January 16th, 2025 – Vancouver, CA @ The Cobalt – 7PM – $23
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Lana Del Rabies
https://lanadelrabies.bandcamp.com/
God Is War
https://godiswar.bandcamp.com/
Xiphoid Dementia
https://xdementia.bandcamp.com/
Exeunt
https://www.instagram.com/_exeunt/
Join us for a night of dark electronic music, martial industrial, ritual ambient, and rhythmic industrial.
November 9th, 2024
8PM – @ The Mortuary – Olympia, WA
Donations $5-$15
Xiphoid Dementia
Sataray
Rising Plague Incinerator
Behalf
Xiphoid Dementia will be performing at this mammoth festival of eclectic music ranging from metal, folk, experimental, noise, and rock. I will be closing out Friday night with a set that should include some new material. All info for the festival can be found .
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November 5th @ Teatro de la Psychomachia
$10 – 7PM
Returning
Xiphoid Dementia
Vanessa Skantze & Celadon
August 23rd, 2023
@
Belltown Yacht Club
8PM, $12, 21+
Moth Drakula
Infinexhuma
Xiphoid Dementia
In Spite of Dreams
Advance Tickets
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Under the Banner of the Flaming Chalice, Covenant Festival returns to Vancouver to truly celebrate the TRIUMPH of DEATH. Our annual tradition returns from the dead!! The hour is nigh to cast time itself into the burning wills of the devout and summon our congregation once again. Covenant Festival MMXXIII will stand as a union of rabid legions from our past, present, and future.
First Xiphoid Dementia live aktion of 2023 will occur January 21st @ Lucky Liquor in Seattle, WA with Sadist and Lexicon
Xiphoid Dementia has an exclusive track featured on Sound of Stone; a mammoth new compilation celebrating 30 years of the legendary label Steinklang Industries! The comp features over 30 tracks of harsh noise, industrial, power electronics and neofolk and is available now in digital format on the Steinklang Industries BandCamp page.
The album also features such artists as Ô Paradis, Iugula Thor, Gnaw Their Tongues, Teatro Satanico, Le Syndikat, Satori and more.
The amazing folks over at Blue Heron Video were kind enough to put together this wonderful document of the most recent Xiphoid Dementia show featuring all unreleased material. Captured at Litha Cascadia 2022 a special 5 day festival celebrating the summer solstice, the set features a mix of songs from various compilations and some material that will appear on the next full-length.
Enamel pins now available for both Xiphoid Dementia and Headstone Brigade! Included with the purchase of a Xiphoid Dementia pin is a digital copy of Prison of Hope:
You can purchase them on the Xiphoid Dementia BandCamp page.
Included with the Headstone Brigade pin purchase is a digital copy of the new EP Dark Shadows In Bright Light:
You can purchase them on the Headstone Brigade BandCamp page.
VA – Poison Vol. IV is now available via New Approach Records! Here it is as described by the label:
New Approach Records is happy to present the new volume of our compilation “Poison”. This 4th volume is presented in a Triple CD edition with oversized booklet and includes a massive line up of participants. Also, for the first time we have a visual participation by Manuel Pereira with a full booklet of collage artwork specially made for the compilation.
As always, each participation is exclusive to the compilation and was recorded …
This year’s Litha Cascadia will be host to both Headstone Brigade and Xiphoid Dementia. Headstone Brigade will be performing as a 4 piece featuring cello, guitar, backup vocals and percussion on Sunday afternoon of June 19th. While Xiphoid Dementia will be delivering a full multimedia experience on Monday night June 20th.
For more information visit the Official Litha Cascadia website and grab your tickets now!
4/28 @ Kvlt Mead – $10, 21+
God Is War
Xiphoid Dementia
Ex-Florist
2 day event of heavy industrial music from US and European artists, gathering together to shake the grounds of San Francisco. Taking place in the heart of San Francisco’s beautiful Chinatown, this two day event will feature monumental names of the related genres, both seasoned and new, gathered for a massive journey and dynamic blend of dark industrial sonic and visual exploration.
Thanks for the people at Love Earth Music for hosting this virtual in-studio Xiphoid Dementia set at the 2021 Northeast Noise Fest. It features 3 new in-progress tracks performed live with interactive video projections.
And here is the video of the full festival:
Today is the digital release of Prison of Hope The latest effort from Xiphoid Dementia released on vinyl in February 2020 – bandcamp release August 2020 – on Boston based label Divergent Series. Five new tracks of abstract industrial with elements of noise and power electronics. The release sees more exploration in a stripped down semi-rhythmic approach and even some more musical elements here and there. Considered the next phase of evolution for the project.
