BLUE SABBATH BLACK CHEER - 'Crows Eat The Eyes From The Leviathans Carcass' CD (Release The Bats)
Blackened Noise mayhem from Seattle's Blue Sabbath Black Cheer. "Crows Eat The Eyes From The Leviathans Carcass" is a collection of several long out of print limited cuts and two bonus unreleased tracks. Blue Sabbath Black Cheer formed in late 2005 and is centred around the duo of wm.Rage and Stan Reed. The sound of BSBC is dark and heavy, violently bleak horror-noise: a demon network of scraping nails. File beside Yellow Swans, Bastard Noise or The Rita. Ltd x 500 copies in a Stumptown cardboard sleeve with black on black print.
UK 10.50£
Europe 11.50£
World 12.50£
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DEAD RAVEN CHOIR - 'Cask Strength Black Metal' 2 x CD (Supernal Music)
DCD version of the Weird Forest 3LP boxset from Polish artist Smolken (Wolfmangler). The most insane black metal release ever! Harsh sounding evil, atmospheric off-kilter black metal. Call it black metal folk. The loudest noisiest crazy insane sounding blasts of skree with strange folky melodic undertones of banjo, cello, mandolin, and percussions and the most frightening vocals ever dared to be recorded. Many traditional folk songs shrouded in blasts of white noise armageddon. For fans of twisted, unique, raw black metal with a very bent edge. Pray (no, commit ritual sacrifice) to the underworld that your stereo survives! For fans of Leviathan, Gorgoroth, Draugar, Xasthur, Burzum etc.
UK 12.50£
Europe 13.50£
World 14.50£
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INSTINCT - 'Instinct' CD (Heidenwut Productions)
"...this is the kind of misanthropic, isolationist black metal which revels in its own cryptic obscurity... a worthy addition to the lineage of misanthropic pagan black metal established by Burzum and carried on these days by bands like Abyssic Hate, Leviathan and Xasthur. And of course, it's encouraging to find music this bleak and dark being made in England, which, it's fair to say, has not been at the cutting edge of black metal evolution in recent decades" (Judas Kiss). Ltd x 1000 copies.
UK 9£
Europe 10£
World 11£
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JOB KARMA - 'Punkt' CD (Obuh)
New album from this Polish duo, who are gradually becoming the spearhead of landscapists of the genre. These two boosters of post-industrial tradition have forged 8 well-shaped and perversely tuneful pieces, which form an ideal soundtrack for an apocalyptic soap opera that eats up bits of our lives every now and then. Escape from...but where? Everywhere is the same in the giant guts of the mechanical Leviathan. The cosmos serves more and more darkness from the frighteningly far galactic preserves, the black hole gets bigger and bigger. But do not be afraid. The Mind Grinding and Oppression Machine (the fearful MGOM), choking and wheezing with its own enormity, gets jammed and broken more and more often. The fight goes on. As ever. 6-panel digipak with phenomenal cover design by Arek Bagiński.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
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LEVIATHAN - 'Verräter' 2 x CD (Tumult)
Pure, primitive, cult, home recorded evil! Two discs, 22 tracks, 143 minutes of buzzing, howling, pummelling black metal. Think Burzum, Darkthrone, Immortal, but with all sorts of weird twists and sonic surprises. Sure, Leviathan is grimmer than grim metal that the frost and forest lords of Norway should bow down to, but it's also pure expression unfettered by genre restraints, although informed and inspired by them. Unique and category-defying black metal... dark, weird, noisy, disturbing art embodying one man's twisted vision. Original, evil, hateful, misanthropic, bizarre and truly black metal. "Verräter", the first official Leviathan release, contains tracks dating back to 1998 with the first disc representing more recently recorded tracks, while disc two contains the older, rawer material. "Verräter" is beyond just black metal, it's a collection of utterly brutal, truly innovative, and completely soul crushing musical blackness.
The new full-length album featuring 55 minutes of oratorical demagoguery from US Martial and Neofolk duo, Luftwaffe. 16 original tracks with collaborations by with Richard Leviathan (of Ostara and Strength Through Joy), Awen, Valence and Gnomonclast. Features an original cover-art painting by the internationally renowned NY artist Richard Phillips. The uncompromising marriage of Martial Industrial, Acoustic Folk and Solipsistic Nihilism; Luftwaffe continues to forge new awakenings within the Post Industrial genre. Digipak.
NORDVARGR - 'Helvete' CD (Eternal Pride Productions)
The newest creation from Villa Bohult, the Nordvargr family burial vault. This time the "cursed poet" Wrest from the USBM Leviathan and Drakhon (Beyond Sensory Experience, MZ.412) have joined the night sessions of the never sleeping Swedish zombie. It would be totally insane to be waiting for something life-asserting, light and positive for the three of them. "Helvete" is just the overwhelming Darkness and the ice-cold all-filling Terror. Meditative and sinister Dark Ambient rhythms are filled with the ominous whisper of Wrest and Drakh. Deep and lengthy drones as well as the charming atmosphere of the Swedish industrial decadence. At the end of this trip all of those nostalgic for the times of the "Burning The Temple Of God" MZ.412 will be fully rewarded for all the years of waiting. Digipak.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
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OSTARA - 'Immaculate Destruction' 2 x CD (Trisol)
Richard Leviathan founded Ostara in 1999 after having worked and toured with Death in June in the late 1990s. The band has been making a name for itself ever since the release of their first album, "Secret Homeland," in 2000. Now, in 2005, comes the most definitive release to date: "Immaculate Destruction". A profound and visionary work delivered with a perfect blend of passion, aggression and intimacy. Esoteric, poetic, apocalyptic but consistently inventive and contemporary, Ostara has achieved a unique fusion of lyrical complexity and musical accessibility with songs that appeal to the head and the heart. The album features new band members including Dave Renwick (ex-Bronski Beat & The Communards). A highly polished and professional production gives "Immaculate Destruction" a cutting edge sound that will win Ostara many more admirers. Released in a deluxe double CD limited edition with exclusive material.
UK 16£
Europe 17£
World 18£
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STRIBORG - 'Autumnal Melancholy' CD (Displeased Records)
By our count, this is the eighth official Striborg full-length album. Deep forest Black Metal is combined with dark ambient / drone / doom soundscapes, creating a chilling and eerie atmosphere. Typically cold, desolate and depressive stuff from this prolific Tasmanian artist. File next to Burzum, Vinterriket, Xasthur, Leviathan etc. Breath-taking grimness!
UK 12£
Europe 13£
World 14£
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XASTHUR - 'The Funeral Of Being' CD (Blood Fire Death)
The lastest assault of bleak, suicidal Black Metal / Blackened Ambient from this kult US band. Malefic's second misanthropic and dismal opus is more aggressive than many of Xasthur's other releases. Unleashed to hasten the demise of humanity! Ultra haunting, ultra grim, ultra claustrophobic in the way of Leviathan, Mord, Nortt etc.
