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The first ever interview with Splinterskin is at Heathen Harvest.
PRE-ORDER RELEASES SLIGHTLY DELAYED
Wicked King Wicker and Iron Fist Of The Sun - Ship Wednesday 4th November
Cages - Ships Monday 9th November
(Pre-order prices remain in place until day of shipping! Thanks for your patience!)
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• 14 Nov 09, Dwaalspoor Festival, Baroeg, Rotterdam (NL).
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| Wicked King Wicker | God Is Busy... Save Yourself CD (CSR125CD) £8 / £9 / £10 |
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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.
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| Iron Fist Of The Sun | Behavioural Decline CD (CSR116CD) £8 / £9 / £10 |
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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.
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| 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) £8 / £9 / £10 |
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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.
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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! |
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FIRE IN THE HEAD - 'Confessions Of A Narcissist' CD (CSR120CD)
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AARON DILLOWAY - 'Beggar Master' CD
(Hanson Records)
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CD reissue of first full-length LP (Ltd x 300, 2005, Hanson Records) by ex-Wolf Eyes member Aaron Dilloway. Tape manipulations, feedback, crude field recordings and Nepali dirt. "...two tracks of hate-ridden explosive noise utilising tape loops, feedback, and featuring a picture of a woman stabbing her husband / lover on the back of the disc. A frightful sight indeed, but not something which goes in any way to describing the kind of audio assault that's carried on the disc itself, really that has to be heard to be believed. Those of you who found yourself salivating over the Carlos Giffoni and Merzbow collaboration, or even Prurient's earlier work should give this a much closer inspection... Totally crushing stuff!"
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AARON DILLOWAY - 'Boggs Vol. Two' CD
(Hanson Records)
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A collection of two long out of print CDRs from ex-Wolf Eyes member Aaron Dilloway. This new release contains (in their original entirety) the "Seizure" (2000, Hanson) and "Appalling & Alive" (2003, Chondritic Sound). Unapproachable, static soundscapes that generally start quite minimal and en up as sheer walls of white noise. Pops, clicks and bursts of sounds that mutate into something all-encompassing and intense!
• All Aaron Dilloway Titles
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AARON DILLOWAY - 'Chain Shot' CD
(Hanson Records)
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2009 CD reissue of (ex-Wolf Eyes) Aaron Dilloway's "Chain Shot" LP (2007). 'With only tape loops, metal, and horns (and sometimes, it seems, metal on horns) the two long pieces, 'Chain Shot' and 'Execution Dock' respectively, explore the ugly underbelly of noise before just scraping right through and aiming for the insides. In a genre that has quickly turned into a broad and often inaccurate description of a certain breed of every-man experimental music, Dilloway sticks to the old-fashioned definition of noise, doing battle with the materials in front of him as he continues the construction of his impressive body of work" (Ear Conditioned Nightmare). Contains a 28 minute bonus track. Digipak.
• All Aaron Dilloway Titles
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AARON DILLOWAY & C. SPENCER YEH - 'The Squid' CD
(Hanson Records)
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Reissue of the 2007 LP (Hanson Records). Aaron Dilloway (ex-Wolf Eyes) & C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) recorded live to 4-track cassette in the summer of 2006 in Ann Arbor. Dilloway uses tape loops, tape delay, bowed tape and vocals and Yeh uses violin, voice and electronics. Heavy, psychedelic, noisy and expansive. This CD version includes a bonus track collage of the 3 tracks from the duo's out of print False Speech cassette. Digipak.
• All Aaron Dilloway Titles • All C. Spencer Yeh Titles
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ANDREA MARUTTI - 'The Subliminal Relation Between Planets - Live In Archiaro' CD
(Nextera)
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All music performed and recorded live by Andrea Marutti in Archiaro (Catanzaro, Italy) on August the 24th, 2007.
"[Marutti] operates in the area that we could loosely identify as drone music, or ambient, but... this is of a much darker nature altogether. It's hard to tell what it is that he does; be it synthesizers, samplers, computer processing or just tons of sound effects, in the end the effect is a seventy-minute opus of dark, utter dark electronic music. The planets mentioned in the title may give away some of some of the darkness, and perhaps its all too easy to say that its pitch black as the stars by night, but on christmas eve, with stars bright and almost full moon, these sort of references may count. Think Lustmord meeting Mirror, the darkest fantasy of Klaus Schulze or such cosmic hero from yesteryear, and Andrea Marutti is your man" (Vital Weekly).
