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Cold Spring Bi-Weekly Newsletter - 7th September 2006

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SOL INVICTUS
Cold Spring are very proud to present the first Sol Invictus London show in 7 years! Supported by Cold Spring artists Rose Rovine e Amanti and English gent Andrew King. The event will take place on 2nd December 2006 at the Water Rats Theatre. We look forward to a memorable night of Folk Noir! Tickets on sale now! Included in the ticket price is a FREE CD (not CDR) with 3 exclusive tracks from each act (9 tracks in total). Click here for full details and to buy tickets!

LAIBACH
A quick thank you to everyone that made it to the LAIBACH - `RETURN OF THE REPRESSIVE` show on 1st September. A very successful night - and also a great show from SCHLOSS TEGAL! Photos will be online soon.

SAGITTARIUS
Check out our artists section for the new Sagittarius artist page.


BLEIBURG | Pieces Of A Broken Dream (CSR68CD)

Available: September
Over the years many bands from the Industrial / Neofolk spectrum have collaborated with Croatian artist Bleiburg. Here, for the first time, those alliances are collected together in a double CD set. Bleiburg also executes seven unreleased solo tracks. Features: Amir Baghiri, Aube, Cawatana, Cellar Of Rats (ex-Kerovnian), Harvest Rain, Larrnakh, Lonsai Maikov, Nocturne, Obscure Resistance, Project Toth, The Soil Bleeds Black, Telepherique, Thorn Agram and Vidna Obmana. Pre-order this double CD for the price of a single CD!

UK: £12 | EU: £13 | World: £14
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JOHN WATERMANN | Calcutta Gas Chamber (CSR52CD)

Available: September
The concept of aurally conveying the horror of a gas chamber was realised through field recordings in an abandoned electrical power station in Brisbane in 1992. The sounds are grating and harsh, a mixture of field recordings and electronic manipulations. One can rarely pinpoint a location or action but the images the sounds conjure up are of all sorts of nefarious activites related to death by machinery. The sleeve notes take you into the horror that is the Calcutta Gas Chamber. A beautifully composed and produced CD, completely remastered and re-packaged.

UK: £10 | EU: £11 | World: £12
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H.E.R.R. | Vondel's Lucifer - First Movement (CSR69CD)
Available: Now
A gentle folk-like melody, rich musical arrangements and baroque composition. Guest appearances by Ostara, While Angels Watch, Belborn & Sagittarius.
UK: £12 | EU: £13 | World: £14
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TOLL | Christ Knows (CSR66CD)
Available: Now
Classic old-school British Industrial featuring Tim Gane (Stereolab), Paul Lemos (Controlled Bleeding) and Pacific 231.
UK: £12 | EU: £13 | World: £14
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ROSE ROVINE E AMANTI | Rituale Romanum (CSR67CD)
Available: Now
Italian neo-folk with a neoclassical touch. Christianity and old European cabaret sin, love and hate. Feat. Von Thronstahl, Belborn & Pamela Gargiuto.
UK: £12 | EU: £11 | World: £12
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NECROPOLIS | Necrosphere (CSR51CD)
Available: Now
An immense Dark Ambient creation from Siberia. Based on field recordings made in Taiga and disused military missile shafts.
UK: £12 | EU: £13 | World: £14
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GOATVARGR | Goatvargr (CSR65CD)

Available: Now
Unholy alliance of Goat & Nordvargr. A brutal and violent harsh noise masterpiece. For fans of MZ.412.
UK: £12 | EU: £13 | World: £14
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NEXT PLANNED RELEASES:
Sistrenatus - 'Division One' CD (CSR61CD)
Shinjuku Thief - 'The Scribbler' CD (CSR62CD)
Inanna - 'Day Ov Despair' CD (CSR71CD)
Sleep Research Facility - 'Deep Frieze' CD (CSR72CD)

ALL AVAILABLE COLD SPRING TITLES

Rose Rovine e Amanti - 'Rituale Romanum' - From Alternativmusik (DE)

Necropolis - 'Necrosphere' - From Beyond All Remorse

VA - 'Swarm' - From Funprox, ikEcht (NL)

Deadwood - '8 19' - From Vital Weekly

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Cold Spring presents:
SOL INVICTUS / ROSE ROVINE E AMANTI / ANDREW KING

2nd December 2006, Water Rats Theatre, London (Tickets on sale 7th September)

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ROSE ROVINE E AMANTI
9th September, Rock Club, Ronchi Dei Legionari (IT)

H.E.R.R.

