APF Records

25/08/2025

TORSO's Annihilation Day is this Friday. If you enjoyed the single Satanic Nirvana, you're gonna love the album. 😎🤘

A culmination of everything that came before, this album is TORSO’s most focused and ferocious statement yet - fusing the lo-fi horror grit of A Crash Course In Terror, the snarling energy of Brain Cells, and adding layers of thrash, black metal and NWOBHM. The riffs are sharper, the mood darker, the vision clearer.

"Like the best horror movies, it stays with you long afterwards and the urge to experience it again and again becomes too strong to deny. The best TORSO album to date? Without a shadow of a doubt." - Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life

"The beats are hypnotic, the guitars frenetic, like a stabbing scene from 80’s horror films, and you don’t want it to end any time soon." - The Razor's Edge

14/08/2025

APF's next release will be TORSO's Annihilation Day album on 29th August.

This weekend the packing up of pre-orders commences, because the cassettes - in 4 colours - housed in retro mini-VHS cases, 6-panel digipak CDs and tees have arrived. The black blood vinyl LPs are due with us imminently.

"Annihilation Day is an exhilarating experience from start to finish", says Outlaws Of The Sun. "This sinister effort blends Doom, Sludge, Stoner, Grind, Thrash, Noise Rock and Black Metal to devastating effect. TORSO’s most demented and violent record yet."

Can't wait for you all to hear it. 🤘

TORSO band

09/08/2025

Just over a month to go til APF Fest.

Urzah have been added to the line-up. They join Goblinsmoker, Swamp Coffin, WALL, Battalions, Trippy Wicked and the Cosmic Children of the Knight and Voidlurker at Rebellion Manchester on 13th September.

Seven APF bands for a tenner. Not too shabby eh? Can't wait. 🤘😁

03/08/2025

Barbarian Hermit is going on an indefinite hiatus. Their statement:

"We've had an incredible decade being in this band, but it's time for us to Exit The Hermitage and take a break.

From the very bottom of our hearts, thank you to everyone who's ever seen us live, listened to our music or bought our merch, as well as all the fantastic bands, promoters, venues, PRs, journalists and artists we've worked with over the years. And a very special thanks to Fieldy of APF records for releasing One, Solitude and Savagery and Mean Sugar into the world.

It's not the end just yet; we still have a few tricks up our collective sleeve. Of course we'll be playing The Sophie Stage at Bloodstock Festival on Sunday 10 August so if you're at the festival, make sure to come party with us. We'll also be throwing one last hurrah at The Bread Shed Manchester on Saturday 25 October with our good friends Under, 1968 and Rupcha Farms along for the ride. Get your tickets from the link in the comments.

We will also be releasing a final EP on 12 September, entitled Redux. It features two tracks which were produced and mixed by Gaz and mastered by Joe Clayton. The first of which is ‘Del Toro’, a song we wrote back in 2017 which would later become ‘Beyond The Wall'. This version features Si’s original lyrics, which we never got round to recording back in the day. We've also re-recorded ‘Burn The Fire' with Gaz on drums and Bobby on bass, to celebrate 10 years since it was first released.

Artwork for the poster and EP cover was created by the brilliant True Spilt Milk Designs.

Until then, all the love from Si, Adam, Mike, Gaz and Bobby. X"

02/08/2025

Happy anniversary to Barbarian Hermit. Mean Sugar is 1 year old today. 🤘

Listening to it this morning, still sounds crushing. 😎

“Big riffs, rich melody, crushing groove, and infectious hooks. It’s riotously good fun.” – Wonderbox Metal

“Mean Sugar sounds suitably massive and sees the band hitting an exciting new peak. It’s a wonderful album.” – Distorted Sound Magazine 9/10

"An album that showcases a band pouring every inch of themselves into it. They’ve had some banger releases previously, but Mean Sugar is on another level completely.” – Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life

01/08/2025

The APF Summer of Sludge

Spider Kitten (27/6)
The Truth Is Caustic To Love

Goblinsmoker (25/7)
The King's Eternal Throne

TORSO (29/8)
Annihilation Day

Voidlurker (26/9)
Loathe For Life

We've got lots more coming in the autumn, including new albums by The Hyena Kill and Under. Help us keep it happening by picking up an LP, CD, tape or tee.

Happy Friday all. 🤘

31/07/2025

Voidlurker have returned. Green Ghost, their first new track in 5 years, is out now on all streaming sites. 🤟

Taken from their forthcoming Loathe For Life EP, it’s seven and a half minutes of elephantine, monolithic doom. Slow, loud, and crushingly heavy. 😎

We've made it the opening track on the APF Sound of Heavy Spotify playlist. Get it in your ears! 😁

29/07/2025

Voidlurker return this Thursday with their first new track in 5 years. 🎉

Taken from their forthcoming Loathe For Life EP, it's called Green Ghost: seven and a half minutes of elephantine, monolithic doom. Slow, loud, and crushingly heavy. 😈

Can't wait for you all to hear it. Happy Tuesday all. 🤟

25/07/2025

APF Fest 2025

Goblinsmoker, Swamp Coffin, Battalions, Trippy Wicked and the Cosmic Children of the Knight, WALL and Voidlurker play Rebellion Manchester on 13th September.

Hope you can join us for a day of doom.

25/07/2025

Today, after 6 and a half years, the Toad King's journey comes to an end with the release of Goblinsmoker's The King's Eternal Throne.

A trilogy tale that was told through Toad King (2018) and A Throne In Haze A World Ablaze (2020) - with a side quest in Sweet Paravoid (2022) - comes full circle at last.

On the streamer of your choice right now, we very much hope you dig it.

"The King’s Eternal Throne is a masterclass of modern day doom / sludge metal that allows Goblinsmoker to claim their place and cement their reputation as one of the most exciting bands the UK underground scene has to offer." – Outlaws Of The Sun

"There’s a fluid potency to these songs, and they’ve attacked them with great endeavour, and produced a sound that is undeniably Goblinsmoker". – The Razor's Edge

23/07/2025

Rebellion Manchester will host APF Fest on 13th September.

Line-up revealed / tix available this Friday.

APF FEST | 2025

22/07/2025