Vhril – Vortex PsysynthesisLabel: Old Captain – OCCD23Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, ReissueCountry: UkraineReleased: 23 May 2016Style: Industrial, Experimental, Dark Ambient In the name of Ulex, in loving memory of John, here comes Vhril!Vhril began life as Ulex Xane’s (Streicher, Zero Cabal fame) own solo project in 1991.He and John Murphy (rip) had been friends since the early 1980’s and had long wanted to do some duo recordings together contributing to each other’s projects on several occasions and playing live together.John became interested in the Vhril concept when Ulex had told him about its occult associations exploring Thulean esoteric paths and Vril energies in a ritual setting.Together they would record…
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Himukalt – Dreaming Of A Dead Girl
Himukalt – Dreaming Of A Dead GirlLabel: Tesco Organisation – TESCO 148Format: CD, Album, Limited EditionCountry: GermanyReleased: 08 May 2023Style: Power Electronics, Noise himukalt was born from the obsession, addiction, and the impure thoughts of american noise artist ester kärkkäinen. her impulse for self-destruction, co-mingles with self-discovery, as she confesses broken tales about sex work, manic-depression, social anxiety, dysphoria and psychic parasites. all finally leaving us to languor in her suicidal ideation and conflicted desire to be very, very alone. she swaddles those appropriations from her life and those around her in the aestheticized violence of power electronics and a death-industrial negativity, similar to that of lille roger, atrax morgue,…
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Karnnos – Remembrance
Karnnos – RemembranceLabel: New Approach Records – NAR38, Winter Serpent – WNS003Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, StereoCountry: PortugalReleased: Nov 21, 2024Style: Ethereal, Experimental Initially self-released in 2019, “Remembrance” showed Karnnos exploring new territories, with bass-driven tracks, subtle layers of guitars, keyboards and flutes, tribal-like percussion, with a rich sonic palette given by instruments such as the hurdy gurdy, the harp, the zither, the rabel, the metallophone or the accordion. The pace of the record is slow, the tone is somber, like a nocturnal journey through the ruins of nature and memory. Now reissued on Digipack limited to 200 copies
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Urze De Lume – Ventos Da Terra Fria
Urze De Lume – Ventos Da Terra FriaLabel: Equilibrium Music – EQM049, Equilibrium Music – EQM049BKFormat: CD, Album, Limited EditionCountry: PortugalReleased: 24 Apr 2023Style: Ambient, Neofolk, Folk Focused on the traditional Portuguese imagery and inspired by the ancestry of primitive Iberian culture, “Ventos da Terra Fria” reignites the soundscapes that illustrate the territory, from its first human vestiges to the near extinct rural world of present times, where shamanism, paganism and the duality between the sacred and the profane have become little more than a time-worn vision. Drawing from a palette of multiple traditional instruments, and borrowing from select field recordings, URZE DE LUME have built a unique cinematic piece…
