• CD,  Distribution

    ARDITI ‎– SPIRIT OF SACRIFICE

    marzo 19, 2018

    Arditi ‎– Spirit Of Sacrifice
    Label: Equilibrium Music ‎– EQM032
    Format: CD, Album, Reissue
    Country: Portugal
    Released: 2011
    Style: Modern Classical, Industrial

    Originally issued in 2004, “Spirit of Sacrifice” was ARDITI’s second full-length album, a release that would not only establish them as one of the leading projects in the Martial Industrial scene, but also one which brought along the controversy that seems to come with such a post. Concerns regarding ARDITI’s imagery and their references to the Italian Futurist Movement prompted some of the press to refuse any coverage of the band, leading to timid promotion for the album upon release, as the original label discreetly retracted from a more active role in its exposure. The name ARDITI gained something of a cult status nevertheless, as their followers grew steadily in numbers and new alliances were forged. These included a colaboration with TOROIDH, at the time a recently established project by Nordvargr of MZ.412, which resulted in the “United in Blood” album. Shortly after, ARDITI would also come to be invited by the notorious Swedish Black Metal band MARDUK to contribute material to a couple of their albums.

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    COLOSSLOTH‎ – Heathen Needles

    marzo 19, 2018

    COLOSSLOTH‎ – Heathen Needles
    Label: Cold Spring ‎– CSR235CD
    Format: CD, Album
    Country: UK
    Released: 08 Nov 2017
    Style: Industrial, Power Electronics, Experimental

    On his second album, Colossloth continues his esoteric sonic crusade of volatile yet absorbing audio textures. Cold electronica, with swathes of rhythmic power noise and industrial harshness, tempered with penetrating song structures.

    Eleven tracks of austere, reflective and exploratory electronics for journeys made into the hidden realms underpinning daily life, spanning the bridge between gnosis and praxis. The dissonance of opposites falling into elemental synthesis with a sound and approach influenced from the past, present and future, letting us remain anachronistic yet temporal voyeurs in the abyss evoked forth.

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    Urze De Lume ‎– As Árvores Estão Secas E Não Têm Folhas

    marzo 18, 2018

    Urze De Lume ‎– As Árvores Estão Secas E Não Têm Folhas
    Label: Equilibrium Music ‎– EQM045
    Format: CD, Album
    Country: Portugal
    Released: 10 Mar 2018
    Style: Folk, Neofolk

    On their third album, URZE DE LUME turn inwards for a soothing journey which illustrates not only departure, but also homecoming, meticulously setting to music memories imbued with both nostalgia and longing.

    “…The trees have grown dry and bare, as have I…”

    On their third album, URZE DE LUME turn inwards for a soothing journey which illustrates not only departure, but also homecoming, meticulously setting to music memories imbued with both nostalgia and longing.

    “As Árvores Estão Secas e Não Têm Folhas” is the second and final chapter of URZE DE LUME’s ode to Autumn, in a follow-up to the acclaimed “Vozes Na Neblina” EP released in early 2017.

    Although predominantly focused on guitar-based pieces, the leading role in “As Árvores…” is often taken over by the rebec, a bowed stringed instrument whose fiddle-like timbre brings forth an archaic, medieval-like, character to the album’s instrumental canvas, which further expands on occasion to include wind instruments, discreet percussions and bagpipes. The intentionally minimalist aesthetics seem to match the beauty of bare trees to perfection, yet URZE DE LUME’s use of multiple field recordings allows the hues of autumn to embed deeper into the music. Now and then, they turn also to narrated poetry to lead us further into the recesses of remembrance, urging the embrace of loss as one welcomes back nighttime, the cold, and a sense of void for times bygone that the arrival of Autumn inevitably brings about. This is the season where days start to run increasingly shorter and quieter, much like the lives of those to whom URZE DE LUME dedicates this solemn work.

    Bonds to both Nature and tradition are at the heart of the band’s rendition of Dark Folk, and both skillfully come together on this acoustic introspective incursion into life’s ever-looming solitude.

    URZE DE LUME are:
    Gonçalo do Carmo
    Hugo Araújo
    Ricardo Brito
    Tiago Matos

    Música por Ricardo Brito
    Gravação e Mistura por Ricardo Brito em Arnade Studio
    Masterização por André Eusébio em Lemon Drops Media
    Artwork por João Monteiro

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