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HIBUSHIBIRE RETURN WITH NEW ALBUM 'FLASHBACK STONEHENGE' AND UK/EUROPEAN TOUR OCTOBER
PRE ORDER VIA THE WEBSHOP OR BANDCAMP SITE Japanese psych rockers Hibushibire return with album number four ‘Flashback Stonehenge’ and a UK/European tour to coincide. ‘Flashback Stonehenge’ is the bands first studio album as a four piece, with live guest Kohei Katsuma now joining as a full time member on percussion/congas (an absolute must see live) alongside Changchang (Guitar/Vocal), Tetsuji Toyoda (Bass/Vocal) and Aoi Hama (Drums/Vocals).
Like the bands previous three albums, this one continues with the three shorter songs on side one, and one epic long song filling out side two mantra that has served them so well thus far. Opening track ‘Snow Sniffing Matador’ is already a firm live favourite, with it’s heavy riffage and 70’s rock swagger. Things then cool down with a more laid back ‘In Heaven’, featuring Aoi Hama’s dreamlike vocal whispers, and a fuzzed out take on traditional English folk song ‘The Cuckoo’ with Changchang & Aoi trading verses. Flip it over, and you have the epic title track, which sees the band take a slightly different approach recalling the likes of Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Faust, CAN, Eno etc over it’s extraordinary 22 minutes.
The band return for their fourth UK tour in October, and also play their first mainland European dates to coincide. FLASHBACK STONEHENGE TOUR OCTOBER 2025 9th The Lubber Fiend, Newcastle, UK 10th Night & Day, Manchester, UK 11th Ivory Blacks, Glasgow, UK 12th Arc:hive, Liverpool, UK 13th The Prince Albert, Brighton, UK 16th Hot Box, Chelmsford, UK 17th The Victoria, Birmingham, UK 18th Down Stokes, Bristol, UK 19th The Victoria, London, UK 21st Le 3 Pièces, Rouen, FR 23rd La Malterie, Lille, FR 26th Végállomás Klub, Szombathely, HU 27th Auróra, Budapest, HU 28th Pink Whale, Bratislava, SK 29th Køpi, Berlin, DE Let's freak out!
DEAD OTTER 'THE SENTINEL' LP COMING IN NOVEMBER
PRE ORDER VIA THE WEBSHOP OR BANDCAMP SITE "Guitar wielding heavy psych explorers Dead Otter return with their inter-dimensional new album 'The Sentinel', released October 31st on Riot Season in the UK and Echodelick in the US, this full length marks the band's first release since 2018's 'Bridge of Weird'. The otternaut, having traversed through the wormhole laden 'Bridge of Weird' finds themself isolated on a desert planet, the only visible life towers above in the form of a malevolent, sky dwelling planetoid known as "The Sentinel". The Sentinel was recorded in Glasgow's Dystopia Studio, mixed by Omar Aborida (The Cosmic Dead) and mastered by John McBain (Monster Magnet, Desert Sessions, Wellwater Conspiracy)" 'The Sentinel' will be available in two vinyl variants, a VERY limited purple/orange splatter and a beautiful transparent light blue edition If you loved Bridge Of Weird, rest assured you're going to love this one equally. It may have taken a while, but it was definitely worth it Check out that killer artwork by Luke Oram
CODEX SERAFINI 'MOTHER, GIVE YOUR CHILDREN SANITY' LP COMING IN NOVEMBER
PRE ORDER VIA THE WEBSHOP OR BANDCAMP SITE Codex Serafini are proud to announce the release of their second album Mother, Give Your Children Sanity; released physically via Riot Season (UK/Europe) & Echodelick Records (North America) and digitally through Slo Thee Music on 14th November 2025. Their first new music since 2023's The Imprecation Of Anima, this release finds them blending the future psych rock of Boris, Goat, and King Gizzard with the avant-garde, art rock of The Mars Volta and Ex Eye to create something more focused and forward thinking than anything they have produced before. The album was recorded and produced earlier this year by Wayne Adams (Big Lad/Petbrick) at Bear Bites Horse Studio (Green Lung/Petbrick/JAAW). "This album grew from our shared, deep connection we have to one another and reflects both the power of nature and the struggles we all experience as human beings on this planet. We are grateful to have made it with people we love and respect, and we're excited to finally share it with everyone out there."
