ABYSMAL DARKENING - 'No Light Behind' CD (Totalrust)
The long awaited debut full-length album from Dutch act Abysmal Darkening, featuring ex-members of Bunkur together with current members of Planet Aids and Funeral Goat. "No Light Behind" wraps seven tracks of depressive torturing Doom / Dark / Black Metal with a unique mix of traditional doom riffing, stoner doom and black metal influences. Recommended to fans of Bethlehem, Deinonychus, Celtic Frost and Urfaust. Ltd x 1000 copies.
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ADERLATING - 'Spear Of Gold And Seraphim Pt. 1' CD (ConSouling Sounds)
Starting out as an outlet for Mories (Gnaw Their Tongues / De Magia Veterum) to bring his unique dark aural vision to the live environment, together with Eric (Mowlawner), Aderlating have evolved into a solid act. Aderlating unleashes new tidal waves of darkness with "Spear of Gold & Seraphim Bone Pt. 1" (the second part is scheduled to be released later this year). Ranging from subtle ambient to noise-drenched slabs of black metal, low-end rumbling, screeching highs and driven industrial brutality, Aderlating is captivating and disenchanting at the same time. The whole atmosphere breathes a hypnotic darkness, which has a distinct ritualistic feel to it. Vile ritual hymns of pure darkness and horror. It purges all the filth, bleakness and darkness of the world, and channels it into mind numbing sonic abuse the listener just can't get enough of. Ltd x 500 copies in a mini-LP sleeve.
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AETHYR - 'Messio' CD (RAIG)
Aethyr rises again with a punishing slab of blackened industrial doom, with a generous helping of samples from occultist Aleister Crowley. "Messio" is an all-new album but it continues the cryptic and menacing atmosphere of the debut "Mass" EP utilising the leaden riffage of sub-tuned bass guitar, layers of harsh textured distortion and electronic ambience, discordant guitar soloing and synth stabs, indecipherable ennui-laden voices and steady slow-motion martial percussion. The duo's apocalyptic epiphanies of future times are dark and cold borrowing equally from erratic aesthetic of industrial music and the most extreme forms of black and doom metal. File next to Earth, Corrupted, Einstrzende Neubauten, Melvins and Skullflower. Presented in a black hand-assembled cardboard folder with silver metallic printing and inlay.
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AGALLOCH - 'Ashes Against The Grain' CD (Grau)
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).
"Pale Folklore" features eight tracks (62mins) of Black Metal / Doom from this Portland act. Very elaborate and diverse, and surrounded by the majesty of nature and the burden of human existence, the album bursts with melodies with a basis of dark yet very emotional concepts. Creating auras of dark, symphonic melancholia, "Pale Folklore" turns out to be one of the most tragic, mournful yet expressive listening experiences ever!
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ALTAR OF PERVERSION & MORDAEHOTH & DER BLUTHARSCH - 'Tributo A Der Blutharsch' CD (New Era Productions)
Originally issued on a 10" in 2005, now reissued onto CD with bonus tracks. Besides the dark and grim Black / Pagan Metal interpretations of Der Blutharsch battle hymns created by both bands, you will also find 7 original tracks by Der Blutharsch on this one, making it a very lengthy CD. This album will appeal to both Black / Pagan Metal fans as well as those of Der Blutharsch. Black silkscreened print on heavy black paper cover make this an absolute jewel in every collection! Ltd x 999 copies.
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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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ARKHANOTH - 'Dark Prehispania' CD (Sarcofago Music)
Arkhanoth is a one-man Black Ambient / Ritual project from Mexican artist Lord Arkhanoth, with deep pride in his Mexican roots. "Dark Prehispania" is a work based on the Aztec Mythos, unleashing their Magic. Dark Ambient with several elements of Black Metal, Symphonic, Ethno-Ambient, Ritual Rhythms, cavernous voices and the rustle of the wind. In addition to this an abundance of pre-Hispanic instruments are used, making the music somewhat obscure and at times funerary. File next to Melek-Tha, Endvra, Nitrous Flesh, Pragnavit. Digipak. Mexican import.
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ARTISIAN - 'Na Beiste Bho'n Talamh' CD (None)
Artisans eagerly anticipated second album features 11 gut wrenching tracks of intense, fast-paced original black / death metal. Unusually, the album has mostly been written in Scots Gaelic, which gives the album an exhilarating and abnormal edge, whilst inventing a completely new styled trademark sound. Artisian have successfully merged the two genres of black and death metal, into an exciting and gripping album, with thunderous drums, intense dual vocals, ripping guitar riffs and brutal bass lines.
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ASKA - 'Dar 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.
AUTHOR & PUNISHER - 'Drone Machines' CD (HCB Records)
By squelching, triggering, amputating, stretching and tormenting sounds achieved from the execution of heavy machinery into vivid instruments, Author & Punisher offers "Drone Machines". Nonetheless, "Drone Machines" is beyond avantgarde, in that exciting sense that it brings together slow-paced Doom whips, modern technology, an eerie flood of vile drones and heavy machinery in a whole new perspective. It's also an album that is reviving the Industrial Metal genre from its ashes and rephrasing the primeval passion for that classic bestial drum pound with rancid low end and sonic-metallic scraping. Recommended if you like Godflesh, HALO, Swans, Human Queena Orchestra, Dead World, Grave in the Sky, Khanate, Black Mayonnaise etc.
"The doom sound is instantly recognisable, complete with rasping vocals - an ultra-heavy onslaught. Thats the known and well-explored ground. But from here, Batillus moves towards irresistible, heavy riffing psych, while Ryan Fairfields Hallowed Butchery project fires a pistol to transcend the mossy caves and to throw fits of shoegazing prog doom. This is a brilliant doom metal splitthe Batillus side rules, because the American four-piece works so effectively and freshly within the known framework. The Hallowed Butchery side is even better because he does the same, and much more, transcending the confines of the genre" (Foxy Digitalis). Mastered by James Plotkin and beautifully packaged. Ltd x 400 copies on black vinyl.
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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.
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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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BOTANIST - 'I: The Suicide Tree / II: A Rose From The Dead' 2 x CD (Tumult)
Debut CD from Bay Area's Botanist - another mysterious one-man Black Metal horde rising from the fertile SFBM underground. 40 tracks of eerie and esoteric, buzzing and baffling, drum and dulcimer driven eco-terrorist Black Metal, but with absolutely NO guitars. Botanist's warped sonic world, one that manages to be heavy, buzzing and blackened, but also haunting and hypnotic and strangely cinematic; a swirling, hazy, chaotic sound, densely melodic and relentlessly rhythmic. "Enter the Verdant Realm!". Comes in a deluxe gatefold hardback outsize sleeve.
Circle is ever changing, ever Circular. On "Rautatie" the Finnish six-piece once again dives into uncharted waters of music, into a miasma of influences that feels vaguely familiar but, in an uncanny way, is not quite real. "Rautatie" is epic hard rock and colossal riffs that corrode into fragments of black metallic atonality over time. Occasionally the albums majestic elements step aside and let sprinkles of athletic boogie take the center stage. Together the eight tracks on the album form a hard rocking bullet train, speeding ever onwards on a circular railroad to infinity.
