ANDREA MARUTTI - ' The Subliminal Relation Between Planets - Live In Archiaro' CD (Nextera)
All music performed and recorded live by Andrea Marutti in Archiaro (Catanzaro, Italy) on August the 24th, 2007. "[Marutti] operates in the area that we could loosely identify as drone music, or ambient, but... this is of a much darker nature altogether. It's hard to tell what it is that he does; be it synthesizers, samplers, computer processing or just tons of sound effects, in the end the effect is a seventy-minute opus of dark, utter dark electronic music. The planets mentioned in the title may give away some of some of the darkness, and perhaps its all too easy to say that its pitch black as the stars by night, but on christmas eve, with stars bright and almost full moon, these sort of references may count. Think Lustmord meeting Mirror, the darkest fantasy of Klaus Schulze or such cosmic hero from yesteryear, and Andrea Marutti is your man" (Vital Weekly).
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COLLAPSAR - 'Beyond The Event Horizon' CD (Malignant Records)
Malignant presents another rising star within the dark ambient scene, this time in the form of French act Collapsar. With their debut CD, Collapsar transports the listener on an epic journey deep into the cosmos, forging a path across a vast, inky void, and steering a course around a roiling galactic core of hyper-dense stars and black holes. The sound is epic, expansive, and most of all, HEAVY. There is beauty and tranquility within these realms, but there is no light - just massive, pulsating textures coalescing into shimmering drones, rippling sound waves, and billowing, multi-dimensional layers of powerful dark energy. “Beyond the Event Horizon” is without question, dark ambient in its purest form and one of the more genre defining releases of the last several years. A must for fans of Inade, Lustmord etc. In 6 panel digipak, with design by eyelyft.
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D.R.S. - 'No-One Should Have The Right To Speak Anymore' MCD (Kaosthetik Konspiration)
3 tracks of Death Industrial and Dark Ambient soundscapes including ultra-bass frequencies and some sample-voices influenced by LUSTMORD and the early CMI sound. Recommended to all lovers of obscure ambiences. Ltd x 949 copies in a 7" sleeve.
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DAVID JACKMAN - 'Edge Of Nothing' 10" (Die Stadt)
"Edge Of Nothing" was first released in a cassette edition of 5 (!) copies on Jackman’s Aeroplane imprint, and then included on the legendary “The Elephant Table Album” DLP in 1983 (feat. Coil, Nurse With Wound, SPK, Lustmord etc). Both tracks presented here are the January 2003 mixes of the original material, which was derived from variously stimulating a cymbal with bows, knuckles, loops etc. An extremely dense piece of experimental noise where (allegedly) the B side is the A side reversed. Regular edition of 400 copies.
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FAHL - 'The Paths To Emptiness' CD (The Eastern Front)
Debut opus from Fahl, founded by Dimo Dimov, Marcel P. and Cornelius Waldner in 2008. All the musicians are active participants in numerous groups from the dark folk, neoclassical and black metal genres. They felt a growing urge to experiment with dark ambient soundscapes, resulting in this mutual collaboration. �The Paths To Emptiness� is a haunting journey to the subconscious, divided into ten audial gateways to the occult and hidden forces of the inner self. Lyrically based on the Mahabharata, as well as poems and texts by John Milton, Jack London, Stefan George, Christian Dietrich Grabbe and Cornelius Waldner, this release is strongly recommended for fans of Brighter Death Now and Lustmord. Featuring members of Svarrogh, Sagittarius, Miel Noir and Allerseelen. Ltd x 1000 copies.
FROM THE BOGS OF AUGHISKA - 'From The Bogs Of Aughiska' CD (Lone Vigil Recordings)
Dark / Black Ambient noisescapes inspired by Celtic history, the harsh, rugged west coast of Ireland, misty boglands, dark nights, rural isolation, forests, The Burrens flora and fauna. Over 40 minutes of cavernous soundscapes (similar to Inade, Satori and Lustmord), moving into Vinterriket territory, with interesting tales of banshees and the pagan mythology of Ireland. The musical equivalent of standing atop the majestic Cliffs Of Moher with a gale force wind in your face.
