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African Imperial Wizard – Nzinga Mbande

julio 9, 2024

African Imperial Wizard – Nzinga Mbande (Vinyl, LP)
Label: Tesco Organisation ‎– Tesco 153
Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition
Country: Germany
Released: 02 Dec 2022
Style: Experimental, Tribal, African, IDM, Darkwave, Neo-Classical, Folk, Abstract, Dark Ambient, Downtempo

“Nzinga Mbande” is the new album by the African Imperial Wizard collective. It is the soundtrack of the armed liberation from the imperialistic oppression that our continent has endured for far too long.

The “Nzinga Mbande” manifesto consists of eight martial symphonies. They all been have composed enduring pain and suffering and serve the purpose of giving our countries, which have been lacerated and battered by centuries of colonialism, the epic military ceremonies they deserve.

Our main goal with this new musical opus is to hand out orders to our troops and to maintain our military cohesion, the culmination of which will translate to Pan-Africanism and the profound intimidation of our enemies.
If you do not sense any danger coming, this could be the first sign of you losing your mind and if you listen carefully, you may already be able to hear the wailing of your dead haunting the battlefields devastated by our armed forces.

Because today more than ever, enough is enough. We won’t stop arming our warlords and their rebel battalions. We won’t stop arming our bloodthirsty mercenaries. We will continue to rely on our proud women warriors, who will follow in the footsteps of our ancestral queens Nzinga Mbande and Sarraounia and will reduce to ashes all those who dare show them and their devastating bastions any resistance. Make no mistake, we will not hesitate to resort to rearming our children. Our child soldiers helped us before, and they will do so again without a moment’s hesitation in the face of what we have had to put up with. We would rather see them die by our side in excruciating pain than letting them fall to your Machiavellian enslaving doctrines.

Nothing has been forgotten of the painful wounds that colonisation inflicted upon Africa. We counted every hand you cut off, every rape, every slave raid, every looting, every torture session, every poisoned watering hole, every crime, every assassination, every mass murder, every massacre, every genocide, every mass grave and every hour of forced labour which you imposed on us. Mark our words: our dead have slowly but surely been counted.

The toll is outrageous, and the abominable numbers speak for themselves and the horror we have been through. But believe us, we are more determined than ever and, may our gods be our witnesses, our vengeance will be all the bloodier. Barbaric invaders, look around you, we are already here, ready to draw our old Kalashnikovs and don’t worry, they do still work, and we can assure you they won’t jam.

Finally, African Imperial Wizard will come to play their most glorious laments in your cemeteries. Our sorcerers will make sacrifices on your graves to the memory of Soundiata. We will glorify the spirits of our great forefathers who fell in battle. The same fate awaits you.

Let the slaughter begin

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Der Blutharsch / NON ‎– Live In Athens 21/5/2000 (Vinyl, LP, Green)

mayo 30, 2024

Der Blutharsch / NON ‎– Live In Athens 21/5/2000 (Vinyl, LP, Green)
Label: Zyklon-B Productions ‎– none
Format: Vinyl, LP, Green
Country: Greece
Released: 2007
Style: Industrial, Neofolk

Limited Edition of 111 copies in green (this) and black vinyl. Etching on the vinyl writes «GUN 001». Rarity (Important, the cover has some marks, possibly of being improperly stored)

Boyd began his exploration of noise in the mid ’70s with the aid of a tape recorder and various loops of girl groups, turning pop into a continuous drone. This first collection, known as «The Black Album» was made toward the end of 1975 self-released in 1977 and later re-released as «Boyd Rice» by Mute in 1981. Boyd met Daniel Miller (head of Mute Records) at his first gig in the UK, where he played alongside with Throbbing Gristle, and was among the first artists to be signed on Mute. He is also known for his 7″ with treated noise loop grooves, which can be played at every speed and also off-center with extra drilled holes. The first of them, «Knife Ladder», was also his first release as NON. Boyd Rice also releases records with his own name and as Boyd Rice And Friends (with different guests), he does spoken words under the moniker The Boyd Rice Experience and a cover band of 60s’ pop songs with the name Spell (with Rose McDowall). Various appearances on works of Blood Axis, Current 93, Death In June and others.