CIRCLE - 'Rautatie' LP (Full Contact Records / Svart Records)
Clear vinyl edition of this 2010 album. Circle is ever changing, ever Circular. On "Rautatie" the Finnish six-piece once again dives into uncharted waters of music, into a miasma of influences that feels vaguely familiar but, in an uncanny way, is not quite real. "Rautatie" is epic hard rock and colossal riffs that corrode into fragments of black metallic atonality over time. Occasionally the albums majestic elements step aside and let sprinkles of athletic boogie take the center stage. Together the eight tracks on the album form a hard rocking bullet train, speeding ever onwards on a circular railroad to infinity.
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 bands 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.
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DEADWOOD - 'Ramblack' CD (Cold Spring CSR104CD)
"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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DEN SAAKALDTE - 'l Mrke Og Depresjon' 2 x LP (Aesthetic Death Records)
Featuring members, past and present, of some of the finest extreme bands - Kvarforth (Shining, Skitliv, Bethlehem), Jormungand (Ddheimsgard), Kobro (Carpathian Forest), Seidemann (1349), Kvebek (Pantheon I), Uruz (Where Angels Fall, ex-Shining), Sykelig (Shining) - Den Saakaldte now stand as one of today's best dark / black metal bands in their own right. This is a re-issue of extremely limited dark/black metal masterpiece from 2008 (Eerie Art Records). The raw and inspired energy, killer riffs and suicidal vocals take you to places best left unexplored. Of a twisted genius in creation. Ltd x 500 numbered copies in a stunning, heavyweight gatefold sleeve.
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DEN SAAKALDTE - 'l Mrke Og Depresjon' CD (Aesthetic Death Records)
Featuring members, past and present, of some of the finest extreme bands - Kvarforth (Shining, Skitliv, Bethlehem), Jormungand (Ddheimsgard), Kobro (Carpathian Forest), Seidemann (1349), Kvebek (Pantheon I), Uruz (Where Angels Fall, ex-Shining), Sykelig (Shining) - Den Saakaldte now stand as one of today's best dark / black metal bands in their own right. This is a re-issue of extremely limited dark/black metal masterpiece from 2008 (Eerie Art Records). The raw and inspired energy, killer riffs and suicidal vocals take you to places best left unexplored. Of a twisted genius in creation. Ltd x 1000 copies in a digipak with 2 exclusive bonus tracks.
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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.
ERESHKIGAL - 'The Raping Of The Divine' LP (Temple Of Darkness)
Ereshkigal is a Greek band that plays shockingly 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.
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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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FAHL - 'The Paths To Emptiness' CD (The Eastern Front)
Debut opus from Fahl, founded by Dimo Dimov, Marcel P. and Cornelius Waldner in 2008. All the musicians are active participants in numerous groups from the dark folk, neoclassical and black metal genres. They felt a growing urge to experiment with dark ambient soundscapes, resulting in this mutual collaboration. �The Paths To Emptiness� is a haunting journey to the subconscious, divided into ten audial gateways to the occult and hidden forces of the inner self. Lyrically based on the Mahabharata, as well as poems and texts by John Milton, Jack London, Stefan George, Christian Dietrich Grabbe and Cornelius Waldner, this release is strongly recommended for fans of Brighter Death Now and Lustmord. Featuring members of Svarrogh, Sagittarius, Miel Noir and Allerseelen. Ltd x 1000 copies.
FLEGETHON - 'Behind A Side Of The Times' CD (Marche Funebre Productions)
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.
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-annihilating noise-metal dirge. Ltd x 1000 copies in a gatefold jacket.
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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, youll have a hard time beating this" (Kerrang). Hardback digifile.
GNAW THEIR TONGUES - 'L'Arrivee De La Terne Mort Triomphante - Black' LP (Burning World Records)
Gnaw Their Tongues transcend genres, creating their own distinct sound. Descriptors include ambient black metal, funeral doom metal, industrial drone etc. Instrumentation relies heavily on keyboards and percussion, with the drumming looming in the distance like a hideous parade before a battle is set loose. Monk-like choirs, industrial emanations, bizarre samples, occasional shrieks and droning, abused guitars are all on display, brought together almost unwillingly to share the same stage. Lyrically, LArrivee de la Terne Mort Triomphante is a concept album about death (morte). Songs describe the white throne of death, address the song of death and praise deaths majesty and grandeur. For many listeners, "LArrivee de la Terne Mort Triomphante" will be little more than noise or frustratingly dull drone. However, fans of the outr of the genre, where bands such as Sunn O))) and Throbbing Gristle practice their art, will find much to uncover and savour. Under the anger and fear there is joy, sadness, selfishness, and self-discovery. All you have to do is let these find you. Ltd x 750 copies on black vinyl in a deluxe gatefold sleeve.
GNAW THEIR TONGUES - 'L'Arrive De La Terne Mort Triomphante' CD (Crucial Blast)
Gnaw Their Tongues transcend genres, creating their own distinct sound. Descriptors include ambient black metal, funeral doom metal, industrial drone etc. Instrumentation relies heavily on keyboards and percussion, with the drumming looming in the distance like a hideous parade before a battle is set loose. Monk-like choirs, industrial emanations, bizarre samples, occasional shrieks and droning, abused guitars are all on display, brought together almost unwillingly to share the same stage. Lyrically, LArrivee de la Terne Mort Triomphante is a concept album about death (morte). Songs describe the white throne of death, address the song of death and praise deaths majesty and grandeur. For many listeners, "LArrivee de la Terne Mort Triomphante" will be little more than noise or frustratingly dull drone. However, fans of the outr of the genre, where bands such as Sunn O))) and Throbbing Gristle practice their art, will find much to uncover and savour. Under the anger and fear there is joy, sadness, selfishness, and self-discovery. All you have to do is let these find you. Hardback digifile.
GOATMOON / DEAD REPTILE SHRINE - 'Winterforest' CD (Bestial Burst)
Split release between two Finnish acts. Goatmoon steal the show with their 25-minute title track. Epic, Satanic Black Metal with elements of melody and atmospheres with plenty of anthemic guitars, eerie piano and howling wind. Goatmoon never let the overall quality level drop. DRS contributes 5 tracks of weird and wonderful melancholic Black Metal, more understated and less bombastic than Goatmoon, but as memorable in a low-key sort of way.
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GOATVARGR - 'Black Snow Epoch' CD (Cold Spring CSR126CD)
The second unholy union of Lord Nordvargr (MZ.412, Folkstorm, Toroidh etc) and Goat (USA). Time, pilgrimages and bloodlines have been bourn since the first testament of Goatvargr was witnessed in this era of false knowledge. The first covenant of Goatvargr was baleful, lycanthropic and lethiferous. A rejection of the techgnostic kingdom and circuitry idols which seduce our era. The downfall of light has brought a world of coldness. This Black Snow Epoch is a time to honour our forbearers such as MZ.412 and the elements of flesh, wood and alchemical steel. Industrial loops and analogue keyboards merge with sheet metal and chains to create a solemn winter hymn where the cold steel stings your flesh. The wolf instinctively hunts through the frost, and the goat is blamed for human transgressions, yet during the Black Snow Epoch, the true hunters will pursue. Foldout poster cover.
