ECHRAN - 'Echran' CD (Small Voices / Ebria Records)
Echran is the duo of Davide Del Col (Ornament) and Fabio Volpi (Otolab). Echran's music is a form of post-industrial ambient mixed with analogical echoes of the 70s and the 80s, all combined with cold digital sequences and an obsessive metronomic minimalism. The whole work sounds intense and compact, closing to a sort of song composition, a good use of melodies mixed to a great amount of noise. The French vocal themes are a sort of a self-confession, bright and crazy: scars of reality in an ocean full of nasty and unhealthy fanaticism. Ltd x 500 copies.
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EGIDA AUREA - 'Storia Di Una Rondine' MCD (Wolf Age)
"...the debut of another extraordinary Italian folk band from Genova. Egida Aurea was born as a private expression of Diego Banchero, member of Recondita Stirpe, Malombra and Il Segno Del Comando. "Storia Di Una Rondine" is a four-track mini CD that marvellously introduces the listener to a world of powerful and violent passions, superbly conjured by the evocative music and the charming yet aggressive female vocals of Carolina Cecchinato... This first song is worth alone the purchase of the CD... A fantastic debut for Egida Aurea, that shows what trained musicians with a refined taste are capable of... will appeal to the neofolk audience, but is much more than simple and stereotyped neofolk, the influences go clearly far beyond... this is music of the soul, expressed at its very best. Very recommended!" (Filth Forge). Card sleeve with insert.
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EIDULON - 'Idolatriae' CD (Malignant Records)
The debut CD from Eidvlon (Italy) contains 7 tracks of ultra bleak, abstract atmospheres, with sounds and textures that seem to seep from catacomb walls and come slithering out of subterranean chambers. Certainly, this can be classified as a dark ambient record, but at it’s core, it’s more than just that simple classification. There’s a gritty, more jagged edge here, with tetonic shifts, deep rumblings, and crackling, climatic squalls buried under a bed of ghostly reverb and haunting tonal resonance. Fits in nicely with past Malignant releases such as R-A-A-N's 'The Nacrasti', Heid's 'Arktogaa', and even Caul's 'Crucible' CD. In elegant 6 panel digipak, with stark black and white, carefully arranged illustrations inspired by Taschism and Spatial art.
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EINLEITUNGSZEIT - 'Auranoise' CD (Ars Morta Universum)
2002 album from the Slovakian Industrial / Noise legends, headed by Norg (VO.I.D.). Clearly leaning again to the harder Industrial range, dominated this time by violent noise attacks with a deconstructed, textured base. 59 minutes of music for hardened Industrial Noise freaks! Limited to 1000 copies in a folded cardboard sleeve, sealed with twisted wire.
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EINLEITUNGSZEIT - 'Die Infektion Der Geburt' CD (Hirnlarm Laboratorium)
This first album from this Slovakian act in 4 years frames very vivid material operating with industrial amplitudes of pulse noise and subliminal vibrations of thundering "hallucinatory ambient". With its dramatically contrasting structures and experimental sound work, the compositions on this album may rather evoke the sense of an avant-garde classical music piece. In contrast to their prior work, this Einleitungszeit album is full sound textures and psychoactive atmospheres of “clinical leitmotiv”. Presented in a beautiful digipak with silver print.
Pounding, suffocating, looped noise rhythms. In my opinion probably the strongest release Einleitungszeit have ever committed to CD! 'Human Scrap' includes a very nice multimedia presentation containing a live photo library, lyrics, an interview in English / Slovakian and a video. Comes in handmade metal/board packaging bolted together, making this a fine release to get your hands on!
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EINLEITZUNGSEIT - 'Schrei des Feuers' VHS (Ars Morta)
The legendary Slovakian project captured live! Using various distortion pedals, metal (all contact-miced), and noise/beat samplers, the live sound of Einleitungszeit is extremely heavy with searing noise and vocal shrieks creating an all out aural offensive. Situated somewhere between power electronics and death industrial, the intensity peaks early on and remains so throughout its whole duration. Nice box with plastic outer.Czech import - limited to just 133 copies! VHS PAL only (European).
