Negru Voda : AVA: (dunk) [2002]

A Claustrophobic Hangover 5:43
B Television State 5:08


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Des Esseintes | Negru Voda : Split [2001]

A1 Des Esseintes – King Of The Jungle (Vocals – Swedish Tiger) 5:00
A2 Des Esseintes – Fragments 8:45
B1 Negru Voda – The Mine Shaft 7:00
B2 Negru Voda – The Drill 7:00

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V/A : revenge?! yes! Nordic Audio Modern [2012]

01: Land:fire – most people were silent [live] (6:25)
02: Circular – the contour of a dream (5:51)
03: Deutch Nepal – regen 2 (6:9)
04: Hersbt9 – ina babilim wasib (4:31)
05: Fjernlys – everlasting (4:57)
06: Ex.order – shuchu ryoku pL03 [nam2012rmx] (4:48)
07: Deutsch Nepal / Terpaneringsritualen – swollen [rmx1] (5:39)
08: Inade – the engine of inferno (5:49)
09: In Slaughter Natives – blood testural (6:33)
10: Maldur Atai – keylogmantra (4:51)
11: Deutsch Nepal – balnitza.babichek (4:1)
12: Oro! Oro! – priesmintys (6:26)
13: Survival Units – those about to die (5:25)
14: Trepaneringsritualen – kannibal vampyr (7:18)


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Ptarkh : Insulin [2009]

Making the project author used a mass of sound effects, city ambience and dark atmospheres. Highly layered synthesized textures create a unique deep canvas. Very minimal in one place it can be very complex and loud in other. Music flows continuously smoothly going through vast scenes showing you the world of nightmares. This is nuclear performance for Geiger counter and cogwheel orchestra.

1. Insulin (80:04)


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Throbbing Gristle : The Second Annual Report (2 x CD Re-issue) [2011]

CD 1
01 Industrial Introduction
02 Slug Bait, Live at the I.C.A. London
03 Live at Southampton
04 Live at Brighton
05 Maggot Death, Studio Recording
06 Live at Rat Club London
07 Live at Southampton
08 Live at Brighton
09 The original soundtrack of Coum Transmissions film of ''After Cease To
Exist''

CD 2 > 1976-1977 Bonus CD
01 No Two Ways-Hat Fair Winchester 1976
02 Last Exit-Brighton Poly 1977
03 Forced Entry-Nuffield 1977
04 Tesco Disco-Rat Club, London 1977
05 Feeling Critical-ArtCollege Winchester 1977
06 National Affront-Nuffield 1977
07 Urge To Kill-Rat Club, London 1977
08 Zyklon B Zombie 7'' B Side
09 United 7'' A Side


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Throbbing Gristle : Heathen Earth (2 x CD Re-issue) [2011]

For the first time in 30 years Throbbing Gristle are now back on their own original Industrial Records label. To mark the occasion we are pleased to announce the rerelease of TG's first five albums on vinyl & CD. Each album has been restored and remastered specifically for each format by Chris Carter from 24-bit 'baked tape' digital transfers of the original first generation analogue master tapes. Vinyl - The newly cut 180-gram vinyl editions include painstakingly restored cover artworks, using original source material from the Industrial Records visual archive. In addition each of the vinyl releases include an exclusive large format 8-page colour booklet featuring an abundance of Throbbing Gristle archival material, including some previously unpublished photos of the band. Each vinyl release is limited to 2000 copies. COMPACT DISC Each of the CD special-editions are presented in a gatefold sleeve featuring restored and remastered cover artworks and an integrated 8-page booklet (* the booklets feature different artworks and content to the vinyl editions). While the CD releases feature the same track count and running order as the vinyl editions each CD special-edition also includes an exclusive bonus CD containing content from the year of the albums original release. This additional content includes TG live tracks and remastered singles. 

