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March CMI
STORMFAGELEtt berg av fasa digi-CD
We can honestly say that STORMFAGEL have produced a stunning follower to their charming debut album from 2005, Den Nalkande Stormen (cmi149); quoted as "one of the most powerful neofolk debuts of 2005" (Heathen Harvest). STORMFAGEL, Swedish born Andreas Neidhardt and Hungarian vocalist Eva Mag, are back to bless us with a surprisingly phenomenal new work!
The music of STORMFAGEL combines ethnic sounding neofolk compositions sung in Hungarian by Eva, with martial tinged orchestral selections sung by Andreas and Eva together, and their new album, Ett Berg Av Fasa, impregnates with a beautiful blend of their very special mixture of Swedish / Hungarian martial neofolk orchestrations. The strong and confident voice of Eva Mag sings across the music, in Swedish and in Hungarian as traditional chants, which works extraordinary well with the dark romantic orchestral strings and ritualistic martial drummings, the violins, the bells, keyfiddle and woodwinds. Marching forward over fields, through ancient woods; STORMFAGEL has made its nest and is here to stay.
HauRucK!
HauRucK! ia proud to be able to announce that DERNIERE VOLONTE entered the Italian alternative charts.......
Stigmata
A report from Lithuanian festival ICETODIRON is here. Enjoy!
Two years ago we were all shocked by the news about the death of Zdzislaw Beksinski, one of the greatest painters of the XX century, murdered in his flat in February 2005. It’s a great loss for all people who appreciated a great artistic value although he was considered as a creator of dark and gloomy paintings and it was not so easy to deal with his visions.
12 artists from 7 countries decided to pay a tribute to Mr. Beksinski and create a compilation which will help us firstly to remember about his outstanding paintings and secondly spread the knowledge about Mr. Beksinski among those who did not have a chance to appreciate his craft while he was alive.
The compilation will be released on Feb 21st which is the second anniversary of the tragic death of Mr. Beksinski. The Album contains special tracks, never released before and inspired by the works of Mr. Beksinski. As his paintings were never titled, all tracks are unnamed as well.
It is not possible to transform the image into the music, but, we believe, it is possible to create the music illustrating the image, reflecting the mood of somebody's visions... Try to guess Beksinski's visions dreams and nightmares...
Please notice: Part of the proceeds of this release will be handed over to the Muzeum Historyczne of Sanok, the major owner of Beksinski’s works. It will support the Gallery of Zdzislaw Beksinski.
Cold Meat Industry
ROMEConfessions D'Un Voleur D'Ames digi-CD
Only a few months after the release of its first full-length album Nera, ROME is back yet again to show that it's here to stay. Confessions D'Un Voleur D'Ames is a call from a world where love and despair are locked in an embrace. A black craving in the fangs of war, the joys of stealth in a riot of blossoms.
This second album is much calmer and rather more personal than Nera. These confessions are often dark and poetic, sometimes brutal, but most of all intimate. Again you will find traces of all kinds of genres of obscure music; ambient, neo-classical, dark wave, apocalyptic folk, martial industrial. ROME couldn't care less about boundaries of genres. However, the tone is less militant, the main themes being treachery and sacrifice, temperance and composure.
With a distinctive slice of military suicide pop fiddled into their sound, ROME has established itself as one of the most lively and interesting "martial" folk acts up and about. These confessions prove that ROME has become a force to be reckoned with.
The wolf will be set loose on April 1st, 2007, again a deluxe digipak, limited to 3000 copies.
Like it or lump it!
3rd place in ORKUS Soundcheck!
Coming this year:
STORMFAGELEtt berg av fasa digi-CD DESIDERII MARGINISSeven Sorrows CD BDN - 1890 LP All My Faith Lost...The Hours CD
V/A Cold Meat Industry Live in Australia digi-DVD
(featuring: Raison d'etre, BRIGHTER DEATH NOW, DEUTSCH NEPAL, FROZEN FACES, ATOMINE ELEKTRINE, BOCKSHOLM, SHINJUKU THIEF, MANTICLE, ISOMER) STURMASTIbis redibis nunquam in bello peribis CD COPH NIAThe Dark Illuminati - A Celestial Tragedy in two Acts CD
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DER BLUTHARSCH`s new album is nearly finished..they will work on the last 2 songs, and fly to Scotland in June to do the master with their alltime mastering heroe Denis Blackham.
