Eden – Fire & Rain (1995)

Country: Australia

Tracklist

1. The Darkness In Me 05:30
2. Snake 03:53
3. Why? 05:17
4. Hooveless Horses 05:12
5. Fire And Rain 04:03
6. Sky Above; Sea Below 03:58
7. Song Slowly Song 02:58
8. Stretched On Your Grave 06:19
9. Rooms Above The Sea 02:08
10. Breath Upon New Eyes 03:39
11. Just Like Water; You Run From My Eyes! 04:20

Eden founding members Sean Bowley and Pieter Bourke began a song writing partnership in Melbourne, Australia in 1988. Eden’s initial 12 inch EP "The Light Between Worlds" was released in 1990 on Nightshift Records, Scotland.
The EP caught the attention of BBC Radio’s John Peel who featured tracks on his show, 

resulting in rapid support of Eden by The Alternative Press Magazine in the USA.
In 1991 Eden moved to London based label Third Mind who continued to grow the band’s profile in Europe and the USA with the release of Eden’s first full length CD "Gateway To The Mysteries" in 1992.
In 1993 Eden joined the roster of Projekt Records, releasing "Healingbow" (1993) and "Fire And Rain" (1995).
The same year Eden released a CD of remixes and rarities titled "Earthbound".
In live performance they have shared the stage in Australia and overseas with Love Spirals Downward, Lycia,  

Rowland S. Howard, These Immortal Souls, Underground Lovers, Attrition, Heligoland, Ostia and countless others. 

Eden undertook a promotional visit to the UK (1990) and an extensive tour of live dates in the USA (1996).
After two decades of silence, in June 2017 Eden went to Germany, 

joining The Mission, Skinny Puppy and She Past Away performing at Wave-Gotik-Treffen Festival in Leipzig.  

Eden's performance was combined with the release of their eighth album "The Edge Of Winter".
The album was recorded by Adam Calaitzis and produced at Melbourne’s Toyland Studios.
"The Edge Of Winter" delivers on the promise of the distinctively diverse, uniquely sumptuous sonic palette  

Eden has long been known for, spanning darkwave, neo-psychedelic and ethereal genres and featuring the reknown sublime eastern-tinged baritone vocals of Sean Bowley.
Their current line up features Sean Bowley (Vocals, 6 & 12 String Guitars, Keyboards),  

Andrew Kutzer (12 String Guitar) and Matthew Sigley (Bass Guitar, Drum Machine and Keyboards).

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Old Forest – Into The Old Forest (1999)

Country: England

Tracklist

1. Grond (Hammer Of The Underworld) 04:29
2. Death In The Cemetary 04:57
3. To Haunt The Old Forest 03:38
4. Hymn Of The Deep 05:19
5. Glistening... 03:34
6. Where Trees Are Withered 04:05
7. Shadow Whispers 04:20
8. Become The Gods Of War 04:19
9. Hammer Of The Underworld (Demo Bonus Track) 04:13
10. Death In The Cemetary (Demo Bonus Track) 04:50
11. Shadows Whispers (Demo Bonus Track) 03:29
12. The Deepest Caves (Demo Bonus Track) 01:04

Old Forest was formed in 1998 and consisted of Kobold (James Fogarty of In the Woods..., Ewigkeit),

 Beleth and Lord Grond (Orcrypt).
With influences from the early 90s classic bands, such as Emperor, Ancient, Darkthrone and Burzum,

Old Forest formed in order to preserve the underground and, by then, lost feeling of cult spirit of Black Metal.
The debut demo "Of Mists And Graves" was self-released, and led to a handfull of offers 

from reputable black metal labels to release the debut album.
After the second demo "The Kingdom Of Darkness" was recorded,

Old Forest set about recording their debut album "Into The Old Forest" for the label Mordgrimm Records.
The album was universally hated by commercial magazines,

got terrible reviews and became an instant underground classic.
A second album was recorded in 1999, "None More Black", but this was never released.
The band was placed on hiatus and the master tapes of the unreleased album were buried in the New Forest in Hampshire.
In 2007, Old Forest reactivated once again re-releasing all of their demo recordings as free digital downloads,

to re-aquaint the old fans, and to act as a flag-bearer for a new crusade of anti-commercial Cult Black Metal.
They then began work on writing and recording the "Tales Of The Sussex Weald" trilogy of EPs

for the record label Death To Music Productions.
In 2011, the 3rd and final part of the trilogy was released,

along with parts 1 and 2, on the full-length album "Tales Of The Sussex Weald".
In 2015 the band released their latest album "Dagian" through the Avantgarde Music label

featuring Kobro (In the Woods..., ex-Carpathian Forest) on drums.

