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Cold Spring Releases:
Cold Spring is proud to present a unique collaboration between Industrial Breakbeat pioneers MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO (Jack Dangers) and the undisputed king of Japanese noise, MERZBOW (Masami Akita). A harrowing yet somewhat cathartic trip through walls of harsh industrial noise and audio degradation. A masterclass in sonic anarchy.
CD in digipak | Black LP | Ltd Red LP. Out 26th APRIL.
Watch the new album teaser by Abby Helasdottir!
Out NOW! Although "Felicific Algorithm / Mushikeras" was created using the same field recordings / source material as the 2018 dual-speed vinyl "Felicific Algorithim", the tracks have been carefully reworked by CORRUPTED into a much darker sound. The CD is completed with 'Mushikeras' a self-released digital-only 27-min track on many 'Best of 2023' lists. CD & T-Shirt.
Out NOW! The reissue of 'Journey Through Underworlds' - the classic, genre-defining 1993 album from LULL - the pioneering, isolationist dark ambient project of MICK HARRIS (SCORN, FRET, ex-NAPALM DEATH).
A dark journey through the Stygian netherworlds of Hell.
Watch the album teaser by Abby Helasdottir!
Imminent:
LLYN Y CWN - 'Megaliths' CD (CSR334CD)
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Unmissable Gigs...
Thursday! LLYN Y CWN plays JT Soar, Nottingham - with Adam James Davis & Waterflower
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MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO & MERZBOW - 'Extinct'
CD £9.50 | Ltd LP Red £23 | LP Black £18 - OUT 26th APRIL!
   
Cold Spring is proud to present a unique collaboration between Industrial Breakbeat pioneers MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO (Jack Dangers) and the undisputed king of Japanese noise, MERZBOW (Masami Akita).
"We may not speak the same language, but in the vortex of sound, there's a raw, primal understanding that transcends words. Noise can be art, a visual representation could maybe be Jackson Pollock's No 5, a plexus of chaos redefining what music can and could be. Pushing boundaries with Masami wasn't just a musical adventure, it was a masterclass in sonic anarchy" (Jack Dangers, January 2024).
"Extinct" sees the duo take listeners on a transcendental journey, focusing on the dismantling of beat and structure and recycling the result through layers of beautifully crafted noise and feedback loops, giving birth to new rhythms buried deep in the dirt.
The 20 minute opener '!FLAKKA¡' takes constantly evolving breakbeats which are gradually broken down over time, driven through a filter of harsh noise, destroying the old to give birth to the new. Raw and unforgiving, the track is a behemoth that blends mutant forms of broken beats and hints of dub, creating rhythmic noise of the highest calibre in the process.
'Burner' takes the record to its ultimate conclusion, the initial drum beat broken down so that it is barely recognisable. Pulsating distortion and high end audio fragments bleed into each other as the track lumbers forth and destroys everything in its path before slowly unravelling, degrading and falling apart.
A harrowing yet somewhat cathartic trip through walls of harsh industrial noise and audio degradation, "Extinct" is a masterful pairing of artists who have delivered something truly unique yet totally relevant. Don't sleep on this one! (Todd Robinson / Subunit)
Composed, recorded and produced November 2023 - January 2024 by Jack Dangers and Masami Akita. Art by Abby Helasdottir (Gydja).
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CORRUPTED - 'Felicific Algorithm / Mushikeras'
CD £11 | T-Shirt £15 - OUT NOW!
 
Corrupted is a mysterious Japanese doom metal band, formed in 1994. Immensely downtuned guitar and crushingly slow bass are shrouded under deep layers of feedback. They are rightly hailed as one of the heaviest and darkest doom metal bands of all time.
This is not a simple reissue of the 2018 multi-speed, vinyl-only release "Felicific Algorithim" (Cold Spring). Though the first two tracks were created using the same field recordings / source material captured in Amagasaki, Osaka, and Fukushima, the tracks have been carefully reworked into a much darker sound. The new track titles 'Felicific Algiorithm' and 'Felicific Aligorithm' reflect this; like a mind virus appearing the same at first glance.
The 27-minute track 'Mushikeras' was recorded 2022-23 as a four-piece line-up of Kaz Mike (howling guitar and bass), Rie Lambdoll (vocal and bass), Mark Y. (guitar and bass), and Chew (drum and high carbon steel). A self-released digital-only track in autumn '23, this is the first physical manifestation of this doom metal behemoth, full of loud sludge, funeral dirge, haunting whispers / howling harsh vocals, and atmospheric build-ups.
6-panel flood-printed digipak with striking photography by Rie Lambdoll, Mark Y, Chew, and collage by Hyng Hoian.
Also accompanying this release is a new Corrupted 'Felicific Algorithm' black t-shirt with white print.
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LULL - 'Journey Through Underworlds'
CD £11 - OUT NOW!
 
The classic, genre-defining 1993 album from LULL - the pioneering, isolationist dark ambient project of MICK HARRIS of SCORN, FRET, ex-NAPALM DEATH - is a dark journey through the Stygian netherworlds of Hell.
The listener is left with the impression of a final escape into reality; a return upon waking, with only wispy trace memories and the heavy rush of blood-pumping fear as a keepsake.
With this album, we are plunged back into a dark pit of noise - all escape barred, all hope dashed. The nightmare continues, the journey through underworlds descends deeper. These are soundtracks for Nightmares. Despite there being just three tracks on the album, it lasts just shy of 75 minutes.
