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.
Khôrada – Salt Label: Prophecy Productions – PRO227 Format: CD, Album Country: Germany Released: 20 Jul 2018 Style: Progressive Metal, Alternative Rock
Rising from the ashes of Agalloch and Giant Squid, a new group is born: Khôrada. Featuring former Agalloch members Don Anderson (guitar), Jason Walton (bass) and Aesop Dekker (drums) alongside ex-Giant Squid guitarist / vocalist Aaron John Gregory, Khôrada creates colossal, textured, and emotionally powerful music. As a completely fresh concept, Khôrada is an opportunity for the musicians to explore new soundscapes while challenging themselves creatively. With their debut album «Salt», Khôrada forges breathtaking swathes of sound that swell, stretch, submerge and recede with panoramic power.
At once atmospheric, aggressive and apocalyptic, the album’s emotion is driven by the band members’ view of today’s world; these are precarious times. «Salt» was written under the pressure and uncertainty of the beginning of the Trump-era, standing as a musical exploration of the routine madness we now live. Paired with the surreally visceral artwork of internationally renowned painter & sculptor Cedric Wentworth, the visual explorations prove to be as haunting as the ethereal vocals of Aaron himself.
The dissolution of two of America’s most beloved underground groups has resulted in the formation of perhaps the scene’s most highly anticipated new band. With a sound built upon a resolute sense of purpose, Khôrada has arrived.
Tracklist: 1. Edeste 2. Seasons Of Salt 3. Water Rights 4. Glacial Gold 5. Augustus 6. Wave State 7. Ossify
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
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
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
Numancia y sus mitos por Antonio Ruiz Vega ISBN: 101027205 Editorial: Antonio Ruiz Vega (autor-editor) Fecha de la edición: 2017 Lugar de la edición: Soria. España Encuadernación: Rústica Medidas: 23 cm Nº Pág.: 177 Idiomas: Español
2150 años después de su caída la epopeya de Numancia sigue apasionado e inquietando su misterio no ha muerto y puesto que sigue sin descifrar pero a lo largo de los siglos su imagen ha ido evolucionando mito fundacional de lo español su historia ha sido utilizada por el patrioterismo más primario a menudo transgiversando su realidad. Tema literario insigne, Numancia no ha dejado de sugerir e inspirar a poetas literarios y ensayistas pero la última palabra no se ha pronunciado todavía.
Long-form interviews with: Moral Order, Post Scriptvm & Total Black & Nordvargr (30+ year/career spanning interview). Detailed report / photos of the Dominion of Flesh: 5 Years of Cloister Recordings festival. Reviews: 50+ detailed reviews (ambient/ industrial/ experimental / power electronics etc.). Artwork: Original cover artwork + review section artwork by Nordvargr. FORMAT
A5 Format
Professional print, colour cover, grey-scale throughout. ‘Perfect bound’ spine, with matt laminate, thick card stock cover. 90 pages in length. Limited to 600 copies.
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
The Mighty Sieben – Sex And Wildflowers Label: Dark Vinyl Records – DVLP-10 Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Black Vinyl Country: Germany Released: 27 Oct 2014 Style: Neofolk
Black vinyl, limited edition of 150 copies. Comes in a gatefold sleeve..
The fourth Sieben album, released in 2003. Reissue.
Sex & Wildflowers was an artistic turning point for Howden (once more) and saw the introduction of his trademark looped violin work. It also produced songs that still populate his live performances to this day. Love’s Promise and Virgin In The Green are songs that still prove popular with his live audiences.
Rammstein – Ausländer (Vinyl, 10″) Label: Universal Music Group – 7764268 Format: Vinyl, 10″, 45 RPM, Single Country: Europe Released: 31 Ma y 2019 Style: Industrial, House, Electro
Tracklist:
A Ausländer (Album Version) B1 Radio (Album Version) B2 Radio (Rmx By twocolors) / Remix – twocolors
