Re-issue of this classic 1988 release, originally released as a limited LP (Misty Circles, Ltd 1000). "...a proper re-release courtesy of the folks at Hau Ruck SPQR, and well done it is, it has been cleaned up and remastered without losing any of the original integrity... One can say many things about Ain Soph, but one thing is certain; they know how to incorporate different styles of music to their best advantage. For the most part, this release comes across as a ritual for the first free tracks at least. Which on the original vinyl release found closure with 'IAO', then takes a more aggressive tone on the title track 'Kshatriya', which is more a battle cry than an actual song, a post-industrial piece that is discordant as well as melodic. Not short on the esoteric this release finds Ain Soph on the cusp of re-invention, for in the early nineties their sound took a slightly different turn that can be described as folk rock, but we will always have this little gem to remember them" (Heathen Harvest). Digipak with original artwork from the LP and a third introduction made by THX.
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ARTEFACTUM - 'Foxgloves & Bluebells' CD (Old Europa Cafe / Ur Muzik)
As one of the very few representatives of what might be labelled as feminine ambient music, Artefactum remains the embodiment of unique characteristics: deep and warm ambient intertwined with sounds of nature, ritual bells, remote drumming and sensual vocals. While still within the borders of ambient, this release also contains a collection of beautiful songs inspired by old poetry and mysterious folklore. With wonderful guest appearances from neo-medieval The Soil Bleeds Black, British folk singer Andrew King and neoclassical Dawn & Dusk Entwined, “Foxgloves & Bluebells” is a must-have release for anyone into esoteric post-industrial music. 6-panel digipak.
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ARTEFACTUM - 'Sub Rosa' 7" (Drone Records)
The first vinyl release of the enchanting Polish act Artefactum. Described by herself as "Female Esoterica", "Sub Rosa" opens a vast space filled with different sounds coming from very far away, as nebulous melodies, whispers, voices and choirs, little clicks and cracks, with soft percussive structures appearing on Side B. The two pieces named "Rosa Alba" and "Rosa Rubea" (white & red rose) have a strong metaphorical alchemistic background, meaning the end point of all alchemistic transmutations. The overall release including the beautiful artwork gives the impression of an almost fabulous acoustic fantasy, so refined and almost caressing yet secretive at the same time. Second edition of 300 copies on pink vinyl with insert, in a handmade cover with decoratively cut corners.
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ATAVIST - 'Atavist' 2 x LP (Invada)
Atavist's debut album is already being hailed as a new doom classic. Atavist are a 4 piece band from Manchester who have have recently toured with Khanate and have played with amongst others, Asva, Esoteric and Gonga. "Their riffs aren't just heavy, they're so batteringly, destroyingly crushing that they remain exhilarating even when single notes hang out for an eternity before the next one rams into your ears with the force of an a-bomb" (Kerrang). File next to Earth, Pelican, Boris. Limited edition in a gatefold sleeve.
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BARBAROSSA UMTRUNK - 'Wehrwolf Dharma' CD (UFA Muzak)
A grandiose album by the French Military pop / Esoteric industrial act Barbarossa Umtrunk. Ethnic elements, cymbals, shamanic singing, heavy drones, synth lines and lots of vocals blend together into an insane mix of apocalyptic, ritual and orchestral neoclassical. The album contains tribute songs to Runes Order and Celtic Frost... Cold merciless ambience of a forest where secrets are buried in soil itself, dark paths that protect and wreck... in darkness it starts the dreadful game of death, and the sound of broken bones and the wild howl of wolves become a new catastrophic belief. Ltd x 200 copies in a gatefold card sleeve.
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CONTEMPLATRON - 'Delog' CD (Wrotycz)
Second release from this Polish dark ambient act. The DELOG experience is extraordinary, marvellous, even within the esoteric context of Tibetan Buddhism. The Tibetan word DELOG refers to one who has crossed the threshold of death and returned to tell about it. The person who is recognised as DELOG lays without any sign of breath, pulse or body warmth for many days. During that his or her mind journeys to other realms of experience: the pure display of enlightened mind as well as existence within samsaric delusion and ignorance. Mastered by Peter Andersson (Raison D'Etre). Digipak.
