ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE COSMIC INFERNO - 'Hotter Than Inferno: Live In Sapporo 2008' CD (Vivo Records)
"Hotter Than Inferno captures AMT in their fired-up, mainly noisy and wonderfully chaotic live format were spacey keyboards whiz and buzz, guitars singeing with multiple soloing and the rest of the band kick up a hell of a dust storm. The 73 minute set was recorded live in their native Japan on 29 June 2008 at Counter Action, Sapporo and features two long jams... An invigorating, fiery and enjoyable live album" (Musique Machine). Over 70mins of space-psych-prog-rock music featuring tracks from "Journey Into The Cosmic Inferno", "Pink Lady Lemonade...".
"The doom sound is instantly recognisable, complete with rasping vocals - an ultra-heavy onslaught. That’s the known and well-explored ground. But from here, Batillus moves towards irresistible, heavy riffing psych, while Ryan Fairfield’s Hallowed Butchery project fires a pistol to transcend the mossy caves and to throw fits of shoegazing prog doom. This is a brilliant doom metal split—the Batillus side rules, because the American four-piece works so effectively and freshly within the known framework. The Hallowed Butchery side is even better because he does the same, and much more, transcending the confines of the genre" (Foxy Digitalis). Mastered by James Plotkin and beautifully packaged. Ltd x 400 copies on black vinyl.
UK 12.00£
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BEASTIANITY - 'Root' LP (Dais Records)
First ever vinyl reissue of the legendary Australian Neofolk outfit Beastianity’s first album “Root”. Passionate and driving, wild and untamed - honestly one of the most moving and intense recordings of the genre. Beastianity have survived close to two decades as a rogue unit of individuals dedicated to the upkeep of the sub-underground sound. The sonic confrontation of their show was, and is still, a baptism of fire. Only those who could laugh through the excruciating feedback, tape loops, screaming, potential off stage violence and gunpowder stench would stick around to see the pack develop a sound that remains uniquely Australian. Originally released on CD in 1999, now remastered and limited to 300 hand-numbered copies.
UK 16.00£
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COCK E.S.P. - 'Historia De La Musica Cock' CD (Sunship Records / Little Mafia / Breathmint)
The 17th full-length album by infamous Minneapolis noise band Cock E.S.P. is both an homage and parody of the group's extensive and eclectic musical influences, a unique tribute to the past 100 years of experimental and underground music, forming a new cornerstone in the group's mission to challenge the conventional wisdom of unconventional music. Featuring 125 pieces divided into 11 chapters, recorded over a period of two years and clocking it at a mere 38 minutes, "Historia de la Musica Cock" presents an intricate, diverse and rapid-fire selection of art movements and musical genres from Noise to Jazz to Psychedelia to Avant-Garde. Guests: V/VM, Costes, Andy Ortmann, Smell & Quim, Origami Bøe and many more! Comes in a 5x7" card package.
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ELIWAGAR - 'Fjellfolk Saga Fra Forntiden' CD (Morningside Records)
Eliwagar's second release "Fjellfolk Saga Fra Forntiden" ("the legend of the mountain-folk from the past time") tells about a legend written by Runahild herself years ago, but songs are also full of metaphors. The music is more rustic pagan folk, taking the listener away into a wooden cabin at the heart of nature, while a snow storm is raging outside, or while a sweet sun raises at the dawn of a spring. Eliwagar's music is meant to give a positive feeling, reminding of a good feast between family and folk or a calm moment near a fire on an enjoyable evening. "Darkness appeals darkness, and despair appeals despair". After every fight, there is a feast! After every storm, the sun rises again! Even the blaze of a candle can brighten all darkness. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak.
