"For Their Graves"

Primitive Temples 011

Edition of 10

2020

For Their Graves belies the simple premise of a horror short to deliver an experiential reckoning with one’s own understanding of the unknown. The viewer is greeted with conventional images before transitioning in both startling and gradual movements toward an infernal symbolism which may or may not be indecipherable. A journey in which the exterior world is beheld and forsaken for interior psychogeographies. To contextualize this work within the cinematic landscape, imagine the following: the kinetic psychedelia of Jodorowsky condensed into a logic of stark blacks and whites; an 80s slasher flick infused with the narrative mysticism of Lynch; Kenneth Anger’s ritual Satanism for the digital age; a spiritualized Nick Zedd not on acid. Genre tropes are acknowledged and disregarded. Semblances of tradition can be parsed out. Traces of dialogue act as touchstones for the uninitiated. When all impurities have burned away, a mosaic of visions coalesce into a singular image both sacred and profane. 

For Their Graves was filmed in Portland, Maine in 2019 & 2020.

Vhorb

"Adversary"

Primitive Temples 009

Edition of 75

Mastered by J.Stillings

2019

A Lifetime of error.

Leg Market

"Final Arrangement"

Primitive Temples 008

3"cdr

Edition of 45

Mastered by J. Stillings

2019

Elements of a Ligeti’s ethereal, disembodied choirs float atop an unsettling tone, swaying in diseased winds as the harpies beckon their unwitting victims near.  Approaching the tonal complexity and long-form tension of ecstatic vocal torture and electronic pulse that modern avant garde masters of the twentieth century like Luigi Nono brought, Leg Market initiates an atmosphere of paranoid delusion and wide-eyed dread to the late night listener. The listener is immersed in a dense bath of sound for a quarter hour before dissolving into tape machine stutter in its dying breath.

FRKSE

"Void Spirit"

Primitive Temples 006

Edition of 68

2018

In defiance of curses uttered in bullshit newsfeeds and utensil-shoved soft serve truth attempts, FRKSE takes a media studies drop-out lens to the lunacy of rotten narratives and false flag waving on a C62 of trauma buried in fragmented samples, radio silence, and drum machine fixations. This is a harsher approach than his usual sample-based exploits. 68 copies on hand stamped j-cards.

Fuck your free-speech rally.

Void Spirit video teaser

Goat Majesty

"Prophecy of the Black Spider"

Primitive Temples 005

Edition of 50

2018

Funeral mood music and subterranean clatter from lone wolf of North East English noise Goat Majesty. Flickering dungeon candles are snuffed out by the stale damp air, as a lo-fi soundtrack plays to the advancing spread of thick black mold. There’s no hope here, just the distant sound of mournful organ, bass rumble and over modulated synths bubbling away toward the inevitable nothingness that awaits us all. Recommended listening for those who get nothing out of life.

"Strange Mavens"

Compilation

Primitive Temples 004

Edition of 125

Mastered by J. Stillings

2017

A1	–Steel Hook Prostheses	Iron Bath Immersion
A2	–Theologian	Blood Groove
A3	–Xiphoid Dementia	Dead Endustry
A4	–Nycterent	Cross Of Endlessness
A5	–Climax Denial	Nobody Wants My Blood
A6	–Vhorb	Lifengrod
B1	–TRTRKMMR	Conspiracy (Bathory Cover)
B2	–Steeplechase	Extinction And Punishment
B3	–Deterge	C4H10F02P
B4	–Husere Grav	Ghost Sickness
B5	–FRKSE	Delusions
B6	–Scrotal Tear	Stand There In Chains Of Light
B7	–150 Lbs Of Terror	The End Was Black
B8	–Carl Kruger	9x

Vhorb

"Terlingua"

Primitive Temples 003

Edition of 50

Mastered by J. Stillings

2017

"VHORB is loss without words, without meaning. Pain amplified, looped, calculated, frozen in a free-fall of darkness, in perpetuity. Turning the release valve away from reason, demanding an act of surrender - where every auditory element expunged through exhaust is recycled and fed as barbed stimulus to the listener. The subtle touches of... restraint only act as a taunting momentary threat, as meditative screams & calls are powered by an undercurrent of rhythmic, lo-fi industrial rumblings. This 5-song demo is a transportive experience that immediately propels one into a position of submission - only to use gradual, organic treatment to cradle the listener into a waking dream of ambient solemnity. A unique harsh noise approach, from the minds responsible for Husere Grav & Ecocide."

-J. Morse

Vhorb are by no means black metal, but the essence of the project feels like it necessarily sits squarely adjacent to black metal. Kind of like very early Husere Grav (“Haunted Tomb,” “The Great Empty”) or maybe even Doppleganger. It edges right up and alongside black metal…pressing firmly against the structured walls…and leeches its shadows. The sticky umbra is then roughly shaped into semi-comprehensible entities. Presences that are formed from and then back into the formless.

-TRTRKMMR