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Cold Spring Releases:
LLYN Y CWN presents 'Megaliths'. A profound dark ambient exploration of the sacred resonance embedded within stone circles, capturing years of field recordings from the silent and enigmatic monument; ceremonial sites where the veil between our world and the eternal realm becomes tantalisingly thin. A journey from darkness to light, from the dead to the living, and from the grave to the sky. CD in digipak. Out 29th MARCH.
Watch the new visualiser for Bryn Cader Faner by Abby Helasdottir!
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 ferocious new video for '!FLAKKA¡' by Jack Dangers!
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A week from Wednesday (3rd)... MERZBOW plays UFO Club, Tokyo (JP)
- with Travisano Trio, Gnosistori.
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A week from Thursday (4th)...COLOSSLOTH plays The Old Salutation, Nottingham
- with Aluk Todolo. £6 OTD.
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LLYN Y CWN - 'Megaliths'
CD £9.50 - OUT 29th MARCH!!
     
Step into the shadows of ancient mysticism as Llyn Y Cwn, the maestro of Welsh dark ambient, unveils the mesmerising odyssey that is "Megaliths".
A profound exploration of the sacred resonance embedded within stone circles, capturing years of field recordings from the silent and enigmatic monuments that stand as timeless witnesses to the ebb and flow of existence.
Ben Powell has crafted a sonic voyage that mirrors the sacred spaces marked by stoic pillars of rock, each track representing a specific site. Delving deep into the esoteric significance of stone circles, the album portrays these structures not merely as historical relics but as religious ceremonial sites where the veil between our world and the eternal realm becomes tantalisingly thin.
Extracting ambient soundscapes from burial chambers, Ben has utilised convolution reverbs to replicate the ominous ambiance of these ancient spaces. A veteran of stone circle exploration, Ben's decades-long journey has yielded field recordings that capture the haunting whispers of wind and the solemn caws of crows, enveloping the listener in a ghostly atmosphere that transcends the ordinary.
Guided by the wisdom found in Julian Cope's "The Modern Antiquarian" and Aurbrey Burl's "A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain", Llyn Y Cwn embarks on a sonic pilgrimage across the country, exploring the remote bleakness of these sites. The album transitions from the cramped, gloomy chambers of tombs to the unroofed, wide rings - a journey from darkness to light, from the dead to the living, and from the grave to the sky.
"Megaliths" is a ritual, a sonic séance that beckons listeners to commune with the ancient energies that saturate these sacred circles - an atmospheric descent into the heart of mysterious realms, where the boundaries between the earthly and the spiritual blur into an indistinguishable, haunting atmosphere. Embrace the darkness, and let the stones speak. The journey begins now.
Presented in a 6-panel flood-printed digipak with breathtaking photography by the artist. |
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.
Matt digipak with majestic artwork by Abby Helasdottir (Gydja). |
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| OLEG KARPACHEV - 'Sputnik' (Dir: Egor Abramenko) O.S.T. CD £11 |
SONOLOGYST - 'Shortwave Spectrum'
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THE TELESCOPES - 'Experimental Health'
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Released for the first time on any format, the soundtrack to the 2020 sci-fi horror film 'Sputnik' (directed by Egor Abramenko).
The bleak and haunting film is set to an impressively heavy soundtrack by Oleg Karpachev, whose bombastic percussion, stirring strings, and otherworldly synths heighten the unfolding horror 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...
Matt-finish, flood-printed digipak.
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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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 BETELZEUS - 'Shedding The Skin' LP CLEAR (Interstellar Smoke Records / Violence In The Veins / Superlord Recordings) £20
The second album from the Finnish sludge doomers wraps the listener in grief and darkness. Betelzeus' sound has taken a step towards a more atmospheric and fragile expression. The music floats somewhere between sludge and post metal but the band has still not lost their original sound. It's more like a continuation of where the debut album ended. Recorded, mixed and mastered to the highest audiophile quality by Tom Brooke @ Tonehaven, known for his work with Oranssi Pazuzu, Throat etc. Limited Edition clear vinyl in a reverseboard sleeve, with incredible artwork by Petra Oravakangas. Comes with full-size insert. The video for 'Leech' comes highly recommended! |
 BRANDKOMMANDO - 'Jugoslavija 1941-1945' CD (Zoharum) - £11.50
Brandkommando (Karol Wachowski's project), in its characteristic way, contests totalitarianism, this time referring to the turbulent history of the rise of the communist regime of J. Tito, which ruled undivided for many years, using terror against the community living in the then Yugoslavia. The musician uses a means of expression typical of industrial style, close to the aesthetics of Power Electronics / Noise. Numerous quotations and samples from which the thematic outline emerges are subjected to numerous modifications and deconstructions, thus exposing the falsehood of the political manifestos and stripping the pathos and seriousness of these false and devalued ideas, which only serve to implement the tasks of the then authorities. Ltd x 300 copies in a 6-panel ecopak.
