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    Hiemis – Zothique

    febrero 28, 2024

    Hiemis – Zothique
    Label: Noctivagant
    Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition
    Country: USA
    Released:2022
    Style: Drone, Ambient, Dark Ambient, Dungeon Synth, Neo-Classical

    Zothique (Clark Ashton Smith)
    «He who has trod the shadows of Zothique
    And looked upon the coal-red sun oblique,
    Henceforth returns to no anterior land,
    But haunts a later coast
    Where cities crumble in the black sea-sand
    And dead gods drink the brine.

    He who has known the gardens of Zothique
    Were bleed the fruits torn by the simorgh’s beak,
    Savors no fruit of greener hemispheres:
    In arbors uttermost,
    In sunset cycles of the sombering years,
    He sips an amaranth wine.

    He who has loved the wild girls of Zothique
    Shall not come back a gentler love to seek,
    Nor know the vampire’s from the lover’s kiss:
    For him the scarlet ghost
    Of Lilith from time’s last necropolis
    Rears amorous and malign.

    He who has sailed in galleys of Zothique
    And seen the looming of strange spire and peak,
    Must face again the sorcerer-sent typhoon,
    And take the steerer’s post
    On far-poured oceans by the shifted moon
    Or the re-shapen Sign».

    HIEMIS is a Spanish musical project belonging to the dark ambient genre that began its journey in 2018 after a period of reflection on an earlier stage with the darkfolk project Silent Love of Death. («The Poet´s Senses» 2004-Palace of Worms, «Donde Habite el Olvido» 2011-GH Records)

    In the little HIEMIS life I have published my music with the North American label Noctivagant with Phillip Abraham as well as with the Spanish label GH Records with the responsible Avencio Delgado.

    Nachtstücke (GH Records, 2018), Hyperborea (Noctivagant Records, 2019), Thule (GH Records, 2019) and Radix (Noctivagant Records, 2020). The latest album La Chose, about to be released under the GH Records label in spring
    2021 in a very special edition as it will be accompanied by
    an esoteric ritual book translated into two languages,
    Spanish and English.

    Although its sound has evolved to more ritual sounds, it maintains immersive textures together with drones in dark and disturbing environments.The main evolution that HIEMIS has had at this time has been at a con

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    Apoptose – Zukunft

    febrero 24, 2024

    Apoptose – Die Zukunft
    Label: Tesco Organisation ‎– TESCO 128, Tesco Organisation ‎– 128
    Format: CD, Album
    Country: Germany
    Released:2018
    Style: Dark Ambient, Ambient, Downtempo, Synthwave, Modern Classical

    In the four years of production Apoptose selected a wide range of different singers for this album. Most outstanding is classical trained tenor Daniel Sans. He sings «What Power Art Thou» – a song that was composed by Henry Purcell in the late 17th century. Apoptose and Sans preserve the complex harmonic structure of the original translating it into a breathtaking five minute ride in apoptotic soundspheres. They succeed in conjuring up Purcell’s «cold genius» that had already fascinated legendary countertenor Klaus Nomi in the 1980s. Other voices on «Die Zukunft» include the gloomy spoken words of the advance single «Time-lapse City», the lost girl’s voice on the title track and two female singers on «Dornen». Consistent with the album title Apoptose does not look back, but is heading for novel territories within the dark ambient music genre

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    Position Parallèle ‎– Mélodies En Sous-Sols

    febrero 20, 2024

    Position Parallèle ‎– Mélodies En Sous-Sols
    Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition
    Country: Europe
    Released: 03 Nov 2020
    Style: Synth-pop, Minimal

    Come with me under the floor… You know it’s deep, too deep.

    Something has been changing for a while.
    It’s in the air, it’s in the flesh,it’s in your eyes.

    I’m thinking about what will happen to us when they find our gameplay.

    Come and listen to some ‘Mélodies en sous sols’
    – you know who I am and what I am.

    If you’re here, you know me more than I know you. Can you listen to my voice and all the electronic noises from the city? Can you understand what I’m thinking about people, flesh, skin, leather, love, memories, crime and the sweetest sound of a spider eating something on the wall.
    Who are you? Who am I?

