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From her early days as a legendary Batcave DJ, through her
work wth Marc Almond, Anni Hogan is one of the true geniuses
of the alternative scene. A composer, songwriter, arranger,
producer, promoter and DJ, she helped to shape the sound of
the 80s. Cold Spring is proud to present her debut release
expanded and brought to the public for the first time on CD.
"Kickabye" features some of the leading lights of
the alternative scene: NICK CAVE, MARC ALMOND, FOETUS, BUDGIE
(Siouxsie And The Banshees) and GINI BALL amongst others as
well as production by Jim "Foetus" Thirwell, plus
10 extra tracks from the same period. The second CD is also
tracks from the same period, featuring YELLO and with production
by BARRY ADAMSON. Digitally remastered with 4 new and exclusive
song versions.
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The TenHornedBeast rises again. Five new compositions from
black ambient / doom overlord Christopher Walton - three remixes
/ expansions / contractions of songs from the debut album
"The Sacred Truth" and two totally new pieces that
are in a similar style to this dark masterpiece. Walton has
stripped some of the songs to their bare bones and allowed
them space to breathe again. This album is all-new but continues
the atmosphere of the debut and can be considered a companion
piece. Presented in a matt-laminate, spot-varnished digipak.
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Reissue of the stunning debut BHN album from spring 2008 (Ltd
x 200). Working with a constantly evolving autumnal orchestra
of layered cellos, repeating piano melodies, hushed vocals
and mutant textures of sound and noise, Bleeding Heart Narrative
has constructed a unique, haunting and compelling album. BHN
is the work of sole composer, artist and producer Oliver Barrett,
working in the live spectrum as a septet. Presented in a digipak
with the new and exclusive bonus track 'Blueskywards'. We
can't recommend this highly enough!
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Sistrenatus storms forth, shifting between oppressive aggression
and unsettling atmospheres. "Sensitive Disturbance"
is the third offering from this now legendary Canadian act,
whose debut "Division One" was issued on Cold Spring
in 2007. An aural journey through the urban decay of abandoned
factories, scorched landscapes and underground passageways.
"Sensitive Disturbance" is an abrasive rendition
of the industrial revolution in its darkest phases.
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BLACK
ELK - 'Always A Six, Never A Nine' CD (Crucial
Blast) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50 |
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The
2nd album from Portland, OR aggro wreckers Black Elk,
whose psychotic brand of crushing, noise-rock influenced
heaviosity is a return to the unhinged underground
rock force of bands like Jesus Lizard, Melvins, Black
Flag and Hammerhead. This album features ten songs
of seething weirdness, with the dissonant, crushing
riffage, lunging rhythmic push and awesome freaked
out, Yow-esque vocals of singer Tom Glose that made
their debut a fave among anyone who remembered the
days when Amphetamine Reptile ruled the underground
rock scene, but with some interesting new elements
(bleak, blackened guitar ambience, a smattering of
piano, skyreaching guitar harmonies) that add new
shadows to Black Elk's ferocious sound. Hardback gatefold
digifile.
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BURZUM
- 'Stemmen Fra Tärnet' Enhanced CD (Northern
Twilight Records) - £11 / £12 / £13 |
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Old
remastered material (demos, rare tracks, compilation
tracks) from cult Norwegian black metal / black ambient
act Burzum. Track listing: 'Lost Wisdom' (Demo), 'Spell
Of Destruction' (rehearsal), 'Channeling The Power Of
Souls Into A New God', 'Ett Hvitt Lys Over Skogen',
'Once Emperor', 'Seven Harmonics Of Unknown Truth',
'Ea, Lord Of The Depths', 'Rite Of Cleansure', 'Dunkelheit'
(video), 'Norwejan TV Documentary' parts 1 & 2 (video).