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FORTHCOMING FIRE - 'Set The World On Fire' CD (Other Voices Records)
Forthcoming Fire is a Darkwave / Goth Rock / Electro band, formed in 1990, with 5 various members over the years. The 2 remaining members, Josef K and Lars Wehr, went on to form Von Thronstahl. "Set The World On Fire - Mixes, Hits and Last Temptations" gives fans of Forthcoming Fire the full spectrum of what the band was known for - with a better sound, new mixes and new versions plus the two new songs 'Set The World On Fire' and 'Sonic Horse Ride' that have been performed and recorded by the band's founding members. Epic songs like 'Der Unbesiegte Sonnengott', 'Feuer' or 'My Way Back Home' have been newly mixed and remastered and the tracks 'Summergold', 'Erde, Feuer, Wind und Wasser' and 'Sun Child' are featured as brand new versions with guest vocalists. "Set The World On Fire" is their testament and a love letter to a gone by era. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak.
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GHOSTS OF BRESLAU - 'Peste’ CD (Twilight Records)
Ghost Of Breslau's debut album "Peste" (originally released in two very small editions on Bunkier Prods.) has finally been captured onto CD format for a larger audience. "Peste" is a voyage to the beginning of the World War II - a time when the world was on fire and violence engulfed the city of Breslau (the German name for Wroclaw). Ghosts of the past are still present here. Martial Industrial, apocalyptic war hymns, neoclassical music and dark evocations of the forces now hopefully forgotten. File next to Turbund Sturmwerk, Karjalan Sissit etc.
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GOSPEL OF THE FUTURE - 'Gospel Of The Future' CD (Epidemie Records)
Eight heavy, gloomy sludge / metal / hardcore evil compositions from this Czech act, which will bring pleasure to all lovers of Neurosis, Boris or High on Fire. English graphic designer Chris from grindcore band Narcosis took care of the dark stylish design of the album, presented in a 6-panel digifile.
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GOSPEL OF THE FUTURE - 'The Eclipse' CD (Epidemie Records)
Long-awaited second album from this Czech band. The gates of Hell are opening. Slow, loud, dense and very dark occult stoner/drone/doom. Six compositions including a slowed-down sludge/drone cover version of Master´s Hammer song "Geniove". For fans of Sunn O))), Boris, Neurosis, High On Fire. Ltd x 500 copies in a stylish 6-panel digipak with artwork created by American graphic design genius Seldon Hunt.
UK 10.50£
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HELL-BORN - 'Legacy Of The Nephilim' CD (Conquer Records)
This is: "HELL FUCKIN METAL warriors know no mercy! The newest Hell-Born full-length album, "Legacy of the Nephilim", is ready to set the heavens on fire and claim the earthly thrones! Nine pieces of living infernal brimstone and ferocious energy, with playing time of over 40 minutes! A real must for every true Black / Death Metal maniac." Once again Hell-Born's work is full-filled with merciless, infernal fury, with a sound production much heavier, sharper and selective than ever before. Comes in a nice digipak.
UK 5£
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HOROLOGIUM - 'The Fire Sermon' CD (Divine Comedy)
"The Fire Sermon" is based upon pessimistic views on history, fate of human kind and T.S. Elliot's poetry ("The Waste land"). This release combines the darkest side of traditional symphonic industrial (from SPK "Leichenschrei" to CMI acts such as Memorandum or Heid) with heavy and desperate tensions similar to Aghiatrias and Omnicore. With the addition of some folkish and liturgical elements from Eastern Europe, "The Fire Season" presents a very serious and impressive opus from this Polish act in a completely nihilistic way. Ltd x 500 copies in a beautiful sepia 6-panel fold-out card envelope.
Two great new pieces by this Russian artist, most sensible and emotional drone-ambience, a graceful dance of acoustic reflections and resonances. "Spectral Ship" and "Tidal Fire" appear like universal mantras, revealing the basic HUM of the universe. These works seem to represent perfectly the concept of the "Substantia" series: Sound that exists but which is not originating from the impact of two subjects in contact. Sound that is simply "there", with no beginning or ending. Limited to 500 copies on silver coloured vinyl, with a full colour sleeve designed by Daniel Crokaert / Mystery Sea.