16th September 2006, Het Kasteel, Alphen aan den Rijn (NL)

LAIBACH
10th December 2006, Palladium, Warsaw (PL)
16th December, Estragon, Bologna (IT)

PSYCHIC TV
5th October 2006, The Boardwalk, Sheffield
6th October 2006, Barfly, Birmingham
7th October 2006, Astoria, London
10th October 2006, Paradiso, Amsterdam (NL)

Z'EV
17th - 19th November 2006, The Regent Theatre, Boston (USA)

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ANGEL OF DECAY - 'Radio Brain Damage’ 7" (BloodLust!) - £5 / £6 / £7
"Radio Brain Damage" is the first vinyl release by Angel of Decay, the main project of Jonathan Canady (Deathpile, Dead World, Blunt Force Trauma). This 7" follows the well-received CD, "Covered in Scars". Chilling dark, surreal ambient culled directly from a lifetime of personal nightmares. Ltd x 300 copies on white vinyl with insert - all packed into a minimal sleeve. FEW COPIES - ACT FAST!

AS ALL DIE - 'Victory’ CD (Flood The Earth) - £12 / £13 / £14
Without question the most harsh and aggressive martial industrial release from As All Die to date. 'Victory' presents the more Industrial side of this Neofolk/Industrial act - mixing elements of heavy percussion, harsh soundscapes, aggressive and spoken vocals, droning synths and WWI samples into its epic hypnosis. Not for the timid!

CAWATANA / STORM OF CAPRICORN - 'Split’ CD (Twilight Records) - £12 / £13 / £14
This full album contains 5 unreleased tracks of Cawatana in a martial / neoclassical / dark ambient / military pop vein, but experimental, and an excursion into styles. Storm Of Capricorn also contributes 5 unreleased songs, in the classic military, ambient style. They also offer a cover version of the Kate’s Bush song 'Cloudbusting' and a vocal collaboration written by Kutna Hora’s frontman Gabriel Carbone. Argentinian import presented in a nice digipak.

DUAL - 'Caste’ CD (CEE Recordings) - £12 / £13 / £14
Released on CD on Dual’s label CEE, this full length album comprises six tracks over 48 minutes and is an accomplished release of pure unfettered energy bursting to the seams. Forever bringing the sounds clearer to the front and then demolishing into pure nothing. Crackling interference and bubbling rhythms compound from a foundation built of syncopated static and whispers leaving the spinning clicks and tones to gyre and tumble beneath. A gem for collectors of minimal electronics and drone.

DUAL - 'Keimar Sty’ CD (Coombe Records) - £12 / £13 / £14
As always, all the sounds on this release are derived from the guitar and this second full CD release shows Dual exploring rhythms and percussion coaxed from the guitar while applying various treatments and manipulation. Although some traditional methods of playing the guitar have been employed on the recordings of this album the finished mixes show no real sign of a plucked guitar string. Drones and textures are interwoven with clicks, pops and buzz from the electronics with subtle bass rhythm to create a soundbed of drifting melancholic ambience.

ENDVRA - 'Black Eden’ CD (Red Stream) - £12 / £13 / £14
RESTOCK! Much demanded re-issue of this long deleted classic album, originally released in 1996. Endvra are electronic soundscape alchemists combining synthesizers with (un)healthy doses of Aleister Crowley, H.P. Lovecraft and psychedelic chemical enhancement. The sinister music of Endvra has gathered appreciation from an increasingly diverse audience and nothing in the Dark Ambient category has ever emerged to dethrone this work of sinister aural mystery. "Black Eden" is a HP Lovecraft tale set to music: medieval devil worship and sabbat dancing invoking the entire spectrum of preternatural beasts which inhabit the realm of Cthulhu and are spoken of in the fabled "Necronomicon". A truly horrifying collectors masterpiece for the discerning Endvra / Lovecraft acolyte. This is the “Gold Edition”. Recommended!

