M. KOURIE - 'The Dreams Of M. Kourie' CD (Chrome Peeler)
Solo debut by Californian Nathan Berlinguette of 5/5/2000, The Human Quena Orchestra, and Creation Is Crucifixion. 'The Dreams Of...' sets a course for the heart of a black hole, and takes the scenic sonic route getting there. This is the sound of stargazing, a blackened landscape of warm shimmer that imperceptibly shifts and contorts, each new shape even more abstract and more black than the shape before, tracing a minimal path that simultaneously drifts beneath the sea, through subterranean caverns, amidst the vacuum of space and through the impossibility of alternate universes. Soft rumbles, warm chordal swells, glistening abstract melodies, drifting gauzy shimmer, all falling into one another and making the journey special. Packaged in a simple folded black sleeve, printed with gold foil. Features guest appearances by Tim Green (The Fucking Champs) and Ryan Unks (Creation Is Crucifixion, Circadia).
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M87 - 'Noctilucent Threnody' CD (Supernal Music)
Deep symphonic dark ambient space music. A completely alien and eerie experience of darkness and cold void desolation. M87 was created in 1995 by Huw Davies, inspirationally catalysed by a television documentary about Black Holes. Originally aiming to create music which expressed the strangeness and extremity of these elusive celestial objects, and as much aided by his extraordinary technical level as a guitar player as limited by his nonexistent technical level on any other instrument, Davies spent over a year developing and perfecting notation, playing, and recording techniques which would enable him to produce an alien orchestral sound with nothing but his 13 guitars and some recording equipment. Ltd x 1000 copies.
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MAAAA - 'Decay And Demoralization' CD (Mind Flare Media)
"Decay and Demoralization" comes at you with 6 tracks well over 60 minutes in length. This stuff is harsh and without a doubt the most extreme band coming out of Poland's underground today. "Decay and Demoralization" includes tons of Power Electronics and bizarre recordings that create an odd, otherworldly atmosphere stuck in a white noise frenzy. Banging metal, shrieking, dying, the cover of this album should say it all. These guys like to take the energy of punk rock and fuse it with noise, creating a sound all their own. An excellent showcase of what's to come. Extreme harsh analogue noise! Ltd x 500 copies.
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MAAAA - 'Sampo Distortion' CD (24919 Records)
Loud, extreme metal-junk / Soviet noise. This is the new album of ex-Karelian project Maaaa, now residing in Warsaw. Maaaa has created a completely pitiless thing, both in sound and sense. The mythical coffee-grinder of Kalevala like mighty annihilator rises from the bottom of the sea and grinds all this ugly world of evil and progress down. "Everything crashes, at out place everything crashes, here, now and then" - as one unknown lady said. And she was right, "Sampo Distortion" comes to you! File next to Macronympha. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak with booklet.
MAATH - 'No Survivors For The New World' CD (Eibon Records)
Debut album from this Italian artist. Based upon the concept of coma, sleep and suspended animation, "No Survivors For The New World" gently brings you through a dormant world, where dreams flow freely around you, leaving a coloured trace in the cold and dark void. Melodic dark ambient of the finest kind; round, deep, mesmerizing. Are you ready for your new world? Presented in a beautiful digisleeve.
The tracks on "Daas" have been carefully picked to form a provoking, haunting journey. What the tracks have in common is a sense of nostalgic graininess. As with the music of Philip Jeck, The Caretaker or William Basinski, these tracks are full of degrading melodies and dusty ambience. 'Daas' is the previously unreleased opening track of the album, and features contributions by the great Richard Skelton. 'Flotter', 'Koploop' and 'Grom' were previously available on small run self released EPs, while 'Onkruid' was a track previously released on 'A Room Forever', as an expensive and extremely limited 12" boxset. All are now brought to a wider audience. Presented in a matt laminate digipak.
"...a gorgeously minimal guitar workout that reminds us of another aQ fave, Part Timer, with it's sleep guitar figures, wreathed in digital glitch, bits of crackle and streaks of hiss, every now and then a thick distorted guitar surfaces, only to drift off again, leaving lots of space for that lonely guitar to drift through. Stuttery, skipping, sudden moments of near silence, but all peppered throughout a slowly unfurling expanse of warbly woozy fractured folk, soft and pretty, spacious and minimal, the glitchiness mostly adding texture, rarely interrupting the song's dreamy drift" (Aquarius). Ltd x 381 on black vinyl.
MACHINEFABRIEK - 'Ranonkel' CD (Burning World Records)
'Ranonkel' marks a break in form from the recent output, avoiding all sense of this being another ephemeral transmission from the Machinefabriek hard drive, and instead sounding like a fully formed bonafide album, a worthy follow-up to 'Marijn'. Rutger Zuydervelt combines the very best of his microsound work with an explicitly tuneful instrumental element... an infinitely graceful backdrop of high frequency sine tones, crackle and slow chords. The finest Machinefabriek outing of 2008 by some margin - you'll be returning to the opening piece in particular again and again. Matt digifile.
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MACRONYMPHA - 'Live At No Fun Fest - March 18, 2006, NYC' SINGLE SIDED 12" (Self Abuse Records / Mother Savage Noise Productions)
As the title states, this is Macronympha live at No Fun Fest 2006. Raw and violent sexual noise. Featuring the line up of Joe Roemer (OVMN, Mother Savage, One Dark Eye), Roger Stella (Mother Savage, Hollow Bush), Dominick Fernow (Prurient, Cold Cave), and Tim Oliveira (Stimbox). Single-sided LP. Limited to just 156 copies! EXTREMELY RARE AND ONLY A FEW COPIES IN STOCK - ACT FAST!
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MAEL MORDHA - 'Cluain Tarb' CD (Grau)
"Cluain Tarb" is an 8-track release by Celtic artist Mael Mórdha. Playing a unique blend of doom metal and traditional Irish laments, the band has successfully fused their influences to create Ceol Breatha Gaedhealach ("Gaelic Doom Metal"). This album includes the demos "Cluain Tarb" EP, plus the two bonus demo tracks 'An Tus' and 'Pauper Of Souls' (1999-2003). Celtic, Irish, Heavy and Gloomy - that's Mael Mordha!
The 2nd album from this Ceol Breatha Gaedhealach ("Gaelic Doom Metal") act. Between Doom Metal and pagan folk music, this album is original, whilst maintaining the quality of the compositions of the band, mainly themed around Celtic legends and the Irish spirit. Seven tracks with a lot of ambiance, giving the feeling of travelling in time through the vast lands of Eire.
MAEROR TRI - 'Language Of Flames And Sound' CD (Old Europa Cafe)
2nd Edition of this album, originally issued by OEC in 1996. Power for the right side of the brain! Our world is dominated by the left brain hemisphere! M.T. is here supporting the theory that it is necessary to stimulate and challenge the right hemisphere in order to get back to an equal activity of the two sides of the brain. This is some of the best Shamanic Meditation music of the industrial era! Maybe the best and most intense Maeror Tri album? Maeror Tri disbanded in 1996, with 2 members going on to form Troum. Comes packed in a special brain-shaped folder in a limited edition of 500 copies. ACT FAST!
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MAEROR TRI - 'Multiple Personality Disorder' CD (Purple Soil)
Repress of the first CD release by Maeror Tri (1993, Korm Plastics). "Multiple Personality Disorder" is a concept CD divided in four long parts recorded back in 1991 that fully showcase their mastery in distorting drones and layering guitar sounds. Stefan Knappe and Martin Siehl now record under the guise of Troum. Presented in a very nice 6-panel digifile with booklet and postcard, featuring the original (yet unused) cover for the album's initial 1993 release. Expanded liner notes and the story behind the album by Frans De Waard.
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MAINLINER - 'Mainliner Sonic CD (Collapsar Records)
Reissue of the 1997 album from this Japanese Space-Psych-Rock group, originally released on Mason Jones' Charnel Music. Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple, Tsurubami), Yoshida Tatsuya (Acid Mothers Temple, Ruins, Zeni Geva) and Asahito Nanjo (High Rise). Mainliner Sonic merrily operates under the principle that nothing is not worth doing if not done in ways that make amplifiers sound like they are melting rapidly. Which is something that can be said about a variety of such groups from Japan, but with Makoto Kawabata credited as playing "motor psycho guitar", one can rest assured that it's probably going to sound pretty good! Mainliner find grooves and throttle them until they bleed, with acid freakout chaos. Ltd x 500 copies . Chinese import.
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MAJA S. K. RATKJE & LASSE MARHAUG - 'Music For Gardening' CD (Pica Disk)
The fourth entry in Ratkje and Marhaug's "Music For"-collaborative series. After "Shopping" (2002), "Loving" (2004) and "Faking" (2005) comes... "Gardening". The title is inspired by Ratkje's new life in the countryside. The seven tracks on this CD are meant to inspire the listener to spend more time in their garden taking care of their plants. "...nestled somewhere in the nether-regions between harsh noise, electro-acoustic improvisation and plunderphonic collage-work, the two are obviously having a blast running the proverbial gamut... great stuff!" (Mimarolglu)
"Ashes" is the first part of the Majdanek Waltz trilogy. This album contains all tracks which were previously recorded exclusively for the compilations, different versions of some compositions also released on the compilations and new unreleased tracks. Majdanek Waltz stay within their own tradition - melancholic and twilight, anxious and "transparent" neofolk with brilliant fragments, embracing dark ambient and martial atmospheres.
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MAJDANEK WALTZ - 'Cold' Enhanced CD (KultFront)
Fifth album from this Russian Neofolk formation. Flute and accordion, guitar and bass are accompanied by smooth industrial noises, casting a feeling of transparent melancholy. This is neither a light nor dark feeling, but closer to cosmic coldness, whirling onto the earth's surface. Features a cover version of a MW song by St Petersburg project Anthesteria and a collaboration piece with Moscow-based project Wolfsblood. Limited to 500 copies in a beautiful textured slipcase and sleeve and enhanced with a photo gallery. Russian import.
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MAJDANEK WALTZ - 'Hamlet's Childhood' CD (The Eastern Front)
Fifth CD release from this cult Russian Neofolk project. Beautiful lyrics in Russian, taken from Symbolist poets Boris Poplavsky 1903-1935, Maximilian Voloshin 1877-1932 and translated poems of German Expressionist poet Georg Heym 1887-1912. The decadent tragic atmosphere of the Russian Silver Age... nostalgic and gloomy music rooted deeply in classical European and Russian musical traditions of XX century, utilising acoustic guitars, violins and bayan (Russian accordion). Israeli edition, limited to 500 copies in a 6-panel outsized gatefold.
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MAJDANEK WALTZ - 'Ophelia' CD (KultFront / Wroth Emitter)
"Ophelia" is the second part of a trilogy by Russian Dark Folk / Neoclassical / Dark Ambient act Majdanek Waltz. This CD can be considered as an evolution of the musical and lyrical essence of the band introduced by the "Hamlet's Childhood" album. This release is based on the original acoustic music of the band coupled with the lyrics of the German early XX century expressionist poets Paul Zech and Georg Heym. All compositions are published for the first time.
