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| MZ. 412 - 'Hekatomb' CD (CSR172CD) - £10.50 |
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Hekatomb is the manifestation of MZ. 412's monumental performance @ Cold Spring's 21st Anniversary at The Garage, London, March 2011. The fortuitous congregation on that curse'd evening bore witness to the band's first EVER complete live line-up: Nordvargr, Drakh, and Ulvtharm. Powerful, pounding Industrial, desolate drones, dense electronics, grim nefarious rituals, reigned over by the malevolent intonations of Nordvargr. This satanic, blackened ritual from the creators of Black Industrial will evolve from memory, to history, and into legend. “Hekatomb” features different versions and interpretations of MZ. 412 material spanning 23 years. Presented in a 6-panel digipak featuring images from the ceremony.
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| TUNNELS OF AH - 'Thus Avici' CD (CSR206CD) - £8 |
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“Firstly, the punishment is meted out day and night, kalpa after kalpa, without a moment's interruption or relief. Thus Avici”. ‘Thus Avici' is the second album from Tunnels Of Ah (Stephen Ah Burroughs / Head Of David ). The title references ‘the sutra of bodhisattva Ksitigarbha's fundamental vows', a section of which Burroughs reads daily in homage to Ksitigarbha whom Burroughs pledged ‘entreaty and supplication' under solemn tantric oath 20 years ago. Tantric buddhism, christian mysticism and personal magick make up the subject matter for ‘Thus Avici'. Where traces of 2013's ‘Lost Corridors' album can be heard, ‘Thus Avici' is a harder, more focused offering. Shards of distorted noise, ritual drums, caustic drones and haunted vocals make ‘Thus Avici' a dark hallucinatory swoon into the hinterland of the Tunnels Of Ah. The dull blue light of brute-world calls.
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| SOL - 'Where Suns Come To Die' CD (CSR186CD) - £8 |
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Where Suns Come To Die is an exploration of growing older; the disappointment that follows and the omnipresent dissociation from the world and life as such. In a mixture of sampled classical songs from the beginning of the last century and recorded instruments such as reed organ, horns and strings the music reflects on a nostalgia and a feeling of disconnection to the modern world. Holding on to what last shreds of beauty still lingers Where suns come to die is a reminder that life is with end and we all must offer ourselves to the soil. Where Suns Come To Die consists of four tracks featuring Thomas Bøjden of Die Weisse Rose on vocals.
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| TREPANERINGSRITUALEN - 'Veil The World' CD (CSR205CD) - £10 |
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"All seals have been broken" proclaims a demonic voice on the titular track of Veil The World, and that is something terrifyingly evident in the music contained therein. On Veil The World, T x R x P veers from crepuscular ritual moods to rabid death chants reveling, even celebrating the imminent end of flesh. Veil the World - originally released in a very limited and ultra-lavish box by Kosci Tapes in 2011 (Ltd 40) - marks the half-way point between the earlier, more atmospheric works of T × R × P, and the more visceral aggression of the later material. Remastered and presented in a 6 panel digipak, T x R x P once again assert themselves as the true masters of Swedish Ritual Industrial. Ltd x 1000 copies only.
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| LAIBACH - 'Neu Konservatiw' Picture Disc LP (CSR38P) - £15 |
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The official release of the semi-official, legendary 1000 only vinyl from 1985, now a highly sought-after collectors piece. This album finds LAIBACH at their most powerful, orchestral and anthemic! Cold Spring released the CD version (2003, repressed 2006) and are now proud to release this gem on a stunning picture disc with new artwork, based on the traditional German ehrenscheibe style. Ltd x 1000 copies on full colour picture disc.