ENDVRA - 'Elder Signs’ 2 x CD (Red Stream) - £15 / £16 / £17

RESTOCK! Red Stream have resurrected the dead souls of these primal recordings and added to them rare, exclusive bonus material to produce an album that documents the early years of Endvra. An exhaustingly massive compendium of Dark Ambient hallucinogenic madness for unholy rites by the mysterious cult with Stephen Pennick (Ontario Blue) and Christopher Walton (TenHornedBeast). Endura present 2 discs bursting at the seams with 144 minutes of psychologically disturbing music to consume absinthe & open your veins with! The Elder Sign has risen. Absolutely essential!


FILIVS MACROCOSMI - 'Oxymoron Structures’ CDR (OMS Records) - £6 / £7 / £8
Hailing from Ukraine's dark electronics Mecca Zhitomir city, Filivs Macrocosmi represents the latest revelations within the realms of free electronica / field recordings / isolationism, solidly based upon the literary notion of oxymoron - a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction. Indulge yourself in the structures of a deep subconscious movement, leading towards the ever-present universal balance through the reunion of the contradictions our lives filled with. Soporific ambient / tribal / dark ambient at its best. Also contains collaborations with First Human Ferro and Sorfeum. Ltd x 111 hand-numbered copies in slimline DVD case.

FIRST LAW - 'Beyond IO’ CD (Loki Foundation) - £8 / £9 / £10
First released as limited CD/12” set and now available as mid-price release! First Law's potency of sound increases with each release in atmosphere and recounting interaction. "Beyond IO" casts a large shade and proves once more the inimitable profile of this artist. Twanging sculptures manifested by an immense power of frequencies are falling like a tempest into a sensational and pulsating world always stored by multilayered levels. Close your eyes and open your ears and dig deep into a galaxy generated by tonal and artistical visions. Enter the plateau of ultimate sound design and enjoy the view from the observation tower over all categorical perception! Standard slip case.

GOAT / T.E.F. - 'Split’ 7" (Dada Drumming / Philosophy Shop) - £5 / £6 / £7
Another great release from the Texas Noise scene. TEF’s side offers up some excellent dynamic harsh noise bursting with energy. Overblown distortion gives way to seething reverb and a dark atmosphere makes the track complete. Goat kicks things in with no delay. Rough, dense and unrelenting harsh noise played with total conviction. Harsh walls of noise for the purists. Ltd x 300 copies in a clear heavy-duty PVC cover. FEW COPIES - ACT FAST!

IHVHLXXII - 'Dtzenioutha’ CD (Dying Art Productions) - £12 / £13 / £14
RESTOCK! Pure Dark Ambient from this exciting Australian act. Based on the Occult with a basis of infantile autims. One track is an enochian version of Aleister Crowley’s work. With a more mature release than their previous release ‘Shemhamphorash’, IHVHXXII are building their own mythical empire of melancholy, isolation and exquisite rumbling soundscapes. “So silent for the lost soul…”. File next to luminaries such as Raison D’être, Northaunt and Inade. An exceptional release. Ltd x 1000 copies only. Chinese import.

IHVHLXXII - 'Shemhamphorash’ CD (Dying Art Productions) - £12 / £13 / £14
Re-edition of the first release on Dying Art, China (original on Pro-CDR, ltd x 200). IHVHLXXI, whose name derives from the ancient Greek and Hebrew symbols for fire, water, air and earth, originate from provincial China. Their music comes with a deep philosophical and historical origin. The music shifts from ghostly and heavy Dark Ambient with insane Chinese screams and ramblings, to guitar-based and percussive pieces, to melancholic Neoclassical compositions. Also included is a cover of ‘Forbidden Colours’ by Ryuichi Sakamoto and LOTS of recognisable samples. Very varied CD indeed. Nicely presented in a matt digipak with insert. Limited to 500 copies. Chinese import.

