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Cold Spring Bi-Weekly Newsletter - 12th November 2009

IN THE PRESS
The first ever interview with Splinterskin is at Heathen Harvest.

THIS SATURDAY! COLD SPRING IN THE NETHERLANDS!
• 14 Nov 09, Dwaalspoor Festival, Baroeg, Rotterdam (NL).
SATORI / KRIEGSFALL-U. With Der Blaue Reiter, Der Feuerkreiner, Jannerwein
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Wicked King Wicker | God Is Busy... Save Yourself CD (CSR125CD) £10 / £11 / £12

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Wicked King Wicker is pure doom. Their brand of guttural expression strips away the rock n roll base and leaves nothing for the listener than the caustic reality of the darkest side of life. It is heavy, barbaric and void of hope. Wicked King Wicker has taken the power of doom metal and added noise to mix to make its point. “God Is Busy… Save Yourself” is their 6th album, and their first released outside of the U.S. Wicked King Wicker is unique, and their extreme doom stands alone as the heaviest, most brutal doom imaginable and it may take you places you don’t want to go.

MP3 | MP3 | Wicked King Wicker
Iron Fist Of The Sun | Behavioural Decline CD (CSR116CD) £10 / £11 / £12

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Personal obsessions skewed by drug use, codes of behaviour observed by a misanthropic mind. Bitter and cold. Nihilistic and scornful. Elitist and Pure. Behavioural Decline documents the rise of treachery and the fall of honour. Power electronics that sonically takes inspiration from electro-acoustics and ideology akin to black metal / black noise. A deeply personal recording.

MP3 | MP3 | Iron Fist Of The Sun
NDE | Krieg Blut Ehre Asche CD (CSR110CD) £8 / £9 / £10

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Debut from this Belgian duo. Like the dark solitary figure which adorns the cover, NDE are shrouded in mystery and desolation. No website. No myspace. No contact details. The music speaks loudly and across the centuries. A unique smelting of malevolent, noisy Black Metal, pounding, anthemic martial drums and wretched Death Industrial in eight acts.

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Cages | Folding Space CD (CSR121CD) £10 / £11 / £12

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The shaking notes that make up “Folding Space” were recorded by two people holed up in their whole respective imaginations of visions of loops, layers and pleading lyrics. They sought sounds from the same dreams that give fools belief and colourfully punctuate the nights of the sanest. There are elements of dreamy ether and discomfort rather than the easy choruses and catchphrases of the most collected and consumed art form. The visions backing this elaborate music were recorded and are performed for a primary reason: to exist freely. An hour of music set in studios buried by blizzards of the American Great Lakes region. Artwork with gold print.

MP3 | MP3 | Cages
Splinterskin | Wayward Souls CD (CSR114CD) £10 / £11 / £12

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Harsh, dark folk music.  Tales told using an old classical guitar, accompanied by haunting vocals, violin, and soothing whispers.
 
All Hail The Transcending Ghost | All Hail The Transcending Ghost CD (CSR122CD) £10 / £11 / £12

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The debut album from AHTTG (Nordvargr and Tim Bertilsson). One of the most haunting drone-dark-ambient-industrial works in recent years.
 
H.E.R.R. | Twelve Caesars CD (CSR117CD) £10 / £11 / £12

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H.E.R.R. retell the notorious lives of the Emperors with honesty, drama and humour. A classic of the neoclassical genre!
 

FORTHCOMING RELEASES:

SEHNSUCHT - 'Wüste' CD (CSR124CD)
GOATVARGR - 'Black Snow Epoch' CD (CSR126CD)
FIRE IN THE HEAD - 'Confessions Of A Narcissist' CD (CSR120CD)
EMME YA - 'Atavistic Dreams And Phallic Totems' CD (CSR127CD)

ALL AVAILABLE COLD SPRING TITLES

SATORI / KRIEGSFALL-U
• 14 Nov 09, Dwaalspoor Festival, Baroeg, Rotterdam (NL). With Der Blaue Reiter, Der Feuerkreiner, Jannerwein
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SUTCLIFFE JÜGEND
• 14 Nov 09, The Underworld, Camden, London (UK). With 6Comm, ACL, Standgericht, Kindermord

INADE
• 14 Nov 09, Phobos I, Sophienkirche, Wuppertal (DE). With Herbst9, Phelios, False Mirror

Phobos I

• 28 Nov 09, TVO, Turku (FI). With Zoät-Aon, Dystopia

SHIP OF FOOLS CLUB
• 15 Nov 09, Bar & Co, London - SonVer / Human Greed
• 13 Dec 09, Bar & Co, London - Init / Roshi / Alex Monk



SOL INVICTUS
• 27 Nov 09, Poste A Galene, Marseilles (FR).
• 28 Nov 09, Lyon's Hall, Lyon (FR).

IRON FIST OF THE SUN
• 28 Nov 09, Wagon And Horses, Digbeth, Birmingham (UK). With The Grey Wolves, Con-Dom, Slogun, Control, Sickness, Ashtray Navigations, Putrefier
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VON THRONSTAHL / ROSE ROVINE E AMANTI
• 28 Nov 09, Verpetai 2009, Varenos Kulturos Centras, J. Basanaviciaus Gatve 17, Varena 65001 (LT). 20LT.



