WIZARD RIFLE are as difficult to describe as they are to ignore. Eclectic, innovative, and all-around out there, their sound is a constantly-evolving, always-adapting entity that changes with their moods. The band is comprised of drummer Sam Ford and guitarist Max Dameron, who share vocal duties and down right mesmerize in a live setting. The interplay between the two is fluid, jarring, mechanical and organic - a jumble of impressions, and a captivating spectacle. For fans of Karp, Lightning Bolt, and Melvins!

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"Sickness Will Pass is an ugly, visceral and truly terrifying beast of an album. It sounds monumental and is herculean in scale and is the benchmark of which all future releases will be judged. It is quite possibly the ultimate sludge metal album of the year. I urge you to buy this album, you will not be disappointed." -The Sludgelord

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Author & Punisher is an industrial doom metal, one man band utilizing primarily custom designed and fabricated machines and speakers. The devices draw heavily on aspects of industrial automation and robotic, focusing on the eroticism of interaction with machine. The machines are designed to require significant force from the performer, aligning he or she with the plodding doom influence sounds that are created.

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“Forever the End,” the debut full length by Atriarch. This CD is now re-released on Seventh Rule in a limited edition chipboard packaging w/ artwork insert printed by Stumptown Printers.

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"This record is heavy. This record is incredibly dark and twisted. And this record is relentlessly pummeling. These sound like obvious requirements for a metal release, but Lord Mantis' execution of them on Spawning the Nephilim will undoubtedly up the ante for future sludge records." LAMBGOAT.COM Also make sure to check out the new album on Candlelight!

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"The End of All You Know is noisy, guitar-heavy, and cranked up to the maximum. The band blends thrash and extreme metal, Swedish-influenced melodic death, and a good bit of chaotic hardcore. The pace is relentless, the songwriting is solid, and the arrangements are written in a way that keeps each song from sounding like the next one."

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Heavy, Manic, Art-Damaged hardcore that bridges the gap between Black Sabbath and Black Flag. This is the essential Detroit hardcore band of the 1990s. Since Thoughts of Ionesco’s unceremonious disbanding in 1999, their story and music have lived on in a cultish following. Comes with a bonus DVD documenting the history of the band. One of Seventh Rule's favorite releases!

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INDIAN’s long out of print and frantically sought after debut, The Unquiet Sky, back on the grid in a beautiful digipak format.

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Deception Among Birds veers slightly from the premise of the first full-length (Double Gnarly / Triple Suicide) in that it takes some time to stop and smell the corpses. There are exercises in dronery that re-oxygenate the listener just enough to spear them with another sharpened assault from the part-man, part-machine, all-shredding HARPOON. Featuring members of 7000 Dying Rats, Lair of The Minotaur, Gun Kata and on...

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Hailing from the Pacific Northwest, ATRIARCH is a mesmerizing doom metal force encompassing haunting atmospheres and droning avalanches of ritualistic sludge. Featuring members of Graves At Sea, Trees, and Final Conflict.

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From The Obelisk: Big on atmosphere, big on time and big on tone, the first album from Brooklyn doomers Batillus is a bleak, oppressive six-song outing that’s bound to ring their name out among the underground converted. Doom heads, be aware. The band, which formed as an instrumental trio and later added be-dreadlocked vocalist Fade Kainer (Inswarm, Jarboe), have unleashed a monster in Furnace, their Seventh Rule debut.

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Hailing from Chicago, The Swan King formed in 2009 by guitarist / vocalist Dallas Thomas (also of Circle of Animals and formerly of Asschapel), bassist Jamie Drier (formerly of Planes Mistaken For Stars) and Chicago native Zafar Musharraf on drums. When the band began, the trio started writing songs in the Robert Fripp Guitar Craft tuning to help them break out of the old rock comfort zone. They have often been compared to the songwriting of the Wipers mixed with the riffage of High on Fire.

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Hailing from the rain and gloom of Portland, Oregon, Guitarist Chris Dunn describes the band as “a combination of noise rock and sedate doom, laden with hooks and melody.” The follow-up album to their critically acclaimed “Isle Of Marauder” release, "High As The Sun" was recorded by Adam Pike (Red Fang, Black Elk) in Portland, OR and mixed by Alex Newport (Fudge Tunnel, The Mars Volta) in Brooklyn.

