Charnel Music is a record label devoted to releasing unusual music ranging from sheer noise assault to rhythmic and psychedelic musics. Our releases have included CDs from Crash Worship, Mainliner, Trance, and Gravitar. In addition to the releases on Charnel Music itself, we had the Circular Reasoning division, for somewhat more accessible music that included Japan's Angel'in Heavy Syrup and San Francisco's Tel Basta.
As of 2021, after many years of silence, a few vinyl-and-digital releases are in the works. Please visit our Bandcamp page for these and digital reissues of some early releases. You can follow the label there and join the mailing list for our extremely infrequent email updates.
If you're in a band, please don't contact us right now. While it's great to hear new music, we are releasing only a very small hand-selected few things these days, on no predictable schedule, with no particular plan.
Charnel Music
The Releases:
Vinyl LPs
CMLP-1 Damo Suzuki with Numinous Eye & Steve Eto - High School Pharmacy!!! — on Bandcamp
CMLP-2 Collision Stories - Avant l'Obscurité — on Bandcamp
CMLP-3 Mason Jones - Permanence, Perseverance, Persistence — on Bandcamp
CMLP-4 Dodge Jones Rage - West Coast Power Outage II
Compact Discs
CHCD-1 Various Artists - Arrhythmia
CHCD-2 Trance - Automatism - on Bandcamp
CHCD-3 Crash Worship - Espontaneo!
CHCD-4 Various Artists- Dead Tech 3
CHCD-5 P.Children - Documentation
CHCD-6 Null/Jim O'Rourke - New Kind of Water
CHCD-7 Various Artists - Arrhythmia II
CHCD-8 Flying Testicle - Space Desia
CHCD-9 Various Artists - Land of the Rising Noise
CHCD-10 Crash Worship - Triplemania II
CHCD-11 Gravitar - Chinga su Corazon
CHCD-12 Ruins-Hatoba - Ruins-Hatoba
CHCD-13 Hybryds - The Rhythm of the Ritual
CHCD-14 Torture Chorus - In the Land of Lullabye
CHCD-15 Allegory Chapel Ltd. - When Angels Fall
CHCD-16 Trance - Augury - on Bandcamp
CHCD-17 Gravitar - Gravitaativaravitar
CHCD-18 Aube+Cock E.S.P. - Maschinenwerk
CHCD-19 Mainliner - Mellow Out
CHCD-20 Various Artists - Arrhythmia III
CHCD-21 C.O.T.A. - Ta'Wil
CHCD-22 SubArachnoid Space - Delicate Membrane
CHCD-23 Various Artists - Land of the Rising Noise Vol. 2
CHCD-24 Gravitar - Now the Road of Knives
CHCD-25 Mainliner - Mainliner Sonic
CHCD-26 Kadura - From the Depths of the Other Space
CHCD-27 Walking Timebombs - Walking Timebombs - on Bandcamp
CHCD-28 Onna-Kodomo - Syuuka
CHCD-29 Vas Deferens Organization - Sweat Your Cheeses, But Not in My Salad
CHCD-30 Fushitsusha - Gold Blood
CHCD-31 Mason Jones - International Incident
CHCD-32 Pain Teens - Pain Teens
CHCD-33 Various Artists - Land of the Rising Noise Vol. 3
REASON-1 Angel'in Heavy Syrup - III
REASON-2 Tel Basta - Lickerish
REASON-3 The Gay Barbarians - Bohemian Special
7" Singles
CHS-1 Hijokaidan, Trance, Allegory Chapel Ltd. - Live at the Starlight Furniture Company
CHS-2 Trance - Guitar Noise
CHS-3 Crash Worship - Pyru
CHS-4 Gravitar - Evil Monkey Boy
CHS-5 Melt-Banana - Hedgehog
CHS-6 SubArachnoid Space - Char-Broiled Wonderland - on Bandcamp