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 CRANIOCLAST - 'A Con Cristal / Rats Can Coil - Cats Can Roil / Accidental Encounter Of Rats And Cats On A Turntable' CD (13 / Silentes) - £12
"A Con Cristal", the third Cranioclast album or rather EP from 1987, and "Rats Can Coil - Cats Can Roil" from 1990, have been digitised for the first time and are now brought together on one CD. This disc also offers three new tracks (30 mins in total) based on "Rats - Cats" under the name "Accidental Encounter Of Rats And Cats On A Turntable". "A Con Cristal" deals with bunkers, especially along the European coasts, mainly not in their original function during WWII, but in their post-functional appearance as bizzare sculptures or relics of long-dead cultures, architecture of aggression and more. "Rats Can Coil - Cats Can Roil" already sounds like rock 'n' roll in the words and is it or isn't it or is it or not? But the rats and cats are dancing. Accidental encounter of rats and cats on a turntable transforms Rats - Cats into Metal. Into Drone Metal of course or doesn't or does or... But the dogs like that, as was to be expected. The extensive old artwork has been congenially transformed and supplemented by Deison. Ltd x 300 copies in a 6-panel digisleeve. |
 CRANIOCLAST - 'Kolik-San-Art' CD (13 / Silentes) - £12
Almost 40 years after its first release, "Kolik San Art", the second Cranioclast album from 1986, is available for the first time on CD. This is perhaps the Cranioclast album with the most guest musicians and the greatest blending of acoustic or 'conventional' instruments, electronics and field recordings, sometimes with echoes of ancient music. Words about music and sounds are like words about wine and, in this case, old wine. So there should only be few words (on music) - as always with Cranioclast. Guests include: The Satanic Organist Hans Magnus, Chi Moja (Core), Kerstin & Fabian, Ave Maria Avida, and Ace Bee Coolberg. The extensive artwork of the original LP has been congenially transformed into a new design by Deison. Ltd x 300 copies in a 6-panel digisleeve. |
 D-GENERATION MAGAZINE #1 - Magazine + CD (Ultra-Mail Prod.) - £26
COLLECTOR'S EDITION: Magazine with + 8x polaroid reproductions + 2x stickers.
Magazine with 96 page pages, A5 size (8.26 x 5.82 inches). Ltd x 400 copies, with 12-track CD.
Magazine table of Contents: Carl Abrahamsson "Genesis P-Orridge: A Studio Study", Lawrence Burton "This Industriall Thing of Ours", Dave Farmer "Workers ov Civilian Realizatio", Alice Genese "My Time in Psychic TV", Chris Low "Centro Iberico", Stephen Mallinder "Early Adventures in Electronica", Jack Sargent "Vale: The Industrial Culture Handbook", Chandra Shukla "Artist Profile", Nick Soulsby "Tea Break Time in the UK Underground", Kevin Thorne "We Be Echo: Bass Driven", Jordi Vallis "The Making of the PTV Video 'Catalan'", and Mike Honeycutt "Mystery Hearsay - in memoriam", plus: "Promo Art in the '80's".