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DE MAGIA VETERUM - 'Migdal Bavel' CD (Trancendental Creations)
De Magia Veterum is the magickal creation of Mories (Gnaw Their Tongues) which was summoned in the year of 2003. Bearing a few resemblances with his other musical endeavors, De Magia Veterum represents a far more chaotic outlet, one that prefers to communicate the grand mysteries through an utmost violent and mesmerizing medium. "Migdal Bavel" is the band’s second full-length album: 37 minutes of chaotic, raw, technical, esoteric, avant-garde Black Metal. Let De Magia Veterum guide you as you navigate through Samael's seas of madness. Packaged in a custom made 6-panel deluxe A5 sleeve, with silver ink printed on black cardboard.
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DEATH IN JUNE - 'Live In New York' DVD (Tesco USA)
This beautiful and unique documentary piece, recorded at the Walker Stage in New York City on November 10, 2002, is a career-spanning collection of 29 tracks, each receiving a definitive live performance in DIJ's more recent stripped-down acoustic arrangements. Death in June has been the vehicle for Douglas P. to create a unique fusion of electronics, martial drumming (from John Murphy), and esoteric lyrics and visual symbolism. His work has spawned a new musical genre of its own, which some have called "Neofolk." While this disc will help the uninitiated to catch-up with one of the most important musical voices performing today, fans will appreciate that this DVD memorialises a concert that was nearly 21 years to the day that the band made its live debut, opening for The Birthday Party in London. The intimate setting allows Douglas P. to interact directly with the audience, taking spontaneous requests from fans and providing charming background stories for each song. Comes in a DVD digipak.
PAL, Region 0 (will play in all European DVD players).
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DIFFERENT STATE - 'The Power Of Silence' CD (Tone Industra / Fonografika)
This enigmatic Polish Industrial group dates way back to 1992. This is a great industrial / experimental / ritual / esoteric / release, somewhat in the vein of Coil - and dedicated to the memory of Jhonn Balance. "The Power Of Silence" makes use of distorted guitars, Minimoog, vinyl sounds, a vocoder and various dark electronics.
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DIFFERENT STATE - 'Through The Falling Eyelid' CD (Zoharum)
The legend of the Polish industrial scene returns with 10 hypnotic, beautiful songs in the trance / ritual style of Different State. "Sometimes the world rejects us: alienation, isolation. It happened to me. I was looking for a source to figure myself out. I decided to check myself into a clinic for people who are addicted to drugs and have psychological problems. This wasn’t easy for me, as the state of my existence throws shadow. Everything was binding me. I talked to my doctor about needing electronic equipment to make samples and music. Basically I was lonely but I knew I could record some unconventional sound. I made samples of everything in my cell: metal bed, sink, plates, A/C, wood floor, guards… everything that surrounded me. When I got out, I had a picture of what I would do with the recordings. In my recording studio in Lindenhurst, Long Island, I joined together all the sounds plus analogues to create esoteric and unique music." 6-panel digipak.
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DUST TO DEARTH / LYSERGENE - 'The Death Of The Sun' CD (Aesthetic Death Records)
Split CD from two awesome dark-minimal ambient artists: Dust To Dearth and Lysergene. Dust To Dearth is the dark ambient manifestation from Mandy (Murkrat), featuring harrowing and chilling dark desolate sounds. Meanwhile Lysergene - the side project of Esoteric member Gordon Bickness - come forth with their second release with 3 dark droning evocations of melancholic ambient drone to bring forth the Death Of The Sun.
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ESOTERIC - 'Epistemological Despondency' 2 x CD (Aesthetic Death Records)
The excellent debut release from UK doom legends Esoteric. One of the legendary albums and milestones of extreme doom - an album which took this genre to levels never before perceived or encountered. 6 tracks of raw extreme droning Funeral doom - not for the uninitiated - a task of survival for the 90 minute duration!
