ASTRAL LUEUR

Alias: TELE.S.THERION

doom / avant jazz / spoken word / musique concrete / psychedelic / esoteric / black metal / ambient music / weird black metal / minimalism / avant-garde / field recordings / sound art / dark ambient / nonmusic / abstract expressionism / ritual dark ambient

Astral Lueur (the name is the synthesis of german and french languages) came up from darkness in the middle of 2009. Astral Lueur's music tells about world of shadows, anomalous places with history goes back centuries, about something staying at the turn of life and death. Main concepts of project is: look at death by eyes of the dead in damned places which was lost in time.


Lunurumh - All instruments, synths, effects, and voices.

Contacts:
astral.lueur@gmail.com
http://www.myspace.com/trueastrallueur

 

AUM ARRHYTHMIA

Alias: DANIEL JANSSON / PER AHLUND / DEADWOOD

death ambient / abstractism / ambient music / abstract symbolism / weird black metal / electroacoustic / experimental / dark ambient / ritual dark ambient / industrial music / drone music

BREATH OF CHAOS

doom / esoteric / black metal / expressionism / abstract symbolism / weird black metal / electroacoustic / experimental / dark ambient

CULTUS SABBATI

psychedelic / black metal / abstract symbolism / weird black metal / experimental / noise / dark ambient / drone music

CULTUS SABBATI

DEADWOOD

black metal / abstract symbolism / weird black metal / noise / dark ambient / industrial music

Daniel Jansson. Deadwood is a one man project that was created in 2003 under the name Deadwood Murder, its only purpose was/is to satisfy my lust for raw and filthy black industrial music. It has been a slow process with the re-making of several songs and no vocals recorded until summer 2004. A demo was made and sent out to several labels, the response was excellent. That same summer a split tape with black metal band blodulv called The Havoc We Seek was released on the French BM label Forgotten Wisdom productions. And a few weeks later Cold Spring records agreed to release the first full length deadwood album named "8 19".

GNAW THEIR TONGUES

Alias: ADERLATING

black metal / abstract symbolism / weird black metal / avant-garde / electroacoustic / experimental / noise

Mories : All instruments

K11

Alias: PT-R | PIETRO RIPARBELLI / PIETRO RIPARBELLI / KAULA / MACABRE / SACRAMENTAL CEREMONY / TELE.S.THERION

doom / musique concrete / psychophonia / electronic voice phenomena (evp) / transcommunication / esoteric / radionoise / abstract symbolism / suprematism / acousmatic / weird black metal / minimalism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / sound art / experimental / noise / nonmusic / ritual dark ambient / conceptual art / drone music

Pietro Riparbelli is a philosopher, composer and sound-multimedia artist. Co-curator and executive producer of the meta-curatorial practice platform "Metasound", spin-off of the publisher Radical Matters - Editions / Label directed by SG, to investigate the dimension between music and contemporary art: http://www.radicalmatters.com/metasound Artist Statement: My work arises from the study of the Phenomenology of perception with particular reference to the dichotomy between Visible/Invisible strictly connected with the studies about the concept of sound landscape. About the environmental works I usually make a deep investigation of particular places, making recordings like field recordings or recordings of signals from short wave radio receivers and VLF receivers, in order to compose conceptual works about the selected sites; together with a deep study about the history of the place on which I’m working on. I’m interested in reconfiguring the sound panorama through its transcendental aspects to create a dimension that is not only sound but mainly a total perceptive dimension that bring ourselves to find out a new kind of perception. I realize works as PIETRO RIPARBELLI especially related to the world of Contemporary Art. So each work arise from a conceptual idea turned into sound. The field in which I principally work is linked to the perception of the sound landscape and to the perception of inner states of consciousness related to other dimensions of awareness. K11 is a project that deals with the world of radio signals, the trans-communication and other invisible phenomena, to create a dimension where the only sound sources are signals from shortwave radio receivers and field recordings taken from very specific locations. In this project I use only sounds coming from the atmosphere and from invisible places turned into fields of drone with particular interest into the study of the dynamics of Noise. 



