Kontakt Service – Our Hearts Are Like Open Graves – And Your Names Are Written On The Stones!Label: Steinklang Tape Series – SKMC025Format: Cassette, Album, Limited Edition, NumberedCountry: EuropeReleased: Nov 10, 2024Style: Power Electronics, Industrial Limited edition of 50 copies (hand-numbered sticker). Comes as white shell tape with pro print, 12 panel j-card, clear jewel case. Do you like your power electronics totally old school, totally depraved, totally filthy? Then look no further: Swedish/American project Kontakt Service (joint union of Ideal Father and Human Vault) will provide just what you’re looking for. With the pictures and quotes on the cassette sleeve lifted from the classic Swedish crime smut magazine Kriminal Journalen,…
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Vologne – Total Purge For The Living
Vologne – Total Purge For The LivingLabel: Steinklang Industries – SKMC024Format: Cassette, EP, Limited Edition, NumberedCountry: EuropeReleased: Nov 10, 2024Style: Industrial, Power Electronics Total Purge For The Living is a whole made of contrasts. Harsh, abrasive, chaotic power electronics noise exploding with distorted violence meshes with atmospheric, ominous yet peaceful layers of slowly evolving synths. Deafening noise gives way to powerful percussions. Distorted, disturbing speech samples are laden over minimalistic drones. Vologne draws power from the friction of these internally opposed elements, creating industrial noise compositions with considerable emotional and atmospheric depth. Through these rich tapestries of sound, Vologne explores the human psyche and the complexity of human psychology. The…
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Katla. – Móðurástin
Katla. – MóðurástinLabel: Prophecy Productions – PRO 220 MCFormat: Cassette, Album, Limited EditionCountry: GermanyReleased: Jan 12, 2018Style: Heavy Metal Katla is an Icelandic band featuring ex-Sólstafir drummer and visual artist Gu∂mundur Óli Pálmason and singer/multi-instrumentalist Einar Thorberg Gu∂mundsson (Fortí∂, Potentiam). Named in tribute to one of Iceland’s greatest active volcanos, Katla creates powerful, panoramic music where shimmering guitars, crushing melodies and atmospheric density meet dark, entrancing power. Katla’s debut album, «Moðurastin», shines a spotlight on the band’s hook-heavy, horizon-stretching sound. The lyrics tell tales of living in a country of contrasts; a land where fire and ice co-exist and dark winters are offset by the summer’s midnight sun. Iceland: a…
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Blestemat – Poisonous Metal
Blestemat – Poisonous MetalLabel: Silent Future Recordings – SFR007Format: Cassette, EP, Limited Edition, 150 units producedCountry: SwedenReleased: Mar 22, 2024Style: Black Metal ¨Sweden’s Blestemat is a conduit for an inescapable darkness, a black void that both consumes and enlightens. The project’s debut EP, “Poisonous Metal”, is not just music; it’s an existential force, a commemoration of the relentless spirit of black metal. “Poisonous Metal” is a homage to the black metal renaissance of the 2000s, the so-called orthodox current – resonating with the spirit of notable acts like Malign, Watain, and Ofermod. But this is more than a mere tribute; it’s a continuation of a lineage from which younger artists…
