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 advance through work of collaboration, reaching out to a curated selection of challenging and unfettered artists leading the way in the realms of experimental and underground music. We strive to translate our combined love of music, conceptual vision and production values into timeless fashion products - a collection of signature standards made with intention, ignoring transient fads and embracing a shared path to minimise the devastating effects senseless consumerism has on our planet. (Pt. 1: 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. (Pt. 2: V.A.M.O.S.)




The Sutekh Hexen Boot
Collaboration - 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 duck boot look, the desire for a dark silhouette and a competent design. Everything starts with a last, it dictates the overall look, the proportions, the volume and shape of the toe that form the basis of any shoe design, but in this case the critical component is a unique last-less sole:  an early 20th century Maine inspired moulded behemoth, in natural rubber, which only allows for a rare, dedicated machine to carry out the stitch. After many tweaks in prototyping we got to a very good first pair, which exceeded our expectations, and was sent out to Kevin.

But before we did, we shot the boots in my favourite childhood place, an abandoned corn grinding factory that was once in the family. This is a place well worth of a visit and in trying to describe it, I could be accused of ripping off a well known 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. It's a lasting landmark of the village, and its natural enchantment and close-knit connection with the river rivals nearby Roman empire relics, from the 3rd and 4th centuries AD, which abound in the village.

The boots shoot well here, they feel at home in this now untamed and harsh landscape, drawing on the references and stylistic briefing presented by Sutekh Hexen itself.
The only path in slopes toward the East Ferro River bank and as we approach we seem to be stepping into a bygone world.
Sutekh Hexen Boots, shot by Jorge Sampaio. October 2025.


"After many tweaks in prototyping we got to a very good first pair, which exceeded our expectations, and was sent out to Kevin. But before we did, we shot the boots in my favourite childhood place, an abandoned corn grinding factory that was once in the family. This is a place well worth of a visit and in trying to describe it, I could be accused of ripping off a well known Tolkien novel."

Jorge Sampaio - The Verge

Sutekh Hexen Boot 1 - Stone (l) and Snow (r) shot by Kevin Gan Yuen, 2026.


"The VERGE x SUTEKH HEXEN collaboration transmutes elemental, impression, and utilitarian aspects thus amplifying silhouettes accordingly. Defining structure with timeless materials to style, each design-detail stages confidence in any conditions, furthering the explorative spirit for the long-term."

Kevin Gan Yuen - Sutekh Hexen


On The Verge
15.11.25

 

Sometime 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 mixes at the start of Covid 19, I had featured SH tracks in 7 mixes. Its up there with 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 his favourite music for a new mix, the first guest curated entry in more than 5 years and 100+ 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/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 of Sutekh Hexen. A list became a mix, it weaves between dreamy and ominous, classics 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.
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Sometime between the onslaught of Covid-19 and the growing dissatisfaction with dysfunctional streaming platforms (specially, fuck you Spotify and their algorithms), I decided to filter through all the noise and build my ultimate digital collection. Bourne from a fascination with the experimental and the challenging, this 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.



#116 | Markus Guentner, Toni Geitani, KMRU, Kassel Jaeger . . .

