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DISTRIBUTED ITEMS: vinyl, CD (A-M), CD (N-Z), clothing, other items.
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NADja
'Desire In Uneasiness' CD
Genre: ethereal dream dirge
Following a wave of recent reissues and re-recorded versions of older CD-R titles, 'Desire In Uneasiness' is an album of all new material from
the acclaimed Canadian dreamsludge weavers Nadja. Five colossal jams of eternally-fuzzy, ethereal dirge that are powered by the interlocking bass
guitars of Leah Buckareff and Aidan Baker, who set loose a wave of monstrous grinding bass riffs amidst a fog of beautiful, swirling electronic
effects. Desire also marks the first Nadja album to feature a live drummer in place of the drum machine programming that has driven the band's
previous recordings, and the difference in the band's sound is apparent from the first crushing beats of album opener 'Disambiguation'. The organic
drumming here takes Nadja's music into new realms of spacious jazzy exploration, dubby rhythms and cavernous psychedelia, while also delivering some
of the band's most grooving, crushing hypno-bliss yet.
Desire also stands out from the rest of the Nadja catalog for it's bizarre artwork that Aidan commisioned from his friend The Reverend Aitor. Aitor's
bright, bold lines and textured magic marker artwork gives the gatefold jacket we've presented this disc in the look of a twisted children's book on
acid, with weird images of chickens, trees growing through chairs, and more. The package is a sturdy 4-panel gatefold jacket printed by Stoughton,
and it looks killer.
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BEN NASH
"The Seventh Goodbye Pt. II" CDR
Three extra tracks from Ben, recorded at the same time as the debut album "The Seventh Goodbye" - see elsewhere on this page to pick that up if you don't have it already, its a stunning piece of work.
Mandatory drone/folk/psych/cinematic/rock whatever! Great stuff.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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NEKRASOV
'Into The No-Mans-Sphere Of The Ancient Days' CD
Genre: black metal/dark ambient
Self-released debut album from this Australian atmospheric Black Metal / Noise / Dark Ambient act. "From the surreal, nightmare-evoking textures that speak to the
most ancient and basic part of our beings - that which understands without attaching judgment - to the unabashedly raw renditions of suffering brought on by the purposefully
unintelligible, wretched vocals and the seething guitar-work, the listener may draw parallels but will surely find no equal to what is found here. All assumptions you might make
as to the musical influences that may or may not have imprinted themselves upon this record may just as well be wrong. So simply listen and let the music wash over you".
Ltd x 500 copies in a digifile.
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NEKRASOV
'The Form Of Thought From Beast' CD
Genre: black metal/dark ambient
Second self-released opus from this Australian act. Raw, creepy, enigmatic black metal-meets-noise-meets-dark ambient. "Nekrasov is most definitely
a master of both the noise and the riff, and manages to fuse the two into something blackly transcendent... blown out soundscapes of samples and percussion,
blurred into a windswept buzz, what sounds like ghostlike vocals underneath processed sounds of whipping winds and the click clack of a railroad, to noise
drenched old school raw black metal crush, to slow burning deep ambience... Absolutely essential" (Aquarius). PVC sleeve.
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NORDVARGR
'Pyrrhula' CD
Genre: noise/death ambient/drone
Partly based on an old Swedish folktale, Pyrrhula ("doomlord") is a pitch black journey into utter darkness. This is a tale of foreboding doom... a portent of dark times to come...
a blight on the face of this earth. These eight Black Ambient / Doom / Droneworks were brought forth from the abyss of Villa Bohult exclusively for Cold Spring and contain
the malevolent vocals of Lord Nordvargr himself!. "Beware the small creatures of light, they only bring misery and death upon the enlightened ones. For they will paint their breast with blood
and reap your unborn angels."
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NORTT
"Galgenfrist" CD
Galgenfrist
Til gravens vi
Af dde
Kaldet
Over mit lig
Havet hinsides havet
Hjemsgt
"The elegies of Nortt tell about death and darkness viewed from the dying and from the dead. They reveal a bitter hate towards life and its divine
maker. It is pure misanthropy and blasphemy not self-pity! The darkened soil is praised as the godforsaken
heaven a heaven in hell. In order to unchain oneself from the despair of life, follow the path of death! At a funereal pace and with a sombre, chanting voice, Nortt summons the forces in the night."
Seven hymns to the night by Denmark's NORTT. The new album. Seems heavier than previous albums in some ways, but also more ambient in others. Not sure what
to make of this yet, but if you have enjoyed his previous work, you won't be disappointed. Apparently it was all recorded during the hours of darkness again, and that
is certainly apparent.
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NUIT NOIRE
'Fantomatic Plenitude' CD
The first half includes nine of the latest recordings from the French eccentric genius Tenebras! Recorded February-July 2007. Guitars sound as ethereal as
they ever did, Emile joins on vocals as on 'Infantile Espieglery'.
The second half of the CD is a live recording from June 16, 2006 - Tapette Fest. It was a great recording anyway but has been mixed and mastered for this
release! Nine tracks taken from Lunar Deflagration, Furibond Elegance EP and some older titles like Nightwind and of course Lutina!! Featuring Nicoblast on
drums.
Who'd have guessed there would be a Japanese release from NUIT NOIRE? Even has an Obi strip. The world is a strange place as anyone that hear this will agree.
The most bizarre band in France continues to bewilder. Great back cover shot featuring the emaciated Tenebras in a cape and loincloth combo.
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OCTOBER FALLS
'The Womb of Primordial Nature' digibook CD
Genre: Finnish BM
Having showcased his frightening versatility on contrasting EPs last year, Mikko Lehto returns with "The Womb Of Primordial Nature", a dynamic volume of work that bares both sides of the creators soul. Transmigrating similar meadows to OCTOBER FALLS' Debemur Morti debut "The Streams Of The End", this album is infused with the scope of nature and the suffering that accompanies every heartbeat. A celebration of life and death and the agony that inevitably marks both the bipolar expressions seamlessly blend folk sensibilities with harsh dissonance to arrive at a unique and uninhabited destination. Rich and beautiful; classical and harmonic; yet also decayed and awash with inconsolable despair. The vast vistas and lycanthropic landscapes encountered during these four epic tracks are tragic, morose and discomforting. From the tears of a newborn to the agony of one's final moments, life is a painful and pitiful struggle. Conceptually themed around the primal beast within man, "The Womb Of Primordial Nature" captures the fragility and futility of existence. Where there is life, death will follow. That which begins, must also end. We all shall fall.
Tracklisting :
1 - I 10:32
2 - II 10:21
3 - III 08:01
4 - IV 09:17
Recommended: really good, very tuneful and excellently executed. Amazing packaging too... RESTOCK!
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old wainds
'death nord kult' CD
Genre: Russian BM
Brand new album!
"From the stark, barren permafrost tundra of Northern Russia comes a portent of impending doom: like some insatiable demonic blizzard, the fourth full-length from OLD WAINDS is upon mankind. Germinated in the lifeless land of one season, infinite sadness and endless hatred, where little else grows but pure primordial evil, this is the sound of freezing winds, glacial isolation and permanent darkness. Like icicles of hate, eight chilly odes consume all within range, harbingers of the deathly coldness that will embrace and cloak us all ultimately. Blood stains the permanently-frozen soil, producing a dark, wintry kaleidoscope of black and crimson, consuming the blinding light of a dying sun, as long shadows creep across the icy expanses and winter commences its ominous onslaught. Sparse and desolate, veiled in a shrill, gloomy mist, OLD WAINDS embody the harsh Arctic Circle hinterland that conceived them. Their furious storm of blackness acknowledges the old school but has a trademark, twilight atmosphere unique to this frostbitten horde." Debemur Morti.
