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Welcome to the Aurora Borealis webshop. You will find all of our available releases here, including merchandise. For distributed items, please click on the red links below.
DISTRIBUTED ITEMS: vinyl, CD (A-M), CD (N-Z), clothing, other items, add registered shipping.
All prices INCLUDE shipping within the EU. Please allow 28 days for delivery. You will be emailed when your order has been shipped. Although we aim to ship orders out within 48 hours of receipt, this is not always possible.
You will be emailed if there is a problem with your order (eg address seems incorrect, item out of stock, etc).
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BURIAL HEX
'Witches' T shirt
Revised version of the classic Burial Hex shirt.
Large soft feel grey print on a black Gildan T, deisgn by NDP. Produced by AB here in the UK.
£13.99 UK / £14.99 EU / £15.99 worldwide, postpaid
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THE HAXAN CLOAK
'Observatory' 12" EP
Genre:modern composition/noise/ritual
Two post-album tracks from THE HAXAN CLOAK. 'Observatory' comes on like 80's Industrial with a pounding beat followed by a
hypnotic synth refrain whih builds and builds, layers overlapping and contrasting before they finally disolve into the aether.
'Hounfour' is a slower beast, once again with layers of synth building though this time in a more hallucinatory and psychedelic way as audio trails into audio
leaving the listener with a sense of wonder. Amazing stuff.
Third pressing, limited to 250. Printed labels, black disco bag with sticker. 45rpm.
Samples here.
£9.99 UK / £10.99 EU / £14.99 WORLDWIDE, POSTPAID
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GRUMBLING FUR
'Furrier' CD / LP
Genre:ambient/experimental
Borne from a day long improvisation in deep dark south London... A smattering of Fins and Englishmen chatter, chant and chime as rail lines whistle and hashclouds
billow. Swamped cavernous modes unravel into vistas of blissed kraut mantra and stilted metal drifts.
Months pass, O'Sullivan and Uusimaki quietly trundle through the wreckage with a fine tooth comb assembling the hairy monolith.
Scene changes and juxtapositions are magnified, temporal dream states fall deeper into comatosed hypnosis. O'Sullivan and Tucker's
deep psyche vocal duets fly above bubbling hippopotamus pools and humming electric temples. Lehtisalo barks the Viking lament from sonic Helheim.
'Furrier' basks in astral shade.
After months of obscure delay, this legendary recording is finally unleashed by Aurora Borealis.
LP edition on transparent green 180g vinyl in regular LP sleeve with printed inner bag, with free MP3 download. Pressing of 300. All artwork by Alexander Tucker.
Sumptuous 6 panel digipack CD, all artwork by Alexander Tucker.
Audio samples cane be heard HERE.
Personnel:
DANIEL O'SULLIVAN (Mothlite, Miasma & The Carousel of Headless Horses, Aethenor, Ulver)
ALEXANDER TUCKER
ANTTI UUSIMAKI (Mothlite, Panic DHH)
JUSSI LEHTISALO (Circle, Pharaoh Overlord)
DAVID SMITH (Guapo, Miasma & The Carousel of Headless Horses, The Stargazer's Assistant, Amal Gamal)
"Grumbling Fur concoct a potent brew of doomy psychedelia, interspersed with blissful krautrock...all the more striking when pulsing rhythms and haunting melodies...emerge." NME
"Grumbling Fur 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." VICE
CD: £10.99 UK / £11.99 EU / £12.99 WORLDWIDE, POSTPAID
LP: £14.99 UK / £15.99 EU / £17.99 WORLDWIDE, POSTPAID
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GRUMBLING FUR
'Furrier' T shirt/LP combo
Get the GRUMBLING FUR LP with the shirt.
Soft feel large white print on a black Gildan T, artwork by Alexander Tucker. Produced by AB here in the UK.
£23.99 UK / £25.99 EU / £29.99 worldwide, postpaid
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GRUMBLING FUR
'Furrier' T shirt/CD combo
Get the GRUMBLING FUR CD with the shirt.
White print on a black Gildan T, artwork by Alexander Tucker. Produced by AB here in the UK.
£19.99 UK / £20.99 EU / £24.99 worldwide, postpaid
or
get the shirt on its own for £13.99 UK / £14.99 EU / £15.99 worldwide, postpaid
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WRAITHS
'Oriflamme' LP
Genre:noise/ritual
None shall escape the harrow of the plague. Recorded live and under ritual conditions, Oriflamme was Wraiths' first creation. The insanely limited CDr release was quickly consumed by collectors of the truly profane and now this vinyl presentation has been ordained by the ghastly monks themselves in conjunction with Aurora Borealis. Blackened death-ambient drone meets howling, metallic noise.
Long thought out of print, I unearthed one box of these during a stock take. These are the final copies!
Read more here.
£11.99 UK / £12.99 EU / £15.99 WORLDWIDE, POSTPAID
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MURMUURE
s/t LP
Genre:esoteric/black metal
So hard to categorise that its hard to know where to begin... This is excellent, uncompromising and fiercely original. I get a soundtrack feel to it in parts,
maybe some lost Jodorowsky film, it is that mental and freaked out sounding. So good. Blasting, blown out, fuzzy, heavy, epic. You need this record.
"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."
Presented as a black vinyl LP with printed centre labels, housed in a hand screened raw card folder cover (featuring the original, rearranged cassette layout), with a minimal A4 insert, in poly bag. Edition of 500, split release with Cold Void Emanations.
There are 2 different colour print versions of the sleeve. These will be sent out
randomly.
Samples here.
£11.99 UK / £12.99 EU / £15.99 WORLDWIDE, POSTPAID
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THE HAXAN CLOAK
'Observatory' cassette
Genre:modern composition/noise/ritual
Two post-album tracks from THE HAXAN CLOAK. 'Observatory' comes on like 80's Industrial with a pounding beat followed by a
hypnotic synth refrain whih builds and builds, layers overlapping and contrasting before they finally disolve into the aether.
'Hounfour' is a slower beast, once again with layers of synth building though this time in a more hallucinatory and psychedelic way as audio trails into audio
leaving the listener with a sense of wonder. Amazing stuff.
Pro cassette with printed J card. Orange cassette body. Second pressing of 50.
Samples here.