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Swedish trio KONGH return with the follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2007 debut album "Counting Heartbeats." On "Shadows of the Shapeless", the band has taken their dynamic and riff-driven thunderstorm a huge step forward, and the album will surely place KONGH at the very forefront of the european sludge/doom/metal scene.

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3 Song 12", with an etched side featuring artwork by the bands’ vocalist and bass player, Botchy Vasquez. This EP was recorded at Electrical Audio by Greg Norman (Russian Circles) and mixed by Sanford Parker (Minsk, Nachtmystium). Lacquer creation was handled by Pete Lyman (The Locust, Queens Of The Stone Age) at Infrasonic Sound.

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From Allmusic: Millions, existing firmly outside of that last decade of the 20th century, have managed to put together an album that not only pays immense homage to the sounds of "pure" indie Chicago, but fuses it with the stylistic developments that came afterwards thanks to the tinkering of highly technical metal nerds like Cave In or Botch.

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New York's WETNURSE combines the urgency of early hardcore; the raw, outcast power of early death metal; and the melodic transcendence of classic rock on their second album, "Invisible City."

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Clocking in at over 55 minutes of music, Slights And Abuse/ The Sycophant grabs listeners by the throat and proceeds on a tour of victorious highs and bottomless lows from anthemic, white-knuckle call-to-arms to amp-worshipping pits of icy doom. Vocals are demonic and venomous throughout, with lyrics that spit ire at organized religion and celebrate the power of the self. There is a new resurgence brewing in the Windy City...

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Author & Punisher's 2010 Release now reissued in a digipak for his 2012 West Coast Tour.

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This split 12" represents a stop gap for both Alaric and Atriarch in between full lengths, with songs crafted not as after-thoughts but specifically with this joint release in mind. The two bands have been closely entwined since their beginnings, touring together on multiple occasions and sharing a kinship beyond most bands that share a split release. Each band has its own spin on their dark craft that is unique, and complimentary to the other.

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California's Vastum. While recalling Finnish and Mexican death metal cults of old there is something contained within that is far more perverse and sinister. The barbaric song structures, doom ridden harmonies, sinister lead work, deranged psycho-sexual lyrical content, and disgusting vocal delivery all create a work far stronger and and more captivating than most current "new old school death metal" bands floating about these days have to offer. Previously available only on cassette and recently on CD, "Carnal Law" is presented on black 150g vinyl, housed inside quality mid-weight chipboard jackets with additional artwork,with an 11"x22" poster insert.

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A rotten slab of vile, crusty filth. Hailing from Washington, DC, ILSA deliver 9 tracks, clocking in at 40 minutes, of blown out, severely down-tuned, crust-injected death-doom. The album has been remastered for vinyl by James Plotkin for total abyssic heaviness. Despite our mild disdain for band comparisons, parallels can be drawn to early Bolt Thrower, Paradise Lost, Axegrinder, later Anti-Cimex(think Scandinavian Jawbreaker era), Autopsy, and Winter. Disgusting horror reigns. This repress of the debut Ilsa LP is limited to 500 copies on 160g black vinyl, housed inside quality reverse board gatefold jackets.

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"There is no denying that these dudes are metal as fuck and luckily for fans a Portland start-up label called Powerblaster decided to release their first official release – a self-titled 7” on classic black vinyl. The excellent zombie artwork also sweetens the deal."

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“Riff Fuck Reap” by Portland’s RABBITS. The A-side is “Riff Fuck Reap”, RABBITS’ ode to doing what thou wilt or, if you prefer, gettin’ while the gettin’s good. The B-side is a collection of three old-school punk/hardcore covers that support the directive of R-F-R-ing it: “Hard Times” (Cro-Mags), “One and All” (Rudimentary Peni), and “Twink Twice” (Portland’s own Poison Idea). RABBITS imbued its own ferocity into these already ferocious songs, and no doubt these versions will excite many and piss off many more, as they should. Limited to 500 copies with hand-screened metallic paper covers.

