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Cold Spring Bi-Weekly Newsletter - 13th July 2006

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SUPER SONIC 2006

Just a reminder about next weekend's Super Sonic festival in Birmingham. Headlining on Saturday 22nd will be post-rock / doom giants ISIS, along with other acts of interest such as High On Fire and Michael Gira (Swans). We will have a music stall with nice prices from 4pm onwards near the entrance. Come along and say hello! Click here for full details.

LAIBACH: RETURN OF THE REPRESSIVE
Cold Spring, I.C.R.N. and Capsule present a weekend of Industrial Culture at the Custard Factory, Birmingham. We are now selling tickets for the evening event of 1st September, where LAIBACH will manipulate tape, reel to reel, samples and megaphone (advance ticket only!), followed by shows from our very own SCHLOSS TEGAL, with SURGEON, PCM and SHIT AND SHINE until 3am. This is followed by two more days of Industrial Culture events and the LAIBACH KUNST Inhibition 'Instrumentality Of The State Machine' - full details of which are available at our 'RoTr' page: http://www.coldspring.co.uk/rotr.php

The Laibach event is limited to just 300 tickets (the event which follows will be around 500 places). We advise you to buy tickets EARLY to avoid disappointment! We will also have a stall available with nice prices.

WEBSITE ADDITIONS
We have four new website sections for your browsing pleasure: Newsletters / Reviews / Interviews / Events - just click on any of them on the menu bar at the top of the website.

H.E.R.R. / TOLL
Both albums are off to the factory in a few days time and will be with us within 3 weeks. We will announce as soon as they are available.

PRINTED SUPPLEMENT
Our next printed supplement for July / August 2006 is at the printers. To receive a hard copy, please send us your full postal address: orders@coldspring.co.uk


H.E.R.R. | Vondel's Lucifer - First Movement (CSR69CD)

Available: Mid-July
Taken from the Dutch playwright's 17th century opus, 'Lucifer', this release tells of heavenly discontent amid a jealous tale of angelic rebellion in the face of God's love for humankind. Containing half-sung and spoken vocals, a gentle folk-like melody, baroque composition and rich musical arrangements, this album introduces the first three acts in 75 bombastic minutes. Guest appearances from members of Ostara, While Angels Watch, Belborn and Sagittarius.

UK: £10 | EU: £11 | World: £12
MP3 | Pre-Order Now


TOLL | Christ Knows (CSR66CD)

Available: Mid-July
Cold Spring are very proud to re-issue the legendary LP released by Broken Flag in 1986, now for the first time on CD. Featuring Tim Gane (Stereolab), Paul Lemos (Controlled Bleeding) and Pacific 231. This completely remastered disc features the complete 'Christ Knows' LP plus 3 previously unreleased bonus tracks. Classical old-school British Industrial.

UK: £10 | EU: £11 | World: £12
MP3 | Pre-Order Now


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: £10 | EU: £11 | World: £12
MP3 | Order Now

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
MP3 | Order Now

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
MP3 | Order Now

GOATVARGR | Goatvargr T-Shirt (CSR70TS)
Available: Now
Ltd x 50. Sizes: S / M / L / XL
 
UK: £13 | EU: £14 | World: £15
Order Now

H.E.R.R. | Vondel's Lucifer T-Shirt (CSR57TS)
Available: Now
Ltd x 50. Sizes: M / L

UK: £12 | EU: £13 | World: £14
Order Now

LAIBACH | Neu Konservatiw (CSR38CD)
Available: Now
Official release of the semi-official, legendary 1985 LP. Laibach at their most powerful, orchestral and anthemic!!
UK: £12 | EU: £13 | World: £14
MP3 | Order Now

NEXT PLANNED RELEASES:
John Watermann - 'Calcutta Gas Chamber' CD (CSR52CD)
Sistrenatus - 'Division One' CD (CSR61CD)
Shinjuku Thief - 'The Scribbler' CD (CSR62CD)
Bleiburg - 'Pieces Of A Broken Dream' 2CD (CSR68CD)

ALL AVAILABLE COLD SPRING TITLES

Goatvargr - 'Goatvargr' - From Orkus (DE), Compulsion, SonidObscuro (ES)

Archon Satani - 'Mind Of Flesh & Bones' - From Judas Kiss, DSide (IT), Ritual (IT), SonidObscuro (ES)

