Tertium Non Data – The Third Is Not Given (1999)

Country: United States

Tracklist

1. The Boiling Man 04:02
2. Punishment Icon 05:33
3. The Shadow Eater 12:12
4. The Old Ones Have Fallen Away 03:10
5. Hunger Music 05:22
6. Nidhogg (Corpse Eater) 08:42
7. A Spell For Breaking An Opening Into The Sky (Lake Of Fire Remix) 04:34
8. Goddunn 03:20
9. Lust II 10:00
10. Lost Enchantments Of The Flesh 04:17
11. Remnant 08:21
12. The Vacant Chair 04:15
13. Untitled 00:29

Tertium Non Data was formed in 1994 and was the long awaited experimental collaboration 
between John Bergin and Brett Smith.
Both of them had also worked together before in the band Trust Obey.
Smith is noteworthy for his dark-ambient alter ego Caul, 

while Bergin composed his own celebrated style of orchestrated ambience under the name C17H19NO3.
Since forming Tertium Non Data numerous compositions were created.
Their first recording was self-released in 1994.
It was followed in 1995 by two more self-released collections, "The Vacant Chair" and "Lust".
"The Third Is Not Given", collects remastered versions of the more accomplished tracks from these two collections, 
as well as two unreleased tracks from 1996/97, and three new tracks recorded in 1999.
Tertium Non Data's debut effort can be described as tense, cinematic pieces
blending seamlessly with haunting soundscapes, thereby creating a cold, black atmosphere.
The name of the band is latin for "The Third Is Not Given". According to John Bergin: 

"It is an alchemic term which refers to the process of combining two disparate elements to create a new, third element. 

The process of transformation is a mystery, an unknown.".

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Kerovnian – Far Beyond, Before The Time (1999)

Country: Croatia

Tracklist

1. Those Beneath The Moaning Castle 06:57
2. Far Beyond, Before The Time 08:09
3. The Godless Keep 06:37
4. From The Lands Where The Winds Die 05:27
5. As They Dug Their Way Out Into The Machinery Of Death 11:25
6. Before The Oblivion 05:38

Kerovnian was a dark ambient project of Vlad K. who originated from the Croatian black metal scene, 

with several bands he played in (including Ashes You Leave).
The project started in 1996 as support music for poetry evenings of Vlad’s late friend, Herr Skoko Georges Angelovsky. Eventually it grew into a full project featuring some of the darkest ambient music ever created.
Inspired by stories from horror writer H.P. Lovecraft and Necronomicon,  

Vlad successfully recreated the horrors from Lovecraft’s stories into dark ambient music.
Kerovnian released two album, "Far Beyond, Before The Time" (1999) and "From The Depths Of Haron" (2001) 

both of them through the Cold Spring label.

"Far Beyond, Before The Time" was also re-issued in 2015 with 4 bonus previously unreleased tracks, 

that were recorded during the same sessions.
Before dissolving Kerovnian Vlad K. was working on the third album called "Lullabies For The Crawling Chaos".

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Chu Ishikawa – Tetsuo I - II Original Soundtrack (1998)

Composer: Chu Ishikawa

Tracklist

1. Megatron 05:04
2. The Sixth Tooth 06:34
3. Rana - Porosa Porosa I 05:47
4. Mausoleum 04:16
5. Lost 06:39
6. Dinosauroid 03:16
7. Rana - Porosa Porosa II 01:57
8. A Burned Figure 04:05

Chu Ishikawa (石川忠 Ishikawa Chū, 1966 – 2017) was a Japanese composer and musician, 

best known for creating the soundtracks of many films by Shinya Tsukamoto and Takashi Miike.
Ishikawa picked up his first synthesizer at the age of 15, and entered the music scene with his first band at the age of 18.

The alternative metal percussion unit, Zeitlich Vergelter, 

received a warm welcome from the indie scene, alongside bands such as the Ruins and the Boredoms.
After their break up, he continued as a solo percussion artist, 

and wrote his first soundtrack in 1988 for the cult classic Tetsuo/The Iron Man, (directed by Shinya Tsukamoto).

His work was hailed worldwide for its Armageddon-esque feel.

He was of course selected to work on the sequel, Tetsuo II/Body Hammer, 

where he pursued the expressions of metal acoustics with his self made instruments.
In 1993 he formed the industrial "Metal Percussion-Heavy Rock/Punk" unit Der Eisenrost.
Unfortunately Chu Ishikawa, according to the Der Eisenrost official page, 
had been struggling with an illness for a while and passed away on the 21st of December 2017, at the age of 51.
Tetsuo I - II Original Soundtrack is a re-issue of the 1992 Tetsuo CD and features tracks from both films.

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