Digipak. |
DISKREPANT
- 'WX Machina Libertas' CD (Fractured
Spaces) - £11 / £12 / £13 |
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This
is the fourth release for Swedish artist Diskrepant
(Per Åhlund) and this time we’re entering
a dystopian vision of the future of mankind with a nightmare
amalgamation of flesh and machine. Using subtle environmental
field recordings, Diskrepant dives into a Hadean vision
of a world where people are half-human / half-robot
- a world where nature is slowly being squeezed by metal
and glass. |
EVOKEN
- 'Embrace The Emptiness' CD (Solitude
Productions) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50 |
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Reissue
of the cult 1998 album from this US Funeral Doom / Death
Metal act, originally released on Elegy Records USA
in a limited edition and now presented with all new
artwork. This was the second outing from the band and
is a much sought after item for doom-metal fans all
over the world. "Evoken seems to be one of the
slowest and darkest doom bands around. Combining a heavy,
unrelenting doom basis with spooky atmospheric parts
and excellent keyboards, Evoken builds up endless landscapes
of horror and darkness" (Doom-Metal.com). Upon
his will you will sleep to an endless dusk. Russian
import. |
FELLAHEAN
- 'Insignificant Scrap' CD (Fellacoustic
Records) - £10 / £11 / £12 |
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"...thirteen
pieces of full-on electronics noise fuckery emanating
from the same camp that exploded into the likes of Daniel
Menche, The Incapacitants and infinite others whose
smacks around the cranium have been long endorsed by
RRR, for example. There are some interesting twists,
turns and textures hewn from what’s an otherwise
immensely abrasive block of sound, lending the proceedings
that all-important disorientating or vaguely ‘delic
quality... Fellahean appear to be furnishing us with
some appropriate enough reflections on the present age,
and it’d be unfair they stop there, that’s
for sure" (Adverse Effect). |
GEISHA
- 'Die Verbrechen Der Liebe' CD (Crucial
Blast) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50 |
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This
hour-long, six track monolith follows Geisha into
a psychedelic black storm, covered in a thick sheen
of white noise and gritty distortion. Seminal noise
rock / sludge combined with violent, chaotic noise,
drone-noise and corrosive skree, percussive pummel,
and deranged singing. Includes
the monstrous 30:35 "Theme From Diana" -
a re-working of a "metal percussion" set
that Geisha originally performed live. A slowly building
fog of voices and effects and shimmering metal that
blooms into an expanse of droning, fx-heavy guitar,
looping samples, cosmic effects, and improv percussion.
It's a kind of rumbling industrial dronescape that
stretches out forever, until it suddenly explodes
into speaker-annhilating noise-metal dirge. Ltd x
1000 copies in a gatefold jacket.
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GENGHIS
TRON - 'Dead Mountain Mouth' CD (Crucial
Blast) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50 |
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Recorded
at Godcity Studios with Kurt Ballou (Converge), "Dead
Mountain Mouth" moves beyond the rapid-fire electro
/ grind genre-splicing of their debut EP "Cloak
Of Love", and forms something more fluid and cohesive,
an arcane union of digital dreams and brutal heaviness,
where speedcore eruptions blossom from clouds of maximum
beat-driven electronic bliss, and futuristic metal riffage
seethes from your speakers. These ten gloriously-dense
and triumphantly catchy jams soar through valleys of
immense crush and alien vistas of 8-bit wizardry unlike
anything you've heard before... |
GNAW
THEIR TONGUES - 'For All Slaves... A Song
Of False Hope' CD (Burning
World Records)
- £11 / £12 / £13 |
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A
theme of insanity buttressed by orchestral bombast
is the signature sound of "For All The Slaves..."
and takes GTT in a direction that mixes in more pleasing
sounds with his usual miasma of horror and suffering.
Sound
comparisons might be made with Esoteric, Stalaggh
and Abruptum but the music of Gnaw Their Tongues is
a chaotic tapestry riven with sickness and evil that
is unique in the world of extreme metal. Spoken word
samples and literal screams of despair comingle with
doom and post-industrial soundscapes while sweeping
orchestral gestures are subsumed by layers of manic
black metal psychedelia. Prepare to enter darkness
of the mind. Digifile with fittingly indecent artwork.
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ISIS
- 'Celestial' 2 x LP (Conspiracy
Records) - £18 / £21 / £24 |
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First
european vinyl pressing of this album, originally released
on CD in 2000 (Hydra Head). Overwhelming in heaviness
and awesome in expanse, "Celestial" escalates
ISIS' thunderous assault and explores infinite shades
of mood and sound. Seven epic songs launched with mechanistic
precision and carefully measured flourishes that collapse
into avalanche-heavy passages of devastating power.
