Label: Auerbach Tonträger – AB 034 Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue DVD Country: Germany Released: 02 Sep 2011 Style: Neofolk
Noble re-release of the Sol Invictus classic with 13-track bonus DVD
“In The Jaws Of The Serpent” is the recording of a live performance by Sol Invictus in Tokyo in 1988. This was originally released in 1989 as a mini LP and then combined with the first mini album “Against The Modern World” to form the CD “Sol Veritas Lux” a year later. On September 2nd, 2011, “In The Jaws …” will be released as a stand-alone CD for the very first time, complete with a bonus DVD featuring a nearly 60-minute live performance by Sol Invictus in Hamburg on March 27th, 1993. As with all of Auerbach Tonträger’s new editions of the Sol Invictus back-catalogue, “In The Jaws …” will be released in a portrait-format Digipak and is limited to 700 copies.
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.
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
