Lord Snow "Have You Heard of the High Elves"

LP - $17.25
STREET DATE: 6/5/26
CAT#: VIS032
LABEL: Persistent Vision

Chicago’s Lord Snow are standard-bearers in DIY, reaching a global albeit cult status by playing dense and technical screamo. Lord Snow began in 2011 through two sets of high school friends; bassist Steph Maldonado, guitarist Niko Zaglaras, drummer Erik Anderson, and vocalist An Lacy released an untitled demo EP and another called “Sovngarde.” Following Lacy’s departure in 2012, Maldonado became the band’s primary singer and Lord Snow released 3 more EP’s, an LP, 2 compilation appearances, and a split LP, as well as international tours in Mexico, Europe, and Canada. Now, with Lacy’s exciting return, Lord Snow has created something of a retrospective meditation on their past work. Lord Snow’s newest release, “Have You Heard Of The High Elves” is a reimagining of previously released material with Lacy performing Maldonado’s vocal parts.

Though they cite perfunctory screamo influences as France’s Daitro, Italy’s La Quiete, and California’s Funeral Diner and Loma Prieta, Lord Snow are deeply unique in their approach and widely known for their proficiency and lo-fi recordings. Lord Snow’s style is earmarked by the jazz feel of their songs; tempos fluctuate and, at times, break down altogether. At other times, each member is playing with an intensity and precision that could only be likened to another of Lord Snow’s influences: Amherst, Massachusetts legends Ampere. Zaglaras’ chords are passionate and doleful, switching rapidly between fingerpicking and strumming, Anderson’s very fill-heavy, frantic, and frankly astounding drumming often resides at the edge of human capability, and Maldonado’s vocals range between melodic singing and larynx-thrashing screams that often bleed into each other. The same can be said of Lacy, even from the time of Sovngarde, but they approach the tracks written in their absence with a style and presence entirely their own.

Like many of Lord Snow’s other recordings, “Have You Heard Of The High Elves” was recorded entirely by the band, doing their parts remotely in their respective locations in Chicago, LA, NYC, and Cleveland, practicing them virtually. The songs are hardly lo-fi this time, however, with punk producer-extraordinaire Jack Shirley handling mixing and mastering.

Limited vinyl pressing comes packaged in a full color jacket with a zine booklet and colored vinyl.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Never Again
02. Dastardly Halves
03. Alas the World Stops Spinning
04. It Is Known
05. The Background Static of Perpetual Discontent
06. Selfish Sleep
07. Dark Cloud
08. Stormcloak
09. Yellow Amarillo / Booker Dewitt
10. Incorrective Unconsciousness
11. Shere Khan
12. Free Your Mind Kevin Will Follow (Ending)
13. David Monroe’s Golden Plaque
14. Clairvoyance
15. Shallan Davar

MARKETING POINTS:

• Celebrating 15 years since they began, Lord Snow presents this collection of previously released material, reimagined and re-recorded in 2025
• Lord Snow will be playing select shows and festivals in US and Europe in summer and fall 2026
• Mixed and mastered by Jack Shirley

FOR FANS OF:
La Quiete, Daitro, Loma Prieta

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Lord Snow "Solitude"

LP - $17.25
STREET DATE: 6/5/26
CAT#: VIS033
LABEL: Persistent Vision

Persistent Vision is honored to partner with Chicago’s Lord Snow on a reissue of their first album, “Solitude”. First released in 2013 and largely unavailable for the past several years, the groundbreaking “Solitude” delivers eleven tracks of intensely chaotic, emotional hardcore.

Cut from the same cloth as contemporaries like Raein and Loma Prieta, the band carves their own unique blend of frantic, unhinged and technical screamo teetering between quiet guitar interludes and dizzying spells of jazz-inspired percussion. Exploring themes of grief and loss, “Solitude” is a tense and deeply emotional record from its beginning to end.

“Solitude” comes packaged in a brown chipboard jacket with poster insert and two limited colored vinyl options.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Selfish Sleep
02. Dark Cloud
03. She’s Clearly Made the Most of It
04. Stormcloak
05. Yellowamarillo // Booker Dewitt
06. Corpse Pose
07. Incorrective Unconciousness
08. Shere Khan
09. Solitude
10. BB
11. The Background Static of Perpetual Discontent

MARKETING POINTS:

• Reissue of Lord Snow's 2013 first album, which has been out of print and unavailable for several years
• After a return to live shows in 2025, Lord Snow will be performing select shows and festivals in North America and Europe in Summer and Fall 2026
• Packaged in brown chipboard jacket with poster insert and limited colored vinyl

FOR FANS OF:
Massa Nera, Blind Girls, Loma Prieta

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Votive "An Infinite Capacity For Joy"

LP - $17.25 / CS - $7.50
STREET DATE: 3/13/26
CAT#: VIS030
LABEL: Persistent Vision

NOT AVAILABLE FOR DISTRO IN EU/UK

Hailing from Austin, Texas, Votive delivers a unique blend of intense heavy music, drawing influence from screamo, black metal, crust, and grind. The band features DIY veterans Eli Deitz (Porcelain), Rohan Lilauwala (Respire), Blake Given (ex-Portrayal of Guilt) and Kyle Rotta (ex-Gas Up Yr Hearse!). Since 2021, they have together sculpted a sound that is at once cathartic, caustic, and crushing.

