Reaper - Babylon Killed The Music

2016-09-28 (News)

Vasi Vallis aka Reaper is back! After the debut album "Hell starts with an H", Reaper return with a true masterpiece, varied and complex, powerful and melancholic! The album is where 80s and 90s melt and the 2000 kicks in. Techno meets New Beat, Industrial meets TBM, 90s meets synth wave colored with 80s influences. 
"Cracking skull" is the "typical" Reaper sound followed by "The sound of IDS" which is another TBM floorfiller! Track three, "Sledge Hammer" comes in more poppy a bit trance like building a bridge to "Farewell", an late 80s influenced New Beat song in the vein of KLF. "We are Reaper", with marching beats and massive vocal samples before the album turns back to it’s club style with "Neophyte". "Footprint" is another musical surprise mostly ambient, chill out style but powerful in it’s sounds and structure. "Aladin killed JFK" is a true retro 90s Trance/Techno track as energetic as most of the album! "Divide the sea" is as charming as Delerium or even Enigma when the album closes with "Silver Love" which could surely also be found on one of the next album releases by Frozen Plasma, Assemblage 23 or VNV Nation, a true synth wave masterpiece. An Album full of diversion, club hits, strong melodies and great ideas!

Liquid Divine - Get off my Planet

2016-09-27 (News)

Almost seven years have passed since Liquid Divine released their last album "Autophobia". The fourth full-length under the title "Get off my Planet", comes with a great cover artwork by USER.DX who created a very eycatching image as design for this unique release. The new thirteen song masterpiece will for sure be another milestone in the career of Liquid Divine. The band present a bright mixture of industrial dance orchester sounds and arrangements combined with a piece of modern dark pop. The new album features a collaboration with Frank M. Spinath of Seaboard fame as well as a guest appearance by Jan Dewulf of the band Diskonnekted.
Besides the limited EP "Sojourner", which featured another collaboration with Frank M. Spinath the band took almost seven years to compose, produce and record this album which for sure will be a real breath taker for all fans of acts such as Front Line Assembly, Haujobb or Moderat.

Various Artists - Nyarlathotep

2016-09-26 (News)

A 190 minute dark soundscape album recorded by 25 ambient artists to pay tribute to H.P. Lovecraft. Field recordings from the deepest dark corners of 4 continents. Dusty tapes out of forgotten archives. Strings through crackling amplifiers and distorted drone combine into a sea of pitch black.
"Nyarlathotep" is a manipulative being in the Lovecraftian Mythos. Unlike Cthulhu, or Azathoth, he delights in cruelty and deception. Causing madness is more important than destruction to him.
This is a collaboration and huge undertaking. 25 artists linked studios and sound for over a year so that they could work with each other. This led to deeper exploration of the Mythos and Nyarlathotep.
Artists involved in the project: Kammarheit, God Body Disconnect, Dronny Darko, Ugasanie, Kristoffer Oustad, Alphaxone, Svartsinn, SiJ, Gydja, Atrium Carceri, Darkrad, Flowers for Bodysnatchers, Aegri Somnia, Randal Collier-Ford, Neizvestija, Metatron Omega, Wordclock, ProtoU, Northumbria, Sjellos, Sabled Sun, Council of Nine, Cryobiosis, Apocryphos, Enmarta, Mystified.

Anja Orthodox - W teatrze cieni

2016-09-25 (News)

Anja Orthodox – the black lady of Polish music stage, known as the leader of Closterkeller. After years of announcements and waiting she announces the premiere of her solo material. The first trailer on Monday.

 

Sun Ra & Merzbow - Strange City

2016-09-25 (News)

Officially licensed from Irwin Chusid of the Sun Ra estate, rare and unreleased tracks from the Sun Ra archive to be remixed and treated by Masami Akita. The tracks incorporate the jazz power of Sun Ra, carried into brutal excess by the legendary Japanese artist, Merzbow.

Various Artists - Pyre

2016-09-24 (News)

Cold Spring releases "Pyre", a compendium of various current and forthcoming releases. The album contains 15 tracks of Industrial, Esoteric, Dark Ambient, Ritual, Japanese Noise, Drone, Power Electronics, Doom, Death Industrial, Experimental.