Dead Accents Catalog (up to date)

Titles in bold are in process of being finished. We are scheduled up until DA 150.

We rarely post any news here. I would follow Demian Johnston on Instagram. Juggling multiple accounts became too much. 

Thanks.

• DA 001 Hemingway "a kid named junk drawer" cs 16 copies
• DA 002 Hemingway "the calling the waiter on the phone joke" cs ltd 23 copies 
• DA 003 Demian Johnston "sounds from home" cs ltd 16 copies
• DA 004 Hemingway "the landlord, dr. islam" 3" cdr ltd 34 copies 
• DA 005 Demian Johnston "a fortress at terra sea" cdr ltd 40 copies 
• DA 005.5 Demian Johnston "a fortress at terra sea" cs ltd 30 copies 
• DA 006 Mamiffer/Oakeater 2xcs box ltd 30 copies
• DA 007 A Death Cinematic/Great Falls split cdr ltd 127 copies
• DA 008 Hemingway "the mountain has arrived" cdr ltd 50 copies
• DA 009 The Insect Explosion "difficulty without direction" cs ltd 50 copies
• DA 010 Sparkle Girl "blind sunfucked eye" cs ltd 50 copies
• DA 010.5 Sparkle Girl/Hemingway split cdr ltd 100 copies
• DA 011 Demian Johnston "Coal Lung" cdr ltd 13 copies
• DA 012 Shining Ones "Motions in Light" cdr ltd 100 copies
• DA 013 Wooden Teeth/Demian Johnston split cdr ltd 134 copies
• DA 014 Kenji Siratori vs. Great Falls cs ltd 50 copies 
• DA 015 Demian Johnston "forever" cs ltd 50 copies
• DA 016 Demian Johnston "still" cs ltd 30 copies
• DA 017 Shining Ones cs ltd 50 copies
• DA 018 Great Falls/Pastor Tonal split cdr ltd 300 copies 
• DA 019 Demian Johnston forever (ext) cdr ltd 100 copies 
• DA 020 Halfdayroad cdr ltd 50 copies 
• DA 021 Dried Up Corpse/Demian Johnston cs ltd 50 copies
• DA 022 Everlovely Lightningheart cs ltd 110 copies
• DA 023 Blowupnihilist cdr ltd 100 copies
• DA 024 Hemingway "live at the Josephine" cdr ltd 30 copies
• DA 025 Mamiffer "Throes & Ptarmigan" (accidental split with Oakeater) cs ltd 38 copies
• DA 026 This Blinding Light cs ltd 77 copies 
• DA 027 Hemingway "Strange, How the Night Moves" cs ltd 50 copies
• DA 027.5 Hemingway "second thin skin" 12" ltd 300 copies 
• DA 028 Demian Johnston "they of Guernica" cs ltd 50 copies
• DA 029 Yellow Swans/Oakeater LP ediition of 150 copies
• DA 030 Blouse(usa) cdr ltd 100 copies
• DA 031 Trap Them cs ltd 300 copies
• DA 032 Demian Johnston "Fallen Timbers" cs ltd 23 copies
• DA 033 Ardent Vein cs ltd 100 copies
• DA 034 Megabats cs ltd 50 copies 
• DA 035 Tiny Vipers cs ltd 100 copies
• DA 036 Shining Ones cdr ltd 100 copies
• DA 037 Synanon cs ltd 50 copies
• DA 038 Crystal Hell Pool cs ltd 50 copies 
• DA 039 Crystal Hell Pool "absolute night" cs ltd 50 copies
• DA 040 Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death/Hemingway cs ltd 100 copies
• DA 041 Demian Johnston "swift drugs" cs 30 copies
• DA 042 Dan LaRochelle cs 50 copies
• DA 043 Ardent Vein/Blsphm split cdr ltd 50 copies
• DA 044 Demian Johnston "Throat & Stone" cs 25 copies
• DA 044.5 Demian Johnston "Throat ep" biz card cdr 10 copies 
• DA 045 œges cassette 150 copies
• DA 046 At Jennie Richie "So Far Out" cs 55 copies
• DA 047 Demian Johnston "Held" cdr 23 copies
• DA 048 blsphm "prayer" cdr 18 copies
• DA 049 Blsphm "Devil's Night" cdr 13 copies
• DA 050 Demian Johnston "Gotham" lathe 66 copies• DA 051 Demian Johnston "Hidden" cdr edition of 25 copies
• DA 052  Blsphm "caved/skull" cdr edition of 20 copies
• DA 053 blsphm "wounds" cdr ltd 50 copiesº 
• DA 054 Great Falls cs ltd 77 copies
• DA 055 blsphm "War" cs ltd 50 copies
• DA 056 Blsphm/Sutekh Hexen cs ltd 50 copies 
• DA 057 Demian Johnston "the few are away" cdr 50 copies
• DA 058 BLSPHM "March 24th, 2015/December 18th, 2015" cdr 25 copies
• DA 059 Gorgeous Beheading "6–10" cdr 25 copies