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ANDY ORTMANN - 'Octagonist' DVD-A
(Nihilist)
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Before better known as Panicsville, but now moving into the realms of serious music (this new release got some sponsoring from arts councils) under his own name. The octa-thing deals with the number eight, and the three pieces here on this DVD (no images) can be played on a 7.1 installation, if you have such a thing. I only have a 2.0 installation, called 'stereo', but it sounds great still. Ortmann lists a list of instruments - mainly old analogue synthesizers and where he did his field recordings. Just as on the Schimpfluch disc, I'd say this is the small alley where noise is really interesting. Not because it's super loud, although there are points when things are pretty loud, but because of the fine balance between electronic, noisy sounds and the crackling of highly amplified field recordings which are all put together into an interesting collage of sound. Not like Schimpfluch of short and shorter sounds, but through longer pieces which work quite well. Great stuff, both of these releases and if noise is like this, I'd sign up again." (Vital Weekly).
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ARKTAU EOS - 'Ai Ma Ra' 2 x CD
(Aural Hypnox)
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"Ai Ma Ra" is a monumental album containing over 105 minutes of experimental elemental and ambient music, original in the literal sense of the word. More than music, it is 'ethnography of the unknown' in action, providing vistas into rarely glimpsed corners of reality. Created primarily on acoustic instruments, organs and harmonium, carefully mastered on vintage tape, the sound is equally earthy as it is otherworldly – a contradiction in terms maybe, but then "Ai Ma Ra" is not classified easily in any other respect either. It is a record in which to immerse one’s self over time, containing more than two years' worth of strange experiences and sensations distilled into a curious, potent elixir, the use of which may in its truest sense be determined only by the individual listener.
Ltd x 1000 copies in a sturdy, deep green cardboard box stamped with the mark of Arktau Eos. Contained within is an 8-page booklet bound in tête-bêche format on high quality paper and a small talismanic print.
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ASGARD ROOT - 'Issue 2' Magazine
- £7 / £8.50 / £10 |
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Second (and bigger!) issue of this UK magazine specialising in Black Metal, Doom, Dark Ambient, Drone and Dark Art. Features interviews with Enslaved, Agalloch, Freya Aswynn, Akitsa, Lifelover, Janvs, Dead Raven Choir, Austere, Caïna, ColdWorld, A Forest Of Stars, Lyrinx, Musk Ox, Arckanum, Yussuf Jerusalem, David Galas and Paragon Belial, as well as articles on Allerseelen and Mortiis and a massive 23 pages of reviews! A4 with 92 pro-printed, B&W pages and full colour cover artwork by Gentian Osman. Ltd x 450 copies.
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ASTRO - 'Fracture Composition' CD
(Rape Art Productions)
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In this new release for 2009, Astro (aka Hiroshi Hasegawa of C.C.C.C., Nord, South Saturn Delta) offers up three cold tracks of the most raw, extreme Japanese noise, with a variety of dense atmospheres, mixed with deep textures. The source material here is taken from live Astro performances and decomposed by the master at Shirakaba Studio. Recorded to make your ears bleed and your mind melt! Cover design by Lasse Marhaug (Jazkamer). Ecuador import. Limited to just 295 copies - ACT FAST!
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BLACK LEATHER JESUS - 'Torture Machinist' CD
(Industrial Recollections / Freak Animal)
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CD reissue of the limited tape release from 1994 (Chaotic Noise Productions). A massive 5 piece line-up churning richly textured but extremely crude and brutal harsh noise in the finest tradition of the Houston harsh noise scene. Freak Animal Records re-issued this as very limited CDR back in 2000, but since the material simply is outstanding in all ways - in BLJ catalogue and harsh noise in general - it was obligatory to get material done on real CD. Includes all the original tape artwork. |
CLOAMA - 'Death Certificate' 7"
(Freak Animal)
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One of the most original and unique assaults from Finnish legend Cloama! The A-side presents an organic / acoustic take on Power Electronics, whilst the B-side has two tracks with more innovative Power Electronics / Industrial sounds. Ltd x 250 copies. ACT FAST!
