Regard Extrême – Eco SolemnisLabel: Steinklang Industries – SK169Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, NumberedCountry: EuropeReleased: Sep 15, 2024Style: Darkwave, Modern Classical, Neo-Classical More than 30 years since their first release, French Regard Extrême are back with a new album, their third on Steinklang. Stylistically, Eco Solemnis builds upon the foundation established on previous albums: medieval music and orchestral neoclassical with elements of martial industrial. In comparison to the previous album of new music, 2021’s Ars Veterum, Eco Solemnis incorporates more prominently the neoclassical elements of earlier Regard Extrême, but without abandoning the medieval, even monastical stylings. This makes for a beautiful synthesis of new and old, which should by all…
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Doom Of Valyria – Flor Del Norte
Doom Of Valyria – Flor Del NorteLabel: DOV RECFormat: CD, AlbumCountry: SpainReleased: 25 Mar 2022Style: Folk, World, & Country The album consists of nine songs that evoke dark times, battles and tragedies. Folk and medieval music inspired by ancient times and a cover of Borknagar.
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Cruelty Campaign – Distressed Signals
Cruelty Campaign – Distressed SignalsLabel: Tesco Organisation – TESCO 048Format: CD, AlbumCountry: GermanyReleased: Feb 2002Style: Industrial, Experimental The Los Angeles-based group Cruelty Campaign utilizes site recordings, found sounds, and interviews to create musical atmospheres and harsh soundscapes that are both beautiful and disquieting. Excellent experimental dark tech.
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Peter Andersson – Timewaves
Peter Andersson – TimewavesLabel: Old Europa Cafe – OECD257Format: CD, Album, Limited EditionCountry: ItalyReleased: Jul 2018Style: Dark Ambient, Field Recording Timewaves presents moments of history in a flow of eternity. Each moment may or may not be clearly connected with each other. But when examining the past, does not every moment intertwine with some other moments, and suddenly everything is connected with everything in strange and unclear ways. In Timewaves it is clear that those moments presented on the album are bound to civilisation. Is it our civilisation, or someone elses, or just a dream? We don’t know. It may be even a nightmare. All we know for sure is…