£5.99 UK / £6.99 EU / £7.99 WORLDWIDE, POSTPAID
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THE HAXAN CLOAK
s/t CD
Genre:modern composition/noise/ambient
The Haxan Cloak debut album. Exploring mystic and occult audio space with cello, field recordings, violins, hand made percussion and the human voice, this is barely conceivable as an artist's first album. The depth and quality is tangible in every hair-raising moment, at every crescendo when one is left teetering above the abyss...
Combining elements of modern classical, film score and electronica with modern free folk and even metal sensibilities, The Haxan Cloak is a truly diverse album.
'Burning Torches of Despair' brings to mind a sedated Prurient trapped on a galleon, whereas 'Fall' and 'Parting Chant' have the pathos of incredibly powerful modern Classical pieces, with stunning vocal performances from collaborator Mikhail Karikis.
'The Growing' shows a more modern, more digital side with its nod to modern electronic and even dub step in its processed percussion, though culminating in unexpected grindcore blast beats courtesy of noted tattoo artist and drum maestro Liam Sparkes (Trencher). Additional visceral power was gained thanks to the mastering of Kris Lapke, long time cohort of NYC's Hospital Productions, home of Prurient amongst others.
Simple classification is beyond impossible for this varied and majestic album. The Haxan Cloak simply is, was, and ever shall be.
Presented as tip-on style gatefold CD with printed inner sleeve. The fanciest CD package from AB ever.
£10.99 UK / £11.99 EU / £12.99 WORLDWIDE, POSTPAID
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THISQUIETARMY
'Vessels' CD
Genre:drone/ambient/industrial
Montreal's THISQUIETARMY create sublime yet massive walls of beautiful shimmering drone, at times with a near pop sensibility, at others near Industrial in its percussive bombast.
'Vessels' explores themes of the sea and man's struggle with this relentless and all pervasive force, the music a perfect means of expressing both the flat calm and the force 9 storm. Eric Quach,
the man behind thisquietarmy, is a prolific artist, and 'Vessels' is perhaps his most impactful work to date. 'The Pacific Theater' grips the listener in warm drone before
slamming them into the rocks with epic percussion. Album closer 'A Spanish Galleon' takes a more gentle approach with clean guitar and washes of orchestral strings.
The album is presented as a matte digipak CD with glued in booklet.
Tracklisting:
01 - The Pacific Theater 11:59
02 - Lost Crusades 9:03
03 - Shipwrecks 1:36
04--The Black Sea 10:04
05 - A Spanish Galleon 8:55
CD BONUS TRACK:
06 - New Dawn Fades 8:03
RunningTime: CD: 49:37 / LP: 41:35
£9.99 UK/ £10.99 EU / £11.99 WORLDWIDE POSTPAID
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MENACE RUINE
'Union of Irreconcilables' 2LP / CD
Genre:post-Black Metal
The long awaited deluxe vinyl edition. 180g black vinyl double LP, heavyweight matte gatefold and black inner bags packed in a deluxe heavyweight PVC outer bag with flap. Edition of 500. The CD edition is presented as a sumptuous digipack with matte stock fold out insert.
Entitled 'Union of Irreconcilables' the album builds on their previous Great Work, the alchemical collision of Black Metal, walls of noise, mysticism, martial
rhythms, and a Medieval affinity for melody leaving the listener with a sense of unforgettable originality.
Begun in 2006, MENACE RUINE have always followed their own path, combining unusual elements and vocal styles in an effort to capture their unique musical vision.
The evolution of the band's style and sound has been a constant throughout their three previous releases including 2008's 'The Die is Cast' (Alien8) with Genevieve's
powerful vocal performance coming to the fore.
All artwork designed by the band.
CD DIGIPACK £8.99 UK / £9.99 EU / £10.99.99 WORLDWIDE, POSTPAID
DOUBLE VINYL £16.99 UK / £18.99 EU / £20.99 WORLDWIDE, POSTPAID
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MENACE RUINE
'Union of Irreconcilables' T / T + CD / T + 2LP
Genre:post-Black Metal
A great design from MENACE RUINE. Printed with lightly applied dark red ink on a high quality
black Gildan T. Produced by AB here in the UK.
Choose from either the T shirt on its own, or bundled with the CD or the 2LP.
T SHIRT £13.99 UK / £14.99 EU / £15.99 WORLDWIDE, POSTPAID
CD + T SHIRT £19.99 UK / £20.99 EU / £24.99 WORLDWIDE, POSTPAID
2LP + T SHIRT £24.99 UK / £26.99 EU / £28.99 WORLDWIDE, POSTPAID
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NEIGE MORTE
s/t CD
Genre:post black metal
Neige Morte are an obscure entity from Lyon, France, creating an icy and oppressive hypothermic musical blast. Ponderous and bizarre passages of atmospheric sound crack and give way plunging the listener into frozen riffs as they are carried off by
the post-Black Metal current tearing through the heart of Neige Morte.
The cruel and nihilistic aesthetic chimes with much of the output of the French underground scene as does the experimental edge found in the five tracks served on this
debut platter. Difficult to categorize neatly, Neige Morte are merely interested in engulfing the listener in the slow embrace of frozen death.
Tracklisting:
01 - Reflexe Post- Mortem 10:49
02 - Tout Sonne Faux 6:53
03 - Need Some Air 2:24
04 - Fausse Victime Vrai Bourreaux 6:33
05 - Bourbier 5:03
RunningTime: 31:40
The album is presented as a digipack CD. All artwork was created by the band.
"Neige Morte's first release is an achievement. The band's attack is primitive and abstract, but there is a definite experimental slant to the sound that speaks for yet another incredibly unique act from one of black metal's finest outposts. Hypnotic and repulsive in equal measure, Neige Morte comes highly recommended." -
LURKER
£8.99 UK / £9.99 EU / £10.99 WORLDWIDE, POSTPAID
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HORSE LATITUDES
'Gathering' CD
Genre:doom
HORSE LATITUDES are an excellent new band from Finland playing unique occult metal. Comprising of two basses and a singing drummer,
its clear this band is out of the ordinary, and the debut album is full of unexpected material. Somehow combining elements of epic
sludge, Nordic leftfield underground metal bands like URFAUST and RIDE FOR REVENGE, and with hints of the Bradford Doom sound of
yesteryear, particularly in the vocal delivery, this is a potent sonic brew.
Heavy, throbbing bass, emotive and yet strangely detached vocals and tribal pounding drums distill into a powerful metal beast tearing the cosmos asunder.
