• CD,  GH Records

    Suveräna song, included in the CD of Estigmas – The Short Movie & Music Compilation

    Estigmas – The Short Movie & Music Compilation – GH Records (gradualhate.info)

    A Film by Jose Moral & José Luis Martínez:

    During World War II, German scientists and occultists, in their quest for perfection, developed a substance capable of creating a mystical metamorphosis in men and enhance their human condition. A key to get in tune with the gods and achieve a higher level of existence. With the fall of Germany after an atomic bomb that razed the entire country and its empire, the substance called FUTHARK 5 fell in the hands of a secret society whose apology was the mind control and decay. This sect used the substance and its effects as an instrument to extinction.
    After one of these experiments, one of his guinea pigs escaped, developing the original effects of the substance, passing to another dimensional plane and posing a threat to the organized chaos.

    Estigmas + La Glorificación del Icono Traumatico is a cult film, a philosophical thriller, GH Records rescues from oblivion with image enhancements and new songs to the soundtrack.

    In the original motion picture we can find bands such as: Death in June or The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud, even though they appeared in the original soundtrack of the film, finally they’ve been not included in the publication of the B.S.O. …A Film Cult.


    Durante la II Guerra Mundial, científicos y Ocultistas Alemanes, en su búsqueda por la perfección, desarrollaron una substancia capaz de crear una metamorfosis mística en el hombre y realzar su condición humana. Una llave para entrar en sintonía con los dioses y alcanzar un nivel superior de existencia. Con la caída de Alemania tras una bomba atómica que arraso todo el país y su imperio, la substancia denominada FUTHARK 5, cayó en manos se una sociedad oculta cuya apología era el control de la mente y la decadencia.
    Esta Secta utilizó la sustancia y sus efectos como un instrumento para la extinción. Tras uno de estos experimentos, uno de sus cobayas logró escapar, desarrollando los efectos originales de la sustancia, pasando aso a otro plano dimensional y suponiendo una amenaza para el caos organizado.

    ESTIGMAS es un thriller filosófico por así decirlo que sitúa al hombre en su estado más primitivo, todo transcurre durante una ecatombe nuclear a mitades de siglo. Supuestamente una sociedad oculta ha permanecido bajo tierra con una extraña substancia en su poder y ahora opera con ella en ese panorama hasta que un producto de sus experimentos escapa y desarrolla unos niveles superiores de existencia, lo que es una amenaza para todos.

    Una película de culto que GH Records en Co-producción con el sello discográfico argentino Twilight Records rescatada del olvido con mejoras de imagen y nuevas canciones en la banda sonora. Edición limitada CD + DVD.

    El DVD contiene: Estigmas, con una nueva versión del director y el cortometraje: La Glorificación del Icono Traumatico

    El CD contiene la banda sonora original y un homenaje musica al film: Protagonist, Puissance-Official, In Slaughter Natives, The True Mayhem, Der Blutharsch + Turnavel, Suveräna,  Kazeria, Silent Love Of Death, Hyperborei.

  • CD,  Distribution

    Elend – A World In Their Screams

    Elend – A World In Their Screams

    Elend – A World In Their Screams
    Label: Prophecy Productions ‎– Pro 087, Prophecy Productions ‎– PRO 087
    Format: CD, Album, Digisleeve
    Country: Germany
    Released: 07 May 2007
    Style: Industrial, Contemporary

    “A World In Their Screams” is the third part of the five-album “Winds” cycle that was begun in 2003 with “Winds Devouring Men” and was continued in the following year with “Sunwar The Dead”. More than 30 musicians and singers have contributed to the massive soundscapes of this album, in its most extreme moments exceeding the denseness of all their previous works. Even though “A World In Their Screams” was conceived as a very extreme album, during its three-year development – a first version had been composed around the time of the album “Sunwar The Dead” – this record aspired to ever more radical dimensions, eclipsing Elend’s whole discography in its raw violence and oppressive atmosphere.

    Tracklist:

    1. Ophis puthôn
    2. A World in Their Screams
    3. Ondes de sang
    4. Le Dévoreur
    5. Le Fleuve infini des morts
    6. Je rassemblais tes membres
    7. Stasis
    8. Borée
    9. La Carriére d’ombre
    10. J’ai touché aux confins de la mort
    11. Urserpensl, Electro, Experimental
  • CD,  Distribution

    Black Autumn – Rivers Of Dead Leaves


     


    Black Autumn – Rivers Of Dead Leaves
    Label: Antichristian Front Records
    Format: CD, Album
    Country: Spain
    Released: Dec 2008
    Style: Shoegaze, Black Metal

    Germany’s Black Autumn is a one-member project of M. Krall. According to Metal-Archives, the band has been in existence since 1993 and there have been a slew of releases post-2003, all of which have evaded me. This includes the debut album released last year, Ecstasy, Nightmare, Doom. Rivers Of Dead Leaves was the first taste of Black Autumn that I had and the first thing that struck me was its eclectic make-up. In essence, this album is all about abstract, sluggish, melancholic riffs that usher you into an utterly bleak and depressive world. But there is a lot more to this album than the standard depressive black metal album. The most noticeable aspect is the portions that lean towards ambient and industrial music. There are even some neat movie samples to be found on the album (Blade Runner on Ashes for example: “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I’ve watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those … moments will be lost in time, like tears…in rain.

    Time to die.” – fits like a charm). The sheer variety of the riffs is also something to take of note. It’s not all tremolo picking all the time like some of these 2-bit bands that pass off as bruisingly depressive black metal. In fact, there are hardly any blastbeats at all to be found. Here’s where you get Godflesh-lite drum machine goodness instead – with a lot of passages harbouring some extremely cool double-bass work. The guitar tone is absolutely crushing and is somewhat reminiscent of a polished version of that found on Blut Aus Nord’s The Work Which Transforms God. A lot of the gloomy melodies found on the album tread on folkish routes bringing to mind names like Current 93 and Death In June. Don’t worry though, there’s enough firepower in them to keep things engaging and not turn into a snoozefest. Krall opts for a reserved vocal approach rather than an out and out psychotic shrill that is usually the weapon of choice in this genre. The vocals are heavily distorted and have a very cold, electronic, industrial feel to them which fittingly complement the despondent atmosphere.

    The keyboards and electronics utilized are done so in a very optimum manner while still maintaining minimalistic ambitions. As mentioned, Black Autumn seemingly draw inspiration from a variety of bands, not limited to black metal and this fact ensures that you don’t lose interest midway through the album. Elements of Shoegaze, Funeral Doom, Industrial Black Metal, Dark Ambient, Folk and hell, even bits resembling the melodic eccentricities of Amoral. The songs are very consistent and the only song I didn’t like as much as the others was A Darkness Profound. The standout track of the album is A 1000 Years In The Water – magnificent music. There seems to be a whole story woven around the character of Ophelia from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The famous painting of Ophelia by the English Sir John Everett Millais is printed on the CD even. All in all, excellent fare for a black metal fan and if you call yourself one, you should certainly pick this one up. Black Autumn is one band whom I will surely keep an ardent eye on.

    Originally written for http://www.kvltsite.com