CD track list: 1) The Apostles 'We Buy A Hammer For Daddy', 2) Cotton Ferox 'The Sun Of Man', 3) Val Denham 'You Only Hurt Yourself', 4) Val Denham 'Grey Rabbit', 5) Nanavesh 'Monomania', 6) Ov Stars 'Funeral Boots', 7) Rapoon 'Sentinal', 8) Retirement Community 'Friendship Is Magic', 9) Chandra Shukla 'A Teaching', 10) Tone Generator & Body Without Organ 'The Pain Of Eternal Existence', 11) We Be Echo 'Inside Life's Wire', and 12) We Be Echo 'Centro Iberico'. |
 FACTOR X - 'At-Rocity Exhibition' CD (Cheeses International) - £10.50
Factor X is Shaun Robert - a veteran of the tape scene since the mid-80's. As well as releasing a plethora of solo cassettes, he has also collaborated with many luminaries of the time including Sudden Infant, Suzuki Shunya, Telepherique, and Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck. Shaun also records as Mutant Beatniks. This 24-minute CD is a re-release of a very limited cassette put out by English Yoni in 1991. It is an approximate interpretation of the J.G. Ballard book, and features many loops multilayered. Despite its short length, it is a rewarding listen. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak reproducing the original artwork. |
 FLESHPRESS - 'Viimeinen Saavutettu Tahto' CD (Kohina Records / Kult Of Nihilow) - £12
In their lengthy saga of blackened sludge lacerated with deep wounds of pure insanity, Fleshpress present their eighth studio album. Well-known as one of the first Finnish sludge doom bands, their current sound features more experimental elements, including influences from industrial projects like Swans and Einstürzende Neubauten. Fleshpress contains members from the Finnish noise project Grunt and both members of Pain Nail. 6-panel digisleeve. |
 FLESHPRESS - 'Viimeinen Saavutettu Tahto' LP (Kohina Records / Kult Of Nihilow) - £20
Black vinyl edition of the above release. Comes with a full-size, double-sided insert. Random copies include a promo flyer. |
 HANDFUL OF SNOWDROPS - 'Land Of The Damned (35th Anniversary Edition)' CD (Twilight Records) - £12
To celebrate its 35th anniversary, Handful Of Snowdrops' seminal first album, 'Land Of The Damned' is available on CD for the first time in nearly 15 years. Handful Of Snowdrops are a pioneer band in the Canadian Electronic New Wave / Coldwave scene and its debut has reached near mythical status. This reissue features 6 additional tracks, including 2 never-before-released on CD demos from 1985 - 'Face To Face' and 'The Keep' - in addition to the original 8 tracks. In 1986, the third lineup of the band consisting of Michel Mercier, Jean-Pierre, Christian Lefebvre, and Michel Plamondon, recorded a four-track demo containing what would to become their most famous song, 'Gabrielle'. These four tracks would become the basis for their first album, 1988's 'Land Of The Damned', the first and only release on the short-lived Montreal independent label Lisp. Their editor would later take this recording to New York City, where he met with Woodrow Dumas of Louisiana's C'est La Mort Records (Controlled Bleeding, Area), who offered to release "Land of the Damned" in the U.S. two years later. The rest, as they say, is history. Digipak. |
 JUNKYARD SHAMAN - 'Silence, Then Pause' CD (Kohina Records) - £12
A noirish album of dark jazz / ambient from electric wastelands, junkyards and abandoned cities; a mental junkyard of evaporating dreams, disintegrating memories and fading recollections. Junkyard Shaman is the solo project of Finnish artist Jere Kilpinen who resides in Osaka, Japan. This particular album was composed after Twin Peaks season 3 was aired. Jere took lots of inspiration from this and composed a dark jazz / ambient noir album. While differing from the usual Junkyard Shaman sound, this album also differs from other records of that particular genre in that it also features Jere's self-built instruments. Dark, unique, and chilling. Digipak.
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 MARCO BERTONI - 'My Easy Piano Pieces (A Ridiculous Legacy)' CD (13 / Silentes) - £12
Marco Bertoni is a musician, composer and producer from Bologna, and protagonist of the Italian new wave of '77. This is a collection of pieces of music that he has written since he was 15 years old. Over time they have been kept locked in a drawer but never forgotten. Some of them have been used for songs by the Confusional Quartet, or published on his first solo album "18/8/81" (1999, Elica), or on the compilation "Mission Is Terminated / Nice Tracks" with Throbbing Gristle (1983, Nice Label), or in the more recent release "Wrong Ninna Nanna" created with Franco Bifo Berardi, Lydia Lunch and Bobby Gillespie (2020, 42 Records). Each song is accompanied by a video by Filippo Janez Bertoni and poetic fragments by Franco Bifo Berardi. The graphics are by Stefano Gentile. The pieces were recorded at the Bologna Conservatory in 2023. Ltd x 250 copies in a 20-page, 15x15cm art and lyric booklet. |
