STORM OF CAPRICORN - 'Retours Des Tranchees' CD (Twilight Records)
A remarkable debut on Twilight Records from Storm Of Capricorn (the side project of Neon Rain, known from their split “Hopes Die In Winter” with HERR etc). “Retours Des Tranchées” offers a well balanced mix of martial pop (with the main theme being World War I) and neoclassical touches, very much in the vein of Collection D'arnell Andrea, A Challenge Of Honour or Ordo Equitum Solis, with French lyrics. The CD comes in a beautiful digipak and is strictly limited to 500 copies only.
STORM OF CAPRICORN / PARANOIA INDUCTA - 'Jama' CD (Beast Of Prey)
“Jama” is a story and CD devoted to tragedies of the Balkan world. A dark history enriched by beauty and folklore. It is also the opening of a poem written by controversial Croatian poet and revolutionist Ivan Goran Kovacic, who was murdered in 1943. French project Storm Of Capricorn present dark martial ambient and polish project Paranoia Inducta bring forth music full of folklore. The CD is presented in an A5 gatefold cover with two inserts. Another essential BOP release!
VA - '...Where Tattered Clouds Are Stranding' 2 x CD (The Eastern Front)
A compilation of European neofolk, industrial, dark ambient projects dedicated to the art of Icelandic sculptor and painter Einar Jonsson (1874-1954). Almost all the songs presented on the compilation, inspired by Einar Jonsson's art, are unique, previously unreleased and composed especially for this compilation. Part I "Grief" is a neofolk / martial part with the songs of: Aeldaborn, Agnivolok, Belborn, Cawatana, Cold Fusion, H.E.R.R. / Von Thronstahl, Horologium, Kammer Sieben, Larrnakh, Rukkanor, Storm Of Capricorn, Westwind, Weihan, Zebaoth. Part II "Birth Of Psyche" is dark ambient / industrial / esotheric part with the songs of: Artefactum, Bisclaveret, Echo West, Gandolfs Gedanken, Gregorio Bardini, Hoarfrost, Kadaver / Refuse To Die, Objekt 4, Rose Rovine E Amanti, Shining Vril, Sitra Ahra and Wach. Ltd x 1000 copies in a double foldout package. Highly recommended!
UK 13.50£
Europe 14.50£
World 15.50£
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VA - 'Brewery In Piotrków Trybunalski' 2 x CD (Beast Of Prey)
This urban brewery was one of the most important branches of the Polish economy from the 16th-18th centuries. The part which alcoholic drinks played in everyday life (especially beer) brought about the need for the townspeople not only to produce drinks for their own usage, but also to sell. Dark Ambient, Industrial, Martial, Neofolk and of course drinking songs from: Arkham, Asmorod, Barbarossa Umtrunk, Dance Hospital, Dead Man's Hill, Der Arbeiter, Desolation Zone, Division S, Hati, Horologium, Infamis, Isothesis, I.V. Lab, Krepulec, Nekyia, Niegrzeczna Pensjonarka, Outofsight, Przemek Cackowski, Rose Rovine E Amanti, Sator Absentia, Storm Of Capricorn, The Well Of Sadness and Wermut. This regular edition is presented in an A5, 28-page book with all photography by the bands themselves, and is limited to 444 hand-numbered copies.