Praetorian have launched something visceral and nasty into the world today.

Our latest signing's unsettling new track Fear and Loathing in Stevenage is doing damage over at DOOMED & STONED in video form, and on Praetorian's Bandcamp page to full ear-thrashing effect. It'll be on Spotify and all other streaming sites on Friday 8th November.

It's taken from the album Pylon Cult which drops on 31st January and can be pre-ordered right now here on the APF website.

APF signed Praetorian because the album is immense, and they are properly jaw-dropping live. We know you're gonna enjoy being mauled by them.

Watch the video over at Doomed & Stoned:

https://doomedandstoned.com/post/766305649917362176/praetorian

We are super-excited to announce that Praetorian has joined the APF Records roster.

Hailing from North Hertfordshire, the quartet delivers a devastating blend of blackened sludge, doom riffs, and chaotic noise rock. Their intense, bowel-rattling sound - coupled with frontman Tom Clements’ wild, unpredictable live antics - has made them a force to be reckoned with in the UK underground.

Following on from their 2022 EP A Deluge of Bad Faith, APF will be releasing their debut full-length album Pylon Cult in early 2025. With a foundation of sludge metal at its core, the album encompasses black metal, doom and post-metal, creating a dynamic sound that is as diverse as it is destructive. The album will take listeners on a wild ride through fast, slow, and ridiculously heavy sections, punctuated by rare moments of subdued calm that lure you in just before the storm returns.

In a whole different stratosphere from the EP, the album is a blisteringly heavy, unrelenting juggernaut. Recorded by Wayne Adams at Bear Bites Horse Studio, it's already blown heads clean off at APF HQ. Can't wait for you all to hear it.

Read more about Prateorian on their band page here on the APF website.

Happy release day to Swamp Coffin. Their new album Drowning Glory is out in the world today.

Stream it via our Linktree: https://linktr.ee/APFRecords

Vinyl LPs, CDs, tape and t-shirts available in our shop here on the APF website.

"Jon Rhodes vocals take cues from Cancer Bats' Liam Cormier and Obituary's John Tardy. Colossal in its destructive prowess... these seven slabs of sludge are gut-rumbling heavy and packed to the rafters with riffs". – 8/10 - Metal Hammer

"Swamp Coffin could and should be the ones to take UK sludge to the crowd killers and beatdowners of the U.S. This album has crossover hit written all over it." - 9/10 - Ave Noctum

"Swamp Coffin have stepped up in every department here and delivered a record of the year contender. This is the sound of a band digging deeper than ever, a band reaching an even more confident level, and having developed as artists to the point where their creativity can be fully realised." - Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life

"Swamp Coffin style themselves upon the fusion of sludge and doom metal to create something truly epic in scope, and monstrous in its impact." - The Razor's Edge

"It is some of the blackest sludge you will come across this year... each song building on the insane levels of heaviness dropped in the track before..." - 4/5 - Metal Epidemic

"Holding true to themselves, their sound and embracing elements that serve their purpose, Swamp Coffin have utterly excelled with Drowning Glory." - 10/10 - Distorted Sound Magazine

TORSO's Brain Cells album was released on Friday, and has rapidly become one of our best sellers of 2024. Only a handful of tees and 3 tapes left.

"Brain Cells is a frantic mix of thrashy riffs, sludgy hooks and double kick madness, with a bunch of old school horror samples thrown in. It sounds like it was recorded in a cave and it just fucking rips" is Birthday Cake For Breakfast's verdict; whilst Musipedia Of Metal calls it "a bubbling blend of KISS schlock worship, hardcore thrash and even dirgy grunge... a short stab of gruesomeness, oppressive and ferocious".

If you've yet to dive in: get it in your ears.

Link to hear it and buy the album: https://linktr.ee/APFRecords

Happy Tuesday all.

TORSO's Brain Cells album is out on Friday. As is APF tradition, we've dropped the whole thing in all its 8-track glory on YouTube for your listening pleasure this evening. 

Listen here: https://bit.ly/torsobraincells

Brain Cells is an album that embodies the true spirit of DIY, with brooding rhythms, throbbing BIG MUFF tones, and ferocious riff-wielding energy. We think you're gonna dig it. 

As at time of writing the tapes and t-shirts have almost all gone. If you want one, head to our shop here on the APF website and order fast.