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EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN - '1991-2001: Strategies Against Architecture III' 2 x CD (Mute)
This compilation is selected from the musical output of German Industrial pioneers Einstürzende Neubauten during the years 1991- 2001, with a total of 29 tracks!. Whenever possible, alternative versions, live performances, rare releases and unreleased pieces have been selected. Presented in a sumptuous double gatefold digipak with over 100 images. Unfortunately, all pieces have slight marks on the artwork, hence the reduced price.
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ELDAR - 'Sapere Aude' CD (Cold Meat Industry)
Eldar is a Barcelona-based project created in 2004 by Marc Merinee and Merce Spica, with a few obscure and limited releases in the past. This is a new chapter in the band's history; a chapter certain to put Eldar on the Dark-Ambient / Martial map. On "Sapere Aude" each track has been created in a unique collaboration with close related bands and projects (Der Blaue Reiter, Persona, Verbum and more), each introducing new instruments, melodies and voices - all treated and strongly bound together by the special Eldar-sound to an epic and enthralling listening. Low brooding analogue industrial sounds and voices, thunderous percussion with a dense martial bombast. Digipak.
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ELHAZ - 'The Black Flame' CD (Dark Vinyl / Memento Mori)
These heathen creations are loaded with unrepentantly Satanic philosophy combined with bombastic Neoclassical arrangements and industrial darkwave, topped with ritual excursions into pagan folk music. Synths, deep bass vocals (ala Kirlian Camera) and samples all come together in a gloriously accessible album. Comparable to ConSono. Not to be confused with the French Black Metal band of the same name!
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ELISABETHA - 'Uber Das Prinzip Der Unschuld' CD (Beverina)
14th release of this Austrian act. "Is there a desire to live a life after you awoke? Do you wish to flee? Are you strong enough to be your dream? Are you ready to give up what you think is reality? Can you leave behind your faith and to focus the light of your eyes on perception. You must be willing to learn to live again and to bear the pain of thousands of aeons. Pain will be a friend on your side. You will bring death to your loved ones and this will be the sin of your love." 80 minutes of Neoclassical, Martial and Ambient music with medieval elements. Limited to 500 copies in an elegant gold digipak. Very reminiscent of Von Thronstahl and Blood Axis in places.
Starting out in 2005, Emeralds has grown in recent years into a monster of heavy improvised drone using analog synths and masterfully effected guitar. Born out of the midwest scum-noise scene, these guys have taken the intense heaviness of their midwest brethren to a place that is entirely their own. They have replaced the creepy atmosphere and abrasive harsh noise of their peers with a very different, though equally intense assault of cosmic drone power. This is the trio's first full-length album after numerous limited releases. Fans of the smooth tones of 'New Age Of Earth' era Ash Ra Tempel and the buzzing thick drones of Throbbing Gristle's 'Heathen Earth' should take note, as Emeralds may be their new source for electronic drugs. Ltd x 1000 copies in a digipak.
EMVELOPE NINE - 'Melt Canal' CD (Split Femur Recordings)
'Melt Canal' is a beautiful and haunting piece of work from Birmingham-based artist Alan Daly. Using guitar, pedals, synths and field recordings, the pieces seem to stay in one place, creating a sonic environment that allows the listener to furnish themselves. The album is reminiscent of Vladislav Delay, Fennesz and Tim Hecker, but still manages to hold as a piece of work on its own.
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ENCOMIAST - 'Encomiast' CD (Lens Records)
Encomiast have been harvesting an audience of enthusiastic music fans for almost a decade now. With six full-length releases, 2 EPs and half a dozen compilation appearances, Encomiast are one of the most highly regarded and prolific artists in the dark ambient / drone genre. For this eponymous CD, Encomiast mined their extensive early recordings and un-released material to compile, edit and re-master six tracks that give a glimpse into where it all started. Encomiast's "Winter's End" CD (2001) has been described as "a delirious blend of dark dreamy blackened drones and shimmering cinematic ambience" - the tracks on "Encomiast" revisit much of the same sonic territory. CD with rice paper insert and vellum sleeve.
