Khost – GovernanceLabel: Cold Spring – CSR237CDFormat: CD, AlbumCountry: UKReleased: 05 Jun 2017Style: Doom Metal, Industrial “Governance” continues KHOST‘s immersion in themes of detachment and dissonance, and ruminates upon the exertion of wills that are not your own, and upon the ways to detect and trace the outlines of the presence(s) that may exert these daily wills upon you, day by day. It was written over the course of the 2016/17 Winter, during times of unease and sickness for the band, including one near-death experience. The resulting album is a hinterland of low resolution transmissions interspersed with broad concrete columns of distortion that loom suddenly from the dim landscape. Governance…
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Burial Hex – In Psychic Defense
Burial Hex – In Psychic DefenseLabel: Cold SpringFormat: CD, CompilationCountry: UKReleased: 07 Apr 2014Style: Dark Ambient, Experimental, Industrial Burial Hex is a composition cycle of Post-Industrial music, dubbed “Horror Electronics”, by Clay Ruby. With a progressive mix of influences as far-reaching as vintage Industrial and Power Electronics, Kosmische Music, Black Metal, Techno and Electro, Early Music and Contemporary Classical, these dynamic compositions are simply unclassifiable. This compilation continues the stunning trajectory of the previous Cold Spring reissue collection, “Book of Delusions”, falling even further into the spiraling abyss of ritual music made in preparation for the Final Mysteries in the twilight of this Kali Yuga. Collecting tracks from various out-of-print…
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Burial Hex – Throne
Burial Hex – ThroneLabel: Cold Spring – CSR232CDFormat: CD, AlbumCountry: UKReleased: 31 Oct 2016Style: Industrial, Experimental, Dark Ambient Finally a third volume of the essential reissue series featuring rare and out-of-print vinyl releases from Horror Electronics maestro Burial Hex. This collection takes us further back in time to a more raw and singular vision, whilst still infused with passionate vocals and eerie religious allusions that would eventually lead to a development of increasingly more compositional elements in the Burial Hex cycle.Collecting his sides from the split 7″ with Sylvester Anfang on Aurora Borealis, the split 12″ with Iron Fist of the Sun on Cold Spring, and taking a side each…
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Pylar – La Gran Obra
Pylar – La Gran ObraLabel: Sunneurosis RecordsFormat: CD, Album Limited to 250 copiesCountry: SpainReleased: 2016Style: Experimental, Avantgarde, Doom Metal After the successful second album, PYLAR collective returns with a new release: La Gran Obra. This CD is limited to 250 copies (a number that touches upon the threshold of madness) and is inspired by Alchemy.In the same way as the alchemical process, La Gran Obra is divided into three parts: Nigredo, Albedo and Rubedo. Throughout this piece, the enigmatic heresiarchs manage to manipulate the lost language of colour and the complex esoteric symbolism of ancient science, dropping clues to the follower and allowing them to walk down the path of…
