F.I.N. - 'La Esperanza Que Nunca Se Pierde... Es La De Morir' CD (Sabbathid Records)
Debut album from Chilean Funeral Doom-Ambient act F.I.N. (Funeral Inconscientemente Natural). Comprised of 3 studio tracks and 1 live bonus track, the first 3 parts are based on the Golden Section - of 9 min, 18 min and 36 min, sung in Spanish, English and French. Although the tracks are taken from their first 3 split releases, this is not a best of as the tracks were always to be an album from the beginning, obeying the laws of natural / divine forces. The bonus track 'The March Of December', was produced by the band as their Anthem to the Hero of Chile.
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FABIO ORSI & MAMUTHONES - 'The First Born' CD (A Silent Place)
"The First Born" the first collaboration between Fabio Orsi and Mamuthones (Alessio Gastaldello, ex-Jennifer Gentle). After six years with the Jennifers, Alessio split amicably in late 2006 and reinvented himself as Mamuthones. Built around a series of percussion-cum-keyboard sonic landscapes performed by Mamuthones and enriched by deep, droney electronic layers later added by Orsi, "The First Born" contains four long tracks of dark, brooding modern psychedelia. The whole album feels like an ancient sea ebbing and flowing on some distant alien shore, making for a curiously disjointed listening experience, at the same time peaceful and menacing. The ever-shifting sonic textures evoke both the starchildren krautrockers of old and more recent outer-world explorers but always keep a strong personal identity, firmly rooted in the current weird Italian take on space rock. Digifile.
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FABIO ORSI & VALERIO COSI - 'We Could For Hours' CD (A Silent Place)
"We Could For Hours is instability. It represents the will to open the gates of unknown. It is the dark, whispered sounds and hidden truths. Chaos. And now here it starts, everything takes form, sensations rise, objects acquire colours, distorted vision but still a vision of reality... Silence. Sounds follow themselves but always hidden in a veil of mystery, words are mute, everything is listening attentively to the enchanting melody of nature... Everything is nothing. Nothing is the time. Time becomes memory and memory brings us to happy thoughts that rise first, then fall in the end. Hallucinations. The precariousness feeling is overwhelming us, tollings of a clock without hands are molesting our ears and they scan the slow and endless flowing of life. Too late to be back. There's no possibility. We have to live desolate countrysides burnt by an August sun. Lysergic vision. Void." Krautrock, Drone, Experimental, Ambient. Digifile.
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FAHL - 'The Paths To Emptiness' CD (The Eastern Front)
Debut opus from Fahl, founded by Dimo Dimov, Marcel P. and Cornelius Waldner in 2008. All the musicians are active participants in numerous groups from the dark folk, neoclassical and black metal genres. They felt a growing urge to experiment with dark ambient soundscapes, resulting in this mutual collaboration. “The Paths To Emptiness” is a haunting journey to the subconscious, divided into ten audial gateways to the occult and hidden forces of the inner self. Lyrically based on the Mahabharata, as well as poems and texts by John Milton, Jack London, Stefan George, Christian Dietrich Grabbe and Cornelius Waldner, this release is strongly recommended for fans of Brighter Death Now and Lustmord. Featuring members of Svarrogh, Sagittarius, Miel Noir and Allerseelen. Ltd x 1000 copies.
"Kraftort" is the third album of Falkenstein, this time with a fresh progressive / psychedelic touch. The main theme of the album are our ancestors and the destiny of the ancient and veiled cult places. As a contrast to the mythological essence and the nature-mystical heathen lyrics you can find on this album a progressive apocalyptical song - a sombre vision of the future, that puts ourselves as ancestors for the coming ages and therefore a reflection upon us. How we will let nature and Midgard to our descendants? At the end will be the beginning! Falkenstein is definitely a unique and outstanding Neofolk artist of the new generation, who knows how to play his instruments and whose lyrics directly creep under the skin of each Pagan and Folk Music lover. Digipak.
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FAMILY UNDERGROUND / MY CAT IS AN ALIEN - 'Split' LP (Reverse Recordings)
My Cat Is An Alien's 20 minute track lingers in some beautiful static high end trance, with excursions into minimal percussion and space guitar. "Extraterrestrial Call" was recorded live at Cosmopolis Festival at Galerie Ze' des Bois, Lisbon, on October 4th, 2005. Family Underground's "Mysterious Invaders" trolls around in the usual muck; tonal blackout psychedelia. Ltd x 356 copies on clear vinyl in a hand-printed, silkscreened transparent sleeve with insert. Danish import.
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FATHER MOO & THE BLACK SHEEP - 'Father Moo & The Black Sheep' CD (Swordfish)
A UK-only issue of what was previously available as a non-distributed private release on the Acid Mothers Temple label (later reissued as a very limited LP on Swordfish). The music is in the realm of tranquil drone-intensive freak outs (electronics, moaning vocal sounds, processed murk), not at all in the rocking style of Kawabata's well known Acid Mother's Temple ensemble. A sensational artifact, presented to perfection. "Demonic scriptures of dubious eroticism and cultism, performed by the heretical guru Father Moo and his female disciples. Minimal acoustic works using just female chanting and drones." Packaged with a completely unbelievable Yod-tribute sleeve.
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FATHER YOD AND THE SPIRIT OF '76 - 'Contraction' CD (Swordfish)
First authorised CD reissue of this cult space rock / psychedelic rock album, originally issued by Higher Key in 1974. "The legendary and ultra-rare second album fully remastered and presented in the original full color sleeve. Includes new notes from various family members especially written for this release. The extremely positive and instructive nature of the Contraction period lyrically is amazing. Father is like a marine taking a beachhead in WWII and we were the beachhead. Our previous 'Pavlovian' lives of following the repetitive death culture were the enemy and he was taking no prisoners. His aim in Contraction was to give birth to the highest conception of oneself as no less than the messiah" (Djin Aquarian).
