USAのMalignant RecordsリリースCD Few names imply mind-bending, forward thinking heavy electronics like Finnish stalwarts STROM.ec, and with every release, they seem to further stretch the boundaries of what can be a pretty rigid genre, and navigate realms never before seen or heard. Similar things can be said of Norwegian atmospheric heavy weight and Malignant staple, Kristoffer Oustad, whose particular strain of dark ambient and post-industrial soundscapes are incredibly dynamic, at times surreal and cinematic, other times more driving and heavy, but all with a recognizable, highly emotive touch. Put the two together, and you get the debut of their collaborative project, STROMSTAD. Spread out over 8 tracks, this is a dizzying exploration of sound and vocal fury, where mechanized pulsations, writhing frequency oscillations, and grinding machine loops meet stretches of drifting darkness and touches of musicality, suggestive of a future that’s dystopic and bleak on one hand, yet highly innovative and revolutionary on the other. Featuring a guest appearance by Grutle Kjellson from the mighty Enslaved, mastering by Nordvargr, paintings by Jeff Klena and design by Alonso Urbanos.In 6 panel digipak サンプル https://youtu.be/K4YX3Hyfv7E https://soundcloud.com/malignantrecords/stromstad-01-inherent

cold spring(UK)リリースCD In a scene dominated by outsiders, Iron Fist Of The Sun still seems to stand alone. “We Can Yield Our Own Footsteps” sees IFOTS maintain his exemplary, melancholic, cold industrial, with sinister frequencies and tumultuous, mutilated vocals. The album utilises new recording methods and extraordinary, intoxicating song arcs that will leave the listener still hearing and absorbing the album long after it has been filed away. “Follow no-one… yield your own footsteps”. **All orders come with a FREE Iron Fist Of The Sun ‘Live At The Garage 2011’ CD サンプル https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/ifots_born_of_snake https://soundcloud.com/ironfistofthesun/pride

Old Europa CafeリリースCD Power Electronics, Industrial NAXAL PROTOCOL is the new solo project by P/S of the old Italian P/E project CAZZODIO and the Italo-Nippon collaboration CAZZOKRAFT... The paranoid delusions of the insane are now more reasonable than the slogans of the elites; the only choice left to individuals is which vast conspiracy to fear most; the state of emergency is so permanent that martial law feels like a nostalgia of a distant past. To celebrate the advent of the Age of Unreason, Naxal Protocol scores an unsettling soundtrack for the dissection of the deformed remains of Western civilization and for the sacrificial offering of the entrails of virgin sex robots to the unmerciful warmongering deities of the Interzone. Eight tracks of complex and structured - yet uncompromisingly harsh - industrial power electronics: saturated analog undercurrents folding quasi-rhythmically over mechanical loops of rusted junk metal and bludgeoning pulsating electronics, interspersed with hints of gangrenous acousmatic athmospheres. Featuring vocal contributions by three power electronics/death industrial stars: the wobbly subterranean lamentations of Masahiko Okubo (Linekraft, CazzoKraft), the sarcastic recriminations of Giovanni Mori (Le Cose Bianche), and the commanding injunctions of The Vomit Arsonist. サンプル https://youtu.be/r_WDpsAoVJY

死霊騎士団の復活とゴアポルノの融合を求めるリリシストで覆面ボーカリストのBBVと、 ノイズ・プロジェクト GxCxとのゴア トラッシュ ユニット。 The Pure Scum God! 絶叫ボーカル/ハーシュ・コラージュ／ノイズ・フィードバック・サウンド。 極少リリースされた1stカセット,1st 2nd EPのレア音源収録 阿鼻叫喚の地獄の門を抉じ開ける全65曲のピュア・スカム・サウンド!! https://youtu.be/5AM1Rg6NbSg https://soundcloud.com/sssm/sets/blessed-blood-vulva-guilty-c-the-third-slaughter

Yasuhito Fujinami　1st CDリリース！ 大胆なサンプリング・コラージュと、切ないシンセメロディーに、 インダストリアル/ハーシュ & アポカリプティックな世界観が調和した音響構成、 エクスペリメンタルでいてブラックネスをビシビシと感じさせるセンスは抜群。 悲哀から愛へと流れるアンビエントノイズに仕上がっています。 https://youtu.be/0TStB3d-Wck https://soundcloud.com/sssm/yasuhito-fujinami-dream-ritual