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AARKTICA - 'In Sea' CD (Silber Records) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
Aarktika's 6th full-length release. While there are some vocals & traditional song structures on "In Sea" there are no guests, no producers, no electronics - no instruments aside from guitars & DeRosa’s antique Bilhorn Telescopic Pump Organ, once used for traveling church revivals & home funeral services in the 1930s. Majestic dirges reclaiming Aarktica’s reputation as a master of chilling, glacial guitar symphonies... cathartic bursts of distortion... layers of lush & layered picked guitars, almost hymnal in tone. “In Sea” simmers like an oceanic storm, with the sky opening up to reveal both rain and bright sunlight. Includes a cover of Danzig’s “Am I Demon?” turning the blues-metal classic into one of deadpan dark, atmospheric intimacy and self-realisation with organs and reverse guitar loops that imply an unholy exorcism. Recommended if you like: Labradford, Seefeel, Earth, Nadja, Godspeed You Black Emperor!.

ALDEBARAN - 'Dwellers In Twilight' CD (Parasitic Records) - £11 / £12 / £13
This Oregon trio (featuring members of YOB, H.C. Minds and Tusks Of Blood) ooze forth a full-length of ugly, monolithic doom / sludge. "As unmoving and defiantly poised as an obelisk that has stood firmly against the ages, Aldebaran have risen from the murky substance of the U.S. Doom scene with a blackened fist of chthonic über-Sludge thrust towards the stagnant gut of convention... 'Dwellers In Twilight' is unquestionably one of the most uncompromising Doom Metal albums I've ever had the pleasure of being mercilessly pummeled by. The album is firmly rooted between Funeral Doom's lack of forgiveness and Sludge's grooving repetition. The resultant mixture is quite an unnerving elixir, proving that the safety of the middle ground is nothing but a mere illusion" (Doom-Metal.com)

AMOCOMA - 'Go To Hell' CD (Tumult) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
Reissue of Amocoma's rare demo release, remastered with 2 bonus tracks. Amocoma traffic in an ultra lo-fi, muddy murky blackness. It's definitely black metal, but at the same time it's sort of stumbling and noise rocky - all rendered nearly indistinct by the incredibly FX drenched lo-fi production. Dreamy swirls of soft focus harmonics and distant rumbles... hypnotic looped riffs... mechanical and repetitive drums.... howled and reverbed vocals. The more you listen, the more pretty it sounds. Sure it's raw and harsh, but the melody is so hypnotic, and the swirling clouds of distortion and reverb give everything a sort of soft focus shimmer.

BIRDS OF TIN - 'Altarwise' CD (Diophantine Discs) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
The two lengthy tracks of "Altarwise" were recorded in late 2004 and remastered early 2009. The first track is a 30-minute experimental work that gradually moves through a wide range of sounds (echoing chimes, mysterious noises, subdued clanking, drones). The second piece is an epic 46-minute composition of deep ambient/drone music that manages to float freely through the listener's imagination while keeping his attention. While many modern day experimentalists have moved into the computer realm, Birds of Tin has remained true to the experimental sound of tape loops, lo-fi samplers, and collections of unique toy instruments running through small fx boxes. Ltd x 500 copies in a special printed wallet.

BLACK LEATHER JESUS - 'Yes, Sir (Filth Play)' CD (Mask Of The Slave Records)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
The great new album from the legendary Texas based Noise band formed in 1989! The 20th Anniversary album! The band was founded by Richard Ramirez. Currently, it also includes Kevin Novak (TEF), Sean Matzus (The Secret Geography / ITLOA), Scott Houston (Respirator / S.P.I.T.), Vance Osborne (Murex / ITLOA), with occasional assistance by Jovan Hernandez (ze'r0-sum / Anatomy of a Blackout). Ltd x 500 copies. Romanian import.

• All Black Leather Jesus Titles

BLIND CAVE SALAMANDER - 'Troglobite' CD (Shayo) - £11 / £12 / £13
Blind Cave Salamander is a project by Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo (ex-Larsen) and Paul Beauchamp, backed up by sound designer, producer and engineer, Marco Milanesio, and legendary cello player Julia Kent. The music reflects an unusual mix of electronica, strings and guitars, drones and field recordings. A fine collection of sounds that at times lean towards hypnotic lullabies and at others towards abstraction. With their 2nd album, BIind Cave Salamander unravel shadowy, nocturnal landscapes, into lush, bucolic soundscapes. "Troglobite" also features experimentalist Michael Begg (Fovea Hex, Human Greed) as well as Little Annie's pianist Paul Wallfisch. 6-panel digipak.

BLOOD OF THE BLACK OWL - 'A Feral Spirit' CD (Bindrune Recordings) - £11 / £12 / £13
From the organic cauldron of the Pacific Northwest rain forest comes Blood Of The Black Owl. Formed in 2004 by Heathen visionary Chet W. Scott (Ruhr Hunter), as a primitive fusion of slow tempo Earth Metal & Woodland Ritualistic Doom. 'A Feral Spirit' combines Native American shamanic influence and the Germanic nature worship of his own heritage with an entirely transcendent musical vision, BOTBO gives praise to the spirits of nature and the unspoken bonds that tie man, beast and environment. "A personal cleansing woven through audible passages of earthbound ritualistic transcendence". "A Feral Spirit" is a clarion call for the rebirth of the human animal spirit and a return to the ancestral forests of our past. Blood Of The Black Owl shall lead them... Ltd x 1000 copies in a 6-panel digipak.

