tUMULt Records
San Francisco's tUMULt Records was initially formed out of owner Andee Connors's desire to re-release four long out-of-print releases by Chicago's Souled American. After just one year of operation, tUMULt established itself as a label that is extremely unpredictable yet entirely reliable in quality. Each release manages to challenge and engage the listener in a new and different way.
Hammers of Misfortune
A violent, hard-to-classify foray into darkness, anger, and despair. Hammers of Misfortune draws on black metal, power metal, goth, prog, dark ambient, and even Celtic folk to create something totally unique and deeply affecting.
The Bastard
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2001
Harvey Milk
Harvey Milk explores the entire spectrum of sounds that connote anger and pain, ranging from crushing, powerful brutality, to vulnerable, just audible introspection, all at incredibly slow tempos. Their music is somehow epic and baroque yet also intensely private.
Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men
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1997
Iran
Damaged, haunting, and beautiful, Iran redefines the limits of both noise and pop. This is the kind of music you'd hear out on your grandfather's farm -- if he lived on Mars and had nuclear-powered cows and Army surplus tractors
Iran
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2000
Souled American
Souled American's beautiful, earnest songs surpass simple labels like "country" or "folk," though they do contain elements of both genres. Their music will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you thankful that there are still some musicians who value songwriting over slickness.
Fe/Flubber
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2000
Around the Horn/Sonny
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2000
Thuja
Piano, guitar, percussion, and electronics blend together to form dense, meandering streams of sound. Thuja is lovely and mysterious, a fleeting glimpse of a rare wild creature.
The Deer Lay Down Their Bones
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2000
Weakling
Weakling's powerful, baroque black metal epics conjure the violent fascinating beauty of
acts of violent destruction and senseless evil on a grand scale.
Dead as Dreams
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2000
