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Spring Bi-Weekly Newsletter - 9th July 2009
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SUPER SONIC
Don't forget to grab your tickets now for this year's Super Sonic festival!
• 25-26 Jul 09, Super
Sonic, Birmingham (UK). Jarboe, Sunn O))), Corrupted, Thorr's Hammer, Head Of David, Skullflower,
Scorn,
Venetian Snares, Atomized, Zu + More!
+ COLD SPRING STALL
ANDREW LILES JOINS SEHNSUCHT
Experimental musician ANDREW LILES (Nurse With Wound, The Vortex Vault, Current 93) has joined forces with Black Metal icon MANIAC (Skitliv, Bomberos, ex-Mayhem) , to work together on SEHNSUCHT, the ambient/noise project set up by the vocalist following his departure from MAYHEM. Originally a three-piece, comprising MANIAC’s fiancée, GALLHAMMER’s VIVIAN SLAUGHTER, on bass and saxophone, and SKITLIV guitarist Ingvar Magnusson, LILES will be handling FX and electronics, and working together with MANIAC on the sound design. Sehnsucht's debut will be released on COLD SPRING later in the year.
Read the full story at Sehnsucht's myspace
SHIP OF FOOLS
Join Tony Wakeford on his Ship Of Fools this Sunday, with live performances from Andrew King & Naevus!
 EXTENDED
SUMMER EDITION!
Over 200 items added for the period 1st July -
31st August.
While stocks last! Click here for all available items!
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| All Hail The Transcending Ghost | All Hail The Transcending Ghost CD (CSR122CD) £8 / £9 / £10 |
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The debut album from AHTTG - a joint collaboration between Henrik Nordvargr Björkk (MZ.412, Toroidh, Folkstorm etc) and Tim Bertilsson (Fear Falls Burning, Switchblade). The Swedish duo have created arguably one of the most haunting drone-dark-ambient-industrial works in recent years, invoking the spirits of old Nordvargr, meets the sludge-doom vibe of Tim's hellish guitar. "...truly the most scary music I have recorded" (Nordvargr). An icy chill down your spine... a cold hand on your shoulder... you are never alone in the darkness.
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| H.E.R.R. | Twelve Caesars CD (CSR117CD) £8 / £9 / £10 |
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H.E.R.R.'s 4th album was originally inspired by the book "De Vita Caesarum" by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus from 121 AD, during the reign of the emperor Hadrian. It is one of the greatest sources of much of what we know about the first twelve Caesars after the fall of the Republic. "Although we felt small when looking up to such giants, we took up this book and started on this odyssey that was to end in the first tragi-comic Neoclassical operetta about The Twelve Caesars". Let the light of heart rule in this more "song-based" album. Comes with an elegant 16-page booklet!
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After huge demand we are repressing this title. The incredible orchestral power of Von Thronstahl has finally been released! "Imperium Internum" is an instant classic of the scene - massive orchestral power and military anthems, akin to the finest moments of In Slaughter Natives, Turbund Sturmwerk and Blood Axis! Recommended as among the finest releases we've handled! Now in a stunning digipak.
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After huge demand we are repressing this title. "E Pluribus Unum" neatly collects all compilation tracks and rare 10" releases together, along with some remixes and unreleased pieces. Another statement confirming the power and majesty of VON THRONSTAHL! Martial industrial epics! Stunning digipak format with booklet.
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Black shirt featuring the Nordvargr 2009 logo in military grey print on the front of the shirt, with a back print of the Nordvargr shield, also in grey. Heavy quality shirt. Click 'Purchase' for available sizes. Essential summer wear!
Nordvargr
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Anni's debut release, expanded and on CD for the 1st time.
Guests: Nick Cave, Marc Almond, Foetus, Budgie, Gini Ball and Yello. Digitally remastered with 16 bonus tracks!
