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Spring Bi-Weekly Newsletter - 10th March 2016
NEW COLD SPRING RELEASES
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- 'Acouasme'
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After the much praised collaboration with RAISON D'ETRE released summer 2015 (“De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu”) and the final volume of the ‘Power Romantic' trilogy with “Mare Morphosis” in late 2013, “Acouasme” is the first full length album from TROUM in over 2 years. With this album, TROUM wanted to go in a completely different direction, creating a ‘harsher' and more ‘Industrial' sounding album as a contrast to previous releases. But through the trademark troumatic machining, the final result doesn't sound at all like standard harsh noise – it's rather industrial noise as if filtered through a feverish dream, through a deranged perception. The six long tracks of pestering transrational drones on “Acouasme” sound like an aural psychiatric symptom, a humming hallucination leaving the stable reality.
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- 'Eleven Mirrors To The Light' CD (CSR196CD) - £10 |
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Z'EV completes an alchemical exploration of Concord and Dissonance that began with the cosmological equations of Sum Things and then clasped the elemental quintet of air, water, fire, earth and spirit in A Handful of Elements. Now, with Eleven Mirrors to the Light, Z'EV plays with the intersection of light and dark, catching waves of luminescence between prisms and mirrors that fragments particles into shimmering washes of sound. Z'EV's trademark percussion transforms into glistening soundscapes and drones, one part subterranean and another subatomic.
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| COLOSSLOTH - 'Outstretch Your Hand For The Impress Of Truth' CD (CSR214CD) - £10 |
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From the wild hedgerows and deep dark rivers of the Midlands, Leicestershire's Colossloth makes psychogeographic maladies and invocations to warm the heart of the discerning and intrepid psychonaut. Phonic seeds planted in Blackened soil fertilised by visceral imagination. A fugitive ambience for those seeking solace in the unexpected. From supporting the likes of Tim Hecker and Wrangler, Colossloth's music alternates between the brooding and abrasive to the transcendental and enchanted. With nods to a multitude of genres - from industrial and ethnic tribalism to caustic electronica, it's spirit can be found crucified in between the anode and cathode of occult circuitry, transmitting across modern England whispered messages from the lips of the old gods of Albion.
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| COIL - 'Backwards' CD (CSR203CD) - £10.50 |
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The essential bridge between "Love's Secret Domain " and "Musick To Play In The Dark" series. Started in 1992, finished in 1996 in the Nothing studios of Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails). 23 years after its initiation, these tracks are finally available in highest quality audio. Digipak. Comes with release card from Cold Spring only! |
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| COIL - 'Backwards' 2 x LP (CSR203LP) - £23 |
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Deluxe double LP version of the above release. Presented in a gatefold sleeve with download code. Comes with release card from Cold Spring only! |
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| HIJOKAIDAN - 'Emergency Stairway To Heaven' LP & CD (CSR208P) - £17.50 |
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The new studio album from the legendary Japanoise act . The set arrives on luxurious 12” picture disc and CD - both formats have completely different audio! 12” Picture Disc: The new studio album. CD: Live in Shibuya abd Nagoya. Ltd x 750 copies only! |