Pressed onto red / black marbled vinyl and presented
in a stunning gatefold sleeve. Ltd x 300 copies only
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LP / 12" Vinyl |
KADAVER
- 'Molested Into Form' CD (Fractured
Spaces) - £11 / £12 / £13 |
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“Molested
into Form” is the soundtrack to accompany our
species’ inevitable (and, some would say, welcome)
demise. Searing, grating electronics, mind-melting granularity,
ferocious jet-engine sonic blasts and flesh-rending
nastiness all combine to bring us a worthy paean to
an already lost cause. .. welcome to the nightmare world
of our future. Also included is a tribute to Jörg
Buttgereit’s classic underground film “Nekromantik”.
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KISS
THE ANUS OF A BLACK CAT - 'The Nebulous
Dreams' CD (Conspiracy
Records)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50 |
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Kiss
The Anus Of A Black Cat has always been utterly fascinated
with primitive savagery and heathen tactics. On this
third full length endeavor, they explore and recast
their horror-filled doom theme in the light of current
debates on modernity and globalization. Minimalist instrumentation
and hypnotic ultra dramatic vocals are wrapped in equal
parts doom ridden heresy, the percussion is stripped
down off hazy emotions and stretched into a pure vessel
of magical strength, where a muted buzz deliberately
enforces mental overload. A divine doom folk/rock cloud
that shares apocalyptic interests with such visionaries
as Current 93, Woven Hand, Richard Youngs, Comus and
other uplifting pagan psych-folk. Digifie.
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MERZBOW
- 'Camouflage' CD (Essence
Music) - £13 / £14 / £15 |
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We
salute the ferocious torrents of abused, imploding and
exploding electronics, the sharp, pulverizing and abrasive
high frequencies and the unrelenting punishment of frenzied
throbbing machine-screams witnessed in the controlled
cacophonic environment of the latest Merzbow offering!
"Camouflage" plays by the straight MERZBOW
rules, going back to his comfort zone of audio barbarism.
Ltd x 800 copies in a deluxe gatefold hardback sleeve.
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MERZBOW
- 'Tombo' CD (Fellacoustic
Records) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50 |
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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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MONNO
- 'Ghosts' CD (Conspiracy
Records) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50 |
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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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MÖSE
- 'Halfway To Nowhere' CD (Solitude
Productions) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50 |
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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.
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NOISM
- '±' CD (Crucial
Blast) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50 |
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Formed
by guitarist Yoshiro Hamazaki and programmer Tomoyuki
Akiyama in 1999 in Tokyo, Noism focuses on ridiculously
complex and spastic death / grind instrumentals using
programmed drums that are cut up and spliced back together
into impossible rhythms, a million brain-melting riffs
and dissonant shredding, all of which is chopped up
and processed into abstract death blasts that defy physics.
This twelve-song, twenty-one minute disc features a
unique, glitched-out chop shop of Planet Mu-style beats
delivered at truly meth'd levels of chaos fused with
sweeping technical death metal. Insane. Highly recommended
for fans of extreme, way-out avant-guitar spazz and
absurdly technical deathgrind. Digifile. |
OVRO
- 'Horizontal / Vertical' 7" (Drone
Records) - £6 / £7 / £8 |
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On
"Horizonal / Vertical" "the wondergirl
of Finnish experimental music" presents deep waving
droning noises, set against vortexing echoes and swirling
digital effects, derived from what could be instrumental
sources or object recordings, moving the willing listener
into a surrealistic subconscious dimension. On the second
side the contrasting conrete material fills your imagination
with "something" that "happens",
so captivating and condensed! This music spreads like
an unconscious aural travelogue in different spatial
directions (horizontal and vertical). Cinematographic
and narrative drone atmospheres, with great care for
even tiniest details. First edition of 300 copies on
white vinyl with handpainted sleeve pasted up with pieces
of newspaper and filmstrips. Includes an insert.
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7" Vinyl |
STRIBORG
- 'Black Desolate Winter / Depressive Hibernation' 2
x LP (Aphelion
Productions)
- £18 / £21 / £24 |
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Reissue
of two old albums from Tasmanian necro BM legend Sin
Nanna, brought together on vinyl for the first time.