UK 11.00£
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KEPLERS ODD - 'Strena Seu De Nive Sexangula (A New Year's Gift Of Hexagonal Snow)' CD (Fractured Spaces Records)
From the darkest and coldest heart of Sweden comes the trio known as Keplers Odd (headed by Daniel Jansson of Deadwood). Seven tracks of noisy, yet subtly ambient guitar-driven sonic attacks, eerily redolent of the icy cold mysterious aurora-wrapped landscapes prevalent throughout Northern Europe, inhabited by creatures and monsters spawned from the myths and legends told around campfires over countless generations. Keplers Odd create textures, ambience and noise. But there is also quiet subtlety, sinister atmospherics and dark occult moods. Digipak. Ltd x 1000.
UK 11£
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MELEK-THA / DAPNOM - 'Omnium Finis Imminent' 2 x CD (Fire Of Fire Records)
French Satanic black ambient masters Melek-Tha and Dapnom combine forces, each with their own full length CD, to bring you a two CD set entitled 'Omnium Finis Imminent'. These two CDs (70 minutes apiece) each bear the same song titles and the tracks link up second for second in an experiment in which you have the option of creating your own mix of the album to your specifications.
UK 14£
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RISING SHADOWS - 'Finis Gloriae Mundi' CD (Twilight Records)
"Finis Gloriae Mundi" is the third album from Rising Shadows. Once again the beautiful voice of Linda-li enriches the mysterious and complex musical textures created by Fredrik Klingwall. The Swedish duo now goes well beyond their neoclassical and medieval roots and leave the boundaries of a genre. Together with co-producer Mattias Olsson and several session musicians they explore new layers of instruments and rhythms in their music. "Finis Gloriae Mundi" is the soundtrack to a great finale, inspired by the curiosity of death and transmutations of our reality. The result is yet another haunting melancholic masterpiece.
RISING SHADOWS - 'Found In The Cold' CD (Twilight Records)
With "Found In The Cold", Rising Shadows explores a colder and more distorted, harsh landscape than before, yet still holding up the ethereal beauty with the voice of Linda-li. Lyrically and musically the album is a continuation of the themes from "Falling Deep Within". The dreamy, folk inspired songs are still there with the dark lyrics of a journey through life into death and the catharsis in between. Rising Shadows speak about the world of imagination all of us have in mind; a possible world, full of tales, fantastic creatures and beautiful landscapes. A fantastic journey through the mystical world of faeries, wizards and gnomes. Try to search your lost and sad princess into the deep and dark forest of Scandinavia. Imagine a mix of Dead Can Dance, Ennio Morricone and Kate Bush and you'll getting closer to the sound of Rising Shadows! Digipak.
The Festival Issue of UK bi-monthly magazine Rock-A-Rolla, featuring Super Sonic, Input and Green Man festivals. Features interviews with Michael Gira (Swans), High On Fire, Chrome Hoof, Les Savy Fav, Orthodox, Odd Nosdam, Qui, Walter & Sabrina, Eyvine Kang - and a Q&A with Odd Nosdam (Clouddead). Plus a special on "Classic Label" Load Records and the usual vast selection of news, music, DVD and live reviews from the avant-rock, metal, noise and experimental scenes. Always highly recommended!
UK 5.00£
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SURVIVAL UNIT - 'Tied Down For Survival' CD (Autarkeia)
Originally released as a limited edition in 2003 (self-released). At the times of global crisis, the zombies of cultural terrorism strike again with the fire of new toxic power. Tied Down For Survival is a old/new blow from the Scandinavian cult project Survival Unit to the rotten cancer of Western civilisation and the second collection of rarities in the golden collection of cultural terrorism series. This is an exceptionally suggestive, psychedelic power electronics with deeply terrorising implications. Here you will listen to unreleased live records, passages from limited edition utan fana and the controversial conspiracy theory of Rolf-Peter Andersson, where Swedish monarch family, Indira Gandhi and Mikhail Gorbachev practice cannibalism. Digipak.
A= Aqua (water) and F= Foco (fire) At the opposite ends of the natural axis, these two elements are inseparable in Magic: they fight and they flow into each other dynamically. Deep, dark and slow exoterical-ambient waves pulse and boil until beating industrial rushes set afire, in a spiral of emotions penetrating the mind and body. Heavy vinyl 220g extra deluxe waterproof paper complete with embossed cover! Ltd x 444 hand numbered copies.
