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Cold Spring Bi-Weekly Newsletter - 24th July 2010

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GOATVARGR / VON THRONSTAHL SHIRTS
All Von Thronstahl shirt pre-orders have now shipped!
Goatvargr 'Black Snow Epoch' was further delayed at customs but ships Monday!
We're keeping the pre-order price in place until midnight Sunday - Order now!


COLD SPRING STALL IN BIRMINGHAM!
Cold Spring will have a CD / Record stall at the Radio Black Forest festival in 3 weeks time!
All prices will be around 10% less than those on the website. Email us with your reservations.
***NOW CONFIRMED - IRON FIST OF THE SUN!!!***



GOATVARGR | Black Snow Epoch CD (CSR126CD) £8 / £9 / £10

Shipping: Monday
The second unholy union of Lord Nordvargr (MZ.412, Folkstorm, Toroidh etc) and Goat (USA). Time, pilgrimages and bloodlines have been bourn since the first testament of Goatvargr was witnessed in this era of false knowledge. The first covenant of Goatvargr was baleful, lycanthropic and lethiferous. A rejection of the techgnostic kingdom and circuitry idols which seduce our era. The downfall of light has brought a world of coldness. This Black Snow Epoch is a time to honour our forbearers such as MZ.412 and the elements of flesh, wood and alchemical steel. Industrial loops and analogue keyboards merge with sheet metal and chains to create a solemn winter hymn where the cold steel stings your flesh. The wolf instinctively hunts through the frost, and the goat is blamed for human transgressions, yet during the Black Snow Epoch, the true hunters will pursue. Foldout poster cover.

MP3 | MP3 | Goatvargr

 

VON THRONSTAHL | Conscriptvm 2 x CD (CSR118CD) £14 / £15 / £16

Shipping: Now
Cold Spring are proud to announce a double CD of rare, alternative versions, new and unreleased material from German Martial Industrial legends Von Thronstahl! The sounds on "Conscriptvm" range from Orchestral to Industrial, Neofolk to military-pop and Martial rock, all with the unmistakable, unique sound of Von Thronstahl! This is definitely a release for fans of the early 'classic' Von Thronstahl sound, which gained them the solid reputation they have today and could be considered a companion piece to 'E Pluribus Unum'. Around 140 minutes of fantastic music presented in a luxurious 6-panel digipak.

MP3 | MP3 | Von Thronstahl


FIRE IN THE HEAD | Confessions Of A Narcissist CD (CSR120CD) £10 / £11 / £12

Shipping: Now
"Confessions Of A Narcissist" marks the final full-length release by Fire In The Head ending six years of sonic warfare with an assault of manic, self-indulgent industrial electronics. Drawing as much influence from early punk / hardcore as from industrial / power electronics, FI/T/H was conceived as a cathartic outlet to explore and ratify the delusions and social perversions resultant of psychosis and the darker side of man's conflicted dual nature, to fan the flames which engulf the borders between obsession, compulsion, lust and need. The tracks on this release were recorded in 2007-2008 and are the last of the "short, sharp, shock" vocal tracks which Michael abandoned in favour of "epic" length industrial / ambient compositions. Features guest appearances from Nick Blinko (Rudimentary Peni) and J. Randall (Agoraphobic Nosebleed), with exclusive artwork from Blinko.

MP3 | MP3 | Fire In The Head


MERZBOW | Merzbow T-Shirt (CSR134TS) £11
Shipping: Now
Essential new Merzbow shirt for Cold Spring! Simple and to the point - very high quality black shirt emblazoned with MERZBOW in crimson red. The only shirt to be seen in this summer!
 
 

TENHORNEDBEAST | Hunts & Wars CD (CSR130CD) £11 / £12 / £13

MP3 | MP3
Shipping: Now
THB's 3rd album for Cold Spring. Sub-tuned bass guitar to create rhythms and riffs that dominate vast ritual percussion and droning walls of electric dissonance, creating epic & expansive textures. 6-panel digipak.
 

MACHINEFABRIEK | Daas CD (CSR128CD) £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50

MP3 | MP3
Shipping: Now
A provoking, haunting journey. As with the music of Philip Jeck, The Caretaker or William Basinski, these tracks are full of degrading melodies and dusty ambience. Presented in a matt laminate digipak.
 

