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S.BIASIN TRIO - "Untitled"  CDR (Ars Benevola Mater) - 4 euro - Use and abuse of an obsessive electronic music tied to gloomy esoteric invectives for a cathartic sound assault which doesn’t seem to want us for prisoners. The chronicles of the world’s end are commented thorugh the magnifying glass of this historic project of violent-coloured electronic where the occult and sulphureous mark of the friends from Teatro Satanico is well alive.

S.E.T.I. - "Corona" CD 2009  (Loki Fundation) - 12 euro -  Fifth album from Andrew Lagowski's deep space exploration project, S.E.T.I. Active since 1982, Lagowski has notably collaborated with Lustmord on one-off projects such as Terror Against Terror and Isolrubin BK, and his own solo work includes material released as Legion and under his own name. Of all his albums as S.E.T.I., 1994's "Knowledge" has always been a personal top pick, and remains even today among the best sonic attempts at evoking the vastness of the cosmos (and for $4 at Soleilmoon, there is really no reason why you shouldn't pick up a copy right now). "Corona" is the rightful follow-up to it, as it reuses and improves on a lot of the same elements: deep cosmic drones, sputtering digital oscillations, NASA recordings, cut-up radio broadcasts and harmonic waves are all forged together into a richly-detailed 52-min journey to the beyond. Ad Astra!

SAGITTARIUS - "Songs From The Ivory Tower"  CD  (Cold Spring) - 11 euro - "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).

SECOND SKIN - "Illa Exuro In Silentium"  CD  (Palace Of Worms) - 7 euro -  "Illa Exuro In Silentium" is their 29th musical release and fourth studio album. Arron over the years has played with everyone from Rozz Williams to The Mission UK, the band has been honored to be a part of the Bowie Tribute by Cleopatra, which prompted Earl Slick of Bowie's current lineup to let us know it was his favorite version of a Bowie song... also the band was part of the Tributes both to the Cure and The Mission that got the band high marks from both Robert Smith and Wayen Hussey. Second Skin was the hand pick by Director Pearry Teo to work on a movie based on a script by the late Jim Morrison of the Doors, the band met with rock ledgend Ray Manzerak who said of Second Skin "This is exactally the kind of band Jim discribed in his script, dark, modern, stage persence and grace. dark gothic style.

SECT - "Great Desired Utopia" digipack CD (Rage In Eden) - 11 euro - The debut album of Polish act called Sect. Musically is a fusion of oppressive mechanical industrial with military rhythms, but also with participation of calm ambient accents. The essence of this work is confrontation of lofty ideas in the name of human's development with unrestrained lust for power and domination. The attempt of answer what factors form the development of civilisations and what factors make them falling. 15 tracks, 49 minutes of hypnotic, absorbing music. CD in digipack.

SEELENLICHT - "Love And Murder" digipack CD 2010 (Trutzburg Thule) - 11 euro - Two years after the debut album, "Gods & Devils", Butow Maler (Kammer Sieben) and Troy Southgate (H.E.R.R.) present "Love and Murder". Accompanied by psychedelic guitar riffs, this album is far more song-based than their debut and follows the neoclassical path with sophistication and dynamism. From the social abyss of humanity and bittersweet murder ballads, to dark rune-prayers and the absurdity and brutality of World War I upon the bloody fields of Flanders�"Love and Murder" also devotes attention to Romantic literature by setting to music the poetry of Novalis and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Guests including Dev (While Angels Watch), Josef K. (Von Thronstahl) and Wulf Ingessunu (Woden's Folk) complete the apocalyptic cocktail of darkfolk and neoclassical music. Digipak with booklet.

SEELENLICHT - "Gods & Devils" digipack CD (Cold Spring) - 11 euro - This stunning debut release from a project of Troy Southgate (H.E.R.R.) and Butow Maler (Kammer Sieben) contains 14 darkly satirical compositions that strip bare the mechanism of human nature and the madness of the contemporary world. Comprised of Gothic murder ballads, electronic, folk and neoclassical elements, this album is brimming with originality, enthusiasm and creativity. Guests: Herr Twiggs (Kammer Sieben), Maria Southgate (H.E.R.R.) and Eustacia Vye (Horologium). Digipak.

SEELENTHRON / TRAUM'ER LEBEN / TRINITHOS - "III" digipack CD 2008  (Heimatfolk / Steinklang)  - 12 euro - "III" is a 3-way split album by the classic German NeoFolk bands SEELENTHRON, TRAUM'ER LEBEN and TRINITHOS. on this album each band interprets their favourite songs by the other 2 bands + one own new song by each artist. the finale of "III" is a bonus track by Alexander Meier (Seelenthron) - a fantastic, neoclassical coverversion of a Soulsearch / Sturmpercht song. the 3 bands are well known and highly recommended in the German NeoFolk scene, as they are all fantastic musicians and great live-artists. Seelenthron and Traum'er Leben have already released several outstanding albums, but for Trinithos "III" is the debut-release (beside some very limited CDR releases). the first album by Trinithos comes in early may 2008 on HEIMATFOLK.

SEKTOR 304 - "Soul Cleansing" digipack CD 2009 (Malignant Records) - 11 euro - Equipped with a frightening and impressive array of primitive instrumentation pulled from junkyards and scrap metal heaps, this Portuguese outfit has delivered an astounding formal debut – a heady mixture of truly old school industrial in the vein of Einsturzende Neubauten, Test Dept , and S.P.K , and the grinding, bass heavy dirge of vintage Swans and Godflesh . These are anthems to the past, but geared towards an apocalyptic and bleak future… a form of counter-culture using what is most evident in modern western society: the debris, the abandoned objects, the waste, the noise, and the interference. With a solid foundation of rusty, oil drenched percussion, Sektor 304 adds layer upon layer of squalling industrial clangor, hammering metallic noise, grimy atmospheres, heaving masses of haunted factory drones, and threatening tribal batter, with a strong and commanding vocal presence. The sound here is almost physical in nature – provocative, persistent, and demanding. No one is doing what Sektor 304 is doing right now. Anyone into TRUE industrial (and that includes not just the aformentioned old guard, but also things like Strom.ec, Militia, Negru Voda, and Knifeladder) really should not miss out. In 6 panel digipak, mastered by Steel Hook Audio.

SEKTOR X - "Rzeczywistość" CDR 2009 (Sickcore Label) - 6 euro - New album of polish noise projekt SECTOR-X.  Full Power Electronic / Harsh Noise!  Great polish noisesounds!

SHADOW THEATER - "s/t" CDR  (T'an! Kaven!! Ash!!!) - 3 euro -  CD-R limited to 150 copies.  Noise / Power Electronics. For the second time Shadow Theater album is released on T'an! Kaven!! Ash!!! label. Shadow Theater is an acknowledged power noise project from Germany created as a result of collaboration between Flutwacht and Vincenzo Bossi.

