Bland Hand Records

Initial rhythm tracks recorded by Nino Ericco at Autumn Road Studios, Wrexham, Wales in April 2007. Keyboards recorded by Gareth Millsted at home in London. All Vocals and lead guitar on track 1 were recorded by Richard Whittaker at FX, London. Mixed by Richard Whittaker at FX, London.

Special thanks to: John Brenner and Bland Hand Records.
Richard Whittaker. Nino Ericco. Richard Jones for the inspiration for the leads on track 1. Rachel Millsted for the cover photographs. Spike and Melissa.

BH 067

Dr. Phibes' Burning Illusions - Visions of Yesterdoom

2010-05-02T05:36:00.000-07:00

Download:

1. The Process Church

2. Blood of an Asp

3. S.A.D.O.S.

4. Ghosts

5. Fuad Ramses

6. Years Ago

7. Twilight of the Idols

Phil Markonish: Strings, Vocals

Sherve Sandune: Drums, Vocals

BH 066

Against Nature - "Chasing Eagles"

2010-05-02T05:34:00.000-07:00

Download:

1. Mixed and Measured

3. Living Well

7. Tangled and Troubled

8. Reprieve

For .wav files, click here.

John Brenner plays guitar and sings

Bert Hall, Jr. plays bass

Steve Branagan plays drums

BH 062 Released February 24, 2010.

Against Nature - "Drawing Arrows"

2010-05-02T05:32:00.001-07:00

Download:

1. Island

2. Darts and Kites

3. Chasing Eagles

4. Every Day Is Too Long

5. Sylvi

6. Milkweed

7. Afterthought

8. Drawing Arrows

For .wav files, click here.

John Brenner plays guitar and sings

Bert Hall, Jr. plays bass

Steve Branagan plays drums

BH 058 Released January 7, 2010.

Edition of 95 CDs.

Against Nature - "The First Rain"

2009-04-22T05:02:00.001-07:00

Download:

1. Bolton Hill

2. Wyman Dell

3. It's What It's

4. You Here, You There

5. Over the Underpass

6. The First Rain

For .wav files, click here.

John Brenner plays keyboards, guitar, vibraphone

Bert Hall, Jr. plays bass

Steve Branagan plays drums

BH 056

Released April 7, 2009.

Against Nature - "Action at a Distance"

2009-03-13T04:40:00.000-07:00

John Brenner plays keyboards

Bert Hall, Jr. plays bass

Steve Branagan plays drums

BH 048

Released March 6, 2009.

Download:

A. Action at a Distance

B. Graviton

C. Another Geometry

Electric Horsemen - EP 2006

2009-01-15T05:59:00.000-08:00

Electric Horsemen EP 2006.

BH 055

Electric Horsemen are: Ben, Barry,Brian, andWyatt.

Lancaster County, PA

Click here to download.

Track List:

1. Abstainer

2. Brush Town

3. Beardsnifer

4. Bloodtaker

5. Farms for Food

6. Iron Sharpens Iron

Contact: www.myspace.com/electrichorsemen

Web sites for Bland Hand Records bands

2008-12-31T11:35:00.000-08:00

Click the name of the band for the link:

Argus

Iron Man

Against Nature/Revelation

Iron Hearse

Stake Off The Witch

Madking Ludwig

Tortured Spirit

Chowder

Electric Horsemen

The making of Against Nature's "Accumulus" covers

2008-12-31T11:34:00.000-08:00

"Accumulus" CD art

Here are some photos and an explanation of the making of the "Accumulus" CD covers.

First, with a rubber roller, I roll out black water-based ink on a piece of glass. This transfers an even coat of ink to the roller:

Next, I roll the ink onto the woodblock. This block is a design I cut a few years ago:

Then I select a piece of paper for the print. This paper I made by hand in the late 90s and early 00s. I look for pieces that have the most perfect imperfections:

I place the proper side of the paper face down onto the inked block:

Then, I use a burnisher to rub the back of the paper, transferring the ink from the block to the paper:

Gently, I peel the paper off the block:

Finally, I let the prints dry:

All that's left is to cut the paper to the proper size, mount the prints on backing paper, and sign, date, and number them.