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ESOTERIC - 'The Pernicious Enigma' 2 x CD (Aesthetic Death Records)
"3 years have passed since 'Epistemological Despondency' and Esoteric return with a more mature, but still very dark and psychedelic release. The very depressive, melancholic intro of the first track, suggests that those guys are actually familiar with the concept "melody", although they don't apply it too often. Doom fans that are only familiar with the works of bands like My Dying Bride and Anathema, may think after those first five minutes that Esoteric have a sound similar to those bands... But after those five minutes they'll probably get scared the hell out of them. The familiar Esoteric chaos returns, with a plethora of vocal, bass and guitar effects, extremely tortured, intelligible death grunts and hysterical screams and an overall atmosphere that reminds all too much of a bad trip." (Doom-Metal.com)
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FATUM ELISUM - 'Fatum Elisum' CD (Aesthetic Death Records)
This is the debut CD from new French act Fatum Elisum. Formed in 2007 this excellent act creates some of the finest doom death metal but with a dark, mystical, melancholic and sinister edge. Great musicianship and compositions - a dark aura permeating their doomful melodies. Inspired by the early doom death metal scene - with no keyboards or female vocals - with a twisted dark metal edge. For fans of My Dying Bride, Anathema, Evoken, Esoteric, Mournful Congregation, Silencer, Bethlehem, Ataraxie, Indesinence - with lyrics inspired by dark literary classics. Six tracks and over 50 minutes of music.
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K11 - 'Metaphonic Portrait 1230 A.D.' Enhanced CD (Actual Noise)
K11 is the nom de plume of the Italian sound artist Pietro Riparbelli. For "Metaphonic Portrait 1230 A.D.", Riparbelli entered Assisi Cathedral (completed in 1230 A.D.) in the Umbria region of Italy, not far from Riparelli’s hometown of Tuscany. The audio was recorded in the cathedral’s lower basilica, the oldest area, where the relics of St. Francis Of Assisi reside. Utilising short-wave radio as his primary instrument Riparbelli has captured a haunting array of cavernous sounds, displaced signals and found ambiance. With the addition of some voice and organ elements, "Metaphonic Portrait 1230 A.D." sounds not unlike the recordings of Philip Jeck and William Basinski under the influence of Crowleyean Magick and Sacred Geometry. A video shot inside the cathedral by Riparbelli is included on the disc to give the listener a visual picture of the aging structure. As in all K11’s work, the themes of magick, religion, numerology and esotericism are present throughout this reverent document of aural mysticism. Digipak.
LCHM - 'Terra Australis Incognita' CD (La Esencia)
Debut album from LCHM, inspired by the short stories of Jorn Riel, a Danish writer who lived for 16 years in the most isolated and impervious areas of Greenland in the early 20th Century, at close quarters with the hunters who originally lived there. With this work, LCHM has tried to recreate, by means of sound, the lights and shadows of these great and unknown men who lived extraordinary experiences by relying on their own forces alone, on their adaptability and on their will to survive in an age when you didn't have much to begin with. LCHM was born out of a passion for audial research, the study of human psychology, and ispirations drawn from several esoteric practices. Deep and wide sounds, bright and obscure, unique and full of nuances. LCHM conceives and records all of its material using sounds captured in nature, in unusual places, or created using other instruments. Digipak.
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LIYR - 'Fragments Of Dust' CD (War Office Propaganda / Rage In Eden)
LIYR is a French martial act born in 2008. Heavily inspired by neoclassical, bombastic percussion and industrial martial sounds Liyr creates his own characteristic atmosphere. Behind the harshness of the percussion, there is an esoteric thought about Celtic tradition and legends - LIYR is the God of Sea in Celtic myths. But the main idea is that we all live in a changing world dominated by sort of feelings like hate and love, fear and pleasure - in his music and lyrics LIYR talks about all these feelings. Digipak.