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| SHE SPREAD SORROW - 'Rumspringa' CD (CSR212CD) - £10.50 |
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Ritual deathscapes, obscure Death Industrial, sinful Power Electronics from Alice K. A trip into distorted faith, guilt, repressed desires, punishment, discipline and perversion. File next to: Pharmakon, Puce Mary, Sewer Goddess. 6-panel digipak. |
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RELEASES:
SUTCLIFFE JUGEND - ‘Offal' CD/2LP (CSR209CD/LP)
MERZBOW - ‘Life Performance' CD (CSR218CD)
VA 'Sound Of Progress' DVD (CSR194DVD) - Foetus, Test Dept., Coil, Current 93 |
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COLOSSLOTH
•14 Mar 16, The Musician Pub, Leicester
•17 Mar 16, Lee Rosy's Tea, Nottingham
•19 Mar 16, The Rainbow Venues, Birmingham
•7 May 16, The Chemic Tavern, Leeds
•11 May 16, Firebug, Leicester
•10 Nov 16, The Flapper, Birmingham - with Zoviet France, Gong, Attrition
HIJOKAIDAN
•24 Mar 16, Boot & Saddle, Philadelphia, PA (US)
•25 Mar 16, The Crown, Baltimore, MA (US)
•26 Mar 16, Strange Matter, Richmond, VA (US)
•29 Mar 16, Austin Noise Fest, TX (US)
•30 Mar 16, Siberia, New Orleans, LA (US)
•31 Mar 16, The Cleaners, Atlanta, GA (US)
•1 Apr 16, Will's Pub, Orlando, FL (US)
•2 Apr 16, Churchill's Pub, Miami, FL (US)
SCHLOSS TEGAL
•26 Mar 16, Fuga, Bratislava (SK)
TREPANERINGSRITUALEN
(1-16 April - EU Tour with Destroyer 666 + Bölzer)
•1 Apr 16, 013, Tilburg (NL)
•2 Apr 16, Tongeren Metal Fest (BE)
•3 Apr 16, Club Zentral, Stuttgart (DE)
•4 Apr 16, Divan Du Monde, Paris (FR)
•5 Apr 16, Nambucca, London
•7 Apr 16, Neushoorn, Leeuwarden (NL)
•8 Apr 16, Royal Metal Fest, Aarhus (DK)
•9 Apr 16, Getaway, Solingen (DE)
•10 Apr 16, Club From Hell, Erfurt (DE)
•11 Apr 16, Klub Firlej, Wroclaw (PL)
•12 Apr 16, Nova Chmelnice, Prague (CZ)
•13 Apr 16, Escape Metalcorner, Vienna (AT)
•14 Apr 16, Kud Channel Zero, Ljubljana (SI)
•15 Apr 16, Circolo Colony, Brescia (IT)
•16 Apr 16, Werk 21, Zurich (CH)
•30 Apr 16, Circular: Soundscapes 2, Nuremberg (DE) - with Fjernlys
•7 May 16, Demonix, Barcelona (ES) - with Umbrage
•12-13 Aug 16, Rooster Deathfest, Lahti (FI)
KHOST
•2 Apr 16, Noiz All-Dayer, Manchester - with Iron Witch, Dukatalon, Witchsorrow
SHE SPREAD SORROW
•9 Apr 16, Maskharat, Innsbruck (AT) - with Praying For Oblivion
SUTCLIFFE JUGEND
•23 Apr 16, XI Congresso Post Industriale, Bologna (IT) - with Slogun, The Rita, N.
•27-28 May 16, Epicurean Escapism, Berlin (DE) - with Skin Area, Nikolas Schrek, Last Dominion Lost
IRON FIST OF THE SUN
•29-30 Apr 16, United Forces Of Industrial III, Electrowerkz, London - with Ke/Hil, Uncodified, STAB Electronics, Kevlar
NORDVARGR
•6-8 May 16, Tenebrae De Profundis, Athens (GR)
•13-16 May 16, Wave Gotik Treffen, Leipzig (DE)
•17 Jun 16, Will To Power: Electronics II, 7er Club, Mannheim (DE) - with Grim, Ramleh, Puce Mary, Control, Am Not, Linekraft
•28-31 Jul 16, Castle Party, Bolkow (PL)
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ANTICHILDLEAGUE - 'Holy Ghost' CD (Self-Released) - £11 |
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ACL (Antichildleague) was born as an experimental DIY solo project in 1997 - evolving from a postpunk collision joufrney to a personalised whirl. ACL's industrial / experimental sounds cut-up / deconstruction unfolds sub-genres such as industrial noise, power electronics, ritual rhythmic dark ambient and other weird crossovers. Holy Ghost is the closure of her trilogy 'The Father, The Son and the Holy Ghost'. Holy Ghosts is mixture of harsh electronics, menacing sounds with the inclusion of live instruments and experimental deep, guttural vocalisation. Digipak featuring graphic artwork, wrapped in religious texts.