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GRUNTSPLATTER - 'The Aberrant Laboratory' CD (Dark Vinyl)
The fourth release from Gruntsplatter builds a more transcendent atmosphere, weaving together a sustained darkness that conceals the grimy implements of the taboo nestled in the din. The brooding ambience and cutting frequencies combine with odd melody and an enveloping, fluid mix that lead you through the dirty laboratories and hovels of forbidden science where genius and atrocity meet on level ground. The familiar components of subtle detail, amorphous depth, and seething moods of Gruntsplatter are intact and further evolved here to allow the listeners thoughts to wander. Comparable to Blackhouse, Hunting Lodge, Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Lustmord etc.
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INADE - 'The Crackling Of The Anonymous’ CD (Loki Foundation)
This dark and hallucinatory masterwork, is constructed via the never heard utterances of the void, while tapping into the psyche of the impossible. A stunning dark ambient release that defies all logic because it creates its own! Gorgeous 6-panel digipak by the masters of Dark ambience!! A must-have for fans of Lustmord!
ISOLRUBIN BK - 'Crash Injury Trauma' CD (Soleilmoon)
B. Lustmord released “Crash Injury Trauma” in 1993, as a side project, under the pseudonym Isolrubin BK. “Crash Injury Trauma” is a shocking and disturbing album, unflinching and relentless in its fascination with violent car accidents. Tires skid and horns blare, followed by the sickening sounds of crashing metal and shattering glass, screams, sirens and heart-pounding bass. It’s a cruel, sadistic and horrifying tour de force in the ambient and power electronics genre. Following “Heresy” and “The Monstrous Soul”, and preceding “The Place Where The Black Stars Hang”, the album was recorded during what is now considered a pivotal period in the British artist’s career. Out of print for nearly a decade, this new 2009 edition has been remastered from the ground up, and is presented in completely redesigned packaging.
K11 & PHILIPPE PETIT - 'The Haunting Triptych' CD (Boring Machines)
The Haunting Triptych is a collaboration between K11 (aka Pietro Ribarbelli) and Philippe Petit. A haunted Drone, Electro-acoustic, Dark ambient soundtrack, giving an impression that some ghosts are lurking around… dragging listeners inside a world full of malevolent creatures. Three long drones full, not unlike some works of Lustmord or Nurse With Wound, the sound is heavy and claustrophobic and the downward spiral brings you to the final end, where the last sound you hear before losing your senses is the beast eating your flesh. Over 45mins of music in a spot-varnished ecosleeve.
LUASA RAELON - 'Vampyr: Light Of The Beast' CD (Fatal Beliefs)
A really stand apart Luasa Raelon recording, so well-conceived and composed. This 40-minute long journey is inspired by the art of Bocklin, Caspar David Friedrich, Fulci and classic B&W horror movies. Very well-crafted Dark Ambient / blackened Death Industrial sounds, for fans of Lustmord, Wilt etc. Ltd x 500 copies.
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LUSTMORD - 'Beyond' CD (Vaultworks)
Following "The Dark Places Of The Earth", "Beyond" is the second limited edition sequel to "Others". And just like its predecessor, it sees Lustmord digging deep into its sounds and atmospheres to go back to his "Where The Black Stars Hang" days. Again, gone are the gritty bits and guitars of "Others", as Brian Williams focuses here on what he does best: huge, monumental, pitch black spatial sounds that just need to be listened to as loud as possible. Lustmord is a monument in itself. 60 minutes in total. Ltd x 1000 copies only!
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LUSTMORD - 'First - A Document Of Early Acoustic & Tactical Experimentation' CD (Dark Vinyl)
"First" was released as the first (untitled) Lustmord album on Sterile Records in 1982. The earliest Lustmord recordings show the project's industrial roots with a sound not far from Throbbing Gristle. This record incomparably represents art, ideology, uncompromising consequence and sound tactical proceeding of one of the most interesting, still existing members of the industrial music movement. "First" features John Balance of Coil and additional voices by Nigel Ayers of Nocturnal Emissions, and Nigel Dunster. The CD version features longer edits of some of the LP material, along with additional material (compilation tracks) not on the original.
