H.E.R.R. - 'Fire And Glass: A Norwood Tragedy' MCD (Cold Spring CSR74EP)
This brilliant new four-track EP from the Anglo-Dutch masters of Neoclassical music relates to the incredible story of the Crystal Palace, an architectural jewel in the heart of Victorian London and itself a tragic metaphor for the rise and fall of the British Empire. Welcome to the Pleasuredome!
H.E.R.R. - 'Vondel's Lucifer - First Movement' CD (Cold Spring CSR69CD)
Taken from the Dutch playwright's 17th century opus, 'Lucifer', this release tells of heavenly discontent amid a jealous tale of angelic rebellion in the face of God's love for humankind. Containing half-sung and spoken vocals, a gentle folk-like melody, baroque composition and rich musical arrangements, this album introduces the first three acts in 75 bombastic minutes. Guest appearances from members of Ostara, While Angels Watch, Belborn and Sagittarius.
H.E.R.R. - 'XII Caesars' CD (Cold Spring CSR117CD)
Based on Suetonius' De Vita Caesarum (121 AD), this wonderful new album deals with the notorious lives of a dozen Roman emperors and leads you on a gripping musical adventure through the greed, cruelty, fratricide and excess, which characterised their incomparable lust for power. But this is no run-of-the-mill exercise in historical sycophancy... H.E.R.R. retell the lives of the Emperors with honesty, drama and humour. This release - complete with the compositional and vocal hallmarks for which the group is so widely renowned - is set to become a true classic of the genre. Comes with an elegant 16-page booklet!
Haare is a well-respected Power Industrial / Psychedelic Noise project from Finland. "The astonishing ritual music of Finland’s Haare sounds as though it was commissioned by Mother Nature herself as the officially approved soundtrack for the creation... In Haare’s world, analogue synthesizers boil and simmer, Theremins shriek and funeral bells toll for some long forgotten calamity, as freeform bass and electric guitars wriggle and ancient cassettes half-caked with the detritus of untended playback heads struggle to project their sacred encoded messages... Beautiful, fantastic." (Julian Cope). Two long tracks of Psychedelic Funeral Drone.
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HAARE - 'Madon Evankeliumi' CD (At War With False Noise)
Finland's Haare are one of the most exciting noise artists around. This is total swirling psychedelia, incredibly heavy shifting tides of drone with evil organ lines permeating the noise. Haare himself describes it as "a slow, heavy bell". Based on source sounds provided by MOSS members Olly Pearson, Chris Chantler and Dom Finbow. Ltd x 500 copies in an A5 pro-printed gatefold wallet and PVC sleeve with amazing art by Andrew Labanaris (Electric Wizard and MOSS).
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HADIT - 'Arise' CD (Dark Vinyl / Memento Mori)
"An indoctrinated veil of enforced reality, soundscapes and words scattered into subsections. Its ritual Intentions are counterpart and complement of our former releases as MONDBLUT. A resurrection of forgotten manifestations out of the void, and furthermore the revival and re-awakening of ritual musick! Love is the Law, Love under Will."
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HAG-HAG-HAGAL - 'Untitled' CD (Valgriind)
Russian Industrial act, hailing from Moscow. High quality atmospheric post-Industrial / Martial / occultic Dark Ambient, with neo-symphonic choirs, similar to A Challenge Of Honour, Ophir, Liyr etc. The band also used a termenvox (or the 'etherphone') during recording. Jewelcase edition. Ltd x 500 copies.
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HAIR POLICE - 'The Empty Quarter' CD (Harbinger Sound)
Recorded in spring 2007 by Mike Connelly (Wolf Eyes), Trevor Tremaine (Death Unit) and Robert Beaty (Burning Star Core). No drums. All electronics. Wave after wave after wave of fractalized & harsh electronics with Gristle-esque walls of sound and normality-disrupting electronic oscillations. For fans of Wolf Eyes, and early Black Dice. Digipak. Ltd x 1000 copies.
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HAIR POLICE - 'Totaled And Stranded' LP (Hundebiss Records)
A 1-sided album of piercing vocals, walls of guitars, precise heavy electronics and thundering drums. A fusion of metal, noise rock, free jazz, industrial, and harsh electronics. "Recorded in a hotel room after we totaled out tour vehicle and became stranded in the worst snowstorm in Ohio history" (Hair Police). hand-cut artwork on black cardboard, with Xeroxed recycled paper and a raw paper inner sleeve. The B side is screenprinted by Serimal. Ltd x 500 hand-numbered copies with no repress.
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HAL HUTCHINSON - 'Corrupted Scrap' LP (Freak Animal)
Two live in studio scrap metal recordings from Hal Hutchinson (Pollutive Static) that utilise an approach called 'Factory of Metal Sound'. This technique allows for the artist to assemble a sonic machine using unwanted industrial products, taking a form of sound recording that has always been essentially 'free form' and 'open'. Layering the sound of each object (chains, nails, barrels, pipes, sheet metal etc) they create an approach that is truly experimental in nature and not simply mere imitation. These recordings aspire to something beyond that which was inherited. Silkscreened b/w covers and insert. Ltd x 143 copies!
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HALF MAKESHIFT - 'L'Anse Amort' CD (20 Buck Spin)
Half Makeshift is the solo project of Pennsylvania's Nathan Michael. L'anse Amort contains four tracks that expand on the density of his debut "Aphotic Leech", creating more space and reflection, more peaks and valleys. The monumental 17 minute opener "Whale Heart" builds from a simple melody and crackling electro-static to eventually collapse under its own weight in a huge Nadja-esque wall of drone riffery , while other tracks are comparable to Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore. "L'anse Amort" is epic in a way most "post-rock" bands can only aspire to. Comes specially packaged in a outsize gatefold sleeve.
Debut full length from Halflings. Essential power electronics on the RRR label. Jeremy Nissan and Ryan Woodhall of Halflings also make up two thirds of intense new American power electronics heroes Yellow Tears. Ltd x 500 copies in a full-colour sleeve, including a glossy insert with some disturbing pictures and lyrics.
