quite moving surprise, the Cure being a defined and re-defined alternative pop music for an entire generation of Goth-inspired fans and musicians. Obviously dark and draped in dramatic soundscapes that often obscure the magnetic pull of melodies, both interpretations bring something new without losing the initial creative impulse. Super indie.
Side A by REVOK: One Hundred Years (Pornography)
Side B by MEMBRANE: Burn (The Crow Soundtrack)
?view=f8327/products/products"> APES055 | MEMBRANE Erase
Nov. 2016 · Basement Apes · 12"
2 years from the their latest full-lenght 'Reflect your pain' MEMBRANE reemerge with a refined vision of their music. 'Erase' captures what is the concrete foundation of the trio, rooted in the post-metal landscape, and stepping out from the shadows to create a darker version of their musical signature.
Pounding and melancolic, which is a rightful juxtaposition of life's plain realities - a strong mind in a world weakened by full injuries. MEMBRANE continue still to forge an heavy heritage upon the scene.
APES054 | FERAL Doomwalk
Oct. 2016 · Basement Apes / Dingleberry Records · 12"LP/CD
Montpellier-based metallic hardcore purveyors FERAL (feat. current members of Stuntman, Burne, Morse and ex-Morgue) unleash a ferocious blast of sonic destruction with their debut effort Doomwalk. A pummeling fusion of crusty grind, sludgey hardcore and groove injected metal, Doomwalk further propels FERAL into the upper stratosphere of metal, delivering 10 killer tracks, chock full of their signature, skull-crushingly heavy grooves and technical blasting severity.
APES053 | PLEBEIAN GRANDSTAND False highs, true lows
April 2016 · Basement Apes / Throatruiner Records · Digipack CD
After the highly acclaimed and imposing Lowgazers in 2014, PLEBEIAN GRANDSTAND returns with another milestone. 'False highs, true lows' stands alone with a music elegantly moving from pure black metal, sludge and noise. The repeating dark guitar harmonies, jackhammer drumming, and the fierce unrelenting screams are backed with a top-notch production. Not exactly the black metal cave-dwelling kind, to say the least. It suits the album perfectly and widen the ferocity to a higher level. Departing definitely from their post-hardcore debut, PLEBEIAN GRANDSTAND now dwells in the international extreme landscape. This is all about restrained fury and intimately suffocating layers of harmonies. Your next 2016 favorite record.
?view=f8327/products/products"> APES052 | MORGUE Doors of no return
January 2016 · Basement Apes / Fatass Records / Trendkill Recordings · 12"LP/CD
Cult metal maniacs MORGUE has returned to the scene in 2012 and here is the testimony. This is their third album, clearly bursting out this ferociously angry and awesome fierce grindcore. Stirring up a pissed off mix of evilish tunes and dissonant tones, this is all about modern grindcore though. France's MORGUE pound out a furious nine song grand fucking slam of a record.
?view=f8327/products/products"> APES050 | THE PRESTIGE Amer
April 20th 2015 · Basement Apes Ind · 12"LP/CD
The album comprises 11 tracks which are probably the most personal songs they have released until now, highlighted by the amazing work of Amaury Sauvé on recording and mixing, and Bob Weston on mastering. These tracks are inspired by their lives, their hopes and disillusions, with Paris as their background.
?view=f8327/products/products"> APES049 | GENERAL LEE Knives out, everybody!
May 15th 2015 · Basement Apes / Grains of Sand · 12"LP/CD
FRANCE's kill team GENERAL LEE returns with a sonic and fully abrasive album, hammering 10 songs of lawless intensity. This time more-than-ever bending their own rules of metallic hardcore and continuing to strenghten their place among the elite. Discordance and larsens all around.
?view=f8327/products/products"> APES048 | HAUT&COURT Troffea
September 2015 · Basement Apes / Woaaargh Records · 12"LP
France's HAUT&COURT unleash a beast of an album. They keep their music brutally simple and rumbling; a blend of muscular primitive thrash, D-beat punk, and downtuned grindcore, with totally forceful vocals. Yet including some artiness overall, pace shift and (almost) grooves, reliably bludgeoning and perfectly prurient. The sonic quality of the release is quite devastating and brutalizing. Not for the wicked.