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CONTAGIOUS ORGASM - 'Confessions Of Mannequin' CD
(Industrial Recollections /
Freak Animal)
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Highly worshipped earliest material of the cult industrial-experimental band from Japan. This 2nd tape from 1988 (SSSM) shows a very different project to what CO is known to be today. You can see why they established in early 90s deals with many leading European Industrial / Power Electronics labels (Tesco, Ant-Zen, Praxis Dr. Bearmann etc). 45 minutes presented with original sound from metal master tapes without any modern day boosting gimmicks. Great dynamics and amazing quality. Covers include full re-print of all original tape artwork as it was.
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CONTAGIOUS ORGASM - 'Impregnate' CD
(Industrial Recollections / (Freak Animal)
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Highly worshipped earliest material of the cult industrial-experimental band from Japan. This debut from 1987 (SSSM) shows a very different project to what CO is known to be today. You can see why they established in early 90s deals with many leading European Industrial / Power Electronics labels (Tesco, Ant-Zen, Praxis Dr. Bearmann etc). 45 minutes presented with original sound from metal master tapes without any modern day boosting gimmicks. Great dynamics and amazing quality. Covers include full re-print of all original tape artwork as it was.
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DENSE VISION SHRINE - 'Unwinding The Inside' CD
(Rape Art Productions)
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DVS is a dark ambient side project from Norwegian artist Karsten Hamre (Penitent). Dense material produced under an orchestral ambient mixture with pure and deep sounds in 3 amazing conceptual tracks. If you like acts such as Lustmord, Archon Satani, MZ412, Inade, this is recommended to you. Ltd x 500 copies in a PVC sleeve.
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EMERALDS - 'Solar Bridge' CD
(Hanson Records)
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Starting out in 2005, Emeralds has grown in recent years into a monster of heavy improvised drone using analog synths and masterfully effected guitar. Born out of the midwest scum-noise scene, these guys have taken the intense heaviness of their midwest brethren to a place that is entirely their own. They have replaced the creepy atmosphere and abrasive harsh noise of their peers with a very different, though equally intense assault of cosmic drone power. This is the trio's first full-length album after numerous limited releases. Fans of the smooth tones of 'New Age Of Earth' era Ash Ra Tempel and the buzzing thick drones of Throbbing Gristle's 'Heathen Earth' should take note, as Emeralds may be their new source for electronic drugs. Ltd x 1000 copies in a digipak.
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GRUNT - 'Petturien Rooli' CD
(Freak Animal)
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The brand new full length CD of Grunt! Presenting a new sides of Grunt, this album contains no harsh noise, but is an innovative mixture of fierce power electronics with echoes of early 80s Ramleh and Sutcliffe Jügend, mixed with experimental organic noise influences a'la Organum, Ferial Confine, to heavy dominant euro PE/industrial attacks to rhythmic elements and metal percussion linking towards Vivenza, Test Dept. and Militia. Exclusively Finnish language lyrics and samples, with themes related to the history of Finland since early turbulent years of civil war to post WWII atmosphere. 64 minutes with 9 songs presenting wide variety of moods, sound sources, compositions, approaches, blended into album that could be said to be unique, even in the extensive Grunt discography!
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GUILTY CONNECTOR - 'Ikomayam Stars 'N' Nishinari' 7"
(Cipher Productions)
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This 7" EP decisively marks Guilty Connector's new identity, the first side focusing the electronics of the project's renown into an orchestra of feedback drones to realise a searing, attentive piece of tension and resolution.
The second side is a re-thought collection of sounds utilising minute low-end whisperings and subtle textural introductions for a subdued counterpoint to the scald of the first.
Cut at Abbey Road and pressed at Sydney's Vinyl Factory for attentive sound reproduction. Ltd x 200 copies with collage colour outer and greyscale inner covers, and handstamped labels. Australian import. ACT FAST!
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HIVE MIND - 'Death Tone' CD
(Hanson Records)
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"Weird dudes jamming synths. Alone. Social Problems. Problems. Recorded late into the night. Fucking A. That is the business, right there. Shit is just creepy-gets under your skin. While most noise youth get their chocolate fingers lost in gadgetry and posturing-something about a synth jam that's just... Human... humanly wrong. But fucking right. Right on Hive Mind". One epic, disturbing 43-min drone-noise-ambient track. File beside Prurient, Emeralds, Robedoor etc.
