A FOREST OF STARS - 'The Corpse Of Rebirth' CD (Transcendental Creations)
Few are the ones in the current Black Metal scene who have the guts and, above all, the creativity to push the boundaries of the genre. This is precisely what A Forest of Stars, one of the new emerging bands from England, has done in their album "The Corpse of Rebirth". The four sorcerers conjured the souls of their fellow Victorian era occultists and ended up creating an atemporal, unique and spell-binding opus, with influences ranging from progressive and psychedelic music to traditional black metal and sharing a similar artistic framework with bands such as Ved Buens Ende, Solefald and In The Woods. Digipak.
UK 11£
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AARKTICA - 'In Sea' CD (Silber Records)
Aarktika's 6th full-length release. While there are some vocals & traditional song structures on "In Sea" there are no guests, no producers, no electronics - no instruments aside from guitars & DeRosa’s antique Bilhorn Telescopic Pump Organ, once used for traveling church revivals & home funeral services in the 1930s. Majestic dirges reclaiming Aarktica’s reputation as a master of chilling, glacial guitar symphonies... cathartic bursts of distortion... layers of lush & layered picked guitars, almost hymnal in tone. “In Sea” simmers like an oceanic storm, with the sky opening up to reveal both rain and bright sunlight. Includes a cover of Danzig’s “Am I Demon?” turning the blues-metal classic into one of deadpan dark, atmospheric intimacy and self-realisation with organs and reverse guitar loops that imply an unholy exorcism. Recommended if you like: Labradford, Seefeel, Earth, Nadja, Godspeed You Black Emperor!.
Legions of Darkness know no mercy! The new Abgott full-length album, "Fizala", is ready to open the dimensional gates of Hell to world domination! Seven cosmic hymns of pure soul crushing blasphemy, ferocious blackened energy, with hidden tracks and unexpected revelations! The sound of incredible twilight zone out space evil and Daemons. A real must for every true metal maniac and brave explorer of unconventionality! For fans of Abigor, Akercocke and early Mayhem.
UK 5£
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ABSTRACT SPIRIT - 'Liquid Dimensions Change' CD (Solitude Productions)
Side project of Black Metal band Twilight Is Mine from the suburbs of Moscow, with vocalist / drums from Moscow funeral doom band Comatose Vigil. Those guys - Stellarghost (keys) and Hater (bass/guitars) began this project. Their first full length album "Liquid Dimensions Change" brings you six tracks (1 hour) of classic funeral doom, like it was meant to be. Think of such bands as Shape of Despair or Coliseum. At the same time the music is very versatile, with very sludgy parts, combined with some beautiful melodies. Russian import.
Four years after their acclaimed album “The Mantle”, Agalloch delivers their new album, “Ashes Against The Grain”. Always progressing but never losing touch with their dark metal roots, the band’s third album unites elements of black metal, Scandinavian prog, and post-rock with the band’s signature brooding style. "Agalloch is the most important band in the United States and simply one of the best bands in the world." (The Metal Observer).
Sophoremore release by AGALLOCH from Portland. "The Mantle" is a grand multi-dimensional opus of 70 minutes featuring their dark melancholic doom metal with post rock and neofolk elements. References range from Pink Floyd, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Sol Invictus, Ulver, Dissection and a lot more.
ALDEBARAN - 'Dwellers In Twilight' CD (Parasitic Records)
This Oregon trio (featuring members of YOB, H.C. Minds and Tusks Of Blood) ooze forth a full-length of ugly, monolithic doom / sludge. "As unmoving and defiantly poised as an obelisk that has stood firmly against the ages, Aldebaran have risen from the murky substance of the U.S. Doom scene with a blackened fist of chthonic über-Sludge thrust towards the stagnant gut of convention... 'Dwellers In Twilight' is unquestionably one of the most uncompromising Doom Metal albums I've ever had the pleasure of being mercilessly pummeled by. The album is firmly rooted between Funeral Doom's lack of forgiveness and Sludge's grooving repetition. The resultant mixture is quite an unnerving elixir, proving that the safety of the middle ground is nothing but a mere illusion" (Doom-Metal.com)
UK 11£
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ALTAR OF PLAGUES - 'White Tomb' CD (Profound Lore Records)
Epic, cinematic, and surging, “White Tomb” is a storming vision where stark images of crumbling skyscrapers, dying and rotten urban structures, empty cracked worn down highways and rising oceans dominate through the convergence of different styles. From epic elongated black metal stretches, slow plodding doom ala Khanate / Burning Witch, minimalistic electronic / martial ambient / industrial vibes, along with the towering apocalyptic vibes of Old Man Gloom and early Isis, and the instrumental wonders of Mogwai and Red Sparowes, “White Tomb” is a vicious uncompromising atmospheric pillage that serves as a soundtrack to collapsing cities becoming desolate wastelands. Features guest vocals from Nathan Misterek (ex-Graves At Sea). Digipak.
First full-length from Aluk Todolo, showing the band developing the esoteric theorems established on it's debut 7" and going far deeper in the methodical exploration of the occult powers of musical trance. With the goal to create a timeless, organic mixing of krautrock's strangeness and black metal's coldness, AT conjures rabid obsessive rhythms and abyssal disharmonic guitars, subliminal spiritualist vibrations and bizarre, magick summonings. “Intense and hypnotic, heavy and fucking genius. Ritualistic sounds, both black and brilliant, pulled from the void, a mysterious and sonic netherworld. Definite contender for record of the year" [Aquarius].
First full-length from Aluk Todolo, showing the band developing the esoteric theorems established on it's debut 7" and going far deeper in the methodical exploration of the occult powers of musical trance. With the goal to create a timeless, organic mixing of krautrock's strangeness and black metal's coldness, AT conjures rabid obsessive rhythms and abyssal disharmonic guitars, subliminal spiritualist vibrations and bizarre, magick summonings. “Intense and hypnotic, heavy and fucking genius. Ritualistic sounds, both black and brilliant, pulled from the void, a mysterious and sonic netherworld. Definite contender for record of the year" (Aquarius). Ltd x 500 copies in a black & metallic silver ink sleeve.
Finally, after more than 15 years of haunting existence, Amestigon releases its first full length album, the eagerly anticipated Black Metal masterpiece "Sun of all Suns". Amestigon stands for pure Austrian Black Metal Art. Thematically the album is located between the occult and ethics of cruelty, sociopathy and abuse. On this mission Amestigon is supported by Summoning's Silenius and Albin Julius (Der Blutharsch) as guest musicians. Be aware to dive into a world of penetrating pain! Digipak with 8-page booklet.
UK 11.50£
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AMOCOMA - 'Go To Hell' CD (Tumult)
Reissue of Amocoma's rare demo release, remastered with 2 bonus tracks. Amocoma traffic in an ultra lo-fi, muddy murky blackness. It's definitely black metal, but at the same time it's sort of stumbling and noise rocky - all rendered nearly indistinct by the incredibly FX drenched lo-fi production. Dreamy swirls of soft focus harmonics and distant rumbles... hypnotic looped riffs... mechanical and repetitive drums.... howled and reverbed vocals. The more you listen, the more pretty it sounds. Sure it's raw and harsh, but the melody is so hypnotic, and the swirling clouds of distortion and reverb give everything a sort of soft focus shimmer.
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ASGARD ROOT - 'Issue 2' Magazine
Second (and bigger!) issue of this UK magazine specialising in Black Metal, Doom, Dark Ambient, Drone and Dark Art. Features interviews with Enslaved, Agalloch, Freya Aswynn, Akitsa, Lifelover, Janvs, Dead Raven Choir, Austere, Caïna, ColdWorld, A Forest Of Stars, Lyrinx, Musk Ox, Arckanum, Yussuf Jerusalem, David Galas and Paragon Belial, as well as articles on Allerseelen and Mortiis and a massive 23 pages of reviews! A4 with 92 pro-printed, B&W pages and full colour cover artwork by Gentian Osman. Ltd x 450 copies.
UK 7.00£ Europe 8.50£
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ASKA - 'Där Vanvett Gror' CD (Total Holocaust Records)
Debut full-lengther from Aska. After one demo and two splits mainman Pisk of Aska unleashes his most punishing work to date. With lyrics working around drug abuse and hatred, fuelled together with a violent production and sound, makes this the most complete Aska recording to date. This is not aimed to please your ears, you will not feel good when listening to this macabre and twisted journey into Pisk's tormented mind, there's only agony and hatred to be found here. Black Metal / Noise. Ltd x 1000 copies.
BLACK BONED ANGEL - 'The Endless Coming Into Life' CD (20 Buck Spin)
New Zealander Campbell Kneale, of prolific one-man bliss drone project Birchville Cat Motel, returns to his metallic alter-ego Black Boned Angel. Both projects chase a similar idea from different ends of the spectrum. This work is perhaps Kneale’s most obvious combination of the extreme minimalism of his ambient tendencies and the extreme maximalism of his forays into the center of the subterranean metal guitar riff. The album first lulls one into a meditative state of relative calm before plummeting into the chasm created by the vibrations of a single, snarling riff so heavy it could rip a hole in the heavens. Consisting of a sole one-hour track, "The Endless Coming Into Life" sits comfortably alongside the darker end of Kneale’s ever-growing catalogue of work dedicated to finding the light (or dark) source of the universal drone. Digipak with spot varnishing.
BLACK SUN - 'Paralyser' LP (At War With False Noise)
First ever vinyl release from the UK's most pummeling and heavy doom metal band. Black Sun come out of left-field with their most fully-formed body of work thus far: a raging statement of intent that doesn't let up or fail to engage from the opening guttural screams to the final thunderous crash. Swans-esque lessons in harsh rhythmical battery... drone wizardry... post-Neurosis chorus... mid-90s metalcore sound... sub-industrial and pounding, rhythmic monotony. File next to Swans, Godflesh, Sunn O))) etc. Ltd x 500 copies with A3 insert and old-school black & white block artwork.
UK 11£
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BLACK SUN PATCH - RED
High quality circular black and metallic red patch featuring the Black Sun ("Schwarze Sonne") symbol. Diameter 6.5cm (roughly 2.5”).