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MAJDANEK WALTZ / SAL SOLARIS - 'Himmel Des Reichs / Der Himmel Über Berlin' Enhanced CD (KultFront)
This split CD is a remastered edition of one of the most energetic recordings from Russian act Majdanek Waltz (from 2004) with special additional tracks from their friends Sal Solaris. "The release continues the theme of 'Cranes' - the absurdity of the confrontation between two forces of brothers-soldiers. Both poles could be clearly seen here, divided stylistically and ideologically - Majdanek Waltz martial / dark folk hymns expressing one side’s view, while Sal Solaris ambient-industrial tracks are the memories of their recent enemies". The CD also includes the Sal Solaris video "Der Himmel Über Berlin" created by Oleg Potiy, using old archive materials. The artwork contains rare photos from 1939 when future enemies were still allies. Ltd x 500 copies in a 6-panel digipak.
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MALDUR ATAI - 'Alarm / Valhala' 7" (Autarkeia)
The second single of Maldur Atai is much sharper than the first. Expressive ambient / martial, powerful WWII samples generate darkly uncanny and psychedelic atmosphere. Like the first single, this one is also characterised by its astonishing completeness. It seems any addition would disturb this especially precise and well-balanced harmony of tracks. Ltd x 230 copies in an embossed sleeve.
MALDUR ATAI - 'Patrols Of Paradise' 10" (Autarkeia)
Two long and powerful tracks from Maldur Atai provide a unique interpretation of the political and religious insularity and power of the Muslim world, secret currents and moods of this mechanism expanding its influence. The listeners will discover powerful, solid ambient, political incantations of the Muslims and strong, unsettling atmospheres in the professionally constructed tracks of this 10". This captures the reflection of today's Iran. It is mysterious and alluring, vilified by Zionist propaganda, yet independent and unbroken. Don't buy if you're easily offended. Ltd x 230 copies in an embossed sleeve.
"Maleficia is the bay area duo of Andy Way (Orchest, French Radio, Carrion) and Ilysea Viles Sunderman, who crafted this desolate, post-industrial smear of voice, violin, and electronics for the always impressive isounderscore label. With the titles of the two side long pieces being "Making" and "Remaking," Maleficia offers a crucible of elemental sounds being obliterated into a charred dust and rebuilt into ashen constructions of misery and disgust... The industrialized loops that wraps around the voice and violin come across like a slow-motion Maurizio Bianchi on par with the downer records he did with Land Use or the grim power electronic phase in the early '80s. Certainly for fans of Amber Asylum, early Lustmord, and the dark ambient aspects of Broken Flag" (Aquarius). Ltd x 400 copies.
MAN IS THE BASTARD NOISE & UNICORN - 'Split' CD (Thumbprint Press)
This BN material featuring the Wiese / Wood line-up is some of the best deep space location work to date. Unicorn’s third (and longest) release features founding member(s) of BN as well as SLEESTAK, Carne-A, and MITB. The work here ranges from technological to enrollees tonal dreamscapes to all out noise attacks. Limited edition of 500 copies with hand-Inked letterpress covers and liner note inserts, with vinyl stickers from each unit, inside heavy duty archival poly sleeve.
Debut release from this Greek Neofolk / Folk Noir / Neo-Cabaret / Experimental act, apparently created as an homage to Current 93. Their sound has gradually changed to incorporate different music styles, playing with folk-rock elements. A dark and gloomy atmosphere, quite heavy and dramatic - at times reminiscent of Sonne Hagal or Svarrogh (who collaborates on a bonus track). Ltd x 500 copies in a luxury digipak.
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MANIA - 'Ultra-Negative' CD (Freak Animal)
4 tracks of heavy and noisy Mania (Keith Brewer of Taint, Sonic Sadist etc) material, with extensive use of metal junk. 2 tracks with analogue Power Electronics contribution from Aaron Dilloway (ex-Wolf Eyes). 1st edition of 250 copies in a square DVD case with full colour inserts.
Debut 'EP' from this French duo containing the two title tracks and two remix tracks. 'Psychoide' is a "gorgeous soft cacophony of epic post rock drift", while 'Participation Shift' has "deep soft swells of shimmering warmth and distant bits of industrial clatter, a slow burning ambient drift that is eventually joined by a simple motorik rhythm". The two remix tracks are: 'Psychoide' remixed by SCANNER (Robin Rimbaud) and Participation Mystic remixed by JESU (Justin Broadrick of Final, Techno Animal, Godflesh). The result is a very cinematic, mesmerising warm piece of music, spanning 43 minutes. Limited to 1000 copies in a nice digipak with sticker.
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MARC BEHRENS - 'Architectural Commentaries 4 & 5' CD (Entr'Acte)
The recording for this Architectural Commentary took place at Resonance FM, London, in June 2004. Patrick McGinley and Behrens recorded the studio equipment itself, the drive noises, ventilation, vibrations in the machines, the studio’s air conditioning, doors… This particular array of sound forms the sole and exclusive basic material for Architectural Commentary 5: Some Models for Resonant Behaviour and links the cycle to earlier music pieces constructed with sounds from computer labs. Loosely based on Luigi Nono’s idea of ‘isole musicali’. "...encyclopaedic variations of themes are generated and often highlighted by silent breaks, like islands, between the individual parts, all different in form and size, but topologically similar.” Ltd x 300 copies a heat sealed medical-type bag.
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MARC BEHRENS / PAULO RAPOSO - 'Hades' CD (and/OAR)
Adorning the cover of this release is a beautiful image of ferry boats on a calm, yet brooding expanse of water; and it's from these ferries that all the original sounds were sourced. They were then reformed, reprocessed and manipulated to make a series of hauntingly beautiful sound sculptures that carry all the hallmarks of menace and darkness that the name would suggest. Resonant textures, high frequencies, noisy punctuations, which are evocative of the original source material. Stark interludes combine to give the listener a very compelling listen indeed. Recommended for fans of the more abstract end of electronic music. Gatefold cover.
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MARCH 15 - 'Our Love Becomes A Funeral Pyre' MCD (Emissary Records)
This is an Industrial / noise project by Sir Albert Witchfinder (Reverend Bizarre) and Vesa Karppinen (Fall of the Idols) created back in 2004 and finally released in 2008. Pain, suicidal depression, desolation and hate in the vein of Abruptum and MZ.412. Ltd x 666 copies. Chilean import.
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MARIAE NASCENTI - 'Morituri Te Salutant' CD (Final Muzik)
First full length CD for this Milan-based project, linked to Black Sun Productions. The music is outstanding - ranging from 80s Italian experimental/esoteric sounds to atmospheric soundscapes, implosive Dark Ambient and sick day dreams. For those into COIL and early CMI industrial stuff. Ltd x 500 copies with beautiful artwork by Angelo Viscone and layout by Black Sun Productions.
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MARIÆ NASCENTI - 'Raise Your Paw To The Sky And Break The Truce' Enhanced CD (Final Muzik)
The second album from Italian Mariæ Nascenti was produced by Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo (Larsen), "Raise..." is arguably the best work of Mariæ Nascenti: pain, loneliness, imagination, dreams, blood, souls and flesh collide together in this wonderfully emotional album. It develops though vital energy a devastating tabula rasa of feelings, through other-worldly melodies, "found" songs, silences, sudden spoken texts, obscure nightmare soundtracks and cold nocturnal music for black & white memories. Guests: Larsen, Northgate, Blind Cave Salamander, Femina Faber / Ludmila, DsorDNE and more. Includes a bonus video track. Ltd x 1200 copies in a digipak with booklet.
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MARK O'LEARY - 'Fabrikraum' CD (Creative Sources)
The prolific Mark O'Leary performs an improvised music that covers a wide degree of territory: he describes himself as a post-jazzer, but his music incorporates contemporary classical and electronics. He has worked extensively in all these areas touring as a member of Paul Bley's trio, composing and performing with Cikada String Quartet, as well as in an acoustic / electronic project with Terje Isungset. Born in Cork, Ireland, he started to improvise on guitar age 11, moved to USA to study when he was 17, returned to Ireland and has performed in 26 countries. "Fabrikraum" was recorded at the National Sculpture Factory in Cork, Ireland in November 2007.
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MARK O'LEARY / GUNTER MULLER - 'Skyshifter' CD (Creative Sources)
"...the duo weave a shimmering tapestry of alien drone, scattering bits of harddrive flotsam across squalls of ringing jetsam. "Improvisational" this recording might be, but aesthetically more than a few chronologically cultural links are forged with pioneer soundscapers of yesteryear (Xenakis, Stockhausen, Babbitt, Subotnick) more so than any straightforward diagrammatical connection with post-jazz avant-gardists... the duo delight in erecting a quakebasket quiverfest of extraordinarily well-articulated electronic music: gently warbling pulses course and murmur as they feint between preening tone clusters and software backwash, a bubbling cauldron of intense sonic energy that is factory resistant to pigeonholing." (The Squid's Ear)
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MARK SADGROVE & ANTHONY GUERRA - 'Iron Sand' CD (A Binary Datum / Black Petal)
On this release, Anthony Guerra (Paper Wings) plays electric and acoustic guitar, electronics and vocals, while Sadgrove (MHFS) plays electric guitar, aluminium harp, electronics and vocals. "Recorded in their new homeland Japan, this is the point where improvised music meets singer songwriting. This is 'easy' music, music that makes your mind wander off, into the grey sky, into the desert, or into the deep sea. Blues like emptiness, very empty. Drone like strumming, slide guitar setting the tone. Vocals don't take a big place around here and are more to underline the desolate character of the music. A fine release of sparse sounds. Minimal indeed" (Vital Weekly). Packaged in a hand-made Japanese art paper sleeve.
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MARTIN BLADH - 'Dirge: The Peter Sotos Files' CD (Freak Animal)
Martin Bladh (IRM, Skin Area) says about this Noise album: "While I was working on the Swedish translation of Peter's excellent book Selfish, Little: The Annotated Lesley Ann Downey, I found that i couldn't get enough of this unsafe, highly personal world, and got the ugly idea to make my own piece based upon it... I asked Peter for the permission to do a recording centered on his private universe. He agreed and sent me a load of sound and video clips, which he'd collected and put into context. I guess it's fair to call this album a conceptual piece". Produced by Erik Jarl (IRM).
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MARTIN BLADH - 'Study For A Theater Of Cruelty' CD (Annihilvs)
This is the much-anticipated solo release by the genius frontman of Swedish industrial legends IRM. Aktionist, provocateur, visionary: Martin Bladh has composed an eerie score for impossible performance art, incorporating sparse, stringed drones and chilling atmospheres similar to Bladh's work with performance artist Bo I. Cavefors. Jewelcase edition. Ltd x 300 copies.
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MARTIN FRANKLIN & MICHAEL NORTHAM - 'An Opening Of The Earth: Recovered' CD (Faria Records)
"An Opening Of The Earth: Recovered" revisits a spontaneous collaboration between the two musicians, captured in the early 90's. Mythic imagery of man descending into the mysteries of the Inner Earth is conjured in this intense recorded performance. Using lo-fi sampling, eerie drones, percussive metal instruments and effects, the players trace an intuitive path through a midnight electronic improvisation. Like an unearthed archeological find, the recordings of this ritualistic performance tie the pieces to their location, as well as the events of their time. After unearthing the original tapes, Martin Franklin has created new mixes for this release, including previously unheard sections, re-interpreted and enhanced for the 21st Century listener. Ltd x 500 copies in an outsized package with inserts.