?view=f8327/products/products"> APES047 | MEMBRANE Reflect your pain
March 15th 2015 · Basement Apes / Blind Prod · 180gr 12"LP/CD
MEMBRANE make a living from working with noise. From traditional ventures to more obscure times, creating compositions and soundscapes sounding close to epic ensembles. Welcome to their cruel world, namely 'Reflect your pain', their fifth album to date, enhanced with pounding patterns as the rhythmic basis goes, and brewing new ideas, noise-mongering for life. That should sound extremely obvious that pain is becoming pleasure as you go through it. 'Reflect your pain', outrageously made for master and slaves.
?view=f8327/products/products"> APES046 | PLEVRE Debut
January 15th 2015 · Basement Apes / Division Records · 180gr 12"LP
On this debut recording, PLEVRE just drive the nail in the head. Real anger and real hatred fueled into 8 real anti-stereotypic songs. Genres spreading widely and transcending into a massive block of rough sounds and screaming feedbacks. With a bit more than a year of existence (2013), PLEVRE prove right that they just commited a collection of musical crimes.
?view=f8327/products/products"> APES045 | FANGE Poisse
September 9th 2014 · Basement Apes / Lost Pilgrims Records · 180gr 12"LP
Impossibly loud sludge crumbling like hell rain. FANGE are an emphasis to the ripping-to-the-ear guitar tone spectrum, causing havoc and expansing to chaotic lenghts. The result is a crashing climax. Through 8 tracks of inferno, you’ll be torn apart.
?view=f8327/products/products"> APES044 | PLEBEIAN GRANDSTAND Lowgazers
March 31st 2014 · Basement Apes / Throatruiner Records · 2x12"LP/CD
Four years after «How Hate Is Hard To Define» and a pair of splits, here's the long-awaited second full-length from Toulouse, France's PLEBEIAN GRANDSTAND. «Lowgazers» marks another impressive step in the band's quest of total aural devastation : armed with new drummer Ivo (Stuntman, PAL…), the four-piece picks the most dissonant and experimental aspects of black metal, hardcore and sludge to create an unreal vortex of desolation. From the first notes of "Thrvst", the band reaches new heights of intensity, switching from inhuman blast beats to slow-motion torture, while unorthodox guitar work and painfully shrieked vocals tear the listener from all quarters. Recorded and mixed by Amaury Sauvé (Birds In Row, Calvaiire, Death Engine…) then mastered at New Alliance East (Converge, Gaza, Xasthur), «Lowgazers»'s sounds commensurate to the band's vision, being a ruthless demonstration of power as well as an untouchable pinnacle in extreme music hybridization.
?view=f8327/products/products"> APES043 | MORGUE The process to define the shape of self-loathing
March 31st 2014 · Basement Apes / Trendkill Records · 12"LP
2002's critically acclaimed 'The process to define the shape of self-loathing' by France's MORGUE is finally made available on vinyl. This milestone of relentless blasting is a blitzkrieg attack over senses. Extreme metal as an incinerating definition and purposedly cold, MORGUE calculate through blistering speed and grooves. The follow-up to 'Artgore' dispatches 9 tracks that create MORGUE's new battle over destruction.
?view=f8327/products/products"> APES042 | GENERAL LEE / EUGLENA Split
April 30th 2014 · Basement Apes / Grains of Sand · 10"LP
Russia’s Euglena and France’s General Lee have been summoned together for a brand new Split recording. With two songs a piece that span from Grindcore to Mathcore.
?view=f8327/products/products"> APES041 | ANORAK Go up in smoke
October 15th 2013 · Basement Apes · 12"LP/CD
With Go up in smoke, ANORAK has given an album that holds up to their classic repertoire of grind 'n roll, delivering another milestone in their career. Inarguably ANORAK's most musically adroit and sonically punishing album to date, the quartet still thrillingly approach post-ambiances. Reinforcing their genuine affirmation of how extreme music can be, deprived off any obtuse interpretation. Grade-a music.
APES040 | EUGLENA Близость
October 15th 2013 · Basement Apes · 10'' + Digital
Red nation's Euglena is as dissonant as noise. Taking previous works to a higher level of revigorating apnea. The Russian know-how, plus a bit of an emotional power, steps up according a nauseous tendancy to urgent and tight riffs.
?view=f8327/products/products"> APES039 | DEATH ENGINE Amen
June 15th 2013 · Basement Apes · 10" + Digital
In a constantly violent and obscure world, Death Engine deliver the metallic path to its end through 'Amen', 4-track debut consisting in thunderous riffs, cutthroat vocals and hypnotic drumming, like cathedrals collapsing in slow-motion. This is damned dirty.