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BLOOD OF THE BLACK OWL - 'A Feral Spirit' 2 x LP (Aurora Borealis)
From the organic cauldron of the Pacific Northwest rain forest comes Blood Of The Black Owl. Formed in 2004 by Heathen visionary Chet W. Scott (Ruhr Hunter), as a primitive fusion of slow tempo Earth Metal & Woodland Ritualistic Doom. 'A Feral Spirit' combines Native American shamanic influence and the Germanic nature worship of his own heritage with an entirely transcendent musical vision, BOTBO gives praise to the spirits of nature and the unspoken bonds that tie man, beast and environment. "A personal cleansing woven through audible passages of earthbound ritualistic transcendence". "A Feral Spirit" is a clarion call for the rebirth of the human animal spirit and a return to the ancestral forests of our past. Blood Of The Black Owl shall lead them... Ltd x 1000 copies on 180g vinyl, in a sumptuous gatefold sleeve with A2 poster.
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BLOOD OF THE BLACK OWL - 'A Feral Spirit' CD (Bindrune Recordings)
From the organic cauldron of the Pacific Northwest rain forest comes Blood Of The Black Owl. Formed in 2004 by Heathen visionary Chet W. Scott (Ruhr Hunter), as a primitive fusion of slow tempo Earth Metal & Woodland Ritualistic Doom. 'A Feral Spirit' combines Native American shamanic influence and the Germanic nature worship of his own heritage with an entirely transcendent musical vision, BOTBO gives praise to the spirits of nature and the unspoken bonds that tie man, beast and environment. "A personal cleansing woven through audible passages of earthbound ritualistic transcendence". "A Feral Spirit" is a clarion call for the rebirth of the human animal spirit and a return to the ancestral forests of our past. Blood Of The Black Owl shall lead them... Ltd x 1000 copies in a 6-panel digipak.
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BURIAL HEX / ZOLA JESUS - 'Split' LP (Aurora Borealis)
'Go Crystal Tears' is the first outing for the new Burial Hex sound and highlights influences such as 80s horror synth master John Carpenter and Goblin coming to the fore and blending with the almost black metal vocal style and "horror electronics". 'Temple of the Flood', clocking in at a 14 and a half minutes, is one of the final old-style Burial Hex tracks and proceeds in a style reminiscent of previous works with heavily processed analogue electronics and synths up, developing into eroding layers of primitive percussion, water drops and exotica piano, before ending in a deluge of sub bass and redemptive church organ. Nika (aka Zola Jesus) is here joined here by live member Dead Luke. Nika's voice, reminiscent of a teenage Diamanda Galas or a more deranged Beth Ditto, soars and wails within an ever changing cloud of pulsing synths and analogue electronics, joined by a warm synth line. Ltd x 500 copies on 180g vinyl, in a spot-varnished sleeve.
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CELESTIIAL / BLOOD OF THE BLACK OWL - 'Celestiial / Blood Of The Black Owl' LP (Bindrune Recordings)
This conceptual and artistically groundbreaking union of like minded musicians is a rare find in this day and age, but Blood of the Black Owl And Celestiial have again assembled beneath the Bindrune banner to explore the very core of their being through ritualistic transcendence. While embracing metal as a loose framework, both artists shed the confines of "tradition" to step into the ever expansive world of atmosphere. Be it the Shamanic union with the spirit world and nature through the hypnotic rituals of Blood of the Black Owl, or the woodland explorations of Celestiial by way of environmental soundscapes and a moss laden drone, this split LP is unlike anything you have yet heard. Both bands are reinventing the way that you experience and "feel" music from the void far beyond... Ltd x 500 copies with insert. ACT FAST!
UK 16£
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CIRCLE - 'Taantumus' CD (Ektro Records)
2009 reissue of Finnish krautrock act Circle's difficult to find album "Taantumus". Hypnotic, repetitive motorik krautrock guitar, ambient, metal, post-rock dynamics, and occasional theatrical metal vocals. Comes with updated album artwork in black and with 'Veitsi', a nine-minute bonus track. Taantumus was originally released by Bad Vugum in 2001.
Tokyo’s Coffins are firmly established as the underground’s leading purveyors of neanderthal paced doomed death metal. Previous releases introduced Coffins’ black tar dirge to an audience eager for slowppressive maniac riffs and songs dragged forth like the arms of a lumbering ape. Derivative and true rather then progressive and new, with an effectiveness unmatched in today’s underground. Immediately battering the listener with the opening sledgehammer ‘Under The Stench’ the album crawls ever forward through the catchiest Coffins tracks ever. The patented brick heavy guitar tone remains and the band has added some additional solos and high vocal screams, hinted at on 2006’s “The Other Side…” LP. Rather than toy with forced “evolution” Coffins has instead sharpened and honed its devolved sound further in its primitive singlemindedness. Packaged in a Stoughton printed heavyweight gatefold with a printed inner sleeve.
CORRUPTED - 'Paso Inferior' CD (Nostalgia Blackrain)
"Japanese underground icons Corrupted create droning, sludgy, painfully slow death / doom metal and ambient music along the same lines as bands like Earth, Boris, and Sunn O))). Formed in Osaka, Japan, circa 1994, the reclusive group has issued an inordinate number of singles, EPs, split discs, and full-length albums over the years, but always under their own idiosyncratic terms. These include holding anything remotely resembling rock stardom in utter contempt, mysteriously writing all of their lyrics in Spanish, and refusing to even take promo shots, so that the only known images of the group are those snapped by fans at their concerts" (All Music Guide). Originally released in 1997 on CD by Frigidity Discos, this 1-track, 40 minute CD has now been remastered. Ultra heavy, ultra recommended!
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DE MAGIA VETERUM - 'Migdal Bavel' CD (Trancendental Creations)
De Magia Veterum is the magickal creation of Mories (Gnaw Their Tongues) which was summoned in the year of 2003. Bearing a few resemblances with his other musical endeavors, De Magia Veterum represents a far more chaotic outlet, one that prefers to communicate the grand mysteries through an utmost violent and mesmerizing medium. "Migdal Bavel" is the band’s second full-length album: 37 minutes of chaotic, raw, technical, esoteric, avant-garde Black Metal. Let De Magia Veterum guide you as you navigate through Samael's seas of madness. Packaged in a custom made 6-panel deluxe A5 sleeve, with silver ink printed on black cardboard.
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DEAD MAN'S HILL - 'Songs From The Forthcoming Apocalypse' CD (Midnight Productions)
After almost 2 years of silence, Dead Man's Hill is now back with a new full length, themed around the apocalypse, and what will happen thereafter. This is a journey which starts on a darkened earth, which sky is filled with aurora's and fire, and continues it's way trough planets and spaces of no life. The music on this album sounds in the line of "Dog Burial", but with more atmospheric elements, more black metal influences and haunting vocals. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak with booklet. Chinese import.
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£
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DEADWOOD - '8 19' CD (Cold Spring CSR53CD)
Outstanding Power Electronics from Sweden. This is DEADWOOD's debut album and is a solid, pounding force of electronics, Death Ambient atmospheres and brutal vocals. Featuring a member of Satanic Black Metal act Blodulv. File alongside such luminaries as The Grey Wolves and Mz.412. DEADWOOD is a relentless assault on the senses! Approach with due caution!
“Ramblack" is the follow up to Deadwood's successful 2005 album "8 19" (CSR53CD). Over the past 3 years this Swedish artist has been toiling away, creating a new black ambient / death noise masterpiece and "Ramblack" is the result. Cloaked in a more raw and morbid sound then its predecessor, this album truly changes ones perspective of audial darkness. This analogue beast of an album layers the tonal prayers of demons and the distorted cries of angels, sickness and depravity. True Death Electronics. The soundtrack to your end. "Ramblack" features guest vocals from Norwegian Black Metal legend Maniac (Skitliv, ex-Mayhem), whose vocal approach on the song 'Forakt' shows the full range of his capacity. Truly one of the most sick and twisted pieces of sonic art ever recorded. Enjoy the disease!
“Ramblack" is the follow up to Deadwood's successful 2005 album "8 19" (CSR53CD). Over the past 3 years this Swedish artist has been toiling away, creating a new black ambient / death noise masterpiece and "Ramblack" is the result. Cloaked in a more raw and morbid sound then its predecessor, this album truly changes ones perspective of audial darkness. This analogue beast of an album layers the tonal prayers of demons and the distorted cries of angels, sickness and depravity. True Death Electronics. The soundtrack to your end. "Ramblack" features guest vocals from Norwegian Black Metal legend Maniac (Skitliv, ex-Mayhem), whose vocal approach on the song 'Forakt' shows the full range of his capacity. Truly one of the most sick and twisted pieces of sonic art ever recorded. Enjoy the disease!
LP version is limited to 300 copies on marbled vinyl with 4 tracks from the main CD album (above) and a 15+ minute exclusive track, 'Cell Of Sirclin'.
DEEP-PRESSION - '4: Void Of A Morning' CD (Valse Sinistre)
The 4th full-length of this experimental Polish combo is a huge step forward. Based on a solid drone soundscape and ambient textures Deep-pression incorporates elements of post-black metal, shoegaze, industrial, electronic, dark ambient, noise and a whole lot of others. Introspective and tormenting experimental drone dancing on the edge of madness! File next to Trist, Xasthur, Vinterriket, Northaunt. Ltd x 1000 copies.
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DESOLATION ZONE - 'L'Homme Machine' CD Tin (Beast Of Prey)
40 minutes of industrial compositions, machine rhythms and factory noises. The struggle of man with the machine with use of industrial-acoustic sounds, devices, objects attached with electronic samplers. On their workbench Desolation Zone cuts with skill and shatters with surgical precision. Presented in a metal tin with a sticker, containing black latex gloves, an original surgical scalpel hermetically packed and a folded info sheet. Hand-numbered to 444 copies.
DORMANT - 'Beneath The Mighty Oak' CD (God Is Myth)
Dormant is the newest project from God is Myth label owner Todd Paulson (ex-Uvall). Combining aspects of black metal, heavy metal, rock and Neofolk, along with unusual song structures, the results of the debut album make for a very earthy and organic experience. This work also includes appearances by Andrew Curtis-Brignell (Caïna) who contributed lyrics and vocals to the opening track "Black Ashes" as well as Tanner Anderson (Celestiial) who plays hammered dulcimer on the title track. File next to Dead Raven Choir, Agalloch or Caïna. Regular edition in DVD case with insert.
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DRASTUS - 'Taphos MCD (Flamme Noire)
Limited edition MCD (5 songs; 20 minutes). High-density hypnotic and mesmerizing droning Nordic-influenced BLACK METAL from France. In the atmospheric vein of MAYHEM (sort of like "De Mysteriis dom Sathanas" on a barbituate mix with steroids cocktail), and San Francisco's WEAKLING; with GRIM-ly brutal vocals! Highly recommended for fans of DRASTUS' previous *cult* releases! Ltd x 1000.
