Ewigkeit – Starscape (1999)

 

Country: England

Tracklist

1. Point Of Origin 05:30
2. Unveiling The Mystery 03:39
3. The Legend Of Keshara 03:40
4. The Return Of Planet 'X' 04:01
5. Deviant 00:54
6. Lightspeed Evolution 04:00
7. Starscape 04:06
8. Capsule 04:36
9. Birth Of Horus 03:39
10. Space Symphony 06:15
11. Dragons Burning 03:12

Ewigkeit was formed in 1995 as a musical project of English artist James Fogarty

 aka Mr. Fog (In The Woods..., Old Forest, Orcrypt etc.).
Ewigkeit started out playing black metal but later became much more experimental.
After the release of the first album, "Battle Furies" on a short-lived Neat Records subsidiary called Eldethorn,

Fogarty gave his entire music collection away to an Oxfam charity shop

so that he would be free of influences creating his next work. 

"Starscape" was received well by the extreme music press, but label folded and the project was put on hiatus.
During the missing years, Fogarty concentrated on his other black metal project "The Meads Of Asphodel"

and his collaboration with Jimmy Cauty on the multi-media project Blacksmoke.
In 2003 "Land Of Fog", was eventually released on Metal Age Productions.
Fogarty himself regarded this as the first Ewigkeit album, and it gained him enough attention

to get his project signed to Earache Records, on which "Radio Ixtlan" was released in 2004.
Released in 2005, "Conspiritus", a conceptual album examining conspiracy theories,

has been hailed by many as "marking a maturation of Ewigkeit's eclectic sound.
Also in 2005, a music video was made for the track "Its Not Reality".
In 2006, Ewigkeit made a live video recording entitled "Ewigkeit - Live From A Bunker",

which displayed the project in a live setting acting as a free "online" gig.
The 25 minute set (filmed in a Nuclear Bunker in the vicinity of Brighton, England) was uploaded to Google video.
Also recorded was a free download mp3 EP, "Return To The Land Of Fog".
The project was disbanded in March of 2007 and Fogarty started a new project called The Bombs Of Enduring Freedom.
Ewigkeit was reactivated in 2012 again with a black metal sound, and three more studio albums were released

"Back To Beyond" (2012), "Cosmic Man" (2017) and a re-recorded version of "Battle Furies" entitled "Battle Furies 2.017".
In 2019 "DISClose" album and a re-recorded version of "Starscape" entitled "Starscape 2.019" were also released.

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Trent Reznor – Quake (1996)

Composer: Trent Reznor

Tracklist

1. Untitled 1 05:10
2. Untitled 2 02:28
3. Untitled 3 08:22
4. Untitled 4 06:07
5. Untitled 5 07:26
6. Untitled 6 08:40
7. Untitled 7 05:37
8. Untitled 8 06:29
9. Untitled 9 03:33
10. Untitled 10 05:18

Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American singer, songwriter,

musician, record producer, and film score composer.
He is the founder, lead vocalist, and principal songwriter of the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, 

which he founded in 1988 and of which he was the sole official member

until adding long-time collaborator Atticus Ross as a permanent member in 2016.
Reznor and Ross scored the David Fincher films "The Social Network" (2010), "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" (2011),

and "Gone Girl" (2014), winning the Academy Award for Best Original Score for "The Social Network"

and the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media for "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo".

They also scored the 2018 film "Bird Box".
Quake is a first-person shooter video game developed by id Software

 and published by GT Interactive in 1996 as the first game in the Quake series.
Quake's music and sound design was composed by Trent Reznor using ambient soundscapes

and synthesized drones to create atmospheric tracks.
The collaboration between Reznor and id Software occurred strictly due to a mutual admiration for each other's work.

Reznor provided his services to Quake completely free of charge.
The music on Quake has been described as dark, immersive, and intended to accentuate the game's oppressive tone.
The soundtrack received positive reception, with many appreciating how the music builds upon the game's atmosphere.
Quake's packaging provides no official song titles.
The game also has some ammo boxes decorated with the Nine Inch Nails logo.

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Megaptera – The Curse Of The Scarecrow (1998)

Country: Sweden

Tracklist

1. Disturbance 07:17
2. Cog-Wheel Machinery 06:30
3. Don't Desecrate The Dead 06:34
4. The Curse Of The Scarecrow 09:38
5. More Disturbance 07:00
6. Hear My Bowels 03:34
7. Kingdom Of Death 05:55
8. Skullfracture 03:25

Megaptera is a long-running dark ambient/death industrial unit
and one of the first to be associated with Sweden's Cold Meat Industry label.
They started on the proto CMI-cassette label Sound Source and then released material on several cult labels
like Slaughter Productions, Art Konkret, SSSM, Release Entertainment, Malignant Records and of course Cold Meat Industry.
From their very first release they were noted as one of the early pioneers of death industrial.
The band's sound combined a dense, hypnotic and heavy cinematic/soundtrack-based industrial atmosphere,
with occasional bass-driven metallic machine rhythms.
Megaptera was created by Mikael Svensson and Magnus Åslund (Pettersson), with Peter Nyström joining them soon after.
Their music was influenced by the CMI related sound and bands like The Klinik, Test Department and Cabaret Voltaire.
"The Curse Of The Scarecrow" was recorded by Mikael Svensson and Peter Nyström 
with the help of Magnus Sundström (The Protagonist, Des Esseintes, Third Eye) on his Amiga 500 and EPS sampler.
A slightly different version of the track "The Curse Of The Scarecrow" was available on the compilation "Territoires Sonores" while the track "Don't Desecrate The Dead" was featured on CIM's compilation "The Absolute Supper"
and helped with the promotion of Megaptera.
The band is still active today with Peter Nyström being the only remaining member
and in 2019 he released the latest album entitled "A Horse In The Eye Is Part Of The Art".

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