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ENCRYPTION - 'Nosferamor' CD (Waerloga)
"Nosferamor" unveils the Vampyric shroud of darkness, mysticism, love and pain. Behold the encounter of a mortal man and an undead beauty, folding into a heartbreaking love story. Feel the shivers of a passion of such depth, that the burden of immortality is but a small sacrifice. "Nosferamor" combines melancholic church music with female voices and film-like passages. Recommended for fans of classical / ethereal music with heavenly voices (Autumn Tears, Ordo Funebris, Ataraxia etc). Presented in a nice digipak.
The first official DVD from Belgian ethereal / dark ambient / medieval act Encryption features good quality live versions of songs from the album ‘Nosferamor’, but also some older tracks performed on stage. The DVD also includes two professionally made video clips for the tracks ‘Requiem’ and ‘Dominus Dea’, various bonus material (including the making of the videos and behind the curtain footage) and galleries!
PAL, Region 0 (will play in all European DVD players).
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ENDVRA - 'Black Eden' CD (Red Stream)
Reissue of the long deleted classic, originally released in 1996. Endvra are electronic soundscape alchemists Christopher Walton (TenHornedBeast) and Stephen Pennick (Ontario Blue), combining synths with (un)healthy doses of Crowley, Lovecraft and psychedelic chemical enhancement. Nothing in the Dark Ambient category has ever emerged to dethrone this work of sinister aural mystery. "Black Eden" is a HP Lovecraft tale set to music: medieval devil worship and sabbat dancing invoking preternatural beasts which inhabit the realm of Cthulhu and are spoken of in the fabled "Necronomicon". A truly horrifying masterpiece. "Gold Edition".
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ENDVRA - 'Elder Signs' 2 x CD (Red Stream)
Red Stream have resurrected the dead souls of these primal recordings and added to them rare, exclusive bonus material to produce an album that documents the early years of Endvra. An exhaustively massive compendium of Dark Ambient hallucinogenic madness for unholy rites by the mysterious cult with Stephen Pennick (Ontario Blue) and Christopher Walton (TenHornedBeast). Endura present 2 discs bursting at the seams with 144 minutes of psychologically disturbing music to consume absinthe & open your veins with! The Elder Sign has risen. Absolutely essential!
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ENDVRA - 'Great God Pan' CD (Elfenblut)
This 1997 CD is characteristic of Endvra's genius at melding various approaches into a "dark ambient" dreamscape. As the album's title suggests, the thematic focus is centered around "Hymn to Pan". The musical styles vary between minimalist ritual-industrial rhythms and ambient-orchestral pieces. Vocals for "The Truth Is A Sharp Knife" were recorded in Durham cathedral, whilst "From Sickening Skies' was recording during a lunar eclipse in 1996. Christopher Walton went on to form TenHornedBeast, while Stephen Pennick formed Ontario Blue. An essential and now hard to find Endvra release - and the inspiration for many a cloak-wearing artist! RARE! ACT FAST!
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ENEMA SYRINGE - 'Ins Gefangnis Geworfene Blind Sklaven' CD (Mondo)
Extremely rare and obscure CD from 1999. Swedish Grindcore band Enema Syringe offer an intense and somewhat confusing CD, interspersed with 'special guests' of the extreme / harsh Japanese Noise genre: Merzbow, Masonna, Painjerk and Incapacitants. A very collectable piece. Few copies in stock, all shrinkwrapped. ACT FAST!
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ENEMITE - 'Wuyuan' CD (Dying Art Productions)
Enemite offer angry and dense atmospheres; more of a ceremony, a circle of forming. Lost in the noise of hell, an evil creature wanders up and down forever. “Please close the doors and windows to turn off the light and listen alone!” Dark, gloomy and sinister. Death-inspired Ritual Ambient with an inherent Chinese feel. Comes in a stark A5 B&W gatefold sleeve / "ecopack" with insert and Chinese text throughout. Ltd x 1000 copies.
