Hutný old school doom metal ve stylu starých My Dying Bride / Paradise Lost. Francie.
Velmi pozoruhodný ambient black metal z USA. Album z roku 2012 znovuvydané v reedici v roce 2019 na labelu Prophecy Productions. Digipack.
Originators of Cascadian Black Metal, Fauna have made an incredibly deep imprint on the American metal scene. Utilizing both unrelenting black metal alongside periodic acoustic meditations, they stand as a truly unique force, impacting fellow artists Agalloch and directly influencing the development of Wolves in the Throne Room. But while these artists have thrived in the public spotlight, Fauna chose to stay in the shadows, and to remain quietly in the damp, wild forests of the Pacific Northwest.
In 2012 “Avifauna” emerged as the latest album released by Fauna. The album explores the connections between bird flight and the human spiritual quest, centering around a dialogue between numinous Others and ourselves in a dance of interwoven meanings. With so much of the sound Fauna fans have loved from the previous two efforts, “Avifauna” is...
Velmi pozoruhodná americká ambient black metalová kapela. Album z roku 2007 znovuvydané v reedici v roce 2019 na labelu Prophecy Productions. Digipack.
In 2004, the drive to explore shamanism and atavism (the reemergence of traits thought to be lost from the human biology and culture) birthed itself in the creation of Olympia black metal fury, Fauna. Originators of the scene we now know as Cascadian Black Metal, Fauna aims at finding antidotes to the woes of the modern age, and a cathartic expression of the contemporary soul longing for the old ways.
On “The Hunt” (2007), which is their second album, Fauna particularly took the chance to explore another facet of the human experience - delving into the themes of initiation, hunter and the hunted, life and death, and the need to engage with unseen forces to sustain one’s people with life-giving bounty.
“The Hunt” is a collection of soundscapes, blistering black metal, and haunting space. Using carefully crafted sounds recorded from...
Zbrusu nové album britské post black metalové kapely. Digipack.
The colour of every FEN album points towards its lyrical and musical content. For the first time in their career, the East Anglian post-black metal trio has used the colour red on the cover artwork of their seventh full-length "Monuments to Absence". FEN describe the album as an expression of anger, hopelessness and despair – anger at the desperate futility of a human species hell-bent on self-destruction. This is reflected in the decidedly harsh and black sound of "Monuments to Absence", which is undoubtedly FEN's most extreme recording to date, even though there are still moments of atmospheric glory, spatial clean sections, heaving doom, and full-blown riffs, which augment the furious expression of rage. FEN took their name from the Fens of East Anglia when the trio formed in 2006. These desolate and bleak landscapes have left a deep mark in the post-black metal sound, which the band pioneered in the UK when the...
Nové, šesté řadové album britské post black metalové kapely. Digipack.
On "The Dead Light," Fen explore the beauty that comes from destruction. Representing the vanguard of contemporary UK post black metal, the band offers its heaviest, most direct album to date. It is the sixth full-length in a career of less than 15 years and marks another recalibration for the three-piece that, while always daring to use unconventional structures, found that the predecessor "Winter" (2017) was the apex in this respect. "This time, we took on the creative challenge to say more in less time," says co-founder The Watcher.
That does neither mean Fen lost their trademark sweeping melodies and atmosphere, nor does it suggest less progressive structures. If anything, the material shows the group at its most British. "I'm kind of old school, I love heavy metal," the guitarist and singer explains regarding his more riff-oriented, straightforward approach that goes along with some more "outlandish"...
Split CD dvou post black metalových kapel. Digipack.
Precizní německý mrazivý náladotvůrný black metal. Digipack.
„Ferndal“ features seven tracks, among them four metallic longtracks and a classically orchestrated version of Windir’s „Arntor“, has been mixed and mastered by Markus Skroch (Hel, Ash of Ashes) at Kalthallen Studio, and is adored by an artwork drawn by renowned Spanish artist Norax (Lux Divina).
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released April 21, 2017
With puissance, dignity, veracity:
Sorathiel - vocals, bass
Lestaya - violoncello
Alboin - drums
Sethras - guitars
Abarus - guitars
All compositions and Lyrics were created 2016 by Lestaya (incl. "Ouverture") and Sorathiel "incl. "Coda"), except for "Arntor, ein Krieger" adapted by Lestaya and Sorathiel from Windir's "Arntor, ein Windir" by Valfar.
Recorded during winter 2016 in Hagen am Teutoburger Wald. Sound engineering for "Arntor, ein Krieger" by Michael Hierer, for organs by Paul Große-Schönepauck. Mixed and mastered at Kalthallen Studios by Markus Skroch. Produced by...
Nové album německé black metalové kapely. Precizní náladotvůrný black metal s prvky klasické hudby. Digipack.