KAULA

Alias: PT-R | PIETRO RIPARBELLI / K11 / PIETRO RIPARBELLI

doom / psychedelic / black metal / abstract symbolism / weird black metal / avant-garde / noise / drone music

Kaula are: Pietro Riparbelli: Conception, Organs, Distorted Voice and Fiedl Recordings Rosy (Profanal): Vocal Kristian (Profanal): Guitar Nicco (Profanal): Drum Kaula is an experimental Black Metal band based in Italy that wants investigate some dimensions related to the hindu culture with particular reference to the worship of the Kali Deity. Thus, all the lyrics of kaula project are taken from an old an important text of the Shivaitic Tantrism called AVADHUTA GITA. The Avadhuta Gita is a text of Vedanta representing extreme Advaita or Nondualism. It is ascribed to Dattatreya, who is looked upon as an Incarnation of God. Avadhuta means a liberated soul, one who has "passed away from" or "shaken off" all worldly attachments and cares and has attained a spiritual state equivalent to the existence of God. Though avadhuta naturally implies renunciation, it includes an additional and yet higher state which is neither attachment nor detachment but beyond both. An avadhuta feels no need of observing any rules, either secular or religious. He seeks nothing, avoids nothing. He has neither knowledge nor ignorance. Having realized that he is the infinite Self, he lives in that vivid realization.

MICHAEL W. FORD

Alias: ORDO TYRANNIS

musique concrete / performative art / esoteric / abstract symbolism / weird black metal / electroacoustic / sound art / experimental / dark ambient / nonmusic / ritual dark ambient / conceptual art

Michael Ford is an American musician and occult author who began his career in 1991 with the black metal band Abaddon (renamed Sorath a year later). Whilst in Sorath, Ford made his first attempts at more experimental music with Darkness Enshroud, first aided by Rahu (Dan Ferguson) and later by Shanna LeJeune. Another experimental avenue was explored with the death industrial project Valefor, whilst black metal would never leave his attention for long and has been pursued under the guise of Black Funeral which Ford originally formed in 1993. Michael W. Ford is the author of BIBLE OF THE ADVERSARY, SATANIC MAGICK, THE VAMPIRE GATE - The Vampyre Magickian, The First Book of Luciferian Tarot and THE LUCIFERIAN TAROT, LUCIFERIAN WITCHCRAFT, LIBER HVHI, BOOK OF THE WITCH MOON, ADAMU, Founder of BLACK FUNERAL, VALEFOR, PSYCHONAUT 75 and a member of ORDO TYRANNIS and HEXENTANZ.