These are a few of the finished covers in their sleeves. Each is unique:

JB

Iron Man - "Live in Cincinnati 2000"

2008-12-17T03:48:00.000-08:00

Iron Man

Live in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 11, 2000

Al Morris III guitar

Jared Rein drums

VIIX bass

Jadd Schickler vocals

BH 054

Recording by Michael Lindenauer, 2000.

Re-mastered by Lucifer Burns, 2008.

*Interview conducted by M. Lindenauer

Download:

10. Into the Void

11. As the Gods Have Spoken

12. Interview with Al Morris*

Tortured Spirit - Live in Emsdetten, Germany 2008

2008-11-12T07:33:00.000-08:00

BH 053

Soundboard recording, live in Emsdetten, Germany 2008.

This is an Internet-only release.

Contact: www.myspace.com/torturedspiritdoom

Download:

1. Dagon's Children

2. Sorrow in the Stone

3. Man and the Spider

4. Arkham Sanitarium

5. Halls of the Blind

6. Me and My Booze

7. Into the Demiurge

8. Walking the Wind

9. Broken Man

Revelation - "Release"

2008-10-25T06:28:00.000-07:00

Bland Hand Records has licensed Revelation's "Release" to Leaf Hound Records and Shadow Kingdom Records.

"Release" is not currently available from Bland Hand as a free download, but you can buy the disc directly from Shadow Kingdom: www.shadowkingdomrecords.com. Bland Hand Records will also soon have copies of the CD for sale at www.againstnature.us.

John Brenner sings and plays guitar

Bert Hall, Jr. plays bass

Steve Branagan plays drums

Track List:

1. Stars Almost Drown
2. Once Summer
3. Release
4. Then and Again
5. Wither
6. Anatomy of Melancholy
7. Epiphany
8. The Provenance of Clouds

Music by and for Poets and Fascists

2008-10-23T08:23:00.000-07:00

John Brenner

bass guitar, drum machine, keyboards, plastic

recorder, acoustic guitar

Bert Hall, Jr.

electric guitar, clarinet, soprano saxophone,

keyboards, drum machine

Special Guests:

Steve Branagan

drum machine, electric guitar

Jory Fox

cello, electric guitar

BH 011 Two Minutes' Hate

BH 012 Put on a Happy Face

BH 013 A Dog's Day

BH 014 Spin, Win, Sin

BH 019 The Jury Is In: Noodles!

BH 025 Brutish, Nasty, and Short

BH 029 Tape's Last Krapp

BH 033 Set Pounds

BH 034 Swelter

Download:

The Jury Is In: Noodles!

Brutish, Nasty, and Short

Set Pounds

Swelter

Tape's Last Krapp

John Brenner - "Solo Works"

2008-10-23T08:21:00.000-07:00

John Brenner: All instruments

BH 009 Best of Acoustic Sketchbook 1992-1999

BH 010 Philophobe:Phobophile

BH 032 Private Tape 1992

BH 038 Ballads of the Lava Whales 2007

BH 039 8 Pieces for Bass and Sundries

Download:

Best of Acoustic Sketchbook

Philophobe:Phobophile

Private Tape 1992

Ballads of the Lava Whales

8 Pieces for Bass and Sundries

Chowder - Demo

2008-10-23T08:14:00.000-07:00

Josh Hart guitar, vocals, keyboards

Chad Rush drums

Joe Ruthvin bass

BH 020

"By necessity practical and by philosophy stern, these folk were not beautiful in their sins. Erring as all mortals must, they were forced by their rigid code to seek concealment above all else; so that they came to use less and less taste in what they concealed."