MARTYN BATES - 'Mystery Seas (Letters Written #2)' CD (Shayo)
"Mystery Seas" (originaly released in 1995 on A-Scale Recordings and now entirely remastered) is the second of Martyn Bates' (Eyeless In Gaza) "Letters Written" series. On this album he sets his songs into organ based backings, going roght back to the drones of traditional song and more than this, to church music. It's an intensive sound which would appeal to fans of traditional folk and electronic music fans all at once. There is a dream state built up from these songs of drifting minimal chords and layers of vocals. What could sound sparse, sounds full and balanced. Digipak.
MASCHINENZIMMER 412 - 'Macht Durch Stimme' CD (Dark Vinyl)
Reissue of the debut album by these Swedish legends - first issued as a 6-track cassette in 1998 (x50), then issued onto CD with 6 extra tracks in 1990. MZ.412 was founded by Kremator Nordvargr and Drakhon, and can be described as the rightful leader of true Swedish Black Industrial. Dark, doomy and challenging.
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MASON JONES - 'International Incident' CD (Charnel Music)
Collected from a couple of tours in Japan, this CD contains live collaborations by Mason Jones with a host of stars from the Japanese Noise / Experimental world: KK Null (Zeni Geva), Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple), Hajime Koizumi (Mainliner), Tsuyama Atsushi (Omoide Hatoba), Jojo Hiroshige (Hijokaidan), Yamamoto Seiichi (Boredoms / Omoide Hatoba) and Nakajima Akifumi (Aube). With over an hour of music, "International Inciden" ranges from atmospheric sounds to noise and psych-improv heavy jams. Digipak with booklet.
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MASONNA - 'Inner Mind Mystique' CD (Release Entertainment)
Originally released as a triple 7" (Ltd x 500), this CD version comes with a bonus 15-minute track. Sanity-splintering sounds augmented with inhuman, rabidly insane vocals that have to be heard to be believed! Masonna is now poised high upon a Marshall stack ready to administer the death blow to minds of audiophiles everywhere! Ultra barbaric Japanese Noise! File next to Merzbow.
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MATHIAS DELPLANQUE - 'Ma Chambre Quant Je N'Y Suis Pas (Montreal)' CD (Mondes Elliptiques)
This is the stereo version of a sound installation presented at Montreal's Studio Cormier in December 2004. The piece is based on the recording of 'silences', i.e. the recording of sound produced in spaces with no human presence. The sound of an 'empty' Studio Cormier was used as the material for the production of this piece. The sound takes were done during the quietest moments of the day, by means of microphones placed strategically throughout the Studio by the artist. The sounds gathered were then amplified and their frequencies accentuated to the extreme. The result of the experiment, as presented here, constitutes a genuine drone odyssey playing on fullness and emptiness, presence and absence, 'speak' and 'non-speak'. One long track full of subtle movement and enlivened with underlying currents. Limited to 500 copies in a textured sleeve with inserts. Mondes Elliptiques is a division of Angle.Rec, Canada.
MATHIAS GRASSOW & JIRI MAZANEK - 'Inner Path' CD (Nextera)
"Inner Path - the idea of combining pure hand-played acoustic instruments with modern electronics, samples and nature sounds. With a spiritual sight behind, Inner Path is open for free direction and interpretation nevertheless, with a strong focus inside ourselves by considering the existence here on earth as ONE of many journeys back into the inner light. This work is a remembrance..."
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MATHIAS GRASSOW & THOMAS WEISS - 'Conscience' CD (Nextera)
"Conscience: An authority between the human made ego and his creator". Grassow and Weiss present ambient, with a slight touch of experimentalism. Deep washes of synthesizers, with sparse, slow melodies andsome far away, alienated sounds. Grassow and Weiss walk the well-known path of ambient: through a misty forest on an early sunday morning, with a touch of sunlight. A beautiful release with sympathetic artwork.
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MATHIAS GRASSOW & THOMAS WEISS - 'Outland' CD (Faria Records)
A reflection from outer spaces in between the universe of our mind. A miniature of the endless space from far behind mankind's tangibility. To understand the real essence of the heart of the matter, often it is necessary to take a look from the distance. Just this distance shows structures and connections, which are otherwise impossible to see and grasp - because everyone himself is part of a certain situation. Therefore “Outland” stands for a journey into an “outer land”, to become an advanced view for realisation. Ltd x 500 copies in an outsized package with inserts. Russian import.
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MATT SHOEMAKER - 'Tropical Amnesia One' CD (Ferns Recordings)
"More field recordings here, this time around taken from the Amazonas, Brazil, to precise the Mamori Lake. Shoemaker taped the sounds there and treats the whole thing into one piece of music that lasts 64 minutes. If I was to imagine how the Amazonian rainforest would sound like, I think it would sound like this. A fairly thick mass of busy buzzing insect sounds, birds and wind like sounds. Shoemaker opts for a dramatic approach in this work: things start out relatively quiet and moody, but over the course of those 60 some minutes grows with some violent intention. Shoemaker uses strong equalisation, adding low end sounds to the piece, that makes the earth tremble among the heavy weight of this piece. Yet he never loses the clarity of the sounds, birds and insects are always to be recognised here. An excellent piece along the lines of the best of Francisco Lopez (who organises the annual Mamori Sound Project. Shoemaker delivers a great work, perhaps his best so far" (Vital Weekly). Ltd x 300 copies in a 6-panel sleeve held in place with a metal clip.
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MAURIZIO BIANCHI + NIMH - 'Together's Symphony' 4 x CD Boxset (Silentes Minimal Editions)
An extraordinary collaboration between the hystorical Italian de-composer Maurizio Bianchi and the eclectic, experimental, ambient artist Nimh (Giuseppe Verticchio). An unmissable 4CD box that's a long and kaleidoscopic journey at the edges of sound; from the dark-industrial feelings of 'Together's Symphony' (the CD that gives the box its title), to experimental-lyric-introspective atmospheres of 'Secluded Truths', to the sonic multicoloured collages of 'Niddah Emmhna', (M.B. solo), and the electronic-acoustic-ambient visionary suggestions of 'Subterranean Thoughts' (Nimh solo). Endocrine insulation for diagnostic firabilities. Ltd x 300 copies only! Silentes is a sub-division of Italian label Amplexus.
UK 36£
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MAURIZIO BIANCHI - 'Blut Und Nebel' CD (Slaughter Productions)
This CD is a 'de-compilation' of Maurizio Bianchi's first 10 LPs from the early 1980s. It is an excellent demonstration of Bianchi's skills at dadaistic collage, free-form improvisation and abstract soundsculpting, as accrued over twenty years of electronic manipulation. Noise is employed like an electric guitar to produce solos of manic intensity.
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MAURIZIO BIANCHI - 'Dead Colours' CD (Silentes Minimal Editions)
This is the reissue of a limited release, published by Silentes (2005) in an edition of only 120 copies. "Dead Colours" shows the more quite side of MB, with an incredible dark melancholic though in vein of David Lynch's atmospheres. This CD is part of a trilogy entitled "An Absurd Trilogy". Now finally available on CD with restored artwork by Akifumi Nakajima (Aube), MB and Stefano Gentile.
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MAURIZIO BIANCHI - 'Escape To Bela-Zoar’ CD (L-White Records)
"Stick with it, get it at the right volume, and the latest CD from this established industrial pioneer totally delivers. 3 long tracks of old school atmospheres, full of curdling, pulsating drones, unsettling tonal washes, and strong, black undercurrents. Minimal, but penetrating, with a palpable bleak and grim quality (track two is heart wrenching) that you just don’t get from the newer kids on the scene. Maybe I’m just a sucker for the old school sound, but this sounds great" (Malignant Records). Ltd x 500 copies in a DVD case.
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MAURIZIO BIANCHI - 'Ludium' CD (Silentes Minimal Editions)
A long and almost solemn track built with reverberated piano notes, a slow and rhythmical flow leaned on a background made of clashing hisses and vague, distant, rustling ambient noises. A brief interval based on obscure drones moving in circles, inexorably entangled on themselves. Then another long piano-based track, this time more dilated, confused, ethereal and prim, so much that it takes the distinguishing features of an indecipherable sonic mass, abstract and booming, estranging, deep and psychedelic. A few and minimal elements, “directed” in a masterly fashion and assembled in an absolutely fundamental work, from the brightest mind of the Italian experimental scene and of all the music “without compromise” of the last thirty years.
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MAURIZIO BIANCHI - 'Men's True Hatred' CD (Menstrualrecordings)
2006 album by the Italian underground legend and Industrial / Noise Music pioneer. "Dysmenorrhoeic dissonances for floating keyboards, diagnostic modulations and absorbent strings, discharged during the autumn of 2005." Edition of 278 numbered copies in handmade tri-fold cardboard sleeve with three pasted photos and handstamped MB logo.
MAURIZIO BIANCHI - 'Spiritualis' CD (Kubitsuri Tapes)
"...the duo weave a shimmering tapestry of alien drone, scattering bits of harddrive flotsam across squalls of ringing jetsam. "Improvisational" this recording might be, but aesthetically more than a few chronologically cultural links are forged with pioneer soundscapers of yesteryear (Xenakis, Stockhausen, Babbitt, Subotnick) more so than any straightforward diagrammatical connection with post-jazz avant-gardists... the duo delight in erecting a quakebasket quiverfest of extraordinarily well-articulated electronic music: gently warbling pulses course and murmur as they feint between preening tone clusters and software backwash, a bubbling cauldron of intense sonic energy that is factory resistant to pigeonholing." (The Squid's Ear)
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MAURIZIO BIANCHI - 'Technology 1 & 2' 2 x CD (At War With False Noise)
These two discs by one of the most important figures in industrial / noise / experimental history were originally issued on tape in 1981 (self-released). This is the first time they've been made available digitally and fully uncut. Technology 1 has two long 25 min+ songs, both in a similar vein, taking a more subtle melodic approach than a lot of his early works. Analogue synth and organ combine to make some truly morose but ultimately uplifting music. Technology 2 is a little more caustic in its approach: this is a far more barren journey, bringing to mind a sense of alienation, like being marooned on some strange, distant planet. Almost like the nightmare to "Technology 1"s day dream. Ltd x 500 copies.
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MAURIZIO BIANCHI - 'The Bowls Of Anger' CD (Menstrualrecordings)
"The Bowls Of Anger" is based on Revelation, Chapter 16, Vs 1-21. It is a "...wounded work, lesioned during the altered spring of 2009, using ruinous electronics, a degenerate piano and waves in declay, with the deteriorated participation of Siegmar Fricke.... Extremistic judgments on a grazed world that is worshiping the Wicked One, certain to occur in the last part of the inspected times. It is a dark time for imponderable humanity, and "The Bowls Of Anger" wants to lead our minds towards an unpopular positiveness". Ltd x 200 numbered copies in a 7" sleeve.
MAURIZIO BIANCHI - 'The Valley Of Deep Shadow' CD (Menstrualrecordings)
The latest recordings by Maurizio Bianchi are based on Psalm 23. MB surprises us again by changing directed and going into new and unexpected sonic territories. A "sacral sonorization for electro-spiritual keyboards, induced and regulated in the present theocratic year with the pressurized elaboration of Siegmar F". Bleak sonic atmospheres, dark ambient and industrial soundscapes, with cold and distant synths. Ltd x 515 hand-numbered copies in a hard plastic snapcase.