• DA 060 Helms Alee cs 20 copies 
• DA 061 BLSPHM "YAMA" cs ltd 9 copies
• DA 062 Blsphm "stealing glyph" cs 31 copies
• DA 063 Demian Johnston "blsphm" cdr 28 copies
• DA 064 BLSPHM "blackheartmass" ltd cdr 30 copies
• DA 065 BLSPHM "Hollow" cd ltd 50 copies
• DA 066 BLSPHM "YAMA II" cs 36 copies
• DA 067 BLSPHM "blacked" anti 12" record & cdr ltd 20 copies
• DA 068 Blue Sabbath Black Cheer cd ltd 250 ish copies
• DA 069 Mink Stolen/Blsphm split cdr ltd 119 copies
• DA 070 BLSPHM "torn" cs ltd 19 copies
• DA 071 blsphm "horrors of heaven" cdr 20 copies
• DA 072 Demian Johnston "the sun rises on new townships" cdr ltd 50 copies
• DA 073 At Jennie Richie "Like Spain..." cs ltd 60 copies
• DA 074 Gorgeous Beheading cdr ltd 25 copies
• DA 075 blsphm  "pentagram" 5" lathe ltd 25 copies (biz-card 75b)
• DA 076 blsphm "presna" lathe cut ltd 25 copies
• DA 077 Great Falls "live" cs ltd 50 copies
• DA 078 blsphm "A Trail Through the Woods" cs ltd 25 copies
• DA 079 Undertow "live on WPSC" cs ltd 150 copies
• DA 080 Blsphm "I Can't Die Here" cs ltd 25 copies
• DA 081 At Jennie Richie/Irr. Apt. (Ext.) split cs ltd 50 copies
• DA 082 NW comp cs ltd 50 copies
• DA 083 Gorgeous Beheading "Slaver" cdr ltd 25 copies
• DA 084 Blsphm "trash" cs ltd 13 copies (For tour!)
• DA 085 Blsphm "trench " cdr ltd 22 copies
• DA 086 Blsphm "oceans" cs lts 25 copies
• DA 087 Hemingway "vo//one" cdr ltd 50 copies
• DA 088 Blsphm "harm" cdr edition of 14 copies
• DA 089 Everything is a war vs blsphm cdr edition of 50 copies
• DA 090 Crown of Bone/Savage Cross cdr edition of 100 copies
• DA 091 Great Falls "Accidents Grotesque" cdr open edition
• DA 092 BLSPHM "Bartholomew/Nathanael" cdr edition of 50
• DA 093 BLSPHM "Premise" cdr edition of 23
• DA 094 Great Falls "Kettle Logic" cs edition of 25
• DA 095 Blsphm "Dungeon" cdr edition of 50
• DA 096 BLSPHM "sketch" cs ed. of 25
• DA 097 Nervous Corps/Blsphm c10 ed. of 25
• DA 098 Dried Up Corpse/Blsphm cs edition of 50
• DA 099 BLSPHM & Josh Lay cs edition of 40
• DA 100 KTL live archive 01 cs 100 copies
• DA 101 KTL live archive 02 cs 100 copies
• DA 102 KTL live archive 03 cs 100 copies
• DA 103 KTL live archive 04 cs 100 copies
• DA 104 KTL live archive 05 cs 100 copies
• DA 105 KTL live archive 06 cs 100 copies
• DA 106 KTL live archive 07 cs 100 copies
• DA 107 KTL live archive 08 cs 100 copies
• DA 108 KTL live archive 09 cs 100 copies
• DA 109 KTL live archive 10 cs 100 copies
• DA 110 KTL live archive 11 cs 100 copies
• DA 111 KTL live archive 12 cs 100 copies
• DA 112 Great Falls "SEA-Rehearsal" cdr 25 copies
• DA 113 Blsphm "Bliss" cdr ed of 50 copies
• DA 114 GREAT FALLS 'live between' bizcard ltd 25 copies
• DA 115 Blsphm "Re:Oceans" cdr ltd 25 copies
• DA 116 Great Falls “demos for scott“ cs ltd 50 copies
• DA 117 Blsphm "Black Nail" cdr ltd 50 copies (7 on red)
• DA 118 Blsphm "Whiteheatdeath" cdr ltd 20 copies
• DA 119  BSBCBLSPHMC.J.B. collab cs ltd 99 copies 
• DA 120  Demian Johnston "hereditary" cdr ltd 25 copies
• DA 121 West Thelema EP cdr ltd 100 copies
• DA 122 Great Falls "Kettle Logic Live" cdr ltd 100 copies (split with Init)
• DA 123 Blsphm "limbs" cs ltd 25 copies
• DA 124 Great Falls eulerian lathe cut ltd 30 copies
• DA 125 Blsphm/Synannon split lathe cut 5" ltd 25 copies
• DA 126 Great Falls "Sirens Hunting Through the Waves for Men" bizcard cdr ltd 39 copies
• DA 127 Blsphm “Patreon” cdr ltd 11 copies
• DA 128 Great Falls "Vera" cdr ltd 20 copies
• DA 129 Demian Johnston "Graven" zine ltd 50 copies
• DA 130 Blsphm “Binary Star” cassette ltd 25 copies
• DA 131 Blsphm “His tears streaming beneath his black hood” cdr ltd 35 copies