- Chowder

Download:

1. Earthsick

2. Eyes Sown Shut

3. Saturated

4. The Sting / Afterthought

Tortured Spirit - "Broken Soul" demo

2008-10-23T08:10:00.000-07:00

Markus Etienne drums

Michael Bolle bass

Oddy guitar, vocals

BH 043

Contact: www.myspace.com/torturedspiritdoom

Download:

1. The Bend

2. Human Taste

3. Broken Man

Against Nature - "Redux"

2008-10-23T08:04:00.000-07:00

BH 023

This is an open-ended, Internet-only release.

Download:

1. R20 Overture (Dean mix 2006)

2. Blessed Realm (Dean mix 2006)

3. Lost Innocence (Dean mix 2006)

4. R20 Overture (Laney mix June-July 2007)

5. Blessed Realm (Laney mix June-July 2007)

6. Behind the Wall of Sleep/Ensurpate

7. Frustrations (Remix 2005)

8. Against Nature (Remix 2005)

Revelation - "Paleontology 1983-1992"

2008-10-22T07:25:00.000-07:00

BH 031

Paleontology 1983-1992

These are demos and rehearsals from the earliest days of Bert and John playing music together in 1983, to John's 4-track recordings at home, through the preparations for the Never Comes Silence release in 1992. All songs are from old, deteriorating cassette tapes, so the sound is hissy and the quality mostly poor.

Revelation - "Live in Frederick 1993"

2008-10-22T07:22:00.000-07:00

Download:

1. One Last Step

2. Infinite Nothingness

3. Never Comes Silence (Part II) / Unreal

4. Wounds Which Never Heal

5. Poets and Paupers

6. Long After Midnight

Revelation - "Live in Pittsburgh 1991"

2008-10-22T07:16:00.000-07:00

Download:

1. Part 1

2. Part 2

Track List:

1. Infinite Nothingness

2. Unreal

3. Blessed Realm

4. Frustrations

5. Images of Darkness

6. Long After Midnight

7. Against Nature

8. Lost Innocence

9. Death Romance

10. Waiting for...the End

11. Salvation's Answer

12. Poets and Paupers

Revelation - "Live in Baltimore, MD 1988"

2008-10-22T07:14:00.000-07:00

Download:

1. Live at the New Loft

Track List:

1. Confusion

2. Fatal Blow

3. Images of Darkness

4. Lost Innocence

5. Paradox / Gnarled Remains

6. Salvation's Answer

Revelation - "Live in Washington, DC 1987"

2008-10-22T07:10:00.000-07:00

Download:

1. Live at the East Side

(The debut concert by Revelation.)

Track List:

1. Confusion

2. Fatal Blow

3. Gnarled Remains

4. Mind Control

5. Salvation's Answer

6. Endtime

7. Empty Existence

Oversoul - "Demo '99"

2008-10-22T07:05:00.000-07:00

Dennis Cornelius guitar, vocals, bass

Launch Pad Patric drums

BH 035

Released on cassette in 1999.

Download:

1. Games

2. Forgive Me

3. Heartrending

4. Matters of the Soul

Revelation - "Five Demos"

2008-10-21T05:39:00.000-07:00

John Brenner sings and plays guitar and bass*

Bert Hall, Jr. plays bass**

Andy Kremer plays bass***

Steve Branagan plays drums

BH 022 5 Demos

Download:

1. Face Reality - January 1987***

2. Terminal Destiny - June 1987*

3. Images of Darkness - November 1987*

4. The Illusion of Progress - March 1989**

5. The Unbearable Vision - July 1991**

Revelation - "Unreleased LP 1988"

2008-10-21T05:34:00.000-07:00

John Brenner sings and plays guitar

Bert Hall, Jr. plays bass

Steve Branagan plays drums

BH 004

*Note: Originally planned for release on Doom Records in 1988.

Not released until 2008 on Leaf Hound Records, vinyl edition only.

Download:

1. Images of Darkness

2. Lost Innocence

3. Poets and Paupers

4. Salvation's Answer

5. Long After Midnight

6. Waiting for...the End

7. Paradox

Spectre - "Spectre" Demo

2008-10-21T05:31:00.000-07:00

Josh Hart guitar, backing vocals

Chad Rush drums

Steve Newberger bass

Rich Newberger vocals

BH 020

Engineered by Rich Newberger and Josh Hart at Falling Sound Studios, Baltimore, Md. 1993

Mixed by Chris Kozlowski.