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| MERZBOW - 'Nezumimochi' Picture Disc LP & CD (CSR200P) - £18 |
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New studio album from the King of Japanoise. Stunning picture disc vinyl and CD pack (not available separately). Both formats contain exclusive and completely different tracks. 90 minutes of crunchy, intense noise, complex structures, and hypnotic samples. Ltd x 500 copies. |
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| SUTEKH HEXEN - 'Become' CD (CSR199CD) - £10 |
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CD edition of Sutekh Hexen's critically acclaimed 12" "Become", with an exclusive bonus track, serving as an extraordinary junction in the listening experience. Vortex, repetition, and inducing trance-like states. Artwork and layout by Kevin Gan Yuen. Mastered by James Plotkin. 40 mins. Digipak. |
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| COIL / NINE INCH NAILS - 'Recoiled' Picture Disc LP (CSR193P) - £20 |
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Final special edition of this extraordinary release. Comes in a heavy PVC sleeve. Ltd x 1000 copies.
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VA 'Decoder' LP / CD (CSR207CD/LP) - Einsturzende Neubauten, Genesis P-Orridge, The The, Dave Ball
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MERZBOW
• 28 Mar 15, Earthdom, Tokyo (JP) - with Full Of Hell, Endon, Balazs Pandi
TREPANERINGSRITUALEN
• 2 Apr 15, Urban Spree, Berlin (DE)
- with Anemone Tube, Cremation Lily
• 5 Apr 15, Kosmo Kino Plaza Cycle VIII, Paris (FR)
- with Deutsch Nepal, Ex.Order, IRM, Tho-So-Aa, Jarl
• 5-6 Jun 15, Apex Fest VI, Paris (FR)
- with Deutsch Nepal, Ex.Order, IRM, Tho-So-Aa, Jarl
KHOST
• 4 Apr 15, Doom Over London, London (UK) - with Asphyx, Draconian, Forgotten Tomb, October Tide, Funeralium
• 11 May 15, The Chameleon, Nottingham (UK) - with Moss
KHOST (supporting CONAN)
• 5 Jun 15, Bannermans, Edinburgh (UK)
- with The Moth, Of Spire & Throne
• 6 Jun 15, Oobleck, The Custard Factory, Birmingham (UK)
- with KI, The Moth
• 7 Jun 15, The Moon, Cardiff (UK)
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• 8 Jun 15, Tiki Bar, Plymouth (UK)
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• 9 Jun 15, The Exchange, Bristol (UK)
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• 11 Jun 15, Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester (UK)
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• 13 Jun 15, Brudenell Social Club, Leeds (UK)
- with Bong Cauldron, Clenstch
• 14 Jun 15, Roadhouse, Manchester (UK)
• 15 Jun 15, Audio, Glasgow (UK)
- with Atragon, Skeleton Gong
TREPANERINGSRITUALEN / BURIAL HEX / SUTEKH HEXEN / KARJALAN SISSIT
• 5-6 Jun 15, Apex Fest VI, New York (US)
- with The Body, Gnaw Their Tongues, IRM, Northaunt, Svartsinn, Sophia, Funerary Call, Havan, Barren Harvest, Jarl, Menace Ruine.
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• 6 Jun 15, NK Project, Berlin (DE)
- with Human Larvae, Krube
TREPANERINGSRITUALEN / PRURIENT
• 26-27 Jun 15, Heavy Electronics III, TBA, Mannheim (DE)
- with Brighter Death Now, Propergol, Tho-So-Aa, Pain Nail, Alfarmania, Ke/Hil
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AM NOT - 'Unpunished' CD (Unrest Productions) - £11 |
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UK power electronics / industrial. Some of you will be aware of their excellent collaboration with Shift and STAB Electronics last year. Executed in North London 2013-2014. Comes in a very nice 6-panel digipak. |
ATARAXIA - 'Paris Spleen' CD (Twilight Records) - £11 |
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Reissue of Ataraxia's 2006 album (Cold Meat Industry). On Paris Spleen, Ataraxia are inspired by poetry, mainly the one that transforms the most turbid and tormented reality, the one of the wretches, the freaks, the buskers and the buffoons in a sort of lyrical revelation. "We started exploring an historical period and environment that have always appealed to us: the 'cabarets macabres' and fun fairs of the beginning of the XXth century in Paris... Carrying out an accurate research about the 'ghost cabarets' that animated the nights of Boulevard de Clichy, we disappeared into a nocturnal environment both gloomy and sparkling of unnatural colours, a distorted dimension where each mask, drama, jest and tear turned into a grotesque and amplified representation of life. Men, dogs, exotic perfumes, acrobats in decay, green-eyed enchantresses, cloud sellers, heavenly places come into existence behind the threadbare fabric of a torn curtain rather than on the unnailed planks of a worm-eaten stage. Identifying ourselves with the artists of that time, we have written a collection of songs that could have been played at the beginning of the xxth century in the Cabaret of Heaven rather than in the Tavern of Crooks. Thanks to the sound of bandonéons, musettes, trombones, violins, big-drums and cymbals and the dramatic and guttural voice of our singer, we have sung Baudelaire who, in his turn, had sung Paris of the imaginative and under-privileged artists of Montmartre. This music brings back to life the grotesque, bitter and irreverent words of "Le Spleen de Paris". Digipak.
