NEW TITLES IN RAGE IN EDEN DISTRO – NEWSLETTER 06.10.2008 LEGER DES HEILS – Memoria digiCD eis&licht out 14-11-2008 (eis058/EAN 4039053601625) On their third album “Memoria”, LEGER DES HEILS once more present German poetry exquisitely set to music, and that is what sets them apart from so many other neo-classically inspired projects. The lyrics of tracks such as “Sängerfahrt” (Ibsen), “Sehnsucht” (Eichendorff), or “Wie am ersten Tag” (Goethe) are infused with a deep, credible spirituality, further highlighted by the passion of the music and the record’s appropriate artwork. You may be surprised how pop-like, charming and catchy the music sounds. You may even think you’ve heard some of the songs before, you’ll draw comparisons to ORPLID or DERNIÈRE VOLONTÉ, but then you’ll realise that the music of LEGER DES HEILS is eminently German in nature. Yes, they’ve never been this touching, this stirring, this honest and this romantic before. They make you want to go out into the great outdoors, to forests and mountains, toward the sun and toward the gods. So let us summarize: LEGER DES HEILS are a wholly original Gesamtkunstwerk made up of heroic pop, classical poetry, and spiritual romanticism. They are totally unique in this approach for sure! Tracks: 01 Einklang 02 Wie am ersten Tag 03 Götterheimat 04 Sängerfahrt 05 Vergangen ist die Zeit 06 Sehnsucht 07 Feuerbrand 08 Liebessaat 09 Der Gipfel Heere SKROLL – Misty Woods digiCD occultum out 30-09-2008 (oc004/EAN--) Skoll is the solo project by OPERA IX’s singer of the mighty Opera IX singer and after having been announced and expected for long, he now finally finished the recording of this new full length masterpiece. The sound has slightly changed and this new album is a kind of atmospheric medieval folk, created only with real acoustic, classical instruments. This new piece of Heathen Art is unleashed under the flag of the underground Pagan label OCCULTUM and comes in an elegant A5 booklet edition limited to 300 copies. As usual the presence of some very talented musicians of the Italian underground scene enrich the album with a very unique sound... Enter the Mists... GOTHMINISTER – Happiness in darkness digiCD drakkar out 14-11-2008 (ewave077/EAN 886973935620) GOTHMINISTER released the debut ‘Gothic Electronic Anthems’ in 2003 and got fantastic critics in both national and international press. The album reached top 3 on the Dutch clublists. Metal Hammer UK headlines read “the undead are reborn”. GOTHMINISTER has had several successful clubsingles in the top 15 in Germany, like “Angel” and “Devil” and they played all the big German Festivals like WGT, Dark Storm Festival, three years in a row invited to the M`Era Luna Festival, and performing for more than 10.000 people at the Schattenreich Festival at ARENA in Oberhausen together with bands like Oomph! , In Extremo and Within Temptation. The second album, „Empire of Dark Salvation” took Gothminister to a totally new level. In Norway Gothminister became historic by being the very first gothic industrial band to be sponsored by Rikskonsertene to do a nightliner tour in the biggest cities, supported by Tristania. Even Bylarm (“Norwegian Popcomm”) organized a gothic event in connection with the release. In Europe Gothminister played 100+ shows in over 20 countries to promote ‘Empire…’, touring with Lacuna Coil, Theatre of Tragedy and Mortiis. The smash hit “Monsters” reached no.11 on German DAC and big success also overseas lead to GOTHMINISTERs first US headliner tour, taking on New York to Hollywood. In 2008 the time has come for the long awaited third album „Happiness In Darkness“ to be released on Drakkar. Packed with greater and catchier songs than ever, GOTHMINISTER is with his third album on the peak of performance!!! The new DJ-Only single “Dusk Till Dawn” will be released in autumn 2008 together with a fantastic and unique music video with real live footage from Norway`s highest rock concert on “Romsdalshorn” on 1550 m(!) above Trollveggen in the beautiful Norwegian mountains. Tracks: 01 Dusk till Dawn 02 Darkside 03 Your Saviour 04 Freak 05 Sideshow 06 The Allmighty 07 Beauty after Midnight 08 Emperor 09 Mammoth 10 Thriller + plus 3 enhanced videotracks KILLING JOKE – The Original Unperverted Pantomine CD+DVD eastworld out 27-10-2008 (EWT0036/EAN 803341250796) At last, Killing Jokes classic, The Original Unperverted Pantomime is released in its FULL glory for the first time ever! With TOTALLY unreleased DVD! Digital re-mastered & includes an unreleased bonus DVD Live in USA from 1981 containing 10 tracks. 