Produced by Josh Hart.

Download:

1. Paradise

2. Liverhead

3. Forsaken

4. Digits

Iron Hearse - "Rehearsals of Doom"

2008-10-21T05:28:00.000-07:00

Grant guitar, vocals

Liam bass

Chris drums

BH 049

Ian's Tape: A rehearsal tape from the archives of our first drummer, Ian. Recorded in 2002 on 4-track, shortly before our second demo. Raw versions of the same tracks as the demo, but slightly more punishing in places! - Grant

Reactor IV: A pre-album run-through. Raw rock n’ roll. Recorded May 2006. - Grant

Magnificent Octopus: One night Liam can’t make practice, so Chris and I go off on a mental metal journey as a duo. Some of the riffs that we pulled out of thin air for this jam were later used in the song ‘Eternal Frost’ on the debut album. Gets a bit crazy in places, threatening to fall apart, but we just about hold it together. - Grant

Download:

Ian's Tape

1. A Haircut Worthy of Time Travel

2. Church of Green

3. Brimstone Beckons the Fallen

4. Chronovisor

Reactor IV

5. Reactor IV

Magnificent Octopus

6. Magnificent Octopus

Iron Hearse - "Three Demos"

2008-10-21T05:26:00.000-07:00

Grant guitars, vocals

Liam bass

Chris drums

BH 047 Three demos

Demo I: A Slow and Heavy Ride

Demo II: Iron Hearse

Demo III: Ruins of Doom

Contact: www.myspace.com/ironhearse

Download:

Demo I

A Slow and Heavy Ride

Demo II

Iron Hearse

Demo III

Ruins of Doom

Iron Hearse - "Peddle the Metal"

2008-10-20T13:06:00.000-07:00

BH 045

Recorded by Stu at Studio 6, UK, November, 2004.

Download:

1. Temples of the Gods

2. Winter of Discontent

3. Tripod of the Aqualord

4. Apollo 666

Argus - "Demo - Spring 2007"

2008-10-20T13:02:00.000-07:00

BH 024

E-mail: argus.rock@gmail.com

Web: www.myspace.com/theargus

Download:

1. Beyond (Part 1 - Eternity)

2. The Damnation of John Faustus

3. Bending Time

4. Sleeping Dogs

5. The Effigy Is Real

Iron Man - "Live in Frederick, MD 1992"

2008-10-20T13:01:00.000-07:00

BH 044

Soundboard recording by Ronnie Kalimon, 1992.

Re-mastered by Lucifer Burns, 2008.

Download:

1. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

2. Hand of Doom

3. Life's Toll

4. Black Night

5. N.I.B.

6. Lord of This World

7. Fairies Wear Boots

Stake Off The Witch - "Palace Court, Flat 19"

2008-10-20T12:59:00.000-07:00

Stefania voice and guitar

Caterina bass guitar

Fabio drums

Icio guitar

BH 052

Web: http://www.myspace.com/stakeoffthewitch

Download:

1. Game Over

2. Pussycat

3. So Hard

4. Palace Court, Flat 19

5. Something Bad (In My Head)

6. 1383

7. This Is Me

Blizaro - "Horror Rock"

2008-10-20T12:55:00.000-07:00

John Gallo guitars, keyboards, vocals

Mike Puleo drums

BH 050

Web: www.myspace.com/jgblizaro

Download:

1. Sea of Darkness /b. Interlude /c. The Beyond

2. Solar Drone

3. The Opening Death

4. Call to Graves

5. Cadaverous

6. Switched on Blizaro

7. It's In the Lighthouse

Madking Ludwig - "Seven Stairways"

