★Abhorrent A.D.
Wearing the Face of a Reindeer
Green Tea is the psychedelic Harsh Noise project of veteran underground musician Nick Forté (known for his work in Rorschach, Raspberry Bulbs, Angel of Murder Suicide, Flamingo Base Jumpers etc). This highly innovative and prolific project is known for merging crushing noise techniques with surreal ambience and tripped out tranquility. Following a steady trajectory of highly praised releases on New Forces, Satatuhatta and Tribe Tapes, "Wearing the Face of a Reindeer" pushes deeper into the tensi…
Coma Phase
AAD proudly presents the debut full length CD from UK project Pale World. "Coma Phase" moves past previous limited cassette releases and the stunning live visual elements it has recently been incorporating by masterfully executing the projects definitive statement as a solo studio endeavor, focusing entirely on raw immersive soundscapes that bridge quiet ambience and junk metal build-ups with sudden bursts of crushing Harsh Noise, delivering a deeply atmospheric sonic journey that brings to mind…
Possession
New Jersey based sound artist Sawn Half returns with his third album "Possession" following the excellent compact discs "Sink" (Flag Day, 2024) & "Faults" (Tribe Tapes, 2025). His releases keep you coming back for more by delivering consistently heavy textured, blown out, experimental Harsh Noise using contact mics, feedback and tape manipulation in order to create a singular style all it's own that sounds broken yet tightly controlled.
Jury Prize
Tip! The master returns to the wreckage. Long before the quiet, meditative ambience that has defined his catalog in recent years, Kevin Drumm was—and remains—an absolute architect of top tier American Harsh Noise. Originally buried in a quiet digital-only release via a defunct European imprint, this monumental work nearly slipped past the hungry physical-only noise underground...until now. AAD rectifies that historic oversight with this essential CD reissue that belongs on the shelves of every t…
Anti-Ironic Harsh Noise
Debut solo tape by this up and coming Dutch project associated with notable artists like awenydd, Jonathan Bergen, JSH, Moozzhead, Richard Ramirez and Vincent Dallas.
Cataclysmic Reprogram
Psychedelic Harsh Noise from Finland with previous releases on Freak Animal, Narcolepsia, Satatuhatta and Tribe Tapes. Relentlessly heady mind frying electronics from the man behind Uton.
Expecting Different Results
Lusters is a duo between Finnish projects Edge of Decay and Circle of Shit. This is their first proper full length CD following cassette releases on Freak Animal, Satatuhatta and Tribe Tapes.
Split
An inevitable and sensible split release between two of today's most unconventional projects, both consistently pushing the boundaries of contemporary Harsh Noise by fearlessly incorporating limitless experimentation drawn from tried-and-true tape music techniques, as well as aspects of electroacoustic and free improv.Both artists have a tendency to collect seemingly random and bizarre sources that are then crammed together into an elaborate found sound collage akin to a sonic puzzle. Each part …
Hack Conduit
Lo-fi wall noise muck from the mind of Canadian artist Barrett E. Lediard (Toanche Dwelling, Rotmans, Vast Field Magnetism, etc). Hack Conduit is the epitome of terms like "muddy" and "blown out", recorded straight to tape and sent directly to AAD headquarters on said tape in order to capture both tracks in all their filthy hiss-ridden authentic glory.3" disc with printed label & 3 panel cover art housed in polycase.
Helios
AAD warmly welcomes Tim Olive to the family. Canadian born but residing in Japan for many years, TO has been involved in experimental music spanning more than two decades and has collaborated with dozens of great international artists and labels alike. Armed with a minimal setup of metallic pickups, springs and scrap metal, TO has mastered his sound by amplifying acoustic objects that are then played like a free jazz musician tinkering with a pile of broken guitars.
Carefully Upon This Hour
AAD proudly presents "Carefully Upon This Hour", the follow up to muttering's 2022 cassette "Iron Angel, Please Keep Quiet". Subdued amp buzz and clattering acoustic objects echo in the distance of what sounds like a large decrepit room, gradually building up into a roaring thunderous mess of twisted scrap metal and feedback that abruptly submits to quieter reverberations...only to be disrupted with one last blast of abrasive rumbling junk noise.
Animal Motherfucker
At last, the debut full length CD by New Grasping Machina! This project has made quite a name for itself in recent years and should be familiar to most noise heads at this point, due to being so tirelessly active both live and recording wise. Luk Henderiks is an actual singer-songwriter in various actual bands playing actual music...however, the enthusiasm and consistent focus Luk puts into NGM makes it obvious this is also a big priority, as well as operations of their DIY-style CDr imprint Mec…
Spirit World
Prolepsis has been one of contemporary Harsh Noise's best kept secrets for the past couple of years, although i've done my best to put people on to the project, which is not easy considering their minimal online presence and short list of physical only self-released titles (that honestly tend to outshine a vast majority of hyped releases by more well known artists).
Until now this Michigan-based project has only been featured on AAD's "Life is Fucking Stupendous!" compilation, but the brief soni…
Sacred Heart of Reinvention
Wow, this is unreal -- the first full length album by Slacking on AAD? What a privilege to do this landmark release, which will surely be looked back on years from now as a crowning achievement for the label, in the same way that Creation Records must feel about being the one to have put out "Loveless". From the first time i heard this project i was stoked in a way i hadn't been since first discovering Harsh Noise. It was immediately apparent that i was to be in total support of this project as …
The Spectacle of Ravishing Our Maidens
CD reissue of one of my personal favorite releases in the Macro discography. Lovingly ripped directly from my own copy of the cassette version released in 1995, and remastered in house. This release deserves the reissue treatment because it is easily some of the best material to come from the original duo of Joe Roemer and Rodger Stella...perfectly capturing the 90's Americanoise sound at it's raunchiest. It's an honor to be able to put "The Spectacle of Ravishing Our Maidens" back in circulatio…
Bloody Slumber Party
CD reissue of material that was released on cassette in 1998 and suspended in decades of obscurity, which is a shame because this is arguably some of the most underrated and brutal material ever produced by the project...a true deep cut and essential release for fans of not just Government Alpha but Harsh Noise in general.
Our Enemy, Civilization
AAD is proud to present Slit Throats first official full length CD since 2020's epic "Joshi Noise Worship: Women's Most Violent" released by Phage Tapes.
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In the past I have stated that I do not release Power Electronics, but that claim is now shattered after discovering Parassitismo, a duo hailing from Genova, Italy that creates some of the best oldschool P.E. I've come across...granted I'm no expert on the genre, I just know I really like this album and wanted to get it back in circulation ASAP on a physical format worthy of it's excellence. This is cold, filthy, lo-fi Industrial murk that incorporates rhythmic noise, processed dialogue, analog …
Wormwood
In the early 2000s there were several great (now classic) Evenings releases on labels like Chondritic Sound, Ekhein, Monorail Trespassing and his own Tapeworm Tapes imprint...these have been my go-to late night listening for the past decade. With it's super muddy, snail-paced build ups of hazy lo-fi rumbling drones...it is quite literally the ideal noise for evening listening. He had a way of taking the sound and approach of early HNW and making it more hushed and mellow, as if you were hearing …