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HALLOWED BUTCHERY - 'Funeral Rites For The Living' CD (Vendetta Records)
Though this one-man project ostensibly falls within doom's murky sphere it manages to cut through a variety of subterranean genres with a cold blade, effectively providing a cross section of all things dour and gloomy. The first thing you'll notice are the trudging atonal riffs and unearthly rasps, but closer inspection reveals wisps of industrial static, droning melancholy and vague traces of forgotten folk, suggesting that while a debt may well be owed to the likes of Burning Witch and Thergothon, the album's creator is also more than au fait with the further-flung territory mapped out by the likes of Gnaw Their Tongues, Coil and Nadja. Digisleeve.
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HALLOWED BUTCHERY - 'Funeral Rites For The Living' LP (Vendetta Records)
Though this one-man project ostensibly falls within doom's murky sphere it manages to cut through a variety of subterranean genres with a cold blade, effectively providing a cross section of all things dour and gloomy. The first thing you'll notice are the trudging atonal riffs and unearthly rasps, but closer inspection reveals wisps of industrial static, droning melancholy and vague traces of forgotten folk, suggesting that while a debt may well be owed to the likes of Burning Witch and Thergothon, the album's creator is also more than au fait with the further-flung territory mapped out by the likes of Gnaw Their Tongues, Coil and Nadja. Ltd x 400 copies on black vinyl.
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HALO MANASH - 'RASHnkaRA' LP & DVD (Kaosthetik Konspiration)
Halo Manash, redrobed and clothed in ash, has completed a helical cycle, r.A.S.H.n.k.a-RA. Archaic sounds and visions from the heights and depths, elemental ambience and primal thundering. Various instruments such as horns, kanglings, bells, cymbals, drums, singing bowls, damaras, rattles, chimes, bones, self-made instruments, vocals, voices, and the elemental sounds themselves give form to a work that is sometimes serene, sometimes fierce and chaotic. "In 4 Elements" (DVD) was realised in 4 circulations of the sun and consists of 4 parts. "In Polardual" (LP) is the dark twin, and was realised in 2 circulations of the sun, consisting of two parts. Ltd x 500 copies in gatefold sleeve with A2 poster.
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HALO MANASH - 'Taiwaskivi' CD & DVD (Aural Hypnox)
Halo Manash rises radiant into luminosity, with wings spread into all worlds, and brings forth "Taiwaskivi", an opulent work of solar ambience and primordial Ur-music... a work of sonic flame and aural ash. Seven interrelated tracks, utilising such diverse instrumentation as organ, horns, vocals, drums, gongs, percussion and string instruments as well as field-recordings captured during the pilgrimage that the creation of the work embodies. "Taiwaskivi", although a complete work in itself, can also be viewed as the third and final facet of a tripartite series of works that are part of one holistic creation - a treelogy, with seed, root, trunk and finally, branches. Being the culmination of an ascending journey through the aforementioned realms within and without, "Taiwaskivi" is the celestial crown at the peak, reaching toward Sol, source and beyond; it is the leaves and fruit of the branches and their skyward nectar ever-flowing - the sacred fire, the consummation and conjunction of All. Ltd x 500 copies in a hand finished cardboard cruciform folder with inserts.
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HANNIS BROWN - 'Severe Insomnia' CD (Lumberton Trading Company)
"Severe Insomnia" the second release of New York-based experimental composer Hannis Brown, is a spine-chilling and unpredictable rollercoaster-ride of a listen. The 11 instrumental tracks run the gamut from musique-concrete tape collages and electroacoustic composition to works for chamber ensembles, orchestra, and solo prepared guitar. Inspired by the meandering and disjunct images that manifest themselves on the backs of eyelids during bouts of insomnia, the music is charged with an instability marked by atonal explosions of saxophones, sedate interludes of electronic and orchestral textures, and nightmarish climaxes of tone clusters. Folded card cover with insert.
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HAPSBURG BRAGANZA - 'Hatchling' CD (Idiosyncratics)
"To the exorcism of the ghosts and escaping from cities". Hatchling is a slow-burning electro-acoustic piece, integrating dense atmospheric collage of field recordings and concrete sound source with highly textural drones and warm subtle harmonics. A very personal and breathtaking piece, both in the heritage of Francisco L�pez and Charlemagne Palestine. "Moving and morphing into various genres, musique concrete, field recordings, minimalist music, this is one solid sound experience. Very nice work!" (Vital Weekly). Ltd x 300 copies in an ekopack.
HARVESTMAN - 'In A Dark Tongue - Black' 2 x LP (Burning World Records)
Sumptuous double vinyl treatment of this 2009 album (Neurot Recordings). Harvestman is the brainchild of Neurosis vocalist / guitarist Steve Von Till, who considers "In A Dark Tongue" a venture into an imagined past. The album is inspired by Hawkwind, Fairport Convention, Tangerine Dream, Pentangle, Steeleye Span, Skullflower, Caspar Brotzman and Loop, among others. It is a massive meeting point of styles and influences, all of which boil down to a surreal and inspired sound. The first Harvestman record, "A Grave Is A Grim Horse", was a dizzying confluence of delicate 70s British style folk, shimmery spaced out drift and glacial doom-drone sprawl, a constantly evolving, organic song suite that seemed to exist in some glorious blissed out druggy spacefolk otherworld. On "In A Dark Tongue", the glimmering strands of traditional folk music that had tethered the first record become even more tenuous. Black vinyl in a deluxe gatefold sleeve.
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HARVESTMAN - 'In A Dark Tongue - Gold' 2 x LP (Burning World Records)
Sumptuous double vinyl treatment of this 2009 album (Neurot Recordings). Harvestman is the brainchild of Neurosis vocalist / guitarist Steve Von Till, who considers "In A Dark Tongue" a venture into an imagined past. The album is inspired by Hawkwind, Fairport Convention, Tangerine Dream, Pentangle, Steeleye Span, Skullflower, Caspar Brotzman and Loop, among others. It is a massive meeting point of styles and influences, all of which boil down to a surreal and inspired sound. The first Harvestman record, "A Grave Is A Grim Horse", was a dizzying confluence of delicate 70s British style folk, shimmery spaced out drift and glacial doom-drone sprawl, a constantly evolving, organic song suite that seemed to exist in some glorious blissed out druggy spacefolk otherworld. On "In A Dark Tongue", the glimmering strands of traditional folk music that had tethered the first record become even more tenuous. Gold vinyl in a deluxe gatefold sleeve. FEW COPIES IN STOCK - ACT FAST!!