BRAINBOMBS 'DIE' LP COMING OCTOBER
PRE ORDER VIA THE WEBSHOP OR BANDCAMP SITE Over the years, I've released many a great noise rock (for want of a better term) record. And pretty much every one of those bands have been influenced at some point by the Swedish underground legends BRAINBOMBS A band that thrills and disgusts in equal measure. With their bludgeoning repetitive riffs, and interesting lyrical themes, They're pretty much held up as masters of their craft. So, to be sat here in August 2025 announcing i'm releasing their new album on my little label is a fucking thrill. I've been listening to it non stop for about two solid months, and now you lot finally get to have a taste yourselves The band don't bother with such trivialities as press releases, so instead we've turned to this reddit post to say it all THE TRANSPARENT RED VINYL FIRST PRESS IS NOW SOLD OUT FROM ME DIRECT. SOME COPIES WILL BE AVAILABLE OUT IN THE WILD
A SECOND BLACK VINYL PRESSING IS NOW UP FOR PRE ORDER
CHECK OUT OPENING TRACK 'MIDNIGHT SLAUGHTER'
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO UFO 'ELECTRIC HEAVYLAND' 2LP OUT NOW
ORDER VIA THE WEBSHOP OR BANDCAMP SITE It's been a crazy long wait for this one to be done, but it almost is! We've delved into the Acid Mothers archives once again to resurrect this 2002 classic. Originally released on CD only via Alien 8 back in the day, it's now coming out on vinyl at long last. Gorgeous double vinyl at that, with a whole bonus live side (period correct) with artwork recreated to replicate the original CD issue, with a few tweaks. There are two variants, the shop/distro retail edition is pressed on silver 'surfer' wax, whilst the label exclusive edition comes pressed as a silver/black 'galaxy' edition. Both variants come in the same beautiful gatefold sleeve, adorned with silver metallic ink. LABEL EXCLUSIVE SILVER/BLACK GALAXY EDITION
SILVER SURFER (RETAIL EDITION) FRONT AND BACK
CHECK OUT ALBUM OPENER 'ATOMIC ROTARY GRINDING GOD ~ QUICKSILVER MACHINE HEAD' BELOW
KALIYUGA EXPRESS 'THE WANDERING MOUNTAIN' LP OUT NOW
ORDER VIA THE WEBSHOP OR BANDCAMP SITE Ahoy space rockers! The magnificent Kaliyuga Express are back with a new album 'The Wandering Mountain' and you wont have to wait long for it either. Like their previous two albums, this one is a proper head nodder in the great space rock tradition It's already here, it looks and sounds great (as always). Shop release date is August 29th, but mail order copies will be sent our around the 20th
Limited 300 only transparent sky blue LP, housed in full colour sleeve with double side lyric insert, black polylined inner bag & download code Two fields of existence collide as Nolla (Finnish psych/space rockers) & Mike Vest (Maximalist guitar guru, Bong, Blown Out, Drunk In Hell, Artifacts & Uranium, Modoki, Tomoyuki Trio, Mienakunaru etc) merge their creative visions for the third time. Creating a steady and surreal exploration through astral planes. Nolla improvised the ground layer in their signature minimal space-rock style and MikeV wrapped everything up in lavish layers of fuzz, phased and U-Wah layered guitars. Blending octaval tones, around an array of electronics & vocal harmonies. Resulting in a constant trance like psychedelic drone rock. It's time to join the extraterrestrial communion, beyond the skies, convert into the mode of light and pay homage to his mighty eminence. The Wandering Mountain.
LISTEN TO 'THE CHARIOT' NOW
HIBUSHIBIRE 'OFFICIAL LIVE BOOTLEG VOLUME 11' LIMITED LP OUT NOW
ORDER VIA THE WEBSHOP OR BANDCAMP SITE Exclusive 250 only live bootleg LP recorded in Glasgow & London on the bands Magical Metamorphosis Third Eye UK tour November 2024 One off pressing housed in a custom gloss finished colour sleeve and pressed on cyan coloured vinyl LP In November 2024, Japanese quartet Hibushibire flew into the UK for the third time. Heads were banged, minds were blown and a new legion of fans were made. During the tour, the band recorded several shows with the idea to release another of their legendary live bootleg albums if the performances were up to scratch. They were This a trimmed down version of their set, recorded in both Glasgow and London with no overdubs and no fancy production. It's 100% raw/live Hibushibire as God intended Crank it up and freak out!
CHECK OUT OPENING TRACK SNOW SNIFFING' MATADOR
MITSURU TABATA / MIKE VEST / NICK RAYBOULD 'ASURA AIRAVATA' LP OUT NOW
ORDER VIA THE WEBSHOP OR BANDCAMP SITE Another new release imminent, this time featuring a host of familiar names to most of you i'm sure, after all the work i've released via these gents in various guises over the years. They always come up with something special and this one is no different. 300 copies all pressed on translucent violet coloured vinyl. Housed in a full colour matt varnish finished outer sleeve, black polylined inner bag & download code. This is co release with US label Echodelick Records The power of the three! Airavata represents the celestial elephant, that which carries the Lord Indra, holds the greatest position, as considered their king and thus symbolises the power to rule. Peace and prosperity are the effects of this established power. Six Tracks of garage, psych fuzz rock, improvisations and harmonious grooves. Mitsuru Tabata (Missing Heads, Sadistic Mazo Band, Acid Mothers Temple, Zeni Geva) lays down punk rock hendrixian free form leads, over loose jams and stadium rock arrangements. Created by Mike Vest (Kaliyuga Express, Brain Pills, Artifacts & Uranium, BONG, Drunk In Hell) and Nick Raybould (Thought Bubble, Artifacts & Uranium) who provides his visual representation of the Airavata.