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COLUMN ONE - 'Cindy, Loraine & Hank' 2 x CD (Zoharum) - £14 |
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The new double album from the legendary Berlin-based art collective was in the works for almost 10 years. For this recordings, Column One were René Lamp, Robert Schalinski, Jürgen Eckloff, Andrew Loadman with Nada and Rasmus Schalinski, plus a host of guests including Reinhold Friedl and Zeitkratzer Ensemble. "a collection of incestuous figures, a museum of small, lovely bastards. Products of passion & weakness, disorientation and dedication, of dull instincts and narrowness. Twins, triplets, octuplets, dyslexic, presidents, beginners, criminal citizens, sacred Neanderthals, expert idiots. Begotten in haste, hidden in the dirt, covered with garbage. A contourless, monstrous void in the cardigan of the great-grandmother". A voyage through the labyrinthine mind of Column One... a surreal, organic projection. Idiotenmusik, field recordings, orchestral variations, cut-ups, musique concrete, collage. Ltd x 500 copies in a double digipak.
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DONIS - 'Bez Grazdanstva' LP (Autarkeia) - £20 |
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This LP is dedicated to a man very close to the author - his grandfather. Based on the story of his life, it reflects the fates of residents near the post-war Lithuanian border. Some were killed, others exiled or remained in the occupied territory of the Soviet system. He was issued an identity document "Bez Grazdanstva" (in Russian, "No citizenship"). The album's compositions encode post-war era’s symbols from a child’s memory while listening to the stories of relatives. The record was created using only acoustic instruments and ambient sounds from the grandfather's authentic life places. It is a melancholic, atmospheric instrumental ambient album for the human condition, when you become a stranger in your own homeland, imprisoned in a trap and a hard choice: to flee or to stay. Ltd x 150 copies on heavy white vinyl in a textured, embossed sleeve.
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ECHOES OF YUL - 'The Healing' CD (Zoharum) - £11 |
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Echoes Of Yul returns with a brand new full-length album, filled with their own vision of slow-motion music. The weight and intensity of the previous releases give way to atmospheric journey through the author's concept of sonic tracks, krautrock, dub and minimal rock. Less literal and more musically abstract - that's what the new Echoes of Yul sounds like with all their characteristic elements but exploring new territories and not repeating their previous ideas. Michal Sliwa is not trying to follow worn-out, tried and safe paths, but created a new coherent piece of work entitled "The Healing". The album is produced by Michal Sliwa and mastered by James Plotkin (OLD, Khanate). Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak.
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FEINE TRINKERS BEI PINKELS DAHEIM - 'A Bug's Life' CD (Zoharum) - £11 |
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Celebrating 25 years of artistic activity, "A Bug's Life" is the tenth full-length album in the discography of Feine Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim. It was created, like the previous albums, overr several years and is another conscious artistic statement. Seven compositions included here are of a collage nature and combine echoes of post-industrial ambient, drone music, musique concrete, field recordings and even plunderphonics. Jürgen Eberhard consciously continues his sonic quest on a depleted terrain and he manages to avoid traps of empty experiments. "A Bug's Life" is at the same time an atmospheric, and even accessible, album, and sonically elaborate and demanding of the listener. Ltd x 300 copies in a 6-panel ecopak.
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GENETIC TRANSMISSION - 'Last' CD (Zoharum / IYHHH) - £10.50 |
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The idea behind the recording of Genetic Transmission's latest album was the creation of sonic miniatures, short forms created from acoustic preparations or electro-acoustic sources resulting in numerous sound experiments which Tomasz Twardawa has been known for. As a result, the album is composed of fifteen tracks in total, mostly shorter tracks, though over an hour of music. 'Last' is the end of a chapter, as the title indicates. This is the last studio album in the discography of Genetic Transmission. It is also the last, 9th part of the IYHHH series, presenting interesting discoveries or unusual sounds from Polish artists in an unconventional way. Ltd x 444 hand-numbered copies in an outsized ecopak with postcard.
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HATI - 'Metanous' CD (Zoharum) - £11 |
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A summary of the period 2011-2012 when the musicians performed as a trio of Rafal Iwanski, Rafal Kolacki and Robert Darowski, expanding the sonic formula and create music of a slightly different nature. On "Metanous" the weight of percussion is balanced by the sound of the didgeridoo, as well as many other instruments making up the sonic world of HATI: gongs, drums, bells, found objects, horns and other wind instruments. Rich, complex song structures, with acoustic drone explorations, equally important in the music of the group. "Metanous" is the transformation of the mind; the word meta in Latin means the boundary, the end, the turning point. Ltd x 400 copies in a digipak.
