Cold
Spring Bi-Weekly Newsletter - 10th October 2013
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COLD SPRING RELEASE NEWS
SCOTT MILLER / LEE CAMFIELD / MERZBOW - 'No Closure' CD (CSR185CD)
TROUM - 'Syzygie' CD (CSR183CD)
SLEEP RESEARCH FACILITY - 'Nostromo' T-Shirt (CSR34TS)
All pre-orders have shipped!
COLD SPRING STALLS
16th Nov @ Confessions Of Faith: 30 Years Of Purgatory, Birmingham
(Live: Con-Dom, Slogun, Grey Wolves, Sickness, Sudden Infant)
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| SCOTT MILLER / LEE CAMFIELD / MERZBOW | No Closure CD (CSR185CD) £10 |
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"No Closure" is the collaborative output of ex-Sutekh Hexen members Scott Miller and Lee Camfield, with Japanese noise mastermind, Masami Akita. Mixing elements of psychedelia, black metal, doom and industrial, the musicians created a spellbinding work of experimental art.
Conceptually crafted in a dark basement recording studio in the Mission District of San Francisco and later fleshed out in Tokyo, Japan, Miller, Camfield and Akita have completely pushed the boundaries of sound far beyond their individual comfort zones. Purposely devoid of their usual feedback drenched and oscillator projections, they left the inevitable incorporation of varied sound manipulation and textures strictly to Akita, thus giving birth to this two track, 44 minute long masterpiece of epic mind warping experimental composition.
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| TROUM | Syzygie CD (CSR183CD) £10 |
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Formed by Glit[S]ch and Baraka[H] in 1997, Troum rose from the ashes of Maeror Tri. The duo create unbearably beautiful drones, multi-layered transcendental noise, and highly atmospheric dream-muzak. Syzygie: Zusammenkunft und Gegenschein zweier Planeten, or: an antithetic relationship between (personified) beings of the spiritual world and their shadows. A colllection of rare / deleted tracks from compilations Vol. II (1999-2002). Everything recorded by TROUM between November 1999 and May 2002 on analogue 8-track. 9 meticulously crafted tracks, carefully compiled by Troum and delicately remastered by Martin Bowes (Attrition). Cold Spring will release the brand new studio album from Troum in 2014.
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| SLEEP RESEARCH FACILITY | Nostromo T-Shirt (CSR34TS) £15 |
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New shirt for the classic SRF album "Nostromo". Double sided, white on black heavyweight shirt showing two angles / cutaways / blueprints of the deep-space mining ship Nostromo from the film ALIEN. The ultra dark ambient album "Nostromo" is based on the first 8 minutes of ALIEN, which depicts the deep space haulage vessel slowly moving through the void.
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| SKULLFLOWER / MASTERY | Skullflower / Mastery LP (CSR165LP) £15 |
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SKULLFLOWER presents a trinity of sombre meditations. MASTERY is total berzerker black metal. Ltd x 500 copies. Standard edition: 400 copies on purple vinyl. Special edition: 100 copies on green vinyl. |
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| WICKED KING WICKER | Evolving CD (CSR154CD) £10 |
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WKW's 7th album. Thick, black noise is underpinned by monolithic, crawling doom, in a way that only Wicked King Wicker can deliver. 45 minutes of music to shatter souls. |
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| MERZBOW Vs NORDVARGR | Partikel III CD (CSR180CD) £11 |
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The third and final part of the Partikel trilogy. Another beautifully constructed collaboration with total noise barrages, to intelligent electronics, to subtle dark ambient pieces. Digipak. |
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| VARIOUS ARTISTS | Throne 2 x CD (CSR181CD) £8 |
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Nice-price 2CD sampler of our current / forthcoming releases. 33 original tracks of Industrial, Dark Ambient, Drone, Ritual, Japanese Noise, Power Electronics, Dark Folk, Death Industrial, Orchestral. Digisleeve. |
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RELEASES:
TUNNELS OF AH - ‘Lost Corridors’ CD (CSR184CD) ex-Head Of David
SOL - ‘Beyond This Veil, Silence’ CD (CSR186CD)
DEADWOOD - ‘Sheolic’ CD (CSR163CD)
THE GREY WOLVES - ‘Blood And Sand’ LP+CD (CSR42LP) |
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AVAILABLE COLD SPRING TITLES |
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SKULLFLOWER
• 12 Oct 13, OUT.FEST, Barreior (PT) - with The Fall
TROUM
• 12 Oct 13, Kozerte In Der Krypta No. 5, Bremen (DE) - with Dieter Müh
• 18 Oct 13, > III, Bremen (DE) - with Doombruder
• 2 Nov 13, ZugZwang IV, Darmstadt (DE) - with Rapoon, Reutoff
• 17 Nov 13, Trans:wizje 4, Warsaw (PL) - with Column One
SCHLOSS TEGAL
• 26 Oct 13, Phobos V, Wuppertal (DE) - with Vestigial, Phelios, Galerie Schallschutz, Tho-So-Aa
WICKED KING WICKER
• 31 Oct 13, The Omega Order, New York (US)
COLD SPRING STALL
TUNNELS OF AH
• 16 Nov 13, Confessions Of Faith, Birmingham (UK)
