With Open Arms
On With Open Arms, Cult of Youth finally emerges from a seven‑year chrysalis with a sprawling “pagan post‑punk” epic. Born from off‑grid barn sessions, weaponized analog gear and years of cut‑and‑spliced reconstruction, the 62‑minute double album plays like a feverish exorcism turned into a hard‑won, defiant rebirth.
M.U.U.N.H. 31.04.1982 + A Journey Through Sound, Silence and Return
Bringing page and tape into the same charged zone, this bundle pairs A Journey Through Sound, Silence and Return with M.U.U.N.H. 31.04.1982, uniting Maurizio Bianchi’s most ascetic industrial vortex with Raffaele Pezzella’s definitive monograph. Together they form a single, immersive dossier on sound as extremity, withdrawal and unresolved return.
A Journey Through Sound, Silence and Return (Monograph) (Book)
Few figures in experimental music embody rupture as completely as Maurizio Bianchi. A Journey Through Sound, Silence and Return traces his arc from ferocious early industrial extremism to a radical withdrawal and enigmatic comeback, revealing an artistic ethic where creation, renunciation and re-emergence form one continuous, troubling gesture.
M.U.U.N.H. 31.04.1982
Recorded at a pivotal moment in his trajectory, M.U.U.N.H. 31.04.1982 captures Maurizio Bianchi refining sound into a stark environment rather than a composition. Static yet volatile, it strips electronics to bare impulses, anticipating isolationist ambient and dark drone while remaining rooted in the brutal materiality of early industrial experimentation.
Yura
*100 copies limited edition* Yūra (幽羅) describes a dystopian future where the last monks of humanity seek illumination through the remnants of obsolete technology. Broken circuits, residual memory, ancient intelligence and flesh are sacred instruments within a continuous rite.
Tomoko
Geins't Naït was founded in Nancy, France, in 1986 by Thierry Merigout and Vincent Hachet, both students at the Architecture School of Nancy. A year later Laurent Petitgrand joined the band. Their sound is often described as an equivalent of bands like Einstürzende Neubauten, Coil or Test Dept., but Geins't Naït is not pure classic Industrial. While Geins't Naït offers rough pieces of music as an extension of its punk attitude, Petitgand refines them to create some musicality within the post-ind…
Nomad Souls / Tribal Warning Shot / The Harvest (Live 1984)
Hunting Lodge are an American industrial/experimental band formed by Lon C. Diehl, Richard Skott and Carla Nordstrom (then known as Karl Nordstrom) in Port Huron, Michigan in 1982. Their first live appearance took place in September 1982 at the Harrington Ballroom inside the Harrington Hotel. The event was recorded on a portable cassette player and would become their first release on their own S/M Operations label. Nomad Souls LP was released in the fall of 1984 on S/M Operations in the U.S., an…
Cadavres Électroniques
Sewer Election is an act which at this point requires no introduction - a mainstay of the Swedish and International noise community for decades. "Cadavres Électroniques" is a new collaboration between Sewer Election and Aziza - a hidden gem in the Gothenburg underground that emerged out of the scene around Longest Night a few years back, creating pitch black, cold and slow moving ambient music reminiscent of Maurizio Bianchi at his bleakest (read: Endometrio and such). A surreal blend of rudimen…
Exile
"Drift was a relatively short-lived project created by Gabriele Giuliani. Better known through his notorious nom de plume, Dead Body Love. Within the course of only a few short years, Drift released a dozen sought after releases on such legendary imprints as Slaughter, Old Europa Cafe, SSSM, Harmonie, and his own Less Than Zero, before fading behind the curtains Exile was not only the debut release by Drift, but also the beginning to a trilogy of cassettes released on Slaughter Productions. It …
The Beyond
"Second in the trilogy of Drift albums released on SlaughterProductions, The Beyond takes on a minimal yet darker approach, sheding the dense cavernous aspect of the preceding album, Exile. Replaced, is a more introspective Autumnal Dark Ambient style, which will become Drift's trademark on following releases. However, Gabrielle Giuliani never abandons the isolationist atmosphere he previously established. The result is a masterwork in Ambient Industrial Noise.