Following critical acclaim for their debut LP, 2024’s Towards the Pillory, their latest offering finds the band at their most unrelenting yet. An Infinite Capacity for Joy features nine blistering tracks built on a foundation of serrated riffs, convulsive, off-kilter rhythms that pulse and surge, and a gnawing, unbridled desperation punctuated by only brief moments of respite. Within this, Rotta delivers piercing meditations on forgiveness, self-improvement, and retribution, exploring the narrow border between existing and nothingness. Producer Phillip Odom (Militarie Gun, Glare, Portrayal of Guilt) deftly captures the band’s raw intensity, expanding jagged edges and intricate details into a massive, suffocating heaviness.

Limited 12” LP with a silkscreened B side, full color jacket and lyric sheet, available on two limited vinyl variants. The cassette version features alternative artwork with two limited colors available.

TRACK LISTING:
01. New Sincerity
02. Clandestine Suggestion
03. Unitary Form
04. Eighth Motion of Fixed Stars
05. Reliquary Binding
06. Contempt for the Audience
07. Failure of Apotropaic Wards
08. Undue Protagonism
09. Only Speaks When Spoken To

MARKETING POINTS:

• Featuring members of Respire, ex-Portrayal of Guilt, Porcelain, and Gas Up Yr Hearse!
• Produced by Phillip Odom (Militarie Gun, Glare, Portrayal of Guilt)
• Limited one-sided 12" with silkscreened B-side and colored vinyl

FOR FANS OF:
Orchid, Portrayal of Guilt, Frail Body

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Daitro "Laisser Vivre les Squelettes"

LP - $17.25
STREET DATE: 12/19/25
CAT#: VIS029
LABEL: Persistent Vision

The 20th anniversary reissue of “Laisser Vivre les Squelettes,” the 2005 album from the iconic French band, Daitro.

Hailing from Lyon, France, Daitro delivered a perfect blend of hardcore and emo, proving that there are still some bands that possess the power and spirit of do-it-yourself punk that the original French emo movement held in the 90’s. At the same time, Daitro no doubt created their own sound, full of unique intensity, passion, and atmosphere, demonstrated best on their celebrated album, “Laisser Vivre les Squelettes.” In their heyday, Daitro toured the globe throughout the early 2000’s and released several albums, EPs and split releases with bands such as Raein and Ampere. They remain highly regarded and influential in the contemporary DIY screamo and post-hardcore scene.

Featuring the album’s original illustrative album artwork by painter Sean Mahan, this updated deluxe edition comes packaged in a full color jacket with metallic copper foil with a printed inner sleeve, 24 page zine booklet, stickers, and a postcard. Co-released with Echo Canyon Records (France).

TRACK LISTING:
01. Laissez Vivre Les Squelettes
02. Chaque Seconde
03. Les Orbites En Eveil
04. Nous Sommes D'Ici
05. Comme Du Papier
06. Pourquoi Les Inconnus Restent-Ils Inconnus
07. Trois Murs Pour La Salle De Torture
08. Se Noyer, S'Oublier, Regarder Partir

MARKETING POINTS:

• 20th anniversary issue of this iconic early 2000's screamo classic
• Deluxe packaging and colored vinyl

FOR FANS OF:
Raein, Saetia, Portraits of Past

Massa Nera "The Emptiness of All Things"

LP - $17.25
STREET DATE: 10/31/25
CAT#: VIS028
LABEL: Persistent Vision

Our present moment sees us grappling with the rise of end-times fascism, the annihilation of collective, shared meaning, and the looming threat of climate catastrophe. It is within this landscape that Massa Nera release their urgent, genre-defying 3rd LP, "The Emptiness of All Things."

Having been given a commission by the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music to create a work that addresses the climate crisis, Massa Nera embraced experimentation, confrontation, and musical malfeasance in an attempt to capture the hellish inanity that defines our reality. Where once their songs bounced, they now alternately lumber and convulse. Their former impulse towards dance has mutated into a desire for destruction.

Lyrically, Massa Nera has shunned autobiography in favor of something more character-driven, more literary, more speculative. They offer a snapshot of capitalistic delusion and existential paralysis, rooted in the anxieties and fractured psychologies of the here and now. In short, "The Emptiness of All Things" is a lyrical call to arms, delivered not as a rallying cry but as an obituary. It is a mirror held up to the abyss, reflected back at the listener without pity or mawkish sentiment.

Despite this, the band has not abandoned melody. The predominant mood of ugliness is counterbalanced by passages of beauty, longing, and even undisguised gentleness. This gentleness, however, is not in service of an unearned, misplaced optimism. It is offered in the spirit of reflection, allowing listener and band alike to take a breath as they stare into the void.

"The Emptiness of All Things" was recorded and mixed by Matt Michael (No Man, Majority Rule) and mastered by James Plotkin (Khanate). The LP comes packaged in a gatefold jacket with newsprint poster insert and limited colored vinyl.

TRACK LISTING:
01. A Body
02. Pelerin
03. Avalon Cove
04. The Best is Over
05. Mechanical Sunrise
06. City of Mines
07. Lavender
08. Death Shall Flee From Them
09. The Emptiness of All Things
10. New Animism

MARKETING POINTS:

• New genre bending album from New Jersey experimental screamo / post-hardcore collective, MASSA NERA.
• Past releases include their split 12" with Quiet Fear, the Secret Voice compilation "Balladeers Redefined", and 2022 album "Derramar | Querer | Borrar".
• Recorded and mixed by Matt Michael (No Man, Majority Rule) and mastered by James Plotkin (Khanate).
• Touring history with Pageninetynine, City of Caterpillar, Infant Island and others.