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CON-DOM / THE GREY WOLVES - 'Waging War Against You' CD (Unrest Productions) - £11 |
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These tracks were originally released on the legendary "War Against Society" 3xLP compilation (Praxis Dr. Bearmann, 1997), now available for the first time on CD. Some claim this is the best Con-Dom material ever released. The Grey Wolves track here is absolutely massive! Recorded and mixed 1995. Remastered 2014 by Andy Lippo ldt. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
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CROPCIRCLE - 'Soundtrack For An Unquiet Night' CD (Creative Fields Rec.) - £10.50 |
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"Soundtrack For An Unquiet Night" is the 5th full-length work by Cropcircle. Conceived as a kind of soundtrack for imaginary movies having as their main theme tormented nights, the album is partly distant from the dark ambient sounds of previous Cropcircle works. Divided into 8 tracks, the sound turns has the feel of ‘70s noir-thriller movies' classical soundtracks. Enhanced by the wonderful voices of Daniela Bedeski (previously Camerata Mediolanense, now Rosa Rubea), and Stefania Domiziana V., and inspired by "noire" tales, this new work of the Piedmonts musical project is a heartfelt homage to those composers, mainly Italian ones, that have contributed to make old movies memorable with their music. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak. |
DAY BEFORE US - 'Crystal Sighs Of A Broken Universe' CD (Twilight Records) - £11 |
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With 2 previous releases on Rage In Eden, Day Before us now works as a bi-national duet (FR/GR). Day Before Us explores a musical register which consists to subvert stylistic boundaries for a creative dialogue between ethereal folk lyricism, piano based neoclassical minimalism and dark ambient instrumentation. The whole musical odyssey is surrounded by a hazy feeling of nostalgia. Partly impregnated by mytho-poetry from Greece and epic poems from the European romantic period, "Crystal Sighs..." explores the dark corner of our imagination, in search of hidden or veiled symbolical truths. Taking advantage of a stylistic diversity and taking its substance from deeply organic sound-textures, the collection of pieces gathered for this edition orientates the listener into a vast palette of emotions. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak.
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FERIAL CONFINE - 'Meiosis' CD (Siren Records) - £14.50 |
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Gorgeous reissue of Ferial Confine's 1985 album, previously issued on Broken Flag on cassette. Ferial Confine was an early Andrew Chalk experimental, somewhat noise-based project. You can certainly hear the influence of The New Blockaders and, to some extent, Whitehouse, but "Meiosis" is a fine example of what was 'in the air' for a small amount of people scattered around the world at the time. Without computer technology, this sort of sound barrage was difficult and time-consuming to accomplish. As with a lot of recordings in those heady days, the effort that was put in led to a very detailed refusal of what passed for music at the time. The two part title track is particularly harrowing, but some of the other nine pieces display peeks of the melancholy beauty Andrew is known for today. Superbly remastered by Denis Blackham from the original master tapes. Ltd x 500 copies in a mini-LP style sleeve with obi strip.
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GRUNT - 'Archive: 90's Tapes' 10 x CD Boxset (Freak Animal) - £65 |
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This excellent limited edition 10-CD boxset celebrates 20 years of Finland's legendary Power Electronics / Industrial act Grunt. Although the box itself is thick and heavy, the package itself is slim and compact. Inside you'll find 5 double CD digifiles, each including an information insert and scans of the original tape artwork. Roughly 700 minutes of playtime, including lots of rarities and also completely unreleased songs recorded between 1993-1999. Also included in the box is a 52-page booklet that includes a report of GRUNT activities 1993-2013, general history, discography with liner notes from all releases, live action list and photos. All digifiles are silk-screened and hand-assembled. Essential!