Instagram

I think I am going to try something here. Since I like to focus on the design and the packaging I think I am going to start using this Instagram thing. I have over 1000 followers on my personal account and over 1200 on my letterpress shop's account. I think these releases will hit more eyes and I will be able to review more things if I just do this. I am still dying to do a podcast and I have started on that but it's a lot of work to get it where you want. I may need your help on that. So go to the Instagram page and let's start spreading the word of dead as fuck formats.

Update.

Hey all. Thanks for all the emails and questions. I will answer them all here.

Yes, I am still doing this. I had to take a long break while I found a new place for me and my family to live in Seattle (not an easy task since Amazon has decided to strip mine wealth from the country/world and therefore fuck up their home city. Bezos must die.) but I am now settled. I have been also pretty busy with the summer trade show for my print shop, Annie's Art & Press. Thankfully those are now over but the work is kicking into high gear. That said, if any of you want letterpress work for your cassettes, cdrs or vinyl please let me know. I will give discounts to people from the blog. The price point on letterpress is a bit high but I think I can get it to a reasonable place.

I will be posting reviews here and there for the rest of the year, and into next year, but it may take a little while still until you see your release. I try to keep them all straight (there is a giant pile next to my desk) but there is a possibility that I miss one of two. I apologize for that but if you took the time to send them I will take the time to review them.

I am getting ready to do a short tour with Sutekh Hexen this October throughout the west coast.  It will be as a guitar player for Sutekh Hexen but I will be playing sets as Blsphm too. Please come see me and we can either hug or fight. Up to you.

Here is the new mailing address:

6755 25th ave NW
Upper Floor
Seattle WA 98117

Thanks for making physical media. You all rule.

