Welp, here we are at the end of what we all pretty much collectively agree is maybe THE shittiest year in modern memory. The year was mostly defined by the covid pandemic and when I came to the full realization of what this would actually mean for us as a society I also realized how there would be some absolute incredible music that would come out of this experience.
Sadly the pandemic has crippled live music events to the point where they are basically nonexistent which means I will not be …

Human Extinction Engine the split LP with Bastard Noise is now live on the Xiphoid Dementia BandCamp page.
Originally released on Scry Recordings, Existence Establishment, Terror, and Phage Tapes February 2019. Human Extinction Engine is a split record between the throttling yet textured death industrial of Xiphoid Dementia and the harsh space ambience of Bastard Noise.
Conceptually both artists unite in seeing a world where humans slowly tighten the noose around their own neck through “advancement” and “industry”. Yet each artist reflects this concept in very different ways.
On side A Xiphoid Dementia …

The Xiphoid Dementia BandCamp page looms ever closer to being completely caught up on the current discography with the latest digital release of Subterranean Transmigration the split CD with Regosphere.
To honor Juneteenth – which marked the abolition of slavery in America – BandCamp will be donating all of their profits today June 19th to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and any sales that are made through either the Xiphoid Dementia BandCamp page or the Headstone Brigade BandCamp page will be donated to the same cause.
Originally released in 2014 on Phage …

Meditation Convulsions was recorded in 2014 shortly after recording Secular Hymns. The 3 tracks were first created for live performance than later refined for an EP recording. Originally released by local Boston tape label Apicult Recordings. Check it out at the Xiphoid Dementia BandCamp page or listen below:

Meditation Convulsions by Xiphoid Dementia

Released as a CD on Malignant Records in 2012 Secular Hymns is the follow up to Xiphoid Dementia’s landmark sophomore offering Might Is Blight. Demonstrating a more refined sound and expanding on stylistic efforts explored in previous releases Secular Hymns is yet another triptych on the dark journey of the project.
From Sideline Magazine:
Moving somewhere in between dark-ambient and industrial-noise “Secular Hymns” is an opus that catches the attention for its impressive arsenal of sounds and noises that have been used. But the main characteristic of the release concerns the global …