Anthoney Hart returns with his second Basic Rhythm album for Planet Mu, Electronic Labyrinth . The title itself conveys the overarching theme of the album, evoking the journey that Hart has undertaken. The underlying themes are of a more personal nature, the cover photo of St Fabian Tower where Hart first joined Rude FM in…
“Assembling unreleased recordings from 1979 and 1980, Shrimp Boats is a South African jazz archival compilation from 1987 that showcases an epic side-long title track featuring saxophonist Basil Mannenberg Coetzee. The recording was made during pianist Lionel Pillay s November 1979 session with Coetzee for the As-Shams The Sun album Plum and Cherry. Side Two…
Bastille s wildly-ambitious and brilliantly bold new album Give Me The Future is a tribute to humanity in a tech age and reflects on the strangeness of living through times that can feel like science fiction. Exploring both the opportunities of new technology and the dark side of lives lived online, it s as playful and fun as…
Bathory was formed in Stockholm in 1983. Founder Quorthon, a seventeen-year-old guitarist, was joined by bassist Hanoi and drummer Vans. After various name changes (beginning with Nosferatu, then Natas, Mephisto, Elizabeth Bathory and Countess Bathory) they finally settled on Bathory. Their first recording deal came that same year, when Quorthon managed to secure the consent…
Bathory was formed in Stockholm in 1983. Founder Quorthon, a seventeen-year-old guitarist, was joined by bassist Hanoi and drummer Vans. After various name changes (beginning with Nosferatu, then Natas, Mephisto, Elizabeth Bathory and Countess Bathory) they finally settled on Bathory. Their first recording deal came that same year, when Quorthon managed to secure the consent…
Hammerheart is the fifth album released by Bathory. It continued Blood Fire Death s transition away from black metal to what would become recognized as Viking metal, and is considered a cornerstone work of the genre. Bathory was formed in Stockholm in 1983. Founder Quorthon, a seventeen-year-old guitarist, was joined by bassist Hanoi and drummer…
Bathory was formed in Stockholm in 1983. Founder Quorthon, a seventeen-year-old guitarist, was joined by bassist Hanoi and drummer Vans. After various name changes (beginning with Nosferatu, then Natas, Mephisto, Elizabeth Bathory and Countess Bathory) they finally settled on Bathory. Their first recording deal came that same year, when Quorthon managed to secure the consent…
Twilight of the Gods is the sixth album by Bathory. It continues the exploration of the newly created Viking metal style, and also displays a heavy classical influence; it is titled after an opera by Wagner, and the melody of Hammerheart is lifted from Gustav Holst s The Planets (more specifically, from the fourth movement,…
Battery were a staple of the Washington, D.C. hardcore scene during the 90s, formed by a who s who of that scene, including members of Damnation A.D., Better Than A Thousand, Shelter, Ashes, and Worlds Collide. From 1991-1998 the band released numerous EPs and LPs that have mostly been in high demand for reissues leading…
These are the first ever US Beggars Banquet pressings of The Sky’s Gone Out and Burning From The Inside. Beggars Banquet now holds the rights to these albums worldwide due to a rights reversion. The Sky’s Gone Out is the band’s third album and was released in 1992. Burning From The Inside is Bauhaus’ fourth…
Remastered double album on Vinyl. Bauhaus broke up in 1983, after setting in motion the rise of goth music. Future projects from solo efforts to the formation of the hit band Love and Rockets kept the original band members busy for the rest of the decade into the 1990s. It wasn t until 1998 that…
Few debut albums have ever arrived as nearly perfectly formed as In the Flat Field. It practically invented what remains for many as the blueprint of goth music.
180-gram vinyl LP. No sophomore slump for Bauhaus on 1981 s Mask. This album was a huge success for the these English rockers. Expanding their sound while keeping true to their vision, Bauhaus hit it big with the single Kick in the Eye. Fueled by angst and despair, Bauhaus continued to light the way for…
Press the Eject and Give Me the Tape is a live album by the British gothic rock band Bauhaus, released in 1982 on Beggars Banquet Records, and recorded in London and Liverpool in 1981 and 1982
The Bela Session is the first official reissue of Bela Lugosi s Dead on vinyl, and the first release of the complete recording session: 5 tracks total, 3 previously unreleased. Late 2018 will mark the 40th anniversary of Bauhaus.