Der Blutharsch – When All Else Fails! Label: WKN – WKN 15 Format: CD, Album, Reissue, 2nd Edition Country: Austria Released: 2008 Style: Industrial, Ambient, Neofolk
Later edition packaged in a digipak with a smooth, semi-glossy surface. The gold text on the front cover is embossed, and there is an embossed version of the iron cross symbol on the inside of the front panel.
Empyrium – The Turn Of The Tides (Vinyl, LP) Label: Prophecy Productions – PRO 154LP Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Germany Released: 2014 Style: Black Metal, Neofolk
With their fifth album, Empyrium embark on a new creative phase
Twelve years after their last studio effort «Weiland», Empyrium – the masters of natural ambiances set to music – return with a much-anticipated new album. Notwithstanding their creative break, «The Turn Of The Tides» is an Empyrium-album par excellence, although it bears strong testimony to the artistic and personal growth Schwadorf and Helm have undergone since 2002. The pre-published songs «The Days Before The Fall» (from the compilation «Whom The Moon A Nightsong Sings», 2010) and «Dead Winter Ways (released in November 2013 as a limited vinyl-EP) have already implied that for their new material, Empyrium draw on different forms of musical expression more confidently than ever, yet do not shy away from the wide range their oeuvre has offered so far. Concurrently with the music, the conceptional aspect of «The Turn Of The Tides» attests to a mature and evolved elaboration on Empyrium’s essence. Nature and human emotion as reflected in it still remain subject matter of the songs, but here, too, Helm and Schwadorf choose a more abstract approach. «The Turn Of The Tides» adresses cycles, both within nature – the tides of the sea, the change of seasons, the eternal circulation of water – as well as human life, and insinuates how everything rediscovers itself in everything.
1. Saviour 2. Dead Winter Ways 3. In The Gutter Of This Spring 4. The Days Before The Fall 5. We Are Alone 6. With The Current Into Grey 7. The Turn Of The Tides
Tenhi – Saivo Label: Prophecy Productions – PRO 119 LP Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue Country: Germany Released: 13 Jan 2017 Style: Folk Rock, Neofolk
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This-worldly sorrow and other-worldly joy
The long gestation period of “Saivo” (four years) shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who knows and treasures Tenhi’s modus operandi. The Finnish musicians follow their vision mercilessly down to the smallest minutiae, which means that all of the songs have seen various arrangements and the adding of new elements until all the details of the album fit into the overall picture. On “Saivo”, Tenhi use a largely consistent instrumentation to inform the tracks with cohesion and unison. Guitar and piano are the predominant instruments; at times, they are supplemented by percussion, strings, and polyphonic vocals, all in order to create a melancholic realm of sound characterised by this-worldly sorrow and other-worldly joy. The result is an album that is introverted in the truest sense of the word: just as it is believed that Saivo, the realm of the dead, may only be reached by an access under ambiguous lakes and that the journey leads to a mirror image of this world, Tenhi’s “Saivo” also looks to the inner realms.
