Two new interviews - with ARCANA and SVARTSINN !! We invite.

Photos from ORDO ROSARIUS EQUILIBRIO / IN SLAUGHTER NATIVES - live in Mardid in GALLERY section! We invite!!

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We invite to see photos from CURRENT 93 / BABY DEE live in ROADBURN Festival in Holland. Details is GALLERY section !!!

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We recommended new interview with italian maesto AIT!

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"Der Feuerkreiner's "Unsere Zeit" is easily one of the most anticipated records in the neofolk underground scene. Hailing from Italy, this remarkable duo has been working hard since their 2004 Neuropa release "La 'Nvidia". Valentina and Federico appeared as Der Feuerkreiner on many festivals & concerts around Europe, each time gathering more & more fans with every concert they played. Today we proudly present you their first full-length album on Neuropa Records: "Unsere Zeit". The album consists of 9 newly recorded tracks overviewing the many facets of the band: from tranquil & heavenly voices to brutal & pounding rhythms. If you've liked their previous efforts, then this is a must-have for sure!".

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"After a successful debut album Wrotycz Records is proud to announce the second release of this Polish dark ambient act.
The DELOG experience is extraordinary, marvellous, even within the esoteric context of Tibetan Buddhism. The Tibetan word DELOG refers to one who has crossed the threshold of death and returned to tell about it. The person who is recognised as DELOG lays without any sign of breath, pulse or body warmth for many days. During that time his or her mind journeys to other realms of experience: a contrast between existence within the pure display of enlightened mind and existence within samsaric delusion and ignorance."

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"The long awaited first Punch compilation is here!
"We're Punch Addicted" offers you 18 new/unreleased songs by several of the most appreciated Punch bands along with many "new addicts"!
Note, all songs are exclusively for this compilation only, and should be never used/re-issued in other future releases.
Don't miss the wonderful chance to enjoy & collect several gems of your favourite Punch's artists and the perfect occasion to have a nice preview of bands which should be released in the next months. Comes with extensive full-colour 20 pages booklet. Limited to only 500 copies!
Tracklist:

1. COMANDO SUZIE - Luces Blancas
2. AIT! - I Wanna Be Your Mann...
3. J.G. CABARGAS & LOS INMORTALES - Psycho Baby
4. NINA BELIEF - Android Emotions
5. THE PLAGUE YEAR OF AUDIOSCOPE - Lasting
6. ERIK URSICH - Taeter Somnium
7. PIERRE NORMAL - Attraction
8. RONIN - Cri Du Chat
9. MANASYT - Every Fang For You
10. MERGING OF THE SELF - She Devours
11. DIVINE MUZAK -Teach Me Pain
12. O PARADIS - El Tacto
13. THOMAS NOLA ET SON ORCHESTRE - Freedom's Little Baby
14. MUSHROOM'S PATIENCE - Morel
15. 1997EV - t.h.e.k.l.a.9
16. TERRORITMO - Primavera
17. LUFTWAFFE - Killkorps
18. SMRT I CEKIC - s.o.n.i.c.m.a.n.t.r.a.s.

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"Songs from the Ivory Tower" contains 15 pieces of dark Neoclassical music and is mainly based on poems by Stefan George, Bernhard von Uxkull-Gyllenband, Gottfried Benn, Ludwig Uhland and Timo Kölling, plus a number of instrumental and Neofolk pieces. Featuring guest contributions by Marcel P. (Von Thronstahl), Herr Twiggs (Kammer Sieben), Damiano Mercuri (Rose Rovine E Amanti), Troy Southgate (H.E.R.R. / Seelenlicht) and Philipp Jonas (Secrets Of The Moon)."

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"Finally available the first full length of this great folk band of Genoa!
Twelve songs of love ,nightmares and pure passion: malichonic noir folk in the way only Italians know! feat Diego Banchero from MALOMBRA e SEGNO DEL COMANDO , check out some previews on:
http://www.myspace.com/reconditastirpe

www.hauruck.org

"The second part of the LOKI label compilation with tracks from the most LOKI/PAS releases of the last years. Feat. CIRCULAR, FJERNLYS, INADE, HERBST9, PREDOMINANCE, FIRST LAW, LAND:FIRE, IONOSPHERE, HERBST9 vs. Z´EV, VESTIGIAL, PENJAGA INSAF and EX.ORDER.Loki 46
3,00 EUR - FREE WITH EVERY ORDER DURING MAY!"