 MODUS - 'Domus' CD (13 / Silentes) - £12
Modus is an intricate experiment of a five-headed Cerberus; a psychic liaison where each of the components has joined in with its own individual heritage and abilities. A simple empathetic trigger was all that was needed, and the paths of Giulio Aldinucci, Emanuele Errante, Luigi Ferrara, Maurizio Martinucci (TeZ), and Fabio Orsi combined in an absolutely natural way to come together in the abstract "Domus", ideally built by this combo. The composers, all veterans of the electronic scene born at the beginning of the millennium can boast decades-long experience in the field and in this way today they contemplate the demise of post-digital culture. The ensemble adopted a compositional method specifically designed in such a way that everyone could influence the collective and be permeated by it in turn, and thus the particles were mixed into a molecular cloud, a rational and unpredictable sound object, an amalgam that is both organic and complex at the same time. "Domus" is like a river fed by five tributaries that flows fluidly through forty minutes of pure, multifaceted and dynamic electronic sound expressed in two long cinematic suites that alternate between dilation, dense textures and the physics of rhythm. The album was recorded in the astral industries of Baia, Naples, Amsterdam, Siena and Taranto. Ltd x 300 copies in a 6-panel digisleeve with artwork created by Stefano Gentile and Deison. |
 NOSTALGHIA - 'Olvido' CD (Twilight Records) - £12
"Olvido" is an album of atmospheric Black Metal, with lyrical themes of grief and confrontation. It explores the many different and often contrasting emotions that come after loss. An album that paints sadness and melancholy with additional brush strokes of jazz, classical and experimental music, without losing the binding thread of indescribably beautiful 'blackgaze'. Nostalghia is a music project from Mexico City, created by sole member Alex Becerra, here accompanied by multi-instrumentalist Valeria Dávila, who provided lyrics, vocals and a clarinet solo for 'Abandon'. Digipak. |
 PARANOIA INDUCTA - 'Blood Electric - Special Edition' CD (Heerwegen Tod Production) - £12.50
The new release from Paranoia Inducta is a concept album filled with magic, mysticism and esotericism, rooted in both the virtual and real worlds. Over 50 minutes of mystery: this is addictive and terrifying dark ambient / hypnotic death industrial / ritual drone music bringing to mind dusty distant planets, ritualistic temples and apocalyptic death cults. The album is a little unusual and different from the usual Paranoia Inducta style. "The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change...
and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real" (Philip K. Dick). Features guest vocals from musician, graphic designer and writer Kenji Siratori - who brings an atmosphere of Japanese horror to the tracks. Nighttime listening recommended! Special Edition, presented in an A5 digipak. |
 UTON - 'What On Earth Are We Doing Here' CD (Cheeses International) - £10.50
Uton is an experimental music and noise project by Finnish artist Jani Hirvonen, best known recently for his harsh noise project Yksi. Active since 2001, Uton has released just shy of 100 albums, among which are collaborations with the likes of Anla Courtis, Campbell Kneale, Valerio Cosi, Creation VI, Bardo Todol, Yoshihiro Kikuchi, Head Boggle, and Clay Figure. On this new album Uton dives into the psychedelic and experimental electronic sea, with improvised acoustic and electric instruments, and "studio trick" additions. 57 minutes of slow and colourful soundreams to the other realm within. Ltd x 300 copies in a 6-panel digisleeve. |
 WHITE STAINS - 'Dreams Shall Flesh (Redux)' CD (Zoharum) - £11.50
"Dreams Shall Flesh" was the second studio album in White Stains' discography, originally released in 1991 (Psychick Release PCP). This "Redux" edition has been enriched with bonus recordings, found in Carl Abrahamsson's (Cotton Ferox) private archive, which have never been published before. We are still dealing here with Darkwave music with elements of Goth Rock. However, a new direction is increasingly felt here, which would be fully developed over the following albums. In these songs with a 'typical' song structure, there is more space for a slightly atmospheric, slightly psychedelic aura, which is reflected in the final sound that the band achieved on this material. This is especially noticeable on the additional songs, which perfectly complement this new version. The material has been remastered again and has a new graphic design. Ltd x 300 copies in a 6-panel digipak.
