Trepaneringsritualen – ᛉᛦ – Algir; Eller Algir I Merkstave (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient & ritual. Background/Info: Trepaneringsritualen is back on track, unleashing a new cryptic work ‘constructed from a series of...
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The Telescopes – Stone Tape (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, apocalyptic- & psychedelic rock, industrial, ritual. Background/Info: Officially released in 2017 as vinyl on Yard Press, “Stone Tape”,...
SPK – Zamia Lehmanni / Songs Of Byzantine Flowers (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental, cinematographic. Background/Info: Australian formation SPK remains one of the uncontested pioneers and leaders of the so-called experimental-...
Coil – Stolen & Contaminated Songs (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial. Background/Info: John Balance and Peter Christopherson entered into history with their Coil project as one of the...
Coil’s 1992 album ‘Stolen & Contaminated Songs’ gets reissue on CD + two vinyl editions
Cold Spring has announced the reissue of Coil's 1992 album "Stolen & Contaminated Songs", presented on CD and, for the...
Common Eider, King Eider – Égrégore (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, ritual, experimental. Background/Info: “Égrégore” resulted from the common efforts between Common Eider, King Eider’s Rob Fisk (aka B.S.s)...
Llyn Y Cwn – Twll Du (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Soundscape, dark-ambient & noise. Background/Info: Ben Powell is hailing from Wales. He started experimenting with music in 1999. Llyn Y...
Kollaps – Mechanical Christ (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, death-industrial. Background/Info: Kollaps is an Australian trio operating from Melbourne. They describe their work as ‘creating a unique...
SPK 1986 album ‘Zamia Lehmanni’ reissued and also available on vinyl for the very first time
Originally released by Side Effects in 1986, "Zamia Lehmanni (Songs of Byzantine Flowers)" was the third (and final) core SPK...
OST from Lars Von Trier’s controversial film ‘Antichrist’ gets first ever physical release
Out via Cold Spring is the first ever physical release of the soundtrack to Lars Von Trier's controversial film "Antichrist"....
‘Click Interview’ with Anni Hogan: ‘It Was A Really Happy Album Setting Based On Love And Friendship’
If you’re an ‘80s kid’ who listened to ‘dark’ music you for sure remember Anni Hogan! She started piano lessons...
Trepaneringsritualen & Nordvargr – Konung Krönt I Blod / Salve Teragmon (Vinyl 7” – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, dark-ambient, doom. Background/Info: The idea of this single is pretty simple; you take two Swedish ‘giants’ dealing with...
Interview with Test Dept.: ‘The 80s Were An Amazing Time For Musical Development’
Back in the early 80s I’d the opportunity to see ‘new’ musical styles and bands emerging at the surface. One...
The New Blockaders – Live At Sonic City (CD + DVD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Noise. Background/Info: The New Blockaders are commonly considered as one of the noise pioneers. They were inspired by the...
Anni Hogan – Lost In Blue (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, jazz, cabaret. Background/Info: Anni Hogan belongs to this list of mythical artists from the 80s underground movement. She...
‘Click Interview’ with Viviankrist: ‘Equipment Gives Me Inspiration’
Viviankrist is a minimal electro/power-noise project set up by Japanese female artist Eri Isaka. Around 1997-1999 she was member of...
MZ.412 – Svartmyrkr (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Black-industrial, dark-ambient. Background/Info: MZ.412 (formerly known as Maschinenzimmer 412) gained recognition as the so-called inventors of ‘black-industrial’ music. Set...
Viviankrist – Morgenrøde (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, minimal-electronics, Noise. Background/Info: Some of you might have heard of Vivian Slaughter who was member of the female...
Bow Gamelan Ensemble – Great Noises That Fill The Air (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental. Background/Info: We’re used to Cold Spring re-releasing ‘old’ and sometimes ‘legendary’ albums on CD format. Bow Gamelan...
V/A Earthen (DCD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, dark-ambient, death-industrial, ritual, experimental, drone. Background/Info: Cold Spring Records is one of the ‘oldest’ and most recognized labels...
Zeni Geva & Steve Albini – Maximum Implosion (DCD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock, noise-rock, apocalyptic-rock, death-industrial-rock. Background/Info: This project is the unexpected meeting between Zeni Geva (aka KK Null) and Steve...
She Spread Sorrow – Mine (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, industrial-ambient, experimental. Background/Info: Italian female artist Alice Kundalini released her first solo-album “Rumspringa” in 2015. “Mine” got released...
Merzbow / Genesis Breyer P-Orridge – A Perfect Pain (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, noise. Background/Info: Originally released in 1999, “A Perfect Pain” has been now remastered and re-released. The work features...
Penny Rimbaud – Oh Magick Kingdom (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial. Background/Info: This album released by the legendary Crass front man Penny Rimbaud got originally released in 2011...
Coil + Zos Kia + Marc Almond – How To Destroy Angels / A Slow Fade To Total Transparency (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial. Background/Info: Cold Spring Records’ time machine brings us back to 1983 when John Balance (Coil), John Gosling...
‘Click Interview’ with Zwaremachine: ‘Minimal Hypnotic Industrial Body Music’
Did you ever heard of Zwaremachine before? Based in Minneapolis (USA), ‘Mach Fox’ released different productions on German-, Italian-, French-...
NDE – United (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial Background/Info: “United” marks the return of the Belgian duo Bart Piette (Dead Man’s Hill) and Koen Osier aka...
Nytt Land – Oðal (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Ritual, dark-folk, cinematographic. Background/Info: I last year discovered the phenomenal Russian Nytt Land through their “Fimbulvinter”-album, which remains to...