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CIRCULAR & INADE - "Deep Space Illumination" LP 2008

"The new release in the SKOGHOLT special vinyl series is a fine document from the live performances of Circular and Inade which took place in December 2007. Four tracks by each project in superb quality. All material was directly recorded from the mixing desk and is mastered by Secretlab. Limited edition of 333 copies. Tracklist:
CIRCULAR: The Acceleration of Space, Swirling Sculptures, Volcanic & Fervent, The Conclusion Of The Mind.
INADE:  Signals From 68 Dimensions Part I, Abandoned Inferno, The Quiet Room, The Conquest Of Being Seprarted Part I.

OOPHOI - "Potala" 10'' vinyl 2008

Dwa długie utwory w stylu "transcendental / drones" włoskiego projektu! Pierwszy vinyl w dyskografii OOPHOI.
Album dedykowany Dalaj Lamie oraz tybetańskiej walce o wolność.

SON:VER vs. ELEPHANT LEAF -
3 Songs EP 2008

Materiał wydany przez Line Out Records w maju 2008 roku. Serdecznie polecamy!!!

www.sonver.co.uk

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- BRANDKOMMANDO " New fucking radical orthodox" CDR 2007 in metal movie can, powerindustrial, rhytmic noise, electronics,
lim. 34. -

- KENJI SIRATORI "Soul of the war dead" CDR in metal movie can, 3 tracks Cyberambient - Dreamsound - Experimental - Industrial,
lim. 33 egz. -

Vae Victus & Durch Heer und Kraft " FORTES FORTUNE ADIUVAT! " Split CDR in black small DVD case, Martial-industrial - Military Folk - Classical -Traditional - Dark Ambient Music, lim. 50. -

GRABSTEIN "Anne Frank" CDR -Military Industrial - Experimental - Ambient, lim. 100. -

NEWS FROM DER BLUTHARSCH TEAM!!

We started working on a new Der Blutharsch album - no title yet - as much too early.
We expect to have iit ready for release in spring 2oo9....and I think it will be a good album...of corse!
As well, we during the next months will repress the out of stock titles of Der Blutharsch - Time is thee enemy, When all else fails and Track of the hunted.
The next HR! release will be 6comm`s "Fruits of Ygdrasill - which we hope to have ready end of April - early May.

SIMULACRA - "Somewhere... inside a void"
3" profi CDR 2008

Imagine an Emptiness...
Simulacra is a totaly different incarnation of Miguel Boriau, known from Weihan. Author penetrates (anti)musical spaces, much more different than in his main project, gaining excellent results in creating atmosphere, which summons specific visions in listener's mind. This album contains one composition, 22-minutes-long, calm wave. Position worth of recommending for people, who are searching in music a good way for individual and very personal contemplations and even meditation. It is the sound of Void, in which we can exists in endless existing. Without time and space borders.
Using common clasifications, we can call those sounds a pure form of dark ambient minimalism, given in non-typical way - printed 3” profi CDR in hard foil envelope is placed in cardboard, printed package, with additional graphic on photo paper inside. Foiled, limited to 100 hand numbered copies.

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Deep dark ambient with excellent the dark-sounds!

New album of Swedish dark sounds artist, co-creator of such projects as MZ.412, TOROIDH or FOLKSTORM. He is also co-creator of many initiatives, plays in many music projects, records albums all over the globe, and is responsible for mastering of many albums in Villa Bohult gloomy cellar. So, ladies and gentlemen, before you, for the first time in Poland, maestro Nordvargr.
Over 40 minute album inspiered by power of space, infinite distances and emptiness. Nordvargr himself speaks of this album:
„...To me there is no greater evil than the emptiness of space, totally hostile and unfriendly to all life - an opposite to existence, at the same time the mother of all we know. ...”
The album is mark out by heavy and meaty sound, strong dark ambient exhaust for creation of whom Nordvargr used only field recordings and sounds made by space objects transimtted by satellites.
Unconventional release in black cardboard, that after folding makes 150mm x 150mm size package. Black paper with silver printings. Inside there are three inserts showing various space images. Everything very dark and black, handmade and numbered in 444 copies.

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Dynamic and rhythmical dark sounds, full album of NEKYIA!

