Aural Music, home to sub-label Code666, have issued the following update:

Starting from June, 2006, Aural Music will take care of worldwide marketing and distribution of this new interesting label, founded by members of AXIS OF PERDITION and MINETHORN.

Excreted with no little puzzlement from Northern England’s largely sterilized musical waters: Ammonite Industries, an extreme music label with a difference, the kind of difference that makes you cross the street to avoid the smell, not to mention the flailing.

Truly, a label born to jiggle the superiority squid in the startled face of the banal!

If extreme music is a suppurating, bland swathe of stagnating mud ripe for exploratory prodding, Ammonite Industries knows just where to find the squirmy things that refuse to sway to the currents of the gunge.

Those bands that are shocked by the very idea of rules and have the tenacity to maintain a genuine vision of real depth and three-dimensional weight are to be mercilessly harassed.

Cardboard-cut-out outfits whimpering in soporific karaoke to the latest empty sentiments of a bloated scene are to be brain-wronged out the bad side of No.

Arbiters of scene homogeny will be thoroughly unimpressed by the signing of:

XENOLITH -Devastating extreme metal, equal parts venomous chaos and icy precision. The debut EP Machine Apotheosis is a Hellraiser-esque shifting mechanical labyrinth of technical ferocity and immense atmosphere, each tortuous avenue rife with its own innate terrors. A ruthless, epic reiteration of technophobia primed to bulldozer all in its path to a new dark future. (www.xenolith.cjb.net)

VORTEX SYNDROME - Technical death metal navigating through a boundless ambient space, Vortex Syndrome welds the progressive bent of later EMPEROR and the sensory assault of MYRKSKOG to an atmospheric electronic swathe, overflowing with alienation and off-world paranoia straight from Iain M. Banks, at once alluring, threatening and awe-inspiring. (www.myspace.com/vortexsyndrome)

HALO OF THE SUN - The new endeavour of Ein (THE KULT OF EIHORT). A vast, unnerving sprawl of dark ambient disquiet with sinister undercurrents of contorted metal texture. Ominous drums and sombre drones echo mournfully through the most desolate of nightmares. Prepare to be touched by the ghosts of the void… (www.myspace.com/ammoniteindustries)

HESPER PAYNE - Sludgy Lovecraftian doom expunged from the bowels of Teesside: Leviathan Cthulhoid grooves rise monolithically from a plateau of foreboding apocalyptic dirge, a slow moving yet horribly inexorable onslaught of cosmic horror. The stars are right for you to be crushed. (www.myspace.com/ammoniteindustries)