KHOST - Many Things Afflict Us Few Things Console Us
CD £11.50 | LP Black £20 | LP Red £23 - OUT NOW!

              

The 5th album from Birmingham-based industrial/doom metal band Khost sees the band forging new and at times nightmarish territories, alongside their signature walls of detuned guitar, corroded percussion and VHS atmospherics.

Inspiration for many of the tracks came from countless live shows and even soundcheck experiments in which extreme, harsh electronics evolved, as did punk/early industrial tempos, all of which were then fused into the DNA of "Many Things Afflict Us Few Things Console Us".

Khost remark: "We hoped that the experience would be something like venturing into an off-limits wing of some gallery after-hours, with each turn more disorientating than where you just were".

Collaborators include AXEBREAKER (aka Terence Hannum of Locrian), acclaimed cellist JO QUAIL, and Berlin-based sound designer MANUEL LIEBESKIND.

The CD and the vinyl are different beasts. The CD is reinforced with 7 extra tracks including ADRIAN STAINBURNER's incredible remix of 'Yellow Light' featuring STEPHEN MALLINDER (Cabaret Voltaire, Wrangler) on vocals, and BERENECES adding his signature deep, dark D&B sound to the track 'Death Threat'. The LP editions feature a different mix by Khost especially for vinyl.

• CD in reverseboard digipak

• Ltd Ed 200 copies on red heavyweight 180g vinyl in a reverseboard sleeve.

• Black heavyweight 180g vinyl in a reverseboard sleeve.

LTD RED LP £23	BLACK LP £20	CD £11.50

400 LONELY THINGS - 'The New Twilight'
CD £12

         

Tumble back into the nebulous and murky psychedelic haze of 70's-80's VHS horror!

Explore grimy palimpsests from the film studio to the grindhouse with 400 Lonely Things in "The New Twilight": eleven creepy yet sublime analogue microdoses of vintage genre and exploitation audio sampled and filtered through the darkly ambient, melodically droning, melancholic nerd soul.

It's been said by many over the years that Horror is the most flexible genre. So many ideas, themes, and styles flow through it. Craig Varian of 400 Lonely Things has spent a half-century on earth exploring almost all of it, and finds a particular sweet spot in the glut of films released in the VHS boom of the 80's.

Varian developed a fascination for the worlds of sound revealed by audio sampling after first encountering an Ensoniq Mirage in the 1980s. While he found sampling music interesting and often surprising, it was the overlooked moments in the audio environments of horror films in particular that seemed to provide the most fertile wealth of inexplicably sublime material. More often than not, samples from these sources seemed eager to twist themselves into moments of smeary, effusive beauty and when looped and treated, often veered directly into mysterious assemblies of warm melancholia - meditative poetics that were never implied in their lurid lo-fi grindhouse presentations. And, of course, sometimes they were just creepy.

While a couple previous releases by 400 Lonely Things in this realm have focused on specific film-titles (2008's "Tonight Of The Living Dead" and 2022's "Nigths And Profecy") with similar results, their 17th album "The New Twilight" is the first 400 Lonely Things release to take a slight step back to widen that perspective a bit, to focus on the overall genre itself. With the exception of one single track, each song (and song title) is sourced from a single film.

To further this theme, the chronologically ordered booklet included in the physical packaging (and digital booklet included with Bandcamp purchases) uses the same techniques to extract a hazy and dreamlike visual reference from the murky celluloid sources.

Adjacent genres: hauntology • dark ambient • experimental electronics • psychedelic • drone • soundtrack • plunderphonics

• CD in flood-printed matt-laminate digipak with a fascinating 12-page booklet of tantalizing visual clues!

JAC BERROCAL + DAVID FENECH + VINCENT EPPLAY feat COSEY FANNI TUTTI and JAH WOBBLE
CD £11.50 | LP Black £20 | LP Yellow £23 - OUT NOW!