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LUSTMORD - 'Other Dub' MCD (Vaultworks)
Dub Remix EP of the Lustmord album [ O T H E R ]. Three obviously dubby, heavy and smokey reinterpreations of tracks taken from the original "[ O T H E R ] " album. Reminiscent of the "Lustmord vs Metal Beast" album, but full of gritty and stretched out riffs (think what had been done with the Melvins on "Juggernaut"), this last chapter is a bit beatier than the "Transmuted" vinyl, and fits very well with the rest of Lustmord's extremely deep and masterfully produced catalogue. Features Adam Jones of Tool. 40 minutes of music over 3 epic tracks! Comes in a shrinkwrapped card slip.
LUSTMORD - 'The Monstrous Soul - Black' 2 x LP (Burning World Records)
A classic, much revered album, "The Monstrous Soul" was conceived in Sheffield in 1990 by Lustmord (aka Brian Williams) and Clock DVA founder Adi Newton. A deliberately minimal recording. An hour long soundscape best described as a journey through a frozen hell. The five songs contained revel in a sort of restrained melodrama, packed with horror movie samples and apocalyptic tensions. Another essential release by the unrivalled Lord of Ritual Dark Ambient! Stunning vinyl reissue in a luxurious gatefold sleeve. Black vinyl.
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LUSTMORD - 'The Monstrous Soul' CD (Soleilmoon)
A classic, much revered album, "The Monstrous Soul" was conceived in Sheffield in 1990 by Lustmord (aka Brian Williams) and Clock DVA founder Adi Newton. A deliberately minimal recording. An hour long soundscape best described as a journey through a frozen hell. The five songs contained revel in a sort of restrained melodrama, packed with horror movie samples and apocalyptic tensions. Another essential release by the unrivalled Lord of Ritual Dark Ambient!
"Maleficia is the bay area duo of Andy Way (Orchest, French Radio, Carrion) and Ilysea Viles Sunderman, who crafted this desolate, post-industrial smear of voice, violin, and electronics for the always impressive isounderscore label. With the titles of the two side long pieces being "Making" and "Remaking," Maleficia offers a crucible of elemental sounds being obliterated into a charred dust and rebuilt into ashen constructions of misery and disgust... The industrialized loops that wraps around the voice and violin come across like a slow-motion Maurizio Bianchi on par with the downer records he did with Land Use or the grim power electronic phase in the early '80s. Certainly for fans of Amber Asylum, early Lustmord, and the dark ambient aspects of Broken Flag" (Aquarius). Ltd x 400 copies.
MELEK-THA - 'Perfect World Eradication' CD (Kubernoise)
Utterly disturbing and disconcerting, whipping up a fury of hallucinatory dark noise that can be spoken in the same breath as bands such as Lustmord, Brighter Death Now and Kerovnian. A supreme Apocalyptic Dark Ritual! A perfect mixture of obscure orchestrations mixed together with nihilistic industrialised sonorities... more abrasive than ever! Destructive death musick!
NOISEGATE - 'Suspended Animation Ambient Vol. I' CD (Tumult)
For their second full length album, this East Bay ambient act abandon the violent, corrosive noise that peppered their first full length and instead have created a dark and barren dronescape of ominous, almost imperceptibly shifting, deep, resonant rumbles. Shimmering luminescent shards of low end flow effortlessly through the glistening darkness while hazy tonal reverberations reflect microscopic textures, grey and austere. Breath-taking arrangements of hum and buzz, chime and soothe. Reminiscent of the isolationist experiments and drone investigations of Lustmord, Organum, Zoviet France, Andrew Chalk and Jonathan Coleclough.
The debut release of Polish-born artist Szymon Tankiewicz, 'Submerged' is a dark ambient tour de force. Visually and sonically enveloping, this is an album of space and texture, slowly revealing a psychoactive soundscape of majestic, arcing timbres, circadian buzzes, and expansive drones. Heavy, and cosmically weighty in the beginning, 'Submerged' evolves into something more minimalist and serene, radiating a celestial beauty, yet becoming even more bleak and suffocating as it progresses over it‘s 66 minute time frame. A must for dark ambient purists. 6 panel digipak, with artwork by K. Enderlein (LOKI). Mastered by Thomas Garrison (Control). File next to Yen Pox / Lustmord / Inade / Caul.