"Black Desolate Winter" was recorded during
May 2005 and "Depressive Hibernation" was
recorded during February 2005. This album is full of
the undulating trademark buzzing guitars that Striborm
employs, but the structure of the songs feel something
like Burzum. 1 hour & 20 minutes of suffocating,
depressive grimness. Packaged in a gatefold sleeve with
one white vinyl, one black vinyl and an A2 poster. Ltd
x 600 copies.
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LP / 12" Vinyl |
THE
INFANT CYCLE - 'Secret Hidden Message'
7" (Drone
Records) - £6 / £7 / £8 |
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The
Infant Cycle is an experimental project from Ontario
(Canada), active since 1992. The three pieces on this
EP were created using sounds from various instruments
(Trombone, guitar, windchimes, marimba, birdcage). The
result sounds rather electronic and hypnotic, with bright
shining drones and repetitive rhythmic patterns, loops
moving into more amorphous and multilayered electro-acoustics.
In spite of the rather experimental working-methods
the outcome is very compact and condensed. The Infant
Cycle's approach to sound is based on the belief that
words and explanations can only fail to describe or
explain it, what is needed is a non-verbal, intuitive
understanding of the work." First edition of 300
copies on clear grey vinyl with printed transparent
cover and an insert.
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TROUM
- 'Nargis' 7" (Viva
Hate Records) - £6 / £7 / £8 |
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A
continuation of Maeror Tri, this is dark, moody, contemplative
ambient / drone material. "The first half of this
single still sounds like Troum, but is unlike anything
we've heard from them, strange looped high end guitar,
what sounds like backwards chords, almost choral vocals,
dramatic and haunting and cinematic... over a distant
grinding low end tone drifting way off in the background,
washed over by epic sweeping swells.. The other side
is a bit more raw and intense, a seriously corrosive
guitarscape, distorted and crumbling chordal buzz, looped
and layered into a strange glacial riff... it manages
to be intense and fierce but also gloriously washed
out and blissful." (Aquarius). Part 1 of the Landscape
series. Ltd x 400 copies on black vinyl with full colour
insert.
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WHITE
DARKNESS - 'Nothing' 2 x LP (Roadburn
Records) - £18 / £21 / £24 |
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The
debut album from dutch doom/drone act White Darkness
- the sonic creation of Dutch artist Jason Köhnen.
A one-man symphony creating his personal interpretations
of nihilistic thoughts, melding modern classical composition
with traditional funeral doom and dark ambient soundscapes.
White Darkness throws open the doors to vast universes
of musical possibility, creating darkly tense portraits
of things best left undisturbed. Ltd x 100 copies on
yellow vinyl in a magnificent gatefold sleeve - ACT
FAST!
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MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O.
- '41st Century Splendid
Man Returns' CD (Essence
Music) - £13.50 / £14.50 / £15.50
Finally made available on CD (original released as
a picture disc on Tumult), this is one of the most
captivatingly beautiful recordings from The Melting
Paraiso U.F.O. line-up! Motorik krautrock rhythms
work side by side with interstellar signals, ghostly
female voices and analogue synths. Bursts of damaged
psych brilliance and free guitars open and seal the
album, healing the aural wounds for / from the mammoth
droney, mysterious and transcendental ambient experience
of the title track, built with the aid of a non traditional
array of instruments, like sarangi, sitar, zurna and
Tibetan trumpet. Definitely not of this world. Guest
stars Tatsuya Yoshida (Ruins). This extended CD edition
features two extra tracks and new artwork and comes
in a deluxe, gatefold hardback packaging! Ltd x 1000. |
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ASIANOVA
- 'Magnamnemonicon' 10" (Substantia
Innominata / Drone Records)
- £10 / £12 / £14
First vinyl for Asianova - Ure Thrall of Voice Of
Eye and Pamela Passmore, with several guests - and
the second in the "Substantia Innominata"
series from Drone Records (the first being Daniel
Menche's "Radiant Blood"). Over 30 minutes
of music inspired by "the unknown, the unnameable,
the unspeakable, the unthinkable". Musically
this release sits between experimental drone and ethno-ambient.
