Cold Spring 2022 End Of Year Playlist...

We look back on another proud year of releases for our label.

2023 will see new releases on Cold Spring from the likes of BEF (post-HUMAN LEAGUE / pre-HEAVEN 17), Psychic TV, Sleep Research Facility & Llyn Y Cwn, Drew Daniel / John Wiese, Khost, Satøri, The Telescopes, FM Einheit, Zoviet France, 400 Lonely Things, Sputnik OST along with some yet to be revealed Cult soundtracks, and more to be announced.

Thank you for your continued support...

COLD SPRING 2022 RELEASES:

LULL - 'That Space Somewhere' CD (CSR321CD)
MASCHINENZIMMER 412 (MZ. 412) - 'Malfeitor' CD (CSR318CD)
GENESIS P-ORRIDGE & DAVE BALL - 'Imagining October' (Dir. Derek Jarman) O.S.T. Etched 12" (CSR300LP)
KOLLAPS - 'Until The Day I Die' CD/LP (CSR309CD/LP)
DEAD VOICES ON AIR 'Abrader Redux' CD (CSR320CD) - feat. cEvin Key
JAGATH 'Svapna' CD (CSR304)
COLOSSLOTH - 'Promethean Meat' CD (CSR315CD)
VA - 'Visions Of Darkness (In Iranian Contemporary Music) Volume II' 2CD (CSR316CD)
MASCHINENZIMMER 412 (MZ. 412) - 'Macht Durch Stimme' CD (CSR306CD)
WE BE ECHO - 'Ceza Evi - Compleat Edition' 2CD (CSR311CD)
MERZBOW - 'Animal Liberation - Until Every Cage Is Empty' CD/T-Shirt (CSR314CD/TS)
TENHORNEDBEAST - 'The Lamp Of No Light' CD (CSR312CD)
SONOLOGYST - 'Interdimensional' CD (CSR305CD)
BURIAL HEX - 'Gauze' CD (CSR301CD)
LLYN Y CWN - 'Du Y Moroedd' CD (CSR302CD)

Order: https://coldspring.co.uk
https://coldspring.bandcamp.com

Cold Spring 2022 Releases

LLYN Y CWN 'Du Y Moroedd' CD (CSR302CD)

"Du Y Moroedd" (Welsh - the black of the sea) is an album of abyssal dark ambient - environmental soundscapes and atmospheres from above, below and beside the ocean; field recordings made onboard vessels at sea; sounds from submerged recording devices deep underwater; recordings from the coasts of North Wales to Greenland and the Arctic Ocean. 

"The tracks were created onboard the RV Prince Madog whilst conducting research using multibeam sonar to locate, survey and identify shipwrecks from WW1. The multibeam sonar creates images of the seabed using acoustic reflections. It is quite an experience to watch the sonar reveal an unsurveyed wreck and be the first person to "see" the ship for over 100 years; the vessel sitting at the bottom of the ocean waiting in the dark to be discovered. 

Research into the history of each wreck uncovers stories of boats torn in half by torpedoes and mines, U- boats hunted by destroyers and pummelled with depth charges. Many of these sites aren't just wrecks; they are mass war graves. The vital shipping channel to Liverpool passes the North Wales coast, the U boats would sit and wait; listening. When heard from under the water, each ship has its own unique acoustic signature based on the size of the engine, shape of the propeller, curve of the hull, these acoustic tell-tales were used by the U-boats to identify targets. The shipping lane became a shooting gallery of easy pickings and the submarines were able to slip away undetected into the black of the sea. 

The album features recordings from the hull of RRS James Clark Ross whilst ploughing through ice fields off Greenland, from a "sound trap" attached to an anchor as it descended through 80m of water to the seabed, and sounds from onboard the RV Prince Madog with its pitched engine drone. There is also a recording of the bell at Trwyn Du lighthouse, Anglesey, that was made in August 2020, days before the bell was removed to be replaced with a modern fog horn - prior to this, the bell had rung every 30 seconds since 1922" (Benjamin Ian Powell). 

File next to fellow Welshman Lustmord and Sleep Research Facility.

"Ambient soundscapes that thrill and terrify in equal measure" (Electronic Sound Magazine).

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

Track Listing:

1. Trwyn Du (4:49)
2. SS Apapa (6:34)
3. Adrift (4:46)
4. Submergence (5:09)
5. Du Y Moroedd (4:11)
6. The Hunt (5:02)
7. Descent (5:51)
8. The Skerries (3:52)
9. Erebus And Terror (5:12)
10. Stratigraphy (31:36)

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr302cd

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/du-y-moroedd-csr302cd

Listen:  https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/llyn-y-cwn-du-y-moroedd

Watch: 
'Du Y Moroedd' Album Promo: https://youtu.be/r1Jg4cs39O0
'Trwyn Du' Video: https://youtu.be/GcPD_vh2r1o
(Videos by Abby Helasdottir)

LLYN Y CWN:

https://llynycwn.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/llyn-y-cwn
https://www.facebook.com/llynycwn
https://coldspring.co.uk/llyn-y-cwn

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Out 25th February 2022

LLYN Y CWN Adrift

BURIAL HEX 'Gauze' CD (CSR301CD)

Horror Electronics and Phantasmagoric Post-Industrial usher in the brand new ritual offering from Burial Hex.

