August 30, 2010

Robotic Empire new Sale items!

In an effort to make more room in our distro we've put a bunch of Robotic Empire titles on a pretty nice discount. Check the list below for the newest additions to the sale or go to the webstore and search via record label (Robotic Empire) to see all label items on sale now! There's also some random distro items mixed into this sale, check it out!

A Life Once Lost - Open Your Mouth For The Speechless CD $.99
A Life Once Lost - The Fourth Plague: Flies CDep $.99
An Albatross - London: Live! Test Press Version - COLORED VINYL 12" $19.99
An Albatross - London: Live! - COLORED VINYL 12" $12.99
A Storm Of Light / Nadja - Primitive North [split] - PHOSPHORESCENCE COLORED VINYL 2x12"+CD $16.99
Bad Secrets - Self-Titled - 9"+CD ALL VINYL VERSIONS - $9.99
Big Business - Mind The Drift - BLACK VINYL 12" $19.99
Cannabis Corpse - Tube Of The Resinated 12" *ALL VINYL VERSIONS* $11.99
Capsule - Self-Titled (Tape + Demo + Tour + More) 12" *ALL VINYL VERSIONS* $10.99
Clouds - We Are Above You - 2x12"+CD $14.99
Ghastly City Sleep - Self-Titled 12" *ALL VINYL VERSIONS* $9.99
Hewhocorrupts - Midi of Profits USB Bracelet $12.99
Pelican / These Arms Are Snakes - Split - BLACK VINYL 10" $9.99
Thou - Baton Rouge, You Have Much To Answer For - BLACK VINYL 12" $10.99
Tideland - Asleep In The Graveyard 12" ALL VINYL VERSIONS $9.99
Tideland - Pancake - T-Shirt ALL SIZES $9.99
Torche - Bear - T-Shirt ALL SIZES $10.99
Torche - In Return - ''Flies' T-Shirt ALL SIZES $10.99
Torche - In Return - 10"+CD ALL VINYL VERSIONS $11.99
Torche - Possessed - T-Shirt ALL SIZES $10.99
Versoma - Life During Wartime 12" ALL VINYL VERSIONS $4.99

August 15, 2010

CANNABIS CORPSE vinyl & sweat pants, HYDRA HEAD, TEE PEE & more in the Robotic Empire - Online Store

Majorbooya this week with a re-press of CANNABIS CORPSE' crucial Tube of the Resinated LP and couchlocking Bong R.I.P. 666 SWEAT PANTS! The first proper studio output from these weedy heathens, we're stoked to have Tube back in print after an absence there. Cooked up some dank vinyl for this pressing including black, "schwag", "bongwater" and "hemp" colors (L to R in photo above).

For those uninitiated, CANNABIS CORPSE is the weed-fueled RVA death metal outfit forged by members of MUNICIPAL WASTE, BATTLEMASTER and PARASYTIC. Pretty much exactly what you'd expect too: CANNIBAL CORPSE & other old'sh school influenced deathmetal, completely themed around God's Green Gift.

However this completely transcends the concept of just a "shtick", as CANNABIS CORPSE craft damn good songs and pay a lot of attention to detail with both the recording and artwork. Tube of the Resinated is our testament to their hard work, and it's available again now in the Robotic Empire - Online Store.

* If you still haven't heard these beasts, check out some songs here.

In other Robotic Empire - Online Store news, we've got a decent amount of new stuff & restocks for ya this week. Mostly Hydra Head and Tee Pee essentials, but also the vinyl debut for our brothers in BASTARD SAPLING, half of which also shred it up in INTER ARMA (who's killer debut LP, Sundown, Mirror Universe dropped a little while back). In addition we got in a restock of the unreal "Clone" import comp LPs, the THOU / CITY IS THE TOWER split on red vinyl (the otherwise label-only direct mailorder version), some more tapes, LPs, CDs, a DVD and probably whatever else ya may be into. Word?

