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Friday 18/11/11 GRUMBLING FUR LP and LP/T combo now available in the store. HAXAN CLOAK plays again to tomorrow, same location as below, with CHURCH OF SYNTH. Doors at 10.00. PA is killer in there, so should be massive. Monday 7/11/11 Still no confirmed date on the delivery of the sleeves for the GRUMBLING FUR LP. BURIAL HEX will make a welcome return to the UK later this week. Details:11/11/11, LONDON: Mater Suspiria Vision - Special HO†SE …V DR†G live show with TRI-PHONIC BOX The Church of Synth BURIAL HEX CRIM3S Cold in Berlin Doors: 9pm Early Tickets £7.00 Venue: Elektrowerkz - 5 Torrent Street - London / Angel. Monday 31/10/11 After seemingly endless problems with the printers manufacturing the sleeve for GRUMBLING FUR, it seems it will finally go into production this week and I should have a delivery date later today. Pre-order will commence as soon as I get the date. The LP is on transparent clear vinyl and also transparent green vinyl. Following this will be the HAXAN CLOAK double vinyl, a further small repress of the 12", a one-sided LP from PYRAMIDS in collaboration with WRAITHS featuring excellent sleeve art from Simon Erl, THISQUIETARMY vinyl and more. Tuesday 27/09/11 After a very hectic personal month with a fair bit of time away, we're back and trying to get up to speed again. Having changed servers some very strange things happened to some of the pages, but finally managed to fix the GRUMBLING FUR audioplayer and MURMUURE too. New shirts available at NDP from Simon Erl . News on preorders for GRUMBLING FUR and HAXAN CLOAK LPs in next 24 hours. Tuesday 09/08/11 Nice GRUMBLING FUR review here. Warm words also from the press: VICE - 9/10 review (August issue) "Rumours of this collaboration have billowed for aeons, and apt for music so stoned that it can barely stand up, the assumption was it would lay slumped in the vaults, unable to string a sentence together, let alone put its trousers on and meet the public. THC troubadour Alex Tucker, Mothlite / Miracle man Daniel O'Sullivan and Jussi Lehtisalo from Finnish institution Circle all pray for smoke over cathedral pipes and joyous clamour, building a remarkably coherent ode to bliss from the dreamlike mire. Serves particularly well as a soundtrack to the lightshow under your eyelids." UNCUT - 3/4 review (September issue) "Boasts an impressive scope, covering Broadcast-like analogue pulse ("Orb Of The Woods") Popul Vuh-ish spirituals ("Siberian Priest") and the blackened motorik (the excellent "Eye Of The Bovine Sunset") Well worthy of investigation." "Like a disembodied hand that delves through the murky depths of sound..." From a piece on AB in Zero Tolerance magazine with a small HORSEBACK interview. Very nice article. Some new developments at our distributors so working on a plan for the rest of the year. News soon. Monday 01/08/11 GRUMBLING FUR 'Furrier' CD, CD/T combo out now. Fantastic synthesis of many styles, presented as a sumptuous six panel digipak CD. Awesome T shirt design from Alexander Tucker, as is all the artwork gracing the album. There will be a limited edition LP version, 300 in colour available around the end of August. This shouold coinicide with the arrival of some other LP projects too. More news to follow. THE HAXAN CLOAK 'Observatory' 12" is now sold out. MURMUURE s/t LP has beel selling fast, as well it should, its an amazing record. The Simon Erl designed AB shirt is almost sold out now. More from him very soon indeed, also more from NDP in the works. Sadly the CONAN & SLOMATICS split CD has been shelved. The release should be available on another label imminently. Friday 01/07/11 MURMUURE s/t LP limited to 500, silkscreened sleeve, split release with Cold Void Emanations label. Predorder