Mortar – Ancient Rites (1999)

Country: Italy

 

Tracklist

 1. Entrance 04:29
2. Lunar Influence 05:57
3. Hunting The Beast 04:51
4. Black Souls 05:36
5. Exmoor 07:04
6. Into The Abyss 10:26
7. Relics 4:56
8. The Full Moon 03:14

 

Dark ambient/industrial project created by Italian musician Moreno Daldosso.
Based out of Nova Milanese in Lombardia, the project serves as a side branch of Daldosso's creative venture

who is mostly known for his other industrial/noise  project Murder Corporation.
While Murder Corporation focuses heavily on aggressive mechanical noised and extreme industrial themes,

Mortar leans into slower, atmospheric death ambient and cinematic textures.
Daldosso also manages Murder Release, an underground record label used to distribute his own material

alongside physical releases from iconic industrial and noise artists like Maurizio Bianchi and Atrax Morgue.
"Ancient Rites" was released in 1999 through Blade Records 

as a limited edition of 60 hand-numbered copies CDr in a special packaging.

 
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Controlled Bleeding – The Poisoner (1997)

Country: United States

 

Tracklist

1. Part One 33:39
2. Part Two 25:21

 

Controlled Bleeding was an experimental music group based in Massapequa, New York.
The group was founded by Paul Lemos, the group's only consistent member.
Most of Controlled Bleeding's released recordings feature two main collaborators,

Chris Moriarty and vocalist Joe Papa, who both died in the late 2000s.
Since their first full-length release in 1983, Controlled Bleeding released over thirty albums

spanning several different genres, many of which were released on notable independent labels.
Their cross-genre approach combined with the out-of-print status of many of the group's releases

is reminiscent of the work of other experimental and cross-genre groups of the 80s and 90s such as Coil and Swans.
"The Poisoner" was released through Soleilmoon Recordings and it is a deeply disturbing,

richly dynamic aural nightmare that fulfills the potential that was always indicated in the group’s work.
It is consisted of two long tracks and features, beside Lemos,

San Diego experimental composer Guy Lohnes on processed guitar, as well as Stephanie Trang Dinh on vocals.
On 11th February 2020, Paul Lemos announced via the official Controlled Bleeding Facebook page that the band is no more.

 
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Nick Parkin – Descent (1997)

Country: England

 

Tracklist

1. Night 06:54
2. Migration 07:33
3. Shoals 04:12
4. Dusk Crossing 10:43
5. Snake Hymn 02:12
6. Underworld 07:37
7. Heart Of Stone 11:37
8. Etheric Memory 06:24
9. Passage 04:06

 

First solo album of multi-instrumentalist Nick Parkin (Stillpoint, Tuu etc.).
Primordial sounds mixed with low frequencies, drone passages and manipulated strings.
Released on Stefano Musso's (Alio Die) Italian label Hic Sunt Leones.

 
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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.

 
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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.

 
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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.

 
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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.

 
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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.

 
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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.

 
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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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Iron Halo Device – The Collapsing Void (1998)

Country: United States

 

Tracklist

 Pulsating Flesh
1. Introduction - Eyespark, The Man 12:04
2. Penetration - Intruding The Skin 10:37
3. Reflection - The Collapsing Void 15:41
4. Completion - An Empty Anthem 09:14
Spliced & Segmented
5. Creation - The Abduction Of Winter 05:54
6. Evolution - The Expanding Void 04:19
7. Observation - Red Memory 03:32
8. Contemplation - A Passion Vessel 03:29

 

 Project of Philip T. Easter (aka eyespark), member of Stone Glass Steel and Death In Arcadia.
Additionally, Easter was the creative director at Malignant Records

 and he has done the mastering for a large number of releases in the industrial/noise genre.
"The Collapsing Void" was the debut album of the project offering a mix of heavy pounding drum patterns

with experimental noise and dark ambient atmospheres combined with many samples.
Tracks 1-4 were recorded live at the Hurricane in Kansas City on July 31, 1996

while tracks 5-8 were compiled from home demos recorded in August and September 1995.
Released through Malignant Records in 1998 in plain jewel case CD with transparent tray and 3-fold out booklet.