Live: Con-Dom, The Grey Wolves, Slogun, Sickness
**TUNNELS OF AH 'Lost Corridors' CD will be released at this event!
MERZBOW
• 16-21 Nov, New Zealand Tour (Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin, Christchurch)
IRON FIST OF THE SUN
• 2-3 May 14, United Forces Of Industrial, London (UK)
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ADERLATING - 'Spear Of Gold And Seraphim Pt. II' CD
(ConSouling Sounds)
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After the unleashing of "Spear of Gold and Seraphim Bone Pt. I", 2013 spawns the second installment of this behemoth of a project. With this counterpart Mories (Gnaw Their Tongues / De Magia Veterum) and Eric (Mowlawner) conclude the journey through hypnotic insanity they started to critical acclaim back in 2011. Rendering the diptych complete, this second part nonetheless serves as a chapter of its own. Atmospheric disenchantment, condensed in noisy slabs of ritualistic drones. From the lowest depths of aural madness to screeching industrial driven metallish mayhem. All the twisted and deformed elements that separates Aderlating from the boys come to full fruition as the sum of part one and two equals a sensory frenzy second to none. Digisleeve with inner sleeve.
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ADORAN - 'Adoran' CD
(ConSouling Sounds)
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Adoran is the new project from Aidan Baker (Nadja, Whisper Room, BBS, Arc) and Dorian Williamson (Northumbria, Holoscene). Spanning nearly an hour, the tracks on this album explore Aidan and Dorian's sludgy doom-side in a whole different way: atmospheric as ever, yet heavily relying on rhythmic patterns. In light of these gentlemen's oeuvre, this album sounds both familiar and at the same time excitingly fresh. The music is full and heavy, but rich in detail, with an amazing mastering job by James Plotkin, that surely has done justice to the aural experience Aidan and Dorian envisioned. Ltd x 750 copies in a digisleeve. |
AMENRA - 'Mass I' CD
(ConSouling Sounds)
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As the Masses amassed, it became clear Amenra was a serious contender within the post/sludge/doom genre. With this reissue of the long out of print debut we take a step back, and celebrate the album that started the procession now exactly a decade ago. "Mass I", rooted in the (post)hardcore and noise scene, reveals an ambitious outfit that are set to preach their distinctive blurring of genres and musical conventions. The original recordings' brilliance is finally revealed by Billy Anderson's (Eyehategod, Melvins, Neurosis, Swans) tremendous remastering. "Mass I" never sounded this full and powerful. If you want to know what Amenra is all about, start praying with us from the beginning. Jewelcase in a slipcase.
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BAD SECTOR - 'Unification' CD
(Old Europa Cafe)
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One of the most experimental Bad Sector releases, based on the concept of gravitational waves and the unification of the forces of nature. Previously released on CDR by OEC in 2006 (Ltd x 100), the original sounds have now been reviewed and reassembled to provide a different, extended release. Cold (and sci-fi) atmospheres: an amazing soundtrack for your mindtrip to the deepest places of the universe. A really challenging work, thousands of miles distant from Ampos’ fuzzy harmonies, but strangely still related to it through invisible connections. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak.
