Newsletter: 10th September 2021

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SHE SPREAD SORROW 'HUNTRESS' CD/LP

'Huntress' is the brand new album from Italy's death industrial / dark ambient Goddess SHE SPREAD SORROW. The story of a huntress and her morbid and psychotic relationship with her prey. Dark and hypnotic death industrial, with moments of dark ambient, power electronics and noise. CD in 6-panel digipak. LP Ltd x 500 copies on 180g vinyl. Out 1st October.

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TREPANERINGSRITUALEN 'VEIL THE WORLD' LP/CD


The reissue of T x R x P's Swedish Ritual Industrial masterpiece, originally released 2011, and now on vinyl for the first time, with new artwork by Thomas Ekelund (ᚦᛟᚦ ᚷᛁᚷ | Nullvoid). Ltd x 500 copies on bone white, 180g vinyl. Due to demand, we are also reissuing the CD edition in a digipak with the new 2021 artwork. Out 22nd October.

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CLARA ROCKMORE - 'Theremin' LP (Fantôme Phonographique) - £27

Lithuanian-born violin prodigy Clara Rockmore became the best-known master of the electronic theremin after emigrating to the USA, her uncommon approach enabling its integration in the classical milieu even as she refined its construction. This landmark debut surfaced in 1977, when she was already 66. Produced by synthesizer pioneer Bob Moog and featuring her sister Nadia on accompanying piano, "Theremin" (aka The Art Of The Theremin) showed all the majesty and grace of Rockmore's approach to the Theremin, her classical grounding and virtuosity enabling an emotive response from the instrument, with uncommon nuances of pitch, tone, and cadence. This one-off masterpiece is a musical gem ripe for rediscovery, a must for all fans of the theremin and anyone interested in the nexus of the classical and electronic forms. Ltd x 500 hand-numbered copies in a gatefold sleeve.
DARK AWAKE - 'Hekateion' CD (Aesthetic Death) - £10.50

A concept album based upon the ancient goddess of witchcraft HECATE. Presented in 4 tracks (49 mins) which are an accompaniment to an esoteric ritual and blackened dark ambient expression to Hecate. "Dark Ambient bordering on Ghostly unsettling dark industrial... this is what sounds you would hear in catacombs if you were all alone and left there for days. Dark Awake are welcoming the realm of the dead into this dimension. The ritualistic side of this comes into play with other bands like Aghast and Valefor... chanting and ghostly spoken female vocals... Black Ritual ambient is alive and oh so not well" (The Doorway To). Features guest vocals from Sekte. Digipak.
ESOTERIC - 'Metamorphogenesis' 2 x LP (Aesthetic Death) - £28

First time on vinyl for the third full-length album from UK Funeral Doom legends Esoteric. A superbly crafted study of dark, ominous and glacial-paced doom. Subtle, complex, psychotropic, otherworldly, deep and emotive. The original recording was hampered by (in the band's words) "a chaotic and hugely oppressive sound". This has been greatly improved upon and the multi-layered sound is much clearer in definition, much more in line with what Esoteric originally intended. Though still crushing, heavy and impenetrably dense, there are subtle complexities that can be now finally be heard. Beautifully layered chaos and a well crafted depth belies a dark, ominous and monstrous doom. Originally released in 1999 by Eibon Records, now completely remixed and re-mastered for vinyl by Greg Chandler. Ltd x 650 copies on 180g vinyl in a high quality gatefold sleeve, with full-size insert. With music on 3 of the 4 sides, the release also features a picture D-side (please don't try to play it!). Essential!
FUNERAL CHASM - 'Omniversal Existence' CD (Aesthetic Death) - £10.50

Extreme Doom Metal from Danish duo Danny Woe (Woebegone Obscured) and Morten 'Sjaelepest' Lund (Above Ravens). "An homage to only the finest doom that the 90's produced, one hand drenched in sorrow and misery and the other caked in the filth of death and decay... a reverence for full, cavernous doom that is just so impossibly dense at times that it feels like it blots everything else out... The flow between sonic extremes is handled with grace, light and shade alike executed with the same earnest aplomb" (Echoes And Dust). Mastered by Greg Chandler (Esoteric). Ltd x 500 copies in a 6-panel digipak with booklet.
GAAHLS WYRD - 'GastiR - Ghosts Invited' CD (Season Of Mist) - £14

A full-strength assault of pure Norwegian Black Metal malevolence and majesty, fronted by legendary vocalist, frontman, artist and composer Gaahl (GORGOROTH, WARDRUNA, GOD SEED, TRELLDOM). Under the moniker Gaahls WYRD, he has assembled some of Norway's finest metal musicians: Ole Walaunet (The Batallion, God Seed, Grimfist), Frode Kilvik (Krakow, Aeternus), and Kevin Kvåle (Horizon Ablaze). Borne out of a project honoring Gaah's musical legacy, Gaahls WYRD continues on the left hand path that has defined his music for 25 years. Recorded in Solslottet Studios, Norway with Iver Sandøy (ENSLAVED), the debut is a unique take on extreme / avant-garde black metal, bestowed upon the masses. Even though "GastiR - Ghosts invited" is firmly rooted in black metal, Gaahl's ghastly vocals on this record are something out of the ordinary and the excellent musicianship charts undiscovered territories. Spot-varnished digipak with 8-page booklet.
GAAHLS WYRD - 'GastiR - Ghosts Invited' LP (Season Of Mist) - £25