Haunting sound effects and eerie female vocals are
carefully layered over a combination of drones, soundscapes
and ambience. File next to Hybryds. First edition
of 500 copies with full colour cover and pressed on
pink / white marbled vinyl. |
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CISFINITUM
- 'Devotio' 10" (Substantia
Innominata / Drone Records) - £10 / £12
/ £14
The fourth volume in the "Substantia Innominata"
series comes from one of the best projects of the
Russian experimental-atmospheric / drone / post-industrial-scene,
headed by Evgueny Voronovsky from Moscow. Cisfinitum
itself means the "logic of the infinite non-existence"
- that "something" that is beyond all rational
things. "Devotio" uses monumental bell-sounds
and hypnotic drone-waves over various layers, dissolving
into pure vibrations. A journey into the heart of
the sacral, pointing at a sphere of transcendence
where all questions end. Or begin again. First edition,
ltd x 500 copies on white vinyl. |
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DAHLIA'S
TEAR - 'Harmonious Euphonies Supernatural
Traumas Mesmerising Our
Existences In Radient Corpuscle Galaxies' CD (Ravenheart)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
Dahlia's Tear is the side-project of Anil Emre Dedeoglu
(of funeral doom band Dimness Through Infinity). According
to classical slow and mellow partitons, Dahlia's Tear
is in a different genre, with the music style synth-based
darkwave / ethereal, strengthened by female vocals
and various depressive, melancholic and hypnotic themes
added other sensual elements. 10 ethereal tracks over
50 minutes offers a magical sound experience characterised
by impressive compositions, enigmatic dark wave melodies
embedded in choirs and unique atmosphere. Ltd x 500.
Czech import. |
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ESOTERIC
- 'The Pernicious Enigma' 2 x CD (Aesthetic
Death Records) - £15 / £16 / £17
"3 years have passed since 'Epistemological Despondency'
and Esoteric return with a more mature, but still
very dark and psychedelic release. The very depressive,
melancholic intro of the first track, suggests that
those guys are actually familiar with the concept
"melody", although they don't apply it too
often. Doom fans that are only familiar with the works
of bands like My Dying Bride and Anathema, may think
after those first five minutes that Esoteric have
a sound similar to those bands... But after those
five minutes they'll probably get scared the hell
out of them. The familiar Esoteric chaos returns,
with a plethora of vocal, bass and guitar effects,
extremely tortured, intelligible death grunts and
hysterical screams and an overall atmosphere that
reminds all too much of a bad trip." (Doom-Metal.com) |
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GNAW
THEIR TONGUES - 'An Epiphanic Vomiting
Of Blood' LP (Burning
World Records)
- £15 / £17 / £19
Rare restock of the extremely limited LP from this
ultra heavy act. Harrowing, apocalyptic, bestial ritual
music from the deepest, darkest cellars of the Netherlands.
Avant black metal, agonising funeral doom and blackened
experimental drone noise stab forth again and again
until all the blood is spilt and total carnage is
all that remains. Pure dread put to music. Recommended
for disturbed folk into Abruptum, Khanate, Axis Of
Perdition, Swans and Univers Zero. "The bleakness
and sheer refusal to allow any light to permeate proceedings
alongside the non-linear, sprawling nature of the
tracks will alienate a lot of people, but for anyone
looking for something truly extreme, you’ll
have a hard time beating this" (Kerrang). Ltd
x 250 copies on white vinyl - ACT FAST! |
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MARTYN
BATES & TROUM
- 'To A Child Dancing In The Wind' CD (Transgredient)
- £11 / £12 / £13
Profound songs inspired by the poems of Irish poet
Yeats. The acoustic transformation of the deepest
yearning. German duo Troum teamed up with the legendary
british singer / songwriter Martyn Bates of Eyeless
In Gaza. Beginning with sound structures, drones and
minimal loops by Troum, Bates sung and played over
this basic material - which was subsequently added
to and mastered by Troum. Sensitive, sublime and harmonic.
Presented in a beautiful 6-panel digipak with images
by Bates. |
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MONARCH!
