In depth interviews with: Am Not, Cloister Recordings Himukalt, Ochu, Pterygium, & Tone Generator (of SPK & Last Dominion Lost). A series of six previously unpublished SPK group photos, taken at The Brickworks, Sydney, March 1982. Collage artwork by Richard Stevenson. 50 in depth music reviews (ambient/ industrial/ experimental / power electronics etc.).
FORMAT
A5 Format. Professional print, colour cover, grey-scale throughout. ‘Perfect bound’ spine, with matt laminate, thick card stock cover. 94 pages in length. Limited to 600 copies.
In 1982, SPK issued their ‘music’ video, Despair. Sold mainly via mail order, Despair quickly asserted itself as something of a cult item on the underground when publications such as Re/Search #10: Incredibly Strange Films began to plug it. In that volume, Frank Henenlotter, director of Basket Case, said: «When I saw the video I thought, ‘What a fabulous thing; what a strange way of using music. Who would make a music video to such horror – with actual severed heads…'» Despair consists of 60 minutes of screeching, heavily distorted guitars, electronics, and various tape and vocal effects. The graphics mutate from a series of lines running up and down the screen, into a seemingly random cut-up of images, like scenes of a sex-shop, or an autopsy. The soundtrack drives onward, relentlessly. Sequences showing the mutilation of a dead cat (its eye gouged out and its tongue sliced off) and the unspooling of intestines from a cadaver’s gaping abdominal cavity, are intercut with footage of SPK performing live. The frontman, in bondage mask and swastika armband, bites meat from a rancid horse’s head. Slides of death camps, brain operations, foetal deformities and pathological specimens take the video to its conclusion and infamous mortuary footage. An individual, seen only as a pair of industrial-gloved hands, manoeuvres a detached head to perform clumsy fellatio on a penis protruding from the severed, lower extremities of a corpse. The head is replaced by a skeletal hand, woven with strings of yellowed tendon and gristle. This appendage simulates masturbation of the grey member. Hailing from Australia, SPK were one of the first wave of industrial noise groups. Throbbing Gristle’s label, Industrial Records, put out a 7″ EP of theirs (one track of which, Slogan, appears on the video) and rumours abound that band members
Label: Gradual Hate Records / Series: Hate The Modern World – H.T.M.06 CD Format: CDr, Album, Limited Edition Country: Spain Released: 2015 Style: Dark Ambient, Industrial
“Ego Vox” is a post industrial split by FHF and Ostarbeiter, two Olegh Kolyada’s projects famous for a special existential vein of dark ambient and death industrial electronics. Originally presented at a live gig in 2011 with Cisfinitum (featuring one track). With his back to society Old Captain’s owner keeps eschatological silence.
tracklist:
1. From Cradle to Grave 2. Nasha Zemlya 3. Chasing the Shadow 4. Terminus 5. Presidential Chair 6. The Point of No Return 7. Particles of God 8. Windmill Cross 9. Bird on Burning Tree (feat. Cisfinitum) 10. Narcolepsis Milieu
Vetrophonia – Vizualizacija Label: Ultrasomnambula U – USU 01 Format: DVD, DVD-Video, Compilation, Limited Edition, Numbered Country: Russia Released: Apr 2017 Style: Experimental, Industrial, Noise
Tracklist 1 – Тридцать Три И Одна Треть – Шумовизуальная Поэза (2014-2016) 33:40 2 – Столетие Манифеста «Искусство Шумов» Луиджи Руссоло (Концерт В ГЭЗ-21. 11.03.2013) 31:22 3 – Обращение Дев Непорочных Голубицами Небесными (Концерт На Пушкинской-10. 03.08.1996) 49:00
The video disc «Vizualizacija» by St. Petersburg-based project Vetrophonia (Alexander Lebedev-Frontov & Nick Soudnick) consists of several parts. First of all, this is the completely new multimedia album created in 2013-2016 with the help of Yuri Kovalskiy (Worms, Monument Straha), entitled «33 1/3». The album is comprised of the carefully crafted half-hour long collage of various industrial and retro-futuristic sketches, analogue video-noises and meticulously constructed soundtrack perfectly matching the visual part. Despite the quite abstract nature of this work, it keeps the viewer in suspense during all its length and dense saturation of images is compensated by the peculiar sense of humour. The disc also contains the digital version of the live material «Turning Virgings Into Doves» originally released in 1996 on VHS, and the recording of a gig in Experimental Sound Gallery (ESG-21), St. Petersburg, played on 11.03.2013 to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of publication of the famous «L’arte dei Rumori» manifesto by Luigi Russolo.
Playlist curated by Death Cult Rising festival exclusively for GH Records.