now in the webshop. These will sell fast for sure. "All Murmuure material is based on a one hour guitar improvisation from November 2006. Selected parts were further edited to fit a rythmic structure, and merged with additional layers of sound. This process of mixing & endless re-writing took 3 years until final completion. The percussions are a mixture of the original programmed drums, and some (extremely re-edited) additional live drumming. Vocals were recorded during a cathartic trance at a sacred place in the forest, with a mini-disc recorder. Being almost inaudible in the music, they're strictly conceived as a vocal sigil technique, a vehicle for intent. The 30 minutes long, self-titled release is possibly the first and last Murmuure record. I've put so much in it that it will be hard to match, and there would be no point in doing something more just for the sake of it.". New in the distro: PRURIENT 'many jewels surround the crown' 7" - final copies from the label, now OOP. Limited to 200. Some of his greatest material to date. CONAN/SLOMATICS split LP. Massive doom titans crush your stereo... Friday 24/06/11 SHIPPING NOW: THE HAXAN CLOAK 'Observatory' 12" - repress of just 200 copies. Presented as a black vinyl white label 12" in paper inner housed in a litho print card folder cover. Excellent non-album material from this much touted project, presenting a more hypnotic early Industrial sound. Click the link above for samples. THE HAXAN CLOAK debut album, currently available as a deluxe CD in gatefold sleeve, has been getting excellent reviews: "A mournful miasma of cello and violin ruptured by a slow, metronomic pound...a kind of crepuscular chamber music - not unlike a suicidal Rachel's." - The Wire. High praise indeed! The vinyl edition of the album is in production and will be available soon. PREORDER NEXT WEEK: MURMUURE s/t LP version of the excellent debut CD that came out on Paradigms last year and garnered so much praise from so many quarters. This masterpiece will finally be available on vinyl as an edition of 500 copies on black vinyl in a silk screened folder sleeve. Presented as split release by Aurora Borealis and COLD VOID EMANATIONS. We hoped to have this for preorder already, but the logistics of shipping the silkscreened sleeves and the the hand made inserts (courtesy of JB at CVE) have delayed this. We will keep you informed on shipping dates, but preorder will commence on Monday. Friday 25/05/11 THE HAXAN CLOAK 'Observatory' 12" is now up again for PREORDER. This is the second pressing, edition of just 200. Black vinyl, 45rpm. Printed white card folder sleeve, poly bag. Slightly revised art to the first edition. Samples here. PREORDER: SHIPS JUNE 17TH 2011 New in the webshop: K11: new CDs in from K11, 'The Sacred Wood', 'Metaphonic Portrait' and with Philippe Petit 'The Haunting Triptych'. All recomended. His follow up AB CD is hitting production very soon. HEINALI AND MATT FINNEY: 'Conjoined' CD, a real gem on Paradigms. Truly excellent. Monument of Urns: 'The old man and Death' CDr - massive heaviosity from this cult self-releaser. Always a dark treat. Borgne: 'Entaves de L'Ame' CD - very bleak keyboard dissonance based BM featuring Xasthur. Very good indeed. MURMUURE s/t LP, limited to 500, silkscsreened cover, is expected in ten days. Available for preorder soon. Wednesday 25/05/11 THE HAXAN CLOAK debut CD is available in the webshop now. A stunning album in deluxe tip on gatefold sleeve with printed inner bag. Vinyl will follow. New AB T shirt available by master tattoo artist Simon Erl of the most excellent ESOTERIC GENTLEMEN'S CLUB. Check the webshop for details. THISQUIETARMY EUROTOUR 2011 All dates with Aidan Baker (of Nadja) May 27 - Bochum, Germany @ Freies Kunst Territorium May 28 - Wanquentin, France @ Le PlanŽ Ari Home Gigs May 29 - Paris, France @ Villette Sonic * (Village label, early show 4pm - free) May 31 - Ghent, Belgium @ Sint-Lucas Beeldende Kunst - w/ Syndrome June 02 - Luxembourg, Luxembourg @ Rocas - w/ Dog Bless You June 03 - Metz, France @ Eurofoot CafŽ - w/ Dog Bless You June 04 - Zurich, Switzerland @ Bazilus - w/ Krankenzimmer 204 June 05 - Geneva, Switzerland @ L'ƒcurie de l'Il™t June 06 - Rovereto, Italy @ The Hub June 07 - Ljubljana, Slovenia @ Menza Pri Koritu June 08 - Bratislava, Slovakia @ Obluda w/ Pjoni June 11 - Berlin, Germany @ Bei Roy ^ w/ Nadja June 13 - Berlin, Germany @ Bis Auf's Messer ~ June 14 - Dresden, Germany @ AZ Conni - w/ Khuda June 16 - Hamburg, Germany @ Markthalle ^ - w/ Nadja, Svarte Greiner * = Aidan Baker & thisquietarmy collab set only ~ = solo set + Aidan Baker & thisquietarmy collab ^ = Nadja instead of Aidan Baker In the works: MURMUURE s/t LP, limited to 500, silkscsreened cover, expected June. At the plant. GRUMBLING FUR 'Furrier' CD and LTD LP: CD is now at the plant, expect a June release. THISQUIETARMY 'Vessels' LP, expected late June, limited. CONAN / SLOMATICS split CD is going to production this week. SCYTHLING 2LP and CD (Nadja & Bloody Panda members) is due to go to production. PYRAMIDS one sided LP is in the planning stages. HORSE LATITUDES vinyl will soon go to production. SUNDAY MOURNING debut album is ready for mastering. See yesterday's post below and see them live this week in London. Tuesday 24/05/11 Some London shows coming up: BLACK ABBA (feat. members of Tucker, Moss, Sunday Mourning) will be doing the full costumed, warped-out psychedelic nightmare in a giant warehouse for the 'New Lexicons of Dark' event also featuring HAXAN CLOAK, Josef Van Wissem, Flight and more, including a funeral parlour and loads more... Bank Holiday Monday 30th May: flier here. Terminal Cheesesteak presents a night on Thursday 26th at the Servants Jazz Quarters in Dalston. Playing: Sunday Mourning, Imbogodom (Alexander Tucker) & HAXAN CLOAK, with records courtesy of Olly (Moss) and the Bad Guys. flier here. In the works: MURMUURE s/t LP, CONAN / SLOMATICS split CD, HAXAN CLOAK LP, THISQUIETARMY LP and more... Catalogue section finally updated. Lists all AB releases, newer pages have streaming audio. Monday 18/04/11 New in the webshop: LOCRIAN 'The Crystal World' LP on Utech and the CD version of the AUSTRASIAN GOAT's 'Stains of Resignation' album (whic we also have on vinyl). An amazing album, features Jarboe on one track, very diverse. Friday 15/04/11 MENACE RUINE 'Union of Irreconcilables' double LP gatefold now available in the store, limited to 500 copies. 'Vessels' from THISQUIETARMY out now in the web shop. Amazing and rich drone epics, massively heavy and cruching shoegaze. New distro items: MAMIFFER vinyls, MAMIFFER / HOUSE OF LOW CULTURE split LP, MAMIFFER CD, GREYMACHINE 2LP (feat JESU and ISIS members), NO BALLS LP (ex BRAINBOMBS), tapes from GNOD and SYLVESTER ANFANG II. Wednesday 13/04/11 MENACE RUINE vinyl has arrived and looks amazing. Heavyweight...! These will go up in the store very soon along with 'Vessels' from THISQUIETARMY and many new distro items including LOCRIAN and MAMIFFER vinyls.  