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" contains four long tracks of dark, brooding modern psychedelia. Tthe 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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FABIO ORSI - 'Find Electronica' CD (A Silent Place)
"Find Electronica" is a wonderful album full of fine lyrics, structured as a long drone / ambient suite divided in two portions which are the frames of the articulated central track. A strictly personal exercise on the "Weird Folk" theme, hypnotic and seductive. The "found" electronica meets the sonorities made by the six chords, projecting enchanted landscapes on a vibrant horizon, with an intimate sensibility. Abstract and emotional, deep and dreamy. 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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FALKENSTEIN - 'Urdarbrunnen' CD (Heimatfolk)
Falkenstein's self produced debut-album "Heiliger Wald" gained a lot of praise in Folk music press. Their 2nd album "Urdarbrunnen" is now released by the Steinklang Neofolk sub-label Heimatfolk. "Urdarbrunnen" is again a perfecly played, strong and dreamingly beautiful album with a rich, varied instrumentation, even more dense and powerful than the debut album. The musical range lasts from acoustic ballads over Martial Folk songs to dark fairie tales about mysticism, paganism and natural rites in the Alpine regions. If Falkenstein were around 40 years earlier, they would stand in line with bands like early Steeleye Span, Magna Carta and Pentangle. Digipak with 16-page booklet.
FALSE MIRROR - 'Derelict World' CD (Malignant Records)
After three years of intense work, Dark Ambient disciple False Mirror returns with his third full-length journey. With the timeless drones of his debut "Chronostatic Scenes" and the icy soundscapes on his highly acclaimed sophomore masterpiece "North" still resonating through space, solo artist Tobias Hornberger delivers "Derelict World", his most massive and epic undertaking so far. Dark drones, frostbitten soundscapes and warm vibrating tones from the deep bowels of the earth. From the sheer force of a tornado set loose to the beguiling calm within the eye of the storm, "Derelict World" is a 74 minute long sonic journey into a desolated, depopulated world. In a digipak containing a 20 page booklet with a conceptually linked short story written by author and journalist Bjørn Springorum. The album contains a number of hidden messages that lead to a rewarding "Bonus World" on falsemirror.de. "One of the best dark ambient releases in recent years" (Orkus).
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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 colour 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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FATUM ELISUM - 'Homo Nihilis' CD (Aesthetic Death Records)
Four long tracks of awesome and epic Doom! Since their self-titled debut, Fatum Elisum have progressed and matured, and have now forged their own style of Doom, albeit with a healthy reference to the early 90s sounds of Cathedral, Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride. A thoughtful and melancholic album - with a stunning vocal display from Ende. 71 minutes long. Quality recording and great artwork - highly recommended album!
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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.
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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 - 'Dead Of Night' 7" (Dot Dot Dot Music)
Founded in 2005 as an exercise in minimalism and as a conscious counterpoint to the refined complexity of vidnaObmana, Fear Falls Burning has gradually turned into a musical meditation on purity and subdued power. As part of this transformation, the guitar has evolved from a mere instrument into a veritable shamanic tool for trance. In a sense, Dirk Serries, who has held a deep fascination for the subtle power of drone music ever since embarking on his personal odyssey in 1984, is returning to his roots here: FFB presents listeners with a primevally physical experience that is in turns contemplative, rhythmically agitated and thunderous. Ltd x 300 copies on purple splatter vinyl.
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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 KONSTRUKTOR - 'Nonexistence' 7" (Peripheral Records)
Fear Konstruktor is Nikita Evsuk, a Moscovite and this is his first vinyl release. Two tracks of disturbingly dark droning ambience and industrial clatterings, that stay the right side of noisy! Fear Konstruktor is a brave new sound from Russia, inspired by brightness and vibrance of the modern world. However it contains a retro-futuristic touch as seen through the prism of ultramodern devices. Listening to FK is being inside yourself and outside our Universe at the same time. Because those billions of living sounds are caught for you by the daring one. Ltd x 300 copies with insert.
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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 psychedelic 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.