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 ARUM LILIES - 'Dismal Fantasies' CD (Death Continues Records) - £12
Cold, uncomfortable, heavy electronics from Australia's Mark Groves (Dead Boomers). "...one of the more disturbing, unsettling releases we have heard in a while... uncomfortable, minimalist noise, very deep drones, death industrial atmospheres and sounds that mimic marginally tuning antique radios and half-effective LP players with old, crackling records. We don't listen to this music because it's beautiful. We do so because there is a comfort in discomfort, because sometimes we are attracted to that which evokes images that are often on at the dark horizon of our imagination. Dismal Fantasies totally fits that mould successfully. Disturbing. Unsettling. Fantastic!" (The Noise Beneath The Snow). |
 ASHTRAY NAVIGATIONS - 'Cabin Exterior' CD (Cheeses International) - £10.50
New recordings from Yorkshire's Ashtray Navigations (Phil Todd) in a more abstract style than his usual fayre of late. Six tracks of off-kilter psychedelia interlaced with a broad spectrum of sounds and atmospheres. "So 90's it's light years ahead of the game. A largely rockless voyage into electroacoustic juxtapositions, feeled recordings and trippy noises, that kind of thing. Think this one is a beaut" (Phil Todd). Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak. |
 AUBE - 'Hydrophobia 1993' SINGLE-SIDED LP Blue (Cheeses International) - £19
Fully authorised release of an unreleased and extended mix of the very first cassette by the late Japanese Noise / Experimental artist Akifumi Nakajima aka AUBE on Vanilla, composed in 1993 using "water sound only". This was originally planned to be released on CD with the original Hydrophobia recordings in 2002 but this never happened. It has now been re-mastered by Phil Julian with covers designed by Abby Helasdottir (Gydja) based on artwork supplied by Akifumi Nakajima. Ltd x 319 copies on blue vinyl. |
 AUTOPSIA - 'In Vivo (Autopsia Archive Recordings)' CD (Death Continues Records) - £12
An essential compilation of early tracks and alternative versions from this most remarkable Industrial band. This selection of early Autopsia tape experiments (1982-1989) features no samplers, no computers, no synthesizers, just tape machines, ring modulators and analogue delays. Meagre technology but abundant talent, unpolished industrial, aural pleasure, oh what a time! Not to be confused with the 1988 album of the same name! Ltd 250 copies. |
 AUTOPSIA - 'In Vivo II' CD (Death Continues Records) - £12
Archive recordings 1980-1988. A selection of early Autopsia tape experiments. No samplers, no computers, no synthesizers. Just tape machines, ring modulators and analogue delays... Death Industrial experiments of the first era. "In a time which celebrates fame, success, stupidity, convenience and noise, here is the perfect antidote. A hymn of praise to obscurity, failure, intelligence, difficulty and silence". Ltd x 250 copies. |
 EDLEY ODOWD - 'F(our)-Ward' CD (13 / Silentes) - £12
Edley ODowd has collaborated and performed with many musical luminaries such as Genesis P-Orridge, Deborah Harry, Lene Lovich, Tony Conrad, and Shilpa Ray, as well as being a member of Toilet Boys, Psychic TV, Kylesa and Scorpion Tea. "I wanted to create something of nightmares and bliss" ODowd says of the combination of visuals and sound presented on his latest solo release; an hour-long trance-inducing trip through industrial / noise, dark ambient and experimental soundscapes. Initially an ultra-limited cassette release via Flesh Prison/DeathBed Tapes, "F(OUR) WARD" is now presented in an extended, complete version featuring three bonus tracks and expanded artwork. Talking about the unity of two inseparable components of his creativity: "the video clips that accompany these songs are designed to be trance-induced launch pads for the audio and vice-versa... A world within our own, in which we can see and hear new and exciting things". With the videos, shot on various locations in Mexico and Colombia, ODowd's goal was to present a visual environment one could listen to the music within. Ltd x 300 copies in an outsized 6-panel card sleeve. |
 FEMEHEIM - 'Egofanal' CD (Death Continues Records) - £12
Third album from Berlin's Death Industrial / Power Electronics act Femeheim. "Total early BDN / CMI / Slaughter Prod. death industrial worship going on here, with cold, noxious tones and ultra bleak frequencies that waft from a pit of misery and hopelessness. At times minimal and singular, other times more pulsating, antagonistic and heavy... brings back good memories and fills a niche that hasn't existed for sometime..." |
 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. Deluxe vinyl edition. Ltd x 300 copies in a glossy sleeve, with 12" full-colour lyric sheet. |
 SCHRÖTTERSBURG - 'Melancholia • Dekonstrukcje' CD (Zoharum) - £11.50
Schröttersburg is well known to post-punk fans due to three well received albums and a no nonsense demo. What makes them different from other bands is their ability to incorporate other musical genres while maintaining the new wave core. Here post-punk meets kraut / space / psychedelic or even noise rock and shoegaze. Those broad interests pushed the band towards experiments where they invited friends who reinterpreted the songs from the "Melancholia" album, resulting in "Melancholia • Dekonstrukcje": TZII, MIRT, 1997EV, GAAP KVLT, PIOTR DABROWSI (Warsaw Improvisers Orchestra), VILKDUJA (Oorchach), AME DE BOUE, and FLEUVE. The new versions of songs range from trip hop, through traces of electro, industrial, experimental (think of shogaze black metal) psychedelia and mesmerising, trance inducing sounds. Ltd x 300 copies in a 6-panel digipak.