LORDS OF BUKKAKE - 'Desorden Y Rencor' CD (Totalrust)
"Desorden y Rencor" is the second album from Spanish trio, Lords of Bukkake, and brings 40 minutes of sickening slow motion Sludge/Doom filled with dirty riffs, greasy feedback, high-pitched insane vocals and lots of effects and electronics in the background. Extremely heavy, psychedelic and noisier / weirder than any of their previous material. Think Iron Monkey meets Swans meets Grief meets Godflesh meets Esoteric meets Eyehategod and you are still not even close. Mastered by Bri Doom (Lazarus Blackstar).
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LUNA DOPA / EMME YA - 'The Hidden Walker / Apotheosis Psychoerotica' CD (Nihil Art)
Luna Dopa is headed by the enigmatic Gabriel Luis B, an Italian deconstructionist and artist who has been developing his talent through many magickal devices, his personal interest in esoteric and occult matters. He creates ritualistic ambient pieces, transporting us to unknown regions of our subconscious, with deep engulfing drones that grow stronger, swelling like the ocean to take the listener deep into his magic sound world. Emme Ya is the deep exploration of Edgar Kerval in the fields of sonic mutations and hybrid soundscapes emerging from astral atavisms. Emme Ya is related to a planet with two suns in the Sirius binary star-system. The main influences are the ancient mystical cultures and diverse abstract forms which reflects into our mind, more than the perceived reality hidden in ancient stellar wisdom. This enigmatic ritualistic sound structure are filled with dense astral emanations and magickal paradigms. Ltd x 500 copies.
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MHONOS - 'Humiliati' CD (Le Crepuscule Du Soir)
Ritualistic Doom Metal from France. Mysterious, ritualistic drones made through bass layers, amplifier worship, possessed chants and Burzum-inspired ambience, Mhönos emerges from his crypt during year MMX to offer his bewitching liturgy to the mass. Dark and bright, ugly and beautiful, overwhelming, uplifting, melodic and droning at times, ritual issued by Mhönos aback and sometimes mixes the horror and the esoteric. Low frequences and tortured voices reign in supreme masters in the unstructured reptation, throbbing and disorder, thorned at irregular intervals by hypnotic psalms scended by haunted voices. Necropiss from The Arrival Of Satan appears on this album. Ltd x 500 copies.
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MISTRESS OF THE DEAD - 'Henriette's Message From The Other Shore' CD (Epidemie Records)
New album from the Czech funeral doom metal project. Two long compositions totalling 46 minutes. Mysterious, slow, esoteric funeral doom metal. A delicacy for lovers of Esoteric, Mournful Congregation, Worship and Until Death Overtakes Me. Melancholy atmospheres, cemeteries, deep underground and funeral doom metal. Ltd x 500 copies.
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MISTRESS OF THE DEAD - 'White Roses, White Coffins' CD (Epidemie Records)
Funeral Doom Metal from the Czech Republic. Mistress Of The Dead is one-man project covered with mystery, which produces mystical funeral esoteric doom metal of extra high quality. Delicacy for admirers of Esoteric, Mournful Congregation, Until Death Overtakes Me and Nortt. A 76 minutes excursion over 4 massive compositions!
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MOURNER - 'Still' MCD (Mourner)
30+ minutes of arcane and nihilistic doom from Nashville! Mourner is a 4 piece group of musicians (the Ghost Crow Collective) bonded by the creation of Doom in its most raw, arcane and nihilistic state... drawing influence from a wide array of musical styles and art, emotions, experiences, the occult and esoteric and an overall bleak and daunting feeling. Ltd x 333 copies in a card sleeve.
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MURKRAT - 'Drudging The Mire' CD (Aesthetic Death Records)
Beautifully enchanting, yet tortuous, misanthropic, dark, harrowing doom from this Australian duo. Drudging The Mire contains repetitive, minimalist guitars, sometimes ritualistic, with sacred chants and slow, reverent drumming. Sprawling, dominant songs, with great lead guitar. This is clearly more of a work by purists for purists. The music presented to the listener is a tragic, lamenting march into the unknown. File next to Esoteric.