2008-10-20T12:53:00.000-07:00

BH 051

Stéphane Bellemare: Lead Vocals, Flute, Clarinet

Leïla Jolin-Dahel: Lead Vocals

Raphaël Corbeil: Drums, Vocals

Patrick Falardeau: Bass

Stéphane Vigeant: Guitar

Contact: http://www.myspace.com/madkingludwig

Download:

1. Kursk

2. Division Sun

3. Speed of Ice

4. Dermatobia Hominis

5. Cease Not Desist

6. Alone with Us

7. Seven is the Number

Tortured Spirit - "The Mentally Ill"

2008-10-20T12:48:00.000-07:00

BH 037

Special guest musicians:

*Brian "Butch" Balich

vocals on "Message from Hell"

*John Brenner

lead guitars on "Halls of the Blind,"

"Skullsun," "Message from Hell," "Archetype"

Recorded by Tortured Spirit and Jan Robert in 2007.

Mixed and Produced by John Brenner 2007.

Web: http://www.myspace.com/torturedspiritdoom

Download:

1. Sorrow in the Stone

2. Man and the Spider

3. Halls of the Blind

4. Me and My Booze

5. TSMOTAAGT

6. Skullsun

7. Message from Hell

8. Archetype

Click here for the Tortured Spirit demo "Broken Soul"

Dwell Within - "Monkshood" Demo

2008-10-20T12:47:00.000-07:00

BH 036

Recorded 2007.

Contact: www.myspace.com/dwellwithindoom

Download:

1. Open the Floodgates

2. Well of Emptiness

3. Awakened Path

4. Portraits of the Past

Chowder - EP

2008-10-20T12:45:00.000-07:00

BH 030

Recorded Summer 2007 in Baltimore, MD.

Engineered, mixed, and produced by John Brenner.

Contact: www.myspace.com/chowderbaltimore

Download:

1. Eyes Sown Shut

2. Tenacity

3. Night of Time

4. Hiki

5. Saturated

Click here for the Chowder demo.

Revelation - "...Yet So Far"

2008-10-20T12:42:00.000-07:00

BH 018

Originally released on Hellhound Records, 1995.

Download:

1. Soul Barer

2. Eternal Search

3. Little Faith

4. Grasping the Nettle

5. Mournng Son

6. Fallen

7. Alone

8. Natural Steps

9. ...Yet So Far

Revelation - "Salvation's Answer"

2008-10-20T07:32:00.000-07:00

BH 005

Originally released on Rise Above Records, 1991.

Download:

1. Lost Innocence

2. Salvation's Answer

3. Infinite Nothingness

4. Paradox

5. Images of Darkness

6. Long After Midnight

7. Poets and Paupers

8. Waiting For...the End

Revelation - "Never Comes Silence"

2008-10-20T07:30:00.000-07:00

BH 006

Originally released on Hellhound Records, 1992.

Download:

1. Against Nature

2. Ashes

3. The Unbearable Vision

4. Frustrations

5. One Last Step

6. Spectre

7. Wounds Which Never Heal

8. Unreal

9. Never Comes Silence (Parts I-IV)

Click here for .wav files.

Against Nature - "Appease"

2008-10-20T07:27:00.000-07:00

BH 001

Appease was released on September 9, 2005.

The CD version is SOLD OUT.

Download:

1. Alogos

2. Neighborhood 8

3. Appease

4. Bolt

5. A Priori

6. Bland Hand Society

7. Organon

8. Outlet

9. Ensurpate

10. Before the Before

11. After the After

For .wav files, click here.

Against Nature - "Panoply"

2008-10-20T07:26:00.000-07:00

BH 002

Panoply was released on October 25, 2005.

This is an Internet-only release.

Download:

1. Pain By Numbers

2. Instauration

3. Two Years in Texas

4. Panoply

5. Free Radical

6. Mere Rebels

7. Children Cope with Boredom

8. Splatterism

9. Everyday Genius

For .wav files, click here.

Against Nature - "Safe Dissonance"

2008-10-20T07:24:00.000-07:00

BH 003

Safe Dissonance was released on April 29, 2006.

CD edition of 100 with original cover, 100 with new cover..

