• CD,  Distribution

    Gnawed ‎– Pestilence Beholden

    abril 3, 2017

    Gnawed ‎– Pestilence Beholden

    Label: Malignant Records ‎– TUMORCD97
    Format: CD, Album
    Country: US
    Released: Sep 2016
    Style: Industrial, Power Electronics

    Since its inception in 2009, Grant Richardson’s Gnawed has propelled itself into the top tier of heavy electronics and death industrial with a stream of high quality releases over a variety of formats.

    For his 3rd full length disc, Pestilence Beholden, the template set forth by prior works remains intact, but is dragged down into an even darker space, this time enriched by added layers of foreboding atmospherics and foggy ambience.

    Make no mistake, this is Gnawed through and through, but Pestilence Beholden is even more sculpted and refined than before, finding an intersection between tensile dread and controlled aggression, as ominous synth beds and throbbing drones are augmented with the cataclysmic reverberations, resonating scrapyard acoustics, and mechanized dirge you’ve come to expect.

    Recorded in industrial complexes in and around Minneapolis, the sound here is deep and immense, once again solidifying Gnawed in a category all their own.

     

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    Nordvargr ‎– The Secret Barbarous Names

    abril 3, 2017

    Nordvargr ‎– The Secret Barbarous Names
    Label: Malignant Records ‎– TUMORCD102
    Format: CD, EP, Reissue
    Country: US
    Released: 20 Jan 2017
    Style: Dark Ambient

    Active since the late ‘80s as a member of MZ.412 and Pouppée Fabrikk, few names within the realm of dark industrial and blackened ambient carry more weight and presence than Sweden’s mighty Nordvargr. Though side projects Muskel and Körperwelten have been released on Malignant, The Secret Barbarous Names is the first solo recording done for the label, and Nordvargr’s first physical release since 2013’s The Dromopoda Transmissions on Old Europa Café.

    A vocal based work inspired by the Draconian and Typhonian traditions, the title refers to the hidden meanings of the countless manuscripts that have been kept secret for millennia – their supposed effectiveness resting in their utterance, not their meaning. The words of power, vibrated at the correct frequency and amplitude in the correct setting and time, have the power to manifest anything. As such, these are an incredibly haunting and formidable invocations, built upon richly timbered, incantatory vocals and deep, liturgical chants, and occasionally augmented by ominous orchestral swell and ritual percussion. All of it is endlessly stretched out into lightless passages of primordial malevolence and suffocating dread, completing an album that will stand out as a highlight, even within such a lofty and illustrious discography as Nordvargr’s. Lavishly packaged in a digipak designed by Margaux Renaudin (Anima Nostra).

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    Phragments ‎– All Towers Must Fall

    abril 1, 2017

    Phragments ‎– All Towers Must Fall
    Label: Malignant Records ‎– TumorCD92, Construct.Destroy.Collective ‎– none
    Format: CD, Album
    Released: 01 Feb 2017
    Style: Dark Ambient

    The all new, fifth full-length album of Phragments is unmistakably dark ambient in nature, yet the overall feeling of the songs is more industrial this time. Moving a step further into harsher territory, “All Towers Must Fall” brings together dark ambience, heavily treated field recordings, classical instruments and also analogue synths, all echoing with orchestral grandeur. Phragments still follow a rather abstract and minimalist path, but this time the compositions have a touch of subtle chaos. With the atmosphere ranging from brooding to menacing, “All Towers Must Fall” is a gripping journey through desolate darkness, a gaze into the endless abyss.

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