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Cold Spring Bi-Weekly Newsletter - 4th February 2010

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'WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE...' ALBUM LAUNCH PARTY!
THIS SUNDAY @ THE SHIP OF FOOLS CLUB , Bar & Co, opposite Temple tube, London.
Live: Naevus, Tony Wakeford, Andrew King, Susan Matthew, Eva Eden, Will Connor. Buy Tickets

IN THE PRESS

There's an interview with IRON FIST OF THE SUN in the latest Zero Tolerance, along with Skullflower and a special on 'Power Electronics, Harsh Noise, Death Industrial, Darkly Ambient & Experimental'


CAGES VIDEOS!
For all you fans of CAGES - there`s 3 videos on YouTube - all are great and really demonstrate the power of this band and Nola`s amazing voice - check them out here: Video 1 / Video 2 / Video 3

MERZBOW | Graft LP & 7" (CSR129LP) £18 / £22 / £26

Shipping: 22nd February
MERZBOW returns to COLD SPRING in blistering form - a sizzling new album length VINYL only limited edition (lime green, ltd x 400 copies) presented in an old-school 'bootleg' style cover and sealed with a sticker. The special extra limited edition version of the LP comes with bonus 7" (ltd x 150 copies) of exclusive tracks and is only available from COLD SPRING MAIL ORDER. This title will be deleted upon selling out, and the tracks are never to be issued on CD! A one time opportunity to own a true MERZBOW collectors piece! ACT FAST!

Merzbow

 

SEHNSUCHT | Wüste CD (CSR124CD) £9 / £10 / £11

Shipping: 22nd February
Former MAYHEM front man MANIAC, whose band SKITLIV has proved to be a surprising departure from the Black Metal genre for which he was best known for over 20 years, has formed a side-project with fiancé Vivian Slaughter, bass player/vocalist with the Japanese all-girl band GALLHAMMER, SKITLIV's guitarist Ingvar Magnusson and experimentalist Andrew Liles (NURSE WITH WOUND). Unlike SKITLIV, which is a noise/doom amalgam, with Maniacs vocals still firmly rooted in Black Metal, SEHNSUCHT is in the noise / darkwave / ambient genre, with any vestiges of Black Metal pared away. 6-panel digipak.

MP3 | MP3 | Sehnsucht

 

SKITLIV | Bloodletting 10" Picture Disc (CSR115P) £10 / £12 / £14

Shipping: 22nd February
Limited edition Picture disc from SKITLIV, the project of former MAYHEM front man MANIAC. With a line up that includes SHINING’s NIKLAS KVARFORTH, SKITLIV is a disturbed, and disturbing, blackened doom journey through the mind of this legendary Black Metal vocalist who was one of the original exponents of the genre, and is one of its most recognisable figures. This picture disc is made extra special not only by the inclusion of “Who Will Deliver Us From Gold and Planets” by CURRENT 93 - an introductory collage destruct that was created at the request of Maniac and is dedicated to him, but also because the artwork that is used for the side containing this track is part of one of Tibet’s own paintings. Ltd x 777 copies. No repress.


MP3 | Skitliv

 

Wicked King Wicker | God Is Busy... Save Yourself CD (CSR125CD) £10 / £11 / £12

MP3 | MP3
Shipping: Now
Wicked King Wicker is pure doom. Heavy, barbaric and void of hope, WKW has taken the power of doom metal and added noise to make its point.
 

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

MP3 | MP3
Shipping: Now
Power electronics that sonically takes inspiration from electro-acoustics and ideology akin to black metal / black noise.
 

NDE | Krieg Blut Ehre Asche CD (CSR110CD) £10 / £11 / £12

MP3 | MP3
Shipping: Now
A unique smelting of malevolent, noisy Black Metal, anthemic martial drums and wretched Death Industrial.
 

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

MP3 | MP3
Shipping: Now
Loops, layers and pleading lyrics. Elements of dreamy ether and discomfort rather than the easy choruses. Artwork with bronze print.
 

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

MP3 | MP3
Shipping: Now
Harsh, dark folk music.  Tales told using an old classical guitar, accompanied by haunting vocals, violin, and soothing whispers.
 

