Winterkälte – Structures Of Destruction (1997)

Country: Germany

 

Tracklist

1. El Niño 04:56
2. Slash-And-Burn 04:34
3. NOx Over Europe 06:27
4. Encore 05:05
5. Erosion 05:48
6. Cool Down 07:29
7. Incinerator (Green Point Mix) 05:26
8. Smoky Mountains 04:49
9. Modulation One 07:12
10. Maximum Credible Accident 12:17

 

Winterkälte was founded in 1991 by Udo Wiessmann (founder of the record label Hands Productions) and Eric De Vries.
The project has been recognized as one of the defining post industrial acts

and their early releases laid the foundations for the rhyhtm'n'noise scene.
They developed their trademark sound labeled as drum'n'noise representing a complex architecture of hypnotic rhythms

that mix with pounding beats and heavy electronics to result in a violent distorted and blurring circle of noise.
Unfortunately on Monday, October 28, 2024, Eric De Vries passed away at the age of 65,

succumbed to a brain tumor less than two years after his initial diagnosis.

 
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Bruno Nicolai – Tutti I Colori Del Buio (1972)

Composer: Bruno Nicolai

 

Tracklist

 1. Magico Incontro 02:12
2. Bambole 01:46
3. Medium 02:03
4. Magico Incontro 03:25
5. Insidia 01:52
6. Suggestione 02:28
7. Magico Incontro 02:58
8. Evocazione 03:12
9. Bambole 01:45
10. Esorcismo 03:03
11. Oppressione 02:22
12. Magico Incontro 02:53
13. Ipnosi 02:31
14. Invasamento 02:15
15. Sabba 03:44
16. Incantesimo 03:28
17. Propiziazione 02:38
18. Insidia 01:45
19. Sabba 05:45
20. Immateriale 02:57
21. Espiazione 01:45
22. Medium 03:43
23. Insidia 02:30
24. Magico Incontro 01:29
25. Insidia 02:28
26. Magico Incontro 01:11
27. Invasamento 03:37
28. Sabba 03:46
29. Magico Incontro 02:23

 

 Bruno Nicolai (20 May 1926 – 16 August 1991) was an Italian film music composer, orchestra director,

conductor, pianist and musical editor, most active in the 1960s through the 1980s.
While studying piano and composition at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome,

he befriended Ennio Morricone and formed a long working relationship,

with Nicolai eventually conducting for and co-scoring films with Morricone.

Morricone noted in an interview discussing the Dollars Trilogy:

"I chose a great musician and friend to be my conductor, Bruno Nicolai,

who conducted almost every score of mine from that point on until 1974.".
Nicolai also scored a number of giallo exploitation films and wrote many scores for director Jesús Franco.
Nicolai's compositions are characterized by their rich orchestration and innovative use of instruments, 

including bells, anvils, and whips, elements that became synonymous with the spaghetti western sound. 

He also explored various musical styles, from classical to avant-garde,

and was known for his work in library music, founding the labels Gemelli and Edi-Pan.
His work was also featured in Tarantino's films "Kill Bill: Volume 2" and "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood".
"All The Colors Of The Dark" (Italian: Tutti I Colori Del Buio) is a 1972 giallo film directed by Sergio Martino

and starring George Hilton, Edwige Fenech, Ivan Rassimov, Julián Ugarte, George Rigaud, Susan Scott and Marina Malfatti.

The film was also released under the alternate titles "Day Of The Maniac" and "They're Coming To Get You!".