SHINJUKU THIEF - "The Scribbler" CD 2007 (Cold Spring) - 11 euro - Reissue of the 1992 classic by this Australian genius, originally released in an edition of 500 copies. Occasional bursts of factory noise, industrial rumblings and disembodied German voices form the backdrop to a minimalist reworking of Kafka's "The Trial." An album of dense filmic atmospheres and orchestral instrumentation. 'The Scribbler' has been digitally remastered and is enhanced with a series of video clips constructed by Richard Grant (I+T=R), incorporating both new material together with the original images prepared for "The Scribbler" live show.

SIEBEN - "Star Wood Brick Firmament" digipack CD 2010 (Redroom Records) - 12 euro - new album!!  SIEBEN is unique. There is nothing like him. Words flow from a silky voice and notes slide off the bow with ease. In this there is magic. Chemistry happens. The strings loop, the songs unfurl and the images in your head blossom. You are drawn to this world, compelled. "Star Wood Brick Firmament" envelops you. It enchants. Its stories are rich in life and human warmth and, sometimes, cold reality. This is the mighty SIEBEN, better than ever. Every track is memorable. Beautifully produced by the man himself, Matt Howden.

SILCHARDE - "Cacolepsie"  CDR (Frozen Wing Records)  - 5 euro -  Shamanik Occult Ambient.  Produced by the french underground label Frozen Wing Records.

SILENT LOVE OF DEATH - "The Poet's Senses"  CD (Palace Of Worms) - 10 euro -   Deep and dramatic vocals, trumpet and violins, acoustic guitars, military drums, you can think to another neofolk band like many other, but SILENT LOVE OF DEATH could touch the depth of your heart. The romantic feeling  encroaches upon the seventeen songs of this album, a great nostalgic atmosphere with classical influences create impressive dark sound. The texts are inspired by poems of  E.A  Poe, Bequer, W.  Blake, Espronceda.....

SIMULACRA - "There is a fountain filled with blood" CD 2010  (No Angels Prod. / Consouling Sounds) - 10 euro - Co-produced by Consouling and No Angels Productions (www.no.angels.glt.pl), THERE IS A FOUNTAIN FILLED WITH BLOOD is the latest album by Miguel Boriau's Simulacra. Already active also with Weihan, Mannus, Beyond Infinity and Nihilum, Miguel, since 2006, made of Simulacra his main musical project. Printed in 500 copies and released the next month, THERE IS A FOUNTAIN FILLED WITH BLOOD presents to the lover of sidereal dark ambient five tracks of gloomy icy drones. "Unsullied by the touch of time", "There is a fountain filled with blood", "In solitary confinement", "I have no blood | I have no heart" and "Above me only a shimmering light" (remixed by Mystified) offer hypnotic soundscapes where humming sounds blend forming light melodies that are finding themselves lose in a sea of torment. Focused on the bleak effect created, Miguel didn't change much the sound/frequencies of the tracks and sometimes you feel that something is missing. Mystified, on their mix, offer a similar sound but playing a bit with melodies resulting interesting.

SISTER LOOLOMIE - "Signals" CD-R (Zhelezoboton) - 5 euro -  Sister Loolomie is one of the offspring of [S]ergey (or just [S]), a musician from Moscow region, known for his projects Exit In Grey, Five Elements Music and some others, as well as for his labels Still*Sleep and Semperflorens. The musical style of [S] is notable for its delicate and gentle approach to sound, the keywords for its definition are: ambient / drone / experimental / electroacoustic. In Sister Loolomie [S] utilizes deliberate sonic "digitalizing" and at the same time manages to keep the warmth and cosiness of sound in his own way, resembling tape drone music. [S]ergey uses guitar, electronics, radio and computer processing in creating his soundscapes, both abstract and sensuous at the same time. The compositions move calmly and slowly, sound loops draw in attention like spirals and dissolve it in their textures. Shivery signal waves and soft generated rasp form an aerial atmosphere, in which crackle the discharges of digital interference, and bright yet slightly melancholic melodies bring serenity and tender contemplative sadness.

SISTRENATUS - "Sensitive Disturbance" CD (Cold Spring)  - 11 euro -  Blurring the lines between Dark Ambient, Industrial and Noise, Sistrenatus storms forth, shifting between oppressive aggression and unsettling atmospheres. "Sensitive Disturbance" is the third offering from this now legendary Canadian act, whose debut "Division One" was issued on Cold Spring in 2007. An aural journey through the urban decay of abandoned factories, scorched landscapes and underground passageways. "Sensitive Disturbance" is an abrasive rendition of the industrial revolution in its darkest phases.

SKITLIV - "Amfetamin" CD (Cold Spring) - 11 euro -  Exclusive release from the Doom / Noise project of Maniac (ex-MAYHEM), featuring Kvarforth (SHINING), and with special guest vocals by Attila (SUNN O))), MAYHEM). From Black Metal through Funeral Doom and Demonic Noise, Skitliv cover all the bases in modern extreme sonics. The CD version includes bonus tracks from Skitliv's live performance at the Camden Underworld, London, 13th December 2007, with a special intro from CURRENT 93 (David Tibet & Andrew Liles).

SKULLFLOWER - "IIIrd Gatekeeper" digi-CD (Crucial Blast) - 10 euro - Post-industrial / noise / industrial-rock. Reissued 15 years after its original 1992 release, Skullflower's IIIRD GATEKEEPER is considered by many to be the most accessible album by the "difficult" U.K. power-noise ensemble. However, given the acceptance and relative mainstreaming (if articles in the New York Times count as such) of noise music in the form of avant-garde metal bands such as Om, Sun O))), and Earth, it seems as if Skullflower may have simply been a little early to the show. The band's extreme electric caterwaul is certainly not for everyone, but there's a definite sort of beauty here as well, albeit an unconventional one. Skullflower were underground noise freaks during the '90s; in the 2000s they deserve to be held up as maverick noise experimentalists who were, in fact, way ahead of the times (and the Times).

SLEEP RESEARCH FACILITY - "Dead Weather Machine" CD (Manifold) - SOLD OUT!! -  Dark exquisite ambient, simply perfect The titanic waves of impenetrable sonics slowly swing from out of the far-away darkness like the tentacles of some galaxy-sized beast, moving through clouds with the power of a silk-covered sledgehammer, thudding at the other side of the world. Several tracks of slightly differing technique are just chilling, huge and deep...scary deep. Like the electrically-charged shade of Lustmord's 'Place Where The Black Stars Hang'. Monstrous. Somehow threatening. The previous SRF record, 'Nostromo' used the first few seconds of the film 'Alien' to create an expansive, chilling work of ambient. Here, the artist was living in a small flat in the UK with a heating/ac unit that was slowly breaking down, clogged with dust, slowly choking on it's own decay. Dead Weather Machine tells monstrous tales of things and places and feelings that it's common beginnings would never seem to suggest. But then imagine being as small as a piece of dust, trekking through some enormous, dying mechanical landscape, the sounds of world-sized storms swirling all around you. A microscopic entity, floating for ages through the channels and chambers of an enormous, dying machine, a machine that makes the weather for an entire world. A machine that is slowly dying.