• All Blood Of The Black Owl Titles

BURMESE - 'A Mere Shadow And Reminiscence Of Humanity' CD (Tumult)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
Now with an extra drummer and a renewed, dangerously unhealthy obsession with Whitehouse, Burmese have slowed things down a bit. Gone are the hyperspeed blast beats and in their place are midtempo dirges, stumbling drunkenly through nihilistic, grinding sludge, spewing bile and ultraviolence. Pounding militaristic beats demarcate vast expanses of throbbing feedback, guttural growls, tarpit washes of bowel loosening low-end and 16 rpm grindcore. Things do speed up occasionally into blurry bursts of static and skree, but even then, they eventually devolve back into some sort of primordial and glacial caveman stomp, all murky thud and swampy roar, thick and suffocating and massively heavy. Grinding and pounding. Relentless and brutal.

• All Burmese Titles

BURMESE - 'Monkeys Tear Man To Shreds, Man Never Forgives Ape, Man Destroys
Environment' CD (Tumult) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
Three headed, two bassed, grinding destruction. Pummeling and chaotic droning power violence. Two Mikes and a John. With set times ranging from 30 seconds to 15 minutes, and a sound somewhere between the drone-dirge of Earth and the blazing grind of Drop Dead, San Francisco's low-end destructo commandos Burmese deliver dense, ultra heavy, blazing fast, super low end sludge. With no guitar and two basses, Burmese fuse hardcore, noisecore, death metal and some sort of free jazz into a chaotic and cathartic crush.  Crazy, heavy, experimental, incendiary, high-speed, low-end noisegrindsludgedoom!!

• All Burmese Titles

CELESTIIAL / BLOOD OF THE BLACK OWL - 'Celestiial / Blood Of The Black Owl' LP
(Bindrune Recordings) - £16 / £18 / £20
This conceptual and artistically groundbreaking union of like minded musicians is a rare find in this day and age, but Blood of the Black Owl And Celestiial have again assembled beneath the Bindrune banner to explore the very core of their being through ritualistic transcendence. While embracing metal as a loose framework, both artists shed the confines of "tradition" to step into the ever expansive world of atmosphere. Be it the Shamanic union with the spirit world and nature through the hypnotic rituals of Blood of the Black Owl, or the woodland explorations of Celestiial by way of environmental soundscapes and a moss laden drone, this split LP is unlike anything you have yet heard. Both bands are reinventing the way that you experience and "feel" music from the void far beyond... Ltd x 500 copies with insert. ACT FAST!

• All Blood Of The Black Owl Titles • All LP/12" Vinyl

CIRCLE - 'Triumph' 2 x CD (Fourth Dimension) - £14 / £15 / £16
This release gathers recordings for a session at WFMU, recorded during their second US tour and captured live on the 25th September 2007. Spread over the four sides are the six cuts which made up Circle’s second session for WFMU, once more capturing the self-proclaimed New Wave of Finnish Heavy Metal outfit proving themselves to be almost everything but ‘Heavy Metal’ despite possessing the only too apparent ability to compete with the best amongst that world. Taking in operatic vocals, unearthly mulch, psychedelic splurge, nods towards folk and krautrock, and mammoth riffs capable of knocking down nearby buildings, avant-rock has rarely arrived both so potent and in dire need of a straitjacket before. Gatefold digisleeve with printed inner sleeves.

• All Circle Titles

DEATH IN JUNE - 'Black Angel - Live!' Picture Disc & CD LP (Neuropa / Leprosy Discs)
- £23 / £26 / £29
"Black Angel - Live', recorded in Australia 24th May 2000, was one of the first of the intense stripped-back acoustic performances featuring Douglas P. and percussionist John Murphy. It characterised Death In June's live work in this new century. This limited edition picture disc LP, with a different full colour picture on each side, is coupled with a bonus 4 track CD in card sleeve, recorded at an impromptu performance 2 years later on 26th June 2002, at the Laundry, Melbourne, featuring a rare solo performance by Douglas P. on 6 string electric guitar with unreleased live versions of tracks from the then recently-issued 'All Pigs Must Die' album. Exciting and direct, the songs on both the picture disc and CD can be regarded as a 'best of' Death In June live experience up to that point in time. All tracks have been digitally recorded and mastered. Ltd x 1000 copies with full-size insert & sticker in heavy archive sleeve. ACT FAST!

• All Death In June Titles • All Picture Discs • All LP/12" Vinyl

HEY COLOSSUS - 'Happy Birthday' CD (Riot Season) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
From headlong infusions of psychedelic rock to the limitless furrows of doom, in "Happy Birthday" London's Hey Colossus has constructed an all conquering citadel of experimental/metal disrepair. The album is a rampaging fire-cloud of superstoked riffs and ever mounting walls of feedback, a rough house collection of battering new songs driven at sweltering pace by a band with a fearless momentum. The is the record that the band has always threatened to unleash - a pitch black album for our ever scorched earth. For fans of : Unsane, Neu!, Circle, Corrupted, Eyehategod, Fudge Tunnel, Sludge, Doom etc.