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MARTIN FRANKLIN & MICHAEL NORTHAM - 'An Opening Of The Earth: Recovered' CD
(Faria Records)
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"An Opening Of The Earth: Recovered" revisits a spontaneous collaboration between the two musicians, captured in the early 90's. Mythic imagery of man descending into the mysteries of the Inner Earth is conjured in this intense recorded performance. Using lo-fi sampling, eerie drones, percussive metal instruments and effects, the players trace an intuitive path through a midnight electronic improvisation. Like an unearthed archeological find, the recordings of this ritualistic performance tie the pieces to their location, as well as the events of their time. After unearthing the original tapes, Martin Franklin has created new mixes for this release, including previously unheard sections, re-interpreted and enhanced for the 21st Century listener. Ltd x 500 copies in an outsized package with inserts.
• All Michael Northam Titles
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MATHIAS GRASSOW & JIRI MAZANEK - 'Inner Path' CD
(Nextera)
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"Inner Path - the idea of combining pure hand-played acoustic instruments with modern electronics, samples and nature sounds.
With a spiritual sight behind, Inner Path is open for free direction and interpretation nevertheless, with a strong focus inside ourselves by considering the existence here on earth as ONE of many journeys back into the inner light. This work is a remembrance...“
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MIRKO UHLIG & DRONÆMENT - 'Farewell Fields' CD
(Nextera)
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"There are various kinds of flowers in the farewell fields but what they have in common is not complaining when it's time for valediction. A scarcely audible "goodbye". Then wounded veterans on its soil. Scavengers and their own way of a farewell performance. Starry-eyed limbs and forget-me-nots. We tried to cull the more beautiful ones of both kinds. Fields of clouds come and go like Spanish veterans and young mothers... The utero for this two-headed baby was butt-joined after the Ex Ovo Orchestra performance that took place at the AZ Conni venue, Dresden February 2007. Mirko had caught some moaning itinerary fish Para Puri a few weeks earlier while Marcus was fishing for it at that particular night. One is about leaving, the other about the destination".
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MIRT - 'Most' 12"
(Cat Sun / Nefryt)
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Reissue of the Mirt 3" release from 2003 (Ltd x 121, Malachit). Great solo project from the leader of One Inch of Shadow. “Field recordings from big inactive railway bridge. The bridge is situated on Polish - German border. Fauna & flora of The Odra River, "industrial" echoes of the bridge & sounds of accordion and clarinet recorded at studio. 24 minutes deepest experiences. Magic of place & sadness of existence". Ltd x 225 copies in standard sleeve.
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MORTUOR - 'I'm Waiting For You' CD
(Syzmic Records)
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Debut release from this US act. The stale state of experimentalism has forced this; the union of sickness and sound. A tribute to the forerunners of power-death electronics. Pure emotion. Pure sickness. Pure power. Nothing compromised. Classic Death Industrial, dedicated to and inspired by the works of the late Marco Corbelli (Atrax Morgue) and the Italian Death Industrial Movement. Ltd x 250 copies in an outsized gatefold sleeve.
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OÖPHOI - 'Upuaut' CD
(Nextera)
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"Upuaut“ is the unique, 65+ minutes long composition recorded by Italian drone-ambient musician Oöphoi featuring Amir Baghiri and Mathias Grassow. For the first time since it was created in 1999, "Upuaut" is finally officially and properly released. Fully re-mastered, repackaged, including the great pyramid chamber updated diagram and liner notes from the Egyptologist Dr. J.J. Hurtak, "Upuaut" is one of the most profound, magical and sonically improved releases from Oöphoi's extensive discography.
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PAIN NAIL - 'Hengellisiä Lauluja' 7"
(Freak Animal)
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The long-awaited vinyl outing from Pain Nail! Finnish Power-Electronics-Industrial from Mikko Aspa (Grunt) and Marko Kokkonen (Fleshpress). "Hard vocals and dark, scourging industrial comprised of factory din and looping distortion. Even with limited output, Pain Nail remains one of my favorites" (Malignant). Ltd x 250 copies. ACT FAST!
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ROBERT TURMAN & AARON DILLOWAY - 'Blizzard' CD
(Hanson Records)
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Collaboration between Aaron Dilloway (ex-Wolf Eyes) and Robert Turman (ex-NON, Z.O. Voider). Recorded in January 2009 during a horrible Ohio snowstorm. Dilloway on synthesizer and tape delays and Turman on tapes and effects. Very minimal, very slow, very cold. Frozen and stuck in the snow. Ltd x 500 copies.