FOR FANS OF:
Frail Body, Converge, Jeromes Dream, Pg.99

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Raein "Forme Sommerse"

LP - $17.50
STREET DATE: 10/24/25
CAT#: VIS027
LABEL: Persistent Vision

Following a triumphant return to live performances and several vinyl reissues last year, Italy’s RAEIN presents a brand new album, "Forme Sommerse" (Submerged Forms). Their first new music in ten years, "Forme Sommerse" consists of two seamless side-length songs across nearly thirty minutes - an emotionally complex, dynamic and graceful hardcore record from start to finish.

“It’s been ten years since our last recording. Ten years of change. It wasn’t a given we’d manage it again; clearly, what once was has cut deep—and stayed. We moved instinctively, as we always have, condensing these ten years of shifts and distances into half an hour of music. When we reflect on reality, it’s its submerged forms that move us; this record, true to tradition, is a tribute to what can’t be seen and to what compels us.”

Founded in 2002 in Italy, the band released a dizzying amount of music, across multiple splits, EPs and albums, while extensively touring the world during their original run. Reformed in 2023, Raein is considered to be one of the leaders in emotional post-hardcore, carrying a similar spirit and sound as bands like Orchid, Saetia, Pg.99, and others. Melding melody and discordance into something truly beautiful to experience.

"Forme Sommerse" comes packaged in a matte, full color gatefold jacket with printed inner sleeve and limited colored vinyl.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Primo Movimento
02. Secondo Movimento

MARKETING POINTS:

• The first new music from Italy's RAEIN in ten years
• Follows popular reissues of "Il N'y A Pas De Orchestre" LP and Collection LP in 2024 on Persistent Vision
• European tour and festival dates to be announced for October/November 2025

FOR FANS OF:
La Quiete, Saetia, Loma Prieta, La Dispute

Kowloon Walled City "Turk Street"

LP - $17.25
STREET DATE: 08/08/25
CAT#: VIS025
LABEL: Persistent Vision

In the world of heavy music, few bands embrace dynamics and negative space like Oakland, CA’s Kowloon Walled City. Since forming 18 years ago, the band has increasingly refined its deconstructed approach to noise rock, math rock, and sludge.

Out of print for the past several years, Persistent Vision is proud to present a much needed and overdue reissue of Kowloon Walled City’s first release, “Turk Street.” Originally released in 2008, the five song EP captures the band at their heaviest, grittiest and most pummeling. Where the band later explored quieter, minimalist dynamics, “Turk Street” finds them leaning hard into their noise rock and sludge roots, taking inspiration from bands such as Shallow North Dakota, Unsane and Neurosis.

“Turk Street” was engineered and mixed by guitarist Scott Evans, whose engineering work includes Sumac, Great Falls, and others. The 12" release comes packaged in a full color jacket with matte finish, and is available on two color variants, Red Cloudy and Grey Cloudy, each limited to 250 copies.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Turk, Taylor, and Jones 02. My Hands Are Turning To Bricks 03. Another Corporate Takeover 04. Inheritance 05. Make Us Pay

MARKETING POINTS:

• Out of print for 8+ years, Kowloon Walled City’s debut “Turk Street” is finally back on vinyl, available on two limited color variants
• In 2025, Kowloon Walled City toured with Coalesce, Young Widows, and Fotocrime, and played Caterwaul Festival (Minneapolis) and Prepare the Ground Festival (Toronto)
• Previous touring history with Neurosis, YOB, Metz, Rid of Me, Jaye Jayle, and others.

FOR FANS OF:
Neurosis, Ken Mode, Godflesh, Chat Pile

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Pygmy Lush "TOTEM"

LP - $17.25 / CD - $7.00 / CASSETTE - $7.00.
STREET DATE: 7/11/25
CAT#: VIS024
LABEL: Persistent Vision

TOTEM is the first new album from Virginia's Pygmy Lush in 14 years. Like their previous output, it was recorded and mixed by longtime friend and collaborator of the band, Kurt Ballou, at GodCity Studio in Massachusetts in April 2016. And as with their other three full lengths, Pygmy Lush — the band sworn to never break up, only take breaks — is readily recognizable here: a bit different, and a bit the same. Unlike their earlier work though, TOTEM sat (or stood, fully formed and erect) complete, yet unheard — unreleased, “shelved” or “lost” — until now.

As sure as you can’t unring a bell, the album’s 11 songs are no less than eight years old, but couldn’t be unmade short of direct and total cataclysm. If you already know Pygmy Lush and their modus operandi over these last two decades, you already know to check your baggage and leave all expectations behind. When others zig, Pygmy Lush zag. When the show is loud, Pygmy Lush are quiet. And so it goes. TOTEM is no exception, but also stands alone within the band's body of work, a monolithic sum of its Pygmy Lush parts.

The Taylor brothers, Mike and Chris, are here, as is Pygmy Lush mainstay Mike Widman. You won’t find Johnny Ward this go around, but life partners and rhythm section extraordinaires Andy Gale and Erin McCarley are crucial new tiers among the seismic sonic and cosmic shifts coursing through TOTEM’s roughly 40 minute — epic yet direct — running time.

The result is a heavy rock album that’s actually aware of the 21st century: all-at-once comfortable with its punk rock, noise rock and art rock roots. It’s a grunge stunt pedigree, signaling the puddles of drool pooling around snooze gaze contemporaries and an altogether beat hardcore flock.

Chris Taylor’s melodic bark hasn’t been this nimble since his post-Pageninetynine output with Malady, while the Mike’s — Taylor and Widman — dish out a heady maelstrom of strings on par with Moore and Renaldo’s finest foundational moves. Similarly, Erin McCarley’s low-end verve and rationed vocals are transcendent; unmistakably her own while of a piece with the band. Andy Gale can and does beat the shit outta his kit here: disciplined and certain. There’s no rules, just right.

