Montalegre, Portugal, 10.03.2025. Music: Hissing 'Burning Door' from the LP Burning Door. Utech Records, 2019.

The Verge proposes a transformative roadmap for a new brand on the verge of making sense of fashion + underground music. We engage in work of collaboration, with a curated selection of challenging, unfettered artists leading the way in the realm of experimental and underground music. We are makers, dreamers, wanderers, activists. Our goal is to translate our combined love of music, conceptual design and production values into timeless products, made with intention, ignoring passing fads and embracing a shared path to minimise the devastating effects fashion has on our planet. (Manifesto)


Introducing V.A.M.O.S. - Verge Advanced Modular Optimised System. A disruptive, shape-shifting, multi-disciplinary modular system that delivers on our mission to fight the evil of consumerism through the design and production of unique fashion products that are made to last. The program manifests through the combination of experience and know-how, superlative innovation and the drive to boost the re-utilisation of raw materials and finished products.
With this effort we invite our audience to think needs rather than wants, to dramatically reduce consumption and prioritise their products quality and longevity. (V.A.M.O.S.)



The Sutekh Hexen Boot
Ferro Session, Oct. 2025

 

Midway through 2025, I asked Kevin Gan Yuen, the mastermind behind San Francisco Black Metal/Power Noise project Sutekh Hexen if he'd be into developing a boot project with us. Kevin pitched us a dark duck boot look, and a competent design. The result is here and is beyond our expectations. 

We shot the first pair sent out to Kevin in an abandoned corn grinding complex that sits on the east Ferro River bank, and in trying to describe it, we could be accused of closely resembling a well known JRR Tolkien novel. The mill thrived here from the turn of the 19th century until the 1960's, in the ancient village of Jugueiros in the district of Porto. We love this place. It's a lasting landmark of the village, and its natural beauty and connection with the river rivals nearby Roman Empire relics, from the 3rd and 4th centuries AD, which abound in the village.

KING YOSEF

KLEIN



On The Verge
21.11.25

 

King Yosef released a great album in 2025 called Spire of Fear and he is coming to tour Europe from 16 Jan to 6 Feb with Youth Code and Street Sects in support. No Portugal dates included.

This 17th November marked Dissection's Storm of the Light's Bane 30th anniversary.

A top 10 black metal album and ultimate classic in my collection. Arguably one of the best Black Metal albums of the 00's, Deathspell Omega's Paracletus turned 15 years last 9th November.

Been listening to Klein new album Sleep With A Cane on repeat. Dreamy, feverish experimental electronics that are right on with the picture I have of South London.


489. KING YOSEF - Spire of Fear (2025) - Molting Fear

488. KLEIN - Sleep with a Cane (2025) - Family Employment 2008-2014 (in Mix #87)

487. DISSECTION - Storm of The Lights Bane (1995) - Night's Blood (in Mix #3)

486. DEATHSPELL OMEGA - Paracletus (2010)  - Apokatastasis Pantôn (in Mix #19)



Back in January 2025 I sent an email to Kevin Gan Yuen of bay area noise extremists SUTEKH HEXEN. This email was just a 'Hello, this is the guy who's been engaging with you on IG'. Then I realised that since I started posting my weekly mixes at the beginning of Covid 19, I had featured SH tracks in 7 mixes... its up there with some of my all time favourites such as Coil, Autechre and Sunn o))).

So around May I asked Kevin if he'd be interested in putting together a playlist of some of his favourite music for a new mix, and what would be the first guest curated entry in more than 5 years and 200+ mixes. Clocking at almost 2 hours, this is a surprising compilation of songs, and a novel challenge. Stitching together such a disparate medley goes against the grain of my mix routine which is mood/thematic/genre specific. I'd never mix breakcore with black metal (maybe Igorrr) but there's always a first.

Going through the songs, there's hymns of teen angst reveries and romance, forever classics and as you'd expect, a bunch of contemporaries to the sound of Sutekh Hexen. A list became a mix, it weaves between dreamy and ominous, the classic, reference and the unknown, the enjoyable and the unsettling, a testament to Kevin's rich tapestry of influences and sensibilities, balancing what is in his own words: 'that grey area which is the shadow from the light'. 

Listen to the mix here.

Images are courtesy of Kevin's personal photo collection, curated with significance to what is presented in the mix.


Sometime between the onslaught of Covid-19 and the growing dissatisfaction with dysfunctional streaming platforms (specially, fuck you Spotify and their algorithms), I decided it was time to focus on the essential: taking some time off to filter through all the noise and build my ultimate digital collection. Bourne from a fascination with the experimental and challenging this music is the essential sonic fabric that informed our taste from years past, through to the artists that matter for us today.