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DRASTUS - 'Taphos' 12" (Flamme Noire)
Limited edition, single-sided LP (5 songs; 20 minutes) with the B-side completely smooth. High-density hypnotic and mesmerizing droning Nordic-influenced BLACK METAL from France. In the atmospheric vein of MAYHEM (sort of like "De Mysteriis dom Sathanas" on a barbiturate mix with steroids cocktail), and San Francisco's WEAKLING; with GRIM-ly brutal vocals! Highly recommended for fans of DRASTUS' previous *cult* releases! Very nicely presented in a matt sleeve with printed inner sleeve.
ELHAZ - 'The Black Flame' CD (Dark Vinyl / Memento Mori)
These heathen creations are loaded with unrepentantly Satanic philosophy combined with bombastic Neoclassical arrangements and industrial darkwave, topped with ritual excursions into pagan folk music. Synths, deep bass vocals (ala Kirlian Camera) and samples all come together in a gloriously accessible album. Comparable to ConSono. Not to be confused with the French Black Metal band of the same name!
UK 10.50£
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ERESHKIGAL - 'The Raping Of The Divine' LP (Temple Of Darkness)
Ereshkigal is a Greek band that plays shokingly and devastatingly interesting Black Metal, trying to continue the primordial heritage of ROTTING CHRIST, THOU ART LORD, VARATRHRON and so on. Brutal riffs with progressive melodies, heavy metal and powerful riffs, magnificent guitar solos and thrash, thunderous and boisterous elements are some of the things that comprise this polymorphic puzzle. Ereshkigal are the living proof that black metal can improve and constantly evolve! Ltd x 1000 handnumbered copies on purple vinyl, presented in a full colour gatefold sleeve.
UK 10£
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ETHEREAL WOODS - 'Kenilworth' CD (Supernal Music)
"This third album sees Ethereal continuing the evolutionary trajectory they initiated with "In the Forest of Arden", which led them here towards an even heavier sound. Yet, while we hear rumbling frequencies and a rhythmical approach that are commonly associated with Death Metal, this duo retain their characteristically Doomy and melancholic sound, offering plenty of sorrowful harmonic melody and keyboard-driven magic. I am reminded at times of Decomposed, although Ethereal Woods is musically richer and more classically-influenced. The nature, mysticism and sylvan fantasy themes present in their previous two albums take here an explicitly Elizabethan turn. One is inevitably reminded of the sensibilities of a Sir Philip Sidney, although Blackmetalised and in much simplified form" (AK-47).
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FEARTHAINNE - 'Fearthainne' 2 x CD (Glass Throat Recordings)
Fearthainne's debut represents the nadir of a journey into earth. Conceptualised and written in wild environments in the West, this collection of songs is a picture of the labyrinth travelled by a human organism, seeking life outside the long shadows of unremitting gray. The seekers masquerading as musicians who have created this document have used these sounds as a conduit for the reconnection with being, and have chosen to make it available to those who might hear the voice of the Others speaking to them from within. Exclusively utilising acoustic instrumentation, Fearthainne is the unending rain that calls forth the blossom, the harbinger of the organic future we inevitably face. A sonic expression of green in all its capacities, this project is a document of the search for Home. Embracing four deeply potent healing crafts of acoustic mourning and regeneration. Featuring the two spirits of Cascadia's Ritual Black Metal atavism Fauna. Presented in a stunning outsized 6-panel gatefold sleeve.
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FLEGETHON - 'Behind A Side Of Times' CD (Satanarsa Records)
One of quite a few albums from this prolific Russian band, whose compelling funeral doom edges close to dark ambient and black metal at times. "Flegethon draws deep into the melodic asceticism specific to the genre it stands for and yet, when its music gets corrupted by some evil sounds, industrial stutterings, subterranean creakings, harsh blows and even ethereal female choirs (a burst of light in the dark magma), well, damn!... Flegethon paints the extreme desolation, the edge of the world" (Doom-Metal.com). File next to Until Death Overtakes Me, Beyond Black Void, Celestiial and Nortt. Finished with a nice slipcase.
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FUNERAL THRONE - 'Nihil Sine Diabolvs' CD (Satanas Rex / Cold Spring)
The second release from our Black Metal sub-division. Debut album from this Birmingham (UK) based Trio, fresh from recent support with CRADLE OF FILTH. 'Nihil Sine Diabolvs' finally allows Funeral Throne to mark their territory as one of the most radical Black Metal acts out there! This is total Black Metal slaughter! For fans of Mayhem, DImmu Borgir, Gorgoroth, Marduk etc.
GALLHAMMER - 'Gloomy Lights' CD (Hello From The Gutter Records / Goatsucker Records / Bestial Burst Records)
Killer!!! Gallhammer is three extreme Japanese females (headed by Vivian Slaughter, also of SEHNSUCHT), heavily influenced by Hellhammer, Burzum and Amebix. And, as is often the case with Japanese acts, this is obscure and unusual metal, somewhere between black metal, doom and sludge. This debut 8 track album was a dedication to their influences but also created a new, unique and dark sickly sounding atmosphere of their own. The album's themes are based around isolation, oppression, and a world without colour. The band signed to Peaceville for subsequent recordings.
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GEISHA - 'Die Verbrechen Der Liebe' CD (Crucial Blast)
This hour-long, six track monolith follows Geisha into a psychedelic black storm, covered in a thick sheen of white noise and gritty distortion. Seminal noise rock / sludge combined with violent, chaotic noise, drone-noise and corrosive skree, percussive pummel, and deranged singing. Includes the monstrous 30:35 "Theme From Diana" - a re-working of a "metal percussion" set that Geisha originally performed live. A slowly building fog of voices and effects and shimmering metal that blooms into an expanse of droning, fx-heavy guitar, looping samples, cosmic effects, and improv percussion. It's a kind of rumbling industrial dronescape that stretches out forever, until it suddenly explodes into speaker-annhilating noise-metal dirge. Ltd x 1000 copies in a gatefold jacket.
GIANCARLO TONIUTTI - 'Qwalsamtimutkw?Italuc'ik (And Now He Almost Did Make Himself Into Hemlock Needles, It Is Said)' CD (Alluvial Recordings)
A single, hour-long work. Recorded on January 18, 2001 in Udine, the Red Room Sound-source: Rattle-harp (drift metal, string, wire, bells, bone, wood). Treated & composed on February 9-12, 2002 in Udine, the Black Room. "This hour long work is a trademark piece for Toniutti. The acoustics of the piece, the dragging of metallic sounds, the analogue treatment of the material, the minimal changing of the equalization to make the piece sound different, it all sounds like comfortable Toniutti music" (Vital Weekly). The very occasional faint crackles are digital faults from the original recording; as part of the document, they have not been erased. Gatefold digifile with 16-page booklet.
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GNAW THEIR TONGUES - 'An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood' CD (Crucial Blast)
Reissue of the extremely limited LP (Ltd x 250, Burning World Records) from this ultra heavy act. Harrowing, apocalyptic, bestial ritual music from the deepest, darkest cellars of the Netherlands. Avant black metal, agonising funeral doom and blackened experimental drone noise stab forth again and again until all the blood is spilt and total carnage is all that remains. Pure dread put to music. Recommended for disturbed folk into Abruptum, Khanate, Axis Of Perdition, Swans and Univers Zero. "The bleakness and sheer refusal to allow any light to permeate proceedings alongside the non-linear, sprawling nature of the tracks will alienate a lot of people, but for anyone looking for something truly extreme, you’ll have a hard time beating this" (Kerrang). Hardback digifile.
GNAW THEIR TONGUES - 'Die Mutter Wählt Das Todtenkleidchen' CD (Universal Consciousness)
Truly sanity-splitting and soul-erasing nightmare sludge / symphonic black metal-cacophony from this one-man Dutch act. This is the re-release of the "Die Mutter Wählt Das Todtenkleidchen" (Corps Morts Records, 2007) and "Dawn Breaks Open Like A Wound That Bleeds Afresh" (Universal Tongue, 2007), presented here for the first time on CD-proper, along with three new tracks. "The evilest sounding band in the history of music. Words can't give justice to the frightening power of this music. More apocalyptic than apocalypse itself. You've been warned". Comes in a satanically elegant 6-panel eco-wallet and includes a Gnaw Their Tongues sticker. Highly recommended!
UK 10.50£
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HAIR POLICE - 'Totaled And Stranded' LP (Hundebiss Records)
A 1-sided album of piercing vocals, walls of guitars, precise heavy electronics and thundering drums. A fusion of metal, noise rock, free jazz, industrial, and harsh electronics. "Recorded in a hotel room after we totaled out tour vehicle and became stranded in the worst snowstorm in Ohio history" (Hair Police). hand-cut artwork on black cardboard, with Xeroxed recycled paper and a raw paper inner sleeve. The B side is screenprinted by Serimal. Ltd x 500 hand-numbered copies with no repress.
UK 14£
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HATE FOREST - 'The Most Ancient Ones' CD (Supernal Music)
Darker than dark, furiously fast, true Black Metal terror from the Ukraine, without melody or love for human scum. The anxiously-awaited debut album is even nastier than anything you have heard from them before. What makes Hate Forest unique are the grim, barked vocals created by some sort of life-hating monster. A relentless, hateful piece of evil that rips you from your city dwellings and drags you deep into the forest, ravages and defiles you with no mercy.
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HEAVY WINGED - 'Spreading Center' CD (Release The Bats)
Two new long tracks from Brooklyn's Heavy Winged. Massive sounding stuff, but with more subtle and quiet openings and endings, and without ever losing the abrasive feeling of being dragged in grit and dirt forever. Driving and powerful proto-psych-metal that manages to sound very much improvised and extremely focused and precise at the same time. Both tracks recorded live in California and New York. Limited one-time pressing of 500 copies in a Dual Plover gatefold sleeve with black felt and artwork by Twin Vixen. Play it loud!
UK 12£
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HELL-BORN - 'Legacy Of The Nephilim' CD (Conquer Records)
This is: "HELL FUCKIN METAL warriors know no mercy! The newest Hell-Born full-length album, "Legacy of the Nephilim", is ready to set the heavens on fire and claim the earthly thrones! Nine pieces of living infernal brimstone and ferocious energy, with playing time of over 40 minutes! A real must for every true Black / Death Metal maniac." Once again Hell-Born's work is full-filled with merciless, infernal fury, with a sound production much heavier, sharper and selective than ever before. Comes in a nice digipak.