Ultra-limited third vinyl pressing of the above release. Ltd x 250 copies worldwide in a deluxe spot-varnished gatefold sleeve, with printed inner sleeve.
HALLOWED BUTCHERY - 'Deathsongs From The Hymnal Of The Church Of The Final Pilgrimage' CD (Aesthetic Death) - £10.50

Reissue of Hallowed Butchery's 2020 album (Ltd 50 copies on self-released cassette). "Deathsongs" interweaves funeral doom with industrial, neofolk, and synthesizers. "This album is dedicated to the Church of the Final Pilgrimage - an obscure death-worshipping cult located in rural Maine. In 2017 I lived within the church's compound. These songs are influenced by my experiences there and by the teachings of the church's founder: Jonathan M. Curless... Unlike most sects, the members of the group do not worship a deity but rather they devote their lives to the worship of death. Death is their god. Death is the one true reality". Remastered by Greg Chandler (Esoteric). Recommended to fans of: Esoteric, Mournful Congregation, Current 93, Godflesh, and Swans. Ltd x 500 copies in a 6-panel digipak with two 12-page booklets - the first contains lyrics, the second consists of The Consecrated Tenets of the Church of the Final Pilgrimage in their entirety, along with corresponding imagery.
HEILUNG - 'Futha' CD (Season Of Mist) - £14

Heilung means "healing" in the German language and this also describes the core of the band's sound. The listener should be left at ease and in a relaxed state after a magical musical journey that is at times turbulent. Sounds from the northern European iron age and viking period, using running water, human bones, reconstructed swords and shields up to ancient frame drums and bronze rings in the songs. The lyrics contain original texts from rune stones and preserved spear shafts, amulets and other artifacts. Furthermore poems, which either deal with historical events or are translations / interpretations of the originals. Heilung tries to connect the listener to the time before Christianity. "Futha" was three years in the making and was finished at midwinter, the very darkest day of the solar year. At the opposite to "Ofnir", "Futha" is the counterpart, the balance point, the feminine side. Here, the lyrics originate from old Icelandic poetry. Hence, female voices are more prominent on "Futha". Digipak with hefty 20-page booklet.
HENK BADINGS / DICK RAAIJMAKERS - 'Evolutions, Contrasts & Electronic Music' LP (Aurora Rising) - £16

This is the reissue of a 1958 album by Dutch composers, arrangers, conductors and pioneers in the field of experimental electronic music: Henk Badings and Dick Raajmakers (aka Kid Baltan). They created electronic soundscapes with oscillators, noise-generators, modulators, circuits, and concrete sound sources, with a rather creepy atmosphere, quite different to the '50s avant-garde classics and the more pop-oriented electronic albums of the same period. The first side can be seen as a strange dialogue with sloping melodies between the violin and unidentifiable electronic devices that gives you goosebumps. It has a rather picturesque approach and could be used for early horror films as accompanying music for the horrifying scenes. The flip side was composed using the entire apparatus of the studio of Philips physics laboratory at Eindhoven. This music still sounds fresh and exciting even nearly six decades after its initial release. Reissued and including five bonus tracks, this is definitely an album for true enthusiasts of strange electronic sounds.
KADAVER / LISTING - 'Kadaver / Listing' CD (Aesthetic Death) - £10.50

Ugly Harsh Noise / Power Electronics / Death Industrial with avant-garde nightmare soundscapes. This is a collaboration / provocation from Israel's Kadaver (aka Michael Zolotov, on effects, loops, soundscapes, noise) and Arizona's Clint Listing (demonic vocals, guitars, synths, noise), who also records as As All Die, and Black Depths Grey Waves. Immerse yourself within the pulsing droning noise of these three monstrous tracks (45 mins) Mastered by Greg Chandler (Esoteric). Ltd x 200 copies in a 6-panel digipak.
MISS NELSON & BRUCE HAACK - 'Dance Sing And Listen' CD (Aurora Rising) - £10.50

A curiosity of vintage experimental electronics from 1963, conceived as educational, open-minded children's music. The sound is a mash up of story-telling for kids and sing-along music mixed with tons of electronic effects and rhythmic invention, making it an utterly spacey affair. This reissue makes sure the cult album can be enjoyed by people crazy for early '60s electronic music. Let go of all chains and float away with the tape looped rhythms and all the hissing and buzzing and chirping upon which Esther Nelson, a children's dance teacher, and Bruce Haack, a composer and pioneer of electronic music, recite poems, give dance instructions or play melodies on primitive synthesizers. "Dance Sing And Listen" is meant to fire the imagination of children and due to its musical quality and weird mood, it may do the same with adults. From this pioneering piece came the sound bands like Kraftwerk and Neu! would head for around a decade later.
MISS NELSON & BRUCE HAACK - 'Dance Sing And Listen' LP (Aurora Rising) - £16

Vinyl edition of the above release.
MURDEROUS VISION - 'Elemental Flame' CD (Status Prod.) - £12.50

A new album from U.S. old school death industrial / dark ambient project MURDEROUS VISION (Stephen Petrus), with guest appearances from Kristoffer Oustad (Stromstad, V:28) and Pauline Lombardo (C**ting Daughters). The monumental work "Elemental Flame" lauds fire as the force which destroys the obsolete and creates new life in its place. "Fire is a guide between the Earth and the Sky - its flames roar, devour, incinerate and purify. The sounds of the flame awaken fear and hope in the soul, inspire and drive away. Raising its tongues up like hands, the fire prays for human sins and points out the only right way...". Mastered by Grant Richardson (Gnawed). Ltd x 150 hand-numbered copies in a die-cut shaped folder made of craft cardboard, with the author's art applied by silkscreen printing.
ORD - 'Comprehension & Gaining' 2 x CD (Status Prod.) - £23

