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

THE NEW BLOCKADERS / GRINDER-WITHOUT-ORGANS / THE THEATRICAL PANOPTICON Present: 'The Stage As Antiworld'
2CD £15 - Out now!

           

This double CD set includes an extended collaboration between The New Blockaders & Grinder-without-Organs, and two live recordings of anti-theatre premiered at Cafe OTO (London, UK) and Audio Foundation (Auckland, NZ). The set also includes a link to access a bonus film and extra, printable material.

CD1 features 'Ein Glücklicherer Zufall: Genau Zu Lang (A Happier Accident: Exactly Too Long)', an hour-long, part studio / part live collaboration between seminal anti-music stalwarts The New Blockaders, and purveyors of the absurd Grinder-without-Organs. 'Ein Glücklicherer Zufall...' shows a different side to TNB's trademark obliterating noise offensives with a more collaged, musique concrète approach and includes a pre-Cafe OTO TNB & G-w-O show soliloquy.

CD2 includes G-w-O live at London's Cafe OTO, "Showcasing a singer who has no voice, musicians who have no instruments, and a bandleader who has no direction".

CD2 concludes with The Theatrical Panopticon, "A stage play performed inside a void and infected with accidental somniloquies".

Fans of Noise music will need no introduction to the work of TNB. Ron Lessard, of legendary US Noise label RRRecords, once stated, "I'd give the nod to TNB as being the first truly devoted Noise artists". TNB served as a major influence on legendary Noise pioneers such as Merzbow and their influence on the current crop of popular crossover Noise artists such as Wolf Eyes is immeasurable.

Double CD in a 6-panel matt digipak with 8-page booklet featuring TNB and G-w-O artworks.

COIL / NINE INCH NAILS - 'Recoiled'
LP Black £21 | T-Shirt £18 - Out now!

    

"Recoiled" is a rambunctious alchemy, of magikal COIL sensibilities and hi-tech home circa 90's mixing technique, all fused in the cave-like early studios of Danny Hyde / Peter Christopherson.

These were the unrestrained PRE- BIG studio- mix downs, of four songs which long time Coil admirer / collaborator Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) requested Coil to remix. Reznor sent over the original multi-tracks and DATs to Hyde / Christopherson, who independently mixed versions and then met to synch both creations, molding them into these master versions. 

”Recoiled” includes a fuller, more opulent version of the track 'Closer', which eventually made it onto the opening credits to the movie "SE7EN". These 5 lengthy compositions are pre-Ableton / laptop generation type priest song creations, with the use of baby alarms and numerous wires to create bespoke effects.

These legendary tracks were always rumoured to exist and, only the due diligence of a dedicated NIN forum who hunted them down, are released/unleashed for your listening pleasure. 4 of the tracks were released on the download-only "Uncoiled". A bonus, previously unheard track from the same sessions closes the album. Jhonn Balance is also manifest on this gilded constellation. Beautifully remastered.

10 Year Anniversary LP Edition!

Out of print for nearly a decade, we are proud to announce the much-demanded new vinyl edition of this legendary collaboration. Coloured LP (sold out) or black LP (2nd Ed) in full-colour sleeve with printed inner sleeve.

• 'Pallid Amber'. Ltd x 100 copies - via COLD SPRING ONLY. Sold out (but see above)!
• 'Heavy Gold' Ltd x 500 copies. Sold out!
• 'Solid Bone White' Ltd x 500 copies. Sold out!
• Black vinyl
• Black t-shirt with full-colour print.

Also available: • CD in full colour digipak.

BLACK LP £21	T-SHIRT £18	Also available: CD £8.50

TENHORNEDBEAST - 'Capra Hircus'
CD £11.50 - Out now!

            

Cold Spring is proud to present the brand new album from TenHornedBeast - the ritual drone project of Christopher Walton (Endvra).

The wild goats (Capra Hircus) of the Cheviot hills have lived there for millennia and are the Avatars of the wild places. If there is a heathenry left on this island, it is to be found at the places where the wild goats gather, in the secret valleys and alongside nameless burns. They are the Children of Pan in an Arcadia that straddles both the imagination and the real world.

This is TenHornedBeast intentionally moving in a different direction from the cryptic doom-ambient of 2022's "The Lamp Of No Light". "Capra Hircus" is full of the glowing sunrise of hill-top psychedelia and shimmering, spiralling drones that mimic the abstract lines of the rock-art panels that mark the landscape. The music flows outwards and immerses the listener in looping, hypnotic waves of feedback.

"I dream in landscapes and this is very much an "outdoor" album. When I was recording these pieces I was hoping to capture the openness and sense of wonder that I get from the high places. I've walked these hills for many years, where earth and sky meet and I was searching for a new way to be TenHornedBeast, although it's very much the same ideas that inspired me twenty years ago - just seen in colour".