• All Aaron Dilloway Titles
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SHIFT - 'Sleep Paralysis' CD
(Freak Animal)
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Re-issue of the 2006 cassette, originally released by Freak Animal. A simply landmark release in Shift's discography. Heaviness, slowness, heavily processed vocals, deep throbbing synths... Somewhere between power electronics, death industrial and heavy drone, not fitting exactly to the easy sub-genres, but suitable for anyone appreciating dark and heavy electronics.
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SICKNESS - 'Ruiner' LP
(Freak Animal)
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One of the leading names of American harsh noise returns! This 40-minute LP delivers the best known Sickness fast cut-up hysteria, but also droning lo-fi rumbles and sharp live noise butchery. "Ever give up on anything in your life? Ruiner. New sounds and approach to presenting the theme of... well let's call it disappointment. Though this is a departure it does go back to the basics but with a much grittier / dirtier sound, much less precise - and for me its a big leap (just out of my personal preference / control issues) and ultimately thats what defines Ruiner - a personal pursuit, a personal effort and a personal result. Disconnect. 2 studio tracks and one live from Osaka Japan... Its all over you". Mastered by Thomas Garrison. Ltd x 250 copies with poster and postcard - ACT FAST!
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SPECIAL INTERESTS - '#1' Magazine
(Freak Animal)
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Brand new magazine from the Freak Animal label. In English and featuring interviews with some of the best Industrial / Power Electronics / Noise artists on the scene today: Breathing Problem, Clew Of Theseus, Dissecting Table, Eric Lunde (Trait), Kadaver, Lasse Marhaug (Jazkamer), Mike Connelly (Hair Police, Wolf Eyes), Murderous Vision, Sewer Goddess, Shift, Sickness, Skin Graft, Tommi Keränen (Testicle Hazard) and Wertham. Visual art by Martin Bladh (IRM) and a reviews section. 52-pages, A5, B&W, offset printed with full colour cover.
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SZKIEVE - 'Chants Et Danses Folkloriques Des Hauts Plateaux' CD
(Rape Art Productions)
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Experimental sound composer from Belgium, currently residing in Canada. In 1998 Dimitri Della Faille started the project Szkieve and also founded his own Hushush label.
An amazing mixture of deep sounds with some short ambient parts over 9 tracks. Each track title has a reference about old Ecuadorian stories of different places. Limited edition of 300 copies in a fold-out sleeve. |
THE HATERS - 'In The Shade Of Fire' CD
(Hanson Records)
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Reissue of the first LP (1986, Silent Records) from GX Jupitter-Larsen's The Haters, available now for the first time on CD format AND for the first time in it's original entirety. Remastered by Warn Defever from the original master reels, and includes the full complete album, as two of the tracks had to be shortened to fit on the original LP issue. "The Haters' celebrated early work “In The Shade Of Fire” acts a document collection for the listener that also reflects The Haters' strong textural aesthetic through object manipulation and recording that defines GX’s place in the world of 'harsh noise'. Listening your way through the material is a studied and defined testament to different representational fragments of heavy sound and source manipulation." (Sam McKinlay, The Rita). Digipak.