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NECROPHORUS - 'Underneath The Spirit Of Tranquility (Redux Version)' CD (Wrotycz)
Necrophorus is a project of Peter Andersson (Raison D'Etre). “Underneath the Spirit of Tranquility” is a painted story canvas for the otherwise unreachable astral world. Adorned with esoteric ambience, one feels as though embarking on a path of inner ascension while breathing the immaterial tranquilities. This redux version of 'Underneath the Spirit of Tranquility' (originally released 1996) has been carefully re-mixed for enhanced experience and spiced up with two additional tracks. The artwork consists of drawings by Elinros Henriksdotter. 75mins of music. Comes in a folding outsize cover with 6 card inserts.
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OMENYA - 'Ancient Rites' CD (Purple Soil)
Omenyais Mark Davis, a multi-media artist and ritual noise/ambient musician who resides in a remote part of the North Carolina mountains in the USA. Heavily influenced by early Zoviet France and then later Rapoon, his music also reflects and incorporates his interest in the esoteric rituals and ceremonies of various world religions. The mood is rather solemn; the tranquil music invites reflection. The music never becomes wild or spectacular, just minimal, rather distant ritual ambient music. Organic and electronic means together create interesting ethno-ambient soundscapes. Packaged in a 6-panel folder with insert.
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ORCHIS - 'A Thousand Winters' CD (Infinite Fog Productions)
Orchis is an English Dark Folk / Neofolk / Esoteric band. Originally released in 1997 (Cryptanthus), "A Thousand Winters" is an alchemical album based around the themes of life, death and the transmutation of the soul. The story of one part of Europe is extraordinarily like every other part; a thriving pagan culture that at first laughs in derision at the priests of the desert messiah, and then is slowly submerged by the rising tide of christianity until all that remains is folk memory and old tales and songs. The music is mystical dark folk with a touch of late 60s English psychedelia, and one can probably draw parallels with the early works of In Gowan Ring or Psychic TV's "Allegory and Self" / "Trip Reset". Presented in a 6-panel digipak with bronze print. Russian import.
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OSTARA - 'Immaculate Destruction' 2 x CD (Trisol)
Richard Leviathan founded Ostara in 1999 after having worked and toured with Death in June in the late 1990s. The band has been making a name for itself ever since the release of their first album, "Secret Homeland," in 2000. Now, in 2005, comes the most definitive release to date: "Immaculate Destruction". A profound and visionary work delivered with a perfect blend of passion, aggression and intimacy. Esoteric, poetic, apocalyptic but consistently inventive and contemporary, Ostara has achieved a unique fusion of lyrical complexity and musical accessibility with songs that appeal to the head and the heart. The album features new band members including Dave Renwick (ex-Bronski Beat & The Communards). A highly polished and professional production gives "Immaculate Destruction" a cutting edge sound that will win Ostara many more admirers. Released in a deluxe double CD limited edition with exclusive material.
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OUROBOROS - 'Opus Tartari' CD (Zoharum)
"Opus Tartari" is the latest album from the Italian dark ambient project which, after years of esoteric and alchemist studies, decided to transfer personal experiences into music. The compositions on the album lead the listener into the world of antique and medieval times due to their tunes and the singing in Latin. The mystical, slightly sacral character of the tracks has become the leitmotif of the band. "Opus Tartari' is an intriguing, emotional, beautiful and esoteric journey. The album can be likened to early releases of Diamanda Galas, The Moon and the Nightspirit and The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud. 6-panel digipak.