Der Blutharsch is the main project of Austrian musician Albin Julius. Following in the footsteps of Autopsia and Laibach, Julius creates a marching music of bombastic rhythms and folkish melodies, often infused with historical military speeches and orchestral samples. The earlier works tended towards a minimalistic sample-based instrumental style in an industrial/ambient vein, while more recent material has headed into a folk/acoustic sound, often accompanied with live vocals and instruments.

Der Blutharsch’s first release was a self-titled picture LP released in late 1996 on the Arthur’s Round Table label, but the project didn’t became Julius’ main musical outlet until 1998 after the break-up of his previous band The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath A Cloud. The first CD album «Der Sieg des Lichtes Ist des Lebens Heil» was released that year, followed by a series of limited EP’s, before the release of the masterpiece «The Pleasures Received In Pain» in 1999.

Almost all of the bands releases are through Julius’ personal austrian-based label «WKN» («Wir Kapitulieren Niemals»), which was distributed by World Serpent UK until 2000, when it switched to Tesco Distribution in Germany. Since 2001 various musicians have acted as part of the band, but Albin Julius currently claims Der Blutharsch to have four permanent members: Marthynna, Jörg B. (of Graumadh), Bain Wolfkind (of Novo Homo) and himself.

The band officially disbanded in 2010, but was newly founded as Der Blutharsch And The Infinite Church Of The Leading Hand in the same year

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Lustmord – [Other] (2 x Vinyl, LP)

marzo 2, 2024

Lustmord – [Other] (2 x Vinyl, LP)
Label: Pelagic Records – PEL 185-V
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, Reissue, Stereo, Gatefold Cover, Black Vinyl
Country: Germany
Released: 2022
Style: Dark Ambient, Experimental

The Lustmord project started when Brian Williams was assisting the seminal industrial ensemble SPK in the early ’80s when that project was at its most caustic. In those early days Lustmord was often the duo of Brian Williams (often credited as B. Lustmord) and John Murphy. Later Lustmord increasingly became a solo project.

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Winterblood ‎– Waldeinsamkeit (2 × Vinyl)

marzo 2, 2024

Winterblood – Waldeinsamkeit (2 × Vinyl)
Label: Kunsthall Produktionen – Kunsthalle 051
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Numbered, Reissue, Remastered
Country: Switzerland
Released: 2019
Style: Dark Ambient

Polar ambient since 1997, with several releases. Minimalist and monotonous soundscapes

Edition:
– Gatefold 2LP (180g vinyl, black) incl. protection sleeve (478 copies available, hand numbered)

Tracklist:
1. Waldeinsamkeit I – Chapter 1
2. Waldeinsamkeit I – Chapter 2
3. Waldeinsamkeit II
4. Waldeinsamkeit III

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First Human Ferro – Heterodox

marzo 1, 2024

First Human Ferro – Heterodox
Label: Old Captain – OCCD17, Gradual Hate Records – GH 128 CD
Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition
Country: Ukraine
Released: Apr 2016
Style: Dark Ambient

Old Captain’s owner, Olegh Kolyada, fights the sea and presents his Lost Generation victory in defeat. “Heterodox” is a dark ambient album born of the sound and the fury with heroes lonely and mad. A sparse, straightforward yet emotionally vigorous record with its own interior monologue, a discourse to be a silent interlocutor to. Restraining the interior the musician offers the nature symbolism via modular synthesizers and analogue junk approach to scatter one’s ego worldwide for good. Full of elemental primitiveness the heretic in his destructive folly challenges to claim a nihilistic vision of reality to engage the listener into an ever-present absurd. A 200-CD edition in a classical glossy Digipak. A co-prod of Old Captain and Gradual Hate Records.