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Exiled Shadow – North Abyss Shadows (Demo 1999)

Country: Greece

Tracklist

1. Anguish Of Pagan Night 04:08
2. Where The Shadows Rise 02:00
3. Haunting The Light 02:23
4. The Testimonial Code Of Death 02:42
5. Savior Of Sorrow 02:27
6. Ancient Spirits Of Evil 01:49

Exiled Shadow was created in the summer of 1998 in Thessaloniki, Greece,
by Tasos (guitars, vocals) from Ptolemaida and Vasilis (drums) from Thessaloniki.
The group's basic influence was Scandinavian black metal while the lyrics were based on evil, darkness and paganism.
Their first demo "The Lost Mist Path" was released in September 1998 

with Kostas (of the local death/grind band Soultaker) handling the bass.
The second demo "North Abyss Shadows" was recorded only by Tasos and Vasilis and released in February 1999.
After a few months with the pseudonyms Shadefrost (Tasos) and Haggath (Vasilis) 

Naethor joined the band as a full time member in bass.
With this line up, apart from the old tracks, they also worked on four new songs 

which were released in September 2000 as their third demo "...And The Funeral Becomes".
Throughout their existence Exiled Shadow appeared live only once 

participating in a rock/metal festival in Ptolemaida in the summer of 2000.
In 2018 Askio Productions released "North Abyss Shadows" compilation 

that features all the demos of the band in a limited handmade ekopak CD-r edition of 50 copies.

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Univers Zero – Heresie (1979)

Country: Belgium

Tracklist

1. La Faulx 25:25
2. Jack The Ripper 13:30
3. Vous Le Saurez En Temps Voulu 13:02
4. Chaos Hermétique (Bonus Track Recorded In 1975) 11:52

Univers Zero are an instrumental progressive Belgian band formed in 1974 by drummer Daniel Denis.
The band is known for playing dark music heavily influenced by 20th-century chamber music.
In 1973, Claude Deron and Daniel Denis, both former members of the band Arkham, set up a new group, Necronomicon.
By that time, apart from Deron (trumpet) and Denis (drums), the group consisted of Roger Trigaux (guitar),  

Guy Segers (bass guitar), Patrick Hanappier (violin), John Van Rymenant (sax) and later on Vincent Motoulle (keyboards).
At the time, Guy Denis (percussion) took part in some shows and rehearsals 

and Jean-Luc Manderlier (keyboards) was present only during rehearsals.
Necronomicon was renamed to Univers Zero in 1974.
The band was part of a musical movement called Rock In Opposition (RIO) which strove to create dense challenging music, a direct contrast to the disco and punk music being produced in the late 1970s.
Obvious early influences were Bartók, Stravinsky and composers such as Albert Huybrechts, who was also Belgian.
Whereas their early albums were almost entirely acoustic, featuring oboes, spinets, harmoniums and Mellotrons, 

their 1980s albums tended to rely more on synthesizer and electric guitar, sounding much more electric.
In 1977, they released their first eponymous album "Univers Zéro", later remixed and renamed as "1313". 

The album shows a heavy rock and roll approach despite the fact that the instrumentation was largely acoustic.

This is mostly due to the use of drums and bass guitar.

Two years later the album "Heresie" proved to be even darker and more complex.

Subsequent albums lightened the sound only slightly but became ever more electric.
The group disbanded in 1987 but reformed in 1999.

In the interim, drummer Daniel Denis released two solo albums and joined Art Zoyd, a similar band from France.

Since 1999, Univers Zero released five studio albums.
In 2011, they joined forces with Belgian groups Present and Aranis 

to form a 17-member ensemble called Once Upon A Time In Belgium.

