ASHRAM - 'Gathered Under Shining Silver Skies' DVD (Dying Art Productions)
A special release which documents Ashram's 2009 Chinese tour, finally offering the chance to witness the band's remarkable live show. The DVD features 20 songs recorded in Beijing, which includes not only Ashram's debut and "Shining Silver Skies", but also new songs, solo tracks, improvisations and unreleased material which the band only perform live on stage. The Italian ensemble embodies the romantic backdrop of early 1900’s glamour and also flirts with a slightly naïve Folk spirit. Melancholic and touching Neoclassical music. Ltd x 500 copies in an A5 slimline DVD case with 2 posters from the tour. Sealed in a hand-stamped envelope.
UK 16£
Europe 18£
World 20£
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CON-DOM - 'Live In Japan 2003' CD (Teito Sound Company)
Live documentation of the first Teito live series, Teito-Seiatsu (Imperial city subdued). The concert was held back in 2003 and for that special event Con-Dom played his ‘songs’ in a small theater in Tokyo. The live-set is quite different from the usual sound on record - it's still loud and powerful, but surely has a "different" touch. More theatrical and multi-dimensional one could say. Comes with 8 page colour booklet. A brilliant manifestation of the best, Con-Dom can offer, about Mishima Japanese submission and domination.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
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ROCK-A-ROLLA - SPECIAL 5-ISSUE OFFER
Choose any 5 issues of Rock-A-Rolla at a special price!
Please choose at least 7 issue numbers in order of preference in the 'Additional Information' box when ordering, as early issue numbers are very limited. Failure to choose issue numbers will result in delays in your order being shipped to you!
UK 22.00£
Europe 29.00£
World 37.00£
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SPECIAL DOOM METAL PROMOTION
AGALLOCH - 'Pale Folklore' CD (The End Records)
"Pale Folklore" features eight tracks (62mins) of Black Metal / Doom from this Portland act. Very elaborate and diverse, and surrounded by the majesty of nature and the burden of human existence, the album bursts with melodies with a basis of dark yet very emotional concepts. Creating auras of dark, symphonic melancholia, "Pale Folklore" turns out to be one of the most tragic, mournful yet expressive listening experiences ever!
ELYSIÜM & MONARCH! - 'Elysiüm & Monarch!' CD (Solitude Records)
Talk about your polar opposites, it’s like night and day on this one! This French pairing brings together the skull exploding grind antics of Elysiüm and the super slow motion doom of Monarch. Elysiüm splatters gray matter with four cuts in 10 minutes of noxious, hyper speed grind frenzy. Meanwhile Monarch eclipses the sun with a 58 minute dirge featuring some of the sickest female vocals ever committed to CD! Apocalyptic droning, dredging doom riffs and a fetid air of misery impact with all the subtlety of a rusted knife to the groin. If Burning is too fast for you, then Monarch! should fit just right! Second edition of 500 copies.
HIGHGATE - 'Shrines To The Warhead' CD (Totalrust)
After two years of silence Highgate is back with another grim slab of sickness. "Shrines To The Warhead" delivers four noisy tracks of almost 45 minutes and shows once again their unique powerful Doom / Black Metal / Sludge / Noise that is nasty, oppressive and suicidal. This album is the heaviest effort of the band so far. Devastating. Ltd x 1000 copies.
TREES - 'Lights Bane' CD (Crucial Blast)
2010 edition in a digipak. 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 similar 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.
UK 30£
Europe 33£
World 36£
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UNICAZURN - 'Temporal Bends' CD (uZu Music)
UnicaZürn are: Stephen Thrower (CYCLOBE, COIL) and David Knight (ARKKON, SHOCK HEADED PETERS). Both are also members of The Amal Gamal Ensemble. Composed from recordings and improvisations made between 2004-2009 by the banks of the Thames and the East Sussex coast, "Temporal Bends" is aquatic, coastal music, connecting an experience of the rivers and seas of England with the micro-waterways of memory and the mind, through decompression and dehydration to full flood and saturation. Knight is renowned for his pulverising fretwork in Shock Headed Peters, and his cavernous guitar treatments in Arkkon; Thrower's reed playing provided a distinctive 'free-melancholy' in Coil and emerges as electro-acoustic texture in Cyclobe. To this duophonic arrangement, UnicaZürn add analogue synthesizer, mellotron and piano, with influences echoing back through early Tangerine Dream to the VCS3 days of Roxy Music. Features special guest vocals by DANIELLE DAX, who also contributed the front cover painting on the digipak. With "Temporal Bends", UnicaZürn offer a deeply immersive music which hovers at the brink of abstraction, seeking to conjure at that threshold fantastical coastlines and subterranean narratives in the mind's eye.