Very pleased to announce that through the Xiphoid Dementia bandcamp page and shop over $300 has …
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 …
From Phameless Zine:
Equal parts terrifying and beautiful, this album is an assault on the ears in all of the best ways – pounding relentlessly while managing to remain musical and carry a sense of motion. A build of aggression slathered in distortion and echo builds the title track to a point of orchestral explosion and denouement, leaving space to awake and escape in the mechanical dungeon of “ Essence Concussion” – continuing the lush soundtrack to a nightmare.
This album deserves good headphones – or more so, you deserve to hear …
The proprietors over at Doc Monomer’s Audio Emporium have been working meticulously on their new television series and with the 3rd episode they are premiering the latest Xiphoid Dementia video from the most recent LP Prison of Hope.
“Black Sunrise” is the second single from Xiphoid Dementia’s most recent offering Prison of Hope LP. The song is pushes the project’s previously drawn boundaries into new territory with clean sung vocals and further explores the martial industrial sound that the project has dabbled with in the past.
MONOMER TV Episode 3 – 4/27/2020 …
Now available on the Xiphoid Dementia BandCamp page is Part 3 of Collection of Lost Thoughts; a deep retrospective, spanning the life of the project and featuring many unreleased works from over the years.
Released as a cassette box set on Black Horizons in August of 2019. Full color front and back 4-panel large triple norelco case j-cards on pearl metallic stock. Edition of 66 copies on magenta tapes with silver labels.
Collection of Lost Thoughts 2012-2019 by Xiphoid Dementia
British Columbia’s dark circle collective The Covenant has premiered the first video from Xiphoid Dementia’s Prison of Hope. Check out the write-up here or view the video below.
Originally released in 2010 as a 4×3″CDR set on FTAM and later re-issued as a tape on Repentance Products In The Land of the Living is a recording of unique live material. The first two tracks were recorded straight from a performance at Richmond, VA Noise Fest 2005 and the second were recorded in studio in late 2009.
The release is a pay-what-you-want item available on the Xiphoid Dementia bandcamp page.
In The Land of The Living by Xiphoid Dementia
Originally released in March of 2009 Might Is Blight is the seminal release of Xiphoid Dementia marking a turning point in the project’s evolution. The album is driven by envisioning apocalyptic scenarios and then meticulously crafting an aural accompaniment of prophetic proportions.
Might Is Blight by Xiphoid Dementia
Now available on the Xiphoid Dementia bandcamp page! Digital version of the second tape from the Collection of Lost Thoughts box set released last year on Black Horizons.
This is Part 2 of Collection of Lost Thoughts; a deep retrospective, spanning the life of the project and featuring many unreleased works from over the years. Released as a cassette box set on Black Horizons in August of 2019. Full color front and back 4-panel large triple norelco case j-cards on pearl metallic stock. Edition of 66 copies on magenta tapes with …
The latest effort from Xiphoid Dementia released in February 2020 on Boston based label Divergent Series. Five new tracks of abstract industrial with elements of noise and power electronics. The release sees more exploration in a stripped down semi-rhythmic approach and even some more musical elements here and there. Considered the next phase of evolution for the project.
Purchase the record at the new Existence Establishment shop.
Now available on the Xiphoid Dementia bandcamp page Embalmed In Purity: the debut full-length released in 2005 remastered.
Originally released in edition of 100 copies on CDR in 2005 this is the debut full-length of Xiphoid Dementia. These tracks have been remastered from the originals.
Cascading waves of distortion weave through seething ambience. Echoes of dying machines invade the psyche only to be swept up into the metaphysical tempest. Tendrils of (super)natural phenomena tear the last thread of flesh and bone. A raw twist of fate overloading your sixth sense. Embalmed in …
Back in August of 2002 saw the first proper release for Xiphoid Dementia. A three song ep in the form of a 3″ CDR on Polish-based label Soulworm Editions. To this day the material still holds up and it is now available on the Xiphoid Dementia bandcamp page as a “pay what you want” item.
Due to 2019 being the 20th Anniversary of Xiphoid Dementia there was a lot of activity planned. Most was accomplished but some still has yet to pass. Below is detailed significant milestones in review from the year of 2019.
February:
In February Xiphoid Dementia descended on Oakland for an total onslaught of industrial noise at Industrial Aktions I Festival featuring an insane lineup of some of the heaviest industrial noise acts currently operating. It was quite an honor to play on the same bill as heavy hitters like Control, Bloodbox, and Brighter …
Now available on the Xiphoid Dementia bandcamp page! Digital version of the first tape from the Collection of Lost Thoughts box set released earlier this year on Black Horizons.
This is Part 1 of Collection of Lost Thoughts; a deep retrospective, spanning the life of the project and featuring many unreleased works from over the years. Released as a cassette box set on Black Horizons in August of 2019. Full color front and back 4-panel large triple norelco case j-cards on pearl metallic stock. Edition of 66 copies on magenta tapes …
Last week the official Xiphoid Dementia bandcamp page debuted with a new release entitled Ritual Indexx Volume I which is the first of a two part release that features unreleased material and compilation tracks that did not make it onto Collection of Lost Thoughts 3xC64 on Black Horizons released a few months ago. Again, there is no overlap – Ritual Indexx features all it’s own exclusive re-issued material.
