Tertium Non Data – The Third Is Not Given (1999)

Country: United States

Tracklist

1. The Boiling Man 04:02
2. Punishment Icon 05:33
3. The Shadow Eater 12:12
4. The Old Ones Have Fallen Away 03:10
5. Hunger Music 05:22
6. Nidhogg (Corpse Eater) 08:42
7. A Spell For Breaking An Opening Into The Sky (Lake Of Fire Remix) 04:34
8. Goddunn 03:20
9. Lust II 10:00
10. Lost Enchantments Of The Flesh 04:17
11. Remnant 08:21
12. The Vacant Chair 04:15
13. Untitled 00:29

Tertium Non Data was formed in 1994 and was the long awaited experimental collaboration 
between John Bergin and Brett Smith.
Both of them had also worked together before in the band Trust Obey.
Smith is noteworthy for his dark-ambient alter ego Caul, 

while Bergin composed his own celebrated style of orchestrated ambience under the name C17H19NO3.
Since forming Tertium Non Data numerous compositions were created.
Their first recording was self-released in 1994.
It was followed in 1995 by two more self-released collections, "The Vacant Chair" and "Lust".
"The Third Is Not Given", collects remastered versions of the more accomplished tracks from these two collections, 
as well as two unreleased tracks from 1996/97, and three new tracks recorded in 1999.
Tertium Non Data's debut effort can be described as tense, cinematic pieces
blending seamlessly with haunting soundscapes, thereby creating a cold, black atmosphere.
The name of the band is latin for "The Third Is Not Given". According to John Bergin: 

"It is an alchemic term which refers to the process of combining two disparate elements to create a new, third element. 

The process of transformation is a mystery, an unknown.".

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Kerovnian – Far Beyond, Before The Time (1999)

Country: Croatia

Tracklist

1. Those Beneath The Moaning Castle 06:57
2. Far Beyond, Before The Time 08:09
3. The Godless Keep 06:37
4. From The Lands Where The Winds Die 05:27
5. As They Dug Their Way Out Into The Machinery Of Death 11:25
6. Before The Oblivion 05:38

Kerovnian was a dark ambient project of Vlad K. who originated from the Croatian black metal scene, 

with several bands he played in (including Ashes You Leave).
The project started in 1996 as support music for poetry evenings of Vlad’s late friend, Herr Skoko Georges Angelovsky. Eventually it grew into a full project featuring some of the darkest ambient music ever created.
Inspired by stories from horror writer H.P. Lovecraft and Necronomicon,  

Vlad successfully recreated the horrors from Lovecraft’s stories into dark ambient music.
Kerovnian released two album, "Far Beyond, Before The Time" (1999) and "From The Depths Of Haron" (2001) 

both of them through the Cold Spring label.

"Far Beyond, Before The Time" was also re-issued in 2015 with 4 bonus previously unreleased tracks, 

that were recorded during the same sessions.
Before dissolving Kerovnian Vlad K. was working on the third album called "Lullabies For The Crawling Chaos".

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Chu Ishikawa – Tetsuo I - II Original Soundtrack (1998)

Composer: Chu Ishikawa

Tracklist

1. Megatron 05:04
2. The Sixth Tooth 06:34
3. Rana - Porosa Porosa I 05:47
4. Mausoleum 04:16
5. Lost 06:39
6. Dinosauroid 03:16
7. Rana - Porosa Porosa II 01:57
8. A Burned Figure 04:05

Chu Ishikawa (石川忠 Ishikawa Chū, 1966 – 2017) was a Japanese composer and musician, 

best known for creating the soundtracks of many films by Shinya Tsukamoto and Takashi Miike.
Ishikawa picked up his first synthesizer at the age of 15, and entered the music scene with his first band at the age of 18.

The alternative metal percussion unit, Zeitlich Vergelter, 

received a warm welcome from the indie scene, alongside bands such as the Ruins and the Boredoms.
After their break up, he continued as a solo percussion artist, 

and wrote his first soundtrack in 1988 for the cult classic Tetsuo/The Iron Man, (directed by Shinya Tsukamoto).

His work was hailed worldwide for its Armageddon-esque feel.

He was of course selected to work on the sequel, Tetsuo II/Body Hammer, 

where he pursued the expressions of metal acoustics with his self made instruments.
In 1993 he formed the industrial "Metal Percussion-Heavy Rock/Punk" unit Der Eisenrost.
Unfortunately Chu Ishikawa, according to the Der Eisenrost official page, 
had been struggling with an illness for a while and passed away on the 21st of December 2017, at the age of 51.
Tetsuo I - II Original Soundtrack is a re-issue of the 1992 Tetsuo CD and features tracks from both films.