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HATI - 'Die Mechanik, Die!' CD (Beast Of Prey)
The characteristic trance-gong-drone-music in the release "Die Mechanik, Die!" has been saturated with electronic sounds. The album was recorded during the Hati performance at "the Mechanik" club in Gdansk. This time Hati, famous for acoustic sounds, made propably the darkest CD in its discography, enriched with dark ambient tones. Heavy backgrounds are perfectly harmonised with trance and mechanical instrumental variations. From one side - harmonic and perfectly interrelated pieces of music. From the other side - an increasing and intensifying atmosphere of the darkness which, like a rust, conquers more and more parts of urban areas. The title of this release speaks for itself! Digipak. Polish import.
Latest release by the great "trance-gong-drone" project from Torun, Poland - a result of many experiences and evolving artistic landscapes. The album was recorded traditionally - live in a natural acoustic environment, using acoustic instruments and connecting remote industrial echoes with elements of free improvisation and influences of drone / minimal music. Hati's music is mined from the depths of the mysterious and completely instrumental, knowingly using sound as a tool of communication. Presented in a cruciform card envelope with black on silver artwork. Highly recommended!
The Polish duo HATI is a very active live group, using an array of archaic and ethnic instruments such as gongs, cymbals, north-African drums and clarinets, wooden trumpets, horns and flutes. What’s more, their music also includes found objects of scrap metal, plastic or wood. Their first release on vinyl presents two pieces of multi-layered gong drones, nicely processed for full trance effect and enriched with whistling and rattling sounds and delayed percussion. Above all these sounds, there’s a mighty overtune buzz with heavenly droning contemplation wafts. First edition of 300 copies on red vinyl with silk-screened covers and an inlay.
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HAVEN - 'A2982' CD (War Office Propaganda / Rage In Eden)
"Let us not be deluded by the spells of this sorcerer; because the first sounds overturn time's acknowledged and safe definition and begin constructions of different, weirder spaces. This is the last chance to resign and turn back. Otherwise, when you listen to the end of first track the only thing left to say is "Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore". You begin your own, separate (and the longest?) journey. What do you see on your way? What unknown lands, traditions, incomprehensible rituals and dialects will you discover? I don't know. But I am sure that if David Lynch ever undertook the filming of "Alice in the Wonderland" the soundtrack of the movie will be filled with the music from A2982". Experimental / Electro. Digipak.
The fifth album of one of the most interesting projects on the Polish independent scene is their most accessible to date and could be quite a challenge for the current [haven] fanbase. "Amity" is a bold journey through different soundscapes, linking different musical worlds: elements of ambient and post-industrial electronica soaking in an experimental sauce, spiced up with oriental melodies and the beautiful voice of Magda Glocka. An attractive alternative for listeners from the outside of the independent music circle. 6-panel digipak.
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HEAD58M - 'Evocation Of A Collective Memory' CD (Netcetera)
Head8m means a space, in which the sound and the picture have equal rights and create the whole, situated somewhere on the border of post-industrial art, dark ambient, post-modernism, hermetic transmutation philosophy and semiotic theory. This multimedial project was inspired by a set of 15 hermetic drawings from 17th century book 'Mutus Liber'. It is a symbolical story on a process which represents man's desire for inner unity and transcendental sublimation. Rough, post-industrial soundscapes combined with images which introduce the spectator to the world of alchemic symbols. Abstract noises penetrate the hypnotically balanced background rhythm and slightly accented melodics. Ritual and mystery, unrest, destruction, oblivion. Digipak.
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HEAVY WINGED - 'Waking / Shaking' LP (Aurora Borealis)
The vinyl-only "Waking, Shaking" release consists of two lengthy tracks: 'Tidal Blackness' is a 23 minute cloud of improvised guitar and bass drone, underpinned with sparse percussive elements and dappled with the rays of ethereal melodies. This track, recorded live in Oakland in 2008, represents the more gentle side of Heavy Winged in some ways and is largely soothing. The second side harbors 'Morning Flesh'; 18 minutes that veer towards the caveman Krautrock of the recent "Alive In My Mouth" LP, drums pounding, Neanderthal guitar chugging, though with a melodic haze drifting across the musical landscape like a lysergic mistral, leading the listener ever further into the shifting sands of the forbidden zone.. Ltd x 500 copies on transparent grey vinyl.
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HEID - 'Pilgrim Of The Sublunary World' CD (Cold Meat Industry)
From the forested outbacks of northern Sweden, a formation known as Heid rose with the midnight sun. Heid paid due respect to the Swedish tradition - a pedigree including Raison d'Etre and In Slaughter Natives. Heid instantly spoke with a unique voice, a distinct Nordic expression resonant with the majesty of their homeland: the deep forests, the bottomless lakes, the foaming rapids, and the distant howls of the last predators. Heid created a dark, dystopian sound, that rendered them a formidable reputation. Heid disbanded in 2000, but the legacy carried on through Survival Unit and LEAK. This CD retrospective is a fitting epitaph. Digipak.
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HELDENTOD - 'The Ghost Machine' CD (Cold Spring CSR131CD)
Heldentod began in 2005 as an outlet for research into the little-known corners of 20th-Century history. While previous recordings whiplashed between the traditional and the experimental, Heldentod's latest album leaves behind its neofolk and martial-industrial roots to focus solely on electronics, but maintains the fundamental sense of composition found in earlier incarnations. Although now primarily influenced by death industrial and power electronics, Heldentod looks to create the most suitable expression of its key themes, including ghosts, ancestor worship, human sacrifice, neolithic fertility rites, Iron Age religion, mediaeval literature, unseen dimensions, inhuman intelligences, and all manner of Forteana.