The album is presented as a jewel case CD with six panel booklet. All artwork was created by the band. A vinyl edition will follow shortly.
Tracklisting:
Hornblas 9:08
Seas of Saturn 13:16
Gathering 9:37
Son of the Moon 10:18
Decayment 6:55
RunningTime: 49:12
£8.99 UK / £9.99 EU / £10.99 WORLDWIDE, POSTPAID
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YRSEL
'Sacrifice' limited LP
Genre:doom/drone/electronic
The second release from YRSEL, the group consisting of the core of the musicians responsible for THE AUSTRASIAN GOAT and ONDO. 'Sacrifice' is a vinyl only offering and sees the line up expanded and the
musical boundaries expanded. The massive tectonic drift of the 'Requiem..' CD is still here, though enhanced with further elements such as the inclusion of sampled voices such as on 'Exauguration', the
track that fills Side A. Side B sees greater departures, with side opener 'Instinctual drive renunciation' being a warm and enveloping drone that gives way to the almost acoustic and rural feeling 'Totem phase'. The
whole album is a conceptual meditaion on the notion of sacrfifice, as discussed on the back of the cover, and 'The rise of the scapegoat' is the final conflagration, massive rolling sheets of drone and
slabs of noise colliding. The perfect end note for this epic album.
Presented as an edition of just 350 copies on black vinyl in a vellum style folder sleeve, housed in a heavy PVC outer. With illustrations by James McRay (Small Sacrifice, ONE LIFELESS EYE).
Tracklist:
A__01 Exauguration 20:44
B__01 Instinctual drive renunciation 7:29
B__02 Totem phase 3:27
B__03 The rise of the scapegoat 7:01
Audio samples here.
£10.99 UK / £11.99 EU / £14.99 WORLDWIDE, POSTPAID
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BLACK MOUNTAIN TRANSMITTER
'Black Goat of the Woods' CD
Genre:dark ambient/noise/electronica
An ode to the Lovecraftian lore of Shub Niggurath, Black Goat of the Woods was conceived as "the soundtrack from some lost low budget horror movie,
rediscovered on an old and faded VHS cassette found mouldering in a deserted house in the depths of the woods".
The one man project of J.R Moore, Black Mountain Transmitter has released several CDrs and tapes, all to great critical acclaim, and the quality
of his work speaks volumes. This AB release is the first official release and a reissue of the long sold out and much sought after limited CDr.
On describing the recording, Moore said: "The music was certainly very much influenced by that certain breed of 70s horror films. Things like
the soundtrack to the original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", Giuliano Sorgini's atmospheres in "Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue"; Carl Zittrer's
soundscapes in "Deranged", "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things" and "Dead Of Night", and of course people like Fabio Frizzi in Italian horror
and the BBCs Radiophonic Workshop's electronic sounds in something like "The Stone Tape" and countless creepy old TV productions..."
An excellent, macabre and somewhat psychedelic release that spans many genres in its 40 minute playing time, Black Goat of the Woods pays perfect
homage to the dark denizen of the nocturnal glades, and is a true paean to backwoods horror.
ABX046. CD in digipack. RunningTime: 39:49
"Like much of the best so-called Dark Ambient music, the sounds created by Black Mountain Transmitter gives the impression of having been set in motion long ago by some remote force."
- Julian Cope (Head Heritage).
£8.99 UK / £9.99 EU / £10.99 WORLDWIDE, POSTPAID
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WRAITHS
'Dust In Our Mouths' CD
Genre:noise/ritual
In the wake of Oriflamme (Aurora Borealis) and The Grey Emperor (at war with false noise), WRAITHS complete the triptych with Dust In Our Mouths,
a crepuscular litany following on the heels of the Four Horsemen.
Where the previous works were an assault on the senses, Dust In Our Mouths sees WRAITHS in requiem mode, an organic and darkly
ritual recording, captured and crafted from a performance deep in the dank cellars of Edinburgh. Washes of sound create an uneasy shroud-like
texture as the tolling of bells brings to mind a processional, devotional element. There's a strange, deeply moribund beauty to the proceedings.
Long after the fires have burnt out, after the last plague cart has left town, the final dirt has been shoveled into the pit, Dust In Our Mouths
rings out.
ABX045. CD in digipack. RunningTime: 57:05
£8.99 UK / £9.99 EU / £10.99 WORLDWIDE, POSTPAID
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DEAD RAVEN CHOIR
'Schmerzensgewalt' CD
Genre:black metal/noise/outsider
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.
Smolken, the mastermind behind both DEAD RAVEN CHOIR and WOLFMANGLER, claims that he is setting his sights on pastures new and that this
challenging work is to be perhaps the very final testament of the spirit of Dead Raven Choir. Equally as lo-fi and harsh as its AB released
predecessor 'My Firstborn Will Surely Be Blind', 'Schmerzensgewalt' shares the same ambivalence to the technologies of the modern world -
"Recorded in Poland on cheap and archaic Soviet Bloc technology" - and a desire to tear songs limb from limb, note by note, before reassembling
them in a crude mockery of what stood before.
Particularly noteworthy this time is the inclusion of 16 year old female Polish vocalists, accompanied by their parents to record at the eerie
forest bunker that serves as Smolken's lair, their naive delivery adding new unplumbed depths to the Dead Raven Choir sound.
Probably AB's most extreme release ever, this was held up my numerous queries regarding the audio master, which was so distorted and compressed that they believed it to be faulty twice, exclaiming "It barely
registers as audio!" What better epitaph could there be for this astounding entity?
ABX044. CD in jewel case.
£8.99 UK / £9.99 EU / £10.99 WORLDWIDE, POSTPAID
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DEAD RAVEN CHOIR
'Schmerzensgewalt' T / T + CD
T shirt features album artwork and the cover photo of the logo made of sticks, created and documented by Smolken himself in the snowy wastes of Poland,
printed in dark grey and white on a quality black Gildan T shirt. Produced by AB here in the UK.
Select either the T shirt on its own or as a combo with the CD.
T SHIRT £8.99 UK / £9.99 EU / £11.99 WORLDWIDE, POSTPAID
CD + T SHIRT £16.99 UK / £17.99 EU / £19.99 WORLDWIDE, POSTPAID
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CONAN
'Horseback Battle Hammer' digi CD
Genre:Caveman Battle Doom
The excellent debut CD in a digipack sleeve with metallic ink,
CONAN are a Caveman Battle Doom trio from the grim North of England. They summon the heavy riff from the ungodly land and crush the skull of the unbeliever with their low end doom assault. Waves of sludge and galloping crust passages overwhelm the unwary.