SINGULARITÄTEN carries on FERNDAL`s way to to combine (Black) Metal with elements of classical music. But if you now think about orchestral keyboard sounds or kitchy samples, you are wrong, SINGULARITÄTEN is not that kind of artificially symphonic pop music! It is rather a confrontation, merging and crossover of the different compositional methods of Black Metal and classical music: There are Black Metal songs adapted in classical instrumentation (Klavierquintett in e-moll `Mother North`) as well as classical composition with Black Metal sound (`Serenade`) and everything in between. #### SINGULARITÄTEN was recorded, mixed and mastered in August 2018 in Hellforge Sutdio by Marco Brinkmann, `Mother North` was recorded by Michael Hierer in the concert hall of the conservatory Münster. Guest musicians contributed to the sound diversity with 4 cellos, grand piano, church organ...
Kultovní old school death metal z Finska.
Following up the EP ‘Cadaveric Virginity’ comes the bludgeoning debut of cult death metal act FESTERDAY. Entitled ‘iihtallan’, the album will ensure that 2019 kicks off with a loud bang for death metal fans. Merging their old school death metal roots with black metal and punk, FESTERDAY aren’t afraid to push the borders of extreme music and refuse to conform to what is standardized in death metal. Brace yourself for ‘iihtallan’!
Experimentální ambient. Itálie.
Kultovní neofolkové album vydané v reedici v digipackovém vydání.
Just in time for the millennium, Fire + Ice came up with another genre classic: Ian Read gathered something of an all-star cast of the genre in the studio (Michael Cashmore, Douglas P. from Death In June, Joseph Budenholzer from Backworld, and Annabel Lee and Michael Moynihan from Blood Axis, amongst other notables) to record twelve songs that often reflect some of the more esoteric aspects of Norse mythology in a poetic manner.
Kultovní neofolkové album z roku 1994, nyní vydané v reedici na labelu Prophecy Productions.
Ian Read’s 1994 sophomore effort “Hollow Ways” is widely considered to be one of the classic albums from the golden age of Apocalyptic Folk. The baroque-folk guitar stylings courtesy of Michael Cashmore (Current 93, Nature & Organisation), a guest appearance by rune expert Freya Aswynn on ‘Seeker,’ and a German-language murder ballad called ‘Ershebeth’ all contribute to this album’s timeless character.
Třetí album FIRE + ICE znovuvydané v reedici na německém labelu Prophecy Productions.
His third album saw Ian Read collaborating again with musicians from the orbit of Psychic TV and Current 93, this time resulting in a more reduced and unpolished sound that brings Read’s vocal delivery even more to the fore. As with all of Fire + Ice’s releases, “Midwinter Fires” takes inspiration from the limitless well of English and Irish folk-song (‘High Gallows Tree,’ ‘The Wind that Shakes the Barley’).
Five Thousand Spirits je projekt dvou italských ambientních skladatelů - Alio Die a Raffaele Serra (Runes Order). Oproti meditativnějším Alio Die se hudba FTS pohybuje více v hypnotickém trance ambientu.
Stoner doom metal. Holandsko.
Kultovní postava industriální scény se svým novým projektem. DvojCD. Digipack.
Twelve dreams of musicians, artists, and filmmakers, interpreted by FM Einheit (ex-EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN), with voices by: Lee Ranaldo (SONIC YOUTH), Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (PSYCHIC TV / THROBBING GRISTLE), Susan Stenger (BAND OF SUSANS), Émilie Pitoiset, Erika Stucky, and the Gubenkian Choir; with guest musicians: Volker Kamp, Saskia von Klitzing, Robert Poss, and Susan Stenger.
Exhibition Of A Dream (L'exposition D'un Rêve) is formed of twelve dreams interpreted as songs. Exploded in time, these are played as temporary and evolving patterns of shapes and forms in an otherwise empty gallery following the drawings of mandalas. Exhibition Of A Dream highlights the complex beauty of how to generate a dream in the mind of the spectator. A shared experience to be lived within our own personal inner space, these remastered dreams are an invitation to listen to a sensitive architecture of words and...
Kultovní postava industriální scény se svým novým projektem. Digipack.
Hammerschlag" -created by FM Einheit (member of Einstürzende Neubauten early 1980’s to mid-1990’s), with Andreas Ammer - features many percussive industrial elements and 'machine music' (chains, scraping, coiled springs, objects), noise, experimental electronics and provocative musical compositions familiar to the ears of Neubauten fans. An oratorio with prelude and two noise interludes, based on Russian futurist Aleksej Kapitonovič Gastev, the “bard of the machine age”.
FM Einheit (Mufti) is an industrial and electronic musician and actor, primarily known for his percussion and compositional work with Einstürzende Neubauten, notably on the classic albums: "Kollaps", "Halber Mensch", "Haus Der Luege", "Tabula Rasa" and "Ende Neu". He played the lead role in the 1984 feature film Klaus Maeck's "Decoder". He has also collaborated with musicians such as: Diamanda Galás, Eraldo Bernocchi, Mona Mur, KMFDM,...
Přírodou inspirovaný náladotvůrný black metal z Běloruska.
Velmi zdařilé debutní album britské viking black metalové kapely z roku 1999 nyní vydané v reedici na CD. Luxusní digibook vydání formátu 17 x 17 cm s bookletem na kvalitním masivním papíru. Ručně dělaná limitovaná edice 100 ks. Artefakt!!