1) BRIGHTER DEATH NOW – Promises Of Death (6:20) // Included in «With Promises of Death» (Familjegraven – GRAV-01) 2) MORAL ORDER – Face of Defeat (4:42) // Included in «Wrath of God» (Tesco Organisation – TESCO 129 ) 3) HAUS ARAFNA – Sieh Mich An [Wenn Du Stirbst] (3:25) // Included in «Asche» (Galakthorrö – Galakthorrö 048) 4) HUMAN LARVAE – Severin Sirens (9:40) // Included in «Behind Blinding Light» (Malignant Records – TUMORCD100) 5) ATRAX MORGUE – Rotten Humanity (4:36) // Included in «Atrax Morgue / Contagious Orgasm – Forced Entry / N.C.W.» (Old Europa Cafe – OECD 243) 6) GNAWED – Pestilence Beholden (5:12) // Included in «Pestilence Beholden» (Malignant Records – TUMORCD97) 7) DEATHSTENCH – Bastards Of The Black Flame (9:55) // Included in «Massed In Black Shadow» (Black Plagve – INFECT 11) 8) TREPANERINGSRITUALEN – Black Eggg (3:55) // Included in «Perfection & Permanence (Cold Spring – CSR198CD) 9) DEATHPANEL – Under Judgement (5:31) // Included in «Age of Insignificance» (Tesco Organisation – TESCO 124) 10) SLOGUN – Slobland (4:05) // Included in «Tearing up your plans» (Old Captain – OCCD16) 11) GENOCIDE ORGAN – It’s Over (5:27) // Included in «Under – Kontrakt» Tesco 085 + + + (All titles are currently available on GH Recods catalog) GH Records / MMXXI Death Cult Rising → www.facebook.com/DeathCultRising/
Industrial Complexx Vol.4 Magazine Edición Especial (Spanish) Label: Industrial Complexx – ICV004 Formato: Tamaño 12″, Tapa Blanda Idioma: Español 24 Nov 2020
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Industrial Complexx presenta su proyecto más ambicioso hasta la fecha. La cuarta edición del magazine es una edición especial, con formato extenso de 32cm x 32cm, emulando las 12 pulgadas del vinilo, y con más de 110 páginas dedicadas a la escena industrial y experimental que surgió en los primeros años de democracia en España, a los 40 años en activo de Esplendor Geométrico, banda pionera en la corriente industrial nacional y muy respetada fuera de este país, y a algunos de los pesos más importantes de este movimiento contracultural como Francisco López, Rafael Flores, Stahlfabrik, Alonso Urbanos, Miguel Ángel Martín, Andrés Noarbe, Marcel·lí Antúnez, o figuras internacionales como Maurizio Martinucci o Uwe Schmidt. Contado todo por ellos mismos y por otros artistas como Erizonte, Escupemetralla, Pedro Peñas (HIV+), Miguel A. Ruiz, Moritz Reichelt, Dirk Ivens, Marcelo Expósito, Ángel Molina y Oscar Mulero.
Dirección y diseño de la publicación: Ximo Noguera Diseño gráfico: Iván Galíndez Artista gráfico de portada: Mimusa Colaboradores: Juanma González, Giulia Scrocchi.
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Industrial Complexx presents its most ambitious project to date. The fourth edition of the magazine is a special edition, with an extensive format of 32cm x 32cm, emulating the 12 inches of vinyl, and with more than 110 pages dedicated to the industrial and experimental scene that emerged in the first years of democracy in Spain, to the 40th anniversary of Esplendor Geometrico, a pioneering band in the Spanish industrial movement and highly respected in the rest of the world, and some of the most important figures in this Spanish counter-cultural movement such as Francisco López, Rafael Flores, Stahlfabrik, Alonso Urbanos, Miguel Ángel Martín, Andrés Noarbe, Marcel-lí Antúnez, or international artists such as Maurizio Martinucci or Uwe Schmidt. All told by themselves and by other artists such as Erizonte, Escupemetralla, Pedro Peñas (HIV+), Miguel A. Ruiz, Moritz Reichelt, Dirk Ivens, Marcelo Expósito, Ángel Molina and Oscar Mulero.
Direction and layout of the publication: Ximo Noguera Graphic design: Iván Galíndez Cover graphic artist: Mimusa Collaborators: Juanma González, Giulia Scrocchi.
Àrnica +Trepaneringsritualen – Guresar Guaoku Àrnica + Apocalypse Projekt (Cruor Martyrium & Scumearth) – Ni Beyarnari
Two Ur-Industrial-Folk offerings recorded back in 2016 during ‘Cabeza de Lobo’ sessions and finally unleashed as a Massive Black 7” Vinyl including postcard with lyrics and limited to 200 copies.