This is great! Very heavy, almost an IMMORTAL feel to some of the tracks, very meta, blasting speeds, good production. Some interesting more experimental sections in some tracks: really enjoying this. Its in stark contrast to much of the other Russian stuff I've heard that seems to be way more raw.
+ 6-panel digipack w/ 20-page booklet +
+ Black polycarbonate CD +
+ Bonus video clip +
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PERSISTENCE IN MOURNING
'Breaking on the Wheel' 3" CDr
Genre: extreme doom
New mini-album by one-man-project PERSISTENCE IN MOURNING, that feels like a journey, starting with a calm, experimental track with piano, soon falls in the abyss of extreme doom, only to
return to safer shores again. A well constructed work from a very promising artist.
3 black CDr in mini-dvd case with insert, limited to 100 numbered copies. Cool package. Universal Tongue.
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James Plotkin
'Indirmek' CD
Genre: dark guitar ambience
'Indirmek' presents two distinct facets of Plotkin's musical work. The first track, 'Afyon' (opium) lies closest to Plotkin's trademark drift.
In essence, a guitar track stretched to limitless possibility. An elemental fury contained, dissected and entrusted to a NYC audience
for their consideration in the spring of 2007. 'Amfetamin' (amphetamine) is a second recording from NYC, performed in the fall of 2006.
The track is considerably more immediate. It's allure can be credited to Plotkin's use of electronics to invoke raw sound and shape it as
he sees necessary to fit a given context. The track speaks a multitude of languages in succession and simultaneously.
Limited to 500 copies, 73 minutes. Utech.
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POTOP
'Channels' CD
POTOP create seismic assaults of negative, down tempo extreme hardcore. In a world where the boundaries between hardcore punk and extreme metal have long since dissolved, POTOP straddle genres and easy labels to produce pure audio negativity, despair and ecstatic misery. Their sound combines hardcore urgency of extreme Power Violence acts such as DROP DEAD, CROSSED OUT and MAN IS THE BASTARD colliding with the slow motion brutal Doom of bands like BURNING WITCH. POTOP are fiercely DIY and have strong links with the global hardcore underground, typified by their hands-on involvement with the FUCK YOGA label.
"Channels", the band's first CD release, combines two tracks from the split 12" with the US band BURMESE and a further track from a forthcoming FUCK YOGA compilation LP with two previously unreleased dirges. POTOP are slow, blackened, ugly music.
"channels the slowest, ugliest sludge possible into narcotized dirges splattered with sickening feedback that drones on and on and on, twisted slow motion riffs, pounding glacial drums, occasionally blasting into short bursts of noisy, unstructured grind. But it's the vocals, that intense, tortured wailing and shrieking, a high pitched bloodflecked scream that oozes fear and horror and despair...it's the vocalsn that elevate Potop's extreme sludge to another level of seismic intensity, and I'd almost compare 'em to the idiosyncratic suicidal shrieks of Silencer. Think Burning Witch, Crossed Out, Eyehategod, Despise You, but more vile." - Crucial Blast
"I" (edit) sample.
Other notes: IRON PIG is proud to present "Channels" with the packaging entirely in the band's native Macedonian language, in Cyrillic characters.
The CD package will have an outer sticker with English language text.
Running time approx 30 minutes. IRON PIG records.
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PROCYON-X
'The Ghost of Orion' CD
Dark astral ambient voyages through solar infinity. Deep, all encompassing sensory projection for earthbound space travellers and cosmic explorers.
Haunting, spacial isolationism from the same universe as Klause Schulze, Neptune Towers, Biosphere etc. A most beautiful and rewarding work.
CD in DVD case with insert form the dependable Paradigms label.
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PULSEFEAR
"Perichoresis" CD
"Now serving as the alter-ego of The Axis Of Perdition (just like Tribes Of Neurot are to Neurosis), where the sounds that Pulsefear
were generating in their lair would inevitably lay the foundations down to what The Axis Of Perdition would become, Profound Lore are proud
to unleash the nightmare that was first conjured up in 2000 and continued to brood up until 2006.
Characteristically, Pulsefear and The Axis Of Perdition of course do share similar aesthetics, even though both entities purvey different
expressions in their audial interpretations of sheer utter horror. With Perichoresis, Pulsefear unveil sounds of rust and decay while
summoning a foreboding evil ready to unearth itself from the cracks of the run down walls, hallways, and desolate roads and alleyways of a
town that has become so decrepit and ghostly from the ensuing engulfing darkness that has consumed it to no end. As Perichoresis progresses
through its journey, the dormant monster that hovers throughout begins to become revealed more and more, just like the derelict, inexplicably
functioning lighthouse in the abandoned seaport reveals the town to be a little more dilapidated and horrific by each slow revolution of the beam.
Perichoresis also features stunning photography and imagery courtesy of urban photographer and explorer Melanie Rhys (www.urbandecay.org.uk) and will
most-likely appeal to fans of the glory days of the Cold Meat Industry era via such acts as RAISON DETRE, IN SLAUGHTER NATIVES etc. along with
such bands as SUNN 0))), NADJA, and LUSTMORD. "
CD in great card digi packaging, 50 plus minutes.
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Rakhim
"Crimson Umbrella" CD
Transylvanian Error" (17:45) and "Ultimate Sword" (16.34), two lengthy tracks of mesmeric, psychedelic murk. "caverns echoing with monstrous processed vokills and clattering pipe-fights" say AQ. "RAKHIM would more aptly call to mind Wolf Eyes filtered through a lengthy Faust tape jam" reply the label. Its 2 members of CIRCLE,
so add that to the mix and its all perfectly clear now, right? Recommended.
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RAVENS CREED
'Militia of Blood Sacrifice' CD
Tracklist:
1- Panzer Maniac 2:55
2- Imperial Leather 2:06
3- Exploding the Steel 3:02
4- Dead Crow Mantle 2:29
From the unholy hell pits of Nottingham, England, the mighty RAVENS CREED are unleashed upon the world.
With ex members of IRON MONKEY, CEREBRAL FIX, SKYCLAD, and GBH with ORANGE GOBLIN vocalist Ben Ward at
centre stage, RAVENS CREED are the audio equivalent of having your face smashed in with a bag of rusty
hammers. Total thrash holocaust with tunes that stick in your head like nails, the fours tracks are all
masterpieces of filthy dirty thrashing metal. Buy or die!
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Peter Rehberg
'Work for GV: 2004 - 2008' CD
Genre: noise/electronics
Peter Rehbergs collaboration with the Paris based puppeteer and choreographer, Gisle Vienne began in 2001, with the production of the DACM piece ShowroomDummies, followed by Stereotypie in 2003.
In 2004, Vienne started to direct under her own name and began to work on pieces collaborating on text with US author, Dennis Cooper. This CD is a document of selected audio parts of all Gisle Vienne
productions made between 2004 and 2008, except for the epic Kindertotenlieder, whose audio material was presented on the various KTL releases in 2006 and 2007 (eMEGO 084, eMEGO 085).
The range here is vast from the upfront noise excess of the I Apologize (2004) tracks to the lonely synth passages which were used in Une Belle Enfant Blonde (2005), and the sad coda used for
Jerk, which began as a radio play for Radio France Culture in 2007, before being adapted for stage in 2008.