Originally released on Sentrax (the label of the late John Everall / Tactile), the CD suffered the 'disc rot' fate of many PDO pressings from 1988-1993, rendering most of that initial run unplayable.
Mixed by Justin K Broadrick (GODFLESH). Remastered by Martin Bowes (The Cage Studios) from the original recordings supplied by Mick Harris.
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OLEG KARPACHEV - 'Sputnik' (Dir: Egor Abramenko) O.S.T.
CD £11 - OUT NOW!
Released for the first time on any format, we proudly present the soundtrack to the 2020 sci-fi horror film 'Sputnik' (directed by Egor Abramenko).
The bleak and hauntingly atmospheric film is accompanied by an impressively heavy soundtrack from Oleg Karpachev, who uses bombastic percussion, stirring strings, and otherworldly synths to convey the horror unfolding on screen.
Set during Cold War Soviet Russia, the ominous film starring Oksana Akinshina (Bourne Supremacy), Fedor Bondarchuk, and Pyotr Fyodorov Jr follows the story of a cosmonaut returning from space with a mysterious extraterrestrial organism; essential viewing for those with a penchant for "Alien"-style body horror.
Immense orchestral dissonance with an industrial edge. File next to Steven Price, Hans Zimmer, Ben Frost, In Slaughter Natives...
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SONOLOGYST - 'Shortwave Spectrum'
2CD £13.50 |
THE TELESCOPES - 'Experimental Health'
CD - £11 |
MERZBOW - 'Cafe OTO'
2 x CD - £13.50 |
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The new Sonologyst "sonic documentary" delves into the secretive realm of shortwave transmissions; a chronicle of clandestine shortwave transmissions culled from a span of nearly four decades (1982-2021). These mysterious transmissions - repetitive voices, signals, sound pulses, short pieces of music - were collated and edited to compose the tracks of the main album.
Immersed in an isolating fog of dark ambient, deep drone music and cinematic sound art, originating from covert radio stations engaged in military and espionage endeavours, the tracks unveil a hidden sonic landscape of strategic communication.
The second disc, in its extensive presentation, provides a deeper immersion into these enigmatic broadcasts. Each recording remains unaltered, accompanied only by a ghostly drone. An unfiltered glimpse into the world of clandestine communication.
Double CD in a matt-finish gatefold ecopak with graphic design by Abby Helasdottir.
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The latest chapter in The Telescopes' idiosyncratic exploration of sound combines hallucinatory ballads with transcendent melodies, clanging, and lo-fi buzzes, with a substantial amount of crushing and sound degradation. The result is an album radiating a dark and abrasive, yet ethereal energy.
Created entirely independently by Stephen Lawrie in a remote cottage in West Yorkshire January-May 2022, the record was made with broken toys and cheap synths - mostly Pocket Operators and miniature synths, with no guitars. The complexity of sound rests within the simplicity of the composition and musical arrangements.
Features bonus remixes by Black Market Karma and Mosaic Runes.
CD in a matt digipak with art by Stephen Lawrie.
Licensed from Weisskalt. For Digital / LP: UK | Rest Of World.
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A documentation of prolific Japanese noise master Merzbow's double show at London's Cafe OTO, 2016.
Rhythm-driven and rammed with highly sculpted frequencies, Akita's sound is entirely remorseless.
Furious squalls and delicate sine-warps post this one on the more psychedelic end of Akita's output. Truly relentless, it is still hard to believe he created "Untitled Knife I" on a casual Saturday afternoon. Be careful with that volume...
"The concert was very much about the physical impact of the sound. At several points during the set I could feel the fabric of my jeans and jacket vibrating from the extreme frequencies played at excessive volume... an intense and constant sonic attack" (Irregular Notes On Music).
Double CD in a matt-finish gatefold ecopak with photography by Masami Akita.
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 ATRAX MORGUE - 'Esthetik Of A Corpse' LP (Urashima) - £24
Violent and cold analogue electronic sounds from Atrax Morgue. Anxious and psychotic; a sinister, synthesizer-based jarring project, rich with pulsating tones and throbbing static beats. His severely distorted electronic voice reverberates through the foreground like the spoken word performance of a homicidal maniac while the music beneath affords a suitable and macabre adieu for your deceased soul. This is the sonic equivalent of regulating the blood flow through a severed jugular, the life slowly draining, the hands kept warm and strictly in the process. The fourteen splinters of "Esthetik Of A Corpse" were recorded in spring 1995 and released on tape by the late Marco Corbelli's own Slaughter Productions label. Harsh electronics, sounds from obsessions and visions, death as sex, madness, pleasure, orgasm, cadavers, and plastic bags. As subtle and listenable as it is challenging and complex. Remastered by Andrea Marutti. Ltd x 199 copies on 140g virgin black vinyl in reverse board sleeve.
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 AUX ARMES - 'Radikal' CD (Old Captain) - £12
From the raging fires of a decaying world rises a new force to motivate pushing us further - Aux Armes brings you punishing Power Electronics in an uncompromising fashion, rarely heard in the 2000's where the spirit of the originators of the style seems to get softer by the years. This is seriously vicious music, delivered with an iron will and razor-sharp anger towards all those who try to enslave or oppress, but not the average hippie mentality of peace, love and understanding - this is a fist in the face. "F**k around and find out". Ltd x 300 copies in a glossy digipak.
