Mail order update: Survival Unit, Land:Fire, Giallos Flame, Gnaw Their Tongues
Last update for this year.
For mp3 samples and ordering, please go to the catalog page.
- Latest catalog additions -
Survival Unit - Fentanyl Martyrs CD (Autarkeia)
Survival Unit - Tied Down For Survival CD (Autarkeia)
Survival Unit - Murder For The Mission CD (Autarkeia)
Land:Fire - Shortwave Transmission CD (Power & Steel)
Contrastate - Todesmelodie CD (Noise Museum)
The Giallos Flame - The Giallos Flame CD (Baphomet Records)
Gnaw Their Tongues - All The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity CD (Crucial Blast)
Gnaw Their Tongues - An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood CD (Crucial Blast)
Telepherique - Zivilisatose CD (Diophantine Discs)
Sil Muir - Sil Muir CD (Diophantine Discs)
- On the way -
Maeror Tri - Multiple Personality Disorder CD (Purple Soil)
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- Detailed list of additions -
Survival Unit - Fentanyl Martyrs (Autarkeia)
Final studio release from post-mortem / power electronics purveyor Survival Unit, based in Sundsvall, Sweden. Focalizing its attention on the blood-soaked events of the Chechnyan war, "Fentanyl Martyrs" takes you to one of the world's most annihilated conflict zones for the grand tour. Guerrilla warfare, mass graves and merciless tactics are some of the offerings on this soot-covered battlefield and its related theaters, as conveyed by pilfered radio communications, crude and relentless noise and barked sermons of dehumanization. A gruesome assessment that now serves as a fitting epitaph to the conflict's "official" end as of April 2009.
(2CD, double digipak in embossed boxed set with booklet, $37.00)
Survival Unit - Tied Down For Survival (Autarkeia)
Second volume of retrospective material from Sweden's Survival Unit. Even dead, its corpse lunges again at this world with this collection of violent declamations, rambling conspiracies and ideological firebombs. The selections gathered here sustain an exhausting atmosphere of struggle and confusion, one that perfectly matches the current global context. The noisy assaults are tempered by a sense of doom and futility on tracks such as "Barbed Wire and Barbiturates" and "No Gold, Only Stones", showing hints of the pharmacological power electronics of the yet unborn Alfarmania.
(CD, digipak, $18.50)
Survival Unit - Murder For The Mission (Autarkeia)
First part of the Survival Unit retrospective releases on Autarkeia. This one includes material from the tape of the same name on Vemod, along with edited recordings from the live action in Paris at Therapie Auditive and finally the "Utan Fana" tracks. Toxic, lo-fi power electronics brimming with hatred for the modern world, right up there with "Fentanyl Martyrs" in terms of crude ferocity. The rats are coming! The werewolves are here!
(CD, multi-paneled digipak, $18.50)
Land:Fire - Shortwave Transmission (Power & Steel)
Follow-up album to 2004's "Physical : Mental : Psychological" released on Tesco Organisation, this new album from Herbst9's more technologically oriented twin project provides the perfect soundtrack to the military industrial complex with its array of menacing rhythms, electromagnetic waves, radio communications and glowing harmonic drones. Think of Bad Sector's "The Harrow" but as engineered and constructed by defense contractors. Reliably stunning work.
(CD, 6 panel digipak, $19.00)
Contrastate - Todesmelodie (Noise Museum)
Sixth and final studio album by this sadly defunct UK duo. Inspired by the book "The Mysteries of Algiers" written by Robert Irwin and the 1965 film "The Battle of Algiers", "Todesmelodie" presents itself as a rumination on revolution and political strife in the shape of 4 long montages of electronic and acoustic instrumentation, found sounds and harmonic drones that culminate with "The Suitcase or the Coffin", named so after one of the slogans of the Algerian nationalists during the drive for independence. Haunting, desolate and demanding, this album initially provoked an unexpected sense of anxiety when I first heard it many years ago, enough in fact that it wasn't until I had later become accustomed to Contrastate's other works that I came to appreciate it for its uneasy nature.
(CD, jewel case, $15.00)
The Giallos Flame - The Giallos Flame (Baphomet Records)
Ignore the awfully drawn cover artwork, the Giallos Flame is the essential modern-day heir to the jazzy prog rock of Goblin and the synth-heavy Fabio Frizzi soundtracks that made their mark on so many Italian horror soundtracks of the late 70's. Sleazy, funky and and just so remarkably efficient at capturing that certain vibe.
