(2007) Divided into chapters, but works best as one long song, “II:Ruined” is a massive plunge through crawling and pounding vibes of distorted madness, bass-heavy frequencies, methodically played drums, and utterly painful virulent vocals, all filtered through pure unbridled atmosphere and ambience. A sonic scenario where every negative emotion conceived manifests into beyond epic proportions. Featuring guest appearances from Crippled Black Phoenix founder Justin Greaves (ex-Electric Wizard / Iron Monkey), and UK songstress Rose Kemp, “II:Ruined” will appeal to those who worship at the altar of such bands like Khanate, Sunn O))) and Corrupted respectively. This North American edition comes in a gorgeously designed 8-panel digipak and contains an exclusive bonus track. Also, if you look very closely within the layout, you will find Morse Code which leads to exclusive audio online!
FALL OF THE GREY-WINGED ONE - 'Aeons Of Dreams' CD (Supernal)
(2002) Monumental Drone Doom by Stijn van Cauter, also known for his involvement in a number of Doom / Drone / Noise / Ambient projects, including Until Death Othertakes Me among others. Fall Of The Grey-Winged One has been compared to Earth and Sunn O))), but with a bleak ambient orientation and minimalist industrial influences. If Sunn O))) were to play conversions of Wierzba's post-apocalyptic grimness and M87's icy, deep-space desolation, this is what they would sound like. Professional release of the enigmatic and limited 2002 recording.
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FEAR FALLS BURNING - 'He Spoke In Dead Tongues' 2 x CD (Projekt)
(2005) Here Belgian artist Vidna Obmana reinvents himself under a new persona with his Fear Falls Burning debut. This double CD succeeds in uncovering a new language that stretches time and brings the listener to the edge multiple times, entrancing with the repetitive yet pure sonic presence of the electric guitar. The result could be compared to contemporary drone & minimal ambient acts like Fuxa, Sonic Boom, Experimental Audio Research, Growing and even Sunn O))) with sounds that vary from gritty dirty guitar loops to long sonic landscapes with dense walls of sound.
GERRITT & JOHN WIESE - 'The Disappearing Act EP' MCD (Misanthropic Agenda)
(2006) It's Wiese - brace yourself. This 20 minute EP sees the noise maverick working with Misanthropic Agenda label boss Gerritt, hardly a shrinking violet himself, having gone head to head with Merzbow, D Yellow Swans and Sunn O))) in the past. 'The Disappearing Act EP' starts out with two short, sharp shocks of mashed-up sound, sudden jolts of electricity and the worrying rush of what sounds like toxic gas escaping from a canister. The final track is one 15 minute fade up of unbearably caustic jet engine whine. It'll have you pinned back in your armchair while your face gets pummelled by its horribly intense power. Digipak.
HALF MAKESHIFT - 'Omen' CD (Profound Lore Records)
(2008) “Omen” is a devastating observation of formidable experimental ambient drone-like subtle mastery. With moments that remind of Nadja, Sunn O))), Godspeed! You Black Emperor and A Silver Mount Zion, “Omen” is an opus of dense and flowing sonic terrain where cinematic sound visions create vast, desperate, and devastating scenarios, almost serving its purpose like a desperate doomsday soundtrack. Working as a 50+ minute track, but separated into four parts, “Omen” subtly shifts through different emotions and moods; soothing and comforting, yet at the same time virulent and uneasy, and ultimately eerie and chilling. The incredible use of melody via light guitar strums and guitar ambience, melded with waves of static bursts and ivory key tappings, create the build-up that will inevitably come in the form of massive drone rumblings. This is the final work of Half Makeshift. Mastered by James Plotkin (Old, Khanate). 6-panel digipak.
LNGTCHE - 'Music For An Untitled Film By T. Zarkkof' CD (Etude Records)
The debut album from this project is an obscure piece for the widely unknown Russian auteur T. Zärkkof. A 44:22 minute long soundtrack of dark isolation, drones and exploration of ambient music, blending electronic soundscapes with the sound of raw guitar. A beautiful, haunting and darkly complex work packaged in an exclusive triptych panel with brilliant artwork by SELDON HUNT (also known for his artwork for Sunn O))), Earth, Troum, Neurosis, Z'EV etc).