SLEEP RESEARCH FACILITY - "Nostromo" CD (Cold Spring) - SOLD OUT!! - Ultra deep ambience, based on the first 8 minutes of the movie 'Alien' which depicts the deep space haulage vessel slowly moving through the void. The disc takes you through a slow trip into the ship via tracks DECK A - E, deeper and deeper into the bowels of the 'Nostromo'. Colossal dark ambience from the abyss, with beautiful artwork that evokes the sinister atmosphere of the ship. 'Nostromo' was reissued in December 2007 with bonus track 'Narcissus'.

SLEEP RESEARCH FACILITY - "Deep Frieze" CD 2007 (Cold Spring) - SOLD OUT!!  - Ultra deep, glacial Dark Ambient, based around Antarctic co-ordinates. The polar regions are awe-inspiring environments of inhospitable minimalism, and at the same time there's a beautiful serenity to be found in their uncharted bleakness. There's a powerful purity and a timelessness to be found there; snow which has lain un-trampled for millennia and ice which formed eons ago; mountain ranges and deserts and rivers to be found if you look. 'Deep Frieze' is SRF's second album for Cold Spring and here deep, resonant, abyss-like drones shine forth from icy chasms below.

SLOGUN - "Bloody Roots" digipack CD 2009 (Circle Of Shit / Trash Ritual) - 11 euro -  Bensonhurst Brooklyn Power Electronics at its finest! Slogun's first full length release in close to 5 years is finally available. Packaged in a full color 3 panel digipak. 14 tracks closing in at roughly 49 minutes.

SLOGUN - "Glory Of Murder" CD 2008 (BloodLust!) - 11 euro - Power electronics.    This is the sixth and final release in the main part of the Slogun "History of Violence" re-issue campaign. "The Glory Of Murder" was originally released on cassette in April 1998 on the short-lived Italian label Soffitta Macabra which was co-run by Marco "Depla" Deplano [Wertham, Foresta Di Ferro, etc.] and Pino; The hand-numbered edition of 100 copies has long been a rarity; This cassette was a major entry in the evolving world of true crime subject matter, which Slogun was already immersed in, and it was also the last cassette released by Slogun prior to a notable switch-over to the compact disc medium; Like the first five re-issue CDs in the set, the audio for this re-mastered version was expertly prepared in Lille, France, by Jerome Nougaillon [Propergol], while John Balistreri's bold graphic design follows the standard that he created for the ongoing series. This CD is packaged in a jewel box with a four-panel color and black and white booklet; True Crime Electronics - FTW; Released in 2008.

SLOGUN - "Days of agony" CD  (BloodLust!) - SOLD OUT!!

SLOGUN - "Will to Kill" CD  (BloodLust!) - 11 euro - Power electronics.  The second release in the "History of Violence" re-issue campaign; Originally co-released by BloodLust! and Circle of Shit in August 1996, as a C-60, in an edition of 100 copies; The audio for this re-mastered version was prepared by Jerome Nougaillon (Propergol), while John Balistreri's graphic design follows the standard that he created for the complete re-issue series. This CD is packaged in a shrinkwrapped jewel box with a four-panel color, and black and white, booklet; True Crime Electronics

SMOHALLA / IMMEMORIAL - "Noyade céleste" CDR (Frozen Wing Records) - 5 euro -  Drone Dark Ambient / Ethereal Post Black Metal.  Finally this split pro CD-R is out, including a long, frozen and deep ambient track with spoken words from Immemorial, and a 11:11min remastered song that we recorded in 2006, just after 'Smolensk Combustion'. Wait for a raw, raging and ethereal celebration about the end of our universal flesh. Drowning music for drowning people.. Mastering by KKP. Produced by the french underground label Frozen Wing Records.

SOGLIA DEL DOLORE - "2984" CD (Final Muzik) - 11 euro -  80's Italian punk heroes are back: new songs, new line up, new sound! 15 new great, powerful tracks, plus a few re-recorded old anthems! You know, you really need this album if you're into: Crass, early-Killing Joke, C.C.C.P., Rivolta dell'Odio, Theatre Of Hate, Italian early-80's wave and U.K. peace/anarcho-punk. Featuring Francis Tami on vocals -> In The Nursery collaborator on "Lingua" CD, radio DJ and music writer on Ascension Magazine. 500 copies, digipack.

SOL INVICTUS - "Lex Talionis" digipack CD (Infinite Fog Productions)  - 11 euro - Russian edition of the stunning album from the legendary UK dark folk act Sol Invictus. This album - originally issued on Tursa in 1993 - introduced the world to the true force of the band. Tony Wakeford was aided by such legendary musicians as Ian Read (Fire + Ice), Karl Blake (Lemon Kittens, Shock Headed Peters), Leithana (Ordo Equitum Solis), Ingrid Fischer, and Richard "Dik" Evans (ex-Virgin Prunes). Contains an exclusive bonus track of 'Black Easter (Live)'. Presented in a digipak with 8-page booklet containing the song lyrics (not published in the first edition). Ltd x 1001 copies.

SPECTRA PARIS - "Dead Model"  CD (Trisol) - 13 euro - znana postać z Kirlian Camera. "Dead Models" jest albumem na który składaja się elektroniczna muzyka zbliżona do KC. Rytmiczne i energetyczne kawałki z wyśmienitymi wokalami Spectry, klimaty Electro / DarkWave wymieszane futurystycznymi rytmami, wszystko okraszone romantyzmem a nawet erotyzmem. Na aukcji oferujemy oczywiście płytę nówkę zafoliowaną wydaną przez niemiecki label Trisol.  New project headed by Elena, singer of Kirlian Camera. Her high class „glamour noir“ combines dreamy electro spheres with alien motifs and hypnotic futuristic rhythms and powerful E-guitars, but all in all in a very delicate and romantic piece of work.

SPLATTERPUNK "Channel 83" CD (Caustic Records) - 11 euro - The future is now, absolutely every single prediction of the cyberpunk movement have been fulfilled turning the world we live in it's totality. If you are not a zombie you have already realized this. Welcome to the reflection of the disaster. Born under the bar codes oppression we keep going with firm steps towards a world in which simulation is more important than the truth. Big corporations have drowned us, and a rebellion in the networks seem to be the last resource to get to the explicit freedom. UNIX warriors get their weapons ready... Front Line Assembly hacked by Chicago’s acid-house, electro music touched by the hand of Belgium’s new beat, Front 242 and Max Headroom copulating and Afrika Bambatta and Skinny Puppy kissing each other under neo- Tokyo’s light. New age old school. Includes the remix of Ascii.disko 'xxx terminator (total destruction and reconstruction by Ascii.disko)'.