 
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Nightmare Lodge – Negative Planet (1994)

Country: Italy

Tracklist

1. First Contrast 01:15
2. Baby / Death 06:34
3. Become Visible 03:59
4. The Bird Comes Back 03:44
5. Negative Planet 04:32
6. Mirage IV 05:56
7. Toxic Ways 02:54
8. Grey Wind 03:31
9. The Glorious Animal 03:20
10. Presence 04:54
11. Endless Pleasure (On) 03:49

Nightmare Lodge started in June 1987 as a musical project founded by Minus Habens Records / Disturbance founder

Ivan Iusco alongside vocalist B. Mazzilli and bass player Gianni Mantelli,

when the trio decided to embark on a path in search of their own dreamlike musical dimensions.
Soon they entered a small recording studio in Bari to record their first cassette "Big Mother In The Strain",

that was released on December 12, 1987 as the first publication of Minus Habens founded in the same year by Iusco.
After a few months, because of trivial disputes, the lineup was changed.
Ivan found himself completely alone deciding the Nightmare Lodge destiny.
In the meantime, he met female vocalist M. Cioce, that was selected

to be involved in two tracks on the split LP "The Oneiric Transgression / Noise And Dream",

with the Roman band Lyke Wake, the first vinyl release of Minus Habens Records in 1989.
When the album was out, M. Cioce left and B. Mazzilli returned.

Nightmare Lodge succeeded to assemble two new works across 1990 and 1991,

a split LP, " Ice Skin / The Gospel According To The Men In Black" with the band Blackhouse and a tape entitled "Asylum".
These two releases marked a long retirement period for the duo

caused by the compulsory military service that overwhelmed Ivan and B. Mazzilli.
In that time Nightmare Lodge produced only some tracks on various compilations around the world.
With the relocation of Mazzilli in Veneto in 1992 and the collaboration of Ivan Iusco with the Belgian Dirk Ivens for Dive,

the post-industrial period of Nightmare Lodge closed.
When Ivan came back from the military service he was busy in raising again his record label Minus Habens.
Due to this, the Nightmare Lodge inactivity existed until 1994.
In that year a new friendship born with the mysterious Russolo,

a very talented electronic composer passionate with horror and science fiction cinema.
A perfect union was made and since then Nightmare Lodge released a CD trilogy

("Negative Planet", "Luminescence", "The Enemy Within"),

that received considerable attention from critics and audiences in various countries.
In 1998 Nightmare Lodge composed the soundtrack (in collaboration with the Sicilian musician Paolo Bigazzi)

of the independent science fiction film "Syrena" by Mariano Equizzi

followed by two albums ("Blind Miniatures" and "Tentacled") for the U.S. label Red Stream.
In the summer of 2000, Nightmare Lodge, with guitarist Nicola Cipriani,

performed live for the first time in Calabria a soundtrack written specifically for the film "The War Of The Worlds".
Ivan Iusco has also involved with the project It and composed two songs for the sci-fi video game "Cyberpunk 2077".

 
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Immortal Agony – A Virgin Among The Living Dead (1996)

Country: Italy

Tracklist

1. In Blood We Trust 11:25
2. La Fontaine De Sang 04:23
3. A Very Strange Agony 06:22
4. The Haunted Boudoir 08:19
5. Gothic 04:52
6. Soporiferous Sex (Liquid Emission) 04:56
7. Pagan Orgasms 03:16

Another project of Emanuele Lago (Black Mountains Chronicles, Tombstone, Crisantemo Nero etc.) 

that focuses on death/ambient and horror/industrial soundscapes.
Originally released in 1996 on his label Psychotic Release on a limited edition cassette with 2 inserts,

a little ceramic bat and a small booklet with images for each track.

Later in 2001 it was reissued on CDr together with his previous album "The Queen Of Heaven & The Queen Of Hell".