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 CREMATORIUS (NORDVARGR) - 'Crematorius' LP (Urashima) - £25
Step into a time capsule of industrial experimentation with Crematorius, an elusive music project created by the visionary Henrik "Nordvargr" Björkk. Recorded on a portable four-track in 1987, "Crematorius" captures a raw and unfiltered glimpse into the early creative explorations of one of the genre's most influential figures. This project predates even the formation of the iconic black industrial group MZ.412, offering a unique perspective on Nordvargr's artistic evolution, hinting at the industrial mastery that he would later achieve. As one of the earliest industrial-oriented projects in his repertoire, the album showcases the young artist's experimental spirit. A mosaic of raw and unrefined sonic experimentation - primitive industrial textures, elements of distortion, manipulated samples, and unconventional rhythms. The sonic imperfections add to the authenticity, taking you back to a time when artists sculpted sound with limited resources and limitless creativity. The remastering process by Lasse Marhaug elevates these tracks to new heights. Every nuance, every sonic fragment, is revitalized, breathing fresh life into the recordings while preserving their original spirit. The vinyl medium adds warmth and depth, allowing you to immerse yourself in the intricate layers of sound. With each crackle and hiss, you're transported to a time when the very act of sonic creation was a daring venture into the unknown. Ltd x 299 copies.
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 DAVID FENECH - 'Mountains Of Night' LP (Jelodanti Records) - £22
"Mountains of Night", is the third solo album by David Fenech after "Grand Huit" (2000) and "Polochon Battle" (2007). Between musique concrete and pop, between sound poetry and industrial music, this new recording was designed as a piece that gets richer over time and provides a complete listening experience. It lasts 40 minutes and is divided into two movements, which form two well-balanced sides on one LP. Instruments: piano, electric guitar, percussion, snare drum, voice, electric bass, organ, sequencer, tape edits, field recordings, home made electronics, gamelan, sampler, flutes, shaker, bells, midi guitar, synthesizer. Mastered by James Plotkin. To discover if you like Jim O'Rourke, Mimir, H.N.A.S, Nurse with Wound Tazartès, or Faust. Ltd x 200 copies - 100 of which are this 'Almost standard edition'. The outer cover and black inner are 'stamped' by Jelodanti. Comes with a full-size insert with all 100 paintings by Muriel Rodolosse in vignettes, a smaller insert, plus a download card.
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 FABIO ORSI - 'Waltzing The Dune' CD (Backwards) - £11.50
Another true gem of electronic ambient music from Fabio Orsi! Recorded in the lockdown period, for this release Fabio played two mono synths, sequencers and effects. Similar to recent releases, this album of five lengthy, enveloping tracks also maintains the electronic atmospheres to which the monophonic synths give warmth to the infinite melodic sequences. "Impressionistic sound paintings, more earthly than cosmic, warmly waving, sometimes cautiously rhythmically pulsating, densely interwoven, now and then voluminously effervescent, floating in the air, meandering repetitively, flowing idyllic and colourful... A warm August evening in Salento by the sea, when the sky slowly turns red and the waves calm down, sounds like this, even though the album was apparently recorded in October. Adepts of impressionistic-progressive electronics should grab it if they still want to have a real recording on their shelf" (BabyBlaue). Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak with artwork by Alessandra Guttagliere.
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 FRANK NEVER DIES - 'Behind The Paradox' CD (Bloodrock Records) - £9
Melancholic and aggressive atmospheres from Italian post-rock / cold wave / ethereal act Frank Never Dies. A melodic dialogue within analogue vintage synths and inspired by the sound of 70's guitar, developing in a succession of different rhythmic patterns, creating a cinematic landscape. The name of the band is inspired by the American cinematic tradition of killing off the stereotypical non-protagonists in films - if he was called Frank, 90% of the time he would die. Their logo resembles an eye, recalling the question of observation of those who unconsciously assimilate hidden messages. 6-panel digipak. |
 GIGI MASIN & ROD MODELL - 'Red Hair Girl At The Lighthouse Beach' LP 'GALAXY RED' (13/Silentes) - £32.50
Small repress on Limited Edition 'Red Galaxy Effect' vinyl of the incredibly sought-after 2023 album. Making music is trying to start over again every time. It's a matter of questioning and approaching. It's never settling for the sound that fills the world around. It's looking for a door in the sky. And maybe find it, open it, go beyond it. Rod Modell and Gigi Masin, this time together, are offering each other vibrations and insights. The former lives between two lakes, the latter between the Venetian lagoon and the sea. Everyone on their own shore, building electronic bridges in semi-darkness to allow us to cross too. This work is the meeting of two people, an exchange of different points of view. A way to meet and then break up. Rod has reworked a piece by Gigi making it his own... and so Gigi did with a piece by Rod. A magnificent intersection of sounds and thoughts... remaining suspended to watch the passing of time, to listen to the noises and silences of life that passes inexorably around us. ONE PER CUSTOMER ONLY! Already sold out from the label!
