Orphx – Fragmentation (1996)

Country: Canada

 

Tracklist

 1. Word And Symbol 03:22
2. Layers Of Dura 04:19
3. Ekstasis 06:10
4. Auto-Erotic 04:11
5. Sepsis 06:14
6. Tanha 08:14
7. Pathogenesis 06:40
8. Words Once Spoken 09:22
9. Electroencephalographic Measurements 04:04
10. Samsara 04:29
11. Cellular Resonance 08:48
12. Within 07:05

 

 Orphx is an industrial/techno project from Canada.

Formed in 1993 in Hamilton, Ontario by Rich Oddie, Christina Sealey and Aron West

 and inspired by early industrial music and the extreme fringes of metal.
In late 1995 West departed to focus on his noise project Tropism,

while Oddie and Sealey began to push Orphx in a more rhythmic direction.
Orphx have been developing their hypnotic rhythms and experimental noise using modular and analog synthesizers,

software, location recordings and feedback circuits, utilizing darker pieces of techno and electro

and combine these elements with the experimental aesthetics and themes of early industrial music.
Oddie and Sealey have performed throughout Europe and North America at celebrated venues like Berghain and Tresor 

as well as notable electronic music festivals such as Movement and Mutek.
Their live appearances are renowned for delivering improvised performances

that combine software with modular synthesizer and other hardware.
"Fragmentation" was originally released on Malignant Records label

and was made using the same basic tools as in their early cassettes: contact microphones, scrap metal, 

effects pedals, feedback circuits, a drum machine, a couple of synths,

and location recordings and found sounds manipulated by Sealey on reel to reel machines and an 8-bit sampler.
While early Orphx recordings were primarily improvised direct to tape, this album places much greater emphasis

on carefully constructed layers of sound, shaping their improvisational energy into powerful compositions

that combines death industrial atmospheres and brutal power electronics with relentless, hypnotic percussion.
"Fragmentation" was reissued by Hospital Productions in 2020 including the original album

and over an hour of additional rarities and previously unreleased recordings.

 The Memory links also contains these as bonus.

 
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Girnų Giesmės – Aštuoni Nerimo Veidrodžiai (1997)

Country: Lithuania

 

Tracklist

1. Veidrodis I 14:42
2. Veidrodis II 06:00
3. Veidrodis III 03:38
4. Veidrodis IV 04:50
5. Veidrodis V 13:37
6. Veidrodis VI 05:25
7. Veidrodis VII 04:36
8. Veidrodis VIII. Žiemos Rūpesčiai (Mix) 06:24

 

Girnu Giesmes was born in 1996 by Laurynas Jukonis,

who had experimented with several underground bands in Vilnius before starting his own project.
Album "Kerai" (Spell), recorded the same year and issued by the label Dangus in cassette format.
In 1997 the cassette "Aštuoni Nerimo Veidrodžiai" (8 Mirrors Of Anxiety) was self-released

and was distributed only in a close circle of friends.
The next year the cassette "Juodi Vasaros Trimitai" (Black Trumpets Of Summer) was released, 

followed by the split release "Brėkšta" (Breaking Dawn) together with the band Šalikapalikau in 2000.
The first Girnu Giesmes work in CD format was published in 2001 under the title "S:S:S:S".
From 2003 to 2022 six more albums were recorded while the project also played live on several notable festivals.
"Aštuoni Nerimo Veidrodžiai" was re-released in CDr in 2001 under the title "8 Nerimo Veidrodžiai" with a different cover.

 
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Inanna – Day Ov Torment (1993)

Country: Sweden

 

Tracklist

1. Zounds 06:13    
2. Body Ov Light 08:49
3. Her Essence 04:41
4. Thorn 05:20
5. Zonei 03:51
6. Ancient Flesh 04:46
7. Submission To Solitude I - III 17:37
8. Besides Eternity 05:45
9. Exhalted Inanna / Hurt 08:16

 

Solo dark ambient / death-industrial project of Swedish artist Mikael Stavöstrand. 
Stavöstrand had previously been involved in the death industrial duo Archon Satani together with Tomas Pettersson. 
The project appears to have been active since the early 1990s (around 1992)

when Stavöstrand released material under Inanna (and even earlier under the moniker 7/Inanna/7).
"Day Ov Torment" was originally released on Staalplaat and later in 2007 was reissued with a different cover by Cold Spring.

