Karjalan Tazavalla : Соловецкий Лагерь Особого Назначения [2008]

1. Острова Крови И Смерти (Islands Of Blood And Death) 13:04
2. Изолятор (Isolator) 12:52
3. Белое Море (The White Sea) 9:34


Notes▼
limited edition of 71 copies.
"Соловецкий лагерь особого назначения" is "Solovetskiy camp of the special purpose"


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Frostwinter : Awake Before Awakening [2011]

01 A Simple Solution 1:29
02 Broken Things Without An Intention 3:21
03 Nephelopsia (A Vacant Journey) 4:15
04 Profundus 3:26
05 Vivisektionskammer 9:39
06 The Negation Of Will [The Wetation Ov Nill Mix by Tarsus] 6:17
07 Flowers Of Doom (Quiet Earth) [Mix by Rostiges Riesenrad] 3:57
08 Into Nothingness [Execution Mix by Gird_09] 5:40
09 Violence And Culture [The Bitch Is Crying Mix by Anal Oder Nicht Sein] 3:28


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Frostwinter : The Hour Of Decline [2010]

Frostwinter is a Death Industrial/Dark Ambient one-man project from Germany, which was formed in the middle of the year 2006.

Musically inspired by (old school) Industrial, Post Industrial, Musique Concrète, Bruitism and similar genres, it moves thematically (within a nihilistic intention), amongst other things, about the deconstruction of the anthropocentric worldview by the occident, the exploitation/torture of (non-human) animals, (metaphysical/cultural pessimism and a general reflection about degenerated manners of the human species.


01 Geistloser Wille 1:42
02 Il N'y A Aucun Progrès 4:42
03 Revolution Ist Krankheitskraft 4:38
04 Vivisection Chamber 5:26
05 Something About Amorality 6:27
06 Ressentiment? 4:32
07 Praying For Extinction 5:15
08 Jene Anthropofugale Notwendigkeit 6:39
09 One Day Without Existence 2:25
10 Wound Of Dasein 5:13
11 Pour L'éternité 3:03
12 Wolves Amongst The Ruins 4:47
13 Epilogue (From Beyond) 0:55


HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

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Funerary Call : Dark Waters Stirred [2010]

Heralded as one of the progenitors of black ambient music, Funerary Call (aka Harlow MacFarlane of Sistrenatus) returns from dormancy with his darkest release to date. "Dark Waters Stirred" is a ceremonial maelstrom of ominous electronics, doom-laden guitars and dark ambient textures. An audial descent into ritualistic obscurity and misanthropy. Features guest appearances from the likes of Deathlord (Blasphemy, ex-Conqueror), and Troy Southgate (H.E.R.R., Seelenlicht) amongst others.

01. With Curse 6:11
02. Words Of Power 6:30
03. Miasma 8:51
04. Equestrian Seals 4:37
05. Dark Waters Stirred 7:13
06. Crown Of Iron 16:51


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Indigo Larvae : Behind These Walls The Night Is Total [2007]

This is the house of the flensing knife, the lair of soul rapists, and the den of the demolishers of mind and consciousness so inculcated by the religious merchants of fear. This is our ultimate repository of pain and suffering, the gateway to anything but peace. Here we are subject to the caress of the furnace, the flames tenderly soothing the flesh to a crisp, and the intense, searing heat gently boiling away the body’s moisture. Couple that with a truly nightmarish vision of industrial machinery constantly hungering for more damned souls, the fires and engines of slaughter in perpetual, eternal lock-step motion, the scythes and blades biting deep into useless flesh, and you have the essence of what Indigo Larvae are about.

01. Forever Undead (6:41)
02. Welcome To My Mind (5:27)
03. The Worm (6:32)
04. Am I Dead? (7:32)
05. Black Pastures (7:24)
06. The Night Is Darkening Round Me (6:13)
07. The Eyes Of Sorrow (7:17)
08. Anthea Jane (5:59)
09. My Universe Of Death (7:08)


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Indigo Larvae : Abandoned To Despair [2007]

"Abandoned To Despair" is a curious work and one that I find myself warming to even though I can't quite bring myself to fully recommend it. It lurks in a limbo between the most inhuman, oppressive works in the death industrial roster and something slightly more human; neither one nor the other. Yet there's a lot to like in this clanking, blood-rusted album and it promises more gems from Indigo Larvae. One to watch, certainly; possibly because they may release a shockingly good record in the near future, possibly because they may have a knife.


