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 New CDs arrived from Obscure Abhorrence Productions. Benighted In Sodom (Usa) "In Hora Maledictus Part I" --- CD First piece of a two-part series from this depressive/ambient black metal band from the USA.limited to 500 copies. Enfeus Lodge (Fra) "Enfeus Lodge" --- CD Excellent epic and elitist Black Metal from France:new band of hunferd (O.T.A.L.) and Xaphan(Seigneur Voland,K-Nacht,Finis Gloria Dei) Foudre Noire (Fin) "The Dark Gods" --- CD Brilliant black metal from Finland.With Shatraug from Horna/Sargeist. Horned Almighty (Den) "Contaminating the Divine" --- CD After 3 years Horned Almigthy returned back with a new album!!! Great black/thrash metal from Denmark with a big production and songs that destroy your mind! Korgonthurus (Fin) "Marras" --- CD Finally out now the debut album of finnish black metal band Korgonthurus.Await two long tracks full of hate and despair. Features member of Horna and Behexen Nordlys (Ger) "Nordlys 'til Pest " --- CD Old school german black metal from the mid 90”s finally on CD. Compilation of stuff from this band that they have created under the names Nordlys,Pest and Die Pest ! Paria (Ger) "VerminRace" --- Digipak Debut album of germany cult sick black metal act Paria.Await uncompromising perverse black metal.comes on noble digipack format with silverprint and 12 sided booklet Teratism (Usa) "Pure Unadulterated Hate" --- CD Brandnew opus of this brilliant US black metal band.With guest vocals of Dagon/Inquisition 27/02/10 New CDs arrived from My Kingdom Music and Kunsthauch. Crest of Darkness (Nor) "Evil Knows Evil" --- CD When Black Metal meet Thrash Metal with progressive elements and tons of solo, that's Evil Knows Evil. Highly recommended Crest of Darkness (Nor) "Give Us the Power to Do Your Evil" --- CD Evil Black Metal from Norway. Re-stock In Tormentata Quiete (Ita) "Teatroelementale" --- CD “Teatroelementale” is a brilliantly crafted masterpiece that takes both the fragility and passion of humanity and moulds it into musical/lyrical concept that turns around the eternal live-and-outlive struggle. Delicate melodies and mighty distortion sound are the principle on which ITQ has his roots trying to give people simply great emotions. There will be everything from the italian tradition of Folk-Progressive Rock via an avantgardish Black Metal form a la SOLEFALD to the theatricality of the great DEVIL DOLL. It’s a music influenced by any sound that gives emotions… each single element delivers you to be amazed and to dream. Liquid Graveyard (Spa) "On Evil Days" --- CD Former member and frontman in legendary British Death Metal band CANCER, John Walker, is the mind behind this schizophrenic project. Groovy melodies extremely varied in texture and feel, with a huge rhythm section and with a vocalist that shifts between stunning soprano highs and semi-spoken tones, and a full of menace growl, is what LIQUID GRAVEYARD proposes, spanning from Progressive territories to a much darker place, taking up the challenge of dark, Death Metal where bands like Dominion, Opera IX and Atrox left off. For friends of original Metal with an open-minded vision of music, Liquid Graveyard is definitely a band to keep an eye on. Resonance Room (Ita) "Unspoken" --- CD RESONANCE ROOM successed in mixing a Heavy Prog vein with Dark Gothic atmospheres and haunting melodies. A concept album that will make you taste the protagonists‘ sorrow, rage and desperation through an involving journey in searching of truth. Katatonia, Pain Of Salvation, Anathema, Porcupine Tree, Riverside are just some of the many influences you’ll hear in "Unspoken", an album that will satisfy both Progressive Metal and Gothic fans. All the Cold (Rus) "One Year of Cold" --- CD Atmospheric black ambient from Russia Au Sacre des Nuits (Bra) "Anti-Humain" --- CD Experimental Funeral Doom from Brazil Drevo (Rus) "Величие" --- CD Neoclassic Ambient / Pagan metal from Russia Hopeless (Spa) "Elements" --- CD Depressive melancholic metal from Spain Lustre (Swe) "Serenity" --- MCD Atmospheric black / ambient from Sweden 20/02/10 New CDs,7' and 10' arrived from Art of Propaganda and Helvete Records. Aosoth/Malhkebre (Fra/Fra) "The Truth Through Salt" --- 7' One exclusive song from each french band on this noble gatefold ep. Comes with printed innersleeve and inside/outside