The opening Murder Version is a version of the recording Meurtre by Catherine Robbe-Grillet & Jonathan Capdevielle, which was released as a single sided 12 vinyl in 2005 (UBEB 001), and
is to be considered as a tribute to the Alain Robbe-Grillet film Glissements progressifs du plaisir (1974).
Although this material was intended for consumption in a theatrical setting, it has been edited with domestic use in mind ultimately representing that the grey zone where puppetry,
literature, contemporary theatre & dance, visual art, and extreme computer music meet.
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Religious Knives
"Live at bigjar" CD
Wow! This is not at all what I expected. I only had 'Remains' before I got these, this is way different. More fun than the other stuff, really good.
"A four track live disc recorded in August of 07 by myself. While Religious Knives represent half
the former output of Double Leopards the output from this quartet is anything but. Raw and dirty garage rock for keyboards,
bass, guitar and drums that sounds more comfortable being off the Doors early demo days box set rather then a nofun offshoot band.
Comes in a half panel sleeve graphic work by now frequent archive art collaborator Chase Middaugh. Pressing of 600 copies" - Archive.
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Residual Echoes
"MFI-GBSP" CD
Residual Echoes, the brain child of Adam Payne, pave a psych-sound unique to themselves. Recorded late 2005, this LP, exclusive to Rocket Recordings, features four long excursions into psychedelia that brings to mind the
experimentation of early Pink Floyd, the guitar heroics of Youre Living All Over Me era Dinosaur Jr and the sonic groove of the Velvet Underground.
Residual Echoes first self released album featured Adam and the inspirational forces of Ben Chasney (Six Organs of Admittance) and Ethan Miler (Comets on Fire) and the subsequent LP created enough of a stir on the underground to gain them the prestigious Album Of The Month from none other than Julian Cope on his Head Heritage website. Since then they have had their debut album, now highly sought after in its original vinyl format, re-released by Holy Mountain who also put out their highly acclaimed secondalbum which saw their sound reach new levels of psyche noise.
"Like eavesdropping the most lysergically inspired hippie commune jam" Mojo
Unearthed a few of these. Great stuff. If you like stuff like SILVESTER ANFANG and BEN NASH and such, you'll probably dig this. 'nice price'!
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R.Y.N.
"Astral Death" CD
"RYN is the project of Pete Burn (MARZURAAN) and Dean Glaister (ROMANCE). With one 7" on Drone Records to their name this is their first full
length. Six long tracks of slowly shifting massive drones created with guitar, bass, metal and effects. Cosmic drift as supenovas explode, dark matter envelops and your psyche slowly dissolves. Total Astral Death!
Great album, excellent work. Fans of early hour comedowns and cosmic levels of despair, self-regard and narcosis will be more than happy.
"A menacing yet strangely uplifting drone album, simply yet beautifully constructed." - Heathen Harvest.
"RYN are the bleakest and most cold of ambient projects. The pieces contained on Astral Death are more akin to the voids that have been caused by the absence of sound than its positive presence. Soft crackling grey
spaces rotate, divide and multiply revealing concentric storms of slow falling snow falling feedback and static. Twice projected into the ancient past and the ancient future
the listener is lost, abandoned in a neither/neither world with no signs to guide the way, no stars to navigate the ship. Stripped of bearing until meaning has no meaning and
disorientated until there is only the pulse of shimmering samsaric spirals of non-being/being the listener must submit to be lead through these places by the psychopomp of astral death." -
Christopher Walton. Recommended!
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SADASTOR
'Herald of Confusion' Cdr
Genre:black metal/experimental
"A hallucinatory journey into blood, spirit, nature, the runes and the god Pan. Released March 1998 it also represents a staggering, landmark predecessor to many currents
in todays extreme metal. Absolutely essential for those who walk the path less traveled" Set Sothis Nox La (LAcephale)
Remarkable recordings that were truly ahead of their time. The influence on L'ACEPHALE is clear, but its hard to listen to the first track and not instantlt think of ALCEST and the modern slew of bands
who are using this sound, a mixture of the ethereal melodies and instrumentation of bands such as DEAD CAN DANCE and black metal ryhthms, riff structures and vocals. Very interesting lyrically also.
Another fine Faunsabbatha release. Large format (135mm x 210mm) 8 page booklet, string bound, black Cdr. Limited to 93. Highly recommended.
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ALEX SANDERS
'A Witch Is Born' CD
Genre:spoken word/ritual
Alex Sanders (1926-1988) - "the King of the Witches" - was the most powerful witch in Britain. "Here, for the first time, he presents a full recording of the solemn initiation of
a new member into the ancient Craft. Assisting him is his wife and High Priestess, Maxine, and a coven of their young witches. Alex himself is a hereditary witch; he was initiated
by his grandmother when he was seven years old. For centuries the Craft was driven underground by persecution and intolerance. Today, though their innermost secrets may still be
only told to witches, they can open a few pages of their Book of Shadows - and for those who seek to know more of this faith that is older than history, they can set up signposts
to the way of Wicca, or wisdom. This record is such a signpost."
Re-issue of the sought after 1971 LP edition.
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SANGRE CAVALLUM
"Veleno de Teixo" CD
"The northern Portuguese Sangre Cavallum return with a new and outstanding folk album. It is titled Veleno de Teixo (meaning Yew Poison) and it is a collection of tributes to women and to the cult of mother-goddess in pre-Christian era.
"Veleno de Teixo" contains a brand-new set of 16 powerful songs between pagan folk and power-psych atmospheres. Inspired by the music and ethnography of their homeland Callaecia/northern
Portugal. It is laboriously produced, capturing the revolutionary minds of these musicians. Among many traditional instruments they play the hurdy-gurdy, bagpipes, flutes, folkloric guitars, war-drums and many times these acoustic instruments
are transformed with heavy distortions and meet the psychedelic bass and vintage guitars. It also features the new singer Emanuel Melo da Cunha on a fine debut. "Veleno de Teixo" is a step forward in their wonderful path and a pleasing example
of how tradition is a living thing when folklore meets folk rock or dark industrial music. Includes great artwork and a 16 page booklet with psych-photo art and beautiful texts. 63 min. / 16 tracks
" - Steinklang.
Another great album on Ahnstern, fast becoming almost a modern Folkways in their documentation of the rich and varied strands of pan-European avant garde music. Truly unique.
CD in 6-side digipack with 16-page booklet / Ahnstern
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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satori
'Contemptus Mundi' CD
Genre: noise/electronics/dark ambient
Brand new CD from UK Dark Ambient / Fortean Electronics act Satori - Neil Chaney (Pessary) and Justin Mitchell (Cold Spring boss). This is a collaboration between Satori
and Magus Peter H Gilmore, High Priest of the Church Of Satan. Satori provide their trademark deep, underground, pounding electronics, here with a ritualistic dark soundtrack atmosphere,
while Gilmore bestows a seething tirade against the weakness of the modern world! Two 20+ minute tracks, the 2nd being a deeper, instrumental mix of the title track.
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SERPENTCULT
"Trident Nor Fire" MCD
Thee Plague Of Gentlemen is dead. Serpentcult lives. Heavy, downtuned and pummeling with air raid siren vocals courtesy of Michelle this four tracker will run you over!
SERPENTCULT formed in 2006 out of the ashes of THEE PLAGUE OF GENTLEMEN, Belgiums heaviest band ever, and consists of Frederic Caure - Guitar, Steven Van Cauwenbergh Bass, Frederik Cosemans Drums and Michelle Colon Vocals. Heavy, down tuned and pummelling, the parallels to TPOG are clear, but the air raid siren vocals courtesy of Michelle and their slightly more mid-tempo approach sets SERPENTCULT apart from TPOG as well as from the rest of the Doom/Sludge scene.
