Cold Spring 2020 Releases...

At the end of a year that should have seen us celebrating our 30th Anniversary with a momentous 2-day festival, we look back on another proud year of releases for our label. 

2021 will see new releases on Cold Spring from the likes of Mayuko Hino / Controlled Death, Det Kätterska Förbund (Nordvargr + Trepaneringsritualen), She Spread Sorrow, FM Einheit, William Burroughs + Brion Gysin, Psychic TV, Nordvargr, Khost, and more to be announced.

Thank you for your continued support throughout this plague year...

COLD SPRING 2020 RELEASES:

JAGATH - 'Devalaya' CD (CSR290CD)
'I REMEMBER YOU' O.S.T. CD (CSR287CD)
COIL - 'A Guide For Beginners - The Voice Of Silver / A Guide For Finishers - A Hair Of Gold' 2CD (CSR288CD)
CONTROLLED DEATH (MASONNA) / RUDOLF EB.ER - 'Death Ceremonies' LP (CSR283LP)
MOTHRA - 'Doom Engine' LP (CSR284LP)
VA - 'The Forme To The Fynisment Foldes Ful Selden' 2CD (CSR252CD)
WESTERN, CREED, SPYBEY - 'W ands' CD (CSR285CD)
LLYN Y CWN - 'Dinorwic' CD (CSR286CD)
LA BREICHE - 'Le Rite' CD (CSR280CD)
FM EINHEIT (EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN) / ANDREAS AMMER - 'Hammerschlag' CD (CSR281CD)
TUNNELS OF AH - 'Deathless Mind' CD (CSR279CD)
COLOSSLOTH - 'Plague Alone' CD (CSR277CD)
KHOST - 'Buried Steel' CD (CSR278CD)
SONOLOGYST - 'Ancient Death Cults And Beliefs' CD (CSR270CD)
MINÓY - 'In Search Of Tarkovsky' CD (CSR273CD)

... and our special first release of 2020:

Z'EV - 'Heart Beat, Ear Drum' DVD (CSR262DVD)
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRFZ4JQZCwk

All available at:

coldspring.co.uk
coldspring.bandcamp.com

Cold Spring 2020 Releases

Iron Fist Of The Sun Live At Apiary Studios London 2nd May 2014.WAV

571 - Recorded live on May 02, 2023

Ambience for the night: Diablerie - Choreomania
diablerie.bandcamp.com/album/choreomania

**Playlist**
1) Tarvos - Gairm	
2) Duivel - Het Zwarte Hart van Walging
3) Heimland - Skugger fra ei Svunnen Tid
4) Blodtår - Ur m​ö​rker
**talk**
5) Skuggeheim - Å gå i Gl​ø​ymsle
6) Werwolf - Altar Of Whores
7) Nachtmaar - Raped Graves
8) Sanguen - In Death we Wake
9) Ossuaire - La diatribe infernale
**talk**
10) Enki - Knife (Ft. An Old Sad Ghost)

Live every Tuesday at 9pm ET on BostonFreeRadio.com

#571 - 05-02-23

Thalassophile

Available now:
www.insolacepublishing.org

Comprised of three-movements clocking in at a little over 30-minutes, this LP celebrates the sacrifice of King Domaldr at the temple of the rising sun, at the upper halls and as such stands as one of TxRxP's most harrowing and majestic moments.

Features an exclusive and expanded new remix by Th. Tot himself. Re-mastered for vinyl by James Plotkin. Design by Kevin Gan Yuen.

Limited edition pressing of 222 copies. Black vinyl only. 45rpm. Presented in heavyweight offset printed reverse board 33mm spine LP jackets, CMYK printed center-labels with black paper-inner sleeves and hand-stickered shrink.

Trepaneringsritualen - Konung Dómaldr Vid Upsala Hängd (edit)

From upcoming 12" on Sound of Cobra. Featuring special guest Troy Schafer (Devotion, Kinit Her, Wreathes, Compass Hour, etc) playing guitar and bass arrangements. 