FORTHCOMING RELEASES:

TENHORNEDBEAST
- 'Hunts & Wars' CD (CSR130CD)
MACHINEFABRIEK - 'Daas' CD (CSR128CD)
PSYCHIC TV - 'Themes' 4CD Boxset (CSR123B)
GOATVARGR - 'Black Snow Epoch' CD (CSR126CD)
VON THRONSTAHL - 'Conscriptvm' 2CD (CSR118CD)

ALL AVAILABLE COLD SPRING TITLES

INADE
• 6 Feb 10, Black Box / Paris Syndrom, Leipzig (DE) - with BJ Nilsen.



SHIP OF FOOLS CLUB
• 7 Feb 10 , Bar & Co, London - "With Friends Like These" album launch party - Naevus, Tony Wakeford, Andrew King, Susan Matthew, Eva Eden, Will Connor. Buy Tickets




IRON FIST OF THE SUN

• 14 Feb 10,
The Winchester, Bournemouth (UK). - with Content Nullity / Cities Prepare For Attack, Single Dum.



SHIP OF FOOLS CLUB
• 7 March 10 , Bar & Co, London - Roger O'Donnell / Madam

A CHALLENGE OF HONOUR



• 9 Apr 10, TBA, Helsinki (FI) - with Noises Of Russia
• 11 Apr 10, The Place Club, St. Petersburg (RU) - with Noises Of Russia
• 13 Apr 10, Tir Club, Pskov (RU) - with Noises Of Russia

• 15 Apr 10, DOM, Moscow (RU) - with Noises Of Russia
• 17 Apr 10, Cinema Club, Kiev (UA) - with Noises Of Russia

ANDREW LILES
• 30 Apr 10, Stimul Festival, Prague (CZ) - in Nurse With Wound

MACHINEFABRIEK
• 18 May 10, Cafe OTO, London (UK) - with Tim Hecker

FULL DETAILS IN EVENTS SECTION

 


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A FOREST OF STARS - 'The Corpse Of Rebirth' CD (Transcendental Creations)
- £11 / £12 / £13

Few are the ones in the current Black Metal scene who have the guts and, above all, the creativity to push the boundaries of the genre. This is precisely what A Forest of Stars, one of the new emerging bands from England, has done in their album "The Corpse of Rebirth". The four sorcerers conjured the souls of their fellow Victorian era occultists and ended up creating an atemporal, unique and spell-binding opus, with influences ranging from progressive and psychedelic music to traditional black metal and sharing a similar artistic framework with bands such as Ved Buens Ende, Solefald and In The Woods. Digipak.

BETA CLOUD - 'Lunar Monograph' CD (Laughing Bride Media) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50

"Latest disc of blissed out soft focus dronemusic from this longtime aQ fave. After past collaborations with Lull as well as Aidan Baker, Lunar Monograph is the first disc we've head from BC on his own, and it's definitely a divine bit of ethereal and ephemeral drift. Field recordings are deftly woven into soft swirling shimmering tones, guitars are spidery and delicate, spinning crystalline webs of hushed melody... pealing tones, and barely there melodies, drifting weightlessly through a field of minimal effects, and slow shifting whirs, as well as some mysterious field recordings, that make the end of the record feel like you've just come out of a trance, and found yourself back in the real world, which is not all that far off the mark. So nice." (Aquarius). Mastered by James Plotkin. Digipak.

COLOSSLOTH - 'Antipathy In Nature' LP (Doom Mantra Records) - £15 / £18 / £21

Hailing from the middle of England, Colossloth represent the best of the new wave of British drone / doom / blackened ambient. This, their debut release on vinyl, the band wished to start with an album of ambient drone swirled in a cascade of darkness. Released on Noiseville's doom / drone side label Doom-Mantra. Ltd x 300 copies with a silk screened cover. ACT FAST!

All LP/12" Vinyl

DREAMCATCHER - 'Prom Night / Eyes Of Leatherface' LP (.ANGLE.REC.) - £13 / £16 / £19

Dreamcatcher's hot-wired, saturated and hypnotic sound layers, as well as strings and splatters of sonic mess and Power Electronics / old-school / new school aesthetics, have earned them a devoted following in Montreal and beyond. Originally released on cassette in very limited editions on the American Tapes label (run by Wolf Eyes’ John Olson) and Nautical Almanac's Heresee label respectively, "Prom Night " and "Eyes Of Leatherface " are archived here for a larger audience and for posterity. Includes material from their first recorded sessions, and ranks among the favourites of the duo. Without a doubt one of the sickest, most twisted and noisiest releases from ANGLE.REC. so far! Ltd x 300 hand-numbered copies on180g clear vinyl in a stickered sleeve. Canadian import.