This week the second installation entitled Ritual Indexx Volume II is now available for free. Featuring 2 long tracks the opener Reality Pulse which was featured on …
Finally catching up with the times Xiphoid Dementia has a bandcamp page! Along with a new release entitled Ritual Indexx Volume I which is the first of a two part release that features unreleased material and compilation tracks that did not make it onto Collection of Lost Thoughts 3xC64 on Black Horizons released a few months ago. Again, there is no overlap – Ritual Indexx features all it’s own exclusive re-issued material.
The bandcamp page will enventually be filled in with many of Xiphoid Dementia’s past releases some more obscure. Eventually …
Coming soon on eclectic Boston label Divergent Series which is home to the strange industrial/sound collage project FRKSE and obscure black metal act RID among others.
In addition to unveiling the first musical stylings of the new album we are also proud to unveil the new Xiphoid Dementia logo designed by Josh Yelle of Kintaan and LVMMVX.
DIV_038: Xiphoid Dementia – Prison Of Hope LP
Our friend and colleague in the northwest, fresh off his split with Bastard Noise harshes out your palette with half a dozen tracks of rich industrial soundwork. Here, …
Now available from Black Horizons is Collection of Lost Thoughts featuring b-sides, unreleased material, and compilations tracks spanning three 64 minute cassettes and 20 years of Xiphoid Dementia’s activities as an artistic endeavor.
The label describes it as:
Xiphoid Dimentia is the death industrial namesake of Egan Budd, from Seattle, WA. Earlier this year he made a hot appearance at the Industrial Aktions Fest, laying down one of the best sets of the event. His sound is chiseled, well produced, and for a genre that is getting more codified as time goes …
Collection of Lost Thoughts, a 3xC64 box set featuring rare tracks, b-sides, compilation tracks, outtakes and unreleased material compiled over the 20 years that Xiphoid Dementia has been active!
Coming August 23rd on Black Horizons
Black Horizons is a record label that features an eclectic array of dark-tinged music ranging from noise, power electronics, industrial and black metal always with a little something special. It is the home to no less than 3 cassette box sets of music based on the films of Ingmar Bergman, as well as several records from Jute Gyte and Sutekh Hexen.
Now Black Horizons will also be the label on which will appear Collection of Lost Thoughts, a 3xC64 box set featuring rare tracks, b-sides, compilation tracks, outtakes and unreleased material …
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2019 is the 20 year anniversary of Xiphoid Dementia and for this year I wanted to do a few extra special things. For one, I ripped, remastered, and posted the first release that ever featured the sounds of Xiphoid Dementia: V/A Death Kontakt Pt. 1 released on cassette by L.S.D.Organisation back in 1999. Enjoy.
Special thanks to the folks at Azoth for this show but especially Jason Walton for getting the board recording and Blue Heron Video for the amazing footage and editing!
Eclectic Boston label Divergent Series has just announced in their Spring 2019 Newsletter that the a new Xiphoid Dementia LP is up on deck! Divergent Series is home to the strange industrial/sound collage project FRKSE and obscure black metal act RID among others.
DIV_038: Xiphoid Dementia – Prison Of Hope LP
Our friend and colleague in the northwest, fresh off his split with Bastard Noise harshes out your palette with half a dozen tracks of rich industrial soundwork. Here, Xiphoid Dementia really makes skillful use of more rhythmic elements than his previous …
6/1/19 – Seattle, WA @ Black Lodge – 8PM
SH:HSTerror Cell UnitXiphoid DementiaObsidian NeedlesHostage Execution
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Xiphoid Dementia will be joining Zvi and To End It All for the three following shows on his upcoming tour:
4/11 – Seattle, WA @ Teatro de la Psychomachia w/ Lye Feast
4/12 – Olympia, WA @ Cryptotropa w/ Clayface
4/13 – Portland, OR @ Azoth w/ Caustic Touch
*purchase this from the shop*
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 turns inward with cryptic spoken samples and delivers one track of pummeling industrial, one track of seething dark ambience, and concludes his piece with …
Cvlt Nation video premiere for “Malevolence” from the upcoming split with Bastard Noise! View the article and video here.