- 'Dead Men Tell No Tales' 2 x CD (Crucial
Blast) - £12.50 / £13.50 / £14.50
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. |
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NADJA
- 'Desire In Uneasinesss' CD (Crucial
Blast) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
"Desire In Uneasiness" is an album of all
new material from acclaimed Canadian dreamsludge weavers
Nadja. Five colossal jams of eternally-fuzzy, ethereal
dirge that are powered by the interlocking bass guitars
of Leah Buckareff and Aidan Baker, who set loose a
wave of monstrous grinding bass riffs amidst a fog
of beautiful, swirling electronic effects. "Desire..."
also marks the first Nadja album to feature a live
drummer in place of the drum machine programming that
has driven the band's previous recordings, and the
difference in the band's sound is apparent from the
first crushing beats of album opener 'Disambiguation'.
Hardback digifile. |
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RAPOON
- 'From Shadows Sleep' CD (Essence
Music) - £14.50 / £15.50 / £16.50
'From Shadows Sleep' sees Rapoon visiting ancient
temples, moving between shadowy labyrinths of meticulous
drones, echoed tones and distant rumblings, building
a hypnotic sonic ritual that brings traces from a
distant past in form of atmospheric, spiritual mantras
of a possessive power. Packaged in an old-fashioned
letterpress embossed mini-box with a set of cards
printed on quality recycled paper stock, showcasing
11 exclusive paintings by Robin Storey. Simply stunning.
Limited edition of 800 copies. Brazilian import. |
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THE
SOIL BLEEDS BLACK - 'Lead Into Gold'
10" (Lichtbringer)
- £12 / £14 / £16
RARE! Highly regarded USA act The Soil Bleeds Black
recorded this limited edition record with new original
songs along with other traditional tunes. The Neofolk
sound of "Quintessence" meets the pure medieval
style of "Mirror of the Middle Ages" on
this release. Presented on marbled vinyl in a stunning
gatefold sleeve with gold print. Hand-numbered edition
of 484 copies! ACT FAST! |
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TROUM
- 'Ryna' CD (Transgredient)
- £11 / £12 / £13
This is the much-welcomed re-release of Troum's debut
album, first released in an edition of 500 copies
on Myotis Records in October 1998. "Troum is
the next step in the evolution of Maeror Tri, taking
the highly processed guitar ambiance of their previous
venture and channeling it through a more tumultuous,
volatile outlet... The general feel of the sounds
here is reminiscent of the earth moving, tectonic
plates in constant shuffle, the tracks building and
then either shifting or worn away via attrition. It's
as if Maeror Tri learned to fly through ingenuity,
smoke and mirrors, while Troum has taken the ingenuity,
smoke and mirrors and, somehow, grown wings."
[Side-Line]. Presented in a stunning digipak. |
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TROUM
- 'Tjukurrpa (Part One: Harmonies)' CD (Transgredient)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
First release on Troum's label Transgredient and first
part of the Tjukurrpa trilogy, aiming to show the
different sides of Troum's organic and archaic dreamscapes.
This part is dedicated to "harmonies", containing
seven yearnful and atmospheric tracks made with guitar,
bass, accordion, voices and effects. Listen to dreaming
beauty. Ltd x 2000 copies in a circular sleeve. |
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TROUM
- 'Tjukurrpa (Part Two: Drones)' CD (Transgredient)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
The second CD in the Tjukurrpa trilogy,is another
attempt to reach boundless spheres of the mind. This
part is dedicated to "drones", presenting
five highly atmospheric and droning tracks ranging
from minimal to monumental sounds, from dark ambient
to more ritualistic areas: these are drones to lose
your rational mind in.. The music on Tjukurrpa II
is made by loops based on metal-sounds, percussion
and other more obscure sources, as well as mouth-organ,
choirs, guitars, and effects. Ltd x 2000 copies in
a circular sleeve. |
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TROUM
- 'Tjukurrpa (Part Three: Rhythms And Pulsations)'
CD (Transgredient)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
With "Tjukurrpa III", Troum shows a not
so well known side, using the trance power of repetitive
textures. In every of the 7 lengthy tracks, rhythms
in various moods build the basis: from smooth ambience
pulsations over ritualistic surroundings up to ecstatic
pounding harshness, from underneath and soft pulsative
patterns up to evolving harsh and overwhelming rhythmic
loops. The music on Tjukurrpa III is made by raw &
processed loops and hand-played percussion, along
with electric guitar and bass, balalaika, mouth organ,
male and female vocals, flute, and accordion. No samplers,
synths or computers used. Ltd x 2000 copies in a circular
sleeve. |
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VINTERRIKET
- 'Kaelte, Schnee Und Eis - Rekapitulation Der Winterszeit'
CD Digibook
(Bad
Mood Man Music) - £13 / £14 / £15
Another disc from Germany's prolific act Vinterriket.