Burial Hex - In Psychic Defense (pt1)

EXE - Transmission - 009 - Justin Mitchell (Cold Spring) / Nick Wallwork (Silent Message / Winterfyleth)

April's show brings two very different styles of music to the EXE Transmission podcast. Our first guest is the owner of the long running electronic-noise, Industrial dark-folk label Cold Spring now based here in Manchester. Since 1990 Justin Mitchell and Cold Spring have been at the forefront of cutting edge experimental electronic music with releases from acts such as Merzbow, Trepaneringsritualen and Coil. 

Tonight Justin has brought for us some of the staple tracks that have come to define Cold Spring as the label it is today with an exclusive first play from Khosts upcoming album on the label. 

Our Second guest is Nick Wallwork of Silent Message and bass guitarist with the British Black Metal outfit 'Winterfyleth' 
bringing us tonight a selection from his drum and bass record collection. as well as a discussion on the more subtle tones of Drum & Bass and his own experiences in DJing and writing music as part of a band.

Cold Spring Links:
www.coldspring.co.uk/
www.soundcloud.com/coldspring
www.facebook.com/coldspringhq/

Silent Message Links:
www.soundcloud.com/ilentessage
http://tinyurl.com/Nick-Wallwork
http://www.winterfylleth.co.uk

Tracklisting: 

Mumdance & Logos - Glass (Boylan Devils Mix) - Different Circles  
Broken Note & MachineCode - Milkiplus - (Subtrakt)
Trepaneringsritualen - The Seventh Man (Cold Spring) 
Khost - Redacted, Represed Recalcitrant (Cold Spring)
Sutcliffe Jugend - Howl (Cold spring)  
Iron Fist Of The Sun - Who will help me wash my right hand (Cold Spring)
Coil - A Fire Of The Mind (Coil)
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Ulterior Motive - Tech 2 (Shogun)
J:Kenzo - Sukura - (31 Records)
Nucleolus & Paradox - (Esoteric) 
Future Forces - Bypass (Futur forces Inc) 
Ebola - Nintendo Dubstep (Noize-Tek)

http://exe-project.com

EXE - Transmission - 009 - Justin Mitchell (Cold Spring) Nick Wallwork (Silent Message)

SHIFT - TRTAATWTFFMB

KHOST 'Buried Steel'(CSR278CD)

‘Buried Steel’ is the fourth album from Birmingham industrial metal duo KHOST, following the 2017 release ‘Governance’.

Themes and sonics of ‘Buried Steel’ range from granite and impassive to dreamlike and somnambulistic, in keeping with the promise – and threat – of the title, dwelling on slow, infallible ruination: a gravitational downthrust upon misshapen monuments and structures which are mangled, overgrown and increasingly forgotten. A monochrome landscape where nature reclaims and redefines us as time passes.

Recording of the album was marred with events such as an electrical fire which damaged some equipment. As a result, a number of tracks on the album had to be pieced together from damaged analogue elements such as reel to reel (Khost reel to reel RIP). From this point, the dynamic of some of the songs was altered, shifting their eventual outcome, particularly the tone of ambient work on Buried Steel.

Guests on ‘Buried Steel’ include Stephen Mallinder (CABARET VOLTAIRE, WRANGLER), Syan, Eugene Robinson (OXBOW), Manuel Liebeskind, Daniel Buess (16-17, MIR) and Stephen Ah Burroughs (TUNNELS OF AH, ex-HEAD OF DAVID)

CD in 6-panel digipak with artwork contributions from Talitha Bell, Syan and Craig Earp.