Whatever You could call NEKYIA music, there are always elements that move past used musical patterns. "Alchemalady" is an album founded upon a strong and solid rhythm, whose walls are build by uncommon arrangement rich in various sounds. And the binder is an alchemical concept, merge together element with element, track with track, sound with sound.
"Alchemalady" is a 60 minute long, dynamic album, full of rhythm, female and strong male vocals, whispers and singings. 14 compositions combining electronic elements with varied percussion and strong industrial hits.
Unconventional released album made of 130mm x 180mm cardboard. Three sepearete cards with from brown cardboard with  golden prints. All cards have holes and all is combined with a small rope. The CD is attached on a rubber insert between the papers. All handmade and numbered, to 456 copies.

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ATUM - "Hitwa" CD 2008

"47 minutes long album of strong dark ambient. Sounds, calm, and growing, pulsing create a grim atmosphere. Album diversified by rhytm loops, industrial hits and also acoustic guitar. Sounds for a Cold Meat fans, something between Desiderii Marginis and Megaptera.
Unconventional release in 135mm by 150mm format, printed on a cardboard 45cm long. Folded in three parts, minimalistic graphic form with specialy designed symolics. CD mounted on a rubber dot. All foiled and hand numbered to 444 copies."

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:WULGATA:

WULGATA is our Polish musical project, who for the past few years was creating dark ambient and industrial sounds in quiet spots of Silesia. "Echoes of the past...not far away" is a compilation of what best in WULGATA, most bold and most varied. Deceitful album, from one side announcing the coming of a mortal threat, and from the other, a reflection of some inner strenght, that tries to break free and whispering calm the spirit.
55 minuts album composed from grim dark ambient sounds to rhtmical and industrial elements. Varied album depicting early Cold Meat sounds combined with what the best od Coil's "Musick to Play in the Dark”.

"Korinth's first opus is a mixture of dark, orchestral ambient of great proportions. Beautiful choirs, orchestral parts and a sense for darkness are presented in a single, 44 minute long journey. Conceptually, Korinth stands somewhere between philosophy and insanity, and the album is dedicated to the nietzschean idea of "eternal return". This album was originally released as CDC012 in a limited edition of 111 copies. Re-released as a proper CD in a stunning digipack, limited to 500 copies."

"Caustic Records presents "Silencis" the long awaited second album of DER BLAUE REITER.
More apocalyptic than ever, Sathorys Elenorth and Lady Nott (Narsilion) are back with a new chapter of darkness and sadness, in hands of an uncertain destiny where human being shines under the last days of its tormented existence and in world surrender under the most absolute madness …
Decadence and death, sin and desolation are the keys which guide us through forgotten ambiences where the martial holds the reins of our sad reality.
Our future dawn deconstruction has already begun, now you just decide when die…"

For those who rely on traditional love songs, retro tavern music and noir cabaret.
Album premiere at the “1st Folk Alert!” live event on the 19th of April .
Pre-orders and reservations are welcome !

OOPHOI - "An aerial view" CD 2008

"When I’ve been asked to describe the Ice Age with an uninterrupted drone, I knew I wanted to avoid the cliches of the genre: dark rumblings, massive low frequencies, cold atmospheres. I had to describe with sounds the white landscape, the blinding light reflected by the frozen oceans, the abyssal silence.I have imagined myself in flight over this Sleeping Earth, a solitary winged-being surrounded by winds, air, water and ice. This led me to compose an airy drone with minimal variations and delicate tones, an hommage to a pure, incontaminated and remote land.

SONNE HAGAL - "Jordansfrost"
CD 2008

"SONNE HAGAL’s second full-time album once more bestows the listener with a journey into the unknown realms of poetry, mysteries and enthralling melodies. Closely connected to Europa’s folk-music tradition and the Northern mysteries, the band develops song structures that reach from simple traditional arrangements to complex compositions. The songs, performed in German and English, reveal rediscovered poems as well as self-written lyrics. The atmosphere of the songs varies from intimate, quiet parts to fresher, light-hearted and lively sounds up to heavy distorted parts supported by real or electronic drums. Each song unfolds its own universe, interconnected by the central idea of “Jordansfrost”: the constant changing between light and darkness, the seasons or even life and death themselves. A number of well-known international artists supports the band in their intention to create more than just music: a whole philosophy. Amongst others you’ll find: Of The Wand And The Moon (DK), In Gowan Ring (US) Waldteufel (US), Ernte (GER), Lux Interna (US), Darkwood (GER) and Black Sun Productions (CH). The cover artwork uses exclusive paintings by Fabrice/Divine Comedy Records (FR) and underlines the depth and beauty of these 45 minutes of German Darkfolk".