She Spread Sorrow – Midori (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, death-industrial & ambient. Background/Info: Alice Kundalini is back on track unleashing the third full length from her sonic...
Psychic TV – Kondole & Dead Cat (DCD Album + DVD – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial, abstract music. Background/Info: Cold Spring Records takes us back in time to re-discover a unique documentary consisting...
June release for brand new MZ.412 10 inch vinyl ‘Ulvens Broder’
The Cold Spring label has announced the June release of the MZ.412 10" vinyl "Ulvens Broder" (available here). 2018 marks...
Jotunspor – Gleipnirs Smeder (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Black-metal, death-industrial. Background/Info: The album “Gleipnirs Smeder” by Jotunspor was originally released in 2006 (!) on Satanas Rex (UK)...
Colossloth – Heathen Needles (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial, cinematographic. Background/Info: After a few albums released on CDR and vinyl, this is the second official CD...
Common Eider, King Eider – Shrines For The Unwanted, Respite For The Cast (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic, ritual. Background/Info: Operating from San Francisco (USA), the Common Eider, King Eider collective is back on track...
V/A Visions Of Darkness In Iranian Contemporary Music (DCD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, minimal-electronics, cinematographic, experimental, ritual. Background/Info: Italian label Unexplained Sounds Group is a small but fascinating releasing original productions...
RIP Stefan Joel Weisser (aka Z’EV)
According to various reports, 66-year old industrial music pioneer and percussionist Stefan Joel Weisser (aka Z’EV) died yesterday. Last year...
Psychic TV to release ‘Kondole’ 2CD+DVD set
Cold Spring announce the release of the Psychic TV release “Kondole / Dead Cat” – a double CD and DVD...
Penny Rimbaud / Eve Libertine / Charles Webber – Kernschmelze II: Cantata For Improvised Voice (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, ambient, noise, industrial. Background/Info: Penny Rimbaud (composer) and Eve Libertine (vocals and lyrics) will always be linked to...
Penderecki – Kosmogonia (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, cinematographic, classical music. Background/Info: Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki maybe doesn’t ring a bell although I’m “The Shining”, “The Exorcist,...
Shift – Abandon (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, noise-ambient. Background/Info: Shift was set up in the late 90s by Swedish artist Martin Willford. He released several...
Khost – Governance (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-doom, death-industrial, industrial-metal. Background/Info: Hailing from Birmingham (UK), Khost has gained a serious reputation in a rather short lapse...
The Austrasian Goat & Cober Ord – Et Ils Franchirent Le Seuil (CD Album + Vinyl 7” – Steelwork Maschine)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial, experimental, drones, ritual. Background/Info: “Et Ils Franchirent Le Seuil” is an album that resulted from the common...
Nytt Land – Fimbulvinter (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Ritual, folk, cinematographic. Background/Info: Nytt Land is a Russian group, which has released several albums in a rather short...
La Breiche – Le Mal Des Ardents (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Medieval, industrial, dark-folk, ambient. Background/Info: La Breiche is a French duo consisting of Stille Volk-members Arexis and Lafforgue. This...
Skullflower – The Spirals Of Great Harm (DCD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Noise, black-noise, experimental, industrial. Background/Info: Skullflower definitely stands for one of the veterans from the so-called noise and black-noise...
Zos Kia/Coil – Transparent (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial. Background/Info: The “Transparent”-album is more than simply history. It brings artists and friends with a common passion...
Trepaneringsritualen – Deathward To The Womb (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, ritual. Background/Info: Behind this obscure Swedish project is hiding Thomas Martin Ekelund (aka Th. Tot). Trepaneringsritualen became a...
Tunnels Of Ǡh – Surgical Fires (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-noise, experimental, dark-ambient. Background/Info: In a previous life Stephen Reuben Burroughs got involved in Head Of David. Today he...
Burial Hex – Throne (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Horror-electronics, death-industrial. Background/Info: Clay Ruby gained a serious reputation in the private and selected universe of ‘horror-electronics’. This prolific...
V/A Pyre (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial, power-noise, experimental, noise, ritual, cinematographic. Background/Info: A label sampler always offers an opportunity to familiarize with the...
Sun Ra / Merzbow – Strange City (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Noise, jazz & noise, experimental. Background/Info: Merzbow is an artist who doesn’t need any further introduction. Sun Ra definitely...
V/A The Sound Of Progress (DVD – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental. Background/Info: “The Sound Of Progress” is a documentary, which was originally released in 1988 on VHS format...
From the vaults: ‘The Sound Of Progress’ DVD feat. Coil, Current 93, Foetus, Test Dept.
Here's a release, which although being released already this August, hasn't gotten enough attention to our taste. Released via Cold...
Mega rare vinyl edition of Sol Invictus’ ‘In The Rain’ – 200 copies only, here’s how to get yours
The English neofolk and neoclassical group Sol Invictus is to release a 2nd edition of their 1995 album "In The...
Zos Kia / Coil album ‘Transparent’ finally out for the very 1st time on CD on 2 vinyl LP since 1983 cassette release
Back in 1983, Zos Kia - a project formed by John Gosling (Mekon), John Balance (Coil) and Min - was...
Dave Ball (Soft Cell) and Jon Savage release soundscape album ‘Photosynthesis’
Out by early October - and ready for ordering now - is a brand new album by Dave Ball (Soft...
Troum – Acouasme (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, dark-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Glitch and Baraka better known under the Troum moniker can already look back on an...
She Spread Sorrow – Rumspringa (CD Albums – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, noise, ritual-deathscape. Content: Some of you will possibly know Alice Kundalini from her involvement in the heavy power-electronic...
Coil – Backwards (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial. Content: Every single music genre has its heroes; the kind of legendary bands, which entered into the...