01. Me Among The Bones (3:41)
02. Still I Breathe (6:20)
03. Just Inside My Mind (6:38)
04. Nothing But My Thoughts (7:42)
05. I Am Nothing (6:43)
06. Into The Black Maw (6:23)
07. White Bodies (6:37)
08. A Story From Hell (7:16)
09. And Death Shall Have No Dominion (8:13)


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Manufactura : Avulsion [2011]

Described by Karlos as “a dark ambient album with power electronics elements, it is my most selfish album”, it is set to be released on November 11, 2011, most likely one of Crunch Pod’s last releases before closing up shop.

Avulsion is the 7th studio album by Manufactura. With this new body of work, producer Karloz.M states the music on this album is intended for prayer, meditation, drug consumption, magick, remote viewing, deep relaxation, astral projection, lucid dreaming, healing and/or other states of consciousness and it is dedicated to the memory of COIL. Avulsion distinguishes itself from all other Manufactura albums in that the music strictly focuses on intricate and dynamic dark ambient soundscapes and atmospheric arrangements laced with elements of power electronics. It all lies between moments of unending darkness, glimpses of distant torture and vast uneasy calmness. The album features artwork by Alexander Froebel (www.pixelbreed.com) and it also includes 4 collaborative tracks between Travis Morgan (Rec|use / Black Meat), Shaun Frandsen (Sudden Death Over Time / Glis), Justin Cameron (Lexincrypt), Jeff Jeff Swearengin (Sleep Clinic) and Karloz.M. Through his latest opus, once again Manufactura surprises and astonishes with yet another release that will surely stir his many fans and critics alike. Ears, headphones and/or speakers, beware.

01 – Through Sombrous Yearning
02 – Industrialistas Sexuales
03 – Les Liee Tenebres
04 – Besotted with Bloodshed
05 – Unchaste Libations
06 – Multigravida Garland
07 – The Black Widow and The Serpent King
08 – They Lust for Lost Love
09 – The Forest of Stones
10 – Senticous Skin
11 – Now we become death, the destroyers of dreams
12 – Self-mutilated Witchman of Hades
13 – To purge To cleanse To be set free


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Metaconqueror : Of Steel, Bone, And Fire [2009]

This is the sort of sonic backdrop any syphilitic clergyman would have loved to have used to illustrate his bitter sermons with warning the good, malleable and trusting flock to stay on the straight and narrow. In other words, this is stirringly magnificent stuff, darkly unearthly and hellishly malevolent, chilling the marrow and freezing the spirit with its effective distillation of hopelessness and lightless oblivion into sound. Many dark ambient artists venture into these realms to seek inspiration but very few come back with anything more than bitty abstractions, piecemeal evocations that very rarely do more than provide glimpses and hints. Here, though, Stillings’ Metaconqueror presents us with vast, broad canvases painted with the hues and pigments of a Stygian kingdom, bringing with them the smell of death, decay and brimstone. This is a set of beautifully realised and executed sound-pieces, at once both startling and terrifying.

01 The Great Antagonist
02 A Horizon Of Black Pyres
03 Apophis The Destroyer
04 Beasts Of Oblivion
05 Barrier Of The Gods
06 In The Stone House Unheard
07 The Pauper's Grave
08 Mephisto's Hammer
09 Invaders Of The Watery Abyss
10 The Decimation Sequence


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Exsanguinate | La Infame Turba De Nocturnas Aves : Allegory Of Death [2003]

1 Exsanguinate – Accession 6:35
2 Exsanguinate – In The Shadow 6:52
3 Exsanguinate – Detachment 5:18
4 Exsanguinate – Overcome 7:09

El Formidable Y Espantoso Postrer Dia (O La Teoria Del Estertor En 4 Actos)
5 La Infame Turba De Nocturnas Aves – II 6:15
6 La Infame Turba De Nocturnas Aves – III 3:28
7 La Infame Turba De Nocturnas Aves – IV 8:13
8 La Infame Turba De Nocturnas Aves – I 8:25


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Metaconqueror : Banishment Of The Unforsaken [2004]

Metaconqueror is J. Stillings the man behind the Power Electronics project Steel Hook Prostheses."Banishment of the Unforsaken" is an impeccable black ambient masterpiece. Everything that is so good about black ambient music is to be found on this recording…and more starting off with an increasingly growing rumble and static mixture it progresses onto a garbled distorted voice then the deep dub echoes and noises begin. Thereafter the music becomes ever more threatening and chilling sending shivers of fear and pleasure running equally down the spine.Its a constant humming, like a ghost who’s hanging over the dungeon like sound fields of the composer. The constant humming is now interrupted by icy noises and than by other sonic manipulations.Played during sunlight it has the capacity to have you hiding behind the sofa with its threatening sonic display. Play it in the dark though…and just watch those nightmares begin.