-Iberian Ur-Folk- Àrnica is an Iberian based Ur-Folk project. Its music deals with old keltiberian roots, tradition, ancient Gods, values and nature warrior anthems.
Using instruments like electroacustic guitar, flutes, goliaths, wooden drums, cimbals, cowbells, horns, totem sticks, some of them self-made, all the music develops side by side with their chants.
Since 2008, Àrnica has been growing strong on stages of several european countries. Portugal, Spain, France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Poland and Lituania has count with this brave band for concerts and festivals.
Its on stage where Àrnica develops the power of its music. Powerful, contundent and intense concerts planned as Rituals where all audience senses are involved. Also develops acoustic concerts, exploring more intimate and close feelings and energies. Àrnica has played by Cromlechs, Sacred Trees, rivers…
The band has been collaborating with other wellknown band of the scene as Sturmpercht, Camerata Mediolanense, Andrew King, Traum’er Leben, Svarrogh… and share stage with Death In June, Blood Axis, Orplid/Barditus, Of the Wand and the Moon, etc…
Trepaneringsritualen. Industrial ritual project founded by Swedish artist Thomas Martin Ekelund (born 1977), based in Göteborg. Active since 2008. Also called T x R x P and Teeraal Räum Pheynix.
Crvor Martyrivm is the new one-man musical project from the French-Spanish sound artist Alberto Hernández Serradilla, a.k.a. XIII, main mastermind behind the Spanish cult Dark Esoteric Ritual Ambient Industrial act NOTHVS FILIVS MORTIS.
After a long 10 year hiatus from the alternative Post Industrial music scene, XIII returns with this new side project, still deeply rooted in the Post Industrial musical tradition. However, whereas Nothvs Filivs Mortis concentrates on developing sonic & aural Dark Ambient & Ritual Industrial soundscapes with a strong Middle Age / Occult / Hermetic & Esoteric background, CRVOR MARTYRIVM still delves into apocalyptic & bleak sonic imagery, but with a much more traditional & formal musical approach, adopting an Avantgarde Orchestral Symphonic Martial Industrial musical form, albeit retaining some Dark Ambient elements.
Reminiscences of LAIBACH, IN SLAUGHTER NATIVES, LES JOYAUX DE LA PRINCESSE, THE MOON LAY HIDDEN BENEATH A CLOUD & IN THE NURSERY, to name just a few, can be heard in this new musical endeavour, allowing XIII to draw musical allegories of the world & society we live in nowadays, filled with personal yet intimate feelings & thoughts about the End of Days we are currently witnessing…
Scumearth. Harsh experimental electronic & dark ambient noise artist from Spain, also is a member of We are the Hunters and the Sci-Fi noise electronics Scum & Bones (disbanded). Also is a ghost member a support live and studio of the horror grind core band Machetazo.
Psychic TV – Haçienda Label: Cold Spring – CSR187CD Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition Country: UK Released: 09 Dec 2013 Style: Industrial, Experimental, Alternative Rock
PSYCHIC TV, 5th November 1984, Manchester. This was PSYCHIC TV’s first show at NEW ORDER / FACTORY’s legendary HACIENDA club! For this event Psychic TV were: Genesis P-Orridge, John Gosling (Zos Kia, Coil), Paul Reeson, and Alex Fergusson. Tracklisting: 1. Intro, 2. Enochian Calls, 3. I Like You, 4. Unclean Monks, 5. Unclean, 6. Roman P., 7. Southern Comfort, 8. Godstar, 9. Thee Starlit Mire, 10. Thee Shining. This is the complete show with unseen photos! Ltd x 1000 copies.
ThuleSehnsucht In Der MaschinenZeit – The Aeon Of ThuleSehnsucht
(12 years the 17 best works) CD / Compilation with exclusive songs Limited edition ( 300 copies) GH Records – GH -143 CD / Twilight Records – TW 1.160
The Aeon Of ThuleSehnsucht is not only the best of 12 years, it’s a journey through the best songs of TSIDMZ, revisited tracks and new songs, it is a panorama of the different collaborations carried out and the different styles touched over the years. This record, as well as the soul of the project, is a vision that blends Futurism and Tradition, Eurasian/Hyperborean visions and Post-Atomic scenarios.
T.S.I.D.M.Z. (ThuleSehnsucht In Der MaschinenZeit), born and conceived between 2002 and 2007 (the year when it was first produced), is an Italian project of Electronic music with Futuristic, Hyperborean and Martial attitude that takes inspiration from various genres within the field of Industrial, Popular and Traditional Music. In both music and themes, the purpose is to be as eclectic as possible while remaining faithful to the aim of the project. For this reason the project has always been involved in collaborations with other musicians, including split-cds, guest musicians, shared projects and collaborations on tracks and songs.