 
Memory

Drowned God: Conspiracy Of The Ages Soundtrack (1996)

Composers: Tom Smyth & Will Joss

Tracklist

1. Bequest Globe 01:26
2. Staircase 1 02:11
3. Staircase 2 02:08
4. Kether 00:57
5. Malchut 01:37
6. Stonehenge 00:54
7. Knight's Torso 00:37
8. The Round Table 01:38
9. Arthurian Myth 01:36
10. Arthurian UFO 00:44
11. Merlin's Oak 00:30
12. Battlefield 00:45
13. The Shore 01:19
14. Templar's Tower 00:33
15. Morgana's Roost 01:36
16. Catacombs 01:06
17. Leonardo's Workshop 1 00:30
18. Leonardo's Workshop 2 01:01
19. Albert Einstein & Isaac Newton 01:29
20. Knight's Head 00:55
21. Puzzle Box 01:06
22. Temple Grounds 1 00:47
23. Temple Grounds 2 00:49
24. Temple Grounds 3 00:30
25. Temple Roof 1 01:22
26. Temple Roof 2 01:18
27. Temple Interior 1 00:48
28. Temple Interior 2 00:44
29. Horus' Prison 01:13
30. Horus 01:18
31. The American Submarine 00:49
32. Noah 1 01:20
33. Noah 2 01:00
34. Noah Organ 01:25
35. Aleister Crowley & Carl Jung 01:06
36. Industrial Underground 1 00:45
37. Industrial Underground 2 00:45
38. Industrial Underground 3 00:22
39. Industrial Underground 4 00:22
40. Industrial Underground 5 00:45
41. Underground Carnival 02:04
42. Illuminati Lodge 01:28
43. Dungeon 01:42
44. Baphomet 01:07
45. Diner 1 01:01
46. Diner 2 01:08
47. Hacker's Caravan 00:31

Drowned God: Conspiracy Of The Ages is a 1996 science fiction adventure game

developed by Epic Multimedia Group and published by Inscape.

The game propounds the conspiracy theory that all of human history is a lie

and that the human race's development and evolution were aided by extraterrestrials.

The player attempts to uncover the truth through the course of the game by traveling to a variety of different worlds,

interacting with historical and fictional characters, and solving puzzles.
Drowned God is based on a forged manuscript written by Harry Horse in 1983,

purported to have been written by 19th-century poet Richard Henry Horne, who shares Horse's birth name.

After facing legal trouble and fines when he attempted to sell the text,

Horse shelved it until playing Myst and The 7th Guest in the mid-1990s,

whereupon he decided a first-person adventure game would be the best way to tell the manuscript's story.
William S. Burroughs was originally scheduled to narrate the game, but died just before he could begin recording.
Drowned God's haunting and atmospheric music was written and performed by the ambient UK music duo,

Tom Smyth & Will Joss, operating under the name Miasma.

 
Memory

Subklinik ‎– Feasting On Souls (1996)

Country: United States

Tracklist

1. Feasting On Souls 08:17
2. Journey Through The Halls Of Darkness 13:44
3. Beyond The Existence Of Time And Space 08:08
4. Pt.III 10:35
5. Pleasant Stench 10:03
6. Corpsegrind 07:47
7. Hardening Of The Arteries 06:56
8. Mortuor Lesson 03:10
9. Tormenter 08:03

Subklinik is another project of Chad Davis (Mortuor, Anu, Draath, Hour Of Thirteen, Obscurae, Old Ghoul etc.)

that was formed in 1995 and is one of the longest running Death Industrial / Black Ambient projects

still active in the USA and celebrating its 30 years of existence.
Here Subklinik offers nightmarish necro-soundscapes from the darkest depths of the mind.
Released on Slaughter Productions as a double cassette and packaged in a VHS box with surgical scissors and cotton.

 
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Asmorod – Involution Toward Chtonian Depths (1997)

Country: France

Tracklist

1. Poison - Transcendance 07:37
2. De Cantico Funebri 06:04
3. For A Brighter Faint Light (Fragile Salicacée Sous Un Terne Suaire) 03:16
4. Through Oceanic Calls 05:49
5. Ïa! Ïa! Cthulhu Fhtagn! 12:47
6. Subplutonary Incubation I 12:19
7. Subplutonary Incubation II (Abandon À La Morphine Céleste) 08:29
8. Chtonian Transubtantiation: Lorsqu'ils Rient Mais Ne Sourient Plus 17:19

Dark Ambient project from France, founded by Nicolas D. Faure

 (Dies Sanguini, Kurotokage, Ligeia's Sore Neurosis, Les Amants Maudits, Ephel Duath) in 1994.
The first demo tape, "Dance In The Winter Fog",

was released in the same year and was a mixture of dungeon synth and black metal.
In 1997 Asmorod released on Solistitium Records their first full-length album titled "Involution Toward Chtonian Depths",

which saw the participation of Cédric Codognet (Sator Absentia) and Vanessa Hidden.