Trident nor fire was recorded early 2007 at CCR studios (LENG TCH'E, ATARAXIE, TPOG) and has an amazing, full, bottom heavy sound that really adds to the immense impact of the songs. As a closer, the band choose to cover Rainbow demon by URIAH HEEP, in full awareness of that it has been done by several bands before them, still no previous take on this classic tune has been this god damn heavy! Prepare to be crushed!
MCD in jewel case.
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shining
'III: Angst' A5 digi CD
Genre: suicidal Black Metal
This is the fancy reissue of this classic Swedish bleak and miserable Black Metal masterpiece courtesy of Italian label Avantgarde. Another
slice of miserablism from Kvarforth and team as they push you over the edge and you wonder what its all about, why you bother, why you keep trying...
Best to submit to the mid-pace misery and fade away as your blood fills the bath tub. You get the idea.
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shining
'IV: The Eerie Cold' A5 digi CD
Genre: suicidal Black Metal
Despite calling it a day after the previous album, the self-slashing Swedes came back for more: suicide, depression, nihilism, you can't keep a good band down, and
this album turns down the temperature several notches. An ideal soundtrack to freezing to death, trapped in the wreckage of your car on an icy road in the frozen wilderness.
This is the fancy reissue of this classic Swedish bleak and miserable Black Metal masterpiece courtesy of Italian label Avantgarde.
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SILBERNACHT
'Liebe und Verfall: Die Hoffnun stirbt, die Liebe nicht' CD
"This one has been in the planning stages for a couple of years. Imagine a gloomy, old silent film. Imagine the soundtrack for that film. This CD would be the music you would hear.
Germany couldn't be a more appropriate home for SILBERNACHT, project of one Frank Esser, for this musical score seems to fit in perfectly with an era of film that is legendary the world over thanks to the genius of many a German filmmaker.
The release is on a 4-panel chipboard stock, with hand printed panels, is set up to look like the work received from Herr Esser over the years." - Ajna
Tracklisting:
1. Das Erwachen (The Awakening)
2. Liebe und Verfall (Love and Decay)
3. Unter den Sternen (Under the Stars)
4. Wenn der Tod nur Sehnsucht weckt (When Death only creates Longing)
This really is very good indeed and very unusual. Lots of reviews have mentioned various films that this brings to mind, but to my mind its "Carnival of Souls". This release is adrift in time, another great release from the ever
amazing Ajna.
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Sitaar-tah!
"Semimimimimin" CD
Beautiful shimmering textures with sitaar riffs, some unlike any sitaar I've heard before, others more
traditional. Shifting oscilations (laptop?) like Fennesz or other electronica of that ilk, gentle percussion. Almost throat
singing, some banjo-like playing.
"A 43min single track studio recording from the Tokyo based Sitar Orchestra that provided the amazing musical backdrop for Keiji Haino
on the double disc archive release Animamima. The 22 piece unit is back with this swarm of locust gem
of a release. Graphic and design work on the release by Stephen OMalley features an outer cover that
is a four color silkscreen, beautifully executed by Alan Sherry of Siwa records. Inside is a gorgeous
photographic collage. Pressing of 700 copies" - Archive.
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SKULLFLOWER
'Desire for a Holy War' CD
Desire for a Holy War is mayhem piled on top of mayhem piled on top of
squalls of caustic feedback. Furies spitting oaths of shrouded vengeance
from ancient tongues. Plague riders dealing death on mounts of venomous
ether, hooves pounding the wild earth. Matthew Bower may have reached a
watershed with last year's Abyssic Lowland Hiss (Heavy Blossom) but it is
with Desire that he has come to conquer. Never has Skullflower sounded so
severe or remorseless.
Edition of 750, art by Stephen Kasner.
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SKULLFLOWER
'IIIrd gatekeeper' CD
Genre: noise rock
A reissue of Skullflower's acclaimed 1992 album IIIrd Gatekeeper, featuring the lineup of Matthew Bower (guitar), Stuart Dennison (drums and vocals), and
Anthony DiFranco (bass). IIIrd Gatekeeper is an immensely heavy album that was originally released on HeadDirt, the label run by Justin Broadrick of Godflesh/Jesu/Final
fame back in the early 90's, and featured Skullflower at their heaviest, grinding out slow, sludgy riffs and crushing, almost industrial rhythms amid a tempest of psychedelic
guitar noise and dense sheets of feedback - easily the most crushing, rock-based music that Skullflower ever produced. IIIrd Gatekeeper served up a skulldozing dose of
post-industrial dirge rock that sat comfortably next to Godflesh, Swans, and Ramleh in terms of dark, druggy, hypnotic lumbering heaviness. This is one of our favorite
albums ever at Crucial Blast, and we are presenting this reissue with new liner notes, a new package design that retains all of the original artwork from the HeadDirt
release, and a remastering job courtesy of Scott Hull at Visceral Sound.
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SOL INVICTUS
'Lex:Talionis' CD
Genre: neofolk
Russian edition of the stunning album from the legendary UK dark folk act Sol Invictus. This album - originally issued on Tursa in 1993 - introduced the world to the
true force of the band. Tony Wakeford was aided by such legendary musicians as Ian Read (Fire + Ice), Karl Blake (Lemon Kittens, Shock Headed Peters), Leithana (Ordo Equitum Solis),
Ingrid Fischer, and Richard "Dik" Evans (ex-Virgin Prunes). Contains an exclusive bonus track of 'Black Easter (Live)'. Presented in a digipak with 8-page booklet containing the song
lyrics (not published at the first edition). Ltd x 1001 copies. Exclusively distributed in the UK by Cold Spring!
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SORC'HENN
'Faro: Death Of The Island Sheeps'CDr
Genre: dream drone
"I've been haunted by the beautifully dark loopscapes of French artist Sorc'henn dating back to first hearing the band on their 'Harmonium pieces & dead reveries' disc released by Faunasabbatha, so we were immensely stoked when Sorc'henn was interested in releasing some more of their music through Crucial Bliss. This new full length features four tracks of Sorc'henn's murky, dreamy drones that stretch out over a misty, grey-washed landscape much like the one pictured on the exterior of Faro's foldout sleeve, a lightless wetland that fades way into the distance, obfuscated by a thick veil of shadow, and the fourth track is additionally notable for being a collaboration between Sorc'henn and members of Portland black metallers L'Acephale and Virginia deathdrone outfit One Lifeless Eye..." - Crucial Blast
Another intriguing release from Sorc'henn, and its as enigmatic as ever. Recommended.
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SOULSEARCH
'Liedersammlung' CD
"classic Pagan-Doom Folkmetal with strong and heroic german lyrics and many medieval elements. Soulsearch started in the early 90s to create their
own, unique style, which would today be called Folkmetal, but at that time Soulsearch were alone in the fields. 10 years later, Folkmetal
(or Metalfolk) as we know it nowadays, began to establish as a own music style. All songs on this album were recorded between 1993 and 2000.