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HYBRYDS - 'The Rhythm Of The Ritual / Ein Phallischer Gott' 2 x CD (Zoharum) - £14 |
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"The Rhythm of the Ritual / Ein Phallischer Gott" is the fifth instalment in the reissue series of Hybryds classic releases. "The Rhythm of the Rituals” (1994, Charnel Music) and ”Ein Phallischer Gott” (1997, Crowd Control Activities) shared some songs. At the time, there was no official media supporting this world of “underground” music. The band made their music live on an 8-track. The only sequences were the drum machines. It's the more rhythmical and ethnical side of Hybryds, featuring lots of percussion, played acoustically, or sampled and looped, or from drum machines. The first CD collects tracks from the two studio releases in the title. The live CD contains live versions of the studio CD (some taken from the live Obuh vinyl LP) and some extras, like an unreleased song ”Dusk Falling”. The album has been digitally remastered from the original master tapes by Sandy Nys, who also provided the cover based on the previous editions. Ltd x 500 copies in a double digipak.
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IMPLODES - 'Reverser' 12" (Gilead Media) - £16 |
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With two previous full-length releases on Kranky Records, this EP contains two unreleased tracks from the "Recurring Dream" sessions (2013), with two newly recorded tracks. Although the works originate from different recording sessions these songs mesh beautifully, forming an overall warmth that travels through the group’s signature lush forest of dense fuzz, reverb and delay. A weaving river of somber rhythms and subtle melodies makes the songs blissfully easy to latch on to, while they remain deeply rooted in the worlds of drone and ambient. It is limited to 375 copies on black, purple, and golden yellow vinyl. Ltd x 375 copies on transparent golden orange vinyl with download code.
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MACHINEFABRIEK - 'Wendingen' CD (Zoharum) - £11 |
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"Wendingen" is a compilation and at the same time it isn't. It contains recordings of other artists and at the same time is a completely fresh look at them through the Zuydervelt's glasses. "Wendingen" collects a substantial part of reworks and reinterpretations of tracks by Mensenkinderen, Wouter Van Veldhoven, Fieldhead, Aaron Martin, Coppice, de la mancha, The Moi Non Plus, Djivan Gasparyan, Amon Tobin, Gareth Hardwick, Fiium Shaarrk, Vladimir and Red Stars Over Tokyo. Because they are reconstructions done by, not for, Machinefabriek, "Wendigen" sounds like a completely new album, not a compilation. It is also the proof of the craftsmanship of one of the most interesting figures on the European electronic / experimental music scene. Ltd x 300 copies in a 6-panel ecopak.
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MAREK X. MARCHOFF - 'Funeral Musik For You And Me' CD (Zoharum) - £11 |
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This is the follow-up of the ideas that guided the creation of the previous Marek X. Marchoff (Different State, 23 Threads) album entitled 'Funeral Musik für Jenny Marchoff' (2013). However, in this case, it is devoid of a personal element, which was the laudation or registration of tormenting feelings after the loss of a loved one, and is more of a reflection on the meaning of life and death. The common denominator for both discs is certainly the nature of work and the type of measures, which helped Marek X. Marchoff during the recording sessions. While recording he also used analogue audio sources, including synthesizers of this type. This time he also invited his friend Tom Kalinovsky to collaborate on this album. The music, though far from the stem of Different State and 23 Threads styles, is equally as interesting, intriguing and even inspiring.
Ltd x 300 copies in an ecopak.
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MAURIZIO BIANCHI - 'Dicembre 1980' CD (Old Europa Cafe) - £15 |
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Reissue of a very rare self-produced M.B. album from 1980. There were just a few copies of the original tape handmade by Maurizio - the album was also bootleged by a couple of labels on very small and poor tape editions, but this is the very first completely re-mastered official re-release on digital format. A rare MB experiment of analogue repetitive sounds recorded with a Korg MS20 synth. Prologue: "Multiatom particles between electronic mutilation and noisy disgregation, with the plain assistance of a neutronic synthesizer, during the freezing month of December 1980. The gradual development of the sounds aggregates ferromagnetic cluster
to develop liquid effects and solid modulations, everything condensed in protonic macrostates". Ltd x just 100 hand-numbered copies in a digipak. ACT FAST!
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NAMENLOSIGKEIT - '1' 12" (Self-Released) - £12 |
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Namenlosigkeit is the dark ambient / drone project from The Untitled - the well-known (usually) speedcore producer from the Netherlands. This EP (22:30 min) is a desolate, dark, gloom-ridden and mournful funeral-hymn. An ideal soundtrack to the currently unfolding apocalypse. Wonderfully immersive. Limited edition 180g vinyl in a disco bag.