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NICK MOTT - 'Here Begins The Great Destroyer' CD (Lumberton Trading Company) - £10.50 |
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New studio album from Nick Mott (Volcano The Bear). As the ten pieces on "Here Begins The Great Destroyer" pay witness to, a world of unfolding electronic textures, uneasy tones, rhythmic bursts and general sense of things not being quite as they seem, serve as Nick's main preoccupations. The album resides in a space where the likes of Renaldo & the Loaf, Tuxedo Moon, Nurse With Wound and Andrew Liles crawled from. Mastered by Sion Orgon. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak.
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ROBERT HAIGH - 'Strange And Secret Things' CD (Siren Records) - £14.50 |
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Third in a trilogy of new Robert Haigh (Sema) piano music. Seventeen beautiful piano miniatures. Utterly sumptuous, with lots of Satie and some Chopin influence, as was the case even in the early Sema days - those early Sema LPs remain strange and beautiful to this day. Haigh has a nuanced sense of melodic development and this is a fine CD of solo piano music. Relaxing and engaging at the same time and very intimate sounding as well. The pieces are very strong and have surprises when you least expect them. Mastered by the legendary Denis Blackham. Ltd x 500 copies in a mini-LP style sleeve with obi strip, artwork by Andrew Chalk.
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ROBERT HAIGH - 'The Silence Of Ghosts' CD (Siren Records) - £14.50 |
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"Although not a major departure from Haigh's previous work for the label, this 18 track collection benefits from a wider pallet of subtle sonic textures. With "The Silence Of Ghosts" Haigh has visioned a journey through strange and beautiful terrain - a topography of fragile melodies and muted discords... "The Silence Of Ghosts" is a mature and deeply reflective work employing Robert Haigh's distinctive subverted melodies and spacious counterpoint. This collection should appeal to fans of Satie, Debussy, Harold Budd, Philip Glass and Max Richter" (Brainwashed). Mastered by Denis Blackham. Ltd x 700 copies in a mini-LP style sleeve with obi strip, artwork by Andrew Chalk.
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SPK - 'Working Cycle Transmission' 5 x LP + 10" Boxset (Therapeutic/Adverse Recordings) - £65 |
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Super deluxe limited 6-vinyl boxset, reproducing all 3 official SPK live-CDs (Field Report San Franciso, Case Study London, and Paradiso) on 5 slabs of vinyl, PLUS an exclusive 10" in a beautiful box. All previously unreleased soundboard recordings from 1987, including one exclusive track: Germanik (Sydney April 21 1979) - 24 track digital recordings bounced to DAT. "For me, listening to these recordings is like going through an old photo album as they covered two periods when I was actively involved in SPK, either behind the scenes or as a member of the band onstage and which I’d mostly forgot about over time. 5 LP’s plus a 10” of surprisingly good quality. It’s good to reminisce about some fun moments in my own life and that part of the journey. I oversaw the reissues of the SPK albums on Mute Records in 1992 and I also recommend these
recordings as a true representation of what SPK sounded like live." (Lustmord). Ltd x 400 copies.
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SRUB - 'Swamp' CD (Infinite Fog Productions) - £10.50 |
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The first part of the trilogy "Swamp / Shadow / Fog". SRUB or in English, Frame) is the main project of Novosibirsk artist Igor Shapransky, heavily inspired by the Russian band Utro. Srub is a Neofolk / Post-Punk project inspired by Russian slavic occult customs and tries to recreate a real Russian atmosphere in the songs. "The first step of darkness. Anticipation of the night. One of your faces, walking secret paths". |
TREPANERINGSRITUALEN - 'Ritualer, Blot & Botgöring' CD (Infinite Fog Productions) - £11 |
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Ritualer, Blot & Botgöring is the CD reissue of Trepaneringsritualen’s first tape, originally issued on Harsh Head Rituals in 2008 in a tiny edition of 75 copies. All head-experiments contained herein work on quite simple and primitive levels in the good, old-fashioned industrial way, with less focus on layering and vocals. Suggestive hell-drones and slow grinding dungeon electronics with a concrete edge - toward the inevitable, lifeless end. Also includes T x R x P's track from the "White Nights" tape compilation (2008), plus one previously unreleased track. Digipak.