The new album of the Voronezh ritual / dark ambient project ORD was recorded as a meditative-trance album with pronounced tribal elements. "When evil and violence fill the world, when people fall into barbarism and forget about virtue, spiritual degradation occurs - the era of Kali-yuga comes. Realizing the inevitability of the end and the subsequent beginning, a person finds peace". The tracks on "Comprehension & Gaining" are united by a common meaning. The four compositions of the 1st disc (totalling 58 mins) turn to the memories of all four epochs (yugas) in the descending Hindu time cycle and lead to the realization of being in the age of Kali-yuga, which will be followed by the end as the acquisition of a new life. The single 58-minute composition of the 2nd disc plunges into the depths of the own mind, embodying the absolute that inevitably follows the completion. Ltd x 108 hand-numbered copies in a DVD case, supplemented with a piece of naturally aged printed cloth and several lengths of soft Indian incense with mini metal burning plate. Cover art by Paint-It-Black Design.
OTTO LUENING / VLADIMIR USSACHEVSKY / WILLIAM BERGSMA - 'A Poem In Cycles And Bells & Other Music For Tape Recorder' LP (Aurora Rising) - £16

This compilation of electronic tape music and orchestral compositions saw the light of the stars for the first time in 1957 and has become a cult piece among lovers of electronic space music since. The long out of print gem from three masterminds is one of the important steps towards any kind of electronic music that followed. On the A-side, Luening & Ussachevsky's work with sounds of undefined origin recorded on tape reels which are their main instruments. The result is deliberately dark, gloomy and full of terror. It pulls you away from your earthly existence and drags you out into space to the furthest corners of the cosmos. Of note, their "Suite From King Lear" was commissioned by Orson Welles to provide an abstract background score for his New York City Center production of Shakespeare's King Lear. This is pre-Kraut music for lovers of spaced out sounds from the days before the synthesizer, on a par with legendary cosmic music from the likes of Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk / Organisation and Kluster. The B-side features Bergsma working with a real orchestra - you certainly have to lay back and let yourself drift away upon this stream of sound but it is still a very human effort all in all. Even though this piece of music moves within the narrow borderlines of classic orchestral music patterns, there is a warm and gentle flow of energy pouring out of it and reaching out for your mind.
REGEN GRAVES - 'Climax' CD (Yoshiwara Collective / Pariah Child) - £11

This is the eerie and cinematic fourth full-length album by esteemed Italian artist Regen Graves, aka Antonio Polidori (Abysmal Grief, Tony Tears). Whilst previous offerings focused on Polish and Eastern German themes, this album explores an alternative milieu inspired by Hungarian visionary, Béla Tarr. Disconcerting dark ambient synths, space/krautrock stylings, sampled sounds, rhythms and narrations are woven into a distinctly engaging body of work. "electronic and very much in the vein of that cold-war vibe essentially. This harks back to the radiophonic days of sound manipulation and signals that are not quite of this earth being beamed to and from it to orbiting stations... an incredibly effective listening experience and one that is likely to linger in the memory and come back and haunt" (Ave Noctum). Presented in an A5-size digipak.
SEPPUKU PARADIGM - 'Martyrs O.S.T.' LP (The Omega Productions Records) - £28

The final edition of the soundtrack of the film Martyrs (2008) on physical format for the first time. Composed by the French duo Seppuku Paradigm (Alex and Willie Cortés). Directed in 2008 by Pascal Laugier, Martyrs is undoubtedly one of the most controversial French horror films ever made. Beyond the symbolism of its purpose or the hyperrealism of its special effects, the footage is only the representation of a love between two friends, within an increasingly dehumanized society. The music composed by the Cortés brothers results from the vision of its director; sometimes cold and austere, sometimes organic and even melancholy. Thought more by its creators as a concept album rather than a simple sound illustration, the soundtrack ends with the famous title 'Your Witness', with pop-Floydian accents. The song 'My Neighborhood' by composer Goldmund is also present for the first time. Resulting from a close collaboration for over a year between brothers Cortés, Goldmund and The Omega Productions Records, this edition contains the entire score on vinyl 150gr, a minimalist design created by Grégory Lê and internal notes returning to the process of creating the album by Willie Cortés. The gatefold sleeve contains a mark in real chrome derived from the cold aesthetic imagined by Pascal Laugier. Collector's edition strictly limited to 1000 copies, with chrome foilblock finish.
SÓLSTAFIR - 'Endless Twilight Of Codependent Love' CD (Season Of Mist) - £14

One does not need to speak Sólstafir's Icelandic tongue to understand the spectrum of raw emotion evoked by every song. With its incredible array of highly diverse landscapes ranging from white glaciers via volcanoes, moss-green bubble-fields, deep fjords, and frost-cracked mountains to black beaches, Iceland has shaped a host of the astonishingly original in Sólstafir. Their new opus highlights the contrasting influences that have inspired the band over the years, blending elements of the post (black) metal, post-rock, elegant ethereal melodies and unbridled passion upon which they've built their career. Much like the vast expanse of their homeland, the band once again embodies the ever-turning wheel of the four seasons with their shifting light and darkness. The cover features "The Lady Of The Mountain" (1864), the female personification of Iceland by Johann Baptist Zwecker. A black and white woodblock replica by the artist is what Icelanders have known until recently when two citizens found the original hidden in a Welsh museum gallery where it had been in storage for a century. Now it is back home and adorning the cover of the new Sólstafir album. Deluxe digipak with hefty 20-page booklet.
SÓLSTAFIR - 'Endless Twilight Of Codependent Love' CD Boxset (Season Of Mist) - £26

Collector's edition boxset of the above release, presented in a flocked velvet clamshell boxset, with gold foilblock image of the woodblock version of "The Lady Of The Mountain". ALL items are exclusive to this edition: CD in deluxe digipak with hefty 20-page booklet featuring TWO bonus tracks, exclusive to this set: 'Hrollkalda þoka Einmanaleikans' and 'Hann Fór Sjálfur'. Also included are a black teddy cloth wristband with embroidered Sólstafir logo in white; printed fake-leather magnet; and black webcam cover with white Sólstafir logo.
SÓLSTAFIR - 'Endless Twilight Of Codependent Love' 2 x LP Splatter (Season Of Mist) - £32

Collector's double vinyl edition of the above release in a gatefold sleeve with printed inner sleeves.