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ERESHKIGAL - 'The Raping Of The Divine' LP (Temple Of Darkness)
Ereshkigal is a Greek band that plays shokingly and devastatingly interesting Black Metal, trying to continue the primordial heritage of ROTTING CHRIST, THOU ART LORD, VARATRHRON and so on. Brutal riffs with progressive melodies, heavy metal and powerful riffs, magnificent guitar solos and thrash, thunderous and boisterous elements are some of the things that comprise this polymorphic puzzle. Ereshkigal are the living proof that black metal can improve and constantly evolve! Ltd x 1000 handnumbered copies on purple vinyl, presented in a full colour gatefold sleeve.
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ERIC CORDIER - 'Breizhiselad' CD (Erewhon)
"[Eric Cordier] plays six lengthy pieces with this limited material, but cranks out some beautiful material with it. Of course the crackling vinyl plays an important role, but throughout there is a great sense of peace and warmness in these recordings. Everything moves solemnly and slowly around, and makes a hotbed of ambient sounding material, but albeit an ambience of a highly original kind. Perhaps limited in it's concept, the execution thereof is great..." (Vital Weekly). Digifile.
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ERIC CORDIER - 'Osorezan' CD (Herbal International)
Selected field recordings from 1993 - 2007, made in Japan and France. A volcano in Niseko... a ferry journey on the Seine... a storm in Honshu, ... a festival, a bonfire and a cemetary in La Haye De Routot, Normandy... and the beginning of a summer afternoon in Le Mazel, Champy. Over 60 minutes of sounds. "Such richness captured in such elegant and smooth way: a true treat for the ears." (Vital Weekly). Presented in a 6-panel digifile with an extensive booklet of site photos and text in English.
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ESOTERIC - 'Epistemological Despondency' 2 x CD (Aesthetic Death Records)
The excellent debut release from UK doom legends Esoteric. One of the legendary albums and milestones of extreme doom - an album which took this genre to levels never before perceived or encountered. 6 tracks of raw extreme droning Funeral doom - not for the uninitiated - a task of survival for the 90 minute duration!
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ESOTERIC - 'Metamorphogenesis' CD (Eibon Records)
Esoteric is a British extreme doom metal band from Birmingham, founded in 1992. "The album contains three incredibly long pieces that hardly qualify as songs for each one contains its fair share of noise and dark psychedelic passages, its own paranoid journey. The chaotic textures and spidery rhythm delving deep into the listener’s mind, drowning the emptiness in layers of aural dissonance. The music is so effectively psychedelic that people I know have actually reported hallucinations (without the aid of hallucinogenic drugs) while listening to the album, and not pleasant ones mind you. Metamorphogenesis was obviously crafted with a very small minority of people in mind, that incredibly small part of the general population that actually enjoys ugly, dissonant and horrific soundscapes. I can only recommend this album to them in good conscience. I wouldn’t wish this album on anyone else" [Stonrerrock].
ESOTERIC - 'The Pernicious Enigma' 2 x CD (Aesthetic Death Records)
"3 years have passed since 'Epistemological Despondency' and Esoteric return with a more mature, but still very dark and psychedelic release. The very depressive, melancholic intro of the first track, suggests that those guys are actually familiar with the concept "melody", although they don't apply it too often. Doom fans that are only familiar with the works of bands like My Dying Bride and Anathema, may think after those first five minutes that Esoteric have a sound similar to those bands... But after those five minutes they'll probably get scared the hell out of them. The familiar Esoteric chaos returns, with a plethora of vocal, bass and guitar effects, extremely tortured, intelligible death grunts and hysterical screams and an overall atmosphere that reminds all too much of a bad trip." (Doom-Metal.com)
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ESOTERRA Issue #9 Magazine
Rare magazine, printed 2001. 60 pages of Dark Art Oddities and Aural Abominations in the 9th edition of this US magazine. Features interviews with H.R. Giger, Boyd Rice, Der Blutharsch, Atrax Morgue, Corvus Corax, Trevor Brown, John Coulthart, and more! A4 with full color cover by H.R. Giger and four full color pages of Trevor Brown's work. Writers include Michael Moynihan (Blood Axis), Markus Wolff (Waldteufel), and Carl Abrahamsson (Cotton Ferox, White Stains).