NEW ITEMS:

* Atomic Bitchwax - Tab 4 - CLEAR ORANGE COLORED VINYL 12" (Tee Pee) $9.99

* Banran - Stop Kor Cassette (Bart) $4.99

* Bastard Sapling - V: A Sepulcher To Swallow The Sea 7" (Tension Head) $4.99

* Book of Caverns - Self-Titled Cassette (Bart) $4.99

* Cannabis Corpse - Bong R.I.P. 666 - Size: DOUBLE EXTRA LARGE Sweatpants (Robotic Empire) $19.99

* Cannabis Corpse - Tube Of The Resinated - BONGWATER COLORED VINYL 12" (Robotic Empire) $14.99

* Cannabis Corpse - Tube Of The Resinated - HEMP COLORED VINYL 12" (Robotic Empire) $14.99

* Cannabis Corpse - Tube Of The Resinated - SCHWAG COLORED VINYL 12" (Robotic Empire) $14.99

* Child Bite - The Living Breathing Organ Summer - MARBLE GREY COLORED VINYL 12" (Forge Again) $9.99

* Daughters - Self-Titled [Japanese Import] CD (Hydra Head) $11.99

* Earthless - Live at Roadburn 2x12" (Tee Pee) $14.99

* Forming - Self-Titled Cassette (Crooked Direction) $4.99

* Kayo Dot - Coyote CD (Hydra Head) $9.99

* Nebula - Heavy Psych 12" (Tee Pee) $9.99

* Stalwart Sons - Burn Daylights Like Torches 12" (Revolution Winter) $9.99

* Thou / The City Is The Tower - Dwell in the Darkness of Thought and Drink the Poison of Life [split] - RED COLORED VINYL 12" (Hyperrealist) $12.99

* Titan - A Raining Sun of Light and Love, For You and You and You 12" (Tee Pee) $9.99

* Todos Caeran - Self-Titled Cassette (Bart) $4.99

RESTOCKS:

* Annihilation Time - III: Tales of the Ancient Age 12" (Tee Pee) $9.99

* Cannabis Corpse - Bong R.I.P. 666 - Size: SMALL Sweatpants (Robotic Empire) $19.99

* Cannabis Corpse - Bong R.I.P. 666 - Size: MEDIUM Sweatpants (Robotic Empire) $19.99

* Cannabis Corpse - Bong R.I.P. 666 - Size: LARGE Sweatpants (Robotic Empire) $19.99

* Cannabis Corpse - Bong R.I.P. 666 - Size: EXTRA LARGE Sweatpants (Robotic Empire) $19.99

* Cannabis Corpse - Tube Of The Resinated - BLACK VINYL 12" (Robotic Empire) $14.99

* Clone (Salome/Monarch/etc.) - Play Slow Die Fast Vol.1 12" (Blind Date) $14.99

* Clone (Thou/Moloch/etc.) - Play Slow Die Fast Vol.2 12" (Blind Date) $14.99

* Daughters - Hell Songs - CREAM COLORED VINYL 12" (Hydra Head) $12.99

* Discordance Axis - Pikadourei DVD (Hydra Head) $10.99

* Earthless - Rhythms From A Cosmic Sky 12" (Tee Pee) $9.99

* Elder - Reflect - YELLOW BLACK COLORED VINYL 12"+CD (Forge Again) $11.99

* Isis - Oceanic Remixes/Reinterpretations 2xCD (Hydra Head) $11.99

* Kayo Dot - Blue Lambency Downward - MAROON COLORED VINYL 12" (Hydra Head) $14.99

* Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats... CD (Hydra Head) $6.99

* Pelican / These Arms Are Snakes - Split - BLACK VINYL 10" (Hydra Head) $9.99

* Pelican / These Arms Are Snakes - Split - CLEAR WITH BLUE COLORED VINYL 10" (Hydra Head) $9.99

* Pelican / These Arms Are Snakes - Split - WHITE COLORED VINYL 10" (Hydra Head) $9.99

* Teenage Cool Kids - Foreign Lands Cassette (Crooked Direction) $4.99

* Witch - Paralyzed 12" (Tee Pee) $9.99

* Witch - Self-Titled 12" (Tee Pee) $9.99

Also a quick reminder that we're giving away a free sampler download with new tracks from NEON BASTARD, HEWHOCORRUPTS, VANESSA VAN BASTEN and just about everyone else we've released over the past year or so (FLOOR, YOUNG WIDOWS, CAPSULE, TIDELAND, THOU, etc etc). Pretty hyped on how it turned out, please check it out if you've got a few. Peace!

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August 5, 2010

New FREE Robotic Empire sampler (some exclusive/unreleased stuff/etc)


Its been a long time since we did one of these (4 years, in fact) and while we've intentionally dropped the ball on promotion a bit over the past few years, thankfully we are still able to deliver almost an hour of weird new music for all you freaks, absolutely FREE.

No, we haven't gone "crunk core" (thank jah), we are just so psyched to see LIL JON rocking a new THOU shirt that we had to make an ode to him with this free sampler.