'Horseback Battle Hammer' is comprised of four long and crushing tracks recorded at Wales' mighty Foel Studio (Hawkwind, Electric Wizard, Godflesh etc.) The sound is
monolithic, and clearly the band made the very best use of this legendary studio to get remearkable results from their custom made gear for a truly
crushing debut release. Combining excellent production values, deadly riffs and a unique vocal style, 'Horseback Battle Hammer' stays with the listener like a fresh wound.
With artwork by Tony Roberts (Electric Wizard, Unearthly Trance, Cathedral, etc.), Conan have set in stone the majesty of their arrival.
UK £9.99 / EU £10.99 / WORLDWIDE £11.99, POSTPAID
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HORSEBACK
'The Invisible Mountain' LP
Genre: drone/rock
HORSEBACK, the brainchild of Jenks Miller, has released two full-length albums since forming in 2007. The band's second full-length, 'The Invisible Mountain', is released as a highly limited vinyl LP on Aurora
Borealis this Spring and will be re-released on CD through Relapse later this Summer. Now available as a second edition of just 300 on white wax with a fold over velum-style sleeve featuring artwork
by Russian occult artist Denis Kostromitin, this is a beautiful edition of this incredible record.
'The Invisible Mountain' spans four tracks of gorgeously warm analogue drone rock that brings to mind the Kraut drift of Amon Duul II and the modern Western cinemascope of Earth while pushing headlong
into territories unknown.
Audio samples here.
Tracklist:
Side A:
Invokation 6:44 / Tyrant Symmetry 7:14 /
The Invisible Mountain 7:38
Side B:
Hatecloud Dissolving Into Nothing 16:34
UK £14.99 / EU £15.99 / WORLDWIDE £17.99, POSTPAID
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YRSEL
'Requiem for the Three Kharites' CD
ABX039
Genre:doom/drone/electronic
YRSEL create complex, multi layered and highly atmospheric music that fully explodes the genres of drone, doom, and electronica resulting in a glorious glacial melt of sound and texture.
YRSEL is a collaboration between THE AUSTRASIAN GOAT, primarily an
experimental Doom/Black Metal project, and ONDO, an equally prolific dark electronica project.
Conceptually, the album deals with the Three Graces (Kharites) of Greekmythology, symbols of grace, beauty, pleasure, and the creative impulse.
A requiem for the loss of culture in an ever spiraling material world, a twilight ode to the mythic manifestation of our higher faculties. In this context the drones, glitches and whispersform the perfect soundtrack to such dark materials. The album dissolves slowly from its thunderous opening, finally leaving the listener in a deep void of palpable loss.
Aurora Borealis is very proud to release this excellent album, presented as a deluxe silkscreened CD package in an edition of just 500.
Tracklist:
The last visions of Aglaea 20:18
The tears of Euphrosyne 16:11
Thaleia's neurasthenia 17:19
Audio samples here.
UK £8.99 / EU £9.99 / WORLDWIDE £10.99, POSTPAID
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L'ACEPHALE
'Malefeasance' 2LP
Genre: black metal/noise/experimental
The long awaited vinyl version is finally here... 180g black vinyl double LP with a giant fold out double sided poster (90cm x 60cm), 20pp full colour booklet as with the CD, and all housed in matte LP sleeve with 5mm spine and poly outer bag. This is a weighty and exquisite release, limited to only 500. ABX032.
In the wake of their polarising first AB release,'Mord und Totschlag', L'ACEPHALE return with 'Malefeasance', a lengthy and complex affair that further explores their fascinations and strikes headlong into the darkest of musical vistas. The journey this time is perhaps even more academic: further ethnographic audio elements are now present, more spacious passages, a deeper approach.
The album begins with 'Vainamoinen Nacht', a distinctly ambient and largely gentle piece, as warping tones begin to collide with the intoning of the Eddas and Slavic choirs. 'Hitori Bon Odori' continues themes found on 'Mord und Totschlag', repetitive acoustic riffing, joining with vocal chants and some executioner's snare rolls. 'A Burned Village' is a more Black Metal track, slow martial drums and staccato riffing, with layers of vocal and even some aetherial keyboard. Perhaps these last two tracks best show the nature of Set Sothis' collaborations with Markus Wolff (Waldteufel, Crash Worship), sharing some of his vocal and percussive styles. 'From A Miserable Abode' takes us into more familiar L'ACEPHALE territory as droning distorted guitar is swallowed gradually and ineffably under panning layers of shrieked vocals, swathes of electronic noise and maelstrom before passing over into Tibetan ritual music like some horrific and excoriating funerary rite.
The album continues with 'Sleep Has His House', a near 15 minute track of feedback scree cut through with repetitive heavy handed strumming and culminating in a curiously intoned vocal piece that recalls prime SWANS.
Album closer 'Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted' is a knowing 23 minutes with some of the quietest moments on the album, as dreamlike interludes pass into arcs of harsh noise followed by acoustic guitars before once again entering the dream state, a field recording from beyond consciousness.
By no means do L'ACEPHALE make music for the casual listener, nor will this album appeal to all, in many ways they transcend the listener's preconceived ideas of what may be expected: L'ACEPHALE are perhaps most successful at operating beyond the constraints of genre altogether, and 'Malefeasance', with its dark, dreamlike and harrowing atmospheres, is their testament.
Also available for purchase as a download in MP3 or FLAC formats from Boomkat.
UK £10.99 / EU £12.99 / WORLDWIDE £17.99, POSTPAID
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L'ACEPHALE
'Malefeasance' CD
Genre: black metal/noise/experimental
In the wake of their polarising first AB release,'Mord und Totschlag', L'ACEPHALE return with 'Malefeasance', a lengthy and complex affair that further explores their fascinations and strikes headlong into the darkest of musical vistas. The journey this time is perhaps even more academic: further ethnographic audio elements are now present, more spacious passages, a deeper approach.
Presented as a CD in jewel case with a full colour booklet, some different artwork. ABX032.
Also available for purchase as a download in MP3 or FLAC formats from Boomkat.