       

"Broken Allures", the fifth LP from trio Jac Berrocal, David Fenech, and Vincent Epplay (following releases on Blackest Ever Black, Akuphone, KlangGalerie), furthers their unique recording style with a musique concrète approach to mixing, characterized by the distinctive sound and technique of musicians and producers. Fenech and Epplay have paired with legendary French musician Berrocal, renowned for his collaborations with Nurse With Wound, Vince Taylor, Jaki Liebezeit, Pascal Comelade, Sunny Murray etc. "Broken Allures" is arguably their most coherent and fully accomplished album to date.

For this album, the trio has invited two fantastic musicians to compose with them: COSEY FANNI TUTTI and JAH WOBBLE.

COSEY FANNI TUTTI (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey, COUM Transmissions) contributes vocals, cornet, and electric guitar in her unique style. She has also written lyrics for two tracks on the album and brings a radical touch to the instrumental track 'Viva la Hacienda', which, in her own words, recalls her time recording with Throbbing Gristle.

JAH WOBBLE (founding member of Public Image Limited, and collaborator with African Head Charge, Brian Eno, Björk, Holger Czukay, Jaki Liebezeit, Bill Laswell, Primal Scream, Evan Parker, Sinéad O'Connor etc) plays a deep bass line on one track. He adds his signature industrial dub sound, with deep sub-bass frequencies.

File next to Throbbing Gristle, early Clock DVA, Chris & Cosey, Bill Laswell, Master Musicians Of Jajouka.

• CD in a matt-laminate flood-printed digipak.
• Ltd Ed 150 copies on transparent yellow vinyl in a matt-laminate sleeve with full-colour insert.
• Black vinyl in a matt-laminate sleeve with full-colour insert.

LTD YELLOW LP £23	BLACK LP £20	CD £11.50

TREPANERINGSRITUALEN - The Totality of Death
'Α' CD £11.50 | 'Ω' CD £11.50 - Out now!

   

A Chimera / A Mirage / An Eidolon.

The Totality of Death is the past entwined with the future.
The Totality of Death is a vortex of ineffable confusion.
The Totality of Death is One, but manifest as Two.

The Totality Of Death compiles 20 songs from past limited-edition releases, digital compilations, and the most obscure recesses of the T × R × P archive. The material - reworked and remastered in 2024 e.v. - is spread over two separate compact discs, transmitted by ᚦᛟᚦ ᚷᛁᚷ and ᚾᛟᚺ ⩝⚭⩝ respectively.

The CDs feature different, intricately-designed artwork throughout, and are beautifully presented in reverseboard, flood-printed, 6-panel digipaks, each coming with an exclusive artcard when bought direct from Cold Spring or the artist.

The t-shirts, which come in red and army green mirroring the CD artwork, feature two-colour screenprinted designs on Gildan SoftStyle.

Visual realization by Nullvoid. Mastered by Nÿland at 4 & Rising.

V ∴ V ∴ V 2024 e.v.

NB: These sets are completely different material to the 2013 'Totality Of Death' releases!

'Α' CD £11.50	'Α' T-Shirt £18	'Α' CD + T-Shirt £28
'Ω CD £11.50	'Ω' T-Shirt £18	'Ω CD + T-Shirt £28

AMBIENTI COASSIALI & RICCARDO SINIGAGLIA - 'Guitambients' LP (ADN) - £18

Milan's Ambienti Coassiali began in the '80s as a parallel project of Capricorni Pneumatici. Riccardo Sinigaglia (Correnti Magnetiche, Futuro Antico) contributed synth and keyboards to the tracks on Ambienti Coassiali's 2017 album "Spare Rooms", but this is their first full collaboration. Side A consists of two long tracks and starts with 'Guitambient 1' where a subtle treated guitar slowly crawls accompanied by percussion, flute and noises, wrapped in a calm climate evocating an ethnic eastern feeling. 'Guitambient 2' proposes an intense interchange between treated guitars and electronic devices; an accurate work on small persistent sonorities... a dreamy disturbance. 'Guitambient 3' covers the entire side B, with listening in the dark recommended so you can concentrate on the great variety of sounds slowly evolving to a final crescendo. This track is the compendium of all the inspirations performed by the two musicians on the record. Ltd x 300 copies.