Kreuzweg Ost - 'Edelrost' - From DSide (IT), Judas Kiss

H.E.R.R. - 'The Winter Of Constantinople' - From DSide (IT), Judas Kiss

VA - 'Swarm' - From Mentenebre (ES), Ritual (IT), SonidObscuro (ES), Judas Kiss

Deadwood - '8 19' - From Judas Kiss

Kriegsfall-U - 'Kriegsfall-U' - From Judas Kiss

Merzbow Vs Nordvargr - 'Partikel' - From Judas Kiss

VIEW FULL REVIEW ARCHIVE


COLD SPRING RECORD STALL
22nd July 2006, Supersonic 2006, Custard Factory, Birmingham (from 4.00pm)
Click on flyer for full info

LAIBACH: RETURN OF THE REPRESSIVE
+ Surgeon / Schloss Tegal....

1st September 2006, Custard Factory, Birmingham (from 8.00pm)
Click on flyer for full info & tickets

PSYCHIC TV
5th October 2006, The Boardwalk, Sheffield
6th October 2006, Barfly, Birmingham
7th October 2006, Astoria, London

VISIT OUR EVENTS SECTION

 

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+ SPECIAL SPANISH PROMOTION! +
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Trobar De Morte
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ANGEL OF DECAY - 'Covered In Scars’ CD (Desolation House) £12 / £13 / £14

RESTOCK! Angel of Decay provides the seventh instalment of the Desolation House series, Relapse Records/Release Entertainment's premium dark ambient collection. Angel of Decay is Jonathan Canady, formerly of both Dead World and Deathpile, who creates dark surrealism using vintage analogue keyboards. Covered in Scars blends chilling dark ambient with words and concepts culled directly from a lifetime of personal nightmares.


BRIGHTER DEATH NOW - 'Innerwar’ CD (Release Entertainment) £12 / £13 / £14

RESTOCK! Brighter Death Now is the project of Cold Meat Industry label chief Roger Karmanik – and this is easily BDN’s harshest release. Total electronic abuse for fans of the darkest and most morose music within the industrial underground. The grimmest sounding nightmare from the Death Industrial monster delights us with sounds and drones from beyond the ordered physical reality! As with all BDN releases, highly recommended.


DARKWOOD - 'Weltenwende’ CD (Heidenvolk) £12 / £13 / £14

Subsequent to the Darkwood studio album "Herbstgewölk", "Weltenwende" (originally released as a 10” in 2003) finally sees a reissue on CD. Additional to the 8 vinyl-only tracks this version includes 3 brand new re-recordings from the long deleted CD "In The Fields", a collaborative track with Voxus Imp (from the "Flammende Welt" recordings) plus one compilation track which only appeared on vinyl. If you are a Neofolk enthusiast do not miss this opportunity to embark on a mystical journey filled with themes of war, rebellion, sacrifice, and nature. Digipak.


DES ESSEINTES - 'Mondo Macabro’ CD (Malignant Records) £12 / £13 / £14

A classic example of what’s old is new! "Mondo Macabro" compiles all of your favourite Des Esseintes vinyl releases since 2000, completely remastered and boosted them to eye popping levels. If that weren’t enough, there are also 3 bonus tracks. A great history lesson in the short existence of Des Esseintes, each track on each subsequent release just seems to up the ante, with one track more crushing than the next. A steady, doom filled procession of post-apocalyptic, tribal percussion, deadening, jackhammer rhythms, and dramatic, suspense filled atmospheres.


KOSTNICE - 'Finsterfelden’ LP (Reue Um Reue) £13 / £15 / £17

Sofia E.R.'s necromantic solo project KOSTNICE lures its listeners like the pipes of death into lands of desolation and gloomy apathy, where life seems no more than a distant echo or a long forgotten memory. "Finsterfelden" is a ceremonial march into the world beyond, a sombre procession in the limbo of our souls, a reminder of what is sure to come and what therefore already is: our own death and life's vanity. 10 tracks of funeral march music, a blend of dark soundscapes, soothing orchestral loops and discreet use of mysterious samples. The perfect soundtrack for our everyday "Totentanz" and a must-have for all of you conscious living dead! Ltd x 270 hand-numbered copies.