Click on 'tracklist' to play right away or the + sign to load the individual mix page and dig a little deeper.



#98 | One Leg One Eye, Ural Umbo, Klein, Final, Arrowounds, Ulver . . .

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1. One Leg One Eye – …And Take The Black Worm With Me (2024) – Glistening, She Emerges – start
2. Jason Van Gulick – Concrete (2018) – Concrete 4 – 08:25
3. Gnaw Their Tongues – The Genesis of Light (2025) – The Genesis of Light (part one) – 15:10
4. Lussuria – Scarlet Locust of These Columns (2019) – With Bated Breath (Bird In Hand) – 23:06
5. Danny Passarella & Perc – Videodrome (2015) – Play – 28:02
6. Ural Umbo – Ural Umbo (2010) – Don’t Eat Carrots, My Little Ghost Horse – 37:23
7. Klein – Sleep with a Cane (2025) – Family Employment 2008-2014 – 40:10
8. Philip Jeck & Chris Watson – Oxmardyke (2023) – Coop – 49:00
9. Final – Giving up, One Day at a Time (2025) – Not Sleeping – 54:42
10. Arrowounds – The Loneliness of the Deep Sea Diver Dark (2020) – Tropics – 01:03:00
11. Aughra – Lockjaw And Night Vision 2004-2008 (2023) – A Bluff Carried More Resolutely Through to the Final Limit – 01:08:12
12. Ethel Cain – Perverts (2025) – Housofpsychoticwomn – 01:13:55
13. Ulver – Perdition City (2000) – Dead City Centres – 01:27:27

Mix Cover: Artwork for Danny Passarella & Perc – Videodrome (2015)
Banner Image: Artwork for Gnaw Their Tongues – The Genesis of Light (2025).

#97 | Sum of R, Dragged Into Sunlight, Primitive Man, Uboa, Fear Falls Burning, Birchville Cat Motel . . .

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1. Sum of R – Spectral (2025) – Agglomeration (feat. G. Stuart Dahlquist) – start
2. Old Year – No Dissent (2025) – Death Frequency – 04:15
3. Dragged Into Sunlight – Plainfield / Monarch of Scum (2021) – 12:50
4. Primitive Man – Observance (2025) – Seer – 16:32
5. Funerary Call – Fragments from the Aethyr (2012) – Libation (edit) – 23:50
6. Uboa & Whitehorse – The Dissolution of Eternity (2025) – The Wait – 31:35
7. Sunn O))) – Eternity’s Pillars b/w Raise the Chalice & Reverential (2025) – Eternity’s Pillars – 38:30
8. Fear Falls Burning & Birchville Cat Motel – Fear Falls Burning & Birchville Cat Motel (2007) – Single (edit) – 52:20

Duration: 1h 29m 28s

Mix Cover: Artwork for Fear Falls Burning & Birchville Cat Motel (digital release version 2014)
Banner Image: Sum of R

#96 | Muslimgauze, Wolf Eyes, Demdike Stare, Dead Voices on Air, Severed Heads . . .

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1. Muslimgauze – Occupied Territories (1996) – Muzzled (:zoviet*France:) – start
2. Cuneiform Tabs – Age (2025) – Crow Speech – 04:02
3. Oxhy – Respite Unoffered (2020) – The Coming Elation – 07:11
4. Wolf Eyes – Dreams In Splattered Lines (2023) – Engaged Withdrawal – 13:22
5. Demdike Stare & Kristen Pilon – To Cut and Shoot (2025) – Grab Her Neck And Tell Her I Love Her 2025 – 16:09
6. CIA Debutante – Music For Small Rooms (2021) – Nuclear Holiday – 20:35
7. Lewis Spybey, Graham Lewis, Dead Voices On Air – Gray Bay Play Watch (2024) – Gray Bay Play Watch – 25:37
8. Mouchoir Étanche – Une Fille Pétrifiée (2020) – Enter Mirror Hotel – 31:00
9. Tomaga – The Shape of the Dance (2016) – Four Ducks Dead – 34:28
10. Lee Gamble – Models (2023) – Phantom Limb – 39:00
11. Ø – Kantamoinen (2005) – Monneista Viimeinen / Last of Catfishes – 43:55
12. Severed Heads – City Slab Horror (1985) – Guests – 49:05
13. CHBB – CHBB (2024) – Nobodies Perfect – 54:19
14. Electric Sewer Age – Bad White Corpuscle (2014) – Rising Corpuscle – 57:43
15. Rashad Becker – The Incident (2025) – Stunde Null – 01:05:05
16. Ural Umbo – Delusion of Hope (2011) – This Dead and Fabled Waste – 01:09:24

Duration: 1h 13m 01s

Mix Cover: Artwork for Cuneiform Tabs – Age (2025).
Banner Image: Lee Gamble

#95 | Cryo Chamber, Atrium Carceri, Kevin Drumm, Roly Porter, Randall Dunn . . .