HEY COLOSSUS / DETHSCALATOR - 'Hey Colossus Vs Dethscalator' LP (Black Labs /
Riot Season ) - £13 / £15 / £17
The first release on Black Labs, sister label to UK label Riot Season. Black Labs unites two of Britain's creamiest, shadiest, hell mongers Hey Colossus and Dethscalator, for a split album and you're going to cop it massively in the face till you fall in. Three new long tracks from Hey Colossus (epic dirge space rock, with three sprawling slow-jams, that oozes from slow burning drones, to lurching stumbling blackened crush, to metallic krautrock and back again, rumbling drones - Aquarius) and five from new boys on the chopping block Dethscalator (a gnarled blend of Gore like repetitive heaviness, and lo-slung noise rock - Aquarius). Around 40 mins of music. Ltd x 500 copies.

• All Hey Colossus Titles • All LP/12" Vinyl

HUMAN LARVAE - 'Home Is Where The Hurt Is' CD (Existence Establishment)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
Debut album from this Dresden-based heavy industrial/power electronics unit. Taking cues from styles as diverse as the cinematic Navicon Torture Technologies and grungy lo-fi ...Today I'm Dead, Human Larvae delivers an emotional torrent of self-destructive force. Spanning a running time of over an hour, styles range from rhythmic orchestral industrial to bleak passages of black noise with a good dosage of throbbing feedback and scathing vocals. There is some sick twisted narrative to be found here but the search for these mysterious happenings will bring you to places you may never return from. Ltd x 500 copies in a hand-numbered gatefold digisleeve.

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IN MY ROSARY - 'Greetings From The Past' CD (Shayo) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
A nice retrospective piece from this German Darkwave / Neofolk project. "Greetings From The Past" contains the two long out of print EPs "Those Silent Years" and "Strange EP" as well as two demo recordings from 1998 ("Greetings From The Past" and "Liar") and a sing-a-long-version of "The Rose Of The World". Digipak.

KAWABATA MAKOTO - 'The Tales Of The Dream Planet' CD (Housepig)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
The mastermind behind Acid Mothers Temple (and a zillion other projects) parked his spaceship long enough to fish this CD out of his beard and give it to Housepig, before closing the hatch and rocketing back into the stratosphere. What he brought back from the Dream Planet is two tracks of long, overlapping guitar drones; glacially melodic, meditative and a touch otherworldly. Curl up in your favorite dashiki, let your hair hang down, fire up some incense (or anything else) and let Kawabata spin you a tale! Ltd x 500 copies in a square plastic snapcase.

• All Kawabata Makoto Titles

L'ACEPHALE - 'Stahlhartes Gehäuse' CD (Parasitic Records) - £11 / £12 / £13
"Stahlhartes Gehäuse" walks the kindred path with the co-conspirators that lead the Live Actions front of L’Acéphale. This release follows more directly the path illuminated by Black Metal with the aligning stars of Traditional Folk, Martial Dark Ambience, Pagan Black Metal and Audio Ethnology. No less than 9 artists participated in this release, including Markus Wolff (Waldteufel, Blood Axis, Crash Worship etc). Ltd x 1000 copies in a 6-panel digipak with 24-page booklet.

• All L'Acephale Titles

LOCRIAN - 'Greyfield Shrines' LP (Diophantine Discs) - £15 / £17 / £19
For the past four years, Chicago's Locrian have been recording their unique and haunting brand of experimental music. Their first LP "Greyfield Shrines", was recorded live on WHPK in late 2007. The music is dense and enveloping, with mysterious drones and arcane melodies flowing throughout the ominous work. The piece climaxes on the B side as the modulated feedback surges. This release will surely appeal to a wide range of listeners, from industrial, drone, and experimental, to adventurous fans of drone & doom metal. Ltd x 300 copies on grey marbled vinyl. Housed in a printed letterpress cover. Stunning piece!

• All LP/12" Vinyl

MEZIRE - 'Corrosion Effects' CD (Rustblade / Zero01one) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
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)

MOTH ELECTRET - 'Tocasen' CD (Diophantine Discs) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
"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.

ORODRUIN - 'Epicurean Mass' CD (psycheDOOMelic) - £11 / £12 / £13
"Now this is more like it! Serious doom / classic rock vibe coming from Orodruin... If you are a fan of Saint Vitus, Candlemass, Sabbath then check out their latest: Epicurean Mass. It's been a while since I have heard a band that really drives it home like Orodruin, their sound is doom and blues based, at times reminding me of Solitude Aeturnus crossed with Sour Vein...there is a hardcore edge there for sure. This CD is a doom new fave of mine and will get played often for a while..." (stonerrock.com). 2009 reissue. Ltd x 1000 copies in a digipak with new artwork and 2 bonus tracks from their split 12" with Reverend Bizarre.

• All Orodruin Titles

OSOKA - 'Caustic Smoke' CD (War Office Propaganda / Rage In Eden) - £11 / £12 / £13
The debut album of Russian experimental post-rock group Osoka, based in Rostov-on-Don. Their sound draws from influences ranging from sludge and doom metal, with stoner rock background to dark ambient and industrial music on the other pole. The band's inspirations are Cult of Luna, Neurosis, Isis, Meatjack, Khanate, Nadja, Sunn O))), Halo. "Caustic Smoke" is one expanded track, 45 minutes long, slow, repetitive and crushing, with heavy sections of distorted guitars often interspersed with dark ambient and industrial interludes. CD in 6-panel digipak.

