Combative Alignment – … And Outside Glows The Red DawnLabel: Malignant Records – TumorCD24Format: CD, Album, Limited EditionCountry: USReleased: 2005Style: Dark Ambient, Experimental, Industrial First full length CD from this powerful and visionary German project. And Outside Glows the Red Dawn can perhaps be seen as Combative Alignment’s benchmark recording, offering 6 tracks that work as a virtual musical thoroughfare to a more dreamlike, illusory state. Deeply brooding atmospheres, where omniscient layers of drones and reverberating sound currents meet measured, ritual percussion as performed under the glowing, gloomy haze of a primordial sunrise. And Outside Glows the Red Dawn shines a dim light on a world of obscure origin, full…
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Raven Wings – Necessary Illusions
Raven Wings – Necessary IllusionsLabel:Twilight Records – TW 1.92Format: CD, AlbumCountry: ArgentinaReleased: 2011Genre: ElectronicStyle: Modern Classical, Darkwave Necessary Illusions is the first album of the Argentinian band RAVEN WINGS. This young duo takes us on a journey that tells themes as love, life, death and distress. There are accompanied by a Gothic atmosphere delicately combined with elements of Baroque music, and being shaped by the participation of a string trio and electronic sounds that give this particularity in style. The album has the structure of a book; each song is a separate section that guides the listener into the musical narrative. So then, the musical and literary plot is finished.
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THE SOIL BLEEDS BLACK – Quintessence
The Soil Bleeds Black – QuintessenceLabel: The Fossil Dungeon – FD0040Format: CD, Album, DigipackCountry: USReleased: 2011Style: Medieval Long out-of-print, The Fossil Dungeon and Argentina’s Twilight Records have teamed-up to re-issue “Quintessence,” the fifth full-length album from THE SOILS BLEEDS BLACK lengthy discography of esoteric, folk-driven, traditionally inspired medieval music. “Quintessence” consists of five neo-medieval folk songs, each based on the alchemical elements of earthe, air, fyre, water, and quintessence. This fifth album of theirs showcases the longest songs ever recorded by the band and accomplishes a sound unlike any of their previous musical efforts, while still maintaining their standard of medieval atmosphere. Considered their «neo-folk» album, this release is filled…
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The Vision Bleak – The Unknown
The Vision Bleak –The UnknownLabel: Prophecy Productions – PRO 191 CDFormat: CD DigisleeveCountry: GermanyReleased: 03 Jun 2016Style: Gothic Metal The second birth of The Vision Bleak With «Witching Hour» (2013), The Vision Bleak returned to their musical and conceptual roots. They had come full circle – Schwadorf and Konstanz arrived at the end of a journey spanning five albums. They knew exactly that the band’s next step had to mark a new beginning, an advance into … the unknown. The title «The Unknown» says it all. For their sixth album, The Vision Bleak broke free from the songwriting patterns of the past and dared to compose without any bias or…
