Antithetic Records

Wildernessking - First Review & Full Stream at LURKER

2012-01-07T10:37:00.001-05:00

Our most excellent friends at LURKER have given the fantastic new Wildernessking its first review, and are hosting an exclusive full album stream!! Check out the awesomeness HERE.

You can still preorder the album on CD featuring beautiful artwork by Rainbath Visual HERE.

Vinyl to follow in the Spring.

Wildernessking – The Writing of Gods in the Sand by LURKERSPATH

Wildernessking New Track Debut!

2011-12-19T15:13:00.001-05:00

The first new track by Wildernessking is finally available to stream and as a FREE DOWNLOAD on the band's bandcamp page. The track is titled "Rubicon" and is the first song on their upcoming Antithetic Records debut "The Writing of Gods in the Sand". The song is a perfect album opener, starting with a vortex of screams exploding into black metal assault on your senses. As the songs flows, you will hear more atmospheric segments, and elements of thrash as well. An excellent preview of a downright fantastic album! We are extremely excited to be releasing this album, both on limited CD and Vinyl!

CD can be preordered now for only $8 at our store. Vinyl will be underway in the coming months, for a spring 2012 release.

Website & Release Updates

2011-12-14T14:57:00.002-05:00

Its been quiet here at the site for about a month now. Sorry for the lack of updates, but don't let that trick you, we've been very busy behind the scenes!

First up, we've updated the website with links to all of our pertinent information. You can now find a dedicated Releases page, an About page, links, contact, etc... Something I've been meaning to do for a while, but just now found the time to do.

Second, an update on the motW box set progress. Here's where we stand at the moment. All the remastered audio has been sent to the pressing plant to cut the plates and make test pressings. The artwork is VERY close to being 100% complete. I have spent the past several weeks painstakingly recreating each page of the original booklets to populate the inside panels of each gatefold jacket. Toby has been hard at work as well, creating brand new artwork for both the 7" front label, as well as the 11x17 poster (which he will be signing as well!). You can see all of our hard work (thanks so much to Josh @ Blood Music for making these awesome mockups and organizing everything!!) here:

maudlin of the Well Box Set Photostream

If you haven't noticed, we still have our first 3 CD's in the store for preorder. Everything is ready for submission on both the Nooumena and Book of Sand albums, so they will be in production this week. The Wildernessking CD audio is being mastered and should be complete this week, so it should be in production starting next week (by December 23). I've listened to the new album several times and am extremely impressed by it. These guys have made a monumental effort for their first release as Wildernessking, and I can't wait to share it with all of you.

Until then, be on the lookout for your Young and in the Way vinyl as they all shipped on December 13. They look amazing! Also, speaking of Young and in the Way, we only have about 15 copies of the first pressing of "V. Eternal Depression" left in our store, and the band has about the same amount left of their copies. We will be doing a second pressing in a Clear w/ White Haze which we'll be called "Mountain Fog", and it will be available for order starting January 1st. Pictures to follow very soon! Thanks to everyone for making this such a huge success!!

maudlin of the Well Limited Box Set just became MORE LIMITED!

2011-11-11T06:38:00.001-05:00

You read that right!

HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT.

Orders have flown in, but in the interest of pressing the set by the end of the year, we've decided to hurry this along. We're limiting this by an insane amount, bringing it down to 300 DELUXE LIMITED BOX SETS ONLY.

WE ONLY HAVE 50 OF THESE BOX SETS LEFT.

AND THEY WILL NEVER BE PRINTED AGAIN!

Once these 50 sets sell, we will be going to press.

We will be hand-numbering the box sets based on what # you are in the queue, i.e. orderer #1 gets box #1, orderer #2 gets box #2.

We will also be including a printed insert listing the names of anyone who purchases the limited box set as someone that helped make this set become a reality.

Once these 50 sets are sold out, we will have a very small run of basic editions with black vinyl in gatefolds only, no 7", no mp3 downloads, no box, no poster, no picks, no chance to buy T-shirt, no extras whatsoever. Plain Jane.

YOU MAKE THE CALL.

USA & Canada - Order through Antithetic

Rest of the World - Order through Blood Music

maudlin of the Well Preorder is LIVE!

2011-10-21T07:05:00.001-04:00

It's finally here. Time to preorder the maudlin of the Well box set!!

