New limited RTK items

There are a pile of new items and bundles on Realtomatoketchup.com , including out of print vinyl, the new Hydra Head tote bag, CDs, and a few tapes.

At least until they sell out.

New Items in the Hydra Head Shop

New items from CIRCLE, OXBOW, and SPLIT CRANIUM (members of ISIS, CIRCLE).

New RTK Items

Pyramids/Horseback "A Throne Without a King pt. 2" streaming now on Pitchfork

Streaming now!

The album is in stores on CD/CS/Digital next Tuesday, January 24th, but you can stream pt. 2 of the massive four part collaboration now at Pitchfork.

Old school mailorder types get a jump start...CD/CS (ltd to 300) are available and shipping now through www.hydraheadshop.com

The collaboration is also available digitally through Pyramids' bandcamp.

Tanks you berry mush!

PYRAMIDS - s/t LP Pre-Order

PYRAMIDS - s/t LP
Release Date: February 21st, 2012
Slate Blue, Clear, or Black vinyl
PRE-ORDER NOW
Also available digitally

Science fiction has evolved out of a human desire to know the hidden possibilities of

our continued existence moving into the dimly lit territories of the future. Using what

they know of our history as a spring board for our speculation, and by examining the

predictive signs of current environment, visionary writers have cast light on our

possible future whereabouts, and in the process given form and direction to that course

through a creative process of divination. In some ways, Pyramids self titled debut has

accomplished the same feat in the realm of musical prognostication. While the album

was certainly built on a knowledge of past musical forms, the combination of that

knowledge with an uncanny ability to twist old energies into entirely new shapes,

they've created a truly predictive and compelling sculpture of sound and aural color.

Now, several years since its initial release, Pyramids first collection of songs resounds

like a communique from a far off galaxy. It could be the music made by Martian

interpreters who somehow intercepted and reconfigured the decaying din emanating

from the charred surface of Planet Earth. The resultant impressions sound like cut up

feverdream tape loops containing snippets of Xasthur, Tangerine Dream and Mazzy

Star layered over, under and through each other. The aural pictures are at once

terrifying and soothing, familiar and wholly alien. What seems like it shouldn't does in

fact work: black metal blasting stitched together with patches of gauzy melody and

angelic warbling. It's one of the most enveloping and simultaneously disorienting

documents to have emerged from the hazy outer territories of the heavy music

underground in years. Despite the numerous musical mutations that have sprung up

around it since its initial release, Pyramids debut still sounds far beyond the horizons

of anything concocted by modern musical scientists. Perhaps through a process of

reversed time flow, Pyramids have brought the sounds of the future into our present

moment, speculative fiction in aural form. It's hard to say whether we should be

reassured or terrified by their findings, but it's safe to say adventurous listeners can't

afford to ignore prophetic visions such as these.

PYRAMIDS T-SHIRT (design by Aaron Turner)
PRE-ORDER NOW




PYRAMIDS items in the Hydra Head Shop
PYRAMIDS Bandcamp
Pyramids facebook

New RTK Items - OXBOW, TORCHE, PRURIENT + More...

Sugarbear put in some time and popped a pile of new items and bundles onto RealTomatoKetchup, just in time for there to not be enough time to ship before Christmas. Real (tomato) talk, though, this isn't stuff you want to give someone else, anyway. These presents are for you, gifts to tell yourself, "Hey, good going on sticking it out through the pre-apocalypse. Here's a little something for you, sport."

And so, here is what you have to choose from to reward that special someone on your private "Me" list:

Get on it, though, most of these have single digit quantities in stock.


Also, to check out our actual webstore (not the slipshod one where we sell our office leftovers) head over to www.HydraHeadShop.com

Hydra Head 2012 Calendar

BUY IT HERE

12-month wall calendar featuring the 2011 Hydra Head Records ads by Faith Coloccia (Mamiffer, Everlovely Lightningheart). Featuring HHR Staff, band members, interns and friends.

Limited to 100.

Buy it on RTK
or get it for FREE automatically with any RealTomatoKetchup.com purchase over $50 (excluding shipping), while supplies last.

BUY IT HERE