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HEY COLOSSUS - 'Happy Birthday' CD (Riot Season)
From headlong infusions of psychedelic rock to the limitless furrows of doom, in "Happy Birthday" London's Hey Colossus has constructed an all conquering citadel of experimental/metal disrepair. The album is a rampaging fire-cloud of superstoked riffs and ever mounting walls of feedback, a rough house collection of battering new songs driven at sweltering pace by a band with a fearless momentum. The is the record that the band has always threatened to unleash - a pitch black album for our ever scorched earth. For fans of : Unsane, Neu!, Circle, Corrupted, Eyehategod, Fudge Tunnel, Sludge, Doom etc.
The first release on Black Labs, sister label to UK label Riot Season. Black Labs unites two of Britain's creamiest, shadiest, hell mongers Hey Colossus and Dethscalator, for a split album and you're going to cop it massively in the face till you fall in. Three new long tracks from Hey Colossus (epic dirge space rock, with three sprawling slow-jams, that oozes from slow burning drones, to lurching stumbling blackened crush, to metallic krautrock and back again, rumbling drones - Aquarius) and five from new boys on the chopping block Dethscalator (a gnarled blend of Gore like repetitive heaviness, and lo-slung noise rock - Aquarius). Around 40 mins of music. Ltd x 500 copies.
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HIGHGATE - 'Highgate' CD (Totalrust)
Debut album from this sick Kentucky trio. This weapon offers one seriously long untitled track (54 minutes) and is a unique mix of Hybrid minimalist Doom, experimental noise and grim Black Metal. Think about a crossbreeding between Burzum, Khanate and Eyehategod and prepare yourself to one of the nastiest pieces of DOOM ever recorded! Ltd x 1000 copies. Israeli import.
HINSIDIG - 'Bak Og Forbi...' CD (Pest Productions)
This depressive Black Metal act hails from Norway / Germany, with members of Nyktalgia, Sterbend, Total Hate and Armageddon. Hinsidig mixes Northern folk elements along with a great deal of clear back vocals based on the lines of primitive Black Metal, sounding like Ulver from their early era. The inspirational instrumental arrangements and melancholic melodies can also be easily related to Nyktalgia and Wolves In The Throne Room. Ltd x 1000 copies. Chinese import.
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HKY - 'HKY' LP (Music Fear Satan)
French act HKY unleash their first effort: a four-long-tracks record recorded by Julien Lamorille in Bethune (April 2008). The result sounds like dark and cold doom metal with a lots of programming, samples and keyboards which give the record a very particular gloomy atmosphere. All the members are part of other bands and musical projects but the strength of HKY is their massive own universe beyond each track and their musical block between Jesu, Isis, Gnaw and Darkspace. Ltd x 500 copies on black vinyl in a gatefold, die-cut, matt sleeve.
UK 14£
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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.
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IRON FIST OF THE SUN - 'Behavioural Decline' CD (Cold Spring CSR116CD)
Personal obsessions skewed by drug use, codes of behaviour observed by a misanthropic mind. Bitter and cold. Nihilistic and scornful. Elitist and Pure. Behavioural Decline documents the rise of treachery and the fall of honour. Power electronics that sonically takes inspiration from electro-acoustics and ideology akin to black metal / black noise. A deeply personal recording.
ISOLRUBIN BK - 'Crash Injury Trauma' CD (Soleilmoon)
B. Lustmord released “Crash Injury Trauma” in 1993, as a side project, under the pseudonym Isolrubin BK. “Crash Injury Trauma” is a shocking and disturbing album, unflinching and relentless in its fascination with violent car accidents. Tires skid and horns blare, followed by the sickening sounds of crashing metal and shattering glass, screams, sirens and heart-pounding bass. It’s a cruel, sadistic and horrifying tour de force in the ambient and power electronics genre. Following “Heresy” and “The Monstrous Soul”, and preceding “The Place Where The Black Stars Hang”, the album was recorded during what is now considered a pivotal period in the British artist’s career. Out of print for nearly a decade, this new 2009 edition has been remastered from the ground up, and is presented in completely redesigned packaging.
KINIT HER - 'Glyms Or Beame Of Radicall Truthes' CD (Hinterzimmer)
Wisconsin act Kinit Her are triumvirate a realm of qliphotic vibrations. They employ a wide array of sources from the Purple Analects of Taoism up to modern day conspiracy theories. The record is informed by the 80's British underground experimental scene, 90's Scandinavian black metal, and the timelessness of all folk currents, embroidered with witches croons and crystalline sonic manipulation. Comes in a nice chipboard, gatefold digisleeve. Swiss import.
KREUZWEG OST - 'Edelrost' CD (Cold Spring CSR58CD)
'Edelrost' draws a line from yesterday to tomorrow, from hope to despair, from blind obedience to revolution. Outstanding arrangements - rhythmic military industrial and hymnal orchestration - creating an oppressive sonic soundtrack of incredible martial anthems. Features members of Black Metal act Summoning. Essential.
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KTL - 'KTL' CD (Editions Mego)
Threatening new collaboration taking in parallel worlds of Extreme Computer Music and Black Metal. KTL is Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))), Gravetemple, Æthenor, Thorr's Hammer) and Peter Rehberg (PITA). A six part collision amongst the increasingly fading presences between the light and the dark. This work came about as the two were composing sound and music for a piece by Gisèle Vienne and Dennis Cooper, entitled 'Kindertotenlieder'. This CD is NOT the soundtrack to said piece, but a separate project. However, elements may appear in the finished piece which is to be premiered in Brest, France, March 2007. Pieces were recorded in a resistance fortress in southern France during a thunderstorm. Others in a wintergarden drenched in the sunlight.
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L'ACEPHALE - 'Malefeasance' 2 x LP (Aurora Borealis)
"Malefeasance" is a lengthy and complex affair that further explores L'Acephale's fascinations and strikes headlong into the darkest of musical vistas. The journey this time is perhaps even more academic than the debut "Mord Und Totsclag": further ethnographic audio elements are now present, more spacious passages, a deeper approach. A mix of ambient, warping tones, black metal, chanting, ethereal keyboards, drones, acoustic guitars, noise, field recordings and Tibetan ritual music. The last two tracks best show the nature of Set Sothis' collaborations with Markus Wolff (Waldteufel, Crash Worship), sharing some of his vocal and percussive styles. By no means do L'Acephale make music for the casual listener. In many ways they transcend the preconceived ideas of what may be expected: L'Acephale are most successful at operating beyond the constraints of genre altogether, and 'Malefeasance', with its dark, dreamlike and harrowing atmospheres, is their testament. Ltd x 500 copies on heavyweight vinyl in a matt sleeve with A1 poster and booklet.
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L'ACEPHALE - 'Malefeasance' CD (Aurora Borealis)
"Malefeasance" is a lengthy and complex affair that further explores L'Acephale's fascinations and strikes headlong into the darkest of musical vistas. The journey this time is perhaps even more academic than the debut "Mord Und Totsclag": further ethnographic audio elements are now present, more spacious passages, a deeper approach. A mix of ambient, warping tones, black metal, chanting, ethereal keyboards, drones, acoustic guitars, noise, field recordings and Tibetan ritual music. The last two tracks best show the nature of Set Sothis' collaborations with Markus Wolff (Waldteufel, Crash Worship), sharing some of his vocal and percussive styles. By no means do L'Acephale make music for the casual listener. In many ways they transcend the preconceived ideas of what may be expected: L'Acephale are most successful at operating beyond the constraints of genre altogether, and 'Malefeasance', with its dark, dreamlike and harrowing atmospheres, is their testament.
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L'ACEPHALE - 'Stahlhartes Gehäuse' CD (Parasitic Records)
"Stahlhartes Gehäuse" walks the kindred path with the co-conspirators that lead the Live Actions front of L’Acéphale. This release follows more directly the path illuminated by Black Metal with the aligning stars of Traditional Folk, Martial Dark Ambience, Pagan Black Metal and Audio Ethnology. No less than 9 artists participated in this release, including Markus Wolff (Waldteufel, Blood Axis, Crash Worship etc). Ltd x 1000 copies in a 6-panel digipak with 24-page booklet.
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LICHT-UNG - 'Kristall' 7" (Drone Records)
LICHT-UNG ("glade") is the name of a label, art and sound project from Gemany, with a very peculiar and rather dadaistic approach. The two pieces on "Kristall" seem to be based mainly on feedback and metal or glass sounds that are carefully put together for a strange-sounding trip. Side A consists of humming, growling drones, low siren-like sounds and high-frequency feedbacks, powerful and absorbing and very abstract, while never turning into sheer noise. Side B delivers a crystal-clear noise chant and metallic overtones processed with obscure effects. First edition of 300 copies on blue / black marbled vinyl with silk-screened covers and silver printed black inlay.
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LORDAMOR - 'Lordamor' CD (Descending Towards Damnation)
From the beginning in 2006, this Finnish band's goal was to create primitive, slow and oppressive music with small partitions of calmer and more melodic passages to enchant the effect of otherwise crude atmospheres. Excruciatingly slow black / doom metal in the vein of Unholy, Worship, Thergothon and Beherit with lyrical themes involving man's dark shadow-nature, decay and death. The black Demiurge has taken its grip from the soul of man, and there's no way to overcome it. Over an hour of bleak, nightmarish soundscapes.
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LOTUS CIRCLE - 'Bottomless Values And Boundless Floods' CD (Nykta)
A true underground apocalypse! This UK act "gives you the strange feeling of going on a bad trip. A dark vision of forgotten swamps and demon caves, a void, a storm of sounds! Lotus Circles' sound is close to early Earth and Sunn O))) but in different way. Lotus Circle are the Black Metal side of drone / doom. Feedback noises mixed up with inhuman vocals..." Ltd x 500 copies. Greek import.
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LOTUS CIRCLE / BOSQUE - 'Split' CD (Dunkelheit Produktionen)
Lotus Circle starts this split release with 4 new curses. Their part is full of occult preaches for the Beast, free drone / doom guitars / black metal, combined with extreme screaming vocals full of depression and hate... and noise with the main purpose to abstract you from this place and time. Stories of burned down villages, inner visions of the absurd and deep dark caves. Bosque continues next with the spell "Veneration". This band serves an obscure atmosphere at it's best and leaves you a bitter black taste of depressiveness deep in your thoughts. The abstract doom / black spell of Bosque is a pure dark atmosphere painted with colourless feelings and a raw sound that makes this a priceless result of true funeral doom / black art. Hand-numbered edition of 500 copies.