All LP/12" Vinyl

ETHEREAL WOODS - 'Kenilworth' CD (Supernal Music) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50

"This third album sees Ethereal continuing the evolutionary trajectory they initiated with "In the Forest of Arden", which led them here towards an even heavier sound. Yet, while we hear rumbling frequencies and a rhythmical approach that are commonly associated with Death Metal, this duo retain their characteristically Doomy and melancholic sound, offering plenty of sorrowful harmonic melody and keyboard-driven magic. I am reminded at times of Decomposed, although Ethereal Woods is musically richer and more classically-influenced. The nature, mysticism and sylvan fantasy themes present in their previous two albums take here an explicitly Elizabethan turn.  One is inevitably reminded of the sensibilities of a Sir Philip Sidney, although Blackmetalised and in much simplified form" (AK-47).

GLIMMER VOID - 'Souls Parade' MCD (Dead Scarlet) - £9 / £10 / £11

Originally formed in Athens, in 2004, Glimmer Void is Stelios Mastrodiamadoglou, Thalia Makri, George Kokkoras, Diana Rahmanina, George Skoufas and Dimitris Zannis. Glimmer Void create songs that combine ethereal female vocals with dark atmospheric melodies, influenced by the Gothic, Neofolk and Neoclassical music scene. 5 tracks presented in a limited edition digipak.

HYENA HIVE - 'See Saw Sav Ann Ah!' 7" (.ANGLE.REC.) - £7 / £8 / £9

Until now, Hyena Hive’s sonic imprint has been rarely captured on disc. In the beginning, they delivered a very intense, rich and most honest noise-rock sound… but after that, percussion vanished to give way to a sound with a more Power Electronics colour, whose presence is now well affirmed in Hyena Hive’s audio universe. To document this phase, the flamboyant and demented "See Saw Sav Ann Ah!" is issued in 7" format. Two relentless tracks, and by far one of the most abrasive releases from the .ANGLE.REC. camp. This is in the image of all their most recent live performances! Lots of intensity to spare for fearless ears! Ltd x 250 hand-numbered copies in a deluxe cardboard envelope sleeve.

All 7" Vinyl

MACRONYMPHA - 'Live At No Fun Fest - March 18, 2006, NYC' LP (Self Abuse Records
/ Mother Savage Noise Productions) - £20 / £23 / £26

As the title states, this is Macronympha live at No Fun Fest 2006. Raw and violent sexual noise. Featuring the line up of Joe Roemer (OVMN, Mother Savage, One Dark Eye), Roger Stella (Mother Savage, Hollow Bush), Dominick Fernow (Prurient, Cold Cave), and Tim Oliveira (Stimbox). Single-sided LP. Limited to just 156 copies! EXTREMELY RARE AND ONLY A FEW COPIES IN STOCK - ACT FAST!

All Macronympha TitlesAll LP/12" Vinyl

MANI DEUM - 'Five Infected Blessings' MCD (Dead Scarlet) - £9 / £10 / £11

Debut release from this Greek Neofolk / Folk Noir / Neo-Cabaret / Experimental act, apparently created as an homage to Current 93. Their sound has gradually changed to incorporate different music styles, playing with folk-rock elements. A dark and gloomy atmosphere, quite heavy and dramatic - at times reminiscent of Sonne Hagal or Svarrogh (who collaborates on a bonus track). Ltd x 500 copies in a luxury digipak.

MELEK-THA - 'The Diablerie Manifesto' LP (Self Abuse Records) - £15 / £18 / £21

Four tracks of pounding, war like demonic anthems proclaiming the end of the world from the French Apocalyptic / Death Industrial project Melek-tha. Satan has returned, the end is near! Ltd x 300 copies with full colour sleeve. RARE - ACT FAST!

All Melek-Tha TitlesAll LP/12" Vinyl

NEUNTÖTER DER PLAGE - 'Betwixt Descending Corridors' LP (Self Abuse Records)
- £15 / £18 / £21

A personal exploration into the dark places that exist inside all of us. Inspired by vivid nightmares and dark visions glimpsed while staring into the bottomless depths of the abyss. Combining the best (or is it worse) elements of Dark Ambient, Death Industrial and Black Metal to create the darkest music possible. Neuntöter Der Plage is the long-running project of Ryan Opperman (Redrot).