Matching its expansive sonics and lacerating lyrical content, TOTEM is also a feast for your eyes, compliments of new sculptural artwork designed by Paul Nitsche, whose epic pieces have graced past work for Dazzling Killmen and Andrew Bird. This gorgeously packaged LP comes in a matte jacket with copper foil stamp and includes a foldout poster with collaged lyrics.

Following an unexpected return to live performance in late 2024 with their memorable set on NPR's Tiny Desk, then their international debut at Roadburn Festival in the Netherlands, Pygmy Lush have resumed their eternal whirr full force. Whether you’ve been saving a place at home for TOTEM, on your shelves alongside their Bitter River, Mount Hope and Old Friends albums, or, this is the very first piece to construct your own personal Pygmy Lush puzzle, the band and this album’s timeline are a “Nonsensical Whisper” that continues to rip and roar. The sound is immortal, and these tunes are as vital now as their first time ringing out. Tell your grandkids it’s Nirvana, or Born Against, or Document 13 and a half.

TRACK LISTING:
01. House of Blood (Butch’s Monster)
02. It Wasn’t a Compliment (Martial Law Blues)
03. A Little Boy and His Bulldozer
04. Algorithmic Mercy (Prayers Printed Directly into a Shredder)
05. A Famous Jock (The Rest of Us)
06. February Song
07. Band-Aid on a Bullet Wound
08. The Puppeteer
09. Post-Punk in the Wrong Hands
10. Artistic Blood / Blanket Out the Sun (in a world of better things)
11. Nonsensical Whimper

MARKETING POINTS:

• Members of PAGENINETYNINE, MALADY and MANNEQUIN
• Long awaited unreleased fourth album by Virginia's Pygmy Lush, recorded and mixed by Kurt Ballou at GodCity Studio
• Following their unexpected return last year with an appearance on NPR's Tiny Desk, Pygmy Lush will be performing select shows in 2025 including Roadburn Festival and Prepare the Ground Festival
• LP Packaged in deluxe jacket with gold foil, poster insert and colored vinyl, with artwork by Paul Nitsche (Dazzling Killmen, Andrew Bird)

FOR FANS OF:
Pageninetynine, Malady, Mannequin, City of Caterpillar

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Joliette "Pérdidas Variables"

LP - $17.25
STREET DATE: 6/20/25
CAT#: VIS026
LABEL: Persistent Vision

Described by BrooklynVegan as "a raw-yet-beautiful dose of screamo," Joliette has been an unstoppable force in the Mexican scene since 2011.

On the upcoming new album, “Pérdidas Variables,” the band's debut for Persistent Vision, the quartet takes the urgency of scene heroes like Saetia and Raein and laces it with the brooding, post-metal grandeur of Neurosis or Cult of Luna. While some bands in the genre use sloppiness as their medium, wielding chaos to convey emotional fragility, Joliette moves as steadily as a freight train.

The rhythm section of Hugo Madrid and Matías Acuña bangs and growls in perfect, propulsive unity, while the guitars of Gastón Prado and Juan Pablo Castillo combine into apocalyptic storm clouds of sound. Screaming in his native Spanish, Gastón Prado's earnest voice transcends language barriers. Loud in the mix, his raspy pleas demands attention as they transmit universal angst.

“Pérdidas Variables” is an album inspired by Joliette's hometown. "It’s a meditation on Mexico City," states Juan Pablo Castillo, "as both a physical space and a psychological one, a place constantly shifting under your feet, full of layers, ruins, and noise. The lyrics are rooted in very real fears, earthquakes, collapse, systems failing, but they’re also about the quiet, daily sense of disconnection and mourning that urban life can bring. Each song looks at a different fragment of that experience."

“Pérdidas Variables” was recorded by Matías Acuña and Fernando G. Esteve, mixed by Hugo Madrid, and mastered by Paolo Riffo. The LP comes packaged in full color jacket with limited vinyl options.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Todos Pierden
02. Arsénico
03. Limítrofe
04. Cielo Sordo
05. L'uomo Mangia la Mela
06. Pérdida Variable
07. Nimbus
08. Gris Protagónico

MARKETING POINTS:

• Performing relentlessly across its native Mexico, Joliette has previously also toured the UK and Europe, Central and South America, the United States, and Canada.
• Joliette returns to Europe in May 2025, including shows with Respire and La Quiete.
• Follows up to several past releases including their last EP on Zegema Beach Records.
• Comes packaged in full color jacket with limited vinyl options.

FOR FANS OF:
Raein, Saetia, Touché Amoré, City of Caterpillar

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Ostraca "Eventualities"

LP - $17.25 / CASSETTE - $7.00
STREET DATE: 4/18/25
CAT#: VIS023
LABEL: Persistent Vision

For over a decade now, Richmond titans Ostraca have written works definitive of screamo as a punk subgenre. Their catalogue is deceptive in its relative brevity; Ostraca’s habit of offering songs in groups of three and six gives each track a specific and undeniable gravity. Of course, this is no steadfast rule; for Ostraca, the distinction between EP and LP is immaterial, much the way Loma Prieta contended two decades ago. In 2017, they released two songs on Yarrow, a split with Coma Regalia, Vril, and Untold Want, one of which has been re-recorded for "Eventualities".