• All The Haters Titles
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THE VOMIT ARSONIST - 'Wretch' CD (Cipher Productions / Force Of Nature)
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A decidedly personal and unnerving recording from Andrew Grant, aka The Vomit Arsonist. "Wretch" was written during a period of mental instability that lasted nearly two years. The result is a release that bleeds raw emotion: loss, hatred, self-loathing, and reflection; starting at rock bottom with waves of dark ambience and quietly spoken words, moving further into the depths of a tortured mind. The result is a gradual advance into forceful, vengeful power electronics. Ltd x 500 copies in a shrinkwrapped card sleeve. |
WOLF EYES With JOHN WIESE - 'Collection' CD
(Hanson Records)
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A collection of the Wolf Eyes with John Wiese 7" plus two CDRs originally released in very limited editions on American Tapes in 2003-04. Digitally re-mastered by Wiese and finally available all together! "Combined into one ugly genetic mishap and flesh hacked covered package by Aaron Dilloway's Hanson label, this is a disintegrated release full of blossoming black sounds... The sheer breadth of textures and styles that they have used is nothing short of astounding... Scattered between exploring inner worlds and blowing-out corneas through riotous frequency changes, this is the place where digits are bent from their 0 and 1 roots into self-adapting cyborg sinews. Elements like stuck groove bell work, tape machine cloud cover and delicate looped horns seem like perfectly constructed movements, musical conclusions of thirty minutes of sweaty improv work". (Brainwashed)
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YAO 91404 D - 'LenShunZavod' CD
(Freak Animal)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50 |
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Surprisingly, the first CD-proper release by this obscure Russian industrial-noise unit, with several extremely limited tapes and CDRs in their back catalogue from as far back as 2002. This CD marks one of their biggest highlights, with crude physically crafted industrial-noise. Even if it crosses borders towards purity of harsh noise once in a while, the spirit of Soviet factory landscapes is always present. Two long tracks that develop during their playing time to different atmospheres. |
VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Labyrinths & Jokes' CD
(Hanson Records)
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CD reissue of Hanson compilation LP released in 1998. This marked the birth of Aaron Dilloway's Hanson Records. Features tracks from: Andrew Wilkes-Krier (Andrew WK), Isis & Werewolves, Nautical Almanac's Anti-Systems, Ron Of Japan, The Beast People and The Mini-Systems. Cover painting by Le Unk.
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AEOGA - 'Coav' CD
(Aural Hypnox)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
The debut album of Aeoga presents very original and haunting material based on spiralling dark drones, eerie guitar feedback textures, archaic drum and cymbal patterns, atonal / tonal vocalizations and distant / peculiar sample layers. The 8 tracks of the album offer material from organic dark ambient / archaic & ascetic horizons to dark and haunting tribal/ritual atmospheres. "To exhaust mind and body in order to obtain a condition of non-consciousness and thus receive, realize and create material based on both primal and absent vision".
Ltd x 1000 copies in a special octagon shaped cardboard covers including an 6 panel textured cardboard sleeve. |
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BAD SECTOR - 'Dolmen Factory' CD
(Faria Records)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
3rd edition of the classic Bad Sector release (Soffitta Macabra 1998, Membrum Debile Propaganda 2000). Harmonic, noisy, emotional electronic tracks set the trademark sound of the one-man Dark Ambient project from Tuscany. Besides heavily modified, commercial synthesizers, a small set of samples of an echocardiogram machine was used as an additional sound source. This Russian edition includes an unreleased bonus track. Ltd x 500 copies in a special outsize package with inserts. |
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CLOAMA - 'Revisionist Knowledge' CD
(Freak Animal)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
Return of the more cruel and vicious side of Cloama! This CD goes two different of directions. 1st 4 tracks are live-without-audience recordings recorded with amplifiers and couple of good microphones. Painful and straight-forward power electronics with vocals. 2nd part of disc is studio recordings and this electronic-genius, known from Strom.ec, makes analogue synthesizers and other tools sound personal with his trademark style. Very stylish designed artwork in cardboard box cover with 4 insert cards. |
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CORRUPTED - 'Paso Inferior' CD (Nostalgia
Blackrain) - £11 / £12 / £13
"Japanese
underground icons Corrupted create droning, sludgy,
painfully slow death / doom metal and ambient music
along the same lines as bands like Earth, Boris, and
Sunn O))). Formed in Osaka, Japan, circa 1994, the
reclusive group has issued an inordinate number of