ロシアのZHELEZOBETONリリースCD Neofolk, Modern Classical, Doom Metal, Industrial, Dark Ambient, Noise This album was created by Russian dark scene musicians who have never met before but have been following each other's activities for a long time – Majdanek Waltz and Denis Tretyakov. The latter professes his own religion which implies faith in a mole as an underground deity. Being the leader of two bands – "Tserkov' Detstva (Church of Childhood)" and "Bratya Tuluzovy (The Tuluzov Brothers)" – for the first time he acted as a reciter of poems. Majdanek Waltz from Ryazan' remembered their early musical experiments and primary sources of inspiration. Priceless support was granted by the secret musical project The Noktulians. The final black balance was masterfully adjusted by the member of Reutoff and Otzepenevshiye – ArSch aka Myrrman. Apart from all other obvious jubilees and important round dates, 2017 marks the 70-year anniversary of Aleister Crowley's death. This recording should close the gap of the jubilee list of the year. Instead of the always fashionable red stars better use this black digipak. Put it in windows, nail it to the front door, take it with you wherever you go. "Every man and every woman is a star". 300 copies in glossy 4-panel digipak, サンプル https://zhbd.bandcamp.com/album/pentagram

cold spring(UK)リリースCD Ritual / Black Ambient The triumphant reawakening of San Francisco’s masters of behemoth ritualistic darkness… Within “Shrines For The Unwanted, Respite For The Cast Aside”, bone, antler and voice produce connective threads between the worlds, as guitar and percussion punctuate shifts in mood. Voices call to the spirits, and the spirits call back in return. Recorded in 2016 during four private, collective only rituals, the pieces pull the listener through the darkest and most overgrown trails of the blackest forest. Monumental and horizonless ritualistic black ambience. Vocal visitations by A.C. Way of Sutekh Hexen. Common Eider, King Eider is headed by Rob Fisk (ex-Deerhoof), Andee Connors (A Minor Forest, legendary aQuarius boss). サンプル https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/common-eider-king-eider-the-dark-winter

cold spring(UK)リリースCD Drone / Doom / Ritual Created from the solitude of the high and lonely places, Death Has No Companion uses the TenHornedBeast aesthetic to explore the isolation of the inner and outer worlds. Discordant piano chords build to shimmering blizzards of feedback. Drones and tones fall like snow and settle in the frozen landscapes. Strings flutter in the bitter winds. Does the spirit not falter when the Wanderer sees the night fall before him? Lamentation and sorrow. Winter eternal and everlasting. We all must walk the Long Road alone. Death has no companion. 6-panel digipak サンプル https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/tenhornedbeast-the-lamentation-of-their-women-excerpt

cold spring(UK)リリースCD Dark Folk / Ritual / Dark Ambient LA BREICHE ("the witch") features two well-known musicians: Arexis and Lafforgue of Stille Volk - a band best known since 1994 as one of the pioneers of Pagan Folk in Europe - and of Pagan Black French band Sus Scrofa. "Le Mal Des Ardents" ("Holy Fire") is a concept album about fears, terrors, about the balance between folklore and reason, myth and common sense, light and darkness, past and present, modernity and archaism. The album marries minimalism, purity, a fine approach and ancient instruments: traditional music (hurdy gurdy, shawm, polyphonies, percussion, gongs); the gloom of oppressive dark ambient; the slow pace of ritual music, wavering between modernity and archaism. Voices rise towards beauty, lifting it away from some occult mud. Holy Fire takes us back to a forgotten world - a primal, ancient, wild and free world, pervaded by secret dances of sorcerers', unfathomable forests, remote and lifeless places. 6-panel digipak. サンプル https://youtu.be/RnjZ2N8FIM4 https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/la-breiche-le-mal-des-ardents