JERRY GOLDSMITH / JAMES HORNER / ELLIOT GOLDENTHAL / JOHN FRIZZEL - 'Alien - Complete Motion Picture Scores' 8 x CD Boxset (Cimmerian Records) - £82

The complete Alien boxset comprised of 8 double CDs, covering over 9 hours of music! This new pressing of all the scores from the Alien franchise dating from 1979 to 1997, Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner, Elliot Goldenthal & John Frizzell. This fabulous boxset includes every note scored for the franchise, along with alternate cues, extended cues & remixed tracks.

Set 1: Alien - Complete Motion Picture Score by Jerry Goldsmith
Set 2: Aliens - Complete Motion Picture Score by James Horner
Set 3: Alien³ - Complete Motion Picture Score by Elliot Goldenthal
Set 4: Alien Resurrection - Complete Motion Picture Score by John Frizzell

Each 2CD set comes with new artwork in an 8-panel matt-laminate digipak, all enclosed in a slipcase box. The definitive soundtrack collection from these revered films!

LAURENT PERNICE - 'Antigone' CD (ADN) - £12

Laurent Pernice presents his score for Sophocles' 441BCE play "Antigone", as performed by Anima Motrix, directed by Emma Gustafsso and Laurent Hatat. Here Pernice focuses on strings (bass, double bass, zither, and harp), with Violaine Sultan - a teacher at the Marseille Conservatory of Music - also playing an important role on viola. The acoustic performances are subtly altered by Pernice's electronic treatments: Sultan's voila, while sometimes very clear and simple, interpreting melodies of a elegant beauty akin to that of classical music, is often turned on its head, slowed down, overdriven, to create textures conducive to the atmosphere of this or that part of the play. Even without the text of the original play, the music itself takes you on a journey of an absolute tragedy, while revealing the infinite complexity of the human being. Digipak.

NARSILION - 'Nerbeleth - 20th Anniversary Commemorative Edition' 2 x LP (Caustic Records) - £28

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of its recording, Narsilion presents the long-awaited vinyl reissue of their acclaimed Fantasy / Medieval-Folk / Ethereal classic. The release includes all the tracks from the original 2004 CD, without any additional production, as well as two unreleased songs that will delight their most devoted followers. Undoubtedly, "Nerbeleth" marked the birth of Narsilion, a cult band that managed to captivate listeners worldwide. Medieval and neoclassical compositions orchestrated with violins, magical flutes, ethereal guitars, percussion, and sweet elvish voices will transport you far away, where time lies dead, and memories rewrite once more on the pages of our lost innocence... Highly recommended for fans of Dead Can Dance. "It's time to dream eternally again, in the land of silver tears...". Rising from the ashes of Ordo Funebris in 2003, Spain's Narsilion is the duo of Sathorys Elenorth, and Lady Nott, who also record as Der Blaue Reiter. Ltd x 300 copies presented in a beautiful limited edition double vinyl in gatefold sleeve with expanded and updated artwork.

VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'ADN 40th Anniversary - 40 Years 40 Tracks' 3 x CD Boxset (ADN) - £42

An impressive 3CD boxset released to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Italian label ADN. Features an impressive line-up of contributors from the broad experimental / ambient / noise / avantgarde / industrial world: Nurse With Wound, Zoviet France, Lol Coxhill, Faust, Nocturnal Emissions & Barnacles, Edward Ka-Spel (The Legendary Pink Dots) & Jérôme Lorichon & Quentin Rollet, Christoph Heemann (H.N.A.S.), Asmus Tietchens, Simon Balestrazzi (T.A.C.), Tasaday, Smegma, Ambienti Coassiali, Richard Pinhas (Heldon), Christina Kubisch, La 1919, DDAA, La STPO, Alfred Harth, Pierre Bastien & Michel F. Côté, Inclusion Principle, Sorry For Laughing, Scosse Elettriche, Nisus Anal Furgler,Giovanni Venosta, Deni Tagu, Af Ursin, Roberto Musci, Telectu, Ur Kaos, Toupidek Limonade, Embryo, Ut Gret, Jean-Jacques Birgé & Gwennaëlle Roulleau, Dominique Grimaud & Veronique Vilhet, Reportaz, Thierry Zaboitzeff, Look De Bouk, Uz Jsme Doma, The Watts, and ZGA. This is a compendium of ADN's "Out of Standard" series and the continuity of "Ode to Marco Veronesi" that was more intimate. More than three and a half hours of previously unreleased music that trespass the genres and standard conventions. Ltd x 250 hand-numbered copies in a hardboard slipbox housing three digipaks and a massive 88-page (!!) booklet.