There will be a live appearance November 24th at the Slimelight London to celebrate the 10 years anniversary of Gaya`s Hagshadow activities. For this night they will perform as "Albin Julius and friends" - so expect something different than BLUTHARSCH, what exactly, they don?t know yet themselves.
HauRucK! is releasing the VARUNNA Cantos CD in 2 weeks - it will be available via tesco Distribution. The album was recorded at Studio 451 and Albin and Jorg B. are playing a few instruments and tunes on it as well.
More HR! releases are in the pipe...CHANGES`s Legends LP version, DERNIERE VOLONTE`s tour 7inch, NAEVUS`s new album, BAIN WOLFKINDS mCD.
LOKI
EX.ORDERCorporate Control CD/ LP
While the last releases were focussed on archive and live recordings this is finally the all new album, following the INFERNAL AGE from 1999. Ten tracks of an immensely raw sonic and violent aesthetic constructed through dark throbbing machine noises, crushing rhythmic layers and vocals. Highly explosive heavy electronics, uncompromising and provocative both sonically and visually. An unforgiving tour de force capturing the perfection of disorder. The absolute response to the nightmare that is the world we live in.
A limited vinyl edition of 222 copies will be available as well.
Punch
AIT!Romanticismo Oltranzista CD
Ladies and Gentlemen: Mr. AIT! is back at last to reveal himself with a new kinky show for those of you having lost their heart in a dark Italian discotheque, some thirty years ago. With a couple of hard-boiled songs and a boxful of extremist love letters this obscure erotique one man orchestra gets its stylish fists right into the face of todays fashion kids.
Too strong to be pussy. Too pussy to be romantic. A bizarre cup of circus fun served in a Jess Franco ballet dance through hell. Remember the mirrorballs and watch this whole unique striptease from lounge to funk to rock'n'punk. Everything in here, more than a spicy cocktail. All shaken not stirred. A punch of its own!
Comes in beautiful digipak including a 28 pages booklet with all lyrics in italian and english too!
Stigmata
New photo-reports from AMBASSADOR 21 and TYLOS LABANORO gigs. New reviews in Russian: PUISSANCEGrace of God (Equilibrium), POST SCRIPTVMRaspad (TESCO), LLOVESPELLExcavated and Expectant (Sonderuebertragung), BIRCH BOOKFortune & Folly (Helmet Room Recordings), ORDO ROSARIUS EQUILIBRIOApocalips (CMI), CYCLOTIMIACelestis (Gravitator), WRONG NUMBERGun Type Fission Weapon (Hermetique), LES JOYAUX DE LA PRINCESSEAux Volontaires Croix De Sang (Athanor/LVN).
EIBON RECORDS
AMON / NIMHSator CD
The mystery of the ancient and puzzling magic SATOR square is evoked again through five dark tracks entitled like the five palindromes that form its fascinating structure: SATOR / AREPO / TENET / OPERA / ROTAS. AMON (Andrea Marutti), the most important and estabilished italian Dark-Ambient project, and NIMH (Giuseppe Verticchio), a well-known and eclectic alchemist of electronic-ethnic–acoustic-ambient sound mixtures, worked side by side for some weeks to create their first collaborative effort.
SATOR is a granitic and majestic work, a musical journey through time and history that throws the listeners into the most remote abysses of Earth. Massive magmatic sounds mixed with the technologic and synthetic vibrations of oscillating sinewaves & with frosty isolationist timbres programmed through fluxes of information written in binary code…
Echoes of breathless and confused human activities falling into decay, the dark and deep Sound of Earth’s abysses, scoriae of electric buzzes and synthetic microsounds, the warmth of subliminal melodies submerged and overwhelmed by menacing and distorted agglomerates of sounds, buried fragments of an abused guitar in decomposition faded by the unstoppable march of time…
Tantric Harmonies
Tantric Harmonies & Zhelezobeton Records present:
CATACLYSTMonuments of a Rubicund Age CD
Collaboration of Piter Andersson (RAISON D'ETRE) and Joanna Rosenquist (ex-INSTITUT).
