Sutreak's "Wilderness Installation" Available Again for Free!

Sutreak's stunning "Wilderness Installation" is available once again with "pay what thou wilt" pricing at Bandcamp.  

Occult, remote-viewing-focused synth/ambient music by Alaska-based artist Nukshean (Skaltros, Kuundlaan, Naukati, Silvis Records). Seeking hidden meaning and revelation within overgrown soviet concrete, bygone Alaskan mining towns, lost Siberian logging villages, and sprawling emptiness filled with conifer. Blacker than black metal.

Asenath Anyox's "Black September" is finished, and is like a gorgeous child of Loveless and Siamese Dream.  We'll release it in early December.

Bartram Haugh's "Against the Grave" is also complete, and is a total stunner!  Again, expect a release in December.

Also coming in December is Mulozhi's "Maladapt (Death of a Gravedigger)" - a riveting conclusion to the artist's 2020 trilogy of EPs.  "The Power Broker Vol. 2" is currently in production.

Hugely Overdue: Asenath Anyox "The Antiquities" LP, and Silvis Records "L" Compilation

 It's Friday the 13th, and we're releasing two very overdue and anticipated albums.

First off, Asenath Anyox's "Antiquities LP."  Development of this album was a 3-year saga resulting in 7 full-length LPs worth of material.   We'll be releasing more info on the process, as it was a real saga, involving stacks of british tube amps, a library of fuzz pedals, restoration of 60s Fender surf guitars, getting ripped off by Devi Ever herself, and a trip to visit My Bloody Valentine.  Gothic, sensual, aggressive shoegaze along the lines of MBV's "Isn't Anything."  

Next, an album that has been listed at spot #50 in the Silvis Records lineup for some time - our "L" (that's Roman numeral 50, people) compilation.  This celebrates our 50th release (even though we are into the 60s), and features 17 different Silvis Records artists.  Although, let's be real.  If you haven't figure it out, all the artists are the same person.  To make it special, we included a cover of MBV's "Soon" by shoegaze band Alder Ashes, from several years ago.  We actually went to the trouble of getting a license to use it from Kevin Shields so that we can share it with the world.  (No joke.)

After being relatively quiet in 2019, we have a ridiculous backlog of music to release over the next few months.  Except to see 3 or more releases per month through spring.  

Young Vulgarians: Sassculinity / Milquetoast on a Catafalque Covid Reissue

After many years of being out of print, Young Vulgarians' two most infamous albums - "Sassculinity" and "Milquetoast on a Catafalque" - are now available via Silvis Records for free!  Because, as COVID-19 ravages the land, and as we enter the early 2020s, why not distract ourselves with the frivolously gilded dreams and nightmares of our early 20s?  (How have we done since then?)

Young Vulgarians began in 2001 as a solo project recorded on synthesizers and a Tascam 4-track. A Philadelphia industrial music label made an agreement to release the project's music and promote it on the US east coast, and in Germany. Live shows would be required. A band was formed around the early demos, but the label was not able to follow-through on its agreement and release YV's music due to competing investment requirements.

The live incarnation of Young Vulgarians persevered, and self-recorded and released a variety of albums on CD-R as "Caffeine Library Records." This included the "Songs 4" EP, and a 67-track album. The band used a unique combination of mid/late 1980s synths (inexpensive and vastly unpopular at the time) run through effects pedals and loud 1970s guitar and bass amps. YV quickly garnered a reputation for outrageous live performances around the Philadelphia area, which included energetic Iggy Pop-like antics, keytars, ritualistic destruction of 1980s computer equipment, and redistributing income by throwing money paid to the band at its last show off the stage. The band was notoriously loud due to the need to match the volume of its intensely zealous drummer. Because there were no other bands quite like it, Young Vulgarians found itself performing alongside underground acts in a dizzying array of genres: shoegaze, post-hardcore, skramz, stoner and doom metal, indie rock, electroclash, and post-punk. YV's followers were as loyal as they were limited in number.

After seeing the band perform live at the Khyber in 2002, audio engineer and composer Darren Morze invited the band to record at his studio. YV recorded "Sassculinity," a full-length album capturing the erudite intensity of the band. A group of Philadelphia music aficionados including Morze formed Counterpole Records, intended to feature YV and other unique artists. YV recorded the "To the Top" 7" (which was never pressed or released) as well as their full-length album "Milquetoast on a Catafalque." The Milquetoast Session involved full indulgence of the band's unconventional recording preferences, stemming from esoteric philosophical and occult principles. Vocals were recorded outdoors in below-freezing weather by a 3 story array of microphones. Vintage synthesizers were run through an array of pedals and tube electronics. Tracks were blasted outdoors and then re-recorded. The band drew upon influences including gothic music of the prior decade, Edwardian-era popular music, 1980s synthpop, and the mishmash of sounds around them. Lyrics reflected an interest in 19th century symbolist poetry, silent film (the singer was working as a silent film researcher), Frankfurt school philosophy, and various forms of nostalgia.