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FATUM ELISUM - 'Fatum Elisum' CD (Aesthetic Death Records)
This is the debut CD from new French act Fatum Elisum. Formed in 2007 this excellent act creates some of the finest doom death metal but with a dark, mystical, melancholic and sinister edge. Great musicianship and compositions - a dark aura permeating their doomful melodies. Inspired by the early doom death metal scene - with no keyboards or female vocals - with a twisted dark metal edge. For fans of My Dying Bride, Anathema, Evoken, Esoteric, Mournful Congregation, Silencer, Bethlehem, Ataraxie, Indesinence - with lyrics inspired by dark literary classics. Six tracks and over 50 minutes of music.
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FAUST - 'Kleine Welt (Live)' CD (Ektro Records)
Live album from the legendary German kraut-rockers Faust. "Kleine Welt" is compiled from concerts in 2006. These avant-garde trailblazers continue their unique work which began in 1970. Chaos, fear, irrationality, the grotesque, the absurd, darkness, surrealism and underground are all fitting definitions for Faust, but still only modest attempts to describe one of the most notable rock bands in the world. Faust gave their utmost consideration when choosing the path, on which only a few have ventured.
FAUST - 'Od Serca Do Duszy' 2 x CD (Lumberton Trading Company)
This double CD set catches legendary German experimental rock outfit Faust’s debut concert in Poland, from Krakow’s Loch Ness Club, on the 15th November 2006. Spread over both discs, we are afforded a perfect opportunity to hear a blend of the band’s classic songs and material previewed from their new studio album, played energetically and with a vigour reflecting precisely how happy they were to be in a completely new environment which, in turn, welcomed them with open arms. The entire concert was recorded and mixed professionally by two of Poland’s most experienced sound engineers, Piotr Papier and Marcin Cheblowski.
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FAUST - 'Patchwork 1971-2002' CD (Staubgold)
"Faust will forever be heralded as a pioneer in the electronic/rock avant garde, emerging in the early seventies branching off from Brit/American commercial rock bands, employing the use of alterior sonic landscapes to create a new musical tangent" (Alternative Press). For this release Markus Detmer (Staubgold) and Hans Joachim Irmler (Faust) compiled unreleased Faust recordings from 1971 to 2002, covering the legendary Wumme Years (1971 - 1973) and the time at Virgin's Manor studios (1974- 1975) as well as their new start in the early 80s and recent years. "Patchwork" unfolds the core qualities of Faust and gives a deep impression of their working method. Appearing: Werner Diermaier, Hans Joachim Irmler, Jean-Hervé Peron, Rudolf Sosna, Gunther Wüsthoff, Arnulf Meiffert, Steven Wray Lobdell, Lars Paukstat and Michael Stoll. Digipak.
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FAUST - 'The Land Of Ukko & Rauni' 2 x CD (Ektro Records)
"A concert (84 minutes) by the current incarnation of the reformed band (original members Werner Diermaier & Hans Joachim Irmler, long-serving American guitarist Steven Lobdell, and relative newcomers Lars Paukstat & Michael Stoll), recorded in Finland April 20, 2000. As always with Faust, things are never predictable or easily categorized, and for the most part, the individual pieces tracked on the CDs flow into one another with only subtle differentiations at the track boundaries. Faust continue to make music (with noise) more interesting, diverse and compelling than most of the head music bands around now or then, be they psych / space / prog / stoner / kraut..." (Aural Innovations).
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FAYRIERIE - 'Michelia Campaka' CD (Caustic Records)
"There is a place some steps forward from the mundane. Perhaps where the wood starts, where you can feel the embrace of the Great Mother wrapping the spirit up. It is in this place where magic dwells, the one that shelters all art, where conscience wakes up and finds the gift of creation. It is in this hidden place where muses are born, the ones that inspire the soul of the world". The debut album from Fayrierie is Neo-Dark-Fantastic-Folk interpreted with outstanding technique and whose musical structure is formed by guitars and lyrics. Clean and spontaneous songs, supported by vocal and instrumental arrangements, make the sound of this duo unique. "Discover the beauty of the sober and the essence of already forgotten perfumes". 6-panel digipak.
FEAR FALLS BURNING - 'Frenzy Of The Absolute' CD (Conspiracy Records)
On this album Dirk Serries (Vidna Obmana) blends his drone spectrum with slow repetitive drums (with drummers such as Tim Bertilsson / Switchblade and Magnus Lindberg / Cult of Luna), and additional guitar layers, manifesting a work of mysterious landscapes of ghostly echoes and whispered guitars, long stretches of blissy drift and dark washes of distorted hiss... Over the past 2 years FFB has manifested itself as a wilful and unique statement in the ever expanding drone music genre. Digipak.
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FEAR FALLS BURNING - 'The Carnival Of Ourselves' CD (Tonefloat)
When "The Carnival Of Ourselves" was originally released on vinyl (2006, Tonefloat), Belgian legend Dirk Serries had only just started recording under the name of Fear Falls Burning. This album turned out to be decisive in shaping his vision of an ongoing drone-manifesto. "The Carnival of Ourselves" pointed towards an immersive and ghostly ambient sound. The release builds into a dense, dirge-like drone-sheet, then intriguingly cools off to a disturbing, haunted soundscape. Comes in deluxe mini album cardboard sleeves with obi.