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WILT - 'From Depths Profound And Inceivable' CD
(Fall Of Nature Records) - £10.50 |
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One of the most prolific and talented artists of the genre returns with a 2-part series dedicated to and inspired by the work of H.P Lovecraft. These two new offerings both serve as a portal into a poisoned mind, filled with images of unnameable horror. Dark ambient noise collides with black static transmissions from unknown planes. Cavernous droning atmospheres painting images of hopeless dread. Subtle Death Industrial loops collide like the tectonic plates of a Black Earth. Dense hypnotic darkness with a unique organic edge.
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WHOTE - 'Moons' CD (VII Sounds Ltd) - £11 |
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Ten haunting instrumental arrangements built of 6-string bass, guitar, field recordings and minimal keyboards, all performed and produced by Thomas Watkiss. Whereas the debut "Align" served a sonic confrontation of dense guitar textures, "Moons" breaches expectations through dismal yet brooding soundscapes where instrumentation appears and descends from the careful utilisation of noise and field recordings. Contains 4 bonus tracks (not on LP versions), plus extended editions of 2 tracks. Comes in a screen-printed digipak with a hand-numbered and signed screen-printed insert. |
WHOTE - 'Moons' LP - Silver (VII Sounds Ltd) - £17 |
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Limited LP version of the above release. Ltd x 100 hand-numbered copies on silver vinyl w ith screen-printed inner sleeves.
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AYTHIS - 'The New Earth' CD
(Twilight Records) - £11
Aythis was brought to life in France 2006 by Carline Van Roos (Remembrance, Lethian Dreams). Lyrically inspired by dreams, isolation and death, Aythis aims to be timeless and isolated from human nature. Aythis’ harmonies are created by the alchemy of depressive keyboard atmospheres, haunting and hypnotic melodies, ethereal vocals and dark orchestral drums. Without losing the wintry atmospheres of previous releases ‘Doppelgänger’ (Paradigms Recordings) and ‘Glacia’ (Prikosnovenie), this third album melts together many influences and results in an unique blend of ethereal, neoclassical, neofolk, rhythmed by bombastic drums. Digipak. |
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BARBAROSSA UMTRUNK - 'La Fraternite Polaire' CD
(Twilight Records) - £11
A new bombastic and ritual piece from the French Martial Industrial act Barbarossa Umtrunk. An hermetic trip which immerges us through tribal and frozen soundscapes, to Martial Neoclassical, Ritual-Noise and Military-Pop, exploring the illuminating concepts of Esoteric Gaullism & Eurasian “Lebensraum”, inspired by metahistorical and geopolitical perspectives taken from René Guénon, Zam Bhotiva, Henry Corbin, Aleksandr Dugin, Jean Parvulesco, Jean Robin, and Mircea Eliade's theories and books. “La Fraternité Polaire” is a sacred hymn to the Polar Man, a Man of Steel anchored in tradition, among the ruins of Kali Yuga, a Warrior-Priest in the service of the unchanging Polar dimension of the Star of the Invisible Empire which stays up above heavens. Featuring special guests: Schattenspiel, Spreu & Weizen, Vir Martialis and French novellist Jean-Paul Bourre. Digipak. |
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BASTARD NOISE / U.N.D. - 'Economy Of Death / Fall' 7"
(Freak Animal) - £7
Celebrating 20 years of BN/UND friendship. Not to be confused with 1992 MITB/UND split. This is completely new material! The three tracks of Bastard Noise take us back to early "Our Earth's Blood" feel: short tracks with vocals & electronics. U.N.D. from Finland (also known as WoUNDead) is back to his earlier style of harsher noise electronics. |
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DAWN & DUSK ENTWINED - 'Credo Nostrvm' CD
(Twilight Records) - £11
