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NAVICON
TORTURE TECHNOLOGIES "The Gospel Of The Gash" 2CD
(tumorcd39) Malignant Records
The final and definitive double CD release from
NTT, The Gospels of the Gash chronicles one man's journey into a world
devoid of light or hope. This is a place where the air is alive with
the stink of pain and the beating of great black wings. The two discs
compile material from a slew of limited releases from 2005-2007, as
well as newer tracks recorded specifically for this release. As a
result, Gospels of the Gash is unquestionably the most complete NTT
recording to date and nothing short of a monumental achievement...a
culmination of the best aspects of past releases combined into an
epic odyssey of apocalyptic atmospheres, brutish frequencies, harrowing
darkness, and razor sharp vocals. The Gospels of the Gash includes
collaborations with various stalwart members of the NTT priesthood
such as Cenotype, Fragment King, and M Slagle and more recent converts
Autoclav 1.1 and Covet. Isomer and Steel Hook Prostheses have also
made valuable contributions.Mastered by STROM.ec, and packaged in
a two-tray DVDigipak with layout and artwork by Leech and Jorden Haley
(www.karbine.com), this release is a fitting funerary rite for NTT.
15.25$
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NAVICON
TORTURE TECHNOLOGIES "Scenes From The Next Millennium" CD
(tumor15) Malignant Records
After numerous underground tape releases and
live actions, the much anticipated disc of this long standing member
of the NYPE crew has arrived. Navicon presents an infinitely bleak
and apocalyptic vision that transcends what's normally classified
as power electronics. This is the sound of a post nuclear-war society,
where war machines shudder and grind in endless cycles, and the black
soot of dying factory production fills the poisonous air. Structured
elements of loops and samples meld with caustic textures, erupting
amidst bridled chaos and pulsating waves of white hot, saturated noise
and distortion. An anguished, confrontational vocal presence makes
itself known, exploding in a cathartic aggression brought on by suppressed
demons and festering hate.
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NEBRIS
"Bleak Angels" CD
(d.40) Dystonia EK
52 minutes of organic soundmass made from bones,
fossils, stones and metal. sounds of erosion and decay. housed in
convenient digipak sleeve. Edition of 423 copies. Highly recommended.
14.25$
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NECROPHORUS
"Imprints" CD
(wrt006) Wrotycz
Beautiful, sensitive and electrified. 'Imprints'
by Necrophorus goes beyond the previous album 'elinrós' (2005)
and further investigates the aural landscape of imagination and mysticism.
'Imprints' vibrates a fresh air mixed of three dimensional electrified
organic field recordings and minimal immersive sequenced organ sounds
thus creating the psychedelic atmosphere of virtually being inside
the music, inside the magic circle of the aural landscape.
'Imprints' is the fifth CD album from Necrophorus/Peter Andersson
(Sweden) who is most known for the project Raison d'etre. Inspired
by the impressions of his visit to the amazing landscapes of Iceland
summer 2006, Peter Andersson has created a new astonishing aural output.
'Imprints' consists of three variations of the same impression: two
of them are pure studio composisitons while the third variation is
improvised as 'live in studio' recording.
CD in folding cardborad cover. Total time: 50:16 minutes
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NECROPHORUS
"Moments Of Sleeping Sadness" CD
(tantrax41) Tantric Harmonies
The early works (1991-1992) from this now very
well known by its organic drone ambient soundscapes project of Peter
Andersson (Raison d'etre), but you can't find slow ambient passages
on this CD. This music must be described as Modern Classical or Gothic
if we talk about its sad and mysterious nature. These tunes remind
a bit of his main project Raison D'etre but yet more powerful and
majestic. Beautiful and Melancholic compositions to take your soul
to other dimensions! Could find appeal with fans of In The Nursery,
Nouvelles Lectures Cosmopolites, early Ildfrost, Penitent, Endvra,
Arcana or even the gothic icon Dead Can Dance.