 
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Memories Yet To Come 2025

In alphabetical order:

 

 

 

1. Ad Hominem – Totalitarian Black Metal (Full-length 2025)

 

 

2. Arditi – Refraction Of The Oversoul (Full-length 2025)

 

3. Azelisassath – Ablazen Winds (Full-length 2025)

 

 

4. Black Edifice – From The Ancient Of Night (EP 2025)

 

 

5. Brazen Horde – Behold! The Ashen Cross (Full-length 2025)

  

 

6. Caixão – Herakles / Melqart (Full-length 2025)

7. Clavicula – The Numinous Key (Demo 2025)

 

 

8. Heraldic Blaze – Monument Of Will (Full-length 2025)

 

 

9. Igorrr – Amen (Full-length 2025)

 

 

10. Kêres – Skryer Of The Lighthouse (Full-length 2025)

11. Lamp Of Murmuur – The Dreaming Prince In Ecstasy (Full-length 2025)

 

 

12. Loathfinder – Broken Branches And Torn Roots (Full-length 2025)

 

 

13. Matru-Zebu – Blood Cries With Sorrow (Demo 2025)

 

14. Morte France – Hesperia (Full-length 2025)

 

15. Muvitium – Through The Veil Of Medieval Prophecies (Full-length 2025)

 

 

16. No Hand Path – Μυστικισμός Της Ενηλικίωσης (Mysticism Of Coming Of Age) (Full-length 2025)

 

 

17. NyreDolk – Barndommens Hjem (Full-length 2025)

 

 

18. Ogień Astralny – Forgotten Hymns Of Erdőelve (Demo 2025)

 

 

19. One Of Nine – Dawn Of The Iron Shadow (Full-length 2025)

 

20. Osgraef – Reveries Of The Arcane Eye (Full-length 2025)

 

 

21. Sainte Croix – Le Pieu Et La Marque (Demo 2025)

 

 

22. Stygian Ruin – Stygia II: Ancient And Arcane (Full-length 2025)

 

 

23. Summoning Hellgates – Spear Of Conquest (EP 2025)

 

 

24. Thanargonauts – Awakening The Egregore (Full-length 2025)

 

 

25. Trogne – Ethyloéréthisme (EP 2025)

 

 

26. Upon The Altar – Profanation's Vapor (EP 2025)

 

 

27. Venus Star – Smokeless Fires (Full-length 2025)

 

 

28. Volahn – Popol Vuh (Full-length 2025)

 

 

29. Vollmondprozession – Lazarus (Full-length 2025)

 

30. Witchyre – Witchy Forest Dance Contest (Full-length 2025)

 

 

Laurie Spiegel – Unseen Worlds (1991)

Country: United States

 

Tracklist

Thesis - Exploration And Intuition
Nine Improvisations Recorded, Edited And Elaborated As Digital Audio:
Three Sonic Spaces
1. I 01:36
2. II 03:22
3. III 05:53
4. Finding Voice 02:45
5. The Hollows 04:51
Two Archetypes
6. I Hall Of Mirrors 04:24
7. II Hurricane's Eye 03:35
8. Sound Zones 08:07
9. Riding The Storm 04:29
Antithesis - Reason And Preconception
Two Intellectual Interludes (Data And Process):
10. Strand Of Life ("Viroid") 01:21
11. From A Harmonic Algorithm 02:55
Synthesis - Imagination And Form
None Of The Above:
12. Passage 14:05

 

 Laurie Spiegel was born in Chicago (September 20, 1945) where in her teens she played guitar, banjo, mandolin

and through them cultivated a devout philosophy of amateur music making.
She became interested in electronics after using a tape-operated computer

at Purdue University as part of a high school class field trip.
At the age of 20, she taught herself Western music notation, after which she began writing her compositions.
After receiving her bachelor's degree in sociology from Shimer in 1967, she stayed in Oxford for an additional year,

commuting to London to study guitar, music theory and composition with John W. Duarte,

then baroque and renaissance lute at Julliard and composition with Jacob Druckman and Vincent Persichetti.
Best known for her use of algorithmic composition techniques,

Spiegel worked with Buchla and Electronic Music Laboratories synthesizers and digital systems 

including Bell Labs' GROOVE system (1973–1978), the Bell Labs Digital Synthesizer (1977),

the alphaSyntauri synthesizer system for the Apple II computer (1978–1981) and the McLeyvier (1981–1985).
In various pieces, Spiegel has used musical algorithms to simulate natural phenomena,

emulate tonal harmony rules of earlier musical eras and sonically represent large data sets.