The CD includes the final Soulsearch release: the 10" IHERNO from 2000, which was limited to only 100 copies. The other songs are a fine
selection from their early albums (each album has sold 3000 to 5000 copies in the 90s!) + one unreleased track. After they split in 2001,
two ex-Soulsearch members joined again in 2005 and founded together with a third musician OUR SURVIVAL DEPENDS ON US, a more NEUROSIS-orientated
formation. Another ex-Soulsearch member (Haju) is one of the basic-members of STURMPERCHT."
digipack CD / Ahnstern
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SOUVENIR'S YOUNG AMERICA
'AN OCEAN WITHOUT WATER' CD
Genre: neo-psych melodic out-rock
Richmond, VA's cinematic instrumentalists SOUVENIR'S YOUNG AMERICA present their second full length, "An Ocean Without Water". The album was recorded with John Morand (Labradford, Sparklehorse, 4 Walls Falling) at Sound of Music.
Lush, shimmering guitar ambience and hypnotic, propulsive instrumental heaviness wind through the dusty highways and burnt twilight skies of "An Ocean Without Water,"
the sophomore album from Richmond's Souvenir's Young America. Divided into six flowing movements, "An Ocean Without Water" is filled with intensely beautiful melodies that
drift on lonesome harmonica strains and sparkling, celestial electronics, shot through with mystic, western slide guitar, passages of crushing angular riffage, rolling
tribal drumming, and transcendent blues. Through their intricate song arrangements and moody textures, Souvenir's Young America has created an epic, emotional narrative.
The sound draws from the collected DNA of forebears like Popul Vuh, Earth, Labradford, and Neurosis, yet they form a powerfully evocative instrumental language all of their own. Features collaborations with Aughra (Magic Bullet Records) and Nick Forte (Sublight Records, ex Rorschach / Beautiful Skin).
The band has developed their sound even further with this new album, and we couldn't be more stoked over the epic, moody sounds that onfold over "An Ocean Without Water's" 40 minute running time.
Great and unique, though I'd say there's strong appeal here for those into GRAILS, ZOMBI, ACROSS TUNDRAS, though its much more than a sum of those. There's a real pounding urgency to some of this album, don't be lulled into expecting driftimg ambience.
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souvenir's young america
s/t CD
Genre: cinematic post-rock
Monstrous instrumental post-metal from Richmond, Virginia. Beautiful, flowing, HEAVY instrumental music, heavily layered, masterfully assembled creations,
emotionally moving and majestic like Red Sparowes, filled with dense shoegazer buildups and gorgeous droning electronic swirl, massively heavy prog-rock dirges
and sludgy piano-accompanied rock, never descending into boring noodling or overextended jams. A range of instruments are used here, keyboards, percussion, samples,
guitars, accordion, xylophone, cello, banjo,and much more. The whole album sounds like a soundtrack for a killer lost road-trip movie scored by members of Neurosis and
Godspeed You! Black Emperor doing a weird mix of 70's prog and biker rock, and 80's soundtrack metal, but with all sorts of forays into lonesome,dusty country guitar-twang,
long droning expanses of floating electronic drones, supremely beautiful and often super-crushing !!! This is ABSOLUTELY A MUST GET for fans of heavy instrumental ambient metal
/ post-rock (Red Sparowes, Mogwai, Mono, Pelican, Isis, etc.), and soundtrack-influenced heaviness (Zombi, Chromelodeon). Totally recommended along with their follow up
release also on sale here.
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THE STARGAZER'S ASSISTANT
"Schwarzhagel" CD
"David J. Smith (Guapo, Miasma & The Carousel Of Dead Horses) releases a second set of recordings as The Stargazer's Assistant. Following The Other Side of the Island on Aurora Borealis,
Shivers and Voids is a union of instrument, voice and tape. A soundtrack left waiting for the right film to accompany it
through the dark. Sweeping, intricate, sometimes ominous, yet always exuding a warmth of emotion. Ancient forests,
vast plains, billowing clouds, rusted metal hulks, wet rock walls, lights flickering in darkness. The Stargazer's
Assistant reveals all this to us." - Utech
An excellent follow up to the AB release. Part of the Kasner UR series.
"Nightsoil" sample.
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Stefan Kushima
"Don't Touch The Walls" CDR
Stefan Kushima is a nearly 23 year old experimental visual and audio artist from Linz, Austria. On his debut release for Blackest Rainbow he creates minimal
bliss wavering drones with bursting metallic vibes and fuzzed glows washing in and out. Sounds like Stefan was making these sounds somewhere in space or deep in the ocean
and somehow it got recorded far away from the actual source. Its a real blissful nice gem from yet another unknown artist out there in the ether. Comes in
classic BR sleeve designed by Stefan. Hand numbered edition of 50.
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STRIBORG
"Autumnal Melancholy" CD
"Fact is that this is such an inaccessible style of necro black metal, its hard to find anyone who likes this at all. I personally dont know anybody
who has this shit at home, but trust me, there are lost souls buying this. And those people either have an utterly bizarre taste in music, or they worship Satan in their daily lives for real." Metalrage
More forest bound experimental black psycehedlic noise black metal from STRIBORG, maybe album eight? Top titles include: "The Crying Mirror",
"As A Hermit Hiding In The Trance Of Night" and "Meandering In Sorrow".
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STRIBORG
'Trepidation' CD
Reissue of this 2005 album from STRIBORG. 10 tracks of temperate rainforest Black Metal, including "Journey of a Misanthrope",
"Black Gaia" and "Catawampus".
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STURMPERCHT
'Geister im Waldgebirg' CD
"One year has passed since the Austrian / south Bavarian Alpin-Folk formation Sturmpercht released their last 7". finally now here is their long awaited new album!
"Geister im Waldgebirg" is a journey through the deepest central-European forests and mountains with all their strange creatures, fairies, myths and
legends. the sounds and lyrics on this album are engrained in old pagan rites and cults, in hunters-legends and in tales from darkest woods
and the people living there. the songstyles vary from powerful Martial-Folk hymns, over fragile Folk-balads, to weird songs about strange people and creepy
animals. several great artists supported Sturmpercht in the making of this album: first af all Axel from WERKRAUM, who is a basic Sturmpercht-member since quite
a while now. it's Axels perfect guitar- and flute playing and his skillful hands in mixing, that the Folk-songs have this brilliant late 60ies/early 70ies touch now.
the close Sturmpercht-friends ALLERSEELEN, SANGRE CAVALLUM and WALDTEUFEL have also recorded fantastic songs especially for this album. Allerseelen and Sangre Cavallum
also contributed several sounds from their large archives and Waldteufel additionally gave his voice for "Riesenbrder". Sturmpercht is the only Folk-band, who created their
own music style named "ALPIN-FOLK", which is absolutely unique up to now. anyway if you prefer straight or weird Folk: there is no way around this album for all kinds of Folk-Lovers.
this album will be your closest friend in dark and frosty winter nights!" - Steinklang.
Great Julian Cope review. Great record. Ethnic music of the Alps. Sounds timeless really.
CD in top quality digipack. 70 minutes and 20 seconds!! Steinklang. RESTOCK!!
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SUBURBAN LEPROSY
'Bohemian Leprosy' 3" CDr
Coming down from the holy hill of Ranui; the instrumental rites of SL resuscitate the old daemons. A new battle begins. Choose your chapel.
NZBM. Ltd to 52, Faunasabbatha records.
SL myspace.
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SVARROGH
Balkan Renaissance CD
"The Bulgarian Black Folklore ensemble Svarrogh of Dimo Dimov has recorded another masterpiece of Ritual Folk music. "Balkan Renaissance"
is already the 4th Svarrogh album under the banner of the god of the sun. This mystic sound-journey drags you along to the ancient heart of
the Balkan mountains, its caves, rivers, villages and people with their deep mythological roots. Svarrogh's sound is absolutely unique,
not only because of the beautiful mandolin-playing and the bagpipes, mixed with droning synths, which envocate the return of the sun.