The impulse for Gauze is to be a prophylactic talisman and ward for the families directly involved with the Burial Hex project, though it can be effective for anyone who needs an extra layer of defense. The art, lyrics and sound were all layered together with supersensible content generated specifically for this purpose. Beyond just protection and defense, Gauze is an invitation to transcend sclerotic ways of experiencing incarnation, by freely juxtaposing increasingly divergent forms, and reconciling all with warmth and passion. Such has been the work of the Burial Hex project since its inception, striving towards a gestalt of timeless and enduring realms via a benign spiritual interaction with conflicting beings.

With Gauze we hear the mouths of Burial Hex spit in the face of those who would reduce psychic experience and spiritual feeling to material processes, penetrating the density of human denial and cracking the electronic shell which crushes much of our humanity. CD in digipak.

RIYL: Coil, SPK, Psychic TV, Trepaneringsritualen.

Track Listing:

1. Lost Sailor (4:05)
2. Lion's Breath (3:34)
3. Treasure Spirits (3:48)
4. Auspices (6:32)
5. Sed Libera Nos A Malo (3:48)
6. Double Scorpio (7:55)
7. Gauze (4:55)
8. Two Rivers (7:38)

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr301cd

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/gauze-csr301cd

Listen:  https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/burial-hex-gauze

Watch: 
'Gauze' Album Promo: https://youtu.be/tKMvcxgyCD0
'Lost Sailor' Video: https://youtu.be/6SDrAlON8hA
(Videos by Abby Helasdottir)

BURIAL HEX:

https://burialhex.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/burial-hex
https://www.facebook.com/burialhexofficial
https://coldspring.co.uk/burial-hex

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Out 11th March 2022

BURIAL HEX Lions Breath

GENESIS P-ORRIDGE & DAVE BALL - 'Imagining October' (Dir. Derek Jarman) O.S.T. Etched 12" (CSR300LP)

The official soundtrack to Derek Jarman's 1984 short film "Imagining October", with music recorded by Derek’s friend and collaborator Genesis P-Orridge (Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle), and Dave Ball (Soft Cell, The Grid). Recorded at DJM recording studios in Theobalds Road, London.

Limited Edition 12" vinyl featuring a beautiful etched B-Side. Features liner notes by James Mackay (Jarman's producer, collaborator and archivist).

Derek Jarman put together a programme of films for the London Film Festival, reﬂecting the cutting edge of the London avant-garde of the time. Recorded at the same time as The Angelic Conversation, Imagining October was filmed in the Eisenstein Museum in Moscow, Vladimir Mayakovsky’s grave at Novodevichy Cemetery, the GUM department store facing red square, and the fire temples of Baku in Azerbaijan. The painting sequences with a group of soldiers (Angus Cook, Stephen Thrower, Peter Doig and Keir Wahid) was filmed in London. Jarman considered it one of the best, if not the best, of his shorter works. It was intended as an agit-prop work and the combination of music and imagery remains powerful to this day.

"The heroism of revolution through the queered lens... It was not just the Soviet Union censoring books, Jarman points out here, but Thatcher’s government and its homophobia was no greater friend to gays than the regime on the other side of the Iron Curtain. A moral hysteria surrounding AIDs was sweeping Britain, the miner’s strike was in full swing (an action supported by gay activists, as it was brutally broken up by police): back home, society seemed on a knife edge." (ArtReview).

Track Listing:

A1. Imagining October I
A2. Imagining October II
A3. Imagining October III
A4. Imagining October IV

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr300lp

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/imagining-october-dir-derek-jarman-o-s-t-csr300lp

Listen:  https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/imagining-october

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Out 17th June 2022

GENESIS P-ORRIDGE & DAVE BALL - Imagining October I

SONOLOGYST 'Interdimensional' CD (CSR305CD)

The new Sonologyst album, "Interdimensional", explores the paraphysical dimension of cosmic music. It completes the dilation process of his sound, which began with the albums "Silencers" and "Ancient Death Cults And Beliefs", forming an ideal trilogy inspired by what is beyond the boundaries of science.

"Interdimensional" is inspired by the scientist Michio Kaku who theorized what could be the remote future of the human species, beyond matter, the stars, and known dimensions. A future that could lead us to the victory over the end of everything, beyond the foreseen and inevitable death of the universe known to us. 