FORTHCOMING RELEASES:

PSYCHIC TV
- 'Themes' 4CD Boxset (CSR123B)
EMME YA - 'Atavistic Dreams And Phallic Totems' CD (CSR127CD)
ANNI HOGAN - 'Mountain' CD (CSR132CD)
MERZBOW | Z'EV - 'Spiral Right / Spiral Left' CD (CSR133CD)

ALL AVAILABLE COLD SPRING TITLES

LAIBACH
7 Aug 10, M'era Luna Festival, Hildesheim (DE)

RAMLEH / Z'EV / IRON FIST OF THE SUN
RADIO BLACK FOREST SECOND FESTIVAL OF ELECTROACOUSTIC / PSYCH / DRONE FOLK

• 14 Aug 10, Wagon & Horses, Birmingham (UK) - with Vultures Quartet, Praying For Oblivion, Content Nullity, Cities Prepare For Attack. Buy Tickets

SUPER SONIC 2010
++ COLD SPRING STALL! ++
• 22-24 Oct 10, Custard Factory, Birmingham (UK) - with Swans, Godflesh, Gnaw, Melt Banana and much more! Buy Tickets


ANNI HOGAN
• 18 Nov 10, Kendal Mountain Film Festival, Kendal (UK)
• 26 Nov 10, Dundee Mountain Film Festival, Dundee (UK)


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ANLA COURTIS / EDWARD SOL - 'Sunburst Lux' 7" (Quasi Pop) - £7 / £8 / £9

Both compositions on this record relate to (more or less) “tape music”. The piece from Argentinian experimental master Anla Courtis (aka Alan Courtis) is solely based on manipulated sounds of geysers, recorded in South America. Ukrainian Edward Sol works with weird cassette loops, lo-fi oscillations and some primitive tones from his vintage USSR-made analogue synth Polyvox. Generally speaking, the sound of this record belongs to the monolith dark drone music. Ltd x 300 copies.

All Alan Courtis Titles
All 7" Vinyl

ARKHANOTH - 'Dark Prehispania' CD (Sarcofago Music) - £11 / £12 / £13

Arkhanoth is a one-man Black Ambient / Ritual project from Mexican artist Lord Arkhanoth, with deep pride in his Mexican roots. "Dark Prehispania" is a work based on the Aztec Mythos, unleashing their Magic. Dark Ambient with several elements of Black Metal, Symphonic, Ethno-Ambient, Ritual Rhythms, cavernous voices and the rustle of the wind. In addition to this an abundance of pre-Hispanic instruments are used, making the music somewhat obscure and at times funerary. File next to Melek-Tha, Endvra, Nitrous Flesh, Pragnavit. Digipak. Mexican import.

EMME YA - 'Beyond The Secret Flame (The Aiwass Manifesto)' CD (The Mercurius Collective)
- £11 / £12 / £13

Ritual ambient soundscapes combined with some tribal influences and completed by spoken words from Aleister Crowley's The Book of the Law. This album is the enlightenment path... a magickal portal veiled through the gnostic dissolution of our most in deep essence... a voyage to inner transcendence beyond nothingness. Based on the three chapters of Liber Al Vel Legis sub figura CCXX, in which is revealed through diverse audial soundcapes and atmospheres, the revelations of Aiwass in Cairo, Egypt. When dictating the Book of the Law the three chapters converge in its own enigmatic message dressed through codified phrases and symbolic structures. The whole album is a dedication not to the Scribe (Crowley) but to the vast entity known as Aiwass-shaitan and the totality of experience beyond the complex current 93 and The thlemic trinity. 51 minutes of music over 3 lengthy tracks. Gatefold digifile.