CD re-release of this fantastic collaboration created in 2007 by Maurizio Bianchi and Craig Hilton. Until now this recording was only made available in a very limited edition. Extremely dark atmospheres, restless and dramatic… Sharp masses of metallic noises cleave pulsating substrates of low frequencies, mixed with magmatic agglomerates of more processed sounds of an unrecognizable nature… Moments of stasis and apparent quietness… Handfuls of minutes of an unutterable, hanging and distressing tension… Sudden showers of vibrant frequencies that emerge from nowhere and bury everything under an heavy and devastating sonic mantle… A real masterpiece of incredibly dark and subterranean music.
Three long and “majestic” tracks where Maurizio Bianchi’s typical deep and reverberated sonorities, full of crepuscular melodies and subtle dissonances, get enriched by more electronic elements and fascinating elaborations, sophisticated manipulations and strong dynamic interventions operated by Crìa Cuervos… Three touching compositions built on progressive “crescendos” and a raging of slow sonic stratifications that lead to real “explosions” of sounds, drones, pulsations, frequencies, vibrations. A new, magnificent and successful collaborative experience.
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MAURIZIO BIANCHI / CRIS X - 'Heczplaser / Black Pulse' LP (CX Records)
First vinyl LP release on CX Records, Italy. Ultra bleak monotonous analogue synth mass from MB, everybody's dear noise grandad, and haunting subtle horror music from not-so-newcomer Cris X. The LP features new and exclusive tracks - a dark and deep experimental masterpiece. "Isolated in a fully aware immobility, the dramatic intensity of this unhealthy and plain sonorous document, provides peculiar experimental characteristics connected with animated views of a post-modern technology converging into a modulated transportation of collapsed particles" (M.B.). Pure Italian black quality! Ltd x 300 copies in a glossy sleeve with 2 inserts.
Storms of cosmic energy, boiling and gurgling electronic fluxes, sonic masses made of monolithic and impenetrable drones, visions of smoky afterdeath landscapes, scorching and infernal… A neverending tunnel with no way out, a sense of deep anguish, of desolation and resigned impotence that lead the dark journey from the beginning to the end of this hallucinatory path. The sound quality and the sharpness of details are absolutely insuperable, they will offer you a “wrapping” and emotionally all-involving listening experience.
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MAURIZIO BIANCHI / MUSEO DELLA TORTURA - 'Genologic Technocide' CD (Spatter / Pagan Moon)
Collaborative work by Maurizio Bianchi with Davide Femia of Museo della Tortura. These recordings show the most extreme side of M.B.: not at all ambient oriented, but instead a strong industrial noise opera reminding us the masterpiece from 1981 "Symphony for a Genocide". Limited edition of 500 copies.
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MAUTHAUSEN ORCHESTRA - 'Digression' CD (Silentes Minimal Editions)
After the recent reprint of historical material collected on "Sonic Deprivation", Mauthausen Orchestra (aka Pierpaolo Zoppo) returns with brand new tracks and a new album where the fury and aggressiveness of his usual harsh sonorities of a Noise / Power-Electronics nature are merged with more quiet, wide and dark ambient parts, sometimes surprising, with unexpected and undisclosed pulsating rhythmic-electronic inserts. A great album for a project that has recently born again with an unsuspected and inspired artistic vital energy. Digipak.
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MECHA / ORGA - '56:24' CD (Absurd)
Mecha / Orga is the name chosen by Yiorgis Sakellariou from Greece. This work, indicated by it's length, was created one afternoon in February 2006, and played live thereafter a couple of times. The length becomes the title, and the listener can come up with his or her own story. Over the course of the fifty-six minutes and twenty-four seconds Sakellariou plays a slowly unfolding piece of Drone music, which grows in intensity throughout. When you think nothing more can be added, he adds another layer. And another. And another. Most suitable to play in the dark, at night. Or during the day, outside, watching plants grow. Multi-purpose music, I'd say. Great stuff. Powerful music. [FDW / Vital Weekly]. Presented in a full-colour wallet.
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MEGAPTERA - 'Extended Chaos' 2 x CD (Autarkeia)
Another release to celebrate 15 years of Megaptera! "Extended Chaos" consists of two old releases, "Near Death" and "Beautiful Chaos". "Near Death" (cassette, Sound Source 1991) was Megaptera's first official release and is the only release with all 3 members (Peter Nyström, Magnus Pettersson, Mikael Svensson). Using drum machine, various synths, movies, TV, radio and microphone they created a totally analogue and dirty death theme. On this CD, 3 bonus tracks are added from the same period. Get prepared for old school! "Beautiful Chaos" (MCD, Fever Pitch 1998), has been extended to 10 tracks. The extra material is the two classic tracks 'Shadowland' and 'Sodom' from the "Death Odors" compilation, the two tracks from the "In the Butchers Backyard" compilation, a bombastic remix of the apocalyptic 'Final Day' (by The Protagonist) and an extended version of 'Shadowland', remixed by Peter Nyström and Magnus Sundström. The sound of "Beautiful Chaos" is structured and heavy with an "end of the world" theme, using sampled and mixed sounds. Mastered by Magnus Sundström. Ltd x 500 hand-numbered copies in a stunning foldout digipak, with an embossed slipcase. Highly recommended!
MEGAPTERA - 'Staring Back At You' CD (Malignant Records)
The definitive last statement from this prominent and highly influential Death Industrial project. "Staring Back At You" collects demo versions, outtakes, and rare songs from various arenas, including the rare compilations "Zyklon B", "Beating the Meat", "Slaughter Age '95", "The Book Ov Shadowz", "Death Odors II", as well as material from the "Deep Inside" MLP and more - all remastered for this release. These tracks capture Megaptera at their grittiest, creepiest, and most horrifying... a grinding, lurching monstrosity fueled by the madness, violence, lies, wars, and disease that plague the world. 'Staring Back At You' is final nail in the coffin for Megaptera, and may they rest in peace, but continue to deliver nightmares, maddening thoughts, and the darkest of obsessions. Limited to 800 copies in a beautiful 6-panel digipak.
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MEGAPTERA - 'You Will Never Survive This Nightmare' 2 x CD (Live Bait Recording Foundation)
This release was an unexpected bonus for the 15 year anniversary of cult Industrial act Megaptera. This double CD set includes completely remastered versions of the extremely limited cassettes "You Will Never Survive This Nightmare" (Slaughter Productions 1995), tracks from "You Will Recover" (Nüxdorf 1991), "Nightmares" (Anomalous 1992), and also includes a recording from London in May 2001. Over 2 hours of music. Get re-acquainted with your Death Industrial roots! Ltd x 1000.
MELANCHOHOLICS - 'A Single Act Of Carelessness' CD (Multi National Disaster Records / Deafborn)
Building on the experimentations from their debut CD (with a mix of field-recordings, guitars, electronically manipulated sounds and spoken word fragments), Melanchoholics walk new paths, combining minimal guitars, drones, low-end bass and lo-fi electronic sound collages. The only consensus is to create slow, depressive soundscapes. A soundtrack to personal miserable states of mind, psychotic euphoria and intoxicated wastelands. It is a low-end manifesto for low-end connoisseurs.
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MELANCHOHOLICS - 'Masking My Monkeys' 7" (Drone Records)
This German trio Melanchoholics work on dark guitarish and very filmic sound-drones, "thick atmospheric darkness" at its best. With a background rooted in Death Metal and Grindcore as well as in Industrial, they still use guitar, bass and electronic sounds, but their aim is to explore the realms of loneliness and melancholy by sculpting almost filmic atmospheres with not much aggression. Their first vinyl release is filled with beautiful accordion drones, desert-like guitars, electronic sounds and voice-samples, thus enlarging the "classic" drone sound in a very fruitful way. First edition of 300 copies on dark blue vinyl in silk-screened covers (various colours) with insert.
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MELEK-THA - 'Acclaim Hell' CD (Dark Vinyl)
Symphonic Black Industrial legends MELEK-THA celebrate their 10th Anniversary with their final descent into the abyss : "Acclaim Hell". Bombastic Black Industrial and Apocalyptic Death Ambient Music at its finest. Prepare to be buried under an unstoppable wall of sound where Orchestral elements dual with symphonic chants and rhythmic beats. An infernal apocalypse and possibly their best album since sonic masterpiece "Evil Is Too Strong"...
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MELEK-THA - 'Apokalypsia' CD (Necrocosm)
The new offering from the apocalyptic war machine rumbles into view - Kult Evil Dark Ritualistic Industrial projekt Melek-Tha continue their descent into and deep fascination with Satanic imagery, war, death and overall human damnation. Omnipresent opression and despair permeate every aural second expressed through music somewhere between apocalyptic orchestral and dark ambient sonics. This is supreme symphonic Occult Black Industrial at its very best. Six tracks of sonic pain and dense, obscure glimmers from the abyss.
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MELEK-THA - 'Gloriam Demondi' CD (Dark Vinyl)
Following in the obscure steps of 'Evil Is Too Strong', the French apocalyptic war machine is back with more supreme symphonic and occult death music, more memorable destructive rhythms and entangled mentally insane orchestrations. Melek-Tha stands for extremely monumental, orchestral and bombastic Black Industrial, with symphonic chants.
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MELEK-THA - 'Perfect World Eradication' CD (Kubernoise)
Utterly disturbing and disconcerting, whipping up a fury of hallucinatory dark noise that can be spoken in the same breath as bands such as Lustmord, Brighter Death Now and Kerovnian. A supreme Apocalyptic Dark Ritual! A perfect mixture of obscure orchestrations mixed together with nihilistic industrialised sonorities... more abrasive than ever! Destructive death musick!
MELEK-THA - 'The Decimation World' CD (Dark Vinyl)
Once again the apocalyptic war machine is back! With more supreme symphonic and occult death music... more memorable destructive rhythmns and entangled mentally insane orchestrations... but this time with more concentration on his industrial roots. This means pure impressive Industrial power in combination with apocalyptic black doom.
French act Melek-Tha still stands for bombastic Black Industrial and Apocalyptic Death Music, accompanied by symphonic chants. The only difference to his earlier releases are the much more aggressive and rhythmical beats and the more doomy guitars, which will blow you away! Armageddon is near and the fusion / melting between death industrial and black metal has reached a new zenith under the leadership of Melek-Tha.
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MELEK-THA / DAPNOM - 'Omnium Finis Imminent' 2 x CD (Fire Of Fire Records)
French Satanic black ambient masters Melek-Tha and Dapnom combine forces, each with their own full length CD, to bring you a two CD set entitled 'Omnium Finis Imminent'. These two CDs (70 minutes apiece) each bear the same song titles and the tracks link up second for second in an experiment in which you have the option of creating your own mix of the album to your specifications.
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MENACE RUINE - 'Union Of Irreconcilables' CD (Aurora Borealis)
The Montreal duo Menace release their eagerly awaited fourth opus on Aurora Borealis. Entitled 'Union of Irreconcilables' the album builds on their previous Great Work, the alchemical collision of Black Metal, walls of noise, mysticism, martial rhythms, and a Medieval affinity for melody leaving the listener with a sense of unforgettable originality. Begun in 2006, Menace Ruine have always followed their own path, combining unusual elements and vocal styles in an effort to capture their unique musical vision. The evolution of the band's style and sound has been a constant throughout their three previous releases including 2008's 'The Die is Cast' (Alien8) with Genevieve's powerful vocal performance coming to the fore. Digipak with poster booklet.
