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jaw09 BEHEAT GORUM DE MENTHEURD Villissä Pohjolassa (C41, professionally duplicated tape, lim. ed. 60) Have you ever wondered what black metal would sound like if it were made by a bunch of flower-loving fairies, forest-worshipping trolls and beneficent elves? Then you'll have to listen to BEHEAT GORUM DE MENTHEURD, another brainchild of the indefatigable Ricky Zeta’s, who already released the beautiful SCHNEE / MADR ER MOLDAR AUKI split on Just Another Winter last year. Bewitching the Syntorchestra, charming the Bontempi, spellbinding the strings and infusing the whole with feeble moon-invocating howls, Ricky created a work of magic, both lilting and sorrowful, darkly sweet and genuinely emotional. Villissä Pohjolassa is a must-have for those into VARGHKOGHARGASMAL, CINTECELE DIAVOLUI, STRIBORG and TYNDALL (!!!). |
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jaw08 / rur036 MADR ER MOLDAR AUKI vs. SCHNEE Split (C60, professionally duplicated tape, lim. ed. 50) SCHNEE and M.E.M.A. are side-projects of the Italian BM act ENSOMHET 777 (aka Riccardo Z.). M.E.M.A. focuses on warm Tohmetian soundscapes mixed with Cylobian IDM, while SCHNEE is both colder and more personal (the first track, a requiem for Riccardo’s beloved dog Koki, is a masterpiece of icy, lonely sadness), but does come back to distorted guitars in the end with the black-gaze eponymous last track. This split is the final epitaph of both projects, and the perfect companion for dark winter evenings of outside coldness and inner warmth - or is it the other way round? |
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jaw07 / rur031 ESCAMA SERRADA "Santa Lucia" (10", black vinyl, lim. ed. 198) The Barcelonan horde around S. Méndez departs from the psychedelic post-industrial realm to descend into post-BM and occult-rock darkness, haunted by feeble screams, howling choirs and Méndez’ unmistakable ritualistic invocations. Grim blackened buzz riffs merge with laptop glitches, Tomhetian synthesizers and the occasional Allerseelean loops and beats. Blood sacrifice muzak at its best. Out now • 15,-
Euro (exclusive p+p) |
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jaw06 VARULV s/t (C60, professionally duplicated tape, lim. ed. 66) Long overdue anthology of
VARULV, the BM project by Morne (aka LaMort aka Laszlo PS from
WERMUT). Includes all the tracks recorded under this moniker
from 2003 to 2008. Mournful black fuzz, feeble screams, never
ending tomhetian synth drones... and all over depressive! |
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jaw05 SORGE s/t (C60, profesionally duplicated tape, lim. ed. 77) A unique first longplayer by a thoroughly unique and enigmatic band, delievering a tearful, anxious and grim burlesque chamber black metal with mediterranea and combat folk undercurrents. The blackened bohemian lament or Estaquean BM at its best... Out now • 8,5
Euro (exclusive p+p) |
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jaw04 SOLAR SKELETONS "Frozen Jail Of Reversed Demons" (LP, black vinyl, with insert, lim. ed. 200) The Skeletons are unleashed again, this time plunging into the dismal fogs of Dantesque blackened drone buzzadelics. Both haunting and transcending, harrowing and angelic, the "Frozen Jail Of Reversed Demons" is a monumental blend of post black metal fuzzscapes and eerie cello and synthesizer drones. Out now • 14
Euro (exclusive p+p) |
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jaw03 PROCER VENEFICUS "How The Heather Moonlit Shivers" (DLP, clear red vinyl, lim. ed. 406) JAW is very proud to present the long awaited first vinyl release of the unchallenged master of acoustic fog music. "How The Heather Moonlit Shivers" is the bleakest PROCER VENEFICUS to date : yet the unmistakable nebular ambiance remains, the darkest of night with all its swirling ghosts seems to close in on the listener and urges the trembling hand to finally switch on the light. Out now • 20
Euro (exclusive p+p) |
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jaw02 NOTRE DESSEIN "Comme Une Mer De Verre" (LP, black vinyl, lim. ed. 212) Here cometh JUST ANOTHER WINTER's second offering, the "no drums" depressive BM solo-project of LaMort (DE GRÂCE, WERMUT, IWIK). Widely inspired by the Revelation of St John, "Comme Une Mer De Verre" takes the listener on a profoundly desolate and breathtaking prophetic journey to the end of times. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith... |
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jaw01 / rur013 HIS DIVINE GRACE / DE GRÂCE "Révélation" (Split-LP, black vinyl, lim. ed. 315) After 11 years in the bleak realm of magick electronics. Moonchild Erik moves to the desolate woods of ambient post-black-metal. Exit HIS DIVINE GRACE, enter Erik's new project DE GRÂCE, featuring LaMort on chords and vocals. REUE UM REUE and LaMort's label JUST ANOTHER WINTER join forces to celebrate the transition, in the shape of a split LP between the dying and the newly-born. |
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PRAISE for JAW RELEASES:
AQUARIUS on „PROCER VENEFICUS – How
The Heather Monnlit Shivers“
„A brand new, sprawling
collection of celestial darkness and buzzing black ambient drift from
this black metal / black ambient master. As we've mentioned in the
past, more often than not, PV will dedicate a whole record to either
side of his sonic personality, sometimes it's a disc of swirling and
dense blackened black metal buzz, other times it's gorgeously bleak
and minimal ambient dronemusic, but in both cases, the man behind
Procer Veneficus is able to conjure up gorgeously sinister sounds and
nightmarish atmospheres, be they buzz or drift, blast or shimmer.
