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Written during a period of chronic illness, All the Dead Melt Down as Rain is Uboa’s most disorienting and vulnerable work to date — a mix of harsh noise, doom, and death industrial that captures the dissociative fog of living with POTS.

Mamaleek, the Bay Area’s genre-warping metal deconstructionists, return with Cadejos + Those Who Pass Between Fleeting Words — a newly remixed and remastered compilation for The Flenser Membership Series 7. Physical formats are subscriber-only; the album is out digitally July 18th on Bandcamp and all major platforms. Stream their Primus cover The Pressman now.

Faetooth joins The Flenser for the release of their second full-length album, Labyrinthine, out September 5. Pre-order vinyl, cd, tape now at nowflensing.com.

It’s Closeness, It’s Easy is the new full-length album from Planning For Burial, the solo project of Thom Wasluck, out now on The Flenser. This highly anticipated follow-up to 2017’s Below the House explores themes of aging, grief, addiction, and reconnection through immersive soundscapes that blend shoegaze, slowcore, ambient, and doomgaze.

Recorded alone at home in Pennsylvania, the album was shaped in intense, focused sessions that emphasize raw emotion and atmosphere. Over eight tracks, Wasluck weaves together blown-out guitars, drum machines, tape hiss, and moments of silence into a cathartic listening experience.

Rooted in a DIY ethos, Planning For Burial handles all aspects of the creative process—recording, artwork, performance—resulting in a deeply personal and singular body of work. It’s Closeness, It’s Easy marks the project’s twentieth year and stands as one of its most vulnerable and fully realized statements.

Available now on vinyl, CD, and digital formats from The Flenser.
Recommended for fans of Have A Nice Life, Grouper, and Low.

Planning for Burial returns with a final glimpse into the upcoming album, It’s Closeness, It’s Easy, out this Friday. “(blueberry pop)” showcases the softer, more meditative side of the record. Originally intended as a set closer, the track has found a new place early in the album's sequence—inviting listeners to pause, reflect, and take it all in. Read Thom Wasluck’s note on the song and watch the accompanying video, filmed in the dead of winter as a quiet exhale.

“Signs” is a B-side from Midwife’s No Depression In Heaven, exploring grief and meaning in the face of uncertainty. Accompanied by a film-shot video from Marah Herreid, the track reveals another side of Midwife’s evolving sound and vision.

Midwife shares an acoustic version of “Killdozer,” recorded live at Roadburn 2025. A sparse, intimate take on the track from No Depression in Heaven, captured by Geert Braekers in Tilburg, NL.

Pythagoras is the daring new album from Pyramids, a bold study in genre synthesis. Since their influential 2008 debut, the band has continually pushed boundaries in both sound and aesthetic, blending jagged fragments of black metal and shoegaze into something uniquely their own.

Planning For Burial shares “A Flowing Field of Green”, the first track from It’s Closeness, It’s Easy, out May 30 via The Flenser. A meditation on place, memory, and change, the song sets the tone for the long-awaited new album. Listen now and pre-order vinyl, CD, and merch.