SALLY DOHERTY - 'Electric Butterfly' CD (Shayo) - £11 / £12 / £13
"Electric Butterfly" came into being when the unique vocalist and songwriter Sally Doherty began working with the musician and producer Colin Elliot. The 50-minute album includes guest musicians Richard Hawley, Shez Sheridan and Liz Hanks.  The cool left-field pop sound of "Electric Butterfly" reveals glimpses of Sally’s life-long passion for French chanson, South American bolero and the songs of Jacques Brel and Scott Walker, her love of incredible singers such as Peruvian princess Yma Sumac and the smooth and seductive Chet Baker. A delicate record that will please every lovers of Portishead, Björk and Goldfrapp, as well as Antony & The Johnsons' fans. Digipak.

• All Sally Doherty Titles

SECT - 'Imperative' CD (War Office Propaganda / Rage In Eden) - £11 / £12 / £13
Polish act Sect return with more bombastic, often militant orchestral and industrial music than on the debut album "Great Desired Utopia". With "Imperative" we get mature, powerful orchestral piece of music in the vein of Arditi, Karjalan Sissit, Sophia or Predella Avant. Majestic, threatening, dark, sometimes aggressive and fierce symphonic sounds arranged in a dark concept album with a balance of bombastic and melancholic fragments should satisfy both martial industrial fanatics and neoclassical orchestra enthusiasts. 6-panel digipak.

• All Sect Titles

SHIT AND SHINE - '229-2299 Girls Against Shit!' 2 x LP (Riot Season) - £16 / £19 / £22
Shit And Shine return with their fourth Riot Season album. The epic, drawn-out single-riff jams that make up S+S's legendary live shows are replaced by their trademark off-the-wall lunacy, making for a fun-packed adventure akin to biking trips with friends, and the local mental as a child.  '229 2299 Girls Against Shit' could be the soundtrack to that summer, the beating of rats with sticks, the shooting of girls with gat guns, swimming in a mang ridden cut and the discovering of dead dogs and maggots. Ah, those were the days my friend. Ltd x 500 copies in a gatefold sleeve.

• All Shit And Shine Titles • All LP/12" Vinyl

SHIT AND SHINE - '229-2299 Girls Against Shit!' CD (Riot Season) - £12 / £13 / £14
Shit And Shine return with their fourth Riot Season album. The epic, drawn-out single-riff jams that make up S+S's legendary live shows are replaced by their trademark off-the-wall lunacy, making for a fun-packed adventure akin to biking trips with friends, and the local mental as a child.  '229 2299 Girls Against Shit' could be the soundtrack to that summer, the beating of rats with sticks, the shooting of girls with gat guns, swimming in a mang ridden cut and the discovering of dead dogs and maggots. Ah, those were the days my friend. Ltd x 1000 copies in a beautiful fluorescent pink adorned card gatefold sleeve.

• All Shit And Shine Titles

SHIT AND SHINE - 'Cherry' CD / DVD (Riot Season) - £12 / £13 / £14
Shit And Shine return with their third Riot Season album 'Cherry'. Fusing their trademark long drum / bass led epics, freenoise freakouts and their short off the wall blasts, 'Cherry' takes on all sides of the Shit And Shine sound. Equal parts Strangulated Beatoffs, Butthole Surfers, Merzbow, Melvins and Boredoms, Shit And Shine fuse sonic blasts and monster riffs into a wretched brew. This CD version comes with a bonus live DVD recorded at Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, London, November 2007.

• All Shit And Shine Titles

SIL MUIR - 'Sil Muir' CD (Diophantine Discs) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
Italy's Sil Muir present their debut full-length solo work. It is a beautiful, yet melancholic, hour-long recording carrying us along that sleepless journey from dusk 'til dawn. Powerful and gentle drones shudder and shimmer through these four dense and amazing tracks. Sil Muir is the collaboration between Andrea Marutti (Amon, Never Known, Afe Records) and Andrea "Ics" Ferraris (Ur, Airchamber3, Ulna). Ltd x 500 copies in a special printed wallet.

TELEPHERIQUE - 'Zivilisatose' CD (Diophantine Discs) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
"Zivilisatose" represents the culmination of Telepherique's 20-year career. Having explored all throughout the realms of industrial, ambient, rhythmic noise, and field recordings, Telepherique has created a distinct sound which manifests itself in new and unique ways on each release. With "Zivilisatose" we are mesmerized by flowing and mysterious ambience, and challenged by unusual rhythms and noises. This, a very personal CD to Telepherique, is also their final full-length recording.Features artwork by Portland artist TJ Norris. Ltd x 500 copies in a special printed wallet with 4-panel insert.

