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    Anenerbe Music Club – The Night Porter


    Anenerbe Music Club – The Night Porter
    Label: Collapsar Publishing – mpec-01-2014
    Format: CDr, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered
    Country: Russia
    Released: Apr 28, 2014
    Style: Synth-pop, Post-Punk, Industrial, Shoegaze, Drone

    This is the first release of Collapsar Publishing (Moscow, Russian Federation), dedicated to anniversary of Anenerbe Music Club. Pro CDr, jewelcase, 100 handnumbered copies.

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    Deathstench ‎– Massed In Black Shadow


    Deathstench ‎– Massed In Black Shadow
    Label: Black Plagve ‎– INFECT 11
    Format: CD, Album
    Country: US
    Released: 21 Dec 2012
    Style: Noise, Power Electronics

    Debut full length from the Los Angeles based duo of Darea Plantin and John-Paul Whetzel, also known for their work in the misanthropic black-doom trio, Welter in Thy Blood.

    Within their short discography, DEATHSTENCH has proven particularly adept incorporating elements of death industrial, dark ambient, doom, and black metal, and hideously transforming and molding them into a writhing mass of absolute filth and abject darkness. Built upon field recordings, scrap metal percussion, harrowing electronics, down tuned guitar & bass, and demonic vocalizations, the sound is both nihilistic and vile, rife with occult incantations, buzzing, distorted horror, and saturated walls of droning depravity that dissolve into roiling murk and hellish, blackened smear.

    Their latest installment, Massed in Black Shadow, is an impious communion summoning and invoking the soundtrack for all death to come. 6 tracks, totaling just over 45 minutes, guaranteed to deliver some of the most terrifying and purely misanthropic sounds you’re likely to find anywhere. “Bastards of the Black Flame” features additional sounds and effects by Cory Rowell of Demonologists, and all tracks are mastered by Billy Anderson (Neurosis, Sleep, Eyehategod, Crisis).

    For fans of Steel Hook Prostheses, MZ.412, Brighter Death Now, Abruptum.

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    Attrition ‎– The Truth In Dark Corners…


    Attrition ‎– The Truth In Dark Corners…
    Label: Other Voices Records ‎– VOX8CD
    Format: CD, Album
    Country: Russia
    Released: May 2011
    Style: New Wave, Industrial, Minimal

    Recorded live on the april 1985 tour of The Netherlands the set comprised many embryonic versions of tracks that were later recorded for the «Smiling, at the hypogonder club» album…with 2 unreleased songs!
    Originally released on Other Voices records.

    The truth in dark corners – Chain DLK review

    «The Truth In Dark Corners» is a recording of live tracks coming from the band’s 1985 Holland tour plus a closing track coming from a London gig.
    Back then Attrition were releasing their second album «Smiling, At The Hypogonder Club» on Third Mind and this release contains many tracks coming from that one plus «Shrinkwrap» (which was a single) and two unreleased tracks «In The Attic» and «The Aftermath».
    Formed on those days by Martin Bowes, Marianne Teunissen and Alex Novak, the band was creating their distinctive darkwave electronic sound which was capable to mix danceable rhythms and electronic experimental attitude.
    «The Truth In Dark Corners» contains good recordings of classic Attrition’s tracks (or at least they are what I consider their classics) like «Mind Drop» or «Pendulum Turns» and here you can listen them sounding direct and powerful.
    These recordings represent quite well the essence of the band on those days so I don’t consider this album only a release for hard core fans. And sleeve notes you’ll find by Justin Mitchell back then. I’m quite sure that if you a long time reader of our magazine you know this guy, because when he knew Attrition he was an electronic music enthusiast who became their friend but soon after he founded Cold Spring Records.

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    Sol Invictus ‎– Thrones


    Sol Invictus ‎– Thrones
    Label: Auerbach Tonträger ‎– AB 049
    Format: 2 × CD, Reissue, Limited Edition
    Country: Germany
    Released: 04 Nov 2011
    Style: Neofolk

    Noble re-release of the Sol Invictus classic with eleven-track bonus CD

    Apart from the early Sol Invictus catalogue that hasn’t been available for a long time, Auerbach Tonträger is re-releasing the newer albums by the English godfathers of Neofolk as well of course. «Thrones», originally released in 2002, sees a special treatment. In addition to the usual portrait-format Digipak including revised artwork and liner-notes limited to 700 copies, a jam-packed bonus CD is included, containing tracks from the deleted collection of Sol Invictus rarities «The Angel», the hidden tracks from the best-of album «The Giddy Whirl of Centuries», the songs «Light me the Candle» and «Welcome» from the compilations «Writ in Water» and «Songs for Aliénor», a live recording of «Against the Modern World» from Paris that was originally included on a compilation by «Orkus» magazine in 2003, as well as the song «Owl & Pussycat.»

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    Sol Invictus ‎– King & Queen


    Sol Invictus ‎– King & Queen
    Label: Auerbach Tonträger ‎– AB 038
    Format: CD, Reissue, Album, Limited Edition, Digipak
    Country: Germany
    Released: 02 Mar 2012
    Style: Modern Classical, Neofolk

    Noble re-release of the Sol Invictus classic with eight bonus tracks

    Originally released back in 1992 and deleted for a long time, «King & Queen» comes back stronger than ever in an enhanced packaging (limited portrait-format Digipak, revised artwork, liner notes) and with bonus tracks: apart from the original album, eight additional songs are included – live recordings from the years 1990 and 1991 which up to now had only been released on the rare and strictly limited LP «Rite Of Spring.»