18 tracks, 52 minutes, 101 megabytes for your cranium to comprehend. Free (of course), cause we love you (of course). Lots of choice cuts, plus some unreleased and/or exclusive new jammers, if you're into that sorta thing. Check that shit, SON:

* Download Robotic Empire + Mirror Universe - Free Sampler 2k10 via MediaFire
* Download Robotic Empire + Mirror Universe - Free Sampler 2k10 via RapidShare
* Download Robotic Empire + Mirror Universe - Free Sampler 2k10 via SendSpace

The tracklist includes:
1.) BAD SECRETS - Go and Leave
2.) NEON BASTARD - Steven Tyler
3.) FLOOR - Downed Star
4.) VANESSA VAN BASTEN - Fuck the Best, Take the Rest (teaser)
5.) TIDELAND - Braindead on the Interstate
6.) YOUNG WIDOWS - Lucky and Hardheaded (live)
7.) CAPSULE - Just Three Lines
8.) DIAL - Sweating
9.) HEWHOCORRUPTS - Sell em All (MIDI)
10.) THOU - By Every Hand Betrayed
11.) BATTLEMASTER - Death is a Warm Cube
12.) MEDUSA - Mediatrix
13.) EMPLOYER, EMPLOYEE - Nil or the Nile
14.) FLOOR - On the Money
15.) ENEMY SOIL - My Religion
16.) INTER ARMA - 2000 Years
17.) TIDELAND - Crash
18.) VANESSA VAN BASTEN - Domio '95

There is a whole lot more details about each song and all that good stuff over at the Robotic Obscurities blog, or just use the download links above if you don't care about what Robo catalog number this bullshit is from. Word.

Enjoy!

August 2, 2010

New releases & re-presses from THOU, HEWHOCORRUPTS, SHITSTORM, SUFFOCATE FOR FUCK SAKE and more!


We are psyched to announce that the previously (and quickly) sold out THOU EP, Baton Rouge, You Have Much to Answer For, is now available again on both vinyl and cassette. We re-pressed the vinyl on black (1000) and tapes on red (200). Same artwork, same inserts, same music and all... just available again, this time with a sweet corresponding t-shirt printed up as well. The shirt is (reappropriated) artwork from the gatefold LP jacket's back cover, and turned out really awesome. 2-color front, 1-color back and red & black ink on "athletic grey" sweatshop-free t-shirts; you can see a bigger image of the front artwork here. There's no package deals or anything set up, but we tried to keep the prices pretty low on all this stuff.

For those living under a rock and still unfamiliar with the grossly prolific THOU, they are easily our favorite southern sludge/doom band in years and a true force to be reckoned with both live and on record. A seething ode to their city of inception, Baton Rouge, You Have Much To Answer For contains by far some of THOU's best material released to date, and one of the most downtrodden recordings we've been a part of over the past 11+ years of doing this label. It's an "EP" because it's 4 songs total, but it's also over 30 minutes of crushing music, set to the tune of the end of times. Like all of their recordings, its available for free download on their website or if you're oldschool and want the physical "real thing", this EP and most of the rest of the available THOU releases are available now in the Robotic Empire - Online Store.

Related to this (but not actually our release) is a killer writeup NPR (!) just gave in regards to both THOU's live experience and their new album Summit. Very cool to see such a respected publication shine a little light down into the underground, this time directly onto our friends. You can read the article here and/or pre-order the new Summit CD release from our brethren at Gilead Media (we'll be stocking it too as soon as its publicly available).


At another end of the hardcore/metal spectrum is the recent HEWHOCORRUPTS Midi of Profits USB Rubber Bracelet release. Attacking capitalism through a more tongue-in-cheek approach (vs THOU's somewhat blunt methods), HEWHOCORRUPTS have flown the "corporate grindcore" flag for years, culminating in probably their most absurd release ever (exceeding a credit card-sized CD housed in a wallet, a NSFW split calendar and a 7" packaged with shredded US currency). Yes, that's right... this is a functional AND fashionable USB-chip-infused rubber bracelet with meticulously recreated MIDI-based songs held within, inspired in part by their classic Master of Profits EP which displayed a masterful love/hate relationship with METALLICA. Long story short, this 1gb USB chip bracelet is packed with music, videos, tabulator, animated GIFs and other awesome nonsense to justify the pure stupidity of creating this thing. Limited to 200 copies and available now in the Robotic Empire - Online Store.