CD 1
01 Cornet
02 The Old Man Smiled
03 Improvisation
04 The World Is A War Film
05 Something Came Over Me
06 Still Talking
07 Bass
08 Don't Do As You're Told, Do As You Think
09 Painless Childbirth

CD 2 > 1980 Bonus CD
01 Introduction-Sheffield University 1980
02 Trained Condition Of Obedience-S036 Club Berlin 1980
03 Heathen Earth-Sheffield University 1980
04 An Old Man Smiled-S036 Club Berlin 1980
05 Auschwitz-Rafters, Manchester 1980
06 Devil's Gateway-Rafters, Manchester 1980
07 Punished-Sheffield University 1980
08 Tortured Smiles-Sheffield University 1980
09 We Said No-Sheffield University 1980
10 Subhuman - 7'' Vinyl Single
11 Adrenalin - 7'' Vinyl Single


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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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Unit:187 : Transfusion [2012]

On the tails of the success of UNIT:187's recent album Out For Blood comes the companion remix album, Transfusion. Geared for the dance floors, it offers multiple energetic reworkings of the hits from the highly praised studio album by remixers such as Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, 16Volt, iVardensphere, Mindless Faith and many more.
Unit:187 features Chris Peterson from Front Line Assembly and Decree. They released the first two Albums on the American industrial label 21st Circuitry (1996-1997) and Off Beat in Germany – followed by ‘Capital Punishment’ in 2003 and the remix companion thereto in 2006 (both on Cop Int’l). With ‘Out for Blood’ they landed a highly welcome and successful comeback on Vendetta in 2010 and ‘Transfusion’ adds yet another chapter to the impressive ‘Out for Blood’ album!


01. Rolling Vengeance (Rmx By HiWatt Marshall & Cevin Key Of Skinny Puppy)
02. Threatened (Rom DiPrisco Remix)
03. Sick Obsession (Stiff Valentine Remix)
04. Blood For Blood
05. Threatened (Knifed Rmx By J. Slingerland & C. Johnsen)
06. Living To Die (Necrotek Remix)
07. DDD (Ivardensphere Remix)
08. Rolling Vengeance (C((O))de Blue Remix)
09. Kurva (16Volt Remix)
10. Rolling Vengeance (Deathproof Remix)
11. DDD (Witchmaker Remix)
12. Threatened (End Threat) (Glitch Mode Mix Cyanotic)
13. Rolling Vengeance (Mindless Faith Remix)
14. Threatened (Mono-Amine's Poppy Remix)


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Chrysalide : Don't Be Scared, It's About Life [2011]

The self-proclaimed electro-punk-noize-terrorists Chrysalide have returned with their second full-length album, “Don’t Be Scared, It’s About Life” – and what a release this album is! Though many people will make obvious Skinny Puppy comparisons (a great deal of this being how eerily close the vocals seem on some songs), this album is no mere clone.

The whole of “Don’t Be Scared, It’s About Life” is jarring, intense and powerful and continually keeps you on edge. It provides aggressive, angry, punky electronics throughout, but also provides the listener with enough variety and ‘softer’ moments so that your ears are not completely bled out by the time you’re done listening to the album. Each successive listen shows a new element or sound I didn’t pick up previously, like the subtle orchestral sounds in “They Won’t Get Us”, the slightly Asian influences in the track “Cybernetic Babies”, or the dubstep elements found in “I Do Not Divert Eyes”. Also, soft piano melodies on some songs provide a sharp contrast to overwhelming aggression and anger. There are few introspective songs dispersed throughout to give your ears some rest, such as “Lizzie and the Charming Prince” and “Lovetape”. No matter what the song, though, there is always an element of madness, fear and a menacing aura in each track – sometimes it’s just below the surface, other times it hits you right in the face.