FEBRUARY 22nd & 23rdTERMINAL / OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA
FRIDAY————–IRON FIST OF THE SUNCONTROLXIPHOID DEMENTIATHE BLACK SCORPIO UNDERGROUNDGNAWEDABJECTION RITUALVITRIOL GAUGE
SATURDAY——————BRIGHTER DEATH NOWT.O.M.B.BLOOD BOXMURDEROUS VISIONSWOLLEN ORGANSTERROR CELL UNITCOMPACTORCONCRETE MASCARA
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Covenant Festival III
6/8-6/10 @ Rickshaw Theatre
254 E. Hastings, Vancouver, British Columbia V6A 1P1
3-day passes $90
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2/21/17 @ The Black Lodge, 9PM
Filth (MINNINAPOLIS, MS)
Gnawed (DENTON, TX)
CBN (OMAHA, NE)
Xiphoid Dementia (Seattle, WA)
Furniture Worship (Seattle, WA)
Flier art by Vladimír Vácovský
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11/3 | @ Gallery 1412: 1412 18th ave, Seattle, WA 98122 | 9PM | $0-15 Donation
Pathogens
Xiphoid Dementia
Prisonfood
Re-issue of the now discontinued 4×3″CDR release on FTAM. Repentance Products has released this live material from Xiphoid Dementia in the form of a cassette with all-new minimalist photocopied artwork. Live and raw the sound ranges from experimental ambient dirges to all-out droning power electronics assaults. Power ambience.
Available from the Existence Establishment store here.
The new installment of Malignant compilation is out now!
This 2016 edition showcases the talents of Theologian, Xiphoid Dementia, Phelios, Phragments, Shibalba, TOMB, Aderlating, Steel Hook Prostheses, Gnawed, Analfabetism, Of Earth And Sun and Leila Abdul-Rauf and more! The compilation is available for download purchase or to stream free here.
We would like to introduce Headstone Brigade which is the new folk project of Egan Budd/Xiphoid Dementia with this free downloadable and streaming EP featuring covers and traditional arrangements of folk songs. Headstone Brigade’s sound can be described as neofolk or melodramatic pop with a sea shanty twist due to the main instrument of accordion being featured in almost all tracks. This free EP is a precursor to a full-length which is coming later this year on Brave Mysteries.
Please check out the EP Divine Vestiges over at Headstone Brigade’s bandcamp …
June 16th-18th, 2016 Sponsored by Modified Ghost, Sound & Salt, and CVLT Nation -Deiphago (Philippines/Costa Rica)
– Xiphoid Dementia (USA)
-Demoncy (USA)
-Funeral Throne (England)
-SHEOL (England)
-Volahn (USA/Mexico)
-Unaussprechlichen Kulten (Chile)
+ more
Pent Up Release presents
SEATTLE, Thursday 4.14
PORTLAND, Saturday 4.16
Seattle, WA
Thursday April 14th, 2016
REBAR 21+
CONTROL
SCARD
GRIEFER
RUSALKA
XIPHOID DEMENTIA
PRISONFOOD+MASAAKI MASAO
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Portland, OR
Saturday April 16th, 2016
HIGH WATER MARK 21+
CONTROL
SCARD
BLOOD BOX
JONATHAN CANADY
Every year since 2012, we have been treated to a quality collaborative compilation between the iconic Malignant Records—a label that I recently described as “the leading name releasing the new generation of old-school industrial and dark ambient music today”—and arguably the strongest digital label that our scene has to offer in Kalpamantra. Originally finding a run as The Malignant Series, the annual compilation found a life of its own last year with Endless Descent Into Oblivion: a thirty-nine-track marathon of nearly perverse audial violence (The Vomit Arsonist‘s “Failed”; …
FRIDAY JUNE 19th & SATURDAY JUNE 20th
Murderous Vision (OH)
The Vomit Arsonist (RI)
Climax Denial (WI)
Xiphoid Dementia (WA)
Plack Blague (NE)
Filth (TX)
Of Earth and Sun (CO)
Apócrýphos (PA)
Anal Hearse (IL)
Machismo (IL)
Rape-X (PA/TX)
Bonemagic (OK)
Breaking the Will (MI) + more
Sistrenatus
Xiphoid Dementia
The Rita
Rusalka
Greifer
Flat Grey
Gordan Ashworth
Worker
Sleeping With The Earth
Poison Wave
+ more TBA
Up to date news can be found on the facebook event page.
12/7/14 | 7PM | $8 | 21+ | Facebook Event
@ O’Briens Pub 3 Harvard Ave, Allston, Massachusetts
Bastard Noise
Nyodene D
Ultra Negative
Xiphoid Dementia
Hospital Bomber
Eaten
11/21/14 @ Geno’s Rock Club 625 Congress St, Portland, Maine 04101 | 9PM | $7
Facebook Event
Morne
Ramlord
Xiphoid Dementia
Mugwort
11/7/14 @ The Bat Haus | 7PM | $7 | Facebook Event
Horror Vacui
Sewer Goddess
Stranger
Xiphoid Dementia
email egan@existest.org for address.