Presented on transparent blue vinyl with black and white splatters. Ltd x 800 copies worldwide.

HEAVY ITEM!
SÓLSTAFIR - 'Berdreyminn' CD (Season Of Mist) - £12

Sólstafir are not like any other band. Their sixth album "Berdreyminn" underscores this statement. As its title "a dreamer of forthcoming events" aptly describes, the four Icelanders have taken their already impressive evolution one step further. The band has continued to amalgamate haunting melodies, psychedelic phases, as well as strong undercurrents of post-rock with echoes of their metal past. Yet Sólstafir's focus is not on style but pure emotion. "Berdreyminn" is eclectic by a conscious choice to make feelings audible and transform taste as well as texture to sound. Genre borders are not broken but simply ignored. Musical influences are gathered from a wide range of sources, re-arranged, and woven into new patterns. Melancholy, longing, anger, joy, pleasure, pain, and other emotions are fuelling and filling this album. Digipak with 12-page booklet.
SÓLSTAFIR - 'Ótta' CD (Season Of Mist) - £12

Icelandic post-rock heathens SÓLSTAFIR return with the stunning new album "Ótta", full of pure atmospheres, beautiful melodies, and bleak isolation. The follow-up 2011's epic "Svartir Sandar", "Ótta" is a powerful and moving statement of intent that burns with the beauty of an aurora. Showing SÓLSTAFIR at the height of their powers, it unfolds with patience and purpose in equal measure. With "Ótta" this extraordinary quartet have crafted an album that is at once familiar, ancient, and timeless, staying close to their Icelandic roots. The album flows according to an old Icelandic form of time-keeping, similar to the monastic hours or Eykt (one eighth of a solar day). The eight tracks, beginning with a representation of midnight, move through each Eyktir in the day, circling back to midnight. "Liquid fire and molten ice...elements on the cusp; always in transition and defying the natural order but possessing stark grandeur and hidden danger... so with Iceland; so with Solstafir". Comes with 16-page booklet.
SUFFER YOURSELF - 'Rip Tide' MCD (Aesthetic Death) - £9

Suffer Yourself is a Stockholm-based funeral Doom project focused on creation of deeply dark and atmospheric soundscapes. "A monolithic work, an unholy marriage of creeping, cavernous atmosphere and riffs that loom over the dark soundscapes like mountains of madness, foreboding but with a kind of grand majesty that renders them impossible to draw oneself away from... An impressive work of atmosphere, misery and mountain-sized riffing. Ambitious enough to push its own boundaries in composition and musicianship yet comfortable enough to remain true to the hallmarks of death-doom’s classics, this is a short, sharp descent into the abyss". Features guest appearances by Ugasanie and Jiro Yoshioka. Mastered by Greg Chandler (Esoteric). 32 mins. Ltd x 500 copies in a 6-panel digipak.
WHEN THE MOON IS IN HER SECOND QUARTER - 'Like Dead Leaves' CD (Status Prod.) - £12.50

The new album of the anonymous ritual ambient / death industrial project When The Moon Is In Her Second Quarter. "Like Dead Leaves". Two nameless hymns / rituals (near 30 mins apiece) are dedicated to the memory of Yevgeniy Yufit, the founder of the genre Necrorealism in cinema, painting and literature. "The deaf darkness of the chthonic forest gives birth to hitherto unseen monsters... and their moans, like dead leaves, are carried by the wind between the skeletons of trees, as ancient as the Earth itself. Lost souls sigh, wheeze, howl, revealing their essence, when the Moon is in her second quarter". Features a guest appearance of Ord Err (ORD). Ltd x 200 hand-numbered copies housed in a die-cut fold-out pennant made of brown designer cardboard with Paint-It-Black Design silver silk-screen print artwork.
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HEILUNG - 'Ofnir' CD (Season Of Mist) - £12

Heilung means "healing" in the German language and this also describes the core of the band's sound. The listener should be left at ease and in a relaxed state after a magical musical journey that is at times turbulent. Sounds from the northern European iron age and viking period, using running water, human bones, reconstructed swords and shields up to ancient frame drums and bronze rings in the songs. The lyrics contain original texts from rune stones and preserved spear shafts, amulets and other artifacts. Furthermore poems, which either deal with historical events or are translations / interpretations of the originals. Heilung tries to connect the listener to the time before Christianity and its political offsprings raped and burned itself into the northern European mentality. When Heilung self-released 'Ofnir' in 2015, the Danish band could hardly have anticipated the breakthrough success of their debut album. This genuine marvel is available once again for the whole world to hear just how unique Heilung is. Digipak with booklet.
HLADNA & ORD - 'Tunottauan' CD (Status Prod.) - £11