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HELICE PIED - 'Conduit No. 2' 7" (Drone Records)
Hélice Pied (previously recording under the name NIXILX.NIJILX) is a newcomer from Athens, Greece. "Conduit No. 2" is a perfect example of sensibly spun experimental drone, floating waves with metallic tinkling-sounds slowly approaching and disappearing again, soft white noise-swooshes circulating widely around an invisible centre... sound-sources are hardly recognizable (coming from concrete sounds of churchbells and e-guitar), the atmosphere rising is one of quietness & meditation, able to transcend your mind. All words & symbols Héilice uses have a strong structural and inter-related meaning. First edition of 300 copies on white vinyl with hand-painted, hand-numbered covers and an inlay.
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HELL-BORN - 'Legacy Of The Nephilim' CD (Conquer Records)
This is: "HELL FUCKIN METAL warriors know no mercy! The newest Hell-Born full-length album, "Legacy of the Nephilim", is ready to set the heavens on fire and claim the earthly thrones! Nine pieces of living infernal brimstone and ferocious energy, with playing time of over 40 minutes! A real must for every true Black / Death Metal maniac." Once again Hell-Born's work is full-filled with merciless, infernal fury, with a sound production much heavier, sharper and selective than ever before. Comes in a nice digipak.
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HELMOND - 'Frühe Werke' CD (Trutzburg Thule)
Reissue of an extremely limited 2008 release (100 copies, Trutzburg Thule). "Frühe Werke" is a collection of early works by this German Neoclassical / Martial project, showcasing instrumental pieces composed during 2004 and 2006. For fans of The Days Of The Trumpet Call or Von Thronstahl! Ltd x 180 hand-numbered copies (of a total of 300 pressed - the other 120 copies were only available in the Helmond 'Box'). Presented in a square DVD case. ACT FAST!
German act Helmond consists of two artists: Marco M and Sascha B. Their music can best be described as something between neoclassical and dark ambient with a touch of electro. It deals with philosophy, mythology, sorrow and history. Great atmospheres are mixed with pounding drums and sampled speeches. Proud and bombastic orchestral tracks are suddenly possessed by choirs, pianos, nature sounds and martial influences. And these are only some of the ingredients that create Licentia Poetica. Reminds of early A Challenge Of Honour. Recommended!
HELMUT SCHÄFER / ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI - 'Bisskraft' CD (Ytterbium)
Great forceful noise / experimental collaborative work and one of the last surviving pieces involving the late Helmut Schäfer (who died in 2007). The composition actually dates from 2004 but was just released this year. The music is divided into four parts. Comes in a shrinkwrapped card sleeve. Ytterbium is a sub-label of yb70. French import.
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HENRIK N BJÖRKK - 'Tyglad Best' LP (UFO Mongo)
Nordvargr is the more dark ambient project by Henrik Nordvargr Björkk (the man behind MZ.412 / Folkstorm / Toroidh / Vargr and many other projects). This is a special commemorative album featuring two dark and cosmic tracks: track one was recorded July 21 2011 in the best possible conditions; track two was recorded July 23 2011 in a state of shock. On July 22 2011 the Utøya massacre happened in Norway. This album is dedicated to the memory of those who died. All music performed live on modular synthesizer, no overdubs or processing added. Ltd x 500 copies.
HENRIK NORDVARGR BJORKK- 'On Broken Wings Towards Victory' CD (Old Europa Cafe)
Following in the steps of "Awaken", this CD explores the dark cellars of Bohult even deeper... This time new elements are thrown into the trademark darkness - using knifes, water and broken electronics this CD is sure to deliver a new perspective on the way we see and hear our nordic wolf. The darkest sounds from the Swedish underworld!
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HENRIK NORDVARGR BJORKK- 'The Dead Never Sleep' CD (Old Europa Cafe)
The undisputed master of Nordic darkness and leading mind of MZ.412 returns once again from his cellar with a new offering! "The Dead Never Sleep" is a massive journey of classic Scandinavian dark ambient, but with added outbursts of more violent layers and haunting electronics. Outsized sleeve.
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HENTAI - 'Toy Factory' CD (Vital)
Avant-garde death-electronic label Vital presents it’s first release. As an abstract radio transmission from a hellish toy factory, this nightmare of experimental death electronics is filled with manic rusted toy samples, disturbing natural soundtextures and weird mutating cut-up soundscapes. A chaotic, naïve and childish audio journey through the noisy insane toy factory corridors. Matt digipak with great, disturbing Japanese-inspired mutated doll artwork. Ltd x 500 copies.
HERBST9 - 'From A Dark Chasm Below' CD (Loki Foundation)
The legendary and long deleted debut album from 1999, now finally available again in a carefully remastered version. Complex, textural ambience, consisting of layer upon layer of kinetic, luminous tones and ephemeral nuances of time. Nearly 70 minutes of finest ritual ambient music, mesmerizing rhythmic percussion with deep and sonorous drones. Herbst9 construct sonic rituals gleaned from the ruins of minds scraped hollow and left to decay while natural sounds and archaic motives develop visionary sequences.
HERBST9 - 'Snake Of Saigon / From Below' 7" (Shortwave Transmission)
Two tracks, originally released on the 1999 album "From A Dark Chasm Below", remixed by Herbst9 in 2006. A heavy-quality slab of Ritual / textural Dark Ambient vinyl, released on Herbst9's own label. Limited hand-numbered edition of 300 copies in a hand-made cover with info sheet. A rare and hard-to-find piece! Highly recommended!
HERBST9 - 'The Gods Are Small Birds, But I Am The Falcon' CD (Loki Foundation)
The latest album of Herbst9 is a step further into the depths of the Assyrian and Asian mythologies, using authentic audio and visual fragments of sacrifices, lamentations, prayers and ancient rituals. The result is a deep labyrinth of sounds with meditative percussions, ghostly vocal fragments and singings which melts with detailed and multi-layered tones of various traditional instruments. All this is constructed around a core of dark and ongoing floating drones creating an atmosphere of true archaic music which has been developed by Herbst9 to perfection. This soundtrack is the secrecy from the deep and hidden places of the sacred earth transcending us beyond the real world to the inner realm of ourselves. The CD is presented in 6-panel digipak.