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ORO!ORO! - 'Sastingis' CD (Autarkeia) - £11 |
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The latest oro!oro! album is dedicated to the eternal winter. To the everlasting glacial stagnation. Just imagine it is one and the same season - the season of winter - all year round. That is the true core of the stagnation. Excessively deep meditative sounds remind of the ether, the habitat of spirits. Reluctantly you ask yourself if you are still alive? In terms of style, the album harks back to the cult ambient albums of Current 93. Those who still recall "The Stars Are Marching Sadly Home" may expect the same atmosphere. Perhaps now is the time when the waiting for the spring will never end? Ltd x 200 copies in a 6-panel digipak. |
RAMLEH - 'Conquest Play / Clockwork' 12" (Entropy) - £13.50 |
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Brand new release from Ramleh on the new label from Anthony Di Franco (Ramleh, JFK, AX, Novatron), featuring 2 new and exclusive tracks. The A side, "Conquest Play" captures the 2 piece electronic line-up of the band in full, devastating effect in the studio. The B side features the definitive studio recording of the live favourite "Clockwork" as recorded by the 3 piece Rock line-up. Both of these tracks are exclusive to this release only and will not be re-issued in any form in the future. Ltd x 200 copies on heavyweight vinyl in a disco bag.
• All Rameh Titles • All LP / 12" Vinyl |
RAPOON - 'Blue Days' CD (Zoharum) - £11 |
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"Blue Days" is a brand new album from Robin Storey (Zoviet France). On recent albums, long, slowly developing compositions dominated - here there are as many as fourteen of them with the longest being less than eight minutes long, and the two shortest only forty seconds long. This is a record of ideas, sketches. The album is dominated with conciseness; however, all the songs compose one bigger piece. They show that Robin Storey is constantly looking for new artistic paths. Ltd x 500 copies in a gatefold mini-LP sleeve with a cover based on paintings by Robin Storey.
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RAPOON - 'Seeds In The Tide Volume 04' 2 x CD (Zoharum) - £11 |
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The fourth part in the series of Rapoon's archival recordings entitled "Seeds in the Tide". Like the previous three, this album is divided into two parts. In the first one we find songs from the years 2005-2007 from rare, limited releases, compilations plus a remix of Rapoon made by the project Xela. This first disc, almost 75 minutes long, features a variety of recordings presenting Robin Storey's (Zoviet France) project from different angles. The second disc is a recording of a concert from Rhiz in Vienna, 2006. A 45-minute-long appearance, very consistent, strongly contrasting with the first disc. Ltd x 500 copies in a double digipak. The cover was designed by Maciej Mehring based on Robin Storey's paintings.
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SEA OF BONES - 'The Earth Wants Us Dead' 3 x LP (Gilead Media) - £29 |
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"...atmospheric, distorted, and utterly, utterly lightless, mining the depths of doom, drone, and sludge with care and dead-eyed determination.A slow burn, painfully sluggish and cracking with feedback beneath hollow roars and crumbling riffs. This one's going to hurt" (Pitchfork). "Where the band is clearly comfortable with extensive and sprawling passages of atmospheric doom tinged with sludge, they have pushed that affinity into extreme territories with this new LP... a heaving behemoth, clocking in at over 90 minutes of sorrowful dirges" (Cvlt Nation). Ltd x 150 copies on brown vinyl in a beautiful double gatefold sleeve with download code.
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STROM NOIR / MICROMELANCOLIÉ - '49°05'19,3"N 22°34'04,0'E' CD (Zoharum) - £11 |
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The result of a collaboration between Emil Mat'ko aka Strom Noir and Robert Skrzynski aka Micromelancolié. Their collaborative album is a piece of work suspended between two stylistics penetrated within their own solo projects, and at the same time it is perfectly complementary. On one side we have the guitar / electronic passages so characteristic of Strom Noir, and on the other the sonic structures prepared from defects and scraps that has been explored for several years by Micromelancolié. Two untitled compositions that float slowly and are a contemplation of places far from urban civilization. Ltd x 300 copies in an ecopak.