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FEAR FALLS BURNING - 'The Rainbow Mirrors A Burning Heart' LP (Auf Abwegen)
This is the registration of an exclusive concert Fear Falls Burning (aka Dirk Serries of Vidna Obmana) performed on October 13th 2005 at Kulturbunker Mullheim in Köln (Germany), commissioned by Auf Abwegen. This LP covers 2 variations on Fear Falls Burning's method of droning. Side A features the most minimal and static drones used by FFB so far, while side B brings out FFB's most wilful and in-your-face approach to distorted and powerful guitar drone chords. Just under 40 minutes of music. Strictly limited to 300 hand-numbered copies in a textured sleeve.
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FEAR FALLS BURNING - 'When Mystery Prevades The Well, The Promise Sets Fire' LP (Tonefloat)
The first in a series of brand new studio drones Fear Falls Burning is currently recording. This exclusive vinyl for Tonefloat is the initiation of a change in method and playing for Fear Falls Burning. Not only has he turned around his studio in order to accommodate the new performances but the subtle incorporation of new elements will bring out an extra dimension in the vintage Fear Falls Burning drone. This LP features two pieces, one per side, that are equally harmonic as powerful. Fear Falls Burning's approach to playing the guitar chords changed, the production is different and the inclusion of guest musician Dave Banderplas (Llips) on subtle cymbal percussion marks this release as the first gentle step in Fear Falls Burning's further exploration of the drone. Pressed in an edition of 500 copies on heavy 180gm vinyl and presented in a stunning gatefold sleeve!
ONE COPY PER CUSTOMER ONLY! If you attempt to purchase more than 1 copy, your order will be refunded.
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FEINDFLUG - 'Hinter Feindlichen Linien' DVD (Black Rain)
10 years of Feindflug - the right time for an overwhelming video production like this. This DVD is the result of more than half a year of work, the material used for it has been collected since 2004 and the oldest takings are from 1999. With their live concerts Feindflug have gained an almost legendary reputation over the years. Everybody, who has not been able to join the thrilling and exciting atmosphere of a Feindflug live concert by now gets the chance to make up for this with "...Hinter Feindlichen Linien" ("...behind enemy lines"). This professional DVD production goes along with the unique experience of a Feindflug concert - and lots of bonus material will satisfy the heart of every fan. Not only because of having an own, independent sound and dealing with unpleasant topics, Feindflug have become one of the most important and most famous acts of the Electro-scene. DVD facts: total running time of more than 170 minutes / more than 60 minutes of bonus material (short movie "Zonen" by Jon Svärdhagen with music by Feindflug, band interview and more...) + outtakes / live concert video of the jubilee concert in Berlin, recorded with 8 cameras + crane in 24 channel sound mix / tank video of "Truppenschau" / screen format 16:9 / Dolby Digital Stereo / Dolby Digital 5.1 / multilingual subtitle (English + Saxon!!!) / interactive menus / comes up in an exclusive mediabook.
PAL, Region 0 (will play in all European DVD players).
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FELLAHEAN - 'Insignificant Scrap' CD (Fellacoustic Records)
"...thirteen pieces of full-on electronics noise fuckery emanating from the same camp that exploded into the likes of Daniel Menche, The Incapacitants and infinite others whose smacks around the cranium have been long endorsed by RRR, for example. There are some interesting twists, turns and textures hewn from what’s an otherwise immensely abrasive block of sound, lending the proceedings that all-important disorientating or vaguely ‘delic quality... Fellahean appear to be furnishing us with some appropriate enough reflections on the present age, and it’d be unfair they stop there, that’s for sure" (Adverse Effect).
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FILIVS MACROCOSMI - 'Stalker' CD (OMS Records)
Inspired by and a tribute to A. Tarkovsky's movie "Stalker" (1979). Stalker is an elaborate puzzle. Its pieces are always scattered, and the listener is relied upon to bring the final element of the puzzle along with him. Stalker invites you to get carried away into your own thoughts, flowing with the images as it provides new questions to ponder. In that sense, the album is very much like a philosophical poem: a very simple surface covering innumerable layers of meaning. One long ride in a cart, with clunking metal and water-whooshing sounds. Altogether fascinating and hypnotic. "Welcome to your Self, an alien place guarded by barbed wire". Ltd x 500 copies in foldout sleeve. Ukrainian import.
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FIN DE SIECLE - 'Nine Barns' LP (OPN)
Fourth full-length album from this French dark ambient / neoclassical / post-rock act. 'Nine Barns' marks the transition between 'Sans Titre' and 'Patagonie', with the greater participation of Florence Cailleux (violin, vocals) and the use of organic instruments such as guitar. The LP contains a slightly different track listing than the CD version. Ltd x 300 copies only!
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FIRE IN THE HEAD - 'As The Nest Burns' CD (Autarkeia)
"As The Nest Burns” is an album about the darkest depths of psychosis, about the delusions and actions over which one has no control when entrenched in a manic state and the nightmares from which some never awaken. It is an album born in the blackest of times, to be listened to in the blackest of times. With this recording F/I/T/H experiments with new arsenal of sounds and techniques adding a heavily psychedelic edge to his mix of noise / power electronics / drone. These are the straight-jacketed screams from the bowels of a mental institution. Ltd x 400 copies.
FIRE IN THE HEAD - 'Carrion Wind' CD (Turgid Animal)
"Carrion Wind" is an ambitious work which consolidates the sounds explored with F/I/T/H and Sky Burial into a single project, focusing them into a complex and meticulously composed 63 minute industrial opus, a dark and ominous dirge, both beautiful and brutal, incorporating aspects of metal percussion, dark ambient, drone, doom and industrial electronics. Noticeably absent are Page’s vocals as F/I/T/H takes a more "restrained" approach favoring slow layering of synths, field recordings, guitar loops and electronics to build a tension which occasionally peaks at an explosive level comparable to the shorter tracks of F/I/T/H’s previous releases. Featuring artwork by Howard Forbes.