SPLINTERSKIN - "Wayward Soul" CD 2009  (Cold Spring) - 11 euro - Caught in the oblivious borderland, Splinterskin unveils his spell after years of solitude and hermetic isolation, in the form of a harsh, dark folk music.  His tales are told using an old classical guitar accompanied by haunting vocals, violin, and soothing whispers cradled in the delicate atmospheres of autumn. With simple yet mystically riddled lyrics that beckon, Splinterskin taunts the listener with hidden meanings, allegorical concepts, nearly indescribable deep feelings, and a sense of universal understanding only a spirit as Splinterskin could possibly weave together as music. "Wayward Souls" is a collection of tales blending life and death, entities & creatures, hidden wisdom, unknown places, pain and suffering, folklore, possession, insanity, nature and the dark world that surrounds.

SPREU & WEIZEN - "Gott Erhalt's" profi CDR with A5 cover (Reminiscences Prod.) - 8 euro - profesional CDR come in 3 panel A5 digifile (cardboard) packing and a postcard in plastic bag, is limited to 200 copies. After finish a split release with Der Jager. Is time to let Spreu & Weizen (Seuchensturm) release their first full league album. This Germany military classical group do one of their best release. They show some songs with strong militant orchestral with hard feeling in their album. This album is tribute to the German youth who died for their fatherland.

STALINGRAD "Court Martial" digipak CD 2006 (Twilight Rec.) - 11 euro - The first album by Stalingrad, the more orchestral side of Kirlian Camera side-project. An amazing mixture of bombastic pompous orchestration, combining neofolk elements with neoclassical and industrial atmospheres.

STEEL HOOK PROSTHESES - "Atrocitizer" digipack CD  (Malignant) - 11 euro -  As long time admirers of this Texas two piece, it seemed only a matter of time before Steel Hook Prostheses would find a home with Malignant. While Atrocitizer will probably not be considered their most aggressive release, it is unquestionably their most unsettling and creepy. 10 tracks in total and close to 50 minutes of death industrial in it’s purest form, dripping and oozing with sinister intentions, and full of grim electronics, unnerving pulsations, and cold frequency spasms that swarm from a fetid pit of malevolence. Add in a steady stream of ultra menacing , processed vocals and nightmarish samples, and surely you have one of the more disturbing releases ever to be released on Malignant. Steel Hook Prostheses formed in 1999, and since then have amassed an impressive discography of limited CDR releases. Atrocitizer is just their second full length non CDR release following 2005's Light Reflected From A Cold Cutting Table. In 6 panel digipak.

STREICHER - "Hammerskins / Der Sturmer / 90's compilations" CD (Industrial Recollections) - 11 euro -  5th part of Streicher collection presents two full tapes: "hammerskins" and "der sturmer" and additionally all his compilation appereances from 90´s except War Against Society. C. 70 minutes of material is guaranteed Streicher skins hatefuck! Original master tapes used for maximum sonic damage!

STROM.EC - "Divine Legions Beyond Psyche" digipack A5 / CD 2008 (Malignant) - 13 euro - - Industrial, Power Electronics.  With their fifth full length CD, Finland's Strom.ec continue to further explore the far regions of power electronics, challenging the confines and stretching the boundary of the genre, sculpting new and innovative creations that are uniquely their own. Having been under construction for over seven years , Divine Legions shows Strom.ec with a majestic control of their craft, offering 8 tracks (including one 21 minute epic to close the CD out!) of powerful and explosive industrial music, full of volatile frequencies, brain bending, enigmatic atmospheres, hallucinatory noise, and the trademark vocal assault that few acts can rival. Presented in a luxurious 8-panel DVDigipak, designed by Jerome Nougaillon, Divine Legions Beyond Psyche represents Strom.ec at their finest, most creative form, having reached a pinnacle in an already illustrious discography.

STORM.EC - "Laboratorio Suomi" CD (Freak Animal) - 10 euro - 500 copies, Full length CD with mastered live recordings from 1998-2002! Industrial / power electronics.

STURM - "Le prix du sang et des larmes" digipack CD 2007  (War Office Propaganda) - 11 euro - 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.

STURMPERCHT - "Geister im Waldgebirg" digipack CD (Percht / Steinklang) - 12 euro - One year has passed since the Austrian / south Bavarian Alpin-Folk formation Sturmpercht released their last 7". finally now here is their long awaited new album! "Geister im Waldgebirg" is a journey through the deepest central-European forests and mountains with all their strange creatures, fairies, myths and legends. the sounds and lyrics on this album are engrained in old pagan rites and cults, in hunters-legends and in tales from darkest woods and the people living there. the songstyles vary from powerful Martial-Folk hymns, over fragile Folk-balads, to weird songs about strange people and creepy animals. several great artists supported Sturmpercht in the making of this album: first af all Axel from WERKRAUM, who is a basic Sturmpercht-member since quite a while now. it's Axels perfect guitar- and flute playing and his skillful hands in mixing, that the Folk-songs have this brilliant late 60ies/early 70ies touch now. the close Sturmpercht-friends ALLERSEELEN, SANGRE CAVALLUM and WALDTEUFEL have also recorded fantastic songs especially for this album.

SUTCLIFFE JUGEND - "Pigdaddy" CD (Cold Spring)  - 11 euro - The Sutcliffe Jügend filthy dirt-mess of an album that is Pigdaddy is now available on Cold Spring. Six stories of mind-fucking depravity. Pigdaddy contains some of the most fucked up, histrionic and downright bizarre vocals ever recorded. The music is created using the most basic sound sources. The overwhelming sense of moral decay makes this Sutcliffe Jügend's most original album yet. Pigdaddy is Beyond Perverse. Sexual transgression never sounded so dirty. Hear Pigdaddy and you will never feel clean again. Cover painting by Kevin Tomkins.

SVA BATTALION - "The Hidden Cult" 3'CD-R (Strely Peruna)  - 6 euro -  lim.ed. numbered 40 copies. Side project from AKPAN. Heavy-electronics. This album is dedicated to “the cult of personality” and totalitarian leaders. Audio + multimedia. Hand made design, non-standard edition. Provocative work.

SVARROGH - "Yer Su"  digipack CD + 12-page booklet  (Steinklang / Ahnstern) - 12 euro - "Yer Su" is the 5th full length bulgarian folklore avantgarde doctrine and the 3rd release under the banner of the bearer of european heritage Ahnstern. Svarrogh (Dimo Dimov) presents here a very complex post folk experience, trully dedicated to the holy earth-water Yer Su from the mystic and ancient bulgarian pantheon of Tangra - nonetheless it also shows the symbiotic allegiance to slavic mythology and european culture from the depths of the Pamir mountains and meadows through the slavic steppes up to the Balkan realms. Traditional bulgarian instruments like Gaida (bagpipe), Gadulka (balkan viola), Tamboura (big mandoline), Kaval (balkan shepherd flute), Ocarina, Clarinet, vocals in bulgarian, italian, english, lithuanian, Guitars and Drums arranged to a balkan post folk and avantgarde dark folk adventure with ambient drones, elements of Industrial & Black Metal and traditional compositions. Digipack with 12 pages booklet, designed by the bulgarian photographer and artist Kaate Haate (Katia).