8 tracks / 46 minutes

Tracklist:

1 Offret 06:07
2 Mother Death 07:29
3 Transkommunikation 04:57
4 Progenitor Unripe 05:02
5 Reprobatorivm 07:31
6 Misogyny 03:28
7 Nova Utopia 06:33
8 Throat Transfixed 04:59

Credits:
Artwork By – Stasys Krasauskas
Composed By – Olegh Kolyada
Notes:
Recorded at Oda Relicta HQ in 2016.
Limited to 200 copies. A glossy 4-panel Digipak edition

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Gudelnaya Polyana – Solar Systo Togathering 2020

febrero 29, 2024

Gudelnaya Polyana – Solar Systo Togathering 2020
Label: Zhelezobeton ‎– ZHB-LXXXV
Format: 3 × CD, Album, Compilation, Limited Edition, Numbered, Partially Mixed
Country: Russia
Released: 31 May 2021
Style: Drone, Dark Ambient, Experimental, Ambient, Noise

Here we have a three-hour long compilation of live recordings, made in September 2020 at Gudelnaya Polyana (Russian for “droning glade”) – the experimental stage of the Solar Systo Togathering festival. The concept of Gudelnaya Polyana is total drone, infinitely diverse, but united in its essence. Every year in any weather dozens of musicians gather in the woods of the Leningrad region to take part in this ritual action, keeping themselves warm with bonfires, hot pu-er tea and kilowatts of sound.

In 2020, we were lucky to record the performances of most artists, and many of them agreed to provide fragments of these recordings for a commemorative compilation. The unity and diversity of droning sound is fully represented here since the festival gathers musicians from different fields: ambient, drone, noise, electronic, academic, and even the ensemble of 12-year-old experimenters made their contribution.

The first disc gently immerses us in the forest thicket, swamps and electrified fogs; the second takes us further into the labyrinths of sound experiments and unlikely consonances; the third begins with the piercing clarity of dawn, which gives way to a calm daytime mood, followed by the coming of night – the deep darkness thickens, we’re riding electromagnetic waves and trying to look beyond human existence…

In order to recapture the atmosphere more precisely, the tracks of 28 artists are smoothly rendered in three hour-long mixes. The artists taking part in this compilation are: AIKO ONLINE feat. KIKIMOTA & ANTON SONDA-JUNGLOV, ANDREW SPRRW & NIKA, AU, DRONE LIBERATION FRONT, EGREGOROS, EVERGREEN DJ, JAGATH, JAM DAZAN, KONTAKT S INOPLANETYANAMI ETO MUZYKA, KRYPTOGEN RUNDFUNK, LUNAR ABYSS, MIRA DREVO, NOISES OF RUSSIA, PETER THEREMIN, PETROGRAD DRONE GATHERING, SACHA RUSH & INSPECTR, SIX DEAD BULGARIANS, SOILCULT, SONOZERO, SVETLO111, SYMPHOCAT, TILE~SHORE, TIM SIX, TREMORKIKIMOR, TRETIY MIR, TUHJADES MAADES, W I I, WALDGRENZE.

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When The Moon Is In Her Second Quarter ‎– When The Moon Is In Her Second Quarter

febrero 29, 2024

When The Moon Is In Her Second Quarter ‎– When The Moon Is In Her Second Quarter
Label: Status Prod. ‎– SP 09 CD
Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered
Country: Russia
Released: 10 Nov 2018
Style: Industrial, Dark Ambient, Experimental, Drone, Noise

The deaf darkness of the chthonic forest gives birth to hitherto unseen monsters and their moans, like dead leaves, are carried by the wind between the skeletons of trees, as ancient as the Earth itself. Lost souls sigh, wheeze,howl, revealing their essence , when the Moon is in her second quarter…
Status Prod. presents new CD – album of the anonymous ritual ambient / death industrial project When the Moon is in her second quarter “Like dead leaves”.
Two nameless hymns–rituals are dedicated to the memory of Yevgeniy Yufit, the founder of the genre Necrorealism in cinema, painting and literature.
The record features guest appearance of Ord Err (ORD).
The album was released in 200 hand-numbered copies, and is a pennant made of brown designer cardboard with PAINT-IT-BLACK DESIGN, applied by silk-screen printing on it, in silver color.

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Hiemis – Radix

febrero 28, 2024

Hiemis – Radix
Label: Noctivagant
Format: CDR
Country: Spanish
Released: 2020
Style: Drone, Dark Ambient

However, the cathedrals were not only temples strictly dedicated to religious worship; in turn, they become places of encounter, of discussion, of contemplation. Sanctuary of the Tradition of Science and Art, the Gothic cathedral must be seen as a sufficient concretion of popular ideas, trends and faith, as a perfect whole that we can go to without fear when we try to know the thoughts of our ancestors , in all fields: religious, secular, philosophical or social.