MOVIMENTO AVANGUARDIA ERMETICO

esoteric / black metal / abstract symbolism / weird black metal / avant-garde

Movimento d'Avanguardia Ermetico are: Yog : Vocals & Drums Ans : Guitars Formed in 2005 "Movimento d'Avanguardia Ermetico" is a raw and introspective black metal band. The current line-up is composed by Yog (vocals, bass and drums) and Ans (guitars). [ESORDI] Correva l'anno 2005 quando grazie all'esperienza maturata a partire dalla fine degli anni '90 - prevalentemente nel progetto "Sarghnagel" - un gruppo di appassionati di musica estrema si trovava per fondare il "Movimento d'Avanguardia Ermetico". Le finalità di tale progetto erano chiare sin dall'inizio: dar vita ad una forma di Black Metal che sappesse coniugare Tradizione, Avanguardia e spirito underground. Inizialmente la band si forma grazie a Yog (batteria), Ans (chitarra), Jemzo (voce), Onz (basso), ma ben presto quest'ultimo lascia la band per varie motivazioni. Con una formazione a tre viene registrato nel febbraio/marzo del 2006 il contributo di due pezzi ("Ermetico Signal d'antica Schiera" e "Guerriero" )confluiti successivamente nella ristampa di "Alle frontiere.." e sul secondo demo "IGNIS" nonché sullo split 2010 "Visionaries of Valiant Vagaries". [ALLE FRONTIERE DELL'ANIMA] Proseguono le attività del MDAE che nell'estate del 2007, dopo la dipartita del vocalist Jemzo e l'arrivo di R. I. al basso, pubblica "Alle frontiere dell'Anima", mini cd contenente quattro brani. Sorto in un momento di particolare travaglio e nonostante numerosi contrattempi "Alle frontiere..." rappresenta la vena più riflessiva e filosofica del Movimento, in cui solitudine ed introspezione si uniscono con la ricerca delle radici culturali e tradizionali a noi più affini. Tale demo, in occasione del solstizio d'estate 2008, è stata ristampata in versione tape con due bonus track ad opera della bulgara AMF prod. [IGNIS] Terminato anch'esso in occasione del solstizio d'estate, e dopo alcuni ritardi causati dalle poste italiane, nell'agosto 2008 è uscito il primo demo album della band, in versione demo, grazie alla WAR Kommand Prod, etichetta underground italiana che ci ha fornito un gradito e notevole supporto. La demo porta il titolo di "IGNIS", dove all'introspezione che contraddistingue il concept si unisce la ricerca del significato iniziatico del fuoco e del sole nero. [I SENTIERI DELLA TRADIZIONE] Inoltre il MDAE si è accordato con la band "Corvus Invictus" per la realizzazione di uno split, "Sentieri della Tradizione", registrato in occasione del solstizio d'inverno 2008 e pubblicato nel novembre del 2009 da WK. Prod. e da Alzig Art. Nel dicembre del 2009 sono state terminate le registrazioni di "Stelle Senza Luce", 45 minuti di inediti pubblicati dall'etichetta Russa Kunsthauch nel giugno del 2010. [ANNO 2010] Sempre nel 2010 è prevista l'uscita dello split Movimento d'Avanguardia Ermetico/Adrarakh/Triumphus Mortis/Gorrenje. Tale split intitolato "Visionaries of Valiant Vagaries" vede la partecipazione di band italiane e tedesche dedite ad una forma di black metal atmosferico e pagano. Per ulteriori informazioni o per ricevere copia delle demo, contattateci via messaggio personale.

MZ.412

Alias: FOLKSTORM / NORDVARGR / HENRIK NORDVARGR BJORKK / TOROIDH

doom / black metal / abstract symbolism / suprematism / acousmatic / weird black metal / electroacoustic / experimental / noise / dark ambient / ritual dark ambient / drone music

Maschinenzimmer 412 (currently known as Mz.412) are the inventors of the so called "black industrial", a dark and haunting music which mixes industrial noise, ritual ambient and black metal atmospheres. The mastermind behind the project is Henrik "Nordvargr" Björkk (often credited as Kremator), aided by different people with each release. Original releases from 1989-1990 came under the name Maschinenzimmer 412, eventually Björkk founded the Swedish EBM band Pouppée Fabrikk (see relative Discogs entry). The project came back in 1995 with the shortened moniker Mz.412 and a typical black metal look (painted faces, long hair, black leather), which was later abandoned. Here is one of the truly classic CMI acts, that already in 1989 released the "Malfeitor" LP. After a four year hiatus the band formerly known as Maschinenzimmer 412 were once again blowing the battle horns in 1995, and returned with a timelessly blasphemous musical statement, the "In Nomine Dei Nostri Satanas Luciferi Excelsi" album. By that time the restructured and revitalized MZ. 412 had chosen to cruise down the left handed path, a fact that has ever permeated their output: in album titles, cover art, and not least in the songs themselves, recorded as they are during rituals. By pushing the influences from satanic rites and black metal music to the limit, it resulted in "Burning the temple of god", the ultimate crossover between dark ambience and the metal genre. This is True Swedish Black Industrial, and these guys aren´t kidding; this is music to either conjure or exorcise your demons to. - Mårten Sahlén -

NORDVARGR / HENRIK NORDVARGR BJORKK

Alias: MZ.412 / FOLKSTORM / TOROIDH

doom / abstract symbolism / weird black metal / avant-garde / electroacoustic / experimental / noise / dark ambient / ritual dark ambient / industrial music / drone music

"Driven by obsessive ideas and an uncontrollable will of producing quality ambience, Henrik Nordvargr Björkk is a man of many projects - MZ. 412, Folkstorm, Toroidh, Vargr, but it's under his given name and very own grim fashion that he delivers the most suffocating music around. Nordvargr manages to capture the spirit of bleakness like no other artist. The different shades of black and grey he paints with have never been more disturbing and at the same time more beautiful. The real Nordic giant of modern dark ambient music."

