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Buyer Rating: 97.8% positive (134 ratings)

Seconds In Formaldehyde - Suchness - 10-Oct-08 04:43 AM
The music is both melancholic and trance inducing and puts me in a special mood. As comparisons I would state Aidan Baker and Fear Falls Burning. All sounds are created with guitar only - which is amazing.

now the BUT-part:
The CD contains a long continuous track, but during duplication, they managed to separate the three parts of the composition. Between each track there's a 1 second pause, that completely destroys the feeling when listening to this beautiful piece of music. Shame on the label for not listening to the finished product before shipping it, otherwise they probably would have gone back to the duplication company and have the CD redone.
The way this is now, I'm afraid, this release is completely useless.

Shellac - 1994 Peel Sessions - 07-May-08 06:14 AM
The musical quality of the recordings of Steve Albini and co. is without a doubt great in any instance. Most of the group consists of sound engineers and producers, so their aim for a special and specific sound design is essential to them. This is why Shellac sounds like Shellac and not like any other band. Unfortunately nothing is to be felt on this release, as the sound quality of this bootleg is pretty terrible. Only for collectors.

IHVHLXXII - Dtxenioutha - 28-Mar-08 08:47 AM
Really intense dark ambient by the australian composer Saaroth, who published the same material in his native country unter the name of COCYTUS on Ekishnugal Records (EKR II). It remains a mystery, why the name IHVHLXXII was used for this release, as this was credited before to a chinese musician. Then again Saaroth also used the name ARTEMIS (9) and ALLAXUL for other releases. In any case, check it out if you can, it's a brilliant release full of athmosphere and tension.

Velvet Cacoon - Genevieve - 28-Aug-07 10:38 PM
A marvelous black metal gem with haunting frequencies and dark growls, whispered lyrics and frightning breaks. Shame though, that the individual tracks are so short. Also for maximum effect, the tracks (at least some of them) should have ended with a clear cut, rather than being faded out. But these are minor issues, the whole package is frightningly great.

Westwind - Tourmente II - 11-Apr-07 02:56 AM
This is a great, sad and monumental composition with pretty high production values. Unfortunately the CD release is not, as the CD features minimal gaps between the individual tracks. These tracks were meant to flow into the next track. When you play the CD on a regular CD-player it interupts the flow of the sound (like when you group individual mp3s). This proves to be very distracting. Shame...