14.25$
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NEKRONOLOGY
"By Hermann Kopp" CD
(rsr0172) Red Stream
A compilation of mournful musical selections
from Jorg Buttgereit's infamous Nekromantik film series. Dreary atmospheres
and raw, ritualistic sound performed by Hermann Kopp.
12.25$
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NEKYIA
"Alchemalady" CD
Beast of prey
"Alchemalady" is an album founded
upon a strong and solid rhythm, whose walls are built by uncommon
arrangement, rich in various sounds. The binder is an alchemical concept,
merging together element with element, track with track, sound with
sound. "Alchemalady" is a 60 minute long, dynamic album,
full of rhythms, female and strong male vocals, whispers and singing.
14 compositions combining electronic elements with varied percussion
and strong industrial hits. Released in a unique package, made up
of several inserts bound with string and finished with a paper wrap.
All handmade and numbered to 456 copies.
14.25$
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NEKYIA
"Slowmotion Downhells" CD
Beast of prey
Latest Nekyia album, the new incarnation in
dark ambient sounds with some rythmic parts. "Slowmotion Downhells"
is the fourth album presenting the alchemistic, ritual face of the
project. 52 minutes of material that will take you to the underworld.
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NERONIA
"Un Mondo In Me" CD
(ner065) Eibon Records
Neronoia is a cooperation between Canaan &
Colloquio. ...and this should be enough, but... Neronoia is the mirror
that reflects Happiness and Pain with the same, cold indifference.
Neronoia is the Fear that paralyzes by its light yet relentless touch.
Neronoia is all the Evil we do to ourselves. Neronoia is the palette
of a blind painter, who unintentionally paints all colours with the
very same shades of grey. A must for fans of Canaan...
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NERTHUS
"s/t" CD
(art38) Art Konkret
NERTHUS is well known from his great split LP
with Sonne Hagal and a live concert with Vidna Obmana. This project
exists since 4 years, but the person behind NERTHUS makes music since
8 years. His influences are the early dark ambient and industrial
bands. The release brings very atmospheric dark ambient creations.
Dark dronings are combined with echoing soundwalls. Dreamscapes dissolve
into nightmares from which you can't awake, perhaps because you really
don't wish to. Exceptionally well conceived sonicscapes culled from
the wastelands of the netherworld. You will discover on the CD also
some ritual influences. This is a very good release in the field of
ambient music. The aim of the mastermind behind NERTHUS is that his
soundcreations always have affects to the limbic system. Each release
comes in a 17 x 17 cm printed artwork in a plastic packing up and
is strictly limited to 300 copies.
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NEW
RISEN THRONE "Crossing
the Withered Regions" CD
(cmi193)
Cold meat Industry
The sole member of New Risen Throne is known
as Stielh, and is one of the Grand Masters of the blackened dark ambient
coming from Italy recently (see also Vestigial). His exceptional black
foreboding ambient creations is wellknown in the scene by now. The
previous NRT release "Whispers of the approaching wastefulness"
(Cyclic Law) represented the steps leading to the acknowledgment of
the approaching end of all things... This new chapter "Crossing
the withered Regions" is the journey thru wasted "regions"
of our inner self, withered by our doubts, thoughts and fear about
the end. This is the soundtrack to the world we live and experience
at the very present. This is utterly dark! and there is certainly
no sun in the horizon. Slit your wrists and float away...
The CD is an enhanced CD with a special video-track and comes in a
6-panel digipak.
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NIELLERADE
FALLIBILISTHORSTAR "Skrankverk" CD
(d41)
Dystoniaek
Material recorded in and out of doors, 2004-2006.
somewhat more intimate in feel than their previous lp/cd "hålrum".
The stark scrape and squeak of metal sharply contrasting with the
ghostly goings-on underneath and in the distance. Convenient digipak
sleeve with photography by the group. Edition of 500. Recommended.
