Vinyl Fetish: Deafheaven/Bosse-de-Nage Split Pre-order

The Flenser is currently taking pre-orders for a 12" split between Bay Area black metal/shoegaze/pos-rockers Deafheaven and Bosse-de-Nage, done in partnership with Deathwish Inc. This is Deafheaven's first release since their strong debut LP on Deathwish last year. For Bosse-de-Nage this split comes right on the heels of their newest full-length, III, one of my personal favorites this year. The Flenser is offering a purple marble with black variant limited to 200 copies exclusive to The Flenser webstore, as well as a standard black. It would appear that the Flenser exclusive variant is already more than half sold out at this point, so grab it quick. Deathwish will also be offering an exclusive variant, details to be announced later.

The Flenser

Vinyl Fetish: Graf Orlock- Los Angeles 7" Pre-order

Graf Orlock return with their first release since the tremendous Doombox EP. 10 whole minutes worth of grind on this bad boy! Actually, half of that will probably be samples, but the 5 minutes will be totally worth it. Issued by the band's own Vitriol Records and limited to 600 copies on black vinyl, there are 3 different covers available. Each cover features actual bullet holes shot through it by a member of the band and comes with a fold out poster (not sure if the poster comes with bullet holes as well). These go on sale Saturday around 9pm Pacific Time.

Grind or die.

Vinyl Fetish: Mitochondrion- Archaeaeon 2xLP Pre-order

Mitochondrion's 2008 debut full length Archaeaeon is finally set to be released on vinyl. If you can remember back a few months, I named Mitochondrion's Parasignosis album of the year for 2011. While Archaeaeon isn't quite as good as Parasignosis, it's still some remarkably good, completely head-fucked death metal. Issued in a gatefold with all new artwork, the first 150 copies come on gold vinyl. You better believe I got a gold copy.

Dark Descent- Gold Vinyl

Dark Descent- Black Vinyl