HERMANN NITSCH - 'Eighth Symphony' 2 x CD (Tochnit Aleph) - £18 / £20 / £22

For Choir, Orchestra, And Noise Orchestra. Professionally recorded, extremely dramatic, dynamic, rich, full-blown orchestral music with noise, heavy drones, and Austrian Volksmusik. The first performance of Nitsch's "Eighth Sympony" was on 25 June 1990 at the Museum Für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna. The music was previously released by the Cortical Foundation in 2001 as a 2LP Set limited to a mere 185 copies. The audio has been remastered for this CD edition from the original tapes. The artwork, photos and texts are exclusive to this edition. Ltd x 650 copies in a double size jewelcase including 2 posters with credits, photos, a part of the score, and the text 'Die Gigantische Symphonie' by Günter Brus.

All Hermann Nitsch Titles

IN MEDITARIUM - 'The Great Limbo' CD (Wrotycz) - £11 / £12 / £13

In Meditarum is the Ukrainian apocalyptic ritual and dark ambient project of Olegh Kolyada (First Human Ferro, Oda Relicta). The previous albums “Les Fleurs du Mal” and “Uterus” outlined the old school approach of the project, clearly influenced by highlights of Morthound, Ildfrost, ConSono or Archon Satani. "The Great Limbo" is based on re-engineered early works (1998-2008) selectively crafted anew in summer 2009 at Olegh's home studio. Ltd x 500 copies in a spot-varnished digipak with poster. Artwork by Kati Astraeir.

KAZERIA (KZ) / IGNIIS - 'Summoning The Elder Ones' Enhanced CD (Gradual Hate Records)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50

Kazeria (KZ) & Igniis express the visions, feelings, pleasures and fears that the magnificent opus of H.P. Lovecraft has provoked in mind and spirit thru the years. A work of epic proportions, with mystical ambience that immerses us in the unique cosmology of this fundamental writer. A sonic ritual and an aesthetic tribute to this master of cosmic horror and weird gnosis. From the icy and unknown wastelands of Antarctica, to the forgotten river Skai, from the dark garrets and steeples of Arkham to the sands that burn the Nameless city, Lovecraft's ghost rises over aged ruins and among unspeakable entities, incarnating in the sounds here. Martial, Dark Ambient, Dark Folk music including a mix by Opus Nigrum and a video. Ltd x 500 copies in a gatefold digifile.

All Kazeria (KZ) Titles
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KOUFAR - 'The Purity Of The Cedars' CD (Topheth Prophet) - £10 / £11 / £12

Topheth Prophet presents the latest album from Maronite Resistance unit KOUFAR. 7 tracks of Power Electronics deliver an aural assault on the current Lebanese state, unleashed with genuine brute anger. Middle East politics was never so harsh! Comes in an outsized glossy gatefold card sleeve containing some disturbing imagery. Don't buy if you're easily offended. Seriously. Don't. Israeli import.

MATT SHOEMAKER - 'Tropical Amnesia One' CD (Ferns Recordings)
- £10.50 / £11.50 / £12.50

"More field recordings here, this time around taken from the Amazonas, Brazil, to precise the Mamori Lake. Shoemaker taped the sounds there and treats the whole thing into one piece of music that lasts 64 minutes. If I was to imagine how the Amazonian rainforest would sound like, I think it would sound like this. A fairly thick mass of busy buzzing insect sounds, birds and wind like sounds. Shoemaker opts for a dramatic approach in this work: things start out relatively quiet and moody, but over the course of those 60 some minutes grows with some violent intention. Shoemaker uses strong equalisation, adding low end sounds to the piece, that makes the earth tremble among the heavy weight of this piece. Yet he never loses the clarity of the sounds, birds and insects are always to be recognised here. An excellent piece along the lines of the best of Francisco Lopez (who organises the annual Mamori Sound Project. Shoemaker delivers a great work, perhaps his best so far" (Vital Weekly). Ltd x 300 copies in a 6-panel sleeve held in place with a metal clip.

MERZBOW / THE GUILT ØF... - 'Split' LP (Chrome Peeler) - £15 / £18 / £21

Japanese noise legend Merzbow offers up an assault of violent, swarming electronic distortion swirling with shards of brutal high-end feedback and cosmic oscillating tones, creating a vast whirlpool of caustic aural grit and buzz while Industrial noise punks "The Guilt øf... " a New Orleans-based group made up of Mike IX Williams (EyeHateGod, Outlaw Order, Arson Anthem) and Ryan McKern (Wolvhammer) layer waves of piano, fuzz, tortured vocals, drums and distorted sub-bass to create a mesmerizing and crushing drone-like effect. Ltd x 500 copies with full colour cover.