How The Heather Moonlit Shivers, is, as the legend on the back of the
record makes clear, "Dedicated to Her", and judging from the black
sonic mystery within, the 'Her' in question either broke his heart, or
is the object of a seriously grim obsession, or both. Extended
stretches of layered black drift, Philip Jeck style crackly
loopscapes, muted subterranean pulses, thick swaths of distorted
crumble, processed ghostly vox, swirling soft focus effects, minor key
steel string folk dirges, keening streaks of fragmented melody
underpinning slowed down voices, haunting reverb drenched avant
Appalachia gives way to abject post industrial black ambience, which
gives way to dense clouds of low end bellow, laced with melancholic
finger picked acoustic guitars.
Elsewhere thick walls of guitarbuzz dirge lumber and throb, but are
infused with subtle bits of melody, transformed from brute force crush
into something moody and soothing and beautiful, while spidery guitars
wrap their tendrils around long stretches of layered voices and alien
harmonies, while here and there, fragments of voice, or a bit of
guitar, will be doused in reverb and echo and delay and sent spinning
into the aether, creating a dizzying looped out dronescape.
The record closes with a 10+ minute interpretation of an Amber Asylum
song, complete with strings, the strings along with languid steel
string guitars, and swirling ambient background shimmer create a sort
of droney, depressive otherworldly chamber music. There's also an
Espers cover (a cover of a cover oddly enough), which is equally
beautiful, but a bit more tripped out, a sort of druggy heavily
effected space folk, but both covers fit perfectly amidst the equally
evocative and hauntingly beautiful PV originals.
Folks who ONLY like the black metal side of Procer Veneficus, may be
disappointed, but anyone into mysterious dark soundscapes, cinematic
blackened drone music, and creepy sinister black folk, will be
immediately and inexorably ensorcelled.
Packaged in a super swank and thick matte finish gatefold jacket,
pressed on thick red vinyl, LIMITED TO 406 COPIES, each one hand
numbered.“
KULTURTERRORISMUS on „PROCER
VENEFICUS – How The Heather Monnlit Shivers“
" (...) Alle zu vernehmende
Tonkunst auf “How The Heather Moonlit Shiver” besticht durch
Komplexität wie tief beeindruckende Atmosphären, welche ab der ersten
Sekunde einfangen und langsam aber sicher in den hypnotischen Zustand
herüberführen. Formidabel kombiniert der Amerikaner akustische
Gitarren- & Violinentonspuren mit synthetischen Ambientpassagen,
die meistens über einen ausgeprägten Dronecharakter verfügen, wodurch
das Album eine gewisse Dichte & Schwere erhält, welche an gewissen
Stellen erdrücken mag. Ein weiteres Ohrenmerk sollte auf der wenig
variablen aber eindrucksvollen Stimme von Derek W. Schultz liegen, die
die bedrohlichen & zeitweise rituellen Soundcapes hervorragend
unterstreichen. (...) Derek W. Schultz “serviert” uns mit seinem
Projekt Procer Veneficus auf “How The Heather Moonlit Shiver”
puren Wahnsinn, der meiner Ansicht nach ein heißer Anwärter auf die
Platte des Jahres 2010 ist und Individuen gefallen dürfte, die das
absolut Besondere suchen, das eine unbändige Faszination besitzt,
welche einfängt und nie wieder loslässt – meine absolute Empfehlung!“
KULTURTERRORISMUS on „NOTRE DESSEIN–
Comme une mer de verre“
„Mit dem Release “Comme Une Mer De Verre” von Notre Dessein, kredenzt
das noch junge Sublabel Just Another Winter einen echten Black Metal
Leckerbissen, der die Bösartigkeit des Old Schools mit der Erhabenheit
des Ambients zu einer ergreifenden Symbiose vereint – meine absolute
Kaufempfehlung! Auch engstirnige Old School Black Metaller sollten mal
eine Hörprobe wagen, um sicht nicht ein Szenehighlight entgehen zu
lassen!“