01 Who's Still Alive
02 Traders Must Die
03 Cybernetic Babies
04 I Do Not Divert Eyes
05 Anger Is A Show
06 Fucking Doubt
07 Let The Bombs Fall
08 Let's Talk About This During Dinner
09 Lizzie And The Charming Prince
10 Not My Word
11 Give Me Something Stronger
12 The Last Candle
13 Gemini
14 They Won't Get Us (heART IS MY Resistance)
15 2010
16 LoveTape
17 Rest In Silence My Friend

 
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

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Chrysalide 100TH LIVE_Lifestyle

France's answer to Skinny Puppy!

This is what Skinny Puppy should have sounded like today...

Des Esseintes : Les Diaboliques [2005]

Included are six fairly compact tracks in less than 40 minutes, ranging in length from five to eight minutes and covering a wide arrangement of dark ambient industrial compositions. From extremely sinister and sparse low-end rumbles and eerie hums to pulsing rhythms or machinated percussive beats, the material is extremely well orchestrated and has a wide spanning appeal that should reach a number of different fans. Now, when I use the word "orchestrated", I don't want to create images of any kind of martial nonsense or heavily musically oriented material, as that's not the case at all. However there is a lot going on here, and it has been well orchestrated in the sense that everything feels incredibly specific and thought out - intricately woven together with a clinical attention to detail, and almost cinematic on occasion.

There are some loosely musical elements at times, both in structure and melodically, with both "Discontinued" and "Proclamation" containing some female narration (Which is not in English, so perhaps the lines are borrowed from the stories?), but not to the degree that it should turn away listeners that are a little more rigid in what they deem "acceptable" from the experimental realm. There's also a nice and gritty midrange distortion in "Discontinued" with some pretty punishing percussive bursts and lots of atmospheric layering, while "Due" is a little more subdued until a distorted beat with plenty of panning breaks in against some twisted little dissonant melodies reverberating in the background. "Proclamation" falls more along the dark ambient lines, but still possesses a little something more to give it that extra edge, and "Closure" is somewhat similar at the start but eventually opens up into one of the most concrete and fluid beats to be found on the record.

The title track is definitely among the more ominous pieces herein, containing a few lightly distorted and indecipherable samples amidst resonant and brooding percussion that definitely insinuates a violent sort of visual accompaniment. "Requiem for My Green Fairy" is a little thicker and more ethereal than some of the other selections - still lightly rhythmic and in line with the other compositions, but certainly a little smoother and more consistent in the way it sprawls along. The bottom line is that the overall sensibilities of this work are tremendously professional and of an extremely high level of quality - one rarely attained in the grand scheme of experimental genres in my opinion - and especially from artists that tend to flirt with more structure and musicality, which are elements that I'm often critical of. When a release such as this masters those elements in a way that I can not only tolerate, but appreciate and even find to be among its strengths... that definitely speaks volumes.

This is certainly an album that works just as well in its individual parts as it does in its entirety, though it's handled in a way that really makes you want to listen to it all in one shot to experience the complete journey (which is especially interesting because I believe a few of these tracks are re-recordings of previously released material).

1 Discontinued 5:28
2 Due 5:27
3 Proclamation 7:46
4 Closure 5:33
5 Les Diaboliques 6:13
6 Requiem For My Green Fairy 6:01


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Triangular Ascension : Sexta Repvblica (EP) [2011]

1 Tiempo
2 Honor
3 Poder
4 Caida


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Des Esseintes | Diskrepant : Folie À Deux [2003]

1 Des Esseintes – Scrying / Closure 12:46
2 Diskrepant – Variety Unknown 2:59
3 Diskrepant – Grand Mal 1:41
4 Diskrepant – And The Machines Laughed At Mankind 6:53


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Caustic : I Can't Believe We're Re-Releasing This Crap (2 x CD) [2012]

Rare is the artist where every album, nee every song, is instantly and unequivocally considered a classic. Rarer still does that artist reach and maintain a peak level in terms of both popularity and critical acclaim. Caustic, undoubtedly, is such an artist, and Metropolis is now re-releasing Caustic’s first two albums ‘Unicorns, Kittens, & Shit’ and ‘Booze Up and Riot’, originally from the Crunch Pod label, in a combined and expanded 2CD version!