singles, EPs, split discs, and full-length albums
over the years, but always under their own idiosyncratic
terms. These include holding anything remotely resembling
rock stardom in utter contempt, mysteriously writing
all of their lyrics in Spanish, and refusing to even
take promo shots, so that the only known images of
the group are those snapped by fans at their concerts"
(All Music Guide). Originally released in 1997 on
CD by Frigidity Discos, this 1-track, 40 minute CD
has now been remastered. Ultra heavy, ultra recommended! |
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FUNERARY CALL - 'The Black Root' LP
(Fluttering Dragon)
- £13 / £15 / £17
Defunct project of Harlow MacFarlane (Sistrenatus). Since the beginning of time the forces of light and darkness have vehemently engaged in a battle to possess the soul of man. The music of Funerary Call pays tribute to this eternal struggle and encourages the exploration of the shadow self. It is the audible essence of a black magic ritual. Chaos and destruction! Dark ambient music inspired by occultism and death. Though still obscure, Funerary Call were involved in the early movement of black ambient music prior to its growth in the genre. Ltd x 333 numbered copies on heavy vinyl. |
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HALO MANASH - 'Syoma' CD
(Aural Hypnox)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
HM's third full-length album offers both minimalistic and complex material mainly created via acoustic instrumentation. The ritualistic / electro-acoustic soundscapes are based on dark and hypnotic sample textures, evolving guitar drones, dynamic ritual-percussions & reverberating gongs/chimes/bells, chanting vocalizations, various windbones / experimental instruments and analogue synthesizers. "All of the material on this album is dedicated to and inspired by the dynamic subconscious force which gave impulse to visions relating to auto-cannibalism and metempsychosis". Comes in an 6 panel covers with silver print. Ltd x 1000 copies. |
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KARNA - 'The Haunted (Age Of Destruction)' CD
(Eternal Pride Productions /
Possession Productions)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
"Not everyone follows the Blood Path... not everyone returns from the Coma... almost nobody comes out alive from the Industrial Zones of the Darkness... to the portal, leading to the Temple of the Dead God... whose altars are for the cultivating of Flesh... ...and the Harvest will approach for everyone...". Cold, post-industrial pulsations, freezing black ambient passages and explosive military rhythms from this Russian act. "Musical shapes mimic and hide in secret spheres, their power destroying the illusion of reality, moving the listener out of their boundaries, as it befits the true Black Art." |
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LUSTMORD - 'Metavoid' CD
(Nextera)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
The seventh Lustmord release, and the album which followed "The Place Where The Black Stars Hang", "Metavoid" presents the logical development of that unmistakable Lustmord sound. "The human mind is, and will forever remain, incapable of comprehending the many depths and layers that encompass the universe within which we live. We construct ever-changing theoretical and semiotic perspectives in an attempt to map and decode the unknown, but meaning remains incomprehensible. Through endless corridors of silence and dread, deeper than vacuum, beyond infinity and the realm of measurement, ideographic patterns do not emerge. Metavoid: A soundtrack for the apocalypse." Cavernous Dark Ambient. Like all Lustmord titles, comes with the highest recommendation! |
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MATHIAS GRASSOW & THOMAS WEISS - 'Conscience' CD
(Nextera)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
"Conscience: An authority between the human made ego and his creator". Grassow and Weiss present ambient, with a slight touch of experimentalism. Deep washes of synthesizers, with sparse, slow melodies andsome far away, alienated sounds. Grassow and Weiss walk the well-known path of ambient: through a misty forest on an early sunday morning, with a touch of sunlight. A beautiful release with sympathetic artwork. |
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MERZBOW - 'Somei' CD
(Low Impedance Records)
- £11 / £12 / £13
Masami Akita is really one of those people that need no introduction. ‘Somei’ is a 55-minute trip into rhythmic hell, sure to please devoted Merzbow followers as well as bring new members to the ongoing cult of noise that he has built throughout the last 20+ years. Featuring live drums that wouldn’t sound out of place in a grindcore or thrash-jazz album, as well as the obligatory full-on sonic assault, this is Merzbow at his finest and heaviest. Digipak. Greek import. |
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NORDVARGR / DRAKH - 'Cold Void Of Nothing' CD
(Fluttering Dragon)
- £11 / £12 / £13
Nordvargr / Drakh is an ambient project hailing from the MZ.412 camp. The sound is darker and more ambient than the classic rhythmic sound of MZ.412 - perfect for magick practices and sex rituals. You can expect a weird and strange dark ambient journey which does NOT sound like anything you are used to... but it is music that "grows" on you! |