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ESTHER VENROOY & HELEEN VAN HAEGENBORGH - 'Mock Interiors' CD (Entr'Acte)
Electronic composer Esther Venrooy and pianist Heleen Van Haegenborgh’s collaboration explores the synergy of acoustic piano with electronics and digital sound processing. Their compositions aim to draw the listener into the inner workings of the piano. Employing a battery of microphones, resonating elements and tiny inaudible mechanical sounds are captured, manipulated and magnified through electronic means, resulting in fragile textures where the boundaries between electronic and acoustic sound become blurred. Ltd x 300 copies in the usual Entr'Acte heat-sealed sleeve.
Singular work from this Dutch-born Belgian composer who isolates elements from The Conet Project’s macabre collection of secret shortwave "number stations" and assembles them in massively brooding late night dronescapes, repeat tone clusters and flashes of phantom electricity. Something supremely disconcerting about the mechanised voices and occult number calls and put in this context the whole piece takes on a bizarre / surreal almost Nurse With Wound air. 'Shift Coordinate Points' refers to an excerpt from William Burrough's novel 'Nova Express. Edition of 300 copies.
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ESTHER VENROOY - 'The Spiral Staircase' LP (Entr'Acte)
The Spiral Staircase is a series of short electronic vignettes that constitute two vertical progressions. The pieces were composed during 2006–7 and consist of layered bodies of sound. Some of the source material was created on the EMS Synthi 100 at the IPEM (Institute for Psycho-acoustics and Electronic Music) in Ghent, Belgium. Esther Venrooy is a Dutch-born, Ghent-based composer and sound artist working in the field of electronic music. She presides the board of (k-raa-k)3 and together with her husband runs Odradek, an organisation that curates events and releases dedicated to sound art and innovative or experimental music. Ltd x 300.
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ETHEREAL WOODS - 'Kenilworth' CD (Supernal Music)
"This third album sees Ethereal continuing the evolutionary trajectory they initiated with "In the Forest of Arden", which led them here towards an even heavier sound. Yet, while we hear rumbling frequencies and a rhythmical approach that are commonly associated with Death Metal, this duo retain their characteristically Doomy and melancholic sound, offering plenty of sorrowful harmonic melody and keyboard-driven magic. I am reminded at times of Decomposed, although Ethereal Woods is musically richer and more classically-influenced. The nature, mysticism and sylvan fantasy themes present in their previous two albums take here an explicitly Elizabethan turn. One is inevitably reminded of the sensibilities of a Sir Philip Sidney, although Blackmetalised and in much simplified form" (AK-47).
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ETHNIC ACID - 'Power Works 1986-88' 2 x CD (Industrial Recollections / Freak Animal)
The archival recordings of Ethnic Acid, available for the first time on CD. Featuring a selection of the most powerful tracks, taken directly from the original master tapes, this release represents a major milestone in the history of underground noise music. Ethnic Acid is/was the nom de plume of British noise musician Anthony Di Franco (Ramleh, ex-Skulflower, AX, JFK, Novatron). These recordings span the years 1986 to 1988 when, while still a schoolboy, Anthony was carving out a singular identity as a electronic / acoustic noise musician recording for labels such as Broken Flag and Birthbiter. Obscure and arcane, this music has only been available to the most dedicated hardcore noise fanatics - until now.