    Come on and shut up!!! Listen to some of my ‘Mélodies en sous sols’…. Shhhhttttt………. Listen….“

    Future Retro Synthi-Pop!
    Minimal Electronics !

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    TOURDEFORCE – Six in the Key of Death

    febrero 20, 2024

    TOURDEFORCE – Six in the Key of Death
    (Tribute to DEATH IN JUNE) [limited]
    Label: SPQR: SPQR LXI
    Format: CD, Album, DigiCD
    Country: Italy
    Released: 2022
    Style: Industrial, Dark Wave

    “In a foreign land, in a foreign time, TourdeForce has come…”, please welcome “Six in the Key of Death”.

    After the conclusion of the successful “Anger Trilogy” (“Jedem Das Seine”, 2014; “Very Industrial People”, 2018; “Vargtimmar”, 2021), the italian electro-wave act TourdeForce is ready to rise and hit the dancefloor once again with a mini album dedicated to all lovers and devotees of Death in June.

    Six songs from early Death in June meet New Order and Nine Inch Nails.

    Fields of Rape
    Holy Water
    The Calling
    Nowhere Street
    She Said Destroy
    Come Before Christ and Murder Love

    Don’t miss it, Love the Whip !

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    Spectres – Nostalgia

    febrero 19, 2024

    Spectres – Nostalgia
    Label: Artoffact Records – AOF358CD
    Format: CD, Album, Stereo
    Country: Canada
    Released: Mar 13, 2020
    Style: Post-Punk

    Formed in Vancouver by vocalist and founder Brian Gustavson, SPECTRES is a DIY death-rock outfit that mixes post-punk, the ethic of anarcho-punk, and an incredible knack for writing catchy songs. The band released three independent albums (all reissued by Artoffact Records in 2019) and are ready to stun audiences with their 2020 release Nostalgia.
    Emerging from the DIY Punk underground, SPECTRES wanted to blend the grassroots and independent ethic of anarcho-punk with the anomie and cold, modulated sounds of 1980’s post-punk and death-rock genres.

    Though the band’s output has matured with time to embrace a wider range of new-wave and shoegaze influences, their ethos remains rooted in DIY punk. The blending of these influences allows for the curious juxtaposition of 80’s influenced pop sensibilities with lyrics that explore the alienation and cynicism of modern life. On the new album, Nostalgia, these influences are carried even further to create a wonderfully crafted suite of songs that evoke the primal sounds of Beastmilk with the melody of New Order.

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    Spectres – Nothing To Nowhere

    febrero 19, 2024

    Spectres – Nothing To Nowhere
    Label: Artoffact Records ‎– AOF356CD
    Format: CD, Album
    Country: Canada
    Released: 2018
    Style: Post-Punk, Punk

    Originally released in 2012 as a vinyl-only edition through Germany’s Sabotage Records (White Lung, G.L.O.S.S., Arctic Flowers), the second album from Vancouver post-punk darlings SPECTRES has never been released on CD. Finally, years after the initial vinyl pressing sold out, Toronto-based Artoffact Records breathes new life into this Canadian classic with a remastered CD edition.

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    Agalloch ‎– The Grey EP (Remastered)

    febrero 19, 2024

    Agalloch ‎– The Grey EP
    Label: Eisenwald Tonschmiede ‎– Eisen151
    Format: CD, EP, Reissue
    Country: Germany
    Released: 29 Nov 2019
    Style: Black Metal, Avantgarde

    Remastered re-issue with original artwork and bonustrack.

    Eisenwald presents The Grey EP: A collection of destroyed & rebuilt songs from “The Mantle”.

    The Grey is the first installment of two companion releases, originally released in 2004. This new edition includes the original artwork and arrives with exclusive bonus track recorded in 2003, that has never been released on any format.
    créditos
    se lanzó el 29 de noviembre de 2019

    Remastered by Gus Elg at Skyonion in Portland, OR

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    Agalloch ‎– The White EP

    febrero 18, 2024

    Agalloch ‎– The White EP
    Label: Eisenwald Tonschmiede ‎– EISEN150
    Format: CD, EP, Deluxe Edition, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered
    Country: Germany
    Released: 29 Nov 2019
    Style: Ambient, Neofolk

    Heavy embossed slipcase made of special WHITE art card stock with great haptics. Classic jewelcase with a booklet printed on uncoated paper, feat. original artwork and all credits.