CD in 6-panel flood-printed matt digipak with photographs taken by Christopher Walton on the High Places of Pennine Horeb.

PACIFIC 231 - 'Deep Jet (Soundscapes Of Conflict)' CD (Aussaat) - £12

The brand new studio album from Pacific 231 - the long running project of Paris-born, Dublin-based artist Pierre Jolivet. "Soundscapes Of Conflict" juxtaposes the roar of jet engines with more serene or harmonious elements; a contrast provoking reflection on the human cost of conflict and the resilience of the human spirit. The tension between sound as a source of beauty and expression and sound as a tool of destruction, recordings of machinery from war zones into musical compositions, using dissonance and discord to convey the chaos and brutality of war. Pierre started in the early 80's to perform as a French pioneer under the moniker of Pacific 231, in the industrial and power electronics art fields before moving into more ambient and abstract electronic sounds. His works now explores the very limit of sound and space. Ltd x 200 copies in a 6-panel digipak.

MERZBOW - 'Oersted' 2 x LP (Urashima) - £32

The highly anticipated vinyl reissue of Merzbow's groundbreaking 1996 album. Originally released on CD by Vinyl Communications, this significant milestone in the Japanoise scene is a sonic journey through realms of noise, texture, and intensity. A classic of Merzbow's analogue era, "Oersted" sounds noticably different from "Pulse Demon", "Tauromachine", and "Venereology", with its use of space and dynamic range. Utilising cacophonic machine noise, synth sounds and metallic scrapes, the overall feel of the album is psychedelic and vibrant. The vinyl reissue, expertly remastered for the first time by the esteemed James Plotkin (Khanate, The Joy Of Disease), renowned for his unparalleled expertise, breathes fresh life and depth into the album's already rich and intricate sonic landscape, unveiling new detail within its reverberant dense tapestry and complex noise palette. Ltd x 299 copies in a gatefold sleeve.

EDWARD KA-SPEL (THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS) - 'Tales From The Trenches' LP BROWN (Lumberton Trading Company) - £23

Founder, vocalist and main songwriter for The Legendary Pink Dots, Edward Ka-Spel has long forged an equally prolific career as a solo artist given to sometimes exploring similar sonic realms as his group. Known as someone unafraid to venture wherever he pleases, his work has long traversed the more outward-bound areas of electronic music, psychedelia, hypnotic rock, Kosmische sounds and the avant-garde. Sewn into all of this is Edward's fantastic grasp of spinning a twilight tale or spiralling deep into the mind's recesses to craft a song from comparatively nimble melodies and words of Kafka-esque proportions into a strikingly rich blend. "Tales from the Trenches" collects eight tracks of a personal nature, mostly pinned into place by some refined electro rhythms, molten cosmic textures, plaintive strings, introspective keys and a late night hue that sways effortlessly between the beautiful, haunted and even sweat-ravaged dancefloor. Everything may at first feel ominous or sombre in tone, but there's also a glimmer of hope laid bare in all its sun-drenched glory poking between the cracks. Ltd x 250 copies on brown vinyl.

MAURIZIO BIANCHI - 'Regel' LP (Oblio / Die Schachtel) - £22

One of the great cornerstones of early 80's Italian experimentalism and Industrial music, fully-remastered for the first time. Comprising two, untitled, side-long compositions, "Regel" stands among the best illuminations of the tangible links between the early electronic avant-garde and certain music that blossomed from the cultural revolution of punk. The first piece draws upon manipulated sound sources, threaded with synthesizer or theremin, which collectively gather an almost post-apocalyptic sensibility. Using a similar sound palette, the album's second side delves toward a more markedly tonal realm, utilising deconstructed melodic elements, striking harmonic collisions and pulses, placed within a cavernous sense of space and texture that achieves thrilling seductiveness. "Regel" remains as fresh, engrossing, and exciting as the day it first appeared in 1982. Remastered by Andrea Marutti and issued in collaboration with the artist in a very limited edition of 280 copies on black vinyl, the album is housed in a sleeve that fully replicates the original, and contains two inserts and a sticker.

SCOPOPHILIA - 'Violent For Being Sexually Desired' CD (Old Europa Cafe) - £12.50

Reissue of the 2021 debut album by Scopophilia - the collaborative project of Harriet Kate Morgan (aka MILITARY POSITION) and Ester Kärkkäinen (aka HIMUKALT). One cannot write about Scopophilia without discussing the female condition, as both artists sublimate their own biographies and biologies into sound. Literally, 'scopophilia' means an extreme sense of the male gaze, with the woman bearing nothing but her own sexuality. Yes, this album is a fractured autobiographical rendering on the inherently fraught situation of being a woman; but more so, it is a raw production of power electronics, industrial decadence, and provocative discipline. The two share a number of similar influences, with their respective solo work being largely industrial and quite minimal in comparison to Scopophilia. In the album's dark techno rhythms the duo create tracks which are lurid, sensual, intimate, and violent all at once, stirring visual images and narrative fragments through the noise. The album is more than a synthesis of the bruised noise from Military Position and postmortem electronics from Himukalt, through an uncanny communion of misery, mania, sexual addiction, innate trauma, the loss of self, the aftermath of abuse or controlling situations, the horror of being in a female body and the subsequent feelings of entrapment this brings. A definite vignette of female sexuality ... and a commentary on their past and their subsequent feelings of disempowerment, as well as thoughts on what it is to be a woman and industrial artist. 6-panel digipak with 12-page booklet.