KRISTOFFER NYSTRÖMS ORKESTER - 'brakeHEAD’ CD (Malignant Records) £12 / £13 / £14

Kristoffer Nyströms Orkester is a collaborative project between Peter Nyström (Megaptera / Negru Voda) and Kristoffer Oustad (V:28). 'brakeHEAD' is the result of a post-gig improvisation betwen the two projects from 2005. This is an album that is as majestic as it is bleak, capturing the essence of old school Swedish industrial, but forging a new path towards a dark future. "A phenomenally majestic piece of dark ambience and noise that will leave you totally awe struck. The visceral raw power of the electronics is a thing of untamed beauty that heralds in a new era by which others must now be judged against." [auralpressure]. Digipak.


MACRONYPMHA - 'Intensive Care’ CD (Self Abuse Records) - £12 / £13 / £14

RESTOCK! Macronypmha set the standard for American harsh noise with this release - their first full-length CD. 72 minutes of extreme, brutal, harsh, violent and crunchy noise cut-ups and assaults! Extremely grisly, graphic and explicit imagery - only for the most hardened of constitutions. *** Please state you are over 18 when buying this release!!***


MEGAPTERA - 'The Curse Of The Scarecrow’ CD (Release Entertainment) £12 / £13 / £14

RESTOCK! Eight exclusive tracks - evolving compositions of unsettling Death Industrial in the Cold Meat Industry tradition. “The Curse Of The Scarecrow” blends dark atmospheres with mechanical rhythms to create nightmarish, horror-influenced soundscapes. Highly recommended!


MELANCHOHOLICS - 'A Single Act Of Carelessness’ CD (Multi National Disaster Records) /
(Deafborn) £12 / £13 / £14

Building on the experimentations from their debut CD (with a mix of field-recordings, guitars, electronically manipulated sounds and spoken word fragments), Melanchoholics walk new paths by exploring several acoustic instruments (such as cello and accordion) and add various sources for drones to their gloomy mélange. Dark Ambient Electronics... with minimal guitar melodies and drones. "Wake up with a thousand dreams and visions all shattered to dust... Join the noonday demons!"


MERZBOW - 'Pinkream’ CD (Dirter Promotions) £12 / £13 / £14

RESTOCK! This CD is a re-issue of the extremely hard to find and collectable double 10" set of the same name - with two extra tracks. Brutal Japanese Noise for the harshest of souls. Ltd x 1000. Very few copies in stock - act fast on this one!!!


MERZBOW - 'Venereology’ CD (Release Entertainment) £12 / £13 / £14

RESTOCK! ‘Venereology' is one of his most abrasive records and in many ways a definitive Merzbow release. Sure it's atonal, arrhythmic, non-melodic. By most dictionary definitions I suppose it isn't music - except the one that has music as organised sound. Because this is certainly organised, for those who have ears to hear: brilliantly produced and mixed, with layer upon layer of textures and timbres creating a constantly shifting vista of immersive noise. It really is ambient music, hypnotic and, dare I say it, relaxing. Perfect for scouring your ears and head of all the unwanted noise the world bombards us with.


R-A-A-N - 'The Nacrasti’ CD (Malignant Antibody) £12 / £13 / £14

RESTOCK! R-A-A-N delivers dark-ambient in it's classic pure-form, at times, conjuring the spirit of Heresy-era Lustmord or vintage Raison D'Etre. Heavy ritualistic drones, sporadic rhythmic accents, and deep subsonics that will vibrate your very core. Thematically, The Nacrasti explores an ancient desert culture that was advanced beyond its time and yet long forgotten by history. Your dark evolving journey into this lost "Nacrastan" landscape is streaked with the warm hue of sun-bleached rock, sand, gold, and fire. A serenely brooding work with a myriad of nocturnal sub-textures. Beautiful packaging.


RAMLEH - 'Too Many Miles’ CD (Dirter Promotions) £12 / £13 / £14

RESTOCK! Project of Philip Best (Whitehouse) and Gary Mundy (Breathless). This is the eagerly awaited CD collection of all the long unavailable Ramleh singles. While they were originally grouped as a noise band with contemporaries such as Whitehouse, have migrated over the years to be considered one of the leading exponents of UK "noise rock" (similar to Skullflower etc). Many of these tracks originally only saw a very limited release. Features artwork from Philip Best’s personal collection and is presented in a glossy digipak. Ltd x 1000. Rare and long out of print!