When the connection between the Earth and the Cosmos is established, the balance is restored, the merging of reality and subtle worlds occurs, the image of Tunnotauan appears, the symbol of duality, polarity, harmony of the universe. A collaborative album of Russian projects Hladna and Ord, recorded during a private session on 28 July 2017. The ritual ethno-industrial noises and singing of Tibetan bowls, the tinkling of the bells and the clatter of the shaman's tambourine, merge into a single sound canvas, enveloping the whole, leaving the depths of the subconscious and causing unknown hitherto images. The two-headed God Tunottauan came to Koloyar, the leader of project Hladna, during the deep immersion into the subtle worlds, his image was reconstituted from memory and used in the design of the album. 70 minutes. Ltd x 200 hand-numbered copies, presented in a 6-panel natural cardboard sleeve, with a special piece of naturally aged, printed material.
ORD - 'Avalokitesvara' CD (Status Prod.) - £11

A shamanic album / ritual presentation of Voronezh ritual / dark ambient project ORD. Avalokitesvara-bodhisattva is the embodiment of infinite compassion of all Buddhas. The Dalai Lama is considered his incarnation and regularly conducts Avalokiteshvara initiations. The material was recorded on 06.07.2019, the Dalai Lamas Birthday, at a private session at the Yunost music center, and was finalised with field recordings and modular synthesizers in the winter of 2019/2020. As a result, there were five compositions united by a common meaning, a meditative-trance sound, opening new facets of sound shamanism. Ltd x 108 hand-numbered copies in a fold-out poster, supplemented with a patch.
YOSHIWARA - #1 Magazine (Yoshiwara Collective) - £7

First issue of this excellent zine hailing from Northern Ireland. 17 detailed features and a reviews column that spans the proggy folk psychedelic drone space rock universe through the vessels of MOLOCH / SATURN FORM ESSENCE, SANGRE DE MUERDAGO, WOVEN SKULL, EARTHLING SOCIETY, KRAUTZONE, LAMP OF THE UNIVERSE, OWL GLITTERS, BLACK PANDA BEACH, ST 37, ANNOT RHUL, NIGHTSATAN, BRIGID MAE POWER, FLOWERS MUST DIE, TRUPA TRUPA, DEMENTIA FIVE, plus labels Giallo Disco and Kommun2. It's bold, it's diverse and genuinely a portal to another dimension. We bid you enter... A5, 104 pages on 115gsm paper with a 250gsm colour card cover and 6mm spine. Front cover artwork by Alfie Gallagher.
YOSHIWARA - #2 Magazine (Yoshiwara Collective) - £7

The eclectic content of the 2nd issue of this excellent Northern Irish zine traverses the proggy psychedelic folk drone blackened dark ambient space rock universe through the vessels of NYTT LAND, PRIMITIVE KNOT, WELTRAUM, DEEP SPACE DESTRUCTORS, SPACE DEBRIS, ZHRINE, CARLTON MELTON, LETTERS OF UTRECHT, ROSLYN STEER, ØRESUND SPACE COLLECTIVE, plus labels Sloow Tapes, and Cryo Chamber. The warped tale continues... A dozen features and sprawling columns of reviews... A5, 104 pages on 115gsm paper with a 250gsm colour card cover and 5mm spine.
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SHE SPREAD SORROW
'Huntress' CD/LP (CSR282LP/CD)

OUT 1st OCTOBER

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The new album by She Spread Sorrow (Alice Kundalini) is the story of a huntress and her morbid and psychotic relationship with her prey. The protagonist is Blue, a girl whose existence is marked by obsession with another woman of the same age and by nightmares that leave her without peace. Between love and psychosis, a tragic story is consumed, which vibrates in the stomach, like the music that accompanies it - dark and hypnotic death industrial, with moments of dark ambient, power electronics and noise.

Inspired by Kundalini's nightmares and her fervent world of dreams, "Huntress" was born after 3 years of intense recordings. It pursues the need to whisper secret, forbidden tales and to stimulate the deepest shadows of the human being, exploring the boundaries between the delicate and the violent; between love and obsession; between fantasy and madness.

"Huntress" is the soundtrack of a tragic game between opposites in a reality of total solitude.


LP on 180g vinyl in 350gsm sleeve. Ltd x 500 copies.
CD in 6-panel digipak.
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TREPANERINGSRITUALEN
'Veil The World' LP/CD (CSR205LP/CD)

OUT 22nd OCTOBER

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Vinyl edition of T x R x P's Swedish Ritual Industrial masterpiece, originally released 2011. Out of print since the 2015 CD edition, we're very proud to announce 'Veil The World' on vinyl for the first time, with new artwork by Thomas Ekelund (ᚦᛟᚦ ᚷᛁᚷ | Nullvoid). Ltd x 500 copies on bone white, 180g vinyl. Due to demand, we are also reissuing the CD edition in a digipak with the new 2021 artwork.

»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, Trepaneringsritualen 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 - marks the half-way point between the earlier, more atmospheric works of T x R x P, and the more visceral aggression of the later material.

Trepaneringsritualen explores themes of religion, magick and the hidden realms of consciousness, taking its musical cues from the old school of ritual ambient & death industrial. Rhythmic and seething at times, and oozing forward with a creeping sense of desolation at others, Trepaneringsritualen conjures forth bleak but mesmerizing visions of the end-times.
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DET KÄTTERSKA FÖRBUND (Nordvargr + Trepaneringsritualen)
'Lidaverken Del I: Att i Vådeld Förgås' CD/LP (CSR265CD/LP)

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Cold Spring presents two Swedish titans - NORDVARGR (MZ.412) and ᚦᛟᚦ ᚷᛁᚷ (TREPANERINGSRITUALEN) - teaming up for a bludgeoning dose of Death Industrial majesty.