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1. Cryo Chamber, Plague Machinery, Atrox Pestis – Tomb of Iconoclasts (2025) – Longing for What Lies Beyond – start
2. Atrium Carceri, Herbst9 – Ur Djupan Dal (2018) – Drakhuvud – 08:53
3. Spiritual Poison – Incorporeal (2023) – Return – 14:05
4. Kevin Drumm – Battering Rams (2023) – Dreams Now Major Events – 22:25
5. Roly Porter – Life Cycle of a Massive Star (2013) – Sequence – 33:40
6. Randall Dunn – Beloved (2018) – Theoria / Aleph – 38:08
7. Sundrugs – Rituals I (2020) – Gyfu – 46:29
8. Cities Last Broadcast – The Humming (2016) – Tapes Glossolalia – 58:40
9. Raison D’être – Mise en Abyme (2014) – Infernos – 01:05:10
10. Funerary Call – Beckoning At the Black (2007) – Hill of Skull and Bone – 01:19:42

Mix Cover: Artwork for Kevin Drumm – Battering Rams (2023).
Banner Image: Peter Andersson (Raison D’être).

#94 | Guest Mix by Void (Non Serviam / Hiverlucide)

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1. Necromass – Exsanguinati Sacerdotes (2024) – Ex Sarcophago, Ataraxia Cano – start
2. The Angelic Process – Coma Waering (2012) – Crippled Healing – 06:56
3. Overmars – Affliction, Endocrine… Vertigo (2005) – A Spermwhale’s Quest – 13:47
4. Nasum – Human 2.0 (2000) – Resistance – 19:37
5. Dystopia – Human = Garbage (1994) – Sanctity – 22:03
6. Coalesce – 012: Revolution in Just Listening (1999) – Cowards.com- 28:08
7. Ampere – The First Five Years (2014) – Escapism – 30:33
8. From Ashes Rise – Life and Death (1999) – Seeping – 32:05
9. Takaru – Split w/ A Light In The Attic – Torrent Reigns – 33:20
10. Hiretsukan – End States (2005) – 19 Year Barrier – 34:20
11. Today Is The Day – In the Eyes of God (1999) – Mayari – 36:15
12. Gigantic Brain – Gigantic Brain (2016) – The Super Cat – 39:37
13. Emperor – Emperor (1993) – Cosmic Keys To My Creations – 42:03
14. Blut Aus Nord – 777 – Sect(s) (2011) – Epitome II – 48:07
15. Leonard Cohen – Songs of Love and Hate (1971) – Avalanche – 54:48
16. Simon Finn – Pass the Distance (1971) – Jerusalem – 59:49
17. Thee Silver Mt. Zion – Horses In The Sky (2005) – God Bless Our Dead Marines – 01:06:26
18. Necromass – Exsanguinati Sacerdotes (2024) – Exsanguinati Sacerdotes – 01:17:59

Mix Cover: Non Serviam visual.
Banner Image: Hiverlucide.

#93 | Sutekh Hexen, Funerary Call, Catafalque, Many Blessings, Nekrasov, Hiverlucide . . .

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1. Gnaw Their Tongues – The Genesis of Light (2025) – The Genesis of Light (Part Three) – start
2. Sutekh Hexen & Funerary Call – P: R: I: S: M: (2023) – Meridian غ – 10:00
3. Catafalque – We Will Always Suffer (2020) – Not Even the Storm Could Wash These Hands Clean – 20:30
4. The Human Quena Orchestra – The Politics of The Irredeemable (2009) – Mores Part ii – 26:57
5. Many Blessings – Emanation Body (2020) – Harm Signal – 38:25
6. Nekrasov – Lust of Consciousness (2019) – The Lust of Consciousness – 47:39
7. Hiverlucide – Satan Death Whale (2023) – Whale – 55:57
8. Colossloth – Heathen Needles (2017) – Sedentary Signals – 01:15:35
9. Phill Niblock – BestiaIRE (2020) – BESTIA (performed live by Kasper T. Toeplitz, Franck Vigroux & Hélène Breschand) – 01:26:32
10. Wolvserpent – Perigaea Antahkarana (2013) – Threshold: Gateway – 01:47:55
11. Marco Fusinato & Striborg – Extended Breakdown (2018) – Extended Breakdown, Pt. 2- 01:51:10

Duration: 2h 2m 42s

Mix Cover: Artwork for Phil Niblock – BestiaIRE (2020).
Banner Image: Taken from paintings by Nicole Guerrera, “False Color 2” (2017, cover), for Sutekh Hexen & Funerary Call collaboration album ‘P:R:I:S:M’ released in 2023.