ウクライナのOld CaptainリリースCD Vidna Obmana is a pseudonym used by Belgian artist Dirk Serries. He has been one of the most significant names in the ambient scene for more than three decades, releasing over more than 50 solo albums and numerous collaborations. Apart from his main ambient colleagues, Vidna Obmana originates from the industrial cassette network scene in early eighties. ‘The Face That Must Die’ was recorded when Vidna Obmana was slowly transforming into his trademark ambient signature. In-between the noise outbursts and his melancholic ambient music Vidna Obmana produced a few albums which are industrial-oriented but more of an orchestral and percussion nature, in the vein of Autopsia. With turntables, shortwave radio, voice and synths Vidna Obmana recorded one of his most underrated albums full of tribalesque, doom-risen and dark ambient atmosphere. Originally released in a limited run on Vidna Obmana’s own Mechanical Orchestration Music and almost around the same time issued by Trev Ward’s The Order Ov Wolves, who also narrates the opening track, this is verily an indisputable masterpiece accompanied with two rare 7” tracks and two unreleased tracks from the same obscure era to turn the edition into a true collector’s precious document. Limited to 300 copies in a 4-panel matte-laminated black & white Digipak. サンプル https://oldcaptain.bandcamp.com/album/vidna-obmana-the-face-that-must-die

フランスのFacthedral's HallリリースCD style : dark ambient,drone,indus noise 13 years later his debut album “Kalonga Incantations”, here the 2nd one by Chalung-Gra. Decomposed in 4 new soundscapes of deep dark industrial ambient, composed winter/spring 2017 during cassette recording sessions. Le K. backs with more darker & claustrophobic ambient than his debut one - which was entirely digitally composed. Still inspired by the industrial environment of the place where he lives, “Mostaferi” explores the same kind of soundscapes but in a different creation process: a computer generates all the composed audio sources, patched to internal & external effects, recorded and assembled on 4 tracks cassette, digitally mixed with no overdubs, and mastered in tube amp by SomniaK. 2-panel digipak CD limited to 300 copies. サンプル https://facthedrals-hall.bandcamp.com/album/mostaferi

フランスのFacthedral's HallリリースCD electro rock dark ethnic indus pop After a first album, several EP, clip and residences, the band released their second album on March 17th 2016. Through its research, the Velvetine universe was enriched constructions and sound structures that reinforce the originality of this unusual and creative training. It offers a unique blend onstage written and improvised interludes that take the audience into a world sometimes dark and melancholic but also hopeful. The complicity of Velvetine musicians guide the public in calm atmosphere and tense and powerful. Stef.a : Vocals & guitars. Peache : Guitars, manufactured instruments, drums, jingles. Le K. : Electronic Percussions, ambiences, frame drums, jingles. Lyrics by Stef.a, Music by Velvetine. サンプル https://facthedrals-hall.bandcamp.com/track/maha-mritunjaya-2

5年ぶりの新録作品！ The long awaited new recording full cd of Contgious Orgasm - Ultramarine. it is a very unique sound and strange landscapes of numerous musical styles. but because of the countless noise,electronica,classical and experimental sounds to dark ambient. it is so much more than that . those great twists of sound and color, a wonderful scene description on each track, a true tour through the electronic sound space. and sometimes grim (the ominous background noises), then just beautiful cinematic soundscape. Released in a four-panel cardboard sleeve. https://youtu.be/RNBeeEFIm1g

"In Praise Of Shadows" is a massive collaboration album by Italy's legendary producer Eraldo Bernocchi of Sigillum S and Japanese dark ambient mastermind Manabu Hiramoto of Shinkiro. The music weaves dark electronics and industrial dub with heavy atmosphere. The 8 tracks based on a concept of the traditional Japanese aesthetics inspired by Junichiro Tanizaki's essay, beautifully contrasted light and shadow, stillness and motion with using modern technology and various musical compositions. 4-panel cardboard sleeve. sample https://youtu.be/RE3aZnx6OYE https://soundcloud.com/sssm/eraldo-bernocchi-and-shinkiro-shadow-ghosts

Shinkiro - Cycle Of Rebirth. sssm-114. CD "Cycle Of Rebirth" is a conceptual album inspired by the desire realm in the philosophy of Buddhism. The sound is based on dark ambient soundscapes, blend with hypnotic rhythms with industrial edge and haunting melodies. The elaborately composed pieces create a magical and mystic world. amazing atmosphere! Released in a 4 panel cardboard sleeve. Released:20 Jan 2015 sample http://youtu.be/7VpDrU0WPFw