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THOU - 'Ceremonies Of Humiliation' 2 x CD (Gilead Media) - £13.50 |
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A two-disc collection of out-of-print material from splits and EPs released prior to the band’s third full-length, "Summit". Over two hours of doom / sludge, taken from rare splits with: Moloch, Leech, Black September, Haarp, Mohoram Atta, Salome, The City Is The Tower. All tracks remastered by Adam Tucker at Signaturetone Recording. Packaged in a hardboard gatefold outsized jacket with a 20-page booklet printed on heavy paper stock. Ltd x 1000 copies, with exclusive artwork (2014 3LP edition had different artwork).
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THOU - 'Heathen' CD (Gilead Media) - £11 |
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Thou's 4th full-length record shows a clear progression from their earlier works, combining the melody and hopefulness of "Summit" with the heaviness and melancholia of "Peasant" and "Tyrant". "Those who appreciate the electric frisson of the band’s lumbering doom riffs and Funck’s acerbic snarl will find much to appreciate here, and it’s hard to see even a casual listener taking issue with the more experimental bent of the LP, especially when it works so well. Consumed by struggle and steeped in agony, Thou have truly reached a summit". (Pitchfork) "...sprawling and adventurous, albeit decidedly grim, sludge doom. None of Thou’s vitriol and vitality has been lost, still straddling a line between coarse doom and eerie melody. It’s a balance that they mastered many years ago but with Heathen they've shown to only excel further with it." (Cvlt Nation). Ltd 1300 copies in a hardboard gatefold sleeve with opaque obi strip and booklet.
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THOU - 'Summit' CD (Gilead Media) - £11 |
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Thou's third album. "Even when Thou get almost impenetrably slow, there’s some meat there, be it in the form of an evocative riff, vocalist Bryan Funck’s dragged-slowly-across-the-coals vocals, or simply what would be for most bands a beautiful moment stretched to its logical breaking point, making for an incredibly unpleasant result... On the surface, the record is decent sludge doom. Beneath it, it’s a journey dedicated to finding the beauty in horror and the horror in beauty... full of a sad, subtle hideousness... Thou’s affection is hard-won, guaranteeing the best payoff possible" (Metal Sucks). 2015 reissue in an outsized hardboard gatefold sleeve with opaque obi strip and booklet.
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THOU - 'Tyrant' CD (Gilead Media) - £11 |
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CD reissue of Thou's 2007 vinyl album with 2 extra tracks, (later reissued on vinyl by Southern Lord). Sludge doom from Louisiana, with a great atmosphere and truly evil vocals. "Thou is the type of sludge that has spent too long in the dark. Thou is the type of doom that has fallen past any sanity of High On Fire proportions and has slipped into a droning, screaming, drugged out mess. Naturally of course, this equates to musical greatness... This is the sort of music that sludge fans use to define the words massive, slow and heavy" (Metal Underground). File next to Khanate, Burning Witch, Weed Eater. Second edition of 2000 copies with updated artwork in a Stoughton printed hardboard gatefold sleeve with opaque obi strip and booklet.
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TREPANERINGSRITUALEN & BODY CARGO - 'Split' LP (Autarkeia) - £19 |
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This release is a collaborative work of the Swedish and Lithuanian industrial music scenes, with each artist contributing 3 tracks. On the A side one can find Sweden's Trepaneringsritualen, who composed impressive dark ambient / death industrial tracks. Culled from the same sessions as Åkallan Mímir, Trepaneringsritualen's side of this split features a prolonged death chant in three movements. Sombre, slow-moving and ritualistic in approach, this working fits in stylistically somewhere between the previously mentioned Åkallan: Mímir and Deathward, To The Womb. Tthe B side features Lithuania's post-mortem act Body Cargo, who, as is usual to the project, plays dirty and brutal lo-fi about the cannibal cults of Papua New Guinea. Ltd x 300 copies on heavy transparent vinyl in a screenprinted cardboard sleeve. ACT FAST!
