Thursday, 28 March 2019

Sabaism – The Unborn Dawn (Demo 1996)


Country: Switzerland

Tracklist
1. Intro 01:30
2. Einsamkeit 05:34
3. The Unborn Dawn 03:27
4. Fateful Sophism 08:10

Sabaism started playing music together in 1993 under the name Cromnom.
They wrote a lot of songs but never recorded one.
After changing the name to Sabaism at the end of 1994 they featured new members
who had been involved in the metal scene since 1989.
Sabaism always had been looking for a new drummer able to play very fast and aggressive music.
After the old drummer and both guitarists left the band, the line-up finally was completed in 1995 with: 
Marco (Vocals ex-Damnatory), Alessandra (Bass Mors Amara),
T.Hades (Guitars ex-Azrael) and Chris H. (Drums ex-Sickening Gore).
With this line-up three tracks that were written by Alessandra were re-arranged at the end of 1995 by Sabaism.
In February 1996 Sabaism entered the famous Artag-Studio (Celtic Frost, Sadness, Coroner etc.)
and recorded 3 tracks for a limited to 30 hand numbered copies Promo tape.
The Promo was entitled "The Unborn Dawn" and included an Intro by the Anima Nostra Team.
Later in 1998 the Promo was re-released as a MCD.

Thursday, 28 February 2019

Babylon Whores – King Fear (1999)


Country: Finland

Tracklist
1. Errata Stigmata 03:34
2. Radio Werewolf 03:54
3. Hand Of Glory 03:24
4. Veritas 04:59
5. Skeleton Farm 03:45
6. To Behold The Suns Below 05:33
7. Exit Eden 04:33
8. Sol Niger 03:57
9. Fey 04:36
10. King Fear: Song For The Damned 05:22

Babylon Whores was a death rock/metal band from Finland, founded in 1994 by vocalist Ike Vil and guitarist Ewo Meichem.
Their early works were heavily punk influenced, but their style grew heavier and darker with each release,
often compared to such bands as Danzig and Mana Mana.
The Whores' lyrics have always been interesting with their themes generally lying in the field of mysticism and occultism.
The group released two singles, three EPs and three albums and remained active until mid 2000's 
when they started to become less active and eventually withdrew on indefinite hiatus.
After this they have made few occasional live appearances (last one in 2007),
usually under pseudonym such as Whores Of Babylon or Babylon Horse.
Former members have since been most active in Arktau Eos, Mana Mana (Antti Litmanen), Sleep Of Monsters (Ike Vil).

Wednesday, 27 February 2019

Sator Absentia – Mercurian Orgasms (1999)


Country: France

Tracklist
1. Chromatic Harmony Of Colourless Deities 09:19
2. Sounds Of Mercurian Devotion 05:16
3. Panorama 11:22
4. Carnival Of Light 12:48
5. Intravenous Luciferian Infiltration 02:50
6. Enter The Red Garden Of Frustration 04:51

A dark ambient cinematic project led by Cédric Codognet,
who collaborated on the Asmorod debut CD, and Sophie Ducrueux.
The project was also supported by Fredrik Bergström of No Festival Of Light.
The act was the continuation of their previous project Taliesin's Bards Order 
that released a cassette album in 1997 on Slaughter Productions.
In 2007 Sator Absentia announced through various interviews a movie called "Ypsilon",
supposed to be released on Cold Meat Industry.
Unfortunately the DVD was never released and the project suddenly ceased to exist.
Mercurian Orgasms was released on Dark Vinyl Records and composed through the years 1996 to 1999.

Monday, 25 February 2019

Madryal – Nuclear Winter (Demo 1999)


Country: France

Tracklist
1. On The Mass Grave Of Our Souls 06:45
2. Sharp Throes 05:42
3. The Swords...The Truth 07:04
4. Nuclear Winter 03:50

Black metal band from France that released only one demo in 1999 entitled "Nuclear Winter".
The band featured Madryal (Vocals, Lead Guitars), Pie666 (Rhythm Guitars), François (Bass) and Jérémie (Drums).
The demo was also released on a CDr format with a different cover.