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‘Sum things / a possible form for cold dark
matter’, is a project reflecting Z'EV's take on the ‘dark
ambience’ genre. Each piece is based on a single sound
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A powerful mixture
of Neo-Folk-Rock with a Mediterranean sensibility. 10 tracks
presenting the new, unique sound from this great Italian project. |
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A genius mixture of martial industrial,
Neofolk, ambience and neo-classical! Aided by Lady Morphia and Harvest Rain. 2009 Ed with 2 bonus tracks. |
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Folkstorm
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Or Death CD (CSR31CD) £10 / £11
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Samples of
war, speeches, harsh noise, heavy gritty vocals. distorted
rhythms and extremely intense sonics, executed with brutal thoroughness
by Nordvargr! 2009 Ed. |
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Folkstorm
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This is the final full
body of work by the legendary harsh Industrial Noise project.
Prepare yourself for an intense trip through these 11 brutal
and punishing tracks! 2nd Ed. |
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RELEASES:
SPLINTERSKIN - 'Wayward Souls' CD (CSR112CD)
IRON FIST OF THE SUN - 'Behavioral Decline' CD (CSR116CD)
NDE - 'Blut Krieg Ehre Asche' CD (CSR110CD)
SEELENLICHT - 'Love & Murder' CD (CSR115CD)
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OF FOOLS CLUB
• 12 Jul 09, Bar & Co, London - Andrew King
& Naevus
LAIBACH
• 17 Jul 09, Kulturladen, Konstanz (DE)
• 18 Jul 09, Amphi Festival, Köln (DE)
• 19 Jul 09, Waschhaus, Potsdam (DE)
• 12 Aug 09, Beer Fest, Usce, Belgrade (RS)
SCHLOSS TEGAL
• 17 Jul 09, Bist Du NOISE-FEST?!, Alte Feuerwache, Dresden (DE)
ZENI GEVA
• 18 Jul 09, Earthdom, Tokyo (JP). With Optrum, Asylum.
• 8 Sep 09, Tokuzo, Nagoya (JP). With Tabata, KK Null, Ruins Alone
• 9 Sep 09, Taku Taku, Kyoto (JP). With Tabata, KK Null, Ruins Alone
• 10 Sep 09, Helluva Lounge, Kobe (JP). With Tabata, KK Null, Ruins Alone
JARBOE
• 25-26 Jul 09, Super
Sonic, Birmingham (UK). With Sunn O))), Corrupted, Thorr's Hammer, Head Of David, Skullflower,
Scorn, Venetian Snares, Atomized, Zu + More!
+ COLD SPRING STALL
SISTRENATUS
• 13 Aug 09, The Rendevous, Seattle (US).
Z'EV
• 5 Sep 09, Kings Place Festival 2009, Kings Place, London (UK). With Max Eastley, Victor Gama, Rafael Toral
PSYCHIC TV / SUTCLIFFE JÜGEND
• 4-8 Nov 09, Wroclaw Industrial Festival, Various Venues, Wroclaw (PL). With Soisong, Brighter Death Now, Illusion Of Safety, Rapoon
INADE
• 14 Nov 09, Phobos I, Sophienkirche, Wuppertal (DE). With Herbst9, Phelios, False Mirror
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BASS COMMUNION - 'Molotov And Haze' 2 x LP & 10" (Tonefloat) - £35 / £40 / £45 |
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The eighth Bass Communion full-length is the first to feature the results of Steven Wilson's new take on the project. Adding a laptop and software tools to the formerly pure guitar and effects line-up, the change can primarily be felt in terms of composition and in even more refined techniques and fluent, non-repetitive thematic evolutions. Still loosely connected to styles like drones and ambient, it defines a unique perspective devoid of any narrow genre limitations. Composed of four tracks, all of which extend comfortably beyond the ten minute mark, "Molotov And Haze" is conceptually a bipolar album: tranquil and immersive soundscapes take turns with crunching fields of noise brimming with oscillating overtones and aggressive low-end frequencies, creating a hypnotic sequence of suspense and release. The vinyl edition considerably deepens the pulsating riverbed carved out by the CD versions (Important Records 2008), presenting expanded edits of "Molotov 1502" and "Haze 1402". The first and limited edition of 500 copies ina gatefold sleeve, and pressed on 180 grams vinyl, includes an exclusive, limited 10" version of the 3" cd "Haze Shrapnel", that will not be available separately. Exceptionally high quality release!
