Dune Altar

06/20/2025

OUT NOW! 🪩 ‘We’ve Met Before, Haven’t We?’ — the new EP from Deformr — is streaming everywhere today! Cassettes & bundles also start shipping today.⚡️

🔗 https://bit.ly/wmbhw

Four ghostly transmissions from the edge of sleep and static — where haunted memories unravel in modular pulses, decayed signals, and droning fragments of what once was. Detach and jump in!

Written & performed by Deformr
Recorded at Channel 83 Cable 12
Mixed by Joseph Holiday at his place
Mastered by Gregg Cash at Vibe Tech Industries
Photography by Ben Zucker
Layout by Kronendrome

We've Met Before, Haven't We? by Deformr

06/13/2025

OUT NOW! Osnova’s latest sonic statement is a six track journey blending shimmering shoegaze textures with punchy post‑punk energy. Anchored by the epic title track which surges from quiet reflection to a cathartic climax, setting the tone for the rest of the record. It’s also the band’s final transmission with vocalist Caroline McLaughlin, whom we all wish well in her future endeavors!

🔗 https://bit.ly/risethesun

“Though the guitars occasionally shimmer and glide in the style of classic shoegaze, they’re also possessed of a dark, almost gothic, power that lets the arrangement lean into a 4AD-style soundscape.” - AnalogueTrash

Written by Jean-Claude Vorgeack, Sam Ribeyro & Caroline McLaughlin
Lyrics by Caroline McLaughlin
Recorded & mixed by Jean-Claude Vorgeack
Caroline McLaughlin - Vocals
Jean-Claude Vorgeack - Guitar, Bass & Synth
Sam Ribeyro - Drums

Rise the Sun by Osnova

06/06/2025

OUT NOW! “Cîmes et Souvenirs,” the new single and Dune Altar debut from is streaming everywhere now!

🔗 https://bit.ly/4dFaaAM

“An ethereal and uncanny choral canopy cloaks a visceral and solemn aura, drawing emphasis and intensity from the abysses of impenetrable darkness and gashes of blinding light seamlessly interpenetrating each other, with powerful evocative transport, built by a fiery concoction of droning guitar textures, sparse, muted clopping beats, dire, tinkling piano keys and shivering, poignant orchestral swathes, to rise and fall alongside deeply haunted trembling vocal layers, releasing fear before rising into vulnerable pain-filled cries against sweeping spasms of tumultuous emotional instrumentation.” - Catt Gilette, White Light//White Heat

Vocals & Piano by Elsa Verhoeven
Guitars by Olivier Jacqmin
Strings by Damien Chierici
Sound Design by Dropthedyle
Produced & mixed by Ben Chisholm
Mastered by Alan Douches

Listen to content by KØCAZE.

06/05/2025

PREMIERE! Belgian darkpop duo Kocaze will officially unveil “Cîmes et Souvenirs,” the lead single from their forthcoming EP ‘D’Or et de Sang’ tomorrow, but our friends at WhiteLight/WhiteHeat are premiering the music video today!

🔗 https://bit.ly/4411aCt

“The Official Music Video by Eléonore Coyette creates a ghostly, metaphysical realm around KØCAZE using an imaginative blend of blurry trace overlays and transformative lights and shadows.” - White Light//White Heat

WL//WH Premiere   KØCAZE Based in Liège, Belgium, KØCAZE is the result of an unexpected collision between two creatively opposite artists, vocalist and pianist Elsa Verhoeven and self-tau…

05/30/2025

OUT NOW! 🪩 “Bury Me Under the Cherry Blossoms,” the new single from Deformr is streaming everywhere now!

🔗 https://bit.ly/chblossoms

A haunting new instrumental elegy that unfolds in waves of fractured modular synth rhythms, ghostly vocal samples, and ambient metallic textures. Equal parts sorrow and signal decay, the track evokes a sense of haunted stillness—an unresolved transmission from somewhere between grief and memory.