Det Kätterska Förbund, consisting of the two giants dominating the Death Industrial world - Thomas Ekelund (Trepaneringsritualen, Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words) + Henrik Nordvargr Björkk (MZ.412, Pouppée Fabrikk, Folkstorm etc) - has been slowly and methodically working for almost 5 years to finish the first album of this double-headed abomination. Patience richly rewarded.

You can instantly feel the presence of lurking unease as the album slowly opens up a distorted world of familiar sounds and voices, but there is something special about these recordings; the menacing aura that has been created adds new elements to the otherwise rigid tropes of the genre. Punishingly heavy rhythmic tracks, with savage incantations from both Thomas and Nordvargr, gratifyingly familiar to fans of the artists' main projects, are flanked by these death-scarred lamentations.


CD in debossed digipak.

180g vinyl in debossed sleeve: Ltd x 500 copies black | Ltd x 250 copies olive.
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NEIL CHANEY - 'Aura' CD (CSR296CD) £10.50

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We are very proud to release the original soundtrack by Neil Chaney to the British supernatural horror film "Aura" (aka The Exorcism Of Karen Walker). From the first notes, the incredibly evocative compositions feature huge swathes of cavernous Dark Ambient, with unsettling dark synths in the vein of the legendary '70's Italian Giallo horror. Quieter, and indeed sinister moments, are evoked by emotive strings, synths and piano, adding pathos and a melancholy atmosphere to the disturbing score.

Aura: A couple discover Kirlian Photography apparatus in their new house. Intrigued by the concept of photographing peoples' Auras they unwittingly release an ancient evil. Only the local psychic can help and she knows far more than she reveals. Aura stars: Rula Lenska (a darling of British TV), Shane Taylor (Band Of Brothers), Jeanine Nerissa Sothcott (Nemesis).

Composing film soundtracks since 2009, Neil Chaney was also the creative mind behind the cinematic dark ambient / fortean electronics act Satori (2007-2008 with Justin Mitchell), releasing their acclaimed album 'Kanashibari', and the EP 'Contemptus Mundi' (feat Magus Peter H Gilmore, High Priest of the Church Of Satan). He was also the creator of early 90's Industrial act Pessary. Presented in a matt digipak.

NORDVARGR - 'Pyrrhula' LP / T-SHIRT (CSR98LP/TS) £20/£16

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We are proud to announce a special vinyl edition of the Black Ambient masterpiece from Nordvargr (MZ.412). "Pyrrhula", is one of our most requested albums, and was originally released on CD by Cold Spring in 2008. This 2021 edition has been restored from the original masters, and further refined for the vinyl format.

Partly based on an old Swedish folktale, Pyrrhula ("doomlord") is a pitch black journey into utter darkness. This is a tale of foreboding doom... a portent of dark times to come... a blight on the face of this earth. These eight Black Ambient / Doom / Droneworks were brought forth from the abyss of Villa Bohult exclusively for Cold Spring and contain the malevolent vocals of Lord Nordvargr himself!.

"Beware the small creatures of light, they only bring misery and death upon the enlightened ones. For they will paint their breast with blood and reap your unborn angels".

Ltd x 500 copies on pale amber vinyl.
Black Fruit Of The Loom Heavy Cotton t-shirt with front and back print.

Comes with exclusive artcard when bought directly from us.

"If 'Pyrrhula' was colour it would be vantablack... It's an album that feels like it sucks the air out of the room. It makes you sit still and take notice, but most importantly, it still sounds as epic and devastating as it did 13 years ago" (Vital Weekly)

WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS & BRION GYSIN - 'William S. Burroughs & Brion Gysin' LP (CSR293LP) £25

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Rare recordings of beat/cut-up writers and artists William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin. Comprises the complete recording of Burroughs reading live in Liverpool in 1982, plus performances by Gysin of a selection of his permutated poems, as well as home recordings made by the pair in Paris in 1970. All recordings are taken from original tapes in the British Library collection.

Ltd Edition 180g vinyl.

Officially licensed from the British Library, The Estate of William S. Burroughs, and The Estate of Brion Gysin.

CONTROLLED DEATH (MASONNA) / MAYUKO HINO - 'Split' Picture Disc LP (CSR291P) £20

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Two giants of the Japanese Noise scene present exclusive material on a special limited vinyl release.

Controlled Death is the nom de plume of Maso Yamazaki (MASONNA), who unleashed his claustrophobic Death Industrial / Blackened Electronics debut for Cold Spring last autumn (the sold out split LP with Rudolf Eb.er). "Devil's Sacrifice" (in 6 parts) continues Maso's obsession with heavy, Korg MS-20 drones. Deranged vocals choked under impenetrable, blood-soaked atmospheres of doom, death and decay, saturated with washes of anxiety, paranoia and alienation.

Mayuko Hino, 'Queen Of Japanese Noise', delivers two lengthy tracks. While the first track is filled with feverish, dense noise and swathes of savage electronics, the second, mind-melting electronic piece (reminiscent of her debut album 'Lunisolar' for Cold Spring) descends into a diseased, suffocating maelstrom, finishing on the verge of psychosis. In addition to self-made instruments, Mayuko plays noise with her six-theremin oscillators (in bright pink) - the one and only in the world, specially made by Ryo Araishi (a.k.a. ichion). Mayuko is most well-known for forming C.C.C.C. (Cosmic Coincidence Control Center) in 1990, together with Hiroshi Hasegawa, Fumio Kosakai and Ryuichi Nagakubo.