PAIN FORGED

doom / black metal / abstract symbolism / weird black metal / experimental / noise / dark ambient / drone music

PIETRO RIPARBELLI

Alias: PT-R | PIETRO RIPARBELLI / K11 / KAULA / TELE.S.THERION

video art / visual art / musique concrete / sound installation / psychedelic / psychophonia / electronic voice phenomena (evp) / transcommunication / esoteric / radionoise / ambient music / acousmatic / weird black metal / minimalism / avant-garde / electroacoustic / field recordings / sound art / experimental / noise / contemporary art / nonmusic / constructivism / abstract expressionism / site specific / ritual dark ambient / conceptual art

Pietro Riparbelli is a philosopher, composer and sound-multimedia artist. Curator and executive producer of the meta-curatorial practice platform "Metasound", spin-off of the publisher Radical Matters - Editions / Label directed by SG, to investigate the dimension between music and contemporary art: http://www.radicalmatters.com/metasound Artist Statement: My work arises from the study of the Phenomenology of perception with particular reference to the dichotomy between Visible/Invisible strictly connected with the studies about the concept of sound landscape. About the environmental works I usually make a deep investigation of particular places, making recordings like field recordings or recordings of signals from short wave radio receivers and VLF receivers, in order to compose conceptual works about the selected sites; together with a deep study about the history of the place on which I’m working on. I’m interested in reconfiguring the sound panorama through its transcendental aspects to create a dimension that is not only sound but mainly a total perceptive dimension that bring ourselves to find out a new kind of perception. I realize works as PIETRO RIPARBELLI especially related to the world of Contemporary Art. So each work arise from a conceptual idea turned into sound. The field in which I principally work is linked to the perception of the sound landscape and to the perception of inner states of consciousness related to other dimensions of awareness. K11 is a project that deals with the world of radio signals, the trans-communication and other invisible phenomena, to create a dimension where the only sound sources are signals from shortwave radio receivers and field recordings taken from very specific locations. In this project I use only sounds coming from the atmosphere and from invisible places turned into fields of drone with particular interest into the study of the dynamics of Noise. 

With PT-R project I want to investigate the way to create rhythmic sound landscapes making the use of environmental sounds (field recordings) with particular reference to the world of electronic scene. The method I utilize within PT-R project is based on sampling of environmental sound sources turned into rhythmic framework.

THE AUSTRASIAN GOAT

doom / black metal / abstract symbolism / weird black metal / electroacoustic / drone music

THE AUSTRASIAN GOAT is Julien Louvet Austrasia was the name of a forgotten land, between france and germany. Centuries after centuries, the people of Austrasia refused the christian influence and kept a relative independance until the 18th century. Through the ages, this land kept marks of ancient pagan rites, scares of deceases and major conflicts, and shroud of suffering, hidden behind apparent serenity. This green and grey desert attests the fall of a civilization.

UTARM

doom / esoteric / expressionism / abstract symbolism / weird black metal / avant-garde / noise / ritual dark ambient / drone music

s.f.skancke. live rituals: s.f.skancke, s.o.toft Utarm was a project that has been dwelling for years,without finding its right form. Various black metal and ambient bands..projects was tried out through the nineties, but the constallations of people never worked,and it was clear that a oneman project was the only solution. Human relations seems to be a constant failure.in the early years of the new millenium the beast found its ugly shape. Not wanting to make the classic Black Metal, neither Noise or Doom, but creating true satanic desperation not bound by musical structures. Through Utarm the darker shadows of humanity can be found, a mirror to reflect the black holes and misery of oneself. Humans tend to avoid this side of their personality, therfore most humans does not have the caracteristics of a whole person, just shallow creatures who use their time to try and forget their unavoidable death. When confronted with utarm this is not longer possible. Total darkness concentrated to audial spikes of hate, and these spikes will penetrate you.....