Transmissions from Empire Algol

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Transmissions from Empire Algol
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Studio album by Neptune Towers
Released 1995
Recorded April-May 1994
Genre Dark ambient
Length34:58
Label Moonfog
Producer Fenriz
Neptune Towers chronology
Caravans to Empire Algol
(1994) Caravans to Empire Algol1994
Transmissions from Empire Algol
(1995)

Transmissions from Empire Algol is the second and final studio album by the Norwegian dark ambient project Neptune Towers, a similar-sounding follow-up to 1994's Caravans to Empire Algol , expanding on the same concept. It was released in 1995 by Moonfog Productions. [1]

Dark ambient is a genre of post-industrial music that features an ominous, dark droning and often gloomy, monumental or catacombal atmosphere, partially with discordant overtones. It shows similarities towards ambient music, a genre that has been cited as a main influence by many dark ambient artists, both conceptually and compositionally. Although mostly electronically generated, dark ambient also includes the sampling of hand-played instruments and semi-acoustic recording procedures, and is strongly related to ritual industrial music.

Neptune Towers was a dark ambient side project formed in 1993 by Fenriz of Darkthrone. He released two albums under this name, Caravans to Empire Algol (1994) and Transmissions from Empire Algol (1995), both issued by Moonfog Productions. Fenriz began recording a third Neptune Towers album, Space Lab, in 1994, but it was not finished. Both albums were reissued by Peaceville Records in 2012, with excerpts from Space Lab appended to Transmissions.

<i>Caravans to Empire Algol</i> album

Caravans to Empire Algol is the debut studio album by the Norwegian dark ambient project Neptune Towers. It was released on December 12, 1994 by Moonfog Productions. Sole band member Fenriz considered this to be the first of the two chapters of the Empire Algol saga, the second being the next Neptune Towers album, Transmissions from Empire Algol.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."First Communion. Mode: Direct"23:10
2."To Cold Void Desolation"11:48
Total length:34:58

Personnel

Fenriz Norwegian musician

Gylve Fenris Nagell, better known as Fenriz, is a Norwegian musician and politician who is best known as being one half of the metal duo Darkthrone. Although primarily a drummer, he has also performed bass, guitar and vocals for Darkthrone and a number of other metal bands. Fenriz is known for his refusal to play live, his obsessiveness about music listening, supporting other underground bands and his lack of interest in the mainstream music business in general. Fenriz has had three solo projects: the folk metal project Isengard, the dark ambient project Neptune Towers and the doom metal project Red Planet.

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