Blood Original Soundtrack (1997)

Composers: Daniel Bernstein, Guy Whitmore, Mike Cody

Tracklist

1. Pestis Cruento 05:11
2. Unholy Voices 07:08
3. Dark Carnival 02:55
4. Infuscomus 04:37
5. Father Time 04:51
6. Waiting For The End 03:11
7. Fate Of The Damned 02:55
8. Double, Double, Toil And Trouble 02:08
9. Cryptic Passage 0:47

Blood is a 3D first-person shooter video game developed by Monolith Productions and published by GT Interactive.

The shareware version was released for MS-DOS on March 6, 1997,

while the full version was later released on May 21 in North America and June 20 in Europe.
The game follows the story of Caleb, an undead early 20th century gunslinger

seeking revenge against the dark god Tchernobog and features occult and horror themes.

Blood includes large amounts of graphic violence, a large arsenal of weapons

ranging from the standard to the bizarre, and numerous enemies and bosses.
Blood received largely positive reviews from critics upon its release, with many praising its creative level designs,

the humor (particularly its use of pop-culture references), atmosphere and its gameplay,

though some criticism was aimed at the game’s challenging difficulty.

It later gained a cult following from reviewers and it is considered to be one of the best games on the Build engine.
The Blood franchise was continued with two official expansion packs

titled Plasma Pak (developed by Monolith) and Cryptic Passage (developed by Sunstorm Interactive).

A sequel titled Blood II: The Chosen was later released on November 25, 1998.
The soundtrack to the game was composed by Daniel Bernstein, Guy Whitmore and Mike Cody.
Daniel Bernstein is a composer for video games and movies.

Born in Leningrad in the Soviet Union, he received a Bachelor in computer science

and an Master Of Arts in music composition from the University of Virginia.

Bernstein started in games in 1996 working in development and sound design.
He has also worked as a composer for Monolith Productions

where he collaborated with Guy Whitmore on titles such as Blood and Claw.

Outside of video games, he also wrote the soundtrack for the short movies "Kansas" in 1998 and "Maid Of Honor" in 1999.

Changing career, he joined WildTangent as the Director of Product Strategy, and later left in 2002 to create Sandlot Games.
While still acting as Sandlot's CEO, he returned to composition with the soundtrack to the film "The Penitent Man" in 2010.
Guy Whitmore is a composer specializing in video game music, notable for creating the soundtracks to Captain Claw,

Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza, Russian Squares, Peggle 2, Shivers, Shivers II: Harvest of Souls,

Blood, Blood II: The Chosen, Shogo: Mobile Armor Division and No One Lives Forever.

He is the co-founder of a music production company called Music Design Network 

and a founding member of the Seattle Composers Alliance.
Guy Whitmore has specialized in creating "adaptive music" for video games, using techniques such as cross-fading,

location-based music, and techniques to render music "on-the-fly" rather than using "pre-rendered" linear tracks.

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Krozier & The Generator – Tranceformer (1982)

Country: Australia

Tracklist

1. House Of The Sun 02:40
2. Khan-Khallili Razaar 03:27
3. The Devil May Care 08:23
4. Slave Traders 02:38
5. Land Of Unclean Spirits 04:03
6. Perhaps Reincarnation 02:02
7. House Of The Joker 08:27
8. Take A Look 04:56
9. Temple Of Exotic Delights 15:37
10. Feed You To The Sharks 01:47
11. Lapis-Lazuli 06:45
12. I´ll Be A Sphinx For You 01:37
13. Doubting Thomas 01:34
14. Paid Your Money 07:37

Geoff Krozier (Born Geofrey Thomas Crozier) was a music performance artist and avante garde magician.
His first connection with magik came when he amazed one of his teachers

by accurately predicting the placegetters in a school cross-country run.
A number of amateur appearances as an illusionist provided a slight insight into where he was going.
His first real break came whilst working as a set designer and props man for a Melbourne television station.

The booked act failed to turn up for a talent program, so he stood in and won.
Television appearances mushroomed nation wide, and by the late 1960’s the tendrils of rock and roll 

reached out and grabbed him and he often filled spots between main acts.
Geoff’s first real complete stage show came with the formation of Crozier’s Indian Medicine Show,

a wondrous show of pyrotechnics, smoke and lighting effects with multi-decibel rock and roll.
It would be a mistake however to assume that the shows were well planned or well rehearsed,

it was more like ‘hold on’ for the audience, and, ‘hang on tight’ for his band.

As Duncan Fry, one of Geoff’s earliest guitarists wrote:

“What he wanted was free-form continuous music for the 30 minutes or so that he performed,

while clouds of oily smoke, flashpots, and strobe lights alternately choked and dazzled the audience.

Most of the musicians who turned up for the audition couldn't handle such a laissez-faire attitude to the music side of things.

"But what songs are we going to play?" they would whine.

"No songs, just play, play" Geoff would reply, setting off another flashpot.”
Throughout the 1970’s Geoff and various incarnations of the Indian Medicine band toured Australia widely,

putting on performances, which ranged between brilliant and totally chaotic.

He was variously faced with stunned silence or rapturous scenes of mayhem as the audience went wild.
Despite the showings of appreciation, his act languished for the want of wider acceptance.

He lapsed into a deep depression and eventually left for America.

He worked with a variety of musicians and then disappeared again, this time to appear in Paris,

where he was the highlight act at the Olympia.
Another stint back in the USA followed, he formed Kongress, with noted keyboardist Otto Von Ruggins,

but he was tiring of the rock & roll element of his shows, and indeed felt a need to return to his native Australia,

and so it was he reappeared in Melbourne, Australia in the late 1970's.
It was then that he connected with the experimental group The Generator (aka Rainbow Generator),

a two-man outfit consisting of Rob Greaves on all manner of synths and rhythm machines

and David Labuschagne on guitar and synths.
Rainbow Generator had tried to produce something new and unheard in their studios.

Releasing dozens of tapes which were thrashed and no one ever seen them.

They come up with a full length in 1978 entitled "Dance Of The Spheres" 

that was released in 399 copies from which only 200 survived the floods.
Blending experimental electronics with tribal elements and using instruments like Didgeridoo

with some drony psychedelic rock fusions.
As Krozier & The Generator they played an intense series of shows in and around Melbourne in the later part of 1980.

In January 1981 he and the entire show, menagerie and all, relocated to the Fission Chips Studio

(a three story building in the squats of Woolloomooloo NSW), operated by Generator guitarist, David Labuschagne.
There was to be a lay-off while David shaped hours of recorded material together,

and Geoff devised a new set of illusions, all in preparation for a national tour.
Unfortunately Geoff Krozier died on May 17th 1981 at the age of 33,

from an accident at his home, before that tour manifested.
The double vinyl album "Trancerformer" was released in mid 1981 as a tribute to him

featuring tracks that were selected from recordings of the last live shows by the group,

between January 7th and 26th 1981, prior to Geoffrey´s death.
That album was subsequently re-released in in 2015 on the Finders Keepers label.

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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)

 

 

 

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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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