    Remastered re-issue with original artwork and bonustrack.
    Limited first press with deluxe embossed slipcase made of special art card stock with great haptics.
    Please see the DETAILS tab for a complete info about the package.

    Eisenwald presents The White EP: a collection of dark folk & ambient work written & recorded between 2004 – 2007. Originally released in 2008 by now defunct Vendlus Records, the White is the last installment of two companion releases & the stylistic counterpart to the Grey. Remastered by Gus Elg at Skyonion in Portland, OR and includes the rare track “Where Shade Once Was”.

    For over twenty years the Pacific Northwest group Agalloch had defined what it means to combine influences from a variety of musical genres into one brooding, colossal, and cinematic sound that provides the soundtrack to existential themes concerning man, nature, loss, and death.

    Tracklisting:

    1. The Isle of Summer
    2. Birch Black
    3. Hollow Stone
    4. Pantheist
    5. Birch White
    6. Sowilo Rune
    7. Summerisle – Reprise
    8. Where Shade Once Was

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    Ulver – Drone Activity

    febrero 18, 2024

    Ulver – Drone Activity
    Label: House of Mythology ‎– HOM 018 LP
    Format: CD Album
    Country: UK
    Released: 11 May 2019
    Style: Ambient

    It all happened in a haze. I am not sure everyone was prepared to obey the summons and forsake the shore in order to be pulled under by the loudness of sound. Yet the ethos on that crisp October night was clear in its wording: Drone Activity.

    Upon entering the old fish-warehouse, now converted into an activity hall, on the new Oslo waterfront, the security guards barely cared to check our tickets. Even mammoths would have been able to hide in this enormous dark space, illuminated by a few logos and stalls of sugary drinks, about to disappear in a sea of smoke.

    Disappearance comes in many shapes in the age of extinction. Following the Danish noise act Damien Dubrovnik, Ulver started out in a subtle manner, carefully examining the territory, vast and waste. Screeching sounds echoed distant roars from the approaching edge as snowflakes pierced the air with ferocious speed. Where to go from there?

    A retreat into the sunken paradise. Half-buried misty temples, giant creatures and vaguely prehistoric figures emerged as depth and time intertwined, from the ancient Atlantis to the northernmost seas.

    We stayed there for 90 minutes, of which 70 have been meticulously mixed and mastered for this release. All of them are new sounds. Darker and more dire, yet containing the vibe of their previous semi-improvisatory sessions, documented and catalogued on the “Zodiac” album, ATGCLVLSSCAP (2016).

    If that Zodiac album was a free-form Ulver interpreting the signs in the stars, Drone Activity stares into the abyss, documenting those moments after the last rays of sun speckle the surface and careless subterranean streams start determining the course.

    “Something murky and liminal emerged, in sound and space,” the band states in their liner notes. I can’t think of a more apt description of what, and to where, Ulver brought us that night. There is no shoreline a thousand feet down.

    TORE ENGELSEN ESPEDAL,
    on the ferry from Naples to Palermo, March 2019

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    Merzbow – Hanakisasage

    febrero 17, 2024

    Merzbow ‎– Hanakisasage
    Label: Old Captain ‎– OCCD27
    Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition
    Country: Ukraine
    Released: 29 Nov 2016
    Style: Noise, Ambient

    Recorded and Mixed at Munemihouse, Tokyo 2014-2016.
    ©Merzbow 2016.

    Limited edition of 300 copies in a glossy full-colour Digipak.

    A new album by Merzbow. The name “Hanakisasage” means very rare trees which exist only few in Japan. 2 tracks of noise ambient/rhythm recorded in Tokyo during 2014-2016 and musically follow in the tendency of his recent works like ‘Kakapo’. 55 minutes of pure untamed energy and sonic insight into Masami Akita’s world. A 300-CD edition in a glossy full-colour Digipak

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