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BLOODY WOODS - 'Colour' CD
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The Neofolk outfit Bloody Woods (aka Bai Shui) from Sichuan, China has finally completed the first (and maybe their last) full-length album. More percussion elements are added here, plus more dark and obscure Middle Eastern musical elements that give a ritualistic feeling. You will hear influences from G.O.R. and the like but BW also comes with its own style. This is an absolutely fantastic piece of art and deserves to be owned! Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak. Chinese import.
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CYCLOTIMIA - 'Metamorphosis' 10" (Ewers Tonkunst / Indiestate Distribution) - £10 / £12 / £14 |
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This 6-track release continues in the same vein as "Wasteland", but is less rhythmic and more deep and meditative, being maybe the most dark and melancholic Cyclotimia release to date. Analogue electronic layers submerge listener to an atmosphere of uneasy hallucinatory reverie. Subtle clear sound and sad melodies unite to create the unique mix of cold psychedelia and soulful grief. Reminds of Controlled Bleeding, Raison D'etre and Reutoff in places. Ltd x 300 copies in a silver on black print deluxe card sleeve.
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DORMANT - 'Beneath The Mighty Oak' CD
(God Is Myth) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50 |
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Dormant is the newest project from God is Myth label owner Todd Paulson (ex-Uvall). Combining aspects of black metal, heavy metal, rock and Neofolk, along with unusual song structures, the results of the debut album make for a very earthy and organic experience. This work also includes appearances by Andrew Curtis-Brignell (Caïna) who contributed lyrics and vocals to the opening track "Black Ashes" as well as Tanner Anderson (Celestiial) who plays hammered dulcimer on the title track. File next to Dead Raven Choir, Agalloch or Caïna. Regular edition in DVD case with insert.
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FEAR FALLS BURNING - 'The Carnival Of Ourselves' CD
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When "The Carnival Of Ourselves" was originally released on vinyl (2006, Tonefloat), Dirk Serries had only just started recording under the name of Fear Falls Burning. This album turned out to be decisive in shaping his vision of an ongoing drone-manifesto. "The Carnival of Ourselves" pointed towards an immersive and ghostly ambient sound. The release builds into a dense, dirge-like drone-sheet, then intriguingly cools off to a disturbing, haunted soundscape. Comes in deluxe mini album cardboard sleeves with obi.
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FEAR FALLS BURNING - 'When Mystery Prevades The Well, The Promise Sets Fire' LP
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The first in a series of brand new studio drones Fear Falls Burning is currently recording. This exclusive vinyl for Tonefloat is the initiation of a change in method and playing for Fear Falls Burning. Not only has he turned around his studio in order to accommodate the new performances but the subtle incorporation of new elements will bring out an extra dimension in the vintage Fear Falls Burning drone. This LP features two pieces, one per side, that are equally harmonic as powerful. Fear Falls Burning's approach to playing the guitar chords changed, the production is different and the inclusion of guest musician Dave Banderplas (Llips., ex-Ontayso) on subtle cymbal percussion marks this release as the first gentle step in Fear Falls Burning's further exploration of the drone. Heavy 180gm vinyl, presented in an exquisite gatefold sleeve!
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GENGHIS TRON - 'Board Up The House Remixes Vol. 5' 12"
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If Genghis Tron's frayed and sparking mix of aggressive mathcore and electronics wasn't innovative enough, they've embarked on an ambitious multi-label remix project following their first album, "Board Up The House". The three tracks on the fifth and final edition comes wrapped in layers of distortion at once atmospheric and damaging. Tim Hecker's take on the title track is a slow thaw of icy electronic texture, and the Nadja remix of "I Won't Come Back Alive" stretches it out to fifteen minutes of buried drum hits and chilly synths. The final track is a distorted electro remix of "I Won't Come Back Alive" by Dudes You Can Trust. Ltd x 1000 copies on magenta / mint green marbled vinyl.