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FIRE IN THE HEAD - 'Come Closer Cut Deeper' CD (Nihilist)
This is a ripping experience, like being chewed in a turbine at 24 RPMS in pitch black! At the same time, it sustains a subliminal level of beauty & grace, unparallelled by any other artists in the genre. Vicious attacks by one Mike Page (USA) the visionary behind F/I/T/H. Hostile extreme electronics slice through organs like sharpened blades through ripened veal. Truly a masterpiece to be reckoned with! Please note this release has *extremely* grizzly artwork! Not for the faint-hearted in any sense!
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FIRE IN THE HEAD - 'Confessions Of A Narcissist' CD (Cold Spring CSR120CD)
"Confessions Of A Narcissist" marks the final full-length release by Fire In The Head ending six years of sonic warfare with an assault of manic, self-indulgent industrial electronics. Drawing as much influence from early punk / hardcore as from industrial / power electronics, F/I/T/H was conceived as a cathartic outlet to explore and ratify the delusions and social perversions resultant of psychosis and the darker side of man's conflicted dual nature, to fan the flames which engulf the borders between obsession, compulsion, lust and need. The tracks on this release were recorded in 2007-2008 and are the last of the "short, sharp, shock" vocal tracks which Michael abandoned in favour of "epic" length industrial / ambient compositions. Features guest appearances from Nick Blinko (Rudimentary Peni) and J. Randall (Agoraphobic Nosebleed), with exclusive artwork from Blinko.
I/CON is an exploration of religion as both a catalyst for mental illness and as a disease itself as well as the various manifestations of the resulting psychoses. These are the incessant screams of the pious and the possessed, of hypocrisy and holocaust, of resurrection and insurrection, of suffocating paranoia and immaculate deception and of a deified ego putrefying in its own fallacies. Using processed voices as a key aspect of the source material, I/CON shunts a maelstrom of auditory hallucinations and recurring apocalyptic nightmares through densely layered power electronics/industrial keeping the assault at fever pitch throughout the eleven tracks. Mastered by Thomas Garrison. Ltd x 500 copies in a spot-varnished digipak.
FIRE IN THE HEAD - 'Meditate / Mutilate' CD (Eibon Records)
Power Noise – not for the weak at heart! The straightjacket has been removed, the medication has worn off and the delusions have intensified. F/I/T/H has returned to spread the poison with “Meditate / Mutilate”, a schizophrenic and volatile mix of seething, harsh electronics, dark ambience and tortured vocals (guest vocals from Nick Blinko / Rudimentary Peni). From the blackest depths of neurosis to the apex of unrestrained psychosis, the ten tracks on this CD hone F/I/T/H’s dual-edged blade to perfection. The assault has just begun. There's a world out there. Prepare to bleed. Digifile.
FIRST HUMAN FERRO - 'Corona Astralis' CD (OMS Records)
"Corona Astralis" is the follow up to the 2000 album "Motherwards" and fundamentally represents the development of this Ukrainian project. "Corona..." carefully combines early 1998-2001 Death Ambient / Industrial experiments with recent ever-generating solid electroacoustics, harsh electronica and dronesque synth multi-structures. Inspired by one of the greatest examples of poetical mastery "Corona Astralis" by Maximilian Voloshyn (a classical representative of the so-called Silver Age of Russian poetry) this album accurately deals with eternal ideas/values of a main being like a grain of sand in a Pascalesque desert-like Universe. FHF is a project by Olegh Kolyada (Oda Relicta, In Meditarium). Ltd x 500. Ukrainian import.
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FIRST HUMAN FERRO - 'Guernica Macrocosmica' CD (Eibon Records)
FHF (aka Olegh Kolyada of Oda Relicta, In Meditarium) combine dark, deep and dense drones with traditional music and melodies. These phenomenal Russian musicians are here to prove there are seemingly undiscovered ways to conceive and create dark ambient. AMON meets Red Army choirs, LUSTMORD meets sad Russian popular music. Digifile.
"Beyond IO" casts a large shade and proves once more the inimitable profile of this artist. Twanging sculptures manifested by an immense power of frequencies are falling like a tempest into a sensational and pulsating world always stored in multilayered levels. 70 minutes of musical reconnaissance enmeshed in a homogeneous resonance and represents the equilibrium of modulated sound research, electronic songwriting and an not-ending innovative stream of ideas. Close your eyes and open your ears and dig deep into a galaxy generated by tonal and artistic visions. Enter the plateau of ultimate sound design and enjoy the view from the observation tower over all categorical perception! Card sleeve.
The 6th full-length album of First Law sets real moments of artificial and creative substance. Intermittent bass and percussive elements as well as thrilling sound structures arrange a wide aural spectrum from ambient to drones through analogue modulations to complex compositions with outstanding vocals on top. Thematically, this album is not about religious airheads getting their way. This is not about the threat terrorist attacks impose on any of us, nor has it the intention to proliferate violence as a viable way to change the status quo. At the least, as long your opinion stands against the opinion of the majority, you are pretty much out of luck. No, this album is about leverage; it is about deception and opportunity, by accident or by design; it is about resignation and self-delusion; but most of all, this album is about fear.