Introducing the latest effort from Kalpamantra and Malignant Records. Endless Descent into Oblivion is a massive 39 track anthology of some of the best dark ambient and industrial in the world today. The compilation is available for download purchase or to stream free here. The tracklist is as follows:
1. Skorneg & Terra Sancta – Nadir
2. Caul – Dust Are All Her Beauties
3. Phelios – LV-426
4. False Mirror – Lichtgestalt
5. Skorneg – Under The Sand
6. Abandoned Asylum – In The Ruins Of Shattered Dreams
7. Plague Machinery – Irrational
8. The Vomit Arsonist …
EE04 Xiphoid Dementia – Rehearsals for Extinct Sonorities DVD was originally released on DVD Feb 2006 for free or trade only. Rehearsals for Extinct Sonorities is an alternate aural interpretation of the masterpiece film Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies by the Brothers Quay. Foley sounds in this interpretation were mostly recorded with a lo-fi microphone in a one bedroom apartment and are derived from everyday household items. Sound sources include scissors, paper, wires, chairs, pencils, radiators, hair, glasses, knives and more. The musical score deals with the resonances and electric ghosts …
We’re proud to announce that the new issue of Tironas Magazine features interviews of Verdant and Xiphoid Dementia! Check out a video preview of the magazine below and order it here.
10/15 | 8PM | ALL AGES | DONATIONS @ Whitehaus
Father Murphy
Xiphoid Dementia
Ugly Head
Dark Rodeo
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Incapable of Change is a digital compilation that contains tracks from many of the artists who are performing at the festival including Xiphoid Dementia, Gnawed, Plague Mother, and more. The proceeds go to benefit Summer Scum III festival.
Download and stream the compilation here
SUMMER SCUM THREE
Buffalo NY July 25/26 @ The Foundry (298 Northampton St)
$20 each day. $35 both days
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The Artists
Sire (Providence, RI)
Weirdo black metal from Providence with members of Tinsel Teeth, White Mice, Howl and Necronomitron.
Sadist (Boston, MA)
Sadist – Beauty Fades
Rising from the ashes of Boston d-beat band G.A.S.H. is Sadist. These boys are hell bent on bringing the sickest sound that hardcore punk can muster and they’ll shove it right down your throat. Get ready for a delivery of no-strings attached noisy punk with a ferocity rarely matched.
Xiphoid Dementia & Corephallism (MA/PE/FU)
Xiphoid Dementia – I Want to Live a Life of Insignificance Part II
Corephallsim – Speaking …
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The Artists
Tovarish (Providence, RI)
Tovarish – Road of Bones
Tovarish is a Soviet-inspired doom/drone/noise band from Rhode Island (USA). The band is asked often, “Is it normal to want to kill myself after listening to you?” And the answer is, simply, “Yes.” There is no hope. There is no salvation. There is only Tovarish.
Often drawing comparisons to artists such as Sunn O))), Nortt, and SPK, Tovarish’s aesthetic evokes the majestic horror of war and the glory of the state through riffs played so slowly as to trouble the line between …
Now available from Annihilvs and Phage Tapes. The disc can also be found at the Existence Establishment shop.
On this split release, Regosphere and Xiphoid Dementia take a joint exploration of remote territories; lowering the listener into deep, cavernous tonal atmospheres, as finely tuned deathindustrial synth drones blaze a harrowing sonic journey across desolate, frozen psychological landscapes.
3/14 @ Machines With Magnets | All Ages | $5 | 9PM
Yoshiko Ohara
Xiphoid Dementia
Tovarish
Cygnus Herd
FACEBOOK EVENT HERE
On the morning of January 8th, 2014, our dear friend Stephen Petrus, of Painesville, OH lost his home and all his possessions to a fire. To the end of benefiting his recovery, AUDITOR has compiled exclusive tracks from GRUNTSPLATTER, HOOR-PAAR-KRAAT, THEOLOGIAN+XIPHOID DEMENTIA, WHORID, REGOSPHERE, COMPACTOR, VOMIT ARSONIST+STAALKRACHT and many other amazing artists into a fitting tribute to a fellow musician.
Spanning 26 tracks and over three hours of sound, “When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.”…
PREVIEW/PURCHASE HERE
To be released on Annihilvs Records and Phage Tapes in 2014. On this split release, REGOSPHERE and XIPHOID DEMENTIA take a joint exploration of remote territories; lowering the listener into deep, cavernous tonal atmospheres, as finely tuned deathindustrial synth drones blaze a harrowing sonic journey across desolate, frozen psychological landscapes (co-released with PHAGE TAPES).
Preorder here
Ode Record Release Show
2/8 | Sonny’s Tavern | 8PM
Ode
Tovarish
Xiphoid Dementia
Erroraeon
328 Central Avenue
Dover, New Hampshire 03820
Finally compiled are the enormous amount of reviews that Secular Hymns garnered due to Malignant’s excellent promotion/distribution methods. Check out the Xiphoid Dementia Press page to read them in full.