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 HOLLYWOOD DREAM TRIP - 'Second Album' CD (Black Rose Recordings) - £12
Hollywood Dream Trip is the collaborative ambient-drone project of Christoph Heemann (HNAS, Mimir, Mirror) and Will Long (Celer). "There's a plentiful supply of heavy lidded sonics on this new missive from Hollywood Dream Trip to sink your teeth into. Sumptuous sounds from two masters" (Oren Ambarchi). Originally released in a tiny edition of 50 CDRs (2013, Dom Bartwuchs), this hard-to-find recording now rightly gets a CD-proper reissue. "Tightly bound by a slow and minimal throb, the atmospherics, gentle tones and penumbral haze that merge together here make for an inviting composition perfect for both eradicating late winter evening chills and convincing one that music of an ambient disposition can still have plenty of life in it...superb" (Adverse Effect)". Ltd x 200 copies in a digipak with front cover drawing by Christoph Heeman.
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 INFERO - 'Severe' CD (Bloodrock Records) - £8
Debut full-length from this band hailing from Cleveland, Ohio. A wild mix of demented, intricate and heavy experimental prog/psych-rock, esoteric metal, noise, free jazz... with a heavy nod to Goblin. Features members of Comet Bodies and 8990. |
 KRANIVM (MARCO CORBELLI) - 'Post Fata Resurgam' 2 x CD (Urashima) - £20
Kranivm is a haunting music project born in 1993 from the depths of Marco Corbelli's (Atrax Morgue) tormented imagination. This complete collection is a resurrection of Kranivm's harrowing odyssey, featuring his sole three iconic cassette tapes: "Insanatorivm", "The Brighter Edge Of Death", and "I - The Blood", recorded 1993-94 and originally released on Slaughter Productions. Corbelli drew inspiration from a diverse tapestry that spans the eerie ambience of Cold Meat Industry's early releases, the unsettling surrealism of Gothic literature, ritualistic mysticism, until to the cinematic visions of directors Ken Russell and Amando De Ossorio Through dissonant soundscapes, Corbelli intricately wove together influences that evoked discomfort, morbid fascination, introspection, and a mesmerising sense of dread.
Employing innovative techniques and meticulous aural manipulations, Kranivm unfurls an atmosphere teeming with unease. This release honours an artist who courageously delved into darkness, shaping the trajectory of dark ambient and experimental death music's evolution. Remastered by Andrea Marutti. Ltd x 199 copies in a 6-panel double digipak.
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 KRVNA - 'The Rhythmus Of Death Eternal' MCD (Zazen Sounds) - £12
From their vampyric unbirth in early 2021, Krvna have quickly ascended the Black Metal underground with effortless aplomb. Hailing from Australia, Krvna mainman Vatra's vision pursues a path authentically ancient and yet unblinkered by the past. "The Rhythmus Of Death Eternal" offers three brand-new tracks, each epic at seven minutes apiece. The mini-album is fleshed out with covers of Austrian vanguard ABIGOR's track 'Astral Images Darken Reality' and Viking-era BATHORY's track 'Man Of Iron', with Krvna threading the five tracks together with sinuous ease. The new tracks bubble over with majesty and mysticism, and are recognisably black metal - surging, skyscraping, even sensual - with scalding urgency and sublime melodicism. The themes delve deeper into existentialism and the death of God, thus accomplished in a manner most poignant. Gatefold digisleeve. Already sold out from the label! |
 MAURIZIO BIANCHI - 'Absurdum' CD (St.An.Da. / Silentes) - £12
Long-awaited reissue of an extremely limited 3LP set from 2016 (just 17 copies!). "Absurdum" began as a series of writings by Italian Industrial / Noise legend Maurizio BIanchi entitled "Dissections". These 16 texts are now featured inside the poster cover that includes the CD of the entire work. Six lengthy works of various approaches such as noise, cold and heavy continuous sound emissions, digital noise with strange intonations that rolls around. This album was previously released in 2023 as an 'Art Edition' which came with a fake 7". This 2024 edition is limited to 111 copies in a 6" package containing the CD in poster cover (A3 size).
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 OF THE WAND AND THE MOON - 'Vargqld' CD (Old Captain) - £12
A compilation of the finest compositions from the first Of The Wand And The Moon albums, recorded between 1999-2003: "Nighttime Nightrhymes" (1999), ":Emptiness:Emptiness:Emptiness:" (2001), "Lucifer" (2003), plus a few tracks from the "Midnight Will" EP (2000), and "Sonnenheim" (2005). The title "Vargqld" means "Wolf-Time" in Icelandic / Old Norse. One of the brightest stars of the Neofolk scene, Of The Wand And The Moon is the brainchild of Denmark's Kim Larsen, playing melancholic, acoustic dark folk music with thematic influences spanning runelore, Aleister Crowley, Norse mythology, esoterica, and paganism. Ltd x 500 copies in a glossy digipak. Tracks: 1. I Crave For You, 2. In The Colours Of Night, 3. Lost In Emptiness, 4. Winter Veil, 5. Followe Thy Faire Sunne Unhappy Shaddowe, 6. Raven Chant, 7. Nær Skóg Nær Fjöllum, 8. Lion Serpent Sun, 9. My Devotion Will Never Fade, 10. Midnight Will, 11. I Shall Feast, 12. Vargqld, 13. Honour, 14. Brace Your Self, 15. A Mass.
