Bonpos Tibetains – Traditions Rituelles Des Bonpos (1993)

Country: Tibet

Tracklist

1. Chant De Louange Dédié À La Divinité Protectrice Midü 13:07
2. Cérémonie De Propitiation De Nag-Zhig 35:24
3. Chant D'Offrandes À L'Occasion Du Thé 10:19
4. Tambourinement De Louange À Shenrab 04:17

Bon is considered to be the ensemble of pre-Buddhist beliefs of the Tibetans,

it embodies a vast mass of ritual practices bearing on exorcism, divination and the appeasement of wrathful divinities

 and elaborate teachings for spiritual realization which place Bon among the great mystico-philosophical systems

of the world despite its relatively small number of followers.
These recordings illustrate various facets of the religious activities of the Bonpos 

through their chant and their psalmodic recitation.

They intend to bring to a wider audience the musical aspects of a ritual tradition

that is largely unknown to the Western World and has remained obscure to the Tibetan themselves.
Recorded in Tibet between March 1981 and April 1983 and originally released by Ocora label on vinyl in 1983.
In 1993 was reissued on cd with 20 minutes of extra music.

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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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Murder (2 x 7'' EP 1994)

Country: United States

Tracklist

Side A

1. Edmund Emil Kemper (Sexual Murderer, Necrophiliac, "Co-Ed Killer")

"I Had Thought Of Annihilating The Entire Block That I Lived On." 06:18

Side B

2. Henry Lee Lucas (Murderer, Rapist, Arsonist, White Trash)

"I Was Death On Women." 07:26

Side C

3. Theodore Robert Bundy (Serial Murderer, "Phantom Prince")

"I'm The Most Cold-Blooded Son Of A Bitch That You'll Ever Meet." 06:51

Side D

4. Kenneth Bianchi (Rapist, Murderer, "Hillside Strangler")

"I Didn't See Anything Wrong With It - It Was Just There." 06:42

"Murder" was the first installment of a special interest series 
that would be dealt with the brutal reality of man's murderous capabilities.
Unfortunately no further installments were ever released.
This release contains portions of interviews with four convicted killers 
that many of them came from the documentaries The Killing of America (1981) and Murder: No Apparent Motive (1984).
"Murder" was released in 1994 by Alamut Records as a 2 x 45rpm 7" EP's, both on red vinyl.

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Aeternus – Beyond The Wandering Moon (1997)

Country: Norway

Tracklist

1. Under The Blade Of The Dead 02:08
2. Sworn Revenge 06:35
3. White Realm 06:36
4. Sentinels Of Darkness 08:54
5. Embraced 07:18
6. Vind 07:06
7. Waiting For The Storms 05:57
8. Winter Tale 08:14
9. To Enter The Realm Of Legend 07:53
10. Celtic Harp Solo (The Last Feast) 04:23

Aeternus is a black/death metal band from Bergen, Norway.
It was formed in 1993 as an idea of Ronny Hovland, aka Ares, and Erik Heggernes, aka Vrolok.
Later in 1996 Nicola Trier, aka Morrigan, joined the duo as a bass player,

forming the core trio that created the band's first two albums.
They released their debut album, "Beyond The Wandering Moon", in 1997 on Hammerheart Records 

and toured that year with black metal bands Emperor and Limbonic Art through Europe.
Their second album, "...And So The Night Became" was released in 1998, accompanied by a tour supporting Deicide.
In 1999's "Shadows Of Old" album their sound moved from darkened black metal

toward a faster and more aggressive death metal sound.
Morrigan left the group in 2001 for personal reasons and was later replaced by V'gandr of Helheim.
Later that year they released their fourth full-length album called "Ascension Of Terror".
Their next album "A Darker Monument" was released on the new Nocturnal Art Productions label in 2003.
After the release of their sixth full-length "HeXaeon",

long-time member Vrolok left the band and was replaced by S. Winter on drums early in 2006.
In the period between 2008 and 2011, the band entered a lull.
V'gandr left the band to concentrate his work on his own band Helheim.
Ares reformed the band with Phobos on drums and Specter as a new guitarist

and released in 2013 their seventh full-length album, "...And The Seventh His Soul Detesteth".
In 2018 the band released their latest album entitled "Heathen".

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Azmodan – Evil Obscurity (1998)

Country: Germany

Tracklist

1. The Arrival 08:38
2. Hellbound 09:11
3. Evil Obscurity 04:15
4. A Bestia 06:57
5. Remember Them 05:56
6. Once Were Warriors 06:09
7. Signum Vitiosum Dance 06:23

Azmodan was a German melodic/symphonic black metal band created by Lord Azmodan (aka René Pfeiffer).
Lord Azmodan was also contributing vocals from 1998 to 2001 for the German death metal band My Darkest Hate.
Azmodan was created in 1996 and released two albums, "Evil Obscurity" in 1998

and "Of Angels And Demons" in 1999, both of them published by Iron Glory Records.
"Evil Obscurity" featured a full line up, with Lord Azmodan (Vocals, Guitar),

Andariel (Guitar), Vorax (Drums) and Mefastus (Bass)

while for the creation of "Of Angels And Demons" Lord Azmodan went solo handling everything, 

with only the assistance of Carmen Clark on female vocals.

A third album entitled "Everblasting" was about to be released in 2009 but this was never happened.

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