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 SCHRÖTTERSBURG - 'Om Shanti Om' LP (Zoharum) - £20
The material here from Schröttersburg was created in a very short time compared to the previous album "Dalet". Unable to participate in concerts during lockdown, the musicians hid in their rehearsal room and began experimenting, using various instruments that hadn't been used before - including sheet metal, kalimba, oil barrels, djembe, karatala, Aztec whistle death. They have thus enriched their existing sound, opening them up to even bolder explorations of new sonic regions, sometimes significantly different from their main previous style. Using New Wave as a starting point the band start their escape to other regions / genres, leaving a lot of space for the musical traditions of India or the Middle East. The marriage of their music with psychedelic post-rock and Krautrock is even more clearly felt, building strong compositions in the spirit of industrial aesthetics. "Om Shanti Om" it is also a journey inside the band themselves; their spirituality and extrasensory states. The idea behind the creation of this material was to create a specific mantra cleansing the mind and body from bad energy. Ltd x 300 copies in matt-laminate sleeve with 12" full-colour insert providing original Polish lyrics and the English translations. Comes with download code. |
 WIND ATLAS - 'Lingua Ignota' CD (Twilight Records) - £12
With sumptuous medieval textures and dramatic, inspired compositions, Wind Atlas' music has gained in nuances, drifting smoothly from dark and otherworldly shoegaze / dream-pop and new-wave passages (reminding of Dead Can Dance) to gloomy post-punk atmospheres. Music to think of an unknown continent, to look for the lost alchemical formula, to eventually discover Talos the robot hurling rocks at the Argonauts. Music that requires to do nothing but listen, a task that nowadays appears almost impossible. The message is conveyed in an imagined language from a terra incognita, the lingua ignota. Each song is like an accent or a period, like a comma, a verse, a whole chapter of a liturgical chant. One for those who relish the best soundtrack by Basil Poledouris and the 4AD catalogue. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak. |
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 THE GEROGERIGEGEGE - 'As If It Had Always Been Determined Since This Day Was Born' LP (Inundow) - £32
THE GEROGERIGEGEGE - 'As If It Had Always Been Determined Since This Day Was Born' 2 x CD Set (Inundow) - £20
Beautiful new vinyl reissue of the 2022 release below (excluding live 1990 material from the bonus disc). Overdone remixes from the original multi-tapes of The Gerogerigegege's first 7" single "Sexual Behaviour In The Human Male)" from 1988 (Transrecords). Two miraculous NG takes of the popular "first song on B-side" are also released here for the first time. All 12 tracks, including the remastering of "Mistress", used in the legendary "Enoshima Beach Flexi Burning Live" (which they said they would release, but changed their minds after pressing and decided to burn it). All songs remastered from the master tape to the point of overkill! 5500 words of liner notes by the 55-year old Gero (Juntaro Yamanouchi) talking about the backstage of that time. English translation included.
LP: Ltd x 500 copies with shocking pink obi strip. Limited Japanese import - act fast!