Written & performed by Deformr
Recorded at Channel 83 Cable 12
Mixed by Joseph Holiday at his place
Mastered by Gregg Cash at Vibe Tech Industries
Photography by Ben Zucker
Artwork by Kronendrome

Bury Me Under the Cherry Blossoms by Deformr

05/29/2025

‘Bleak Machinery’ vinyl is in stock and shipping now!

https://links.dunealtar.com/incovert/bleakmachinery

On “Quantum Wound” colored vinyl (translucent red with a unique black splatter), limited to 125 copies, in heavyweight old-style “tip-on” packaging, hand-printed & numbered. Just added: (spray painted) black jacket edition

05/29/2025

PREMIERE! Signal-bending composer of the surreal Deformr has a new single called “Bury Me Under the Cherry Blossoms” out tomorrow, but our friends at Ghost Cult Magazine are premiering the music video today!

🔗 https://bit.ly/4jqmkyv

An electronic instrumental elegy built from fractured modular synth beats, ghostly vocal samples, and ambient metallic textures, “Bury Me Under the Cherry Blossoms” blends ambient pop, industrial, and IDM into a slow-burning meditation on memory and loss, from Swindled podcast composer Deformr.

  Deformr, the immersive electronic project of LA artist and Swindled podcast composer Trevor Howard (also of The Lungs) will drop a new EP We've Met

05/22/2025

Merch is in stock now!
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05/22/2025

Home to the dark and & exceptional. A curated selection of cultivated art and underground music, covering post punk, shoegaze and alternative genres.

05/10/2025

Ex-The Sludgelord Founder Now Doing A New Blog. Expect Reviews, News and Interviews from The Doom/Sludge/Stoner Metal World.

05/09/2025

OUT NOW! 🦾 'Bleak Machinery' — the long-awaited debut album from LA’s dystopian noise-gazers In Covert — is officially out today.

A raw collision of gothic punk, industrial clatter, and doom-laced noise, this record channels anxiety, frustration, and dread into ten relentless tracks. From the searing urgency of “Darkfields” to the weight of “Nowhere to Turn,” 'Bleak Machinery' drags you through the smoke-choked ruins of modern life—and dares you to keep going.

🔗 https://bit.ly/4ii3dpP

Decibel Magazine calls it a:�“raw collision of gothic punk, industrial clatter, and doom-laced noise—a sonic reflection of existential dread wrapped in fuzzed-out guitars and pounding rhythms.”

Head-Banger Reviews says:�“It’s darkly enchanting. It’s raw. It’s evocative. It’s from the deepest, most frustrated pits of the human soul.”

All songs written & performed by Wes Lopez, Kris Balocca & Oscar Ruvalcaba
Produced by Wes Lopez
Recorded & mixed by Chris King
Except Blood Moon Rises, The Truth Is Out There, Gates of He// recorded by Wes
Mastered by Brad Boatright
Artwork by Hercules Larva

Bleak Machinery by In Covert

05/08/2025

Faetooth “Remnants of the Vessel” very limited filled records are available now, only at dunealtar.com! We’ve got 2 unique variants…

🧪 Ltd to 15 units - 2-color green + gold liquid inside clear w/ green splatter vinyl.

🌸 Also ltd to 15 units - real flowers pressed between clear w/ green splatter vinyl.

https://www.dunealtar.com/product/faetooth-remnants-of-the-vessel-vinyl-lp

Pressed by Pressing Business for Dune Altar and customized by Actually Pressing, all come in beautiful gold leaf stamped gatefold jackets. Created by hand, both variants are 100% playable and sound just as great as the other non-filled variants. The flower-filled version will vary in the types and layouts of the flowers from unit to unit, because they are filled with REAL flowers that have been dried and pressed to maintain their visual appearance and shape for decades to come. 💐

These will start shipping out in late-May. INTERNATIONAL BUYERS BEWARE - the current state of international commerce has made shipping costs very high and duties potentially even higher. Please take this into consideration before ordering.

Because these are so limited, please limit orders to NO more than 1 of each. Let’s be fair and let as many fans get a copy as possible. 🖤