Agalloch – The Grey EP Label: Eisenwald Tonschmiede – Eisen151 Format: CD, EP, Reissue Country: Germany Released: 29 Nov 2019 Style: Black Metal, Avantgarde
Remastered re-issue with original artwork and bonustrack.
Eisenwald presents The Grey EP: A collection of destroyed & rebuilt songs from “The Mantle”.
The Grey is the first installment of two companion releases, originally released in 2004. This new edition includes the original artwork and arrives with exclusive bonus track recorded in 2003, that has never been released on any format. créditos se lanzó el 29 de noviembre de 2019
Agalloch – The White EP Label: Eisenwald Tonschmiede – EISEN150 Format: CD, EP, Deluxe Edition, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered Country: Germany Released: 29 Nov 2019 Style: Ambient, Neofolk
Heavy embossed slipcase made of special WHITE art card stock with great haptics. Classic jewelcase with a booklet printed on uncoated paper, feat. original artwork and all credits.
Remastered re-issue with original artwork and bonustrack. Limited first press with deluxe embossed slipcase made of special art card stock with great haptics. Please see the DETAILS tab for a complete info about the package.
Eisenwald presents The White EP: a collection of dark folk & ambient work written & recorded between 2004 – 2007. Originally released in 2008 by now defunct Vendlus Records, the White is the last installment of two companion releases & the stylistic counterpart to the Grey. Remastered by Gus Elg at Skyonion in Portland, OR and includes the rare track “Where Shade Once Was”.
For over twenty years the Pacific Northwest group Agalloch had defined what it means to combine influences from a variety of musical genres into one brooding, colossal, and cinematic sound that provides the soundtrack to existential themes concerning man, nature, loss, and death.
Tracklisting:
1. The Isle of Summer 2. Birch Black 3. Hollow Stone 4. Pantheist 5. Birch White 6. Sowilo Rune 7. Summerisle – Reprise 8. Where Shade Once Was
Ulver – Drone Activity Label: House of Mythology – HOM 018 LP Format: CD Album Country: UK Released: 11 May 2019 Style: Ambient
It all happened in a haze. I am not sure everyone was prepared to obey the summons and forsake the shore in order to be pulled under by the loudness of sound. Yet the ethos on that crisp October night was clear in its wording: Drone Activity.
Upon entering the old fish-warehouse, now converted into an activity hall, on the new Oslo waterfront, the security guards barely cared to check our tickets. Even mammoths would have been able to hide in this enormous dark space, illuminated by a few logos and stalls of sugary drinks, about to disappear in a sea of smoke.
Disappearance comes in many shapes in the age of extinction. Following the Danish noise act Damien Dubrovnik, Ulver started out in a subtle manner, carefully examining the territory, vast and waste. Screeching sounds echoed distant roars from the approaching edge as snowflakes pierced the air with ferocious speed. Where to go from there?
A retreat into the sunken paradise. Half-buried misty temples, giant creatures and vaguely prehistoric figures emerged as depth and time intertwined, from the ancient Atlantis to the northernmost seas.
We stayed there for 90 minutes, of which 70 have been meticulously mixed and mastered for this release. All of them are new sounds. Darker and more dire, yet containing the vibe of their previous semi-improvisatory sessions, documented and catalogued on the “Zodiac” album, ATGCLVLSSCAP (2016).
If that Zodiac album was a free-form Ulver interpreting the signs in the stars, Drone Activity stares into the abyss, documenting those moments after the last rays of sun speckle the surface and careless subterranean streams start determining the course.
“Something murky and liminal emerged, in sound and space,” the band states in their liner notes. I can’t think of a more apt description of what, and to where, Ulver brought us that night. There is no shoreline a thousand feet down.
TORE ENGELSEN ESPEDAL, on the ferry from Naples to Palermo, March 2019