ドイツのAussaatリリースCD 35 years ago, LE SYNDICAT began sculpting sounds with a particular creative perspective. Although historically affiliated to the nascent musical movements of the 80s (post-punk, Power electronics, Japanoise, the second wave of industrial music), its brutal, fierce, immediate and multifaceted nature has never really been part of any particular "musical" style or genre. Le Syndicat & Entre Vifs continue to create music that cannot be defined by set perimeters, music that goes beyond that which is commonly known as improvisation. This process, which we call "reflex piloting", integrates the loss of control and the surprise of generative errors, creating new unexpected sound forms. Thanks to specialized tools and adequate training, this process creates abstract, free, wildly unpredictable adventures in sound, even for the musicians (operators) themselves. Having produced widely varied musical works of electronic music in the course of several decades, Le Syndicat now begins a new chapter in its development with the debut of a new duo, "Le Syndicat Faction Vivante". While mainly intended for live action, the new group performs in the studio with the same tactics and intense spontaneity . The vast range of our tools, some extremely modern and others totally home-made, allows us to spontaneously develop a multitude of sound forms that exist outside the restrictions of conventionally improvised music. Thanks to this equipment and to the intensive practice, we have undergone through several decades, we can free ourselves of all our inbuilt cultural restrictions and accept what can exist in the flow of sound and silence. The Compact disc "Morceaux de Choix" is a collection of archive performances, culled from numerous sessions, recorded during our intensive sessions. These extracts were carefully selected and remain unedited and void of added effects. They are, in a way, an aural museum of our sound curiosities which have been invented in performance during these last three years. - Le Syndicat 2017 -

Old Captain (ウクライナ)リリースCD he first CD collection of the true North Queensland Power Electronics project Ebola Disco that spans its 20-year history. Industrial Australia's potent duo at their absolute best: static analogue tension, feedback squeals and pitched rhythm in studio-to-live-in-yer-face extravaganza. A 300 black/white matte-laminated Digipak edition with a great design by Mauro Berchi (Eibon Records). サンプル https://oldcaptain.bandcamp.com/album/ebola-disco-discography-1997-2017

Old Captain & Malignant RecordsリリースCD Old Captain (Ukraine) and Malignant Records (USA) offer a great collaboration of two famous musicians: Satori (UK) and Lorenzo Abattoir (Italy). "Aether" is the globe made of infinite tiny components: small cogs of shining gold, cobwebs of the finest platinum wires, balances and fulcrums made of wood and precious stones sprinkled like rose petals throughout; densely packed machinery regulating and controlling every small detail, creating cause and influencing effect. The sounds of chaos and order, ritual and redemption filled the sphere of the album like a mist, the Aether, hung over the surface accumulating sparks of fire and swirls of darkness underneath to roil and tumble like an approaching cataclysmic storm. Formed in 1982 and saturated in the industrial and power electronics culture Satori released music on the legendary Broken Flag and Tesco Org Germany in the '90's, toured with Justin Mitchell (Cold Spring) and Neil Chaney (Pessary). "Aether" is its new statement of intent of the original member Dave Kirby. Lorenzo Abattoir is an Italian-based noise artist and sound engineer whose work takes shape in a context of underground extreme music to become accessible through various projects related to contemporary art including Psicopompo with German composer Hermann Kopp (4IB Records), Mare Di Dirac, an electro-acoustic collective (Dusktone Records) and a collaboration with Phurpa. A 300 b/w glossy Digipak edition with a great front cover by Seals of Blackening. サンプル https://oldcaptain.bandcamp.com/album/abattoir-satori-aether

malignant records(USA)リリースCD Following a recent appearance on Drone Mind Vol 5, Ukranian act Monocube makes his way into the halls of Malignant for his second, full length recording, featuring nine tracks and just over an hour worth of material ensconced in shadowy, enveloping atmospheres, intact with all the hallmarks of classic dark ambient: arcing, cinematic textures, elegiac melody, and timestretched drift. As The Rituals progresses, it becomes increasingly populated by something even more ominous and bleak; undertones of ancient tribalism and fiery invocations arise, mixed with the blackened soot of distant factory churn and the burning remnants of an ashen wasteland. Featuring collaborative tracks with Treha Sektori, Apocryphos, and Asmorod, The Rituals is an immersive and compelling work, seamlessly tied together by a binding embrace of darkness.Tracklisting: Visiones III, Drowned Sun, Downwards (feat. Apocryphos), Totem Incantation, Fires Shifting – Nocturnal Motion, Through Our Blood, Father Fenris, Anthracite Glow (feat. Treha Sektori), Initiation (feat. Asmorod). サンプル https://youtu.be/O0FIQ5InztI https://soundcloud.com/malignantrecords/anthracite-glow-by-monocube-feat-treha-sektor