CHECK OUT THE FIRST SINGLE 'GALACTA'
BLACK HELIUM 'THE ANIMALS ARE COMING' LP OUT NOW
ORDER VIA THE WEBSHOP OR BANDCAMP SITE With this, their fourth album Black Helium find themselves widening the parameters of their take on heavy psychedelic rock, with probably their most baked and hook-laden material to date. From the no-safety-net freak out of 'Return the Curse', to the sawtooth groove of 'Up on a Hill', 'The Animals Are Coming' LP is Black Helium at their most exploratory and focused. Recorded one sun-drenched week in late June 2024, this time at Axe and Trap Studios with Ben Turner (Hey Colossus, Part Chimp). 'The Animals Are Coming' is the band sweating it out in a room, fueled by "party foods "and vintage amps. Digging deeper towards the source, no matter how transcendent, no matter how dark. Black Helium are a psychedelic power trio, based in London. Never afraid to stray from the beaten path, they traverse aural hallucinatory soundscapes; from detuned Neanderthal rock to deep oceans of introspective blissed out psychedelia.
CHECK OUT THE FIRST SINGLE 'UP ON A HILL'
The album, lovingly pressed on 'blood & guts' red and black vinyl
Until then, pop a window open, take in the lovely weather and get this taster on loop
DOPE PURPLE 'CHILDREN IN THE DARKNESS' LP OUT NOW
ORDER VIA THE WEBSHOP OR BANDCAMP SITE Taipei City's Dope Purple return to Riot Season (once again in conjunction with WV Sorcerer Productions) for their third, or fourth (depending on how you count) album 'Children In The Darkness' and it's another beauty! The album is a ferocious space psychedelic rock, no starlight, no glamourous psychedelic paradise, just a meditative journey of infinite darkness and ear-splitting tinnitus. Unlike our last album, I didn't have a specific theme or idea for this album, however I named it 'Children In The Darkness' because all the songs on this album share the same lonely, disorientating chaos that reminds me of children forgotten in the darkness, and Dope Purple has always been a messenger for those children, playing sedative music for their ghosts.
CHECK OUT THE WHOLE OF SIDE ONE, 'NEW PSYCHE & BEYOND THE BODY' NOW
IVAN THE TOLERABLE 'AN ORPHAN FORM' LP OUT NOW
ORDER VIA THE WEBSHOP OR BANDCAMP SITE It's a warm and sunny day here in the Black Country, and i'm delighted to announce IVAN THE TOLERABLE returns to the Riot Season fold after his two sold out albums (Vertigo & Water Music) last year, with another killer release, 'An Orphan Form' Unlike last years albums, this one contains just two pieces, but they're both very LONG and utterly gorgeous The LP is limited to 300 copies. and they're pressed on crystal clear vinyl with a purple blob and black splatter to compliment the equally beautiful artwork "With ‘An Orphan Form’, Ivan The Tolerable returns with a beautifully strange and immersive suite that feels both otherworldly and rooted in something organic. Drawing on kosmische drift, loose-limbed jazz, and warped psychedelic textures, the record moves like a half-remembered dream. Field recordings and nature sounds weave in and out, grounding the swirling synths and off-kilter rhythms in real earth and air. It's a record that doesn’t follow a straight line, but instead wanders, curious, alive, and quietly spellbinding."
CHECK OUT THE SIXTEEN MINUTE 'CUT PALE WHITE LINE'
OVER-GAIN OPTIMAL DEATH 'DIE UNDERGROUND' LP OUT NOW
ORDER VIA THE WEBSHOP OR BANDCAMP SITE The LP comes pressed on molten red vinyl and it's a RAGER! OGOD’s Die Underground, an ethos and curse, breaks the 4th wall through psychedelia’s dark side. A critique and embrace of self-destruction, esoteric vanity and inevitable ruin. The molten-red LP on Riot Season Records plunges deep into an abuse of distortion, existential doom and primal Stooge-like chaos. LA.’s Acid Punk Power Trio returns to it's mark 1 lineup, now wielding a second addition in twin-drum assault courtesy of TJ (P.S.F., Deathchant). Jasso (guitar/vocals) is seemingly out for blood on this 4 track studio album, leading a violent dive into the abyss—Japanese Underground fury meets Hendrix’s wreckage, fuzz-drenched wah freak-outs compete against raw punk vocals caught in an endless slapback delay… Die Young, Die Broke. A new mantra for the most depraved connoisseurs of Psychedelic Punk. For fans of Mainliner, Brainbombs, Rallizes, Stooges, Motörhead. "None heard a sound… DIE UNDERGROUND.”