Black shirt with doom-laden grey print (front print with cover design and backprint with the Goatvargr logo) celebrating the second unholy union of Lord Nordvargr (MZ.412, Folkstorm, Toroidh etc) and Goat (USA). This Black Snow Epoch is a time to honour our forbearers such as MZ.412 and the elements of flesh, wood and alchemical steel. Industrial loops and analogue keyboards merge with sheet metal and chains to create a solemn winter hymn where the cold steel stings your flesh. The wolf instinctively hunts through the frost, and the goat is blamed for human transgressions, yet during the Black Snow Epoch, the true hunters will pursue.
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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GOATVARGR - 'Black Snow Epoch' T-Shirt - Extra Large Size (Cold Spring CSR137TS)
Black shirt with doom-laden grey print (front print with cover design and backprint with the Goatvargr logo) celebrating the second unholy union of Lord Nordvargr (MZ.412, Folkstorm, Toroidh etc) and Goat (USA). This Black Snow Epoch is a time to honour our forbearers such as MZ.412 and the elements of flesh, wood and alchemical steel. Industrial loops and analogue keyboards merge with sheet metal and chains to create a solemn winter hymn where the cold steel stings your flesh. The wolf instinctively hunts through the frost, and the goat is blamed for human transgressions, yet during the Black Snow Epoch, the true hunters will pursue.
Black shirt with doom-laden grey print (front print with cover design and backprint with the Goatvargr logo) celebrating the second unholy union of Lord Nordvargr (MZ.412, Folkstorm, Toroidh etc) and Goat (USA). This Black Snow Epoch is a time to honour our forbearers such as MZ.412 and the elements of flesh, wood and alchemical steel. Industrial loops and analogue keyboards merge with sheet metal and chains to create a solemn winter hymn where the cold steel stings your flesh. The wolf instinctively hunts through the frost, and the goat is blamed for human transgressions, yet during the Black Snow Epoch, the true hunters will pursue.
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GOATVARGR - 'Black Snow Epoch' T-Shirt - Large Size (Cold Spring CSR137TS)
Black shirt with doom-laden grey print (front print with cover design and backprint with the Goatvargr logo) celebrating the second unholy union of Lord Nordvargr (MZ.412, Folkstorm, Toroidh etc) and Goat (USA). This Black Snow Epoch is a time to honour our forbearers such as MZ.412 and the elements of flesh, wood and alchemical steel. Industrial loops and analogue keyboards merge with sheet metal and chains to create a solemn winter hymn where the cold steel stings your flesh. The wolf instinctively hunts through the frost, and the goat is blamed for human transgressions, yet during the Black Snow Epoch, the true hunters will pursue.
Please note that we do not accept returns on items of clothing! Chest measurement has been provided.
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GOATVARGR - 'Black Snow Epoch' T-Shirt - Medium Size (Cold Spring CSR137TS)
Black shirt with doom-laden grey print (front print with cover design and backprint with the Goatvargr logo) celebrating the second unholy union of Lord Nordvargr (MZ.412, Folkstorm, Toroidh etc) and Goat (USA). This Black Snow Epoch is a time to honour our forbearers such as MZ.412 and the elements of flesh, wood and alchemical steel. Industrial loops and analogue keyboards merge with sheet metal and chains to create a solemn winter hymn where the cold steel stings your flesh. The wolf instinctively hunts through the frost, and the goat is blamed for human transgressions, yet during the Black Snow Epoch, the true hunters will pursue.
Please note that we do not accept returns on items of clothing! Chest measurement has been provided.
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GOATVARGR - 'Black Snow Epoch' T-Shirt - Small Size (Cold Spring CSR137TS)
Black shirt with doom-laden grey print (front print with cover design and backprint with the Goatvargr logo) celebrating the second unholy union of Lord Nordvargr (MZ.412, Folkstorm, Toroidh etc) and Goat (USA). This Black Snow Epoch is a time to honour our forbearers such as MZ.412 and the elements of flesh, wood and alchemical steel. Industrial loops and analogue keyboards merge with sheet metal and chains to create a solemn winter hymn where the cold steel stings your flesh. The wolf instinctively hunts through the frost, and the goat is blamed for human transgressions, yet during the Black Snow Epoch, the true hunters will pursue.
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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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.
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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 - 'Black Frost Fallout' CD (Totalrust)
It's time to rejoice again. The amazing demo of the mighty Highgate is given a proper release together with older tracks, shiny new intermezzo and 'Live Ritual'. If somehow you managed to miss Highgate and their hybrid of minimalist yet ultra-powerful doom, noise, sludge and grim black metal, here is your chance to get addicted to captivating and uplifting ugliness. If however you are the surviving victim of their oppressive sound, you know that it is yet another blessing. There is nothing even remotely optimistic in the Kentucky deadliest's message only desolation, hatred and inhabited earth. Ltd x 1000 copies.
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HIGHGATE - 'Shrines To The Warhead' CD (Totalrust)
After two years of silence Highgate is back with another grim slab of sickness. "Shrines To The Warhead" delivers four noisy tracks of almost 45 minutes and shows once again their unique powerful Doom / Black Metal / Sludge / Noise that is nasty, oppressive and suicidal. This album is the heaviest effort of the band so far. Devastating. Ltd x 1000 copies.
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HKY - 'HKY' LP (Music Fear Satan)
French act HKY unleash their first effort: four-long-tracks recorded by Julien Lamorille in Bethune (April 2008). The result sounds like dark and cold doom metal with 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.
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HOLLOW SUNSHINE / THE AUSTRASIAN GOAT - 'Wherever I Am' 12" (Vendetta Records)
Two solo dirging monsters team up - US Doom Vs. French Blackened Doom Metal. On the a-side, Hollow Sunshine delivers a pummeling, industrial sewer while The Austrasian Goat goes rather eclectic. The b-side features a wild blackened shoegaze meets industrial psych piece by way of a collaboration between the two. Ltd x 300 hand-numbered copies in a silk-screened cover.
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HREFNESHOLT - 'Uraungst' CD (Percht)
Going back to far away times, Hrefnesholt digs out long forgotten, ancient tales amongst the myths of the Upper Austrian forests. These legends of sinister and primal fears were too terrible to be retold and people wanted to forget them over the centuries. Now these ancient tales are finally being retold in "Uraungst". A mixture of dark, organic Ambient, Folk, a slight Black Metal touch and spoken/sung lyrics and tales in Austrian dialect. Hrefneshold is pure Doom Folk and incomparable with any other music style. Outsize sleeve.
HYPSIPHRONE - 'And The Void Shall Pierce Their Eyes' CD (Black Plagve / Malignant Records)
Debut album from this one man project from Greece, fitting right in with labelmate Sewer Goddess in its ability to create innately evil and impure sounds, integrating elements of doom metal, black metal, and dark experimentalism into the pure industrial horror that constitutes the majority of this release. The result is nothing short of absolute and abject dread; 8 tracks spanning an hour worth of materialan auditory overload thats completely immersive, and at times overwhelming , where heaving masses of percussive doom collide with shuddering machinery dirge, ghoulish and nightmarish ambience, torturous screams, and cinematic depravity, the sounds layered into a tangled and abstract tapestry of something completely epic and nearly majestic in its scale. Fans of Gnaw Their Tongues, Abruptum and Necro Evangelicum era BDN will do well to wallow in the oozing blackness and unbridled malevolence Hypsiphrone has created. Ltd x 500 copies in a 6-panel digipak.
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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. For fans of Prurient and Sutcliffe Jugend!
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. Its 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 artists 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.