 Recorded at the A.C.R. Chamber in Autumn 1992 and mixed by Jouni Havukainen of In Slaughter Natives.

 
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Heid – Submitting To The Uprush Of The Unconscious (1997)

Country: Sweden

 

Tracklist

1. The Breath Which Leads Living Creatures 04:15
2. Fire And Ice 05:00
3. Gandreið 06:16
4. Submitting To The Uprush Of The Unconscious 05:49
5. Calling The Hidden Ones 3:17
6. Pilgrim Of The Sublunary World 05:36
7. Beneath The Wing Of Shadow 13:46

 

Heid was an industrial/dark ambient project hailing from the forested outbacks of northern Sweden,

started by Kristian Olsson and Tolufim (Daniel T. Eideholm) in 1997 (originally under the name Gimla).
Their first release was the cassette "Beneath The Wing Of Shadows" that was printed in a very limited amount of copies.
In the process of making their first album, Peter "Parasoleil" Lindahl and Stefan Östlund joined.
"Submitting To The Uprush Of The Unconscious" only taken three weeks to complete

and released as a limited edition CDr in 1997 on Bastet Recordings,

creating a dark, dystopian sound, that rendered them a formidable reputation among fans and scene.
After the release of their debut album, Heid signed to Malignant Records, but Stefan Östlund left the project.
Their second album, titled "Arktogäa", took over a year in making and contains a more structured, 

mathematical approach, and incorporated novelty elements like musique concrete and ethno-tinged passages.
After the release of "Arktogäa", Tolufim left the project.
Kristian Olsson and Peter Lindahl had plans to continue, but Heid dissolved definitely in July 2001.
Cold Meat Industry released a retrospective compilation CD entitled "Pilgrim Of The Sublunary World" in 2002.
Heid's legacy was carried later on projects like Survival Unit (Kristian Olsson) and L.E.A.K. (Peter Lindahl and Tolufim),

that opted to focus on different facets of what Heid comprised.

 
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Thymikon – Nipsis (1996)

Country: United States

 

Tracklist

1. Nipsis 04:56
2. Remorse (The Watchers) 04:46
3. Without 613 04:10
4. Demise 05:04
5. Aeternus 04:18
6. Wi6th1ou3t 05:46
7. Shimshon 03:48
8. Demise 2 04:31
9. SOS #5 03:34
10. Night 03:46
11. Midnight Improvisation 03:28
12. Steel 03:43
13. The Mystic Mother (Bonus Track) 04:29

 

Beau Branson released his first and only album "Nipsis" as Thymikon, in late 1996.
Branson is a Professor of Philosophy at Brescia University in Kentucky,

specialized in Philosophical Theology, Metaphysics, and Ancient and Hellenistic Philosophy.
The album featured a blend of industrial/ambient, dark wave with electronica sounds

and was released by Logistikon Records (Edmond, OK).
Thymikon also had tracks released on various compilations on labels like Flaming Fish Music and Blacklight Records.
Branson's only subsequent recording as Thymikon was the song "The Mystic Mother",

that featured on the 1997 compilation "Awaiting The Dawn".

 
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Parca Pace – Parca Pace (1999)

Country: Sweden

 

Tracklist

1.  Parca Pace 50:00

 

Parca Pace was a solo project of Jan Carleklev of Sanctum created in the late 90s.
This release was originally meant as a soundtrack to a multimedia installation

about the closing of a factory and the effects on the adjacent community.
Eventually grew into a proper album, and parts of this would also find their way into the Sanctum live sets subsequently.
Produced by Samuel Durling of Mental Destruction Parca Pace offers a variety of industrial sounds

that unfold in a dark ambient atmosphere, held together by tribal beats and hypnotic neo-classical passages.

