Annex 7" // Yuputka album +more

Released Annex's "Silencio" EP last week. 100 copies on purple vinyl w/badge and 200 on black. Really an excellent single that I'm very proud to have released. Order it at the webstore

Uploaded some new titles to the bancamp as well- Yuputka's "Cluster" and the Gast demo.   Listen to them here.

"Cluster" is a full length album from Chicago's Yuputka, lush electro with ethereal vocals. While we all love cold electronics, its refreshing to hear something with depth and substance. An exclusively digital release.
The Gast demo was originally released by Identity Crisis records, but OW has offered to digitally distribute it because I liked it so much. The band is going to record a full length LP and I'm proud to say Occult Whispers will help release it in 2016.

Kreativ In Den Boden's "Ars Goetia" LP is at the pressing plant right now. The Air Hunger 7" is still in the works. I've also decided to do a series of cassette/bandcamp compilations and I'm curating volume 1 right now- they're going to be killer.

As always, I look forward to hearing new music everyday. If you're in a Trad Goth, deathrock, darkpunk, dark electro, or even gothic metal band, please send me links to your music. I'm also interested in non-genre music with occult and left-hand path leanings. occultwhispers at hushmail.

Hopefully these updates will become more frequent.
I also hope your Samhain was all divination and communion with the dead. 

New Bandcamp uploads

I've uploaded some new stuff to the OW bandcamp: the new ANNEX EP "Silencio" that should be available this summer as a 7" vinyl, and a digital re-issue of "Dreams are not Dreams" from ONYX SYSTEM. 

More news on the ANNEX record as it becomes available, I'll post when I approve the test presses. I'm considering a pre-order. Maybe.

I've been talking to friends for several months about offering digital downloads of new releases and re-issues, and "Dreams are not Dreams" is the first of these to come to light. There were only 50 copies of this album released on cassette. The LP version never came out, and it's been roaming dark corners of the internet ever since.
Both of these releases are SO good, listen to them here: Occult Whispers Bandcamp

Salome's Dance//Sierpien split cassette available now.

This one is so good. 3 tracks from each band, some of their best work yet. Salome's Dance might be the gloomiest of all the current dark punk bands, and their side of the tape proves it. Sierpien complement the SD side by offering 3 ultra-catchy songs in the anarcho/positive punk spirit- the perfect combination of '82 style songwriting and 2014 style production.
Listen (and download) on the bandcamp page.
Get a cassette copy in the OW Webstore.

2014 could have been worse, but I'm glad its over.

So many friends and allies suffered and struggled in 2014. Many in the United States are waking up to the realization that they are not living in a post-racial society, not at all. There is still systematic oppression in our section of the "free world" and the police are agents of the state, above all. Enough.

I've got a great release schedule so far for 2015. The SALOME'S DANCE/SIERPIEN split cassette is at NAC right now, and will be out in January or February. SALOME'S DANCE also digitally released their full-length album on their Bandcamp page  a few months ago, and I will try to get that LP version out as soon as I can. AIR HUNGER is a long-distance international project for which I'm playing guitar (also featuring much more talented members who will be revealed as the project comes to light, I can't give away all the secrets at once), and I'm really excited that we will be releasing a two song 7" single, hopefully in the second quarter of this year.

Last, but DEFINITELY not least, Occult Whispers will also be releasing a 7" from ANNEX out of Mc Allen, Texas sometime this summer. Go listen to them. I'm very much looking forward to putting that record out, they're excellent. 
There's a few more offers I'm considering this year, and I hope to be able to be involved in all of them, including another POSSESSOR record and the spoken word incantations of Charnel House.

After waiting quite long enough, I've uploaded some of the OW releases to Bandcamp. You can now download Possessor's "Electric Hell" and the Salome's Dance demo for free. There are a limited number of free downloads Bandcamp allows each month, so first come, first served. I'll put up any of my releases which are OK with the bands. I'm also considering exclusively digital distribution of some new releases, since some people just don't have an interest in physical copies of music anymore. Welcome to the future.

As always, if you're in a dark, noisy, or interesting band- I want to hear your music, please send it my way. occultwhispers at hushmail.

Take care of each other.