Also a cosmic record in terms of sound, "Interdimensional" is pervaded by a sense of stasis reminiscent of Thomas Köner's isolationist electronics, but still characterised by the use of electrified instruments, analogue synthesizers and recordings of resonant metal objects. Unlike the previous records, however, the typical dark experimental / post industrial sound of Sonologyst is filtered through hazy warping reverberations, and infinite delays, which musically depict the intergalactic journey of a civilization in search of a possible future beyond death. 

Music ad astra. 

CD in matte digipak. 

Track Listing:

1. Ad Astra (5:24) 
2. Interdimensional Beings (7:13) 
3. Paraphysical Phenomenon (4:07) 
4. Through Memories And Galaxies (14:35) 
5. Multiverses (5:42) 
6. God-Level Traveller (7:21)

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr305cd

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/interdimensional-csr305cd

Listen:  https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/sonologyst-interdimensional

SONOLOGYST:

https://sonologyst.com
https://sonologyst.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/sonologyst
https://www.facebook.com/sonologyst
https://twitter.com/sonologyst
https://coldspring.co.uk/sonologyst

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Out 8th April 2022

SONOLOGYST Ad Astra

TENHORNEDBEAST 'The Lamp Of No Light' CD (CSR312CD)

For his first release since 2017’s "Death Has No Companion", Christopher Walton (ex-Endvra), a thirty-year veteran of Industrial music, has dragged TenHornedBeast back to its pounding Doom-Ambient roots and recorded his darkest album yet, as a sonic veneration of a medieval sculpture depicting the torment of the damned in Hell.

In the crypt of York Minster, built directly on the site of the Roman citadel, is the Doom Stone. A relic from the 12th century the stone, carved in deep relief, illustrated for a medieval audience the horrors that awaited sinners in Hell. Figures depicting Luxury and Avarice are licked by flames, leering demons hold a tortured soul in a furnace and the Mouths of Hell gape, their nostrils licked by toads. Here beneath one of the jewels of Western Christendom is a talisman so shocking, so contrary to the modern mind that the very faith that created it has abandoned it.

The five suitably monolithic pieces on 'The Lamp Of No Light (Hymns For The Yorkshire Doom Stone)' form a journey, starting with the first mortal death and ending with the second eternal death of the soul. Walton has used the darkest textures and heaviest drones as way-markers on this journey, as hymns to exalt the scenes shown on the stone.

"TenHornedBeast is a vehicle for the sinister current that is woven through life. If Christ is the Light of the World and hymns are sung to him in the Minster then my hymns should be heard in the crypt, where the Doom Stone radiates its No-Light. Without darkness, the light is meaningless".

6-panel digipak with photography by the artist.

Track Listing:

I - This Is The First Death (10:14)
II - Into The Mouth Of Hell (12:06)
III - Upon Their Head Names Of Blasphemy (7:42)
IV - Black Furnace (9:04)
V - This Is The Second Death (13:18)

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr312cd

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/the-lamp-of-no-light-csr312cd

https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/tenhornedbeast-thelampofnolight

https://youtu.be/ACDgRV8cH4c (Video by Abby Helasdottir)

TENHORNEDBEAST:

https://coldspring.co.uk/tenhornedbeast

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Out 29th April 2022

The Lamp Of No Light

TENHORNEDBEAST Upon Their Head Names Of Blasphemy (Excerpt)

Out now: KOLLAPS 'Until The Day I Die' CD/LP (CSR309CD/LP)

"Until The Day I Die", the third album from Australian post-industrial outfit KOLLAPS, is a merciless and visceral assault on the senses and continues the trajectory of the band's idiosyncratic approach in their creation of sound. The album showcases an uncompromising force of harsh post-industrial music narrated by overarching themes of condemnation and redemption; of violence, romanticism, sexuality, and addiction. Much of the creation and lyrical conceptualisation of the record has been stylised and presented using William S. Burroughs' cut-up method.

A wide variety of metals and raw materials were used in the creation of the album including metal grates, a rusted hoist, cement cylinders, field recordings, hammering of various decrepit objects, broken amplifiers, an exposed reverb tank, various synthesizers, and the infamous metal coil; a crudely self-constructed artifice that has become iconic in its use across KOLLAPS' triptych of releases and lengthy touring history in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

"Until The Day I Die" has had a tectonic shift in production methods compared to its predecessors and was entirely written, recorded, and mixed internally the self-constructed ILoveHeroin Studios built above a sculpture museum in Lugano, Switzerland. All instrumentation was handled by Wade Black except for bass guitar by Andrea Collaro recorded at Hangar 121 in Lenate Pozzollo, Italy on all tracks except "D-IX" and "I Believe In The Closed Fist", handled by Black, and additional sound design and percussion by Giorgio Salmoiraghi. 

