Nordvargr / Drakh – 2001-2008 (Fluttering Dragon Records)

Label Description: NORDVARGR / DRAKH – 2001-2008
Wooden Box Edition, 66 numbered copies

Limited and handcrafted, the wooden box houses five professionally manufactured cassettes and stands as a tribute to one of the most distinctive and uncompromising projects in the Nordic dark ambient scene.

The box includes:

1 pin

5 professionally manufactured cassettes

5 exclusive stickers

2 posters

j4vaman – Never Ending Void (Petroglyph Music)

Label Description: I am a Polish musician specializing in electronic, experimental, dark ambient, and plunderphonics music. My work explores the boundaries of sound through unconventional textures and immersive atmospheres, often blending found sounds with synthetic layers to create unique sonic landscapes. Drawing inspiration from both the eerie and the abstract, I aim to evoke deep emotional responses and transport listeners into otherworldly auditory experiences.

This album was heavily based on sampling the short snippets of music from old Adult Swim bumpers. And as usual with my work, I also sampled stuff from old public service advertisement, like anti-drug ads, etc.

There’s everything on here: tracks that are calm, sad, bright or aggressive. There is always a severe amount of different emotions in the void.

All tracks mixed and produced by j4vaman
Artwork by j4vaman
Additional chords on Track 3 by Michael Monaghan.

j4vaman.bandcamp.com/album/never-ending-void

j4vaman.bandcamp.com

Blood Incantation – All Gates Open (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Century Media Records]

Label Description: 24-bit / 48K HD audio master.

The over 60-minutes’ long ‚All Gates Open (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)‘ demonstrates Blood Incantation’s diverse capability of songwriting and reveals a light, beautiful and holistic side, serving as the pastoral „yang energy“ of the dark atmosphere of ‚Timewave Zero‘

Line-Up:
Paul Riedel
Jeff Barrett
Morris Kolontyrsky
Isaac Faulk

Kathodos – Parasomnia: Pavor Nocturnus (Slithering Black Records)

Label Description:


All sounds, noises, rituals, and devilries written, recorded and performed by Kathodos
except: Soprano, spoken word and guitar by Lavinia

Cover art by Odilon Redon, The Eye Like a Strange Balloon, Goes to Infinity, 1882

Logo by Lavinia
Additional artwork and layout by Omen North

Produced, mixed and mastered in 2023 by Kathodos

Exit Chamber – Strategy Of Tension (Passed Recordings)

Label Description: I have once again broken my brain, and I am afraid that I am therefore inflicting it upon you too, dear listeners.

It’s hard not to feel like everything is ramping up right now but, as they say, there is nothing new under the sun. If we don’t learn from history etc etc. Further reading here, but prepare yourself for quite the rabbit hole: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_of_tension and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

I know physical media and shipping is asking a lot of people just now, so I’ve included the cassette masters and j-card as bonus items with the digital purchase so you can roll your own. Just print the j-card, score the folds on the back and cut it out.

Massive thanks to Ruinbox for the track art edits of the cover and phone wallpaper: ruinbox.bandcamp.com

Shout out to the Ghost Stories for the End of The World podcast too for making me aware of all this stuff initially: www.patreon.com/GhostStoriesForTheEnd

rauðvik – blóðsjúkdómur (Self-Released)

Label Description:

A ponderance on the cosmic horrors in the shadows, just beyond the veil of what you can see.

The sky and the cosmos are one.

Special thanks to everyone at FromSoftware for Bloodborne, which served as the inspiration for and subject matter of this album.

All sounds designed by rauðvik at Overlook Studios
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by rauðvik at Overlook Studios
Cover photo by Nephron – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9716436
Text added by rauðvik

Jarl – Nerve Cell Threads Electronics (Zoharum)

Label Description:

We are glad to present the new album of Jarl titled „Nerve Cell Threads Electronics”. The Swedish musician refers to the themes that accompanied the creation of the trilogy on the brain and the nervous system, making the new publication an informal, fourth part of the series in which he touched on the topics of neurotransmitters, receptors and synapses. The album contains four tracks called „Electrical Impulse 1 – 4”, filling nearly 60 minutes. This time the tracks has a little darker tone/sound, but still psychedelic, melodic, restrained and sometimes intense with percussive layers and sequencer based with thick analogue sounds that slowly changes into other sounds.
The album is available on CD in a six-panel digipack, on cassette and in digital format.
 

Composed, recorded and mixed by Erik Jarl.
Cover artwork & design by Karolina Urbaniak.
Mastered by Peter Andersson

Beyond Sensory Experience – In This Our Life (Cyclic Law)

Label Description:

Beyond Sensory Experience announce “In This Our Life”, a new album that extends and deepens the austere, melancholic sound they have refined since their formation in 2001. The duo continue to balance sparse, cinematic atmospheres with richly layered textures and haunting melodic motifs.

“In This Our Life” follows a sequence of records that critics have described as immersive, melancholic and beautifully unsettling, works which place the duo among the most discreetly consistent voices in contemporary dark ambient. Previous releases were praised for their ability to create vast emotional registers from minimal material, a characteristic the new album amplifies while exploring more expansive song-forms and dynamic contrasts.

Stylistically, the album keeps the trademark BSE touch: low-frequency washes, distant vocal fragments, analogue warmth and crystalline, slowly unfolding harmonies. Where earlier records often emphasized brooding stasis, “In This Our Life” moves the project into more narrative territory, allowing passages of melancholic catharsis to emerge from dense, claustrophobic beds of sound. Reviewers of earlier records noted the group’s talent for making the sparse feel monumental, a sensibility that informs this new collection.

The production embraces both analogue textures and carefully balanced percussive elements. Tracks shift between shadowed ambience and melodic refrains that linger, and the sequencing creates a discreet arc, from intimate, near-silent openings to more emphatic, emotionally charged culminations. Fans of the project’s prior work will recognize the continuity, while new listeners will find entry points in the album’s stronger melodic hooks and cinematic pacing.

CD Edition of 300 copies in 6 panel Digipak. 11 Tracks. Running Time 48:16