Reissue after 7 years in a lavish 6 panel digipak with new artwork featuring silver print. "Nekronology" is a compilation of mournful musical selections from director Jorg Buttgereit's infamous films, 'Nekromantik', 'Nekromantik 2', and 'Der Todesking', performed by Hermann Kopp. The idea behind the music was to create a dreary atmosphere through a raw, ritualistic sound. You can hear Kopp's signature violin groans, and moog snythesizer during scenes such as the bathtub suicide, the rabbit being skinned alive, and the necrophila sequences.
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HERMANN NITSCH - 'Eighth Symphony' 2 x CD (Tochnit Aleph)
For Choir, Orchestra, And Noise Orchestra. Professionally recorded, extremely dramatic, dynamic, rich, full-blown orchestral music with noise, heavy drones, and Austrian Volksmusik. The first performance of Nitsch's "Eighth Sympony" was on 25 June 1990 at the Museum Für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna. The music was previously released by the Cortical Foundation in 2001 as a 2LP Set limited to a mere 185 copies. The audio has been remastered for this CD edition from the original tapes. The artwork, photos and texts are exclusive to this edition. Ltd x 650 copies in a double size jewelcase including 2 posters with credits, photos, a part of the score, and the text 'Die Gigantische Symphonie' by Günter Brus.
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HEXPEROS - 'The Veil Of Queen Mab' CD (Equilibrium Music)
The second album from Portuguese act Hexperos pays homage to the queen of fairies and dreams, a creation of Anglo-Saxon mythology, with roots in Celtic legends, referred in works by numerous artists, from Shakespeare or Percy Shelley to Gustave Doré. Hexperos once again combine classical and contemporary approaches to chamber music, incorporating Celtic, Mediterranean, Medieval and Baroque elements in a meticulously crafted and varied opus. Pressed on gold disc and housed in a matt-varnished digipak with gold foil print, “The Veil of Queen Mab” comes with a 16-page booklet beautifully illustrated with visuals by Polish artist Malgorzata Maj (Sarachmet Photography & Illustration).
From headlong infusions of psychedelic rock to the limitless furrows of doom, in "Happy Birthday" London's Hey Colossus has constructed an all conquering citadel of experimental/metal disrepair. The album is a rampaging fire-cloud of superstoked riffs and ever mounting walls of feedback, a rough house collection of battering new songs driven at sweltering pace by a band with a fearless momentum. The is the record that the band has always threatened to unleash - a pitch black album for our ever scorched earth. For fans of : Unsane, Neu!, Circle, Corrupted, Eyehategod, Fudge Tunnel, Sludge, Doom etc.
The first release on Black Labs, sister label to UK label Riot Season. Black Labs unites two of Britain's creamiest, shadiest, hell mongers Hey Colossus and Dethscalator, for a split album and you're going to cop it massively in the face till you fall in. Three new long tracks from Hey Colossus (epic dirge space rock, with three sprawling slow-jams, that oozes from slow burning drones, to lurching stumbling blackened crush, to metallic krautrock and back again, rumbling drones - Aquarius) and five from new boys on the chopping block Dethscalator (a gnarled blend of Gore like repetitive heaviness, and lo-slung noise rock - Aquarius). Around 40 mins of music. Ltd x 500 copies.
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HIGHGATE - 'Black Frost Fallout' CD (Totalrust)
It's time to rejoice again. The amazing demo of the mighty Highgate is given a proper release together with older tracks, shiny new intermezzo and 'Live Ritual'. If somehow you managed to miss Highgate and their hybrid of minimalist yet ultra-powerful doom, noise, sludge and grim black metal, here is your chance to get addicted to captivating and uplifting ugliness. If however you are the surviving victim of their oppressive sound, you know that it is yet another blessing. There is nothing even remotely optimistic in the Kentucky deadliest's message – only desolation, hatred and inhabited earth. Ltd x 1000 copies.
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HIGHGATE - 'Shrines To The Warhead' CD (Totalrust)
After two years of silence Highgate is back with another grim slab of sickness. "Shrines To The Warhead" delivers four noisy tracks of almost 45 minutes and shows once again their unique powerful Doom / Black Metal / Sludge / Noise that is nasty, oppressive and suicidal. This album is the heaviest effort of the band so far. Devastating. Ltd x 1000 copies.
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HIKIKOMORI - 'Far From The World' CD (Steelwork Maschine)
After two limited albums, Hikikomori finally releases it's first CD proper. This French artist from Tours moves in spheres of dark drones and ritual ambience. Despite the sinister and black atmospheres of the album there is something very beautiful about the album. Slowly moving drones creates a grandiose atmosphere of hidden melody. A ritual / dark ambient / noise gem. Ltd x 500 copies in a gatefold digisleeve.
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HINSIDAN - 'God Is In The Details' 2 x CD Box (Phisteria)
Danish act Hinsidan return with two full albums 'God Is In The Details’ and 'Music For Ghosts' - released as a limited double CD box-set with 10 artprints. A cold, dark unconventional journey, harsh and epic reflecting the eternal / ongoing battle between the darkness and the light sound painted in vivid shades of grey and blue. Love, god, hate and the endless ways to fall apart are issues all dealt with on this piece of work that stands out as a momentual statement of this new millenium. The sophisticated blend of Ambient and Electro make this a must for fans of Autechre and Coil.
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HINSIDAN - 'We're Sick Of Your Violence' 12" (Realler)
4 tracks from this Danish act who first appeared with a remix on Asche's "Distorted DJ" (Ant-Zen). Music according to Hinsidan are sounds, tones and beats that takes you places. The title song straddles between surreal complexity and naïve simplicity... odd and eerie. Tough and distorted beats, analogue bass, hypnotic synths and harsh drum explosions stand this above the average 'Ambient' fare. Nice cinematic melodies throughout. Again, the sophisticated blend of Ambient and Electro make this a must for fans of Autechre and Coil.
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HINTERGEDANKEN - 'Hintergedanken' CD (Barbarian Records)
Prog / Psych-Rock wizardry from metaphysical media gurus Karen Eliot and Clay Ruby. Their message for the faithless faithful takes the form of an infinitely cosmic psych / prog beast, much in the vein of '60's private press killers such as Yahowa 13 and Frolk Haven. Hintergedanken spews non-local quantum froth from the far realms of Zothyria, which blows over the quivering cadavers of their sacred zombie prostitutes used in the eerie twilight rituals of the forbidden bongload. Digipak.