IVS PRIMAE NOCTIS - 'Giorno Di Dolore' 10" (Trips Und Traume)
Four new astonishing tracks from brilliant Romans Ivs Primae Noctis, now more powerful and solid than ever! without missing out their dirty and tormented nature that fans knew from their previous works. File under Black Metal / Hardcore / Black Industrial / Power Noise. Ltd x 200 copies on clear vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with insert.
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KAULA - 'Avadhuta Gita Chapter I' CD (Doomentia)
Kaula's debut is the vision of one Pietro Riparbelli (K11), an Italian artist who not only composed and recorded the whole thing, but also designed its cryptic booklet and contributed with organs, medianic chants, field recordings and radio signals. Kaula is a whole different beast to K11. What could be seen at first glance at some kind of weird black-metal outburst - including rasping vocals courtesy of Rosy from old-school death-metal warriors Profanal and buzzsaw guitars - soon makes sure all rules go out the window by using various metal (doom, thrash) and non-metal (noise industrial) elements and create a sonic black hole. All lyrics are based here on ancient text called Avadhuta Gita, said to have been originally written in the IXth century. As a result, all seven tracks have been named after it and are basically about attaining a spiritual state equivalent to the existence of god. Mastered by Mell Dettmer (SunnO))), Earth). Digipak with silver foilblock print.
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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.
KONGH - 'Counting Heartbeats - BLACK' 2 x LP (Music Fear Satan)
Vinyl re-issue of the first Kongh record, originally released in 2007 (Trust No One Recordings). These five tracks sound like the most brutal and direct Doom Metal offerings among the band's discography. The stunning gatefold cover was designed by Seldon Hunt and the record is limited to 1000 copies (150 on clear, 150 on pink & white marbled and 700 on black).
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KONGH - 'Counting Heartbeats - CLEAR' 2 x LP (Music Fear Satan)
Vinyl re-issue of the first Kongh record, originally released in 2007 (Trust No One Recordings). These five tracks sound like the most brutal and direct Doom Metal offerings among the band's discography. The stunning gatefold cover was designed by Seldon Hunt and the record is limited to 1000 copies (150 on clear, 150 on pink & white marbled and 700 on black).
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KONGH - 'Counting Heartbeats - PINK & WHITE MARBLED' 2 x LP (Music Fear Satan)
Vinyl re-issue of the first Kongh record, originally released in 2007 (Trust No One Recordings). These five tracks sound like the most brutal and direct Doom Metal offerings among the band's discography. The stunning gatefold cover was designed by Seldon Hunt and the record is limited to 1000 copies (150 on clear, 150 on pink & white marbled and 700 on black).
ONE COPY PER CUSTOMER ONLY! If you attempt to purchase more than 1 copy, your order will be refunded.
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KORPERSCHWACHE - 'Evil Walks' CD (Crucial Blast)
"Evil Walks" is the most focused work yet from this utterly demented Texas outfit that started out in the mid 90s as a pure noise project but gradually evolved into this weird, lumbering black-dirge that we hear now. Thumping minimal drum-machine, droning dissonant riffs that veer from hypnotic noise to dismal quasi-black metal buzz, narcoleptic croaking and malevolent sneer bathed in reverb, the distant sad howling of wolves and ear-piercing screams drift across the background. A warped, blasted beauty shining through rotting shadows and rapidly declining emotional states. Digipak with booklet.
Threatening new collaboration taking in parallel worlds of Extreme Computer Music and Black Metal. KTL is Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))), Gravetemple, thenor, 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 Gisle 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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LEVIATHAN - 'Verrter' 2 x CD (Tumult)
Pure, primitive, cult, home recorded evil! Two discs, 22 tracks, 143 minutes of buzzing, howling, pummelling black metal. Think Burzum, Darkthrone, Immortal, but with all sorts of weird twists and sonic surprises. Sure, Leviathan is grimmer than grim metal that the frost and forest lords of Norway should bow down to, but it's also pure expression unfettered by genre restraints, although informed and inspired by them. Unique and category-defying black metal... dark, weird, noisy, disturbing art embodying one man's twisted vision. Original, evil, hateful, misanthropic, bizarre and truly black metal. "Verrter", the first official Leviathan release, contains tracks dating back to 1998 with the first disc representing more recently recorded tracks, while disc two contains the older, rawer material. "Verrter" is beyond just black metal, it's a collection of utterly brutal, truly innovative, and completely soul crushing musical blackness.
LICHT-UNG ("glade") is the name of a label, art and sound project from Germany, 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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LOCRIAN - 'Territories' CD (BloodLust! / Small Doses)
Andr Foisy and Terence Hannum have spent the last several years honing the Locrian sound. They've taken elements from noise, power electronics, drone, and black metal to come up with a truly unique sound reflecting the sprawling urban decay surrounding them in Chicago. For this release, Locrian has pulled out all the stops and fleshed out the band with the help of Mark Solotroff (Bloodyminded), Blake Judd (Nachtmystium), Bruce Lamont (Yakuza) and Andrew Scherer (Velnias). The results of this massive collaborative effort are apparent from the moment the album starts. The textures run darker and deeper; the vocals - sometimes three layers deep - seem to be conjured from the decrepit muck of a failed civilisation; the feedback takes on a more pronounced presence; and the big band allows for full-on black metal assaults that burst out of the tortured drones Locrian have come to be known for. "Territories" may well be the most fully realised form of Locrian's dystopic vision. Digipak.
LOCRIAN - 'Territories' LP (At War With False Noise / Basses Frequences / BloodLust! / Small Doses)
Andr Foisy and Terence Hannum have spent the last several years honing the Locrian sound. They've taken elements from noise, power electronics, drone, and black metal to come up with a truly unique sound reflecting the sprawling urban decay surrounding them in Chicago. For this release, Locrian has pulled out all the stops and fleshed out the band with the help of Mark Solotroff (Bloodyminded), Blake Judd (Nachtmystium), Bruce Lamont (Yakuza) and Andrew Scherer (Velnias). The results of this massive collaborative effort are apparent from the moment the album starts. The textures run darker and deeper; the vocals - sometimes three layers deep - seem to be conjured from the decrepit muck of a failed civilisation; the feedback takes on a more pronounced presence; and the big band allows for full-on black metal assaults that burst out of the tortured drones Locrian have come to be known for. "Territories" may well be the most fully realised form of Locrian's dystopic vision. Ltd x 500 copies on black vinyl.
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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LOTUS EATERS - 'Wurmwulv' 2 x LP (Taiga)
Lotus Eaters is Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))), KTL), James Plotkin (Khanate, Phantomsmasher) and Aaron Turner (Isis, Old Man Gloom). Previously issued on CD, Plotkin has remixed, remastered and rearranged Wurmwulv for this vinyl edition using alternate takes from the original recording sessions. The 2LP also includes reworked material from Lotus Eaters' self-titled 7" released by Drone Records. 52 minutes and 29 seconds on 3 sides of direct metal mastered 200 gram virgin vinyl, the 2LP has a drawing by Turner etched on side D. Housed in a Stoughton tip-on gatefold jacket designed by O'Malley, Wurmwulv features Stephen Kasner paintings printed on linen-textured woven paper, a spot varnished interior and flooded pockets. The Kasner paintings and Turner drawings included were created specifically for this vinyl edition. Reconfigured for vinyl, Wurmwulv is a solvent-soaked carpet ride into loose soil. Worms writhe over cilia as moist roots lick and graze skin. The dampened howls of wolves reverberate through water freezing into creaking crystals. When oxygen levels reach a critical low, a cacophony of clanging metal provides an inhalation of humid air." Ltd x 600 copies black vinyl. ACT FAST!!