 
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Inade – Aldebaran (1996)

Country: Germany

 

Tracklist

1. Signals From 68 Dimensions 11:21
2. Signals From 68 Dimensions 07:01
3. The Conquest Of Being Separated 10:54
4. The Conquest Of Being Separated 04:49
5. The Crushing Of Earthly Foundations 09:09
6. The Crushing Of Earthly Foundations 05:46
7. The End Of The Beginning 07:45
8. The End Of The Beginning 06:01

 

 German duo consisting of Knut Enderlein and René Lehmann

specializing in warped, strange and hypnotic sounds since 1991.
"Aldebaran" is the first pillar of Inade´s Audio Mythology with walls of solid pulsating sound waves,

crushing explosions of stellar noises, wails and voices dragged from the very depths of space itself, 

along with blanketing swathes of night-encrusted atonal skitterings echoing in dark cathedrals.
The album focuses on the German Vril society myths of "Aldebaran",

the black sun of the secret knowledge, from which universal spirituality is said to originate.
The ultimate document of deep and cavernous dark ambient.

 
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Organ 31 – Spiritus Sanctum (1985)

Country: United States

 

Tracklist

 Spiritus Lycanthropique
1. Hounds Of Hell 05:31
2. Dog Star 09:34
3. Danbhalah La Flambeau 07:48
4. Digitaria 06:02
Hymn Of Ur
5. The Gate Way 04:28
6. Sumerian Charm Against Daemons That Assail In The Night 07:11
7. ...And He Strayed From The Path With She 04:17
8. Niether-Niether 04:42
9. Kether 10:12

 

Organhouse is the umbrella since 1982 for the following groups Organ 31, Aktion Direkt, and Organization 31 

originally from Non-Dasein (Sherpa Studio) Fullerton, CA USA.
Non-Dasein founded by members of Republic Of Sherpa

 and previous tenants were Fullerton punk rock legends The Mechanics.

Groups and persons that vied for studio time and performed there include: Republic Of Sherpa, LINT,  

Topper Krause & The T-Birds, Tim Maag, Toxic Era, TAO MAO, Bile, Aktion Direkt, Goat,  

Organhouse, KORE, DI, Whale, SPFN, Zits, Social Distortion, Torn Memory and many more.
In Spring of 1986 Organhouse would move to the mountains in northern New Mexico

where they are currently producing and (re) releasing music once again.
The official name used for all current releases is Organhouse 

while past re-issues will be under their originating names respectively.

 
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Red Harvest – Hybreed (1996)

Country: Norway

 

Tracklist

1. MaztürNation 03:13
2. The Lone Walk 10:07
3. Mutant 03:42
4. After All... 04:20
5. Ozrham 09:44
6. On Sacred Ground 09:34
7. The Harder They Fall 04:07
8. Underwater 08:33
9. Monumental 06:22
10. In Deep 12:27
11. The Burning Wheel 05:54

 

 Red Harvest is a Norwegian industrial metal band, formed in 1989 as a Slayer tribute band.
They released the demo "Occultica" in 1989 followed by the demo "Psychotica" in 1990,

before releasing their debut album "Nomindsland" in 1992.
From 1994, with the album "There's Beauty In The Purity Of Sadness" the band moved towards

an experimental hybrid of progressive metal, gothic rock, industrial, and doom metal.
1995's "The Maztürnation" and 1996's "HyBreed" allowed the band to reach a wider audience,

resulting in them opening for American gothic metal act Type O Negative on their European tour in 1997.
In 1998, they released an EP entitled "NewRage World Music", which was re-released in 2001

and contains the original EP and four bonus tracks with minor alterations under the title of "New World Rage Music".

