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S.Q.E.
"Rise Of The Vulcans" CD
(oecd080) Old Europa Cafe
"Out of the abyss but not out of the darkness" Electro-acoustic
production interwoven with heavy rhythms, minimal songwriting, ominous
vocals and neatly placed in a vacuum, high quality recordings &
sounds which have their roots into neo pop'n'folk, dark ambient, dubbing-drones
... This is the 2nd full length release from NY based artist J Greco.
Sometimes aggressive, and other times distant, but without loosing
continuity. Featuring vocals from Tracy Jeffrey (Orchis), Tony Wakeford
(Sol Invictus), and Kris Force (Amber Asylum), and featuring additional
collaborations with Ure Thrall (Asianova / Voice of Eye), and Alan
Trench (Orchis).
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SALA
"En-Trance" CD
(acd008) Autarkeia
Ritual pulsing, archaic sound of wind instruments, deep-dark ambient
and surrealistic, unexpected music bends immersing the audience to
the swirl of phantasmagoric moods. Emotions generated by the "En-tranc"
could be compared with the psychedelic atmosphere of the first albums
of NWW, Hybryds. Interesting record of mystic ritual music. Packed
in a nontypical black plastic DVD case. Limited edition 500 copies.
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SALA
"Schut entering worts" CD
(acd006) Autarkeia
Ritual ambient starting from hypnotic mantras, the music gradually
unravels strong and mystical ambient, the main feature of which being
reiteration transmitted by the sound loops. These are organically
supplemented by the tabors, bells, magic spells and mysterious sounds
floating from the distance and generating only the strong mystic mood
of the audience. Actually, concerning the impact, this music is in
line with the works of world's famous artists acting in this field,
Coil, NWW, Omenya, Hybryds, Deutsch Nepal. The "Schut enteRing
worts" album was recorded by the participants of SALA project
when experimenting with Brion Gysin's dream machine, which formerly
inspired the well-known William S.Burroughs and had a strong psychedelic
effect .Packed in a nontypical black plastic DVD case. Limited
edition 500 copies.
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SATOR
ABSENTIA "Existime" CD
(DV#54) Dark Vinyl
ExisTime is the 4th album by SATOR ABSENTIA.
This time joined by Stephane Dèlia (SA Diktact) the music became
more rythmical ( even if the typical Dark Ambient sounds remain the
main architecture ) and added with tribal and technoid structures
. ExisTime is exploring the concept of Time. Past,Present and Future
are floating, merged in a single layer, opening the infinite of possibilities.
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SCHLOSS
TEGAL "Neoterrik Research: The Hidden History Of Schloss Tegal"
CD
(CSR45CD) Cold Spring
A collection of compilation tracks, pieces only originally available
on vinyl, and new and exclusive material from one of the scene's best
selling, darkest sonic scientists. This is a definitive statement
on the rise of TEGAL from the early days of vinyl and noise to the
modern soundtracks of a uniquely brooding nature.
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SELAXON
LUTBERG "Cold House Of Love" CD
(sel067) Eibon
Pages of a diary under the form of ten minimal soundscapes based upon
emotional sounds made with guitars, piano and heavily processed field
recordings. Hard to say if this is dark ambient or minimal post-rock…
"Cold house of love" is all of this and a lot more. Subtly
disquieting ambience music - a journey through the cold rooms of the
house of love.....
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SEPHIROTH
"Draconian Poetry" CD
(CMI152) Cold Meat Industry
Draconian Poetry is the new album by Sephiroth, a much anticipated
sequel to the 1999 debut, Cathedron, which in itself still finds and
enthralls new listeners six years down the road. Once again, Sephiroth
takes us along on a trip to the twilight zone inbetween darkness and
dawn, to forgotten cities and distant, barely remembered lands, where
ancient rituals and Eastern influences meet pounding metallic poly-rhythms
emanating from subterranean catacombs. If Cathedron moved along the
deep green/blue axis on the chromatic scale - as in the hues of the
jungle and the ocean - Draconian Poetry arrives in the earth-tinted
spectrum: the brownish soil, the corroding greyness of withering,
weather-beaten ruins, and the blindingly green setting sun. Sephiroth
is there to meet you, bidding you welcome at the crossroad where civilization
ends and the unexplored begins; the threshold where dull reality is
terminated in favor of boundless fantasy....
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SHADOW
MAGNET "Source And Purity" CDR
(avatar09) Avatar
The female side of COMBATIVE ALIGNMENT presents
the first full-length recordings devoted to the two-sided face of
mankind. martial structures and drums meet the meditativ side of the
brain and creating a great spectre of martial meditation. very complex
compositions of massive sounds and powerful
drums in a great art niveau style and artwork lead you to the source
and purity...
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SHINKIRO
"Deep Blue" CD+MCD
(ATNR 027/028) Athanor
Debut release by Shinkiro from the futuristic city of Osaka, Japan.
