1. Ruin – bloodshed / shirt designs
2. Xasthur new details of the 7“/CD box
3. Der Weg Einer Freiheit to finish recording
4. Shop closed – GREENHELL
1. Ruin – bloodshed
First off – we will have shirt designs available very soon – you can buy them through the offical RUIN homepage which will be launched very soon.
Here are some pictures of the production of the packaging and some upcoming shirt designs which are going to be available the RUIN shop:
The album contains a peculiar cover artwork featured with artistic implicitness:
The listener is presented with a dark and gloomy orchestral staging over the course of the twelve pieces of music. In order to enhance this synesthesis with a touching sensation, twelve corresponding materials were chosen for the CD design, the combined product of which – a thick black crust – represents the record as a whole.
Molten into this black square by way of compression, the materials – waste oil, wodka, grease, blood, soap, aspirin, tobacco, metal, bone, ash, soot and salt – are also presented separately inside the CD tray. It was only after a laboratory process of several months that these unwieldy materials could finally be tamed and processed into colors suitable for silk screen printing.
The finished product not only makes the production process sensible through the thick ‘paint’ application, thus embodying the hardly penetrable juggernaut of tone, noise, sound, rhythm and melody, but it also leaves behind a strange leftover of odor somewhere between waste oil, blood and soap.
German / Das Album birgt mit künstlerischer Selbstverständlichkeit ein besonderes Cover-Artwork:
In den zwölf Stücken wird dem Zuhörer ein dämmerig-düsteres Kammerstück präsentiert. Um diese synästhetische Erfahrung greifbar zu machen, wurden für die CD-Gestaltung dementsprechend zwölf Materialien gewählt, die in ihrer Summe – als dicke schwarze Kruste – für die Platte stehen. Im Zusammendruck zu diesem schwarzen Quadrat verschmolzen, werden die Materialien Altöl, Wodka, Fett, Blut, Seife, Aspirin, Tabak, Metall, Knochen, Asche, Ruß und Salz aber auch einzeln im Inneren der CD-Schachtel präsentiert. Erst nach einem mehrmonatigen Laborprozess gelang es, diese sperrigen Materialien zu zähmen und zu Farben zu verarbeiten, die sich für den Siebdruck verwenden ließen. Das fertige Produkt lässt nicht nur durch den dicken “Farb”-Auftrag den Herstellungsprozess spüren und verkörpert so den schwer zu durchdringender Brocken von Klang, Lärm, Geräusch, Rhythmik und Melodie, sondern lässt auch einen seltsamen Geruchsrest zwischen Altöl, Blut und Seife übrig.
2. Xasthur – new details (the 7“/CD box // bonus tracks)
Meanwhile the Xasthur 7”/CD blackened boxes are in the process to be manufactured.
It contains:
– Portal Of Sorrow CD (plus two bonus tracks, tracklisting see below)
– 7” of the Orosius split 7”
– A heavy inlay with credits and further details
– You will be able to order the box along with a WHITE Xasthur logo shirt at GREENHELL RECORDS.
3. Der Weg Einer Freiheit to finish recording
Der Weg Einer Freiheit just finished recording their forthcoming EP at the EIKEY STUDIOS (Negator, and others).
We will keep you posted about this 5 track release which is supposed to be released in summer this year.
4. Shop closed – GREENHELL RECORDS
On Thursday the Merchground shop is going to be shut down and you will be able to buy our exclusive releases through GREENHELL RECORDS