LOTUS CIRCLE - 'Bottomless Values And Boundless Floods' CD (Nykta)
A true underground apocalypse! This Greek disc "gives you the strange feeling of going on a bad trip. A dark vision of forgotten swamps and demon caves, a void, a storm of sounds! Lotus Circles' sound is close to early Earth and Sunn O))) but in different way. Lotus Circle are the Black Metal side of drone / doom. Feedback noises mixed up with inhuman vocals..." Ltd x 500 copies.
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NADJA - 'Skin Turns To Glass' CD (The End Records)
CD reissue of the very limited release on NOTHingness Records (2003). Nadja creates music that has been variously described as drone metal, ambient doom, and shoegazer, incorporating influences from such diverse artists as Swans, Godflesh, Jesu, Sunn O))), Earth, OM and My Bloody Valentine. Nadja combines soundscapes, electronics and atmospheric vocals with snail-crawl, epic riffs and dirge-like percussion, tempering the cacophany with a certain ethereal melodicism such that the listener is enveloped in a sublimating wall of amorphous sound.
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NOCTURNE FOR A DYING PLANET - 'SAC101RAS - Black Edition' 7" (Tsunami Records)
Regular Black Edition - limited to 400 copies. Two tracks of noise from this Athens, Georgia act, entitled 'Bacchus' and 'Kuloscop'. Actual instruments are used to create the sounds instead of just electronics, reminding of a more structured Sunn O))) or a more metal Factrix. Lot's of feedback, harsh guitar noise, ear piercing keyboards, some piano and guttural vocals. Silkscreened sleeves, with black ink on grey paper and pressed onto transparent gold vinyl, complete with insert.
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NORTT - 'Galgenfrist' CD (Avantgarde Music)
Emerging from the frosty hills of Denmark, Nortt, the wizard of all things morbid, comes bringing from his cauldron a noxious mixture of Black Ambient, Funeral Doom and Black Metal. Distant and expansive, the album gives that perfect sense of solitude and space with the depressive atmosphere that only droning funeral doom can create. File next to Celestiial, Ahab, Xasthur or Sunn O))). Italian import.
OREN AMBARCHI & Z'EV - 'Spirit Transform Me' CD (Tzadik)
With Oren Ambarachi (Gravetemple, Burial Chamber, Sunn O))) etc) on guitar, vibraphone, viola, tubular bells and Z'EV on percussion, the two celebrate radical Jewish Culture with a hypnotic series of three pieces that are explore the hidden Qabalhistic meaning of the Hebrew Alphabet in it's mystical glory. Don't be put off by the portentous and deeply serious subject matter, the music involved here has that same incredible spooky crypt-floor dustiness sound that Sunn O))) often have, but the sound, minus the electric guitar heaviness, has an abstract hypnotising and warm feel with a mystical depth and dignity all of its own that uncoils over the three lengthy tracks. Jewelcase with obi strip.
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ROCK-A-ROLLA Issue # 4 Magazine
Fourth edition of this bi-monthly UK mag. Features interviews with Subtle, Chris McGrail ( Slomo - who recently toured the UK with Sunn O))) ), Ghostigital, Big Business, Kaada, Lords, Zombi, Sika Redem. Plus great articles on Southern Lord and The New Blockaders and a big bunch of album/live reviews. Always highly recommended.
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ROCK-A-ROLLA Issue #10 Magazine
Sunn O))) embellish the cover of this UK bi-monthly magazine, now in its 10th issue. Features a massive interview with Sunn O)) as well as KTL, Liars, Cephalic Carnage, Pelican, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, - and a Q&A with Duane Denison (Tomahawk) Plus a special on "Classic Label" Neurot recordings and the usual vast selection of news, music, DVD and live reviews. Always highly recommended!
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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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SHIFT - 'Have No Fury' 7" (Heidenlarm Sounds)
First release from Swedish Noise artist Shift. The title track initiates proceedings with dark ambient soundscapes and strong industrial rhythms, developing into heavy electronics. Flipping over, 'Jag Var I Kulverten' opens into a vast industrial soundscape, carried by a subtle repetitive melody. Heavily distorted low and mid frequency textures dominate the early moments, giving way to confrontational high-pitched abrasions. Heavyweight, clear vinyl presented in a stunning sleeve with artwork by Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))), Khanate etc). Ltd x 500.