• All Telepherique Titles

THE ONE ENSEMBLE ORCHESTRA - 'Other Thunders' CD (NO-FI) - £11 / £12 / £13
Daniel Padden’s The One Ensemble began as a solo project and quickly morphed into a quartet with the recruitment of Chris Hladowski, Aby Vulliamy and Peter Nicholson. With Padden’s leadership, they developed a curious and strident brew of Eastern European folk, chamber music, a pinch of Robert Wyatt and some kind of earthy psychedelic primitivism. "...the range on display here is much wider than the typical gypsy / folk-aligned forms on prior one ensemble output ; the beefed-up instrumentation lends an almost Dmitri Tiomkin-ian flair with the massed choir & strings resonating strongly with each other as the band runs through takes ranging from minimal, gestural improv(s) to full-band drones and lurching, sea-shanty lineage ditties... awesome" (Mimaroglu).

VARGHKOGHARGASMAL - 'Drowned In Lakes' CD (Tumult) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
This one-man German act creates a difficult sound to describe... The vocals are minimal, a hushed whisper here and there, a Viking style chant during one song, but it's mostly left to the music, which is incredibly evocative, it's like some sort of acoustic black metal, mixed with slowed down surf rock, dark languorous krautrock, and a distinct Morricone vibe too. Most of the songs creep and crawl, sometimes behind a curtain of rainfall, the sound of the forest spirits, flickering firelight, fireflies lighting up the canopy overhead. Pianos pick out mournful melodies, the drums, lurching along, a perfectly imperfect accompaniment, organs wheeze, synths whir, steel strings twang, the whole thing so impossibly transcendent, effortlessly evoking ancient atmospheres and deep emotions. Hauntingly beautiful.

VELEHENTOR - 'Dyatlov Pass' 3 x CD (Infinite Fog Productions) - £26 / £28 / £30
Originally released in 2003 by Fight Muzik. This reissued album is available for the first time in the full 3CD version. A true monument and a masterpiece of ritual-shamanic drone ambient music. The album is devoted to the mysterious death of nine professional hikers on the Holat-Sjahl slope (Mansi for "Mountain of dead") on 1st February 1959. Investigations into the deaths suggest that the hikers tore open their tent from within, departing barefoot in heavy snow; while the corpses show no signs of struggle, two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs, and one was missing her tongue. According to sources, the victims' clothing contained high levels of radiation, but no one from group worked with radioactive objects. Soviet investigators determined only that "a compelling unknown force" had caused the deaths. Velehentor will take you on a sonic journey through the infinite, dangerous and remote Snow-covered Northern Ural Mountains. The 2nd disc is a collaboration with Ad Lux Tenebrae. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Ltd x 493 copies in 6-panel digipak.

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VENNT - 'Vennt' MCD (Housepig / Hear More! / Divorce) - £8 / £9 / £10
A three-way summit on bleak doom and buzzing misery. Sandy Saunders (Torso), Darcy Spidle (Divorce Records) and Jordan Hines mix drums, bass, electronics and vocals into a thick morass. Vennt stakes out territory at the intersection of black metal, drone, doom and power electronics, then fortifies the barricades. US edition. Ltd x 400 hand-numbered copies with a copper cover and insert in a heavy PVC archive sleeve.

WINTERBLOOD - 'Incantazione' CD (Witchcraft Records) - £11 / £12 / £13
2 tracks (40 mins) of pure dark-black-ambient. "A dark journey through crystalline streams and misty mountains utilising its dark ambient confines to noble and magisterial effect. The mood created is often one of immense loss and tragedy; time stands still while silent mourners stand, heads bowed in dark flowing cloaks, hands clasped in a futile bid to deny the cold. The synths never sound overworked, employed with the idea of giving each composition a life of arboreal quality – slow, noble, and wise. Obvious comparisons could be drawn with Vinterriket but Winterblood have their own quality and I feel hugely optimistic about their future" (Asgard Root). Ltd x 500 copies. Mexican import.

XIPHOID DEMENTIA - 'Might Is Blight' CD (Existence Establishment)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
"Might is Blight" is a massive conceptual work that deals with a range of subjects from the socio-political to the personal and philosophical, focusing on my attempt to deal with this fucked up world. The album features 6 new obsessively composed tracks spanning over 70 minutes in length and explores the depths of Death Industrial, Neoclassical, Ambient, Musique Concrete, and Power Electronics. Ltd x 600 stamp-numbered copies in a 6-panel digisleeve.

VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Eleven Notes In Black' CD (Mask Of The Slave Records)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
The first noise compilation focusing exclusively to the legendary Houston noise scene! All tracks compiled by Richard Ramirez, all tracks were done exclusively for this release. Baptist Skin Communiti, Concrete Violin, In The Land Of Archers, Forced Orgasm, Last Rape, Loudspeaker, Melanie Riehle, S.P.I.T., T.E.F., Werewolf Jerusalem and White Nurse Black Death. Romanian import. Ltd x 500 copies.

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ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE COSMIC INFERNO - 'Pink Lady Lemonade -
You're From Outer Space' CD (Riot Season) - £11 / £12 / £13

The first AMT studio recordings since the addition of Pikachu, drummer and vocalist with Osaka grenade-girl duo Afrirampo. The popular AMT standard "Pink Lady Lemonade" showcases a 21st century acid rock update on the 60s San Francisco psychedelic sound. The Cosmic Inferno crew give PLL a new lease of life and reinvent it as a trippy / chilled out monster. As it rolls on, they sing - adding new riffs and taking it to the stars and back. It's like hearing it for the first time all over again. This really could be AMT's first 'summer album'. Unlike previous Cosmic Inferno albums - this one doesn't reach in the red status often - its more out there, like they've gone back to their mountain retreat and taken too much mushroom tea perhaps. But when it does finally soar, Kawabata's guitar has never sounded so alive. "Pink Lady Lemonade, You're from space, You're sooooo sweeeeeeeeet!"