FIRST HUMAN FERRO - 'Homo Shargey' CD (New Nihilism / Requiem Records / Triangle)
Alexander Shargey (Yuriy Kondratyuk) is a representative of passionate enthusiastic inventors who put their lives at stake to accomplish the mission for the future good of the whole mankind. Shargey belongs to a cohort of scientists who were the first to foresee the conquering of space. They were great, yet mocked-at, dreamers and had to fight against all odds twice as hard. Shargey is a recognised space theoretic of unique unconventional genius, yet passed away in 1942 - a generation before Apollo. Ukrainians First Human Ferro pay a long overdue tribute to its compatriot, composing a well-crafted vintage dark ambient album with both poignant and mesmerising layers of sidereal voyage. Mastered by Italian ambient magician Vestigial. Ltd x 500 copies in an A5 silver varnished digipak.
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FIRST HUMAN FERRO - 'Stardust' CD (Nitkie)
Urkainian Dark Ambient project First Human Ferro's latest album is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the first manned flight into space. “Stardust is an ambient anthem tribute to the scientists, engineers and space pilots who contributed to the remarkable date. Their earthly dust is drifting like particles of god in the infinite space now, endlessly multiplying through the mind’s eye of the enthusiasts to come and carry the banner of scientific and technological revolution further". Features collaborations with Claustrum, Oda Relicta and Louisa John-Krol. Ltd x 500 copies in a digisleeve.
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FIRST HUMAN FERRO Feat. ALBIREON - 'Prosa Profana' CD (Nitkie)
"Prosa Profana" is the 2nd post mortem dedication by Olegh Kolyada (dedicated to his late father), this time collaborating with Neofolkers Albireon. A low-key unison of dissonant ex-Soviet schlager melodies and prominent Italian vocals in a tender naive manner, offering a unique nostalgic experience... homesickness, melancholy, grief and yearning. The release comes in a beautiful digipak with a 12-page booklet.
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FISTULA - 'Goat' MCD (Crucial Blast)
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 The Times' CD (Marche Funebre Productions)
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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FLESH PUPPETS - 'Medusa' CD (THIRDSEX)
"Of all the recordings Richard Ramirez could have rereleased, I’m glad he and thirdsex decided to resurrect this one. Originally released on Ramirez’ label Deadline Recordings in 1990, Medusa is described as a tribute to underground gay/bi S&M weekly... there may only be 10 original copies in existence... From straight-up in-hale, ex-hale sounds to thick walls of harsh noise, Medusa carries a lot over the span of three tracks. The artwork is excellent - a bit pixelated, but still very arousing, and once again, very complimentary to the subject matter. Head to your unfinished basement, toss on a zipper-mouth mask and give this one a spin" (Holidays). Ltd x 333 copies in a gatefold card cover.
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 - '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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FOLKEARTH - 'Songs Of Yore' CD (Stygian Crypt Productions)
Fifth album from this folk / Viking metal project. Bringing together many musicians across countries and continents and boasting a wide array of styles that cover the folk spectrum from almost every possible angle, this is one very interesting effort indeed. Here a conscious effort is made to explore the acoustic side of folk music, meaning that gone are all the metal elements and what we’re left with is a vocal album with embellishments provided by many diverse acoustic instruments like acoustic guitars, cellos, celtic harps, violins, accordions, whistles, flutes, bodrans, mandolins, banjos, clarinets, galician bagpipes, soprano recorders and recorders. Uplifting pieces to some balladry and melancholic contemplative tracks.
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FOLKODIA - 'Forgotten Lore' CD (Stygian Crypt Productions)
An acoustic album from viking folk project Folkodia, which comprises as many as 14 musicians from Germany, Austria, France, Monaco, Switzerland and beyond. The album includes acoustic versions of tracks from previous albums, alongside some completely new ones. With the inclusion of two female vocalists, this is a sweet opus to listen from beginning to end. The male counterparts have the manly tones that are more than appropriate to translate the Viking story-telling. Instead of a bass, a cello was the chosen instrument. This is accompanied by gongs, bells, tom toms, flutes, tin whistles etc to complete the folksy environment.