1 Pestilence [4:44]
2 My Name Is Legion For We Are Many [5:34]
3 The Betrayer [6:13]
4 Dirge Of The Crucified [4:02]
5 Order Of The Golden Dawn [6:11]
6 Temple Of The Morning Star [8:16]
7 Forging The Gates Of Gehenna [6:16]
8 Of Empires Burning [5:43]
9 Cerebus [6:23]


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Exsanguinate : Inhuman Treatment [2002]

1. Essorillement [6:02]
2. The Picquet [5:51]
3. Inhuman Treatment [5:39]

Notes
Limited to 200 copies


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Sistrenatus : Division One [2007]

This is a quite interesting release from Canadian project Sistrenatus. British Cold Spring Records is known and respected for their orientation in wide spectres of genres, from Martial music across orchestral ambience and industrial to harsh expressions of noise/power electronics. Normally these various styles are not combined, though this is exactly what Sistrenatus does on this, their debut-album "Division one". And they succeed in doing so! The overall expression is a mixture of harsh industrial and orchestral black ambience. Drones of noisy electronics permeates the works, sometimes subtly, other times with overwhelming power developing the work into harsh noise.

Starting out with the sound of church bell, the opening two tracks set the pace and the atmospheres of the album with the blend of concrete sounds, industrial noises and subtle spoken voices. Chapter "III" represents the first assault of extreme aggression as hordes of crushing electronics wash over the innocent listener meanwhile evil voices of pure wrath strengthens the feeling of discomfort. An excellent mixture of power electronics and death industrial on this one! As chapter "IV" takes over slow and heavy martial rhythms occur assisted by screeching noises and ancient horns giving the atmospheres of Middle Age. "IV" represents the calm before the next storm, which comes as chapter "V" penetrates with deep rumbling buzz-drones. Throughout "Division one", Sistrenatus nicely changes between expressive aggression and settling ancient atmospheres. Towards the end of the album (chapter VIII + XI) the gates of hellish noise open completely resulting in an anything but friendly farewell to the listener from Sistrenatus. Certainly a promising debut from this powerful Canadian project.



01. I [2:23]
02. II [4:00]
03. III [2:53]
04. IV [3:39]
05. V [5:48]
06. VI [4:58]
07. VII [3:28]
08. VIII [4:10]
09. IX [5:31]


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Exsanguinate : The Black Acts [2002]

Exsanguinate drains blood from the body of the ferocious Power Electronics entity Control, the concrete rumble dynamics of the latter, stretched, kneaded and destroyed by the harsh, cruel constructs of the former, both projects helmed by Thomas Garrison. Which means, where Control utilized a straightforward, blatantly single-minded brutality, Exsanguinate exhibit a musculature and flexibility amidst the volatile, desecrated sonic landscape. It seems as though Garrison is seeking an alternative form of aural abrasion.

A calm hum opens "Punishment For All Crimes," soon to be devoured by gurgling, grinding noises, and an array of piercing tones bent on abrasively singing one's eardrums. This is a hard-edged ambience, ragged, the shifting layers of grind and pierce dragging the listener down via a vicious, vice-grip undertow, completely encompassing one in the embrace of oppression. It strikes with an abrupt harshness reminiscent of Stratvm Terror, circa Pain Implantations. Death lurches in the shadows of "The Final Hour," accompanied by screech and rumble dynamics that lead the listener into an abattoir long abandoned by God or any other paragons of hope. The death sonically displayed here is one basked in cruelty, strapped to a slab, forced to submit to the onslaught of noise circling and spitting fire, and insidiously violated by the dead, anxious eyes of the vultures that hover in the corner, awaiting a death that will be drawn out by the reams of scintillating, caustic sounds. "Skeffington's Gyves" brings the tones down to a factory sludge hum, trudging through the mausoleum, spirits in disarray, the murmur of unease amplified for maximum effect. Garrison shows he has grasp of a variety of brutally abusive sounds, his blueprint for execution an appealing cross between BDN's earliest nightmares (sparse, caked with graveyard dirt), the convoluted agony expelled with every breath of label-mate Gruntsplatter's heinous revelry, and his own aurally psychotic, INTENSE noise obsessions. The Black Acts is a brilliant example of ambient/noise done right!


01. Punishment For All Crimes (5:21)
02. Two Thousand Volts (6:57)
03. A Torturous End (5:20)
04. The Mazzatello (4:43)
05. The Final Hour (4:58)
06. Punishing The Dead (5:12)
07. Science Of Hanging (4:59)
08. Dissident Asylum (5:03)
09. Peine Forte Et Dure (4:42)
10. Skeffingtons Gyves (5:12)
11. Beneath The Gallows (4:58)
12. The Black Acts (5:05)
13. Silence And Separation (5:09)


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Kristoffer Nyströms Orkester : brakeHEAD [2006]

Kristoffer Nyströms Orkester (KNO) is a collaborative project between Peter Nyström (Megaptera/Negru Voda) and Kristoffer Oustad (V:28). A true sonic beat down, done in full Scandinavian style, with a battery of iron fisted rhythms hammering down in a thunderous downpour, and the caustic reverberations of the analog doom machine grinding and screeching in a symphony of clangorous and distressed beauty. This is an album that is as majestic as it is bleak, capturing the essence of old school Swedish industrial, but forging a new path towards a dark future.