SVARROGH – “Balkan Renaissance”  CD  (Ahnster / Steinklang) - 12 euro - The Bulgarian Black Folklore ensemble Svarrogh of Dimo Dimov has recorded another masterpiece of Ritual Folk music. "Balkan Renaissance" is already the 4th Svarrogh album under the banner of the god of the sun.   The Kukeri are the Balkan counterpart to the Austrian and south Bavarian Perchten. This album is full of traditional-, pagan- and ritual Folk music, Neo-Classical songs, Martial drummings and it has even some Industrial moments. - 18 tracks / 73 min.

SWARM - "XII" CDR (Valgriind Records) - 5 euro - Minimalistic Digital Noise \ Ambient. DVD-box.

SYNOMORPH - "Recorded In Hell" CD 2007 (Apocalyptic Radio) - 5 euro - The second, brandnew fulltime album from this german act. 18 tracks of old school industrial / powerlectronics in the vein of Haus Arfana or Sumbliminal, without vocals. A absolute insider tip!

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THE MOON AND THE NIGHTSPIRIT - "Regõ Rejtem" A5 Digipak CD 2007 (Equilibrium Music) - SOLD OUT!! -  Second album by the Hungarian Ethereal/Pagan Folk duo, complete with an extensive booklet featuring artwork created exclusively for this release by the band's singer Agnes Toth.  Recordings for their second album, "Regõ Rejtem", began around mid 2006, again at the band's own studio, Elysion. "Regõ rejtem" is a line from ancient Hungarian minstrel songs, which means "I conjure with magic", or, in words even closer to Shamanism, "révüléssel révülök" ("I am ecstatic in a trance"), a vision that suits perfectly the mood on the duo's songs. This time they have traveled further into times bygone, rekindling the flames of the Taltos (Hungarian shaman) and reawakening the spirits of the Elders. The music has acquired a more varied and colorful tone through the use of varied ethnic instrumentation (such as kaval, tapan, jew's harp or zither), and has also become significantly more energetic and vibrant, without sacrificing the unique ambiance that the band had found on their debut album.

THE SOIL BLEEDS BLACK  “Alchemie”  digipack CD 2006  (Twilight Rec.) - 11 euro -   “Alchemie” is a conglomeration of songs based heavily upon the medieval occult science for which the album is named. The album also features other songs portraying Arthurian legend and the bravery of knights on the battlefield. The well-known Swedish ambient artist, ARCANA, make a very special guest appearance on the track, “Lapis Philosophorum.” This new edition comes presented in a fancy digipak!

THE TRIPLE TREE - "Ghosts"  digipack CD  (Cold Spring) - 11 euro - The Triple Tree consists of Tony Wakeford (Sol Invictus) and Andrew King aided and abetted by M, Autumn Grieve, Kris Force, Guy Harries, Renee Rosen and John Murphy, and is an extended homage to the supernatural fiction of M. R. James (with a certain nod to his notable studies in the New Testament Apocrypha) the greatest ghost story writer in the English language, and the finest medievalist of his generation. Join Dr Wakeford and the Rev. King as they search for the Three Crowns, attempt to Cast the Runes, purchase The Mezzotint, follow Mr Abney’s "remarkable enlightenment" in Lost Hearts, and join Count Magnus on the "Black Crusade"! Winter evenings will never be the same again… Presented in a luxurious digipak with booklet.

THE WELL OF SADNESS - "In Our Last Times" digipack CD (Rage In Eden) - 11 euro - The next full-lenght album from Italian The Well Of Sadness headed by Daniele Giustra, with even more mature and excellent sounds than on "I'm Uprooted From It". Twelve neofolk / neoclassical / dark orchestral songs create unique atmosphere, so specific for The Well Of Sadness. Highly recommended!

THE WELL OF SADNESS - "I'm Uprooted from it" CD 2005  (War Office Propaganda) - 11 euro - Beautiful music, very moving songs in apocalyptic, martial neo-folkish atmosphere mixed with oppresive soundscapes. 10 songs, 40 minutes of music comes on CD in nice gloss varnished digipack.

TYDISH / MAAAA split CD-R 2007  (Triangle Records) - 3 euro - Power-electronics/Harsh-noise. Think before you think! This is not a test!!!! Total sXe-Jihad is cum-min soon. Make your choise or DIE!!!

ÜL - "III"  CD-R (Zhelezoboton) - 6 euro -  ÜL was formed in 2006 by Argentinians Alan Courtis (Reynols), Fernando Perales and Charly Zaragoza. They have performed live many times in Argentina and released two albums: "Astropecuario" on the Scottish label Pjorn Records and "II" on the Argentinian Facon Records. This is their third disk containing material recorded in 2007. The goal of ÜL is the exploration of timbric possibilities of electric guitars in their own way, combining elements of noise, drone music and free atonal improvisation. Their compositions immerse the listener into an abstract world of electromagnetic interaction between acoustic and electronic medium. A world glutted with raw sounds of string vibrations, droney feedback resonances, acute work of limiting amplifiers and layering echoes of effects.

UR - "Trieb" CD  (Topheth Prophet) - 5 euro -  Ur music is mostly based on improvisation that usually starts with drones or samples (with no pre-definite structure), to which they superimpose layers of electro-acoustic noisescapes coming from objects, field recordings, analog and traditional instruments processed using a load of pedals and effects. The sound ends painting a solid, harsh and dramatic industrial lounge where archaic instincts and modern obsessions meet.

V/A - "Dark Ambient Radio vol.1" CD 2008 (Dark Ambient Radio) - 12 euro - "A genre compilation that emerged around the web radio of the same name. 72 minutes of the fines dark ambient. Each of the eleven tracks has been done exclusively for the sampler. It contains music from established acts like Ah Cama-Sotz or Svartsinn, older projects that unexplainably stayed below the radar, and relative newcomers one will hear of in the future for sure. This completely self-produced collection is a gem waiting to be discovered! PHELIOS, SVARTSINN & ALLSEITS, NAGUAL ART, AH CAMA-SOTZ & ALL SIDES, PHOBOS, FALSE MIRROR, DARK MUSE & NIHIL COMMUNICATION, EVOKE SCURVEE, MYTRIF, STEPHEN PARSICK i MEGATONE". We recommend this release and website Dark Ambient Radio: www.darkambientradio.de

V/A - "Dark Ambient Radio Vol.2" CD 2010 (Dark Ambient Radio) - 12 euro - This compilation is the result of almost one year of careful design and polishing of cutting-edge dark ambient songs. Dark Ambient Radio managed to raise the bar with this superb collection of dark ambient music. As with Vol. 1, each of the 11 tracks here has been created exclusively for this release. Features: Arkhitektur, Aspectee, Crepuscular, False Mirror, Inner Vision Laboratory, Nagual Art, Phelios, Phobos, Therradaemon, Tholen and Troum.

