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.

 
Memory

Storm – Nordavind (1995)

Country: Norway

 

Tracklist

1. Innferd 01:35
2. Mellom Bakkar Og Berg 02:43
3. Haavard Hedde 03:19
4. Villemann 02:14
5. Nagellstev 01:03
6. Oppi Fjellet 04:02
7. Langt Borti Lia 07:15
8. Lokk 00:53
9. Noregsgard 08:13
10. Utferd 01:58

 

 Storm was a Norwegian folk metal band that originally included Satyr of Satyricon and Fenriz of Darkthrone.
Soon Kari Rueslåtten, formerly of the band The 3rd And The Mortal, joined them on vocals.
The project released only one album, entitled "Nordavind", on Satyr's personal label Moonfog Productions.
After the recording of the album, Kari Rueslåtten publicly stated regrets over her involvement with Storm,

as she felt betrayed by Satyr and Fenriz because Satyr wrote a new end to the song "Oppi Fjellet"

which contained strongly anti-Christian lyrics.
The Memory link features two bonus tracks, the unreleased "Oppunder Skrent Og Villmark"

and the rehearsal version of "Mellom Bakkar Og Berg",

that both appeared on the compilation "Crusade From The North" in 1996.

 
Memory

Orphx – Fragmentation (1996)

Country: Canada

 

Tracklist

 1. Word And Symbol 03:22
2. Layers Of Dura 04:19
3. Ekstasis 06:10
4. Auto-Erotic 04:11
5. Sepsis 06:14
6. Tanha 08:14
7. Pathogenesis 06:40
8. Words Once Spoken 09:22
9. Electroencephalographic Measurements 04:04
10. Samsara 04:29
11. Cellular Resonance 08:48
12. Within 07:05

 

 Orphx is an industrial/techno project from Canada.

Formed in 1993 in Hamilton, Ontario by Rich Oddie, Christina Sealey and Aron West

 and inspired by early industrial music and the extreme fringes of metal.
In late 1995 West departed to focus on his noise project Tropism,

while Oddie and Sealey began to push Orphx in a more rhythmic direction.
Orphx have been developing their hypnotic rhythms and experimental noise using modular and analog synthesizers,

software, location recordings and feedback circuits, utilizing darker pieces of techno and electro

and combine these elements with the experimental aesthetics and themes of early industrial music.
Oddie and Sealey have performed throughout Europe and North America at celebrated venues like Berghain and Tresor 

as well as notable electronic music festivals such as Movement and Mutek.
Their live appearances are renowned for delivering improvised performances

that combine software with modular synthesizer and other hardware.
"Fragmentation" was originally released on Malignant Records label

and was made using the same basic tools as in their early cassettes: contact microphones, scrap metal, 

effects pedals, feedback circuits, a drum machine, a couple of synths,

and location recordings and found sounds manipulated by Sealey on reel to reel machines and an 8-bit sampler.
While early Orphx recordings were primarily improvised direct to tape, this album places much greater emphasis

on carefully constructed layers of sound, shaping their improvisational energy into powerful compositions

that combines death industrial atmospheres and brutal power electronics with relentless, hypnotic percussion.
"Fragmentation" was reissued by Hospital Productions in 2020 including the original album

and over an hour of additional rarities and previously unreleased recordings.

 The Memory links also contains these as bonus.

 
Memory

Sort Vokter – Folkloric Necro Metal (1996)

 

Country: Norway

 

Tracklist

 1. Kveldstimer 05:08
2. Langs Stier Uten Ende 02:19
3. Grålysning 04:04      
4. Fra Kilden Til Tjernet 03:43
5. Tårers Sang 01:59
6. Hatefulle Tanker Ut I Natten 03:24
7. Ni Gygrer / Nattjakt 02:46
8. Bak To Lysende Øyne 02:58
9. Sønn Av Skyggers Skygge 03:08
10. Fjellstev 08:04

Ildjarn project that featured a full line up and consisted of Ildjarn (Bass, Guitars, Vocals),

 Nidhogg (Vocals),  Heiinghund (Bass, Guitars) and Tvigygre (Bass, Guitars, Vocals).
Sort Vokter (Black Guardian in Norwegian) only released one album through Ildjarn's personal label  

Norse League Productions, had programmed drums and everyone involved played on different instruments on every track.
The lineup for the keyboard/ambient tracks is not credited.
"Folkloric Necro Metal" was distributed by Napalm Records and later by Transcendental Creations.