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MENTAT - 'Amarillo Abisal' CD (Boue Records / Odio Sonoro)
CD edition of "Amarillo Abisal" - the debut album from Valencia, Spain doom-mongers Mentat. Just under an hour of seriously heavy, epic sludge / doom / post-hardcore, with some impressive use of a brass section and a piano, which give them a beautiful and experimental edge. Six lengthy tracks of apocalyptic instrumental Doom and death atmospheres! Ltd x 500 copies.
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MEPHI - 'Morganium Ad Aylaniu' CD (Midnight Productions)
The debut album from the Swedish Neoclassical project Mephi, sparkling like a crystal, melancholy like in a moon-night. Two souls of solitude present you this sorrowful love poem which is interweaved with the full moon and numerous stars. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak. Chinese import.
Merrell/Baker/Jordan long playing ambient dronescape pitting the combined efforts of Todd Merrell on shortwave radio and electronics, Patrick Jordan on shortwave radio and processing and Aidan Baker (Nadja) on guitar. Recorded live at Real Art Ways, Hartford CT, November 12, 2004. Comes packed in heavy stock centre open sleeve with environmental mirror image landscape artwork courtesy of Seldon Hunt. Pressing of 600 copies.
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MERZBOW - 'Age Of 369 / Chant 2' 2 x CD (Extreme)
"Age of 369" was originally released on cassette in 1984. The lesser known "Chant 2" is also from this period and complements the sonic intensity of the other. Of further importance is the influence of Maurizio Bianchi (MB) and the mail art that was integral to the industrial underground. These reissues document significant works from Japan's Noise master. Made with a cheap tape recorder and a lot of tape loops, which were then manipulated by hand. "Lowest Music 2" was a very early example of that. Then Merzbow mixed more tape loops with more harsh noise. "Age of 369" (Mlroku No Yo) and "Chant 2" are the finest early examples of that. The Japanese title of "Age of 369" was inspired by the Omoto Cult, founded by Onisabura Degughi. The double CD re-release of "Age of 369" (miroku No Yo) and Chant 2" combines both the music and the Mail Art of this period and is a fitting document of Merzbow In 1984. Australian import. EXTREMELY RARE! ACT FAST!
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MERZBOW - 'Anicca' CD (Cold Spring CSR107CD)
The first track on Merzbow's latest opus was recorded at Tin Pan Alley studios, London, on 20th April 2008 - the day after his momentous performance at ULU. Akita created an astounding and very unique 20-minute track, playing freestyle drums over his trademark noise. The final 2 tracks were created at Munemi House in Tokyo. Another fine example of why Merzbow is the undisputed King of Japanese Noise! 58 minutes in total.
MERZBOW - 'Another Merzbow Records' 3 x CD Set (Dirter)
Possibly the most essential Merzbow release for many years. This 3CD set is culled from appearances on various compilations, ranging from the most obscure cassette releases, to long out of print gems on labels such as Blast First and Susan Lawly. This material spans an entire decade from 1991 to 2001 and as such, tells its own story of the development and sonic chicanery that is the Merzbow sound during this time. The three CDs in full colour sleeves are packed inside a beautiful bronze printed slip case and the set is limited to 1000 copies.
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MERZBOW - 'Batztoutai With Material Gadgets' 2 x CD (RRRecords)
4th (?) pressing of this double disc, originally released in a plastic box in 1993. Classic analogue noise from THE master of Japanese Noise. Subtitled "De-Composed Works 1985-86", this is a remixed version of an earlier release of these recordings, with a second disc of cut-ups from various records. Very similar to early period (79-85) Merzbow. This edition comes in the regular RRR stickered sleeve with cut & paste artwork.
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MERZBOW - 'Collapse 12 Floors' CD (OHM Records)
One of the earlier lap top style releases from Merzbow, more gentle than many of his releases. "Collapse 12 Floors" is a blistering, hypnotic float down a river of scrap metal. Three long tracks recorded in early 1999 of digital computer sound manipulation, with more emphasis on ambient and mysterious sounds then harsh noise.
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MERZBOW - 'F.I.D.' 2 x CD (Fourth Dimension)
F.I.D. (Fur Is Dead) is a double album from Japan's King Of Noise, released in collaboration with the UK's PETA organisation. It includes information about animals affected by the fur trade and £1.00 from each sale made with be donated to PETA. Three powerful electronics recordings from December 2005 and January 2006 on each disc.
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MERZBOW - 'Graft' LP & 7" (Cold Spring CSR129LP)
MERZBOW returns to COLD SPRING in blistering form - a sizzling new album length VINYL only limited edition (lime green, ltd x 400 copies) presented in an old-school 'bootleg' style cover and sealed with a sticker.
This special extra limited edition version of the LP comes with bonus 7" (ltd x 150 copies) of exclusive tracks and is only available from COLD SPRING MAIL ORDER. This title will be deleted upon selling out, and the tracks are never to be issued on CD! A one time opportunity to own a true MERZBOW collectors piece! ACT FAST!
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MERZBOW - 'Live In Geneva' CD (Walnut + Locust)
The Godfather Of Noise returns! As can be gleaned from the title, this is a recording of Merzbow live in Switzerland. Abrasive noise, big rhythms and (to be expected) and onslaught of noise. Recorded at Cave 12 on 10th March 2005, there is apparently no editing involved on this release. One long track at just under 55 minutes. Ltd x 500 copies only!
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MERZBOW - 'Merzbow' T-Shirt - 2XL Size (Cold Spring CSR134TS)
Essential new Merzbow shirt for Cold Spring! Simple and to the point - very high quality black shirt emblazoned with MERZBOW in crimson red. The only shirt to be seen in this summer!
Please note that we do not accept returns on items of clothing! Chest measurement has been provided.
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MERZBOW - 'Merzbow' T-Shirt - Extra Large Size (Cold Spring CSR134TS)
Essential new Merzbow shirt for Cold Spring! Simple and to the point - very high quality black shirt emblazoned with MERZBOW in crimson red. The only shirt to be seen in this summer!
Please note that we do not accept returns on items of clothing! Chest measurement has been provided.
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MERZBOW - 'Merzbow' T-Shirt - Girlie Size (Cold Spring CSR134TS)
Essential new Merzbow shirt for Cold Spring! Simple and to the point - very high quality black shirt emblazoned with MERZBOW in crimson red. The only shirt to be seen in this summer!
Please note that we do not accept returns on items of clothing! We are happy to provide chest measurements on request.
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MERZBOW - 'Merzbow' T-Shirt - Large Size (Cold Spring CSR134TS)
Essential new Merzbow shirt for Cold Spring! Simple and to the point - very high quality black shirt emblazoned with MERZBOW in crimson red. The only shirt to be seen in this summer!
Please note that we do not accept returns on items of clothing! Chest measurement has been provided.
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MERZBOW - 'Merzbow' T-Shirt - Medium Size (Cold Spring CSR134TS)
Essential new Merzbow shirt for Cold Spring! Simple and to the point - very high quality black shirt emblazoned with MERZBOW in crimson red. The only shirt to be seen in this summer!
Please note that we do not accept returns on items of clothing! We are happy to provide chest measurements on request.
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MERZBOW - 'Merzbow' T-Shirt - Small Size (Cold Spring CSR134TS)
Essential new Merzbow shirt for Cold Spring! Simple and to the point - very high quality black shirt emblazoned with MERZBOW in crimson red. The only shirt to be seen in this summer!
Please note that we do not accept returns on items of clothing! Chest measurement has been provided.
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MERZBOW - 'Metamorphism' CD (Very Friendly)
"Metamorphism" is a powerfully emotional, violently painful, and strangely ambient work - ungodly deep and loud pulses, around which is wrapped all sorts of whistling and buzzing. There is also abstract guitar strumming throughout chaotic sheets of static and ear-splitting metallic scrapes overwhelming the carefully constructed rhythm. Pocket-friendly reissue of the legendary marble box, in a slimline jewel case. Ltd x 500.
ALL REMAINING COPIES HAVE SOME SLIGHT SCRATCHES ON THE CD SURFACE, HENCE THE REDUCED PRICE!
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MERZBOW - 'Ouroboros' CD (Soleilmoon)
Ouroboros is an ancient symbol dating back more than 4000 years. A snake or dragon eats its own tail, and represents eternity, or the circularity of life. A more modern interpretation might suggest that mankind will eventually consume itself once it finishes consuming all the life and resources on Earth. Masami Akita, recording under the name Merzbow is considered one of the preeminent artists in the field of noise music. In recent years his output has centered on animal themes, following his concern for the protection of animal rights. Albums for chickens, whales, seals and dolphins have been released on a variety of labels. "Ouroboros" is presented in an exquisite handmade screen-printed eight-panel roll-folder featuring original artwork by Mr. Akita, and is limited to 500 copies.
This disc from the Japanese master builds after many minutes into noise, but this is structured, rhythmic, surging blasts of localised power. Reminds of old Skullflower, Holland Skin Tunnel, a loud Nurse With Wound. This is because it feels so instrumental, almost as if a guitar or two are involved in this. From there we return to Akita's early style where the walls of noise were not so loud and thick. There are very obvious variations and mechanical changes within the piece, creating patterns and moods. Digipak.
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MERZBOW - 'Somei' CD (Low Impedance Records)
Masami Akita is really one of those people that need no introduction. ‘Somei’ is a 55-minute trip into rhythmic hell, sure to please devoted Merzbow followers as well as bring new members to the ongoing cult of noise that he has built throughout the last 20+ years. Featuring live drums that wouldn’t sound out of place in a grindcore or thrash-jazz album, as well as the obligatory full-on sonic assault, this is Merzbow at his finest and heaviest. Digipak. Greek import.
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MERZBOW - 'Tombo' CD (Fellacoustic)
Masami Akita is back with his newest offering of early era Merzbow (it appears Masami went back in time and brought his EMS synth back to accompany his current eco friendly stance). "Tombo" is 3 tracks of sheering high frequency psychedelic sound experimentations proving once again why Masami Akita is the king of all noise musicians. Digipak.
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MERZBOW / THE GUILT ØF... - 'Split' LP (Chrome Peeler)
Japanese noise legend Merzbow offers up an assault of violent, swarming electronic distortion swirling with shards of brutal high-end feedback and cosmic oscillating tones, creating a vast whirlpool of caustic aural grit and buzz while Industrial noise punks "The Guilt øf... " a New Orleans-based group made up of Mike IX Williams (EyeHateGod, Outlaw Order, Arson Anthem) and Ryan McKern (Wolvhammer) layer waves of piano, fuzz, tortured vocals, drums and distorted sub-bass to create a mesmerizing and crushing drone-like effect. Ltd x 500 copies with full colour cover.