Deathstench/Actuary—split lp

Deathstench/Actuary

split

King of the Monsters

This may make it into the newspaper one day as the record that a future serial killer listened to on repeat before doing something witchy. It’s that super dark and creepy type of power electronics that can entertain some and inflict pain on others. I love this stuff. Both acts on here can have a line drawn from “Hamburger Lady” to this record and along the way there is a lot of brutality. I think you probably know both of these acts if you are reading this so I don’t feel the need to go into detail too much but this is some dark shit… I will say that there are some samples at one point that take me out of it a little but the vocals on this record, when they appear are so fucking killer that I will remember this for a long time. 

The artwork is great. As far as packaging goes it is standard LP fare but the artwork is awesome and covers the front and back. I like that level of confidence. Nice work. 

Vapor Lanes—Hieratic Teen lp

Vapor Lanes

Hieratic Teen

Usonian

I love doing reviews because I often get turned onto acts that are brand new to me but totally rule. This is another. Head over to Vapor Lane’s bandcamp and hear for yourself. Drone, noise, shoegaze,  synth space outs… It’s all awesome. it moves a little faster than what you might first think and I like that. It sort of keeps the interest up. 

The layout is pretty simple and type heavy. I like that. It reminds me of something I have seen before but I can’t place it… like a Blur record or something… Maybe it’s just me. Still it’s solid. Good work. 

Macho Blush—Firma cs

Macho Blush

Firma

self released?

Pure cacophony. 

I really dig how fucking strange this is. 

You will too.

The End

Sparklebomb—Bring in the Night cs

Sparklebomb

Bring in the Night

Prime Ruin

This starts out with a throb. A rhythmic, pulsating throbbing sound that I found very disturbing. After that it sort of goes on this experimental journey. Drone, electronic loops, samples… Each track is a little different but there is a cool cohesion to the whole thing. It feels like a look into an artist’s mind. Someone who maybe has a lot of different things going on but all of them tell their story. 

The layout has this cool cut and paste quality to it that I really dig. Like an old paste up board design that they didn’t care if you saw the edges. It’s great.

Seamstress—Concentric Memoir cs

Seamstress

Concentric Memoir

Skin Trade Recordings

Nice. This is someone after my own heart. The music is just wonderful on here. Beauty and anxiety. The two constants in my life. I am very much into this album. The layout, which I’m going to dive right into, fits the music perfectly. The music itself contains lots of layers and develops depth. There is actually some sampled reading on here and it works remarkably well. The layout is printed on layers of transparent vellum card stock which creates depth within the case. It’s a beautiful package. I think you should all start looking into Seamstress. 

Last—Appropriate Modes & Zones cs

Last

Appropriate Modes & Zones

Skin Trade Recordings

Nice heavy fuzzed out drone. This reminds me a lot of some of the great Hanson Tapes I have. It’s aggressive in its unique lo-fi recording but there is still a substantial amount of low end in this. The buzzing is actually really assertive on this but I find it strangely comforting. Like a slow brain massage… Imagine a well produced Tecumseh demo with a bit more “speed”. Boy, this isn’t going to make sense unless you hear it…

The layout is nice and simple. i’d have liked to have the quote on the cover to be at least a point size larger (see Ex-Breathers review below) but it’s a solid layout with good imagery. Probably my least favorite of all the Skin Trade Recordings layouts so far but it is still good. Still better than most. 

Monogamy—Semi-floral 7"

Monogamy

Semi-floral

Almost Halloween Time, Citizen of the World, Side Wound Worship

You want to know what is weird? This is really weird. Like super, crazy, space pants strange. I am sitting here trying to figure out how to describe this… Maybe like a dark bedroom pop, psychedelic-infused marriage of Jonathan Richman, Calvin Johnson and Ariel Pink with a sort of enthusiasm that makes you want to run into house parties and hug every single drunk teenager and tell them it’s going to be okay. They will be glad you did but they also think you are a weird old creep and that’s okay. Because I am… I mean…because you are. 

The cover is a little underwhelming but I am still transfixed by how they printed it. It sort of looks like it was screen printed using watercolors. The best part is that there is a little zine inside that has collages, band photos and the lyrics, which are also great. You can find this out there and if any of this sounds interesting I would say you should check it out. It’s killer and bizarre. 