After a failed round of fundraising, Counterpole Records was abandoned. YV relinquished plans to tour in support of the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, and An Albatross. Subsequently, Young Vulgarians struck up a deal with Goodnight Records, and migrated to Atlanta, GA to record the album "Napoleonic Melodrama." Around this time, the band dissolved due to its members - who had just graduated from college - deciding to pursue diverging career and personal interests. YV's singer and creative director ultimately moved to Zambia as a Peace Corps volunteer, then to an island in Alaska. The band played two reunion shows which were well attended - one in 2006 in a basement, and one in 2007 at Mojo 13. After a failed attempt at remote collaboration, Young Vulgarians re-emerged as a solo project (as it began) in 2013 with the release of Darktangle on Silvis Records. In 2018, it released its Autumn Trilogy. By 2020, the solo incarnation of YV had morphed sufficiently that it was rebranded as Masquerade Generation. (See masqueradegeneration.bandcamp.com )

Asenath Anyox is here! Enjoy "Golden Hours in the Velvet Plague"

Silvis Records is psyched to debut Asenath Anyox after 3 years of effort.  Check the first release - a single for "Golden Hours in the Velvet Plague" - available on Bandcamp.com .

Late 80s "Isn't Anything"-era shoegaze with gothic overtones, played on 60s surf guitars through cranked british tube amps and fuzz. Members of Cantharellus, Young Vulgarians, Masquerade Generation, Bartram Haugh, Skaltros, and more. Recorded on Revillagigedo Island circa 2018-2020.

Bartram Haugh Debut and New Mulozhi EP "The Horror of Mulozhi"

 It's once in a blue moon when you will see Silvis Records announce two release at once, which is exactly why that is happening today.

Bartram Haugh makes its debut with a single, "Winter Chanterelle," from its first LP.  Bartram Haugh performs gothic coldwave / darkwave recalling both the 1880s and the 1980s. Synthesizers, live drums and darkly ethereal guitars create an autumnal world of yearning, nostalgic splendor. Music for antique shopping, chiropterology fieldwork, OTC microcap stocks, and drinking vermouth neat.  Seven LPs of material are nearly complete.  Expect around one per month until next spring.  

The second in a trilogy of Mulozhi EPs is also available at Bandcamp today.  Swing by and grab "The Horror of Mulozhi" for your Halloween afterparty with "pay what thou wilt" pricing.  We really, strongly encourage you to get really deeply psychologically invested into Mulozhi's black metal trap music.  If you want to check the interview with this elusive artist, we still have it available.  There's a surprising amount of "rap metal" out there purporting to channel black metal influences, but it usually turns out to be someone wearing crust punk pants rhyming some slick phrases in a clearly audible voice over a pastiche of extreme music samples.  Mulozhi is the polar opposite - corvidly indeterminate black metal vocals howled over dark trap music filled with darkwave ambience and synthesizer-drive psychadelica.  Challenging, perplexing, underground extremity.

 Mulozhi's first EP, "Making a Fortune from Misfortune," is out now on Bandcamp with "pay what thou wilt" pricing.  Grab this gem and crank the bass until it cracks the foundation of your sanity!  This album follows up Mulozhi's ground-breaking full-length debut, "The Power Broker Vol.1"

Alaska-based artist Mulozhi combines trap music and black metal into horrific, darkly psychedelic soundscapes sure to challenge fans of either style. Mulozhi focuses on themes of the occult, the natural world, and individualistic struggle. A one-man project of black metal auteur Nukshean of Skaltros, Kuundlaan, Ataxeta, Naukati, and Sutreak. Unique, groundbreaking, sanity-testing material.

SURPRISE! Mulozhi "Folkhorror" single with Skaltros and Ataxeta guest appearances!

Fresh for October, we're releasing a Mulozhi single, "Folkhorror," with a guest remix by legendary and elusive Alaska black metal artist Skaltros, and an alternate version for riding' spinnaz home from the morgue served up by oppressive black metal artist Ataxeta.

Pay what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

If you kept reading past this rad cover image, then you will be delighted to know there will be a series of Mulozhi EPs, with at least one release per month, for the rest of the year!