Saturday 31 December 2022

Memories Yet To Come 2022



In alphabetical order:
 
 
 
1. ᛋᚢᚱᛏᚱ ᚹᛟᚢᚾᛞᛋ (aka Surtr Wounds) – ᛋ​ᚢ​ᚱ​ᛏ​ᚱ ᚹ​ᛟ​ᚢ​ᚾ​ᛞ​ᛋ (Full-length 2022)
 
 
2. Aeon Winds – Extinguishing The Light (EP 2022)
 

3. Aethek & Lustmord – Scorn (Original Soundtrack 2022)
 
 
4. African Imperial Wizard – Nzinga Mbande (Full-length 2022)
 
 
 
5. Akolyytti – Akolyytti (Full-length 2022)
 
 
6. Archgoat – All Christianity Ends (EP 2022)
  
 
 
7. Auriferous Flame – The Great Mist Within (Full-length 2022)


8. Dødskvad – Kompendium - Krønike I & Krønike II (Compilation 2022)
 
 
 
9. Devil Master – Ecstasies Of Never Ending Night (Full-length 2022)
 
 
 
 10. Embrace Of Thorns – Entropy Dynamics (Full-length 2022)
 
 
 
11. Essence Of Blasphemers – Between The Five Spikes (EP 2022)

 
 
12. Eternality – Dea​þ​wyrd (Full-length 2022)
 
 
 
13. Förgjord – Ruumissaarna Pt. 1 (Full-length 2022)
 
 
14. Gam – Hvisken Fra Skyggernes Vrå (Full-length 2022)

 
15. Gates Of Londra – Servants Of The Runestaff (Full-length 2022)

 
 
16. Imperator – Threnody Of Wind (Full-length 2022)
 
 
 
17. Maȟpíya Lúta – W​ó​ohitike (Full-length 2022)
 
 
 
18. Menace Ruine – Nekyia (Full-length 2022)
 
 
 
19. Morrigan – Anwynn (Full-length 2022)
 
 
20. Night Of The Vampire – Eternal Night (EP 2022)

 
 
21. Nightfell – Never Comes The Storm (Full-length 2022)
 
 
 
22. Old Nick – Ghost O' Clock (EP 2022)
 
 
 
23. Pilori – Quand Bien M​ê​me L'Enfer Et Le D​é​luge S'abattraient Sur Nous (Full-length 2022)
 
 
 
24. Prometheus – Aornos (Full-length 2022)
 
 
 
25. The Gloomy Radiance Of The Moon – When The Nameless Stars Serenade Your Ravenous Usurpation Of The Blackness  (Full-length 2022)

 
 
26. The Lovecraft Sextet – Miserere (Full-length 2022)
 
 
 
27. Tormentador – Morte Negra (Full-length 2022)
 
 
 
28. Triumvir Foul – Onslaught To Seraphim (Full-length 2022)
 
 
 
29. Vetëvrakh – Satanic Black Moloch (Full-length 2022)
 
 
30. Wampyrinacht – Night Of The Desecration (Full-length 2022)

 
 
 

Sunday 25 December 2022

Het Zweet – Het Zweet (1987)


Country: Netherlands

Tracklist
1. Cry Or Laugh 02:30
2. From The Lowland 06:56
3. Topsy Turvy 06:36
4. Wild Man 02:53
5. Ram 02:51
6. On Earth 04:33
7. Red Robe 04:41
8. Massive Trance 07:11

Het Zweet was an experimental/ritualistic/tribal/industrial project
created by Marien Van Oers and formed in Breda, Netherlands.
Active since early to late 80s Marien started the project as a duo with Eric Haamers 
under the name Forced Run and released their self-titled cassette in 1982 on Marien's own DIY label Het Zweet,
which later next year transformed into Zweepslag in order to release his first solo tapes.
Forced Run gradually turned into Het Zweet and released material on such legendary labels
as Staaltape and Dossier while also appeared on many international compilations.
Het Zweet music consisted of percussion pieces played upon organic noises, ritualistic-ambiance, soundscapes
and mantras intended to produce trance-like effects via rhythm and repetition.
Music was played on self-built instruments (shopping trolleys, blown cardboard tubes etc.)
with Marien's own vocals and extra pre-recorded sounds.
The music was often placed in the industrial camp and linked with the likes of Test Dept. and Z'EV.
Het Zweet's trip lasted until 1988, when Marien eliminated all public music activities.
Since then he was recording only for himself and this period (1992-2012) can be heard on the compilation
"Compilatie Blue Room" released by his friend Mark Rietveld (Mor Time D'or),
after Marien passed away on January 8, 2013.
"Het Zweet" was the only material by Marien that was released on vinyl and in 2022 was remastered and reissued
with five bonus tracks by Klanggalerie on CD and by Staalplaat on double LP.
The Memory link contains as bonus the excellent "Massive Trance" cassette that was released in 1983.