Witches of Malibu—New Sounds in Afro Industrial Music vol. 1 cs

Witches of Malibu

New Sounds in Afro Industrial Music vol. 1

Skin Trade Recordings

This sounds as rad as that title is. That’s also the best way I could describe the sound… I don’t know. I think you should find this right away. Check out these song titles if you need more incentive:

Secret Drums/Road to Be

War Dance Song

War is Coming

Thunder Stone Drum

The Chain Horn

Any of these song titles make me want to listen to this. Thankfully I get to, all the time. 

Seamstress—Euphrates cs

Seamstress

Euphrates

Skin Trade Recordings

I was all set to say that this was too long. Dammit. It’s totally not. 

It’s also really good. 

This project and label are really impressing me. The sounds, the recordings, the packaging… It’s all making game want to make more of my own stuff… nuts. I gotta thank these people for lighting this fire in me again. This is great. Find it. You won’t regret it. 

Gokkun—Love Hits ’09 cs

Gokkun

Love Hits ’09

Amek

I hate when it takes me forever to review something good. Just knowing it was sitting in this giant pile being awesome and I was probably listening to Taylor Swift or something, pretending it was for my daughter’s enjoyment. Anyhow, this is rad pedal-hoping power electronics form someone who clearly knows their way around their equipment. It’s brutal and swirling but also has a focus that implies that this person really gives a shit about the noise you are about to hear. 

The tape it’s is really nice. The layout and type are handled wonderfully and I was surprised and delighted to see that my friend Foie had taken the pictures for this. That kind of made me like it all the more. Regardless this whole thing is a great release. Excellent. 

Blvck Ceiling—Void cs

Blvck Ceiling

Void

I Had an Accident Records

I am not sure I am qualified to review this. I will say that I was definitely not expecting it but I have no idea what genre to call this. Sort of noisy electronic music, a little hip hop, a little straight up power electronics and a little bit trip hop… I don’t know but it’s pretty killer. I feel like those dudes on AntiCon have been dying to make a record like this for years and never quite got there. It’s impressive and massive. It never sits in the same groove for too long and wears a lot of different hats as far as genres are concerned. I don’t know but I am intrigued. 

The layout is super simple and works pretty well now that I have heard the music. It’s total juxtaposition. Sadly they did this nice job on the outside and left the inside blank which I feel was a mistake. With all the black and a title of a record called “Void” I think if they just had a nice black flood printed on the inside it would have been striking. Now it just sort of looks like the cassette was a throwaway. Sometimes blank white on the inside doesn’t bother me but on a record like this kinda needs a bit more care. 

German Army—Kurgan Hearth cs

German Army

Kurgan Hearth

OTA

Fuck. German Army is back at it with another full length in my mailbox in less than 2 weeks. I figured they were done or even exhausted by the huge amount of stuff they released over the last few years but apparently that was not at all the case. This is another excellent record full of pure hypnotism. The loops act almost like that lock groove at the end of the record that you let go for days and days just to see if you loose your mind. Which you do. And it’s great. Their taste level is on full display with knowing how long a track should be and how deep they should dive into each loop and sample. This one has some almost world music moments and I am all about this. Good luck finding this tape. It’s from a Portugal label so it’s probably difficult to find in the states. So worth it though.

I'm sort of looking forward towards a mediocre GA album. I am probably starting to sound like their proud parent or mesmerized boyfriend...

The layout is great and the art fits perfectly with the music. Awesome. I don’t love the words of the band and album title being upside down on the spine but I don’t really care too much about that. Also I should note that I wasn’t totally sure if this was a split or if Kurgan Hearth was the album title due to the lack of typographical hierarchy but I pretty much knew what to expect with GA. Great album. 