Mastered by James Plotkin.
Cover artwork by Nullvoid (Thomas Ekelund | Trepaneringsritualen).

CD in 6-panel digipak || LP with full colour matt-laminate sleeve and printed inner lyric sleeve.

Out Now!

Track Listing:

1. Relapse Theatre (3:13)
2. D-IX (3:06)
3. I Believe In The Closed Fist (8:02)
4. Hate Is Forever (4:35)
5. The Hand Of Death (5:55)
6. Until The Day I Die (3:08)
7. Iron Sight Halo (5:35)

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr309cd
https://coldspring.co.uk/csr309lp

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/until-the-day-i-die-csr309cd-lp

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr309cd

Watch the incredible video for 'I Believe In The Closed Fist': https://bit.ly/Kollaps-ClosedFist

Album Teaser: https://bit.ly/Kollaps-UTDID

https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/kollaps-utdid


KOLLAPS:

https://kollaps-noise.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/Kollapsmusic
https://twitter.com/Kollapsmusic
https://www.instagram.com/kollapsmusic
https://coldspring.co.uk/kollaps

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KOLLAPS LIVE 2022

10/12: Laiterie - Strasbourg, FR ᚯ

ᚯ with She Past Away

KOLLAPS Relapse Theatre

MERZBOW 'Animal Liberation - Until Every Cage Is Empty' CD (CSR314CD)

Cold Spring proudly presents the new studio album from MERZBOW. As a life-long campaigner of animal rights, Masami Akita has delivered a brutal assault on those that cage and murder animals. 'ANIMAL LIBERATION - UNTIL EVERY CAGE IS EMPTY' is 5 tracks (49 mins) of total noise assault that only the King of Japanese Noise can provide.

"There is a theory that Covid-19 broke out from the poor conditioned wet markets where live animals are sold. If there were no poultry farms, there would be no mass destruction of chickens due to the spread of bird flu. Human beings' cruelty to animals, animal abuse and species discrimination are all adding up to a disaster for mankind and the whole planet. The pandemic is an opportunity to reflect on the relationship between animals and humans. Veganism is the future for humanity" (Masami Akita, 2021).

The artwork is a reflection of the animal rights and anarcho-punk movements of the 80's. Proceeds from this release will benefit animal rights charities.

Presented in a matt-laminate digipak with free sticker.

Out 20th May

1. No Cages Part 1 (9:27)
2. No Cages Part 2 (13:41)
3. No Cages Part 3 (5:51)
4. No Cages Part 4 (14:30)
5. Baby Bird (5:28)

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr314cd

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/animal-liberation-until-every-cage-is-empty-csr314cd

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr314cd

https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/merzbow-animal-liberation


MERZBOW:

https://merzbow.net
https://twitter.com/MerzbowOfficial
https://www.facebook.com/OfficialMerzbow
https://soundcloud.com/merzbow
https://www.coldspring.co.uk/merzbow

COLD SPRING:

https://www.coldspring.co.uk
https://coldspring.bandcamp.com

MERZBOW Baby Bird

MERZBOW No Cages Part 3

WE BE ECHO 'Ceza Evi - Compleat Edition' (CSR311CD)

Occupying a halfway point between Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire without ever quite sounding like either, We Be Echo is Kevin Thorne.

Thorne's first foray into music came after a chance meeting with Throbbing Gristle on Tottenham Court Road in 1979. A few months later he met Raye Calouri at the legendary Throbbing Gristle / Cabaret Voltaire / Rema Rema gig at Central YMCA, London. Soon after, the duo formed the short-lived Third Door From The Left. After the demise of TDFTL, Thorne formed We Be Echo. 

The debut album "Ceza Evi" - featuring GENESIS P-ORRIDGE and IHAM on Tibetan Thigh-bone Trumpet - was released in June 1983, followed by a special edition later the same year, originally available only to readers of Nanavesh. 

The music was recorded using the built-in microphone on a dual cassette recorder, then the next layer was recorded whilst playing the first tape back. Very lo-fi, no editing, no remixing, all spontaneous and raw. As with Third Door From The Left, who recorded in the same way, it all just seemed to fall into place. 

Compleat Edition: Disc one contains the original tracks for the "Ceza Evi" special edition release. The remaining tracks on disc 2 are from the original cassette release of "Ceza Evi", plus bonus tracks recorded between 1981-1983. Briefly pushing We Be Echo back into the light, a handful of these tracks appeared on the 2009 compilation "Decades" (Vinyl On Demand). Now, bringing together all these tracks for the first time ever, this "Compleat Edition" cements "Ceza Evi" as one of the most important underground releases of the early 80's. To do it real justice, this release was mastered by Attrition's Martin Bowes. 