All LP/12" Vinyl

SELF - 'The Mind And The Matter' LP (Terminal Ward) - £13 / £16 / £19

Early Dark Ambient and cult side project of John Balistreri (Slogun, Incinerator International, ex-Intrinsic Action). Tense and foreboding electronic soundtracks into the depths of nightmare and madness. Ltd x 300 copies.

All LP/12" Vinyl

SICKNESS - 'Mudlark' CD (Self Abuse Records / Ninth Circle Music) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50

This CD collects track from the Japan tour only "American Violence" split with Slogun, the personal and private "Scavenger Bag" - 3" Business card release (from the 2006 Japan tour), an unreleased live track from Germany, and two tracks from limited releases on the Iatrogenesis Records label. Comes with a 12 page booklet containing all the writings and pictures that came in the "Scavenger Bag" making this an in depth and personal look at the thoughts and ideas that made the music and "Mudlark". The evolution of harsh electronic purity and scumbag electronics at its finest. Recommended listening for the self loathing.

All Sickness Titles

SKINWELL - 'Tunnels' CD (.ANGLE.REC.) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50

A whole assortment of subtle electronic pulsations are concocted here by Christian Corvellec, always adequately supporting the sound fabrics woven by Martin Dumais, and which also are their starting point. A light at the end of the tunnel, penetrating different fissures along the walls, penetrating our mind with echoes. One only has to imagine a minimal tech project gone the drone-ocean way… pulsations are always there, but tinged with a sonic fog that is heavy, damp and fluid at the same time and which always suggests, in the end, uncertain twists and turns in this crossing of tunnels. File next to Cranioclast, Troum and Zoviet France. Ltd x 333 numbered copies in a deluxe cardboard sleeve with spot-varnish.


STALAGGH - 'Projekt Misanthropia' 7" (New Era Productions) - £8 / £9 / £10

Heavy black vinyl, with music only on side A that is an excerpt of the album "Projekt Misanthropia". "Amid the agonizing wails and livid atmosphere that exist as the core of Stalaggh's sound; Stalaggh's final masterwerk :Projekt Misanthropia: can certainly be called a progression from the earlier and already realized Stalaggh material..." Black Ambient / Noise. This is the non-etched edition of 150 copies. RARE - ACT FAST!

All Stalaggh TitlesAll 7" Vinyl

THE RITA - 'Milicent Patrick' 7" (Self Abuse Records) - £8 / £9 / £10

Vinyl outing from Canadian artist Sam McKinlay (BT.HN, Vice Wears Black Hose). Two tracks of forbidden Harsh Noise horror clawing it's way up from the lost depths of the Amazon. This is where it all began, a monumental document of both sound, and obsession. Ltd x 150 copies with two vinyl stickers. ACT FAST!

All The Rita TitlesAll 7" Vinyl

VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'With Friends Like These...' CD (Tursa / Kaparte Promotions)
- £13.50 / £14.50 / £15.50

"With Friends Like These" is a double CD compilation by Tursa and Kaparte Productions who are jointly responsible for the successful "Ship Of Fools" club nights in central London. Oldies like Orchestra Noir, Sieben, Naevus, Tor Lundvall, Tony Wakeford, Andrew King and Arcana are joined by a roster of less gnarled artists from the UK, Europe and beyond. This is a compilation of artists not constrained by musical label or ghetto: Albireon, Alex Monk, Amber Asylum, Andrew King, Arcana, Art Immunda, Autumn Grieve, Brown Sierra, Christy & Emily, Cutty Sark, Eva Eden, Gargemella, Golgatha, Gregorio Bardini, Guy Harries, Heidika, Hekate, Hide & Seek, Hong Kong In The 60s, Human Greed, Man Eat Man Eat Man, Mercy Liao, Naevus, Orchestra Noir, Pilori, (r), Richard Moult, Rose Rovine E Amanti, Seventh Harmonic, Shining Vril, Sieben, SonVer, Susan Matthews, That Summer, The Hare & The Moon, Tony Wakeford, Tor Lundvall, Vega, Vultures and While Angels Watch.

All Tursa TitlesAll Compilations
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ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O. - '41st Century
Splendid Man Returns' CD (Essence Music) - £13 / £14 / £15

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.