Svarrogh creates a musical look through a grey window to discover the dark past of Bulgarias 19th century and its Renaissance, after years
of osman opression. On "Balkan Renaissance" you can listen to original passages of famous bulgarian poets and artists like Dora Gabe,
Elisaveta Bagryan, Elin Pelin, Dimitar Talev or the amazing poems of Ivan Vazov. On this album, Dimo Dimov also pays a tribute to the
genius music of Allerseelen with the song "Kamerad". And as a special feature, the CD will also contain a so called Martenitsi.
Martenitsa is a Bulgarian heathen/pagan tradition related to March 1, which has its origin in the establishment of the Bulgarian state in
681 AD. Mart is the Bulgarian word for "March". According to Bulgarian folklore, the month March marks the beginning of springtime. Therefore,
the first day of March is a traditional holiday associated with sending off the winter and welcoming the spring. Key-figures in these
ancient traditional rites are the Kukeri, the demons who banish winter and invite spring and fertility. The Kukeri are the Balkan counterpart
to the Austrian and south Bavarian Perchten. This album is full of traditional-, pagan- and ritual Folk music, Neo-Classical songs, Martial
drummings and it has even some Industrial moments. - 18 tracks / 73 min."
Strange mixture of Black Metal elements in the staccato guitar (& mandolin) work, and the vocals in parts too, and more Folk and Allerseelen style neo-Folk.
Very unusual indeed, plus the Martenitsi is like a woolen pompom type of thing. Unique would be a good word, and well worth checking out.
CD with special Martenitsi lim.>500< / Ahnstern
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TARANTULA HAWK
s/t CD
TARANTULA HAWK "combines all the essential elements of early Pink Floyd, Man Is The Bastard and
King Crimson with a black metal sensibility", a very heavy psychedelic affair indeed.
"On their second self-titled release Tarantula Hawk has laid the foundation for another
instrumental interpretive journey into the depths of creative perception. Using a darker palette
than their previous effort, this second album explores a cumulative void within the players, expressing
emotions that can only be conveyed with music."
Excellent album on Neurot by this great band that seems chronically overlooked to my mind.
CD in jewel case.
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TenHornedBeast
'My Horns Are A Flame To Draw Down The Truth' CD
Genre:black ambient/drone
The TenHornedBeast rises again. Five new compositions from black ambient / doom overlord Christopher Walton - three remixes / expansions / contractions of songs
from the debut album "The Sacred Truth" and two totally new pieces that are in a similar style to this dark masterpiece. Walton has stripped some of the songs to their bare
bones and allowed them space to breathe again. This album is all-new but continues the atmosphere of the debut and can be considered a companion piece. Presented in a matt-laminate,
spot-varnished digipak.
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THRONE OF KATARSIS
"Unholy Holocaust Winds" CD
"Gloriously frosted Norwegian black metal, atmospherically textured, cold and grimm indeed. Masterfully recorded onto 4-track cassette including winter field recordings captured in the nocturnal gloom of Norway's Liarlund Forests."
This is awesome. Great Blamck metal but with some really unusual acoustic guitar parts, and good use of field recordings.
Paradigms
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TIERMES
'malahvia' CDR
Incredible looking and bizarre sounding, 'malahvia' is something like Tiermes' 4th release? From the Finnish wilderness Tiermes create strange
and ritualistic music straddling the genres of industrial, free-folk, ambient and noise, taking influence from traditional shamanic culture.
Total playing time is 1 hour 13 minutes!
CDr in card slipcase wrapped in a doudle sided poster with incredible artwork. This in turn is wrapped in a strange waxy paper and tied with rough twine. RECOMMENDED!!
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Titan
s/t CD
"A very special untitled debut release from Brooklyn, NY krautrock mystics, TITAN. Cascading kosmische freakout in three parts over 45 minutes - shimmering mind expansion
like a heavy, solar tapestry of Ash Ra Tempel, Klaus Schulze and Zombi. Immense."
Limited edition of 750 copies. Specially packaged in Paradigms card sleeve w/ band artwork. Sealed in a hand-stamped presentation envelope and wallet.
Paradigms
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T.O.M.B.
'Macabre Noize Royale' CD
Genre: black noise
T.O.M.B. is a mysterious, unnamed entity well known for crafting the darkest noise recordings with the aid of nothing but field recordings. With 'Macabre Noize Royale', T.O.M.B. has set out to push the boundaries further than ever before.
To collect the field recordings T.O.M.B. travelled and trespassed through Pennsylvanias darkest landmarks including:
Bethlehem Steel Works - builder of large calibre guns during WWI and WWII
Eden Hall Church - 157 year old gothic church destroyed from arson
Laurel Hill Cemetery - 170 year old cemetery
Lambertville High School - students burned alive 30 years ago, site of countless suicides since.
Each location has a disturbing history and they have become locations of multiple ghost sightings and unexplained deaths.
Through these field recordings, smashing recording rods into massive steel structures and ancient crypt doors, T.O.M.B. reawakens the decaying structures and the agonizing history they hold sealed.
The recordings are then crafted into the darkest, heaviest BLACK NOISE ever recorded. And for the first time full Black Metal / Industrial tracks have been created.
Macabre Noize Royale is T.O.M.B.s most diverse album by far. Integrating pure noise with ambience, Industrial and Black Metal. The clear intention is to push the boundaries of Black Noise sound manipulation and continue to shock the listener (both fans and newcomers).
The previous tape was really extreme and an excellent release. This full album builds on those grim foundations: this is total black evil noise. Supreme.
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trees
s/t CD
Genre: extreme doom
The debut album from the Portland quartet Trees delivers two epic tracks of monolithic, blackened doom metal with a twisted, noise-damaged approach
and a dank basement vibe. Trees craft glacial abstract riffs and rivers of ashen amplifier goo that fans of feedback-laden heaviosity will find
highly satisfying, a kind of grinding, slow-motion black hole psychedelia that has a similiar hypnotic death-ritual quality as artists like Bloody
Panda and Khanate, but with their own unique trance state of swirling guitar textures, horrific jet black dronescapes and ghoulish, excoriating vocals.
Features members of the PDX psych-sludge outfit Tecumseh (we stocked some of their vinyl before here at AB). This CD edition of the TREE's debut comes
in a Stoughton printed 4-panel gatefold case.
I'd definitely recommend this to anyone mising their Khanate fix. Torturous!
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THE UNHOLY WARLOCK
'song of the spheres' CDr
A single epic sprwaling live jam "one microphone straight to minidisc". 40 minutes and 53 seconds of ultra obscure "true sheffield black psychedelia".
Sound is a little buried, but the playing is tight and sharp as knives. Some great drumming, not afraid of stepping on the gas here and there. Very varied as the
track moves on, some SILVESTER ANFANG vibes, there's a great section with howling vocals, even a touch of ABRUPTUM in thee air at one point. There is definitely something in the
Sheffield water.
CDr with double-sided pro-printed insert in a PVC wallet.
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URFAUST
'Drei Rituale Jenseits Des Kosmos' CD
"Enter the torture chamber and bear witness to rituals of intense depravity. While the last remnants of humanity slip away,
URFAUST deliver the ultimate unsettling celebration of mans demise with 20 minutes of morbid, twisted dementia.