V/A - "electr-ohm compilation 2" CD (Electr-ohm) - 10 euro -  14 tracks, 68 min. / 1000 copies ltd. CD only. Made in Japan / IDM / Rhythmic Noise / Industrial/.  electr-ohm released 2nd compilation album,"electr-ohm compilation 2" 5 Japanese IDM / Rhythmic Noise artists contributed 2 or 3 tracks each. This CD is good experience to know Japanese newer underground electronic music scene. SUNAO INAMI, SYMPHONYSPACE, ORDINATEUR, OKLIHIRO YOKOTANI, KEZZARDIX.

V/A - "Moral Hazard"   CD  (Indie-Ziert) - 5 euro - industrial / noise / power electronics compilation whit:  Schwadron / Jesus Of Nazareth / La Comunidad / Melodic Abortion Orchestra / Radio Murmansk / Cavum Oris / Mortuor / Hatred In Eyes / Climax Denial / Sewer Goddess / Leiche Rustikal / Schwadron / Persona / Mourmansk150 / Steel Hook Prostheses / Jesus Of Nazareth  - limited to 477 handnumbered copies.

V/A "Nervous Noise" CD 2006 (Nervous Nurse) - 4 euro -  the nervous nurse compilation CD - Power noise, rhythmic noise / industrial, limited to 500 copies, feat.: Zyrtax, Chefkirk, Antracot, Monobrain, Plated Steel, Lasse Marhaug, Fever Spoor, André Borgen, Kobi, Vincenzo Bossi, Xedh feat. Lila Floss, C.R.E.T.A., Filthy Turd, Monokontrast, Valvula Antirretorno, Gelsomina vs Flutwacht

V/A - "New World Order" digipack 2CD 2007  (Thonar Rec.) - SOLD OUT!! - Beautiful digipack, limited to 999 copies / A CHALLENGE OF HONOUR, ATOMTRAKT, ATROX, BRACHIAL PALSY, CAMISOLE, ECHOES THEREIN GALE feat. KENJI SIRATORI, ERIK URSICH, FALSE MIRROR, FLUTWACHT, GALAXIA OBSCURA, INSTITUTION D.O.L., INVISIBLE FRONT, IZNAMI’S LARBOUR PAINS, KREUZER, MAYA NADIR, MOON, MY AAPHYXIA, NEBELKORONA, NOISEWERRRK,  PHRAGMENTS, SASCHA MANDLER, SKM-ETR, SKY BURIAL, THE ALISON PROJECT, THE SOUNDS OF EARTH, THOMAS NOLA ET SEN ORCHESTRE, TONAL Y NAQUAL.

V/A - "Nikolaevka" CD  (Palace Of Worms)  - 11 euro - The Battle of Nikolaevka was fought on January 26, 1943 as small part of the larger Battle of Stalingrad...........65 years later a new assault from italian army ,  the best apocalyptic neofolk, martial italian  bands are  collected in this compilation. 18 exclusive tracks! Albireon, All My Faith Lost, Rose Rovine e Amanti, Der Feuerkreiner, L'Effet C'Est Moi, Sala delle Colonne, Hexperos, The Well of Sadness, Calle della Morte, Gregorio Bardini  etc.

V/A - "Nous Somnes Les Morts" - CD 2006 in digifile A5 lim. ed. 500 copies (Apocalyptic Radio) - 5 euro -  Great compilation!!! Power of industrial and noise music!  ANTRACOT / ATROX / BEINHAUS / CONTAGIOUS ORGASM / FLUTWACHT / ICK / MORAL FRAKTAL / OBJEKT-URIAN / PPF / PRAYING FOR OBLIVION / PROPERGOL / SHADOW THEATRE / SYNOMORPH / VRONTHOR...

V/A - "RED SYNDROME act.1: 1966~1976" - CD / format A5 (Midnight Productions) - 11 euro - Compilation From Chinese Martial / Industrial / Dark Ambient / Power Electronics / Nosie. This compilation bases the theme on the Chinese Proletarian Cultural Revolution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution), commemorating and retrospecting the 10 years of turbulence, misery and inhumanity in the darkness. Limited to 444 copies, A5-digifile.

V/A - "Salon Decadence" CD  (Neo-Form) - 8 euro -  Released on the occation of Neo-Form’s “Salon Décadence” at the Absintherie Sixtina in Leipzig on June 2nd/3rd, this special release features eleven, mostly rare and unreleased tracks from SAGITTARIUS, THO-SO-AA, ROSE ROVINE E AMANTI, SHAVA SADHANA and ECHO WEST, with a playing time of almost an hour.

V/A - "Still the Same After Years" CD-r 2009 (Mizantrophy Records) - 4 euro -  Compilation with Dark ambient and Experimental sounds. Collection with only polish projects: ACCOMPLICE AFFAIR, CONTEMPLATRON, C.H.DISTRICT, HATED BRUIT KOLLEKTIV, HOARFROST, INFAMIS, MULTIPOINT INJECTOR, NOJSENS, PAZULUS 1, PENEMUE, WULGATA.  / 70 min with good polish sounds!

V/A "Tal Mont De Lune" digipack CD 2006   (Final Muzik) - 11 euro - International compilation including 14 tracks covering ethereal/wave, neo-folk / folk noir, industrial, dark ambient and related genres. "Tal Mont De Lune" includes mainly unreleased songs, live and new versions, featuring some tracks exclusively recorded for this Final /THE LAST FALL, all my faith lost..., FORESTA DI FERRO, INNER GLORY, WE WAIT FOR THE SNOW, CAMERATA MEDIOLANENSE, KNIFELADDER, SALLY DOHERTY AND THE SUMACS, THE SOIL BLEEDS BLACK, ARGINE, CRISANTEMO DEL CARRIONE, SHINING VRIL, NORTHGATE, MANIFESTO/

V/A - "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"  CD'05 (War Office Propaganda) - 4 euro -  The next War Office Propaganda's CD issue, 4-way concept split comes in beautiful colour printed, skin textured digipack. Artwork made by Jacek Liminowicz. An excellent line-up: Melek-Tha, Insuffer, Paranoia Inducta, Leiche Rustikal.  44 minutes of great, scary, hipnotic and moving atmospheres. Strictly limited edition - 444 copies only and no re-print!!!

V/A - "Tonwellen Konferenz"  CD (Atacama Rec.) - 5 euro - The compilation to Stöfis (atrox) birthday party this year, with an exclusive track from each band who plays on the concert in Erlangen. With: Phelios, Antracot, Screloma, Stahlwerk 9, P.A.L., Deutsch Nepal, Synapscape, Tardive Dyskinesia, ACOH, Heimstatt Yipotash, UMB-Kollektif, Atrox, Der Manrz, Control and Morgenstern. Comes in clear tray and is limited to 500 copies

V/A - "Trance" CD (Monochrome Vision)  - 10 euro -  Trance is the one-man project by american musician Mason Jones, known also as the founder of Charnel House label. During the 10 years of existence, he released 4 albums and numerous compilation tracks, which are often even more original and precious than album tracks. That's why we decided to gather them altogether for this release, which collects the most interesting material from the archives of the underground network.