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Memories Yet To Come 2017

In alphabetical order:

1. Adzalaan - Adzalaan (Demo 2017)
2. Almyrkvi - Umbra (Full-length 2017)
3. Archmage - Legends (Demo 2017)
4. Bestia Arcana - Holókauston (Full-length 2017)
5. Black Blood Invocation - Atavistic Offerings To The Sabbatic Goat (Cassette EP 2017)
6. Burial Well - Past Lives (EP 2017)
7. Caedes Cruenta - Recitation Of Abyssic Necropsalms (7'' EP 2017)
8. Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun (Full-length 2017)
9. Chöd - Bardo Thodol (2 CD Compilation 2017)
10. Deinonychus - Ode To Acts Of Murder, Dystopia And Suicide (Full-length 2017)
11. Disharmony - Goddamn The Sun (Full-length 2017)
12. DSKNT - PhSPHR Entropy (Full-length 2017)
13. Eden - The Edge Of Winter (Full-length 2017)
14. Five The Hierophant - Over Phlegethon (Full-length 2017)
15. Grav - Projektioner Af Död (Full-length 2017)
16. Grave Pleasures - Motherblood (Full-length 2017)
17. Grinning Death's Head - Blood War (Full-length 2017)
18. Kwade Droes - Kwade Droes (7'' EP 2017)
19. Malefic Levitation - The Ancient Plague (Cassette EP 2017)
20. Mortiis - The Unraveling Mind (Full-length 2017)
21. Natvre's - Early Cvlts (Full-length 2017)
22. Nergal - Νύκτα γεμάτη θάματα-νύκτα σπαρμένη μάγια (Full-length 2017)
23. Rope Sect - Personae Ingratae (Cassette EP 2017)
24. Sanctuaire - Feu Sacré (Cassette EP 2017)
25. Shrine Of Orpheus - Λυκόφως (Cassette EP 2017)
26. Tchornobog - Tchornobog (Full-length 2017)
27. Theurgia - Genómasis (Mini CD 2017)
28. Tobias Lilja - Little Nightmares (Original Soundtrack 2017)
29. Urarv - Aurum (Full-length 2017)
30. Ühtceare - La Inexorable Amargura En La Existencia (Demo 2017)

Aardia – Embraced By Fear (Demo 1999)

Country: Sweden

Tracklist

1. The Lightning 04:01
2. Old Forgotten Times 02:56
3. Embraced By Fear 04:13
4. Magic Forces 03:43

Aardia is a medieval/dungeon synth/ambient project from Stockholm, Sweden , 
founded by Patric Söderlund and Daniel Johnsson in 1998.
The music brings influences from the medieval age, fantasy, horror films and classical orchestra music.
Aardia's major inspirations comes from H.P. Lovecraft, Tolkien, 
and musicians like Carl Orff, Ennio Morricone and Fabio Frizzi.
The band has released two demos, "Embraced By Fear" (1999) and "Fairy Tales From Beyond" (2002), 
and a full-length album in 2011 entitled "Conquest Of The Ancient Halls".
Apart from their albums Aardia has also composed soundtracks for the movies "Die Zombiejäger" (2005) 
and "Dragonetti: The Ruthless Contract Killer" (2010).
In 2013 the band started working on a new album entitled "A Journey To The Unknown" 
but no news have surfaced about it since then.

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MØHR – How To Make Darkness Visible (7'' EP 1993)

Country: Germany

Tracklist

1. Inter-Sense 08:10
2. Collected Light 08:53

Andreaz Vogel is an active musician, producer, video-artist, writer, painter and publisher since the mid-80s.
Beside his musical projects he was owner of the defunct "ZNS Tapes" 

and the almost active "Gewalt Am Objekt" label.

He's also writing for the German counterculture magazine "Auf Abwegen".
MØHR is one of his musical projects that started experiment with strange sounds and noises back in 1986, 

with the strict principle, not to use conventional instruments to create a special wall of sound.

Mainly tape-machines and effects are responsible for the dense sound, always under the musician's control.
"How To Make Darkness Visible" presents two tracks of droning, pulsating and vibrating low industrial/noise.
The ep was released in August 1993 in an edition of 200 copies, 

in a handmade leather-wax-sleeve through the German Drone Records.

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Pilori – Feuilles Tombantes (1999)

Country: Germany

Tracklist

1. La Naissance Pour Des Riens 01:18
2. Maple Leaf 04:10
3. Thorns 03:36
4. Talking About Wolves 04:04
5. Morgenwind 01:06
6. Dark Clouds Over Green Meadows 04:16
7. The Burden 04:29
8. Kassiopeia 05:05
9. Deceptive Appearance 04:32
10. 1927 03:11
11. Les Yeux Fermés 03:32
12. Daz Heydenkreutz 05:25
13. Le Soleil Et La Lune 03:41

After the breakup of his metal band Desolated, Gernot Musch was looking for a new musical activity.
What first started for fun in the living room then soon developed into a creative band project 

with Marion who completed Gernot's compositions with her vocals.
In 1998 their demo cd "Soufre" was released and their music rapidly found fans within the gothic scene.
Only few months later Trisol released Pilori's first official album "Feuilles Tombantes".
The band soon played concerts all over Europe together with well-known artists from the scene.
During the years quite a number of musicians contributed to their releases as well as joined them on stage.

Especially Inge and her beautiful viola melodies shaped the music of Pilori.
Th band ended around 2009 with the release of their last album "Until The Day Dawn".
Today Marion and Gernot are still actively into music with several projects and cooperations.

Marion is currently working on a crossover project with Indian and Western experimental music called Zindagi.

Also she is working on the Broken Lines Project.

Gernot is working with Tony Wakeford as Twa Corbies after being part of :Golgatha: for some years.

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