They premiered at the fourth edition of the Rock In Opposition festival held in Carmaux, France in September 2011,

where they performed "New York Transformations", a work composed by Kurt Budé.
Once Upon A Time In Belgium and Univers Zero appear in the documentary film

"Romantic Warriors II: A Progressive Music Saga About Rock In Opposition".

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Lunus – Monolilith (Demo 1993)

Country: Italy

Tracklist

1. Il Sorgere Del Male 05:48
2. Cibo Per Piccole Larve 07:22
3. Monolilith 04:26
4. Sangue Per Gli Angeli 05:32
5. Tanzerloch 04:02

Lunus (aka Lvnvs) is the solo project of Devis "deviLs g." Granziera, with the help of Stefano Barban

  of the legendary international DSIP (aka Delta-Sleep-Inducing Peptide) trio with Siegmar Fricke & Miguel Ruiz.
Granziera is a well known Italian dark/industrial/noise underground musician 

who started his activities in the early 1990s and is more known for his notorious Italian act Teatro Satanico.
Here this cult Italian project offers great dark and rumbling industrial/noise with heavy beats 

from the deepest and hellish places reminding the early Teatro Satanico recordings.
"Monolilith" was released on a cassette format by the Italian label Old Europa Cafe.

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Where – The Creatures Of The Wind (1999)

Country: Italy

Tracklist

1. Boreas 18:26
2. Conoscenze Oscure 05:17
3. Sa'rka'ny 10:41
4. Creature Del Vento 10:44
5. Cialarere 06:34
6. Streghe Del Vento 04:01
7. Arpie 02:21
8. Sacro Terrore 05:12

Where project consist of Zairo (also member of Olhon together with Massimo Magrini of Bad Sector) and Darvulia.
Their first album entitled "The Creatures Of The Wind" was released in 1999 by Eibon Records 

and it is centered upon the popular myths about the creatures of the air, such as Arpie, Cialalere and Vecchiarine.
Here Zairo and Darvulia are transforming the relationship between the ancestral wind creatures and man 

into astonishing dark ambient with cryptic sounds and ghostly nocturnal atmospheres,

featuring wind recordings and sounds of old wind mills.
In 2006 the band released their second album entitled "Wererat" 

that is made out of field recordings taken exclusively in sewers and other rats-infested places.

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Archaos – Vestes Terrae (1997)

Country: Romania

Tracklist

1. Intro 04:52
2. The Gods 03:32
3. Nulla Salus Bello 05:06
4. Samotrace 05:35
5. Neolithic 01:50
6. Oceanus (Part II) 00:48
7. Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes 05:17
8. Untitled 00:51
9. Mystic Dark 04:21
10. Impavidum Ferient Ruinae 01:25
11. Vestes Terrae 03:06
12. Mors 03:28
13. Laudator Temporis Acti 09:15
14. Contempus 02:51
15. Ritus Cineri 02:15

Archaos formed in Bucharest in early 1993 by Dan Serbanescu (aka Vourckolakos) and Radu Nicolescu (aka Putrefactorus)

as a two man artistic act with both of them sharing guitars, keyboards, vocals, percussion, programming and effects duties.
The early period of the group had as a result the recordings of several demo tapes (about 12 of them) 
and the promotion of Archaos as a dark archaic mystic ambient/gothic/dungeon synth/dark wave band 
of the local scene inspired by the Mediterranean archaic spirituality and forgotten cultures.
The first official Archaos work was released in 1997 entitled "Vestes Terrae" 

and was promoted on national and international basis.
This album is mostly a compilation of tracks from the early demo discography of the group 
and was released by the well known Romanian label Bestial Records.

Also in late 1997 the band performed live for the first time.
In April 1999, a second album was released under the same label 
entitled "The Land/Love Obsession" and included two EPs dated 1998 & 1999.
"Centuries Of Obedience", the third album of the group has its beginning in September 1999 
and was released in May 2000 also at the same label and featured 4 long tracks of deep gothic/dark wave music.
In 2001 the band ceased to exist while Dan Serbanescu continues today with his other projects
(Divine Muzak, Tanz Ohne Musik, Alone In The Hollow Garden and ARM).

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