The Flenser
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The Flenser | |
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Founded | 2010 |
Genre | Experimental metal Experimental rock |
Country of origin | United States |
Location | San Francisco, California |
Official website | theflenser |
The Flenser (also known as Flenser Records) is an experimental music record label specializing in music with a dark aesthetic from San Francisco, California formed in 2010. Their primary focus is to release dark, heavy, and experimental music usually of an artistically sophisticated nature.[1] The Flenser's risk taking ethos has been rewarded with notoriety and clout in the international metal community.[2][3][4] Notable bands that work with or have worked with The Flenser include: Have a Nice Life, Botanist, Deafheaven, Wreck and Reference, Bosse-de-Nage, Planning for Burial and Worm Ouroboros.[5][6][7][8][9]
Releases by The Flenser
- Palace of Worms- "The Forgotten" CD (FR01)
- Panopticon - "Collapse" DLP (FR02)
- Bosse-de-Nage - "Bosse-de-Nage" CD (FR03)
- Ghast - "May the Curse Bind" DLP (FR04)
- Palace of Worms - "Lifting the Veil" CS (FR05)
- Skagos/Panopticon - "Split" CD (FR06)
- Necrite - "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi" CD (FR07)
- Pale Chalice - "Afflicting the Dichotomy of Trepid Creation" CD (FR08)
- Circle of Eyes - "Circle of Eyes" CS (FR09)
- Seidr - "For Winter Fire" CD (FR10)
- Panopticon - "On the Subject...of Mortality" DLP (FR11)
- Bosse-de-Nage - "Bosse-de-Nage (II)" CD/LP (FR12)
- Wreck and Reference - "Black Cassette" LP (FR13)
- Panopticon - "Social Disservices" CD/DLP (FR14)
- Otesanek, Loss, Orthodox, Mournful Congregation - "Fo(u)r Burials" CD (FR15)
- Lake of Blood - "As Time And Tide Erodes Stone" LP (FR16)
- Lycus - "Demo 2011" LP (FR17)
- Wheels WIthin Wheels/Merkaba - "Split" CS (FR18)
- Obolus - "Lament" LP (FR19)
- Coffinworm - "Great Bringer of Night" LP (FR20)
- Worm Ouroboros - "Come the thaw" DLP (FR21)
- Nick Millevoi - "In White Sky" CS (FR22)
- Wreck and Reference - "No Youth" LP (FR23)
- Bosse-de-Nage - "Bosse-de-Nage (III)" DLP (FR24)
- Palace of Worms/Mastery - "split" CS (FR25)
- Deafheaven/Bosse-de-Nage - "split" LP (FR26)
- Grayceon - "Pearl and the End of Days" LP (FR27)
- Botanist - "Mandragora" CD/LP (FR28)
- Trees - "Sickness-In" LP (FR29)
- Bell Witch - "Longing" DLP (FR30)
- Vestiges/Panopticon - "split" LP (FR31)
- Skagos - "Anarchic" CD (FR32)
- Eight Bells - "The Captains Daughter" LP (FR33)
- Wreck and Reference - "No Content" 7inch (FR34)
- Panopticon - "Kentucky" Reissue DLP (FR35)
- Loss Of Self - "Twelve Minutes" CD/LP (FR36)
- Botanist/Palace of Worms - "Split" LP (FR37)
- Vaura - "The Missing" CD/LP (FR38)
- Have a Nice Life - "The Unnatural World" LP (FR39)
- White Suns - "Totem" CD/LP (FR40)
- Mamaleek - "He Never Spoke a Mumblin' Word" LP (FR41)
- Have a Nice Life - "Deathconsciousness" DLP (FR42)
- Planning for Burial - "Desideratum" LP/CD (FR44)
- Wreck and Reference - "Want" CD/LP (FR45)
- Botanist - "VI: Flora" CD/LP (FR46)
- Kayo Dot - "Coffins on Ion" CD/LP (FR49)
- Boduf Songs - "Stench of Exist" CD/LP (FR50)
- King Woman - "Doubt" EP/CS (FR51)
- Mastery - "Valis" LP
- Sannhet - "Revisionist" CD/LP (FR53)
- Father Murphy - "Croce" CD/LP/CS (FR54)
- Black Wing - "...Is Doomed" (FR59)
- Bosse-de-Nage - "All Fours" LP (FR60)
- Heat Dust - "Heat Dust" LP (FR61)
- Giles Corey - "Giles Corey" LP (FR62)
See also
External links
References
- ^ http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2012/04/flenser_label.php
- ^ http://www.sfweekly.com/2013-10-09/music/flenser-black-metal-botanist-bay-area-metal/
- ^ http://pitchfork.com/features/show-no-mercy/9173-scene-report-bay-area/
- ^ http://www.stereogum.com/1350782/wreck-reference-abhorrence-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/
- ^ http://www.invisibleoranges.com/2013/05/stream-vestiges-panopticon-split/
- ^ http://www.stereogum.com/1191192/bosse-de-nage-a-mimesis-of-purpose-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/
- ^ http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2013/04/16/177489238/were-not-sure-whats-happening-in-this-wreck-and-reference-video
- ^ http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/02/the-brilliant-black-metal-album-about-plants-wiping-out-humankind/273385/
- ^ http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17741-skagos-anarchic/