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CIRCULAR - 'Radiating Perpetual Light' CD
(Loki Foundation)
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The evolving, dense nature of Circular´s sound world is unfolding again with this new work - the first since 2009. Pulsating and deep, reverberant drones, slowly moving guitar lines and rhythms, combined with ambient layers of rich tonal colours were created with an extensive set of analogue and acoustic devices. With his third album Johannes Riedel has entered a region of higher density that produces deeper echoes of sombre oscillation. Radiating Perpetual Light emerges from the desire to sculpt an organic, meditative and deeply ambient environment of mysterious and shapeshifting soundscapes. This is the perfect soundtrack for a dark and glowing sunset. Comes in a 6-panel outsize digisleeve.
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DJINN - '1978' CD
(Old Europa Cafe)
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Djinn returns after 10 years with this new work based on year 1978. The year in the modern era in which the biggest mass-suicide was perpetrated. More than 900 person killed themselves on 18th November 1978 in Jonestown; exactly the same day in which Vintras, the mind behind Djinn, was born. A date which became the symbol of the beginning and the end, of self-inflicted death. On this album Vintras collects the more obscure side of mankind's actions and reproduces them in a very dark form of death ambient, without hope, without future. Pure antisocial muzak. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak.
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HATI - 'Zero Coma Zero + Recycled Magick Emissions' CD
(Zoharum)
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This album was originally released on Nefryt (CDR, Ltd 250, 2005). It now sees the light of the day again, with new cover, remaster and additional tracks from "Recycled Magick Emissions" (MCDR, Ltd 121, 2006). Despite the years, the material gathered here is still sparkling with untamed energy of acoustic sounds. The musicians built their own sonic constructions and used exotic instruments in an intriguing way. "Zero Coma Zero" is a study of dying, death and rebirth-the objects used on the recording were either archaic ethnic instruments or they were found in the junkyard. Both releases gathered here were groundbreaking in the history of Hati. "Zero Coma Zero" album established the project's position on the music scene. Ltd x 350 copies in a 6-panel digipak.
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HIRSUTE PURSUIT - 'Revel In Your Ability To Accessorize My Pleasure' CD
(Old Europa Cafe)
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The legend that is Hirsute Pursuit has travelled the world. Everybody is singing Cock Thoughts. Now here is your opportunity to hear where it all began. Before "Tighten that Muscle Ring" (Cold Spring) there was "That Hole Belongs to Me"; before that there was "Revel In Your Ability to Accessorize My Pleasure". This is the seed that started it all. Not fully realized and in its embryonic stages, Hirsute Pursuit was developing its signature testosterone sound. Hirsute Pursuit is Harley Phoenix and Bryin Dall. On these early recordings, Harley participated in a much different way: rather than doing the lead vocals, he controlled the sexual situations. But don’t think that you won’t hear Harley giving his orders. No, he is still present and in some of these earlier tracks, those orders are given in a dark atmosphere that excludes the possibility of beats, creating an environment that is both menacing and titillating. On other tracks, it’s all about the beat. Like a voyeur peeking into a window, here is your chance to experience the inside story and development of the phenomenon that is known as Hirsute Pursuit. This is the beginnings of music that smells like a man. Digipak.
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HOSPITALITY ON PARADE - 'Dirty Creature' CD
(Old Europa Cafe)
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Harkening back to the days of New Wave and throwing in a heaped spoonful of noise, Hospitality On Parade" blends the sounds of old with one foot in the future. Analogue synthesizers, noise guitar, acoustic piano, live & programmed drums, metal guitar and languid bass find their way into each composition. Bryin Dall (Hirsute Pursuit, 4th Sign of the Apocalypse, Thee Majesty, A Murder of Angels) joins forces with Scott Reiter (Loretta's Doll) and a large number of musical guests create something that is both familiar and groundbreaking. "Dirty Creature" starts with beauty. It travels along many paths, both pretty and uplifting and dark and mysterious. Bringing forth the fullness of analogue synthesizers that envelop your soul, it is then punctured with stabs of noise which reminds one of life itself. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak.