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1. Markus Guentner – On Brutal Soil, We Grow (2026) – Sprawl – start
2. ASERET – Softly Held in Vanishing Arms (2024) – No Man’s Land – 04:35
3. Pye Corner Audio – Simulation Cult (2024) – Simulation Cult – Alessandro Cortini Remix – 12:30
4. zakè – Orchestral Tape Studies II (2023) – Bestir Thyself – 23:02
5. Toni Geitani – Wahj (2026) – Madda Mudadda – 27:40
6. Blanck Mass – Blanck Mass (2011) – Chernobyl – 37:17
7. Abul Mogard, Rafael Anton Irisarri – Impossibly Distant, Impossibly Close (2024) – Place of Forever – AM Radio Edit – 41:28
8. Dead Voices On Air, Snowbeasts – :snowbeasts: dead voices on air: (2025) – The Stone of Pride – 48:20
9. Bobby Krlic – Anemone OST (2025) – Why Did He Leave Us – 55:39
10. Kevin Richard Martin – Sub Zero (2022 – Remaster 2026) – The Beast – 58:12
11. Segensklang – V/A Pop Ambient 2026 (2025) – Erlösung – 01:02:17
12. KMRU – Kin (2026) – They Are Here – 01:07:55
13. Ben Chatwin – The Sleeper Awakes (2025 Edition) – Insomnia – 01:14:12
14. Loscil, Lawrence English – Chroma (2024) – Indigo – 01:19:15
15. Rafael Anton Irisarri – FAÇADISMS (2024) – Forever Ago is Now – 01:23:30
16. Kassel Jaeger – Shifted in Dreams (2023) – Allée des Brouillards – 01:28:52
17. Ancient Methods – The Black Ideal (2013) – Guardians of an Eternal Bliss – 01:35:45
18. William Basinski – Lamentations (2020) – For Whom the Bell Tolls – 01:40:35
19. Francesco Giannico, Giulio Aldinucci – Illuminations III (2024) – Slang – 01:44:22
20. Tóti Guðnason – Lamb OST (2021) – DÝRIÐ – 01:52:00

Duration: 1h 56m 38s

#115 | Gnod, Smote, Black Aleph, Zu, Dead Neanderthals . . .

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1. Kristof Hahn – Six Pieces (2021) – Schwere See – start
2. Gnod – Chronicles of Gnowt (Vol 1) (2026) – All Tunnel No Light – 06:20
3. Aidan Baker, Tim Wyskida, Daron Beck – Trzecia (Drugi) (2025) – Dziewiåty – 15:50
4. Smote – Songs From The Free House (2025) – The Cottar – 23:55
5. Black Aleph – Apsides (2024) – Procession – 32:30
6. Some Became Hollow Tubes – Keep It In The Ground (2019) – Do Not Run Away or Hide Sick People – 37:35
7. Zu – Ferrum Sidereum (2026) – Golgotha – 45:50
8. Palehorse – Harm Starts Here (2013) – What is Wrong With You People – 52:49
9. Dead Neanderthals – Metal (2022) – Fluidity (edit) – 01:03:43
10. A-Sun Amissa – Black Rain (I) (2020) – Plucking Feathers From a Swan Song (II) – 01:13:00

Duration: 1h 20m 43s

#114 | Deathprod, Helm, Phill Niblock, Vidna Obmana, Hampus Lindwall . . .

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1. Deathprod – Imaginary Songs From Tristan Da Cunha (1996) – The Contraceptive Briefcase II – start
2. Throbbing Gristle – 20 Jazz Funk Greats (1979) – Beachy Head – 26:28
3. Helm – To An End (2010) – To An End B (edit) – 30:05
4. Barry Adamson, Pan Sonic, The Hafler Trio – The Hymn Of The 7th Illusion (2017) – The Hymn of the 7th Illusion – BBC Mix 2018 – 50:09
5. Meredith Bates – The Observer Effect (2026) – Book II – 1st Incantation (Infatuation – edit) – 55:44
6. Mary Lattimore, Jeff Zeigler – Music Inspired by Philippe Garrel’s Le Révélateur (2016) – Running Chased – 01:14:35
7. Stephen O’Malley – But Remember What You Have Had (2025) – But Remember What You Have Had – 01:19:17
8. John Zorn, Mike Patton – Weird Little Boy (1995) – Blindless – 01:51:20
9. Phill Niblock – Touch Works, For Hurdy Gurdy And Voice (2000) – Hurdy Hurry – 01:54:35
10. Riccardo Dillon Wanke – To R.S. (2010) – 02:09:50
11. Vidna Obmana – The Spiritual Bonding (1994) – The Feather Cycle – 02:24:13
12. Hampus Lindwall – Music for Organ (2019) – Unmounted / Muted Noun (edit) – 02:34:24

Duration: 2h 41m 05s

#113 | Guest Mix by Campbell Kneale (Black Boned Angel, Our Love Will Destroy The World ...)