UK 12.00£
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VA - 'United States Bestial Forces' 3 x CD (L-White Records)
A massive 50 pearls of US Power Electronics bands! Featuring a great mix of older and newer US PE acts: Bereft, Bitchneck, Blessed Sacrifist, Blood Rhythms, Churner, Constrictions, Corephallism, Corpuscle, Cunting Daughters, Custodian, Deeper Wells, Deterge, False Flag, Fire In The Head, Frailty Of Angels, Genocide Lolita, Gnawed, Goatlab, Grammal Seizure, Heavy Breathing, Hierchiss, His Throne, James Balster, Josh Hydeman, Klit, Koufar, Machismo, Magia Nuda, Mania, Miscreant, Murderous Vision, Nyarlathotep, Nyodene D., Pharmakon, Rape-X, Richard Ramirez, R.S.P., RU-486, Secret Guilt, Sharpwaist, Slogun, Steel Hook Prostheses, Streetmeat, Striations, The Thin White Puke, The Vomit Arsonist, Violent Pink, Wolverine Carcass, Xiphoid Dementia and Zulanwar. Ltd x 500 copies in a 6-panel digisleeve. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
UK 19£
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VA - 'Viva Negativa! A Tribute To The New Blockaders Vol. III: USA' 2 x CD (Important Records)
Volume III in a series of artists’ tributes to the pioneering UK Noise group The New Blockaders including exclusive tracks by: Aaron Dilloway, Alan Courtis, AMK, Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, Broken Penis Orchestra, Carlos Giffoni, Controlled Bleeding, Damien Romero, Daniel Menche, Emil Beaulieau, Ideal Fire Company, Jason Kahn, Jim O'Rourke, John Wiese, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Lockweld, Macronympha, Michael Northam, Plethora, Prurient, Richard Ramirez, The Haters, Thurston Moore, Wolf Eyes and Z'EV.
UK 16£
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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.
UK 10.50£
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WINTERBLOOD - 'Le Fredde Ali Del Inverno' CD (Frozen Landscapes Records)
Debut album from this Italian act, formed in Firenze in 1996, but on ice until now. 3 tracks (47 minutes) of pure sombre Dark Ambient, inspired by astral projections, initiations, untouched places, arcane geometries, solitude and frozen landscapes. "...their debut album meanders on its dark journey through crystalline streams and misty mountains utilising its dark ambient confines to noble and magisterial effect. The mood created is often one of immense loss and tragedy; time stands still while silent mourners stand, heads bowed in dark flowing cloaks, hands clasped in a futile bid to deny the cold. The synths never sound overworked, employed with the idea of giving each composition a life of arboreal quality - slow, noble, and wise. Obvious comparisons could be drawn with Vinterriket but Winterblood have their own quality and I feel hugely optimistic about their future" (Asgard Root). Ltd x 500 copies.
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XABEC - 'Feuerstern' 7" Boxset (Drone Records)
"Feuerstern" ("Firestar") captures two tracks of luminous tones and magnetic resonances, which create a warm and floating aural flux. With mellow concrete material setting the counterpoint, very subtle hisses, smacking and clicking sounds can be distinguished. These are enriched further on Side B with field recordings by Michael Northam, made in 2006 at the Audioframes Sonic Art Festival in Herne. This was where "Feuerstern" was also performed in a choreographed way using fireworks! Very delicate tone colours and a perfectly balanced sound pattern allow for contemplative listening sessions. The 7" comes in a golden lettered and embossed grey cardboard box with golden printed inlay. First edition of 300 copies on dark red vinyl.
This is: "HELL FUCKIN METAL warriors know no mercy! The newest Hell-Born full-length album, "Legacy of the Nephilim", is ready to set the heavens on fire and claim the earthly thrones! Nine pieces of living infernal brimstone and ferocious energy, with playing time of over 40 minutes! A real must for every true Black / Death Metal maniac." Once again Hell-Born's work is full-filled with merciless, infernal fury, with a sound production much heavier, sharper and selective than ever before. Comes in a nice digipak.