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Florida experimental doom/sludge metal duo DARK CASTLE deliver their second album of ominous, aural devastation. The album was recorded and produced by Sanford Parker (Rwake, Pelican, Unearthly Trance) with guest appearances from members of YOB, U.S. Christmas, Nachtmystium & Minsk. The record is packaged in a deluxe gatefold jacket and includes expanded artwork plus a 12 page, 11" x 11" booklet displaying the stunning artwork of guitarist / vocalist Stevie Floyd!

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What is easily and by far the band’s most accomplished work to date, the Chicago psychedelic sludge/progressive metal quintet have delivered an album where the three-pronged guitar/dual vocal machine have deployed a stronger focus on their songwriting and delivering nine solid hard-hitting, pummeling, catchy yet moving and atmospherically lush songs. The record is packaged in a deluxe gatefold jacket and includes an 11" x 22" fold out poster.

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Vinyl version of the brilliant demo by Oakland's Lycus. Orginally released by Graceless recording on Cassette the Flenser vinyl re-edition has been mastred by Colin Marston. Ltd to 400 on black vinyl. Mastered at 45rpm.

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The devastating debut LP from Portland City's true funeral cult is available again after the initial pressing sold out in 4 days! Pressed to 12" 180 gram vinyl (45 rpm) with lyric insert and full-color cover artwork by Chanel Adair (Atrocious Madness, Lebenden Toten). Think Motorhead with Richard Butler (Psychedelic Furs) singing.

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There’s no doubt that Oregon’s Yob is one of the most recognizable names in the underground metal game of thrones. Their 2009 LP ‘The Great Cessation’ saw them reunited for the first time in many years and brought them to heights of recognition that they’d always deserved but hadn’t achieved. The world was finally ready for Yob. In 2011 Yob are now firmly back, tour ready and have delivered a striking 5 song statement in the form of Atma.

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Homemade, stamped, and handpacked by the band themselves. These are the last copies of this limited edition CD version.

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European Import, released on MUSICFEARSATAN. A repress of the first KONGH record (released in 2007 on TRUST NO ONE RECORDINGS). These five tracks sound like their most brutal and direct ones among the band discography. The 2xLP gatefold cover was done by SELDON HUNT. Record is limited to 1.000 copies.

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European Import, released on MUSICFEARSATAN. Swedish trio KONGH return with the follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2007 debut album "Counting Heartbeats." On "Shadows of the Shapeless", the band has taken their dynamic and riff-driven thunderstorm a huge step forward, and the album will surely place KONGH at the very forefront of the european sludge/doom/metal scene.

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First Pressing released on Gilead Media. "Clandestine Abuse" shows the band's intensity captured on record at long last. Since adding two additional members to the lineup (the band started as guitar/drum duo) Northless has expanded on their original style of atmospheric sludgy metal and gone beyond the barrier that holds lesser bands back.

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Released on Gilead Media. Barghest are a black metal band from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This great southern state is known for having a rich culture. And in terms of music culture it's most often known for the southern riffage or sludging doom, but Barghest are a wake up call to that way of thinking, and to the state of American black metal in general.

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European Import, released on Vendetta Records.

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Their much anticipated debut LP via 20 Buck Spin. Comprised of Bay Area punk vets from bands like Dead & Gone, Enemies, Cross Stitched Eyes & Noothgrush, Alaric came together to play dark 80s inspired post-punk that sounds instantly familiar and completely unique, inspired by and indebted to the sounds of Killing Joke, Rudimentary Peni, Christian Death and the like.

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Aesop Dekker said it best: "Imagine later Entombed meets Dazzling Killmen (remember them?) meets some later Killing Joke, yeah, bitch, it's that good. With Deadmen, the aforementioned Coffinworm, Kata Sarkha, and World Eater, Indianapolis may go from being known for auto racing, drunk driving killer cops, and shitty meth to being the next great scene in the U.S. for dummy pummel sludge metal. Seriously, this fucking kills."

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'Panic Program' features 4 brand new tracks from Chicago's noisiest band! The EP was recorded in November 2009 at Bricktop Recording in Chicago, IL with Andy Nelson (Harpoon, Weekend Nachos) handling production duties, and mastering being taken care of by Carl Saff (Young Widows, The Atlas Moth). Artwork by Orion Landau.

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