The CD version is SOLD OUT.

Download:

1. Spectatorship

2. Safe Dissonance

3. Note to Myself

4. Sophistry

5. Canon

6. Inflating Dwarfs

7. Swerve

8. Beware Lilliputians

9. Torpor

10. Armadillo

11. Ignorance with Arrogance

Click for .wav files here.

Against Nature - "Ghosting"

2008-10-20T07:22:00.000-07:00

BH 008

Ghosting was released on July 12, 2006. Re-mixed July 2007.

CD edition of 100 with "Leer."

The CD version is SOLD OUT.

Download:

1. Absolute Zero

2. Natrificial

3. Invisible Cities

4. Quantum Foam

5. The Debil and the Bejeezus

6. Ghosting

7. Wordcrime

For .wav files, click here.

Against Nature - "Leer"

2008-10-20T07:20:00.000-07:00

BH 017

Leer was released on October 23, 2006.

CD edition of 100 with "Ghosting."

The CD edition is SOLD OUT.

Download:

1. Fool

2. Nothing Will Come of Nothing

3. In Good Time

4. Base

5. I Nothing Am

6. The Need

7. Poor Tom

8. The Thing Itself

9. Fall / Miracle

10. Like Flies

11. Howl / Never / Look There / The Weight

For .wav files, click here.

Against Nature - "The Anxiety of Influence"

2008-10-20T07:17:00.000-07:00

BH 021

The Anxiety of Influence was released on February 24, 2007.

CD edition of 100.

The CD version is SOLD OUT.

Download:

1. Aporia

2. Mimesis

For .wav files, click here.

Against Nature - "Unfolded"

2008-10-20T07:15:00.000-07:00

BH 026

Unfolded was released on September 27, 2007.

This is an Internet-only release.

Download:

1. Gehenna

2. Mortar and Pestle

3. Disturb

4. Seeming to Be

5. Orphan Mind

6. Contrarian

7. Come September

For .wav files, click here.

Against Nature - "Much In Little"

2008-10-20T05:25:00.001-07:00

BH 040

Much in Little was released on January 12, 2008.

CD edition of 100, with "Descend."

The CD version is SOLD OUT.

Download:

For .wav files, click here.

Against Nature - "Descend"

2008-10-20T05:18:00.000-07:00

BH 027

Descend was released on January 17, 2008.

CD edition of 100, with "Much in Little."

The CD version is SOLD OUT.

Download:

1. Descend

2. Rue

3. Lapse

4. After All

5. Here Lies

For .wav files, click here.

Against Nature - "Natural Blue"

2008-10-20T05:13:00.000-07:00

BH 028

*Vicky Walters: additonal vocals

Edition of 90 block-printed CD sleeves.

Released September 13, 2008.

Download:

1. Sonic Tonic

2. Moonshine and Mead

3. NOS

4. Something's Gotta Happen

5. Bottom of the Hill

6. Dog and Pony Show

7. One O'Clock Whistle

8. Natchel Blue*

9. Horse Before the Cart

10. Lemongrass

For .wav files, click here.

Against Nature - "Accumulus"

2008-10-19T12:07:00.001-07:00

BH 046

Released October 10, 2008.

Download:

1. Normal Nihilists

2. Lunatic of One Idea

3. The Lesser Unconformity

4. All in Motion

5. Melopoeia

6. Lea

7. Hamartia

8. A Certain Doubleness

9. Happenstance

10 Rasp

For .wav files, click here.

Welcome to the Bland Hand Records blog

2008-10-19T12:06:00.001-07:00

All free downloads are a courtesy of and official releases by Bland Hand Records.

Our method is 100% do-it-yourself for this label and for our music. Against Nature and Revelation record and produce all of their own releases, we maintain this web site, and we pay for everything with our own money. All bands' material appears by permission.

We want everyone to have access to this music. So please download as much as you wish. Post the links to blogs, upload the files to news servers, trade the music with friends--spread it around! And leave us or the bands a donation if you will.

Thank you,

John Brenner