Autumnal Offerings

Coming very soon:

Yellow Eyes: Silence Threads the Evening's Cloth (interesting, raw black metal in the modern USBM vein; run of 100 cassettes)

Dead Dragon Mountain: Huddled Masses Under a Burning Sky (weird, twisted black/doom/folk/industrial compositions from 2/3 of Sun Splitter; run of 100 cassettes)


Coming soon after:

Golden Fawn: Danger Fawn Femur (psychedelic drone/folk with epic and evocative female vocals; undisclosed run of cassettes)


Coming sometime:

Recordings by Oyarsa (chicago doom), and new recordings by Monument (mystical raw black metal).

Mid year update

Little has happened at Sol y Nieve over the summer due to personal reasons, but this fall and winter will hold many new things. Here are a few of them:

- Multiple new Monument recordings including an EP, a split (with who will be a surprise), a full length, and a POSSIBLE repressing of 'I'.

- A new full length from Teeth Engraved With the Names of the Dead. Expect something familiar but on a completely different level.

- New material from two new signees: Oyarsa, a blackened doom duo from Chicago and Dead Dragon Mountain, an industrial/experimental/black/doom duo, also out of Chicago. Oyarsa shares a member with Monument, and Dead Dragon Mountain is 2/3 of Land of Decay alumni Sun Splitter.

Another chance

If you still want a copy of 'Monument: I', someone is selling a copy on ebay for 10 dollars. Ha ha ha!

Monument - I review...

The Monument tape got a (i think) awesome review from Serious Fucking Business in france. One of the few things i could pick out was that he compared it to Wrnlrd and Wintherr meeting in a dream...sweeet.

"Surprenante découverte que j'ai faite via l'apocamix de l'incroyable lapin anti-gravité et que je m'empresse de partager ici. Il s'agit en fait d'une obscure release cassette (épuisée) en provenance du label Sol Y Nieve. Cinquante minutes d'un ambient black qu'on jurerait presque être une affection du dieu Paysage d'Hiver: On y retrouve l'esthétique lowfi propre à la production du suisse, son minimalisme tendance mystique et recueilli, les motifs guitares/batterie simples et itératifs (oui, le mot est à la mode je crois), soutenus ou entrecoupés de litanies grognées, de chuchotements mystérieux ou de choeurs sacrés qui m'ont immédiatement rappeler un certain Kristall & Isa, ainsi qu'au Malefaesance de l'Acephale dans une certaine mesure. J'ose la comparaison car il s'agit bien d'une oeuvre à la personnalité suffisamment marquée, toute à la fois contemplative, irréelle, religieuse et hypnotique -sur ce point la qualité dronesque de certains morceaux et ces quelques arpèges de piano y sont aussi pour quelque chose. L'orientation générale de l'album et sa relative "tempérance", si on le compare au caractère abrasif et exacerbé d'un Nacht ou d'un Winterkält fait qu'on y atteint pas les sommets vertigineux dessinés par la musique de PDH. Mais celle de Monument est suffisamment bonne, originale et inspirée pour mériter de faire un tour dans vos oreilles. Wrnlrd meets Wintherr, en rêve. Les amateurs de black/ambient y trouveront certainement leurs comptes, et même les plus réticents au genre pourraient être séduits par la magnifique piste qui clôture ce I, un de ces instants balayant en quelques notes toutes les velléités à retranscrire l'expérience musicale à travers le prisme des mots, ces minutes pleines d'espoir capables de revigorer la passion qu'on croyait refroidie pour un phénomène aussi fascinant et bouleversant que la Musique. Autant vous dire que je ne me fous pas de vos gueules."

More blogs...

Another blog put up the Monument tape for download and said some kind words here. The rest of the blog is pretty great as well so be sure to check them out.

On another note, i only have 9 copies of Monument - I and 1 copy of At the Heart of the World - Flesh and Death left. Grab them while you can!

Andre Foisy's Top 20

This appeared on Dec. 28, 2010 on Brooklyn Vegan. Check out who's number 5:

Top 20 Albums of 2010 by Andrew Foisy of Locrian:
1) Deathspell Omega "Paracletus"(Season of Mist)
The rest of these are in no particular order:
2) Swans "My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky" (Young God)
3) Agalloch "Marrow Of The Spirit" (Profound Lore)
4) Neil Jendon "Cities in Flight" (Bloodlust!)/"Male Fantasies" (Land of Decay)
5) Monvment tape (Self-Released)
6) Human Quena Orchestra "A Natural History Of Failure" (Utech)
7) The High Confessions "Turning Lead Into Gold" (Relapse)
8) Velnias - "Untitled EP" (Self-Released)
9) Aun - "VII" (Important)
10) On "Something that Has Form and Something That Does Not" (Type)
11) Ural Umbo "S/T" (Utech)
12) Gog - "Heavy Fierce Brightness" (Utech)
13) Mamiffer/House of Low Culture "S/T" (Utech/Hydra Head)
14) Menace Ruine "Union Of Irreconcilables" (Aurora Borealis)
15) Wolvserpent "Blood Seed" (20 Buck Spin)
16) A Silver Mt. Zion "Kollaps Tradixionales" (Constellation)
17) Wrnlrd "Death Drive" (Flingco Sound System)
18) Puerto Rico Flowers "4" (Fan Death Records)
19) Twilight "Monument to Time End" (Southern Lord)
20) Sailors With Wax Wings S/T - (Angel Oven Records)

To be included on a list with Deathspell Omega, Twilight, Gog, Swans, Agalloch, Menace Ruine and Wolvserpent is such a huge honor. Not to mention that Andre from Locrian is a fan. Thanks, brother.

Finsternis

A blog called 'Finsternis' recently put up the Monument tape for download. If you haven't already downloaded it, you can go there. Here's the link. Be sure to leave them comments so that they know people are enjoying it!

The website's down...

I'm in the process of making a better website, so it will be down for a little bit. In the meantime, you can go to Monument's Last.fm page, Ten Thousand Miles of Arteries' Last.fm page, and Teeth Engraved with the Names of the Dead's Myspace to preview songs.

Ritual

These are pictures from Monuments only live performance last august. A guitar, a microphone, a sampler, an amp, a looping pedal, and Nicole providing her haunting voice. This was a one time thing, as a favor for a friend. All, if any, future performances will be with a full band.

Boston

Weirdo Records in boston (technically, cambridge) is now carrying Monument's 'I'.

Also, Permanent Records here in chicago are all sold out and i don't have very many left, so you can't get them there anymore. Reckless and Logan Square still have some, though.

Free

If you don't feel like actually buying one of the Monument tapes, you can head on over to Doom Black . You can download it there. Have fun, cheapskates!

Restock

Both reckless records and permanent records have sold out of the new Monument tape, but have just been restocked. Thanks chicago!

Monument: I now available

Sol Y Nieve's first release, Monument's "I", is now available. Monument makes murky, psychedelic, meditative black metal. It's a limited run of 50 on simple white cassette. Aside from buying it straight from me, you can also purchase it from these record shops:

Reckless Records

Permanent Records

Logan Hardware