UK £8.99 / EU £9.99 / WORLDWIDE £10.99, POSTPAID
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SYLVESTER ANFANG II
'Sylvester Anfang II' CD
Genre: Funeral Folk/psych rock
In the time since the release of "Kosmies Slachtafval", Silvester Anfang have grown into SYLVESTER ANFANG II, a more psychedelic
beast, a more tangible creature in some ways, but one that defies and confounds standard classification. Taking their cue from
Krautrock communes of yore, the Flemish troubadours have expanded both ranks and minds and now present this giant new opus for
general consumption. With cultish numbers swollen with new blood in the guise of Stef Anus (Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat),
Father Sloow (Sloow Tapes pontiff), Bram (Ignatz) and Clay Ruby (Davenport, Burial Hex), the sound is much fuller and more
reminiscent of Krautish dope jams then ever before. Ruby's vocal additions create a whole new universe for the band, rather like
if Dr John had been born in a plague pit in Flanders, and the resulting tracks 'The Devil Always Shits in the Same Graves' parts
1 & 2 are masterful examples of Flemish voodoo boogie.
The new material is more hypnotic than before, and the band are sure to add new members to their fan cult as they slink across
Europe like a fog in the coming months. Sure to upset parents and upstanding citizens with their occult themes and liberal
European-style artwork, SYLVESTER ANFANG II reach new levels of consciousness with their mantras of goat worship and the
orthodoxy of denial that states "Only analog is real". Dust off your robes, sharpen the sacrificial blade, order in some
Trappist beers... Tune in, turn on, evolve.
Presented as a CD in jewel case with fold out poster booklet. ABX035.
Also available for purchase as a download in MP3 or FLAC formats from Boomkat.
UK £8.99 / EU £9.99 / WORLDWIDE £10.99, POSTPAID
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K11
'Voices From Thelema' CD
Genre: instrumental transcommunication/ambient/experimental
K 11 is a project of Italian sound/installation artist Pietro Riparbelli that deals with the world of radio signals, trans-communication and other
invisible phenomena, to create a dimension where the only sound sources are signals from shortwave radio receivers. When constructing works under
the K 11 project, Riparbelli uses only sounds from the atmosphere and from invisible, unknown sources. In this way, Riparbelli creates more esoteric
works than his field recording based material as PT-R, and 'Voices From Thelema' is perhaps the logical conclusion of such an enterprise.
'Voices from Thelema' is an instrumental trans-communication action with short wave radio receivers realized inside Thelema Abbey in Cefal¯, October 14, 2007.
The ruined building stands derelict and on the verge of collapse, though still holds many secrets and has been a focus for much counter cultural activity since its
foundation by Aleister Crowley in 1920 as a religious centre and commune where he could instruct disciples in his emerging Thelemic religion and systems of magick
in a rural atmosphere, far from the overpowering prevailing morality of England. Activities included meditation and ritual magick, as well as the sensationalised
drug taking and sex magick. The wall of many of the rooms were painted with fantastic murals by Crowley himself, depicting many of the elementals and
demons encountered in his magickal exercises, and the remains of many of these adorn the accompanying booklet. After being ejected from Italy following
scandal and outcry over the goings on at the Abbey, the walls were whitewashed and destroyed. Filmmaker Kenneth Anger, himself a devotee of Crowley, later
uncovered and filmed some of its murals in his film 'Thelema Abbey' (1955), now considered lost, and the Abbey has been a place of pilgrimage for many ever since.
K 11 now revisits this site and seeks to uncover the genius loci, the very essence of the building itself, to reach out into the aether and construct meaning and reality from
that which is beyond our grasp. The three tracks are the result of this work and, each bearing titles of Thelemic significance, can be said to hold the essence of
all that remains at Cefalu, like the background radiation that tells of the Big Bang.
DO WHAT THOU WILT SHALL BE THE WHOLE OF THE LAW
Presented as a deluxe CD digipack, with glued in 32 page booklet featuring exclusive documentary photographs from the recording process at Thelema Abbey. The disc also features a
short film shot on location at the Abbey during the recording. You can read a great review at Judas Kiss.
Trackist:
156 (25:18)
418 (15:18)
666 (21:52)
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JOURNEY TO IXTLAN
s/t CD
Genre: New Age Doom/Occult Desert Rock
Finally, the cult is revealed!
Pan pipes carry on the air as the eagle circles the mesa, your mouth full of sand and peyote mulch as the sun beats down. Riding out of the
desert like the ghosts of future past in a dune buggy powered by dreams come JOURNEY TO IXTLAN. Totally heavy, very psychedelic, and utterly sun kissed this is the sound
of New Age Doom & Occult Desert Rock.
JOURNEY TO IXTLAN are an anonymous badass rock band of desert dwellers, in some cases living outside the law at the very margins of society, who converge infrequently to
render their physical surroundings in psychotropic sound. Their heavy sound owes as much to Doom Metal as it does to Psychedelia, as much to Now as it does to Then, as
guitar, bass, drums, keys and vocal chants intertwine like shamanic smoke. To listen to JOURNEY TO IXTLAN is to participate in a ritual out of time, to tread the path of
Don Juan, to lay on the mesa as a 'man of power' and be touched by the sun at the heart of the cosmic stage.
Truly a very special album, and we here at Aurora Borealis are proud to present it as beautiful matte finish mini gatefold, with printed inner spine.
Also available for purchase as a download in MP3 or FLAC formats from Boomkat.
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BLOOD OF THE BLACK OWL
'A Feral Spirit' 180g double LP
Deluxe 180g double LP, with A2 poster, edition of 1000. ABX026.
Initial quantities come with a ritually blessed Elk hide patch.
Chet W. Scott - all instruments, chants and incantations.
Aurora Borealis proudly presents BLOOD OF THE BLACK OWL 'A Feral Spirit'. Following on from the debut self-titled album on Bindrune Records in 2006,
a primitive fusion of slow tempo Earth Metal & Woodland Ritualistic Doom, an ode to the more destructive and primal elements found in not only nature,
but in Black Metal and trance inducing Funeral Doom as well, 'A Feral Spirit' takes the journey further into the heart of the forest. Combining Native American
shamanic influence and the Germanic nature worship of his own heritage with an entirely transcendent musical vision, BLOOD OF THE BLACK OWL gives praise to the
spirits of nature and the unspoken bonds that tie man, beast and environment. With elements of Doom Metal, ambient, ritual and native musics in evidence throughout
the album, BLOOD OF THE BLACK OWL involve the listener in a timeless and spiritually expansive journey of discovery, evaluation and reflection over the course of the
album's 71 minutes. "A personal cleansing woven through audible passages of earthbound ritualistic transcendence"...
