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".

 
Memory

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".

 
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Morte Macabre – Symphonic Holocaust (1998)

Country: Sweden

Tracklist

1. Apoteosi Del Mistero 4:20
2. Threats Of Stark Reality 2:59
3. Sequenza Ritmica E Tema 7:06
4. Lullaby 8:05
5. Quiet Drops 6:46
6. Opening Theme 2:53
7. The Photosession 7:14
8. Symphonic Holocaust 17:51
9. Suoni Dissonanti (Vinyl Bonus Track) 03:17

Morte Macabre was formed by the members of two Swedish progressive bands, Landberk and Anekdoten.
In 1998, Nicklas Barker and Peter Nordins of Anekdoten,

along with Stefan Dimle (Landberk, Paatos) and Reine Fiske (Landberk, Paatos, The Guild)

released the album "Symphonic Holocaust" on the Swedish label Mellotronen.
The album mostly consists of covered themes from horror movies, such as "City Of The Living Dead", 

"The Beyond", "Rosemary's Baby", "Beyond The Darkness", "Cannibal Holocaust" and "Golden Girls", 

with the exception of two original compositions.
The music is instrumental and characterized by improvisation and heavy use of mellotron and synthesizers.

The Memory link also features the bonus track "Suoni Dissonanti" that was included on the vinyl version of the album.

 
Memory

Time Machines – Time Machines (1998)

Country: England

Tracklist

1. 7-Methoxy-β-Carboline: (Telepathine) 23:22
2. 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-Ethyl-Amphetamine: (DOET/Hecate) 13:19
3. 5-Methoxy-N,N-Dimethyl: (5-MeO-DMT) 10:01
4. 4-Indolol,3-[2-(Dimethylamino)Ethyl],Phosphate Ester: (Psilocybin) 26:45

"Time Machines" is a 1998 studio album by English experimental group Coil,

originally released under the one-off project alias Time Machines.

The album was created under the premise of psychedelic drone pieces named after corresponding hallucinogenic drugs,

"tested and retested" during the album's studio sessions for apparent narcotic potency.
It is composed of four electronic drone pieces created with modular synthesizers,

which as hinted at in their track names are an attempt to recreate the chemically derived psychedelic and narcotic potency

of Telepathine, DOET, DMT and Psilocybin mushrooms (Telepathine and DMT being primary components of Ayahuasca).

As well as this, John Balance intended the album to cause "temporal slips" in time and space,

allowing both the artist and audience to figuratively "dissolve time".
Drew McDowall created the original demo, at first inspired by what he saw as a hypnotic state created in Tibetan music,

but his final idea with Balance and Peter Christopherson was to use filters and oscillators

on the tones of the demo to induce trancelike effects.
When "Time Machines" was first released, the group was initially very conscious

that it should not be labeled as a Coil album due to how abstract and different it was compared to previous works.
However, the group later tended towards regarding "Time Machines" a part of the Coil catalog

and this led the 2000 follow-up live album "Coil Presents Time Machines" to be released as a Coil album.
A five-disc Time Machines box set was announced in 1998, but never developed.
Also a two-disc version was announced in January 2006 as a future release but this was never expanded on either,

although an album by Peter Christopherson, called "Time Machines II", was released posthumously.
In 2018, surviving member Drew McDowall collaborated with British visual artist Florence To

 to perform an updated audio-visual version of the entire album in selected venues and festivals around the world.

 
Memory

Havohej – Black Perversion (12'' EP 1994)

Country: United States

Tracklist

1. Black Perversion 07:18
2. Unholy Sodomy 02:00
3. Mary Goddess Of Shit 06:00

Solo experimental black metal project of Paul Ledney, formed in 1993 after the split of Profanatica the previous year.

Former Profanatica and Incantation member Brett Makowski assisted with guitars and bass on the first Havohej album,

"Dethrone The Son Of God" in 1993, which consists mainly of re-worked and re-recorded Profanatica tracks.

During the following years Havohej developed a much more unique and experimental style

of minimalist black metal, mixed with dark ambient and noise/industrial elements.

On September 29th, 2007 the band made their very first and only performance ever at the Autumn Equinox V festival.

 
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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.

 
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