While ostensibly a nonprofit record label and DIY artist collective, characterized by a long-tailed series of experimental and underground releases, the Saccharine Underground is, to all intents and purposes, an umbrella for the various recording projects helmed by prolific Washington D.C. artist, Jeremy Moore.
Joined by a rotating network of collaborators, musically, Moore’s output on the Saccharine Underground imprint has been consistent in its aesthetic appetite: dark-angled Post-Punk, Psychedelic and Experimental Rock, Ambient and Noise excursions, and releases that lean into atmosphere, texture, and risk over radio conformity. The label discography reads like a curated gallery of late-night, uneasy music — records that reviewers describe as urgent, unsettling and defiantly non-commercial.
Moore established Saccharine Underground in 2019: initially serving as a home to both the back-catalog (and subsequent releases) of solemn, Ritual-Ambient / Industrial-infused group, Gorazde (2010-2023); alongside the then current output of Deathrock / basement Noise-Punk band Thee Rise ov Sadistic Youth (2019-2020). Following Gorazde’s critically acclaimed swansong, Doctrine of the Void (January 2023), Moore has become best known across the 2023-25 period for the small cluster of projects that together form the Saccharine Underground’s contemporary roster. This period from October 2023 to October 2025 has been bookended by two Zero Swann albums; with no less than five albums and an EP from Zabus in between; not to mention the debut album from Bell Barrow; and the recording of another two Bell Barrow albums, still to be released.
The most visible of these is Zabus – the label’s avantgarde Post-Punk flagship, built around Moore with shifting collaborators and frequent releases. Albums and EPs in 2024-25 have included Topography of Iconoclasm, The Future of Death, Automatic Writhing, Floodplain Canticles, the Shadow Genesis EP and the latest album, Whores of Holyrood. Zabus’s records exemplify the Saccharine Underground approach: theatrical, dark, and deliberately artful, and they have drawn increasingly widespread critical praise.
Another steady presence is Zero Swann: a raw, improvisational outlet that trades in dark, chaotic Psychedelia and Noise. Its recent Benefactor release continues the label’s run of visceral, in-the-moment recordings, and press attention from niche platforms for the experimental and extreme. Bell Barrow, meanwhile – an alternate alias of Moore solo – explores noise, power-electronics and hybrid experimental textures, with the debut CoreCore Pulp released via the Saccharine Underground in April 2025. Together, these projects fold multiple stylistic strains into one collective label imprint: The Saccharine Underground: Project-by-Project
Below follows an introductory guide / primer to each of the various projects on the Saccharine Underground, including the current roster of Zabus, Zero Swann, and Bell Barrow, and former projects Gorazde (2010-2023) and Thee Rise ov Sadistic Youth (2019-2020).
Inception Date 2023
Instrumentation Led by Jeremy Moore (vocals, guitars, 6-string bass, synthesizers), initially with rotating collaborators, including Alex Zorn (guitars), B.B. Kille (guitars), Johnny Wielding (drums, 4-string bass, percussion: see also Thee Rise ov Sadistic Youth), Akane Shimizu (strings, synthesizers: see also Zero Swann) and Peter Hallock (6-string bass: see also Gorazde</i>). Zabus has since become a solo project of Jeremy Moore, from around May 2025.
Releases
Topography of Iconoclasm (January 2024) , The Future of Death (April 2024) , Automatic Writhing (September 2024) , Floodplain Canticles (January 2025) , Shadow Genesis EP (June 2025) , Whores of Holyrood (August 2025)
Highlight songs ”Shadow Genesis”, “Sacred Prostitution” (video), “Phantom Lens”, “Retribution”, “Fragments Bleed”
Instrumentation Led by Jeremy Moore (voice, guitars, E-Bow, 4-string fretless bass, melodica, synthesis), with collaborators on first album Amon Zonaris including Wolfram Bauer (6-string fretless bass, synthesis) and Akane Shimizu (synthesis, percussion: see also Zabus). The latest album, Benefactor, was recorded solo by Moore. Releases
Amon Zonaris (October 2023) , Benefactor (October 2025) Highlight songs “Grave Wax Horticulture” (video), “The Prismal Seed” (video)
Releases
CoreCore Pulp (April 2025) , Saltire and True Human Trough (both forthcoming) Instrumentation A solo alias of Jeremy Moore (guitars, 4-string fretless bass, drums, noise / synthesizers).
Highlight songs “Recidivism” (video), “From Hunter to Remains”
Instrumentation Initially a solo project of Jeremy Moore (vocals, lead, rhythm guitar, bass, drums, programming), additional instrumentation from later collaborators included Lisa Zing (bass, synth: see also Thee Rise ov Sadistic Youth), Frankie Calle (drums), Eva Nilo (piano, samples, loops), Takeshi Arai (vocals, synths, samples), and Peter Hallock (4 and 6-string bass: see also Zabus). Releases
This Carrion Underground (October 2010) , Telepathic Psalms (July 2011) , The Fractured Season (December 2012) , The Catechism (January 2016) , Dance of the Opium Easters (August 2017) , Our Sleeping Skin (April 2018) , Tupelo Zodiaco (December 2018) , Slitting Wrists to Make Music to Slit Wrists To (May 2019) , New Years Gone (November 2019) , Anacrusis (February 2020) , Eyes in the Gloaming (August 2020) , Mask of Teeth EP (August 2020) , Verses (August 2020) , The Fury of Lullabies (February 2021) , Heathen Ether (July 2021) , Cryptic Margins (April 2022) , Doctrine of the Void (January 2023) Highlight songs ”The Knife”, “Projections”
Instrumentation Jeremy Moore (vocals, guitars, drums, programming, modular synthesizers), Simon Kell (guitars), Lisa Zing (bass: see also Gorazde), Devon Holloway (drums), Johnny Wielding (bass, drums, percussion: see also Zabus). About as close to a conventional ‘band’ as any project under the Saccharine Underground umbrella has gotten, with Moore, Kell and Zing forming the core nucleus; Holloway and Wielding each appearing only on selected material. Releases
Antrum (September 2019) , A Dying Formula EP (November 2019) , Endless Keep (January 2020) Highlight songs ”Unity in Damnation”, “Your Pillar of Mercy”