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1. Divination – Distill (1996) – There by Mick Harris – start
2. Iancu Dumitrescu – Pierres Sacrées / Hazard and Tectonics (1991 | 2013) – Pierres Sacrées – 09:25
3. Black Boned Angel – The End (2013) – Part 3 – 22:40
4. Krzysztof Penderecki – Kosmogonia (1974 | 2017) – Kosmogonia – 38:50

Duration: 01h 01m 03s

#112 | Neurosis, GHOLD, Rosa Faenskap, Believe In Nothing . . .

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1. Locusts & Honey – Shadow of My End (2025) – Come, Appalling Sleep – start
2. Neurosis – An Undying Love for a Burning World (2026) – Last Light – 10:12
3. GHOLD – Of Ruin (2015) – Saw the Falling – 27:00
4. Insect Ark – Raw Blood Singing (2024) – Cleaven Hearted – 35:22
5. Believe In Nothing, Mrs Frighthouse – Rot (2025) – Deserts Are Glass – 41:42
6. Rosa Faenskap – Ingenting Forblir (2026) – Den svake mannen – 47:24
7. This Gift Is A Curse – Heir (2025) – Void Bringer – 52:15
8. Sumac – The Healer (2024) – New Rites – 01:00:47
9. (DOLCH) – Feuer (2019)- A Funeral Song – 01:13:30
10. Big|Brave – Nature Morte (2023) – My Hope Renders Me a Fool – 01:21:00

Duration: 1h 25m 48s

#111 | Francesco Fabris, Rafael Anton Irisarri, Evigt Mörker, Conor Walsh . . .

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1. Atrium Carceri & Cities Last Broadcast – Black Corner Den (2017) – Laudanum – start
2. Lustmord & Karin Park – Alter (2021) – Kindred – 04:30
3. Francesco Fabris – DISPLACES (2026) – Monolith I – 11:55
4. Mike Lazarev – Tarnished Tapes and Saturated Signals (2025) – The Final Resonance of Light – 15:50
5. Sarah Davachi – The Head As Form’d In The Crier’s Choir (2024) – Prologo – 20:55
6. Jóhann Jóhannsson – White Black Boy OST (2019) – Nightmare – 31:50
7. Rafael Anton Irisarri & Karen Vogt – Points of Inaccessibility (2026) – Signals from a Distant Afterglow – 34:25
8. Evigt Mörker – 6 (2026) – Stängt rike öppnas – 42:02
9. Grand River & Abul Mogard – In uno spazio immenso (2024) – Sulle Barcane – 46:00
10. Conor Walsh – The Lucid (2019) – Leitmotif – 56:50

Duration: 1h 00m 57s

#110 | BAN, Gorrch, Trelldom, Winselmutter, Final Dose, Qasu ...

