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Review: V.A. – We Bring You a King with a Head of Gold (2010)

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artist: Various Artists release: We Bring You a King with a Head of Gold format: 2x CD year of release: 2010 label: Cold Spring duration: 2:25:42

detailed info: discogs.com

We Bring You a King with a Head of Gold is the long-awaited sequel to the excellent John Barleycorn Reborn compilation released several years ago. Again [...]

Review: Splinterskin - Wayward Souls (2009)

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artist: Splinterskin release: Wayward Souls format: CD year of release: 2009 label: Cold Spring duration: 44:49

detailed info: discogs.com

Ohio-based musician Splinterskin released his debut album on Cold Spring last summer, a full-length piece filled with moody and unnerving dark folk. The many short pieces on this record breathe an atmosphere of forest nights, creaking [...]

Review: Rose Rovine e Amanti - Demian (2009)

artist: Rose Rovine E Amanti release: Demian format: CD year of release: 2009 label: Cold Spring duration: 42:52

detailed info: discogs.com

Recorded in Rome in 2008, Demian is the second full length album by Rose Rovine E Amanti (mastermind: Damiano Mercuri) on Cold Spring Records. The album collects ten tracks of hot-blooded neofolk with a [...]

Review: Boyd Rice & Z'EV (2008)

artist: Boyd Rice & Z’EV release: Boyd Rice & Z’EV format: 12″ year of release: 2008 label: Cold Spring duration: 24:17

detailed info: discogs.com.

When two industrial legends like Z’ev and Boyd Rice get together, expectations tend to be high, and mine were no exception when I saw this [...]

Review: Seelenlicht - Gods and Devils (2008)

artist: Seelenlicht release: Gods and Devils format: CD year of release: 2008 label: Cold Spring duration: 55:15

detailed info: discogs.com.

Seelenlicht is a collaboration between Butow Maler (Kammer Sieben) and Troy Southgate (HERR). Gods and Devils is their first album, released by Cold Spring, where lush neoclassical compositions – [...]

Review: Sagittarius – Songs from the Ivory Tower (2008)

artist: Sagittarius release: Songs from the Ivory Tower format: CD year of release: 2008 label: Cold Spring duration: 46:44

detailed info: discogs.com.

Sagittarius is a German project headed by Cornelius Waldner, and it’s been around for a couple of years, with a few limited releases. This album, however, is [...]

Review: The Triple Tree – Ghosts (2008)

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artist: The Triple Tree release: Ghosts format: CD year of release: 2008 label: Cold Spring duration: 58:01

detailed info: discogs.com

Ghosts is one of those albums I had been waiting for for quite some time. Tony Wakeford started this project with the MP3-only album The Turning Wheel on Woven Wheat Whispers in 2006, but has [...]

Review: HERR – Fire and Glass – A Norwood Tragedy (2007)

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artist: HERR release: Fire and Glass – A Norwood Tragedy format: CD year of release: 2007 label: Cold Spring duration: 18:52

detailed info: discogs.com

I hadn’t heard HERR before, except for a gig which didn’t impress me all that much. However, there’s a first time for everything, and this new EP is actually quite nice. [...]

Review: John Barleycorn Reborn (2007)

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artist: V.A. release: John Barleycorn Reborn : Dark Britannica format: 2CD + MP3 year of release: 2007 label: Cold Spring & Woven Wheat Whispers duration: 5:08:16

detailed info: discogs.com

Where to begin with an absolutely massive compilation like this? Well, it all started with Mark Coyle’s Woven Wheat Whispers label, which started in late 2005. [...]

Review: Von Thronstahl – Sacrificare (2007)

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artist: Von Thronstahl release: Sacrificare format: CD, CD-Box year of release: 2007 label: Cold Spring duration: 71:19

detailed info: discogs.com

Sacrificare is the latest album of German Von Thronstahl. I must confess I do not know the band well. The few tracks that I’d heard didn’t impress me, and the right-winged reputation of Josef K. [...]