?view=f8327/products/products"> APES038 | GENERAL LEE Hannibal ad portas re-issue
May 01st 2013 · Basement Apes · 180gr 12" + Digipack CD
In a darkening world with blurred possibilities, General Lee take the road of introspection to arrive at a dramatic understanding of the mind’s surroundings. Unleashed with a grand dimension of upsetting melodies, Hannibal Ad Portas is evolving from musical damnation to salvation in 6 not-so-easy-to-listen tracks.
APES037 | GENERAL LEE Raiders of the evil eye
Feb. 28 2013 · Basement Apes · 160gr 12"
General Lee Raiders of the evil eye finds a band that has developed into more than just giants of the epic metal underground, they are now fully formed sonic titans. Departing a bit from earlier works, reshaping their sound, this mindblowing 7-track album is perhaps one of their absolute strongest albums thus far. It further reinforces how broad and captivating General Lee's abstract melancholia is. A decidedly harsh record with its disheartened tones and harsh, distorted yelled vocals. A must-have.
?view=f8327/products/products"> APES036 | CORTEZ Phoebus
March 01st 2013 · Basement Apes · 2x12" + Digipack CD + Tape
The undisputed kings of chaotic post-metal, Cortez return with their long awaited second proper full length 'Phoebus. 'Phoebus' is a firm statement which frighteningly mix noise and post-metal with an intensity that will unnerve the unprepared, yet knockout punching with long and vicious explosions of chaos. It hurts and hurts all over again.
?view=f8327/products/products"> APES035 | PLEBEIAN GRANDSTAND / CORTEZ Split
October 14th 2012 · Basement Apes · 10" + Digital
Tolosian plebs and long-time-no-see swiss cross their swords on this exclusive 10" split, each band carving their grooves with an unique twelve minute-long track.
On tail side, PLEBEIAN GRANDSTAND confirms their hegemony in terms of frightening chaos : the ghostly "I.W.W.O.Y.T.W.Y.W.O.M" starts like a long and punishing funeral procession, just before the thunder strikes the cortege. Becoming less hardcore-oriented and more experimental - while always sustaining a rare intensity, the band leaves their comfort zone with this hypnotic track swinging between sludge/drone and black metal.
Heads, after seven years of silence and a full-length "Initial" that left a deep impression, "A.F.D.N.T.E.D.E.V.L.S." marks the comeback of CORTEZ's acrid and corrosive noisecore. Still bass-less, still as harsh as ever, the swiss trio delivers a massive piece filled with a nearly luminous imperial slowness. An opportunity to check that the band hasn't lost its touch, entangling crushed rhythms and powerful emotional discharges.
?view=f8327/products/products"> APES034 | TOUNDRA III
Sept. 9th 2012 · Basement Apes Ind / Nashaarda / Aloud Music · 12"
Recorded in Madrid with Carlos Santos (Sandman Studios), with the help of Juan Blas (Westline Studios) and the mix of Santi Garcia and mastering of Victor García (Ultramarinos).
Cover has been painted by Chelsea Green Lewyta, who made "II" too, and packaging is made by Victor García-Tapia.
SOLID YELLOW & BLACK 12"
TRANSPARENT GREEN & WHITE 12''
CRISTAL CLEAR WITH BLUE AND BLACK 12''
SOLID PURPLE WITH SOLID WHITE 12''
?view=f8327/products/products"> APES033 | THE PRESTIGE Black mouths
April 4th, 2012 · Basement Apes Ind · 12" + Digipack CD
'Black mouths' is an ideal of tension-and-release. From tense, coiled quiet panorama into all-out assault aesthetic mode. A world-exploding sense spitting forth into all directions to come down to a bomb-fragment of choice. Speed vicious.
?view=f8327/products/products"> APES032 | SOFY MAJOR / MEMBRANE Split
Nov. 11st, 2011 · Basement Apes Ind · 12" + CD
Mammoth noise and metal outfits team up to render a 7-song heavy hymn to filth. Both ranging far and wide from their previous works, they bring together the pure fury of dirty, sludgy riffs and raw vocals, with this relentless intensity which marks new territories for aural punishment. This rough diamond is carved in honor - valor and pride.