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METHADRONE - 'Better Living (Through Chemistry)' CD (ConSouling Sounds)
Methadrone has come a long way since its conception as a 2-bassed sludge / drone monolith. Craig Pillard (Evoken, Incantation) gradually expanded his sound through experiment with acoustic guitars and other vocal collaborations. "Better Living (Through Chemistry)" pushes beyond the boundaries of traditional doom music, resulting in well balanced atmospheric pieces which make this third full album the apogee of Methadrone's oeuvre this far. On this innovative journey, that bridges the gaps between doom, drone, dark ambient, wave and neofolk, Pillard sided with Jason Wallach (The Unquiet Void), Tara Vanflower (Lycia) and Thierry Arnal (fragment.) present their next step in the evolution of gloomy music. Ltd x 2000 copies in an outsized 6-panel sleeve.
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METHADRONE - 'Sterility' CD (Foreshadow Productions)
US-based one-man project Methadrone is spearheaded by Craig Pillard (ex-Incantation), also known as bass player of doom metal band Evoken. Under the moniker of Methadrone, Pillard dives into murky waters of impenetrable sonic depth created by heavy and torturous guitar sounds. From the very first tunes of the title track “Sterility” you are taken down to witness the perfect musical desolation and dryness entrapped in eight inches of the silver plate. Methadrone's sound has evolved into more organic and original entity, defining Craig’s style and maturity as an independent musician. "With lights out and headphones on enter into the world of sound where no life dwells". Features guest vocals from David Galas (Lycia).
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METHADRONE / FRAGMENT. - 'Astray' CD (Locust Swarm Rex)
Debut release from this new UK label, featuring New Jersey act Methadrone and French act Fragment. 3 of the 4 doom / drone tracks from Methadrone are taken from the extremely limited "Absorption" split with Nadja from 2005, with a new track 'Absorbed Version 2'. Fragment.’s rather atmospheric music combines ultra soft, melodious tones and electronica, epic doom riffs, massive atmospheres. Ltd x 500 copies.
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MEZIRE - 'Corrosion Effects' CD (Rustblade / Zero01one)
An extreme and balanced mix of power electronics, industrial and dark electro from this German band. "Mezire is a good example of a band that has seriously evolved in sound throughout the years. While they started in the 90s with a rather electronic-orientated sound they progressively evolved towards more industrial ideas. "Corrosion Effect" goes a step further, touching the border of pure noise. There are still a few industrial elements running through their work, but generally speaking this album sounds like an ambient wall of noise. The originality probably resists in the use of vocals, which give it a more human aspect. This is a more accessible noise release however it remains pretty extreme!" (Side-Line).
Soft and dilated ambient atmospheres, minimal sonorities, floating electronic carpets… A new, “classic” and fascinating album in the typical and unmistakable Michael Mantra style... Four long and suggestive tracks, to be listened at low volume relaxing in the half-light, just like a discreet and refined sonic background, or at an higher volume for a “full immersion” into warm and wrapping electronic soundwaves, to the discovery of intriguing and evocative sonic landscapes...
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MICHAEL MANTRA - 'A/B' CD (Silentes)
Two long tracks of obscure and haunting drone-based atmospheres. Layers of slowly morphing sound-streams, electronic waves, natural ambient feedback, deep rumbles and distant echoes of metallic clattering masses in motion. An unbelievable sonic trip into the deepest darkness. Composed to be listened to using headphones, as a way of isolating yourself from the world. A work of epic ambient majesty.
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MICHAEL MANTRA - 'Amanita Lake' 2 x CD & DVD (Silentes)
Two hours and a half of music collected on a double CD set that also contains a DVD entitled "Amanita Furniture". Two long tracks of sublime and evocative pseudo-abstract and multicoloured ambient textures, built with “discreet” and repetitive background microstructures layered with continuous and infinite variations worked out from “clusters” of sounds and “sketches” of melodic sequences made of light sonorities, “delicate” and “quiet” as well, but also hypnotic and warm… Fragile harmonies and mild dissonances in a timeless sonic continuum that enwraps and “rocks” the listener, among infinite spirals and floating waves in an everlasting movement… Another new, mind-boggling masterpiece, absolutely unmissable for all the lovers of Michael Mantra’s music. Presented in a stunning 6-panel digisleeve.
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MICHAEL MANTRA - 'Boolean Languages' CD (Silentes)
“Boolean Languages” is a Dark Ambient album that is sombre in approach and mysterious in overtones. A combination of digital and analogue synthesizers, musique concrete and drones creates an album that is an ambiedelic brew of sonic excursions into the dark unknown lands within. This album is dedicated to world peace and the end of all suffering for all sentient beings.
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MICHAEL NINE - 'Empathy / Apathy' 7" (Neural Operations / Maruta)
Rare white vinyl from this artist formerly known as Death Squad. Mostly spoken words and samples with some sinister background sounds, always threatening. 500 of this vinyl were pressed but according to Maruta Records, 250 were lost during shipping, leaving only 250 in circulation.
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MICHAEL NORTHAM - 'Suhina' 10" (Substantia Innominata / Drone Records)
"Suhina" is a notion for the sound of the wind moving through the trees. Instead of capturing field recordings of wind, Michael Northam tried to capture this feeling and the essence of this process through instrumental recordings from Indonesian flute and keyboard. Natural phenomena seen as the true manifestation of the Unknown. Stunning full colour artwork by Indian artist Rohini Devasher. Ltd x 500 copies on white vinyl.
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MICHAEL PRIME - 'Requiem' LP (Die Stadt)
A prolific sound composer and an active member of Morphogenesis, Prime has also collaborated with (among others) David Jackman/Organum, Jim O'Rourke, Eddie Prevost, David Toop and Adam Bohman. He's also one half of Negative Entropy (with G. Feyton of Noise Makers Fifes). "Requiem" is one of his most intense works so far and quite different from his more environmental studies. Limited edition of 700 copies on thick vinyl, in a stunning gatefold sleeve with a textured insert.
Ultra minimal drones and textures from Russia. Originally released as an MP3 file on the obscure label Quietzone, now given the CD treatment. The packaging is as minimal as the music, with basic text printed onto the CD, and coming in a PVC sleeve. Everything about this release makes you focus on the music within. This is tranquil, isolationist listening for followers of labels like Mego or Touch. Two tracks with 26 minutes of music. Russian import.
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MIEL NOIR - 'Der Honigflügel' CD (The Eastern Front)
"Apocalyptic Chanson Doctrine". Another, completely different project from Bulgarian artist Dimo Dimov (Svarrogh, Sturmpercht, Allerseelen, Sagittarius). A brilliant piano symphony with industrial elements and samples from Russian movies, inspired by classical Russian novel "Crime and Punishment" written by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Goncharov novels. Ltd x 500 hand-numbered copies in a gatefold outsized folder.
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MIGUEL A. RUIZ & BARDOSENETICCUBE - 'Exclusion Zone' CD (Aquarellist)
A collaboration work of Spanish musician Miguel A. Ruiz (Orpheon Gagarin, Efficient Refineries) and Russian project Bardoseneticcube. "Dangerous zones of sonic landscapes painted with the help of analogue synths and sequences, all sorts of samples, vinyl records and even folk instruments (percussion, gusli, penny whistles and pipes). Schizophrenically twisted ambiental collage of the fragments of the modern soundsphere. Rhythmic excursions into contaminated areas. Industrial psychedelia". Ltd x 500 copies in a digisleeve. Russian import.
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MIKE PAGE - 'Page' CD (At War With False Noise)
The first solo release from Fire In The Head's protagonist Mike Page is finally issued on Scottish label At War With False Noise. This is one long and untitled U.S. Noise / Power Electronics piece, clocking it at almost 44 minutes and is fucking brutal! Ltd x 500 copies only!
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MINAMATA - 'Cyclator' CD & DVD (Les Nouvelles Propagandes)
"Cyclator" is the 2009 release for this pioneer of the French industrial scene. It includes a full-length CD containing material recorded from 2002-2007 and a DVD offering the complete Minamata performance recorded live on 21st April 2007 in Antwerp, plus the video of this show. Massive waves of Power-electronics are perfectly mixed with metal sounds and percussion and heavily processed vocals, reflecting the agony of the Japanese city of Minamata in the 1950s-60s. This concept release comes in a 6-panel digipak and is limited to 500 copies.
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MINAMATA - 'Niigata' CD (Zone De Confusion)
Re-issue of this legendary French group's third tape, originally released in 1985 (Les Nouvelles Propagandes). Contains two bonus tracks from compilations from the same period, plus one unreleased 17 minute-track recorded in 2002. Pure old-school industrial and hardcore electronics with lots of metal sounds and percussion and echoed screams. This is truely the sound of agony. 70 minutes of music. Digipak.
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MIRKO UHLIG & DRONAEMENT - 'Farewell Fields' CD (Nextera)
"There are various kinds of flowers in the farewell fields but what they have in common is not complaining when it's time for valediction. A scarcely audible "goodbye". Then wounded veterans on its soil. Scavengers and their own way of a farewell performance. Starry-eyed limbs and forget-me-nots. We tried to cull the more beautiful ones of both kinds. Fields of clouds come and go like Spanish veterans and young mothers... The utero for this two-headed baby was butt-joined after the Ex Ovo Orchestra performance that took place at the AZ Conni venue, Dresden February 2007. Mirko had caught some moaning itinerary fish Para Puri a few weeks earlier while Marcus was fishing for it at that particular night. One is about leaving, the other about the destination". File under Ambient / Drone / Minimal.
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MIRT - 'Most' 12" (Cat Sun / Nefryt)
Reissue of the Mirt 3" release from 2003 (Ltd x 121, Malachit). Great solo project from the leader of One Inch of Shadow. "Field recordings from big inactive railway bridge. The bridge is situated on Polish - German border. Fauna & flora of The Odra River, "industrial" echoes of the bridge & sounds of accordion and clarinet recorded at studio. 24 minutes deepest experiences. Magic of place & sadness of existence". Ltd x 225 copies in standard sleeve.
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MISTRESS OF THE DEAD - 'White Roses, White Coffins' CD (Epidemie Records)
Funeral Doom Metal from the Czech Republic. Mistress Of The Dead is one-man project covered with mystery, which produces mystical funeral esoteric doom metal of extra high quality. Delicacy for admirers of Esoteric, Mournful Congregation, Until Death Overtakes Me and Nortt. A 76 minutes excursion over 4 massive compositions!
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MOLJEBKA PVLSE - 'Koan' CD (Eibon Records)
Like in the good and old tradition of Maeror Tri or Final, this Swedish act headed by Mathias Josefson, brings us liquid dark ambient based upon manipulated guitars and e-bows. Clear but dark layered drones, swathed in heavy bass, and journeying through layers of rippling reverb. Needless to say, a very good late-night listen for those who like trips into sonic, haunted dreamworlds.
For this album, Mathias Josefson collaborated with colleagues from the Royal University Of Arts, Stockholm, who provided him with various sound sources. "Sadalsuud" refers to a star of the same name in the constellation of Aquarius. The name comes from an Arabic phrase meaning "the luckiest of them all". Nevertheless the album is rather earthy-sounding, yet mystical and surreal, almost claustrophobic at times. The sound is quite reminiscent of some works by Nurse With Wound, Maeror Tri or The Hafler Trio, but carries the trademark Moljebka Pvlse feel. Digipak, Finnish import.