MERZBOWOffering CD
Some history.... In 2004 Tantric Harmonies brought you probably the most unusual release from the Japanese pioneer and god of noise music: "Offering". Inspired by dark detective novel this work turned into pure bizarre experience. Sound of this album was described by some people as "Merzbow plays dark ambient". Well, it's dark... dare i say it's very very dark, but oh my god, it's not a soothing ambient music at all! On other hand this is not a wall of random noise this musician is famous for. Gosh, what was it????????????
Now in 2007 we give you a second chance!!! Taste it and let us know!!!
CD housed in jewel case and come with new beautiful artwork reflecting the dark nature of this opus.
The ALLERSEELEN CD Hallstatt contains thirteen brand-new apocalyptic and passionate songs about love and death. This release - musically situated somewhere in a terra incognita between folklore, krautrock, metal and industrial music - is inspired by the beautiful Upper Austrian village Hallstatt which belongs to the world cultural heritage due to its amazing tomb findings of the Hallstatt culture and the unique ossuary with the painted skulls.
Twelve songs feature lyrics and vocals by Gerhard Hallstatt. The thirteenth song has lyrics and vocals by R. N. Taylor from CHANGES who has been a close friend and comrade and troubadour of Allerseelen for many years. Both groups also travelled together to Russia, the ALLERSEELEN / CHANGES Split CD MEN AMONG THE RUINS is a wonderful testimony of the beautiful days these musicians spent together in St. Petersburg and Moscow.
The Spectral Eye
In MARCH 2007, The SPECTRAL EYE's new album, titled Solitaire Souls will be released by the netlabel Rain.
The album will be available for listening and download from the web, freely and legally - here
Silence Factory rec.
More sweets from Russia sickest label:
TIHSTAEI CDr
plaZmat2002/2007 Genocide CDr
January ANT-ZEN
AB OVOMouvements CD
It took some time for J.Chassagnard and R.Baillet to realize this new work of art. the project's trademark of
dark soundscapes and well-placed rhythms (mixed with a soundtrack type feel) can also be found within this new work. What might be a bit surprising though is the emphasis on rhythm; the opener
'hemisphere' f.e. contains a straight, almost trip-hop oriented beat that demands the listener's attention. The haunting, hypnotizing mood is still there but now it is tied to a metric like structure that wasn't
obvious in AB OVO's previous releases. sometimes, these beats are actually just bits - as in 'inlandsis',
where a short drum & bass interference emerges for just a few seconds. well placed samples, as in 'diaclase', enrich AB OVO's sound perfectly while not overwhelming the electronic sequences. voices - as
a sample in 'you are very far now' or as real vocals on 'in some ways' are also more apparent than on AB OVO's earlier works. especially Judith Juillerat’s guest appearance which pushes AB OVO toward a
direction they are unknown for - a beautiful song which could also attract 4ad addicts. the co-written track, 'the long tomorrow', ends the album with a breeze of sadness and melancholy - the perfect ending
for a truly astounding album by this excellent project.. Stigmata
Now You can download samples from the latest album of PRAGNAVITSvetaciam. Download: whole track Infernal Chant or mix.
Stigmata & Crivia Records present:
KHATYN: Tacet, Sed Loquitur CD
This compilation is a tribute to the people who became victims of tragedy in Belarusian village Khatyn.
Stigmata magazine presents the first Belarusian compilation with international line-up ÕÀÒÛÍÜ: Tacet, Sed Loquitur: 13 legendary bands from all-over Europe, Lithuania, Belarus and Russia joined their forces to remind people about victims of inferno in small Belarusian village Khatyn. Genres included are dark ambient, folk, electro, industrial and gothic. Almost all of the tracks are exclusive. The release includes matt varnished digisleeve, 3 cards and a 12 pages booklet. All artwork is made by Stigmata design and based on original photos from Belarusian State Photo Archive. The CD is limited to 500 copies. 15 Euro.