Re-release of “Vanitas Vanitatum”, originally issued on Aube Et Crépuscule (2007, Ltd x 99). Six songs of decadent and gloomy atmospheres, now with three exclusive new versions of songs originally featured on “The Hikimori songs” 10?. The revered French project Dawn & Dusk Entwined follows its uncompromising path of heavily atmospheric and dynamic soundscapes, mixing cinematic dark ambience with forceful, at times martial, rhythms, neofolk nuances and strong orchestration, carefully avoiding the clichés of all those styles. In an era where man was placed at the center of creation, vanities paintings in the 16-17th century were meant to recall him his mortal fate and greater values, God at the time, than human pretension, consumerism, cheap entertainment... Maybe now it’s questioning time again? Digipak. |
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ETHNIC ACID - 'Power-Works 1986-88' 2 x CD
(Freak Animal / Industrial Recollections) - £13.50
This double CD collection compiles the recordings of Ethnic Acid, including tracks from the original Broken Flag releases, plus many others including unreleased tracks. Ethnic Acid was bassist Anthony Di Franco's electronic industrial noise project, which existed briefly in the mid 80's. Di Franco has also recorded under the guises of AX and JFK, has contributed to a lot of Skullflower albums and is currently a member of duo Novatron. |
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FUNERARY CALL - 'Beckoning At The Black' CD
(Fall Of Nature Records) - £10.50
Channelling energy and inspiration from chthonic elements, Beckoning At The Black celebrates the exploration of man’s darker half: the shadow-self...An aural descent into the underworld of unconscious and subconscious dimensions. Challenging the listener to gaze into the mirror reversed and walk the paths below. Remastered, reworked and including bonus material not featured on the original release (The Fossil Dungeon, 2004). |
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FUNERARY CALL - 'Dark Waters Stirred' CD
(Fall Of Nature Records) - £10.50
Heralded as one of the progenitors of black ambient music, Funerary Call (Harlow MacFarlane / Sistrenatus) returns from dormancy with his darkest release to date. "Dark Waters Stirred" is a ceremonial maelstrom of ominous electronics and dark ambient textures, an audial descent into ritualistic obscurity and misanthropy. Features guest appearances from the likes of Deathlord (Blasphemy, ex-Conqueror), and Troy Southgate (H.E.R.R., Seelenlicht) amongst others. |
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FUNERARY CALL - 'The Black Root' CD
(Fall Of Nature Records) - £10.50
Sepulchral, brooding Black Ambient from one of the most enigmatic and spectral entities the genre has produced. “The Black Root” saw it’s first edition as a very limited vinyl release in 2004 (Fluttering Dragon, Ltd x 333 copies), now completely remastered on CD with new artwork. Harlow MacFarlane went on to form Sistrenatus. Highly recommended!! |
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KAZERIA (KZ) - 'Credo Nostrvm' CD
(Twilight Records) - £11
Kazeria means "Hunt" in Spanish. This is a solo project started and led by Argentinean composer [S] in 2008. "Credo Nostrvm" ("Our Creed"), has nine tracks inscribed into a martial, neofolk, neoclassical and dark ambient combination, dealing with some themes that represents [KZ]'s main topics: the meaning of glory, decadence, eternity, struggle, occult and sacred symbols of forgotten times. [S] spouts out a harsh vision about reality, which could be understood as "active nihilism". This is its way to relate to this current decaying age which, in [S]'s words, "must be overcome". The Hunt has begun. For fans of Toroidh, Wappenbund, Triarii. |
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KAZERIA (KZ) - 'Liber Corvus' CD
(Twilight Records) - £11
"This album was conceived as a rite of passage from dusk to the deep night of the Spirit to reach the fullness of the Gnosis. The Crow guides the neophyte through the Four Hymns to achieve transmutation in the Midnight Sun, which is the Morning Star as a symbol of a new Golden Dawn. The edition was inspired by the thelemic works of Frater Perdurabo (the great Aleister Crowley) the medieval mysticism, hermetic symbols and heathen wisdom. The album contains four martial industrial / dark ambient songs plus two hidden tracks, representing the rites of Liber Corvus and a video-ritual directed by Diego Arandojo, that emphazises on the main theme of the work. |
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PEENEMUNDE - 'II' CD
(Freak Animal) - £11