 
Memory

Girnų Giesmės – Aštuoni Nerimo Veidrodžiai (1997)

Country: Lithuania

 

Tracklist

1. Veidrodis I 14:42
2. Veidrodis II 06:00
3. Veidrodis III 03:38
4. Veidrodis IV 04:50
5. Veidrodis V 13:37
6. Veidrodis VI 05:25
7. Veidrodis VII 04:36
8. Veidrodis VIII. Žiemos Rūpesčiai (Mix) 06:24

 

Girnu Giesmes was born in 1996 by Laurynas Jukonis,

who had experimented with several underground bands in Vilnius before starting his own project.
Album "Kerai" (Spell), recorded the same year and issued by the label Dangus in cassette format.
In 1997 the cassette "Aštuoni Nerimo Veidrodžiai" (8 Mirrors Of Anxiety) was self-released

and was distributed only in a close circle of friends.
The next year the cassette "Juodi Vasaros Trimitai" (Black Trumpets Of Summer) was released, 

followed by the split release "Brėkšta" (Breaking Dawn) together with the band Šalikapalikau in 2000.
The first Girnu Giesmes work in CD format was published in 2001 under the title "S:S:S:S".
From 2003 to 2022 six more albums were recorded while the project also played live on several notable festivals.
"Aštuoni Nerimo Veidrodžiai" was re-released in CDr in 2001 under the title "8 Nerimo Veidrodžiai" with a different cover.

 
Memory

Inanna – Day Ov Torment (1993)

Country: Sweden

 

Tracklist

1. Zounds 06:13    
2. Body Ov Light 08:49
3. Her Essence 04:41
4. Thorn 05:20
5. Zonei 03:51
6. Ancient Flesh 04:46
7. Submission To Solitude I - III 17:37
8. Besides Eternity 05:45
9. Exhalted Inanna / Hurt 08:16

 

Solo dark ambient / death-industrial project of Swedish artist Mikael Stavöstrand. 
Stavöstrand had previously been involved in the death industrial duo Archon Satani together with Tomas Pettersson. 
The project appears to have been active since the early 1990s (around 1992)

when Stavöstrand released material under Inanna (and even earlier under the moniker 7/Inanna/7).
"Day Ov Torment" was originally released on Staalplaat and later in 2007 was reissued with a different cover by Cold Spring.

 Recorded at the A.C.R. Chamber in Autumn 1992 and mixed by Jouni Havukainen of In Slaughter Natives.

 
Memory

Heid – Submitting To The Uprush Of The Unconscious (1997)

Country: Sweden

 

Tracklist

1. The Breath Which Leads Living Creatures 04:15
2. Fire And Ice 05:00
3. Gandreið 06:16
4. Submitting To The Uprush Of The Unconscious 05:49
5. Calling The Hidden Ones 3:17
6. Pilgrim Of The Sublunary World 05:36
7. Beneath The Wing Of Shadow 13:46

 

Heid was an industrial/dark ambient project hailing from the forested outbacks of northern Sweden,

started by Kristian Olsson and Tolufim (Daniel T. Eideholm) in 1997 (originally under the name Gimla).
Their first release was the cassette "Beneath The Wing Of Shadows" that was printed in a very limited amount of copies.
In the process of making their first album, Peter "Parasoleil" Lindahl and Stefan Östlund joined.
"Submitting To The Uprush Of The Unconscious" only taken three weeks to complete

and released as a limited edition CDr in 1997 on Bastet Recordings,

creating a dark, dystopian sound, that rendered them a formidable reputation among fans and scene.
After the release of their debut album, Heid signed to Malignant Records, but Stefan Östlund left the project.
Their second album, titled "Arktogäa", took over a year in making and contains a more structured, 

mathematical approach, and incorporated novelty elements like musique concrete and ethno-tinged passages.
After the release of "Arktogäa", Tolufim left the project.
Kristian Olsson and Peter Lindahl had plans to continue, but Heid dissolved definitely in July 2001.
Cold Meat Industry released a retrospective compilation CD entitled "Pilgrim Of The Sublunary World" in 2002.
Heid's legacy was carried later on projects like Survival Unit (Kristian Olsson) and L.E.A.K. (Peter Lindahl and Tolufim),

that opted to focus on different facets of what Heid comprised.