INADE - 'Colliding Dimensions’ 4 x CD Boxset (Loki Foundation) - £25 / £27 / £29
RESTOCK! The long requested compendium that closes a circle from near the starting point of the project to their Peryt Shou release. All material of this set was recorded and sculptured during live shows and rehearsal sessions from 1995 to 2002 and was especially selected and mastered to receive high quality audio recordings with no compromise in sound. A third of the tracks have not been released in any form yet and this release brings back as well a lot of long sold out material like Vitriol, Flood Of White Light and more in new and powerful live versions. Four CDs and a glossy booklet presented in a beautiful box with fantastic artwork! We don’t expect these to hang around for long! FEW COPIES - ACT FAST!

INADE - 'Samadhi State’ CD (Loki Foundation) - £12 / £13 / £14
A Japanese edition of collected studio works from the last few years, recorded during several sessions - remixed, re-constructed and re-edited in 2005. This release accompanied the Spring Equinox concert in Tokyo and is now available outside of Japan. "Samadhi State" illuminates the space of reality and the luminous arcs of dreams. Samadhi is a over-conscious experience that lies beyond waking, dreaming, and deep sleep. A perfect condition in vigil, a condition of absolute consciousness. It is the final goal of everything and the highest form of self-possession. The Samadhi State is the fourth dimension, where the infinite eternity prevails. A stunning Dark Ambient release. Presented in a beautiful digipak with spot varnishing.

INADE - 'The Crackling Of The Anonymous’ CD (Loki Foundation) - £12 / £13 / £14
RESTOCK! This dark and hallucinatory masterwork, is constructed via the never heard utterances of the void, while tapping into the psyche of the impossible. A stunning dark ambient release that defies all logic because it creates its own! Gorgeous 6-panel digipak by the masters of Dark ambience!!

IN MEDITARIUM - 'Mare Internum’ 7" (Drone Records) - £5 / £6 / £7
RESTOCK! Ukrainian outfit headed by Oleg Kolyada (FILIVS MACROCOSM), joined by Oda Relicta (FIRST HUMAN FERRO). A perfect example of "esoteric-organic-drones" which impress the listener with the density and fullness found in their music. Gentle waving drones added with sub-bass pulses, all in a suspended state while hidden harmonies appear in the background. First edition. Ltd x 300 white vinyl. Act fast!

JOHANN WLIGHT - 'Yvnshrynd’ Pro-CDR-EP (Queasy Listening) - £6 / £7 / £8
A 23 minute psychogeographic meditation, ‘yvnshrynd’ weaves together a series of recordings gleaned from Wlight's immediate environment. Recorded in Suffolk 2005, ‘yvnshrynd’ has evolved organically from intricate sound studies, serendipitous discoveries at temporally significant points and with a spirit of ludic yet disciplined experimentation. The key philosophical theme behind the music on ‘yvnshrynd’ is the glyph for Virgo, taking its cue from Ean Begg in The Cult Of The Black Virgin. Wlight’s delicate and methodical approach has mined a beautifully layered and wonderfully restrained piece of music.

KHMER ROUGE - 'Songs Of The Khmer Rouge’ CDR (Year Zero Recordings) - £6 / £7 / £8
A collection of propaganda songs of the Cambodian Khmer Rouge army. South East Asian music, with propaganda lyrics of the notorious Khmer Rouge, to get the people to work in the fields for the almighty 'Angkar' (the 'Organisation'). Includes photos and a piece of Khmer krama (shawl). Presented in a black A5 package with photos. Black CDR with the Khmer Rouge flag print. Limited to just 30 hand-numbered copies on Year Zero Recordings (Netherlands). Extremely limited - act fast!

LEBENSWELT - 'Lebenswelt’ CD (RAIG) - £12 / £13 / £14
This self-titled limited edition album is both an official debut by the project and a perfect introduction to their creative activity as it collects the most intriguing recordings from 2004-2005. Inspired by the ambiguous works of German prophet poet and translator Stefan George (1868-1933), Lebenswelt to a great extent sounds aristocratic, remote, and dark, with many references to the modern European symbolist movement. Mixing distinctive drones and ambiences with repetitive industrial hammerings, well-designed noise layers, and shape-shifting rhythmic structures, they depict apocalyptic industrial canvas with morose and hopeless atmosphere. Presented in a stunning cardboard package. Russian import.