Picture disc LP. Ltd x 400 copies in a heavy PVC archive sleeve.

HIMUKALT - 'Knife Through The Spine' CD (CSR289CD) £11

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Primitive, old school industrial, with an obsessive, post-mortem feel. This is the first CD edition of Himukalt's cult 2018 LP (originally released on Malignant Records), remastered and including bonus material from the same recording sessions.

"There's something uniquely old school and primitive at work here, capturing the claustrophobic, unsettled and fragmented sound of early Illusion of Safety or mid-late '80s industrial on a whole, conteINJMBOO9 Hmporising it, and filling it in with an obsessive, post-mortem feel. Knife Through The Spine delivers a steady cascade of abstract sounds, festering with grinding pneumatic throb, coarse frequency blasts and sputtering electronic oscillations, with spliced snippets of processed, flanged vocals and a general sense of social anxiety and disaffection. A unique and challenging take on heavy electronics for fans of Puce Mary, She Spread Sorrow, Atrax Morgue".

Himukalt is the Nevada-based project of the enigmatic Ester Kärkkäinen. Presented in a 6-panel digipak.

FM EINHEIT (Einstürzende Neubauten) - 'Exhibition Of A Dream' 2 x CD (CSR292CD) £15

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Twelve dreams of musicians, artists, and filmmakers, interpreted by FM Einheit (ex-EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN), with voices by: Lee Ranaldo (SONIC YOUTH), Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (PSYCHIC TV / THROBBING GRISTLE), Susan Stenger (BAND OF SUSANS), Émilie Pitoiset, Erika Stucky, and the Gulbenkian Choir; with guest musicians: Volker Kamp, Saskia von Klitzing, Robert Poss, and Susan Stenger.

Exhibition Of A Dream (L'exposition D'un Rêve) is formed of twelve dreams interpreted as songs. Exploded in time, these are played as temporary and evolving patterns of shapes and forms in an otherwise empty gallery following the drawings of mandalas. Exhibition Of A Dream highlights the complex beauty of how to generate a dream in the mind of the spectator. A shared experience to be lived within our own personal inner space, these remastered dreams are an invitation to listen to a sensitive architecture of words and music.

Created 2017, recorded both in public and in private in the amphitheatres and the garden of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, and in Einheit's own studio Steinschlag. The dreamers were: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Lee Ranaldo, Émilie Pitoiset, Susan Stenger, Susie Green, David Link, Pierre Paulin, Alexandre Estrela, Tim Etchells, Gabriel Abrantes, FM Einheit, and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge.

Originaslly released as a 3LP set, and only ever available at the 2018 exhibition at the Foundation. Presented in a 6-panel matt-laminate double digipak.

NYTT LAND - 'Fimbulvinter' CD (CSR234CD) £11

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Second edition of Nytt Land's 2017 album, which quickly sold out on first pressing.

Notably outstanding on the Russian scene and largely compared with the legendary Wardruna, NYTT LAND are unique in their devotion to ritual Northern music and tradition. Their approach, using genuine native hand-crafted instruments, and true Old Norse, help them to grasp the true spirit of ancient Northern music like no one in Eastern Europe has done before. Their music is mostly based on the sources from Poetic Eddfa, performed in original Old Islandic.

"Fimbulvinter" is enriched with instruments like bagpipes and trembita (Alpine horn), and throat singing skillfully used to illustrate the occurrence of the forces of chaos; chthonic monsters in the world of men and gods. Fear and powerlessness alongside belief in the coming revival, renewal. All Scandinavian mythology is permeated with fatalism, humbleness to fate. The same mood saturates "Fimbulvinter". The first part is dedicated to the creation of the world and people, embodying the warm seasons. The second half to winter, the death of all living things. 6-panel digipak featuring all lyrics.

JAGATH - 'Devalaya' CD (CSR290CD) £11

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Jagath is a ritual/industrial ambient act from Perm, Russia.

We create our music at abandoned industrial locations - the bottom of a moist underground sewer shaft and inside huge hollow oil tanks - without using digital synthesis. We use simple, mostly hand-crafted instruments, found objects and our voices. We do this to share our vision of decaying post-industrial age, to unleash the spirit of deep beyond-world and unveil life in the abyss.

"Devalaya" ("Temple") was recorded in vast oil tanks from 2015 to 2018. 6-panel glossy digipak with photography by Gregory Skvortsov and Dmitriy Frolov.

For fans of: Shibalba, Phurpa, Arktau Eos
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'I REMEMBER YOU' (ÓSKAR THÓR AXELSSON) Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD (CSR287CD) £10.50

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We are extremely proud to release the official soundtrack to the cult Icelandic horror film 'I REMEMBER YOU' (Is: "Ég man þig"). Heavy dark ambient / industrial / orchestral soundscapes composed by Frank Hall, with a beautiful, solemn, folkloristic finale featuring Icelandic choirs. A must for fans of Graeme Revell, Steven Price, Lustmord, MZ.412. Digipak.

The soundtrack was created at the old industrial area of Grandi in Reykjavík, at a studio due to be 'gentrified' and forcefully emptied of the artists. "I was alone in this large building in this deserted area, working late hours, making music for a horror movie. It was during winter... wind blowing, darkness. There were some tense moments...".

"As soon as I read the script I heard low brass in my head and that kind of stuck. We used a lot of brass instruments, filtered and processed throughout. I also ended up using a lot of bowed guitar, sometimes doubling the brass, sometimes more like a sound effect". Hall also used analogue synths on the special climactic track "Montage".