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LABIRINTO / THISQUIETARMY - 'Labirinto / ThisQuietArmy' CD
(ConSouling Sounds)
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Once again, the one-man drone machine thisquietarmy from Montreal teams up with another sonically different experimental post-rock band: Labirinto from Sao Paulo. While Labirinto & thisquietarmy are from different hemispheres, they both have a mutual admiration for each other's sound and work ethics, as well as their shared influences of textured sounds such ambient, psychedelic, post-rock & black metal. Furthermore, their common perspective of the world have bound them to create a record inspired by cultural & social values, political situations and universal phenomenon. Ltd x 600 copies in a digisleeve.
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MALATO - 'Avamposto Malato' CD
(Old Europa Cafe / Misty Circles)
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Second CD release by this cult Roman band, built around ClauDEDI (Ain Soph / Circus Joy). Malato is Neo-Italian-Futurismo. Malato is Popular-Pop Elektronik. Malato is beating Freaky sounds. Malato is dance muzak for the future. Malato is new Industrial-Modernist style. Features special collaborations with Eranot (SYS2064) / Luciano Lamanna (Der Noir) / Lanconero (DJ & producer) / Simona Ferrucci (Winter Severity Index). Ltd x 300 copies.
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MAURIZIO BIANCHI & MAUTHAUSEN ORCHESTRA - 'Material Modulation' CD
(Old Europa Cafe)
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Second and final collaborative work by Maurizio Bianchi & [Mauthausen Orchestra, recorded before the premature departure of Pierpalo Zoppo the man behind Mauthausen Orchestra (R.I.P.). In the modulatory system, sounds are extracted from a basic materialistic sound and then overlaid with the use of random techniques that conceal the rumoristic load-bearing tones. The result is these "Material Modulations", which represent the primary device to receive physical and emotional response for an informative frequency in everyday life. M. B.: material drones, carnal electronics, physical noises, organic voice. M. O.: loops, mental distortion, noise decay. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak.
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MERZBOW - 'Samidara' LP
(Placenta Recordings)
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Brutal new work from the King of Japanoise! Merzbow described it as "using the method of several granular synthesis programs and random process of the composition", and has referenced "Graft", "Chabo", "Jigokuhen", and "Ouroboros" as having the same concept. Includes Masami Akita on drums. Recorded and mixed at Munemihouse, December 2009. Ltd x 250 copies on "piss yellow" vinyl.
• All Merzbow Titles • All LP / 12" Vinyl
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MHÖNOS - 'Humiliati' 2 x LP
(Dead Seed Productions)
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Ritualistic Doom Metal from France. Mysterious, ritualistic drones made through bass layers, amplifier worship, possessed chants and Burzum-inspired ambience, Mhönos emerges from his crypt during year MMX to offer his bewitching liturgy to the mass. Dark and bright, ugly and beautiful, overwhelming, uplifting, melodic and droning at times, ritual issued by Mhönos aback and sometimes mixes the horror and the esoteric. Low frequencies and tortured voices reign in supreme masters in the unstructured repetition, throbbing and disorder, thorned at irregular intervals by hypnotic psalms scended by haunted voices. Necropiss from The Arrival Of Satan appears on this album. White vinyl in a luxurious gatefold sleeve with insert.
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MIRRORMAN & INDIA CZAJKOWSKA - 'Secretia' CD
(Zoharum)
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"Secretia" is the latest project of Mirrorman, an independent Polish musician and photographer, and India Czajowski, a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist known for her solo album "Cosmospir" on Hic Sunt Leones. Dark, often sultry and psychedelic sounds, so characteristic for Mirrorman, are lit up with India's ethereal voice that is ideal for contemplative and hypnotic atmosphere of the album. Nine trance-inducing songs compose a sonic mysterium filled with minimalist, yet refined arrangements. Ltd x 350 copies in a 6-panel digipak.
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PARANOIA INDUCTA - 'Maze Of Death' CD
(Old Temple)
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This is the latest album from apocalyptic Death Industrial act Paranoia Inducta, known for their previous albums on Beast Of Prey. The "Maze of Death" is a very conceptual album, which could be described in just three words: loneliness, fear and death! The title determines a metaphor of human life which wanders in complete loneliness, blindfolded in complete darkness. We explore a lot of empty and blind underpasses which were often just an illusion and even hope for many of us. But the truth is that they turned out to be just an illusion which does not lead anywhere and the only outcome is death. Over 50 minutes of cold and dark music. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Presented in a great A5 digipak.