There’s much more than can be be quoted here but among some highlights are:
This is one more essential release featured on the Malignant Records roster and one more project you have to discover. Terror has never been so delightful! – Sideline Magazine
…incredible sonic brain twisters… brilliant. – Forbidden Magazine
Xiphoid Dementia have effectively turned any preconceived expectations I might have had on …
Introducing the latest effort from Kalpamantra and Malignant Records. The Black Plague is a massive 36 track anthology of some of the best dark ambient and industrial in the world today. The compilation is completely free and is available for download here. The tracklist is as follows:
Part I: Fallout
1 Caul – Lay Your Shadow On The Sundials 4:13
2 False Mirror – The Fall Of Hyperion 6:33
3 Inner Vision Laboratory – Swarm Palace 9:07
4 Troum & Yen Pox – Mnemonic Induction V 12:33
5 Rasalhague & Terra Sancta – Celestial …
Summer Scum is the second annual Buffalo, NY noise fest focused on Harsh Noise and Power Electronics. This years fest will take place at The Flesh Tunnel (1245 Niagra st) on July 18th,19th, and 20th. The lineup features over 50 acts from all over the country such as: Ferveur Noire, John Mannion, Ahlzagailzehguh, Deterge, Skin Graft, Envenomist, Gnawed, Xiphoid Dementia, Hostage Pageant, and many many more.
Summer Scum was conceptualized in early 2012 when curators Justin Lakes and Matt Goodrich decided to start doing a fest shortly after Lakes …
Lascivious Aesthetics Presents:
6/14 @ Medford Soaplands 7-11PM
Nurture Abuse
Dead Times
Xiphoid Dementia
Corephallism
Bitchneck
Featuring DJ Nathan Trites and VJ Chris Latina
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Email egan@existest.org for address.
Really excited to be adding a ton of new Xiphoid Dementia merch to the shop this month, as well as special deal bundles and a heaping hand full of new distro items!!!
Xiphoid Dementia Secular Hymns Tshirt
Xiphoid Dementia – Secular Hymns CD [Malignant Records]
Xiphoid Dementia – Meditation Convulsions C40 [Apicult Recordings]
Special Xiphoid Dementia deal bundles!!!
Mega Deluxe Bundle (2 tshirts, 3 CD/rs, 1 tape) $43
Deluxe Bundle (1 tshirt, 3 CD/rs, 1 tape) $40
Collector’s Complete Bundle (3 CD/rs, 1 tape) $32
Complete Bundle (1 tshirt, 2 CDs, 1 tape) $32
New School Bundle (1 tshirt, …
Purchase from the Existence Establishment shop.
In Meditation Convulsions Xiphoid Dementia presents 3 new tracks of seething industrial noise, barren soundscapes, and creeping ambience. Ranging from heavy no-holds-barred surges of booming distortion, pummeling synth attacks and scrap metal waste to focused emotional drone and echoing melodies Meditation Convulsions is a well rounded display of the Xiphoid Dementia sound.
Packaged in a custom full color fold-out collage enclosed in vellum paper with info insert and limited to 50 copies on Apicult Recordings.
To celebrate the release Existence Establishment has released an official Xiphoid Dementia …
The newest full-length from Xiphoid Dementia is now available on Malignant Records! Copies will be available on the Funerary Call/Xiphoid Dementia 2012 East Coast Tour and in the Existence Establishment Shop as well as some special sale bundles are planned along with new Xiphoid Dementia tshirts celebrating the album.
Here’s the writeup from Malgnant: Actively recording since 1999, Egan Budd’s Xiphoid Dementia has become known in the underground and in numerous live situations for creating meticulously crafted yet hard to define, post industrial soundscapes, navigating between textured ambience, scourging noise, junk …
“There I Saw The Grey Wolf Gaping” marks a return to the shorter compostions which comprised Sky Burial’s first few releases. These tracks reflect the width and breadth of sounds which inspire Sky Burial’s brand of sonic eclecticism, from kosmische/krautrock, music concrete, and early industrial to shoegaze, ambient/drone, and avant-garde composers. Athough inspired by diverse genres, Sky Burial has created a cohesive sound of its own, often citing esoteric and mythological subject matter as a muse. This album features guest artists Danny Hyde (Coil), Jarboe, Anni Hogan (Marc and The …
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Funerary Call (Vancouver, Canada)
Funerary Call – Transference From The Void
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Drawing from a diverse palette of analog and digital hardware, found objects, field recordings and ritual implements, Funerary Call creates an unsettling ancient atmosphere that aims to transcend the perceptive listener, spiritually and emotionally – beyond all boundaries and limitations.