2CD: Special edition from 2022 of the album above. Comes in a jewelcase with obi strip. This edition also comes with a bonus CD "Sexual Behaviour In The Human Male Unreleased Live 1990, presented in it's own slimline plastic snap case. Limited Japanese import - act fast! |
 SKULLFLOWER - 'IIIrd Gatekeeper' 2 x LP (Dirter) - £29
An exclusive double vinyl reissue of Skullflower's epochal "IIrd Gatekeeper" album. Originally released on Justin Broadrick's (GODFLESH) hEADdIRt Recordings label in 1992, this is the first time that the record has been available on vinyl for 30 years. This definitive and expanded edition includes extra and unreleased tracks taken from the original recording sessions. For the first time all the tracks from this period can be heard together giving unprecedented access to material previously only available in the band's archives. ecorded in London in 1991, "IIIrd Gatekeeper" had its roots deep in the UK noise and Power Electronics scene. Graduates of the Broken Flag school of British noise-making, Skullflower's third album featured the line-up of: Matthew Bower (Total, Black Sun Roof!, The Hototogisu, Voltigeurs etc), Anthony Di Franco (Ramleh, JFK, Novatron, AX etc), and Stuart Dennison (Ramleh). This is Skullflower at their heaviest, grinding out slow, sludgy riffs and crushing, almost industrial rhythms amid a tempest of psychedelic guitar noise and dense sheets of feedback - easily the most crushing, rock-based music that Skullflower ever produced. Double vinyl in a heavy matt "non-scratch" laminated gatefold sleeve. |
 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. |
 CRANIOCLAST - 'Arctic Salon' 2 x LP ICY CLEAR (Auf Abwegen) - £.28
Planned in the early 90's executed in the early 20's: The Arctic Salon. Another Cranioclast expedition, this time to the Pole. A long time between planning and execution, but much shorter than the time between the first fake reports of having reached the North Pole on foot across the ice and the first expedition that really made it without motorization. But also a long time in which things in the Arctic and Antarctic got worse and worse and continue. 105 minutes of Cranioclast ambient-drone-industrial bliss. Ltd x 300 copies on double 'Icy Clear' vinyl - almost completely transparent like ice but hotter (or cooler). Stickered outer PVC sleeve including a download code. |
 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. |
 UMPIO - 'Sin Memoria' CD (Absurd Exposition) - £11.50
"Forgot to put on the helmet for the drainpipe slide? Breathe in deep as the smoke, chunks of shrapnel and microplastics fly high while the celestial dremel drills through the gorilla skull of the great offender. Rug burn on the listener's skin are just some of the side effects of this full spectrum junk elektronix noizu catastrophe". Umpio is multi-instrumentalist Pentti Dassum (also of Impakt), who hails from Pori, Finland. Recorded in Finland and Mexico 2022. Ltd x 200 copies in a gatefold digisleeve. |
 INADE - 'The Crackling Of The Anonymous' CD (Loki Foundation) - £11.50
Reissue of Inade's second album from 2001, revived 23 years later. With "The Crackling Of The Anonymous", Inade move beyond all preconceived notions of sonic creativity. The plethora of puzzle pieces that interconnect in the expanding universe that Inade unwaveringly explores have grown amorphous, no longer defined by distinct outlines, melding as one whole, obscure entity. The expansion comes in many levels, incorporating the vast parameters of time, dimension and reality as viable participants in Inade's aural objective: to shine a light on the enigmatic unknown and give it a vague silhouette. The dark and hallucinatory masterwork that is "The Crackling Of The Anonymous", is constructed via the never heard utterances of the void, while tapping into the psyche of the impossible. A stunning release that defies all logic because it creates its own. 6-panel digisleeve with rejuvenated artwork. |
 STATISCHE MUSEN - 'Diskretion. Funktionsmusik Für Verrichtungsboxen' CD (Auf Abwegen) - £12
A new outlet by Asmus Tietchens for musical endeavors that are more formula or genre based. The four long-form tracks of "Diskretion" explore ambient music in the broadest sense of the term. Dense layers, slow dynamic progression, with moody atmospheres. Here Tietchens articulated his musical interests clearly: everyday noises were treated and at times deformed beyond recognition and placed into new contexts. Until now German artist Asmus Tietchens has released more than 80 albums on international labels where he continues to explore the possibilities presented to him by specific sound sources (ranging from water sounds to pure sine wave tones). His work is rooted in a deeply sceptic gesture, marked by frequent quotes from the works of philosopher E.M. Cioran on his album covers. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak designed by Tietchens. |
 FILIVS MACROCOSMI & CHARADRIIFORM - 'Form And Void' Cassette (OMS Records) - £12
