Friday, 31 October 2025

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.

Monday, 20 October 2025

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.

Sunday, 19 October 2025

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".