• All Trepaneringsritualen Titles • All LP / 12" Vinyl |
VELEMARA - 'Abysmia' CD (Autarkeia) - £11 |
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A new project from Saulius B (Haeiresis), breathing new life into the Lithuanian industrial scene. Velemara's sound quality shows that there still exists people who invest a lot of time into their music equipment. Velemara responsive sound takes you to a phantasmagorical world of dusk. At times, the atmosphere is futuristic and militaristic, and at times so mystical as to evoke interesting associations to the audience. The style of music makes one infer that the author has indeed heard NTT, Nordvargr and MZ.412 projects. In broader terms, Velemara offers a remarkable solid Scandinavian-influenced sound and a black industrial atmosphere. Mastered by Peter Andersson (Raison D'Etre). Ltd x 200 copies in a digipak. |
Y-INCISION - 'Der Schatten Der Fliege' CD (Old Europa Cafe) - £15 |
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Y-Incision is a Vintras side project (the mastermind behind Djinn). The album was recorded back in 2006/7 and was foreseen to be released on Slaughter Productions, but because of Marco's premature death it was never published. With this project, Vintras doesn't talk about his personal thoughts but describes the dirty, violent and raw side of the human being. These feelings become disturbing hypnotic noise/industrial frequencies, with a touch of perverted Death Ambient. Powerful and razor-sharp-cutting sounds. The cover features photos by Alice Angeletti. Ltd x just 100 hand-numbered copies in a digipak. |
ZENIAL - 'Minotaur' LP & DVD (Zoharum) - £16 |
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Five of the seven compositions on 'Minotaur' were recorded during an artistic residency of Lukasz Szalankiewicz in the well-known Stockholm EMS studio. Additional songs are collaborations with Norwegian artist Jørgen Knudsen. "The music is quite intense, but also cinematic; one could easily envisage a horror movie to go along with these pieces. If you like your music to be all dark, electronic, at times to be ambient, but also maybe a bit more industrial, then this one surely is worth your time." (Vital Weekly). The cover is adorned with the paintings of Wiktor Jackowski. There is an accompanying DVD of films to each of these pieces, by such artists such as Wladyslawa Szulc and Marian Kraczkowski. Ltd x 200 copies.
• All Zenial Titles • All LP / 12" Vinyl |
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IRM - 'Anthology' 2 x CD Set (Autarkeia) - £18
Having started out in 1997 when Erik Jarl asked Martin Bladh to join him, 2012 sees the 15th anniversary of IRM. Those 15 years have seen them mature from bedroom autodidacts to masters of the studio environment. Taking their cue from the confrontational sounds of Brighter Death Now and Whitehouse on their debut, IRM have honed their sound on each album and eventually fleshed out the sonic tapestry by the addition of Mikael Oretoft on bass. By tapping into the mindsets of outsider artists / authors such as Mishima, Rudolf Schwarzkogler and Francis Bacon, their obsessions with pain, purity and beauty leaked into Bladh's personal lyrics. This aesthetic amalgamated with the volcanic eruptions of Jarl and Oretoft have set IRM apart as true originators in the diluted sea of contemporary power electronics.
The set contains a double digipak with 20-page booklet and wrap-around insert. Hardback slipbox adorned with spot-varnishing. Ltd x 500 copies.
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RAISON D'ETRE - 'Metamorphyses (Expanded Edition)' 2 x CD (Old Europa Cafe) - £14
'Metamorphyses' is a journey into the deep inner self; a drama of the sublime and trancendental transformation of the psyche through a katabasis ritual presented in six transitional stages slowly moving towards completion. Being the seventh full length album from raison d'être, 'Metamorphyses' is quite different from previous works by Peter Andersson. The organic flow and the use of drones has been extended, creating a varied output of both calm / meditative and harsh / intense sound structures. This expanded 2CD edition of 'Metamorphyses' contains the original album remastered according to the K-14 level standard. Additionally, two previously unreleased early sketches from the 'Metamorphyses' session have been added to the first disc. The second disc contains a selection of previously unreleased live recordings from performances made between 2006-2008 in Sofia, Gent, Salzburg, Alkmaar and Budapest. Comes in a 6-panel double digipak. |
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TRUCIDO - 'Salvation' MCD (Autarkeia) - £9
This release is from that period before the creation of Death Squad (aka Michael Nine / MK9). This album presents power electronics / industrial / vocalisation sound events that even today give a unique perspective into the ideological warfare of faith / intervention and salvation. Originally released on cassette in 1996 on Spastik Soniks in an edition of 20. Now on CD in an edition of 150 hand-numbered copies in a digipak.
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Over n` out!!
THE COLD SPRING TEAM
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