After taking five years between "Enemy" in 2018, and "Disaster" in 2023, the trio of bassist Gus Caldwell, guitarist Brian Russo, and drummer John Crogan showed that Ostraca is an unflappable mainstay in the world of emotive post-hardcore that they inhabit. The drama and passion expected of Ostraca’s work is only magnified by the dynamic shifts in their writing, earmarked by the inclusion of other genres in their style, like crust, metal, and post-rock. Their aptitude for this demarcates them from the entirety of their peers. Ostraca builds on the same tradition as German greats June Paik, creating heart-wrenching atmospheres driven by melodies that oscillate between resolution and discordance.

"Eventualities" was recorded in 2024 and was engineered, mixed and mastered by Danny Gibney, who the band worked with on Disaster. Comes packaged in a matte, full color jacket with insert and limited colored vinyl.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Song For A Closed Door
02. Compromise
03. Esau
04. So Do I

MARKETING POINTS:

• The latest from Richmond, Virginia screamo torchbearers follows up sold out pressings of previous releases "Disaster" and "Enemy"
• Ostraca will be playing select shows this spring/summer including a Japan & Asia tour in summer 2025

FOR FANS OF:
Jeromes Dream, Frail Body, Blind Girls, Orchid

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La Quiete "La Fine Non è La Fine"

LP - $17.25 / CD - $7.00 / CASSETTE - $7.00
STREET DATE: 4/18/25
CAT#: VIS022
LABEL: Persistent Vision

25 years after the formation of Forlì, Italy’s legendary La Quiete, Persistent Vision are proud to reissue their full length album, 2004’s "La Fine Non è La Fine". Widely considered the most influential band of the European screamo movement, La Quiete plays, and indeed helped generate every stylistic component of the genre that has since been copied and reimagined by countless bands around the world. The dissonant guitar chords strummed at breakneck speed, panic attack vocals, blast beats and tuplet rhythms counterbalanced by dulcet, undistorted melodies are all represented in earnest on this towering LP.

Far from La Quiete’s sole release, "La Fine Non è La Fine" is the quintet’s only full length album amongst a slew of splits with other familiar names like Louise Cyphre, Phoenix Bodies, and The Apoplexy Twist Orchestra, as well as compilation appearances, and loose singles. Out of print for nearly 20 years, the iconic record was originally recorded in 2003, and previously released in small pressings on Heroine Records, React With Protest, and Gasping For Breath Records.

"La Fine Non è La Fine" was remastered in December 2024 by Will Killingsworth. Persistent Vision presents the vinyl reissue in a gatefold jacket and limited colored vinyl, along with limited CD and cassette versions. An essential for any devotee of the genre, this long celebrated record has already been a long sought after piece of punk history.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Raid Aereo Sul Paese Delle Farfalle
02. Metempsicosi Del Fine Ultimo: Nevrastenica Oscillazione Fra Poli Estremi
03. Notte Dei Cristalli a Rue Des Trois-Frères
04. Ciò Che Non Siamo, Ciò Che Non Vogliamo
05. Il Destino di un Ombrello
06. Super Omega
07. Merce Cunningham
08. Uncaged
09. La Fine Non è la Fine

MARKETING POINTS:

• Out of print for nearly 20 years, this iconic and influential post-hardcore/screamo album is finally available again
• Reunion shows in April and May 2025 including shows with Pageninetynine, Blind Girls, Øjne, and others
• Remastered by Will Killingsworth (Orchid, Bucket Full of Teeth)
• Packaged in matte gatefold jacket with limited colored vinyl

FOR FANS OF:
Pageninetynine, City of Caterpillar, Saetia, Jeromes Dream

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Kowloon Walled City "Gambling on the Richter Scale"

LP - $17.25
STREET DATE: December 13, 2024
CAT#: VIS020
LABEL: Persistent Vision

In the world of heavy music, few bands embrace dynamics and negative space like Oakland, CA’s Kowloon Walled City. Since forming 17 years ago, the band has increasingly refined its deconstructed approach to noise rock, math rock, and sludge.

Celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, Persistent Vision is proud to present a much needed reissue of Kowloon Walled City’s first album, "Gambling on the Richter Scale". Initially released in 2009, the album laid the groundwork for a series of subsequent albums over the years including Container Ships, Grievances, and Piecework, released via labels such as Neurot Recordings, Gilead Media, and Brutal Panda Records.

This early album is a snapshot of the band’s sound in a much dirtier, noisier, sludgier environment. Kowloon Walled City have always been a band focused on tone and atmosphere with their unique style of heaviness, and the very intentional grit on this album shows another face to a band that has grown to embrace a cleaner, overdriven sound in recent years.

Gambling on the Richter Scale was recorded and mixed by guitarist/vocalist Scott Evans, whose engineering work includes Sumac, Great Falls, Old Man Gloom, and many others. The record comes packaged in a full color matte finish jacket with two color vinyl variants, Ice Blue & Black Galaxy and Violet & Black Galaxy, each limited to 150 copies.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Annandale
02. Diabetic Feet
03. Clockwork
04. Sleep Debt
05. Paper Houses
06. Gambling on the Richter Scale
07. Bone Loss
08. More Like the Shit Factory

MARKETING POINTS:

• Out of print for several years, this reissue coincides with the 15 year anniversary of the album.
• Kowloon Walled City will be touring the US east coast and southeast supporting SUMAC in early December 2024. They are already working on plans for 2025 including a performance at Prepare the Ground Festival in Toronto with Kylesa, Khanate, Steve Von Till, and more.
• Previous touring history with Neurosis, YOB, Metz, Rid of Me, Jay Jayle, and others.