Track listing:

1. We Will Win (4:06)
2. Blood Gutters 6x4x1 (4:48)
3. Intravener (2:57)
4. Yellow Light (1:54)
5. Last Furnace (5:33)
6. Night Air (4:07)
7. Judgement Is Infallible (1:48)
8. Kent House (1:17)
9. December Bureau (5:26)
10. Vandals (1:57)
11. Dog Unit (4:13)
12. Two (1:19)
13. A Non Temporal Crawlspace (4:18)
14. Intravener In Dub (Mothboy Remix) (8:12)

Order via Cold Spring: http://store.coldspring.co.uk

Order via Bandcamp: https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/buried-steel-csr278cd

Watch teaser: https://youtu.be/TVlV81HyQMg

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Album Out 13th March 2020

KHOST Intravener

FM EINHEIT (EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN) / ANDREAS AMMER 'Hammerschlag' CD (CSR281CD)

"Hammerschlag" - created by FM Einheit (member of Einstürzende Neubauten early 1980's to mid-1990's), with Andreas Ammer -  features many percussive industrial elements and 'machine music' (chains, scraping, coiled springs, objects), noise, experimental electronics and provocative musical compositions familiar to the ears of Neubauten fans. An oratorio with prelude and two noise interludes, based on Russian futurist Aleksej Kapitonovič Gastev, the "bard of the machine age".

FM Einheit (Mufti) is an industrial and electronic musician and actor, primarily known for his percussion and compositional work with Einstürzende Neubauten, notably on the classic albums: "Kollaps", "Halber Mensch", "Haus Der Luege", "Tabula Rasa" and "Ende Neu". 

He played the lead role in the 1984 feature film Klaus Maeck's "Decoder". He has also collaborated with musicians such as: Diamanda Galás, Eraldo Bernocchi, Mona Mur, KMFDM, Goethes Erben and many more. Andreas Ammer has been creating works with FM Einheit since the early 1990’s.

"Just a moment longer, and through the confused chaos of these days, the legendary realisation of the future roar of events is triumphant" (A.K. Gastev, "A Bundle of Orders").

CD in glossy digipak.

Track listing:

1. Amoeba (7:07)
2. Order 01 (2:59)
3. Order 02 (4:09)
4. Order 03 (3:40)
5. Order 04 (3:39)
6. CIT (4:04)
7. Order 05 (5:07)
8. Order 06 (4:19)
9. Noise Orgy (4:37)
10. Order 07 (4:46)
11. Order 08 (2:50)
12. Order 09-10 (4:07)
13. Epilogue (3:40)

Order via Cold Spring: http://store.coldspring.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=8522

Order via Bandcamp: https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/hammerschlag-csr281cd

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Album Out 15th May 2020

Hammerschlag

FM EINHEIT (EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN) / ANDREAS AMMER Noise Orgy

LLYN Y CWN 'Dinorwic' CD (CSR286CD)

Llyn Y Cwn conveys atmosphere and environment through deep ambient sounds. The sound of nature re-establishing itself in the post-industrial wilderness of a former quarry. A phantasm of echoes reflecting the bleak majesty and poetic melancholy of the hinterland of North Wales. A hole within a void, a place defined by absence in a world of negative space.

The backdrop for this cavernous soundtrack is Dinorwic slate quarry. The field recordings were taken in this vast subterranean environment where an exposed scar of rock is carved out of the mountainside on the western slope of Elidir Fawr in Snowdonia, North Wales.

Standing alone in the quarry, which covers 700 acres up to a height of 600m, it isn't difficult to imagine work going on around you with the abandoned industrial landscape juxtaposed against the backdrop of the majestic Snowdonia skyline.

Each track is named after an area of the quarry, descending ever deeper through each rock gallery, with their acoustically unique echoes and sounds. The landscape is in a state of constant flux with small avalanches of rock and spoil slate tumbling over itself - it was such a landslide that led to the eventual demise of the quarry. The hydroelectric power station, built deep underground inside the mountain, can be heard rumbling away through the various air shafts dotted around the quarry, adding to the overall ominous feel of the pieces.

File next to fellow Welshman Lustmord.

Presented in a 6-panel digipak with breathtaking photography by the artist. 