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FOLKSTORM - 'Archive Series 5 - The Culturecide Campaigns' CD (Old Europa Cafe)
The Culturecide Campaigns was released in 2000, only available for one month through MP3.com, during which time only 39 copies were sold. After 10 years, these recordings have now finally been restored, redesigned and remastered and features two bonus tracks. This album was recorded back to back with "Victory or death" and carries the same menacing feeling, but with a bit more structure and emphasis on pounding rhythmic industrial noise. If you want rough old-school industrial this is what you need! The campaign continues.
"Folkmusik" is a classic Folkstorm album with its roots firmly placed in the old-school industrial style, but there is a suffocating quality to it that is new. While a lot of the tracks are rhythmic, harsh and ugly compositions as you would expect, there are also a few ones which are monotonous monuments of fear, isolation, despair and tension. Digipak.
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FOLKSTORM - 'Hurtmusic' CD (Old Europa Cafe)
Second OEC release by this great side project of MZ.412 leader Nordvargar! This time playing helped by Mrs. Nordvargr! Recorded live at Nar Mattaru on 11 March 2000 in front of a selected audience. Quite simply a bombastic live attack, this is the renascence of uncompromising power-industrial, this is muzak for "no prisoners" war status.
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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.
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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FOR ONE FOUR - 'Bone' CD (Home Tape Studio)
Reissue of a limited CDR from 2000 (Ltd x 60), with new artwork. A very strange, weird and obscure release from some mysterious Russian project called 414. Macabre rituals and studio improvisations in the vein of old school Italian industrial / experimental scene acts such as Tam Quam Tabula Rasa, early Sigillum S or some Ain Soph side-projects mixed with some prepared natural sounds a la PBK or Daniel Menche. Recommended for those with nostalgia for the golden days of 80s / 90s industrial. Ltd x 300 copies in a digisleeve.
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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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FORMICATION - 'The Eyes Of Erodern Riviema' CD (Small Doses)
Formication is Alec Bowman and Kingsley Ravenscroft, the miraculous electric musical ensemble from Nottingham. They create unique rhythmic, chaotic yet structured works, twisting a variety of sounds into creeped-out electronica, frozen ambience and sporadic wayward beats. Described by The Wire magazine as ‘sonic occultists’, they can be found “wandering a dream landscape somewhere between the ritual ambience of Coil and the electronic space drift of Tangerine Dream”. "The Eyes of Erodern Riviema" is their most realised work to date and a masterpiece start to finish. Ltd x 407 copies.
FORTHCOMING FIRE - 'Set The World On Fire' CD (Other Voices Records)
Forthcoming Fire is a Darkwave / Goth Rock / Electro band, formed in 1990, with 5 various members over the years. The 2 remaining members, Josef K and Lars Wehr, went on to form Von Thronstahl. "Set The World On Fire - Mixes, Hits and Last Temptations" gives fans of Forthcoming Fire the full spectrum of what the band was known for - with a better sound, new mixes and new versions plus the two new songs 'Set The World On Fire' and 'Sonic Horse Ride' that have been performed and recorded by the band's founding members. Epic songs like 'Der Unbesiegte Sonnengott', 'Feuer' or 'My Way Back Home' have been newly mixed and remastered and the tracks 'Summergold', 'Erde, Feuer, Wind und Wasser' and 'Sun Child' are featured as brand new versions with guest vocalists. "Set The World On Fire" is their testament and a love letter to a gone by era. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak.
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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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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.
"Uufwärts e d’Föuse" (Upward to the rocks) is a conceptual album which takes the listener on an imposing musical journey to untouched Alpine areas. As on "Urbärglieder" all tracks are presented in the typical Fräkmündt Central-Swiss alemannic dialect. After an "Alp-Blessing" ("Aupsääge"), the journey upwards is visualised using acoustic guitars, accordion, drums, hurdy-gurdy melodies and flute. The nighttime track “Höttehock” is a swinging and wild traditional dancing track with a catchy accordion melody and nice acoustic guitars. The last track "Stouz ond frey" (proud and free) is a devotional and powerful song with profound hurdy-gurdy, rhythmic guitar melodies and catchy accordion tunes. The MCD ends with a Dark Alpine Ambient track called "Bärgtröim" (Mountain Dreams) which smoothly leads the listener back to the valley. A varied 27-minute piece of extraordinary Ur-Folk music, which perfectly describes the mystic and legendary Alpine areas. Outsize sleeve.