FOR FANS OF: Neurosis, KEN Mode, Godflesh, Chat Pile

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Fórn "Repercussions Of The Self"

LP - $17.25 / CASSETTE - $7.00
LP UPC: 765464057181
STREET DATE: 10/25/24
CAT#: VIS019
LABEL: Persistent Vision

Pioneers of "funeral sludge," FÓRN have been favorites of the metal underground since their formation over ten years ago. Kim Kelly, writing for SPIN in 2015, stated: "Rarely does a debut album spring forth from the womb so fully-formed and vital as Fórn's The Departure of Consciousness... The album's six, tense, foreboding compositions take their cues from Thou's poisonous sludge and funeral doom's lightless melancholia in equal measure, and come punctuated by sparse, blood-curdling howls... This album drags listeners into the utter depths of despair then leaves them there, alone, as the last light winks out."

Releasing music via labels such as Gilead Media, including a split with Yautja, the band went dark shortly after touring in support of its 2018 album, Rites of Despair. With a series of major events occurring in the personal lives of the band members -- births, deaths, and relocations across four states and two countries -- and with the COVID pandemic disrupting society as a whole, the years after Rites of Despair would serve as a crucial pause and reset, leading to the radical rebirth that is "Repercussions of the Self".

"Repercussions of the Self", Fórn's first new musical creation since 2018, bursts through the speakers with god-tier grandeur, mixing the downtuned sludge epics the band is known for, with a new, industrial, electronic dimension.

Notably, the album features Lane Shi Otayonii (Elizabeth Colour Wheel) contributing vocals and electronics across all its six tracks. A past collaborator, Otayonii makes her debut here as a full-fledged contributing member of Fórn.

"Repercussions of the Self" was engineered and mixed by Kevin Bernsten at Developing Nations in Baltimore, Maryland and mastered by James Plotkin at Plotkinworks. The artwork is a collaboration between Alexander L. Brown and Devin Toye.

Vinyl comes packaged in a full color jacket with a printed inner sleeve.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Pact of Forgetting
02. Soul Shadow
03. Hela's Choir
04. Anamnesis
05. Regrets Abyss
06. Dreams of the Blood

MARKETING POINTS:

• Engineered by Keven Bernsten at Developing Nations (Full of Hell) with mastering by James Plotkin (Khanate)
• Features new member Lane Shi Otayonii (Elizabeth Colour Wheel) contributing additional vocals and electronics across all tracks
• PR Campaign by Curran Reynolds at The Chain PR (The Red Chord, Chat Pile)

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Thou, Bell Witch, Noothgrush, Grief

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Raein "Il N'y A Pas De Orchestre"

LP - $17.25 / CASSETTE - $7.00
LP UPC: 765464057167
STREET DATE: 8/16/24
CAT#: VIS015
LABEL: Persistent Vision

First released in 2003, and long out of print, "Il N'Ya Pas De Orchestre" is the sophomore release from Italy's Raein. Including the iconic "Tigersuit", the album captures the raw emotions and explosive energy of this young post-hardcore band early on. Remastered in 2024 by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios, this 20th year anniversary edition comes packaged in a deluxe silver mirror board jacket with printed inner sleeve.

Raein are an emotional and discordant punk band from Italy, originally founded by members from La Quiete and Neil On Impression. Upon their formation in 2002, the band released a dizzying amount of music, across multiple splits, EPs and albums, while extensively touring the world during their original run. Reformed in 2023, Raein is considered to be one of the leaders in emotional post-hardcore, carrying a similar spirit and sound as bands like Orchid, Saetia, Pg.99, and others. Melding melody and discordance into something truly beautiful to experience.

TRACK LISTING:
01. The Tree
02. The King Is Dead
03. From 3 to 1 in 2 and 4
04. ll N'y a Pas De Orchestre
05. Tetradecyl Fluctuating Faster Than the Speed of Light
06. Artmachine Observation Tower
07. Miss Kelly Dathe
08. Tigersuit
09. She Wears My Blood
10. I Was Fine Before You Came

MARKETING POINTS:

• Deluxe, 20th anniversary edition of Raein's iconic album, after being out of print and largely unavailable 10+ years, remastered by Will Killingsworth
• Raein will be playing shows throughout Europe this year, and will be headlining New Friends Fest in August in Toronto, ON with Saetia, Jeromes Dream, Blind Girls, and others
• Packaged in a custom silver mirror board jacket with printed inner sleeve and colored vinyl

FOR FANS OF:
Saetia, Orchid, City of Caterpillar, Pg.99

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Raein "A Collection of Splits and EPs 2004 - 2015"

LP - $17.25 / CASSETTE - $7.00
LP UPC: 765464057174
STREET DATE: 8/16/24
CAT#: VIS016
LABEL: Persistent Vision

"A Collection of Splits & EPs 2004 - 2015" captures the growth of Italy's Raein, including tracks from their out of print split 7"s with Loma Prieta, Funeral Diner, Ampere, Daitro, and Phoenix Bodies, along with an early 7" EP, "Döden Marscherar Åt Väst". This collection of songs was remastered in 2024 by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios, and comes packaged in a custom embossed jacket and printed inner sleeve.

