Date: November 2nd 2007

For mp3 samples and ordering, please go to the catalog page.

- Latest additions -
Bisclaveret vs Bruno - Les Mannequins CD (Zoharum)

Herz Jühning - Faces Vinyl (Galakthorrö)
Subliminal - Coping CD (Galakthorrö)
Haus Arafna - Blut CD (Galakthorrö)
November Növelet - Magic CD (Galakthorrö)

Ultra Milkmaids - Vorely Relay CD (Noctovision)
Vance Orchestra - At Random Again CD (Noctovision)
Aube & Maurizio Bianchi - Junkyo CD (Noctovision)

Somnivore - Clergy Of Oneiros CD (Anima Arctica)
Tuhat Kuolemaa Sekunnissa - Self-titled CD (Anima Arctica)

Mlehst - An Old Broom Knows All The Dirty Corners CD (Belief Recordings)
Closing The Eternity & Ad Lux Tenebrae - Nearly Being CD (Epidemie)
Altar of Flies / M Frisk / Gjalp - Krig Pest Svält Död Tape (Nil By Mouth)
Fire In The Head - You Too Shall Burn CD-R (Nil By Mouth)
Somnivore & Kivelä - Maelström CD (New Old Sentinel)

- In stock now / to be added soon -
Crucial Blast / Crucial Bliss:
Luasa Raelon - Into The Void CD-R
Aidan Baker - Exoskeleton Heart CD-R
Light of Shipwreck - From The Idle Cylinders CD-R
Souvenir's Young America - An Ocean Without Water CD
Year of No Light - Nord CD
Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth CD

Eastern Front:
Phragments - The Burning World CD
Silence & Strength - Opus Paracelsum CD
Silence & Strength - Le Divin Cagliostro CD

- Detailed list of additions -

Bisclaveret vs Bruno - Les Mannequins (Zoharum)
Baroque drone ambient inspired by and dedicated to Polish artist Brunon Shulz. Presented in the form of one 40-min long track.
(CD, digipak, 12.00 €)

Herz Jühning - Faces (Galakthorrö)
Label info: "Herz Jühning is a new Galakthorrö artist. He presents driving, straight ahead electronics predominately in an Angst Pop style. His tightly constructed arrangements consist of a combination of darkness, the required sadness, plus finally the aggression that fires off in the title track. All four songs will get directly under your skin and start your pulse racing!
From every standpoint a very respectable debut and we wait in suspense for the next episode."
(7", 11.00 €)

Subliminal - Coping (Galakthorrö)
Second full-length album from Albert Fisch, just as cryptically spiteful as the first one, if not more. The label's signature analog electronics compact Subliminal's machine noise and aggressive vocals into a stark and focussed charge of pure hatred, the sort not heard of on Galakthorrö since Blut. Beautifully ugly.
(CD, clear jewel case, 16.00 €, last copy)

Haus Arafna - Blut (Galakthorrö)
Label info: "Beloved for its rugged charm and its extraordinary harshness, the first Haus Arafna album has been an industrial classic for some considerable time. Since 1995 the original limited edition could only be obtained at horrendous collectors' prices, and ran the risk like many other Galakthorrö presentations of falling foul of the Bootleggers (Help! The russians are coming!) and now in 2006 it has finally been re-issued, digitally re-mastered with three brilliant extra bonus tracks. The new edition is rounded off visually by a 24 page booklet containing numerous black and white photoplates illustrating the bloody subject matter."
(CD, clear jewel case, 16.00 €)

November Növelet - Magic (Galakthorrö)
Label info: "This magically-charged jewel of electronic music consists of twelve new songs. The analogue foundation combines with electric vibraphone and 8-bit surrealism transformed into sound. Melancholic synthesiser melodies and the ethereal voice of Mrs. Arafna melt into a fragile beauty with emotional depth. Unpretentious and lost, a gripping experience.
In spite of all this exploration of the depths, there is also the opportunity to roll up the carpet. Mr. and Mrs. Arafna have conjured up a few dance hits, which because of their minimalism and cultured morbid charm, should kick off the party mood for the creatures of the night. These contrast well with the slow pieces – tinged with a breath of experimentation, resulting in a many-faceted, and at the same time very balanced, Angst Pop album. The long time in waiting for the release of this new record will soon be forgotten in sheer listening pleasure."
(CD, multi-paneled digipak + 16-page booklet, 16.00 €)