#92 | Aya, Puce Mary, Hüma Utku, Consumer Electronics, 9T Antiope, Peter Rehberg . . .

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1. Fly Pan Am – C’est ça (2019) – Alienage Syntropy – start
2. Aya – Hexed! (2025) – Hexed! – 01:55
3. Puce Mary – The Drought (2018) – The Size Of Our Desires – 05:38
4. Mara MacDonald, Uboa – August and June (2024) – An Apology – 12:53
5. Infidel? Castro! – Bioentropic Damage Fractal (2005) – Damage Fractal Series II: Insalubrity Serves Me – 19:46
6. Félix-Antoine Morin – Noeuds Chimiques & Flying Sun (2018) – Elevated CN Railway Line – 23:31
7. MV Carbon, Charlemagne Palestine – Liquiddd Changesss (2022) – Mercury Curtains – 27:27
8. Hüma Utku – Dracones (2025) – A World Between Worlds – 34:10
9. Aho Ssan, The Mensah Imaginary Band – Simulacrum (2020) – Outro – 38:44
10. Ruhail Qaisar – Fatima (2023) – The Fanged Poet – 43:42
11. Consumer Electronics – Surge (2024) – Dirt and Dust – 48:53
12. Jeff Witscher – V/A – Mono No Aware (2017) – Ok, American Medium – 54:03
13. Ural Umbo – Ural Umbo (2010) – Stumbling Upon Blood and Mercury – 59:35
14. Resina – Speechless (2021) – Mercury Immersion – 01:07:00
15. Lucy Railton – Paradise 94 (2018) – Pinnevik – 01:11:50
16. MIZU – 4 | 2 | 3 (2024) – Fallout – 01:16:55
17. Yellow Swans – Going Places (2010) – Limited Space – 01:24:20
18. 9T Antiope – Placebo (2020) – Memento Mori – 01:34:10
19. Peter Rehberg – Work For GV (2004-2008) – Slow Investigation – 01:44:41
20. Mount Eerie – Wind’s Poem (2009) – (something) – 01:57:55

Mix Cover: Artwork for Yellow Swans ‘Going Places’ released in 2010 by Type Records and celebrating 15 years this year. This is a small tribute to an album that meant such a lot to me back then. It opened the noise world to me, and gave me a second chance at re-discovering Merzbow and Whitehouse amongst others, musicians deemed pretty inaccessible then.
Banner Image: Hüma Utku.

#91 | Genevieve, Häxkapell, Cantique Lepreux, Drudkh, Vermine, Scarcity, Hexvessel . . .

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1. Genevieve – Regressionism (2017) – No for an Answer – start
2. Blood Abscission – I I (2025) – I I – I I – 05:37
3. Palus Somni – Monarch of Dark Matter (2021) – Igneus Solis – 12:06
4. Offret – Затмение (2024) – Метла и пёсья голова – 16:00
5. Häxkapell – Om Jordens Blod Och Urgravens Grepp (2025) – Urgravens Grepp Är Hårt Och Kallt – 21:08
6. Cantique Lépreux – Paysages Polaires (2018) – Hélas… – 27:24
7. Drudkh – Shadow Play (2025) – The Thirst – 32:10
8. Vermine – Vermine (2016) – Pouces Coupés – 44:32
9. Scarcity – The Promise of Rain (2024) – Venom & Cadmium – 50:30
10. Hexvessel – Nocturne (2025) – Sapphire Zephyrs – 57:00

Mix Cover: Artwork for Offret – Затмение (2024)
Banner Image: Artwork for Drudkh Shadow Play, by O.L. (2025)

#90 | Floating, Vreid, Lord Mantis, Ultha, Fister, Laster, Celeste, Urfaust . . .

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1. FLOATING – Hesitating Lights (2025) – Cough Choir – start
2. Vreid – Pitch Black Brigade (2006) – The Red Smell – 04:10
3. Lord Mantis – Spawning The Nephilim (2009) – Spawning The Nephilim – 08:49
4. Ultha – Converging Sins (2016) – You Will Learn About Loss – 13:47
5. Fister – Gemini (2013) – Gemini – 28:12
6. Laster – Het Wassen Oog (2019) – Haat & Bonhomie – 33:38
7. CELESTE – Assassine(s) (2021) – (A) – 39:10
8. This Gift Is A Curse – Heir (2025) – Cosmic Voice – 43:36
9. Urfaust – Empty Space Meditation (2016) – Meditatum II – 50:05

Duration: 01h 06m 13s

Mix Cover: Artwork for FLOATING album ‘Hesitating Lights’ released in July 2025 on Transcendent Obscurity.
Banner Image: Still taken from Laster’s China 2019 official tour video.
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