After the original EP release, the band perfected their progressive industrial-tinged sound

and their follow-up "Cold Dark Matter" album was released in 2000.
In 2002, "Sick Transit Gloria Mundi" was nominated for a Spellemannprisen,

the Norwegian equivalent of a Grammy Award and an alternative Grammy in the "Best Metal Album" category.
In 2004, Red Harvest released the album "Internal Punishment Programs" and in 2006 the "Harvest Bloody Harvest" DVD.
"A Greater Darkness" followed in early 2007 and in 2008, they released "The Redline Archives",

a compilation of remixes and alternate versions of previously released tracks along with a number of unreleased songs.
From 1998 and later their sound drew elements from industrial metal bands such as Godflesh and Ministry, Neurosis, Voivod,

fellow Norwegian black metal bands and certain styles of electronica, such as drum'n'bass, industrial, and gabber.
The band played a show on 24 October 2009 in Oslo, to mark the twentieth anniversary from their formation.
According to their official website, Red Harvest disbanded in May 2010, stating no specific reasons for the breakup.

They eventually reformed 5 years later in 2015.
Most of their members are also part of the project Dunkelheit.

 
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Raism – The Very Best Of Pain (MCD 1996)

Country: Greece / Finland

 

Tracklist

1. Chaosphere 03:54
2. Killing Machine 04:49
3. Les 120 Journees De Sodome (A Velvet Ballad For Desade) 04:37
4. Alienation 04:10
5. What Kind Of Hell Is This Anyway? 04:32

 

 Raism was the continuation of Diabolos Rising project that featured Magus Wampyr Daoloth (Thou Art Lord,

The Magus, ex-Necromantia, ex-N.A.O.S., ex-Danse Macabre) and Mika Luttinen (Impaled Nazarene).

The band took its moniker from Gilles De Rais and here the dark atmosphere of Diabolos Rising is left aside

for a more groovier and catchier industrial metal melodies with anti-social and misanthropic themes.

Sotiris Vayenas of Septic Flesh is handling the guitars

while Spiros Antoniou (also from Septic Flesh) is responsible for the cover art of the MCD.

In 1997 Raism released their only full length album entitled "Aesthetic Terrorism"

where most of the tracks are followed by a hardcore techno remix version of them.

 
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GLOD – Gnosis (1995)

Country: United States

 

Tracklist

1. Black Song For A Dead Sun 06:03
2. Overmind 04:46
3. Redgnosis 11:37
4. Breath Of Fire 11:10
5. Return To Zero 13:15
6. Molecular Noisefloor 21:19

 

 GLOD (aka G.L.O.D. God Loves Over Dose) officially began around 1988 and consisted of Frank107 on vocals,

effects and manipulations, David Martin samplers and keyboards and Michael Dead on stick guitar.
A couple of home-recorded tapes were put out in limited editions,

the first being "23V" and the second being "The Gold Tape".

Around that time Frank, Shelley Soma and Mike Dead began to put out the self-published booklets,

on each solstice and equinox, which later became known as "Glod Propaganda".

As work commenced on the self-titled first LP, which was initially put out as a limited edition on marbelized clear vinyl,

then later on CD with additional tracks, GLOD coalesced into a coherent sonic endeavor

comprised of Frank, David, Mike and SSoma as a percussionist and auxillary vocalist.

Wolfgang joined late in the production, in time to make it on the CD as a second percussionist for the song "Sacriscar".
Their first CD was an exploration of sound and texture in a ritualistic format,

with not much regard for commerciality or the numerous technical obstacles which confronted the band members.

At the same time their early live performances quickly gained them attention with their occult symbolism,

ritualistic drumming, body manipulations and usage of blood sacrifice.
After the release of the first CD, Mike Dead departed the band, choosing to pursue his own path.
Also the band upgraded their home studio equipment, played some live dates around the US

(including some in the Midwest with Ordo Equitum Solis) and produced a video titled "A Private Release",

which was a sort of documentary to the events which centered around the making of the first CD.
With work on the new CD underway, GLOD signed on with the Italian label Musica Maxima Magnetica,

which also re-released the first CD in Europe.

For "Gnosis" GLOD worked with guitarist Dreike, Wolfgang shifted from drums to bass guitar

and a new drummer, Xian, was joined from the Detroit percussive band Batterie Acid.

On the visual side, Frank and SSoma produced the cover artwork and text.
"Gnosis" is a more coherent elaboration of the gnostic state that the band explored with their first release.