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 PESONEN (KARJALAN SISSIT) - 'Mielisairaalaan Hakivat - Ällöttävä Sika Perkele' CD (Old Captain) - £12
A CD reissue of the debut solo album by Markus Pesonen - the mastermind behind Finnish noisy orchestral bombast project Karjalan Sissit. The album title in English means "Applied for a Mental Hospital" and it perfectly describes the edgy state of an institutionalised sociopath whose blackout is channelled through deranged, powerful industrial undertones, punk angst and metal noise juggernaut. A true post-industrial anthem of self-destruction. Originally released via Erebus Odora (the label of Arcana / Sophia) in 2005. Ltd x 100 copies in a matt-laminate digipak.
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 RAISON D'ÊTRE - 'Après Nous Le Déluge' LP (Urashima) - £25
Dive into the enigmatic world of Raison D'Être, the mesmerizing Dark Ambient / Industrial project masterminded by Swedish composer and sound artist, Peter Andersson. The dark, atmospheric and energetic mix of choirs, strings, various FX-sounds, heavy drums, and tribal sections is the trademark Raison D'Être sound that began with the album "Prospectus I" in 1993. Released in 1992 (first as a private demo tape), "Après Nous Le Déluge" was the first official output from Raison D'Être when it released on the Cold Meat Industry sublabel Sound Source, and has a more industrial / EBM edge. The album's title translates to "After us, the deluge", a phrase often attributed to Madame de Pompadour, suggesting an impending catastrophe. This sentiment echoes throughout the album, as it conjures sonic landscapes that are both foreboding and introspective. From somber tones to the ethereal drone, the lush textures and intricate layers that characterize Raison D'Être's signature style are beautifully preserved in this reissue. In an era of disposable music, "Après Nous Le Déluge" stands as a testament to the enduring power of artistic expression. This reissue captures the essence of the original 11-track work while adding a touch of modern refinement, making it a must-have for both dedicated fans and those new to the world of Raison D'Être. A sonic journey that's equal parts haunting and enchanting. Remastered by Peter Andersson. Ltd x 299 copies.
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 RUNES ORDER & REGEN GRAVES - 'Falsche Fragen' CD (Bloodrock Records) - £11
A collaboration between veteran Italian dark ambient act Runes Order, and Regen Graves. "Falsche Fragen" offers eleven disturbing tracks of doom-laden dark ambient and synth-heavy horror electronics and experimental electronics. The album also features some important names of the Italian scene as special guests, including: Alice Kundalini (She Spread Sorrow), Laura Agerli (The Ghost Effect, Wuornos Aileen), and Roberto Drago (R.D., The Tapes). Cult artist Runes Order was started in 1988 as Order 1968 by Claudio Dondo. Early compositions were inspired by ritualistic and industrial atmospheres and were composed using synthesizers, pre-recorded tapes and self-made metallic percussion instruments. In 1992, with the tape "The Dream Door", the project changed name to Runes Order, taking a cue from the Indo-European magical symbols. Regen Graves has established himself with several quality albums. He is also the guitarist of cult Italian Funeral Doom band Abysmal Grief, and founder of esoteric Doom Metal band Tony Tears. 6-panel digisleeve.
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 SAVERIO ROSI & TEZ - 'Rote Um Format' CD (Backwards) - £11.50
A fortunate and successful meeting "between the romantic and the analytical, the sentimental and the Pragmatic". This double soul lives inside the ambient-electronics contained in "Rote Um", the debut album by the artistic partnership between TeZ (Maurizio Martinucci, member of Clock DVA since 2010) and Saverio Rosi (aka Leastupperbound and member of the band Open To The Sea with Enrico Coniglio and Matteo UIggeri). Both Italian composers based in Amsterdam, TeZ and Rosi top a ten-year friendship by exchanging their musical skin to generate eight gems of great intensity, divided between icy dronic expanses and warm electroacoustic embraces. The main feature of "Rote Um" is its complementarity: Rosi's analogue experiments, imbued with low-fi and field-recording, are nestled in the endless digital landscapes, with cold hues and full of hypnagogic sensations, painted by TeZ. All this gives birth to a synesthetic and touching experience, halfway between the moody ambient by Labradford and the nocturnal abstractionism by Mirt. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak.
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 SERPENTS - 'Anima' LP WHITE VINYL (Bloodrock Records) - £21
"Anima" is not an album for people who need to remain in their comfort zone. It's an album of spells, protections, and healings, and likely it will take listeners on a journey into the subconscious... that dreamy world where only the brave allow their awareness to open up reveal secrets often kept from themselves. The spiritual journey is a solitary one that sometimes feels like drowning and sometimes feels like flying, and this album is a soundtrack to the grief and discoveries that inevitably result from these experiences. Turn off the lights, lie on the floor, and let these electronic atmospheres and layers of voices wash over you, flow into your heart and take you where you dare to go. Ltd x 100 copies on white vinyl with cover art featuring an oil painting by Karyn Crisis. |
 SERPENTS - 'Scongiuri' LP SMOKE VINYL (Bloodrock Records) - £20
Serpents is a journey into otherworldly, strange, and uncomfortable places. Pulsating, ritualistic, clairvoyant, and dark. Karyn Crisis and Luciano Lamanna have coiled together to form Serpents, their new ritual dark ambient / experimental electronics project.