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MACHINEFABRIEK - 'Vloed' CD (Cold Spring CSR138CD)
'Vloed' is a collection of (slightly edited) live performances, recorded between 2006 and 2008 in Amsterdam and Den Haag. "All performances find Machinefabriek in fine form, offering up thick billows of warm guitar shimmer, fluttery staticky ambience, and at one point some uncharacteristically heavy super distorted metallic guitar, but here, it's not so much metal as simply a mighty drone, thick and throbbing and super intense. There are long stretches of near silence and super minimal high end drone, glimmering slow building crescendos, squalls of distorted choral buzz, warm whirring metallic reverberations, shimmery and dense black dronemusik, all the stuff we love about Machinefabriek" (Aquarius). Beautifully remastered with a 20-minute bonus track, 'Vloed' captures the immersive live experience of a Machinefabriek concert. Presented in a stunning matt digipak with modified artwork.
Maranata has its aesthetic revelation well planted in the middle of grindcore, black metal, ritual music, noise and old school electro-acoustic design in varying degrees of decay. The main focus is on nekroimprov and total noise. This time joined by Manheim on Mayhem-ic drums. Ltd x 200 copies in a digipak with cover artwork by Lasse Marhaug.
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MARTIENSGOHOME - 'MGH Plays Ulver' 10" (Kalinka Vichy)
Industrial-tinged sound art and drone inspired by Ulver; bleak avant-rockers from Norway. The first side is shrouded in a blackly evil veil, with rumbling, hissing frequencies. The other side is less harsh and evil but still very desolate, infused with the creeping dread of infinite dystopia. Alien sounds ricochet down a leaky rusted metal tunnel whilst a shadow in the distance emits the sound of a horrific digital chuckle, the essence of which dances in the atmosphere like an echo. The worst kind of echo - the aural reflection of your mind's worst possible thought? Spot-varnished sleeve.
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MASTERY - 'Barbaric Usurpation Of the Hypereonic Black Metal Throne' 2 x CD (Tumult)
Mastery is Domignostika's long running project, which, over the last six years. released 5 extremely limited CDR demos, all of which are collected here, remastered, and widely available outside of the Bay Area for the very first time. Starting with creeped out ambient, Mastery launches into frenzied freak out black buzz... sinister beastly croaking vocals, furious blast drums, rapidfire multiple guitars... a demented slab of black metal weirdness. Mastery is total berzerker black metal, rooted in the tradition of true grim blackness... a droned out and damaged, outsider blackness, that sounds pretty much unlike almost any other black metal. Latter tracks end the double disc release with crumbling, blackened doom/drone drenched black metal.
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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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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 M�se (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.
MRTYU! - 'Blood Tantra (Rituals De Sang Du Culte De Tantra' 2 x CD (20 Buck Spin)
Imagine a crossbreed of ("Salt Marie Celeste" era) Nurse With Wound, Khanate and Throbbing Gristle and you can start to imagine the sound of New Zealand's Mrtyu! The sound is a mix of back woods New Zealand and modern urban decay. When the deep bass detonations lash out on 'Rites of Death in Body Temple' you're not quite sure whether it's the sound of an ancient Aboriginal ritual or the menacing 808 war march of a midnight low-rider with its lights low and sawed-offs strapped. Harsh noise, Industrial Sludge and Narco-Metal meeting at the crossing of the Styx. Mrtyu! is Antony Milton (Black Boned Angel). Reissue of two extremely limited releases. 6-panel digisleeve.
MZ. 412 - 'Burning The Temple Of God' CD (Cold Spring CSR140CD)
This is the ultimate statement in Swedish Black Industrial, summoning forth the act's controversial black metal side and recalling the Norwegian church burnings of the early 90s. Nightmare inducing ritual old school industrial, alongside raw black metal, this album has been hailed as one of the greatest albums in the genre by noise and black metal fans alike! It could actually be considered the first real crossover album between the genres. Remastered and extended version of the 1996 album with bonus tracks ('Taking The Throne Part 2' and 'Untitled') and alternate takes culled from the original masters. 61 minutes of music housed in a matt laminate digipak with spot varnishing.
MZ. 412 - 'In Nomine Dei Nostri Satanas Luciferi Excelsi' CD (Cold Spring CSR136CD)
First of 5 albums in the MZ. 412 reissue series, with a new album planned for next year. 1995 bore witness to the resurrection of nefarious Swedish horde MZ. 412 (previously manifest as Maschinenzimmer 412) - Nordvargr, Drakh, Ulvtharm and Shaitan. This ground-breaking, genre-defining album saw the inventors of "Black Industrial" blur the boundaries between Black Metal, Ritual Industrial, Dark Ambient and Power Noise. "In Nomine..." captures the darkest sides of Satanism, death and ritual sacrifice. An enduring, blasphemous statement of True Swedish Black Industrial. This remastered version features two previously unreleased tracks ('In Ritual Of Blood And Oath' and 'Infinite Hollow'), alternate versions and all new artwork. Just under 74 minutes of music housed in a matt digipak with spot varnishing.
MZ. 412 - 'Vault' 5 x CD Wooden Boxset (Cold Spring CSR142B)
Ultra collector's boxset containing all 5 albums in the MZ. 412 reissue series: "In Nomine Dei Nostri Satanas Luciferi Excelsi", "Burning The Temple Of God", "Nordik Battle Signs", "Domine Rex Inferum" and "Infernal Affairs". The inventors of "Black Industrial" blur the boundaries between Black Metal, Ritual Industrial, Dark Ambient and Power Noise. True Swedish Black Industrial! 5 x digipak albums, along with exclusive 5" VINYL WITH EXCLUSIVE TRACKS, bespoke engraved shot glass, embroidered tie, artcards and stickers! Housed in a black wooden boxset with screen printed artwork. Ltd x 300 copies only!
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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.
NADJA / TROUM - 'Dominium Visurgis' CD (Transgredient)
This is something you could call a "dreamlike liaison". When the Canadian "avant metal / drone doom" duo Nadja and the German post-industrial / experimental drone pioneers Troum (years ago active as Maeror Tri) combine their exceptional styles, they form something even vaster as usually known from them. These three long collaboration tracks were recorded as a result of a spontaneous improvisation in April 2008 "live in the studio" near the Weser-river in Bremen, Germany, and suck you in with their powerful and emotional drone melancholy that works in many micro and macrocosmic ways, using electric and acoustic guitars, bass, accordion, drum-machine and voice. Presented in a stunning 8-panel digipak with copper / black print.
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NADJA / TROUM - 'Dominium Visurgis' LP (Denovali)
This is something you could call a "dreamlike liaison". When the Canadian "avant metal / drone doom" duo Nadja and the German post-industrial / experimental drone pioneers Troum (years ago active as Maeror Tri) combine their exceptional styles, they form something even vaster as usually known from them. These three long collaboration tracks were recorded as a result of a spontaneous improvisation in April 2008 "live in the studio" near the Weser-river in Bremen, Germany, and suck you in with their powerful and emotional drone melancholy that works in many micro and macrocosmic ways, using electric and acoustic guitars, bass, accordion, drum-machine and voice. Ltd x 300 copies on heavyweight black vinyl with thick printed sleeves and inner sleeves.
