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Sky Burial – Shadow And Shroud (Black Artifact)

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Label Description: Sky Burial marks its twentieth year in 2026 with the release of “Shadow and Shroud,” the project’s first recording built entirely around rhythm-based material. The eleven tracks coalesce euphoria and angst, forming a dichotomous tenet of ritual praxis for liberation from the binds imposed by the self, society, and state; a return to an actuality where life’s cadence is the totality of existence.

Recorded, Aborted, Reanimated 2006-2026
Mastered by Chris Leamy
Original artwork by Matthew Blodgett

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EIII – Emanations (Opal)

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Label Description: Cassette and Vinyl version available at – eiii.bandcamp.com/merch

Last year @eiii.music.eiii released Refractions via Opal — seven pieces of sparse, electro-acoustic tension shaped from low-end pressure, restrained harmonic movement and moments of near-collapse. The record carried a quiet intensity that placed EIII somewhere between the austerity of Panasonic and the physical force of Emptyset, while remaining entirely its own. It later received Electronic Album of the Year at Latvia’s Golden Microphone Awards.

Now, almost exactly a year later, Emanations arrives.

Where Refractions felt sealed and monolithic, these new pieces seem more exposed. Rhythms surface and disappear, tones bloom slowly through the static, and small harmonic shifts carry an unexpected emotional weight. The music remains minimal, but nothing feels empty — every sound lands with purpose, suspended somewhere between restraint and impact.

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

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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

Bang Of Hearts – Through The Water (Self-Released)

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All Winter we’ve been hiding in the Barn, experimenting, improvising and nourishing our souls from a dying world.

These recordings are a testimony of the dark times we are living in, to uplift, to manifest and to divert our ways.

Recorded between December 2025 and February 2026 at the Barn, Betekom, Belgium.

Bang of Hearts is a musical entity consisting of Dominique Van Cappellen-Waldock (Baby Fire, Veda, Fleur de Feu,…) on vocals and spoken word, Timo Jacobs / Forestaal (Schim, the Moondig, Myaelin, Pilod,…); vocals, electronics, drums and percussion and Peter Verwimp / Ashtoreth ( Maya, Emptiness, Building Transmissions,…) on vocals, bass and guitar.

Together they conjure up an eclectic form of vast, improvised drone pieces with a ritualistic character.
Every now and then they gather at the Barn in Betekom, Belgium and pour their hearts out. They play what they feel and this may result in a patchwork of styles and influences: dark ambient, sludge, kraut rock, ritual drones, gothic doom, electronic soundscapes…one never knows what to expect as it is always delivered in a free form; a hypnotic sonic adventure for both the players as well as the audience.

Spoken Word and voices: Dominique Van Cappellen-Waldock
Drums, Electronics & voices: Forestaal / Timo Jacobs
Guitars, Bass & Voices: Ashtoreth / Peter Verwimp
Live mix: Timo jacobs
studio mix: Peter Verwimp
Mastering: Ronald Mariën
Artwork: Peter Verwimp

precenphix – teichopsia (Not Yet Remembered Records)

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— NOTE —
This is a joint release between Not Yet Remembered Records and the Move Quiet Records imprint out of Long Island, NY (movequiet.bandcamp.com). Should physical copies sell out here, head to movequiet.bandcamp.com for a chance at additional copies. And check out the rest of their discography while you’re at it, as it is excellent.
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Teichopsia finds Precenphix returning to NYR as well as debuting on Long Island, NY imprint, Move Quiet Records, with the fruit of a nearly two-year labor through poor health. Drawing inspiration from artists such as Seefeel, Richard D James, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Jack Dangers, Björk, Coil, Scorn, Monolake and Autechre, it is an amalgam of influence steeped in electronic music’s resurgence and prominence into the sonic landscape of the 1990s through the 2000s and beyond.

The recording is a concept album, in abstract. In terms of its composition, the layout is melodic but also has deep roots in both electronic and acoustic sound design. It’s sound ranges from IDM / braindance, glitch, ambient, dub, breakbeat, downtempo, industrial, modern classical, musique concrète and even score work.

In terms of the what the album means to me, I would prefer to remain more abstract rather than project my own narrative or even fully reveal the theme, allowing the listener the capability to insert their own interpretation of this record – which is meant to be taken in as a whole rather than by isolating things song by song.

There are little to no ‘singles’ on the album. Rather, it is meant to be experienced in a single sitting, which is a big ask anymore considering everyone’s attention span (including my own) has been reduced to that of a fruit fly with the proliferation of quickly digestible social media clips. But if attempted, the ebb and flow of its continuity becomes apparent and makes for a complete, compelling story.

I’m asking the listener to come on a turbulent journey with me, where respite seldom presents itself, but ultimately the protagonist comes through in the end with hopeful resilience and a newfound perspective on the grand scheme of things. A silver lining is mostly obscured, but it exists if you’re open enough to be willing to let it present itself to you. 

All songs written, recorded, performed and produced by Ben Rabenold @ The Lamp Post 2024-2025

Mastered by Marcus Miller @ Holosuite Mastering

Front cover photography by Olga Karlovac

Back cover / inner panel photography by Chris Friel

Disc inlay photography by Bryn Alleman

Booklet & disc image photography by Ben Rabenold

Design by consumer

Thank you: Bryn Alleman, Patrick Blinkhorn, Will Creason, Euan Dalgarno, Chris Friel, Iris Fuller,Mindi Hartlaub, Nikki Hope, Justin @ MQ, Olga Karlovac, Marcus @ Holosuite, Mom & Dad, Pietro Da Sacco, Caleb Byron Smith, Jake Wayman, room 606, the Great Solar Eclipse 2024, all at Jefferson Methodist Headache Center

©℗ Ben Rabenold 2026