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MELEK-THA - 'War Is Coming' CD (Dark Vinyl)
French act Melek-Tha still stands for bombastic Black Industrial and Apocalyptic Death Music, accompanied by symphonic chants. The only difference to his earlier releases are the much more aggressive and rhythmical beats and the more doomy guitars, which will blow you away! Armageddon is near and the fusion / melting between death industrial and black metal has reached a new zenith under the leadership of Melek-Tha.
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MOONLIGHT SHADOWS magazine Issue #2
Stunning B&W, 52-page, A4 magazine (Greek magazine, but all text in English) featuring interviews with ARCANA, ORDO ROSARIUS EQUILIBRIO, DAEMONIA NYMPHE, SEPTIC FLESH, GOTHICA, WELTSCHMERZ, ANTIMATTER, SENSE OF LOSS, NIGHTFALL, FUNERAL PROCESSION. Hundreds of reviews are included here as well, though most being on Black/Doom metal.
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MORTIIS - 'Anden Som Gjorde Oppror' CD (Projekt)
2007 reissue of the Mortiis classic Ånden Som Gjorde Opprør', originally released on Cold Meat Industry in 1995. As a member of Emperor, Mortiis was one of the notorious members of the fanatic Norwegian Black-metal scene. Through a natural evolution, Mortiis made his way into the Scandinavian dark-electronic scene. These lengthy pieces present a regal yet ancient mood; as if the soundtrack for ancient castles filled with forlorn kings looking out upon their lost kingdoms. Words are spoken in Norwegian, drifting into the background ambience. Mortiis at his very best, crafting dark synth-orchestral journeys into an enchanted world of medieval fantasy. Digipak with new artwork.
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MORTIIS - 'Keiser Av En Dimensjon Ukjent' CD (Projekt)
2007 reissue of the Mortiis classic 'Keiser Av En Dimensjon Ukjnet ("Emperor of a Dimension Unknown"), originally released on Cold Meat Industry in 1995. The Norwegian troll (founding member of notorious Black Metal act Emperor) presents 2 long tracks of medieval fantasy music, not unlike Za Frumi or a stripped down, synth version of Dronolan's Tower. The soundtrack for ancient castles filled with forlorn kings looking out upon their lost kingdoms. Mortiis' threatening Norwegian tongue drifts over dark synth-orchestral journeys into an enchanted world of medieval fantasy. Digipak with new artwork.
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MOSE / HOG MOUNTIN - 'Split' CD (psycheDOOMelic)
Alabama-based Hog Mountin are a pissed off sludge doom band that lie somewhere in between Grief, Crowbar and Eyehategod. You can expect pretty heavy "scream the lungs out" sludge throughout most of the music. On the second part of the split you get a couple of killer tunes by the Belgians Möse (featuring members of Neuthrone, Thee Plague Of Gentlemen and Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat...), a misanthropic sludge-metal outfit with one previous 7". Heavy and crushing, yet uniquely weird.
NADJA / BLACK BONED ANGEL - 'S/T' CD (20 Buck Spin)
A monumental cross-continental collaboration between Canada’s prolific neo-doom duo Nadja and New Zealand’s pitch black droners Black Boned Angel. The two 20+ minutes tracks contained on this self-titled collaboration have a less accessible vibe then the Jesu-like track on last year’s “Christ Send Light” EP. There are no vocals to be heard. They are comprised in equal parts of Nadja’s fuzzed-out, lurching and hazy dream-doom, and BBA’s razor-sharp metallic riff-shards. Extended passages of riff-static noise bleeds one track into the next while deep space eerieness looms ever present in the shadows. Finally the whole thing collapses under the weight of its own self-created black hole. This is the end. Digipak.
NDE - 'Krieg Blut Ehre Asche' CD (Cold Spring CSR110CD)
Debut from this Belgian duo. Like the dark solitary figure which adorns the cover, NDE are shrouded in mystery and desolation. No website. No myspace. No contact details. The music speaks loudly and across the centuries. A unique smelting of malevolent, noisy Black Metal, pounding, anthemic martial drums and wretched Death Industrial in eight acts.
NEKRASOV - 'Into The No-Mans-Sphere Of The Ancient Days' CD (None)
Self-released debut album from this Australian atmospheric Black Metal / Noise / Dark Ambient act. "From the surreal, nightmare-evoking textures that speak to the most ancient and basic part of our beings - that which understands without attaching judgment - to the unabashedly raw renditions of suffering brought on by the purposefully unintelligible, wretched vocals and the seething guitar-work, the listener may draw parallels but will surely find no equal to what is found here. All assumptions you might make as to the musical influences that may or may not have imprinted themselves upon this record may just as well be wrong. So simply listen and let the music wash over you". Ltd x 500 copies in a pretty digifile.
A personal exploration into the dark places that exist inside all of us. Inspired by vivid nightmares and dark visions glimpsed while staring into the bottomless depths of the abyss. Combining the best (or is it worse) elements of Dark Ambient, Death Industrial and Black Metal to create the darkest music possible. Neuntöter Der Plage is the long-running project of Ryan Opperman (Redrot).
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NIELLERADE FALLIBILISTHORSTAR & GREEN ARMY FRACTION - 'Westerbotten' CD (Cathartic Process)
After Niellerade Fallibilisthorstar’s impressive full length albums, this collaborative release shows an even further development in their sound. This pairing with fellow Swedish act Green Army Fraction results in a massive, powerful sound. Their heavy use of cymbals and analogue electronics creates impressions that surpass harsh noise trappings, exceeding genre definitions or expectations. The sounds created reveal the magickal qualities of Metgumbnerbone or Coil, the dark psychedelic ambiance of The Stargazer's Assistant The Other Side of the Island or Wolf Eyes’ Black Wing Over the Sand, and the cacophony of The New Blockaders. Elaborately printed with metallic inks and packaged in a gatefold sleeve, along with a 16-page booklet.
This 40-minute epic moves from pulverizing industrial dirge blanketed with heavily textured layers of processed guitar and fearsome guttural roars intermixed with captivating female vocals, to passages of haunting dark ambience and bottom-heavy churn, and a magisterial finale that stretches gloom-ridden moody riffage, vaporous electronics and dramatic male / female singing across the song's final fifteen minutes, a tense, slow buildup that erupts into an earth-shaking crescendo of super heavy riffage. Immensely bleak and heavy, "Born Again" brings together elements of Godflesh's industrial pummel, black metal, tribal dirge , the violent nihilism of Swans, doomy death metal, and even some black strains of psychedelia into a monumental metallic black hole. Digipak.
PIMENTOLA - 'Misantropolis' CD (Cold Meat Industry)
"Misantropolis" introduces more vocals than on past Pimentola releases; hysteric screams, gloomy choirs / harmonies; hand in hand with electronic sounds, sampling and acoustic instruments; accordion, violins, theremin, metal percussions and various kinds of drums. Ten ill star prayers from the Black Globe; an end of times sound-work ranging from martial neoclassical to rhythmic noise. Paralyzing absinthe nightmares morphed with opiatic tunes of the orient. Presented in a luxurious silver foilprinted 6-panel digipak and features guest appearances by members of Garmarna, Dead Man's Hill, Aprox and Somnivore.
PROCER VENEFICUS - 'Convoy (Pt. 2)' CD (God Is Myth)
After releasing the stunning "A Summerhaze Array for August Nights" boxset, now comes this new effort from Procer Veneficus. "Convoy (Pt. 2)" takes off in a slightly different direction in terms of composition and form but make no mistake, this is Procer Veneficus' greatest and most absorbing / thought provoking work to date. Almost an hour of psychedelic Black Metal delivered like no other. Digipak.
Prurient (aka Dominick Fernow) has become one of the most well-known and influential names in the noise field. Anti-technology and anti-electricity. An unconventional use of banging objects together to create music; playing with live wire, pennies, frying pans, toolboxes, scrap metal, and used shotgun shells are an example of some of his instruments he has used before. On this new material sounds and voice gradually emerge, in a distant and threatening outhouse. Ltd x 300 copies on yellow / black marbled vinyl.
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PRURIENT - 'Whip Enthusiasts' 7" (BloodLust!)
18th release in the BloodLust! Private 7" series. For this single, Dominick Fernow seems to have crafted the ultimate Prurient statement - two tracks that seamlessly combine Fernow's "Pleasure Ground"-style minimal-synth leanings with his most caustic, raw, black metal lust - resulting in a truly brutal mutated style of power-electronics. Lyrics appropriated and edited from Levchev. "Night passes beneath my window". Limited to 300 copies, pressed on white vinyl and housed in a plain white sleeve with insert. RARE - ACT FAST!
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PUSSYGUTT - 'She Hid Behind Her Veil..' CD (20 Buck Spin)
Multi-instrumentalists Brittany McConnell Blake Green reside in the rural landscape outside of Boise, Idaho, where they create their dark, foreboding sounds away from the chaos of America’s large cities. "She Hid Behind Her Veil…", is comprised of a single track over 45 minutes in length. The sound occupies a dense space where the heavy, metallic drone sound of Black Boned Angel intersects with the minimalist string arrangements of Phillip Glass and the more ambient doom tendencies of Japan’s Corrupted. With its use of violin textures, the album sounds as much like a classical movement as an art-doom release. Draped in a cloak of gothic black doom ambiance and eerie, unsettling moods, "She Hid Behind Her Veil…" is an apparition of ghostly vision from one of America’s more isolated environments. Digipak.
"Unbelievably grim and blown out Burzumic Black Metal buzz from a Korean 14 year old! The demo received 10/10 in Terrorizer and you'll understand why. Burzum meets Abruptum but even more harsh and atmospheric. Rare is the record, black metal or otherwise, that evokes such intense emotion, that gives the listener chills. Beyond the blackness and the buzz, lies a record of impossible depth, full of emotion and passion. Anti war, anti military outsider individualistic blackness that destroys any other BM you've heard". 6-panel Digipak.
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ROCK-A-ROLLA Issue #19 Magazine
Issue 19 of UK mag Rock-A-Rolla features the legendary Isis. There's also interviews with Fennesz, Nadja, Wolves In The Throne Room, Mono, Black Dice, Cobalt, Stinking Lizaveta, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, Zippo, Inferno, Crippled Black Phoenix and Reigns. This month's Label Focus is on Editions Mego. Also included is the usual vast selection of news, music, DVD and live reviews from the avant-rock, metal, noise and experimental scenes. Highly recommended!