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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 - 'Cognition Of Splendid Oblivion' CD (Siege Of Power)
The highly anticipated third album from the enigmatic Nekrasov, offering up some of thehighest quality ambient noise/black metal in the land for a truly terrifying experience! This album has been crafted intensely in order to hurt and bring about maddening disillusion to the listener. Six Signals From The Void: In An Inverted Rotten Era That Stands For Anything, Everything and Nothing. The artwork and packaging is the most evolved of the Nekrasov releases features the best work to date by Exotic Corpse. Presented in a luxury six panel digisleeve with UV spot varnish to enhance the depth of this release.
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NEKRASOV - 'Extinction' CD (Crucial Blast)
Riding atop the recent wave of black metal / noise hybrids that combine the bleak, frosty riffs and blackened ferocity of underground metal with blown-out, corrosive strains of industrial noise, the Australian one-man act Nekrasov has made a substantial mark in the realm of the extreme underground. An octagonal prism of isolationist drone, flesh-rending black metal, otherworldly beauty, claustrophobic industrial and violent, suffocating strains of harsh noise, "Extinction" is pure, cyclonic contempt for humanity.The album is loaded with blasting, inhuman drumming and ferocious riffing that form noise-drenched trance-scapes, but the subtle attention to texture elevates this above typical mechanized black metal projects. Immersing the listener in layers of electronic sound and using creative stereo panning techniques and other production tricks, Nekrasov creates a harsh, alien atmosphere. A scorching new chapter from one of the foremost bands out there fusing black metal and noise. Digipak.
NEKRASOV - 'The Form Of Thought From Beast' CD (Siege Of Power)
Second opus from this Australian act. Raw, creepy, enigmatic black metal-meets-noise-meets-dark ambient. "Nekrosov is most definitely a master of both the noise and the riff, and manages to fuse the two into something blackly transcendent... blown out soundscapes of samples and percussion, blurred into a windswept buzz, what sounds like ghostlike vocals underneath processed sounds of whipping winds and the click clack of a railroad, to noise drenched old school raw black metal crush, to slow burning deep ambience... Absolutely essential" (Aquarius). 2nd edition in a jewelcase with artwork similar to the 2009 LP edition.
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NEKRASOV - 'The Form Of Thought From Beast' LP (Siege Of Power)
2009 vinyl edition of the second opus from this Australian act. Raw, creepy, enigmatic black metal-meets-noise-meets-dark ambient. "Nekrosov is most definitely a master of both the noise and the riff, and manages to fuse the two into something blackly transcendent... blown out soundscapes of samples and percussion, blurred into a windswept buzz, what sounds like ghostlike vocals underneath processed sounds of whipping winds and the click clack of a railroad, to noise drenched old school raw black metal crush, to slow burning deep ambience... Absolutely essential" (Aquarius). B&W sleeve with A3 poster.
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NEKRASOV / HUMILIATION - 'Split' CD (New Scream Industry)
Nekrasov, out of the Sherbrooke Forest in Australia, brings us more excellent ambient / black / void metal in his inimitable style. Humiliation hail from nowhere and bring forth their ferocious take on harsh noise, ambient and power electronics: 'We follow a tradition of misanthropy and deliberate self isolation as preservation' Three tracks from each artist, one being collaborative. Six tracks in total, 54 minutes playing time.
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NEKRASOV / MOON / NEKROS MANTEIA - 'The Haunting Resonance' CD (Fall Of Nature Records)
A conceptual work has been forged, and three of Australia's most obscure bands come forth with ghastly fruits from beyond the tomb. A horrid exploration of ghosts and spirits; Close your eyes and experience... The Haunting Resonance. Three lengthy tracks of ghastly, cavernous sounds. Blending the boundaries between dissonant Black Metal, hypnotic droning soundscapes and destructive sounds of dark ambience. This is audial darkness in it's purest form. Ltd x 500 copies.
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NIHASA - 'Brahamanda Xul Grimoire' CD (Nihilward Productions)
Occult Ambient / Black Metal from Greece. Reissue of the debut album with new layout and a bonus track from the 2009 split with Drowning The Light and Possession Ritual (Zyklon-B Productions). "The self development of quintessential Qliphotic forces, generating such mysterious passages to the entrance ov an Etheric void, a primal darkness ingress to sabbatical path, though knowledge only present when exploring in deep the magickal continuum latent in each one of us, under the hidden formula of Sethos Vel Athanathos!!!" 48 minutes of music over 6 tracks. Ltd x 500 copies in a 6-panel digipak.
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NORTHLESS - 'Clandestine Abuse' CD (Siege Of Power)
Second opus from this Australian act. Raw, creepy, enigmatic black metal-meets-noise-meets-dark ambient. "Nekrosov is most definitely a master of both the noise and the riff, and manages to fuse the two into something blackly transcendent... blown out soundscapes of samples and percussion, blurred into a windswept buzz, what sounds like ghostlike vocals underneath processed sounds of whipping winds and the click clack of a railroad, to noise drenched old school raw black metal crush, to slow burning deep ambience... Absolutely essential" (Aquarius). 2nd edition in a jewelcase with artwork similar to the 2009 LP edition.
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NORTT - 'Ligfrd' CD (Red Stream)
Throughout its duration, "Ligfaerd" relentlessly smothers the listener in layers of ghostly atmosphere, but the decidedly doom-oriented black metal component is still present. Nortt's basic sound is made up of morose synths and piano, barely human snarls, ponderous drumming, despondent fuzzed-out guitars and other string laments - all tied in chains almost too heavy to bear. It all sounds like some barren ghost town somewhere between this world and another; the last funeral before your own has just taken place, and half-imagined church bells echo in your mind as a reminder that your miserable journey is coming to an end.
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ORCRIST - 'Fallen' CD (Sturmklang)
Orcrists new album Fallen combines ice cold riffs with melancholic sounds, which will send a shiver over your backbone and create darkest sadness in your minds. The song Fallen was written by Goblin of ISVIND and is dedicated to his friend Valfar of WINDIR who died in 2004. Goblin composed and recorded guitars and bass for the majority tracks and performed vocals on all tracks besides "Outro/The Return of Silence Part 2 which was written and recorded by Hugin, of the Austrian band URUK-HAI. ORCRIST is the true spirit of pure fucking Underground Black Metal! Slimline DVD case.
Orcrist's new album 'Fallen' combines ice cold riffs with melancholic sounds, which will send a shiver over your backbone and create darkest sadness in your minds. The song 'Fallen' was written by Goblin of ISVIND and is dedicated to his friend Valfar of WINDIR who died in 2004. Goblin composed and recorded guitars and bass for the majority tracks and performed vocals on all tracks besides "Outro/The Return of Silence Part 2" which was written and recorded by Hugin, of the Austrian band URUK-HAI. ORCRIST is the true spirit of pure fucking Underground Black Metal! Ltd x 500 hand-numbered copies with printed inner sleeve and includes a poster.
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PRIEST IN SHIT - 'Icon / Effigy' 7" (Phage Tapes)
Priest In Shit is the harsh noise junk metal project of Sean Matzus, Vance Osborne and Richard Ramirez. The material on "Icon/Effigy" ranges from layered metal abuse to thick harsh noise. Ltd x 200 copies in a screenprinted sleeve with insert and sticker designed by Jovan Hernandez (Anatomy Of A Blackout, Black Leather Jesus).