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GOLGATHA & BIRTHE KLEMENTOWSKI - 'Cycles' CD
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In 2007 :Ikonen: media published a postcard collection by photographic artist Birthe Klementow called ‘Circles’. The limited (x10), cloth-bound and hand-numbered edition was accompanied by an EP featuring dark ambient tracks on the cycles of life and death, inspired by those postcards. ‘Cycles’ is a completely reworked reincarnation of this exclusive collaborative project and features new artwork and remixes of the original songs. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak with 12-page booklet. Chinese import.
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KOMMISSAR HJULER & MAMA BÄR - 'Asylum Lunaticum' CD (Intransitive Recordings)
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Intimate, absurd, feral and aggressive in its homemade weirdness, the music of Kommissar Hjuler & Mama Bär has been a well-kept secret for too long. Hjuler & Bär have self-published their dada-esque sound poetry experiments on small-edition lathe-cut LPs, tapes and other limited formats for years. This is a collection their best recordings to date. The husband and wife duo uses deceptively simple means - typically just their voices, a cassette-tape recorder and a microphone - to create astonishing suburban dramas that are somehow both sweetly charming and staggeringly psychotic, sometimes simultaneously.
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LAIBACH - 'Laibachkunstderfuge BWV 1080' CD (Dallas Records) - £13 / £14 / £15 |
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This album is the Laibachian interpretation of Johann Sebastian Bach's work The Art of Fugue (Die Kunst der Fuge). The majority of the material was created in 2006 and performed the same year on 1st June at Bachfest in Leipzig. Since the work is very much based on mathematical algorithms, Laibach decided to use computer and computer program as the key "instrument", providing a very special electronic interpretation and showing that J.S. Bach with his work could as well be understood as the pioneer of electronic, techno, computer music. Digipak.
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ORN - 'Teeth / Knowing' MCD (Elevation Recordings) - £9.50 / £10.50 / £11.50 |
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Orn are a new three piece doom metal band from Toronto, one drummer, two guitarists and a wall of amplifiers. Orn's doom is heaving and raw, the drone is delivered in snarling unapologetic straight shots. The intensity is built up and torn down with minimal structures with guttural screams, sustaining guitars and punishing insistent rhythms. With extended listening the music becomes impossibly heavy and hypnotic hitting you with wave after wave of hard charging, supremely gratifying, destroyed noise. 24 mins of snarling doom in the tradition of Ocean, Burning Witch, Graves At Sea. Ltd x 1000 copies in a digipak.
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PROCER VENEFICUS - 'Convoy (Pt. 2)' CD (God Is Myth) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
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After releasing the stunning "A Summerhaze Array for August Nights" boxset, now comes this new effort from Procer Veneficus. "Convoy (Pt. 2)" takes off in a slightly different direction in terms of composition and form but make no mistake, this is Procer Veneficus' greatest and most absorbing / thought provoking work to date. Almost an hour of psychedelic Black Metal delivered like no other. Digipak.
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RADIOACTIVE PROSTITUTE - 'King Maris Day' LP
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Two 15+ minute tracks of psychedelic noise-rock, was engineered and mixed by Justin Pizzoferrato (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr.) in 2008. Side B documents the first ever Radioactive Prostitute live show (supporting Pine Tree State Mind Control) in 2002. A miasma of guitar feedback, junk percussion and a near endless torrent of abstract epithets. Radioactive Prostitute also appears on several Thomas Nöla Et Son Orchestre releases , including "The Doctor O.S.T." (with Douglas P. / Death In June). Presented in a hand-painted blue & gold on white sleeve, self-released in an edition of 200 hand-numbered copies with insert.
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SCOTT HULL - 'Audiofilm 1' 3"
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Scott Hull (Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed) has been gradually revealing another side of his musical persona over the past few years; an obsession with cinematic soundscaping and dark evocative film scores, mutant electronic textures and pitch-black isolationism. This first part of the Audiofilm Series is a terrifying fug of demonic drone that utilises stereo panning and slabs of obsidian ambience, slowly unfolding over the length of the piece to reveal layers of malevolent black drone and unsettling voices, seemingly lost between planes of shadow. Recommended for fans of Lustmord and Scorn. Ltd x 1000 copies in a gatefold sleeve with artwork from Seldon Hunt.
