| STARS WITHOUT LIGHT “Beneath And Before” CD / DL (225th Cycle) The inaugural offering from composer and dark ambient veteran Harlow MacFarlane (Funerary Call, Sistrenatus, Havan…)’s mysterious, unheard-of Stars Without Light provides the score to a yet-to-be-discovered, disintegrating film reel of the unknowable. With masterful curation of sound and catharsis, this shadowy entity coaxes the aural observer into a spectral Otherscape. Over the course of the disquieting “Beneath and Before”, we attempt to follow this captivating sonic narrative through an ever-shifting apocalyptic landscape, waiting, hiding behind a thin veil of synthetic scrapings, rhythmic grinding, and hissing surface noise, lest we are discovered by what dwells beyond. The churn of electronic howls, twitching clatter, and all-out scrap metal assault submerges beneath contrapuntal found sounds and manipulated past echoes, selectively relieved by an occasional eerie calm. An unexplainable agoraphobia begins to take hold within this ebb and flow. With just enough analog textures, decaying tape loops, and perceptible instrumentation to fleetingly ground the listener back to tangible reality, we are cruelly reset for the next bout of formless fear. Unexpected thundering percussion and suffocating sub-abyssal rumblings provide momentary stabs of angular rhythm that tear through the apparitional atmosphere. But, only to hold your attention long enough so as to not lose you completely in the tension swarm. We cannot help but follow the pull of this entrancing and expertly wrought collage of cacophony. MacFarlane has orchestrated a viscerally affecting hauntology reminiscent of no real place and no real-time. As breathtakingly dynamic as it is surreally cinematic, we are left with the soundtrack to a film that should not be. CD Edition of 300 copies in LP-like format with sleeve. 9 Tracks. Running Time 35:53 EAN: 0679628554556 Release Date December 15 2023 Shop |
| DARK AGES “Twilight Of Europe” CD / LP /DL (234th Cycle) Remastered re-issue of this now classic work of Ambient / Dungeon Synth. Conceived in late 2002 as a soundtrack for one of the most sinister, dark, brutal and morbid periods of European history, the Dark Ages. Diving deep into Medieval works on witchcraft, demonology and theology, as well as the works of modern authors exploring all the aspects of that epoch, Roman Saenko (of Drudkh and Hate Forest) wanted to explore all shades of the Middle Ages. Bringing forth images, details and landscapes of that era into the modern world using a minimalistic yet very poignant pallet of sounds. Artwork by Heresie Studio. CD edition of 300 copies in 4 panel Digipak with Booklet. 11 Tracks. Running Time 42:42 EAN: 0679628554518 LP edition of 300 copies, 100 Marbled, 200 Black, in 3mm sleeve with Poster. 11 Tracks. Running Time 42:42 EAN: 0679628554525 Release Date January 12 2024 Shop |
| GRANDE LOGE “Unruh” CD / LP / DL (240th Cycle) New concept album by France’s enigmatic Grande Loge. Unruh was created as a companion soundtrack to the book Soliloquium in Splendor, by Oksana and Gil Prou, published in March 2023 via Rivière Blanche. For this opus they took a slight step out of their comfort zone, creating an immersive ambient/ritual work like no other. Without being chronologically accurate, it takes inspiration from the book’s characters and universes and offers a multi-faceted sonic journey through the quantum vacuum… Artwork by Quentin Q. CD Edition of 300 copies in 4-panel Digipak. 1 Tracks. Running Time 44:45 EAN: 0679628554488 LP edition of 300 copies, 100 Marbled, 200 Black, in 3mm sleeve with printed inner sleeve. 1 Tracks. Running Time 44:45 EAN: 0679628554471 Release Date January 12 2024 Shop |
| TeHÔM “Legacy” CD / LP / DL (228th Cycle) New full-length album from Croatia’s long-standing Ritual Ambient act. “Legacy” stands as a testament to an enduring and tumultuous career that originated back in 1991. Permeated with deep esoteric meanings we are graced by slowly evolving cinematic soundscapes and ritualistic atmospheres. Spectral incantations floating in the ether, sensory sacraments that develop gradually and are interspersed with thick dramatic swells. The title track features a vocal appearance by Rob Bees Fisk (Cruse All Kings / Common Eider, King Eider), recorded in an underground tunnel beneath Zagreb. The track “Lamentation” is a reconstructed version of an original track, under a different name, by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. TeHôm has long carved a unique path in the Industrial underground and it’s with great honor that we help perpetuate their legacy.CD edition of 300 copies in 6 panel Digipak. 6 Tracks. Running Time 40:22 EAN: 0679628554501 LP edition of 300 copies, 100 Marbled, 200 Black, in 3mm sleeve with Poster. 6 Tracks. Running Time 40:22 EAN: 0679628554495 Release Date January 12 2024 Shop |