ROBOT - 'Issue #2’ Magazine - £2.50 / £3.50 / £4.50

Nice little fanzine from Turkey (not sure we've ever stocked any fanzines from Turkey before!). English language apart from one Turkish interview. 34 pages of interviews with Einstürzende Neubauten, Richard Ramirez, Guilty Connector, C-Drik, Sikhara, Niko Skorpio, Ovro, Joe Colley, Kazuya Ishigami, Penyynep, Hermit, Defektro, and articles on Grunt and Sunao Inami. A5 xerox zine, hence the price.


ROCK-A-ROLLA - 'Issue #4’ Magazine - £5 / £6 / £7

Fourth edition of this bi-monthly UK mag. Features interviews with Subtle, Chris McGrail ( Slomo - who recently toured the UK with Sunn 0))) ), Ghostigital, Big Business, Kaada, Lords, Zombi, Sika Redem. Plus great articles on Southern Lord and The New Blockaders and a big bunch of album/live reviews. Always highly recommended.


SLOGUN - 'Sacrifice Unto Me’ CD (BloodLust / Circle Of Shit) - £12 / £13 / £14

This is the first of the "History Of Violence" CD re-release series documenting the first seven Slogun cassette full-lengths. "Sacrifice Unto Me" was the first Slogun release, issued as a limited personal edition of 10 just for friends on Slogun's own Circle Of Shit label in May, 1996, shortly followed by an edition of 50 copies on the BloodLust! label in June of 1996. The CD design was executed by John Balistreri (Slogun), while the mastering was completed by Jerome Nougaillon (Hermetique / Propergol).


TOTAL - 'Exploded Star Sad Servant’ CD (Self Abuse Records) - £12 / £13 / £14

Formed by Matthew Bower (Skullflower / Sunroof!), Total was a noise and industrial oriented project, often with help from members of Ramleh and Ake. Bowers went on to form Skullflower, which ended Total. This album is representative of the really, really loud and noisy side of Total - violent guitar expression and pure noise.


TROUM & YEN POX - 'Mnemonic Induction’ CD (Malignant Records) £12 / £13 / £14

RESTOCK! A 60 plus minute exploration through nebulous, grey areas of the mind, expansive drones and spiraling vortexes of sound that hover near the shadowy, distorted zones of a nightmare before ascending to mountainous heights and dense, billowing climaxes. Many-layered atmospherics, mysterious and otherwordly and highly listenable. This collaboration comes close to the standard style of Yen Pox but it's sufficiently shaken up by the more original ideas of Troum. The ultimate dream-like Ambient experience. Comes in a beautiful fold-out digipak.


UN DÉFI D'HONNEUR - 'Le Mort Homme’ 12" (Neuropa) £10 / £12 / £14

Peter Savelkoul returns with A Challenge of Honour's French alias. "Le Mort Homme" is a masterpiece of elegant, brooding and bombastic Neoclassical music. With sweeping, nostalgic strings, martial percussion and orchestrations, this a compelling and majestic requiem. Presented in a beautifully designed, exquisite gatefold, this a true must-have! Ltd x 444 copies.


VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Funeral Songs’ CD (Crowd Control Activities) - £12 / £13 / £14
RESTOCK! A concept compilation, aimed to recreate the emotional experience and feelings brought on by the subject matter. Drawing from the concept of a funeral, these tracks were assembled to create a unique mood and vision. Dark Ambient, Noise, Dark Wave and Experimental music from: Raison d'Etre, Tertium Non Data, Amber Asylum, Agnivolok, C17H19N03, Shinjuku Thief, Alio Die, Gruntsplatter, Dreams In Exile, Nasopharyngeal, Chaos As Shelter, House Of Low Culture and 27.

VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Music Should Hurt’ CD (Self Abuse Records) - £12 / £13 / £14
RESTOCK! Classic Noise compilation with exclusive material from: Merzbow, K2, Smelll & Quim, Daniel Menche, Pain Jerk, Thirdorgan, Macro Beaulieau (Macronympha & Emil Beaulieau), Iugula-Thor, Evil Moisture, OVMN, Bacillus, Hyper Ventilation, Killer Bug and Hanged Mans Orgasm. Painful stuff!

VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Soundtrack For The End Of The World ’ CD (Self Abuse Records) - £12 /
£13 / £14
RESTOCK! Power Electronics and Noise from: Native X, Taint, Con-Dom, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Macronympha, The Haters, Aube, S*CORE, Skin Crime, Diesel Guitars, Violent Onsen Geisha, and Thomas Dimuzio.

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