(CD, jewel case, $11.00)
Gnaw Their Tongues - All The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity (Crucial Blast)
2009 album from this Dutch project, staying faithful to its black/doom metal meets horror movie symphonic score in hell sound. Compared to "An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood", the 9 tracks here can be both more chaotic and dense with heavy drums, strained shrieks and agitated strings rising from the sludge (the poetically titled opening track "My Orifices Await Ravaging" being a perfect example), and yet more controlled at others when they are wielded with orchestral precision, such as on the demonic dirge "L'Ange Qui Annonce La Fin Du Temps". Dreadful, infernal fanfare for wretched times.
(CD, digisleeve with booklet, $11.00)
Gnaw Their Tongues - An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood (Crucial Blast)
CD re-issue of the 2007 LP with one extra track. For those of you not yet familiar with Gnaw Their Tongues, take the OTT aesthetic / vocal stylings of black metal, give them a lurching doom metal pacing and poison them with a thick layer of noise and symphonic horror movie score. Cataclysmic and utterly noxious, like a "Burning The Temple Of God"-era MZ.412 on benzodiazepines crossed over with Neuntöter Der Plage while "The Omen" plays on a flickering television in the background.
(CD, digisleeve, $11.00)
Telepherique - Zivilisatose (Diophantine Discs)
Final release from this long-active and highly prolific German trio, marking 20 years of activity with material released on such labels as Ant-Zen, Noise Museum and SSSM among others.
"Zivilisatose" covers a number of the genres explored by Telepherique over the years, swerving from noisy constructed rhythms to more minimal crystalline electro tones with bizarre samples that bring to mind some of their more recent collaborations releases with Contagious Orgasm.
(CD, silk-screened wallet packaging, $11.00)
Sil Muir - Sil Muir (Diophantine Discs)
Sil Muir is the collaboration between Italian ambient artists Andrea Marutti (who runs Afe Records and is also active as Amon and Never Known) and Andrea Ferraris (Ur). Their first album together provides us with four long tracks of deep and mellow drones ideal for drowsy late-night listening.
(CD, silk-screened wallet packaging, $11.00)
For mp3 samples and ordering, please go to the catalog page.
- Latest catalog additions -
Survival Unit - Fentanyl Martyrs CD (Autarkeia)
Survival Unit - Tied Down For Survival CD (Autarkeia)
Survival Unit - Murder For The Mission CD (Autarkeia)
Land:Fire - Shortwave Transmission CD (Power & Steel)
Contrastate - Todesmelodie CD (Noise Museum)
The Giallos Flame - The Giallos Flame CD (Baphomet Records)
Gnaw Their Tongues - All The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity CD (Crucial Blast)
Gnaw Their Tongues - An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood CD (Crucial Blast)
Telepherique - Zivilisatose CD (Diophantine Discs)
Sil Muir - Sil Muir CD (Diophantine Discs)
- On the way -
Maeror Tri - Multiple Personality Disorder CD (Purple Soil)
-----------------------------------------------
- Detailed list of additions -
Survival Unit - Fentanyl Martyrs (Autarkeia)
Final studio release from post-mortem / power electronics purveyor Survival Unit, based in Sundsvall, Sweden. Focalizing its attention on the blood-soaked events of the Chechnyan war, "Fentanyl Martyrs" takes you to one of the world's most annihilated conflict zones for the grand tour. Guerrilla warfare, mass graves and merciless tactics are some of the offerings on this soot-covered battlefield and its related theaters, as conveyed by pilfered radio communications, crude and relentless noise and barked sermons of dehumanization. A gruesome assessment that now serves as a fitting epitaph to the conflict's "official" end as of April 2009.
(2CD, double digipak in embossed boxed set with booklet, $37.00)
Survival Unit - Tied Down For Survival (Autarkeia)
Second volume of retrospective material from Sweden's Survival Unit. Even dead, its corpse lunges again at this world with this collection of violent declamations, rambling conspiracies and ideological firebombs. The selections gathered here sustain an exhausting atmosphere of struggle and confusion, one that perfectly matches the current global context. The noisy assaults are tempered by a sense of doom and futility on tracks such as "Barbed Wire and Barbiturates" and "No Gold, Only Stones", showing hints of the pharmacological power electronics of the yet unborn Alfarmania.