UK 5.00£
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ROSE KEMP - 'Unholy Majesty' LP (Aurora Borealis)
Vinyl edition of the latest Rose Kemp album. This is truly a great record as Rose follows her nose and steps out into new territory, and all becomes clear... This album pays hommage to all of rock history, past, present and future, as Rose's sublime and powerful voice cajoles, propels and hounds the listener across a sonic landscape of hushed folk, English prog, Eastern vocal melody and metallic crunch. In our humble opinion, this album is mandatory for anyone who likes the sound of a guitar and a powerful voice. Ltd x 700 copies on heavyweight black vinyl in a heavyweight gatefold sleeve designed by Glyn of Scrawled, with a printed inner sleeve with all lyrics.
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SEHNSUCHT - 'Wüste' CD (Cold Spring CSR124CD)
Former MAYHEM front man MANIAC, whose band SKITLIV has proved to be a surprising departure from the Black Metal genre for which he was best known for over 20 years, has formed a side-project with fiancé Vivian Slaughter, bass player/vocalist with the Japanese all-girl band GALLHAMMER, SKITLIV's guitarist Ingvar Magnusson and experimentalist Andrew Liles (NURSE WITH WOUND). Unlike SKITLIV, which is a noise/doom amalgam, with Maniacs vocals still firmly rooted in Black Metal, SEHNSUCHT is in the noise / darkwave / ambient genre, with any vestiges of Black Metal pared away. 6-panel digipak.
SHINING - 'Livets Andhallplats' CD (Modern Invasion Music)
Australian edition of Shining's, now classic, second album, originally released in 2001. Features one bonus track, 'Manipulation Mass'. Very gloomy and depressive Swedish Dark / Black Metal. "...a really great album, consisting of 6 compositions, with the first three being wonderful and inspired and the last three being just perfect, preparing the listener to meet his doom. If you find it somewhere don't skip, but "remember that by purchasing this product you support the death of yourself.."... grandeur both in more tranquil and utterly raging ways" (Metal Storm).
Headed by Kvarforth, Shining's fifth recorded depression is no less than a monument of beauty in blackness and ghostly shades. Displaying a mix of sheer heaviness and sublime atmospheric moments, Shining 'V' is truly one of a kind. “The record plays like the soundtrack to a psychological disintegration. Transcending the Black Metal genre with complex arrangements and sample-ridden layering, Shining drive their bleakest peers into a dark corner to shiver until the record ends” (Unrestrained!). Suicide BM for fans of: Mayhem, Agalloch, Immortal and Carpathian Forest.
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SHINING - 'Within Deep Dark Chambers' CD (Modern Invasion Music)
Reissue of Shining's debut album. The supreme Swedish Suicidal Black Metal masters! Cold, misanthropic Black Metal from the north! Although Shining's sound is as aggressive as other black metal acts, the lyrics on "Within Deep Dark Chambers" are more personal. This official Australian edition includes a bonus track.
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SKITLIV - 'Amfetamin' CD (Cold Spring CSR90CD)
Exclusive release from the Doom / Noise project of Maniac (ex-MAYHEM), featuring Kvarforth (SHINING), and with special guest vocals by Attila (SUNN O))), MAYHEM). From Black Metal through Funeral Doom and Demonic Noise, Skitliv cover all the bases in modern extreme sonics. The CD version includes bonus tracks from Skitliv's live performance at the Camden Underworld, London, 13th December 2007, with a special intro from CURRENT 93 (David Tibet & Andrew Liles).
SKITLIV - 'Bloodletting' 10" Picture Disc (Cold Spring CSR115P)
Limited edition Picture disc from SKITLIV, the project of former MAYHEM front man MANIAC. With a line up that includes SHINING’s NIKLAS KVARFORTH, SKITLIV is a disturbed, and disturbing, blackened doom journey through the mind of this legendary Black Metal vocalist who was one of the original exponents of the genre, and is one of its most recognisable figures. This picture disc is made extra special not only by the inclusion of “Who Will Deliver Us From Gold and Planets” by CURRENT 93 - an introductory collage destruct that was created at the request of Maniac and is dedicated to him, but also because the artwork that is used for the side containing this track is part of one of Tibet’s own paintings. Ltd x 777 copies. No repress.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS TITLE DOES NOT SHIP UNTIL 12th MARCH!
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SKULLFLOWER - 'Tribulation' CD (Crucial Blast)
A black-void beaming of utterly destroyed drone rock and crushing amplifier obliteration that rains down black ash and punishing blasts of feedback skree on the listener. A dynamic, bleary-eyed meditation. An avalanche of powerdrone that threatens to take your cranium apart and transport your grey matter into filthy new dimensions infested with melodic razor cuts and submerged mantras. A triumphant eruption of apocalyptic meta-metal and radioactive raga swarms, guaranteed to loosen eardrums. This album is one of the heaviest, harshest slabs of guitar armageddon from Matthew Bower since the glory days of Total, and bridges the void between the krautrock / celestial free drone influence of the last few Skullflower albums, and the blackened molten death of his Mirag material.
SOL INVICTUS - 'Golden Sun' Long Sleeve Shirt - 2XL Size (Prophecy Productions)
Brand new official shirt from English dark folk heroes Sol Invictus. Heavy quality, black long sleeve shirt with the Sol logo in metallic gold. Stylish apparel for the winter nights!
Please note that we do not accept returns on items of clothing! We are happy to provide chest measurements on request.
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SOUVENIR'S YOUNG AMERICA - 'Souvenir's Young America' CD (UndeRadar)
Monstrous instrumental post-metal from Richmond, VA. These songs are heavily layered, masterfully assembled instrumental creations, emotionally moving and majestic like Red Sparowes, filled with dense shoegazer buildups and gorgeous droning electronic swirl, massively heavy prog-rock dirges and sludgy piano-accompanied rock, never descending into boring noodling or overextended jams. The whole album sounds like a soundtrack for a killer lost road-trip movie scored by members of Neurosis and Godspeed You! Black Emperor doing a weird mix of 70's prog and biker rock, and 80's soundtrack metal, but with all sorts of forays into lonesome, dusty country guitar-twang, long droning expanses of floating electronic drones, supremely beautiful and often super-crushing!!! This is an absolute must for fans of Red Sparowes, Mogwai, Mono, Pelican, Isis or Zombi.
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STILLBORN - 'Satanas El Grande' CD (Pagan Records)
"An unholy gathering of old school blackened Death Metal darkness.Ten hymns of blasphemy and disgrace from superb Polish newcomer. This is in the vein of TRUE Death Metal bands, but not a mere carbon copy. 'Satanas El Grande' stands for wrath, death and destruction!". File next to Behemoth, Shub-Niggurath and Incantation.
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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!
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STRIBORG - 'Embittered Darkness / Isle De Morts' CD (Displeased Records)
Bleak, misanthropic, depressive black metal with blurry guitars, clean ephemeral bass and plodding, relentlessly pounding rhythms that create a very dark and ghostly atmosphere. Lyrics about the forest, fog and nocturnal desires. Contains a brand new recording along with the very rare 'Isle Des Mortes' demo from 1997. Striborg is one of Sunn O)))'s favourite Black Metal artists and was a big inspiration / influence on the recent 'Black One' album, and one of the tracks on that album was named after Striborg mainman Sin-Nanna. The US edition of this album came out on Southern Lord in the same year.
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STRIBORG - 'Ghostwoodlands' CD (Displeased Records)
Another work of chilling lo-fi Black Metal / Black Ambient from "Australia's answer to Burzum". "...what it lacks in track quantity it more than makes up for in melancholic metal composition. Striborg opens the CD with this awesome keyboard work that is straight out a Hammer film or Last Man on Earth. It’s great. Then the album picks up with speedy black metal style drums and Sin Nanna’s unique guitar buzz... the title track, begins the album closedown with fast guitars that break up toward the end amidst more keyboard action and then are dropped altogether in the final track, where the keyboard and synth playing eases us into the night. Sleepy bells chime along with the keyboard sounds and one can almost feel the curtains closing over a funeral." (Brutalism.com).
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STRIBORG - 'In The Heart Of The Rainforest / Misanthropic Isolation' CD (Displeased Records)
This is the next chapter in Displeased records reissue series of old albums by Striborg - the prolific and often avant-garde touched one man Black Metal project from Tasmania. This release (originally issued on Asgard Musik in 2003) brings together two demos - "In The Heart Of The Rainforest" (2000, Finsternis) & "Misanthropic Isolation" (1998, Finsternis) - both which were originally released in very limited editions at the time. Over 66 minutes of misanthropic musik!
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STRIBORG - 'Mysterious Semblance' CD (Displeased Records)
Cold dark isolated forest black ambient / black metal. "Sin Nanna’s songwriting abilities that are rather well represented on this CD... This CD is just so slow compared 6970to his other projects, that it is worthy of attention for, one, being so different, and, two, for realizing more complex songwriting skills than Sin Nanna has exhibited in any record I have heard yet. I actually believe this is his best album yet" (Brutalism.com). Originally issued on cassette in 2004, this 2008 reissue includes 3 bonus tracks! First 1000 copies come packaged with a limited silver cover!
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STRIBORG - 'Perceiving The World With Hate' CD (Displeased Records)
Brand new 2009 album from this Tasmanian Black Forest Metal / Black Ambient legend. Deathly slow, depressive Black Metal with a wondrous touch of the eerie and gloomy. "Perceiving The World With Hate" has a strong emphasis on the melancholic and atmospheric side of BM, with moments of blackened Doom. "... strikes my ears as stealthy move into a woods overrun by ghosts... it is one thing for Sin Nanna to play the character of a lone gunner in the dark wilderness. But it is another thing to play sounds that portray wasted souls as strewn about that same landscape" (Brutalism). Features Malefici of Xasthur on 3 tracks. File next to Burzum. Packaged in a DVD case.
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STRIBORG - 'Solitude' CD (Displeased Records)
Ghastly hatred towards mankind through forest black metal and eerie ambient soundscapes! Brooding atmospheres of pessimism, perceptual distortion and misanthropy, highlighted by the droning aspect of the music. Sin Nanna, the prolific Tasmanian devil, offers the second Striborg full-length of 2007 with this chilling 8-song, 71-minute nightmare. For fans of Burzum, Xasthur and Ildjarn.
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STROSZEK - 'Songs Of Remorse' CD (God Is Myth)
"Songs of Remorse" is the debut album from Italy's Stroszek, who play dark melancholic doom / emotional acoustic music. Stroszek comes from the Werner Herzog film of the same name and is the perfect moniker for a band with such a gloomy atmosphere. While the band contains members of Black Metal act Frostmoon Eclipse, this should be looked upon as a separate entity and not just a 'side project'. Carefully strummed minor key acoustic guitar...deliberate yet restrained piano lines...bursts of heaviness added for texture...and deep, lush clean sung vocals that relay a sense of dread lurking beneath the surface. Digipak.