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HIS DIVINE GRACE - 'Eurydice' CD (Dark Vinyl)
French act His Divine Grace's 4th album (2 previous CDs on HauRuck! and an LP on Nekofutschata) features 6 tracks, which range from ritual ambient and meditative ambient to dark ambient, with a gloomy and doomy atmosphere. Their most tranquil album is full of pure and serene music, perfect 'sombient' for falling asleep to! File next to Regard Extreme.
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HIS DIVINE GRACE - 'Reverse Aleph' CD (Hau Ruck!)
The music of French act His Divine Grace is as mysterious as the band itself - dark and ritual, doomy and gloomy, sneaking up on you from behind, getting you in your sleep, and haunting you in your deepest nightmares. File next to Endvra, Die Wappen Des Thodt or Ordo Catharis Templi.
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HKY - 'HKY' CD (Music Fear Satan)
French act HKY unleash their first effort: four-long-tracks recorded by Julien Lamorille in Bethune (April 2008). The result sounds like dark and cold doom metal with a lots of programming, samples and keyboards which give the record a very particular gloomy atmosphere. All the members are part of other bands and musical projects but the strength of HKY is their massive own universe beyond each track and their musical block between Jesu, Isis, Gnaw and Darkspace. Ltd x 1000 copies in a digisleeve.
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HKY - 'HKY' LP (Music Fear Satan)
French act HKY unleash their first effort: four-long-tracks recorded by Julien Lamorille in Bethune (April 2008). The result sounds like dark and cold doom metal with lots of programming, samples and keyboards which give the record a very particular gloomy atmosphere. All the members are part of other bands and musical projects but the strength of HKY is their massive own universe beyond each track and their musical block between Jesu, Isis, Gnaw and Darkspace. Ltd x 500 copies on black vinyl in a gatefold, die-cut, matt sleeve.
UK 14.00£
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HLADNA - 'Melting Water' CD (Aquarellist)
Very raw ritual ambient / noise saturated with ultra mundane drones and metal rattles. Mostly meditative but sometimes brutal. This is primordial music. Ltd x 300 hand-numbered copies in an outsized folder with stunning photography by Vladimir Manevtsov. Russian import.
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HOARFROST - 'Ground Zero' Enhanced CD (Zoharum)
The debut from this Silesian Dark Ambient project. "Ground Zero" is a landscape developing from an unknown cataclysm presenting ruins and debris of steel, dust flying in the air, rust and sliver, tumbling down construction, where steel structures bend and fold like a pack of cards. A 37-minute story about the destruction of the concrete world is presented in 6 pieces in a dark ambient / industrial climate. Also contains a video clip for 'From Here To Ruins'. Presented in a 6-panel digipak.
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HOARFROST Vs INNER VISION LABORATORY - 'Decline' CD (Zoharum)
Both Hoarfrost and Inner Vision Laboratory are young Polish projects, but it would be an understatement to call them 'new comers', with each project already having a few releases under their belt. "Decline" is a tale of descending into the pits of madness in 8 parts. Inspired by two poems, 'Madman' and 'Modern Icarus,' "Decline: takes you on a journey into the realms of dark thoughts. With such a clear concept, it's no wonder that the music is cinematic, slowly building images in the listener's head. Face the stillness, but remember: something is lingering in the corner. For fans of cinematic ambient like Moljebka Pvlse, Inade, Lambwool, Tho-So-Aa, Land etc. Released in a 6-panel digipak.
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HOBOUDA - 'Wskrzeszenie' CD (PFM)
"Wskrzeszenie" ("Resurrection") is about the forgotten in the turbulent history of the past century. One of a kind, unique, magical, intriguing, 18th and 19th century folk songs and contemporary folk songs of Warmia (North-East Poland), sung in the dialect of the language of the now dead. This artist produces cultural music, combining elements of traditional folk, progressive folk-rock and contemporary music of Warmia, with the highest level of composition and execution. The 'Hoboud' is a devilish creature which frequently appears in tales around the Warmia district and is comparable to the Austrian Perchten, golems, kobols and gnomes. File next to Moon Far Away. Presented in a luxurious 6-panel digipak with impressive booklet, containing all lyrics in English and Polish.
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HOLLOW SUNSHINE / THE AUSTRASIAN GOAT - 'Wherever I Am' 12" (Vendetta Records)
Two solo dirging monsters team up - US Doom Vs. French Blackened Doom Metal. On the a-side, Hollow Sunshine delivers a pummeling, industrial sewer while The Austrasian Goat goes rather eclectic. The b-side features a wild blackened shoegaze meets industrial psych piece by way of a collaboration between the two. Ltd x 300 hand-numbered copies in a silk-screened cover.
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HOOR-PAAR-KRAAT - 'The Eureka Tapes: The Complete Recordings' 2 x CD (Small Doses / Basses Frequences)
The pieces that make up "The Eureka Tapes" were all created while Hoor-paar-Kraat’s Anthony Mangicapra was living in the town of Eureka, California. Indeed, the town’s name is apt as they represent a “Eurekamoment” for Hoor-paar-Kraat as a musical entity; a figurative spilling of the bath waters as Hoor-paar-Kraat found their sound. The hints of alchemical transcendence that peeped through the cracks of previous releases come brazenly into view throughout. Music dissolves into explorations of texture, acoustic phenomena and the psyche. Originally issued as three separate volumes in a variety of hard to find formats, "The Eureka Tapes" collects the three original volumes, plus Hoor-paar-Kraat’s side of their split cassette with Last and a previously unreleased recording from the same sessions. Hoor-paar-Kraat’s music finds itself travelling the same surreal by-ways as Nurse With Wound, irr. app. (ext.), The Hafler Trio and Coil’s more ritualistic output.