Presented in a 2CD in a 6-panel digisleeve with artwork by Kevin Thorne.

"We Be Echo, as represented on the bed-wettingly fine Cesa Evi cassette, were a musical refinement of the organised chaos of TDFTL. The rhythm programming shows an increased complexity, lending tension to the bass and keyboard components. In place of vocals there are deftly-manipulated speech recordings, providing a thematically provocative narrative to the tracks. Speech and sounds are juxtaposed, edited and repeated, in or out of context, to great effect. Many others have tried similar things (often with access to superior equipment) but few succeed so well as We Be Echo...  if you have an inquiring mind and a discriminating ear they are worthy of your attention. In particular the quality and sophistication of this music" (The Sound Projector).

Out 1st July 2022.

Track Listing:

1-1. Sexuality (2:43) 
1-2. Punish You (2:35) 
1-3. No Going Back (1:23) 
1-4. Dawn (5:02) 
1-5. Dull Day (1:25) 
1-6. Cave Dweller (2:59) 
1-7. Inside Life's Wire (Featuring: Genesis P-Orridge, Iham) (3:30) 
1-8. After The Battle (5:45) 
1-9. Communication (3:40) 
1-10. This Hour's Mine (4:05) 
1-11. I Want (2:07) 
1-12. Breakdown (3:13) 
1-13. Paranoia (1:20) 
1-14. House Of Punishment (2:13) 
1-15. Who You Are (2:17) 
1-16. Bright Sheets (3:16) 
1-17. I Do (4:12) 
1-18. Thee Shout (Featuring: Iham) (6:34) 

2-1. Death Row (3:01) 
2-2. A New Day (4:45) 
2-3. I'm A Gambler (2:57) 
2-4. It Was You (5:11) 
2-5. Micro Penis (2:36) 
2-6. Dirty Harry (3:50) 
2-7. Survivalists II (4:27) 
2-8. Knechtschaft (2:16) 
2-9. Got You (3:34) 
2-10. Manson (3:28) 
2-11. Kick (4:38) 

Bonus Tracks: 

2-12. Seven Seasons (4:01) 
2-13: Loathing (3:47) 
2-14. Breakdown Reprise (3:18)

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr311cd

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/ceza-evi-compleat-edition-csr311cd

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr311cd

https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/we-be-echo-ceza-evi


WE BE ECHO:

http://webeecho.com
https://webeecho.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/webeecho
https://www.instagram.com/webeecho
https://soundcloud.com/webeecho

COLD SPRING:

https://www.coldspring.co.uk
https://coldspring.bandcamp.com

WE BE ECHO Inside Life's Wire (ft. Genesis P - Orridge And Iham)

WE BE ECHO Sexuality

VARIOUS ARTISTS 'Visions Of Darkness (In Contemporary Iranian Music): Volume II' (CSR316CD)

When the anthology "Visions Of Darkness (In Iranian Contemporary Music)" was released in 2017 (co-published in collaboration between Cold Spring and Unexplained Sounds Group), it was immediately clear that the Iranian music scene was not just promising, but already a rich chest of treasures. Years later we have further confirmation of the creative excellence and variety of musical languages that flourished in the Persian land. 

In spite of the title, this second volume of the legendary anthology also gives us a broad picture of the musical experience of the Iranian underground that is not limited to the dark ambient, but explores sonic territories that reach concrete music, electro-acoustic experimentation and sonic abstractionism. Persia, the cradle of a millenary culture, is teeming with young talents who continue their musical research with enthusiasm, pride and self-denial in the territories of drone music, as in electronic experimentalism and in the contamination of genres. 

To some familiar names already present in volume I (Xerxes The Dark, IDFT, Reza Solatipour, etc ..), new discoveries are added that contribute to making the journey through the new Persian music exciting to the point that we can no longer speak of an emerging scene, but of a consolidated musical reality akin to others in the West.

Artists: Negari Shirely Pandi, Nyctalllz, IDFT, Reza Solatipour, Xerxes The Dark, Babak Sepanta, Alireza Amirhajebi, Shahin Souri, Dodenskald, S.S.M.P., Amin Shirazi, PooYar, Dariush Salehpour, Zhoobin Askarieh, Vesal Javaheri, Saturn Cube, Melkor, Sam Eyvaz, Soheil Shirangi, Farzan Salsabili, and Arshan Najafi.

Presented in a double digipak with graphic design by Abby Helasdottir.

Out 29th July 2022.