With its rigid stand against modernity and monotheism, 'A Feral Spirit' is a clarion call for the rebirth of the human animal spirit and a return to the ancestral
forests of our past. BLOOD OF THE BLACK OWL shall lead them...
Proudly presented by Aurora Borealis as a deluxe 180g double LP in a satin matte finish gatefold, with poster. Ships in poly bag with LPs outside of sleeve so as to avoid seam splits.
Strongly limited initial quantities came with hand made Elk hide patch, cut, branded and ritually blessed with sage smoke by Chet himself.
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BEN NASH
'the seventh goodbye' CD
Ben Nash - All vocals,instruments, percussion, recording and production.
Listening to BEN NASH's debut full-length "The Seventh Goodbye", its hard to remember that this is indeed his first full album, here and now, in 2008. Nash's music has the assurance and character of a musician far beyond his 23 years, let alone the sheer multi-disciplinary skill, and yet its largely warm and welcoming, and with an entirely timeless character all its own.
Ben Nash first came to AB's attention having picked up a self-released cassette from the Sheffield based distro and label Blackest Rainbow (who have pressed a ltd vinyl version of this release). It was immediately apparent that this was something very special and we pretty quickly offered to work with Ben on a future release. After several more tapes and CDrs, both self-released and on various micro-labels, growing in scope and ambition with every release, and a series of strange geographical and linguistic synchronicities, Ben finally got in touch about a full-length release.
So here it is: "The Seventh Goodbye". Clocking in at 34 minutes, its not an overly long album, but rather one that demands repeated listenings, a collage of so many layers, patterns and textures so as to be as dazzling as the plummage of the finest peacock in paradise. Musical elements as diverse as folk, raga, Eastern percussion, drone, prog and noise collide and coalesce as the album unfolds, with each of the eight tracks providing new twists and turns, with never an element out of place.
The slow beginning of opener 'KUAD 9873' is a drone and vocal drenched movie score, chiming Western guitars building and dissolving in the sun before we move into the more unforgiving nocturnal territory of 'Night Call'; wind instruments trade cries with guitar scree, whispers and piano. Title track 'The Seventh Goodbye' is largely guitar based, with multiple tracks, rolling percussion, layered vocals and saxophone. That this should all be the work of one man is quite astounding, and its clear that comparisons with BEN CHASNY and VOICE OF THE SEVEN WOODS are more than mere flattery. 'Resolution' plays counter point to the drama of the previous track, a relatively short piece of solo guitar, psychologically much lighter.
'Smoke and Flattery' is largely percussive, with a variety of singing bowls, shakers, gongs and cymbals, before a vocal drone, handclaps and a simple bassline come in. Its perhaps the most Krautrock moment on the album, reminiscent of POPOL VUH, before the rhythms and melody dissipate into the ether as the track segues into 'Magnetophone 8 PtII', a slow building and intense piece with a fantastic distorted guitar climax boiling over into a wash of reverb drone. 'What will always be PtII' is the most beautiful track on the album, worthy of JACK ROSE or any other of the current cream of the solo guitar raga worshippers. No sooner have we grown accustomed to the beauty and light however, we find ourselves in the company of 'Angel #7', alone in the woods, the cries of the night creatures piercing the ringing in our ears. Its a strange journey indeed, full of many conflicting emotions, but one that you will instinctively take again and again. May it never end.
"a real beauty. Throughout there is mostly Ben's acoustic guitar picking - elegiac ragas similar to James Blackshaw. Side 2 opens with the meditative "Smoke & Flattery" - singing bowls, grizzled oms and incense-wreathed atmosphere. The rest of the side continues in cosmically dazed fashion with the next track sounding like Led Zep's more enchanted and folkier moments on the falling into the bliss of sleep. Highly recommended." - BOA MELODY BAR
CD in two colour letterpress printed card packaging with spine in poly bag.
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BURIAL HEX
'Initiations' CD
Clay Ruby. (feedback, voice, PAIA 4700, samples, microphones, homemade oscillators, metal, organs, earth, distortion, delay, insect, reverb, electric piano and analog tape)
Burial Hex first made itself known to Aurora Borealis a few years ago when browsing obscure blackened electronic treats online. The subsequent purchase delivered a rather bizarre cassette tape, totally without markings, and a cryptic, darkly printed simple cover bearing ancient symbols and occult schematics: "Curses of the Earth" indeed. It conjured all sorts of imaginings - nocturnal rites, lonely vigils with archaic analogue equipment, moonlight, madness...
In 2007 Aurora Borealis found itself face to face with Burial Hex across the strings of the ether, in communication via email, almost wholly by accident and coincidence. Taking this to be a sign, perhaps the hand of destiny, a deal was secured to release something. More instinct than reaction, no one knew what to expect. The "oppressive necro electronics" of the recordings heard so far gave little idea of what lay in store, of the new depths to be explored, the madness to be embraced.
"Initiations", the debut recording for Aurora Borealis, is a lengthy proposition. Clocking in at one hour, thirteen minutes, it represents a journey, a metaphysical odyssey of uncertain outcome. From the psycho-religious clamour of 'Will to the chapel' with its jihadic cries, through to the somnambulant, subterranean oscillations of 'Eight pentacles', the way ahead is far from clear, the atmosphere claustrophobic and threatening.
'The river of Los' showcases a new breadth of vision for Burial Hex with layers of undulating analogue synth and gentle percussion, an opiate addled take on the horror electronics hinted at previously, and perhaps an indication of things to come. This long track takes the listener on a river journey, part Apocalypse Now!, part Orpheus in the Underworld, submerged in Carpenter's dense Fog, slow moving discomfort and ague. The album ends with the half speed collisions, static miasma and white noise squawl of 'Bo -II- Ne', the listener deposited on shores unknown, prostrate at the feet of the infinite mystery.
Burial Hex has surpassed all expectation with "Initiations": Kneel, o ye acolytes, before an astral-industrial opus of vast depth and occult magnitude.
"See that door marked 'Exit'? No, of course you don't Š there's no escaping here." - Heathen Harvest.
CD JEWEL CASE VERSION.