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RAISON D'ETRE - 'Within The Depths Of Silence And Phormations (Redux)' 2 x CD
(Old Europa Cafe)
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"Within The Depths Of Silence And Phormations" takes the listener deep below the world of the ordinary into the catacombs of the subconscious, the worlds lying within us so few ever live to explore. Layers of ethereal atmospheres and the collage of choirs, strings, bells and occasional voices slowly bleed together. Soaking in this world, one is left with the impression of overwhelming sadness and profound desolation. Originally released in 1995 by Cold Meat Industry the album has now been restored, re-recorded and mixed to render the modern standard of sound quality still maintaining the perfect balance between subtle and harsh, dark and pure of the original mix. 'Within the Depths...' is accompanied by a second disc containing tracks from various compilations from the period together to form a strong twin album. A unity with double joy: Wallow in the melancholy! The album comes in a 6-panel digipak with awesome photos by Martín Pels.
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RAPOON - 'To West And Blue' CD
(Zoharum)
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"To West and Blue" is the 50th (!!) Rapoon album, featuring 7 long, slowly evolving tracks appealing to your subconscious side. This one gradually grows on you until you are captivated by its haunting beauty. But there is an underlying uneasiness in it. A sort of clash between reality and a ghost world or a world that is long-gone. With choral voices hidden beneath layers of treated sounds, "To West and Blue" is a stand-out album among Rapoon numerous releases. "These pieces are about the area I grew up in the UK. A peninsula of land which stuck out into the Solway Firth. Surrounded by the sea when the tide was in and surrounded by endless mudflats when the tide was out. When the water covered the ground the line between the sea and the sky was almost non-existent. A diaphanous boundary. The sea came in from the West where the huge skies hung without end in a vault of blue" (Robin Storey). Ltd x 500 copies in a gatefold mini LP sleeve.
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ROCK-A-ROLLA Issue #45 Magazine
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Rock-A-Rolla 45 features Chicago's instrumental rock heroes Russian Circles. There are also interviews with Vista Chino (Kyuss), Chelsea Wolfe, 65daysofstatic, NoMeansNo, A Storm Of Light, Wolvserpent, The Body, Bl'ast!, Windhand, Dale Cooper Quartet, Envy, and Hills. This month's Label Focus is on Boring Machines. Also included is the usual vast selection of news, music, DVD and live reviews from the avant-rock, metal, noise and experimental scenes. Highly recommended!
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SANNHET - 'Known Flood' CD
(ConSouling Sounds)
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Debut offering from this Brooklyn trio. This is heavy. This is fragile. This is post-rock. This is post-metal. This is black metal. This is doom. This is drone. This is ambient... This is wow! Sannhet bends genres effortlessly, and blends it together in a coherent monster of an album. 45 minutes of adventurous aural bliss pass in the blink of an eye. Recorded by Colin Marston (Altar of Plagues, Krallice) & mastered by Carl Saff. For fans of: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Isis, Altar of Plagues, Burzum, Nadja, thisquietarmy. Digisleeve. |
SHOCK FRONTIER - 'Mancuerda Confessions' CD
(Malignant Records)