Style: Neoclassical, Ethereal voices and 'Fairy music'

"Enter the crazy faerie universe of this virtuoso neoclassical band. Surrealistic, yet beautiful, 'never heard before' music blending orchestral and folk instruments with vintage analogue synthesizers.
3 years after their 'Elvenmusic III', the new ‘Caprice’ escapes from the forest.
Discover now the 'craziest and surrealistic' neoclassical masterpiece of these virtuosi musicians from Moscow Opera. Caprice music on the 'Elven trilogy' was about to translate sounds and music that Elves could create. Kywitt is different and gives a human view (sometimes hallucinations...) at the faerie world. The result is a ‘never heard before’ music, more surrealistic, more ‘Fantasy’ and also more intense. The Genius Composer 'Anton Brejestovski' seems to play with the score and instruments like he would play with toys. He adds a lot of new musicians and instruments, like drums, electric guitar, electro, vintage analogue synthesizers blended with classical and folk instruments (Cello, violin, Oboe, clarinet, accordion, duduk, saz...).
Discover Caprice surrealistic world, 'Poppy' songs of dwarves, orcs but also beautiful and intense Elven neoclassical melodies."

"Quite possibly the best ambient artist of his generation, 21 years old IREZUMI has created this timeless and beautiful soundtrack inspired by the Ernest Shackleton’s tragic Antartic expedition.
Through warm electronic sounds and beautiful sad melodies IREZUMI tells us a story of a ship trapped in the ice and incredible human endurance.
CD limited to 1.000 copies in a 6-panels digipak."

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"The highly anticipated new album by the Swedish duo is finally upon us, under the title “Omne Ensis Impera” . The sense of determination that echoes through their music and which has brought them to the forefront of Martial / Industrial Neo-Classical scene has stayed untouched, evoking the sense of duty and commitment that Italy’s WWI elite storm troops, from which the name Arditi originated, were known for.
“Omne Ensis Impera” introduces an additional strength to Arditi’s compositions - epic orchestral loops and thunderous percussions are granted a more prominent role, stirring the damp and suffocating ambiance that the duo have always produced so well with their use of ominous synths, obscure speeches and mesmerizing narrations. The CD version is presented in a deluxe glossy Digipak, with embossed artwork."

"In the year 1999, while mankind sat unnaware of their fate and wondering if the moon would drift away into the far reaches of space as the XXth century came to an end, Puissance would reappear, clad in shining armour.
With the Industrial rust of early days properly polished, the Swedish duo would further explore their talent for graceful arrangements set to Militaristic Neo-Classical music. Following the overtly confrontational offerings of "Let Us Lead" and "Back In Control", Puissance were now set to resurrect the ghosts of Cold War and the obsession with all things thermonuclear that haunted the planet - the Mother of Disease, as they would call it - over that period. Brooding hymns to suicidal heroism, devotional praises to a new god that would finally bring closure to the human race, the screeching of metal twisting and melting - all of this would find its place in Puissance's own beautiful vision of the impending apocalypse, that they so ingeniously depict on "Mother of Disease".
"Mother of Disease" is the third full length album produced by Puissance, and also their third re-issue on Equilibrium Music, following the early "Let Us Lead" and "Back In Control" releases, and last year's new album, "Grace of God". Much like it's predecessors on this fine collection, it has been re-mastered and enhanced with one bonus track, presented in a matte-blue deluxe digipak edition."

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"Guided by nether nectars and dream herbs, oneiric visions and the light of lunar tides, Halo Manash Language of Red Goats aims to be a cartography of cavernous elemental realms and regions, sources and springs that run deep and thick with the fluids of life, death and dream. What was seeded at the Thin Veils has been gathered at Harvest time, and is offered to the seeker as a libation and guide into the ever-liminal, shrouded spaces, for dream-vigils and awakenings... Language of Red Goats is a complete work in itself, but can also be viewed as the first facet of a tripartite series of works that are part of one holistic creation – three faces of the same being. More akin to a primitive fieldrecording in the realm of oneirotropic exploration, than an actual album, the work consists of one lengthy tripartite soundscape. Utilizing only gongs, bells, metal bowls and wind instruments, as well as flocks of birds, the work is in contrast to earlier more refined works that feature a wide multiplicity of instruments and soundsources. Language of Red Goats is a bare, primitive and sometimes raw aural landscape, and yet nonetheless achieves a rare subliminal intensity and an edge of otherwordly luminosity. Comes in a hand finished cardboard booklet, in an edition of 920 copies".