MELEK-THA & CAMISOLE - 'Moloch Reign Of Fire’ 2 x CDR (None) - £13 / £14 / £15
Belgian act Camisole teams up with legendary French black industrial act Melek-Tha for 2 hours of apocalyptic, blackened industrial anthems dedicated to ancient God Moloch. Rhythmic and heavy, reminding of MZ.412. A hellish collaboration! You know what to expect! Ltd x 100 hand-numbered copies in a sealed card box, released by Melek-Tha himself.

NOSTALGIA / CERBERUS - 'Axis I / Seasons Of Decay’ Pro-CDR (None) - £10 / £11 / £12

US act Nostalgia team up with UK act Cerberus for 50 minutes of audial terror, diving deep into the darkest corners of the human psyche. Blackened ambient and ritual rhythms which call forth the void - that state of being, of primordial bleakness, the infinite and meditative, yet dark, brooding and beautiful. Eerie and haunting soundscapes with noisy aspects, with drones evoking images of decay and madness.


PENITENT - 'A Shapeless Beauty’ CD (Trinity Records) - £12 / £13 / £14

Grand, orchestral dark industrial from the main project of Norwegian artist Karsten Hamre. Majestic soundscapes collide with ethereal washes and martial rhythms in the vein of early CMI releases. This is Penitent better than ever before! Digipak. Hong Kong import.


PROPERGOL - 'Un Déchaînement De Violence / Cleanshaven’ 2 x CD (Functional) - £16 / £17 / £18
The band's first recordings/releases, issued only on very limited CDr editions and now made available again. Dense unhealthy atmospheres, well structured Power Electronics, noise supported by dark and loud rhythms and samples, collages and some vocals. Double digipak. VERY FEW COPIES - ACT FAST!

SKULLFLOWER - 'Tribulation’ CD (Crucial Blast) - £12 / £13 / £14
A black-void beaming of utterly destroyed drone rock and crushing amplifier obliteration that rains down black ash and punishing blasts of feedback skree on the listener. A dynamic, bleary-eyed meditation. An avalanche of powerdrone that threatens to take your cranium apart and transport your grey matter into filthy new dimensions infested with melodic razor cuts and submerged mantras. A triumphant eruption of apocalyptic meta-metal and radioactive raga swarms, guaranteed to loosen eardrums. This album is one of the heaviest, harshest slabs of guitar Armageddon from Matt Bower since the glory days of Total, and bridges the void between the krautrock/celestial free drone influence of the last few Skullflower albums, and the blackened molten death of his Mirag material.

THEE FREE - 'An Area Full Of Meat’ CDR (Freenoise) - £6 / £7 / £8
Ultra bizarre free noise freak out ritual recorded entirely in one live and drunken solo cathartic session underground (the Freenoise basement). Voodoo drumming, percussion, harsh electric scuzz, rats, strings, vocals-in-tongues, iron bed, whistles and whips. No frills. Ltd x 50 only. Buy at your own risk.

TURBUND STURMWERK - 'Weltbrand’ CD (Loki Foundation) - £12 / £13 / £14
LIMITED RESTOCK! Turbund Sturmwerk confronts the horrors of war in a series of vivid virtual bloodbaths that set the mind reeling: crackling martial drums, howling electronics, and hectoring disembodied voices, mingled with an informed interest in the forces of darkness and destruction that appear wholly relevant to the context of mass human butchery. The cover art includes photographs and drawings of vengeful demons and ruined tumbled worlds. Act fast!

WOMBA - 'Evidence Of Letta’ CD (RAIG) - £12 / £13 / £14
The fascinating allure of sound sculptures, organic and industrial flotsams of the WOMBA origin, catalyzed by the manipulations of the local underground scene's most prolific lunatic Tikhon S. Kubov. It is neither a return to the aggravated sonic assault of the preceding album, nor a reproduction of the kind of noise you would expect nowadays - but somewhat more soft. A refined post-industrial symphony of nostalgia, sentiment and lust. Normally, it works without breaks as one single piece, but the montage specific character allows a listener to spin one's own web of twenty four audio-cells by programming the ‘Letta’ tracks to playback in any order. “Make your own Evidence!”. Presented in a stunning cardboard package. Russian import.

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