SUPREME LORD - 'X99.9 Kill Your Enemies' Enhanced CD (Conquer Records)
First official release from cult Polish act Supreme Lord (features members / ex-members of Witchmaster and Christ Agony). This album consists of 8 completely new and uncompromising tracks, plus a special bonus of a '95 remastered demo "At the Black Moon Night". The disc also includes two video clips "Death Metal Beast" and "Terrorzone". Old school Black Metal. File next to Nile, Immolation, Behemoth etc.
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SVARROGH - 'Temple Of The Sun' MCD (Ahnstern)
"Temple of the Sun" is a decadent and transcendental journey with mandolin, tamboura, mighty synths, Bulgarian folklore, deep Balkan voices and European ambient, as well as blizzard guitars and several elements from the black metal past of Svarrogh. This MCD is a gathering of pagan culture with fragments from the modern world. "Wine and honey will flow through grey streets, through cities of glass, weeping giants cry out in sorrow". Features extraordinary guest vocals from Gerhard (Allerseelen), Valerio (Symbiosis), Juris (Beverina), B.Ardo & Rangel (Sangre Cavallum) - all singing in their own native languages. Digipak.
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SYNTA[XE]RROR - 'Final' CD (Ars Benevola Mater)
A dusty old computer which spits out elaborate electronic solutions through a trembling screen which will show a city in black and white. An entity full of chrome metal covered with a futuristic loneliness, crossed piercing gloomy ambient passages distorted by a turmoil of electro rhythms. A work for the most delicate and passionate palates and for those who are looking for an avant-garde sound. From Poland a duet who offers a complex but interesting electronic carpet with a thrilling remix featuring their more famous mates CH District. Ltd x 535 numbered copies in an outsized textured sleeve with artcard.
Melancholic / gloomy Finnish ambient with folk textures. "Tervahäät is a mixture completely of its own: there are elements of progressive rock, black and stoner metal, dark folk, ritual dark ambient as well as drone. Yet it is none of these. Often I think this is a combination of the sluggish tempo of Earth meeting the wintry sound of Burzum... The end result almost makes me taste the humid wood of a forgotten cabin in the woods, hear the ghostly humming of the trees and feel the cold wind carrying spirits of the dead through the wall springs. Tervahäät is a very successful and original mixture, which should find friends among fans of both dark ambient and gloomy metal. For a debut album it is amazingly mature and whole" (KMY). Ltd x 500 copies.
THE HUMAN QUENA ORCHESTRA - 'The Politics Of The Irredeemable' CD (Crucial Blast)
This second monstrous disc from THQO is equal parts blackened glacial industrial, nightmarishly dosed drone music, and punishing slow-motion mecha-sludge. Imagine a cross between Corrupted and Sunroof. "...exquisitely epic (and obliterating) sonic journey through landscapes of burnt out Black Metal, and onwards trudgefully past a Burke Shelley rehearsal and fallen statues of the Doom God Dubin, through a Wodenist environment wherein tortured vocalists serenade crows and tree-impaled musicians set off Nadja samples to long-rotting corpses" (Julian Cope). Comes in a hardback, gatefold digifile.
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THE NEW BLOCKADERS & ORGANUM - 'Der Graben' 7" (Die Stadt)
"Der Graben" ("The Ditch") is the final joint release by these two masters of noise / drone. Two unreleased classic TNB / Organum tracks that show all the glory of this collaborative project, which remains unique until today. The two short pieces (just over 3 minutes in total!) are filled with metallic scraping sounds and dissonant noise elements. This second edition of 200 comes without the original picture cover, but in plain black sleeves (with center hole) and pressed on heavy black vinyl.
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THE SOUND PROJECTOR - '15th Issue' Magazine
15th edition of this outstanding UK mag. Interviews with Russ Waterhouse, Peter Strickland, Clay Ruby, Mudboy and U. W. Owl. Articles on Carl Michael Von Hausswolff, Sunn O))), 'Vinyl Viands Emanating From America' (US underground Vinyl). Reviews of 'The Nordic Realms' (Finland, Norway, Denmark), 'International Music', the label 'Sublime Frequencies', 'Noises From The US Underground', Black Metal, Doom, Noise, Post Rock, Stoner Rock, Environment And Field Recordings, Art / Modernist, Minimalism, Improv, Tape Manipulation / Turntablism, Freak / Weird, Electronica, Drone, Singer / Songwriter, experimental Guitar music, plus a general reviews section. A4, perfect-bound B&W with full colour cover, 148 pp.
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THE SOUND PROJECTOR - '16th Issue' Magazine
The 16th edition of this huge UK mag features interviews with: Philip Sanderson, Tetuzi Akiyama, Joe Frawley, Cultural Amnesia, Frank Rothkamm and Unseen. Reviews of: 'Music From The Nordic Realms', Free Folk, International Music, United Kingdom Underground, Noises From The USA Underground, Black Metal, Atoms Of Pure Noise, Stoner & Doom, Avant-Rock, Modern Composition, Music DVDs, Improv, Industrial, Experimental, Field Recordings, 'Women In The Art' Quiet Music, Freakdom, Drone, Guitar Music, Free Jazz and Vinyl Viands. A4, perfect-bound B&W with full colour cover. 184 pp.
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THE SOUND PROJECTOR - '17th Issue' Magazine
Features interviews with: UK folk heroine Sharron Kraus, Gen Ken Montgomery, Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words. Reviews of: 'The Nordic Realms' (music from Finland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden), Acousic Guitars & Folk Song, International & Ethnic Music, English Music, 'All French', 'Underground USA', Black Metal, Atoms Of Pure Noise, Stoner & Doom, Avant-Rock, Modern Composition, Music DVDs, Improv, Industrial, Experimental, Field Recordings, Quiet Music, Electronica, Drone, Guitar Music and Vinyl Viands. Also includes a unique code to download a free Mudboy album. A4, perfect-bound B&W with full colour cover. 172 pp.
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THE SOUND PROJECTOR - '18th Issue' Magazine
18th edition of this outstanding UK mag. Interviews with Z'EV, The Units / Scott Ryser and C Joynes and features on labels Waystyx and Unframed Recordings. Reviews of UK Underground, USA Underground, Acoustic Guitars & Folk Song, Music From Japan, Atoms Of Pure Noise, Black Metal, Electronic Primitives / Primitive Electronics, Stoner & Doom, Weird & Nightmarish, Modern Composition, Improv, Tapework, Field Recordings, Jazz, Laptop, Drone, 'Songs', Minimal Electronics, Experimental, Vinyl Viands, book reviews, plus a general reviews section. A4, perfect-bound B&W with full colour cover, 180 pp.
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THEE MALDOROR KOLLECTIVE - 'Themes For Proxima' MCD (Foreshadow Productions)
With each new release, Italian group Thee Maldoror Kollective crosses the boundaries of avantgarde music. Starting with black metal outbursts, they have come trough marriages with industrial, jazz and even opera. On "Themes for Proxima" TMK dive into cold dimensions of brave electronica. Music from this release was used in a Spanish movie production "Proxima", which only enhances its artistic value. Unpredictable and conventional, melodic and deconstructive, calm and frantic. Only a band with such an experience could compose music that is so mature. A bunch of critics have already compared them to ULVER, both in terms of development and breaking all the rules. Just under half an hour of music.
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THY CATAFALQUE - 'Róka Hasa Rádió' CD (Epidemie Records)
Hungarian act Thy Catafalque was born in 1998 as an epic black metal band. Since that time it has progressed to its actual, very original music that can be described as avant-garde post black metal / ambient / folk. Founders Tamás Kátai and János Juhász invited nine other musicians as guests to record a very unusual 70-minute album. Hungarian male vocals are complimented by the beautiful ethereal female voice of guest singer Ágnes Tóth (The Moon and the Nightspirit). Ltd x 600 copies in a deluxe 8-panel digipak.
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TRAVIS RYAN / DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS - 'Split' CD (Chrome Peeler)
Split release from two US acts: Travis Ryan (Cattle Decapitation, 5/5/2000) and Death By A Thousand Cuts. Travis Ryan's four tracks open the disc with an edgy, paranoid ambience that mixes environmental buzzes and electronic hum with blurry theremin melodies and hushed buzzsaw tones, evoking the faint but discernible hum of electricity you feel when standing at the edge of an urban landscape in the middle of the night. Death By A Thousand Cut's nightmarish free electronic designs are conjured from noxious bass sinewaves and cloudy keyboard drones, curling upwards out of metal-on-metal carnage and blasts of laser-beam effects-pedal violence, and the music becomes strangely beautiful, especially with the cosmic Troum-meets-Bastard Noise insectoid frequencies of final track "Approach Of The Black Claw". Ltd x 300 copies in cut & paste artwork (similar to RRRecords' Pure Series).
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TREES - 'Lights Bane' CD (Crucial Blast)
The debut album from the Portland quartet Trees delivers two epic tracks of monolithic, blackened doom metal with a twisted, noise-damaged approach and a dank basement vibe. Trees craft glacial abstract riffs and rivers of ashen amplifier goo that fans of feedback-laden heaviosity will find highly satisfying - a kind of grinding, slow-motion black hole psychedelia that has a similar hypnotic death-ritual quality as artists like Bloody Panda and Khanate, but with their own unique trance state of swirling guitar textures, horrific jet black dronescapes and ghoulish, excoriating vocals. Features members of the Tecumseh. Comes in a hardback, gatefold digifile.
Sometime in the year 2000, Tristan a.k.a. Aran (Lunar Aurora) started to create Dark Ambient sound-scapes leading into the deepest emotional dimensions as well as into the widest spheres of time and space: Trist. Following the stunning double CD effort "Hin-Fort", "Willenskfraft" offers harrowing, ambient-drenched black metal and haunting, ghostly dark ambient in equal measure. File next to Vinterriket, Nortt etc. Digipak.
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UDUMBAL - 'Ahi Budhnya' CD (Unisound Records / Possession Productions)
The second album by this Black Ambient / Black Metal / Orchestral entity from Belarus, offering mysterious ambiance of Slavonic / Nature-oriented inspiration. For dark souls into black ritual art. Originally released on cassette by Possession Productions, this is the Greek-licensed CD version in jewelcase. Ltd x 1000 copies.
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ULVER - 'Shadows Of The Sun' T-Shirt - Large Size (The End Records)
Official black t-shirt from Ulver, featuring the cover from the limited poster accompanying the "Shadows Of The Sun" album. 2nd edition with metallic gold and white print.