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EVOKEN - 'Embrace The Emptiness' CD (Solitude Productions)
Reissue of the cult 1998 album from this US Funeral Doom / Death Metal act, originally released on Elegy Records USA in a limited edition and now presented with all new artwork. This was the second outing from the band and is a much sought after item for doom-metal fans all over the world. "Evoken seems to be one of the slowest and darkest doom bands around. Combining a heavy, unrelenting doom basis with spooky atmospheric parts and excellent keyboards, Evoken builds up endless landscapes of horror and darkness" (Doom-Metal.com). Upon his will you will sleep to an endless dusk. Russian import.
Ex.Order disrupt your synapses with "Corporate Control". Ten new tracks of an immensely raw sonic and violent aesthetic, constructed through dark throbbing machine noises, crushing rhythmic layers and vocals. Highly explosive heavy electronics, uncompromising and provocative both sonically and visually. An unforgiving tour de force capturing the perfection of disorder. The absolute response to the nightmare that is the world we live in. Ex.Order is the alter-ago of Inade. LP version, limited to just 222 copies with textured sleeve - act fast!
Issue #4 of this extreme Italian zine, which focuses on Power-Electronics, Industrial, Noise, Dark Ambient, Ambient, 'true Folk' and Experimental music. Features interviews with: Bloodyminded, Channel '83, Climax Denial, C.O.T.A., Fire In The Head, Gea, Institution D.O.L., Kaparte, L-White, Montage, Moribund, N., Organised Resistance, Teatro Satanico, Testing Vault, The Rita and Vans La Furka / Decreto K. Also contains a ton of reviews and articles on the scene. Contains lots of extreme / fetish imagery and views. Don't buy if you're easily offended! A4, 58 pages, B&W.
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EXPERIMENTAL AUDIO RESEARCH - 'Worn To A Shadow' CD (Lumberton Trading Company)
'Worn to a Shadow' is the most recent album by Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3 / Spectrum) under his EAR guise. Its artwork, using two op-art designs, is absolutely staggering. Play the album whilst gazing at it and fall back in slow motion. EAR's sound will be instantly recognisable to many, as indistinct soundscapes unfurl (almost in slow-motion) to reveal a real concept of ambient depth. Without doubt, EAR's finest work to date. An exceptional release. CD version in digipak.
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EXPERIMENTS IN DARKNESS - 'From The Heart' CD (Midnight Productions)
Experiments in Darkness (Piette / Dead Man's Hill) presents it's 2nd release. On this album you can hear the soundtrack of a man who became more and more introvert against the entire world. A man who got buried under so many problems and sorrows, with no single place where he can lose his grief. And this entire expression of sorrow is accompanied by a background of oppressive neoclassical music. A must have for people who can find (and cure) themselves into music which represents total sorrow and neo-romanticism. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak. Chinese import.
EXSANGUINATE / [L-I-T-D-N-A] - 'Allegory of Death' CD (Misanthrope Studio)
Each band presents it's own sonic 'Allegories of Death'... meditations on that inevitability we all fear and at the same time are fascinated by. Exsanguinate (Thomas Garrison of Control) starts with a commanding and urgent track, flush with militaristic undercurrents in it's opening moments. From there the material evolves into something more abstract and steeped in dread with tendrils stretching into elements of clinical drone and throbbing frequencies to a more introspective ambient chaos. [L-I-T-D-N-A] round out the disc with their unique blend of deep tones, harsh frequencies, gentle pulses against an almost ambient feedback. Squalls, static, interjecting beats, distortions and vocals accentuate an anxious, looming reality. For fans of Death Industrial.
Each band presents it's own sonic 'Allegories of Death'... meditations on that inevitability we all fear and at the same time are fascinated by. Exsanguinate (Thomas Garrison of Control) starts with a commanding and urgent track, flush with militaristic undercurrents in it's opening moments. From there the material evolves into something more abstract and steeped in dread with tendrils stretching into elements of clinical drone and throbbing frequencies to a more introspective ambient chaos. [L-I-T-D-N-A] round out the disc with their unique blend of deep tones, harsh frequencies, gentle pulses against an almost ambient feedback. Squalls, static, interjecting beats, distortions and vocals accentuate an anxious, looming reality. For fans of Death Industrial.