malignant records(USA)リリースCD Bär vittnesbörd: Ee, the cut is open; lick the flames gushing forth Moktah framat enekaat morash Your mind will color your vision in deepest red Intona tosaa mori, sakiata hu lamo As we blend into one in the exchange of elixirs Sheko ard bahavaan khetta morash We transcend the mundane and awaken the Word Eschef haie shofara, el korshima ikishmo Active since the late '80s as a member of MZ.412 and Pouppée Fabrikk, few names within the realm of dark industrial and blackened ambient carry more weight and presence than Sweden's mighty Nordvargr. Though side projects Muskel and Koerperwelten have been released on Malignant, The Secret Barbarous Names is the first solo recording done for the label, and Nordvargr's first physical release since 2013's The Dromopoda Transmissions on Old Europa Café .A vocal based work inspired by the Draconian and Typhonian traditions, the title refers to the hidden meanings of the countless manuscripts that have been kept secret for millennia - their supposed effectiveness resting in their utterance, not their meaning. The words of power, vibrated at the correct frequency and amplitude in the correct setting and time, have the power to manifest anything. As such, these are an incredibly haunting and formidable invocations, built upon richly timbered, incantatory vocals and deep, liturgical chants, and occasionally augmented by ominous orchestral swell and ritual percussion. All of it is endlessly stretched out into lightless passages of primordial malevolence and suffocating dread, completing an album that will stand out as a highlight, even within such a lofty and illustrious discography as Nordvargrs. Lavishly packaged in a digipak designed by Margaux Renaudin (Anima Nostra). サンプル https://youtu.be/TcqgJRXaDP0 https://soundcloud.com/malignantrecords/chandrakala-by-nordvargr

ロシアのMuzykaリリースCD The Russian project Closing The Eternity hardly needs an introduction. Since the beginning of its activity 15 years ago, in 2001, it has released a good amount of recordings on various respected labels both in Russia and abroad. In its music the project aims to digress from everything earthly and mundane, bringing attention to the phenomena and processes lying outside of the realm of human existence. The material of this album was recorded back in 2004 and has long been awaiting the right moment for manifestation. It seems as if this work was specially created for the Muzyka Voln label (the title of which translates as "music of waves") as these two words describe it best. Three long tracks flowing one into another dissolve the listener's attention in endless tides of gentle electronic ambience. An absolutely pacifying and tranquil work imbued with a majestic contemplative atmosphere. The artwork of the album features a series of photographs by Arseniy Vinovarov made literally on the edge of the Earth - at the shore of the Arctic Ocean, where one unwillingly faces the inhuman flow of time, where eternity meets infinity… サンプル https://muzykavoln.bandcamp.com/album/forever-and-a-day

デンマークのMoral Defeatリリース カセット (C30) mdef37 A split between two of the strongest contemporary harsh noise projects from Copenhagen, Cold Choice brings us a more atmospheric experience in several shorter tracks, while Stupor hits us with 13 minutes of pure junkyard mayhem. サンプル https://soundcloud.com/moral-defeat/cold-choice-stupor-no-beyond-excerpts?in=moral-defeat/sets/december-batch-2016

デンマークのMoral Defeatリリース カセット (C26) mdef38 Long distance noise duo with members from USA and Denmark, Ferric nightmares through muddy soundscapes, malfunctioning tape decks and disintegrating cassettes. サンプル https://soundcloud.com/moral-defeat/original-trauma-bizarre-world-excerpts

デンマークのMoral Defeatリリース カセット (C27) mdef36 Debut release by a new Danish industrial project, two monumental synth-driven tracks of a truly bleak and overwhelming brilliance. サンプル https://soundcloud.com/moral-defeat/the-harm-of-coming-into-existence-excerpts?in=moral-defeat/sets/december-batch-2016