The medieval builders, authentic creators of these complex and amazing buildings, breathed into their works a whole series of knowledge and hermetic messages. From the conception of the building in a plane, through its orientation or the layout of its plan, each and every one of the elements of a cathedral or a church were carefully planned following some schemes loaded with symbolism and knowledge that largely He had inherited from antiquity. The imprint of these esoteric doctrines, applied by the builders, was evident in the designs made in cathedrals and medieval temples.

Among the students of these buildings, the figure of the enigmatic controversial alchemist Fulcanelli stands out, for which the cathedrals constituted a compendium of all the knowledge of medieval alchemy. The principles of hermetic wisdom were exposed there, in the sight of all, but through symbols incomprehensible to the uninterested. The alchemist related, for example, the plant of the cathedrals in the form of a cross with the alchemical crucible and linked the seven medallions of the Virgin on the facade of Nôtre Dâme with the seven metals of the alchemical process for obtaining gold. He affirmed that «Gothic art» came from the term «argot», a secret language that only the initiates knew and that the light that penetrated inside the cathedrals had thaumaturgical properties because the stained glass filtered the harmful rays of the sun.

«Art and science, once concentrated in the great monasteries, escape from the laboratory, run to the building, grab the bell towers, the pinnacles, the buttresses, hang from the arches of the vaults,` populate the niches , they transform the glasses into precious gems, the bronzes into sound vibrations, and they spread over the facades in a joyful flight of freedom and expression. «

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Hiemis – Hyperborea

febrero 28, 2024

Hiemis – Hyperborea
Label: Noctivagant
Format: CDR
Country: Spanish
Released: 2019
Style: Drone, Dark Akmbient

The dark-ambient and cold-cinematographic styles definitely are the main sources of inspiration running through this opus. I also noticed a few experimental treatments, but globally speaking this is music to activate evil spirits. Haunting voices and deep, humming tones will accompany the listener during their nightmarish trip. «side-line»

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Hiemis – Zothique

febrero 28, 2024

Hiemis – Zothique
Label: Noctivagant
Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition
Country: USA
Released:2022
Style: Drone, Ambient, Dark Ambient, Dungeon Synth, Neo-Classical

Zothique (Clark Ashton Smith)
«He who has trod the shadows of Zothique
And looked upon the coal-red sun oblique,
Henceforth returns to no anterior land,
But haunts a later coast
Where cities crumble in the black sea-sand
And dead gods drink the brine.

He who has known the gardens of Zothique
Were bleed the fruits torn by the simorgh’s beak,
Savors no fruit of greener hemispheres:
In arbors uttermost,
In sunset cycles of the sombering years,
He sips an amaranth wine.

He who has loved the wild girls of Zothique
Shall not come back a gentler love to seek,
Nor know the vampire’s from the lover’s kiss:
For him the scarlet ghost
Of Lilith from time’s last necropolis
Rears amorous and malign.

He who has sailed in galleys of Zothique
And seen the looming of strange spire and peak,
Must face again the sorcerer-sent typhoon,
And take the steerer’s post
On far-poured oceans by the shifted moon
Or the re-shapen Sign».

HIEMIS is a Spanish musical project belonging to the dark ambient genre that began its journey in 2018 after a period of reflection on an earlier stage with the darkfolk project Silent Love of Death. («The Poet´s Senses» 2004-Palace of Worms, «Donde Habite el Olvido» 2011-GH Records)

In the little HIEMIS life I have published my music with the North American label Noctivagant with Phillip Abraham as well as with the Spanish label GH Records with the responsible Avencio Delgado.

Nachtstücke (GH Records, 2018), Hyperborea (Noctivagant Records, 2019), Thule (GH Records, 2019) and Radix (Noctivagant Records, 2020). The latest album La Chose, about to be released under the GH Records label in spring
2021 in a very special edition as it will be accompanied by
an esoteric ritual book translated into two languages,
Spanish and English.

Although its sound has evolved to more ritual sounds, it maintains immersive textures together with drones in dark and disturbing environments.The main evolution that HIEMIS has had at this time has been at a con

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