USA & Canada - Order through Antithetic

Rest of the World - Order through Blood Music

I hear these make an excellent Christmas present!

motW Box Set Promo

2011-10-18T08:24:00.001-04:00

maudlin of the Well - Bath & Leaving Your Body Map - October 21st

2011-10-18T08:19:00.001-04:00

The time has finally come to start placing your orders for this giant box set. We are going to have the preorders go live on Friday October 21st. There will be 2 different options to buy. One will be the box set with all the goodies we've described before, for $75. The other option will be with a maudlin of the Well shirt (there will actually be two versions as XXL shirts cost a couple dollars more). These will be for $90 and $92 for S-XL shirts and XXL respectively. The shirts will not be made available separately from the set, and we are only ordering enough to fill the orders that are placed. The front design for the shirt is still being finalized, but the back of the shirt will be a replica of the original shirt released in 2001, of which there were only 100 made! Here's the awesome "Part the First" design that will be on the back:

Please note that there is still a lot of headway to be made on this set, and we are only taking these orders this early in order to help fund it. Think of it as you helping to make this set become a reality. We will be posting pictures and progress updates as the production moves forward, to keep you all informed every step of the way. We hope to have these ready to ship by the end of the year, but please understand that there are often delays in vinyl manufacturing and we cannot guarantee a ship date at this time. That said, you will know where we are in the process at all times, and you will be making something truly amazing happen in the underground metal community!! Thank you in advance for your support of this project. Feel free to help us advertise the preorder date on any forums or blogs that you may be a member of or affilated with. Remember that Antithetic is handling US & Canada orders and Blood Music is handling the rest of the world.

V. Eternal Depression Preorder is Live

2011-10-12T06:58:00.000-04:00

Veritas mons manet in aeternum
Treading vesicant water we devour the voice ov the eternal ocean ~Venator.
Descension into void and valley, marking our tracks to vanish from the “vein”
Viver in vacuo
We thrust vagility into the void – an invincible violence (invulnerable and viperine) – which we call a "man of cold time" (that who is vorpal).
Woes to the gathering of vehement violins whose vastness envelops the vorago and devours the sun.
Vincere Aquilonis
“Vivat” to the viduous willing.
“Long live” to the voice in the void.
May the darkest linger, Vocem in irritum, amble and sink.
And vulnerose…thrive across the velvet black.
Aeternaliter vivere in vacuo

Eternal Depression.

Preorder is now live.

V. Eternal Depression

2011-10-06T10:10:00.000-04:00

Preorder is now Live.

All the necessary parts and pieces have been assembled for the next Antithetic release. This time we bring you a new 12" from the blackened crust masters Young and in the Way entitled "V. Eternal Depression." This album is devastating. The guitar tone is downright ruthless. The vocals are scathing and brutal. From the opening solemn piano, to the sound of a distant train that brings the album to a close, you will be absolutely pummeled by everything in between. The band has pushed themselves harder than ever before, both as musicians and as song writers, and it is clearly evident here. The music is both heavier and more experimental than any of their previous work. "The Gathering", the nearly 12 minute B side track, is nothing like you've ever heard from this band. Every member lends some additional percussion, and there are additional woodwind instruments and other sounds as well. Again, this is nothing like you've ever heard from Young and in the Way before.

Some details on the pressing itself. We're doing only 250 copies for this pressing, all on 200 gram vinyl. The vinyl will be black with heavy white splatter and will be in a black poly-lined inner sleeve. The packaging and artwork are beautiful. It comes in an upgraded 350gsm heavy weight jacket with an embossed YAITW logo in the center. Artwork assembled by the band's vocalist Kable. Also features a two sided insert with additional art and lyrics. All preorders will come with a screen printed logo patch as well.

The band will have these on their upcoming string of tour dates in late November. If you aren't lucky enough to go to a show to see them, head over to the store and preorder a copy. Preorders go live on Wednesday, October 12. They will also be streaming the album in full on CVLT Nation that day. I'll update this post with a link when its up.

Lastly, we are again doing a preorder contest/giveaway with this release. For every item you purchase along with a copy of the V. 12", you'll get a chance to win the prize. We'll be giving away a test press of the album, along with an original piece of art put together by the band. I've been sworn to secrecy on the details of the art, but trust me, its going to be awesome, and fits well with the theme of the album.

Part the First

2011-10-01T21:57:00.001-04:00

The first time I met the old man was in the Mansion at the edge of a forest of Starlight. I was never fond of traveling there; the Stars would always sing to me like phantom nightingales, and their song was always sad and far away, as a dream. And after meeting the old man and witnessing his demise, the songs chilled me ever more greatly, for I realized that just as Starlight is an aeon old, its song is even older. They were a lament and an impending doom, and they knew the old man when he was just a boy. He was so afraid as he sat and sipped his wine. I remember that. And his gaze was never wavered from the woman at the opposite end of the room, and she was watching him intently. I began to notice that as he sipped from his goblet, he began to fade away. I wanted to warn him of the apparent Poison that she had slipped into his steaming drink, but she had enchanted me with such nightmarish beauty that I could only watch in helpless terror and lust. After he had faded completely, I found myself in the woman's Garden, where the only light came from giant blooms and stalks like dying Candles. We made love that hateful night, and even now, I wonder if my sin was really what killed the old man an hour ago, and could it really be my daemon see that helped bring to life the horror that followed.

-Jason Byron