Karyn Crisis, a pioneer vocalist in the field of metal music since 1993, is known for her far-reaching vocal range; from demon growls to angelic croons and most everything in between. In Serpents, she explores the hypnotic and repetitive nature of charged words and a stripped-down melodic vocal expression, weaving sonic spells that are no less weird than her vocals for her former band of 13 years Crisis, guest vocals for Italy's Ephel Duath, and her current band Gospel Of The Witches. Luciano Lamanna is a sound engineer, DJ producer and remixer, adding his touch on collaborations such as ADSR SPQR, Balance, Der Noir and Creta. His strength thus lies in the puzzle of sounds which is the fruit of the most desperate of experiences from techno, industrial, wave and electronic - all of which are knowledgeably tessellated through the art of improvisation. Ltd x 300 copies on transparent / smoke colored vinyl. Comes in printed inner sleeve with sticker.
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 SMELL & QUIM - 'Jesus Christ / The Jissom Killers' 2 x CD (Old Captain) - £15
Reissue of the long sought-after two early vinyl only releases from the grand UK noise masters, released two decades ago via Tesco Organisation and Stinky Horse F**k labels. Smell & Quim is a freeform improvised noise band. Professionally remastered from the original Ampex 456 reels recorded in 1990 and 1991 respectively, this double disc pays homage to one of the most bizarre and unconventional projects in counter-culture. 100 minutes of evocative dark industrial and lo-fi noise to those who love Jesus in Quim. Limited edition repress of just 100 copies in a new double-digipak format, preserving the provocative and disturbing pictures of the original vinyl editions.
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 WERTHAM - 'Anticitizen Number One' CD (Old Captain) - £12
"Anticitizen Number One" is a hard-boiled collection of different Wertham releases spawned 2007-2014. The release includes complete track lists from "Maladolescenza" 7", "Anticitizen" CDR, and the "Body Jigsaw" CDR, as well as tracks from the Ivs Primae Noctis / Wertham split 7" and "Tied To An Abuse" sampler. Opening the CD are two exclusive tracks recorded in collaboration with Psywarfare and Folkstorm. Further guests include: David Padbury (The Grey Wolves) & Mike Dando (Con-Dom), the late John Murphy (SPK, KnifeLadder, Last Dominion Lost), Sickness, and DBPIT (Der Bekannte Post Industrielle Trompeter). Post industrial atmosphere and power electronic assaults meet a masterclass of audio-criminology covering young offenders, antisocial behaviour, and inappropriate obsessions. Ltd x 300 copies in a glossy digipak.
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 WINTER SEVERITY INDEX - 'Slanting Ray' GREEN 2 x LP (Bloodrock Records) - £25
Reissue of the 2014 debut album from timeless new wave / post-punk / coldwave act Winter Severity Index. The melancholic layer that is present in all their songs transports the listener back to the exact same feeling of 80's classics from The Chameleons or Clan Of Xymox. This reissue features a new bonus remix of the track 'Sudden Cold' by Hørd. Ltd x 500 copies on double dark green vinyl in a deluxe gatefold cover with new artwork.
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 CONTRASTATE - 'Recorded Evidence II' CD (Black Rose Recordings) - £12
Collection of rare and unreleased tracks by the influential English experimental group Contrastate. This follows on from the sold-out compilation "False fangs For Old Werewolves" showcasing a dark ambient realm of spoken and sung soliloquies, driven machinery, evolving drones and electronic minimalism to create juxtaposing imagery and dreamlike landscapes. Active from the late 1980s through to the present day Contrastate provide a sonic soundtrack to a hypnotic world full of dynamic sounds and emotional shifts. Their sound insinuates itself somewhere inside the dark ritual ambience of the electronic avant-garde shot through with a vein of experimental noise and sarcophetic vocals strewn amongst industrial surrealism. Includes a remix by Ralf Wehowsky. "Contrastate achieve an amazing equilibrium between organic sound and brooding electronics" (Heathen Harvest). Gatefold oversized mini-LP sleeve with a four-page booklet containing detailed (mis)information on the history of each of the tracks. |
 FABIO ORSI - 'Di Lumi E Chiarori' 4 x CD Boxset (Backwards) - £30
A monumental work from Fabio Orsi: eight long tracks in a perfect meeting between ambient music and Berlin-style electronics; between intimate and dreaming atmospheres and epic soundscapes. Musically it stands on a new course for the artist: together with the classic ambient and drone atmospheres that we know well, the work has more dynamic parts with rhythms and pulsations, and more melodic parts. Expansive and immersive. Ltd x 250 copies in an elegant matt-finished boxset with insert. Each CD comes in an individually designed card wallet. Photography by Fabio Orsi.
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 LA MORTE VIENE DALLO SPAZIO - 'Sky Over Giza' "MEDUSA" MARBLED LP (Bloodrock Records) - £21
The debut album from mysterious Italian Space Rock band La Morte Viene Dallo Spazio is present for the first time on vinyl. A combination of acid, psychedelic, space and kraut rock, drone, dark ambient and doom inspired by vintage sci-fi movies and soundtracks! Ltd x 500 copies on 8 different planetary colourways named: 'Atmospheres Of The Winter Triangle'. This Ltd x 35 copies (!!) edition is on "Medusa" - mint green / multi-splatter vinyl. Comes in a magnificent gatefold sleeve, with A3 poster + A5 colour cart. |
 LALLI & STEFANO RISSO - 'Qui' CD + Booklet (Silentes / Stella*Nera) - £12
Lalli was the female singer in Franti, an open collective based in Turin that shared Italian audiences with anarcho punk bands in the 80's. They were often compared to Crass for their intriguing lyrics and radical public statements. The group self-produced four beautiful albums but kept them out of commercial distribution into record stores: they were available only by mail and at their rare gigs. The group disbanded in 1987 but the members continued to collaborate in various formations. Lalli began a solo career in 1998, with well-received albums including "Un Tempo, Ancora" (Blackcat Records) on limited vinyl with bass player Stefano Risso - soon followed by a CD edition (Silentes and stella*nera) in 2017. This new album by the duo entitled "Qui" ('Here') features Stefano Risso's brilliant arrangements, transform his double bass into an orchestra, while a great part of the lyrics is spoken in a low voice or whispered by Lalli. Ltd x 200 copies in a 8x8cm textured 6-panel card sleeve, with additional 24pp lyric booklet.