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PRURIENT - 'Crossbow' 7" (Dot Dot Dot Music)
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 in a heavy PVC sleeve.
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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 Americas 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 Japans 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 Americas more isolated environments. Digipak. Pussygut changed their name to Wolvserpent in 2010.
PYHA - 'Play Backfires' CD (Misanthropic Art Productions)
Atmospheric black metal / dark ambient from South Korean Pyha (Ruins). Consisting of more mature and clean sounds than his previous, critically acclaimed album "The Haunted House" (which he wrote when he was just 14!). Burzum meets Abruptum meets Xasthur but even more harsh and atmospheric. Anti war, anti military outsider individualistic blackness that destroys any other BM you've heard. Unbelievably grim and melancholic. Ltd x 500 copies.
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RAUHNACHT - 'Vorweltschweigen' CD (Sturmklang)
"Vorweltschweigen" is completely based on the lyrics and sounds of Sturmpercht, the legendary creators of Alpine Folk music. Rauhnacht is pure Alpine Black Metal, based on the atmosphere of early Norwegian Black Metal, but dealing with Alpine and Celtic mythology, philosophy and tradition. ABM contains a large variety of (ancient) traditional acoustic instruments from Alpine/Celtic areas, such as the Alphorn, the Teufelsgeige, hunter's trumpets and other obscure Alpine instruments, as well as organic/natural field-recordings from black forests, craggy mountains and dark caves. Rauhnacht is the name for the twelve nights between 24th December and 6th January, where the demons of winter and the Perchten celebrate their wild hunt through hidden Alpine villages and forests. 7" foldout sleeve with inserts.
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!
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ROCK-A-ROLLA Issue #21 Magazine
The 21st edition of this UK magazine features The Mars Volta. There's also interviews with Dinosaur Jr., Khanate, Shrinebuilder, Black Boned Angel, Pissed Jeans, Yob, Minsk and The Orange Man Theory. This month's Label Focus is on Rune Grammofon. 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!
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ROCK-A-ROLLA Issue #25 Magazine
Rock-A-Rolla 25 features New York Post-Rockers Kayo Dot. There's also interviews with Red Sparowes, Black Breath, Wold, Errors, Caspian, Ufomammut, Jucifer, rabrot, Eluvium, Mouse On The Keys. This month's Label Focus is on Public Guilt. 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!
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ROCK-A-ROLLA Issue #27 Magazine
R-A-R 27 features Melvins. There's also interviews with Aaron Turner (Isis, Lotus Eaters, Old Man Gloom), The High Confessions (a new 'Supergroup' featuring Chris Connelly of Ministry / Revolting Cocks, Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth, Sanford Parker of Minsk / Twilight and Jeremy Lemos of White / Light), Yakuza, Black Sun & Eugene Robinson (Oxbow), Stian Westerhus (Puma), Monarch!, Edible Woman, Omega Massif and Horseback. This month's Label Focus is on Temporary Residence Limited. 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!
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ROCK-A-ROLLA Issue #34 Magazine
Rock-A-Rolla 34 features Wolves In The Throne Room. There are also interviews with Aun, Cathedral, The Atlas Moth, Anla (Alan) Courtis, Russian Circles, Rwake, Graeme Ronald, Killl, Black Tusk, Morkobot, Farewell Poetry, The Drift. This month's Label Focus is on Aagoo. 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!
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ROCK-A-ROLLA Issue #35 Magazine
Rock-A-Rolla 35 features Japanese psych legends Acid Mothers Temple. There are also interviews with Sunn O))), ThisQuietArmy, Black Cobra, Zechs Marquise, Alog, Birds Of Passage, Dub Trio, Hedvig Mollestad Trio, Bitch Magnet. This month's Label Focus is on Rocket Recordings. 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!
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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 wife 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 - '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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SIEGHETNAR - 'Todessehnsucht' CD (Nordsturm Productions)
Second release from this mysterious German BM act. Raw, misanthropic and unapologetic Black Metal... dark, doomy and nihilistic. Monotone riffs supply a steady basis for the dull crunching guitars. Synthesizers fill every nook and cranny with a sound like sandpaper on glass. Sieghetnar are masters in this genre - and this is definitely a release for those who worship Burzum, Gorgoroth, Blut Aus Nord; and above all Xasthur.
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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.
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.
SKULLFLOWER / WHITE MEDAL - 'Skullflower / White Medal' 7" (Turgid Animal / Legion Blotan)
Split release. One track each by Matthew Bowers' Skullflower and George Proctor's black metal project White Medal. Skullflower deliver "Great Hunter", a viscous Industrial track enveloped in a wall of roaring feedback. White Medal's "On't Borough" is a grimy, lo-fi BM affair with a tormented hardcore feel. Ltd x 400 copies.
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SOL - 'Offer Thy Flesh To The Worms' CD (Van Records)
Third full-length from this Danish act, created by Emil Brahe. A departure from their normal funeral doom / death metal sound, "Offer Thy Flesh To The Worms" is a predominantly acoustic dark drone album. A haunting experiment to create the atmosphere of SOL via acoustic instruments. Ltd x 300 copies in a textured black digifile with silver print.
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AGALLOCH - 'Pale Folklore' CD (The End Records)
"Pale Folklore" features eight tracks (62mins) of Black Metal / Doom from this Portland act. Very elaborate and diverse, and surrounded by the majesty of nature and the burden of human existence, the album bursts with melodies with a basis of dark yet very emotional concepts. Creating auras of dark, symphonic melancholia, "Pale Folklore" turns out to be one of the most tragic, mournful yet expressive listening experiences ever!
ELYSIM & MONARCH! - 'Elysim & Monarch!' CD (Solitude Records)
Talk about your polar opposites, its like night and day on this one! This French pairing brings together the skull exploding grind antics of Elysim and the super slow motion doom of Monarch. Elysim splatters gray matter with four cuts in 10 minutes of noxious, hyper speed grind frenzy. Meanwhile Monarch eclipses the sun with a 58 minute dirge featuring some of the sickest female vocals ever committed to CD! Apocalyptic droning, dredging doom riffs and a fetid air of misery impact with all the subtlety of a rusted knife to the groin. If Burning is too fast for you, then Monarch! should fit just right! Second edition of 500 copies.
HIGHGATE - 'Shrines To The Warhead' CD (Totalrust)
After two years of silence Highgate is back with another grim slab of sickness. "Shrines To The Warhead" delivers four noisy tracks of almost 45 minutes and shows once again their unique powerful Doom / Black Metal / Sludge / Noise that is nasty, oppressive and suicidal. This album is the heaviest effort of the band so far. Devastating. Ltd x 1000 copies.
TREES - 'Lights Bane' CD (Crucial Blast)
2010 edition in a digipak. 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.