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SKITLIV - 'Amfetamin' CD (Cold Spring CSR90CD)
Exclusive release from the Doom / Noise project of Maniac (ex-MAYHEM), featuring Kvarforth (SHINING), and with special guest vocals by Attila (SUNN O))), MAYHEM). From Black Metal through Funeral Doom and Demonic Noise, Skitliv cover all the bases in modern extreme sonics. The CD version includes bonus tracks from Skitliv's live performance at the Camden Underworld, London, 13th December 2007, with a special intro from CURRENT 93 (David Tibet & Andrew Liles).
Collaboration between prolific drone guitarist Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))), KTL, Æthenor, Burning Witch etc) and Industrial pionier and master of rhythmajik, Z'EV. 'Magistral' offers up a disc’s worth of Z'EV's composing / processing of Stephen O’Malley’s solo guitar drone. "The sounds on offer run the gamut from shimmering metallic drones and abysmally deep bass rumbles to abrasive, scraping industrial noise, inviting comparison to blackened ambient acts like Archon Satani and Sistrenatus, as well as to Z’EV’s similar collaborative album with Polish drone act Hati... An absorbing and intricate piece of work that repays repeated listenings" (Judas Kiss). Ltd x 2000 copies in a hardback gatefold jacket.
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THE SOUND PROJECTOR - '15th Issue' magazine
15th edition of this outstanding UK mag. Interviews with Russ Waterhouse, Peter Strickland, Clay Ruby, Mudboy and U. W. Owl. Articles on Carl Michael Von Hausswolff, Sunn O))), 'Vinyl Viands Emanating From America' (US underground Vinyl). Reviews of 'The Nordic Realms' (Finland, Norway, Denmark), 'International Music', the label 'Sublime Frequencies', 'Noises From The US Underground', Black Metal, Doom, Noise, Post Rock, Stoner Rock, Environment And Field Recordings, Art / Modernist, Minimalism, Improv, Tape Manipulation / Turntablism, Freak / Weird, Electronica, Drone, Singer / Songwriter, experimental Guitar music, plus a general reviews section. A4, perfect-bound B&W with full colour cover, 148 pp.
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TRANSITIONAL - 'Nothing Real, Nothing Absent' CD (Conspiracy Records)
Transitional is the new project of musician producer Kevin Laska (Novatron) and Dave Cochrane (Jesu, Grey Machine, God, Head Of David). The debut 'Nothing Real, Nothing Absent' offers a rich variety in their approach to sound, combining crushing atmospheres through a mixture of electronic ambience, mangling bass lines and distorted epic layers of textured guitar. Injected with driving rhythms and effected vocal phrasing Laska and Cochrane build discordant worlds on an immense scale which pull you down to another level of fear and ethereal bliss before kicking off with some more soul dismantling sonic dysfunction. This is a band which can deliver both sonic tranquility and extremely heavy slabs of dense music and just about everything in between. File next to Godflesh, Sunn O))), Isis. Digipak.
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VA - 'OneManDrone' 12" (Petty Bourgeois)
Compilation 12" release following the tour of these four one-man bands through France & Spain. One track each from Shit, Oldine, Tamagawa and B°tong. The music ranges from Dark Ambient drones and tones, Sunn O)))-like bass-thunderings to Spacemen 3-like guitars... very warm guitar drones a la Fear Falls Burning, to drift off late at night. 33rpm. Ltd x 500 copies on beautiful clear, marbled vinyl. Swiss import.
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VANESSA VAN BASTEN - 'La Stanza Di Swedenborg' CD (Eibon Records / Radiotarab / Noise Cult / Cold Current Productions)
Vanessa Van Basten is a strongly emotional sonic magma that absorbs and metabolises different sonic influences, from the introspective metalcore / heavy Postrock of Jesu and Neurosis to the experimental metal drones of Sunn O))), from Lycia and Slowdive melancholy-driven soundscapes to the cinematic melodies of Morricone and Badalamenti. Astonishment, meditation, psychotropic medias, cynism and human misery. Welcome to the Swedenborg Room. Outsized digisleeve with printed inner sleeve.
