Charnel Music & More
This is the home for the Charnel Music independent record label and related projects like Morbid Curiosity and Ongaku Otaku magazines.
A number of these projects have concluded, with information kept here for historical purposes. Feel free to explore to learn more.
Projects
Charnel Music
The Charnel Music label began in 1988, initially releasing cassettes as part of the global experimental tape-trading network, then expanding to CDs. Releases included albums by Crash Worship, Pain Teens, Fushitsusha and others. After a long hiatus, 2021 saw a new presence on Bandcamp and some new releases.
Automatism Press
Automatism Press has its own website at www.automatismpress.com. Information can be found here about earlier Automatism projects like Death's Garden, Morbid Curiosity, Ongaku Otaku, and other fine publications.
Morbid Curiosity magazine
An annual journal for a decade, Morbid Curiosity published 10 years of true, first-person accounts of unusual experiences.
Ongaku Otaku magazine
Four issues of Ongaku Otaku were published in the ‘90s to introduce readers to what was happening in the Japanese independent/underground music scene.