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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. Its great. Then the album picks up with speedy black metal style drums and Sin Nannas 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 Nannas songwriting abilities that are rather well represented on this CD... This CD is just so slow compared to 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 - 'Yer Su' CD (Ahnstern / Steinklang)
With their 5th full-length album, Svarrogh present a very complex post folk experience, dedicated to the holy earth-water Yer Su - from the mystic and ancient Bulgarian pantheon of Tangra. It also shows the symbiotic allegiance to slavic mythology and European culture from the depths of the Pamir mountains and meadows through the slavic steps up to the Balkan realms. Traditional Bulgarian instruments sit alongside vocals in Bulgarian, Italian, English and Lithuanian, with guitars and drums arranged to a Balkan post folk and avantgarde dark folk adventure with ambient drones, elements of Industrial and Black Metal and traditional compositions. Features special guests: Kostas (Defile des Ames), Marcel P. (Allerseelen), Valentina (Der Feuerkreiner), Michael Z. (Negura Bunget) and Gyte Tamosiunate. Digipack with 12-page booklet.
SVARTTHRON - 'Obscure Telephathy' CD (ISO666 Releases)
Raw Black Metal from Lithuania with a few ambient parts. Created as a way to express the author's philosophy, negative emotions and inner demons, and as therapy for his own mental illness, the album is also inspired by occultist Aleister Crowley. Misanthropic, suicidal black metal in the vein of Strid, Xasthur, Striborg and Nortt. Greek import.
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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.
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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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 - 'Roka Hasa Radio' 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 Tams Ktai and Jnos Juhsz 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 gnes Tth (The Moon and the Nightspirit). 2nd edition in jewelcase
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THY CATAFALQUE - 'Tn Id Trlat ' CD (Epidemie Records)
After very well received album "Rka Hasa Rdi" released last year, Epidemie now reissue this 2004 album of Thy Catafalque, originally released by the band itself in a very small edition. On this album you'll hear experimental dark black metal similar to the first two albums of the band, but also ambient and Hungarian folk elements, similar to "Rka Hasa Rdi". Ltd x 500 copies in a beautiful 6-panel digipak.
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TREES - 'Freed Of This Flesh' CD (Crucial Blast)
The mysterious Portland ensemble Trees return with their second offering - two new fetid death rituals scraped from the crypt. Black glacial riffs suspended in space, tectonic percussive rumbles, anguished shrieks of torment, deep guttural demon throat singing, and endless sheets of glistening metallic feedback that spill and drift to the far edges of their time-stretched ambient doom, a crumbling, blighted majesty, noxious ambient blackdoom adrift on putrescent tides. Austere slabs of crushing heaviness arranged into ghoulish constructs of atmospheric dread, moving so slow that the music seems to lose all sense of propulsion at times... the guitars stretched into massive decomposing drones, the spaces between infested with controlled bursts of incredibly slow and ponderous drums. "Freed Of This Flesh" inhabits the same depths as Burning Witch, Monarch, Khanate, and Bunkur. Digipak.
2010 edition in a digipak. 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.
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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TRONUS ABYSS - 'Vuoto Spazio Trionfo' CD (ATMF)
One of the most innovative bands in the Black Metal field, trespassing on the electro and apocalyptic fields. After 5 years it's time to give a new sign of communication and “Vuoto, Spazio, Trionfo” is a challenging and magnificent merging of noise /ambient / apocalyptic soundscapes and Black Metal de-fragmented memories. TA sets a new standard thanks to many years of electronic shaping of their sound and the very inner core of visionary Black metal. Starting from the rusty songs of the album to the more liquid and open atmospheres, TA won the challenge of creating experimental and personal music in spite of the today tendency to follow the rules and market standards. Presented in a stunning digibook.
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TROUM - 'Mare Idiophonika' CD (Silken Tofu)
"Mare Idiophonika" ('The Self-Playing Ocean') is the new album by the German duo Troum and contains the studio-version of the live programme Troum performed in 2007, with a new ending added later. Using bass, guitars, metal objects, voices and choirs and for the first time also singing-bowls and ‘dry' beats Troum creates yet another magnificent journey into unknown dimensions. Its sounds are stunning and enchanting, leaving one in a state of bewilderment while exploring the world of the unconscious. With its compelling drones and haunting atmosphere Mare Idiophonika is a masterpiece of transcendental soundscapes. It is a mind-blowing dreamy and moving experience, reaching out towards the inner self and beyond. European Edition. Ltd x 500 copies in an A5 6-panel folder with black & silver print.
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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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URUK-HAI - 'In Durins Halls (Return To The Mines Of Moria)' Enhanced CD (Runenstein Records / Bleichmond Tonschmiede / W.A.R. Productions)
The world was young, the mountains green, No stain yet on the Moon was seen... The world was fair in Durin's Day. Way back in 1999, Uruk-Hai recorded their first Demo "In Durins Halls" and a legend began. 11 years later that demo from 1999 has been re-arranged and remastered with totally new, epic and powerful soundscapes and rough Black Metal hymns featuring Pr. Sergiy from Moloch. "In Durins Halls" is rough, epic, dark and full of forgotten legends. The album was hidden for a decade in in the mines of Moria but now its unleashed! No harp is wrung, no hammer falls: The darkness dwells in Durin's Halls. Mastered at the Luftschutzkerker Studios Suisse by cz (Vinterriket, Atomtrakt). Contains a video entitled "In Durins Halls" Slimline DVD case.
Exclusive vinyl only release. Uruk-Hai presents two epic dark ambient tracks from the realms of Tolkien that should appeal to fans of Vinterriket / Ildjarn / Burzum's work in this field. Moloch contribute two tracks of raw ambient black metal reminiscent of Striborg or an extremely low-fi Burzum. The final track 'Isengard' is a collaboration from both artists. Ltd x 500 copies on green / white marbled vinyl in a heavy full-colour sleeve containing an A3 poster of the cover painting from the world's leading Tolkien artist John Howe.
Oak Folk is a CD anthology compiled by Gerhard Hallstatt (Allerseelen) with exclusive contributions by numerous European and North American groups who have one thing in common: a close connection to nature, to trees and woods. All the groups were invited to write a song about the sacred oaktree. The result is a wonderful compilation with songs with an atmosphere somewhere between Dark Ambient, Folklore and sometimes even a slight Black Metal touch. Features: Agalloch, Allerseelen, rnica, Changes, Dnngischd, Frkmndt, Hrefnesholt, Klammheim, Splinterskin, Sturmpercht, Waldteufel and Werra. 6-panel digipak. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
VA - 'Tension State Of Collapsing Vol. I & II' 2 x CD (Industrial Recollections / Freak Animal)
1995-1996 could be described as the golden years of Texas noise. These 2 compilations curated by Richard Ramirez, originally released on tape, proves it. Known for harshness and simple ear assaulting qualities, this compilation also shows the nightmarish industrial-noise edge of clanging metals, tape manipulations, fierce feedback and brutal samples. 28 tracks from: Alfa Jerk, Black Leather Jesus, Carbomb Side Show & Controlled Filter, Electro Anal Kink, Fetus Furs, Kaibutsu, Infant Erection, Limacon, Manplug, Mass Murder Media, Operant Eye, Powdered Beatles, Richard Ramirez, Rotten Piece, Scrotal Termites, Slave Labor, Stab Range, Test Edit Franchise, Three Know, Threshold Of Sleep, Trifle, White Wall and Zahava. Features re-prints of the original artwork.
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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 - 'Wehrmacht Satanas' CD (Eternal Pride Productions)
The name Henrik Nordvargr Bjrkk 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".
Reissue of Velnias' 2008 album. The music of Illinois based blackened 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! File next to Opeth, Agalloch or Wolves In The Throne Room. Ltd x 400 copies on black vinyl.
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 fro
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.