Sunday 18 December 2022

Thirst – The Might Of The Pagan Belief (1994)


Country: Poland

Tracklist
1. Adremelech 09:25
2. The Book Of Knowledge Snatched From The Abyss Of The Loss 05:29
3. Irresistible Temptation 04:57
4. The Last Hymn That Was Obtained From Flames 06:06
5. A Prayer To The Evil One 05:57
6. Call From The Grave (Bathory Cover) 05:02

Thirst is a Polish black metal band that was formed around 1991-92 in Przasnysz, Masovia.
Some session members of the band Sacrificed were involved
but the primary member was always Occulta (vocals, guitars, keyboards, drum programming).
After the release of a demo-rehearsal tape in 1993 entitled "...Darkness...",
Thirst released in 1994 their debut "The Might Of The Pagan Belief".
The album was recorded during August of 1994 at Gnome Studio and released through Astral Wings Records on cassette.
Occulta was assisted on the release by Morlock (guitars), Aiwass (drums) and session member Norberd Osiński (keyboards).
"The Might Of The Pagan Belief" was reissued in 2005 on cassette by Total War 
and in 2021 was published for the first time on vinyl by ASRAR.
A second full length album was released in 2004 under the title "Per Aspera Ad Astra"
and a third one in 2008 entitled "Blacklight", both of them on Polish label Alles Stenar.

Sunday 11 December 2022

Eraserhead Original Soundtrack (1982)


Composers: David Lynch, Alan R. Splet, Peter Scott Ivers

Tracklist
1. Side A (Digah's Stomp, Lenox Avenue Blues, Stompin' The Bug, Messin' Around With The Blues) 20:08
2. Side B (In Heaven - Lady In The Radiator Song) 18:22
3. In Heaven (Lady In The Radiator Song) 01:38
4. Pete's Boogie (Previously Unreleased) 03:58
5. Eraserhead Dance Mix 10:16
 
 "Eraserhead" is a 1977 American surrealist horror film written, directed, produced, and edited by David Lynch.
Lynch also created its score and sound design, which included pieces by a variety of other musicians.
Shot in black and white, it was Lynch's first feature-length effort following several short films.
Starring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates, Judith Anna Roberts, Laurel Near, and Jack Fisk
it tells the story of a man who is left to care for his grossly deformed child in a desolate industrial landscape.
The soundtrack of the film was composed by David Lynch and Alan R. Splet
and was originally released via I.R.S. Records on LP in the United States on June 15, 1982 with 5 tracks.
Alan R. Splet (December 31, 1939 – December 2, 1994) was an American sound designer and sound editor
known for his collaborations with director David Lynch on "The Elephant Man", "Dune" and "Blue Velvet".
Due to being legally blind, Splet rarely traveled and mainly worked from Berkeley, California.
In 1980, he won an Oscar for his work on the film "The Black Stallion"
and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing for "Never Cry Wolf".
The mood and tone of "Eraserhead" and its soundtrack were influenced by Philadelphia's post-industrial history.
Lynch lived in the city while studying painting at the Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts
and was fascinated by its feeling of constant danger, describing it both as a:
"sick, twisted, violent, fear ridden, decaying place" and "beautiful, if you see it the right way.".
Lynch and Splet used avant-garde approaches to recording on the soundtrack,
including crafting almost every sound in the soundtrack from scratch using bizarre methods.
The ambiance of the love scene in the movie, for example,
was produced by recording air blown through a microphone as it sat inside a bottle floating in a bathtub.
Lynch and Splet worked "9 hours a day for 63 days" to produce the soundtrack and all of the sound effects in the film.
Splet recalls the sound effects Lynch called on him to produce for "Eraserhead" as "snapping, humming, buzzing, banging, like lightning, shrieking, squealing” over the five years it took to produce the film and its soundtrack.
Also during the production of the soundtrack, Lynch drew two telephone wires for Splet,
each line indicating between four and five pitches he wanted to be represented in the movie's music and sound effects.
When Splet played Lynch pipe organ parts from American jazz pianist, organist, Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller
(May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) as soundtrack material, Lynch was immediately confident in the pipe-organ style,
stating that he had "never listened to any other kind of music for ("Eraserhead"). I knew that was it."
Except the excerpts of organ music by Fats Waller the soundtrack also included piano parts by Phil Worde
and the song "In Heaven (Lady In The Radiator Song)",
written for the film and sang by Peter Scott Ivers (September 20, 1946 – March 3, 1983).

Sunday 4 December 2022

The Eye – Supremacy (1997)


Country: France

Tracklist
1. The Eternal Oath Of Lie 06:37
2. The Land 02:50
3. The Call Of A Thousand Souls 07:07
4. My Supremacy 06:26
5. Aidyl 03:10
6. The Purest Domination In Wisdom (The Eternal Eye) 05:12
7. Your Weakness... (Bastard Son Of Fear) 05:55
8. The Eye 02:09

Formed around 1996 in Mondeville, Lower Normandy, France, The Eye was a side-project of Vindsval
better known from his band Blut Aus Nord among his other acts.
Much like the early Blut Aus Nord albums, Vindsval recorded everything on his own,
and the style of music is quite similar to that of the first Blut Aus Nord albums,
meaning dark, repetitive compositions of cold, hypnotic black metal.
In its short lived existence The Eye released a demo in 1996 entitled "Normanniska"
and a full length album in 1997 on the French label Velvet Music International entitled "Supremacy".
In 2014 there was a rumor that Vindsval had reformed the project
this time with the help of Tor-Helge Skei (aka Cernunnus of Manes, Manii) but no news have surfaced since then.
The Memory link contains as bonus the tracks from their demo.