Wednesday 4/04/11 THE HAXAN CLOAK debut album is delayed due to a pressing error. we expect to have finished copies next week now. Streaming tracks on the band page. An incredible release. Thank you to all those that came down to the boat last week! "Frightening noise music for frightening times, its sheer visceral physicality presciently chanelling the force of all recent grimness" - 8/10, NME. Next week will also see the release of the stunning new album 'Vessels' from Canada's THISQUIETARMY. Collosal walls of drone songcraft. It should be quite a week! If you are in London come and see MENACE RUINE play with ALUK TODOLO at the Borderline on the 13th too. Full dates below: 12.04.2011 Point Ephemere Paris France Aluk Todolo, Year of no Light 13.04.2011 Borderline London UK Aluk Todolo, Year of no Light 14.04.2011 Magasin 4 Brussel Belgium Aluk Todolo 15.04.2011 013 / Roadburn Festival Tilburg Holland 16.04.2011 UT Connewitz Leipzig Germany Aluk Todolo 17.04.2011 Loppen Copenhagen Denmark Aluk Todolo 18.04.2011 Nefertiti Gothenburg Sweden Aluk Todolo, Earth, Sabbath Assembly 20.04.2011 Singsang Studion Malmš Sweden Aluk Todolo 22.04.2011 WhiteTrashFastFood Berlin Germany Aluk Todolo 23.04.2011 K4 Prague Czech Republic Aluk Todolo 24.04.2011 Roessli Bar Dachstock Bern Switzerland Aluk Todolo, Herpes … Deluxe 25.04.2011 Grrnd Zero Lyon France Aluk Todolo 29.04.2011 SWR Festival Barroselas Portugal Monday 28/03/11  FREE entry. Small capacity venue, so try to make it there early to guarantee entry. Wednesday 09/03/11 THE HAXAN CLOAK 'Observatory' vinyl edition, silkscreened spined sleeve, limited to 100 copies is selling fast. Look out for big news on lon lots of new releases soon. n.b. - Just had to rasie the price on this for "rest of world" customers due to recent postal rate price hikes, sorry folks! Insanely pricey to send vinyl to the USA now. I'll have to implement price hikes on all vinyl for non UK/EU orders soon, so grab stuff now if you can. Won't have time to do the price cahnges until this weekend. Thursday 03/02/11 New distro items: IGNATZ 'I hate this city' LP - awesome no-fi folk ramblings from the erstwhile SYLVESTER ANFANG cult member. G. LANSARD limited edition art zine - deranged grostesques and eye damaging scrawls. Spot the bits of WORMSBLOOD and AB artwork in there... In other news, been hammering away at new releases, expect news very soon. Its going to be a mammoth year here at AB. Monday 17/01/11 New distro items: THE AUSTRASIAN GOAT 'stains of resignation' 2LP, YEAR OF NO LIGHT 'ausserwelt' 2LP and THISQUIETARMY 'aftermath' CD. All amazing releases. Sunday 16/01/11 New distro items: VENA and BOOK OF SAND CDs from Paradigms recordings, SPECTRAL ARMIES, SKELETON BIRDS & THE NUMBER OF GOD, and SECOND FAMILY BAND (another Clay Ruby project) LPs from AltVinyl. Thursday 13/01/11 Debut NEIGE MORTE CD out now. Cold French post-black metal assault. Special introductory price for a limited time only! New distro CDs from: OLD FOREST, TETRAGRAMMATON, DANIEL MENCHE, MAMMIFER/HOUSE OF LOW CULTURE, GOG. Monday 10/01/11 Getting back to normal after the holiday period though with the majority of orders sent out. No VAT increase anywhere on the site as yet, though I will have to address this with future releases. HORSE LATITUDES have been getting some high praise indeed: "Low end riffing, spiritual affirmation, hypnotised euphoria; Horse Latitudes' dual bass incantations capture the most surreal, epic and psychedelic voyage into the annals of doom since HORSEBACK raised our consciousnesses with The Invisible Mountain last year." - Lurkers Path. The mighty ROADBURN made it album of the day last week too. Next release will be the debut NEIGE MORTE CD, out on January 13th. Look out for more news then on HORSE LATITUDES vinyl, plus many more releases for early 2011. Tuesday 21/12/10 New release for the Winter Solstice from HORSE LATITUDES. The debut album 'Gathering' is finally available now in the webstore on CD. A vinyl edition is due early 2011. New distro items: LOCRIAN 'The crystal world' 2CD - the best yet from Locrian, awesome. TETRAGRAMATON 'Point of convergence' CD - psychedelic assault on Utech. Monday 20/12/10 New items in the store tomorrow for the Winter Solstice. With the bad weather causing chaos here in the UK - all rather embarassing really, very feeble - transport and delivery networks are on the verge of breakdown so please be aware of delayed shipping times right now. Sunday 5/12/10 THE HAXAN CLOAK second pressing of the tape sold out almost immediately, so apologies to those that missed out. The full album is due early 2011, so look out for that, and there will be very special vinyl limited edition - more on that in the new year. Two new items in the distro, very small amounts of both of these: MOSS - 'Never Say Live (Live in Soho)' tape. Crushing live document from April 2010. Pro tape with sticker and small cloth patch. HAARE - 'Madon Evankeliumi' CD. Killer heavy psychedelic maelstrom of noise in the trve Finnish way. Reworked from MOSS source materials, this is an awesome release. More news tomorrow on the last rites of the year. Wednesday 1/12/10 YRSEL 'Sacrifice' LP released today on AB. Massive tectonic drone beauty. Limited to 350, vinyl only, vellum style sleeve. New shirts from MENACE RUINE, WRAITHS, & DEAD RAVEN CHOIR including one super limited design. Very small second runs of the tapes from BURIAL HEX & THE HAXAN CLOAK. Next releases from these two will be full albums, both formats, early 2011. Lastly, the amazing MURMUURE CD on Paradigms is finally in stock. Great album, vinyl version on AB/Cold Void Emanations early 2011. Next week will see the final AB releases of 2010: HORSE LATITUDES CD (LP to follow) and the debut CD from NEIGE MORTE. Both essential. Also should have some new distro items, including some mega rare MOSS stuff, and there will be a free Aurora Borealis MP3 mix/PDF zine to download... Friday 26/11/10 new stock: GHAST/ABANDONER CD, GRUEL CD, WRAITHS 'Grey Emperor' CD, and the excellent LOCRIAN 'Territories' LP. Farewell this week to Peter Christopherson (of COIL, THROBBING GRISTLE and more), and INGRID PITT. Wednesday 24/11/10 New items in the store from the Paradigms label: MOURNER, SOL/BLODTRU and SEPVLCRVM CDs, all highly recommended. Will also be stocking the excellent MURMUURE CD soon, an amazing album. AB will be co-releasing a limited vinyl edition in early 2011. Looks like December 1st will see the webstore release of HORSE LATITUDES debut album, the YRSEL 'Sacrifice' LP, the debut NEIGE MORTE CD and maybe even some other items. Stay tuned for further news this weekend when I can confirm more. Thursday 11/11/10 Some delays with shipping the tapes due to the sheer volume of orders recently, also been ill, sorry folks. Should be clear by the weekend. Next up, YRSEL 'Sacrifice' LP, vinyl only, limited to 350 copies, further enlarges and expands the enormous dronescapes of their first release. Available next week. We should also have copies of the excellent MURMUURE CD on Paradigms, as raved about by AQ. Thursday 4/11/10 HAXAN CLOAK TAPE AND BURIAL HEX TAPES BOTH NOW SOLD OUT. Thursday 4/11/10 First AB tape releases up now in the webshop: HAXAN CLOAK 'Observatory' and BURIAL HEX 'A night with two moons'. Both very limited. I also have a very small amount of the shirts that SYLVESTER ANFANG had made for the brief UK tour. Monday 25/10/10 New releases up today from WRAITHS and BLACK MOUNTAIN TRANSMITTER - available now in the webshop. The YRSEK vinyl release should hopefully be available from next week and Halloween will see the release of two cassette releases, a first for AB. One from BURIAL HEX, an album length release of two unreleased tracks, and one from HAXAN CLOAK, two new tracks and available for 24 hours only on Halloween, limited to 31 copies. Wednesday 20/10/10 BURIAL HEX 'Kali' Ts were delivered finally last Friday and all orders have finally been shipped. Apologies for the unforseen delays with this. Lots of new releases coming soon: limited tapes from BURIAL HEX and HAXAN CLOAK, limited vinyl only LP from YRSEL, plus CDs from