On the Dark Ambient side of Vinterriket's personality,
the sounds are cold, monolithic, dark and desolate.
"Kälte..." features acoustic reinterpretations
of earlier songs from the period 2002-2004 ("Winterschatten"
CD, "Aura" 7", "Im Ambivalenten
Zwielicht Der Dunkelheit" 7", "Kälte"
7"), alongside bonus material. Presented in a
beautiful hardback digibook with 16-page booklet and
completely different artwork than the regular edition
- as well as a gold-layered CD (not CDR!). Ltd x 500
only! |
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VINTERRIKET
- 'Lichtschleier' Enhanced CD (Flood
The Earth) - £10 / £11 / £12
The 5th full album from this cult German legend. A
pure dark ambient release from this constantly morphing
and always fascinating entity. Cold, misanthropic,
desolate and melancholic soundscapes. This is the
most mature Vinterriket work to date and continues
the freezing, desolate and monumental style of dark
ambient to be found on "Landschaften ewiger Einsamkeit."
Also included is the video for 'Lichtschleier'. Ltd
x 1000 copies. |
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VINTERRIKET
- 'Zeit-Los:Laut-Los' CD (BadMoodMan
Music) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
2008 work from the prolific German dark / black ambient
master. "Zeit-Los:Laut-Los" is a 40 minute
soundtrack for the film "Kontemplative Antagonismen
Des Augenblicks". The album is made in the best
tradition of the band, which confesses the religion
of nordic dark ambient, filled with the noises of
the winter forest and with the breath of nordic wind.
Packaged in a mini LP sleeve and strictly limited
to 1000 copies. Russian import. |
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VINTERRIKET
/ ORODRUIN
- 'Split' CD (Aphelion
Productions) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
Re-release of the album from 2002 (originally released
by Desolate Landscapes), between Germany's prolific
dark ambient / black metal one-man act, Vinterriket,
and the doom-laden black metal of Holland's Orodruin.
An interesting blend of raw and atmospheric Black
Metal alongside orchestral Dark Ambient tones, melancholic
passages and unnatural sounds. Ltd x 1000 copies. |
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VARIOUS
ARTISTS - 'Looking For Europe' 4 x CD
Book (Auerbach
Tontrager)
- £25 / £27 / £29
The history of Neofolk for the first time on CD the
compilation accompanying the seminal book "Looking
For Europe." Features: Agnivolok / Ain Soph /
Allerseelen / Andrew King / Argine / Ataraxia / Blood
Axis / Boyd Rice & Friends / Camerata Mediolanense
/ Changes / Darkwood / Death In June / Der Blutharsch
/ Dies Natalis / Empyrium / Ernte / Fire + Ice / Forseti
/ Gae Bolg / Hagalaz Runedance / Hekate / In Gowan
Ring / Kirlian Camera / Laibach / Leakh / Lux Interna
/ Magnet / Mother Destruction / Neun Welten / Nico
/ Of The Wand And The Moon / Ordo Equitum Solis /
Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio / Orplid / Ostara / Regard
Extreme / Romowe Rikoito / Royal Family & The
Poor (Feat. Peter Hook) / Scivias / Scott Walker /
Shining Vril / Sieben / Sol Invictus / Sonne Hagal
/ Sorrow (Rose McDowall) / Strawbs / T.A.C. / Tenhi
/ Test Dept / Thee Majesty (Genesis P-Orridge) / Waldteufel
/ Werkraum & Lady Morphia. Exceedingly lavish
4-CD hardback book, clothbound and gold-embossed with
an extensive 100-page booklet featuring liner notes,
rare photos, and a lot of information on the artists.
This CD features many rare, exclusive, and previously
unreleased tracks, as well as the hits of Neofolk.
A unique document of music history. |
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