CHECK OUT THE TITLE TRACK
USA/MEXICO 'LIVE IN PARIS' WHITE VINYL LP OUT NOW
ORDER VIA THE WEBSHOP OR BANDCAMP SITE Limited edition 300 only white vinyl LP housed in full colour outer sleeve with hype sticker, and polylined inner bag A brutal, dirge fest recorded live in Paris 2024 No song titles, just slabs of hell noise
Co release with US label 12XU who will be handling the release over in North America (different pressing plant/different colour vinyl) Who are they?
FILTHY
REST IN PEACE JIM HANEY (OF PERHAPS)
I’m sad to share the news that our old friend, and musical inspiration, Jim Haney of the very excellent Perhaps has passed away I received the news via a mutual friend at the weekend and was deeply shocked to hear it, as I was only thinking about him and the band last week It’s very common to not hear from people/bands for long periods of time doing this job, I don’t like to bug people and I always assume they’ll get back in contact when there’s something to tell or share with me, that’s just the way it’s always been in my little label world Jim lived across the pond in the US of course, which doesn’t make chatting that easy either. That all said, it had been a fairly long period of time since I last heard from him and maybe with hindsight, I could’ve just fired off an email and asked how he was doing I’m told by his Perhaps band mate Sean, that Jim had a nasty fall which resulted in irreversible and very serious brain injuries. This led to his poor family having to make the heartbreaking decision to let him go. Which must have been an agonising decision for all What shall we remember Jim for? Some incredible music for sure. Perhaps wise I released three and a half albums over the years, starting with ‘V’ in 2017, ‘Hexagon’ in 2018, ‘7.0’ in 2020 and the ‘In Search Of Highs Volume 4’ split album with Jimmy’s heroes Acid Mothers Temple being the last in 2021 Each one of those albums is a very unique thing, because to my ears at least, Perhaps didn’t sound like any other band. They really had a very weird and unique way of making music On top of the three albums, two of them also came with companion ‘redux’ albums, which were also completely out-there creations in their own right I urge you to check em all out if you can find the time via the bands own Bandcamp page PERHAPS ON BANDCAMP
You can also check out the four albums they released before I got involved in the journey too I’ve just realised I don’t even know how old Jimmy was, but I got the impression he can’t have been that old which makes all the sadder (edit: he would’ve been 33 on December 28th) If you were already a fan of the band, I suggest you dig out whatever Perhaps records/downloads you have and give em a listen over the next days/weeks, and raise a glass to a very talented fellow And if you haven’t discovered them yet, give em a try The good thing about music is, it never dies. It’s out there FOREVER keeping the memories alive of those who graced us with it’s presence To Jim’s band mates, family and friends I send my condolences And to Jim himself, farewell fella, and thanks for all the music mate Andy x
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE ' MANTRA OF LOVE' & ' STARLESS AND BIBLE BLACK SABBATH' LP'S OUT NOW
ORDER VIA THE WEBSHOP OR BANDCAMP SITE Back in 2022 i decided it was about time I released some of the earlier Acid Mothers Temple releases i'd previously only put out on CD, on vinyl for the first time. And that's exactly what we did. Three albums, released as 'Vinyl Archives Volume 1' with an optional box set to house all three which came with the third and final release in the first volume 'Pink Lady Lemonade - You're From Outer Space' Vinyl 2xLP (REPOSELP102) 'Myth Of The Love Electrique' Vinyl 2xLP (REPOSELP111) 'Acid Motherly Love' Vinyl 2xLP (REPOSELP110) They all sold out and so, it's about time we got on with some more Delighted to say, the first two releases in the second volume are now ready to go! 'Mantra Of Love’ (REPOSELP138) There are two variants of this release. There's a cream/bone coloured vinyl LP which will be available from shops/distros worldwide. And a label exclusive variant which is pressed on 'glass clear' vinyl, with cream and brown splatter effect
'Starless And Bible Black Sabbath' (REPOSELP139) There are two variants of this release. There's a olive green coloured vinyl LP which will be available from shops/distros worldwide. And a label exclusive variant which is pressed on 'glass clear' vinyl, with blood orange and olive green splatter effect
Both of these titles have been rearranged/edited for vinyl by Makoto Kawabata himself, and remastered by John McBain, and they sound, and look gorgeous! What's more, the sleeves both have a leather effect varnish on them to give them a bit of phwooar factor. As always, i'm trying to make sure they're worth your hard earned coin. There will be others in the Vinyl Archives Volume 2, and once we're at the last one the optional box to fit them all in will roll around once again. But that's some way off yet so let's not worry about that now. |
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