Also available for purchase as a download in MP3 or FLAC formats from Boomkat.
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BURIAL HEX
'Initiations' 2LP
Clay Ruby. (feedback, voice, PAIA 4700, samples, microphones, homemade oscillators, metal, organs, earth, distortion, delay, insect, reverb, electric piano and analog tape)
Double LP, 180g black vinyl housed in black card disco bags with a wrap around silk screen sleeve. Variation on the CD cover art, hand screenprinted in black ink. Two inserts. In poly bag.
Also available for purchase as a download in MP3 or FLAC formats from Boomkat.
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DEAD RAVEN CHOIR
"My Firstborn Will Surely Be Blind" CD
Recorded in Poland on cheap and archaic Soviet Bloc technology,"My Firstborn Will Surely Be Blind" sees DEAD RAVEN CHOIR
in full throttle audio assault with total disregard for all conventions of audio fidelity, with great songs of the 20th
Century by artists diverse as Townes Van Zandt, Richard Thompson and Cole Porter torn limb from limb and dragged through
Smolken's forest home. Curiously upbeat in parts, though with harrowing and bizarre artwork.
"A ghostly fog. A hollow sonic death rattle: Doom with pneumonia" - THE WIRE
"A fusion of folk and country song templates and trebly, bass-deprived black metal sounds... Triumphant" - Boomkat
- Click here to read more about this incredible album.
CD in deluxe matte laminate digi pack with 8pp booklet.
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THE STarGAZER'S ASSISTANT
"The Other Side of the Island" CD
"We find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end"
- James Hutton, Theory of the Earth, 1795
Deep underground, life moves slowly. Once teeming life, the great swamps of the
Carboniferous era were buried under the weight of 300
million years, eventually returning to the surface as coal. In
this new form they would be consumed in fires and furnaces
for three thousand years before blackening the lungs of
Empire and driving the Industrial Revolution. It was then
that James Hutton, the first geologist, began to consider the
depths beneath our feet and the unimaginable abyss of time
that they represent. This is the world of The Stargazer's
Assistant. This is the forge of the Earth. This is deep time.
'The Other Side Of The Island' is the soundtrack to the
sculptural works of David J Smith. In addition to his percussion
duties with Guapo, Smith has spent the last two years
bringing his visions to life; life that emerged slowly,
painstakingly, out of wax, coal, copper and lead. In much the
same way, the soundtrack itself slowly writhes organically
before the listener: the groan of the motherlode, the shifting
of tectonic plates, the song of the Earth's crust.
In collaboration with longstanding musical cohort Daniel
O'Sullivan (Guapo,Miasma & The
Carousel Of Dead Horses) and audio engineer Antti
Uusumaki (Mothlite), Smith has created a strange work comprising of
layered vocals, percussion, electronics and prepared strings.
The Stargazer's Assistant offer up the soundtrack of eternal, elemental labour.
1. The Other Side of the Island pt 1 (22:09)
2. The Transport (2:50)
3. The Other Side of the Island pt 2 (13:02)
CD in jewel case with metallic print.
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Silvester Anfang
"Kosmies Slachtafval" CD
Silvester Anfang hail from Flanders, channeling an ancient spirit of blasphemous anarchy, transposing the nameless fiends of yore as free-flowing ritual psych occultic Flemish rock. Kosmies Slachtafval (trans. "kosmic slaughterhouse sweepings/debris") sees Silvester Anfang in dark, post-krautrock, heavy jam mode: guitars, bass, keys, flute and percussion combine with vocals to create a doomy funeral psych rich in the textures of ritual and worship.
Through a series of cassette tapes and CD-r's released in micro editions, the arcane Belgians have garnered a fearsome and mysterious reputation for dark intense musical outpouring and idolatry. We are very proud to foist their first ever full length compact disc release onto an unsuspecting public.
Tracklisting:
01. Mijn Vader Was Een Wolf En Mijn Moeder Was Een Hoer.
02. Konfituur Voor De Satanjeugd.
Total Running Time: 45:00 mins
Deluxe digipack with 12pp poster booklet.
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TENHORNEDBEAST/MARZURAAN
split CD
Aurora Borealis is proud to present this split CD by two of the lesser known greats from the Northeast of England. TENHORNEDBEAST is the dark vision of Christopher Walton, part of the much feted ENDVRA, masters of 90s dark and occult ambient.
'Law of the needle', clocking in at over 28 minutes, is an oppressive opus of doomed drone, both monolithic and multifaceted. Pure power. "elongated, sinister drone, ...distant, echoing string resonance from bowed guitars and cold, steely walls of distortion"
think the good folks at Boomkat, as well they may. Check out his other releases on Cold Spring.
MARZURAAN contribute 'Into countless battles', 13 minutes of narcotic guitar haze. Described by some as 'psychedelic/noise', MARZURAAN features Lee Stokoe of the excellent CULVER (also SKULLFLOWER, INSEMINOID and others...).
I think this is my favourite of anything they have done to date. So good, you never want it to end.
The gruff metal grunts of the 'Solid Wood' LP have been replaced by a subdued, almost crushed vocal, totally stands out. "acres of textured guitar, low end pressure and brooding drums" say Boomnkat.
Can't wait to hear more from MARZURAAN - this is epic, like a bassier, looser, Mogadon-dosed JESU with a man past caring roped in to give his thoughts on where its all gone wrong.
Pete from MARZURAAN created the artwork and layout. Double sided print on heavy textured card with two diecut runic symbols. Comes in a pvc bag. This is an absolute dark gem.
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MOSS
"Cthonic Rites" CD
Second pressing of the debut full length album by MOSS. Two tracks, 66:06 minutes of brooding ultra doom on a cosmic scale.
Huge slabs of distortion warp the listener like gamma rays, leaving a twisted parody of a human in their wake, as one touched by the unholy tentacles
of the Elder Gods who dwell beyond time and all comprehension.
Revised and expanded artwork, now featuring a written piece by Seldon Hunt.
- Click here to listen to a short clip of "Crypts of Somnambulance".
- Click here to listen to a short clip of "The Gate".
CD in jewel case.
ABX008
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MOSS
A1 poster
Genre: disturbed drawings/paper
I have some of the posters from the double LP of 'Cthonic Rites' for sale. Enormous A1 size, (594 x 841mm, 23.4 x 33.1 inches), on heavy, high quality paper, factory folded.