V/A - "...where tattered clouds are stranding Tribute to Einar Jonsson"  2CD (The Eastern Front) - 15 euro - Double CDs compilation of European neofolk, industrial, dark ambient projects dedicated to the art of Icelandic sculptor and painter Einar Jonsson (1874-1954). Almost all the songs presented on the compilation inspired by Einar Jonsson's art are unique, previously unreleased and composed especially for this compilation. Part I "Grief" is a neofolk/martial part with the songs of Belborn, Storm Of Capricorn, Westwind, Rukkanor, H.E.R.R./Von Thronsthl, Horologium, Weihan, Cold Fusion, Larrnakh, Zebaoth, Agnivolok, Kammer Sieben, Aeldaborn and Cawatana. Part II "Birth Of Psyche" is dark ambient/industrial/esotheric part with the songs of Rose Rovine E Amanti, Wach, Objekt4, Hoarfrost, Gandolfs Gedanken, Shining Vril, Echo West, Gregorio Bardini, Artefactum, Kadaver, Bisclaveret, Sitra Ahra and Simulacra

VARGR - "Wehrmacht Satanas" [by lord Nordvargr] CD (Eternal Pride Prod.) - 11 euro - The name of Henrik Nordvargr Bj?rkk has always been associated to the power of Swedish Black Industrial which has always been linked to MZ. 412 for many years. As a part of MZ. 412, Nordvargr first managed to combine black metal and post-industrial aesthetics. But VARGR is even a more diabolic, blasphemous and terrifying cocktail of the real Scandinavian black metal of the early 1990s and the noise post-industrial layers which create the atmosphere of real Evil, Death, Chaos and Destruction in their impious graciousness. An unholy communion summoned to create the soundtrack for all wars to come. Bow to the Northern Wolf!

VAZHES - "Seid"  DigiCD (Vegvisir Music) - 11 euro - /Ritual noise Folk/.   Seid is a debut album by "Vazhes", a side-project of Sergey Gabbasov. In popular etymology of the Permian Komis “aged people” (“vazhes”, “vazh otir”) means an ancient, very old people. The Permian Komis call “vazhes” some early population of the Upper Kama, which is supposed to have disappeared when the “new” (“wil”) people of the Permian Komis arrived to these lands. This old population is also named “chud” (“chuchkiie”, “chudskoy otir”). The album consists of 4 tracks; two of them – “Seid” and “Krishna” - have been realized by "Vazhes". The second track is a collaborative work by "Vazhes" and "Fanum"; the forth is made jointly by "Vazhes" and "Akpan". The album is dedicated to the violent struggle between the contemporary chaotic society and the eternal natural harmony, embodied in traditional cultures. A part of artwork was made by Hærleif Langås ("Northaunt").

VELEHENTOR | VISHUDHA KALI | CLOSING THE ETERNITY - "Ishopanishad"  DigiCD (Vegvisir Music)  - 11 euro - /Droning Ritual Dark Ambient/.  All tracks were recorded at live session back in December 2007. Here are no electric and synthetic sounds but natural acoustic instruments only. Activities: 3 dung chen, ting gzhang, lag rnga, drill bu, rkang gling, damaru, Tibetan singing bowls, physharmonium, bells & chimes. All music perfomed by 121 & Vishudha Kali (Andrei Bulin/Komarov). Throat singing & Shree Ishopanishad Divine Mantra chanting by Vishudha Kali (Andrei Bulin/Komarov). This album is dedicated to devotees of ancient times, explorers of the Eternity and of the reverse side of being. The people is coming & passing away, and life is too short, and the secret of Nature is still transcendent - impossible to be understood. Shree Ishopanishad Album was performed once as concert act. 

VELEHENTOR – "Sak-Yelga" CD 2006 (Eternal Pride Prod.) - 5 euro -  This album is limited to only 333 copies and is designed in a unique way – in a DVD-box with an 8-page booklet. Postapocalyptic Dark Wave / Power industrial with radical anti-life position.

VENUSPULS "Herzschlag Des Endzeit—Architekten" CD  (Wroth Emitter) - 10 euro -  Since 2004 Martin Lang/TODESSTOSS uses as another, independent artistic platform the expressive electronic art project VENUSPULS, for that he deals with nebulous, occult, apocalyptic, dark erotic, extraterrestrial, eerie and other sensitive and subtle matters, setting them to music finally. The songs are not created with cheap samples but with creativity. A musical mixture of dark ambient sounds, powerful and energetic electronic beats and even some neoclassical and industrial elements - always personal-aesthetic - not noisy. The music surely isn’t made for a superficial public, but for the egosphere of any dark prince or princess dwelling in the sky time and time again.

VERGISSMEINNICHT - "Whispering Solitude" digipack CD (MidNight Productions) - 11 euro - Depressive / Dark folk project from Shandong China. Silent and dark, like crying in the dark night and whisper of the dead. Every word and note echos like sounds in your dreams. The memory still remains. Is that the past betrayed you, or may just the opposite? Ltd 500 Digipack.

VLADIMIR HIRSCH – “Sense Geometry”  CD 2006 (Ars Benevola Mater) - 11 euro -  LTD. 435 NUMBERED COPIES IN DELUXE PACKAGE. - Disturbing and dim ambient soundscapes mixed with a gloomy, throbbing and dramatic industrial sound and with an imperceptible but relevant touch of avantgarde solutions. The outlines drawn by Vladimir Hirsch are not created casually. Every single element is carefully drawn up and the result is amazing in its will to astonish through the whirling soundscapes of a charming fascination for the cinema in powdery rusty colours.

VON THRONSTAHL / THE DAYS OF THE TRUMPET CALL  - "Pessoa / Cioran" - Digipack CD 2010 (Infinite Fog Productions) - 11 euro - Since 1998 year Von Thronstahl, led by the founder and leader Josef M. Klumb, remains to one of most appreciable and interesting groups on martial industrial/neofolk scene. The Days Of The Trumpet Call, it's neoclassic project by Raymond P., the musician of the Von Thronstahl. This split, is devoted the Portuguese poet Fernando Antonio Pessoa (1888-1935) and Romanian philosopher Emil Michel Cioran (1911-1995), their writings are used as lyric for this album.The melancholic neoclassics from The Days Of The Trumpet Call and probably strangest of all records Von Thronstahl where they balance on border between neoclassics and ambient, with a light touch martial and all the same, beautiful and charismatic, Josef's voice. CD is released in 6-pannel Digipak, with design by Federico Salvador(All my faith lost...)