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Founded in 2010, Shock Frontier is the brainchild of Psychomanteum’s Robert Kozletski. Born from an increasing interest in harsher industrial sounds, and aided by long time friend Kyle Carney (Defiantly Fading), "Mancuerda Confessions" is an expertly composed and finely honed collection of shape shifting, nightmarish emissions and radioactive tonalities, drawing inspiration from some of the early death industrial pioneers, but adding an unique, densely layered and atmospheric style. This is a soundtrack to a world that ends not in a cataclysmic, fiery fashion, but one that slowly decays and rots into oblivion, where swathes of ghostly textures, samples, and disembodied noises morph into murky ambient realms, and caustic frequency reverberations pierce through a bleak, post-apocalyptic haze. A must for fans of Megaptera, Steel Hook Prostheses, Soldnergeist, and the early CMI sound. Features a collaboration with Staalkracht. In 6 panel eco-wallet, designed by Brian Vdp, and mastered by John Stillings (Steel Hook Prostheses). |
T.O.M.B. - 'Third Wave Holocaust' CD
(Black Plagve / Malignant Records)
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Active for over a decade and with releases on Fall of Nature, Todestrieb, and Crucial Blast, Pennsylvania’s T.O.M.B. pushes sound to the extreme by taking elements of dark ambient, noise, metal and death industrial and assembling them into powerful, blackened occult rituals. Built around field recordings that consist of cemetery desecrations, live crematory incineration's and disturbing, abandoned insane asylum ceremonies, everything is misshapen and deformed, twisted and crafted into harrowing episodes of hallucinatory, blood soaked rituals, demonic incantations, and waves of foul smelling textures. Some tracks feature dense reverberating churn, necrotized tones, over modulated frequency abuse, falling into the power electronics vein. Others are drenched in unholy atmospherics, with buried rhythms, clanging percussion and deathchant vocalizations. It’s all held together with a clenched, rotten fist, moving and writhing in perfect unison over its 50 minute time frame. Recommended for fans of MZ.412, Gnaw Their Tongues, Deathstench. Digipak.
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TSIDMZ - 'ThuleSehnsucht In Der Maschinenzeit - Ungern Von Sternberg Khan' Enhanced CD
(Old Europa Cafe)
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Soundtrack for a tribute to Ungern Khan, to his fight against the world born from the French Revolution and to his attempt to establish a Traditional order in the whole of Eurasia. A great mix of electronic, bombastic martial, neofolk, post-industrial and post-atomic music. Features guests: Strydwolf, Barbarossa Umtrunk, Front Sonore, Suverana, Valerio Orlandini, Foresta di Ferro, Porta Vittoria, Le Cose Bianche, and Corazzata Valdemone. Mastered by Peter Andersson (Raison d' Être). Contains a special 3D video-track by Ro So Matix. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak.
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VOMIR - 'Les Escaliers De La Cave' CD
(Narcolepsia / Skum Rex / Decimation Sociale)
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New full length from French Harsh Noise Wall hero Vomir. "Les Escaliers..." features two tracks (65 minutes) of the classic monolithic darkness associated with Romain Perrot's legacy. Bleak, obsessive, true static worship. No compromise. No remorse. Comes in a sealed card slip, featuring ancient 1970s artwork from Jacques Noël (owner of cult Paris bookshop Un Regarde Moderne). Ltd x 200 copies in a sealed card sleeve.
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ZENIAL - 'Chimera' LP
(Zoharum)
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40-minutes of experimental / ambient music. Every vinyl has two sides and here this division is even more evident. Side A gathers 3 compositions: 'Chimera', which was inspired by footage from the 1980s; 'Hästhallen', which was prepared as a sound background for gallery installations; and 'Unclean/Clean', which is a reworked version of a digital bonus to "Connection Reset By Peer". All tracks appear on physical format for the first time. The two tracks on Side B ('Rosora 28' and 'Rosora 28: Wymiar 4/5') are dedicated to Czech scholar Franz Bardon. Rosora refers to an acoustic instrument used in magical practices. The cover is graced by paintings of Wiktor Jackowski. Ltd x 200 copies.
