2025 like years before it, brought increasingly more strife, social decay, terror, fear, fascism, climate collapse, communal breakdowns, extreme homelessness and lack of resources for underserved communities across the world, rogue robots, and cat videos right off the jump.As we slide deeper and deeper into uncertainty, one thing we know for sure - the necessity for the championing of boundary pushing art and music has never been as necessary as it is now- and we continue that process with our first release info of 2025. We scrape ourselves off the wall, and as the blood dries it spells out a message - TODAY we announce the very next Ratskin Records release, RECTRIX “The Bell That Never Stops Ringing” which is available for preorder NOW via bandcamp store and our webstore (ratskin.org/store) and comes out APRIL 18, 2025 everywhere you love and hate to buy music.
https://ratskinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-bell-that-never-stops-ringing
For our 95th release, RECTRIX has painstakingly spliced together nearly an hour of masterfully composed plunderphonic sonic nightmares composed in a stunning and beautiful arrangement of aural terror, blending together elements of extreme metal, harsh noise, industrial, collage, and plunderphonics which create an infinity loop to a dark and desolate place, cloaked by a thick mist, flanked by a distant figure with a mask and an ax that drips with fresh blood, we present to you “The Bell That Never Stops Ringing”
Preorder is up today and the album releases on CD, and digital March 17th to celebrate the artists birthday, so make sure you pick up a copy, this is limited and we anticipate the special editions which will go quick (insert songbook description)
The Bell that Never Stops Ringing -
Existing somewhere between Diamanda Galas’s “the Litanies Of Satan”, 80s horror plunderphonic, and harsh noise cut up collage, RECTRIX uses the human body as her own personal catacomb to sculpt a shaking, menacing reverb chamber for her sonic terror evocations. Rhythmic pulsing tension, hypnotic pacing, curdling shrieks mauled by sub bass, The Bell That Never Stops Ringing is both relentlessly terrifying and acutely beautiful in its sonic and conceptual roadmap of horror. Throughout all ten tracks, RECTRIX maintains a creative tension that helps build suspense and anticipation throughout the near fifty minute journey through a bloodied, brutalized world in which the artist Pippi Zornoza is the sole creative and sonic architect. Blending elements of extreme metal, drone, industrial, plunderphonics/collage with harsh noise, TBTNSR offers a terrifying oeuvre of contemporary extreme music and art.
The Bell that Never Stops Ringing is a collection of RECTRIX songs from the 2012 - 2016 era of her career. This “lost album” (recorded over the course of 8 years and then deleted from a series of equipment failures), had been in purgatory and now being brought to light by Ratskin after over a decade in the unmaking.
Comprised almost entirely of samples from iconic horror films, the songs from these years mark a preoccupation with horror and what it means to be a body. Where pretensions and posturing of “evil” within the extreme genres of metal, power electronics abound, TBTNSR flips the tropes of what images and sounds are used to signify power, and who wields it, on its head — Making something that is genuinely horrifying, a haunting and a meditation the incessant toll of mortality.