Full video: https://youtu.be/o9zjycjRLU4

The Lingua Ignota artists color vinyl sold out so fast! We got some Black copies coming but only have limited amounts in her stores so hurry if you want one and we made these new Lingua Ignota Pink shirts.

Available at her stores:

USA: https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/lingua-ignota

Europe: smarturl.it/EGlinguaignota

Choose any 8 of the listed Sargent House LPs for only $100 and any 10 of the listed Sargent House CDs for only $35!

While supplies last. (No multiples of same titles allowed).

Only at Hello Merch: 

LPs https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/sargent-house/products/8-lps-for-100

CDs https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/sargent-house/products/10-cds-for-35

Chelsea Wolfe has shared new video for her latest single, “Anhedonia” which features vocals and guitar by labelmate Emma Ruth Rundle. Wolfe joined efforts with stop motion editor and video producer Cressa Beer for a moving creation that reflects grief and loneliness, yet brings hope that with time and support, healing is possible. 

Cressa explains, “The core idea of the video came from an artist and mutual friend that Chelsea and I both love - Jess Schnabel (Blood Milk Jewels) - who created a ‘grief moth’ inspired by real moths that drink the tears of sleeping birds. It’s an idea I’ve wanted to animate for a while. So, that became the backbone of the project: the lifecycle of a moth literally born from overwhelming sadness. From there, the video grew into a reflection of what I was experiencing during quarantine, as I found myself confronting my own grief and deeply rooted trauma.  I suffer from PTSD that envelops me like a black void. I wanted to visually articulate how that feels, as well as feelings like disassociation and loneliness; the way that trauma can physically alter your body and mentally reshape the world around you.  But still, the moth can fight its way out, can fly, can follow the light; just like the comfort in the final verse of the song, I wanted to still show that healing is possible.” 

“Anhedonia” was mixed / produced by Ben Chisholm and is available now across all digital retailers via Sargent House.

Watch/ Listen / Buy: https://smarturl.it/CW-ERR_Anhedonia

Jaye Jayle’s most recent record Prisyn has been haunting us in quarantine since its release date back in August, but today one of the tracks, “From Louisville,” is taking on a new life with a video by director Bobby Cochran. To accentuate the track’s pounding sense of isolation already emboldened by the songwriter’s bone-rattling baritone, Cochran illustrates the track’s central theme of the struggle to cohabitate by setting it to a series of darkly psychedelic slow-mo images of people blindly reaching in front of them, among other apt symbols.  

Along with the video, Jayle shared a few thoughts about the project, as well as some reflections on quarantine, in the brief Q&A.

Full feature via Flood Magazine

Ben Chisholm is not just a composer, producer, engineer, mixer, multi instrumentalist but he’s also one of the masterminds behind some of the best albums. Chelsea Wolfe’s longtime collaborator, Ben has also produced ULTRAPOP, the new album by label mates The Armed and Prisyn by Jaye Jayle. He has worked on the new Genghis Tron and with bands and artists like Deafheaven, Converge, Wear Your Wounds, Mutoid Man, Myrkur, Patrick Shiroishi, Felix Skinner just to name a few. Ben has also released the remix of songs by Alcest, Oathbreaker, YOUTH CODE, Alice Glass & Full of Hell. We made a playlist that highlights his career so far, you can listen to it below. There’re just a few people that are so talented like Ben and we’re proud to now formally represent him as a producer and grateful that he has been part of our Sargent House family for 10 years. 

Artist page: https://www.sargenthouse.com/ben-chisholm
 

UPDATE: SOLD OUT
Two new Extremely Limited Edition Artist Only Colors of Lingua Ignota’s albums ‘CALIGULA’ and ‘All Bitches Die’ are now available at Hello Merch and EU/UK EVIL GREED. Only 500 copies each worldwide. 

US: https://www.hellomerch.com/collections/lingua-ignota 
EU/UK: smarturl.it/EGlinguaignota

Today for Bandcamp Friday, Lingua Ignota has released 'Agnus Dei', a collection of recordings that includes: the cover of Iron Lung's 'Sexless no Sex', Bach's 'Agnus Dei from Mass in B minor', 'Where'er you walk' based on the GF Handel that features Alexis Marshall reading "I know, you walk" by Hermann Hesse.  

Link: https://linguaignota.bandcamp.com/album/agnus-dei

Mutoid Man are releasing demos for ’Headrush’ and ‘Micro Aggression’ today Feb 5 for the first Bandcamp Friday of 2021. These two demos were recorded at St. Vitus Bar in Brooklyn in March 2016 using a 4-track cassette machine, the same one used for tracking the EP ‘Helium Head’ and would later be recorded for the album ‘War Moans’. All proceeds from the sales of these tracks on Bandcamp Friday will go to the band. To celebrate the demos we have this new longsleeve now available in their stores US Hello Merch and EU/UK Evil Greed.

Link: https://mutoidman.bandcamp.com

Experimental punk collective The Armed have been one of the most unique heavy bands around for a while now (we named their last album, 2018's Only Love, one of the 100 best punk or emo albums of the 2010s), so it's very exciting news that they've announced a new album, ULTRAPOP, due April 16 via Sargent House (their first for the label). The once-mysterious band are now entirely open about their lineup (pictured above, though Converge's Ben Koller is also a member and not pictured), and the album also features high-profile guest appearances from Mark Lanegan and Queens of the Stone Age's Troy Van Leeuwen. Guitarist/vocalist Dan Greene co-produced the record with Chelsea Wolfe collaborator Ben Chisholm, and as usual, Converge's Kurt Ballou was executive producer.

"Crafting vital art means presenting the audience with new and intriguing tensions—sonically, visually, conceptually. Over time and through use, those tensions become less novel and effective—and they become expectations," Dan Greene says. "The concept of 'subgenre' becomes almost the antithesis of vitality in art—itself a fetishization of expectation. ULTRAPOP seeks, in earnest, to create a truly new listener experience. It is an open rebellion against the culture of expectation in 'heavy' music. It is a joyous, genderless, post-nihilist, anti-punk, razor-focused take on creating the most intense listener experience possible. It's the harshest, most beautiful, most hideous thing we could make."

Full feature via Brooklyn Vegan