MOLJEBKA PVLSE / SEVENTEEN MIGS OF SPRING - 'Ravha / Electricity Gardens' CD (Topheth Prophet)
A split / collaboration disc, with one 27-minute track by the Swedish trio Moljebka Pvlse, five tracks by the Israeli duo Seventeen Migs of Spring and one shared piece. Both acts are known for their unique approach to drone ambient sounds - with processed field electronics, quiet metallic rumbles, dark brooding ambience and drones - with a more aggressive approach by SMOS. Limited to 500 copies in a digifile, with artwork and design by Niko Skorpio.
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MOLR DRAMMAZ - 'Neutrop' 7" (Obuh)
Heavy tribal rhythms with post-industrial notes. Debut of the Polish project known before as "Bebniarze z kraju Molr" (Drummers from the land called Molr). Reminds us of the strongest efforts of Crash Worship. Full colour cover printed on the maps. Limited to 333.
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MONARCH! - 'Dead Men Tell No Tales' 2 x CD (Crucial Blast)
A colossal collection of two full length albums, previously released on vinyl only, plus unreleased songs exclusive to this release. French act Monarch! unleash a slow motion avalanche of impossibly glacial, blackened sludge and hypnotic feedback, each song a series of epic tarpit riffage, stretched out eternally over lumbering drums and cavernous rumbles. Over these yawning expanses of black void appears the demonic, throat-shredding shrieks and ghostly singing of Emilie, whose petite appearance belies one of the harshest throats in the underground Doom spectrum. Presented in an offset-printed, gatefold digifile with all new artwork. North American edition.
Dense, abstract, challenging, and confrontational. Monno stands out from the legacy of doomsayers that includes Throbbing Gristle, Suicide, Whitehouse, and more recently Wolf Eyes and Lightning Bolt. Monno are impressively abrasive in sending atomic blasts of fury, but beneath the shock value of these overwhelming sonic miasmas are throat-grappling melodies evoking a dense, brutal trance. The CD is presented in a very nice silver outsized booklet.
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MONNO - 'Ghosts' CD (Conspiracy Records)
Monno have come a long way, extending their malignant nature through thick layers of fog. For this new burial they've built a soundtrack like creeper with traces of gargling glass and atonal spheres that swing through the tracks like unidentified floating objects in the sky. At times you get the feeling your brain is attached to a mechanical beehive suffering various degrees of degradation resulting from the ingress of water and salt attacks. Without doubt their most brutal and menacing album to date, etheric yet droning vocals covered in doom frost... An impaired psychomotor as troublesome as the stars that hang above us, with the reeking odor of a thousand corpses. Think along the abandoned shores of Corrupted, Burning Witch, Ulver or Godflesh. Digipak.
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MONOPIUM - 'Mesmerized' CD (Beast Of Prey)
The debut album from Polish project Monopium is definitely something new and different. 40 minutes of psychedelic / neo-cabaret music based on a fascination with the dadaism, avant-garde atmosphere of old Berlin cabarets and surrealism. If the Dadaists were an anarchistic negation of European heritage, rejecting today's conventions and restrictions for the sake of free and unbound fantasy and a bit of trivial mystery, then what is Monopium today? Dada works with all his might to incorporate the idiocy all around. But creatively. So have Monopium. Ltd x 500 copies with cover art by Robert Schalinski (Column One).
Long announced drone release by Colin Potter (Ora, Nurse With Wound) & Darren Tate (Ora). This double album consists of two different works recorded between 2002-2003 at IC studio. Disc one features 3 tracks that are loosely based on processed field recordings in the 'classic' Monos style, exploring internal spaces. Disc two has one long track of organic & electronic tones which combine to give a dense cloud of flowing sound. Full colour digisleeve. Artwork by Darren Tate & Helen Potter. Design by Jonathan Coleclough. First edition of 600 copies in a double gatefold pack.
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MONSTRARE/WILT - 'Graveflowers' CD (.ANGLE.REC.)
Split release between Monstrare (aka Cordell Klier) and Wilt. Monstrare feeds us with new-school sonorities as Wilt opts for old-school sounds, each using the source sound material of the other to crystallize his own visions, and vice versa. One will easily recognise the traditional ambient and subtle black noise of Wilt, with Monstrare doing the dark-clicked drone he is renowned for. Ltd x 500 in deluxe cardboard digifile sleeve.
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MOON FAR AWAY - 'Minnesang' CD (Ahnstern)
Brand new album from cult Russian Neofolk act Moon Far Away! "Minnesang" is an album of 21st century ritual music encased in a unique fusion of the most diverse and zeitgeist-capturing musical styles, from neofolk, dark folk and post punk to practically future pop. The theme of the album, the deep-rooted feminine archetypes in contemporary art, is embodied in the title, which identifies a genre of medieval knight lyrics. At the same time, most of the original Russian lyrics on the album are drenched with the trademark Pomor flavours, emphasising the pride that the band has always taken in its cultural roots that extend deep into the epic traditions of the Russian North. "Minnesang" is a new milestone achieved by a cult group who already gave contemporary art scene a number of discoveries and revelations. This Ahnstern version has partly different artwork to the Russian edition and the last song is completely different to the Russian version. 61 minutes of music in a digipak.
MOON FAR AWAY - 'New Hymn Of Russia' Enhanced MCD (Shadowplay Release)
This long-awaited work from Russian apocalyptic folk / darkwave act Moon Far Away is a 7-track maxi-single which makes a lyrical dedication to its country with the song "Mama Rus": a "New National Anthem of Russia". Moon Far Away stress that far from any existing political currents today, the word "anthem" is used in the original sense of the word - as a sublime love song and ecstatic religious text. The disc also includes a multi-media section, including a clip of the song "Zhito Zhala", the movie "You Vzoydi, Krasno sun" and a photo gallery of MFA over the years. Includes mixes / versions from Requiem For FM, Tit/IO, Six Dead Bulgarians (aka Six Dead Bulgars), Severe Illusion, Astralasia and E-Sex-T. Russian import.
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MOONLIGHT SHADOWS magazine Issue #2
Stunning B&W, 52-page, A4 magazine (Greek magazine, but all text in English) featuring interviews with ARCANA, ORDO ROSARIUS EQUILIBRIO, DAEMONIA NYMPHE, SEPTIC FLESH, GOTHICA, WELTSCHMERZ, ANTIMATTER, SENSE OF LOSS, NIGHTFALL, FUNERAL PROCESSION. Hundreds of reviews are included here as well, though most being on Black/Doom metal.
This debut from new Dutch label Kazemat is a split venture between Amsterdam artists Morsanek and Vinkepeezer. Morsanek builds audio narratives by connecting and disconnecting small timbral and organisational complements and improv guitar. Vinkepeezer's music is built from many tiny sampled fragments that reappear as a swarming flock of birds, falling apart and building up again in ever changing forms. His music is organic, cinematic, warm and thickly layered, full of contrast. Ltd x 550 copies in a gatefold sleeve on heavy (180gm) vinyl.
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MORTIIS - 'Anden Som Gjorde Oppror' CD (Projekt)
2007 reissue of the Mortiis classic Ånden Som Gjorde Opprør', originally released on Cold Meat Industry in 1995. As a member of Emperor, Mortiis was one of the notorious members of the fanatic Norwegian Black-metal scene. Through a natural evolution, Mortiis made his way into the Scandinavian dark-electronic scene. These lengthy pieces present a regal yet ancient mood; as if the soundtrack for ancient castles filled with forlorn kings looking out upon their lost kingdoms. Words are spoken in Norwegian, drifting into the background ambience. Mortiis at his very best, crafting dark synth-orchestral journeys into an enchanted world of medieval fantasy. Digipak with new artwork.
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MORTUOR - 'I'm Waiting For You' CD (Syzmic Records)
Debut release from this US act. The stale state of experimentalism has forced this; the union of sickness and sound. A tribute to the forerunners of power-death electronics. Pure emotion. Pure sickness. Pure power. Nothing compromised. Classic Death Industrial, dedicated to and inspired by the works of the late Marco Corbelli (Atrax Morgue) and the Italian Death Industrial Movement. Ltd x 250 copies in an outsized gatefold sleeve.
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MOSE - 'Halfway To Nowhere' CD (Solitude Procuctions)
Möse translates to Sludge in south-west Flemish. No coincidence. After a self-titled single and a split with Hog Mountin, Möse now release their first full-length album after many years of work. High quality sludge / Doom from the Belgian project featuring members of Neuthrone and Thee Plague of Gentlemen. The powerful sound is ensured by professional mastering and the crushing compositions of "Halfway to Nowhere" proclaim the appearance of a new serious representative of the style in Europe.
Alabama-based Hog Mountin are a pissed off sludge doom band that lie somewhere in between Grief, Crowbar and Eyehategod. You can expect pretty heavy "scream the lungs out" sludge throughout most of the music. On the second part of the split you get a couple of killer tunes by the Belgians Möse (featuring members of Neuthrone, Thee Plague Of Gentlemen and Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat...), a misanthropic sludge-metal outfit with one previous 7". Heavy and crushing, yet uniquely weird.
'Cthonic Rites' is a mighty slab of extreme, brooding Doom on a cosmic scale. Huge slabs of distortion warp the listener like gamma rays, leaving a twisted parody of a human in their wake, as one touched by the unholy tentacles of the Elder Gods who dwell beyond time and all comprehension Two tracks over 66 minutes. If you like your doom in the way of Sunn O))) or Khanate, step inside. Second pressing with additional text by Seldon Hunt.
MOST OF THE TACITURN - 'Nan King - Special Edition' CD & T-Shirt - Large Size (Dying Art Productions)
With the 71st anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, Most of The Taciturn release their third album. "Let the victims of the Massacre be remembered but not buried in lies". 13 tracks of dark, solemn, sorrow ambient with martial atmospheres. Ltd x 100 copies in a B5 digipak with a black t-shirt ("Don't Forget The History - Forgetting It Means Betrayal") with front and back print and a poster. ACT FAST!
Please note that we do not accept returns on items of clothing! Chest measurement has been provided.
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MOTH ELECTRET - 'Tocasen' CD (Diophantine Discs)
"Tocasen", Moth Electret's second record - after the debut "Lil" on Mystery Sea (2007) - is an engaging and intense hour-long work of experimental ambient music. Landscapes of mysterious worlds are forged from a variety of drones, processed sounds, and other recordings. Within these seven tracks the sounds pulse and flutter through a beautiful and complex metamorphosis. Stig Berg has been recording music since 2000 as R-A-A-N and as a member of Aesthetic Meat Front. Ltd x 500 copies in a special printed wallet.
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MOURMANSK 150 - 'No Volunteer 4 This Society' CD (Topheth Prophet)
"New CD by this now veteran French power electronics unit , following their highly acclaimed "La Guerre, L’Anarchie Et le Chaos". No compromise yet again, delivering another dose of highly aggressive and effective heavy electronics full of subversive samples, grinding frequencies, power drones, and processed, hate filled vocals.." (Malignant). Ltd x 500 copies. Israeli import.
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MOURMANSK 150 - 'Triumphant Over Your Remains' CD (Eibon Records)
Power Electronics / Harsh Noise at its highest, most violent, intense and roughest levels. Take the roots of good, healthy, sane old-school industrial and mix them up with a modern approach to power noise. These ingredients define what long-standing French act MOURMANSK 150 will harm, kill, topple and destroy. And they shall stand, triumphant over your remains. 13 untitled slabs of violence. Digifile.