It explores ritualistically styled old elegies using the interplay of violin, trumpet and kettledrums 

juxtaposed with sublimely textured samples, non-traditional guitar and aggressive bass.
Weaving seductive rhythms, psychedelia-tinged trance laden with atavistic percussion and ecstatic vocal chants.
The compilations "Magnetic Submission" and the Charnel Music release "Arrhythmia III" followed.
By 1996 GLOD started working on their third CD that saw the light of day in 1999 under the title "Babe In Abyss".

 
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T • A • G • C – Digitaria (1986)

Country: England

 

Tracklist

1. Blood Burns Into Water 03:03
2. Dog Star 04:23
3. Balag Anti 08:12
4. Chozzar Over Abyss 02:13
5. Pre-Eval 05:03
6. Ghost Cultures Under Collapse 06:59
7. Noosphere 08:12
8. Lux Nox 09:07
9. Tzaddi (1994 CD Bonus Track) 01:27
10. The Abominable Plateau Of Leng (1994 CD Bonus Track) 01:56
11. Sekhet (1994 CD Bonus Track) 04:59
12. ShgL 3.33 (1987 CD Bonus Track) 03:36
13. Sunset Eyes Thru Water (1987 CD Bonus Track) 05:39
14. Po-Ema (1987 CD Bonus Track) 02:41

 

 The Anti-Group Communications (or T.A.G.C.)  is an open-membership collaborative art and information project

formed in 1978 by Adi Newton and Steven James Turner of Clock DVA fame.

The T.A.G.C. acronym refers to the four different types of DNA Nucleotide: thymine, adenine, guanine, and cytosine.

The group's main objective was to combine interactive and mixed media art, installations,

and research on psycho acoustics and philosophical concepts to produce fascinating presentations.
The first non theoretical action devised by T.A.G.C. was the film "The Delivery", a 16mm triptych projection and soundtrack,

and the Anti theater performance "The Discussion" designed for five tape recorders and multi-video projection systems.

These two works were first presented at the "De Doelen" center in Rotterdam on Saturday, September 22nd, 1985.

"The Delivery" has been exhibited at the "2nd Atonal Festival" in "The Ballhaus Tiergarten" Berlin, Feb 18th 1985

where the soundtrack was recorded on a mobile 24 track system.

This document was released as "The Anti Group - The Delivery" on Atonal Records.
After these initial performances T.A.G.C. concentrated on audio development.

It was during this period 1985 to 1987 that the above recordings were realized

along with the highly acclaimed ambisonic album "Digitaria" which is a technological and ethnological work

based on the ideas of the Sabean cults of ancient Khem and the Dogon tribe of Mali.

Having worked through these areas, it became the next logical step to move into the application of Psychophysics 

developing the use of frequencies and Psychoacoustics with computer aided technology.

Performance of these ideas took place at the "3rd Atonal Festival" at "Alte TU-Mensa" Berlin on December 13th, 1986

and "SO 36" Berlin on Feb 14th 1987 and at the "Museum Of Contemporary Art" Prato, Italy on Sept 23rd 1988.
It was at this time also that T.A.G.C. displayed their first Meontological visual experiment "Burning Water".

The recordings utilized in these performances were released as part of a series of recordings

entitled Meontological Research Recordings 1 + 2.

T.A.G.C. performances were held at the Electro-Acoustic Music Academy Stockholm, August, 23rd 1990

and at the ARS Electronica symposium on Virtual Reality held in Linz, Austria on September 8th, 1990.

Meontological Research Recordings 3 + 4 followed where Recording 3 explores the central ideas 

expressed in the Coulier Noire and Recording 4 centers around the current research project

into the development of methods and techniques to aid expanded consciousness

in collaboration with R.E.S.T., SpaceTimeTanks and Relaxation Center Chicago, America.
All these psychoacoustic experiments and carefully constructed aural rituals are usually accompanied 

by lengthy liner notes, explaining the theoretical underpinnings of the recordings.
In this way, T.A.G.C. presents itself explicitly as acoustic research rather than music.