Beyond the recent label activity, there's also been a steady stream of killer new stuff and restocks in the Robotic Empire - Online Store. This week we've got another "exclusively distributed" item, the new one from Swedish post-metal outfit SUFFOCATE FOR FUCK SAKE. We couldn't keep their previous stuff in stock, and are the only US outlet you can order this monster 2xLP from. Also new in the expletive-band-name front is the long-awaited blistering split 7" from SHITSTORM and CONGA FURY, showcasing easily the heaviest n' fiercest SHITSTORM tracks to date. Solely re-stocking cassettes this week, mostly from our screamy-hardcore-lovin' Malaysian friends at Utarid, here's the full list:

NEW ITEMS:
* Black Shape Of Nexus - Mannheim Live Cassette (QSD) $4.99
* Conga Fury / Shitstorm - Split 7" (To Live A Lie) $4.99
* Daitro - Cendresdes Cendres, Je Me Consume - BLACK VINYL 10" (Music Fear Satan) $15.99
* Daitro - Cendresdes Cendres, Je Me Consume - CLEAR COLORED VINYL 10" (Music Fear Satan) $15.99
* Suffocate for Fuck Sake - Blazing Fires and Helicopters on the Front Page of the Newspaper. There's a March Going on and I'm Marching in Heavyboots 2x12" (Blue Grass) $24.99
* Thou - Baton Rouge, You Have Much To Answer For - BLACK VINYL 12" (Robotic Empire) $12.99
* Thou - Harp Lady Size: DOUBLE EXTRA LARGE T-Shirt (Robotic Empire) $10.99
* Thou - Harp Lady Size: EXTRA LARGE T-Shirt (Robotic Empire) $10.99
* Thou - Harp Lady Size: LARGE T-Shirt (Robotic Empire) $10.99
* Thou - Harp Lady Size: MEDIUM T-Shirt (Robotic Empire) $10.99
* Thou - Harp Lady Size: SMALL T-Shirt (Robotic Empire) $10.99
* Thou - Harp Lady Size: YOUTH LARGE T-Shirt (Robotic Empire) $10.99
* Three Steps To The Ocean - Until Today Becomes Yesterday CD (Frohike) $9.99

RESTOCKS:
* Daitro - 2004-2007 Discography Cassette (Utarid) $4.99
* Ghostlimb - Alea Eacta Est Cassette (Utarid) $4.99
* Kidcrash - Snacks Cassette (Utarid) $4.99
* La Quiete - La Fine Non E' La Fine' Cassette (Utarid) $4.99
* Osceola - Discography Cassette (Utarid) $4.99
* Thou - Baton Rouge, You Have Much To Answer For Cassette (Robotic Empire) $5.99

Since this round of new jams is pretty short, we figured it was worth mentioning last week's killer new stuff as well:

NEW ITEMS: (from 07/25/10)
* Dad They Broke Me - ROT 12"+CD (We Empty Rooms) $15.99
* Dove - Self-Titled Cassette (Financial Ruin) $7.99
* Fangs of a TV Evangelist - Self-Titled 12"+CD (We Empty Rooms) $15.99
* Gehenna - Hope Guzzo Bootleg - COLORED VINYL 12"+7" (A389) $12.99
* Hewhocorrupts - Midi of Profits USB Bracelet (Robotic Empire) $14.99
* Holy Mountain - Diapers Full Live Cassette (Financial Ruin) $5.99
* Integrity - To Die For - RED COLORED VINYL 10"+7" (A389) $11.99
* Moho - He Visto La Cruz Al RevÈs 12" (Feast Of Tentacles) $15.99
* Seraphim - Self-Titled - COLORED VINYL 7" (A389) $4.99
* Souvenir's Young America - The Name Of The Snake 12" (Init) $13.99
* Souvenir's Young America - The Name Of The Snake CD (Init) $9.99
* Thou / The City Is The Tower - Split 12" (Init) $13.99
* Wolvhammer - Black Marketeers Of World War III CD (Init) $9.99
* Worlds - Unforeseen Paths Cassette (Financial Ruin) $8.99

RESTOCKS: (from 07/25/10)
* Abandoned Hearts Club, The - The Initial Confessions Of CD (Init) $7.99
* Back When - Swords Against The Father 7" (Init) $4.99
* Battlefields - Stained With The Blood Of An Empire CD (Init) $8.99
* Buried Inside - Chronoclast 12" - 180GRAM VINYL (Init) $19.99
* Cougar Den - Keepondrifter 12" - BLUE COLORED VINYL (Init) $12.99
* Integrity - Walpurgisnacht 7" - COLORED VINYL (A389) $4.99
* Melt Banana - Initial 7" (Init) $5.99
* Spirit Of Versailles, The - Discography 2xCD (Init) $9.99

There it is folks. Enjoy!
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