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OÖPHOI - 'The Spirals Of Time - Deluxe Edition' 3 x CD
(Faria Records)
- £18 / £19.50 / £21
"The Spirals of Time" is considered the best of Oophoi's albums and has been recognised as one of the best drone-ambient projects of all time. Now this legendary album has been reissued in a deluxe 3-CD set! This record was initially created to become the finishing disk of this trilogy. Here you will find new ideas and new development of the concept. However the "classical" sound of "The Spirals of Time" is kept. Ltd x 500 copies in an outsized package with inserts. Russian import. |
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NORTHAUNT - 'Barren Land' CD
(Fluttering Dragon)
- £11 / £12 / £13
Nordic melancholic ambient recordings mixed to melodic piano & guitar drone. The second full-length release from Northaunt returns the listener to the icy floes of Norway. A poignant ambient work that is a worthy heir to "The Ominous Silence". Melodic guitar performs alongside glacial drifts, groaning as giants... plaintive piano swirls in the eddies of industrial storms. The sound is sumptuous, the sampled atmosphere is crystal-clear. The album's tone, while melancholic, is not oppressively dark. A gem among the snowfields. Wisps of poetry accompany the stark and isolated landscapes, bleak and solemn photographs that intimate the sculpture of music within. Ltd x 1000 hand-numbered copies in a 6-panel digipak. ACT FAST! |
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SKM-ETR - 'Screwdriver City' 3" CD
(Freak Animal)
- £6 / £7 / £8
SKM-ETR's previous full length CD 'The Rugged Meat Cleaver' caught plenty of attention in the Power Electronics scene. With this MCD, SKM-ETR takes a more straight forward Power Electronics approach. Hard electronic walls of noise filled with hateful vocals. Very nicely presented in a little foldout cardboard sleeve with inserts. Professional CD, limited to 500 copies. |
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THE HAFLER TRIO - 'No More Twain, Of Flesh: 11 Unequivocal Obsecrations'
CD
(Nextera)
- £12 / £13.50 / £15
Third part of the trilogy - the first being "Cleave: 9 Great Openings" (Nextera, 2003) and the second being "No Man Put Asunder: 7 Fruitful And Seamless Unions" (Die Stadt, 2003).
Again, this is a 60+ minutes long piece which slowly changes, with a very wide and resonant sound, but for sure is the most surprising and experimental work of all three parts! Ltd x 1022 copies in an absolutely unique, super deluxe, luxury packaging! Embossed gatefold Paper-Wallet with special Transparent Wraparound and silver print. |
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THE SOIL BLEEDS BLACK - 'Alchemie'
CD
(The Fossil Dungeon /
Twilight Records)
- £11 / £12 / £13
"Alchemie" was originally published by the (now defunct) World Serpent in 1999. This new edition features re-mastered and newly embellished versions of the original songs along with several bonus tracks. "Alchemie" is a conglomeration of songs based heavily upon the medieval occult science for which the album is named. The album also features other songs portraying Arthurian legend and the bravery of knights on the battlefield. Features a very special guest appearance from Arcana on the track 'Lapis Philosophorum'. Digipak. |
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ZOÄT AON - 'Star Autopsy' CD
(Aural Hypnox)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
'Star Autopsy' presents nine multi-dimensional dark ambient tracks which range from radiant textures, mesmerizing, swirling soundscapes to dense, crushing walls of sound and hidden abstract melodies. By using conventional instruments, various sound generating devices, vocals and other carefully chosen sonic objects Zoät Aon manages to create an unique, dynamic and truly enigmatic, expansive atmosphere that continuously spirals further towards the unknown areas of consciousness. Ltd x 1000 copies in a 6 panel cardboard cover sleeve with evocative silver-coloured graphics. A beautiful piece! |
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VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Serene Moments' 2 x 7"
(Fluttering Dragon)
- £13 / £15 / £17
Concept double 7" vinyl presenting mysterious sounds, chants, whispers and yells created by Nacht (ex-Aghast), Northaunt, Shinjuku Thief and Umbra. Four magic projects over six incredibly mesmerizing neoclassical / dark ambient tracks, which will make the last sunbeams die. Ltd x 505 hand-numbered copies in a full-colour gatefold sleeve. Highly recommended! |
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VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'The Last Bleak Days' CD
(Bleak Records)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50
A stunning isolationist / dark ambient compilation from the label of Hærleif Langås (Northaunt). All tracks are exclusive, and all bands have been asked to take inspiration from the title of the CD. The result is a darkly beautiful, bleak and haunting compilation, featuring: Desiderii Marginis, Diskrepant, Hazard, Instincts, Nacht (ex-Aghast), Necrophorus (Peter Andersson of Raison D'Etre), Non Ethos (Hærleif Langås), Ovum (Karl Midholm), Philip Samartzis, Svartsinn, Tear Ceremony and Wilt. Highly recommended! |
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