 Although the group disbanded in 1996, Newton continued the project with CD releases and live performances in 2009.
T.A.G.C. audio recordings are released on Newton's Anterior Research Recordings label.

 
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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.

 
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".

 
Memory

Subklinik ‎– Feasting On Souls (1996)

Country: United States

Tracklist

1. Feasting On Souls 08:17
2. Journey Through The Halls Of Darkness 13:44
3. Beyond The Existence Of Time And Space 08:08
4. Pt.III 10:35
5. Pleasant Stench 10:03
6. Corpsegrind 07:47
7. Hardening Of The Arteries 06:56
8. Mortuor Lesson 03:10
9. Tormenter 08:03

Subklinik is another project of Chad Davis (Mortuor, Anu, Draath, Hour Of Thirteen, Obscurae, Old Ghoul etc.)

that was formed in 1995 and is one of the longest running Death Industrial / Black Ambient projects

still active in the USA and celebrating its 30 years of existence.
Here Subklinik offers nightmarish necro-soundscapes from the darkest depths of the mind.
Released on Slaughter Productions as a double cassette and packaged in a VHS box with surgical scissors and cotton.

 
Memory

Asmorod – Involution Toward Chtonian Depths (1997)

Country: France

Tracklist

1. Poison - Transcendance 07:37
2. De Cantico Funebri 06:04
3. For A Brighter Faint Light (Fragile Salicacée Sous Un Terne Suaire) 03:16
4. Through Oceanic Calls 05:49
5. Ïa! Ïa! Cthulhu Fhtagn! 12:47
6. Subplutonary Incubation I 12:19
7. Subplutonary Incubation II (Abandon À La Morphine Céleste) 08:29
8. Chtonian Transubtantiation: Lorsqu'ils Rient Mais Ne Sourient Plus 17:19

Dark Ambient project from France, founded by Nicolas D. Faure

 (Dies Sanguini, Kurotokage, Ligeia's Sore Neurosis, Les Amants Maudits, Ephel Duath) in 1994.
The first demo tape, "Dance In The Winter Fog",

was released in the same year and was a mixture of dungeon synth and black metal.
In 1997 Asmorod released on Solistitium Records their first full-length album titled "Involution Toward Chtonian Depths",

which saw the participation of Cédric Codognet (Sator Absentia) and Vanessa Hidden.

With this album the project started to provide its typical mysterious,

deep dark ambient that distinguishes them from other releases of the same style.
Other albums followed, "A Faint Light Below" in 1998, "Derelict" in 1999, and "Hysope" in 2006.

 
Memory

Umbra – Unclean Spirit (1999)

Country: United States

Tracklist

1. The Valley Of Dry Bones 06:25
2. Poison Control 08:11
3. Lecher 05:23
4. From The Well 04:24
5. Tangleld Gullet 07:01
6. Washed Up On The Banks 07:52
7. Stacking The Dead 06:12
8. The Conscious Dead (Sallow Mix) 07:09
9. Spiders Under The Skin 02:11
10. Hacking The Root 06:26
11. Husk (Remix - Recontextualization By Azoikum) 03:38

Umbra was a collaborative effort between Scott Candey of Gruntsplatter

 and Stephen Petrus of Murderous Vision (In Death's Throes).
The idea for doing a collaborative project arose in late 1998.
Despite the long distance between them, one being in California and the other in Ohio,

by early 1999 they had completed enough material for a full length release

as well as contributing a track to the "Baited Breath" double cassette compilation.
In early April 1999 Stephen visited San Francisco

and together with Scott they were able to play what would be their one and only show.
This performance was recorded and released as a very limited edition CDR titled, "Perish: A Live Document".
The full length album, "Unclean Spirit", was released by The Rectrix Records as their debut offering.
It shows a varied approach while remaining within the sphere of dark experimental.
Moving from dark ambient to more abusive, grating textures,

"Unclean Spirit" also wove in rhythmic elements that shifted from meditative ritualism to tantruming machinery.
Rooted in a dirty lo-fi aesthetic it emerged as a project unique unto itself.
In addition to nine brand new tracks "Unclean Spirit" also features a track, using the album material as soundsource, reinterpreted by Azoikum and a more ambient mix of "The Conscious Dead",

which appeared on the "Baited Breath" compilation.