On their first album P. Perä-Takala (Sick Seed, Gelsomina) and P. Dassum (Umpio) basically combined the known elements of their projects as mere "collaboration". But now Peenemünde stands as project of its own identity. The second assault of Peenumünde abandons smashing junk metal and enters the dark laboratory of poisonous experiments with cold electronics. The duo created the material on tape in live sessions. It has a cold electric feel, without the element of techno. It uses fierce junk metal, without fitting into line with other junk metal noisers out there. It has the rotten sound from the gutters of a laboratory, without being unnecessarily "lofi" or poor quality. Thematically it is based on inventiveness of mankind in the field of warfare and cruelty. |
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SKROL - 'New Laws / New Orders' CD
(Twilight Records)
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The return of one of the most amazing industrial acts! The conception of of Czech ensemble Skrol arose from the visions of its spiritual father Vladimír Hirsch in autumn 1995, when he was joined by Martina Sanollová-Sweeney and Tom Saivon. Skrol employ original principles of composition, with the added depth of classical influences. Their inspiration derives mainly from Slavic melodic and harmonic systems. “New Laws / New Orders” was originally an instrumental suite of Vladimír Hirsch, created in 2000, later reworked alongside some unreleased pieces from 1996-1999. Skrol’s majestic and uncompromising music is based on specific melodiousness and orchestration of contemporary neoclassical music, situated in the arch of industrial ambient and brutalised by noises and modern technological sounds. This album represents the “swan song” of the band, being its last activity. Digipak. |
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SUBKLINIK - 'Musik For Dekomposition' CD
(Fall Of Nature Records) - £10.50
Subklinik is Chad Davis (Torturecide, Mortuor). Since 1996, Subklinik has continued to create some of the darkest Death Industrial / necro-soundscapes in existence. Enter “Musik For Dekomposition”, the latest full length from Subklinik, featuring six torturous expressions that convey a foreboding atmosphere abundant with feelings of death, and isolation, manifested through a sonic vortex of analogue filth and decay. “Lo-fi, unsettling, and ultra grim, this immediately takes me back to the early-mid’ 90s and the heyday of the Slaughter Productions cassette scene” (Malignant). |
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VIR MARTIALIS - 'Metapolemos (The Metaphysics Of War)' CD
(Twilight Records)
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Vir Martialis was born in Caracas, Venezuela in early 2011 at the hands of Ricardo V. and with the collaboration from other colleagues in the local scene Vir Martialis starts with the deliberate intention of doing Martial Industrial, epic, heroic, apocalyptic and bombastic neoclassical. The name consists of two Latin words: Vir: a man, a man of courage, principle, or honour, one who deserves the name of a man; Martialis: of, relating to, or suited for war or a warrior. The Romans, had two words for the man, Vir ( Hero) and Homo (Slave) - the Vir live under a code of honor that makes it worthy of being called Man; The Virtue (Vir - Virtus) is built under his warrior spirit, Vir Martialis is the man-hero, the Vir generates Virtue in opposite with the Homo man-slave without property or martial spirit. The Homo is the origin of modern humanism. Digipak. |
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VIR MARTIALIS - 'Metapolemos II (The Spiritual Aesthetics Of War)' CD
(Twilight Records) - £11
With “Metapolemos II - The Spiritual Aesthetics Of War", Vir Martialis presents a new manifesto of resistance, impregnated by the horror and the beauty of war, by the defeat and the victory, by the glory and the fall, by the memories of others times and the promise of a new dawn with a potent percussion, deep and overwhelming, a brilliant orchestration, a dark and suffocating atmosphere can become in a bombastic, epic and beauty hymn of heroism. The album features the participation of French band Barbarossa Umtrunk and the pioneers of Martial Industrial in Venezuela, Nuevo Ideal Nacional. Vir Martialis will take you into the spiritual aesthetics of the war, Vir Martialis will bring you back from the spiritual defeat to the glory of the final Victory. Digipak. |
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