Ohio is rotting. Fistula deliver another heavy dose of their septic, filthy, lumbering death-sludge doom in the form of Goat, a five-song EP of low-fi and low-end nihilistic filth and rabies-laced caveman thrash with songs based on the ghoulish discovery and subsequent investigation of the eleven decomposing bodies found in the Cleveland home of Anthony Sowell in the Autumn of 2009. This disc delivers more of the pulverizing, slime-covered sludge and primitive death metal rot that these Buckeye barbarians have been carving out in the back of Medina garages over the past ten years, continuing to follow in the coagulated blood tracks of Frost, Autopsy and Winter, but filtered through Fistula's uniquely mangled and inebriated scum-haze and utterly negative worldview. Digipak.
FJERNLYS - 'Ascending Triads & Luminous Arcs’ 2 x CD (Loki Foundation)
Behind this project hides one of Inade's masterminds - Knut Enderlein. On this first disc, the songs layer cosmic and synthetic sounds and go on tracing according to the principle harmony in the music, their acoustic space feeling very expansive. The voices creep crosswise into sounds and effects to lunar spheres and solar places. The five remixes and interpretations of ANTLERS MULM, BAD SECTOR, FIRST LAW and LOVESPELL on the second disc support the complex character of the whole release and expand the into a new style of Ambient songs. More 'song' based than Inade, Fjernlys reminds of fellow Loki act Predominance. Presented in a double jewel case with a very nice slipcase to finish.
FJERNLYS - 'Beyond The Undulant Quiescence' CD (Loki Foundation)
Fjernlys is Knut Enderlein (INADE). This album contains 10 epic tracks to reach far beyond trepidation and tranquility, it's not only welcoming with open arms but captivating slowly the listener and remaining breathless till the last sound. "Beyond The Undulant Quiescence" unifies the opposites when the frostiness of the synthesizer sound and the warmth of the melodies are melting one another. The spectrum ranges from melancholic piano compositions to complex and superior song structures with an open commitment to slow motion. In every track there is a cryptic sparkling which is always shimmering but almost stays in the background. It's the multi-layered arrangement in each track which is constantly changing the colours and feature a cinematic coarseness in an audible way. 6-panel digisleeve.
Flatlands (with 2 tracks) are seriously heavy in a stripped-down Isis style, with monolithic, catchy riffs crashing into each other and plenty of screaming. Sunshine Republic (with 1 long track) are on a more experimental tip, reminiscent of House Of Low Culture, though there are elements of doom, post-rock and noise in the mix too. The LP is limited to 330 copies and is presented on heavy grey vinyl and comes with acetate inserts. Offensive and difficult in equal measure.
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FLEGETHON - 'Behind A Side Of Times' CD (Satanarsa Records)
One of quite a few albums from this prolific Russian band, whose compelling funeral doom edges close to dark ambient and black metal at times. "Flegethon draws deep into the melodic asceticism specific to the genre it stands for and yet, when its music gets corrupted by some evil sounds, industrial stutterings, subterranean creakings, harsh blows and even ethereal female choirs (a burst of light in the dark magma), well, damn!... Flegethon paints the extreme desolation, the edge of the world" (Doom-Metal.com). File next to Until Death Overtakes Me, Beyond Black Void, Celestiial and Nortt. Finished with a nice slipcase.
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FLEURETY - 'Ingentes Atque Decorii Vexilliferi Apokalypsis' 7" (Aesthetic Death Records)
"Ingentes..." features the first new recordings by Fleurety since 1998. This band from Ytre Enebakk, Norway, has been hailed as one of the originators of the style that has lately come to be known as avant-garde metal. The songs featured here are re-recordings of material from the early 90s. Features guests: Hellhammer (Mayhem) and Necrobutcher (Mayhem) and Runhild Gammelsæter (Thorr's Hammer, Sunn O))), Khlyst), Plenum (Virus, Audiopain) and Bjeima (Delirium Bound, Swarms). Artwork by Trine & Kim Design Studio (known for their work for Mayhem, Gallhammer, Shining, Ulver etc). Mastered by Greg Chandler (Esoteric). Ltd x 666 copies on white vinyl with sticker.
The second release by Flim (Enrico Wuttke) for Plinkity Plonk. "Flim's music is full of deep sadness. The liner notes explain that the music was composed as an attempt to cope with the loss of a child, trying to find a balance between hope and frustration. To create his music Flim makes use of piano, organ and thoughtful computer processing. Often just single notes are struck on the piano; they keep on resonating and then slowly fade before the next note is played... Other tracks are more drone-related, with acoustic sounds stretched out into warm, hovering fields... a point where pain and beauty converge in fragile and intimate music... Flim's music is full of sadness, but... there is also a stretch of light on the horizon, a short dreamy melody to be discovered here and there just below the surface" [Vital Weekly]. Ltd x 500 copies in gatefold plastic sleeve.
Three collaboration tracks from these two German acts: the prolific Flutwacht and Vincenzo Bossi (aka Alexander Neumann of Shadow Theater). Harsh Industrial / Power Electronics! Ltd x 100 hand-numbered copies with insert.
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FLUTWACHT - '30 Monkeys' CD (The Tourette Tapes)
Reissue of the extremely limited (30 copies) Apocalyptic Radio release from 2006, with bonus, previously unreleased, tracks. "30 Monkeys" is the soundtrack for a world controlled by apes, crushing machines and noisescapes. "The music is a degenerate mass of harsh electronic waves and patterns as savage as the primate of the title. Even when Flutwacht lower the decibel levels down a fraction the violent restraint is never far from the surface. A brooding seething mass of noise waiting to erupt once more. The production on this release is crisp and clean... and this gives the recording a greater sense of depth and bite allowing the hugely powerful electronics full reign to take centre stage... Take the best aspects of Propergol, minus the samples, and multiply the effect by ten" [Heathen Harvest]. Ltd x 300 copies in an A5 card envelope with insert.