 ‘brakeHEAD’ has redefined and rewritten the masculine muscle Industrial music handbook. Their jet stream leaving everyone else trailing far behind in their wake. The four tracks, 38 minutes, of colossal sounds were skilfully crafted from analogue synths, drum machine, processed guitar and additional effects and samples. The basic tools may be the same as everyone else’s but its how you use them that ultimately counts. Hearing ‘brakeHEAD’ is the sonic equivalent of peering into Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ and coming through the insane journey alive at the end. ‘Exterminate all the brutes!’ The music searching and reaching for a climatic ending as its merciless assaults pounds and grinds the ears in ever increasing nerve shredding ways. The evil intent of the barrages showing through even the quieter passages. ‘The horror! The horror!’ The dying words of Kurtz reinterpreted in all their glory by the final musical notes of the recording. Apocalypse 2006. Coming to a home near you soon.



01. BiTer (Deep Cut Edit) (8:02)
02. High_Level_Input - Slow_Speed_Output (Well Done) (5:12)
03. ExtenDEAD Konnektion (Shortended Diskonnekted Version) (19:32)
04. Asphalt Flowers (Kontinenttalische Norswedische Ordnungsverskriftung Mix) (5:16)

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!


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Kristoffer Nyströms Orkester_BiTer

Melek-Tha : My Name is Legion (Boxset CD 10 Vinyl Ltd.) [2008]

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Stratvm Terror : Fixation [2005]

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Melek-Tha + Dapnom : Omnium Finis Imminent [2008]

01. Melek-Tha + Dapnom: The Perpetual Sacrifice [mixed] (9:17)
02. Melek-Tha + Dapnom: Persecutions And Tortures [mixed] (13:24)
03. Melek-Tha + Dapnom: Misère Noire [mixed] (9:04)
04. Melek-Tha + Dapnom: Famine [mixed] (14:45)
05. Melek-Tha + Dapnom: The 7 Trumpets [mixed] (5:31)
06. Melek-Tha + Dapnom: The Abomination Of Desolation [mixed] (17:12)
07. Melek-Tha + Dapnom: Les Tenèbres Vont Régner [mixed] (8:59)

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Stratvm Terror : Genetic Implosion [2000]

The most powerful thing in Stratvm Terror is the realization that underneath the bile and violence that you encounter when listening to the mutated sounds of Genetic Implosion, there is a constant, even if low, level of delicate aesthetics throughout the album, meaning that deep underneath the wild, toxic winds, Genetic implosion has many virtues that the future albums (let me remind as well that this album is from 2000) that Raison D'etre will release.

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01 Uranium
02 Loco Penis
03 Static Systematic Cloning
04 Cox
05 Genital Remove
06 Bleeding
07 Worms
08 Vein Destruction
09 Swelter Destruction
10 Gore

Tracks 8, 9, & 10 recorded live at M/S Stubnitz, June the 20th 1998 at the Nursery Festival in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Goatvargr : Black Snow Epoch [2010]

...the second sonorous calving coming from the reproductive session (just musical one!) between Henrik "Nordvargr" Bjorkk, a Swedish sound adulterator - maybe some of you have already listened something signed under other pseudonyms such as MaschinenZimmer 412, Hydra Head 9, Folkstorm or Toroidh (my favorite one, maybe for some musical nuances close to Raison d'Etre releases) -, quite famous for his artistic fruitfulness in the so-called "grey area" for being one of the first sound-artists dealing with the so-called "black industrial" music (something which some reviewer names "dark ambient" as well nowadays), whose nickname means "northern wolf", and the American noise artist Andy O'Sullivan aka Goat, whose researches are more noise-oriented as well, giving to birth this freaky creature called Goatvargr - you can imagine some bestial character, whose body is half-goat and half-wolf... -, which musically could stand as a sort of alternative path towards the thick woods of power electronics, black metal and cinematic ritual drones.
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1 Goatsbane / Scapewolf 3:19
2 Bearer, Begetter, The Sovereign Wolf 7:17
3 Dark Eyed And Frost Scorned 5:13
4 Goatwalking 7:08
5 Razed Under Cloven Hoof And Bloody Maw 2:20
6 Wall Of Goat 4:43
7 Wall Of Wolf 4:14
8 A Black Drum Droning 9:08


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