Ritual Fever
There are moments of silent depth in which the winter of the scalpel of meaning and the spring of the sound-born, unleashed body look upon the world fully present. When the notes at last are heard, the ordered world is their indistinguishable score. The ritual of process is that which carries. The process of ritual is that which brings moments both transitory and immortal, apprehended by musician, seer, clairvoyant, herald; the welling tones that emanate from the crystal salt of shattered primor…
ātamōn
On ātamōn, Amina Hocine turns construction‑site plumbing into a breathing organism, casting foghorn‑born “sound crystals” through an abandoned Swedish mine in two long drone rituals where inner archetypes, architecture and air negotiate in slow, searing waves.
Astral Disaster (Prescription versions)
3LP triple set featuring all the Prescription versions and the newly created AD II artworks by Steven Stapleton. The booklet features all lyrics, extensive liner notes and sheds light on the interesting circumstances of the creation of this Coil release by Gary Ramon who not only instigated the sessions but also provided the haunting location for their recordings. Has been respectfully and expertly remastered by grammy-nominated Jessica Thompson. Artwork by Steven Stapleton design & layout by Ol…
Astral Disaster
At the turn of the millenium the original „Astral Disaster“ subcription-only vinyl release was somewhat of an Unholy Grail for Coil collectors!
Virtually unobtainable in its original fiercely limited format of only 99 copies, it is the only album apart from the original „Musick to play in the Dark“ record to combine the genius of Balance and Sleazy with both Drew McDowall and Thighpaulsandra's talents. Like „Musick“ it is an essentially tidal/lunar record with literal washes of sound enveloping …
Hexerei Im Zwielicht Der Finsternis
Aghast was a project by Nebelhexe and Nacht, released in 1994. This album was released back then by the legendary Cold Meat Industry. "Hexerei Im Zwielicht Der Finsternis" is the real dark and gloomy ambiance played in a classical dark wave vein. Minimalism in musical content, compensated by spooky and ice-cold vocals that will haunt you. Macabre enchantresses will seduce you and take you to their ghastly realm. Hear gods cry and angels fall. Listen to horror and beauty. Let Aghast bewitch you! …
Horti Lamiani
*300 copies limited edition* Although La Porta Ermetica has not yet released many albums, the roster is far from unknown. Featuring the talents of Adriano Vincenti and founding members of the legendary group Ain Soph, this Italian super group means business. "Horti Lamiani" is a show of strength and a real piece of ear candy for those waiting to hear new ritual frequencies.
The sounds themselves are a testimony to the long-running experience of those involved. Tasty throbs and basses are mixed w…
Shaman
Ruins Of Xibalba (Sydney, AUS) bring avant-garde ritual dark ambient from down under. Deep within the past, the roots of "Shaman" branch into our world. Bent Window is proud to present this elegant and mystifying release in cassette format...
“Shaman is an album that challenges the lives of those who have lost touch with their roots, their existence marred by false beliefs and misconceptions. Shamanism is a gift to humanity, the sole path to truly understanding nature, accessing profound emotion…
Ring of Spheres
*300 copies limited edition* Portuguese ritual ambient entity Wolfskin returns with Ring of Spheres, a transcendental new work that expands the project’s long-standing devotion to metaphysical sound into cosmic territory. Conceived as a meditative and transformative journey, Ring of Spheres distills the essence of ritual music to its purest form: vibration, resonance, and spiritual ascent. Recorded across a series of focused sessions with gongs and analog electronics, Ring of Spheres marks one o…
Oastar
*300 copies limited edition* Oastar marks the long-awaited third manifestation of O Saala Sakraal, the ceremonial vessel guided by nOh v°v (of Trepaneringsritualen and Norn) and Sunnifa St. Álander (of Hadewych). Recorded in the aftermath of the discovery and subsequent destruction of an ancient solar temple by local authorities in the eastern region of Hamaland, a land still shadowed by the enduring influence of the Church, this new work channels both lament and invocation.