ACROSS THE RUBICON - 'Elegy' CD (War Office Propaganda / Rage In Eden)
- £11 / £12 / £13

Although the name of ATR is new on the military scene, the men behind the project are already recognised. Across The Rubicon is a joint martial industrial act of Marcin Bachtiak (Cold Fusion), Robert Marciniak (Rukkanor) and Radoslaw Kaminski (Ab Intra). ATR has been established as a medium to express their fascination with martial sounds. The debut album "Elegy" contains ten orchestral, bombastic tracks with strong marching rhythms, powerful arrangements and spoken samples - everything so characteristic of the genre. CD in digipak.

ALUK TODOLO - 'Descension' LP (Riot Season) - £13 / £15 / £17

First full-length from Aluk Todolo, showing the band developing the esoteric theorems established on it's debut 7" and going far deeper in the methodical exploration of the occult powers of musical trance. With the goal to create a timeless, organic mixing of krautrock's strangeness and black metal's coldness, AT conjures rabid obsessive rhythms and abyssal disharmonic guitars, subliminal spiritualist vibrations and bizarre, magick summonings. “Intense and hypnotic, heavy and fucking genius. Ritualistic sounds, both black and brilliant, pulled from the void, a mysterious and sonic netherworld. Definite contender for record of the year" (Aquarius). Ltd x 500 copies in a black & metallic silver ink sleeve.

ANDREW KING - 'The Amfortas Wound' CD (Athanor) - £12 / £13 / £14

Second album from this legend of the English Folk scene. An album of traditional songs, accompanied by drones, loops, harmonium and flute organ arrangements. For these arrangements Andrew King was joined by fellow travellers and KnifeLadder members Hunter Barr, Andrew Trail and Jonh Murphy (Death In June, SPK). Digipak.

COFFINS / OTESANEK - 'Coffins / Otesanek' CD (Parasitic Records)
- £11 / £12 / £13

Reissue of the LP split by this pair, releases in early 2007. This is a massive, crushing Doom Metal clash between Japanese act Coffins and formidable Philadephians Otesanek (whose track was recorded by Steve Roach). Ultra-sludge, heavy-duty, guitar mangling suffocation, tipped as one of the best in the genre for 2007. Akin to Burning Witch or Grief.

CRISIS - 'Ends!' CD (Neroz) - £12 / £13 / £14

The final live show of Crisis - the punk act formed by Douglas P. and Tony Wakeford, who would later go on to form Death In June and Sol Invictus respectively. Recorded on May 10, 1980 at the Students Union of the Surrey University, Guildford. Crisis supported Bauhaus and Magazine. Included is "S.P.G." (one of the few unreleased Crisis songs), and "All Alone In Her Nirvana" (later recorded as a Death In June song). Digitally remastered from the original bootleg recording released shortly after the performance.

CYCLOTIMIA - 'Algorithms' CD (War Office Propaganda / Rage In Eden)
- £11 / £12 / £13

Reissue of Cyclotimia's 2005 album (Irond). Moscow duo Cyclotimia is one of the best recognised, well-known Russian projects in the electronic scene today. On "Algorithms" album Cyclotimia presents apocalyptic version of electronic music, dark ambient sounds supported by bouncing electronic rhythms, religious samples and different effects, all blended in that way which makes this album very intriguing. Cyclotimia's trademark sound proceeds from using a mix of the modern synthesis technologies and cult vintage analogue / Soviet machines. For all who listen into Ulver, Holon or Forma Tadre. Digipak.

DEATH IN JUNE - 'Lesson Number 1: Misanthropy' CD & DVD & Patch (NER)
- £20 / £21.50 / £23

This compilation of Death In June material from 1981-84 was previously only available on LP (1986) and is now reissued for the first time on CD. Its purpose is to tidy history and features tracks from the very beginning to the very end of the original line-up's recordings. Comes in a debossed 'repak' of completely recycled paper and includes the very rare version of 'Black Radio' known as 'Some Of Our Best Friends Live In South America', plus a recently discovered unissued longer version of 'Sons Of Europe' taken from the 'Burial' album sessions. The first 2000 copies include an exclusive embroidered patch and a DVD of the 'Reunion' performance of the 3 original Death In June members (Patrick Leagas, Tony Wakeford and Douglas P.) which took place as an encore to the Death In June performance at The Underworld in London on 6.XI.98. This was the first time the original trio had played together in 14 years and the historical moment was beautifully captured on video that night by Boyd Rice.

FILIVS MACROCOSMI - 'Stalker' CD (OMS Records) - £10 / £11 / £12

Inspired by and a tribute to A. Tarkovsky's movie "Stalker" (1979). Stalker is an elaborate puzzle. Its pieces are always scattered, and the listener is relied upon to bring the final element of the puzzle along with him. Stalker invites you to get carried away into your own thoughts, flowing with the images as it provides new questions to ponder. In that sense, the album is very much like a philosophical poem: a very simple surface covering innumerable layers of meaning. One long ride in a cart, with clunking metal and water-whooshing sounds. Altogether fascinating and hypnotic. "Welcome to your Self, an alien place guarded by barbed wire". Ltd x 500 copies in foldout sleeve. Ukrainian import.