The music could be the perfect soundtrack for films like Dark Water,
Kairo or Cure... Dark ambiances with percussions and a few samples
of smooth women voices. The sound has been once again remastered for
the best pleasure by Andreas Resch of Minox Lay. The digipack looks
stunning and initial copies (500) of the CD will come with a bonus
MCD with 4 reworked tracks by Hybryds.
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SIMULACRUM
"Upuaut" CD
(OECD069) Old Europa Cafe
3rd full length album by this great Slovakian project! "Upuaut"
means in old Egyptian : "that (man), who opens a door" this
album is less ambient than the previous two, containing great tantric
rythms ( sometimes reminding to the best Rapoon ...), many sampled
voices & droning, mystic, hypnotic & sexual sounds... the
perfect soundtrack for your rituals. Booklet cover with sea-landscapes
& sea-ruins.
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SISTRENATUS
"Division One" CD
(CSR61CD)) Cold Spring
Powerful debut of the Canadian noise project. 'Division One' is harsher
and more bombastic than Harlow MacFarlane's now defunct project FUNERARY
CALL. A true onslaught of Black Ambient, Power Noise and Death Industrial.
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SKADI
"Eliwagar" CD
(ART 41) Art Konkret
After his online debut-album “Vergangenheit und Gegenwart”
wich received very good reviews - released at www.lichttaufe.de -
follows his first official CD release on ART-KONKRET. The Goddess
of hunting and of the winter in the germanic mythology is Skadi. So
the CD starts with cold and mystical soundscapes, followed by rituell
percussive elements. Skadi creates a dark athmosphere with chants,
dark dronings, strings, natural sounds but also with percussions and
bells. Because of this SKADI is an interesting mixture of various
dark ambient soundscapes. The project is attractive in its diversified
parts. Similarities to projects like Sephiroth respectively Ulf Söderberg,
Triarii or Vinterriket can be noticed, without being another copy
of them. Opposingly to many monotonous dark ambient projects - which
only well disposed listener will be able to differ one track from
another, SKADI appears as a catchy project by its rhythmic and melodical
elements with Tune Wedgie character. Eliwagar is the soundtrack for
the forthcoming cold wintertimes.
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SKALPELL
"Some Of Nothing" CD
(art40) Art Konkret
With some of nothing ART KONKRET label presents
the third release in the dark ambient series. The CD comes out with
a 17 x 17 cm printed artwork in a plastic packing and is strictly
limited to 300 copies. Crushing fluid ambient sounds are descending
upon the listener, slowly moving waves of pulsating machine sounds
and cold atmospheric elements mixed together with urban athomspheres.
Hollow vocal samples and echoing percussions in the behind pull the
listener in their ban. The album includes also very dark tracks with
high pitched sound and dark cut up´s but also tracks with slow
rhythm. You will discover also ritual incluences but also dark ambient
soundwork. The some of nothing album is all in all very varietal and
you will never get bored.
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SKM-ETR
"Screwdriver City" 3" mCD
(cd032) Freak Animal
Previous full length CD caught plenty of attention
in power electronics scene. In this new mCD, SKM-ETR takes more straight
forward power electronics approach. Hard electronic noise wall with
hateful vocals.
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SKROL
"Dances And Marches For The Orphan Age" CD
(CD001) Dagaz Music
Surfacing somewhere between the harsh attacks of In Slaughter Natives
and the charisma of TMLHBAC's feminine element, Skrol's majestic and
uncompromising music is based on contemporary Classical music, recreated
through Industrial Ambient methods.
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SLEEP
RESEARCH FACILITY "Deep Frieze" CD
(CSR72CD)
Cold
Spring
Ultra deep, glacial Dark Ambient, based around Antarctic co-ordinates.
The polar regions are awe-inspiring environments of inhospitable minimalism,
and at the same time there's a beautiful serenity to be found in their
uncharted bleakness. There's a powerful purity and a timelessness
to be found there; snow which has lain un-trampled for millennia and
ice which formed eons ago; mountain ranges and deserts and rivers
to be found if you look. 'Deep Frieze' is SRF's second album for Cold
Spring and here deep, resonant, abyss-like drones shine forth from
icy chasms below.
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SOLA
TRANSLATO "Ad Infinitum" CD
(SOL028/HSL 020) Eibon Records / Hic Sunt Leones
Alio Die/Opium collaboration, like floating through space one second
and then floating an inch above the ground in deep swamp bush. Always
calm yet constantly flowing, a great release.