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STROSZEK - 'Songs Of Remorse' CD (God Is Myth) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50 |
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"Songs of Remorse" is the debut album from Italy's Stroszek, who play dark melancholic doom / emotional acoustic music. Stroszek comes from the Werner Herzog film of the same name and is the perfect moniker for a band with such a gloomy atmosphere. While the band contains members of Black Metal act Frostmoon Eclipse, this should be looked upon as a separate entity and not just a 'side project'.` Carefully strummed minor key acoustic guitar...deliberate yet restrained piano lines...bursts of heaviness added for texture...and deep, lush clean sung vocals that relay a sense of dread lurking beneath the surface. Digipak.
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SUNN O))) & PAN SONIC / ALAN VEGA / STEPHEN BURROUGHS - 'Che / 13 X Live /
Goodbye Darling - Clear Vinyl'
10" (Blast First Petite) - £10 / £12 / £14 |
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Next up in the series to mark the 70th birthday of Alan Vega (Suicide). "This is serious......serious as a heart attack!
The hooded ones touch branch wands with the unsmiling Finlanders for six epic minutes.
Joe Preston intones the incantation as inscribed by the seer, Vega.
Sky's crack, lightning bolts rend the sky, Valkyries ride the storm. Flip the disc, '13 Crosses, 16 Blazin' Skulls'.
Sci-Fi electronic metal machine music.
A live in hell 2008 version of a song first heard on the 2007 album "Station" from Vega.
All hail. Lost soulman of the Black Country, Stephen Burroughs (Head Of David).
Gira-esque acoustic version and Stephen's first visit to a recording studio in near a decade.
Time's a circle Twisted tunes in an inside out package.
Beautifully rendered "hidden" drawings by Coulter Jacobsen: drawn and re-drawn from memory.
The best batch yet.....?". Ltd x 3000 copies (these 1500 are on clear vinyl). ACT FAST!
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THE HUMAN QUENA ORCHESTRA - 'The Politics Of The Irredeemable' CD (Crucial Blast)
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This second monstrous disc from THQO is equal parts blackened glacial industrial, nightmarishly dosed drone music, and punishing slow-motion mecha-sludge. Imagine a cross between Corrupted and Sunroof. "...exquisitely epic (and obliterating) sonic journey through landscapes of burnt out Black Metal, and onwards trudgefully past a Burke Shelley rehearsal and fallen statues of the Doom God Dubin, through a Wodenist environment wherein tortured vocalists serenade crows and tree-impaled musicians set off Nadja samples to long-rotting corpses" (Julian Cope). Comes in a hardback, gatefold digifile.
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TOR LUNDVALL - 'Sleeping And Hiding' LP (Dais Records) - £18 / £20 / £22 |
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Tor Lundvall's unheard album of ghost ambience! Dark and beautiful soundtracks for afternoon daydreams and moonlit forest strolls. "'Sleeping And Hiding' was recorded in what seemed like the blink of an eye during the Spring of 2005 and then shelved while I concentrated on other projects. I originally intended this album to be the third and final chapter in the series which also included "Last Light" and "Empty City". Listening to it now, however, I feel this album stands alone in it's own unique space. Musically, it's an entirely vocal effort and somewhat more song oriented than my previous releases. Several of the tracks were inspired by evening drives through the woods, watching the copper-pink sunlight reflecting off bright yellow-green blossoms... The final track 'Sleeping' manages to conjure up the precise atmosphere of one of my earliest childhood memories: Lying in bed during a bright afternoon as the strange sounds outside lulled me to sleep." Limited to 500 copies, hand-numbered in foil-embossed sleeves with full-colour insert.
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TREES - 'Lights Bane' CD (Crucial Blast) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50 |
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The debut album from the Portland quartet Trees delivers two epic tracks of monolithic, blackened doom metal with a twisted, noise-damaged approach and a dank basement vibe. Trees craft glacial abstract riffs and rivers of ashen amplifier goo that fans of feedback-laden heaviosity will find highly satisfying - a kind of grinding, slow-motion black hole psychedelia that has a similar hypnotic death-ritual quality as artists like Bloody Panda and Khanate, but with their own unique trance state of swirling guitar textures, horrific jet black dronescapes and ghoulish, excoriating vocals. Features members of the Tecumseh. Comes in a hardback, gatefold digifile.