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FLUTWACHT - 'Fiebertentakel' 7" (The Tourette Tapes)
The A-side of this limited release is a rhythm'n'noise / power electronics track at it's best in the vein of Esplendor Geometrico. The B-side is a contrasting monotone and minimal piece. Ltd x 300 hand-numbered copies with a wraparound xerox sleeve complete with a real photograph.
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FLUTWACHT - 'Herbstrost' CD (The Tourette Tapes / Deserted Factory)
"Herbstrost" is the latest full-length release from this well known German Power Electronics / Industrial / Ambient act. Nine tracks of violence and destruction! Ltd x 200 copies. ACT FAST!
Flutwacht 'Secondface' remixed by: Antracot, Bonemachine, Objekt / Urian, Synomorph, Terg, Tzii, Vincenzo Bossi and Xedh plus other tracks remixed by Matamore ('The Virgin Springs'), Contagious Orgasm ('Showy Atmosphere') and Hyeno ('Amputation Fraction'). From Dark Ambient to Experimental, from Industrial to Noise. Ltd x 200 copies.
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FLUTWACHT - 'Traumsplitter' LP (The Tourette Tapes)
This LP seems to come from the good old and lost hand-made "Industrial" world. The sounds on the vinyl are for a good part slow-moving re-worked and re-processed concrete sounds from different sources such as metal / concrete / water and other organic materials. The disc ends with a massive old school industrial attack. In a few words: a step back to good old industrial productions. Highly recommended! 2nd edition of 50 hand-numbered copies with unique hand-painted sleeves.
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FOLKSTORM - 'Ortodox' CD (Old Europa Cafe)
Screaming vocals, harsh analogue filter sweeps, pulsing distorted sines and squares... Folkstorm has never sounded this angry and mean. Maybe it is a reflection of the current state of things - regression, mass unemployment and a corrupt financial system about to implode. "Ortodox" is a return to the fine tradition of making music all analogue - no computers, no sequencers or modern trickery. A pure celebration of classic Swedish Industrial music, and a protector of values that are about to be lost.
Discovered in the Cold Spring archives, an album shelved for over two years (recorded 2000). Pulled out, dusted down and remixed by Lord Nordvargr himself! This is the final full body of work by the legendary harsh Industrial Noise project. Prepare yourself for an intense trip through these 11 brutal and punishing tracks! 2nd, unlimited edition with modified artwork for 2009.
FOLKSTORM - 'The Forgotten Tapes' CD (Old Europa Cafe)
After searching for an old Folkstorm recording in his vaults, Nordvargr discovered more unreleased material than he was looking for: old recordings from 1997 and 1998, all previously unreleased! Now, after more than 10 years, these old recordings see the the light of day. This is all harsh gritty oldschool Folkstorm, served up fresh and carefully remastered from the original analogue tapes. Also included are the four tracks that were intended to be released as a spilt CD with LHD. Presented in a nice digipak.
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FOLKSTORM - 'Victory Or Death' CD (Cold Spring CSR31CD)
The mammoth sound of Folkstorm is captured here, on what has been called the project's finest album to date! Samples of war, speeches, harsh noise, heavy gritty vocals. distorted rhythms and extremely intense sonics fuse into this mammoth blast of war themed assaults. Executed with brutal thoroughness by Nordvargr, of MZ.412, Toroidh etc. Brilliantly re-mastered, unlimited 2nd edition with modified artwork for 2009.
Self released debut from this Belgian act, who previously appeared on the Cold Meat Industry sampler "All My Dead Friends". The album consists of 10 songs (50+ minutes), ranging from Dark Ambient and Neoclassical towards a more Industrial sound. The theme of the songs is as varied as the sound; For Greater Good serves as a spectator towards life as it is. The CD is suited as a soundtrack for everyday life... the darker as well as the lighter moments. FGG uses a combination of synthesizers, samples, noises and acoustic instruments. Mastered by Daniel B. (Front 242). Recommended!
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FORMICATION - 'Icons For A New Religion' CD (Lumberton Trading Company)
"Icons For A New Religion" is the first CD proper from this often spaceward-bound UK electronica duo of Alec Bowman and Kingsley Ravenscroft. Mulched digital flotsam, chattering rhythms, buried voices, squelched beats, vapour trails and suchlike combine to create a vast and sprawling, kaleidoscopic filmic spew that's unstoppable in its reaching out to those parts of your imagination simply waiting to be taken to new places. At times, the music recalls early Tangerine Dream, or a darker Autechre, via the ritualistic and chemical saturation of Coil.
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FORMS OF THINGS UNKNOWN - 'Cross Purposes' CD (Panaxis)
The debut of Forms Of Things Unknown is a five-track, 30-minute EP of music ranging from dark ambient dirge to medieval sacred song to jazz-inflected art rock. Forms Of Things Unknown is the delinquent brainchild of San Francisco multi-instrumentalist Ferrara Brain Pan. His musical career includes early collaborations with noise music pioneer Boyd Rice (NON), and a fortuitous uncredited appearance on 1994's 'Rien' by Krautrock legends Faust (produced by Jim O’Rourke). 'Cross Purposes' was mixed and produced from material played entirely by Ferrara Brain Pan, excepting vocal performances by Bob Ayres and Shannon Wolfe and a cameo guest appearance by 'Babs Santini' aka Steven Stapleton of renowned musical subversives Nurse With Wound.