CAPRICORNI PNEUMATICI - 'Lake Of Fire' CD (ADN) - £12

Italian duo Capricorni Pneumatici started in 1987, taking their name from an Aleister Crowley book. This CD is part of their 30th Anniversary and they have produced two new albums to mark the occasion. This album, "Lake Of Fire", presents an ambient and ritual world view that sinks deeply into female vocals. 71 minutes of music using percussion, voices, bowed harp guitar, electronics, music concrete and treatments. Digipak.

CAPRICORNI PNEUMATICI - 'Putredini Obnoxius' CD (ADN) - £12

Italian duo Capricorni Pneumatici started in 1987. This CD is part of their 30th Anniversary release series. It should have been their tenth album, originally composed in 1991 for the Portuguese label Putrefactio, but was never published at the time. 26 years later it comes to light in this first edition, The recordings are made up of electric guitar, samples, synths, tapes, strings, field recordings, percussion and voices (including that of Aleister Crowley, whose book they are named after). Mastered from the original 1992 master tape. Digipak.

CAPRICORNI PNEUMATICI - 'Rahoor' CD (ADN) - £12

Italian duo Capricorni Pneumatici started in 1987, taking their name from an Aleister Crowley book. This CD is part of their 30th Anniversary and they have produced two new albums to mark the occasion. "Rahoor", recorded in 2017, is the third part of The Erivar trilogy. They present four songs that show industrial rhythms with a distinctive rhythm and a mysterious ceremonial landscape. 51 minutes of music using percussion, voices, electronics, and treatments. Digipak with drawings and sigils by Austin Osman Spare.

MEGAPTERA - 'Beyond The Massive Darkness' 2 x CD (Old Captain) - £18

Much-anticipated reissue of the Swedish death industrial milestone. CD1 is a remixed version of "Beyond The Shadow" (Megaptera's first CD; Kronotop, 1994) with two new versions of tracks composed by the original founder of the project, Mikael Svensson (Deaf Machine) from "The Curse Of The Scarecrow" CD (Release Entertainment, 1998). CD2 is a reissue of "Songs From The Massive Darkness" (Megaptera's first LP; Vinyl Attack, 1992). This edition also features "Deep Inside" 12" (Slaughter Productions, 1997.) feat. Magnus Sundström (The Protagonist) and Mårten Kellerman (Each Dawn I Die), which wasn't present on the Cold Meat Industry version (2001). Ltd x 300 copies in a deluxe 8-panel matte-laminated digipak with new artwork.

JARL - 'Neurotransmitters-Sphere-Music' CD (Reverse Alignment) - £12

Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers that help nerve cells communicate with each other. Referring to this concept, "Neurotransmitters-Sphere-Music" consists of four pieces (over an hour) showcasing Jarl's trademark psychedelic, hypnotic approach, based on minimal sequencing, analogue pulsating synthesizers chords and repetitive percussive layers. Swedish musician Erik Jarl has been active since 1999, principally as Jarl, but also a member of IRM, Skin Area, Kaiten, and Sharon's Last Party. Jarl composes his music through a total analogue approach with the use of synthesizers, analogue sequencers, waveform generators, and oscillators, as well as several echo/reverb and delay units. "This is gorgeously minimal music, with pulsating synth work and repetitive layers of evolving drones - all blended together to create something truly special. A must-listen for those of you who like subtle soundscapes and layered sound" (This Is Darkness). Mastered by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst). Ltd x 200 copies in a 6-panel matt-laminate digipak with cover art by Karolina Urbaniak.