VLADIMIR HIRSCH - 'Lux Antiqua' LP (Integrated Music Records) - £22

Czech Neoclassical musician Vladimir Hirsch (Skrol / Aghiatrias) presents a new orchestral / industrial / choral album created with electronics, keyboards, synthesizers, percussion and integrated technology, along with participation of the Czech Integrated Ensemble & Choir. "A conceptual album, based on a dialogue of central, minimalistically repetitive choral motifs with instrumental themes in the spirit of the author's integrated musical concept. It is a work of an oratorical nature of a musical requiem type, but without the presence of solo vocal parts and without compositional articulation into the form of that standard classical formation. Orchestral-industrial elements in their reasonable amount add suitable dynamic power to the musical expression, where the layered polytonality with historical stylistic references and imaginative alchemical work with sound" (Tom Saivon). Ltd x 200 copies.

SPLINTERED - 'Between Scylla And Charybdis' CD (Fourth Dimension) - £11.50

Splintered present their first new album since the 1996 collaboration with Germany's musique concrete artist, RLW. Bringing together several new songs of a lengthy, hypnotic and atmospheric nature, "Between Scylla And Charybdis" sees the original lineup of Richard Johnson (Fourth Dimension boss / Theme / Grim Humour zine), James Machin, Steve Pittis (Dirter boss / Band Of Pain), Paul Dudeney, and Paul Wright joined by Stuart Carter (Theme, The Fields of Hay). Deploying the same combination of rock instrumentation, electronics, location recordings, loops and mostly submerged vocals they were always known for, "Between Scylla And Charybdis" is an often intense reflection of the stormy times it was recorded in. This is the sixth album the group have produced since they began in 1990 and the first since their hiatus of 1997. Mastered by Siôn Orgon. Digipak.

NEUTRAL - 'Last Tale Of Love' LP (Infinite Fog Productions) - £23

Neutral presents the album that will most probably remain their last. In their familiar inimitable style, "Last Tale Of Love" brings dark and beautiful songs with unforgettable melodies, bitter-sweet poetry, and a heady soft deep voice. Of note, this 'last' album includes two early songs of the project - "To The Endless Play" and "Last Tale Of Love" - songs that are well-known by fans through live shows but are presented here for the first time in their studio versions. "The very first chords immerse the listener in the unique ethers of melancholy, romanticism, and retrospective triumph... the melody of Neutral is flawlessly recognizable among any other neofolk... In addition to drawing on Lovecraft's poetic heritage, the album is adorned with two songs by Alena Ka Boo, noir and touching at the same time... A romantic neofolk that is not distorted by post-industrial experiments" (Vladislav Yarov). Ltd x 250 copies in a full-colour sleeve with gatefold 12" lyric booklet.

SLEEPWALKER - 'Towards The Horizons' CD (Ksenza Records) - £11.50

The brand new studio album by Sleepwalker, the enigmatic one-man project from the forbidden Depths of Siberia. Gazing through the dark spheres, Sleepwalker lead you towards distant horizons with their own style of deep dark ambient, space drone, shimmering ambient moments, and synth-laden escapism. The new tracks here, created with guitars, electronic drones, analogue synths and handcrafted instruments, collide into one huge journey to unknown places. Ltd x 200 copies in a matt-laminate digipak.

PURBA - 'Roma Aeterna' CD (Zazen Sounds) - £12

A deep Ritualistic recording related to the atmosphere before civilization emerged or after its destruction. Purba is a musical and theatre project formed in Moscow in 1996, with an impressive roster of current / ex-members including Alexey Tegin (Phurpa). Their music is based upon the ancient sacral ceremonies of the Bon tradition (the pre-Buddhist religion of Tibet), playing authentic Tibetan traditional instruments, using overtone singing as well as musique concrete, noise, electronic, drone, industrial and ritual performance. The original idea of this work was to fix not the eternity of existence, but the eternity of destruction. Shiva is always there. Looking at the sky we see a lot of non-existent stars. Our memory disappears from the wind of time and leaves only eternal ruins. Presented in a 6-panel digisleeve. Already sold out from the label. ACT FAST!