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RE-DRUM - 'S' CD (Zoharum)
An excellent piece of work by Pavel Aleshin, whose drone soundscapes have previously been released by Oophoi's record label Umbra and Slovakia-based Black Orchid Productions. The album explores the area of sacral and infinite, hence the title. "S" can be seen as their symbol. Re-Drum was founded in 2002 by Pavel Aleshin. The sound of Re-Drum variates from deep drone / noise soundscapes, to light, warm, even melodical textures. For fans of Robert Rich, Lustmord, Troum, Maeror Tri, Lull or Yen Pox. Digipak.
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ROCK-A-ROLLA Issue #16 Magazine
Scottish prog-rockers Mogwai feature on the 16th edition of UK bi-monthly magazine Rock-A-Rolla. #16 also features interviews with Lustmord, Jazzfinger, Creature With The Atom Brain, Kayo Dot, Mothlite, Umlaut, Ascend ( Greg Anderson of Sunn O))) ), Triclops!, Caïna, Hey Colossus and a Q&A with Racebannon. This month's Label Focus is on Thurston Moore's (Sonic Youth) Ecstatic Peace! Also included is the usual vast selection of news, music, DVD and live reviews from the avant-rock, metal, noise and experimental scenes. Recommended!
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SCOTT HULL - 'Audiofilm 1' 3" CD (Crucial Blast)
Scott Hull (Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed) has been gradually revealing another side of his musical persona over the past few years; an obsession with cinematic soundscaping and dark evocative film scores, mutant electronic textures and pitch-black isolationism. This first part of the Audiofilm Series is a terrifying fug of demonic drone that utilises stereo panning and slabs of obsidian ambience, slowly unfolding over the length of the piece to reveal layers of malevolent black drone and unsettling voices, seemingly lost between planes of shadow. Recommended for fans of Lustmord and Scorn. Ltd x 1000 copies in a mini gatefold sleeve with artwork from Seldon Hunt.
SEMBLER DEAH - 'Kaessariah Heel Een Leven Lang' CD (Kaosthetik Konspiration)
Raised in 2010 by the meeting of Belgian preachers Colin H. van Eeckhout (AmenRa, Kingdom, Blind to Faith), Mathieu Vandekerckhove (AmenRa, Kingdom, Syndrome) and French DehnSora (Treha Sektori), Sembler Deah is a journey behind words, gathered by a sole ambience, between ethereal soundscapes, knotted guitar drones and falls. A three-headed hand surrounding a light in a cold, engulfing and ardent prayer. Just like Lustmord, the trio blends dark ambient textures with captivating sounds and electronic percussion from beyond the grave. An odyssey of sound that seeks to respond to the emotions buried deep within us. Debut CD in a digisleeve.
Brilliant ritual dark ambient from this cult Russian act. Resounding, enveloping sounds for rituals and meditation... corrosive mechanical echoes of human misery. Two hypnotic, chthonic rituals... embodiments of monolithic darkness... created with many percussive instruments, bells and gongs, without using any electrical devices. This will certainly appeal to fans of Lustmord, Nordvargr and Karna. Ltd x 500 copies.
The second full-length album from this Russian act. "Horna" was inspired by the Finnish-Karelian folk-epos “The Kalevala”. Part dirge ambient-drone atmospherics, part noisy black-doom horror, the album's five epic compositions sucked inspiration from Lustmord, Skullflower, Earth, SunnO))), Khanate, Nadja, Jesu, and belched them out into breathtakingly emotional, bass generated audio nightmares, with signs of melodic and rhythmic organisation. An avalanche of dark apocalyptic images hovering over countless layers of sound and distorted sporadic vocals.
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WHERE - 'Wererat' CD (Eibon Records)
7 years after their acclaimed debut 'The Creatures Of The Wind', Where (Zario of organic ambient project Olhon and Darvulia) return with 'Wererat'. Utilising field recordings taken in sewers, this release revolves around the idea of rats conquering the earth. Hyper-obscure, deep, cavernous Dark Ambient and Drone for followers of Lustmord, Thomas Köner, Kerovnian or Amon. Highly recommended!