Track listing:

1. Dyffryn (6:01)
2. Garrett (5:39)
3. Allt Ddu (6:40)
4. Bryn Glas (5:10)
5. Llwybr Llynog (8:48)
6. Braich (5:26)
7. Vivian (12:24)

Order via Cold Spring: https://store.coldspring.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=8801

Order via Bandcamp: https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/dinorwic-csr286cd

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Album Out: 10th July 2020

LLYN Y CWN Dyffryn

COIL 'A Guide For Beginners - The Voice Of Silver / A Guide For Finishers - A Hair Of Gold' 2CD (CSR288CD)

Deluxe reissue of 2xCD 'Best Of' by the esoteric experimental pioneers.

Out of print on CD for almost two decades, Cold Spring are proud to announce the official reissue of a much sought after 'Best Of' set by the acclaimed experimental group Coil, with 'A Guide For Beginners - The Voice Of Silver' and 'A Guide For Finishers - A Hair Of Gold' being made available together in one deluxe set.

Officially licensed from FEELEE, this edition spans Coil's entire career, featuring tracks from all their major albums. They were hand-picked by Coil to represent their best work and originally released to mark their first performance in Moscow in 2001.

The artwork (text in English and Russian Cyrillic) sympathetically features the rarest of the images previously used in the original Russian and English editions and is packaged in a deluxe, glossy 8-panel digipak with spot matt-laminate varnish.

The vinyl-only edition by FEELEE was released as two separate luxurious 2xLP editions in 2018 (http://feelee.bandcamp.com). All artwork for the Cold Spring edition has been approved by FEELEE.

Double CD in an 8-panel glossy digipak with spot matt-laminate varnish. Comes with 2 glossy artcards and sticker (direct from Cold Spring only).

Track listing:

Disc 1 - A Guide For Beginners: The Voice Of Silver

1. Amethyst Deceivers (6:33)
2. The Lost Rivers Of London (7:41)
3. Are You Shivering? (9:38)
4. Ostia (The Death Of Pasolini) (6:21)
5. Where Are You? (7:51)
6. At The Heart Of It All (5:12)
7. A Cold Cell (5:58)
8. Batwings (A Limnal Hymn) (11:09)
9. Who'll Fall? (5:15)
10. The Dreamer Is Still Asleep (9:41)

Disc 2 - A Guide For Finishers: A Hair Of Gold

1. Panic (4:18)
2. First Dark Ride (10:50)
3. Further Back And Faster (7:55)
4. The Anal Staircase (3:57)
5. Red Skeletons (7:32)
6. Scope (6:35)
7. Solar Lodge (5:36)
8. Blue Rats (3:08)
9. A.Y.O.R. (3:11)
10. The First Five Minutes After Violent Death (4:59)

Order via Cold Spring: https://store.coldspring.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&amp;product_id=8917

Order via Bandcamp: https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/a-guide-for-beginners-the-voice-of-silver-a-guide-for-finishers-a-hair-of-gold-csr288cd

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Album Out 23rd October 2020

COIL Ostia (The Death Of Pasolini)

'I REMEMBER YOU' (ÓSKAR THÓR AXELSSON) Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD (CSR287CD)

We are extremely proud to release the official soundtrack to the cult Icelandic horror film 'I REMEMBER YOU' (Is: "Ég man þig"). Heavy dark ambient / industrial / orchestral soundscapes composed by Frank Hall, with a beautiful, solemn, folkloristic finale featuring Icelandic choirs. A must for fans of Graeme Revell, Steven Price, Lustmord, MZ.412. Digipak.

The soundtrack was created at the old industrial area of Grandi in Reykjavík, at a studio due to be 'gentrified' and forcefully emptied of the artists. "I was alone in this large building in this deserted area, working late hours, making music for a horror movie. It was during winter... wind blowing, darkness. There were some tense moments...".

"As soon as I read the script I heard low brass in my head and that kind of stuck. We used a lot of brass instruments, filtered and processed throughout. I also ended up using a lot of bowed guitar, sometimes doubling the brass, sometimes more like a sound effect". Hall also used analogue synths on the special climactic track "Montage".