14.25$
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NOCTURNE
"Terroriser-Manipuler-Convaincre" CD
(oecd082) Old Europa Cafe
Concept album builded arround the figure of
Doctor "Mabuse" the anti-hero of Norbert Jacques's novel,
the genius of crime and chaos, the genius of finance in a slow falling
world in the first part of 1900 ... Slow moving tracks reminding to
a world brocken by First World War . Very industrial concept using
analog instrumentation mixed up to sounds from the beginning of the
last century and many samples in German language taken from the legenadry
movie as well as french vocals ... A new masteripiece by the French
cultural-terrorism organisation "Art Shock"! Oversized 7"
cover plus inserts.
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NOCTURNE
"Kapitulation" CD
(SA0022) State Art
"Kapitulation" is, after two highly demanded 10" releases,
NOCTURNE’s first full length CD. This French artist explores
the traces of history and it’s effect on modern standards of
morality, the resignation of human civilization and hope for a severe
consciousness. NOCTURNE presents an apocalyptic peculiarity, where
historical sound sources become interwoven by raw electronic fields
and unite within an oppressing finale.
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NORDVARGR
"Evolution" 2CD
(oecd116) Old Europa Cafe
This is the new double album, and possibly the last, that will be
released as Nordvargr. Henrik has expressed that he has nothing left
to give as a darkambient composer, so this might be his final stand
(I believe he also mentioned that he thought this was his best release).
Disc one of Evolution is firmly rooted in classic Nordvargr territories
-darkambient but with a slight MZ. 412 touch, as it has some more
bombastic and noisy elements to it than what we are used to hearing
from him. Disc two is divided in two parts - first 8 tracks from the
AVART sessions ("Music for Movement"). Part two is four
tracks which are more "elektronika"-styled, and show another
side of his personality. Evolution is best described in Nordvargr´s
own words:"Evolution contains elements of music I have recorded
over the last ten years as well as completely new material. If you
are familiar with my previous albums you will find sounds you have
heard before, but in a new setting. But Evolution is not to be confused
with a "best of" album - it is a distilled and refined album
of my inner visions and feelings, filtered through my past to show
the future, and possibly the end.".
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NORDVARGR
& BSE vs. KENJI SIRATORI "Hypergenome 666 " 2CD + Book
Boxset
(oecd088) Old Europa Cafe
CD1: NORDVARGR vs. KENJI SIRATORI - Antimaterial: Tragedy Rom Creature
CD2: BSE vs. KENJI SIRATORI - Substance : Sympathy Cell Waves
This is for sure one of the more surprising release of2006 in the
ambient-dark-industrial field. These 2 great scandiniavian dark-industrial
projects leaded by MZ.412 members are here making an excursion in
KENJI SIRATORI's acid world made of encrusted blood & semen, made
by all the information in the universe plus several bits from other
dimensions...KENJI is surely a madman, but if you scan his hallucinatory
textual mashups in the right frame of mind, they all begin to make
sense...Kenji gave birth to a virulent amalgam of modern technology
& illnes like a mix of Tetsuo the Iron Man & a modern version
of William Burrougs cut-ups & his "Blood Electric" book
was aclaimed by DAVID BOWIE! On the 2 albums NORDVARGR & BSE are
creating powerfull dark ambient, for which both projects are very
well reknown, to support Kenji's vocals frames ! Japanese words disgorged
by Kenji Siratori are here strongly entwined in the chaotic calmness
of BSE's audio universe & in the deepest sounds born in the surgery
of Nordavrgr's Villa Bohult .... All songs are based upon the spoken
prose by the uncompromising Japanese writer, creating a new fascinating
depth in the musical experience. The CD's come with an 80 pages exclusive
book by Kenji Siratori, the whole inside a very special box ! A unique
must have release...
22.50$
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NORDVARGR
/ DRAKH "The Betrayal Of Light" CD
(TM373) Tumult
The Betrayal Of Light is one massive sonic event, a black cloud of
sound, separated into movements, the first, begins as a slow beautiful
crawl, a murky soundfield supporting a delicate web of softly plucked
guitar strings, until a wall of downtuned buzz swallows it whole,
a massive mournful dirge, stately and majestic, classic old school
funereal doom, but super dramatic, and strangely melodic, sounding
a bit like Earth or SUNNO))) playing the procession at a funeral or
the royal march for some ancient court. Minor key and so gorgeous,
a lonely lament rendered in amp buzz and smeared riffage, but completely
nestled amidst a sea of churning low end, and that ever present minor
key guitar line...