Track Listing:

Disc 1

1. Negari, Shirely, Pandi - 'Koohestan' (3:08)
2. Nyctalllz - 'The Curse Of The White Demon' (6:55)
3. IDFT - 'Aeshma' (5:12)
4. Reza Solatipour - 'Panic attack' (5:43)
5. Xerxes The Dark - 'Solomon's Throne' (6:40)
6. Babak Sepanta - 'Ruin Is The Beginning' (6:25)
7. Alireza Amirhajebi - 'Dystopia' (4:18)
8. Shahin Souri - 'Transmission' (5:55)
9. Dodenskald - 'Movakel' (4:59)
10. S.S.M.P. - 'Gordian Knot' (11:40)

Disc 2

1. Amin Shirazi - 'Unxp' (5:15)
2. PooYar - 'Magnificent Solitude' (7:43)
3. Dariush Salehpour & Zhoobin Askarieh - 'Burnt Forest' (4:08)
4. Vesal Javaheri - 'Muss' (5:05)
5. Saturn Cube - 'War Cry' (5:18)
6. Melkor - 'Damavand' (6:52)
7. Sam Eyvaz - 'Raavi' (3:21)
8. Soheil Shirangi - 'The Sounds Of Life (For Fixed Media And Accordion)' (6:30)
9. Farzan Salsabili - 'Kassan!' (6:02)
10. Arshan Najafi - 'Imaginary Crisis. Santoor' (5:55)

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr316cd

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/visions-of-darkness-volume-ii-csr316cd

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr316cd

Listen:  https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/visions-of-darkness-ii

COLD SPRING:

https://www.coldspring.co.uk
https://coldspring.bandcamp.com

XERXES THE DARK - Solomon's Throne

REZA SOLATIPOUR - Panic Attack

MASCHINENZIMMER 412 (MZ. 412) - 'Macht Durch Stimme' CD

"Macht Durch Stimme" - the debut release of Maschinenzimmer 412, a.k.a. MZ. 412 - is the milestone in the history of Swedish Black Industrial music. This is the release that initiated a 35+ year long career of relentless industrial rituals; darkness fused with machines, your fears and your power all fused into an expression of the coldest music imaginable.

In 1987 Henrik Nordvargr Björkk, Jouni Ulvtharm Ollila, and Leif Holm forged a band that would be an outlet for blasphemous prophecies, yet from a unique sonic spectrum. The unholy triumvirate were already hitting hard as Pouppée Fabrikk, with Maschinenzimmer 412 unleashing their deepest, darkest personas. Jonas Drakhon Aneheim joined in 1995, replacing Holm and thus enacting the change of name to the abridged MZ. 412.

Originally released in 1988 by Swedish tape label Mechanik Cassettes (run by Memorandum's Petter Marklund) in a tiny edition of just 50 copies, this definitive edition has been painstakingly remastered from the original 4-track tapes. It also contains a previously unreleased, exclusive track that was rediscovered when listening through the old master tapes.

MZ. 412 are an act that continues to cover the earth in a nightmarish black veil. Rare releases and even rarer performances have only added to the cult status of these prime movers.

Digipak with elegant new artwork by Abby Helasdottir (Gydja).

Out 12th August 2022.

Track Listing:

1. Ecaf Dloc (6:01)
2. Interektion (4:31)
3. Dissekt (5:33)
4. Aptionstheorie (8:36)
5. Rood (1:45)
6. Sequela (6:59)
7. Rood (Tape Manipulation Version 1991) (3:39)

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr306cd 

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/macht-durch-stimme-csr306cd 

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr306cd

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/maschinenzimmer412-machtdurchstimme

MZ. 412:

https://www.nordvargr.com/mz-412
https://mz412.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/MZ412official
https://coldspring.co.uk/mz412

COLD SPRING:

https://www.coldspring.co.uk
https://coldspring.bandcamp.com

MASCHINENZIMMER 412 (MZ. 412) Ecaf Dloc

COLOSSLOTH 'Promethean Meat' CD

Rhythmic industrial noise - grinding and churning, drenched in crushing doom-laden guitars - drapes the sacrificial bones of the new album from esoteric electronic alchemist Colossloth.

Building on this trademark sound, pushing and striving for reinvention and renewal, Colossloth has also utilised live instrumentation and ethereal vocals, and black metal blast beats on certain tracks for the first time to enhance the intent behind the music. Digitally-driven soundtracks for transfigured cities and myths born in the wilderness of Albion.

Digipak. Out 19th August 2022.

"An unknown voice deep within the landscape reveals a clandestine location. A place of arcane mechanics, a cathedral of divine engines suspended in primal matter. Turbulence forms amidst amorphous strata, the polarised elements stretch out and then return once more to a singular form, gauging an ecology of discordant time down newly formed vertices. Crystallised dreams spin wild atmospheres into the horizons and fill the localised spaces with the remnants of passive machinations and distant mutterings, the devices allocating into their framework the offerings set forth".