3 live tracks available for the first time EVER on CD! (Pssyche, Turn to Red & Bodies) Originally released in 1983 as a 2000 only individually numbered cassette, The Unperverted Pantomime contains one of the earliest Killing Joke gigs recorded from 1979 that includes many songs that never got released like Your Being Followed, Malicious Boogie, Animal, Nuclear Boy and the rarely played Sex Pistols track Bodies. Also included is a 4-track radio session from 1982. Tracks CD: 01 We have Joy 02 Empire Song 03 Chop Chop 04 The Hum 05 Pssyche 06 Nervous System 07 Animal 08 Change 09 Nuclear Boy 10 Turn to Red 11 Malicious Boogie 12 Wardance 13 Are You receiving 14 Youre being followed 15 Bodies DVD: 01 Wardance 02 The Wait 03 The Fall because 04 Primitive 05 Exit 06 Requiem 07 Follow the Leaders 08 Change 09 Pssyche 10 Tension. Still Available: Bootleg Vinyl Archive Vol.1 3CD Bootleg Vinyl Archive Vol.2 3CD Extremities… 2CD Extremities…2CD+DVD-BOX Inside Extremities 2CD Love Like Blood Live CD ORPLID – Greifenherz digiCD auerbach out 21-11-2008 (ab020ltd/EAN 4039053302034) First limited edition of 2’000 copies in deluxe digipak! Two and a half years after “Sterbender Satyr”, ORPLID are back with their fourth studio album “Greifenherz”. In contrast to their previous outing, this album is filled with pathos, a belligerent and archaic piece of work. “Greifenherz” is informed with a surprisingly hostile and cold atmosphere - a partially menacing and martial sound ORPLID haven’t applied since some of the more violent outbursts of their early works. There are some constants in ORPLID’s labour, however. Sandra Fink, who contributed with her expressive voice to “Sterbender Satyr”, adds a mysterious and sinister depth to the tracks “Totenesche” and “Traum von Blashyrkh”. Like on every album by ORPLID, they have included the writings of other poets in their work, setting to music poems by Frank Wedekind (“Der Anarchist”) and Rolf Schilling (“Luzifer”, “Gesang an den Horusfalken”). Once more, Frank Machau’s music is in perfect sync with Uwe Nolte’s lyrics - reflections of dreams about war, death, and decay. The song “Traum von Blashyrkh”, dedicated to Norwegian black metallists Immortal, lends a very special accent to their new album as well. Tracks: 01 Falken-Eid I 02 Luzifer 03 Schwertgesang 04 ... 05 Totenesche 06 Myrmidonenklage 07 Des Sperbers Geheimnis 08 ... 09 Schlaf im Mohn 10 Traum von Blashyrkh 11 ... 12 Der Anarchist 13 Gesang an den Horusfalken 14 Falken-Eid II Still Available: Frühe Werke digiCD Sterbender Satyr CD Nächtliche Jünger CD Orplid CD LISE N. – Faire cailler le lait… CD le cluricaun out 20-10-2008 (cl013/EAN--) ‘Faire cailler le lait avec du sang de caille’ is the first album by Lise N. on Gaë Bolg’s ‘Le Cluricaun’ – Label! Lise N. writes, composes and performs a strange, deep and lyric world, in which are evolving liquid feelings, trembling landscapes and lost flutes. Her musical, intense and oneiric universe is taking place in the post-industrial field and draws an oblique link between unutterable poetry and reinvented ancestral ritual. Litanies of rare beauty, hypnotic female voice, troubled and moist eroticism, banjo with Cajun accents, crepuscular Hungarian harp, small ethnic percussion, hybrid sharp rhythms and many other things are leading us into a very personal universe, full of unreleased surprises and dark and blue landscapes, incongruous folklore born of the improbable meeting of Die Tödliche Doris, Alexander Jodorowsky, O Yuki Conjugate and the French poet Pierre Reverdy. Featuring Antoine Boute, Denis Frajerman, Nadine Richard and Eric Roger (Gaë Bolg). LE CLURICAUN & DYSPHORIE backcatalogue: GAE BOLG AND THE CHURCH OF FAND – Live in Ehrenstein 2000 (very few copies left!) CD-BOX GAE BOLG AND THE CHURCH OF FAND – John Barleycorn must die CD GAE BOLG AND THE CHURCH OF FAND – Tintagel digiCD SEVEN PINES – Nympholept digi2CD SEVEN PINES – Le cri CD SEVEN PINES – Histoire de l’ours CD TRUBLION 23 – Honor et Gloria, la geste de Graffes Walder CD A. VOLODINE / D. FRAJERMAN – Vociférations CD DAS SCHEIT – So far from God… CD twilight zone out 14-10-2008 (784-1358/EAN 4260141642828) With their 4th album “So far from god…so close to you“, German Goth/Industrial/ Rockband DAS SCHEIT follows it's path to mix Electro and Metal consistently their really own way. Besides, hardness, melody and dance ability keep the balance. With it's hybrid-sound the band acts point-exact suitable for dancefloors, on the other hand it creates epics for perfect headphone-experiences at home. Thematically the concept- album treats the isolation of an abandoned person which goes through the 5 phases of mourning and sorrow: Proclamation, denial, rage, discussion and completion, which divide the album lyrically into these 5 chapters. Nevertheless enough possibilities remain to the listener to interpret the end of the story – for sure by own made experiences in everybody's life. The 13 track album was recorded and produced by Markus Teske at Bazement Studios (Germany). As guest-musicians you can hear Jape Perätalo (TO/DIE/FOR) and Michelle Darkness (END OF GREEN) with their brilliant performances on the scheitanic version of 70's cover by Bruce Springsteen/Patti Smith's “Because the night”.