Please note that we do not accept returns on items of clothing! We are happy to provide chest measurements on request.
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VARGHKOGHARGASMAL - 'Drowned In Lakes' CD (Tumult)
This one-man German act creates a difficult sound to describe... The vocals are minimal, a hushed whisper here and there, a Viking style chant during one song, but it's mostly left to the music, which is incredibly evocative, it's like some sort of acoustic black metal, mixed with slowed down surf rock, dark languorous krautrock, and a distinct Morricone vibe too. Most of the songs creep and crawl, sometimes behind a curtain of rainfall, the sound of the forest spirits, flickering firelight, fireflies lighting up the canopy overhead. Pianos pick out mournful melodies, the drums, lurching along, a perfectly imperfect accompaniment, organs wheeze, synths whir, steel strings twang, the whole thing so impossibly transcendent, effortlessly evoking ancient atmospheres and deep emotions. Hauntingly beautiful. Ltd x 1000 copies.
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VARGR - 'Storm Of Northern Evil' CD (Total Holocaust Records)
Unclean, ugly and lo-fi Black Metal in its most unpure form. Nordvargr (MZ.412 / Folkstorm / Toroidh) is the sole dictator behind this creation, but do not expect to hear any black ambient industrial sounds here - this is raw BM of the most unclean kind. Vargr has previously released two full-lengthers. This third installment also comes with "The Twice High Holy Secret Of Constant Generation" demo (2008) as a bonus. Ltd x 1000.
VARGR - 'Wehrmacht Satanas' CD (Eternal Pride Productions)
The name Henrik Nordvargr Björkk has always been associated with the power of Swedish Black Industrial, which has been linked to MZ.412 for many years. As part of MZ.412, Nordvargr first managed to combine black metal and post-industrial aesthetics. But Vargr is an even more diabolic, blasphemous and terrifying cocktail of the real Scandinavian Black Metal of the early 90's, Black Ambient and Noise layers which create an atmosphere of Evil, Death, Chaos and Destruction in their impious graciousness. An unholy communion summoned to create the soundtrack for all wars to come. Bow to the Northern Wolf! Includes a cover of Burzum's track "Det Som En Gang Var".
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VELNIAS - 'Sovereign Nocturnal' CD (God Is Myth)
The music of Illinois based blacked doom outfit Velnias can be best described as a combination of sorrowful black metal with a very doomy atmosphere, combined with elements of folk. With three lengthy songs, the emphasis has been laid upon a musical foundation of progressive yet feral riffs, intertwining with delicate passages that only make the heavier parts that much more potent. Combined with lyrical content based upon the premise that the human race is insignificant compared to the grand power and prestige of nature this is a debut album that should not be dismissed! Although the band definitely has their own sound, one could easily find comparisons to bands like Opeth, Agalloch, Primordial or Wolves In The Throne Room. Digifile.
A three-way summit on bleak doom and buzzing misery. Sandy Saunders (Torso), Darcy Spidle (Divorce Records) and Jordan Hines mix drums, bass, electronics and vocals into a thick morass. Vennt stakes out territory at the intersection of black metal, drone, doom and power electronics, then fortifies the barricades. US edition. Ltd x 400 hand-numbered copies with a copper cover and insert in a heavy PVC archive sleeve.
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VERGISSMEINNICHT - 'Whispering Solitude' CD (Mignight Productions / Pest Productions)
This is the debut album from depressive / Dark folk project from Shandong, China. Silent and dark, like crying in the dark night and whisper of the dead. Every word and note echoes like sounds in your dreams. The memory still remains. Is that the past betrayed you, or may just the opposite? A melancholic album, for all fans of Empyrium and Ulver…!!! Vergissmeinnicht is a side project of Lu, the only member of the depressive Black Metal band Heartless. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak. Chinese import.
Over 20 minutes of excellent new material (2 lengthy tracks) from this prolific and cult one-man-act from Germany. The usual black ambient / black metal / cold synth and melancholic passages, drifting into the forests.... Also includes a video clip for the track 'Eisleere'. Comes in nice digipak with 16 page booklet featuring his trademark bleak, black and white photography Ltd x 1000.
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VINTERRIKET - 'Gebirgschohenstille' Enhanced CD (Displeased Records)
Another full-length album from this prolific, cult German act - one Christoph Ziegler. Six tracks of dark ambient, cold synths, bleak and desolate mountain soundscapes combined with grim black metal. Includes a bonus video clip for the track 'Gipfelpforte'. File next to Burzum, Nortt, Xasthur etc.
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VINTERRIKET - 'Landschaften Ewiger Einsamkeit' CD (Frostscald Records)
2008 edition of the classic Vinterriket album, originally issued in 2003 and with various subsequent pressings. The cult one-man act had produced 6 tracks of black ambient / black metal / cold synth and melancholic passages, with images of dark forests. Ltd x 1000 copies. Russian import with new artwork and expanded booklet.
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VINTERRIKET - 'Wege In Die Vergangenheit (2002-2004)' CD (Empire Records / Othal Productions / Frontline Productions)
A collection of tracks taken from various split releases and limited EPs over those 2 years. This is the Black Metal side of Vinterriket. Includes tracks from "Winterschatten" (2003), "Aura" (2003), "Im amivalenten Zweilicht..." (2004), "Kalte" (2002), and their splits with Orodruin and Paysage D'Hiver respectively. 70 minutes of music! Russian edition of this release. Ltd x 1000 copies.
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VINTERRIKET / ORODRUIN - 'Split' CD (Aphelion Productions)
Re-release of the album from 2002 (originally released by Desolate Landscapes), between Germany's prolific dark ambient / black metal one-man act, Vinterriket, and the doom-laden black metal of Holland's Orodruin. An interesting blend of raw and atmospheric Black Metal alongside orchestral Dark Ambient tones, melancholic passages and unnatural sounds. Ltd x 1000 copies.
Re-release of the album from 2002 (originally released by Desolate Landscapes), between Germany's prolific dark ambient / black metal one-man act, Vinterriket, and the doom-laden black metal of Holland's Orodruin. An interesting blend of raw and atmospheric Black Metal alongside orchestral Dark Ambient tones, melancholic passages and unnatural sounds. Ltd x 500 copies in a striking gatefold sleeve with completely new layout and artwork.
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WILDILDLIFE - 'Peas Feast' 12" (Crucial Blast)
Vinyl reissue of 2007's "Peas Feast" self-released EP. Mastered by Scott Hull (Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed). Four lengthy songs of ultra-heavy sludge, crushing glacial metal, psych rock, noise rock and desperate howling vocals. Slow, sludgy and creeping but still unbelievably catchy and exuberant. Although this early material is more immediate and raw than the band's debut album Six, the music is crushing, catchy and totally spaced-out. Ltd x 1000 copies on yellow / black marbled vinyl. Comes with a dropcard that will allow you to download the tracks from the "Peas Feast" EP as well as a digital-only EP titled "Drongolet Demos" with unreleased Wildildlife tracks.
WOLFMANGLER - 'Dwelling In A Dead Raven For The Glory Of Crucified Wolves' 2 x LP (Aurora Borealis)
Wolfmangler is the musical vision of D Smolken, a Polish political émigré, formerly of Dead Raven Choir. His music is slow, grim, noisy, black and shambling; a deconstructed hybrid of twisted folk and hinterland doom metal. Bowed double bass, electric bass and violin merge with sinister growls and whispered lyrics as Wolfmangler improvise dissonant doom riffs around lyrics taken from Hank Williams Jr, Georg Trakl and others, rich with the symbolism of life and decay. Wolfmangler create a listening experience at once unsettling, twisted and darkly beautiful. Comes with 2 vinyl-only bonus, previously-unreleased tracks! Heavyweight vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with 2 posters.
WOLFMANGLER - 'Dwelling In A Dead Raven For The Glory Of Crucified Wolves' CD (Aurora Borealis)
Wolfmangler is the musical vision of D Smolken, a Polish political émigré, formerly of Dead Raven Choir. His music is slow, grim, noisy, black and shambling; a deconstructed hybrid of twisted folk and hinterland doom metal. Bowed double bass, electric bass and violin merge with sinister growls and whispered lyrics as Wolfmangler improvise dissonant doom riffs around lyrics taken from Hank Williams Jr, Georg Trakl and others, rich with the symbolism of life and decay. Wolfmangler create a listening experience at once unsettling, twisted and darkly beautiful.
WORMSBLOOD - 'Mastery Of Creation Demos' CD (Barbarian Records)
An album of outsider metal, it's sparse and bleak, but rumblings, clanging and tortured cries erupt violently throughout. Unhinged and dangerous. Comparisons could be drawn to Armanenschaft, Blood of the Black Owl and The True Werewolf, both musically, as well as in the sense those bands also use Black Metal as a foundation to explore darker, more experimental avenues.
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WORMSBLOOD - 'Mastery Of Creation Demos' LP (Barbarian Records)
An album of outsider metal, it's sparse and bleak, but rumblings, clanging and tortured cries erupt violently throughout. Unhinged and dangerous. Comparisons could be drawn to Armanenschaft, Blood of the Black Owl and The True Werewolf, both musically, as well as in the sense those bands also use Black Metal as a foundation to explore darker, more experimental avenues.
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XASTHUR - 'Nocturnal Poisoning' CD (Blood Fire Death)
Imagine the deepest reaches of the mind as the razor streaks across wrists. This is suicidal grandeur unlike anything ever produced by an American black metal band. Reminding of Leviathan, Burzum, Mütiilation and Abyssic Hate in terms of absolute self destruction. Bleak images of solitude await you...
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XASTHUR - 'The Funeral Of Being' CD (Blood Fire Death)
The lastest assault of bleak, suicidal Black Metal 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.
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ZENITH - 'Aedipus - Rimotion Of The Fragment 23' CD (Aphelion Productions)
"The music of Zenith collects Black Metal, Dark Ambient, Noise and Doom influences blending them with a perverse and sick idea of musical sound” is how the band describe their sound. Zenith leans heavier on the experimental side of very dark and unique strangeness. Like a soundtrack to the worst horror film ever made but in a good way. Ltd x 500.
Legions of Darkness know no mercy! The new Abgott full-length album, "Fizala", is ready to open the dimensional gates of Hell to world domination! Seven cosmic hymns of pure soul crushing blasphemy, ferocious blackened energy, with hidden tracks and unexpected revelations! The sound of incredible twilight zone out space evil and Daemons. A real must for every true metal maniac and brave explorer of unconventionality! For fans of Abigor, Akercocke and early Mayhem.