Channeling energy and inspiration from chthonic elements, the music celebrates the exploration of man’s darker half: the shadow-self. It is an aural descent into the underworld of unconscious and subconscious dimensions. Challenging the listener to …
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Recently released on Darker Days Ahead is this studio version of Regosphere’s January tour material “Psychic Surgery”, along with 8 remixes by various noise artists including Don Haugen, Zboratore, Vexations, Xiphoid Dementia, Cory Schumacher, Content Nullity, Travis Johnson and Chefkirk. Each remix is unique to the artists style.
The release is also available for a free download here and as a physical copy from Darker Days Ahead.
CCTV’s Bandwith TV was gracious enough to create an episode of their Bandwith TV dedicated to Xiphoid Dementia. Special thanks for visuals provided by Deftly-D of Voidstar Productions.
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Deutsch Nepal (Sweden)
Deutsch Nepal – Heartbomb
There´s a big gap between what exist and what possibly could….. Deutsch Nepal try to fill that gap by concidering what is true, what is pure and possible. With a conviction of the purity of it´s own distorted creation Deutsch Nepal twist the truth and turn the impossible into a reality existing only inside your head. Never mind this statement …. mind the gap!
iVardensphere (Edmonton, Canada)
iVardensphere – Ancients
Based …
SONORIUM PRESENTS:
Friday, June 1st, 2012 at 8:00 PM $10
The Griffen Theatre, 7 Lynde Street, Salem MA 01970
KATZE (Noell Dorsey / Morgan Evans-Weiler)
DOZEN DIMENSIONS DUO (Myo / Jeff Carey)
SYMPTOMATIC (Vic Rawlings / Steve Norton)
XIPHOID DEMENTIA (Egan Budd)
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Hive Mind (Los Angeles, CA)
Hive Mind – Return to Steam
Hive Mind is a brutal patch of analog smog birthed in the bleak landscape of Detroit, Michigan and currently casting shadows in Los Angeles, California. A constantly throbbing, full frequency signal transmitter which is only limited by the physical restraints of time and the artificial constructs of society, Hive Mind has both blessed and cursed us with dozens of musical communications in almost every imaginable format.
Pushing the limits of analog media and revealing the coldness inherent in the …
FRKSE Record Release Show
5/5 | Spaced Mountain | FREE | 8PM
FRKSE
Xiphoid Dementia
Bitchneck
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email: egan@existest.org for address
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Do you know 50 power electronic bands? –So it looks as you are really familiar with the PE scene!
But do you know 50 US American power electronic bands?
If not LW064 Various Artists US. BESTIAL FORCES! unites really 50 pearls of US American power electronic bands:
F/I/T/H, Richard Ramirez, Genocide Lolita, Violent Pink, Deeper Wells, Frailty of Angels, Gnawed, Magia …
AMALGAMATE
WITH NEW WORKS BY: Joey Asal, Derek Hoffend, Egan Budd, Deftly-D, Romesh McCullough, Vela Phelan & Jeff Huckelberry
Curated by Alexis Avedisian and presented in partnership with Together & The Mobius Group
Mobius Gallery, 55 Norfolk Street, Cambridge
April 7th 8-10PM 2012: Reception & Live Performances by Xiphoid Dementia (feat. Deftly-D on video) and Derek Hoffend Saturday, April 7th
Article at Together Festival Page with more information, article in The Boston Dig and RSVP at the Facebook event.
Available for free download here!
Fueled by a lack of substance in the mainstream, radio stations that play the same 20 songs for hours upon hours; the Blood Dirt Compilation series has been founded on a mission of delivering music that is unique and pushing the envelope in ways that represents a general distaste for conventional tact and recording styles. Blood Dirt Cassettes is proud to present the listener with an amalgam of sounds/found sounds and manipulated effects to engage the listener in a diverse and moving experience. Each artist …
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Reviver (Norwalk, CT)
Reviver – Snakes in Repose
Begun in early 2006, REVIVER is the solo noise project of Connecticut’s own Chris Donofrio which strictly utilizes a controlled network of graphic equalizers to create raw environments of low frequency death-drone countered with nails-on-chalkboard scrawlings . Having released recordings almost exclusively on cassette tape format for the past 5 years (both independently and on several notable noise stables such as Temple Of Pei and 905 Tapes), REVIVER continues to shape and refine …
9/17/11 | 8PM | $10 | Champions 234 Main St., Everett, MA
Millipede
Candle Nine
Xiphoid Dementia
5/15 – Portland, OR @ Mudai w/ Lavas Magmas, John Mannion, Soup Purse, Indignant Senility
5/19 – Seattle, WA @ Teatro de la Psychomachia w/ Bloodbox, Masaki Satsu, Venessa Skantze, Cathartech
5/20,21 – Victoria, BC @ 9th Annual Festival of Noise w/ Chefkirk, Severed Flesh, Frozen Body, Marlo Eggplant, Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, Slates, Merdique, GRKGZL, Wapstan, Static Kitten, Ryan Bloomer, Acid Attack, Suicide Bomber, Monarch, The Rita, Sistrenatus, Whip of the UFO, Froghat, Grandpa Big Balls, Griefer, Quebec lePink, Ha Ha Terror, Brutophilia, CSTL, Sea Lion
Tuesday April 26th 8PM @ Asteroid M:
Xiphoid Dementia
Bill Doob
Beyond
3 Moons
Idaho Joe
Email for address info.