 
Memory

Thymikon – Nipsis (1996)

Country: United States

 

Tracklist

1. Nipsis 04:56
2. Remorse (The Watchers) 04:46
3. Without 613 04:10
4. Demise 05:04
5. Aeternus 04:18
6. Wi6th1ou3t 05:46
7. Shimshon 03:48
8. Demise 2 04:31
9. SOS #5 03:34
10. Night 03:46
11. Midnight Improvisation 03:28
12. Steel 03:43
13. The Mystic Mother (Bonus Track) 04:29

 

Beau Branson released his first and only album "Nipsis" as Thymikon, in late 1996.
Branson is a Professor of Philosophy at Brescia University in Kentucky,

specialized in Philosophical Theology, Metaphysics, and Ancient and Hellenistic Philosophy.
The album featured a blend of industrial/ambient, dark wave with electronica sounds

and was released by Logistikon Records (Edmond, OK).
Thymikon also had tracks released on various compilations on labels like Flaming Fish Music and Blacklight Records.
Branson's only subsequent recording as Thymikon was the song "The Mystic Mother",

that featured on the 1997 compilation "Awaiting The Dawn".

 
Memory

EnGrave – Polaris (1997)

Country: United States

 

Tracklist

1. Recoil 04:31
2. Into Your Iris (A Longing For Home) 03:30
3. Northeast (Loneliness) 06:56
4. Electron Plasma 04:55
5. Forged In Fire 05:32
6. Eiserner Vorhang 06:11
7. Lebensgefahr 03:17
8. Euro-Span 05:40
9. Soul Probe 05:52
10. Intercession 04:07

 

Solo project of Nathan Morris (also in Novä Sphere), co-founder of Velvet Empire label that operated from mid to late 90s.
Nathan spent most of his life in Cyprus, and in 1989 he moved to Germany before living in USA

where he began Velvet Empire and wrote in 1996 the first demo cassette of EnGrave entitled "Benediction".
His music is heavily influenced by Europe and his love for synthesized sounds.

"Polaris" is a collection of songs written between 1996-1997

(4 new ones, 2 taken from compilations and the 4 songs from the "Benediction" demo)

and capture the best of a hybrid mix between ambient and electro darkwave.
A second album was planed for release in the spring of 1999 but this never happened.

 
Memory

Parca Pace – Parca Pace (1999)

Country: Sweden

 

Tracklist

1.  Parca Pace 50:00

 

Parca Pace was a solo project of Jan Carleklev of Sanctum created in the late 90s.
This release was originally meant as a soundtrack to a multimedia installation

about the closing of a factory and the effects on the adjacent community.
Eventually grew into a proper album, and parts of this would also find their way into the Sanctum live sets subsequently.
Produced by Samuel Durling of Mental Destruction Parca Pace offers a variety of industrial sounds

that unfold in a dark ambient atmosphere, held together by tribal beats and hypnotic neo-classical passages.

 
Memory

Inade – Aldebaran (1996)

Country: Germany

 

Tracklist

1. Signals From 68 Dimensions 11:21
2. Signals From 68 Dimensions 07:01
3. The Conquest Of Being Separated 10:54
4. The Conquest Of Being Separated 04:49
5. The Crushing Of Earthly Foundations 09:09
6. The Crushing Of Earthly Foundations 05:46
7. The End Of The Beginning 07:45
8. The End Of The Beginning 06:01

 

 German duo consisting of Knut Enderlein and René Lehmann

specializing in warped, strange and hypnotic sounds since 1991.
"Aldebaran" is the first pillar of Inade´s Audio Mythology with walls of solid pulsating sound waves,

crushing explosions of stellar noises, wails and voices dragged from the very depths of space itself, 

along with blanketing swathes of night-encrusted atonal skitterings echoing in dark cathedrals.
The album focuses on the German Vril society myths of "Aldebaran",

the black sun of the secret knowledge, from which universal spirituality is said to originate.
The ultimate document of deep and cavernous dark ambient.