The Emptiness finally took form. Collaborative Dark Ambient / Drone isolationism from two Ukrainian projects: Filivs Macrocosmi (the late Sergey Svistelnik, ex-In Meditarium), and Charadriiform (c2h4n), with Nikolay Oorzhak (Republic of Tuva) as guest. This album was some of the very last material from Sergey, released just 2 weeks before his passing. Four longform tracks (18:20 per side). "Most of the compositions are based on samples from Nikolai Oorzhak (throat singing, tambourines, etc.). But this does not turn music into another superficial treatment of the ritual songs of the peoples of Siberia. Instead, all these shamanic things are organically "woven" into classic dark-ambient backings, which gives birth to rather unique material. Everything is perceived very meditatively, although the music is fundamentally different from "meditative" creations in the traditional sense" (UA Drone). Pro-dubbed pale-blue cassette with 4-panel hand-numbered J-card cover. Limited to just 20 (!!) copies only! |
 COV OPS - 'The Way Forward' CD (Freak Animal) - £11.50
Following up on their hugely well-received debut album "New Agenda" (Freak Animal, 2023), Cov Ops present yet again an oppressive way forward for humanity. The successful blend of harsh noise and classic industrial has been further refined and pushed to extremes into a massive wall of crushing frequencies, but ever changing and never standing still. Cov Ops rejects innovation, playfulness and technological advancement. It trusts on the sheer violent energy and basic elements of industrial-noise. Its harshness brings it to the realm of noise, yet it clearly belongs to lineage of industrial culture. Digipak. |
 VIOLENT SHOGUN - 'Peace' CD (Satatuhatta) - £11.50
"Peace" is the latest CD album by Rémi Dazet, the mastermind behind Violent Shogun and other noisy experimental projects like Hattifnattar and Mold. Those projects stand on their own feet but Violent Shogun can be seen as his main project, and it's always exciting to see in which direction the sound progresses to next. This timely named album once again showcases what Rémi does best. It combines atmospheric synth sounds and textured tape loops with harsher, organic bangs and scrapes to tell a story. No gimmicks, just true artistic vision using the tools of sound. Mastered by Pentti Dassum (Umpio). |
 ABRAXXUM - 'The Steel Jaws of Choronzom' CD (Cyclopean Eye Productions) - £12
Conjuring forth from the mind of DIOCLETIAN's noise monarch Atrociter, a new project has been summoned from the void named ABRAXXUM. Hailing from New Zealand, Abraxxum plays occult Power Electronics and ritual darkness with all sonic alchemy and analogue abuse, created using modular synthesis and live instrumentation only! The opening salvo aimed at the Global human parasites. Indian import. Ltd x 100 copies. |
 VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Listening Machines - Ecological Perspectives' CD (Edition Degem) - £12
The selection for this Degem CD is based on the following curational questions: How are technological and social developments reflected and referenced in artistic work? How is the emerging closer connection between human and machine, up to and including cybernetic fusions, dealt with artistically? What aesthetic questions are posed to the technological developments of machine learning and machine listening? What perspectives on listening are developed in the artistic work and how are technological perspectives and developments in listening being referenced? The compilation includes electroacoustic pieces by: Henrik von Coler, Anja Erdmann, Daniel Bisig / Ephraim Wegner / Thomas Wenk, Christian Banasik, Karl Friedrich Gerber, Thomas Gerwin, Leon Senger, Ulf Pleines, and Javier Alejandro Garavaglia. Curated by Nicola L. Hein. Design and production by Marc Behrens. Presented in a digipak with hefty booklet! |
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UFO Club, Tokyo (JP) - with Travisano Trio, Gnosistori
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The Old Salutation, Nottingham - with Aluk Todolo. £6 OTD. |
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NWN! / Hospital Fest, Osaka (JP) - with Genocide Organ, Beherit, Prurient, Linekraft, Thirdorgan, Cult Of Youth...
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Doom & Grind Fest, Birmingham - with Axegrinder, Alunah, and more...
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Sonic Rites Festival, Helsinki (FI) - with Godflesh, Discharge, Eyehategod, and more...
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Wave Gotik Treffen, Leipzig (DE)
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Mystic Festival, Gdansk (PL) - with High On Fire, and more...
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Ascension Festival, Hlêgarðar (IS) - with Brighter Death Now, Auðn, Thy Darkened Shade, Inferno, Barshasketh, Vévaki, Kaleikr, and more. Tickets TBA |
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Festival Beseda u Bigbítu, Tasov (CZ)
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Fekete Zaj Fesztivál, Gyöngyös (HU) - with Clan Of Xymox, Whispering Sons, and more...
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Infest, Bradford - with Republica, Xotox, Rein, Divine Shade, Corlyx and more...
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Dominion Of Flesh, Stockholm (SE) - with Anenzephalia, Lille Roger, African Imperial Wizard, Inade, Control, Alfarmania, Ex.Order, and more...
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Soulcrusher, Nijmegen (NL) - with Zeal & Ardor, Blackbraid, Pharmakon, and more...
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Death Cult Rising, Barcelona (ES) - with Ain Soph, Wolfskin, Ruò Tán, Northvs Filivs Mortiis, and Beckahesten.
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Rituals Over Limburg Fest II, Landgraaf (NL) - with Vortex, Nam-Khar, Alone In The Hollow Garden
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