Aidan Baker & Lärmschultz—Hetrotic ISMS Vol. 4 cs

Aidan Baker & Lärmschultz

Hetrotic ISMS Vol. 4

Landanimal Tapes

I know nothing of this label either but this is a fantastic release… kinda revitalizing in a way. I have always been a fan of Aidan Baker’s bands and his solo work so I was stoked to see this collaboration. I was definitely not disappointed in this one. Guitars, drums, synths make for a moving, swirling experience that kind of breathes a bit of new life into what can sometimes be a too self-referential genre. Drone I mean. The definition is kind of widening a bit and while this doesn’t completely turn it on it’s head it sort of pushes the boundaries. The sounds are small yet the note combinations are much more complicated than you might be used to. The rhythms are constant but they go from sounding like drums to just tones and back again seamlessly. It’s certainly something to get lost in.

The packaging is a simple j-card but the layout is exceptional. Great work. I am going to now look for volume 1–3. 

Actuary/Seamstress —split cs

Actuary/Seamstress 

split cs

Skin Trade Recordings

So there is a whole new label you need to check out. Skin Trade Recordings. I just got a huge box of stuff from this group and it’s all killer. I will have a few new ones up over the coming days/weeks as I sit with them more but this is fantastic. The first one I dove into was this Acutary/Seamstress split. Now we all know that Actuary rules so I barely need to talk about this but it’s great. Harsh as fuck and spooky to boot. I haven’t met an Actuary track that hasn’t wigged me out a bit. I keep typing Actuary as ACtuary. It makes me think that they should do a tribute to Anal Cunt and call it A.C.tuary… Have they done this already? Is this like the time I thought i had invented Twitter a year after it had existed?

Seamstress is brand new to me. Maybe to you too but here is the scoop. At least on this first listen for me this is a bit of a crashing, piercing guitar-born noise (I think it’s guitar. The frequencies seem like it’s being created with a guitar). There is no note here though. Do not confuse this with music. This is better. It’s visceral and immediate and happening right now when you listen to it. It’s good. I like Seamstress. 

All of the Skin Trade releases look great. It is another label that is able to get really nice packaging without spending a ton of money. I love this. It’s so easy to make a release of 100 tapes look good but still print it at a Kinkos for $20. Good typography (there are a couple strange tracking/kerning choices on this but I kinda like it for some reason), decent art and a taste level to handle it all will carry you a long way. Kudos to STR (their name gets a bit long to type over an over. Although I could have typed it one more time in less time it would have taken to type my explanation of why I didn’t type the entire name out. Or of this explanation. Or this. Or this. Or this…)

Mascara—Budapest/Chicago cs

Mascara

Budapest/Chicago

Centipede Farm Tapes

Right on. This is pretty rad bedroom industrial mixed with some drones. Sometimes it sort of just washed over me but most of the time there would be some strange rhythmic moment that would really capture my attention. Once my attention was captured the occasional vocal would then legit terrify me. There are some samples and I’m always a little meh about those but it works. It’s a killer piece from a group I don’t think I have ever heard of. 

The tape itself looks pretty good. I like the art but it’s very subtle. The type is kind of throwaway but it’s not bad at all. All in all it’s pretty good. 

The Volume Settings Folder—A Path left, A Step Right cs

The Volume Settings Folder

A Path left, A Step Right

Static Reason Recordings

Seriously. This is good. Field recordings mixed with thoughtful and creepy drones. This is a pretty great example of those two things combined well. Creepy may not be the best descriptor but I think the natural, real-world reverb that comes from the field recordings provides a sort of story to each track. You hear something is happening, has happened and now you are just getting a fragment from that happening… Good work. 

It looks fine. The type is handled fine and the art is fitting. I kinda wish there was something going on inside but honestly I constantly leave the inside of J cards blank so it would be pretty hypocritical wo call them out for this. It’s good. 

Pursed—No Plot cs

Pursed

No Plot

COUNTRYm

So at first glance I assumed this was going to be some insane power electronics thing. It sort of has the creepy gray on black dark intensity of a HNW explosion but surprisingly it is not that at all. This is actually more in line with German Army or something of their ilk. Lots of noisy loops along sith sampled drums and a nice repetitive melody sort of moving the songs. It is still dark, certainly darker than German Army, but it also feels more upbeat than something that might present as this dark. I am clearly doing a poor job of describing this but I really dig this. I should also say that the layout and art are fantastic and the simple type treatment, while not perfect, is very effecting. This is really nice throughout.