Amidst these events,…
Lacrimae Mundi Remixed
*300 copies limited edition* More than a decade after the seminal release of Lacrimae Mundi, Croatian ritual ambient pioneer TeHÔM returns with Lacrimae Mundi Remixed, a transcendent new offering that gathers together the crème de la crème of the dark ambient, ritual, and post-industrial realms. Nine acclaimed artists have reinterpreted TeHÔM’s esoteric soundscapes, each reshaping its primordial textures through their own distinctive sonic language. They collectively conjure an entirely new rit…
Acéphale
With Acéphale, German ritual ambient project Vortex delves deeper into the mythic undercurrents of philosophy, ritual, and sound. The album continues the band’s ongoing exploration of aural mythology through subtle drone compositions, ritualistic percussion, and an overarching sense of psychosexual tension. Taking inspiration from the work of Georges Bataille, Acéphale evokes the forbidden energies at the heart of human experience. In the 1930s, Bataille founded both a journal and a secret socie…
Mountain of fugitives
**2025 Stock** Mountain of Fugitives invites the listener into a realm where ambient sound design and narrative instinct merge to form a deeply atmospheric, two-disc meditation on wandering, refuge, and landscape. Across eight long-form pieces, Valera Hip sculpts immersive environments that blur the boundary between documentary realism and imaginative reconstruction. Drawing upon authentic field recordings—rustling leaves, distant voices, shifting wind—as both texture and thematic anchor, the al…
Ritualer, Blot Och Botgöring
**2025 Stock** Ritualer, Blot Och Botgöring stands as the uncompromising debut of Trepaneringsritualen—Thomas Martin Ekelund’s celebrated project that laces religious dread, magick, and esoteric sorrow into the very fabric of death industrial. Originally issued in 2008 with only 75 cassettes and later given a justified re-release on vinyl, the album draws listeners into its haunting landscapes from the first cavernous, echo-soaked textures of “Bloodletting Ritual.” Lo-fi, murky, and unapologetic…
I Maestri del Colore
The Melancholy Mad Tenant, a collaboration between Coil, The New Blockaders, and Vortex Campaign, is a remastered anthology of radical noise, drone, and experimental anti‑music. It delivers brutal textures, haunting silences, and fierce creative interplay, pushing sound to extremes where chaos and restraint strangely converge.
Ephemeral Rituals
Jo Montgomerie doesn't want to pull back the veil too much on her source materials, but she's becoming more declarative and emphatic in how she works with her crucible of tempered noise. The opening clatter to Ephemeral Rituals sounds to these ears like the repetitive strike of a typewriter; though she asserts, without showing her hand, that is not the case. Out of this, a hallowed, radiant black glow emerges, nearly engulfing the acoustic clack with a sublime grandeur. Based in Manchester, Mont…
Astral Disaster
Big tip! *Definitive Edition: Deluxe 5LP + 4CD Artbook wooden box set; includes 2LP gatefold with the TTH edition and the original artwork + 3LP triple set featuring all the Prescription versions and the newly created AD II artworks by Steven Stapleton + A massive, epic 12" vinyl-sized Artbook houses the complete collection on 4CDs, with all versions gathered in one place.* Virtually unobtainable in its original fiercely limited format of only 99 copies, it is the only album apart from the origi…
Njurra Wänja
"The process of making music together in Hand to Earth is unlike any other we have experienced. It is not free improvisation but it is not composed either. It is somewhere in between, and it feels like ‘weaving.’ Through Hand to Earth, we weave the threads of our different histories, different lives, and different perspectives together, and become family. Daniel weaves the ‘Manikay’ (public songs) in his first language, Wagiläk - into the syntax of our shared practices. He talks about the ‘rak…
Les Fleurs Du Mal
2002 release ** Cardboard sleeve. In Meditarivm is a dark/ritual ambient project from Zhytomyr, Ukraine.
For The Raven
After 42 years, Metgumbnerbone’s legendary “For The Raven” finally releases! This post-industrial/drone/improv gem, once canceled and lost to time, resurfaces as a rare cassette—a must-have for fans and collectors. The myth lives on!
Dyatlov Pass
2008 release ** "It's a true monument and a masterpiece of ritual-shamanic drone ambient music. Velehentor, will spend you, to sound travel through time and space... In the infinite Snow-covered Northern Ural Mountains (one of the most dangerous and remote areas on a planet), on 50 years ago, there, where it again occur!"