Ultra Milkmaids - Vorely Relay (Noctovision)
Remix album of the Ulta Milkmaids' Vorely by themselves, Telepherique, Vance Orchestra, Goem, Troum, Celluloid Mata, Captain Black and Icon Zero. Japanese import.
(CD, clear jewel case, 13.00 €)

Vance Orchestra - At Random Again (Noctovision)
This is another one of those CDs meant to be played in shuffle mode, with the main longer tracks followed by a large number of shorter ones. The longer pieces are in the cut-up / experimental vein with lots of found sounds while the short tracks are mostly random goofy samples.
(CD, handmade collage sleeve with multi-panelled booklet, 13.00 €)

Aube & Maurizio Bianchi - Junkyo (Noctovision)
First collaboration between Maurizio Bianchi and Akifumi Nakajima, the second one being the Mectpyo Saisei on Para Disc. Four long tracks of drowsy noise ambiance.
(CD, plastic case, 13.00 €)

Somnivore - Clergy Of Oneiros (Anima Arctica)
After coming across his collaboration CD-R with Kivelä, the search was on for more material from this new project from Finland. Clergy of Oneiros is the debut CD from Somnivore and has the same ethereal yet richly detailed sound as the above mentioned CD-R, with its meditative drones, ghostly vocals and slightly noisier percussive loops co-existing in a dim and distant state.
(CD, jewel case, 12.00 €)

Tuhat Kuolemaa Sekunnissa - Self-titled (Anima Arctica)
Debut album from this Finnish neo-folk duo, which takes a stripped-down and purified approach to the genre.
(CD, jewel case, 12.00 €)

Mlehst - An Old Broom Knows All The Dirty Corners (Belief Recordings)
First CD release from this long-active UK-based noise artist who's put out tapes, CD-Rs and vinyl on Self-Abuse, Nihilist and his own label, Belief Recordings. The sounds here range from spastic cut-up outbursts ā la Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock to distressed sine tones.
(CD, digipak, 12.00 €)

Closing The Eternity & Ad Lux Tenebrae - Nearly Being (Epidemie)
Ritual shamanic drones from these two Russian projects introduced to us by their releases on Abgurd.
(CD, digisleeve, 12.00 €)

Altar of Flies / M Frisk / Gjalp - Krig Pest Svält Död (Nil By Mouth)
Label info: "Altar of Flies meets M. Frisk and Gjalp (both acclaimed Swedish underground artists): a new way of sound from this young but promising project. Heavy, spook, creep with metal noises for a rough junk attitude! Drones, live noise, voices, metal percussions, disturbed frequencies and pure noise."
(Tape in white box with stamped logo and one large insert, 7.50 €)

Fire In The Head - You Too Shall Burn (Nil By Mouth)
Label info: "From burning corpses to burning flags, the fire continues to engulf all in it's path with four new tracks of doom-laden, apocalyptic industrial atmospheres and napalm drenched power electronics."
(3"CD-R, pro-printed color sleeve, 7.50 €)

Somnivore & Kivelä - Maelström (New Old Sentinel)
Free-form dark ambient from Finland that wouldn't be out of place on the Aural Hypnox roster, even if this does have slightly more industrial than purely ambient undertones.
The mid-range frequencies require a decent pair of headphones to be fully appreciated and the lack of track markers might initially put one off from sitting down for the full 47 minutes, but Maelström is a finely crafted piece of work that renews its sound palette regularly enough to keep your attention throughout its duration. A great pick for those late-night listening sessions.
(CD-R, oversized color sleeve, 9.00 €)