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 MAURIZIO BIANCHI & RYAN MARTIN - 'As Strong As Death' 2 x LP (Backwards) - £25
Spanning the course of two years to create, legendary Italian noise composer Maurizio Bianchi and artist Ryan Martin (York Factory Complaint / Copley Medal / Dais Records) took on the pilgrimage of scoring the abstract concept of marriage based on the biblical Song of Solomon. Employing prepared electronics with accompanying strings and tape, this ambient religious collaboration seeks to flesh out the union, to understand the universal desire to be one. Constricted lullabies walk down the aisle to create a consortium of moving, ghost-like consolidation. Mixed and edited by Anthony Mangicapra (Hoor-paar-Kraat) and mastered by Kris Lapke (Alberich / Hospital Productions). Recorded in both New York City and Opera, Italy between 2010 and 2012, this release was originally released in 2013 as a limited double cassette on Martin's own Robert & Leopold imprint in an edition of 100 copies, which quickly went out of print. Ltd x 400 copies with download code.
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 GENOCIDE ORGAN - 'Death Zones' 2 x CD (Tesco Organisation) - £18
GENOCIDE ORGAN - 'Death Zones' 2 x LP (Tesco Organisation) - £38
Brand new album from Germany's premiere Industrial / P.E. unit. Somewhere out there they were controlling the streets to ensure that rules were followed. They were smuggling themselves from one continent to anodther, guarding borders training rebels, breaching doors, steering drones, and following the path of the War-Orchestra.
The seventh year anniversary of the release of :OBITUARY OF THE AMERICAS: sees Genocide Organ returning with a release full of cynical survivalism in a world of havoc!
While those celebrate the new world - we prepare ourselves for :DEATH ZONES:.
What started with the :TIPPING POINT: 3MC Set in 2020 has now turned into :DEATH ZONES:
Stand fast, mark your target, when it comes.
No more sounds - Just moving ground!
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Presented in a deluxe 8-panel double digipak with debossed and spot-varnished details.
2LP: Deluxe double-vinyl heavy black vinyl, presented in a gatefold cover with debossed and spot-varnished details. Comes with two A4 inserts and a numbered card. This edition was only produced to an unspecified limited edition which ended in November 2023. Therefore we are unable to restock this title. First come, first served. ONE PER CUSTOMER ONLY! |
 WE BE ECHO - 'Facets' 3 x CD (Ultra-Mail Prods.) - £32
Occupying a halfway point between Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire without ever quite sounding like either, We Be Echo is Kevin Thorne. "Facets" is a multi-decade collection of songs from W.B.E - encompassing their earliest recordings from 1981 to their latest in 2023. Included is their first vinyl release, "Alleycat", originally found on The Elephant Table Album issued in 1983. It also includes their song from Cause For Concern's EP "Stuff The Neighbours, Play It Loud!". Other sought after songs include two versions of 'The Witches Burn', and an unreleased single, 'Shake Shake Go!' (also released on Frux's "Let The Pigeons In" album). The second and third CD in this set are new songs that didn't fit onto the album being recorded at the time - they range from the sombre 'As Seasons Change' to the surprisingly upbeat 'Sugar'. "Facets" is aptly named as it does, indeed, show off the many facets of We Be Echo - there is a lot of music here that will challenge and 'entertain'. Kevin Thorne's first foray into music came after a chance meeting with Throbbing Gristle on Tottenham Court Road in 1979. A few months later he met Raye Calouri at the legendary Throbbing Gristle / Cabaret Voltaire / Rema Rema gig at Central YMCA, London. Soon after, the duo formed the short-lived Third Door From The Left. After the demise of TDFTL, Thorne formed We Be Echo. Presented in a deluxe heavyweight, matt-laminate 6-panel outsize digisleeve with each disc in its own printed innersleeve. Ltd x 100 copies
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 ORGANUM ELECTRONICS - 'Quietude' CD (Die Stadt) - £14.50
"Quietude" (along with "Darckness", released on the same day), is an intense aural experience from David Jackman (Organum/Electronics). A dense work, consisting of buzzing washes of electronic sounds, reminiscent of the very first Organum recordings. In common with other recent works, the piece uses a carefully chosen set of sound sources, overlaid and structured to form a tapestry of shifting textures. "In 'Darckness', some field recordings pop up, church bells, among the dense mass of electronic sound, whereas 'Quietude' seems all electronic throughout. Both seem to have been cut from more extensive work, ending quite abruptly. The overall sound design is quite similar in both pieces, and they share a general grimness about these works, as with many of his works. Think of this as being locked up in a factory, with sounds buzzing everywhere, and reminding me of the early harshness of Organum, sans electronics: dense, minimal and dark... another excellent work" (Vital Weekly). Recorded in 2021 and edited by Alan Jones at RMS Studios South London, the CD comes in a gatefold digisleeve with graphic artwork by Jonathan Coleclough. Ltd x 500 copies. |
 SCHRÖTTERSBURG - 'Kosmogonia' CD (Zoharum) - £11.50
SCHRÖTTERSBURG - 'Kosmogonia' LP (Zoharum) - £20
The sixth studio album by Polish group Schröttersburg is filled with atonal, psychedelic tribal Industrial based on Noise and dark New Wave textures. The trance, the rhythm of the falling city, begins a transfer ritual to the core of the Earth - the place of creation and birth of everything. Arranged and recorded by a four-piece band with which the musicians have been performing for a long time has resulted in a new, slightly different sound than before. "Kosmogonia" is the heaviest material in the output of Schröttersburg, along with a natural change resulting from constant musical exploration, begun where the last sounds of "Om Shanti Om" left off, dispersing into new, previously unexplored directions. All that said, the new and constantly changing approach hasn't erased the beloved character of the band.
