2024 has come to an end. By far the busiest year for Rope or Guillotine

A lot of firsts - first tape release, first flexi release, first benefit release, first compilation

I wanna thank everyone who bought records and/or tapes, supported the label or the bands directly

Planning to keep 2025 a little less busy, although, first 3 releases are already planned and almost ready to be sent to the pressing plant. More news on that soon!

Until then, free Palestine & free Luigi

Today is the last Bandcamp Friday of the year and we got a new record out today! 8th one of this year!

Human Needs is a really fucking amazing anarcho/post punk band from Rome, Italy and this is their debut full length. An record perfectly reflecting the curent mood of the world!

Human Needs will be on tour and of this month, you can catch them at one of the dates below

27.12 Podrum (Rijeka, Croatia)

28.12 Rhiz (Wien, Austria)

29.12 Kontejnr (Postojna, Slovenia)

30.12 Ask a punk (Belgrade, Serbia)

31.12 Ask a punk (Sofia, Bulgaria)

01.01 Bookva (Skopje, North Macedonia)

02.01 North Greece - Need help

03.01 Aftodiachirizomeno Steki (Karditsa, Greece)

04.01 Naos (Athens, Greece)

We decided to put up all Leechfeast merch for free. You can decide on the amount of money and the project helping people in Gaza you want to support

You can order these through the webshop

3 T-shirts designs

Leechfeast/Nightfucker - Split 12"

Leechfeast - Village Creep EP 12"

All Birds Return tape is still available as well, €5 of each sale is donated to one of those projects as well

Thank you!

Green Crack - Flexi 7" is out today!

Excited to finally be able to bring this one out. Had the privilege of seeing them live last december twice and they completely blew my mind. The Slovenian powerviolence scene is on a rise, more than any diy punk adjacent movements ever on those grounds. 

This is also the first Rope or Guillotine flexi release, excited to do more of these in the future!

It is also Bandcamp friday today, so all profits go directly to artists and labels. Any purchase is much appreciated, to help fun the last three releases of this year

Thank you!

Today marks the release of Couch's "Spiritual Advisors" tape!

Weird as fuck sludge, or as they like to call it themselves, "slurry". This release is intensely unhinged! Music that I would never expect to work in the way they did it, but absolutely rips and utterly mental artwork, full of details to discover!

There is this underlying creepy feeling to the whole thing that makes you feel really uncomfortable in the best possible meaning of the word

Limited to 50 copies on clear purple tape with foldout inlay

It's Bandcamp Friday again and we have a new release out today!

Foaming Blood is a solo project of Jaka Vatovec (ex Leechfeast) and this is his first solo release. The tape is comprised of two tracks, both originating as soundtracks for two longer still-image videos, made of analog photos — False Magic and Cerberus — which were part of his False Magic project.

We're also starting pre-orders for the exclusive press of Corrupted's legendary Dios Injusto 7". We will only have 30 copies available, so don't sleep on this one!

The whole EP is now streaming over at Decibel Magazine

Physical copies should arrive by the end of the week, early next week latest and all orders will ship the same day

Catch Diploid live on one of the dates below

05/07 | ILLAWARRA DHARAWAL LAND | WOLLONGONG

06/07 | CADIGAL WANGAL LAND | SYDNEY

13/07 | MEANJIN | BRISBANE

14/07 | KABI KABI AND JINIBARA LAND | NAMBOUR

19/07 | NAARM | MELBOURNE

027/07 | KAURNA COUNTRY | ADELAIDE

02/08 | NAARM | MELBOURNE

03/08 | BUNURONG LAND | FRANKSTON

Stream the first song 'Denial Defensive' on DIY Conspiracy & pre-order!

Out July 1st

While human evolution or whatever one wants to pathetically attempt to define our often disgusting, self righteous examples of ‘progress’ as may be nearly impossible to accurately conjure, one thing is certain: Melbourne, Australia’s Diploid exists as pertinent example of moving a sonic signature and personal artistic message forward with unstoppable force.

This tape is a benefit compilation, all profits will be donated to people of Gaza

Compilation features 8 different artists who have a tight connection to the label and I'm happy we got to put together this amazing group of people to either make something specifically for this release or contribute a previously unreleased song.

The list features

Talk=Trouble (of V0NT)

Umdhlebi (of Human Host Body, Melete)

Rouge-Ah

Isildur (of Rattenburcht)

Hungry Moths (of Cloud Rat)

Son of Seth (of Bastard Grave)

Elbrus (of Bismuth)

Foaming Blood (of Leechfeast)

Master done by Marcus Ferreira Larsen (No Master's Voice)

Design, layout and cover photo by Jaka Vatovec

Forever Free Palestine

CarlxJohnson, Propad & Ku-Ri-Boh! are kicking off their tour today in Graz!

26.04 Graz, SUB (AUT)

27.04 Vienna, Secret Location (AUT)

28.04 Linz, Secret Location (AUT)

29.04 Augsburg, Kraetzwerk (GER)

30.04 Leipzig, Axxxi (GER)

01.05 Plzen, Drużba (CZ)

02.05 Prague, Eternia(CZ)

03.05 Bratislava, Garáże (SK)

04.05 Ljubljana, Jalla (SLO)