2006’s controversial (and quickly sold out) ‘Unicorns…’ established Caustic as ‘The Artist to watch for awhile until the next VNV came out’, with eternally classic cuts ‘Emmanuel Lewis Handjob’, ‘MMM Papscraper I love You’ and ‘Love that Taint’ propelling Matt Fanale’s trademark raw, punk electronic sound into the forefront of several sub-sub-genres of industrial. ‘Booze Up and Riot’, with its legendary title track and others such as ‘Industrial Moustache Ride’ and ‘Mutilate’ followed in 2007, creating even more legion of fan for Caustic.
‘I can’t believe we’re re-releasing this Crap’ contains all of the original tracks from the two albums plus not less than 10 bonus tracks originally found on various compilations, EPs, and other rare releases. Also included in the liners booklet is a link for 20+ remixes, including the original 3 mixes found on UK&S from Mimetic, Keef Baker, and Cenotype, plus remixes from Grendel, God Module, Iris, Alter Der Ruine, XP8, and more. Guest appearances on the albums include the likes of COMBICHRIST’s Andy LaPlegua, ASSEMBLAGE 23’s Tom Shear, CHEMLAB’s Jared Louche, and underground comic legend Doug Stanhope. Experience the magic and revisit Caustic’s early, sublimely brilliant days of decadence, depravity, and d*ck jokes with this massive double-CD package! Then you can die happy…




CD 1 > Unicorns, Kittens, and Shit"
01. This Track Will Get Skipped A Lot
02. Love That Taint
03. Give Me Damage
04. Emmanuel Lewis Handjob
05. Drag Show Gone Wrong
06. Innate (With Severina X Sol)
07. I Gave The Blind Boy My Eyes (But Stole His Tongue)
08. Burn (Manufactura Vs Caustic)
09. You Fuck Us, We Fuck You
10. MMM Paperscraper I Love You
11. Grind (Feat. Severina X Sol Of Cylab)
12. Hitler Ruined That Moustache For Everyone
13. Unicorns, Kittens & Shit
14. Concussive (Bonus Track)
15. Desesperado Y Serio (Bonus Track)
16. You Stupid Fucking Face (Bonus Track)
17. Ballbuster (Bonus Track)
18. White Women (Bonus Track)

CD 2 > Booze Up and Riot
01. Another Fist In The Ass
02. Booze Up And Riot
03. Kill AFI (They Started It)
04. Mutilate (You´ll Stomp To Anything)
05. Industrial Moustache Ride
06. All Your Heroes Are Dildos
07. Dog Dick Ugly
08. Buttgereit
09. Sick Living
10. Spaff Injection
11. Bugchaser
12. Death Rattle A-Go-Go
13. The Reason I Broke Up With You Is A Million Reasons You Psychotic Wang
14. Faceplant
15. Hard Rollin (W.A.S.T.E. Vs Caustic)
16. Heart Shaped Mattress Of Luv (Displacer Vs Caustic)
17. Romophobia
18. Rapidly Punching The Soft Spot
19. Digital Mangina


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Ptarkh : Alamah [2009]

Ptarkh is a prolific Russian synthesist who works in the darkest part of ambient and industrial music. The music which has unimaginable depth of creativity, highly layered with sounds at times it goes completely insane and aggressive and always saves the feeling of presence in the realistic, difficult, vast and impossible world.

Don't even dare to get a piece of comfort in these catacombs built by Ptarkh. Only rats and unknown ancient creatures live there. But if you enter them you would have to go to the end to get out, there's no other way!

