Art As Catharsis

Art As Catharsis Experimental sounds from the Australian underground.

Founded in 2011, Art As Catharsis is an independent record label that seeks to promote progressive and experimental music. We believe that Australia and New Zealand are home to some of the most diverse and unique artists in the world, though, due to our geographical isolation, we are strongly under-represented in the global scene. While our artists are from diverse backgrounds and play across a la

rge range of genres, our roster is given coherency through the experimental, progressive or cathartic thread present in each release. All order queries: [email protected]

Anything else: [email protected]

North American store: https://www.athousandarms.com/collections/artascatharsis

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Congratulations to Art As Catharsis' Benjamin Shannon!
09/06/2026

Congratulations to Art As Catharsis' Benjamin Shannon!

Meet Benjamin Shannon, one of the 2026 Art Music Fund Recipients. đź’›

Benjamin Shannon is an Australian percussionist, composer, educator, and curator whose work continues to make a significant impact across both the national and international music communities.

The Project:

New work for 11 piece band combining composition with conducted improvisation. The work will be presented as part of an Australian tour in 2027 and recorded and released on the label Art As Catharsis

Congratulations, Benjamin Shannon.

For 15 years, Art As Catharsis has championed experimental sounds from the Australian underground: music that pushes out...
01/06/2026

For 15 years, Art As Catharsis has championed experimental sounds from the Australian underground: music that pushes outward, digs deeper, and resists easy categorisation.

Across heavy, progressive, psychedelic, ambient, experimental and uncategorisable music, the label has built a home for artists working at the edges of genre.

These anniversary showcases bring together some of the many threads that have shaped the Art As Catharsis community: heavy, beautiful, strange, ecstatic, abrasive and intimate music from artists who continue to expand what Australian underground music can be.

Each lineup offers a different snapshot of the label’s history and future, celebrating the bands, listeners, venues and collaborators who have helped sustain 15 years of adventurous sound.

We hope you can join us.

Sunday 16 August at Crowbar Brisbane

DEAFCULT
Hope Drone
hazards of swimming naked
Big Dead
hana(v)macklin
Joseph Rabjohns & Lachlan Dale

Friday 21 August at Bendigo Hotel, Melbourne

Ghostsmoker
Convulsing
Black Aleph
Brian Campeau
Diploid
Instrumental (adj.)
Saleeha & TVISB
Lack The Low
Aphir

Sunday 23 August at LazyBones Lounge Restaurant & Bar, Sydney

Black Aleph
Instrumental, adj.
Brian Campeau Music
HELU
Migret

Tickets available from tix.to/aac15

26/05/2026

Turtle Skull’s Being Here turns 1!

To celebrate we’re giving you 20% off Being Here on CD and LP.

Just use the following discount codes on Bandcamp:

BeingHereLP
BeingHereCD

A limited edition vinyl run for Cave Sermon’s Divine Laughter is available for pre-order on our Bandcamp.We’re proud to ...
15/05/2026

A limited edition vinyl run for Cave Sermon’s Divine Laughter is available for pre-order on our Bandcamp.

We’re proud to be distributing this cult classic. Hailed by underground critics as one of the most distinctive extreme metal releases of 2024, the album twists together black metal, dissonant death metal, sludge, post-metal and ambient experimentation into something both violently chaotic and strangely transcendent.

You could compare its restless intensity and genre-defying scope to Gorguts, Portal, Krallice and Pyrrhon.

Now finally available on vinyl, Divine Laughter arrives as a definitive edition of one of underground metal’s most acclaimed hidden gems of 2024 - an essential release for listeners drawn to adventurous, boundary-pushing extreme music. Whether approached through the lens of post-metal, avant-garde black metal or progressive death metal, Cave Sermon’s singular vision stands apart: immersive, emotionally devastating and impossible to predict.

Pressed by Ten Plagues Tapes. International orders via . We’re shipping to Australia and New Zealand.

Cave Sermon vinyl preorders dropping Friday!
13/05/2026

Cave Sermon vinyl preorders dropping Friday!

Cave Sermon - Divine Laughter

This death metal masterpiece is finally available on vinyl! Mastered specifically for the format and pressed at Gotta Groove Records on three variants.

Charlie Park - all instruments, programming
Miguel Mendez (MICO, Flagelo) - vocals

Vinyl dropping Thursday, 5/14/26, 7PM CDT on Ampwall (Friday morning for AU folks)

https://ampwall.com/a/tenplaguestapes

- Gold-foil numbered, shipped securely in an anti-static inner sleeve and outer poly bag

- layout by Kai Blackwell, based on the painted artwork and photography by Australian artist Al Lane

- audio reworked and mastered for vinyl

- 5-7 Wax Mage bundles will be available with the full public VC

- 40 splatter copies will be available

AU/NZ distro exclusively handled by Art as Catharsis (just black vinyl)

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42 King St
Newtown, NSW
2042

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