Psychotic, disturbing visions abound as the ultra doom nightmare is unveiled amid a sickening dose of phobia-inducing
audio illness. Agonised, tormented howls; inhuman(e) shrieks; terrible, tortuous invocations. The corrupted, unbalanced
mindset revealed on these psychosomatic infections is so chronic it will induce feelings of vertigo and paranoia as
the pandemic of disequilibrium spreads like a disease. Three epistles of agony signal the end... and then there is nothing more." - Debemur Morti.
The first easily obtained new material from these ultra obscure maniacs. The extended Classical samples are gone. In fact,
I think the guitars are gone. We have something further away from traditional Black Metal once again, with just mid-paced drums,
a very distorted (even wonky..) keyboard of some kind and the usual buried vocals, part Bauhaus, part drunken cabaret singer, all infernal. Great stuff and worth the wait.
It reminds me of RIDE FOR REVENGE in that its stripped down, though the sound itself is still large and sprawling, perhaps more so than before. Recommended.
Tracklisting :
1 - Untitled 08:58
2 - Untitled 05:58
3 - Untitled 05:17
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URTHONA
'amid devonia's alps' CD
Genre: guitar drone/outrock/Heavy Rural
"Urthona is back with their devastating second album AMID DEVONIAS ALPS, three incredible slabs of rural Luddite VU overload from
deep in the heart of Wessex. Within the fiery soul of this Urthona music, there's a holy beauty that transcends its many
contemporaries, as colossal guitars intertwine around the base of listeners minds, lifting them skywards like a magical beanstalk
ride. Sumptuously packaged in the same fashion as last years Head Heritage album I REFUTE IT THUS, Urthonas music is the Ult in
meditative aids, and a freight-train ride to oblivion." - Julian Cope
"Almost 60 minutes of soaring, unrelenting guitar worship and field recordings from deepest Dartmoor. Three enormous tracks...commencing with an
Ur-garage racket that conjures up visions of the Barrett Floyd hammering T. Dreams early 45 Ultima Thule, before plateauing out
into two exceedingly beautiful and enormously vast eternities of axe overload, ernie-ernieing seagull dives, digital distortion and
microphonic feedback somewhere along the lines of Nadja, To Blacken The Pages and the Angelic Process, but even better and even more
useful." - Further
When Mark Pilkington described this to me as 'Heavy Rural' I was sold. really nice packaging with all the intellect that you can expect from a Strange Attractor related
item. Great text in here too.
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UTLAGR
'Traditions Normandes' CD
Pagan warhammers thunder over Vinnland. Blasting, epic black metal from the far off
shores of Canada, fueled by pagan heritage in honour of Rolfr Utlagr, founder of
Normandy, their ancestral homeland. 6 stirring battle hymns of devastating black
metal glory in the spirit of Immortal or early Satyricon.
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various
'23 Drifts To Guestling' CD
Genre: far out/experimental
Originally released in 1983, this stands as the missing piece of the jigsaw between Coum Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV. Scrapbook rehearsals, formative ideas, radio snippets,
interviews and general nonsense. CD version of the original cassette release with contributions from the many people that made up Throbbing Gristle, Coum Transmissions, Coil and Psychic TV,
brought to you by FOPI. Features: Throbbing Gristle, Genesis P-Orridge, Psychic TV, Monte Cazazza, Peter Christopherson, Martin Denny, Joan Armstrong, Gary Gilmore, Adi Newton, Frank Zappa,
Charles Manson, Alex Fergusson and Lynette Fromme (Manson Family).
Bizarre.
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various
'John Barleycorn Reborn' 2CD
Genre: folk
A discovery of folk music from dark Britannica. 'John Barleycorn Reborn' explores seasonal birth, death and rebirth on this double CD. This compilation explores the darker
side of British folk music, evoking the mystery of our ancient past and peoples, the strangeness of their beliefs, arcane traditions and the remnants of this carried down
the centuries as folklore. The set has an extended booklet with articles, essays and explorations of the album's concept. Curated by Mark Coyle (Woven Wheat Whispers). Features 33 artists:
CD1: Alphane Moon, Andrew King, Charlotte Greig & Johan Asherton, Damh The Bard, English Heretic, Far Black Furlong, Mary Jane, Pumajaw, Peter Ulrich (Dead Can Dance),
Sharron Kraus, Sieben, Sol Invictus, The Horses Of The Gods, The Owl Service, The Story (Tom & Martin Welham / Forest), The Triple Tree (Tony Wakeford / Andrew King).
CD2: Clive Powell, Doug Peters, Drohne, Electronic Voice Phenomena, Martyn Bates (Eyeless In Gaza), Quickthorn, Sand Snowman, Stormcrow, The A Lords, The Anvil, The
Kitchen Cynics, The Purple Minds Of Lazeron, The Straw Bear Band, Tinkerscuss, Venereum Arvum, While Angels Watch, Xenis Emputae Travelling Band.
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VELVET CACOON
"Dextronaut" 2CD
"Early lost material finally comes to light. Completely Re-mastered with a new sound and layout. Comes with a bonus CD featuring cold/ambient music. --The first full length preparation with 8888 track recording. Concept based on
the journeys experienced with dissociatives [READ: DRUGS & MORE DRUGS] to achieve a true lunar black metal recording. Songs recorded and compiled over the course of 18 months. Extremely raw Chronicle/Compilation." I love this band, though I fear they
may not be cool any more. Whatever. 2CD in jewel case.
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VELVET CACOON
"Genevieve" CD
Curiously named US duo with the Loki spirit: previously claiming to be eco-fascists and swathed in a cloak of mystery, they now claim to be hoaxers and drug addicts.
Musically, this is an incredible fusion of the drifting drone feel of EARTH 2 and hypnotic BM of say BLUT AUS NORD. Cold and brittle, but with incredible depth, dragging you down into its glacial heart. Thoroughly recommended, and highly interesting in their manipulation of perception/belief amongst a an isolated scene.
Full Moon Productions.
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vinterriket
'Lichtschleier' CD
Genre: dark ambient/pagan
Another CD from the insanely prolific Vinterriket, master of dark and glacial pagan ambient. Beautiful and cold, to such a point that it causes intense visions of glaciers and mountains and frozen forests and snowdrifts.
Lichtschleier effortlessly achieves what it set out to do; create a dark, cold, ambient atmosphere.
This is the Displeased reissue with a video for the title track.
Total playing time: 50:52
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vinterriket
'...und die Nacht kam schweren Schrittes' CD
Genre: dark ambient/pagan
Another CD from the insanely prolific Vinterriket, master of dark and glacial pagan ambient. Displeased edition, fully remastered with new
cover art and a previously unreleased bonus track: '...und Donner durchflutete'
Total playing time 01:04:08
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VOMIR
'Proanomie' CD
Genre: noise/PE
"The 50th At War release so it had to be Vomir! First ever "proper" CD of harsh noise wall and it does not disappoint at all! I find it difficult to
describe the sheer brutality of either the concept of Vomir's music or indeed the sound of the music itself. It's long, it does not
change, and it leaves me with a feeling of intense loss and depression afterward. Truly some of the most powerful music I know.
For Vomir there is nothing, and this is how he makes that statement. It's an ugly listen for sure, but well worth the effort.
500 copies, pro CD, great minimal artwork by Strom Varx." - AWWFN.
Not one for wooing the ladies to...
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"walking with ghosts"
Compilation CD in DVD case
For the past six months we have been finely crafting a unique and powerful collection of melancholic, shadowy experimental music. Finally completed, entitled "Walking With Ghosts" and presented in dvd box packaging with beautiful photography from Alexandre Rito. Printed as a limited edition of 500 copies, of which only 400 will be available for sale through us.