All Merbow Titles
All LP/12" Vinyl

THE BEING - 'Through Madness To Mercury' CD (The Mercurius Collective /
New Era Productions
) - £11 / £12 / £13

The Being’s debut album deals with the concept of inner-transformation and personal growth on a spiritual level by combining the arts of philosophy and poetry, music and magic into one coherent whole. A musical style perhaps best described as neofolk / neocabaret - though not strictly bound to a genre as such - takes the listener on a journey through a the realms of self-transformation with a strange, unworldly and experimental mixture of moodswings that intentionally shock the mind and purposefully disturb the mental balance. Gatefold digifile with 20-page booklet.

THE BEING - 'Through Madness To Mercury' LP (The Mercurius Collective /
New Era Productions
) - £15 / £18 / £21

The Being’s debut album deals with the concept of inner-transformation and personal growth on a spiritual level by combining the arts of philosophy and poetry, music and magic into one coherent whole. A musical style perhaps best described as neofolk / neocabaret - though not strictly bound to a genre as such - takes the listener on a journey through a the realms of self-transformation with a strange, unworldly and experimental mixture of moodswings that intentionally shock the mind and purposefully disturb the mental balance. Ltd x 250 hand-numbered copies on brown coloured vinyl in a j-card sleeve. ACT FAST!

UNEARTLY TRANCE / THE ENDLESS BLOCKADE - 'Split' LP (Chrome Peeler)
- £15 / £18 / £21

New York doom metal juggernaut Uneartly Trance offer up a side long onslaught of d-beat and doom before plummeting deep into the noise depths while Toronto's The Endless Blockade combine power-violence and power-electronics to brutal effect including the Slogun cover 'I Just Kill'. Ltd x 1000 copies with full colour cover and insert.

All The Endless Blockade Titles
All LP/12" Vinyl

VOLCANO THE BEAR - 'That People Don't Know Who They Are' 7" (Quasi Pop) - £7 / £8 / £9

"One of the stranger bands that I encounter is Volcano The Bear. I never know what to think about them. Sometimes I seem to hate them, and sometimes I just love them. Perhaps its the format here that makes me love them, perhaps its also the fact that they are a rock band in my book and that such a format just works out fine. Two fine slabs of their mutated rock music, which ends up in a sorrowful ballad on 'That People Don't Know They Are Monsters', while on the other side the mutations work out in a more krautrock version. Two strange pieces, but they work well here on this format..." (Vital Weekly). You may think it's a ballad, noise, tribal shamanism, folk or acoustic. Ltd x 500 copies.

All Volcano The Bear Titles
All 7" Vinyl

VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Lágrimas De Miedo Nº15 - Neumes Du Vent' CD & Magazine
(Fear Drop) - £12 / £14 / £16

The 15th issue of Fear Drop magazine (in FRENCH). The accompanying CD features: BJ Nilsen (Hazard, Morthond), Black To Comm, Bruno Moreigne, Cédric Peyronnet + Toy Bizarre Orchestra, Chris Watson (ex-The Hafler Trio, ex-Cabaret Voltaire), Francisco López, Frédérique Bruyas, Jana Winderen, Michael Northam, Mike Harding (Touch boss), Philippe Petit, Tetsuo Furudate, The [Law-Rah] Collective and Thomas Köner.

All Omeyocan Productions TitlesAll Compilations

VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Manifest Destiny' CD (Triskele Recordings) - £11 / £12 / £13

An ambitious compilation which spotlights American artists working within the dominantly European Post-Industrial, Experimental, and Neofolk fields. Each artist has worked within their own relentless vision to produce individual works of remarkable will and quality. Comprised of many exclusive tracks from established artists and newcomers alike, this American document is the first of its kind in the genre. A new sound from the New World! Featuring: Awen, C.O.T.A., Cult Of Youth, David E. Williams, Deform Uniform, Eric K., Gnomonclast, H8!, In Ruin, Luftwaffe, Steel Hook Prostheses, Valence and Verdandi. Digipak.