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WHISPER ROOM - 'Birch White' CD (Elevation Recordings) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50 |
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Whisper Room is a trio based in Toronto, Canada and Berlin, Germany featuring Aidan Baker (Nadja), Neil Wiernik (NAW) and Jakob Thiesen (Students). These three creative minds had moved in similar musical circles in Toronto and Montreal for years sporadically sharing stages but did not actively come together to play as a trio until Dec 2006. Since then they have worked as a improv unit and combined their disparate musical backgrounds to create music which explores the conjunction of electronic rhythms and textures with the pulsations and psychedelics and shoegaze and krautrock music. Ltd x 2000 copies in a digipak.
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WILDLIFE - 'Peas Feast' 12" / Dropcard (Crucial Blast) - £12 / £14 / £16 |
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Vinyl reissue of 2007's "Peas Feast" self-released EP. Mastered by Scott Hull (Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed). Four lengthy songs of ultra-heavy sludge, crushing glacial metal, psych rock, noise rock and desperate howling vocals. Slow, sludgy and creeping but still unbelievably catchy and exuberant. Although this early material is more immediate and raw than the band's debut album Six, the music is crushing, catchy and totally spaced-out. Ltd x 1000 copies on yellow / black marbled vinyl. Comes with a dropcard that will allow you to download the tracks from the "Peas Feast" EP as well as a digital-only EP titled "Drongolet Demos" with unreleased Wildlife tracks.
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WILDLIFE - 'Six' CD (Crucial Blast) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50 |
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Heavy, crunchy riffage rolls over celestial FX freakout and gang choral voices: part gluey pop hallucination, part psychedelic blast furnace, part metalloid skullcrush. Super melodic and catchy but vaguely menacing and dark at the same time: this is Wildlife. Their debut full length "Six" summons a wicked whirlpool of distorted crunch and freaky singing, raging metallic percussive pummel, tribal rhythms and crushing effects-soaked guitars, subdued floating drones and ecstatically gorgeous melodies, all let loose in a series of psychedelic slowcore eruptions and swirling cosmic sludge. Comes in a hardback, gatefold digifile.
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ZILVERHILL - 'Latent-Active-Descent' CD (Adeptsound / Blind Shouter)
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These new Zilverhill recordings are informed by both the art of August Natterer (Specifically ‘Axle of the World, with Rabbit’
and the “uncertainty of good fortune” depicted therein) and Lewis Carroll’s ‘Looking Glass’ (Nobody/Somebody).
Nixon’s portentous voice and actions are intuitively fractured, reappraised and manipulated to form the spine of the pieces;
the desolation of drunkenness and schizophrenia, cold, sarcasm, and distant / past / fleeting recollections provide the flesh.
Thus the next idiom in the Zilverhill discourse is borne. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak. The first 250 copies of which come with a hand-numbered postcard.
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ZYRTAX - 'Black Roots' 7" (Multi National Disaster Records / Dead Mind Records)
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This tidy little 7" from Dutch act Zyrtax (aka Johnny Van e Kookwijk of Dead Husbands, Masonic Youth etc) could be inspired by the good old-school Industrial / Experimental of SPK, Esplendor Geometrico and Maurizio Bianchi - representing a constant evolution of 80s loop based industrial into the new millennium. Ltd x 450 copies, with either a yellow or orange cover.
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AETHERE - 'In Coma' CD (War Office Propaganda / Rage In Eden)
- £9 / £10 / £11
“In Coma” is the last work of Milan act Aethere, who in the last 4 years perfected their dark ambient / space music hybrid. Binding dilated atmospheres, typical of space music, with more compact and an oppressive style, characteristic of the Swedish masters. “In coma” is created on the feeble equilibrium between life and death: the EEG sound walks through the six tracks until the acme of the mass-sounds. When the EEG becomes a flat line, Aethere dies. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak. |
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ATOMTRAKT - 'Schutt & Asche' CD (Mercenary Musik)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
Atomtrakt is the creation of German artist cz (Vinterriket, Nocternity, Nebelkorona). Over 70 minutes of bombastic, dark, martial, militant ambient and cold atmospheric terror. This digipak version includes as bonus the original MCD demo "Verwüstung" A great release in the vein of Puissance. Released in a 6-panel digipak.
