Darrin Verhagen, in tugging on a thread of viciousness which has lain subdued and understated for most of Shinjuku Thief's back catalogue, pulls up a 42 minute slab of sonic violence which is as unmerciful as it is exquisitely crafted. Under his new power electronics pseudonym 'E.P.A.' we find a finely balanced tension between visceral chaos and deliberate nastiness. If all the Shinjuku Thief albums which preceded it suggest the ghostly existence of a dark world, "Black Ice" delivers the map, the accelerator and the searing pain upon arrival. Beautiful artwork and limited to just 500 copies.
UK 5£
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E.V.P. - 'Postmortem Canticles Of Necromancy' CD (Autumn Wind Productions)
Over 70 minutes of sinister Dark Ambient / Neoclassical dirges from this German entity (featuring an ex-member of BM act Crimson Moon), full of orchestral strings, percussion, choirs and spoken passages. E.V.P. surround and engulf the listener into a world of death postures, séances and the forgotten places of what has yet to be found. Comes in a DVD case with an insert that folds out into a very handy, portable Ouija board!
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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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.
ELTAN RENAXY - 'Weird Ballads In My Town' CD (Dying Art Productions)
Founded in 2006, Eltan Renaxy is the Dark Folk project of Baishu (Bloody Woods) and Lamia (The Whisper Of Tears). This Chinese act play traditional European Neofolk, accompanied by dark ambient, creating a perfect combination of Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio's vicarious ardour and Nick Cave's weird, morbid story telling style. It tells stories of live, desire, sorrow and despair. Some of the story may be eccentric, but the aim of ER is to reveal the human soul. Ltd x 500 copies. Chinese import.
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EMIL BEAULIEAU - 'Abusing The Little Ones' LP (Self Abuse)
America’s greatest living noise artist reworks and manipulates material from the Murder 7" series. Limited edition of 300 copies - and naturally only a handful in stock!
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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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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.
Belgian act Encryption return with an enchanting ethereal and Dark Ambient album, filled with heavenly female vocals. The Legend of the secret society of Ordo Libidis put to music. A dark tale from the times of burning witches during the Inquisition, rituals, the Occult and magick. Those into Arcana, early Mortiis or yet darker ambient atmospheres, with a touch of medieval music and a slight addition of neo-classical ingredients, can't go wrong with this CD. 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".
UK 11£
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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.
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ENGLISH HERETIC - 'Wyrd Tales' CD + Magazine (English Heretic)
"Visit the haunts of Matthew Hopkins, the parishes of his victims, the desolate and ravenous bays of Daphne Du Maurier. Excavate among the gnostic ruins of M.R. James and drink in the ojas of Austin Spare's London. From our nation's unconscious libraries we unearth hallucinatory and hermetic monographs. Discover the lost reels of a Frazerian horror film and catalogue the fantastic occult pathologies that ferment from a racial memory of zealot's purge and war time trauma." To complement and animate the 92-page, perfect bound magazine (more of a paperback book really), 'Wyrd Tales' comes with a 70 minute CD containing documentary evidence of our imaginal interpenetrations. Culled from phonographic recordings, in situ improvisations and studio distillations, these aural commentaries provide the finest synaesthetic liqueur to accompany your fireside readings of this Albionic Al Azif.
EONA - 'Groyantes Eternelles' CD (Morningside Records)
This fine release by French act Eönä, presented on the new subdivision of Drama Company, provides the listener with a medieval / folk experience. Flute tunes are accompanied by singing birds, folkish guitars are paired with medieval voices, and lazy toms set the tempo by the campfire. For fans of Ataraxia, Trobar De Morte, Hekate etc. Comes in a nice digipak with woodland artwork.
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EONIC - 'Shadows' CD (Abgurd Subdivision / Oskorei Music)
Eonic is a project from southern Russia. 'Shadows' was recorded in 2003 and has been compared to Anthesteria, Wejdas, Donis, Delerium and Allerseelen. 'Shadows' brings forth over 50 minutes of calm, soft electronic Ambient with a touch of oriental-style melodies. The album takes you to absolute serenity from beyond. With its marvellous pieces it builds castles in the air, creates out-worlds, spreads forth yearning for the parallel spaces. Ltd x 1000 copies. Russian import.
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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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].
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).
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.
UK 13£
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EUROPAPLAN - 'Armes De Vengeans / Vergeltungswaffe' CD (Achtung Baby!)
A collaboration between Axon Neuron and Nocturne, who together create a monumental, partly historical, soundscape for the theme of V-weaponry. This release has uncompromising bubbling "military" industrial and abrasive sounds with obscure war noise outfits like a deep rumbling from hell. Its sound is a true soundtrack with lots of sampled voices in German from wartime narrations. The CD comes in a special 7" sleeve with artcards. 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.
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!
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.
UK 11.50£
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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.
Darrin Verhagen, in tugging on a thread of viciousness which has lain subdued and understated for most of Shinjuku Thief's back catalogue, pulls up a 42 minute slab of sonic violence which is as unmerciful as it is exquisitely crafted. Under his new power electronics pseudonym 'E.P.A.' we find a finely balanced tension between visceral chaos and deliberate nastiness. If all the Shinjuku Thief albums which preceded it suggest the ghostly existence of a dark world, "Black Ice" delivers the map, the accelerator and the searing pain upon arrival. Beautiful artwork and limited to just 500 copies.