HOROLOGIUM - 'A Handful Of Dust And Ashes' CD (Zoharum)
"A Handful of Dust and Ashes” is a collection of tracks recorded during various occasions, but united here by a peculiar sediment of dust and rust; it’s a journey in time from the strictly limited “A Handful of Dust” (Cynfeirdd, 2005) to “Opium” (Void Rekordz, 2005), both long out of print. The (re)collection is crowned by three tracks performed live in Barcelona and Bologna in 2008 and 2009. Includes a collaboration with Artefactum. The artwork by Fab and Sophie embody fin de siècle that has never been that convincing and tangible. 6-panel digipak.
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HOROLOGIUM - 'Der Volksmund Sagt Pt. 1' 7" (La Esencia)
This is the first part of the "Der Volksmund Sagt" trilogy, inspired by traditional Polish music. Is there anything more enriching than a pastime in the countryside? And yet, has there ever been more grief and misery than in the countryside? Horologium's postmodern-folkish adventure will be followed by 10" and 12" releases to complete the trilogy. Ltd x 300 hand-numbered copies.
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HOROLOGIUM - 'Fyre' 10" (Midnight Productions)
Fire has been a point of reference for Horologium’s musical endeavours since the very beginning of the band. It is now high time for you to experience a release specifically centered around this meaningful theme. Let us invoke the fire that gave birth to the Earth, the flame stolen from the gods by Prometheus, the all-changing element of Heraclitus... Horologium hope to set your hearts on fire! Ritual industrial / ambient. Artwork by K. Meizter (Beyond Sensory Experience). Ltd x 300.
HOROLOGIUM - 'Le Paradis Des Chasseurs' CD (Twilight Records)
"Le Paradis des Chasseurs” contains material from two 3" MCDs: "Songs For Hunters” (Ltd x 100, Bunkier Productions) and "Paradise Inverted” (Ltd x 150, Old Europa Cafe) - both of which embody Polish act Horologium’s most bombastic recordings to date. We believe that this sonic output needs much more recognition! An additional bonus track was recorded with the wonderful assistance from Juan A. (Der Arbeiter). Digipak.
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HOROLOGIUM - 'Tellurian Anthems' LP (La Esencia)
Poland's Horologium need hardly any introduction. Over the years they have managed to create their own musical language and win many hearts in the post-industrial milieu. On "Tellurian Anthems" Martial trumpets, Orchestral fury and tribal percussion have been skillfully combined with delicate Neoclassical fragments, dreamy Ambient parts and female recitation. Sea waves singing alongside gentle piano tunes, radio broadcasts fight against air raid sirens, fire meeting water meeting fire... Around 40mins of music. Ltd x 333 copies in a stunning, heavyweight gatefold sleeve with an elegant A2 poster.
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HOROLOGIUM - 'The Fire Sermon' CD (Divine Comedy)
"The Fire Sermon" is based upon pessimistic views on history, fate of human kind and T.S. Elliot's poetry ("The Waste land"). This release combines the darkest side of traditional symphonic industrial (from SPK "Leichenschrei" to CMI acts such as Memorandum or Heid) with heavy and desperate tensions similar to Aghiatrias and Omnicore. With the addition of some folkish and liturgical elements from Eastern Europe, "The Fire Season" presents a very serious and impressive opus from this Polish act in a completely nihilistic way. Ltd x 500 copies in a beautiful sepia 6-panel fold-out card envelope.
First solo-release by Hostia, whose tracks so far have appeared on the first two Ordo Catharis Templi compilations. Darkest melancholic ambient, drifting drones and solemn ritual music. Limited edition of 449 copies, heavy 180g vinyl, in a glossy sleeve. Nice piece, and now rare.
Please note that all remaining copies have a little bit of wear at top of sleeve from storage, hence reduced price!
UK 9.00£
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HREFNESHOLT - 'Uraungst' CD (Percht)
Going back to far away times, Hrefnesholt digs out long forgotten, ancient tales amongst the myths of the Upper Austrian forests. These legends of sinister and primal fears were too terrible to be retold and people wanted to forget them over the centuries. Now these ancient tales are finally being retold in "Uraungst". A mixture of dark, organic Ambient, Folk, a slight Black Metal touch and spoken/sung lyrics and tales in Austrian dialect. Hrefneshold is pure Doom Folk and incomparable with any other music style. Outsize sleeve.
HROSSHARSGRANI - 'Pro Liberate Dimicandum Est' CD (Steinklang)
"Pro Liberate Dimicandum Est" was released specially for the 2000 years anniversary of the "Varusschlacht" (also known as the Battle Of Teutoburg Forest and immortalised by Ridley Scott in the film "Gladiator"). Classical melodies combined with the iron rough edges of Martial Industrial on a crusade through the ages. A musical journey far off the trampled paths of industrial art was the basis for each single Hrossharsgrani track! Hrossharsgrani is Alex Hugin Wieser, the man behind Uruk-Hai, Bonemachine etc. DVD case packaging.
HROSSHARSGRANI - 'Sanguis' CD (Beverina & WAR Productions)
In the cold winter of 1998 a.d. the Austrian battle machine Hrossharsgrani formed for their first release in shape of the demo 'Blut'. In the beginning Hrossharsgrani (feat Hugin of Uruk-Hai) wandered the worlds of dark ambient music to tell stories of creatures that walked by night, the undead, the vampyres. He paid tribute to the bloody heritage of Lord Byron and Bram Stoker. On the 10 year anniversary of "Blut", this gem, which was lost for a decade, is now digitally remastered and released once again. Prepare for the birth of a new Hrossharsgrani era! Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak.
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HROSSHARSGRANI / DEAD MAN'S HILL - 'Dead Meat' CD (Steinklang)
Two-way split album - a great mix between Martial / Industrial / Ambient / Electronic and more. Five new Hrossharsgrani anthems featuring vocals by Bart Piette from D.M.H. and Pr. Sergiy from Moloch, as well as five new monumental epics from the master of Dark Ambient, Dead Man's Hill - this time a lot more intense and song-oriented than on earlier releases. "Dead Meat" is the so far most mature and complex album of both artists. Composition, interpretation and design feel like a smack in the face and leave no room for compromise! Morbidity meets iron avant-garde, romanticism encounters the frozen coldness of metal! When will people finally realize: if you want to feel you MUST listen! Slimline DVD case.