BLACK MOUNTAIN TRANSMITTER, WRAITHS and HORSE LATITUDES. We're also very excited to be in talks with CONAN about a split CD release later in the year, and with the epic SKALDIC CURSE about the release of their latest opus, an incredible album. Also in discussion with SCYTHLING about a 2011 release. More news on all this soon. Wednesday 6/10/10 More Burial Hex dates: OCT 8 | Den Haag / Villa Grijpsheert / Alexander Gogelweg 12 OCT 9 | Tilburg / Gifgrond / Gasthuisring 19G OCT 10 | Gent / Smeraldina-Rima Headquarters / Komijnstraat 1 OCT 12 | Utrecht / dB's / CAB-Rondom 100 OCT 13 | Amsterdam / MKZ behind Occii / Amstelveenseweg 134 Sunday 19/09/10 BURIAL HEX 'Kali' T available now in support of the current EU tour.  Friday 17/09/10 New 'Vedic Hymns' LP from BURIAL HEX/KINIT HER available now in the vinyl section. Released by Alt.Vinyl and limited to just 250 copies. I cannot recommend this highly enough. CD version to follow on AB. BURIAL HEX is currently on tour in Europe. Here's a batch of upcoming dates: SEPT 17th Milano / Hundebiss SEPT 19th Roma / Motelsalieri Art Gallery SEPT 20th Roma / INIT (Dal Verme) SEPT 21th Napoli / Cellar Theory SEPT 22th Bologna / Modo Infoshop SEPT 23th Venezia / El Cocuy SEPT 25th Vittorio Veneto / Codalunga SEPT 26th Alessandria/ TBA SEPT 27th Milano / The Lift We'll have a shirt available here at AB to help with the expenses for the tour. Wednesday 04/08/10 New version of the CONAN T shirt available now with backprint! Check the webshop for details.  Sunday 25/07/10 DEAD RAVEN CHOIR Ts finally in stock and shipping. The run is strictly limited to just 32 shirts with no reprint. The vinyl edition is planned for release shortly and there will another shirt available. Got some more SYLVESTER ANFANG II Ts in stock too, act fast on those. The clear vinyl of the HORSEBACK 'The Invisible Mountain' LP is now sold out. A second edition of 300 on white vinyl is shipping now. New photo soon. Friday 2/07/10 DEAD RAVEN CHOIR is one of the most obscure, hated, envied and enigmatic musical entities in the world. 'Schmerzensgewalt' is said to mark the final chapter in this bizarre and wondrous fable. Check it out now in the webshop. Also available, new MONUMENT OF URNS CDr and SYLVESTER ANFANG II 'Commune Cassetten' LP repress on PINK vinyl! HALLOWED: A night of haunted song, horror folk, blissful sorrow and new music. Friday 2nd July. St Mary's old church, Stoke Newington Church st. N16 9ES 8pm start. Wednesday 9/06/10 New items in the store: ALUK TODOLO: debut 7", 'Descension' CD and 'Finsternis' LP - most of the output of this great French band. A series of ultra limited, coloured vinyl 7"s from the dotdotdot label by DEAD RAVEN CHOIR, PRURIENT and NATE YOUNG (of WOLF EYES). Very few in stock. Expecting the new DEAD RAVEN CHOIR next week. Will make it available as soon as delivery is confirmed. Wednesday 26/05/10 BLACK MOUNTAIN TRANSMITTER 'Theory & Practice' tape has sold out. Should soon have a date for the CD release of the 'Black Goat of the Woods' recording next week. HORSEBACK clear vinyl of 'The Invisible Mountain' is almost sold out. A second vinyl colour, once again in a very small pressing, is now expected soon. Tuesday 18/05/10 New items in the webshop: BLACK MOUNTAIN TRANSMITTER 'Theory & Practice' tape - the last 5, this is sold out at source. Check the 'Other' section in the webshop. ARKTAU EOS 'AI MA RA' 2CD - almost 2 hours of this incredible project and their 'ethnography of the unknown'. See them perform if you ever get the chance! HALO MANASH 'Am Kha Astrie' CD, 'Language of Red Goats' CD and 'Taiwaskivi' CD + DVD - astounding release of this 'Ur-music', utterly elemental, deeply mystical. >Contact Aurora Borealis: info@aurora-b.com |
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