In her piece "Viroid" she used the genetic code of a simple organism to determine the pitches produced by a synthesizer.

In her 1977 piece "Improvisation On A Concerto Generator", she used an algorithm

designed to replicate Bach's "chorale-style harmonic progressions".

Many of Spiegel's non-algorithmic compositions also use algorithm-like rules and she claimed

that defining these rules in computer code was simply a natural next step for her own musical self expression.
Spiegel's best known and most widely used software was Music Mouse (1986),

a self-described "intelligent instrument" for Macintosh, Amiga and Atari computers.

In addition to improvisations using this software, Spiegel composed several works using Music Mouse 

including "Cavis Muris" in 1986, "Three Sonic Spaces" in 1989 and "Sound Zones" in 1990.
In addition to computer software development, Spiegel supported herself by both teaching and by soundtrack compositions.
Her musical interpretation of Johannes Kepler's "Harmonices Mundi"

appeared on "Sounds Of Earth" section of the Voyager Golden Record

while her 1972 piece "Sediment" was included in the 2012 film "The Hunger Games".
She has also been inducted into the National Women's Hall Of Fame.

 
Memory

Converter – Shock Front (1999)

Country: United States

 

Tracklist

1. Conqueror 08:05
2. Shock Front 07:15
3. Cannibals 05:00
4. Spirit Shield 06:24
5. Coma 06:12
6. Sacrifice 08:13
7. Memory-Trace 09:23
8. Deadman (Perdition) 04:38
9. Denogginizer 11:40
10. Sadist 03:19

 

Converter is the brainchild of Ohio based artist Scott Sturgis,

also the force behind the project Pain Station, Lowness and Notime, created in 1998.
Converter saw its first release in 1999, with "Shock Front",

a mature work in the same vein as other artists in the Ant-Zen family such as P·A·L and Imminent Starvation,

as well as well-known rhythmic noise innovators like Dive and Esplendor Geometrico.
The project investigates the industrial field, and with his debut album Sturgis creates hard hitting, 

rhythmic noise filled with bombastic machine-driven rhythms coupled with tweaked synths

creating an atmosphere of distorted aggression reinforced by a wall of impenetrable percussion on nearly every track. Sturgis also began his own label, Auricle Media, in 2000 with fellow artist KarloZ.M of Manufactura.

 
Memory

Malefic Oath – The Land Where Evil Dwells (Demo 1992)

Country: Netherlands

 

Tracklist

 1. Intro 01:04
2. Prediction Of The Unborn Son 04:34
3. The Endless Way To The Unknown 03:11
4. Garden Of Memories 06:15
5. Outro 02:39

 

 Cult early 90s black/doom band from Holland

featuring Marco Kehren (guitars, vocals, drums) of Deinonychus and Michel (guitars).
The band only released one demo, "The Land Where Evil Dwells" that was recorded in 27 June 1992 at Twinstudios.
Also The Unsane from Bestial Summoning joined the project at some point as a vocalist.
For its 30th anniversary, Iron Bonehead Productions released it in 2022 as a 12" EP in limited black and red vinyl variants.

 
Memory

Werkbund – Aquis Submersus (1989)

Country: Germany

 

Tracklist

1. Beginne Den Tag Mit Sterben 21:12
2. Der Feind Sieht Dein Licht Verdunkeln 27:13

 

 Enigmatic industrial and experimental band from Hamburg, active since the late 1980s.
Speculation has involved collaborations with other Hamburg artists such as Felix Kubin and Uli Rehberg

 and possibly Asmus Tietchens, though Tietchens has repeatedly denied involvement.
Their sound deals mainly with marine tales and myths from Northern Germany,

incorporating experimental, ambient, field recordings and industrial styles to create cold mystical nuances.
Released by German label Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien that was founded in 1980 by Uli Rehberg.

 
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