Two great new pieces by this Russian artist, most sensible and emotional drone-ambience, a graceful dance of acoustic reflections and resonances. "Spectral Ship" and "Tidal Fire" appear like universal mantras, revealing the basic HUM of the universe. These works seem to represent perfectly the concept of the "Substantia" series: Sound that exists but which is not originating from the impact of two subjects in contact. Sound that is simply "there", with no beginning or ending. Limited to 500 copies on silver coloured vinyl, with a full colour sleeve designed by Daniel Crokaert / Mystery Sea.
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HUMAN GREED - 'Black Hill: Midnight At The Blighted Star' CD (Lumberton Trading Company)
The third album by Edinburgh's finest exponents of often haunting, yet always touching, ebb and flow. Michael Begg (Fovea Hex) with very special guest appearances by Julia Kent (Antony & the Johnsons, Blind Cave Salamander), Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo (Blind Cave Salamander, Larsen), David Tibet (Current 93) and Clodagh Simonds (Fovea Hex). Gathering together material quite possibly amounting to their most accomplished yet, 'Black Hill...' is akin to being caught in the trail of a shooting star heading to the very place where dreams, fears, hopes and an overwhelming sense of helpless abandonment teeter over the periphery of yet another rather enticing void. At once beautiful, melancholic, slightly bruised and foreboding, the music here never fails to captivate.
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HYBRYDS - 'Dreambient' CD & DVD (Aquarellist)
"Dreambient" is based on exploration of the female characters from the Pagan past: archetypes of the seducer, the demon, the girl, the whore, the slave, the mistress, the priest, the mother... The music of the project has become more accessible for uninitiated listeners: traditional ambient-ritual basis is enriched with rhythmic electronics, melodic synthesizer tunes and even guitar parts. Vocals are now delivered by Madeline Arndt from the German darkwave / gothic band Schattenkinder. The DVD contains a visualisation of the subconscious flow of religious and erotic archetypes. Ltd x 1000 copies in a 6-panel digipak with booklet.
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HYENA HIVE - 'See Saw Sav Ann Ah!' 7" (.ANGLE.REC.)
Until now, Hyena Hive’s sonic imprint has been rarely captured on disc. In the beginning, they delivered a very intense, rich and most honest noise-rock sound… but after that, percussion vanished to give way to a sound with a more Power Electronics colour, whose presence is now well affirmed in Hyena Hive’s audio universe. To document this phase, the flamboyant and demented "See Saw Sav Ann Ah!" is issued in 7" format. Two relentless tracks, and by far one of the most abrasive releases from the .ANGLE.REC. camp. This is in the image of all their most recent live performances! Lots of intensity to spare for fearless ears! Ltd x 250 hand-numbered copies in a deluxe cardboard envelope sleeve.
The alluring debut from Leipzig Germany’s Hyios offers 7 lengthy compositions of cold ritual drones, arching trajectories, and visceral descents into subterranean caverns, where rich, kinetic textures and deep resonant tones move and morph in a fluid, serpentine fashion, sprinkled with the debris of an ancient culture and something more otherworldly and primordial. Leipzig has historically proven to be fertile ground for dark ambient and "Consuetudines" continues in the fine tradition set forth by such notable acts as Inade and Herbst9. Presented in a 6 panel digipak, mastered by Secret Lab. A great new discovery!
Berlin artist [-Hyph-] (aka Nicolas Wiese) composes his electro-acoustic music using instruments played by others. There is xylophone, double bass, alto saxophone, bass clarinet as well as field recordings from Canada, police helicopter and human voices. There is always something happening here. No second silence seems to be permitted. Wiese uses the computer to treat his sounds beyond belief, or rather: beyond recognition. Very vibrant music, very free in approach and result. Composed from the original ideas of musique concrete, but with a strong touch of his own. Perhaps not entirely new (either), but it's all done with great care and style. Comparable to Brume. Ltd x 300 copies in a digipak.
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HYPNOZ - 'Breath Of Earth' CD (Zhelezobeton)
Hypnoz is a project of Dmitry Zubov, a Moscow musician, who endowed lovers of post-industrial music with such names as Hum and Staruha Mha. Since 1993 Hypnoz has released one CD on Russian label Insofar Vapour Bulk, which gathered tracks from different periods and a couple of very limited editions. The basis of most of the tracks for "Breath of Earth" was recorded by Dmitry together with Evgeny Voronovsky (Cisfinitum) during their joint night psychedelic sessions, and this is evidently felt in their mood. Stylistically this can be called tranquil electronic ambient with a remarkable experimental touch. Slowly twisting sound helixes, drawing inside the astral subspaces, pulsating rhythms, cosmic sounds of old analogue synths. Outsize package. Ltd x 500 copies.
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HYPSIPHRONE - 'And The Void Shall Pierce Their Eyes' CD (Black Plagve / Malignant Records)
Debut album from this one man project from Greece, fitting right in with labelmate Sewer Goddess in its ability to create innately evil and impure sounds, integrating elements of doom metal, black metal, and dark experimentalism into the pure industrial horror that constitutes the majority of this release. The result is nothing short of absolute and abject dread; 8 tracks spanning an hour worth of material…an auditory overload that’s completely immersive, and at times overwhelming , where heaving masses of percussive doom collide with shuddering machinery dirge, ghoulish and nightmarish ambience, torturous screams, and cinematic depravity, the sounds layered into a tangled and abstract tapestry of something completely epic and nearly majestic in its scale. Fans of Gnaw Their Tongues, Abruptum and “Necro Evangelicum” era BDN will do well to wallow in the oozing blackness and unbridled malevolence Hypsiphrone has created. Ltd x 500 copies in a 6-panel digipak.
This is: "HELL FUCKIN METAL warriors know no mercy! The newest Hell-Born full-length album, "Legacy of the Nephilim", is ready to set the heavens on fire and claim the earthly thrones! Nine pieces of living infernal brimstone and ferocious energy, with playing time of over 40 minutes! A real must for every true Black / Death Metal maniac." Once again Hell-Born's work is full-filled with merciless, infernal fury, with a sound production much heavier, sharper and selective than ever before. Comes in a nice digipak.
