Ruin

The dollar is horrible for us Australians at the moment, but who would have thought that the poor Australian Dollar would remind me that I still need to pick this up!

Record has placed #13 on Decibel Magazine's Top 40 albums of 2014 and #25 on Stereogum's Top 50 albums of 2014! Nearing the last copies left at Northern Silence Productions of this LP.

I agree. These sound and look very good. Northern Silence did a superb job with this.

Got my copies in the mail yesterday. Turned out nicely indeed! Quite high quality treatment.

The black in clear turned out pretty good after all! The black edition is indeed just standard black, seems the reflective light lead to some misunderstandings about it being black splatter or something.

Officially out today! Pics have been posted: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.766420976723793.1073741826.169396779759552&type=1

It seems the purple variant is close to selling out also now from what I've been told.

Pretty sure gold/purple editions are label/band exclusives, so if any copies will make it into a US distro it'll most likely just be clear/black and black editions.

Looks like the vinyl versions will finally be out April 25th and pre-orders are now up at Northern Silence. However, the "Spirit Essence" Gold edition limited 111 has apparently already sold out in a matter of hours.

Can confirm I got the same info as "Just Us". There's a very obvious printing error with the jackets, hopefully it all gets sorted out soon, but I'm sure the presentation will be well worth the slight delay.

I contacted the label to see if these are in fact going up March 1st, but have yet to hear anything - but I'm sure they can't be too far off now. Will post as soon as I get a confirmed date, as well as any photos of the editions. I'm particularly interested to see what the "Tunnel at the End of the Light" edition (black in clear vinyl) looks like. Can't really think of any other releases that are "black in clear" ?

Yes, unfortunately the release date/preorder date was pushed back a couple of weeks due to a printing error with the metallic gold print on the jackets. Not quite sure how much Northern Silence charges for shipping, but Germany seems to have decent shipping costs compared to some countries.

Gold & purple editions are Northern Silence/Band exclusives, but I'm sure the other 2 editions will be picked up by a US distro. I'll post a link when a confirmation is in.

Black Metal with Post Rock influences from Australia. LP versions for the new album "As The Stars will be available for pre-orders in a week or so via Northern Silence Productions (www.northern-silence.de). Stream the album now at: http://woodsofdesolation.bandcamp.com/ LP will come in 4 different variants, each with bonus A2 poster and gatefold jacket: "Spirit Essence"-Edition : 111x gold vinyl + CD (listening copy) and logo metal pin (same as the limited CD version) "Purple Crown"-Edition : 222x purple vinyl "Tunnel at the End of the Light"-Edition : 333x black in clear vinyl "Journey's End"-Edition : 333x black vinyl