All Triskele Recordings TitlesAll Compilations

VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Pagan Folk Und Apocalyptic Psychedelia Kapitel II' CD (Steinklang)
- £5 / £6 / £7

An 19 track sampler promoting titles on the Steinklang label and sublabels (Ahnstern, Heimatfolk, Percht, Sturmklang). Features: Allerseelen, Atomtrakt, Birch Book, Dânnâgôischd, Dead Man's Hill, Fräkmündt, Hrefnesholt, Irij, Jännerwein, Larrnakh, Le Testament De La Lumière, Miel Noir, Moon Far Away, Phase II, Stormfågel, Sturmpercht, Uruk-Hai, Vinterriket and Wappenbund. Card sleeve.

All Steinklang TitlesAll Compilations

VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Tonalpohualli 13 - A Mexican Ambient Compilation' CD
(Omeyocan Productions) - £10 / £11 / £12

This compilation shows the art of Ambient music in Mexico. Here 4 projects work with a mix of sounds - Dark Ambient, Pre-Hispanic Rites, Ethereal, Neoclassical, Noise, Experimental, Electro and Ethno-Ambient. Features 3 tracks apiece from: Arkhanoth, Whisper Of Ghosts, Theomorphosys and X-17.

All Omeyocan Productions TitlesAll Compilations
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BOCKSHOLM - 'The Haunting Curse Of Skogs-Sara’ CD (Wrotycz)
- £11 / £12 / £13

The third terror attack by Bocksholm is now here. After two successful albums, Bocksholm now turns to the root of the problem with the album "The Haunting Curse of Skogs-Sara" - and unfolds the curse she laid upon the town of Boxsholm. The music is a dark and explosive experience, it is harder and stranger than ever. It is a psychological weapon that sneaks upon its victims. "The citizens of Boxholm will get fucked - and so will probably you!". Bocksholm is the project of Peter Andersson (Deutsch Nepal) and Peter Andersson (Raison D'Etre). Beatutifully presented in a textured fold-out A5 cover.

NECROPHORUS - 'Imprints’ CD (Wrotycz) - £11 / £12 / £13

Beautiful, sensitive and electrified, "Imprints" is the 5th album from Necrophorus (Peter Andersson / Raison D’Etre) and goes beyond the previous album "Elinros" (2005) by further investigating the aural landscape of imagination and mysticism. "Imprints" vibrates with a fresh air mix of three-dimensional electrified organic field recordings and minimal immersive sequenced organ sounds. With psychedelic atmospheres and aural landscapes Inspired by impressions of Iceland, Peter Andersson has created a new astonishing aural output. Beautiful gatefold textured cover. Polish import.

SUNSET WINGS - 'Covering For Solace' CD (Wrotycz) - £11 / £12 / £13

The debut album of a Königsberg band Sunset Wings is a wide opened window to the world of Neofolk music. Inspired by pearls of English romantic poetry together with traditional ballads of the British isles and the art of Pre-Raphaelites, this album takes you to a marvelous journey in the land of childhood dreams, sweet sorrow and melancholy. Despite the sorrow of lyrics the music of this album more often than not is rather bright and filled with sweet nostalgic melancholy. With it's particular sound and temperament, Sunset Wings takes it's place among famous Russian dark-folk bands, such as Neutral and Romowe Rikoito.
Ltd x 1000 copies in a digipak including booklet with all lyrics.

VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Untitled - A Tribute To Zdzislaw Beksinski ’ CD (Wrotycz)
- £12 / £13 / £14

A tribute to one of the darkest painters of the 20th Century, released on the 2 year anniversary of his death in 2005. As his paintings were never titled, all tracks are unnamed as well. Special, exclusive, Dark Ambient tracks, inspired by the Polish artist from: Asmorod, Contemplatron, Desiderii Marginis, Gustaf Hildebrand, His Divine Grace, Hybryds, Inade, Job Karma, Kratong, Necrophorus, Svartsinn and Zenial. Limited to 750 hand-numbered copes in an outsized fold-out sleeve with a promo card for each artist, each featuring a replica of Beksinski's works. Highly recommended!




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