 
Memory

Organ 31 – Spiritus Sanctum (1985)

Country: United States

 

Tracklist

 Spiritus Lycanthropique
1. Hounds Of Hell 05:31
2. Dog Star 09:34
3. Danbhalah La Flambeau 07:48
4. Digitaria 06:02
Hymn Of Ur
5. The Gate Way 04:28
6. Sumerian Charm Against Daemons That Assail In The Night 07:11
7. ...And He Strayed From The Path With She 04:17
8. Niether-Niether 04:42
9. Kether 10:12

 

Organhouse is the umbrella since 1982 for the following groups Organ 31, Aktion Direkt, and Organization 31 

originally from Non-Dasein (Sherpa Studio) Fullerton, CA USA.
Non-Dasein founded by members of Republic Of Sherpa

 and previous tenants were Fullerton punk rock legends The Mechanics.

Groups and persons that vied for studio time and performed there include: Republic Of Sherpa, LINT,  

Topper Krause & The T-Birds, Tim Maag, Toxic Era, TAO MAO, Bile, Aktion Direkt, Goat,  

Organhouse, KORE, DI, Whale, SPFN, Zits, Social Distortion, Torn Memory and many more.
In Spring of 1986 Organhouse would move to the mountains in northern New Mexico

where they are currently producing and (re) releasing music once again.
The official name used for all current releases is Organhouse 

while past re-issues will be under their originating names respectively.

 
Memory

Cursed For Eternity – Cold Reality (Demo 1997)

Country: United States

 

Tracklist

1. Cursed For Eternity 03:47
2. To Know Pain 03:47
3. Bleed These Tears 04:20
4. Ashes Of Temptation 03:08
5. Lifeless 04:59

 

Cursed For Eternity was formed in June 1994 by Mike (vox/guitar), Pat guitar), and Jeff (drums).
After covering Slayer, Mayhem and other influential bands for a short time,

Josh joined on bass and the band began writing its own material.
Josh then left shortly before their demo was recorded to focus on his drumming in his other band, Destro, 

leaving Mike to handle the bass tracks.
In August of 1997, the band recorded on a four track five songs that that included on their first demo entitled "Cold Reality". The demo received favorable reviews in several metal 'zines and around 200 copies were sold.
Jay filled in on bass for shows and ended up joining the band to begin work in August of 1998

 on their second demo "Beyond The Unbound" that was released in August of 1999.
The songs on this demo are much more complex and experimental, yet the brutality increased as well.
Cursed For Eternity eventually disbanded in November 1999.
Mike, Jeff and Jay moved on to form Hirudinea and also are participating in bands like Embryonic Cryptopathia,

Cruentation, Impenitent Thief and Mucophagus while Pat and Josh formed the band Gutter.

 
Memory

Atman – Like Pure Unawaited Magic (1996)

Country: Spain

 

Tracklist

 1. Prelude... On My Existence 01:10
2. Some Impressions From The Kingdom Of Plenitude 05:13
3. Beautiful Or Beautiless 04:23
4. Poetry And Passion (The Illumination Of The Aura) 06:00
5. Personification Of A Feeling 04:15
6. Remembrances of a Moment 05:15
7. Martyrs, Blasphemizers And The Sick 05:06
8. A World Without You, Imagination 05:43
9. An Epilog, A Fairwell... 02:10

 

 Another early Catalan black metal project that was formed in 1992, featuring Kali Yuga Psy Atman (Drums),

Koan Psy Atman (Guitars) and Darshan (Vocals, Guitars, Bass).
"Like Pure Unawaited Magic" was their debut album, recorded between 1994 and 1995

on an eight-track analogue at Metall Pesad Studio in Barcelona,

and presents a mix of fast black metal with atmospheric/experimental parts

with the addition of unique operatic soprano vocals by Fuencisla.
During the period 2001 - 2011 four more albums were released, followed by a split with Melangia in 2019.

 
Memory

Sign Of KatuMarus – In Nostro Omnium Fletu (Demo 1995)

Country: Spain

 

Tracklist

 1. In Nostro Omnium Fletu 06:08
2. Mayhemic Archangels Reach The Highest Of The Agonies 03:40
3. Under The Purest Blackened Skies 07:35
4. The Cries Of The Thousand Legions 04:39
5. But Eternals Beheld His Vast Forests (Judas Iscariot Cover) 07:48

 

 Short lived Catalan project created around 1995 by Katu-Marus 

(aka Jordi Martinez also in Dawn Ov Hate, ex-Gorthaur, ex-Asgaroth, ex-Beheaded Lamb).
Sign Of KatuMarus was one of the first acts to emerge from the scene in Catalonia

together with bands like Ork, Zhatsaraeth and Gorthaur.
The project released only one demo in 1995 entitled "In Nostro Omnium Fletu"

and also participated on the Judas Iscariot tribute album "To The Triumph Of Evil" in 2006,

covering the song "But Eternals Beheld His Vast Forest".
"In Nostro Omnium Fletu" was re-released in 2006 on CD by Ad-Inferos label

and later in 2023 on cassette by Pesta Negra Records.