Brought to you by Existence Establishment in conjunction with the Together Festival Boston
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Controlled Bleeding (Massapequa, NY)
Controlled Bleeding – Trawler’s Song
Controlled Bleeding is a prolific experimental music group based in Massapequa, New York. The group was founded by Paul Lemos, the group’s only consistent member. Most of Controlled Bleeding’s released recordings feature two main collaborators, Chris Moriarty and vocalist Joe Papa, who both died in the late 2000s.
Since their first full-length release in 1983, Controlled Bleeding have released over 30 albums spanning several different …
Sunday April 3rd 8PM @ Starlab:
Phog Masheen
Xiphoid Dementia
FRKSE
Trachypithecene Entity
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11/1/10 –> 11/6/2010: Burlington VT, Buffalo NY, Boston MA, Providence RI, Greenfield MA, Far Rockaway NY
Sunday Sept. 26th 8:30pm @ Ball Hall Chicago, IL
Xiphoid Dementia
Manners
Teaadora
Forbes/Young
ballhall@gmail.com for directions/info
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The boys over at Special Interests have been kind enough to write an extremely comprehensive and detailed review of Xiphoid Dementia’s Might is Blight CD released by Existence Establishment and still available from the shop.
Here is the review in it’s entirety:
Comparing this to past CDR works I have heard from this American project, and most of all comments I have heard from less open-minded noise crowd, I must say I was taken by surprise. Progression has been great. And even steps towards originality and more ambitious fields of creation. Xiphoid …
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Announcing a new addition to the Xiphoid Dementia discography: In the Land of the Living 4×3″CDR from Peter J Woods’ Milwaukee based FTAM label. Over 60 minutes of new noise/drone/industrial atmospheres. The entire release is limited to 50 copies with a few available at the Existence Establishment shop. The label description is as follows:
Dark, brooding, and incredibly cold electronic soundscapes, slowly growing and fading over each disc. This is the useless call to an uninhabited world. The realization that nothing is out there. The first two tracks were …
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Steel Hook Prostheses (Dallas, Texas) – Steel Hook Prostheses is J.Stillings and L.Kerr. Formed in 1999, this Texas heavy electronics duo has become purveyors of sick and twisted nightmarish soundscapes.
Sunday June 20th 6pm FREE
Xiphoid Dementia
Sewer Goddess
The Vomit Arsonist
@ Fools Mansion, 127 Essex St., Salem MA
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Out and available. Soon to be found from usual distributors and hopefully from more than before!
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Musique Machine just published a new review of Xiphoid Dementia – Might is Blight CD which has been added to the press page and is still available from the shop.
‘Might is Blight’ offers up quite a varied, original and often bleakly epic mixture of: electronic and junk based industrial textures, powerful and avant grade tinged neo-classical elements, animal and environmental field recordings, power electronics and cinematic tinged noise.
Each of the six ten minute plus tracks that make up the album seem to tell their own distinctive sound story and tale …
9pm @ Pocket Sandwich/Abyssal Behemoth
5245 NE 15th. Ave., Portland, OR.
Donation for touring band.
Xiphoid Dementia (Boston)
Pulse Emitter (Portland)
Frozen Body (Portland)
Wall Of Blubber w/Ben David (Portland)
Wi♰ches (Portland)
Half Asleep, Hugfucks, Epaulettes, Rovar17 (Budapest), SW + VS, Peace, Loving, Clang Quartet (NC), Asha 2 Asha, American Idol Contestant Andrew Fenlon, Typical White Male, Xiphoid Dimentia, Corephallism, Laundry Room Squelchers (FL)
Thursday March 4th @ The Plough and Stars, 912 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
10pm – FREE – 21+
Xiphoid Dementia (industrial drone)
Michael Monroe (spoken word)
Ted Billings (acoustic guitar folk)
Ryk McIntyre (spoken word)
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The Existence Establishment Web Launch show/party is to celebrate the launch of the new EE website and present a varied bill of electronic experimental, noise, industrial, ambient, and drone music to Boston. From the shut down of Blood Ties WebZine in December of 2008 Existence Establishment has focused on completeing releases (Might is Blight CD, Exposing the Ribcage CDR) recording new material for Xiphoid Dementia and sponsoring our first U.S. tour (Xiphoid Dementia, Zerfallt, Waterdogs in March of ’09). But we’ve been itching to get back to doing reviews, interviews, …