As promised, Red Ankh has dropped 11 complete rerecordings, 1 new remix, and 7 new covers in the form of their Classics Compilation 01. Two hours and forty-four seconds of Red Ankh’s finest work, on new equipment, using new techniques, and this time with the whole band contributing vocals. From now on, they make what they imagine, not held back by technical restrictions. RED ANKH LIVES, BETTER THAN EVER.
This one’s on Spotify and the other major streaming services and digital retailers February 1st, 2024.
They haven’t forgotten about the Red/Black rework, and that’s coming up next!
Pictured here: the old ruler seems as immortal as his tradition’s designs, but in fact both are but carvings of sand
Another single from the Red Ankh compilation is ready! This time it’s I Demand Order beefed up with disto kickdrums. More tunes are already ready to stream on the 19-track pre-order-able album on Bandcamp.
From Red Ankh: We’ve got the mojo back. Since 2014 we’ve released some major works pretty quietly via Shyfted Minds: the reconstruction of Red Ankh’s instrumental album UNIVERSE in 2015, a couple Synthetic Experiments EPs in the same year, the steamcore horror booms album Cing of Cogs in 2016, the hardcore compilation album Down the Road of No Return in 2017, and the giant rebuild and expansion of the [Feind] album plus its counterpart album [Shyft] in 2020, focusing on gritty, dark industrial aspects of a handful of genres and the limits of synthwave, respectively. These dropped on Bandcamp and Spotify but as soon as they did we put them down to focus on fiction writing and interpersonal stuff, having bursts of focus on a new Red Ankh album here and there, nearly finishing a few songs. After a couple major life changes we wound up with the resources to build a decent sound studio and the time and motivation to use it, so in April of this year it was the Red Ankh project’s turn to start getting something big ready for release, after ten years since the last fresh album. It’s strange to see that in writing. Ideas for Red Ankh are always turning over in our heads, and we’ve never lost a draft–they’ve just been waiting–so it doesn’t feel like that could possibly be right, ten years since Shadow. But here we are, with new tools, new skills, finally ready to finish the flagship Red Ankh double album that we started way back in 2006, finally ready to finish Red/Black.
The old drafts of albums Red (featuring the above song Gloricia) and Black were just under 70 minutes each, and we’ve only expanded some arrangements since then. They’re folky, they’re symphonic, and they got the big overdrive kicks. We’re all contributing our voices this time, our new grasp of philosophy to the lyrics, and the technical quality of things is going to be vastly improved over previous releases. And it doesn’t stop there. Some day, we’d like to rerecord all old Red Ankh releases (again, for some of them), but for now we’re simultaneously working on a compilation album of some of our favorite Red Ankh tracks (featuring the above version of Tahztey Greaggor), ones we thought could gain a lot from rerecording with current resources. On top of that, we’re also working on Red Ankh versions of old underground industrial/synthpop favorites from the 90s and early 2000s that have gained enough traction to be released on the compo. Much to do, much excitement to do it with!
Red/Black is about 80% there, and we hope to drop a couple more singles soon. The classics/covers compilation is maybe 70%.
And then… we’ll see how much momentum we have left for finishing the eclectic cyberpunk/folkprog synth metal album, Green.
New GIANT 18-track K.H.D. album! Clicky image to get to the Bandcamp page where you can nab it for free. This one’s got a heavy hardcore CORE but does a lot of drum’n’bass, with industrial and ambient influences too, and hearing 3/4 time gabber is regular here.
This’ll hit Spotify and the other major streaming services and digital retailers September 9th, 2023.
The 24-track genre-defying psychological horror album five years in the making is finally complete! [Feind] tells a story of hatred, fear, and despair, and illustrates how, if we’re not careful, these things can transform us in to monsters. This is releasing alongside its companion album, [Shyft], my answer to the darkness. Speaking of which…
The 24-track synthwave-oriented album five years in the making is finally complete! [Shyft] is the companion album to [Feind], a story of recovery from hatred and despair, of reflection and learning to love life again, finding the will to fight for our shared future.
This was a huge undertaking over the course of five years that taught Shyft a handful of new techniques along the way, and is an audio recollection of years of isolation, fantastical dreaming, tremendous rage, and hopes for a better future than what was promised. Our future has been cancelled. Stay angry, stoke your fighting spirit, but don’t forget to love just as fiercely, and don’t let go of your sense of wonder.
Click here for the spooky stuff; click here for the fantasy synth. Spotify and elsewhere streaming coming soon.
Whatchu lookin’ at me for? Click that image and get that release! Watch the Time Shadow music video! Know that immediately following Time Shadow on TIME SHADOW you get all that TRANCY GABBER you wanted!
Oh yeah, and this one’ll hit Spotify and the other major streamsters and digital retailers January 30th, 2021.
Oh oh yeah, and Shyft’s big-ass industrial and synth wave double album is almost ready. Finished this week end? Finished in a week? I don’t know! Who works on a schedule any more? THE WORLD’S INSANE. Two tracks need finishing touches, and it’s DONE. Howaboutsomesamples?
The Shyfted Minds parent label is REVIVED with this pair of releases not suitable elsewhere, an album spanning synth rock, triplet anthem gabber, jungle, trance, and spooky spooky techno, aaand an other that’s straight up European folk music. Get yer cyber hands on Take Your Life Back and Frei today!
Albums are also on Spotify and all other major digital music streamers/retailers.
Many of us underground music folk don’t mesh with pop music fans. Consumers of commodity music are not the enemy; those that exploit their identities for profit are.
It’s a big one. Fifteen tracks. M.E.G.A.L.O. Concept remix on there. Collab with Shyft. Red Ankh remix. Humans Are Decoy VIP. Gilgatron made Konflikt all trancey. Centered around the distorted bass drum CORE, but there’s a fun variety of dance music on this one. Clicky the album art image there to get to it! Also available for streaming on all major services (like Spotify).
This one also available on physical CD through Bandcamp!
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