01.Dreml' (9:55)
02.Shalava (6:49)
03.Paralaser (1:02)
04.Tanechka (10:59)
05.Stank (5:54)
06.Razval (8:53)
07.Avtandil (10:27)


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Negru Voda : Voodoo Killers [2005]

01 Inside The Cyclone 5:44 
02 Outside The Cyclone (Part V) 4:06 
03 Crap! 7:13 
04 There Is No God! 2:43 
05 Adov Urgen (Aret-P-Hag-eM) 3:45 
06 Glenden Sprung 3:20 
07 Death Feeling 4:12 
08 Dancing With Cement 9:09 
09 Cyclone Voodoo Sucker 3:39 
10 Radiovision / Telekronik / Lagardin Dream 17:38 
11 Radiovision / Telekronik / Lagardin Dream (Mathias Josefson's Strictly Unrecognizable Non-Extended Radio Edit Bonus Remix)  12:31 

Notes 
Professionally printed CD-R housed in DVD box, cover designed by Marten Kellermann. Limited to 250. 
Originally released on cassette by Old Europa Cafe (1996). 
Tracks 10 & 11 are bonus tracks not on the original.

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Bad Sector : Космодром (+ Extra tracks) [2006]

CD 1
01 Energiya 5:10
02 Telemetry 5:26
03 June 16, 1963 4:32
04 Baikonur 4:37
05 Extravehicular 5:23
06 Vjezna 5:08
07 Orbiter 5:17
08 Beacon 4:14
09 April 12, 1961 5:20
10 Kosmos 4:36

CD 2
01 Oktober 4, 1957 5:31
02 Extravenihular 5:26
03 Cosmos 69 4:32
04 Plesetsk 4:01

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Negru Voda : Våld De Luxe (3 x CD) [2011]

Although I am familiar with Peter Nyström's work as Megaptera, this is my first exposure to Negru Voda. The liner notes list influences like Test Dept, S.P.K., The Klinik, Cabaret Voltaire, Severed Heads, Einsturzende Neubauten, so you know that this is going to be a bit more raw and dirty. His MySpace page states that it sounds like 'Heavy steel works-machinery.' According to the press release, 'Compared to the perhaps darker, more layered sound of Megaptera, Negru Voda is stripped down, unrefined, and to the point ' old school, true to form, and primitive industrial music. . . Primarily built upon a strong foundation of punishing and persistent rhythms and cold, analogue pulsations, these are colossal soundscapes, where harsh, factory corrosion is met with insidious waves of distorted, electro-shock blasts streaked with highly ominous and bleak atmospherics as fueled by pints of lager, drams of Islay single malt, alienization, media wastelands, and cold Scandinavian winters.' Evidently this is a mix of new, unpublished recordings, coupled with a collection of out of print, re-mastered works, including the full length Dark Territory CD (Old Europa Cafe, 1998), plus 3 bonus tracks, the des Esseintes split 10' (Fin de Siecle, 2001), and the AVA: (dunk) picture 7' (Formosan, 2002).

CD 1 > Våld De Luxe
01 Vald De Luxe
02 The Fourth Coffin (P.A.L Remix)
03 The Sound Of Islay (Laggan Mhoullin Version)
04 Infected By Remix
05 Kompressor
06 The Dobruja Virus H1n1 Mix (Negru Voda Vs. Plague Machinery)

CD 2 > Dark Territory
01 Not Much Happens At The End Of A Record
02 Radiotronik
03 Silent Force Entry
04 Dark Territory
05 Apparatus
06 A Nice Pile Of Bodies
07 Suction
08 Petrified
09 Analog Highland Inferno (The Komplete)
10 The Institute (Lobotomy Drive-Thru)
11 Please, Don't Steal My Head
12 Mono-Stereo

CD 3 > Whispers From The Silent Shaft
01 The Mine Shaft
02 The Drill
03 Claustrofobic Hangover
04 Television State
05 The Sound Of Islay (Quarter Cask Edit)
06 Live In Tokyo '79 (Dedicated To The Clifford Darling)
07 The Smell Of Islay
08 Turku


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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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