 
Memory

Red Harvest – Hybreed (1996)

Country: Norway

 

Tracklist

1. MaztürNation 03:13
2. The Lone Walk 10:07
3. Mutant 03:42
4. After All... 04:20
5. Ozrham 09:44
6. On Sacred Ground 09:34
7. The Harder They Fall 04:07
8. Underwater 08:33
9. Monumental 06:22
10. In Deep 12:27
11. The Burning Wheel 05:54

 

 Red Harvest is a Norwegian industrial metal band, formed in 1989 as a Slayer tribute band.
They released the demo "Occultica" in 1989 followed by the demo "Psychotica" in 1990,

before releasing their debut album "Nomindsland" in 1992.
From 1994, with the album "There's Beauty In The Purity Of Sadness" the band moved towards

an experimental hybrid of progressive metal, gothic rock, industrial, and doom metal.
1995's "The Maztürnation" and 1996's "HyBreed" allowed the band to reach a wider audience,

resulting in them opening for American gothic metal act Type O Negative on their European tour in 1997.
In 1998, they released an EP entitled "NewRage World Music", which was re-released in 2001

and contains the original EP and four bonus tracks with minor alterations under the title of "New World Rage Music".

After the original EP release, the band perfected their progressive industrial-tinged sound

and their follow-up "Cold Dark Matter" album was released in 2000.
In 2002, "Sick Transit Gloria Mundi" was nominated for a Spellemannprisen,

the Norwegian equivalent of a Grammy Award and an alternative Grammy in the "Best Metal Album" category.
In 2004, Red Harvest released the album "Internal Punishment Programs" and in 2006 the "Harvest Bloody Harvest" DVD.
"A Greater Darkness" followed in early 2007 and in 2008, they released "The Redline Archives",

a compilation of remixes and alternate versions of previously released tracks along with a number of unreleased songs.
From 1998 and later their sound drew elements from industrial metal bands such as Godflesh and Ministry, Neurosis, Voivod,

fellow Norwegian black metal bands and certain styles of electronica, such as drum'n'bass, industrial, and gabber.
The band played a show on 24 October 2009 in Oslo, to mark the twentieth anniversary from their formation.
According to their official website, Red Harvest disbanded in May 2010, stating no specific reasons for the breakup.

They eventually reformed 5 years later in 2015.
Most of their members are also part of the project Dunkelheit.

 
Memory

Raism – The Very Best Of Pain (MCD 1996)

Country: Greece / Finland

 

Tracklist

1. Chaosphere 03:54
2. Killing Machine 04:49
3. Les 120 Journees De Sodome (A Velvet Ballad For Desade) 04:37
4. Alienation 04:10
5. What Kind Of Hell Is This Anyway? 04:32

 

 Raism was the continuation of Diabolos Rising project that featured Magus Wampyr Daoloth (Thou Art Lord,

The Magus, ex-Necromantia, ex-N.A.O.S., ex-Danse Macabre) and Mika Luttinen (Impaled Nazarene).

The band took its moniker from Gilles De Rais and here the dark atmosphere of Diabolos Rising is left aside

for a more groovier and catchier industrial metal melodies with anti-social and misanthropic themes.

Sotiris Vayenas of Septic Flesh is handling the guitars

while Spiros Antoniou (also from Septic Flesh) is responsible for the cover art of the MCD.

In 1997 Raism released their only full length album entitled "Aesthetic Terrorism"

where most of the tracks are followed by a hardcore techno remix version of them.

