30 Apr 2025
As previously announced, Southern Lord Recordings is unearthing the amazing recordings of Late 80s/early 90s San Diego emotive Hardcore band: Forced Down. This collection is entitled “Liberate” and is now streaming here:
The Read more…
3 Apr 2025
April 1st 1998 was the official unleashing of the Southern Lord label. Initially created solely to release (2) monumental groups that both Stephen O’Malley and I were involved in:
–Thorr’s Hammer-Dommedagsnatt
&
–Burning Witch-Crippled Lucifer (Seven Psalms For Our Lord Read more…
21 Mar 2025
The second and most important album from Engine Kid : ”Angel Wings” turns 30 years old today! In celebration of this absolutely surreal fact (!!!!) the remastered version (including 1 song not originally on the session: “Angel Dust” which was mixed by Brad Read more…
6 Feb 2025
SUNN O))) are pleased to announce the first live actions of 2025: a one-week European tour in June, bringing us to Ephemera Festival in Warsaw, Hellfest, the biggest metal festival in the world, a return to Prague, Graz, Heidelberg and the cult Dachstock Read more…
5 Jul 2024
From the dark alleys and dead ends of Los Angeles, EXCEL have been delivering maximum crossover since crossover first crossed over. Their classic albums Split Image (1987) and The Joke’s On You (1989) remain linchpins of the genre decades after their release. The Read more…
4 Jun 2024
SECT have a lot on their minds. With the forthcoming release of their new LP Plagues Upon Plagues this Friday, SECT explore the intersection of issues which have cascaded over us for the last five years, the “plagues” of the title referring to Read more…
3 May 2024
Sect have a lot on their minds. With the release of their brand new single, “New Low” and the promise of Plagues Upon Plagues, the follow up full-length to 2019’s Blood of the Beasts, Sect explore the intersection of Read more…
1 Mar 2024
The first release on new Southern Lord label subdivision, The Lord Recordings, will be out this May-June. // Pre-order now.
Having released two-full lengths of emotive, atmospheric instrumental and/or wordless music throughout 2022, Greg Anderson returns as The Lord with Read more…
2 Feb 2024
Eternally shrouded in complete mystery and anonymity, the entity calling themselves Toadliquor has returned with its first recorded offerings in over 25 years. Back In The Hole will be released by Southern Lord on February 23, 2024.
Violently bleeding out Read more…
15 Dec 2023
SUNN O))) will play a series of live dates in Spring 2024 as part of their Shoshin (初心) Duo tour.
See the Sunn O))) Shoshin (初心) Duo in its original, raw form. Anderson and O’Malley will perform as a pair, immersed in Read more…
1 Dec 2023
“The Eye of Destiny” and “Wisps of the Black Serpent” are available now via Bandcamp.
Following on from Marthe‘s incendiary debut Southern Lord full-length Further In Evil, released this October, she now teams up with Read more…
25 Nov 2023
Sacrilege B.C.’s Party With God and Virulence’s If This Isn’t A Dream… are both out today.
Southern Lord is proud to announce two essential 80s hardcore/metal/punk reissues arriving as part of RSD/Black Friday; the debut album from the ultra-cult 80s’ Read more…