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 ALONE IN THE HOLLOW GARDEN & NAM-KHAR - 'Antariksha' CD (Winter-Light) - £11.50
Alone In The Hollow Garden and Nam-Khar present their new collaborative work: "Antariksha". Five lengthy tracks of deep and dark ritual ambient, richly layered with intricate textures, hypnotic patterns and percussive elements. An evocative sound experience bringing both focus and energy to the listener's space. Channelled, recorded and mixed between Summer MMXXII & Spring MMXXIII, with by Alone In The Hollow Garden using chanting, breath, tanpura, Arabic scale flute, bongos, shakers, sistrum, floor tom, tambourine, gongs, bells, rol-mo cymbals, metal percussion, self made piezo percussion, bowed metal devices, amplified strings, and analogue synthesisers; and Nam-Khar using analogue and digital synthesisers, bells and singing bowls, percussion, programming, effects, textures, for a truly authentic experience. Ltd x 300 copies in a 6-panel digisleeve with art by AITHG. |
 VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Beat!' CD + Book (Stella*Nera) - £15
Originally released in 2016 on CDR, now available on CD-proper for the first time. "Beat!" documents poetry recordings from the second "Festival Internazionale de Poeti Roma" 28th July 1980 by the likes of: William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Anne Waldman, Michael McClure, Joanna McClure, Antler (Brad Burdick), Gregory Corso, and Peter Orlowsky. The recordings are taken from quite well kept audience cassette tapes. Includes written contributions in Italian by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Fernanda Pivano and Gabriele Roveda, edited by a/rivista anarchica. Presented in a 60-page 8x8" booklet published on 100% recycled paper, containing the CD in plastic sleeve, with several card inserts. Each sleeve has a unique 1" handmade badge attached to the cover. |
 AEON VOID - 'Fragments Of Illusion' CD (Zazen Sounds) - £12
"DEATH, HATE, SATANISM!" The lyrics on the debut album of Aeon Void were built heavily on riff feelings. Some verses of torment, threat, doomsday and hell in the Quran are distorted and interpreted as Satan himself. This is kind of philosophical because it reflects exactly that: a Black Metal band without any compromise for anything. Radical, intransigent and rabid evil worshipping. Feeding its atmosphere with malignancy, bloodshed and misanthropy. Satanism as a weapon, not for deification. Focused on the eradication and destruction of every reason of existence. For the belief, for every sensitivity. We pray for chaos and death. Comes in a gatefold digisleeve. Already sold out from the label! |
 FABIO ORSI - 'Dust At Night' CD (13 / Silentes) - £12
Fabio Orsi is that imaginative weaver of atmospheres for great horizons that each time takes the mind and intellect far away. The new album "Dust At Night" - a 3-stage journey into the aural interspaces of the most immersive and alienating mantric-minimalist diction - is no exception. It is impossible to homologate the Italian composer's musical figure except perhaps to connect it by emotional induction to the astral radiations of Brian Eno in his ambient music years, with the enigmatic and deep drone voices echoing the harmony of the spheres, while the dilated beats of the rhythmic progressions seem to evaporate through circles of the infinite universe. Yet another sonic enchantment by Fabio Orsi. Ltd x 200 copies in a 6-panel digisleeve. |
 OTO - 'Anyway' 12" (Replica Nova) - £17
Reissue of this fantastic 1984 12" by the French answer to D.A.F.! Formed in Nancy in 1982 by Farid Dahlab and Pascal Hubert (and later joined by François Rousseau), legendary Coldwave band OTO evolved in the same path as the illustrious inspirations of the time. A spiky New Wave pop with a darker Gothic edge. Torn between the synth-pop of OMD and the Coldwave of Kas Product models, the duo gave birth to ten pieces soaked with electronic urgency, a fever to dance and the synthetic rage to live before throwing in the sponge in the general indifference, five years later. Originally released in 1984 on Les Disques Du Soleil Et De L'Acier (cult label of Gérard N'Guyen), "Anyway" comes back to life brilliantly thanks to Replica Nova. Remastered from the original tapes by Julien Louvet. Features the original cover art by Thierry Merigout. |
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