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NORDVARGR
"For The Blood Is The Life" CD
(oecd097) Old Europa Cafe
Lord Nordvargr is back on Old Europa Café - and this time he?s
looking for blood ! Musically what we have here is an album of the
finest dark ambient : Yet this release also contains many other elements
that usually don?t get served by our household Swede : rhythmic arrangements,
faint melodies that flow in and out of perception and the distinct
sound of old 78rpm acetate records! Composed by Henrik Nordvargr Björkk
during the winter of 2006 / 2007, this is his tribute to old folklore,
myth and mysteries around vampirism - a musical plunge into cold nights,
abandoned castles and forgotten entities..
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NOSTALGIA
"The House On The Borderland" CD
(ABM18) Ars Benevola Matter
Based on the fantasy tale (which bears the same title) written by
the clever William Hope Hodgson, “The House On The Borderland”
carries symbolically the listener through pages of real terror where
it’s told about the gloomy presences infesting an old house.
Echoes of Lovecraft’s style for a thrilling soundtrack precariously
and perpetually poised between suggestive melancholy and abysmal fear
of the unknown. Limited to 535 numbered copies in deluxe A5 package
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NUMINA
"Shift To The Ghost" CD
(hyp2650) Hypnos
Numina's third album on Hypnos Recordings is "Shift to the Ghost,"
a long-form continuous piece with indexed track points. Each song
is distinctly different in feel, but the songs evolve seamlessly into
each other. Numina himself states that the album "is about the
life and death of the physical self," hence the title. Whatever
the concept, this album contains all the elements Numina fans enjoy,
from deep and sombre ambient, to twinkling, swirling space music,
constantly evolving. It's a long, fascinating visual journey, and
it never grows tired.
The latest work from ambient "rising star" Numina is possibly
his best yet.
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NUMINA
"Eye Of The Nautilus" CD
(hyp2548) Hypnos
We are pleased to announce the second release by Numina on the Hypnos
label, the follow-up to his acclaimed breakthrough Sanctuary of Dreams
(2004). Eye of the Nautilus is similar to its predecessor tonally,
but also explores some different themes and textures. Evocative electronic
percussion is present at times, but overall the feel is one of deep-space
ambience.
It is with good reason that Numina is one of the few names in ambient
music to so quickly gain in reputation and prominence in this new
millennium. His work evolves dramatically with each new release, and
by now he has surely made the transition from "new name you should
watch" to the status of "established artist." This
is an album full of ideas, with a fresh and varied sound design. Guest
artist Rudy Adrian lends his trademark sound to the second track,
"Secrets from the Flame," and as with Sanctuary of Dreams,
R. Chris Fraley provides artwork, and Hypnos founder M. Griffin is
responsible for mastering and layout. This is the fourth Hypnos CD
release of 2005, and is sure to be one of the highlights of the year
not only for Numina and Hypnos, but for the entire space & ambient
music world.
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NUMINA
"Sanctuary Of Dreams" CD
(hyp2445) Hypnos
"While you will never hear a dark-ambient artist on top-forty
radio, it is a genre that is growing. Jesse Sola (AKA) Numina is certainly
not a new face, though. It's obvious in one intent listen. His arrangements,
though seemingly simple and soothing, are actually subtle and complex,
filled with a sense of both wonder and sadness. Among the synth pads
and strings that are part of the genre are washes of monks voices,
the occasional shaker and incidental percussion, and even the voice
of Lycia's Tara Vanflower "Lucid Ascension". "Beneath
the Silver Surface" brings to mind the early work of Vangelis
with analog synth treatments." This is a beautiful CD. While
not as subtle or dark as Raison d'Etre or as structured as Steve Roach,
it finds its niche somewhere between.
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