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SOPHIA
"Herbstwerk" CD
(cmi96) Cold Meat Industry
From 2001 comes this long out-of-stock milestone, finally available
again, this time in a jewelcase, and without the 3" bonus CDS
which was included in the first edition. But no tears, be happy to
have it available again! Comparisons for this ARCANA side-project
with DER BLUTHARSCH and even IN SLAUGHTER NATIVES are legitimate,
as Sophia paint a similar sort of epic frescos. These are the solemn
and sonorous melodies belted out by the pipers and drummers while
the army retract from a hard day's work at the battlefield, saving
the kingdom from legions of infidels…
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SOULSEARCH
"Liedersammlung" CD
(Ahnstern16) Ahnstern
classic Pagan-Doom Folkmetal with strong and heroic german lyrics
and many medieval elements. Soulsearch started in the early 90ies
to create their own, unique style, which would today be called Folkmetal.
but at that time Soulsearch were alone in the fields. 10 years later,
Folkmetal (or Metalfolk) as we know it nowadays, began to establish
as a own musicstyle. all songs on this album were recorded between
1993 and 2000. The CD includes the final Soulsearch release: the 10"
IHERNO from 2000, which was limited to only 100 copies. the other
songs are a fine selection from their early albums (each album has
sold 3000 to 5000 copies in the 90ies!) + one unreleased track. after
they split in 2001, two ex-Soulsearch members joined again in 2005
and founded together with a third musician OUR SURVIVAL DEPENDS ON
US, a more NEUROSIS-orientated formation. another ex-Soulsearch member
(Haju) is one of the basic-members of STURMPERCHT. Haju and the guys
from O.S.D.O.U. recently formed MAGDALENA, who will release their
first album on Ahnstern in late 2006.
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STALINGRAD
"Court-Martial" CD
(TW1.23) Twilight Records
This is the first album by STALINGRAD, the more
orchestral side of Kirlian Camera. An amazing mixture of bombastic
pompous orchestrations, combining neofolk elements with neoclassical
and industrial atmospheres. This limited re-release comes with new
artwork, remastered in very nice digipack. This full album 'Court-Martial'
was released in 2002 by the now defunct SPKR label. Opressive neo-classical,
utilising militant percussion and heavenly voices, though some tracks
have a more industrial feel.
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STALNOY
PAKT "Russia's Awakening" CD
(product3) ALF
This record shows us the new creative levels of Alexander Lebedev-Frontov's
music and will definitely not disappoint everyone who liked his older
stuff (Linija Mass, Vetrophonia, etc.) as well as everyone who prefer
more multi-level and profound industrial sound-art.
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STORM
OF CAPRICORN "Retours Des Tranchees" CD
(tw1.17) Twilight Records
A remarkable debut on Twilight Records from
Storm Of Capricorn (the side project of Neon Rain, known from their
split “Hopes Die In Winter” with HERR etc). “Retours
Des Tranchées” offers a well balanced mix of martial
pop (with the main theme being World War I) and neoclassical touches,
very much in the vein of Collection D'arnell Andrea, A Challenge Of
Honour or Ordo Equitum Solis, with French lyrics. The CD comes in
a beautiful digipak and is strictly limited to 500 copies only.
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STORMFAGEL
"Ett berg av fasa" CD
(cmi171) Cold Meat Industry
Stormfågel, Swedish born Andreas Neidhardt and Hungarian vocalist
Eva Mag, are back to bless us with a surprisingly phenomenal new work!
The music of Stormfagel combines ethnic sounding neofolk compositions
sung in Hungarian by Eva, with martial tinged orchestral selections
sung by Andreas and Eva together, and their new album, "Ett Berg
Av Fasa", impregnates with a beautiful blend of their very special
mixture of Swedish / Hungarian martial neofolk orchestrations. The
strong and confident voice of Eva Mag sings across the music, in Swedish
and in Hungarian as traditional chants, which works extraordinary
well with the dark romantic orchestral strings and ritualistic martial
drummings, the violins, the bells, keyfiddle and woodwinds. Marching
forward over fields, through ancient woods; Stormfågel has made
its nest and is here to stay. The album is mastered by Jouni Havukainen
(In Slaughter Natives) and again presented in a nice digipak.
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STURM
"Le Prix Du Sang Et Des Larmes" CD
(wop34) War Office Propaganda
Impressive debut by this French neoclassical,
symphonic, martial industrial act. Fourty minutes of music in nine
tracks created in specific orchestral vein. Very interesting music,
not so many mighty, bombastic phrases, but a lot of moving atmospheres.
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STURMAST
"Ibis Redibis Nunquam In Bello Peribis" CD
(cmi175) Cold Meat Industry
Sturmast from Hungary plays a unique kind of
folk influenced martial industrial music. The music contains powerful,
eruptive live drums (toms, snare, bass drum), haunting violin and
cello, acoustic guitar, and a selection of traditional folk instruments
(e.g. kaval, jaw harp). Even the keyboards are "live" recorded
in some ways, and a considerable part of the samples and special effects
are made by the band itself. Absorbing atmosphere links the compositions
which vary from hypnotic monotonous to marching repetitive, from moody
experimental to beautiful, melancholy-filled delicate. The lyrics,
portraying the fight of the historic and modern, spiritual and secular,
uplifting and ill-fated, are mostly in Hungarian (one song is in German),
with English translations in the stylish digipak with booklet.