On the finale, Hall reminisces: "Móðir mín í kví kví (My Mother In The Sheep Pen) is an old Icelandic folk song. The lyrics are based on Icelandic folklore about a woman who had a baby which she couldn't afford to have and left it outside to die, wrapped in a rag. The infant then becomes what we Icelandic call "Útburður" - the ghost of a child who has been left out to die. Some time later the woman wants to go to a dance but has no pretty clothes to wear. She is in the sheep pen attending to the sheep when she hears this whispering outside: "My mother in the sheep pen, don't you worry because I'll lend you my rag, my rag to dance in". It's a rather ominous lyric and this song is sometimes sung for Icelandic babies as a lullaby... a little odd custom perhaps. I remember my mother singing this to me. This is one of my favourite Icelandic folk songs, and when I created the music for "I Remember You", which is about a lost child that haunts people, I suggested to director Óskar Thór Axelsson that I should make an Icelandic choir version of it and use it as a theme / credit song. He loved the idea".

'I Remember You' is based on the internationally acclaimed novel by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, the "Queen of Icelandic Crime".

Track listing:

1. Intro
2. Sigling
3. Hesteyri
4. Kjallarinn
5. Bernodus I
6. Lækurinn
7. Reykjavik
8. Benni
9. Hvalstöðin
10. Montage
11. Bernodus II
12. Freyr
13. Endir
14. Móðir mín í kví kvi

Order via Cold Spring: https://store.coldspring.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=9049

Order via Bandcamp: https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/i-remember-you-skar-th-r-axelsson-o-s-t-csr287cd

Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/UWIh4wgrHLg

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Album Out 4th December 2020

'I REMEMBER YOU O.S.T.' (Óskar Thór Axelsson) Kjallarinn

JAGATH 'Devalaya' CD (CSR290CD)

Jagath is a ritual/industrial ambient act from Perm, Russia. 

We create our music at abandoned industrial locations - the bottom of a moist underground sewer shaft and inside huge hollow oil tanks - without using digital synthesis. We use simple, mostly hand-crafted instruments, found objects and our voices. We do this to share our vision of decaying post-industrial age, to unleash the spirit of deep beyond-world and unveil life in the abyss. 

It is cold out here, in Russia, everything stays frozen for decades. Life is almost stopped, and this cannot be changed. So we have to do something so as not to freeze to death. 

"A firefly may inspire a man. Man takes a flint, flint carves sparks, sparks set fire to wood, a flame lights up. Flaring up more and more, a fire turns into a firestorm. Firestorm lives its own life". 

"Devalaya" ("Temple") was recorded in vast oil tanks from 2015 to 2018. 

6-panel glossy digipak with photography by Gregory Skvortsov and Dmitriy Frolov. 

For fans of: Shibalba, Phurpa, Arktau Eos.

Track listing:

1. Agadha (Abyss) (11:30)
2. Utthana (Rise) (7:39)
3. Catu (Conversation) (10:55)
4. Devalaya (Temple) (14:28) 
5. Nila (Darkness) (9:39)

Order via Cold Spring: https://store.coldspring.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=9068

Order via Bandcamp: https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/devalaya-csr290cd

Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/lNpOlErmLH4

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Album Out 4th December 2020

JAGATH Agadha (Excerpt)

Cold Spring is the UK's premier record label / mailorder for: Industrial, Dark Ambient, Esoteric, Japanese Noise, Ritual, Power Electronics, Noise, Drone, Death Industrial, Neoclassical, Neofolk, Doom, Dark Soundtracks and Experimental music.

Cold Spring Records has primarily been a label since 1990, releasing such influential artists as Coil, Laibach, Psychic TV, Merzbow, MZ. 412, Z’EV, Skullflower and more.

http://www.coldspring.co.uk / http://store.coldspring.co.uk / info@coldspring.co.uk

'I REMEMBER YOU O.S.T.' (Óskar Thór Axelsson) Kjallarinn

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