Alien Sex Fiend “Classic Albums Volume 3: The 13th Moon Years” Box Set Announced

Following an eleven year, ten studio album run on Anagram / Cherry Red Records, in 1996 Alien Sex Fiend cut loose, establishing their own 13th Moon Records label. Over the following two decades, the band released a selection of intense albums, EPs and remixes, which are gathered together on The 13th Moon Recordings box set for the first time, alongside over a dozen unreleased tracks. Compiled and overseen by the inimitable Nik and Mrs Fiend, this latest volume in the classic albums series brings together four studio albums, material from the 13th Moon 10th Anniversary sampler album, Para-Abnormal, plus the digital only Re-Possessed EP, as well as unreleased material exhumed from the band’s extensive archive. Classic Albums Volume 3: The 13th Moon Years will be released on the 27th September via Cherry Red Records.

Paired with their own recollections and Nik’s eye-catching graphics spanning the entire period, this is a fascinating window into a period in Alien Sex Fiend’s career which saw them go it alone and create their music without external interference, dealing directly with every step of the process, from recording to art and design to sales and distribution. Common practise in the 21st Century, but unexpected and somewhat revolutionary in the mid-1990s and a path which took the band on their second trip on the rock ‘n roll rollercoaster, taking in encounters with headline festival stages and a whole new generation of producers influenced by their sound and aesthetic. A must for fans and collectors of the band’s entire career, and especially for those who may be unfamiliar with these later period recordings. As ever, Nik Fiend’s lysergic psychotherapy lyrics and Mrs Fiend’s thunderous analogue soundscapes combine perfectly time and again, always familiar and yet always different.