IN GOWAN RING - 'Hazel Steps Through A Weathered Home' CD (Shayo)
- £11 / £12 / £13

"In a time when the world is moving much too fast, B'Eirth not only takes the time to stop and smell the roses, he's kneeling down to plant the seeds, and squatting Buddha-like to watch those roses grow" (Jeff Penczak). Out of time even at its time of release (2002, Bluesanct), this is one of the all time classic esoteric folk albums. Guest appearances by Michael Moynihan and Annabel Lee (Blood Axis). File next to Nick Drake, Current 93 etc. Digipak.

IN GOWAN RING - 'The Twin Trees' CD (Shayo) - £11 / £12 / £13

From medieval to renaissance, from Nick Drake to a later, quieter Current 93, this is In Gowan Ring's second album, originally released in 1997 (World Serpent), now entirely re-worked with a much better design and brilliantly remastered by Denis Blackham. Additionally, the beautiful song "Still Water Bone" (which also appeared in 1997 on the 'Terra Serpentes' compilation) has been included as a bonus track! Digipak.

NORDVARGR / DRAKH - 'The Betrayal Of Light' CD (Tumult) - £11 / £12 / £13

Nordvargr once again joins forces with fellow MZ.412 cohort Drakh, for another essential output, delicately balanced between dark ambience and grim blackness. 'The Betrayal Of Light' is one massive sonic event, a black cloud of sound. Slow beautiful crawls, murky soundfields and a delicate web of softly plucked guitar strings are swallowed by massive mournful dirges and majestic, funereal doom. An intense and overwhelming sonic journey, as heavy and brutal as it is delicate and beautiful. Doomy and blackened, drifty and droney, soft hazy, dense and devastating. 6-panel digipak.

SHIFT - 'Have No Fury' 7" (Heidenlärm Sounds) - £6 / £7.50 / £8

First release from Swedish Noise artist Shift. The title track initiates proceedings with dark ambient soundscapes and strong industrial rhythms, developing into heavy electronics. Flipping over, 'Jag Var I Kulverten' opens into a vast industrial soundscape, carried by a subtle repetitive melody. Heavily distorted low and mid frequency textures dominate the early moments, giving way to confrontational high-pitched abrasions. Heavyweight, clear vinyl presented in a nice outsize sleeve with artwork by Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))), Khanate etc). Ltd x 500.

SHIFT / INSTITUT - 'Enders / Beginners' 7" (Animus Productions) - £5 / £6 / £7

Split from 2 Swedish noisers. Shift treats the listener to a dense and tormented composition. Violent vocals and high frequencies, with lots of noise and feedback. Institut (known from their releases on Cold Meat Industry) almost sounds peaceful in comparison. ‘Beginners’ starts as an Industrial soundscape, with low rumblings and vague Russian speech samples; but in true Institut style, the track gets more aggressive, veering into Power Electronics. Ltd x 500 hand-numbered copies.

SIR RICHARD BISHOP - 'Plays Sun City Girls' 7" (NO-FI) - £5 / £6 / £7

First release in NO-FI's Archive Series, recorded live at Morden Tower, July 2005, and featuring SCG classics from Torch Of The Mystics: 'Space Prophet Dogon', 'Esoterica Of Abyssynnia" and a touch of 'The Vinegar Strokes'. "...more radical rethinks than acoustic tributes. As one third of Sun City Girls, its Bishop’s obvious right to explore his own material, but these beautifully energetic takes seem utterly revitalised by anyone’s standards." (Brainwashed). Limited edition of 500 copies.

SOL INVICTUS - 'Lex Talionis' CD (Infinite Fog Productions) - £11 / £12 / £13

Russian edition of the stunning album from the legendary UK dark folk act Sol Invictus. This album - originally issued on Tursa in 1993 - introduced the world to the true force of the band. Tony Wakeford was aided by such legendary musicians as Ian Read (Fire + Ice), Karl Blake (Lemon Kittens, Shock Headed Peters), Leithana (Ordo Equitum Solis), Ingrid Fischer, and Richard "Dik" Evans (ex-Virgin Prunes). Contains an exclusive bonus track of 'Black Easter (Live)'. Presented in a digipak with 8-page booklet containing the song lyrics (not published in the first edition). Ltd x 1001 copies. Highly recommended!

TOR LUNDVALL - 'Sleeping And Hiding' LP (Dais Records) - £18 / £20 / £22

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.

WEAKLING - 'Dead As Dreams' CD (Tumult) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50

The one and only album from this cult San Francisco band. Grim, hypnotic, repetitive, Norwegian-styled buzzing Black Metal. "The shocking depth of emotion, sheer musical ability and keenness of ear for all things destructive displayed on this masterpiece should be the goal for all Black Metal bands wishing to transcend mediocrity" (Chronicles Of Chaos). Features members of The Fucking Champs, The Gault and Asunder. Weakling draws upon inspiration from 90's BM in the Norwegian tradition (Darkthrone, Burzum, Mayhem and Immortal).

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