Featuring an eclectic yet balanced collection of nocturnal music over 80 minutes from And Machine Said...Behold, Catonium, Selaxon Lutberg, Escape The Day, Throne Of Galaktus, Paul Mercer, Monarkh, Le' Rue Delashay, The Victim's Shudder, The Waking Cold, Vulf Sentient, Annastatsea and Visions. You may well be unfamiliar with most or all of these challenging artists but will be intoxicated by the resonance of this album.
An epic collection of mist frosted ambient, through spectral modern classical and haunting vocal composition to sorrowful slo-core and heavy atmospheric astral prog. Influences across this black ethereal work range from Magma to Diamanda Galas, Codeine to Shostakovich, Eno to Goblin, Dead Can Dance, Sigur Ros, Raison D'Etre or even Sunn 0))) and much more besides, and we think this will give you a very basic idea of what expansive artistic vision is captured here.
Limited edition of 500 copies only. Audio cd in dvd box with Alexandre Rito photography.
RECOMMENDED!
CD in DVD case. Paradigms.
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WHITEDAUGHTER
"Stiff with the invisible" CD
Superlative miserablist pop album from ex Bridge & Tunnel members. "White Daughter have produced an incredibly accomplished downer pop album recalling everything from John Carpenter's minimal soundtracks from the 70's
and early Depeche Mode through to Leonard Cohen's unique take on Americana and Suicide's brittle future/retro. They even manage to turn the Misfits' "Cough/Cool"
into a streamlined analogue-synth propelled miserabilist anthem.
This is driving music for automobile-assisted suicides." Really good stuff.
CD in jewel case. Onomatopop.
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wildildlife
'six' CD
Genre: neo-psych melodic out-rock
Heavy, crunchy riffage rolling over celestial FX freakout and gang choral voices, part pop, part neo-psychedelic noisiness, part metalloid skullcrush. Super melodic and catchy but vaguely menacing and dark all at the same time. Wildildlife summon up a wicked whirlpool of dense distorto crunch and freaky singing, raging metallic percussive pummel, tribal rhythms and crushing effects-soaked guitars, subdued floatational drones and ecstatically gorgeous melodies, all let loose in a series of sky-streaking eruptions of psychedelic lowcore and swirling, cosmic sludge. Going back to a review that Terrascope Magazine wrote about one of the band's earlier CD-R releases, this sounds vaguely like Black Sabbath and Butthole Surfers jamming together with ancient forest mystics, an experience both brutal and beautiful, and which proves that Wildildlife have already established themselves as serious purveyors of blown-out psych heaviness. The CD version of Six comes in a posh, full-color 4-panel gatefold jacket printed by Stoughton Printers, which houses the disc and a full-color 8-page booklet filled with amazing, surreal photographs by Sabina Holber.
I urge you to get this, its fucking awesome, and get their CD-rs. Also check out Warhammer 48K if you can, I think these guys are all on the same page, a new modern take on classic heavy with the freak dial turned up to at least 11...
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"WIR RUFEN DEINE WOLFE"
V/A compilation CD
All bands have made a acoustic interpretation of the poem by Friedrich Hielscher.
"Each of the seventeen contributing artists was asked to compose a song based upon the lyrics of a Friedrich Hielscher poem titled Wir Rufen Deine Wolfe.
Friedrich Hielscher is an obscure German poet and philosopher whose writing and poetry is being rediscovered and embraced by radical traditionalists and heathens alike." - HEATHEN HARVEST.
feat. DER ARBEITER / GRAUMAHD / O PARADIS / WALDTEUFEL / ERDGEIST / WERKRAUM / CAWATANA / LADY MORPHIA / TURBUND STURMWERK / BLOOD AXIS / ALLERSEELEN /
STURMPERCHT / SANGRE CAVALLUM / BELBORN / CIRCE / RIHARC SMILES / DER FEUERKREINER / SHINING VRIL
11.50
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'WOOD BROTHERS'
various artists CD
Excellent compilation of bands of the pagan/folk/black metal variety from the Ukraine and Baltic states, saluting the anti-Communist resistance groups who
fought to keep their countries autonomous. Includes great stuff from SKYFORGER (Latvia), HATE FOREST (Ukraine), ASTROFAES (Ukraine), DRUDKH (Ukraine), MUST MISSA (Estonia) and
NOKTURNAL MORTUM (Ukraine) as well as other. 13 tracks of forest based resistance. Great comp.
9.50
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the wounded kings
'embrace of the narrow house' CD
Genre: Doom Metal
Majestic occult doom metal from the weathered wastes of darkest Dartmoor. Doom grandeur for connoisseurs of classic Candlemass, the raw, down-tuned horror worship of Electric Wizard with an unhealthy obsession for 70's Italian macabre.
9.99
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Wraiths
"Plaguebearer" CD
"Harrowing death-ambient and blast-furnace power drone. The searing
soundtrack to desolate, nihilistic electronics through undulating sheets of ice cold atmosphere and claustrophobic dread.
Haunting ritual evokation of all consuming, shape-shifting blackness. Electronic ritual in spectral tongue. Five tracks over fifty five minutes. Tracklist : Nihil Rex,
Plaguebearer, Bone Flutes & Skull Drums, To Corrupt The Waters Of Lethe, Ghoulsong."- Paradigms
There's something very John Carpenter about Wraiths, maybe its the sort of warm analogue feel or the pulsing repetition in parts, not sure what it is, but there's something very special
about them and I think they have a very distinctive sound, they stand out from the crowd of shaven headed dark-ambient blah blah blah. Great stuff. Recommended.
CD in DVD case, Paradigms.
8.00 --RESTOCK!!
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ZARACH'BAAL'THARAGH
"Eternal Darkness" CD
New collection of long out-of-print demos from the French master of bedroom black metal, ZBT! This is totally raw stuff, utterly devoid of production values and often, song structure. This disc comprises some of ZBT's more considered, "musical" demos, from the repetitive dirge of "Primitive Era", the unrestrained wail and incoherance of "Apocalypse" to the thrash-esque precise riffing of "El Borak". While this is often a difficult listen, the riffs are fucking great - opener "In Your Grave" is total Vulcano/Sarcofago-style South American-influenced filth - and the underground attitude and amateurish sound contributes to the true black metal atmosphere that so may lack these days. ZBT is obviously influenced by Les Legiones Noires, with jarring tremello guitar, off-kilter production and is as mysterious and just plain weird as those bands were. For fans of bedroom BM like Striborg or cult LLN such as Mutiilation, Belketre etc.
Classic B&W art in tribute to the old masters! This is a full CD, NOT CDr.
8.00
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Z'EV
'Sum Things' CD
Genre:dark ambient
Through an element darkly In the fall of 2005 ZEV began dipping deep into his archives and selecting recordings to produce sum things / a possible form for cold dark matter,
a project reflecting his take on the dark ambience genre. Composed between December 2005 and March 2006, these 6 pieces endeavor to transport the listener deep into their long
forgotten memories of the primal forces at the dawn of creation. Each piece is based on a single sound source. Absolutely no effects of any kind, not even equalization, were applied
to the source recordings. Instead ZEV relied solely on the stretching of the duration and pitch of the samples and then edited and mixed the results down into the heart of space.
Hear then, the state of the art in elemental musics. Not to forget the beautiful packaging by artist Abby Helasdottir.
9.99 POSTPAID
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