Raein are an emotional and discordant punk band from Italy, originally founded by members from La Quiete and Neil On Impression. Upon their formation in 2002, the band released a dizzying amount of music, across multiple splits, EPs and albums, while extensively touring the world during their original run. Reformed in 2023, Raein is considered to be one of the leaders in emotional post-hardcore, carrying a similar spirit and sound as bands like Orchid, Saetia, Pg.99, and others. Melding melody and discordance into something truly beautiful to experience.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Faithless
02. New Day Scenario
03. Blue Lines
04. This Life My Cage
05. On Air
06. Armando 10 Bota
07. Parte 1
08. Parte 2
09. Endless Tourlife
10. Amore E Guerra (Love and Death)
11. Comete
12. Spaccare Il Mondo

MARKETING POINTS:

• Collection of long out of print material from Italian post-hardcore/screamo legends RAEIN, including splits with Loma Prieta, Funeral Diner, Ampere, Daitro, and Phoenix Bodies
• Remastered in 2024 by Will Killingsworth and comes packaged in custom embossed jacket with printed inner sleeve and colored vinyl.
• Raein will be playing shows throughout Europe this year, and will be headlining New Friends Fest in August 2024 in Toronto, ON with Saetia, Jeromes Dream, Blind Girls, and others

FOR FANS OF:
Saetia, Loma Prieta, City of Caterpillar, Pg.99

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Blind Girls "An Exit Exists"

LP - $17.25 / CASSETTE - $7.50
LP UPC: 641956287123
STREET DATE: 7/26/24
CAT#: VIS014 / SV29
LABEL: Persistent Vision / Secret Voice

In the decade that Blind Girls have spent making blistering and technical screamo, their efforts have resulted in 2 albums, 3 EP's, a split, and a single. The 2022 album from the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia quintet, The Weight of Everything, is a crushing exploration of seamless discord. Blind Girls' tempestuous performances have earned them a dedicated following in their home country, further expanded by tours in Japan, Canada and the United States. While performing the unrelenting material of The Weight of Everything over two years around the world, Blind Girls quietly administered higher doses of melody in new work, giving more time and care to doleful passages of solitary guitar strumming that appeared in past songs. These songs, set to be jointly released through Persistent Vision and Secret Voice, make up Blind Girls new album, An Exit Exists.

Blind Girls have a distinct way of making entire works sound like a single composition, both live and on record, championing the punk tradition of playing with as few breaks as possible, if any. Ben Smith's extraordinarily intense drumming is akin to bands like Ampere and Converge, the frantic riffage of guitarists Julian Currie, Luke Sweeney, and bassist Mark Grant is simultaneously representative of current hardcore and reminiscent of metalcore of days past, and the throat-lacerating screams of vocalist Sharni Brouwer are in a class shared perhaps only with Jerome's Dream. This is no small feat. Still yet, the tracks on An Exit Exists are more powerful than ever before, as Blind Girls employ the same engineering team of Brock Weston for recording and Rollie Ulug for mixing and mastering as they did for The Weight of Everything. The band was intent on harnessing the familiarity built with the two for An Exit Exists, and as listeners are pulled through the record, it's clear that they have once again overseen Blind Girls achieving new heights of sonic extremity, now stitched together by passages of deeply emotional musicality.

The emotion in the heavily incorporated melodies, not to mention the face-ripping breakdowns and thrashing blast beats, of An Exit Exists are the complement to its conceptual theme addressing abuse. Brouwer explains, "An Exit Exists was written during and retrospectively on two separate instances dealing with abuse from those I loved. Each song is a reflection on the emotions and process I went through from realization, feeling trapped, guilt, defeat, acceptance and eventually finding a safe way out."

TRACK LISTING:
01. Dissonance
02. Loveless
03. Blemished Memory
04. Less than Three
05. Make Me Nothing
06. Pallid Mask
07. Closer to Hell
08. AI Generated Love Letter
09. Lilac
10. Death of an Unsung Thought
11. ...It's Starting to Rain
12. Home Will Find Its Way

MARKETING POINTS:

• "An Exit Exists" is Blind Girls' third album following two previously sold-out, acclaimed albums and multiple EPs
• Extensive US/Canada tour planned for July/August 2024 including East Coast dates with Heavenly Blue and a performance at New Friends Fest in Toronto, ON
• Previous touring history with La Dispute, Touché Amoré, and Militarie Gun, including tours throughout Australia, Japan, United States and Canada
• PR campaign by Curran Reynolds at The Chain (Chat Pile, The Red Chord)

FOR FANS OF:
Orchid, Frail Body, Jeromes Dream, Botch

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Habak "Insania"

LP - $17.25
LP UPC: 765464057112
STREET DATE: 6/28/24
CAT#: VIS011
LABEL: Persistent Vision

Insania, the 2016 debut album from Tijuana, Mexico’s Habak reissued on vinyl for the first time ever. Habak exploded into the DIY scene in the last few years with their emotionally charged blend of blackened crust, screamo, and post-metal. This first album captures the intensity of the young band early on, melding aggressive Tragedy-inspired d-beat with dark, drawn out moments of melody that bring to mind contemporaries like Envy or Pageninetynine. Sung in Spanish, vocalist Alex’s lyrics touch on themes of mental anguish, isolation, and hopelessness.

This new reissue was remastered by Jack Shirley at the Atomic Garden (Deafheaven, Frail Body) and includes a bonus live version of “Orbes de Almas” recorded in 2023 by Steve Roche (Saetia).

“Insania” comes packaged in a full color jacket with lyric sheet and colored vinyl.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Immune al Dolor
02. Orbe De Almas
03. Rostros Borrosos
04. Condenado al Olvido
05. Insania
06. El Deceso Vestigios
07. Orbe De Almas (live)

MARKETING POINTS:

• Habak’s debut album, never before available on vinyl, includes a bonus live track recorded by Steve Roche (Saetia) and remastering by Jack Shirley (Deafheaven).
• Habak has a busy year ahead, including a European tour in June, and appearances at 510 Grindfest, Circus of Disgust, NW Terror Fest, and the Persistent Vision/Pg.99-curated fest, Dark Days Bright Nights in September
• PR campaign by Curran Reynolds at The Chain PR

FOR FANS OF:
Envy, Pg.99, Tragedy, His Hero Is Gone

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Respire "Dénouement + Memorial"

2xLP - $21.25
2xLP UPC: 765464057143
STREET DATE: 6/28/24
CAT#: VIS013
LABEL: Persistant Veision

Six years after its original release comes a deluxe reissue of "Dénouement", the second album from Toronto, Ontario collective, Respire. An “exquisite, inspiring flood of emotion and mesmerizing music,” Respire crafts their own explosive and uplifting brand of orchestral post-hardcore, drawing from a well of black metal, screamo, and post-rock influences. As powerful today as it was upon its original release, "Dénouement" is a sprawling reflection on trauma, addiction, and guilt. A document of the beating heart and its journey for redemption.