30+ minutes of arcane and nihilistic doom from Nashville! Mourner is a 4 piece group of musicians (the Ghost Crow Collective) bonded by the creation of Doom in its most raw, arcane and nihilistic state... drawing influence from a wide array of musical styles and art, emotions, experiences, the occult and esoteric and an overall bleak and daunting feeling. Ltd x 333 copies in a card sleeve.
The ultimate East coast / West coast soundclash as Oregon’s Yellow Swans and Brooklyn’s Mouthus present a smouldering document from their onstage interactions on their 2006 US tour. The sound of Mouthus’s splat&clatter percussion and sheets of severely altered guitar and voice noise paired with Yellow Swans’ raucous axe-mangling and sublime noise processing make for a gargantuan oil tanker of sound that can’t avoid enveloping the listener. ‘Live On Conan Island’ is a range of monstrous caverns of free electro skronk, alt-percussion and wailing guitars. Gigantic!
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MSBR - 'Destructive Locomotion - Dedicated To Chizuo Matsumoto' CD (RRRecords)
M.S.B.R. (the late Koji Tano), was one of the most respected noise artists to emerge from Japan's vibrant noise/experimental music scene of the 1990's. Like Merzbow, MSBR's crushing wall of noise managed to tap into a post-human territory of pure absolute volume that seems to have more in common with the unstoppable forces of nature than any form of music. 50 minutes of music. Originally released in 1995, this is the latest pressing with cut & paste artwork in a PVC sleeve.
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MULK - 'Putriologie' CD (Dan's Crypt Records / Suprachaotic Records)
Hyper speed and aggressive, brutal Death Metal with some breakcore electronic parts. Really original stuff from this one-man project, whose style has evolved since its conception in 2006. An incredible sound that will make your head explode. "The slithery breakcore beats and jungle rhythms and explosion of percussive glitch are fucking devestating, and the whole thing is just brutally heavy. Way heavier than any of Bong-Ra's death metal/jungle mashups, or Avulsion's drum n bass remixes... So fucking awesome! Like Suffocation fused with Shitmat, or Venetian Snares crossed with Deeds Of Flesh... highly recommended!" (Crucial Blast). Around 30 minutes of pure brutality from France.
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MURDEROUS VISION - 'Ghosts Of The Soul Long Lost' 2 x CD (Live Bait Recording Foundation)
This double CD retrospective is a testament to the productive career of this maleficent Post-Industrial beast. This album shows the changing face of Murderous Vision: Dark Ambient, Death Industrial and Power Electronics. Clocking in at 160 minutes, 'Ghosts...' is packed to the brim with rare and unreleased work spanning the years 1996-2004 .Included in this collection are every compilation appearance to this date as well as all material from split releases with Kuru. Acclimate and Black Mayonnaise. This is the definitive Murderous Vision release! Limited to 1000 copies.
A deathly mixture of the blackest of Ambient passages supplemented heavily by Classical refrains and post-industrial rhythmic structures. Add to this sound and vocal contributions by the controversial Industrial artist Brethren, crystal clear production values and a superb mastering job from the legendary hands of Peter Andersson (Raison d'être). Ltd x 1000 with artwork by visual Artist Rebecca Potter and multimedia by Polish artist Kati Astraeir to perfectly match the dark vision of this album. A must own for all who live for Death Industrial / Ambient music!
MURDEROUS VISION - 'The Times Without Gods' CD (Live Bait Recording Foundation)
Deep layers, melodic keyboards, classical samples, some ritualistic percussion, with chorused voices make this the more listenable side of Industrial. With pure black textures, this is a black journey through the depths of a bottomless pit! This is homogeneous Dark Ambient music which gently pulls the listener into the realm of obscure dreams. A highly emotional recording, giving a special touch to the album. Ravishing, yet soothing, dark and creepy.
2008 album antipodean witch of "MurkRat". This is the year of the Rat... take an enticing misanthropic journey into the world of the soothsayer and the twisted imagination of the Murkrat. Primitive monotonous raw doom - yet utterly beautiful and enticing. Long bass lines with bewitching harmonies and ethereal vocals. These tracks will haunt you - and will replay in your mind incessantly. Three dark melancholic misanthropy-infused tracks - lasting over 30 minutes. Plus bonus material from the 2006 "Murky Ratmass" demo - totalling over 70 minutes of music. Somewhere between Diamanda Galas meets Mordor meets Portishead meets Gallhammer - and you'll still be nowhere near!
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MURNAU - 'Recoil' 7" (Deafborn)
Angry distorted rhythms on the very edge of power electronics and rhythmic noise. Aggressive vocals full of hate and desperation. A soundtrack for the mental asylum and fuel for the ambitious industrial dancefloor alike. Powerful new material from Mürnau (ex Eisengrau) - not to be missed. Presented on sumptuously thick vinyl and limited to just 330 hand-numbered copies with insert.
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MUSLIMGAUZE - 'Armsbazzar' CD (Essence Music)
"Armsbazzar" investigates both released and unreleased selected recordings from the intense period of 1994 and 1997. Included are the out-of-print "Hebron Massacre" and "Gulf Between Us" singles, plus two inedit, highly percussive tracks taken from the recording sessions of the mythic, yet still unreleased and unheard, "Zamindar" album. Presented in a custom 6-panel digisleeve package with full colour poster - adorned by the highly original artwork from the fantastic Iranian visual artist Mohammad Fadaei. Mastered by Peter Andersson (Raison D'Etre) and limited to 999 hand-numbered copies.
Mainly unreleased tracks from the late Bryn Jones - a prolific British ethno-ambient, ethnic electronica and experimental musician, influenced by conflicts in the Muslim world with an emphasis on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Tracks: A1. Khan Younis (previously featured on "Hamas Arc"), A2. Cairopraktur, B1. Kfar Chouba, B2. Sleeping Fundamentalist, C1. The Fazur Dome, C2. Islamicistswarm, D1 Ummqasr. Ltd x 700 copies in a stunning B&W gatefold sleeve. Act fast!
ONE COPY PER CUSTOMER ONLY! If you attempt to purchase more than 1 copy, your order will be refunded.
UK 26£
Europe 30£
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MUSLIMGAUZE - 'Intifaxa' CD (Extreme)
The sounds of Arabia are captured in confident rhythms, pulsating bass drum and an enveloping ambience. The musical creativity have progressed over the past decade to become one of the most inspiring sounds of the 90s. The Arabian countries, which are a catalyst for this release, are captured in each song. Such a picture can only be painted by Muslimgauze. "Intifaxa" offers 64 minutes of all new music, seven songs which make a complete album. It is enough to let the music speak for itself. "Intifaxa" is a contemporary vision of world music. Western and Arabic rhythms create a chilling seductive state. Australian import. RARE!!
UK 14£
Europe 15£
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MUSLIMGAUZE - 'Nadir Of Purdah' CD (Tantric Harmonies)
A great collection of tracks recorded by the late Bryn Jones for the Jara Discs label in the mid-1990s, including the "Nile Quartra" 7", "Nadir of Purdah" 12". Also included as a bonus is the extremely rare "Thief Severed Hand" track, which appeared on a cassette compilation, available only with Impulse Magazine #4 (1994). 44 minutes of music. Regular limited edition of 500 copies in a jewelcase. Russian import.
UK 10.50£
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MUSLIMGAUZE Vs SPECIES OF FISHES - 'Muslimgauze Vs Species Of Fishes' CD (Tourette)
Previously released in 1999 on Species Of Fishes (FCD 01). The original tracks from Species Of Fishes albums "Songs Of A Dumb World" and "Trip Trap" were used for this remix project, created in summer/autumn 1998. More than a simple remix album, this is a beautiful and haunting addition to the catalogue. Instantly appealing to those seeking a mellower sound, there is enough complexity and edge to keep everyone happy. Comes with 4 new tracks! Digipak.
UK 11£
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MUSTERION - 'The Black Lodge' CD (Horus Cyclic Daemon)
The mysterious Dark Ambient solo project of Simon Kölle (Za Frûmi). "The Black Lodge" is centred around the exploits of Agent Dale Cooper (from the cult TV series Twin Peaks). Musterion delves into a chaos of esoteric sounds influenced by memories, dreams, the works of H. P.Lovecraft and more. Enter "The Black Lodge": a place of murder, mystery, darkness, ancient machines, old memories and horror. This deluxe limited edition comes presented as 500 numbered copies housed in a special A5 sized embossed folder with a nice booklet.
MUTANT APE / SEPPUKU - 'Split' 7" (Turgid Animal / At War With False Noise)
Mutant Ape punish with a six minute lesson in harsh noise brutality. It sounds like a large collection of faulty electric appliances being launched down the stairs of a building on fire. On the flipside is a couple of tracks by the band formerly known as Tetsuo. This side sees a change of direction from the previous lo-fi clatterings and contains two mercilessly heavy tracks of full-on noise doom! Ltd x 220 copies with hand-made sleeves and insert.
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MUTANT APE / THE RITA - 'Kings Of Violence / Murky By The Sand Bar' 7" (Unrest Productions / Turgid Animal)
Total harsh noise with one side apiece from Mutant Ape (aka prolific UK noise artist George Proctor of Wolfguts, etc) and The Rita (aka Canadian noise artist Sam McKinlay). Mastered by Andy Ortmann (Panicsville). Ltd x 220 hand-numbered copies in a folded card sleeve. A nice collectable piece.
UK 6£
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MUX - 'The Second Confession' CD (RAIG)
Another great discovery from the St Petersburg scene. Using analogue synthesizers, assorted instruments and digital processing, this duo churns out sludgy, rhythmic tracks with scraping sounds and rusty textures that wouldn't sound out of place on a Mental Destruction album. Handmade cardboard packaging. Russian import.
UK 8£
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MY CAT IS AN ALIEN - 'Mort Aux Vaches' CD (Mort Aux Vaches / Staalplaat)
The latest release in the Mort Aux Vaches series from Staalplaat. Space Rock, Noise and Experimental music from the Italian duo Maurizio and Roberto Opalio. Ltd x 500 copies in a fantastic 6-panel lenticular sleeve (i.e. 4 layered images which only appear at different angles).
UK 14£
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MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / KEIJI HAINO - 'Cosmic Debris Volume III' CD (A Silent Place)
CD re-issue of the third installment in the "Cosmic Debris" split ART-LP series set up by Maurizio and Roberto Opalio, aka My Cat Is An Alien, on their own Opax Records. The Vol.III sees the two space brothers from Torino, Italy, alongside Japanese cult musician and dark shaman Keiji Haino. Imagine a cosmic bomb exploding in your brain, and you'll have an approximate idea of this collaborative release. These two long tracks were recorded during live performances in their hometowns, respectively Torino and Tokyo. Haino's track is one of the highlights of his long career, and MCIAA's track is one of the brothers' most ass-kicking for sure! Digisleeve.
The 2nd album from this Ceol Breatha Gaedhealach ("Gaelic Doom Metal") act. Between Doom Metal and pagan folk music, this album is original, whilst maintaining the quality of the compositions of the band, mainly themed around Celtic legends and the Irish spirit. Seven tracks with a lot of ambiance, giving the feeling of travelling in time through the vast lands of Eire.