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AZOIKUM / GOVERNMENT ALPHA - 'Das Methadonprogramm' CD
(Multi National Disaster Records) - £9 / £10 / £11
A brutal split release between German Power Electronics act Azoikum and Japanese Harsh Industrial monsters Government Alpha. The CD features 5 tracks from Azoikum and 6 tracks from Government Alpha. Comes in plastic snap case. Ltd x 444 copies only! |
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COLD FUSION - 'Report' CD (War Office Propaganda / Rage In Eden)
- £11 / £12 / £13
Re-issue of Cold Fusion's second full-length work. This concept album contains 46 minutes of military ambient soundscapes and rhythms - so characteristic of Cold Fusion. The first edition was published by War Office Propaganda 2005 (Ltd 200). Now re-issued onto CD and presented in a digipak with new artwork by Michal Karcz. |
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COMPULSIVE
SHOPPING DISORDER - 'In The Cube' CD
(War
Office Propaganda / Rage In Eden) - £11 / £12 / £13
Bold
and original arrangements, dense and oppressive electronic
sounds, aggressive industrial phrases, melancholic melodies
and a cold, impassive voice. Where the darkness and
music become to one, Compulsive Shopping Disorder is
alone with you. Touching your own weaknesses you get
back your sensitivity, lost in depression of life. Listen
to this musical diary of everyday fears and find yourself
between words setting modern world a challenge. This
is a testimony filled with gloomy romanticism with influences
ranging from Kirlian Camera, Coil and Skinny Puppy.
6-panel digipak. |
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ENEMITE - 'Wuyuan' CD
(Dying Art Productions) - £11 / £12 / £13
Enemite offer angry and dense atmospheres; more of a ceremony, a circle of forming. Lost in the noise of hell, an evil creature wanders up and down forever. “Please close the doors and windows to turn off the light and listen alone!” Dark, gloomy and sinister. Death-inspired Ritual Ambient with an inherent Chinese feel. Comes in a stark A5 B&W gatefold sleeve / "ecopack" with insert and Chinese text throughout. Ltd x 1000 copies. |
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INFESTATION - 'Bastion Intouchable' CD (War Office Propaganda /
Rage In Eden) - £11 / £12 / £13
Infestation
is the martial industrial act of Louis Carrier. The
act is best defined by its burning orchestral textures
and its violent percussion that give rhythm and life
to combative vocal clamours. Evoking subjects concerning
the fight for subsistence of cultural heritage, the
project covers the unending determination of the minority
French-speaking people of Québec that survives
through centuries of assimilation and gives the clear
indication that struggling is never vain. The project
is influenced by the like of Puissance, In Slaughter
Natives, Triarii, The Protagonist, Across the Rubicon
and Rome. 6-panel digipak. |
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MERZBOW - 'Live In Geneva' CD (Walnut + Locust) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
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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MOURNER - 'Still' MCD (Mourner) - £7 / £8 / £9
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. |
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NEW RISEN THRONE / CRUEL HARVEST - 'Shadows Over Humanity' CD
(God Is Myth) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
3 brand new tracks from Italian dark ambient master New Risen Throne, plus the debut of U.S. dark ambient project Cruel Harvest. 7 tracks total and over an hour of icy cold and treacherous dark ambient soundscapes for fans of Raison D'etre, Northaunt, Svartsinn & Atrium Carceri. An hour's worth of black ambience that will wrap its cold fingers around your throat with an icy grip. |
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ULTRA MILKMAIDS - 'Live USA 02/03' MCD
(Multi National Disaster Records)
- £7 / £8 / £9
Second edition of the material recorded live at various venues during Ultra Milkmaid’s USA tour in 2002 – the first edition being a 3” release (Ltd x 50). This edition has three extra tracks. Electronic/ambient music with atmospheres very much in the vein of Christian Fennesz. Ltd x 300. |
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Over
n` out!!
THE COLD SPRING TEAM
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