Thursday, 31 January 2019

Pessary – Laid To Rest (1992)


Country: England

Tracklist
1. Collapse 02:19
2. Laid To Rest (Part 1) 03:07
3. The Curse 05:21
4. The Return 03:26
5. Rigor Mortis 04:20
6. Nightfall 04:45
7. Laid To Rest (Part 2) 02:57
8. Necropsy 04:22
9. Edge Of Darkness 03:19
10. Journey's End 05:26
11. Decompose 05:58

Neil Chaney is a film music composer.
He has recorded and performed in several experimental bands while his own industrial project Pessary 
was a mix of industrial/dark ambient/noise and horror film-score inspired sound-scapes.
With Pessary Neil recorded two albums, "Inward Collapse" and "Laid To Rest",
both released by the Dirter Promotions label and he also recorded several cassettes.
In 2006 he assisted Justin Mitchell in the resurrection of the band Satori
 and toured Japan with fellow Brits Sutcliffe Jügend in April 2007.
With Satori he also performed throughout Europe and the UK in 2008.
Neil and Rob Maycock (founding member of Satori) were also part of the UK thrash/heavy metal band Obliteration.
Neil has been composing music scores for several short films since 2009.
He has worked in the sci-fi film "Jerome's Weakness" (2009)
and "Tracker" (Winner of the "Sci-Fi London 48 Hour Challenge" 2009),
as well as composed the trailer music for the spy/action tv series "Trigger Point" (2012–2013).
His first feature length score was for the horror/thriller film "Stalker" (2010) directed by Martin Kemp.
In 2012 Neil composed the score for the horror comedy film "Strippers vs Werewolves"
that was released by the Swedish soundtrack label Screamworks/MovieScore Media.

Wednesday, 30 January 2019

Dead Christ – Satan's Hunger (7'' EP 1993)


Country: England

Tracklist
1. Eclipse Of Light 02:56
2. Satan's Hunger 03:16
3. Burning Jesus Christ 01:32

Dead Christ was a black/death metal band from Great Britain that was formed around 1990.
Two members of them were also part of the UK doom metal band Subspecies.
Dead Christ released three demos and the second one entitled "The Mortuary Mass", 
was published as a split with the Greek band Nazarene Deceiver.
Their only commercially available product, and also their last one,  was the 7" ep "Satan's Hunger" 
released through the Greek Molon Lave Records in 1993.

Sunday, 27 January 2019

Nymph Faithest – Longing For The Otherworld (1997)


Country: Sweden

Tracklist
1. Creed 04:58
2. And Upon Them Great Vengeance Will Be Executed... 08:45
3. Longing For The Otherworld 04:22
4. Derelict Core 05:28
5. ...With Wrathful Chastisement 07:00
6. Tranquilized At Last 06:59
7. Crimson Filth 03:28

Nymph Faithest was founded in 1993 by Jan Bohman in Sweden.
Bohman wanted to make illustrations with sounds and to depict his inner thoughts within the soundscapes.
The music was initially created as painkillers to the trivial and the narrow rules that people live their lives.
Back then, Bohman was not willing to share his compositions to anyone,
the music was all to personal and not to be played in the outside world.
The salvation came when he collaborated with Jouni Havukainen of In Slaughter Natives.
As a live member and lyric provider on the In Slaughter Natives "Purgate My Stain" CD,
Bohman built up his confidence so that he finally share his compositions.
In the spring of 1996 Bohman moved to Prague for some months, and it was also there where he received
most of the inspiration to finish his album "Longing For The Otherworld" and wrote/adapted most of the songs on the CD.
He also got inspired by the rich cultural environment and shot the photos that later were used on the sleeve of the CD.
The music of Nymph Faithest is the sounds of deception and of inner search.
The object is to bring the listener into his own Otherworld with a depressive but ravelling state of mind.
The journey to the Otherworld is the admittance to the phrase "Die before you die, say yes to death... yes to yourself".
After the Prague time Bohman went back to Sweden and attended a tour with In Slaughter Natives,
where in Nuremberg he established contact with Art Konkret label who decided to release the material.
The CD contains seven tracks and two of them are written together with Peter Andersson of Raison D’être.