Track-list: PROPERGOL (Fr) Seventy-five /The Bullet Or The Flame PRAGNAVIT (By) Popiel Hatyni CYCLOTIMIA (Ru) Lament BAD SECTOR (It) Inner Pulse MAJDANEK WALTZ (Ru) Prayer ATARAXIA (It) Etretat MOON FAR AWAY (Ru) Volna Shumit OSIMIRA (By) Ziazulia Myia DONIS (Lt) Zalio Vario CAWATANA (Hu) May VISHUDHA KALI (Ru) Monuments & Dust FIRST LAW (De) Group Dynamics (Requiem for the Common Sense) NECRO STELLAR (Ru) Stay and Burn
PRAGNAVIT is one of the oldest and well-known formations from Belarus. This one-man project was formed by Mr. Voist, a legendary figure of Belarusian underground, who also known for UDUMBAL, NOLUNTAS and M.O.B.A.S. To this date PRAGNAVIT has released two tape-albums and disappeared for almost a decade…
Today Crivia Records, a joint venture of Stigmata and Possession Productions., is proud to present the brand new album of PRAGNAVIT. Forget about previous records from this band, Svietacjam is the new level in PRAGNAVIT’s career. Dark wave almost gone and now it’s time for Ethnic Dark Ambient! It’s time for the Rite of Initiation. Dark and gloomy soundscapes guide you through the pictures from the Past of ancient Belarus – mysterious land Crivia. Keyboards and field recordings are accompanied by native Belarusian acoustic instruments: duda (bagpipes), surma, sopilka, cow horn, drymba, fluits and kaliuka. Luxury edition. 15 Euro.
By now the great Spanish NeoClassic/Dark Folk/Heavenly Voices-band NARSILION is part of the label. The new album Namarie will come out on Ars Musica Diffundere by October. Soon the last album Arcadia will be available in Germany through BR...
They are back - RISE AND FALL OF A DECADE - the legendary Heavenly Voices/Wave band from the 90's. Until today this band has loads of fans because each of their songs is a masterpiece of composing and quality. And now, in the year 2007, BR'll re-release all their hits beginning with the album Noisy but Empty and You or Sidney.
The Australian band BRILLIG signed with Black Rain for their forthcomming album. BRILLIG have their own specific style, sometimes compared with Suede, The Cure or Placebo.The work on the new album Mirror on the Wall is close to its end and the CD will be released by April on Black Rain. As special bonus there will be a Maxi-CD The Plagiarist containing also some non-album tracks and the video track Followed - released by the middle of March.
LES JOYAUX DE LA PRINCESSE
LES JOYAUX DE LA PRINCESSEAux Volontaires Croix de Sang CD
Label - LVN
The brand new LJDLP opus based on the obscure 1930?s Croix de Sang movement. This album contains new material at the exception of a reworking track from the Croix de Bois 10", and is a masterpiece both musically and visually. Some material was used during the latest LJDLP concerts (Triumvirat festival).
Limited edition digipack with copper debossed finition and 12 pages full color booklet. 15 tracks. 64mn.
There will be an even more limited edition boxset (high price) wich will be announced later.
Tracklisting:
SUR LA TOMBE D?UN CAMARADE (1919)
CHAMPS DES MARTYRS
DECORES AU PERIL DE LEUR VIE
MARCHE DES CROIX DE SANG (ET ALLOCUTION DU CAPITAINE HANOT D?HARTOY)
POUR SAUVER L?ORDRE
LA VOIX NATIONALE (FRANCAIS CHOISISSEZ)
DES CRIS DANS LA TEMPETE
L?UNION DES PATRIOTES (1927-1929)
IMPRESSIONS D?UN OFFICIER BLESSE
POUR LA PATRIE (CROIX DE FEU ET COMBATTANTS VOLONTAIRES)
HYMNE DES CROIX DE SANG (1934)
LES CROIX DE FEU (CHANTE PAR MARCEL DAMBRINE)
AUX VOLONTAIRES CROIX DE SANG
FRONT-FRANC ET FLAMBEAU
CIMETIERE (CHANTE PAR CHARLES PANZERA)
Available NOW at ursprache@wanadoo.fr
War Office Propaganda
COLD FUSIONSimmetria digipack CD
Symmetry perceived as some kind of balance and harmony. Symmetry between surrounding world and its "mirror reflection", which sticks in our minds. Symmetry of left and right side, day and night, birth and death. Symmetry of buildings, objects, bodies. biquitous symmetry. Brand new album of COLD FUSION reflets ist theme - dynamic, marching atmosphere from one side, melancholy and reverie from another. Illusory lack of symmetry or rather its confirmation? 11 tracks, 44.30 minutes comes in nice digipack designed by Michal Karcz.