Justin Bartlett, 'killustrator' extraordinaire, did an incredible job for this poster, excellently portraying the
full horror of this 'musick'. Ships flat, factory folded, in card mailer.
£2.00 POSTPAID WITH ANY OTHER ITEM
or
£4.99 postpaid if purchased on its own.
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WOLFMANGLER
"Dwelling In A Dead Raven For The Glory Of Crucified Wolves" 2LP
FINALLY.... The vinyl version of the critically acclaimed WOLFMANGLER meisterwerk, presented here in an ultra deluxe double LP version.
Heavyweight gatefold in a poly bag with black and metallic silver cover sticker. New artwork graces the inside gatefold, a literal interpretation
of the album title: a grim forest filled with crucified wolves and dead ravens by art genius French (Blackest Rainbow, Heroin skateboards, etc).
The vinyl itself is presented as a double LP, with side D containing two previously unreleased tracks, 'King Guthrum' and 'Herbst'. Essentially its something of a blend of transparent green and solid brown and not necessarily recommended for military or sport
hunting usage. As if this were not enough, the set is completed with two posters printed on newsprint-style recycled paper. One features the cover artwork by Alexander Tucker,
the other depicting the gatefold artwork by French. Quite a package, attempting to do justice to the monumental sounds etched in the vinyl.
"Doom fans should start getting giddy now - Wolfmangler is the forest-dwelling pseudonym of a certain Smolken,
the Polish political ˇmigrˇ probably best known for his work under the Dead Raven Choir moniker. Sometimes connected to the mysterious
Jewelled Antler Collective, Smolken spends his time flitting between peculiar full-moon avant-folk and God-bothering black metal evilness
to devastating effect. However, Wolfmangler sees both leanings combined - we have the sentiment of black metal embedded in a thick mire of
droning forest sound, which some describe as 'death folk'. The result is utterly captivating and sounds unlike anything else you have
probably ever heard, with distorted double-bass drones, pagan percussion and fairytale flutes bubbling beneath Smolken's strangled groans.
Imagine if Deaf Center were making black metal and had some help from Fonal records' folky beauty Islaja and you might be able to get an
inkling of what Wolfmangler are going for... but you'll probably have to be sacrificing a lamb at midnight on midsummer's eve to really
achieve the 'feeling'. This is demonical sound, and in its lack of the usual extremity you might expect from Mayhem, Burzum, Darkthrone
and other such Northern European evil folks it becomes even more frightening. This is the sound of your darkest nightmares, and as we
all know - darkness is more beautiful than most people give it credit. Don't be afraid, or you'll be missing one of the grimmest treats of
the year!" - BOOMKAT
Read more reviews of this bizarre record here.
NOTE: COLOURED VINYL SOLD OUT. YOU WILL BE SHIPPED THE BLACK VINYL VERSION.
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WOLFMANGLER
'Dwelling in a Dead Raven for the Glory of Crucified Wolves' CD
Smolken of DEAD RAVEN CHOIR returns with 6 forest dirges. Perhaps even more lumbering and grim than the acclaimed split with MOSS?
'Dwelling in a Dead Raven for the Glory of Crucified Wolves' "follows the chamber doom quartet lineage of their previous
releases, the bass/bass/double bass here being augmented by what
sounds like a flute and maybe a French horn. And a big drum. The drum
and flute give songs...an almost Korean court music
feel, but the French horn pulls the soupy bass throb closer to Noggin
The Nog territory. There's also a kind of Ray Harryhausen feel,
something reminescent of the awakening of a plasticine dragon or the
approach of clunkily animated skeletons holding swords, maybe one
skelly has one of those spiky ball and chain thingies. If you could
sonically render the effect of heavy rags being hypnotically stirred
into a cauldron of molten pitch with a severed antler this is the
sound you would get. " - PLAN B magazine.
Read more reviews of this bizarre record here.
Cover art by ALEXANDER TUCKER.
ABX012
6 tracks, 51 minutes 12 seconds. Jewel case CD
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VILLAINS
"Drenched in the Poisons" CD
Epic filth and metallic depravity from New York City. Their debut full length, "Drenched In The Poisons" conjures up the danger and proud unholy spirit of early metal and acid
punk. A vomitous fornication unto the whiskey whores and foul souls passing out in the dark. These eight aural lashes
come at the listener criminally intoxicated and definitely not nice.
Dirty metallic onslaught highly recommended for fans of early Bathory, early Venom, Abigail, Barbatos... You get the idea. Hammer of the posers. Fucking great album.
"This album smells like a beermat" - Stewart Voegtlin, Oaken Throne.
CD digipack with art by the band.
ABX015
Check them out at the Nuclear War Now! festival in Berlin this winter.
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KNIVES OV RESISTANCE
"Prisca Sapientia" CD
"An end-times opus, inspired by John Dee and Karlheinz
Stockhausen and their quests to find the hidden truths
of the universe, through schismatic means. Knives ov
Resistance entreat the choruses of Enochian angels -
to the human ear, this resembles Popol Vuh's scores
for Werner Herzog, or a more restrained Godspeed You Black Emperor"
Excellent CD debut from this collective. Found sound, samples, orchestration and guitars ebb and flow across three long tracks.
An aural journey of 35 minutes.
"This pan-European group of tape manipulators and guitar explorers have delivered something peculiarly beautiful to Aurora Borealis, an industrial folk album that harks back to the playful, pastoral era of Cosmic Couriers as well as the more recent Jewelled Antler Collective discography.
Opener 'Rosicrucian' swells with spiral-picked melodies and thin electronic tides, evoking the serene cosmic folk of Witthuser and Westrupp. Elsewhere, the synth pulses and samples of 'Sovnig' shimmer amid the heat-haze of interlocked guitar mantras, grazing and unhurried.
Knives Ov Resistance's gentle methods are more akin to long-lost troubadours such as Tom Rapp than Boards Of Canada; the mournful closing track 'Outremer' roars with operatic vocal cries and radio dispatches, the tendril-guitars diffused and murmuring. A precious and elegant debut." - Rocka-A-Rolla
CD in double-sided craft paper poster bag in a PVC wallet.
ABX015
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AURORA BOREALIS
logo T-Shirt
AB logo, masterfully illustrated by Jo Ratcliffe. White logo on a black heavy cotton shirt. Gildan brand, heavy cotton shirts. BLACK RESTOCKED.
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