Label: The Vinyl Division – NIHIL002LP Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition Country: Spain Released: 2017 Style: Doom Metal
The 2 LP version of Departe, the second album by doom super group Clouds i…the music is dedicated to departed ones, loved ones who now, are no longer amongst us….
“Departe is a long, draining emotional journey through the shades of despair, and it’s not an easy one” Angry Metal Guy
“Clouds is by far one of the best bands out there right now. The band takes topic of immeasurable loss and painful heartbreak, and puts them into slow-moving tracks designed to bring a tear to your eye.” Metal Injection
Label: Rage In Eden – RAGE 117 Format: CD, Album Country: Poland Released: 2017 Style: Dark Ambient
From the Depths” spontaneously closed formed earlier trilogy („Evil Angel”. „Maze of Death” and „From the Depths”). This is the story about loss, loneliness, despair and lack of hope. Here we have next 60 minutes filled with resignation, sadness and the pain of existence. If you are too emotional or sensitive just do not reach for this album…It can cause severe depression…
Tracklist:
Desolation Zone Today We Will All Die Whispers And Cogs And Soon The Darkness From The Dephts The Noonday Demon Sanctuary Of Madness Witchtrap Im Just Pain Childern of Saturn My Own Prugatory Shadow People Near-Death Experience Locked-in Syndrome
Label: Old Captain – OCCD22 Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue Country: Ukraine Released: 31 Aug 2016 Style: Power Electronics, Noise
Blood Ov Thee Christ, the first real power electronic project from Sweden, began in Norsborg, 1983 under name Sachsenhausen Industriale. The project had relocated to Sundsvall area and transformed into Blood Ov The Christ around 1985 – music group and mailorder company. It recorded infamous tape “Master Control” and performed with Club Moral, Memorandum and others. After some years of intense activity at the end of the 1980s, the project was laid to rest. In 2005, Blood Ov Thee Christ was resurrected after slumbering since decades. The founding father of BOTC, Harri Honkaniemi, who joined forces with Kristian Olsson (Alfarmania / Kommando RJF / Survival Unit), recorded their first output together, “Filthy Criminals / Hatemaster”. Just 10 years since, this is a cult classic! Reissue from original master tapes with new artwork by Kristian Olsson. A 250-CD edition in a matte-laminated black & white Digipak.
Label: Prophecy Productions – PRO213LP Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition Country: Europe Released: 02 Jun 2017 Style: Doom Metal, Sludge Metal, Experimental
Toronto-based experimental doom trio Völur will release its sophomore album, “Ancestors”, via Prophecy Productions this summer. Produced by the band and mixed by Charles Spearin (Broken Social Scene), “Ancestors” is the follow-up to Völur’s celebrated debut, “Disir”, which was hailed as “a winsome blend of pastoral folk, gentle prog, atmospheric doom, and old world magic” by Noisey.
Just as “Disir” dealt with themes surrounding female figures from mythology, “Ancestors” focuses on the heroines’ male counterparts and is the second part of a planned four album series spotlighting various elements of the old Germanic spiritual world. Völur’s songs are long, quasi-narrative pieces that feature Laura C. Bates’ violin assuming the role traditionally executed by a guitar, allowing the bass playing of Lucas Gadke (also of Blood Ceremony) to take on unique responsibilities in both lead and melodic roles while drummer Jimmy Payment (Do Make Say Think) feeds the band’s bombastic, crushing oomph. Doom music (not necessarily metal) is about slow contemplation and the transfixing power of heaviness and Völur’s weighty riffs, layers of feedback, dynamic, angular melodies and moments of beauty give heed to the band’s promise to always seek newer modes of musical expression and discovery.
Moving between high-tension heaviness and beautiful pastoral moods, Völur aims to reflect the world of primordial nature inspired by ancient myths and chilling poems of death and heroism. “Ancestors” takes you into a world of stories that have been shrouded by the fog of ages. But there’s nothing obscure about this album: it is the statement of an ambitious band defining their sonic territory. This is music as profound sound… prepare!
Label: Twilight Records Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Digipack Country: Hungary Released: 28 May 2015 Style: Doom Metal, Experimental
Doom atmospheric folk band from hungary , 6 new songs previously unreleased. The firstprint was of only 88 copies, now Twilight Records is releasing this new album in a 300 limited edition, in a luxury white digipack with a 16 pages booklet. the call of the forest, of the nature , the rumour of the river …. so far, the chant of birds and the mountains as a wall of the world. absolutelly beautifull album , you will love it !
Label: Old Captain – OCCD31, Narcolepsia – narco076 Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Digipak Country: Ukraine, Portugal Released: July 2017 Style: Noise
During a hellish blizzard in the winter of 1996 Norwegian noise artist Lasse Marhaug locks himself up in his home studio in Trondheim and records the harshest noise of his life. Marhaug’s attempt to obliterate the arctic climate with total sonic destruction fails, but the recorded onslaught results in the “White Inferno” cassette, released on Macronympha’s Mother Savage Noise Productions label. The material reflects Marhaug’s modus operandi at the time: dense analogue tape overload, and could be seen as a more bloody-minded sister-release to his better known “Science Fiction Room Service” album of the same year. Fast forward 21 years and Ukrainian Old Captain Records ask Marhaug to dig out the original master tapes from his mouldy archives and remaster it for a CD release. In the process an obscure piece recorded at the same sessions surfaces, previously issued on an Ecuadorian compilation cassette, but included here as a bonus. So if you wanted to know what Norwegian noise music sounded like 20+ years ago, here it is: “White Inferno”, remastered to maximum volume for a new generation of music fans to endure and enjoy. Co-produced with Portuguese finest label, Narcolepsia. 300 copies in a 6-panel uncoated Digipak.
Label: Old Captain – OCCD33 Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Digipak Artist Country: Czechia Label Country: Ukraine Released: 2017 Genre: Electronic Style: Modern Classical, Industrial, Dark Ambient, Ambient, Experimental
Scripta Soli (“The writings of the earth”) is a thematic contemplation triggered by a great Czech artist in the form of a fictive experience during an apocalyptic war catastrophe, perceived by a person imprisoned in the bunker. Epically dramatized, it consists of 12 figurative parts to strip moral vacuum accumulated by memories, fears, visions and expectations of the inevitable, like echoes from the devastated core, sonically interpreted by the ground and aborted on the surface. Vladimir Hirsch offers expressionist sharpness and contrast to gouge out the focal sound from the background cacophonous substance to evoke stark and haunting imagery behind. Proving his expertise and repertoire he renders field recordings, electroacoustic and digital techniques through his typical metamorphic musicalization of primarily non-musical elements realizing the shrill, dynamic realities of the inner conflict: the titular sonic earth eventually turns into a grave.
Label: Old Captain – OCCD30 Format: CD, Compilation, Limited Edition Country:Ukraine Released: Mar 2017 Style: Power Electronics, Noise, Industrial
Ebola Disco are Ben Taylor / Mathew Casey. NQ/PE – ‘North Queensland Power Electronics’. Recorded between 1997-2017. A 300 b/w matte-laminated Digipak edition.