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1. Plebeian Grandstand – Lowgazers (2014) – Thrvst – start
2. Blut Aus Nord – Ethereal Horizons (2025) – The End Becomes Grace – 05:12
3. One of Nine – Dawn Of The Iron Shadow (2025) – Of Desperate Valor – 15:23
4. Gorrch – Stillamentum (2026) – Larvæ – 21:10
5. Volahn – Popol Vuh (2025) – Reencarnación Triunfante – 26:14
6. Diabolus Mecum Semperterne! – Diabolus, Mecum Semperterne! (2026) – Diabolus Sit in Corde Tuo … – 33:54
7. Kratt – Zerleben (2026) – Zerrissen – 39:30
8. Trelldom – By the Word (2026) – By The Word – 43:30
9. Petrale – The World Down There (2024) – Impersonating a Blade – 49:16
10. Urfaust – Untergang (2023) – Höllenkosmos – 57:40
11. Winselmutter – Ketzergeyst (2026) – Bloodmoon Witchery – 01:02:14
12. Tírad Dûr – Skeletal Sun (2023) – Reluctant To Kill And Wanting To Die – 01:05:44
13. Final Dose – Endless Woe (2026) – Golden Chalice – 01:09:53
14. Hässlig – Kali Yuga Aural Terror (2026) – Nihilistic Visions – 01:13:45
15. NyreDolk – Barndommens Hjem (2025) – Hård Og Kold – 01:16:18
16. Wulkanaz – Wulkanaz (2019) – Lykta Och Bloss – 01:18:59
17. Yellow Eyes – Confusion Gate (2025) – The Thought of Death – 01:21:30
18. Cantique Lépreux – Le Bannissement (2024) – Fuir – 01:29:57
19. Fuath – III (2026) – Embers of the Fading Age – 01:34:50
20. Krallice – Inorganic Rites (2024) – Fatestorm Sanctuary – 01:42:21
21. Qasu – A Bleak King Cometh (2026) – The Long Knives of the King – 01:55:50
22. Aborym – Fire Walk with Us! (2001) – Love the Death as the Life – 02:00:42

Duration: 02h 06m 43s

#109 | Guest Mix by Eric Quach (thisquietarmy)

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1. Grouper – A I A: Alien Observer (2011) – Alien Observer – start
2. Slowdive – Just For A Day (1991) – Avalyn I – 03:54
3. Drop Nineteens – Delaware (1992) – Delaware – 08:39
4. Lush – Spooky (1992) – Nothing Natural – 13:17
5. Southpacific – Constance (2000) – Parallel Lines – 19:04
6. Lovesliescrushing – shiny tiny stars (2013) – shiny tiny stars – 23:18
7. Boris – Pink (2006) – Farewell – 27:20
8. Aluk Todolo – Lux (2024) – Lux 3 – 34:49
9. Horse Lords – Comradely Objects (2022) – Zero Degree Machine – 41:05
10. Minami – Deutsch Can’t Get There (2019) – Can’t Get There – 48:00
11. Angine de Poitrine – Vol.1 (2024) – Sherpa – 55:17
12. Tempête Solaire – Syzygy (2024) – Syzygy – 01:00:59
13. El Khat – mute (2024) – La waLa – 01:11:22
14. Etran de L’AÏr – Agadez (2022) – Toubouk Ine Chihoussay – 01:06:11
15. thisquietarmy, otay:onii – Serpents and Shallows (2025) – Cliff – 01:15:33

Duration: 01h 20m 30s

#108 | Black To Comm, Dead Times, Sam Slater, Lussuria, Pita . . .

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1. Black To Comm – World Cup Fever II (2026) – Kopf – start
2. Dead Fader – Jenny153 (2017) – FYI – 08:09
3. Dead Times – Dead Times (2023) – Pietà – 13:10
4. Aseret – Softly Held in Vanishing Arms (2024) – No Man’s Land – 16:10
5. Alessandro Cortini – Emosfere (2020) – Seconda Emosfera – 23:28
6. Nathan Fake, Dextro – Evaporator (2026) – Baltasound – 29:03
7. Sam Slater – Lunng (2026) – Black Metal Rewind (Night Drive, Astra 2006) – 33:26
8. Eric Zann – Ouroborindra (2005) – The Obsidian Pyramid – 38:32
9. Kevin Richard Martin – Black (2023) – Loveless – 47:15
10. Couronne de Merde – Fuck These Memories (2022) – I Love You – 51:00
11. Lussuria – Fresco (2026) – You Will See The World Again – 54:55
12. Bocksholm – Excursions by the Bank of The Black River (2002) – Blast Furnace – 01:01:30
13. Raison D’être – The Empty Hollow Unfolds (2021 Edition) – The Hidden Hallows – 01:06:35
14. Pita – Get Out (2025 Edition) – 3 – 01:16:10

Duration: 01h 23m 28s
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