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PHIL MAGGI - 'Blue Fields In Paramount' CD (Idiosyncratics Records)
Co-founder of Idiosyncratics Records, Phil Maggi is active as a vocalist in different decadent and esoteric combos such as Ultraphallus, Idiosyncrasia or Eve And The Sickness. Inspired by Maggi's visions and errances in eastern countries (especially Zagreb city), "Blue Fields in Paramount" is a very personal and fascinating opus, a beautiful introduction to the style of this talented artist, that could be qualified as 'dark psychedelia for daydream believers'. Mastered by James Plotkin (Khlyst, Khanate, Old). Ltd x 300 copies in an ekopack.
PSYCHIC TV - 'Themes' 7 x CD Boxset (Cold Spring CSR123B)
For the first time, all THEMES albums by PSYCHIC TV released together, in a sumptuous, matt laminate, spot-varnished box set. The music itself was designed not only as soundtrack but also for subsequent use by Initiates of The Temple Ov Psychick Youth in their rituals as Functional music intended only to aid in the process of making things happen. It is a practical tool. Thee essential collection of rare, archive and modern PTV ritual / esoteric musick!
Each CD has been carefully remastered and is presented in it's own matt laminate, spot-varnished mini-LP sleeve. The box also includes a 32-page booklet of rare photos and essays.
"Themes" was originally released in 1982 as a limited bonus LP with the first 5000 copies of the legendary PSYCHIC TV album "Force The Hand Of Chance". Musicians: Stan Bingo, Peter Christopherson (Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Soisong), Genesis P-Orridge, and David Tibet (Current 93).
"Themes 2" was originally released on LP in 1985 by Temple Records and subsequently reissued as an extended CD version by Cold Spring in 1997. Musicians: Genesis P-Orridge, Alex Fergusson, John Gosling (Zos Kia, Coil, Mekon). "Themes 2" is presented here as a 2 CD set, including the full vinyl version - plus the original "Unclean" 12" and it`s two B side tracks that were recorded in the same sessions.
"Themes 3" was originally released on LP in 1986 by Temple Records and is presented here for the first time on CD, completely remastered. Musicians: Genesis P-Orridge, John Gosling (Zos Kia, Coil, Mekon), Mark Sangerman, Monte Cazazza. "Themes 3" is presented here as a 2 CD set, with an unheard, yet legendary version performed in Boston, US by Genesis P-Orridge and John Gosling under the title of "Pagan Easter".
"Themes 4" is a brand new Psychic TV album, recorded by the late partner of Genesis P-Orridge, Lady Jaye and Psychic TV. Compiled by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Ryan Martin and Bryin Dall. Musicians: Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Larry Thrasher, Bryin Dall.
Get a free bonus CD 'Live In Basildon' 1986 - only when bought from Cold Spring!
Highly prolific one-man Russian act. "Weird" features Egyptian-inspired Ethno-Ambient / dark Industrial music. Nine runes are nine tracks. Senmuth is well-known due to his musical investigations of Ancient Egyptian and Mezo-American civilizations, as well as due to his musical trips into the Far East atmosphere, so “Weird” album is rather unique for Senmuth, because he pays attention to the Nordic esotericism for the first time. "When your life situation becomes aggravated, you take the path and break new ground hardly in order to dispose of your inner conflict. You begin to have both a rough time and face the force of various circumstances even more... but in the course of it your affairs get more expressed value, and you begin to grow, develop… You go being full of energy, and you are illumed by the Light existing from the beginning of Everything, and this Reason is the Great Secret... Passing the last circle, you widen your consciousness, uniting your opposites… And you remain only with something you have just inscribed on your tabula rasa."
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SILENCE & STRENGTH - 'Opus Paracelsum' CD (The Eastern Front)
Second full-length esoteric dark ambient / alchemical experimental opus full of weird sounds composed by Silence & Strength. The album is inspired by life and works of Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, medieval Swiss physician, chemist, alchemist, one of the fathers of modern medicine and rebellious thinker, developed his own system of medicine and philosophy. All music by Stephan Friedman. Ltd x 1000 copies.