Packaged as a 2xLP, this reissue includes the companion album "Memorial", an entirely instrumental, orchestral version of the eight songs from "Dénouement", available for the first time on vinyl. Equally chilling and triumphant, layers of strings, horns, and piano make up the compositions of "Memorial", which was newly remastered by Will Killingsworth (Orchid).

TRACK LISTING: 01. Bound
02. Haunt
03. Shiver
04. Bloom
05. Catacombs
06. Virtue
07. A Heart Still Pines
08. Dénouement
09. Bound (instrumental)
10. Haunt (instrumental)
11. Shiver (instrumental)
12. Bloom (instrumental)
13. Catacombs (instrumental)
14. Virtue (instrumental)
15. A Heart Still Pines (instrumental)
16. Dénouement (instrumental)

MARKETING POINTS:

• Long out of print album reissue comes ahead of their fourth album, to be released on Dine Alone Records in late July 2024
• Deluxe gatefold jacket, packaged with instrumental companion album, “Memorial” available for the first time on vinyl

• "Dénouement" was mastered by Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Frail Body) and "Memorial" was mastered by Will Killingsworth (Orchid, Bucket Full of Teeth)
• WIth previous touring history in Canada, Europe and Mexico, Respire will be doing their first ever US tour in September 2024, including a performance at Persistent Vision’s Dark Days Bright Nights Fest with Pg.99, Thou, Portrayal of Guilt, and others

FOR FANS OF: Infant Island, Deafheaven, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Envy

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Fórn "The Departure Of Consciousness"

LP - $17.25
LP UPC: 765464057136
STREET DATE: 6/14/24
CAT#: VIS012
LABEL: Persistent Vision

A special, ten-year anniversary reissue of "The Departure of Consciousness", the debut LP from funeral sludge ensemble, FÓRN. Formed in 2012 during a particularly dismal and harsh Boston winter, FÓRN draws inspiration from their predecessors, Grief, Burning Witch and Noothgrush, while remaining true to their natural progression. The suffocating darkness and soul crushing heaviness of their debut is starkly evident as FÓRN channels its will to create their unique brand of cerebral funeral sludge.

Their 2014 debut, "The Departure of Consciousness", originally released via Vendetta Records and Gilead Media, took the doom and sludge world by surprise. It garnered instant critical acclaim, bringing them to prestigious festivals, stages, tours, and even a memorable performance in a seaside cave. Released to coincide with their return to live performances, this reissue comes ahead of a brand new album due out in September 2024.

Recorded in Spring 2014 by Alec Rodriguez at New Alliance Studio and Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studio. Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.

TRACK LISTING:
01. Emergence
02. Dweller on the Threshold
03. Gates of the Astral Plane
04. Alexithymia
05. Suffering in the Eternal Void
06. Cerebral Intermission

MARKETING POINTS:

• FÓRN will be playing numerous festivals and select dates on the west coast and east coast in June 2024
• Previous touring history with Primitive Man, Thou, Wayfarer, Wolves in the Throne Room, Windhand, Yellow Eyes and Inter Arma
• PR campaign by Curran Reynolds at The Chain PR (Chat Pile, The Red Chord)

FOR FANS OF:
Thou, Bell Witch, Grief, Noothgrush, Burning Witch

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Prisoner "Putrid | Obsolete"

LP - $17.25
LP UPC: 765464057099
STREET DATE: 3/15/24
CAT#: VIS010
LABEL: Persistent Vision

In the six years since Richmond VA quintet Prisoner released their first LP, "Beyond The Infinite", the entire world fell apart. Already somewhat apocalypse-curious, the band decided to ride the current wave of doom as far as it would take them, adding synth player Adam Lake in order to bring a greater emphasis on noise, samples, and electronic sound textures. The result is their new full-length, "Putrid | Obsolete", which layers the nightmarish crust/hardcore and blackened metal of their earlier material in a thick coating of harsh industrial noise and gloom.

Floating amid a polluted sea of atonal samples and ominous synth soundwaves, crunching guitars lay down brutal 100mph riffs over a powerful rhythm section crunch, even as multiple demonic voices unleash anguished roars. With apologies to TS Eliot, this is the real way the world ends: amid an unrelenting wave of industrial metal/punk brutality.

"Putrid | Obsolete" was produced, recorded and mixed by Ricky Olson at the Ward (Enforced, .GIF From God) and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Flesh Dirge
2. Pool Of Disgust
3. The Horde
4. Shroud
5. Leaden Tomb
6. Pathogenesis
7. Entity
8. Nanodeath

MARKETING POINTS:

• Produced by Ricky Olson (Enforced, .GIF From God) and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege (From Ashes Rise, No Man)
• PR Campaign by Curran Reynolds at The Chain PR
• Decibel Magazine premiered first single "Leaden Tomb"
• Prisoner will be doing select US tours in March, June, and September 2024

FOR FANS OF:
Neurosis, Nails, Candy, Godflesh

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