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FOUNDATION HOPE - 'Our God Is A Consuming Fire' CD (Autarkeia)
Like their earlier offerings, "Our God Is A Consuming Fire" by the Dutch project Foundation Hope aims at the exposure of the 'hope institute' promoted by the Christian religion. The album is characterised by the transparent but melancholic atmosphere, where each track radiates with quiet and modest despair." Our God Is A Consuming Fire" is the high class of ambient deeply affecting human emotions. In short, this album may be labelled the despair consolidated in sound. Digipak. Lithuanian import.
FOUNDATION HOPE - 'The Faded Reveries' CD (Cold Meat Industry)
Foundation Hope was formed in 2003 by Joep Smaling. The main idea was to make dark cinematic soundscapes with a strong focus on the harshness and cruelty of everyday life. Ironically presenting itself as a foundation, an institute that comforts seeking souls in times of distress, it is instead an attempt to confront the listener with moods of isolation, despair and sorrow. Drones, strings, melancholic tunes, confusing vocal-samples and cinematic moods. A very successful follow-up to their 2006 debut "A Call To All Redeemers" (Divine Comedy Records).
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FOUNDATION HOPE - 'Tunes For The Wounded' CD (Cold Meat Industry)
‘Tunes For The Wounded’ can be considered a lament. It is a defamatory accusation to the world and it’s suffering. Foundation Hope lodges complaints through gritty ambient-industrial structures, broken sounds and despairing moods. Always without losing touch with the beautiful and melodic. Always with that tiny bright spark of hope, overshadowed by doubt and cynicism. This successor to ‘The faded reveries’ is a little more harsh, with distorted guitar drones, broken strings and noisy outbursts. Firmly rooted in reality, this is tears dropping slowly, a herd crawling through mud and blood, and a call to a redeemer who isn’t there. Digipak.
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FRAKMUNDT - 'Urbarglieder' CD (Percht)
Amazing and unique debut CD of the Swiss Ur-Folk project Fräkmündt, born out of the idea to revive old sagas and nearly forgotten songs and atmospheres of the alpine regions of Switzerland. Performed in alemannic central-Swiss dialect, the songs on "Urbärglieder" simulate a journey through landscapes of the quaint regions of Switzerland. They let you chase through stormwinds with the wild hunt at mount Pilatus or stroll under the paintings of the danse macabre over the Spreuerbridge in Lucerne. One can meet the devil in the Schöllenen gorge and follow the alpine herdsmen during their sad walk down to the valleys in autumn. The album is alternated by two sound-accentuated sagas and two atmospheric pieces, letting one share the horrors of the ghost-house in Stans and the mythical ambiance inside the Mondmilchloch cave. On "Urbärglieder" acoustic guitars, accordion, violin, flutes and various percussion instruments generate melancholic melodies full of nostalgia, but also rousing hymns which invite to dance. With "Urbärglieder" a piece of extraordinary Ur-Folk music was born, telling in its very own way the stories that are almost forgotten. Features cz (Vinterriket, Atomtrakt, Nebelkorona etc). Deluxe digipak with 16 page booklet.
FRANCISCO LOPEZ & RICHARD FRANCIS - 'BromBron 14: In De Blaauwe Hand' CD (Korm Plastics)
Francisco López (Spain) and Richard Francis (New Zealand) have created "in de blaauwe hand" upon invitation from Extrapool for a brief working residency in Nijmegen, to develop a collaboration piece for the Brombron CD series. Working with very small seed source sound samples that were exchanged between them, two intermingling compositional paths unfolded in two parallel small studios. In a short (but very intense) period of time a whole world of very delicate and subtle materials arose. The hour-long track merges without mix a dreamy geography of subtleties and complex organicities that is more the result of aesthetic affinities than pre-structured plan. In that sense, this is a composition born from the sound themselves, following the paths indicated by them. Presented in a card-slip-sleeve.
FRANS DE WAARD - 'Vijf Profielen' CD (Alluvial Recordings)
In November 2005, Frans de Waard (Beequeen) spent a week recording and composing on location in the small Dutch town of Vlissingen. A Marine shipyard is located in the centre of the town, but has closed due to regeneration of the area. As part of an exhibition '[Mijn] Domein', Frans De Waard was asked to reflect on this transition. He recorded the remaining activities in the building, where so called 'profiles' are made for use in shipbuilding. In this musical piece things move from hectic and busy (in the first profile) to emptiness (in the fifth profile), although it's one piece. Using mainly recordings made on site of elevators, metal cutting and room ambience, this piece is a strong work of field recordings with minor electronic processing.
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FREDERIC NOGRAY - 'Nelki' CD (Prele)
Frédéric Nogray diverts his rock crystal crucibles from their usual function in the silicon industry to generate tactile music, a music that succeeds as much in making the listener's intellect wander as it does in moving the material itself. Although entirely acoustic, this music is powerful, the different-sized bowls being generators of distinct waves operating in the range of frequencies from infra- to ultrasonic. Because of their superimposition and the acoustics of the space they are in, chimeras or interferences are born. A musical event partaking simultaneously in the creation of perception and corporal experience. Digifile.
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FREDRIK KLINGWALL - 'Works Of Woe' CD (Last Entertainment Productions)
Nine instrumental piano works Inspired by the poems of Edgar Allan Poe. For over a decade Swedish artist Fredrik Klingwall has been creating music that combines neoclassical and industrial dark ambient voids with emotion and drama, bringing you the soundtrack of your nightmares. Digipak.