VON THRONSTAHL - "Germanium Metallicum" delux digipack CD 2009 (Trutzburg Thule) - 13 euro - New material with an occidental sound - a fusion of martial, industrial, orchestral, neofolk, military and apocalyptic storm-composing. Intense, dramatic and unbeatable. High quality, powerfully-mastered with a wide spectrum of sound. "Germanium Metallicum" is a musical revelation of old Europe, caught between rebirth and death, freedom and slavery, uproar and revolution. It is an apocalyptic journey with many international musicial guests from the genre, including guest vocals by Plastique of Welle Erdball, Troy Southgate (H.E.R.R., Seelenlicht) and Natacha Von Wynn (erotic starlet from Switzerland). The sounds of Von Thronstahl's earlier works are cleverly combined with the composing quality of their latest album "Sacrificare" and the intensity and power of its predecessor "Bellum Sacrum Bellum!?"

VOYVODA - "The Confederacy" Digipak CD (Corvus Records) - 11 euro - The sound of Voyvoda is combination of minimal electro, industrial, darkwave from the 80’s, thrilling Balkan folklore, majestic Eastern orthodox chants  and even weird samples from pop songs from the 60’s.

VRESNIT - "Tunvet" DigiCD (Vegvisir Music) - 11 euro - /Shamanic Drone Ambient/. 6-panel Digisleeve.  Vresnit presented its first CD-release contained ecstatic & exploring records made in the fall of 2008 and remastered in winter-spring 2009. Vresnit is the project of one man working for artistic embodiment of the creative rotation within the label Vetvei. He was formerly known as ruler of Kerpg label, Pugna, Vagranok, Nrodum and other projects, now ceased their activities. Deaf thickets and swamps, heaven ravines, lost voices, unseen birds. Eternal mosses, lichens, fog and ancient trees. The path lies deeply through the thickets and higher to the sun, meeting with ancient human-animals, keepers of the Book. Majestic and archaic canvas neither begins nor ends, woven by the Sledge of Three-Worlds-Animals. The Words of scratches, beats, rings and rustles - all goes into vibrating flow of crudely woven muscarinic Shamanic Drone Ambient atmosphere. Tunvet appears as primitive experience for co-breathing with Earth, diving into the twilight forest and flowing into its beyond. Slow and endless movement in a Circle that appears as Eternal Order. A Myth of the World-Man Creation, a dreamflight, a meeting with the Forest Spirits preying on the flesh and substituting it with metal and stones, giving life to the Ancient Co-knowledge. Created using field recordings, voices and woodwinds, metal gongs, percussion and "concrete" sounds. Gripping, saturating and transforming experience of raw wind, celestial chariots and chthonic naturalism.

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WERKRAUM - "Unsere Feuer brennen!" CD 2009 (Cold Spring) - 11 euro - Debut album from a band who created excitement across the whole scene, having only appeared on a handful of extremely rare compilations, (including the impossible to find collaboration with Von Thronstahl and Bleiburg) at the time of first release. A genius mixture of martial industrial, Neofolk, ambience and neo-classical! Aided by Lady Morphia (UK) and Harvest Rain (USA). 2nd unlimited edition in jewelcase with brand new gold on black artwork. Contains two bonus tracks - "Wir Rufen Deine Wölfe" (taken from the compilation of the same name) and "Blutsommerland" (taken from the vinyl-only release "Eternal Soul") and is completely remastered for 2009!

WERKRAUM - "Early Love Music Box" CD+3"-CD in wooden box lim. >300< (Ahnstern / Steinklang) - 22 euro - Neo-Folk, Dark Folk.   14 progressive & traditional, psychedelic & medieval folk songs and chants of Early Love. 14 dreamy memories of the merry blue days from Early Times. together with friends of the groups CHANGES, LADY MORPHIA and STURMPERCHT. "Early Love Music" comes in a highest-quality 6-side-digipack with 16-page lyric-booklet. the special edition comes in a printed wooden box with wooden inlay, holding a additional 3"CD with 4 bonus-songs and is limited to 300 copies. 74 min. / 18 songs

WHISPER OF TEARS - "Lost Dreams" digipack CD (MidNight Productions) - 11 euro - From China, the neo-classical project Whisper of Tears finnaly released their debut album Lost Dreams after many silent years The music of WOT mainly is neo-classical, with some medieval. Romantic, sad, reserved, grey elements. You will find a innocent world in this comfortable music.Limited to 500 copies,digipack.

WOLFSKIN - "O Ajuntar das Sombras" digipack CD  (Malignant) - 11 euro - Finally, after years of delay, O Ajuntas das Sombras by Wolfskin is finally unleashed. Initally intended to be a re-issue of 2001’s very limited The Gather of Shadows by the Setting Sun CDr (Ajna), it eventually evolved into a re-working of three tracks from that release, complimented by 7 newly recorded tracks. As the Wolfskin era comes to end , this release represents a glimpse into their past…a more organic, flowing ambient record than what you may find today, and perhaps the least conceptual of all their releases. That being said, it most certainly will go down as one of their more stunning, darker visions; a masterpiece of shadowy atmospheres and drifting currents, featuring multiple layers of archaic sounds, foggy, nebulous textures, and ritual invocations, perfectly combined to form a release of intense depth and complexity.Must certainly rank among the finest dark ambient records released in the history of Malignant. In elegant 4 panel digipak.

:WULGATA: - "Eastern Sons / fourth journey into the heart of the ancient" CDR 2010 (Inchiostrum Records) - 5 euro - dark ambient music, with elements of eastern folk and ancient culture. Limited edition - only 30 copies!

YAO 91404D - "Pervomay" CDR (Valgriind Records) - SOLD OUT!! -  One of the best albums from St. Petersburg. Walls of three-dimensional noise constructions and documental recordings from the beginning of the XX century. Scratching of the gramophone needle on the breath of the agonizingcountry.

YAROVIT – "Simargl`s Call" CD (Nihil Art Records) - 9 euro -  lim. 500 copies, jewel box, style: ambient / folk. Yarovit`s music is many-sided and advisedly cannot be put in limits of one defined style. The style can be termed heroic rhythmic Ambient - Folk, in some tracks with background guitar stuff, screaming "black" vocals and martial warlike lyrics on russian.

ZLYE KUKLY - "Strange tomorrow" CD (Steinklang / Ahnstern) - 12 euro - Folk / Dark Folk.  After several private CDR releases, "Strange tomorrow" is the first official album by this unique russian Folk band, based in Jerusalem / Israel. dreamingly beautiful, sad and at the same time weird and progressive Folk songs with a gentle early 70ies touch. the band uses a large variety of perfectly played acoustic instruments, as well as some fine electronic sounds. the powerful and empathetic (russian) vocals from Fred Adra and his (background) singers give a very personal and unique touch to the music of Zlye Kukly. this band is really hard to compare to other artists; maybe some of their songs remind a bit to the folky Gae Bolg, the best balads of Boyd Rice, but mainly You can feel the spirit of the great early 70ies aera of Yugoslavian folk artists, such as Kladivo Konj in Voda, Svremena na Vreme, Drugi Nacin and others.