 
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GLOD – Gnosis (1995)

Country: United States

 

Tracklist

1. Black Song For A Dead Sun 06:03
2. Overmind 04:46
3. Redgnosis 11:37
4. Breath Of Fire 11:10
5. Return To Zero 13:15
6. Molecular Noisefloor 21:19

 

 GLOD (aka G.L.O.D. God Loves Over Dose) officially began around 1988 and consisted of Frank107 on vocals,

effects and manipulations, David Martin samplers and keyboards and Michael Dead on stick guitar.
A couple of home-recorded tapes were put out in limited editions,

the first being "23V" and the second being "The Gold Tape".

Around that time Frank, Shelley Soma and Mike Dead began to put out the self-published booklets,

on each solstice and equinox, which later became known as "Glod Propaganda".

As work commenced on the self-titled first LP, which was initially put out as a limited edition on marbelized clear vinyl,

then later on CD with additional tracks, GLOD coalesced into a coherent sonic endeavor

comprised of Frank, David, Mike and SSoma as a percussionist and auxillary vocalist.

Wolfgang joined late in the production, in time to make it on the CD as a second percussionist for the song "Sacriscar".
Their first CD was an exploration of sound and texture in a ritualistic format,

with not much regard for commerciality or the numerous technical obstacles which confronted the band members.

At the same time their early live performances quickly gained them attention with their occult symbolism,

ritualistic drumming, body manipulations and usage of blood sacrifice.
After the release of the first CD, Mike Dead departed the band, choosing to pursue his own path.
Also the band upgraded their home studio equipment, played some live dates around the US

(including some in the Midwest with Ordo Equitum Solis) and produced a video titled "A Private Release",

which was a sort of documentary to the events which centered around the making of the first CD.
With work on the new CD underway, GLOD signed on with the Italian label Musica Maxima Magnetica,

which also re-released the first CD in Europe.

For "Gnosis" GLOD worked with guitarist Dreike, Wolfgang shifted from drums to bass guitar

and a new drummer, Xian, was joined from the Detroit percussive band Batterie Acid.

On the visual side, Frank and SSoma produced the cover artwork and text.
"Gnosis" is a more coherent elaboration of the gnostic state that the band explored with their first release.

It explores ritualistically styled old elegies using the interplay of violin, trumpet and kettledrums 

juxtaposed with sublimely textured samples, non-traditional guitar and aggressive bass.
Weaving seductive rhythms, psychedelia-tinged trance laden with atavistic percussion and ecstatic vocal chants.
The compilations "Magnetic Submission" and the Charnel Music release "Arrhythmia III" followed.
By 1996 GLOD started working on their third CD that saw the light of day in 1999 under the title "Babe In Abyss".

 
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Alquimia – "Coatlicue" Goddess Of The Earth (1992)

 

Country: Mexico

 

Tracklist

Coatlicue Diosa De La Tierra:    
I. Coatepec (Hill Of Snakes) 02:38
II. Tlilán (The Temple Of Darkness) 01:48
III. Coatlicue (The Goddess Of The Earth) 03:11
IV. Festividades (Festivities) 02:56
V. Danza De Xilonem (Xilonem's Dance) 04:26
VI. La Dualidad De La Diosa (The Duality Of The Goddess) 03:10
VII. Procesión (Procession) 02:45
VIII. Ofrenda (Offertory) 03:49
IX. Sacrificio (Sacrifice) 05:53
10. Walkyrias 05:55
11. Alkaest 04:19
12. Avatar 04:08
13. Aura 03:34
14. Inquisición 03:28

 

 A project that started in the late 80s by Mexican female multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Margarita Saavedra.
Her work explore the experimental scene with risky blends of musical genres achieving a sonic amalgamation.
While her basic tracks feature vocals and piano, Alquima enhances her recordings with layers of looped vocals,

electronic processors, sound effects, samples, synthesizers, gongs and bells.

The result is a sound that combines the musical traditions of Latin America

with influences of avant-garde, classical and improvisational music.
Alquimia developed an early love of music and singing, partly from her mother, a classical opera singer.

She went on to study in France and Canada, before making her permanent home in England.

Although she has often been far from home, her interest in the ethnic musical styles of her home country

made her learn various pre-Columbian percussion instruments and flutes,

while her search for new sounds inspired her use of modern music technology.
Alquimia has recorded many albums, both as a solo artist and with writers and musicians such as Hans-Joachim Roedelius,

Rüdiger Gleisberg, Peter Mergener, Anton Zinkl, Mark Powell, Art Of Infinity, Carlos Robledo and others.

 
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