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BAD SECTOR - 'Chronoland' CD
(Power & Steel / Loki Foundation)
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This album from Massimo Magrini is the soundscape for a mind movie and another masterpiece that picks up where the previous work "CMASA" left off. 12 beautifully crafted chapters of music segueing between morphing layers of thick drones, haunting melodies and crackling vocal transmissions. "Chronoland" unfolds a fascinating and cinematic atmosphere of frightening ambient melodica with dark soundwaves deeply embedded in the music and bursts of electro-acoustic effects. This release is another step forward into the sound cosmos of Massimo Magrini with new directions but always in the unique way of Bad Sector. Comes in a 6-panel outsize digisleeve. |
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CIRCULAR - 'Cycles Of Remembrance' CD
(Loki Foundation)
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With this work Johannes Riedel makes another step further by creating something with a resounding sense of emotion and wistful melancholia. His classical education in music allowed him to generate an artificial and ambient soundtrack with well composed song-like structures. There is a truly organic, analogue-based core sound with cyclical waves of thick synth drones and modulated bass guitars, while slowly oscillating effects and pulsing beats drift through the mix. “Cycles Of Remembrance” is an album full of harmonic landscapes, always enveloping and with meditative qualities. Comes in a 6-panel outsize digisleeve. |
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FJERNLYS - 'Beyond The Undulant Quiescence' CD
(Loki Foundation)
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This album contains ten great and endless epic tracks to reach far beyond trepidation and tranquility. It only welcomes with open arms, but slowly captivates the listener and remains breathless till the last sound. "Beyond The Undulant Quiescence" unifies the opposites when the frostiness of the synthesizer sound and the warmth of the melodies melt into one another. The spectrum ranges from melancholic piano compositions to complex and superior song structures, with an open commitment to slow motion. In every track there is a cryptic sparkling which is always shimmering but it almost stays in the background. It's the multi-layered arrangement in each track which is constantly changing the colours and features a cineastic coarseness in an audible way. Comes in a 6-panel digisleeve. |
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HERBST9 - 'The Gods Are Small Birds, But I Am The Falcon' CD
(Loki Foundation)
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A step further into the depths of the Assyrian and Asian mythologies, using authentic audio and visual fragments of sacrifices, lamentations, prayers and ancient rituals. The result is a deep labyrinth of sounds with meditative percussion, ghostly vocal fragments and singing which melts with detailed and multi-layered tones of various traditional instruments. All this is constructed around a core of dark and ongoing floating drones creating an atmosphere of true archaic music which has been developed by Herbst9 to perfection. The CD is presented in 6-panel digipak. |
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HERBST9 - 'Usumgal Kalamma' 2 x CD Boxset
(Loki Foundation)
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The final chapter and climax of Herbst9. 'Usumgal Kalamma' is a huge and rich soundwork, divided into two parts that transport the listener into the realms of the archaic world. It is an invitation to explore a mythic age in history whereby the inventions of these people are still connected with us today. Intense ritualistic and percussive drumming melt with deep atmospheric drones, invocations, otherworldly tones and various acoustic instruments such as gongs, bells and zither. This sonic prayer is Herbst9's trademark of a ritual infused dark ambient style and an essential document that combines historical background with sound art. Comes in a stunning clam-box box with a 32-page booklet. |
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HERBST9 / Z'EV - 'Through Bleak Landscapes' CD
(Loki Foundation)
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With this stunning collaboration the dark cavernous drones and ethnic-ritual instrumentation of Herbst9 melts with the complex and percussive sounds of industrial pioneer and master of rhythmajik Z'EV. Ten tracks of deep spheres and blazing ruminant lightning abducting you into golden constellations and swirling worlds full of aural effects and demonic resonance. Both projects worked with the raw material of each other while the final mix was made by Herbst9. The result is a sombre and meditative soundtrack made with gongs, choral textures, deep vibrating strings and industrial sounds, reaching it's climax with tribalistic sequences and percussion. An impressive and gripping journey through bleak landscapes and abandoned places. |
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INADE - 'The Incarnation Of The Solar Architects' CD
(Loki Foundation)
- £11
2nd edition in jewelcase. There is a world that shadows our world; a world of mysterious design and unspoken secrets; of space that breathes and infinite echoes that never cease to cry. Mirrors that refract images into dark pools of cosmic nothingness. Inade explore these worlds on their latest masterpiece, in which sound is utilised in a transformative manner, not only to focus on that which lies beyond and that which has never been seen, but to embrace the Darkness and let it wash over one's soul. The mythology that Inade has created touches that place beyond forever, yet now, through the insistence of that which lurks in the margins, a metamorphosis has transpired, in which the cosmos of self has awakened. Inade provide the soundtrack... the frisson of unease is abundant, a churning, seething dread that veers into awe. It's up to the individual listener to listen intently, behind shuttered eyelids... to see and experience the true labyrinthine hierarchy of black splendor that awaits. |
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MAURIZIO BIANCHI & MAUTHAUSEN ORCHESTRA - 'Spiritual Noises' CD
(Old Europa Cafe)
- £11
Historical collaboration between two of the fathers of Italian Old-School Industrial. Creating noise is determined by the presence of an original particle to which randomly apply an alteration to convey a voltage-activated disturbance that determines the electro-phonic perturbation. Features M.B. on ancient loops, modern metals and futuristic waves, and M.O. on synthesizer, loops and noise effects. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak. |
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NORDVARGR - 'Murkhr' LP & CD
(Old Europa Cafe)
- £30
Nordvargr makes a triumphant return to the dark ambient scene after a few years of silence. "Murkhr" is a multi-format release that spans over a whole vinyl LP and CD and is probably among the most dark journeys into sound that has been made in the studio at Villa Bohult. Imagine the deepest passages from his debut "Awaken" being mixed with solemn orchestrations and shamanistic chants.