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    Sol Invictus ‎– The Devil’s Steed


    Sol Invictus ‎– The Devil’s Steed
    Label: Auerbach Tonträger ‎– AB 050
    Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue
    Country: Germany
    Released: 03 Feb 2012
    Style: Modern Classical, Neofolk

    Noble re-release of the Sol Invictus classic with four bonus tracks

    Up until the release of «The Cruellest Month» in summer 2011, «The Devil’s Steed» from 2005 was Sol Invictus’ most recent album, and the one that saw Wakeford returning to a more classical folkloristic style. Apart from the customary high-quality packaging of all Sol Invictus re-releases (limited, portrait-format Digipak, revised artwork, liner notes), this new edition of «The Devil’s Steed» also includes a new version of the song ‘Looking For Europe’ (as known from the homonymous Neofolk compendium) as well as previously unreleased demo versions of the tracks ‘There Did Three Knights Come From The West’, ‘The North Ship’, and ‘The Devil’s Steed.’

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    Sol Invictus ‎– In A Garden Green


    Sol Invictus ‎– In A Garden Green
    Label: Auerbach Tonträger ‎– AB047-1
    Format: CD, Reissue, Stereo
    Country: Germany
    Released: 2019
    Style: Neo-Folk

    Noble re-release of the Sol Invictus classic.

    In August 2011, Sol Invictus’ «In A Garden Green» blossomed into splendid new colours. Originally released in 1999, this Auerbach Tonträger re-issue in a portrait-format Digipak features new artwork..

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    Sol Invictus ‎– Necropolis


    Sol Invictus ‎– Necropolis
    Label: Auerbach Tonträger ‎– AB 075
    Format: CD, Album
    Country: Germany 
    Released: 23 Mar 2018
    Style: Neofolk, Psychedelic Rock

    More than 30 years after their inception, English neofolk kings Sol Invictus release their long-awaited new album, «Necropolis», described by the group’s dean Tony Wakeford as «a record based on and brought forth from London and the serpent Thames that snakes its way through its heart» and possibly the final release from a band revered as progenitors of a dark and desperate sound..

    Sol Invictus is one of the most prolific and influential bands associated with neofolk or apocalyptic folk, a form of experimental music which emerged in punk rock circles in the 1980’s, blending elements of folk and industrial music with dark themes of decay, decline, and/or the destruction of Western civilization. Along with Current 93 and Death in June (both of which included Wakeford as a member), Sol Invictus has both created and guided the genre, steering it forward through to this day. Latin for ‘the unconquerable Sun’, Sol Invictus has released over a dozen albums since the mid-Eighties, chronicling an evolution from raw, post-punk dark folk to increasingly sophisticated arrangements.

    A quasi-conceptual album centered on Wakeford’s feelings of a declining London [«London was once the apex of an empire but it is now the playground of other empires that have superseded it.»], «Necropolis» could be called a eulogy to England’s capital. Sol Invictus titled the record after The London Necropolis Railway, a railway line that has connected London with the Brookwood Cemetary since 1854. But the moniker is also a nod to Wakeford’s perception that the town is now «a London of mausoleums and masonry» and «a city haunted by the customs and crimes of the dead and the living.»
    «Necropolis» features guest guitar from Don Anderson (ex-Agalloch, Khorada) who previously lent his skills to Sol Invictus’ 2014 release, «Once Upon A Time». The group around Wakeford continues to explore the psychedelic side of dark folk, using acoustic guitar as a foundation enriched with piano, flute, violin, electric guitar an drums among other instruments and – for the first time – the singing of The Green Army Choir.

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    Sol Invictus ‎– The Killing Tide


    Sol Invictus ‎– The Killing Tide
    Label: Auerbach Tonträger ‎– AB 037
    Format: CD, Reissue, Digipack
    Country: Germany
    Released: 07 Oct 2011
    Style: Neofolk

    Noble re-release of the Sol Invictus classic with seven bonus tracks

    As befits the album’s twentieth anniversary, “The Killing Tide” is going to be re-released in a re-worked and extended edition on October 07th, 2011. Apart from the usual upgrading of our series of new Sol Invictus editions – such as a portrait-format Digipak, revised artwork, and liner notes by Tony Wakeford – the original album is going to be accompanied by seven bonus tracks: in addition to an old DAT recording of “The World Turns” and a version of “Somewhere In Europe” that was originally released on the Schock 7″, you will also find five live recordings from a concert at Frankfurt’s

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    Dasein‎ – РОА : Live In Yaroslavl


    Dasein‎ – РОА : Live In Yaroslavl
    Label: Ufa Muzak ‎– UFA 46
    Format: CDr, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered
    Country: Russia
    Released: 2011
    Style: Drone, Noise, Ambient

    This disc contains the full live-set of the Moscow based project «Dasein» on April 15th, 2011 in Yaroslavl, Russia.
    This is best cold white noise, a powerful and furious flow.
    «Bayonets into the ground!»

    One unique untitled track.