(CD, digipak, $18.50)
Survival Unit - Murder For The Mission (Autarkeia)
First part of the Survival Unit retrospective releases on Autarkeia. This one includes material from the tape of the same name on Vemod, along with edited recordings from the live action in Paris at Therapie Auditive and finally the "Utan Fana" tracks. Toxic, lo-fi power electronics brimming with hatred for the modern world, right up there with "Fentanyl Martyrs" in terms of crude ferocity. The rats are coming! The werewolves are here!
(CD, multi-paneled digipak, $18.50)
Land:Fire - Shortwave Transmission (Power & Steel)
Follow-up album to 2004's "Physical : Mental : Psychological" released on Tesco Organisation, this new album from Herbst9's more technologically oriented twin project provides the perfect soundtrack to the military industrial complex with its array of menacing rhythms, electromagnetic waves, radio communications and glowing harmonic drones. Think of Bad Sector's "The Harrow" but as engineered and constructed by defense contractors. Reliably stunning work.
(CD, 6 panel digipak, $19.00)
Contrastate - Todesmelodie (Noise Museum)
Sixth and final studio album by this sadly defunct UK duo. Inspired by the book "The Mysteries of Algiers" written by Robert Irwin and the 1965 film "The Battle of Algiers", "Todesmelodie" presents itself as a rumination on revolution and political strife in the shape of 4 long montages of electronic and acoustic instrumentation, found sounds and harmonic drones that culminate with "The Suitcase or the Coffin", named so after one of the slogans of the Algerian nationalists during the drive for independence. Haunting, desolate and demanding, this album initially provoked an unexpected sense of anxiety when I first heard it many years ago, enough in fact that it wasn't until I had later become accustomed to Contrastate's other works that I came to appreciate it for its uneasy nature.
(CD, jewel case, $15.00)
The Giallos Flame - The Giallos Flame (Baphomet Records)
Ignore the awfully drawn cover artwork, the Giallos Flame is the essential modern-day heir to the jazzy prog rock of Goblin and the synth-heavy Fabio Frizzi soundtracks that made their mark on so many Italian horror soundtracks of the late 70's. Sleazy, funky and and just so remarkably efficient at capturing that certain vibe.
(CD, jewel case, $11.00)
Gnaw Their Tongues - All The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity (Crucial Blast)
2009 album from this Dutch project, staying faithful to its black/doom metal meets horror movie symphonic score in hell sound. Compared to "An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood", the 9 tracks here can be both more chaotic and dense with heavy drums, strained shrieks and agitated strings rising from the sludge (the poetically titled opening track "My Orifices Await Ravaging" being a perfect example), and yet more controlled at others when they are wielded with orchestral precision, such as on the demonic dirge "L'Ange Qui Annonce La Fin Du Temps". Dreadful, infernal fanfare for wretched times.
(CD, digisleeve with booklet, $11.00)
Gnaw Their Tongues - An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood (Crucial Blast)
CD re-issue of the 2007 LP with one extra track. For those of you not yet familiar with Gnaw Their Tongues, take the OTT aesthetic / vocal stylings of black metal, give them a lurching doom metal pacing and poison them with a thick layer of noise and symphonic horror movie score. Cataclysmic and utterly noxious, like a "Burning The Temple Of God"-era MZ.412 on benzodiazepines crossed over with Neuntöter Der Plage while "The Omen" plays on a flickering television in the background.
(CD, digisleeve, $11.00)
Telepherique - Zivilisatose (Diophantine Discs)
Final release from this long-active and highly prolific German trio, marking 20 years of activity with material released on such labels as Ant-Zen, Noise Museum and SSSM among others.
"Zivilisatose" covers a number of the genres explored by Telepherique over the years, swerving from noisy constructed rhythms to more minimal crystalline electro tones with bizarre samples that bring to mind some of their more recent collaborations releases with Contagious Orgasm.
(CD, silk-screened wallet packaging, $11.00)
Sil Muir - Sil Muir (Diophantine Discs)
Sil Muir is the collaboration between Italian ambient artists Andrea Marutti (who runs Afe Records and is also active as Amon and Never Known) and Andrea Ferraris (Ur). Their first album together provides us with four long tracks of deep and mellow drones ideal for drowsy late-night listening.
(CD, silk-screened wallet packaging, $11.00)