"Mörker" is Swedish for darkness.
"Murk" is English for dark, obscure,
"Murkhr" is something in between: murky darkness and obscurity. The LP comes in a beautiful full-colour gatefold sleeve including: CD in full-colour card sleeve, 2 full-colour inserts printed on a special quality cardboard and a Nordvargr button. Ltd x 243 hand-numbered copies only - ACT FAST! |
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PSYCHIC TV / PTV3 - 'Mr. Alien Brain Vs. The Skinwalkers' CD & DVD
(Sweet Nothing) - £15
Counter Cultural provocateur Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and her reactivated Psychic TV aka "PTV3" release their second album, "Mr. Alien Brain vs The Skinwalkers". For the realisation of this project Psychic TV/PTV3 were: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle / Thee Majesty), Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge, Edley ODowd, and guests.
Most tracks were recorded live for NPR's "World Cafe" program at WXPN-FM's studios in Philadelphia, May 2008. NO overdubs, no remixing. They played their hearts and souls out for Lady Jaye. All were amazed at how sensitive and exact the breaks and textures were considering they were relying totally on instinct, in the moment. Other selections include 'I Am Making A Mirror', Lady Jaye's song for Genesis (previously a bonus track on the LP version of "Hell Is Invisible..."), the previously unreleased mix of 'New York Story' by Michael Gira (Swans), live recordings from PTV3's residency at Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, as well as 2 entirely new, unheard tracks ('The Alien Brain' & 'I Love You, I Know'). Includes an exclusive DVD boasting 30 minutes of unseen PSYCHIC TV/PTV3 live, on the road, and in the studio by filmmaker Marie Losier and other surprises. This album is lovingly dedicated to Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge: 1969-2007. 8-panel digisleeve. |
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SOMNOLENCE - 'As Midgard Weeps' CD
(Darker Than Black /
Kulturkrieg Records)
- £10.50
Debut album from this Illinois act. A bleak and melancholic soundtrack for the end of the world. Dark / Black Ambient, with a touch of Black Metal and Neofolk. Features members of Null, Dynamo, Final Sunset and Akashah. |
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STRATVM TERROR - 'Aged Fractures And Dead Ends' 2 x CD
(Old Europa Cafe)
- £15
Is it really dead? Yes, this release marks the end of Stratvm Terror. But what an end! Massive sounds of drowning liquid, mechanized background noises, brain mangler soundscapes and harsh abrasive amplifications. Playing this loud will probably make you deaf, but what else is there to listen to after experiencing this? "Aged Fractures And Dead Ends" is a vast collection of various archive material produced by the Stratvm Terror constellation Peter Andersson (Raison D'être) and Tobias Larsson (Ocean Chief). Lost pieces, sketches, live material, cassette and compilation tracks between 1993-1999. 150 minutes of music, most of which has previously never been released. Comes in a 6-panel digipak with photos by Henrik Stolt. |
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TURBUND STURMWERK - 'Sturmgeweiht' CD
(Rabauken)
- £11
The first official release from Turbund Sturmwerk (originally released on cassette in an edition of 100 copies in 1992) is now available now for a wider audience. "Sturmgeweiht" documents the musical starting point of Turbund Sturmwerk and already sets a standard in this genre. A powerful and percussive manifestation of classic industrial structures and spoken word collages. |
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