“We live in dark, confusing times and COVENANT wrote an album about how that makes us feel. In a world that has stopped making sense, we need to learn how to see in the dark and “The Blinding Dark” is a triumphant embrace of the strengths and resilience of the soul. It’s the dystopian, unforgiving music of the reflective shadows we all carry within us, but often lack the courage to take a good look at. It’s implosive instead of explosive, fuelled by cold fury rather than a roaring fire, as beautiful as a collapsed star.” (Joakim Montelius)

„The Blinding Dark“, COVENANTs 9th studio album to be released November 4th, 2016, is exciting not only because of its compelling title, but also since it shows a remarkable development in style, something that COVENANT decidedly wanted to do with this record – and not least thanks to the subject matter they address. The Swedish/German outfit has perhaps just delivered their artistically most ambitious album yet.

The world is no field of flowers, and everyone makes the experiences at least once in a lifetime, that where the light exists, there is also darkness.

Leszek "Morph" Trzaska (vocals, guitar, compositions) was a singer and bassist in many metal / hard rock projects since year 2000 and he created Dark Side Eons in 2012. Together with Kate "Moonskin" Trzaska (synthesizer / programming), which joined the band in 2014, the two musicians started to play their first shows already in the same year.

The debut album, which was created between 2014 and 2016 contains 12 energetic songs, that transport the feeing to take a journey though endless depths of human soul, through the universe and the wholeness of a life. Every song tells it’s own story and the multifacetedness of the whole album are not at least the result of the various influences of Minimal, Dark Wave, Gothic Rock and Post Punk, that give DARK SIDE EONS their unique sound.

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Here's a teaser from Cynical existence's upcoming album "Dying Light" which will be released by Advoxya Records later this year.

ZOS KIA was formed by John Gosling (MEKON), John Balance (COIL) and Min - with guest Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson (THROBBING GRISTLE). Their one and only album, Transparent, was released August 23rd 1983 in a cassette only edition on the now defunct Nekrophile label, Austria. They were the first released recordings of both COIL and ZOS KIA. It was reissued years later by COIL (Threshold House / Eskaton) in an edited edition. The entire recordings are now released on CD/vinyl for the first time and are completely remastered from the unedited tapes. Includes two previously unreleased bonus tracks by AKE (pre-ZOS KIA).

The music on Transparent is genuinely unsettling and disturbing, with a more primal Industrial feel than the Coil album which followed; 'Scatology'. An essential insight into the very early work of these extraordinary artists and an undeniable link between Coil and Throbbing Gristle.

Double vinyl edition in a sumptuous gatefold sleeve with 12" booklet of unseen images. Ltd 500 white vinyl edition for COLD SPRING mailorder only. Both editions come with download card.

CD edition presented in a 6-panel digipak with booklet containing all images.

Lleluja-Ha (pseudoniem van Marcel Blatti) is een multi-instrumentalist, componist en producer, die zich on stage steevast van top tot teen in een tribal kostuum (inclusief masker) van de Duitse ontwerpster Victoria Behr hult. Alles wat OY doet past binnen het alienation thema. Hun liveshows worden ook beschouwd als een visueel utopisch spektakel. Vergelijkingen met Grace Jones, MIA en Laurie Anderson zijn dan ook snel gemaakt.

After wowing audiences at major festivals across many countries for the last couple of years, the original and creative duet consisting of Ghanaian-Swiss vocalist & musician Joy Frempong and producer & musician Lleluja-Ha are back with new songs from another world.

OY’s new album is a space opera - highly danceable avant-garde, based on a core of vocal loops, electronica and drumming. It tells the story of mankind’s prosperous future on a planet called 'Space Diaspora’ on which humans finally developed the ability to learn from their mistakes.

Life on Space Diaspora is a reflection and a distortion of our own struggling world, conveying sentiments of modern alienation and transnational identity. OY’s thoughtful and humorous, tongue-in-cheek approach looks back at current times from the vantage point of a chaos-driven but blooming society in our own future. A vision which elicits tears as well as smiles, and praises the huge potential of the in-between.

The Space Diaspora fable is a framework which enables OY to make use of their multiple talents and create a playful and imaginative opus, bursting with melodies carried by Joy Frempong’s formidable voice. As voices have remained the strongest form of communication throughout history, the album’s electronic core is built out of transformed vocal samples. They reappear in synthesized form - as melodies, chords or patterns - backing the band’s reflections on transhumanism, diaspora or transculturation. The resulting sound could be described as a futuristic blend of rebellious tribal jazz and electronica, which the band call “Oyxploitation”…

Initial pre-release concerts in Paris, Fes and London have generated great media reactions, with comparisons to Laurie Anderson, Grace Jones and MIA, and a show described as ‘a visual and utopian universe’, ‘a spectacle that cheers up listeners’, ‘a captivating performance pitched somewhere between preaching and performance art’, and ‘a set that confirms to us that music is a power, a force’.

The broad musical background of the co-writers ranges from underground experiments to composing for contemporary theatre and reflects that, for them, there is just one love: music as an entity. OY face the absurdity of life with humour, they share with generosity and invite listeners to participate in their musical journey.

OY - "Space Diaspora": a presentation from Crammed Discs on Vimeo.