STURMLe prix du sang et des larmes digipack CD
Very attracted debut of French neoclassical, symphonic, martial industrial act. Fourty minutes of music in nine tracks created in specific orchestral vein. Very interesting music, not so many mighty, bombastic phrases, but a lot of moving atmospheres. Recommended!
New reviews in Russian: ALLERSEELEN/ SANGRE CAVALLUMBarco Do Vinho, ALTER BREITENBACHN.A.S.A., ATARAXIAParis Spleen, BLEIBURGPieces of a Broken Dream, Brewery in Piotrkow Trybunalski V/A, DARKWOODNotwendfeuer, DERNIERE VOLONTEDevant Le Miroir, JOHN WATERMANCalcutta Gas Chamber, ÕÀÒÛÍÜ: Tacet, Sed Loquitur V/A, HEILIGE FEUER III V/A, Gloria Victis, Vae Victis V/A, KREPULEC : OUTOFSIGHTFurious Friends, LAIBACHVolk, MZ.412Infernal Affairs, NEBELHEX¨Essensual, PRAGNAVITSvietacjam, PARANOIA INDUCTAGloria Laus | Lux Mundi Act I, TOLLChrist Knows.
Great festival will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania: DEUTSCH NEPAL, BRIGHTER DEATH NOW, IRM, Martin Bladh, ATOMINE ELEKTRINE and lithuanian OORCHACH. More info >>>.
Steinklang Industries
INSTITUTION D.O.L.Instructions For Modern Weakniks CD
Instructions For Modern Weakniks coming as CD on Steinklang Industries in March 2007.
It will be the, by far, most violent, harshest and simultaneosly the most musical release in the history of INSTITUTION D.O.L.
In co-operation with artists from projects like CONTROL, OPERATION CLEANSWEEP, A CHALLENGE OF HONOUR, FUCKHEAD/WIPE OUT, RASTHOF DACHAU, WERTHAM, PAGE 27 etc. a great piece of extreme music has been accomplished.
The CD will be issued in a luxury digipack including a professional video.
Happy New Year!
The site was re-designed a bit. Enjoy. More info comes later. Top 10 for 2006
From our neighbor country in the east (Finland) comes PIMENTOLA; maybe new, but definitely not unknown. After 10 years and a good selection of releases, such as the highly praised album MM-MMV on Twilight Records; we are most proud to present the new album: MISANTROPOLIS. Presented in a luxurious silver foilprinted 6-panel digipak, featuring guest appearances by members of the well-renowned folk music group GARMARNA, the neo-classical project DEAD MAN'S HILL, as well as a fantastic and bizarre cabaret/musical style vocal performance by APROX. Misantropolis introduces more vocals than past PIMENTOLA releases; hysteric screams, gloomy choirs/harmonies; hand in hand with electronic sounds, samplings and acoustic instruments; accordion, violins, theremin, metal percussions and various kinds of drums.
Ten ill star prayers from the Black Globe; an end of times sound-work ranging from martial neoclassical to drum n' bRass and tripjazz. Paralyzing absinthe nightmares morphed with opiatic tunes of the orient.
ATRIUM CARCERIPtahil CD
The fourth album from composer Simon Heath (Sweden) ventures beyond the vestiges of your mortality, granting a fleeting glance at the world beyond the veil. As ever, Simon has reinvented the genre as well as himself with a unique ambience created from his ever-increasingly complex and obscure techniques of mental dissolution and musical innovation. ATRIUM CARCERI emerges from the vapours with yet another stunning release entitled Ptahil (fetahil). The obsidian citadel stands stoic, its forceful gaze forever over streets running rampant with the councils bidders, while the citadel of glass attracts the mindless reincarnates grasping at anything physical while their memories slowly burn away in the womb of their eternal home. The comforts of quiet lives forever washed away by a miasmic tidal wave of necrotic flesh, sagging, protean forms and the chill of the grave.This is a place where steel rusts and is forgotten, where flesh and the fleeting forms it inhabits are forever changed. Ptahil sees all, and forgets naught. Let your mind be stripped to the pulpy, undulating core with this darkened voyage into domains both dreadful and serenely beautiful.