Winds howl, rain soaked leaves ar…
Earthquake
"On Earthquake, the third and final cassette released on Slaughter Productions, Drift takes on a slightly different angle to the previous two cassettes. Where as The Beyond and Exile were firmly planted in pitch black ambient territory, the desolation on Earthquake is Saharan. Bright, Sirocco, and sun scorched. Afterall, who said Dark Ambient needs to be cold? In a sense, the listener is transported to an abandoned archaeogical dig while faint middle eastern tones waver in and out of the surfac…
Catatonic Daydreamer
After his trilogy, Iron Sight returns with Catatonic Daydreamer. Once again laying his heart bare, across a broadened and evolved emotional and sonic landscape - moving with genuine honesty between stark vulnerability and overwhelming force.
Clear state shifts run throughout the record. Going from stripped-down acoustic moments, reminiscent of a dark Johnny Cash-like intimacy - fragile and exposed, allowing silence and space to carry as much weight as sound and context itself - to moments where …
Halt
Foetus is one of the major musical projects of NYC composer JG Thirlwell. Halt is the final Foetus album, and the first Foetus album in twelve years. It completes the cycle of an arc that began in 1981 with the first Foetus album Deaf. Thirlwell worked on Halt on and off over a period of eight years. As with each album he has made, he wanted to reinvent the music, use new forms, innovate and introduce new surprising forms into his musical palette, at the same time as feeling like a leap forward.…
Windmills
*150 copies limited edition* On the website fancymoon.com, CON himself describes 'Windmills' as Electro Cosmic Metal Industrial. It comprises 33 tracks and represents a continuous body of electronic music. The album was recorded and performed in the same vein as 'III Kugeln', serving as its predecessor, and is made up of four “solo electric pieces”: Sack, Turbine, Raumknoten, and Fenster. As FdW noted in his review of 'III Kugeln', this is not ambient, not dance music, not musique concrète, not …
Meldrop
*100 copies limited edition* "Meldrop tells of the place I call home, my dogs, the forest and the lives within. It speaks of birth, life, and the end of it. It speaks of a realm where even death becomes solely a matter of sound and scent".
The debut album by Iuga emerges as a deeply immersive work of cinematic ambient music, entirely created through analog and modular synthesizers. Built around dense textures, slow-moving tensions and emotionally charged atmospheres, the album explores the psych…
At Last I’m Leaving the Earth
Pure Motorised Instinct drives over to Dark Entries with At Last I’m Leaving the Earth, an LP of industrial-tinged ambient and new age. When legendary industrial outfit Nagamatzu went dormant in 1991, band member Stephen Jarvis moved forward with Pure Motorised Instinct, a name he pulled from a line in George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead. Throughout two cassette albums - 1991’s Between Intimacy and Elsewhere, and 1993’s Everything Is True - Jarvis pushed the Nagamatzu spirit in new directions.
At L…
Music for Ancient Catacombs
*150 copies limited edition* Across centuries, catacombs have exerted a powerful fascination on the human imagination. These underground networks, carved beneath cities and landscapes, have served as places of burial, devotion, secrecy, and contemplation. Their presence continues to resonate strongly today, inspiring artists, writers, and musicians who perceive them as symbolic spaces where history, spirituality, and the passage of time converge. The silence of stone corridors, the weight of cen…
Breath Of Earth
2008 release ** Hypnoz is a project of Dmitry Zubov, a musician from Moscow suburb Fryazino, the town that endowed the lovers of post-industrial music with such names as Hum and Staruha Mha. His first composition was recorded in 1993, and during its existence Hypnoz has released one CD on the Moscow label Insofar Vapour Bulk, which gathered tracks from different periods, a couple of very limited CD-Rs, and participated on the compilation "Iznutri" by the Ewers Tonkunst label with a fragment of a…