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TEATRO SATANICO - 'Fatwa' CD (Old Europa Cafe)
This album is without a doubt the band’s most Satanic work to date. It starts with a bunch of anti-religious synth-punk songs, then moves further into esoteric electronic left-hand paths, where post-industrial noises copulate with minimal-electro sounds. And then it puts a malediction (or a prayer?) on the real enemy of humanity. And ends summoning the Proud Adversary of the true evil, a ritual invocation to the only and true Light-bringer! And then again more hell to tell... 10 songs with Italian, English and Latin lyrics. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak with original artwork by Saturno Butto, the Italian maestro internationally known for his exceptional and superior fine-art.
The Division is a reconstruction of ancient spells and rituals reinterpreted aurally by one of the leading dark ambient artists of our time, Matthew Schultz (Lap Report, ex-Pigface). Schultz has delved into the esoteric and ancient fraternal order of The Division. He has reinterpreted the traditional texts and scores of the order to create a beautifully dynamic and sometimes disturbing disc that synthesizes world music, dark ambient and magick. "Mantras" is the first in a trilogy of discs that express all the aspects of The Division. Digipak.
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THE SOUND PROJECTOR - '12th Issue' magazine
12th edition of this outstanding UK mag. Interviews with Peter Stempfel, Philip Jeck, Greg Kelley, Lasse Marhaug, Paul Winstanley and Guilty Connector. Articles on The New Blockaders, Keith Rowe, Reynols, Free 103.9 Radio, V/VM, Sparks, Eden Gully, William Basinski, Philip Brophy. Reviews of 'Music From Japan', 'Sound Art From Sweden', Noise, Field Recordings, Electronics / Electronica, Modern Composition, Improv, Experimental, US experimental / noise, experimental guitar music, Art / Modernist, Esoteric music, Drone, Freak / Weird, Electro-Acoustic, Exotica and Krautrock / Post Rock. A4, perfect-bound B&W with full colour cover, 158 pp.
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WALK THROUGH FIRE - 'Furthest From Heaven' CD (Aesthetic Death Records)
Debut CD from this awesome Swedish sludge doom act from Sweden. Oppressive, claustrophobic dark blackened sludge / doom / guitar drone. Enveloped in pain. Taking inspiration from the shit that surrounds us in society - Walk Through Fire transpose this into a musical megalith which yearns for the demise of mankind. Mastered by Greg Chandler (Esoteric). Dedicated to the late Johan Carlzon (Abandon). Ltd x 1000 copies.
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WILL OVER MATTER - 'Lust For Knowledge' CD (Freak Animal)
Finnish project Will Over Matter (Harald Mentor of Ride For Revenge, Total Headfuck) continues its path to new dimensions. Utterly unique approach bordering genius and utterly insane. Making choices that nobody else dares. Will Over Matter's take on esoteric-industrial noise abandons the cliche's of dark ambient / reverb drenched ritual muzak etc. It doesn't sound "retro", yet the approach more in common with Maurizio Bianchi and Musiikkivyöry than contemporary noise.
A rare and unique audio worldview expressed by the singular approach of Brooklyn based duo Ruth Rosenthal and Xavier Klaine. This double album of esoterica / folk / drone creates a glowering and intense atmosphere... part nightmare, part uplifting dreamscape... permeates and builds into a compelling whole. The ambition of Winter Family is evident on the expansive, orchestral epic dancing in the sun... crank your speakers, sit back and open your mind... it will blow you away. This album builds on previous releases on Marienbad and Sub Rosa and demonstrates that rarest of things... a unique voice... once heard never forgotten. Ltd x 300 copies in a superb gatefold sleeve.
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ZA FRUMI - 'Legends - Act 4 - Orders' CD (Waerloga)
Fourth full length album in Za Frumi's instrumental 'Legends' series. This album is inspired by the Orders in the world of Za Frumi (Simon Kölle of Musterion / Abnocto and Simon Heath of Atrium Carceri). An outstanding album with esoteric, deep, mysterious traditions, highly cinematic, dark, magical and breathtaking fantasy music. A True Masterpiece! Digipak.