With this album the project started to provide its typical mysterious,

deep dark ambient that distinguishes them from other releases of the same style.
Other albums followed, "A Faint Light Below" in 1998, "Derelict" in 1999, and "Hysope" in 2006.

 
Memory

Umbra – Unclean Spirit (1999)

Country: United States

Tracklist

1. The Valley Of Dry Bones 06:25
2. Poison Control 08:11
3. Lecher 05:23
4. From The Well 04:24
5. Tangleld Gullet 07:01
6. Washed Up On The Banks 07:52
7. Stacking The Dead 06:12
8. The Conscious Dead (Sallow Mix) 07:09
9. Spiders Under The Skin 02:11
10. Hacking The Root 06:26
11. Husk (Remix - Recontextualization By Azoikum) 03:38

Umbra was a collaborative effort between Scott Candey of Gruntsplatter

 and Stephen Petrus of Murderous Vision (In Death's Throes).
The idea for doing a collaborative project arose in late 1998.
Despite the long distance between them, one being in California and the other in Ohio,

by early 1999 they had completed enough material for a full length release

as well as contributing a track to the "Baited Breath" double cassette compilation.
In early April 1999 Stephen visited San Francisco

and together with Scott they were able to play what would be their one and only show.
This performance was recorded and released as a very limited edition CDR titled, "Perish: A Live Document".
The full length album, "Unclean Spirit", was released by The Rectrix Records as their debut offering.
It shows a varied approach while remaining within the sphere of dark experimental.
Moving from dark ambient to more abusive, grating textures,

"Unclean Spirit" also wove in rhythmic elements that shifted from meditative ritualism to tantruming machinery.
Rooted in a dirty lo-fi aesthetic it emerged as a project unique unto itself.
In addition to nine brand new tracks "Unclean Spirit" also features a track, using the album material as soundsource, reinterpreted by Azoikum and a more ambient mix of "The Conscious Dead",

which appeared on the "Baited Breath" compilation.

 
Memory

Predominance – Hindenburg (1998)

Country: Germany

Tracklist

1. Ascending Colossus 05:31
2. Luftschiffe 05:05
3. In Through The Eyes Of Heaven 06:48
4. Encoded Pages (Inade Rmx) 06:13
5. Four Symbols 07:00
6. Under The Blackened Sun 04:51
7. Out From The Eyes Of Heaven 05:49
8. Lakehurst - A Tragic Moment Frozen In Time / Luftschiffe 2002 11:17
9. Epilog 00:37

Predominance was a German Dark Ambient/Industrial project of Gerd "G.Z." Zaunig.
Zaunig began his musical career as a drummer of the German Death Metal/Grindcore band Enslaved in 1989.
In early 1991 he decided to go on his own path creating a new project under the name Dogmatized Machinery.
Together with two other members they experimented with heavy guitars, drum-machines

and tape samples but split in 1993 because of personal differences.
Together with one remaining member of Dogmatized Machinery (M. Heiser)

he formed another project called Death Is the Mother Of Beauty.
A short time later, he also founded his solo project Wolverine, that experiment with Power/Death Industrial.

However, as Wolverine became more intense, all of his other activated projects died.
In December 1994, from the ashes of all the experiences and influences of the past, Zaunig created Predominance.
In early 2000s he also created the project Virologic that focused on manipulating raw computer data into sound.
With the album "Hindenburg" Zaunig delivered a historical concept work on the legendary airship disaster

but also tried to draw parallels with the Led Zeppelin band (a decisive spark in his teenage years

that stimulated his interest in music) through various elements.

