About

These Hands Melt is a small independent label dedicated to what we call dark emotional music. From extreme metal to post-rock, ethereal and goth music, our catalogue shares a common emotional and aesthetic mood rather than a strict genre boundary. We focus on limited physical runs meant for slow listening, not for flooding an already saturated market.

Aritmia was conceived as an extension of the same curatorial approach. It is our online and brick-and-mortar record store, built to be a reference space for underground scenes and listeners. We offer both sought-after releases and obscure unknown oddities. Aritmia works like a boutique: we don’t aim for completeness but for careful selection. You can come in knowing exactly what you want and if what you’re looking for isn’t here yet, we’ll find it for you!