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STURMPERCHT
"Geister Im Waldgebirg" CD
(percht07) Steinklang Records
"Geister im Waldgebirg" is a journey
through the deepest central-European forests and mountains with all
their strange creatures, fairies, myths and legends. the sounds and
lyrics on this album are engrained in old pagan rites and cults, in
hunters-legends and in tales from darkest woods and the people living
there. the songstyles vary from powerful Martial-Folk hymns, over
fragile Folk-balads, to weird songs about strange people and creepy
animals. several great artists supported Sturmpercht in the making
of this album: first af all Axel from WERKRAUM, who is a basic Sturmpercht-member
since quite a while now. it's Axels perfect guitar- and flute playing
and his skillful hands in mixing, that the Folk-songs have this brilliant
late 60ies/early 70ies touch now. the close Sturmpercht-friends ALLERSEELEN,
SANGRE CAVALLUM and WALDTEUFEL have also recorded fantastic songs
especially for this album. Allerseelen and Sangre Cavallum also contributed
several sounds from their large archives and Waldteufel additionally
gave his voice for "Riesenbrüder". Sturmpercht is the
only Folk-band, who created their own music style named "ALPIN-FOLK",
which is absolutely unique up to now. anyway if you prefer straight
or weird Folk: there is no way around this album for all kinds of
Folk-Lovers. this album will be your closest friend in dark and frosty
winter nights!
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SUB
LUNA "In The Shade Of Time" 2XCD
(dm002) Dagaz Music
Though relying heavily on acoustic guitars,
Sub Luna also incorporates the use of strings, tremolo and even slide
guitar. THe vocals are fantanstic and this is one of the best Dark
Folk album we've heard in years. Features Karjalan Sissit live member
Mikael Lindblom. Lim. 600 copies, includes a bonus disc of early material.
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SUBINTERIOR
"Obstacles" CDR
(df021) Deserted factory
Although we don't get to hear who is behind
Subinteror, he is also involved, as a drummer, in a band called Weltschmerz
and one called Canaan, plus a dark ambient/industrial project Coma
Divine. As Subinteror he works with field recordings, mostly of a
nocturnal kind (safety doors, lapping wheels, industrial refrigeration
plants etc., which sound like recorded at night), which are then transformed
through the use of software. The six resulting pieces are all quite
alright within the realms of dark ambient with industrial touches.
The metallic rumbling of someone trying to break down the fence around
the factory area are embedded in stretched out fields of captured
wind sounds and slowed down conveyer belts. In it's genre nothing
new under the moon, but well executed. Seems like made to measure
for a label with such a name. FdW / Vital Weekly
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SVARROGH
"Balkan Renaissance" CD
(Ahnstern24)
Ahnstern
The Bulgarian Black Folklore ensemble Svarrogh of Dimo Dimov has recorded
another masterpiece of Ritual Folk music. "Balkan Renaissance"
is already the 4th Svarrogh album under the banner of the god of the
sun. This mystic sound-journey drags you along to the ancient heart
of the Balkan mountains, its caves, rivers, villages and people with
their deep mythological roots. Svarrogh's sound is absolutely unique,
not only because of the beautiful mandoline-playing and the bagpipes,
mixed with droning synths, which envocate the return of the sun. Svarrogh
creates a musical look through a grey window to discover the dark
past of Bulgaria´s 19th century and its Renaissance, after years
of osman opression. On "Balkan Renaissance" you can listen
to original passages of famous bulgarian poets and artists like Dora
Gabe, Elisaveta Bagryan, Elin Pelin, Dimitar Talev or the amazing
poems of Ivan Vazov. On this album, Dimo Dimov also pays a tribute
to the genious music of Allerseelen with the song "Kamerad".
And as a special feature, the CD will also contain a so called Martenitsi.
Martenitsa is a Bulgarian heathen/pagan tradition related to March
1, which has its origin in the establishment of the Bulgarian state
in 681 AD. Mart is the Bulgarian word for "March". According
to Bulgarian folklore, the month March marks the beginning of springtime.
Therefor, the first day of March is a traditional holiday associated
with sending off the winter and welcoming the spring. Key-figures
in these ancient traditional rites are the Kukeri, the demons who
banish winter and invite spring and fertility. The Kukeri are the
Balkan counterpart to the Austrian and south Bavarian Perchten. This
album is full of traditional-, pagan- and ritual Folk music, Neo-Classical
songs, Martial drummings and it has even some Industrial moments.
- 18 tracks / 73 min.
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