The cover motif is intentionally based on that of the first Led Zeppelin LP from 1969.

The track "Luftschiffe" begins like their last regular studio album "In Through The Out Door". 

"Encoded Pages", for example, is a multi-track collage that was created on the computer

and consists only of Led Zeppelin samples, which were of course also alienated (encrypted).

At the live presentation in Dresden in 1998, further key symbols were added.
"Hindenburg" was originally released in 1998 as a 6 track Mini-LP through Loki Foundation 

and later re-released on CD featuring three unreleased tracks and a exclusive remix by Inade.
Predominance officially disbanded on 20th November 2017.

 
Memory

Idpa – Stream (7'' EP 1997)

Country: Germany

Tracklist

1. Ilu - White Stream 06:10
2. Idpa 05:52

Dark Ambient / Industrial project of Marco Koch,
known as the owner of the cult German industrial and experimental electronics label Stateart 

that operated from 1996 to 2006.
Idpa first release was back in 1996 with the split 7'' EP "Documents Of Neural Assault" together with Thorofon.
"Stream" EP followed in a limited edition of 200 hand numbered copies.
The final appearance of the project was on the collaboration vinyl entitled "Live Action / Voodoo Bumble Bee"

that featured a live performance of Idpa together with Column One and Mz.412 

in Collapse festival, Rostock, Germany 19.08.2000.
The Memory link feature as bonus the track "Thou Sun" from the split EP with Thorofon.

 
Memory

Hieronymus Bosch – Hieronymus Bosch (1997)

Country: New Zealand

Tracklist

1. St. Veronicas Veil 09:11
2. The Sphinx Is Silent 13:09
3. Bleeding 05:06
4. Turf Meat 07:48
5. Bedlam And The Muses 06:29

Hieronymus Bosch is New Zealand's longest running dark industrial act formed around 1985-86.
The band originally used reel to reel tape recorders, loop effects,

steel objects and an arsenal of classic analog synths and drum machines.

They performed only three times as this incarnation, twice in New Zealand and once in Sydney, Australia.

Their live art performances included poetry and slide shows and were performed in art galleries.

Their sound has changed greatly throughout the years, due to collaborating and experimenting with a lot of different artists.
The mid-1980s saw the band become a three-piece, fusing Darkwave and Industrial.

This line-up only lasted a few months, playing one very loose live set

accompanying a gothic/dark art fashion show at an inner-city nightclub.
In 1990 guitarist Morpheus Ire and bassist/percussionist Paul Blanchard were recruited

adding a more chaotic, almost anarchic direction to the group.
Live performances meant the destruction of stage sets and props while audience participation was always encouraged.
As part of an early 1986 performance the entire interior of a soon to be demolished house was torn apart in a frenzied ritual, accompanied by looping noise tapes fed through a generator driven PA system.

Around 30 people took part in this now infamous display of art terrorism.
Hieronymus Bosch, during this period, attracted quite a large and loyal following from the Death/Punk Metal communities

whilst still maintaining their dedicated Industrial/Experimental music fanatics.
In late 1994, the band headed back to its roots of Industrial/Dark Ambient.
In 1996, Hieronymus Bosch reduced itself to two core of the original members.
Their sound is constructed by combining the organic with electronic, nature vs technology.

Layering samples with movement, frequencies and modulations with sounds of their own existence. 

Creating huge rhythm through repetition and looping of sounds and samples.

Constantly building and creating new directions and moods.

Their first recordings were zero-budget, on limited tape cassette format, and duplicated on a double stereo cassette deck.

In 1990 they moved to video format, with a five-track release entitled "Hieronymus Bosch - The Video", limited to 300 copies.

1997 saw the release of their self titled album followed by their second album, "The Divided Self", in 1998.

They have also produced short film soundtracks for video artists in Belgium and Australia,

featured in many various international compilations

and made a couple of appearances on the mid 90's performance/video release series Technohell.
Their third album "The Dream Songs" was released in 2004 on the Polish label, Fluttering Dragon.
In 2011, they released a limited edition 7-inch vinyl, "Black Light / Black Star" to mark their 25th anniversary.

 
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