Iron Man - "Submission" EP 2007

Download:

1. Burn the Sky

2. Blind-Sighted Forward Spiral

3. Run from the Light

4. Crazy Fingers

5. Among the Filth and Slime

Al Morris III guitar

Joe Donnelly vocals

Louis Strachan bass guitar

Dex Dexter drums

BH 063

Recorded at the Polar Bear Lair, Middletown, MD 2007.

Engineered by Chris Kozlowski.

Produced by Chris Kozlowski and Iron Man.

The Path Is Clear - Demo 2010

Download:

1. What Lies Behind

2. Roll the Dice

3. There's No Such Thing As a Free Lunch

4. Misconception

5. The Wisdom of Solomon

All music and lyrics written by Gareth Millsted.

All instruments and vocals by Gareth Millsted.

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

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"

Download:

1. Mixed and Measured

2. A Likely Story

3. Living Well

4. Way Back When

5. Snowed Under

6. Without Within

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"

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"

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"

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

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

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

"Accumulus" CD art

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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"

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:

1. On the Mountain

2. Leaving Town

3. Boston Strangler

4. Generation Void

5. Forever Yours

6. Harvest of Earth

7. King of Kings

8. Unjust Reform

9. Neon Knights

10. Into the Void

11. As the Gods Have Spoken

12. Interview with Al Morris*

Tortured Spirit - Live in Emsdetten, Germany 2008

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"

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

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:

Two Minutes' Hate

Put on a Happy Face

A Dog's Day

Spin, Win, Sin

The Jury Is In: Noodles!

Brutish, Nasty, and Short

Set Pounds

Swelter

Tape's Last Krapp

John Brenner - "Solo Works"

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

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

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"

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"

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"

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