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Steinklang Industries
ALLERSEELENHallstatt CD
In the last 3 years ALLERSEELEN released many great new songs on collaborations and split-albums with artists like CHANGES, SANGRE CAVALLUM, STURMPERCHT,...
as well as some compilation tracks and new songs for the limited vinyl re-releases of their early albums.
A special highlight was the famous Edelweiss compilation CD with many rare (vinyl-)tracks and even some unreleased remixes and versions.
But now, with Hallstatt comes the first new ALLERSEELEN full-length album since 4 years (Flamme was released in may 2003)!
It contains brand-new songs about love and death, about transitoriness and eternity and it is inspired by the beautiful village Hallstatt in Austria,
which belongs to the world cultural heritage because of it's amazing tomb findings of the Hallstatt culture and because of the mysterious bone-house with the painted skulls.
STURMPERCHTSturm ins Leben wild hinein! CD
Due to many requests for a digital version of the first STURMPERCHT LP, we decided to rerelease this obscure pearl of Alpine-Folkmusic on CD now.
The CD is limited to 500 copies and it comes in the same wooden artwork than the LP-version (only smaller: 15 x 16cm) and it's digitally remastered.
This album is pure weird Alpine-Folk music with martial drinking-songs, alpine battle-hymns and strange fairie-tales out from the deepest Austrian and Bavarian forests, all embedded in a breath of black Monty Python humour.
Autarkeia
DONISAlexandreia CD
Donatas Bielkauskas - the man having keen ear, primeval curiosity, solid musical education and exquisite taste, who has released into the world the
musical project DONIS (tribute in Prussian) -expands the space of creative quests with every new album until it transgresses this single regular
cultural medium - music related with the tradition of Lithuanian ethnos, which he is the expert of. This time the artist has embarked on a new
challenging journey, that is, to compose music revealing the unknown spirit of antiquity. His efforts have resulted in Alexandreia album that serves as
a deep, pure and dreamy manifest to the ancient times. Tranquil, transparent and persuasive ambient stream prevails in the tracks. The archaic winds of
different nations tastefully add to it in some of the tracks. These include hornpipe, bagpipes, mesmerising rhythms of tabor and mystifying bells. Soft
and velvety voice of vocalist Alwyda, who has created the key vein of the album, opens the idealised femininity of the antiquity and conveys
emotionally-charged world vision of genius Konstantin Kavafi where the Mediterranean past and present, the East and the West, the Greeks and the
barbarians meet in the catharsis of profound sadness and wisdom, where the fall of civilisation witnessed in the vanishing cultural heritage is
revealed. The Greek poetry recited in an enchanting voice and the ambient melting the words with elemental force embrace the audience who do not even
know the archaic language. Alexandreia album will not disappoint the lovers of Dead Can Dance, Kameras 48, Raison D’etre music, either.
TESCO
POST SCRIPTVMRaspad CD
Raspad is Russian for disintegration—zerfall. This is the third full length album by POST SCRIPTVM. It was mastered by Jerome Nougaillon (PROPERGOL) Dense, thickly-layered industrial ambient music, exploring the abysmal pathology of modernity--illusion of progress, dissolution of memory, abandonment of higher meaning and paralysis of the will. The advanced lethargy of human spirit. Rich structure of music plays subtle tricks on the listener's subconsciousness, and the mood slowly drifts from quiet melancholy to visceral intensity.An example on how to use analog and digital equipment in creating a special way of sound, a brilliant example of innovative music outstanding from the mass of releases.
HauRucK!
Some highlights for early 2007: VARUNNA - new CD, DERNIERE VOLONTE minitour (Wien, Zagreb, Roma) in May, Bain Wolfkind mini CD.
Silence Factory
Russian label presents some extremely sick releases. Enjoy!
plaZmatLove 717
SILENCE FACTORYSoft Sex
Ver.0.11The End
BOOK OF WORM / CHILDREN ORGAN’S / RITUAL3-way split