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr315cd 

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/promethean-meat-csr315cd

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr315cd

Watch: https://bit.ly/Colossloth-Promethean (Video by Abby Helasdottir).

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/colossloth-promethean-meat


COLOSSLOTH:

https://colossloth.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/colossloth
https://soundcloud.com/colossloth
https://twitter.com/colossloth
https://coldspring.co.uk/Colossloth

COLD SPRING:

https://www.coldspring.co.uk
https://coldspring.bandcamp.com

COLOSSLOTH The Locust Trove

JAGATH 'Svapna' CD

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

"A portal to another world is located inside an abandoned Soviet-era
swamp drain near a residential building in the Zakamsk suburb of Perm, Russia, 58.0122, 55.9623. A ritual was performed here, so now we are living in an inside-out world.

This is one of the last recordings inside our Temple - the oil tanks are finally scrapped. I hope this is not the end.

This album is dedicated to the victims of totalitarian regimes".

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

6-panel glossy digipak. For fans of: Shibalba, Phurpa, Raison D'etre, Arktau Eos.

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr304cd

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/svapna-csr304cd

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr304cd

Listen:  https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/jagath-svapna

Album Teaser: https://bit.ly/JagathSvapna


JAGATH:

http://www.jagath.ru
https://facebook.com/jagath.industrial
https://jagath.bandcamp.com
https://instagram.com/jagath.industrial
https://vk.com/jagath.industrial
https://coldspring.co.uk/jagath

COLD SPRING:

https://www.coldspring.co.uk
https://coldspring.bandcamp.com

#darkambient #ritualmusic #postindustrialmusic #industrialmusic #esotericmusic

JAGATH Vyayana (excerpt)

Out 7 Oct 2022: DEAD VOICES ON AIR 'Abrader Redux' CD.

The debut album from DEAD VOICES ON AIR (Mark Spybey of DOWNLOAD / ex-ZOVIET FRANCE), feat cEvin Key (SKINNY PUPPY / DOWNLOAD). "Abrader" blends processed sounds from primitive instruments and found objects into hypnotic looped rhythmic structures, with dark clusters of heavy ambient washes into what could be described as Organic Panambience, or 'music for the eyes'.

The hugely sought-after "Abrader" was the first of over 80 releases (so far) by Mark Spybey using the name DEAD VOICES ON AIR. It was recorded over the space of days in Vancouver in 1993 and released as a tape the following year by Akifumi Nakajima (AUBE), for his G.R.O.S.S. label. Chronologically, the material was recorded after most of the music that made up his first two releases on compact disc - "New Words Machine" and "Hafted Maul" - however, "Abrader" was released before both of those albums. 

"Abrader Redux" features the three lengthy tracks that were released on the original cassette, plus the bonus tracks that were included in the 2009 reprint as part of the "Fast Falls The Eventide" double CD, and now with two 'new' previously-unreleased bonus tracks recorded 1994 - taking this masterwork up to 7 tracks and over 67 minutes of exceptional music.

"If most ambient is the laudanum of the new fin de siécle, then Dead Voices on Air are the absinthe" (Village Voice)

This release is dedicated to the memory of both Akifumi Nakajima and Zev Asher who both passed away in 2013. Spybey was introduced to Akifumi by his friend from Vancouver, Zev Asher. Zev had a noise project called Roughage and was also in a band called Nimrod, that had at one time been based in Japan. 

The album for Cold Spring has been remastered by Martin Bowes from Attrition. Packaged in a matt-laminate digipak with art by Spybey, beautifully laid out by Abby Helasdottir.

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr320cd

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/abrader-redux-csr320cd

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr320cd

Listen:  https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/dvoa-abrader

Album Teaser: https://bit.ly/DVOA-Abrader

For further reading on the back story on the recording process, please visit the Bandcamp link above!


DEAD VOICES ON AIR:

http://www.deadvoicesonair.com
https://deadvoicesonair.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/dvoaspybey
https://soundcloud.com/deadvoicesonairofficial


COLD SPRING:

https://www.coldspring.co.uk
https://coldspring.bandcamp.com

DEAD VOICES ON AIR Concretion - Excerpt

MASCHINENZIMMER 412 (MZ. 412) 'Malfeitor' CD (CSR318CD)

A history lesson, recorded in autumn 1989. Unavailable for over 20 years in any format, we proudly present "Malfeitor" - the now classic album from Maschinenzimmer 412. This was the last release under that name, and what seemed like the final nail in the coffin for the Swedish Black Industrial act. 6 years later they rose from the ashes, restructured and resurrected as MZ. 412.