FRANCISCO LOPEZ & NOVI_SAD - 'Titans' CD (Gradual Hate Records)
Sound artists Francisco López (Spain) and Novi_sad (Greece) have together explored the blurred territory between reality and the creation of self-contained sound environments through a long process of transformation of sonic materials. Working with the same shared field recordings carried out in the region of Ancient Olympia in Greece (and presented in the context of a live performance during the International Olympia Festival on June 30th 2010), they have created two individual pieces with extreme dynamics, at times obscure and dense, but laden with hidden complexity and a few surprised for the most adventurous listeners. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak.
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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.
An immersion into sonic matter from micro and macro environments dominated by the wind in Patagonia. A vast barren space shaped and inhabited by the ever-changing forces of plants, rocks, sand, snow and ice. An irregular environment of relentless strength and richness. And above all, a tour de force of profound listening. López’s Patagonian winds have a ferocious beauty and immensity. Delicate whispers combine with wild swarms and eddies underpinned by deep bass punches. All of this is produced by an invisible force that endlessly sweeps the surface of the globe. With this, we are no longer in the tidy world of human music, but have entered the sublime domain of natural sound. Packaged in a super gloss digipak with 16 page booklet.
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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)
Frederic 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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FREIBAND - 'Replicas' CD (Monochrome Vision)
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.
What Freiband proposes here is 2 sides of radically reworked gamelan. Side A seems to progress through an acid bath and take the magnifying glass to enhance the digital decays, evoking various stages of textural corrosion. Through these aggressive and irreverent treatments, the naturally metallic harmonics are by twist and turns abruptly dismantled and fractured into crunchy, dense and fuzzy fireworks. On side B, through some arcane wiring, some machines end up spitting out shifting binary patterns with a somewhat alienating feeling. Dry and uncompromising “Unerforschtes Gebiet” between minimal beats and Steve Reich’s early tape compositions. File alongside Hecker, Pita, Mika Vaino, Fennesz or Alva Noto's Xerrox LPs. Features 2 locked grooves. Ltd x 250 numbered copies.
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.
Doom Metal 4-piece from Czech Republic. Primordial, tenebrous Doom / Death Metal with crushingly slow riffs, dark gloomy guitars and extreme growling vocals. For fans of early Anathema, Trouble and Cathedral. Reissue of the 2000 demo with 7 bonus tracks!
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FROM THE BOGS OF AUGHISKA - 'From The Bogs Of Aughiska' CD (Lone Vigil Recordings)
Dark / Black Ambient noisescapes inspired by Celtic history, the harsh, rugged west coast of Ireland, misty boglands, dark nights, rural isolation, forests, The Burrens flora and fauna. Over 40 minutes of cavernous soundscapes (similar to Inade, Satori and Lustmord), moving into Vinterriket territory, with interesting tales of banshees and the pagan mythology of Ireland. The musical equivalent of standing atop the majestic Cliffs Of Moher with a gale force wind in your face.
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FROZEN FACES - 'Broken Sounds Of A Dying Culture' CD (Wrotycz)
"The year is 1996 I was surfing on cold waves through the very heart of Linkopia, night after night it was all the same. Sleeping in the Karmanik basement seduced by delirium echoing between white concrete walls. I could hear the equipment slowly disintegrating as I put out the light, broken sounds of a dying culture. This might be the erosion of history eternally scraping on the crown of mankind... or was it just the decline of my personal belongings after years of abuse... and was there any difference between the two theories? I stretched out my limb and pressed the record-button" - Lina Baby Doll (Deutsch Nepal). Originally released on LP by Entartete Musikk (1996). Remastered with new artwork and bonus tracks from the "Religion of Hate" 7". Presented in an A5 foldout sleeve.
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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' CD (Fall Of Nature Records)
Sepulchral, brooding Black Ambient from one of the most enigmatic and spectral entities the genre has produced. "The Black Root" saw it's first edition as a very limited vinyl release in 2004 (Fluttering Dragon, Ltd x 333 copies), now completely remastered on CD with new artwork. Harlow MacFarlane went on to form Sistrenatus. Highly recommended!!
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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.