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FREEZE ETCH - 'Vessels' CD (Force Of Nature)
Over four years in the making and clocking in at just over an hour, "Vessels" is the first proper full-length Freeze Etch album. A dynamic excursion into a world of thick organic rhythms, striking melodic textures, and surging ambient momentum. By turns sparkling and pristine and by others ugly and smoldering, "Vessels" explores the brooding tensions between dynamically opposed auras, employing textures which are at once terrestrial and alien, as well as melodic structures which merge skilled composition with the ambiguous flood of drone.
Highly conceptual project that combines features of remix, recycling and plagiarism - the re-interpretation of classic album by Asmus Tietchens “Daseinsverfehlung”. All that can be heard on this CD, as always in case of Frans de Waard framework, is made from music that already existed: every sound, word in titles and even the cover picture - all is just processing and manipulation techniques. Ltd x 500.
FREIBAND / BASS COMMUNION - 'Headwind / Tailwind' 3" CD (My Own Little Label)
Last year My Own Little Label released 'Haze Shrapnel', a new piece by Bass Communion and a remix of that by Freiband as a 3" disc. Already back then it was agreed that there should also be a release by Freiband with a remix by Bass Communion. Due to the immense success of that 3", the new one is now released as a factory pressed 3" CD. For 'Headwind' Freiband returns to the guitar playing by Martin Luiten (Pick-up) and produces a spacious computerized remix of his elaborate playing. Bass Communion takes matters further up the line in a likewise sizzling remix. Mini j-card sleeve in PVC sleeve.
FULCRUM - 'Humanological Hazard / Systematically Designed Power' 7" (Order Of The Deaths Head)
Debut 7" from this US-based label. FULCRUM have designed a low-key power electronics sound and scream a variety of misanthropic statements over the industrial sounds and film samples. Limited edition, and limited stock.
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FUNERAL THRONE - 'Nihil Sine Diabolvs' CD (Satanas Rex / Cold Spring)
The second release from our Black Metal sub-division. Debut album from this Birmingham (UK) based Trio, fresh from recent support with CRADLE OF FILTH. 'Nihil Sine Diabolvs' finally allows Funeral Throne to mark their territory as one of the most radical Black Metal acts out there! This is total Black Metal slaughter! For fans of Mayhem, DImmu Borgir, Gorgoroth, Marduk etc.
FUNERARY CALL - 'Dark Waters Stirred' CD (Fall Of Nature Records)
Heralded as one of the progenitors of black ambient music, Funerary Call (aka Harlow MacFarlane of Sistrenatus) returns from dormancy with his darkest release to date. "Dark Waters Stirred" is a ceremonial maelstrom of ominous electronics, doom-laden guitars and dark ambient textures. An audial descent into ritualistic obscurity and misanthropy. Features guest appearances from the likes of Deathlord (Blasphemy, ex-Conqueror), and Troy Southgate (H.E.R.R., Seelenlicht) amongst others. Australian import.
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FUNERARY CALL - 'Sickness Falling' LP (Semen And Blood)
Final release (at the time!) from this legendary Canadian Act, now recording under the banner of Sistrenatus (whose debut album was released by Cold Spring in 2006 CSR61CD). An archival collection of unreleased demos and live material. The A-Side features material from a live performance in 1999, while the B-Side is unreleased and demo material from 1999-2001. Crushing black orchestral ambience with ritual elements and satanic vocals in places. Ltd x 500!
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FUNERARY CALL - 'The Black Root' LP (Fluttering Dragon)
Defunct project of Harlow MacFarlane (Sistrenatus). Since the beginning of time the forces of light and darkness have vehemently engaged in a battle to possess the soul of man. The music of Funerary Call pays tribute to this eternal struggle and encourages the exploration of the shadow self. It is the audible essence of a black magic ritual. Chaos and destruction! Dark ambient music inspired by occultism and death. Though still obscure, Funerary Call were involved in the early movement of black ambient music prior to its growth in the genre. Ltd x 333 numbered copies on heavy vinyl.
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FURSAXA - 'Alone In The Dark Wood' CD (ATP Recordings)
Alone in the Dark Wood is the fifth full-length release from West Philly-based solo artist TAra Burke aka Fursaxa who boasts a fan base with the likes of Bardo Pond, Acid Mothers Temple and Thurston Moore who released a record by her on his Ecstatic Peace! imprint. A previous member of the band UN, Burke is now one of the epicentres and key collaborators of the North American free-folk movement, along with such luminaries as Jack Rose, Charalambides, Ben Chasny and the Jewelled Antler Collective. With her hypnotic, echo-y churchbell chanting, Burke possesses a power-filled vocal sound that harkens back not only to those other polar queens of disaffected freakout psychedelia Nico and Barbara Manning, but she is also akin to and inspired by Hildegard von Bingen, the 12th-century Benedictine mystical abbess. With the low drone of chord organ and Farfisa, detuned ringing guitar, and endlessly looped, multiply-tracked vocals applied with heaps of delay, Fursaxa sounds like a tripped-out medievalist perched upon a poppy petal. Burke has an alchemical knack for turning folk into lo-fi, and then into sheer psych and back again, but more importantly, her music is pure humming narcosis.
This is the debut CD from new French act Fatum Elisum. Formed in 2007 this excellent act creates some of the finest doom death metal but with a dark, mystical, melancholic and sinister edge. Great musicianship and compositions - a dark aura permeating their doomful melodies. Inspired by the early doom death metal scene - with no keyboards or female vocals - with a twisted dark metal edge. For fans of My Dying Bride, Anathema, Evoken, Esoteric, Mournful Congregation, Silencer, Bethlehem, Ataraxie, Indesinence - with lyrics inspired by dark literary classics. Six tracks and over 50 minutes of music.