This is evil incarnate, staring into the abyss. Relentless industrial rituals; darkness fused with machines, your fears and your power. An expression of the coldest music imaginable. With a more lyrical approach than the predecessor "Macht Durch Stimme", "Malfeitor" explores themes of death, with an unequivocal dystopian outlook. Cavernous heavy industrial, primitive machine rhythms, and cold metallic loops created on old synths with very little post-production. What you hear is how it sounded on those original sessions.

Originally released on LP in 1989 by Cold Meat Industry, this monumental album is now available for the first time since 2001. Also available on digital for the first time ever! This definitive edition has been painstakingly transferred and mastered from the original 4-track tapes, with no unnecessary 'padding'.

Listen to Nordvargr discuss "Malfeitor" with Noisextra in 2021: https://www.noisextra.com/2021/06/16/maschinenzimmer-412-aka-mz-412-malfeitor

In 1987 Henrik Nordvargr Björkk, Jouni Ulvtharm Ollila, and Leif Holm forged a band that would be an outlet for blasphemous prophecies, yet from a unique sonic spectrum. The unholy triumvirate were already hitting hard as Pouppée Fabrikk, with Maschinenzimmer 412 unleashing their deepest, darkest personas. Jonas Drakhon Aneheim joined in 1995, replacing Holm and thus enacting the change of name to the abridged MZ. 412.

MZ. 412 are an act that continues to cover the earth in a nightmarish black veil. Rare releases and even rarer performances have only added to the cult status of these prime movers.

Digipak with elegant new artwork by Abby Helasdottir (Gydja). Out 28 Oct.

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr318cd 

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/malfeitor-csr318cd 

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr318cd

Watch: https://bit.ly/MZ412-Malfeitor

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/maschinenzimmer412-malfeitor


MZ. 412:

https://www.nordvargr.com/mz-412
https://mz412.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/MZ412official
https://coldspring.co.uk/mz412

MASCHINENZIMMER 412 (MZ. 412) Auguste Piccards Nightmare

MASCHINENZIMMER 412 (MZ. 412) Malfeitor

Until The Day I Die

KOLLAPS Hate Is Forever

LULL 'That Space Somewhere' CD

Cold Spring proudly present the first new album in 14 years from LULL - the pioneering, isolationist dark ambient project of MICK HARRIS (SCORN, FRET, ex-NAPALM DEATH).

EXCLUSIVE FULL ALBUM STREAM AT THE SLEEPING SHAMAN: https://www.thesleepingshaman.com/streams/premiere-lull-that-space-somewhere

LULL was conceived by Mick Harris in 1990, in an attempt to create music that would stretch, if not forsake entirely, the structures of conventional music by developing and exploring sound without beats.

MICK HARRIS ON LULL: 

"I finally heard the way of recording, making profound sounds. Lull is purely something I can get lost in, as far as trying to create these imaginary spaces. And that’s what I always tried to do – to create. I'm a lover of sounds. I love collecting sounds. Playing with those sounds using various software until I created something new from that sound. Which for me end being what I call "a droner" or "a drift",  I’d use those to create a piece of music, or a sound-scape. That's what I’m doing with Lull. Just trying to create soundscapes. And to this day, still, absolutely love doing that". 

THAT SPACE SOMEWHERE:

"I haven't made Lull records since 2007 so... with this pandemic, I have time on my hands. I've used that time, I think, to the best. Going to the music-room is pretty much an everyday thing to me. Which has been the best thing because I’ve not been able to do this since the 90's when I had various studios... Since the lockdown I had all this time on my hands and I created a lot of good music, which I'm actually happy with.

I'm a fisherman. It gives me a lot of space. It gives me immense pleasure. For me it's about going to the river. I like moving water. The seasons change, the river changes with the seasons. It clears my mind, gives me ideas, gives me the space to be by myself and with nature... just listening to the sounds around me.

LULL is quite natural for me. It's an extension of me. Drifting. Just going to darkness. Into a space. LULL is drifting and droning, discovering more and more what can be done with sound. These soundscapes hugely appeal to me".

Mick Harris interview August 2020, courtesy of Peek-A-Boo Magazine.

http://www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be/en/interviews/mick-harris-scorn-lull-ex-napalm-death-2020

Matt-laminate digipak with majestic artwork by Abby Helasdottir (Gydja). Out 2nd December 2022.

Order: https://coldspring.co.uk/csr321cd

Order: https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/that-space-somewhere-csr321cd

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr321cd

Watch: https://bit.ly/LULL-TSS

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/lull-that-space-somewhere


LULL / MICK HARRIS:

https://mickharris.bandcamp.com
https://coldspring.co.uk/Lull

"Though this is dark ambient, the tone here is more meditative than menacing, something the name of the project has always made obvious and which always set Harris' work apart" (The Sleeping Shaman)

"The first really minimal music I encountered that really captivated me... It seems to exist somewhere on the threshold between consciousness and the unconscious" (Aaron Turner).

LULL Range (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