ATOMINE ELEKTRINE - 'Nebulous' CD (Essence Music) - £14 / £15 / £16

The trancey beats and sacral atmosphere of "Binomial Fusion" are past and widely replaced by a truly out-of-body, deeply layered and dynamic cosmic experience in form of a masterful ambience filled with energy outbursts, synthetic movements and algorithmical rhythms. An aural projection for a detailed exploration of nebulae, black holes, exploding stars and unknown deep corners of the cosmos. Very much influenced by the electronic side of the kraut scene and with the ability of imposing his very own classic trademark, Peter Andersson (Raison D'Etre) makes "Nebulous" one of the greatest albums related to this genre since the early 70’s. Ltd x 800 copies in a gatefold digisleeve.

DARK AGES - 'A Chronicle Of The Plague' CD (Supernal Music)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50

Dark Age's second album continues offering us minimalist Dark Ambient, this time more melodic than before, and inspired on the horrors of the Middle Ages. Between the fall of the Western Roman empire in A.D. 476 and the fall of Constantinople in 1453, Europe was ravaged by plagues and superstition. Greek was largely forgotten, and with it much of the learned texts of antiquity. 'A Chronicle of the Plague' is a musical tale of the terror of 1349, which depopulated entire villages and decimated Europe's human population; the disease was not understood at the time, and therefore it was assumed to have been the wrathful punishment from the Judaeochristian Deity. Alas, prayers were of no avail... Project from member of Ukrainian BM act Hate Forest.

DEAD RAVEN CHOIR - 'Cask Strength Black Metal' 2 x CD (Supernal Music)
- £12.50 / £13.50 / £14.50

DCD version of the Weird Forest 3LP boxset from Polish artist Smolken (Wolfmangler). The most insane black metal release ever! Harsh sounding evil, atmospheric off-kilter black metal. Call it black metal folk. The loudest noisiest crazy insane sounding blasts of skree with strange folky melodic undertones of banjo, cello, mandolin, and percussions and the most frightening vocals ever dared to be recorded. Many traditional folk songs shrouded in blasts of white noise armageddon. For fans of twisted, unique, raw black metal with a very bent edge. Pray (no, commit ritual sacrifice) to the underworld that your stereo survives! For fans of Leviathan, Gorgoroth, Draugar, Xasthur, Burzum etc.

GRUNT - 'Petturien Rooli' CD (Freak Animal) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50

The brand new full length CD of Grunt! Presenting a new side 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!

HATE FOREST - 'The Most Ancient Ones' CD (Supernal Music)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50

Darker than dark, furiously fast, true Black Metal terror from the Ukraine, without melody or love for human scum. The anxiously-awaited debut album is even nastier than anything you have heard from them before. What makes Hate Forest unique are the grim, barked vocals created by some sort of life-hating monster. A relentless, hateful piece of evil that rips you from your city dwellings and drags you deep into the forest, ravages and defiles you with no mercy.

M87 - 'Noctilucent Threnody' CD (Supernal Music) - £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50

Deep symphonic dark ambient space music. A completely alien and eerie experience of darkness and cold void desolation. M87 was created in 1995 by Huw Davies, inspirationally catalysed by a television documentary about Black Holes. Originally aiming to create music which expressed the strangeness and extremity of these elusive celestial objects, and as much aided by his extraordinary technical level as a guitar player as limited by his nonexistent technical level on any other instrument, Davies spent over a year developing and perfecting notation, playing, and recording techniques which would enable him to produce an alien orchestral sound with nothing but his 13 guitars and some recording equipment. Ltd x 1000 copies.

TOTAL - 'Exploded Star Sad Servant' CD (Self Abuse Records)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50

Hypnotic, hallucinatory guitar feedback from Matthew Bower (Skullflower, Hototogisu, Sunroof!, Pure). Originally the project was noise and industrial oriented and received occasional help from members of Ramleh and Ake. Towards the later 1980's the sound became more guitar oriented, leading to the creation of Skullflower. In the early 1990's, Matthew brought back the Total name to release his solo music aside from Skullflower. Although almost the releases by the second incarnation of Total are Matthew alone, towards the end he was joined by John Godbert, making Total a duo.

WALDTEUFEL - 'Rauhnacht' CD (Percht) - £11 / £12 / £13

40 minutes of music about the Austrian / South German Rauhnacht rituals. "Rauhnacht" is a rural, ancient soundtrack for the holy Jul nights, combined with dreamy, sad Folk ballads and Pagan Folk-metal hymns. All artwork for this edition was painted by Markus Wolff in May 2007 on wood-plates and the CD has a 16-page booklet with German and English lyrics, presented in a beautiful digipak. Originally released by Terra Fria in 2005, this reissue includes 2 extra tracks and was remastered by Axel Frank (Werkraum).




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