Impressive debut by this French neoclassical, symphonic, martial industrial act. Forty minutes of music in nine tracks created in specific orchestral vein. Very interesting music, not so many mighty, bombastic phrases, but a lot of moving atmospheres.
Two years after The Devil`s Steed (one of the best-selling Neo-Folk albums in the last 2 years) SOL INVICTUS, aka TONY WAKEFORD, is back with a new Folk Noir album. Loosely influenced by the prog records of Tony Wakeford’s youth, Into The Woods describes a weird England of the 60’s and 70’s where pockets of woodland hold out against the encroaching suburbs.A dark England of out-of-work hangmen, dubious priests and Woman’s Institute covens.
A new skilled gothic project –bred by ex members of Vespertilia, Elegia and Apoptosis- able to blend with decadent personality in an unique gloomy sound the best American cold-wave and the most refined English ethereal with a touch of gelid Baroque breeze.
Nine pearls of cold and romantic melodies comes to you accompanied by incessant tapping of the rain as melancholy and incurable breeze of solitude that the olive trees secretly let dance.
– LIMITED EDITION – 500 COPIES last sessions in studio have taken to “ASH” (10tx, Ark Records 2007), the new album included in a box that, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the band, features their complete discography and reveals their steady creativity and a special moment of maturity.
Impressive debut by this French neoclassical, symphonic, martial industrial act. Forty minutes of music in nine tracks created in specific orchestral vein. Very interesting music, not so many mighty, bombastic phrases, but a lot of moving atmospheres.
One of the most fundamental and significant albums of the world’s Dark Folk stage. This edition comprises an exclusive bonus-track and is stricly limited to only 300 copies.
For a long time the British Neo-Classic and Gothic Folk band SIEBEN and their singer and virtuoso Matt Howden have provided the world with an impressive sound: catchy and stirring tunes, ritual trance loops and an emotional voice. These characteristics have turned the last two releases Ogham and High Broad Field into highly praised and adored albums. As the title may suggest, this new style Desire Rites, deals with more personal and immediate topics. The ‘rites of desire ask for more cutting sou
Here is a new beautiful album of the virtuoso violonist Ivo Sedlacek. This time the musician built his album around tones of a rare instrument: The Monochord. It’s a kind of table with a resonance box with 20 strings, it looks like the Japanese ‘Koto’. This Garden of Silence is so peaceful. Pure and acurate sounds seems to be purified as crystal. This album is ideal for meditation, relaxation and harmonize with yourself. Music will lead your imagination to foggy japanese valleys, near a peaceful
Only a few months after the release of its first full-length album NERA, ROME is back yet again to show that it’s here to stay. CONFESSIONS D’UN VOLEUR D’AMES is a call from a world where love and despair are locked in an embrace. A black craving in the fangs of war, the joys of stealth in a riot of blossoms. This second album is much calmer and rather more personal than NERA. These confessions are often dark and poetic, sometimes brutal, but most of all intimate. Again you will find traces of a