 
Memory

Predominance – Hindenburg (1998)

Country: Germany

Tracklist

1. Ascending Colossus 05:31
2. Luftschiffe 05:05
3. In Through The Eyes Of Heaven 06:48
4. Encoded Pages (Inade Rmx) 06:13
5. Four Symbols 07:00
6. Under The Blackened Sun 04:51
7. Out From The Eyes Of Heaven 05:49
8. Lakehurst - A Tragic Moment Frozen In Time / Luftschiffe 2002 11:17
9. Epilog 00:37

Predominance was a German Dark Ambient/Industrial project of Gerd "G.Z." Zaunig.
Zaunig began his musical career as a drummer of the German Death Metal/Grindcore band Enslaved in 1989.
In early 1991 he decided to go on his own path creating a new project under the name Dogmatized Machinery.
Together with two other members they experimented with heavy guitars, drum-machines

and tape samples but split in 1993 because of personal differences.
Together with one remaining member of Dogmatized Machinery (M. Heiser)

he formed another project called Death Is the Mother Of Beauty.
A short time later, he also founded his solo project Wolverine, that experiment with Power/Death Industrial.

However, as Wolverine became more intense, all of his other activated projects died.
In December 1994, from the ashes of all the experiences and influences of the past, Zaunig created Predominance.
In early 2000s he also created the project Virologic that focused on manipulating raw computer data into sound.
With the album "Hindenburg" Zaunig delivered a historical concept work on the legendary airship disaster

but also tried to draw parallels with the Led Zeppelin band (a decisive spark in his teenage years

that stimulated his interest in music) through various elements.

The cover motif is intentionally based on that of the first Led Zeppelin LP from 1969.

The track "Luftschiffe" begins like their last regular studio album "In Through The Out Door". 

"Encoded Pages", for example, is a multi-track collage that was created on the computer

and consists only of Led Zeppelin samples, which were of course also alienated (encrypted).

At the live presentation in Dresden in 1998, further key symbols were added.
"Hindenburg" was originally released in 1998 as a 6 track Mini-LP through Loki Foundation 

and later re-released on CD featuring three unreleased tracks and a exclusive remix by Inade.
Predominance officially disbanded on 20th November 2017.

 
Memory

Idpa – Stream (7'' EP 1997)

Country: Germany

Tracklist

1. Ilu - White Stream 06:10
2. Idpa 05:52

Dark Ambient / Industrial project of Marco Koch,
known as the owner of the cult German industrial and experimental electronics label Stateart 

that operated from 1996 to 2006.
Idpa first release was back in 1996 with the split 7'' EP "Documents Of Neural Assault" together with Thorofon.
"Stream" EP followed in a limited edition of 200 hand numbered copies.
The final appearance of the project was on the collaboration vinyl entitled "Live Action / Voodoo Bumble Bee"

that featured a live performance of Idpa together with Column One and Mz.412 

in Collapse festival, Rostock, Germany 19.08.2000.
The Memory link feature as bonus the track "Thou Sun" from the split EP with Thorofon.

 
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Mortuor – Mortuor (MCD 1999)

Country: United States

Tracklist

1. Pain 01:50
2. Mortified 04:31
3. Death Endeth All For Every Man 06:30
4. Tormentor 06:41
5. Exhumed By Fire 04:40
6. Rot 03:38

Short lived project of Chad Davis (Subklinik, Anu, Draath, Hour Of Thirteen, Obscurae, Old Ghoul etc.).
The first offering of the band was the Mini CDR entitled "Mortuor",

that was released in a limited edition of 30 hand-numbered copies with a double paper cover.
Two more releases saw the light of day that moved more into Power Electronics/Death Industrial territories,
the Mini CDR "Nekro Schizo" in 2006 and the debut full length album "I'm Waiting For You…" in 2009.

 
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