'I Remember You' is based on the internationally acclaimed novel by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, the "Queen of Icelandic Crime".

COIL 'A Guide For Beginners - The Voice Of Silver / A Guide For Finishers - A Hair Of Gold' 2 x CD (CSR288CD) £17

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Out of print on CD for almost two decades, Cold Spring are proud to announce the official reissue of a much sought after 'Best Of' set by the acclaimed esoteric experimental pioneers Coil, with 'A Guide For Beginners - The Voice Of Silver' and 'A Guide For Finishers - A Hair Of Gold' being made available together in one deluxe set.

Officially licensed from FEELEE, this edition spans Coil's entire career, featuring tracks from all their major albums. They were hand-picked by Coil to represent their best work and originally released to mark their first performance in Moscow in 2001.

The artwork (text in English and Russian Cyrillic) sympathetically features the rarest of the images previously used in the original Russian and English editions and is packaged in a deluxe, glossy 8-panel digipak with spot matt-laminate varnish.

Comes with 2 glossy artcards and sticker (direct from Cold Spring only).

All artwork for the Cold Spring edition has been approved by FEELEE.

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'The Forme To The Fynisment Foldes Ful Selden' 2 x CD (CSR252CD) £13.50

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We bring our dark folk series full circle on Lammas (digital release, 1st August), 13 years after the release of 'John Barleycorn Reborn: Dark Britannica'. A constant theme throughout these releases has been the cyclical nature of time and the seasons, and the relationship of mankind to the natural environment, with recurrent references to John Barleycorn, personification of the harvest.

32 tracks from the cream of current dark British Folk music:

CD1: Winterfylleth, Sol-De-Muerte, Finglebone, Tim Lane, Soldat, The Familiars, The Sound Of Antler, Beau, PerKelt, A Tiding Of Magpies, C J Mann & Becky Sharp, Thornland, Larynx And Claw, My Silent Wake, Peleser, Robert Pitcher.

CD2: Peter Ulrich (DEAD CAN DANCE), sedayneLORE, Wolcensmen, Brocc, Venereum Arvum, Sixpenny Wayke , Alex Monk, The Psychogeographical Commission, Silver Of World Union, Sand Snowman (Featuring Moonswift), Tim Lane & Hayley Evenett, Sunshine Coding, Coma Wall, Jo Beth Young, Nathaniel Mann, Ignis Astrifer.

MOTHRA 'Doom Engine' LP (CSR284LP) £18

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First time on vinyl for this cult album from Japanese Noise / Death Industrial / junk noise group MOTHRA: Jun-ichi Takahashi (Screloma), Masahiko Okubo (Linekraft / Oozepus), Fumihiro Kojima, and Masahito Nozu.

Harsh noise, rhythmic death industrial and full of Industrial junk percussion, "Doom Engine" was created using gas tanks, iron plates, junk metal, heavy bass, distorted / screamed vocals, and psychedelic sound imagery. For fans of: early Einsturzende Neubauten / early Test Dept, Kollaps, classic German Death Industrial, but with a distinct Japanese edge.

New artwork by RSJS. Ltd x 400 copies on 180gm vinyl in a 350gsm sleeve.

WESTERN, CREED, SPYBEY
'W ands' CD (CSR280CD) £11

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A posthumous collaboration between the late Phil Western (DOWNLOAD, BEEHATCH), Jesse Creed (THE PASSENGER) and Mark Spybey (DOWNLOAD, DEAD VOICES ON AIR, REFORMED FACTION, BEEHATCH). Both Phil and Jesse shared a love for vintage analogue synthesizers such as the VCS3, and the music for "W ands" was largely created using this equipment. In the spirit of how it was created, Spybey added improvised passages using his collection of homemade and ethnic instruments and then edited the pieces.

Phil would often talk about being 'taken away' by music. Both Jesse and Mark have laboured to do this through their own music too, not as a means of escape but to transcend. This music strives to explore the desire to go beyond the ordinary everyday experience and to reach a place where the egos and the individual contributions of the players are largely inconsequential. A place where time doesn't really matter. A place of healing and invention.

An album of expansive drones and analogue electronics, which will undofubtedly appeal to fans of Coil, Nurse With Wound, Zoviet France. Digipak.

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LLYN Y CWN 'Dinorwic' CD (CSR286CD) £11

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Llyn Y Cwn conveys atmosphere and environment through deep ambient sounds. The sound of nature re-establishing itself in the post-industrial wilderness of a former quarry. A phantasm of echoes reflecting the bleak majesty and poetic melancholy of the hinterland of North Wales. A hole within a void, a place defined by absence in a world of negative space.

The backdrop for this cavernous soundtrack is Dinorwic slate quarry. The field recordings were taken in this vast subterranean environment where an exposed scar of rock is carved out of the mountainside on the western slope of Elidir Fawr in Snowdonia, North Wales.

Standing alone in the quarry, which covers 700 acres up to a height of 600m, it isn't difficult to imagine work going on around you with the abandoned industrial landscape juxtaposed against the backdrop of the majestic Snowdonia skyline.

Each track is named after an area of the quarry, descending ever deeper through each rock gallery, with their acoustically unique echoes and sounds. The landscape is in a state of constant flux with small avalanches of rock and spoil slate tumbling over itself - it was such a landslide that led to the eventual demise of the quarry. The hydroelectric power station, built deep underground inside the mountain, can be heard rumbling away through the various air shafts dotted around the quarry, adding to the overall ominous feel of the pieces.

File next to fellow Welshman Lustmord.

Presented in a 6-panel digipak with breathtaking photography by the artist.
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