print.Limited to 666 copies. Horned Almighty (Den) "Live Exsanguination" --- 10' 7 great livesong from tue UMM 2007 in Bitterfeld.Really great sound quality. Hellvetic Frost (Che) "Misanthropic Devotion" --- CD After 4 years this great swiss band return with a very great new album.Nothing that you can compare with the old material.this is more intense and near to the old times!!! Wolfthrone (Spa) "Unleash the Hate" --- MCD After some months of total inactivity,Wolfthrone are back with their long awaited Mini CD called Unleash The Hate.The best material of the band 'till the date withput any doubts.4 songs of black metal,how it has to sound,raw and without compromises.With Kryth of Korgonthurus and the Ex-Behexen Bass player Lunatic on the drums. Fourth Monarchy (Ita) "Amphilochia" --- Digipak Great esoteric medieval Black Metal from Italy! Lusterless digipack with gold stamping. Full-colored 12 pages booklet with gold paint. The data side of the disc is gold-colored and contains pit-art. Gramary (Fin) "Suffocation" --- CD Finish Black Metal! Special deluxe edition Jewelcase in slipcase with 8-page booklet - silver paint and selective varnish coating.Disk contains a bonus video track Limited to 998 copies. Patria (Bra) "Hymns of Victory and Death" --- CD Black Metal from Brazil. Limited to 500 hand numbered copies. Verge (Fin) "To Rest the Last Time in Our Filth" --- MCD Dissenting Black Metal madness from Finland!!! Vidharr (Ita) "Eclipse" --- CD Well-played, solid, raging black metal with a sound that recalls various Swedish black and black/death bands of the early to mid '90s. CD comes with a Logo sticker 06/02/10 More CD titles arrived from Moribund Records!! Acheron (Usa) "Anti-God, Anti-Christ" --- CD Catacombs (Usa) "In the Depths of R'lyeh" --- CD Fear of Eternity (Ita) "Toward The Castle" --- CD Fear of Eternity (Ita) "Spirit of Sorrow" --- CD Fear of Eternity (Ita) "Ancient Symbolism" --- CD Fear of Eternity (Ita) "Funeral Mass" --- CD I Shalt Become (Usa) "Wanderings" --- CD I Shalt Become (Usa) "Requiem" --- CD Merrimack (Fra) "Obsecrations to The Horned " --- CD 30/01/10 Hot Selling CD titles arrived from Moribund Records!! Azaghal (Fin) "Omega" --- CD Merrimack (Fra) "Of Entropy And Life Denial" --- CD Merrimack (Fra) "Grey Rigorism " --- CD Sargeist (Fin) "Tyranny Returns" --- CD Sargeist (Fin) "Satanic Black Devotion" --- CD Sargeist (Fin) "Disciple of the Heinous Path" --- CD Wind of the Black Mountains (Usa) "Sing Thou Unholy Servants" --- CD Xasthur (Usa) "Xasthur" --- MCD Xasthur (Usa) "To Violate the Oblivious" --- CD 23/01/10 New CDs and Special packaging CDs from Self Mutilation Services, All depressive Black Metal Titles Grisâtre/Desolation (Fra/Fra) "Split" --- A5 CD Split of two Depressive Black Metal band from France(SMS 001) Lupus Nocturnus (Mex) "Suicidal Thoughts Pt. I" --- A5 CD FOUR TRACKS OF PURE MELANCHOLIC MUSIC, ALMOST 52 MINUTES OF PURE SAD AND ARCHAIC BLACK METAL. LIMITED TO 1000 HAND NUMBERED COPIES(SMS 003) Black Hate/Deep-pression (Mex/Pol) "Dwellers in an Infertile World" --- A5 CD Sound of Depression(SMS 004) Svedhous (Kor) "From Despair to Suicide" --- A5 CD Depressive black metal from Korea(SMS 005) Grimlair (Fra) "Au Commencement de l'ombre" --- CD Depressive black metal from France(SMS 007) Funereal Moon/Circle of Ghosts (Mex/Can) "From Darkness They Are" --- CD in 7' packaging Special Packaging CD in 7' Gatefold cover.(SMS 008) The Eternal Night (Usa) "Our Failed Human Existence" --- CD Depressive black metal from Usa(SMS 010) Managarm (Usa) "Poems of the Shadows Disappointment" --- CD Depressive black metal from Usa(SMS 012) Deep-pression/All the cold (Pol/Rus) "Deep Cold" --- A5 CD Special A5 packaging(SMS 013) Managarm/Sterbenzeit/78424325 (Usa/Ita/Mex) "Three Ways to Live in Pain" --- CD As the album title says(SMS 014) All the Cold/Fornicatus/Happy Days/Black Hate (Rus/Fin/Usa/Mex) "Children of Failure" --- CD 4 ways split(SMS 015) Fornicatus (Fin) "Omnium Animalis Terminus" --- CD Depressive black metal from Finland(SMS 016) Depressive Years (Usa) "Failing to Confront Suicidal Thoughts" --- CD Depressive black metal from Usa(SMS 018) Andrarakh (Ger) "9 Jahre & 13 Monate asymmetrischen Krieges" --- CD Depressive black metal from Germany(SMS 019) ...(Ita) "Somebody Save Me" --- A5 CD Special A5 packaging, and yes the band name is ...(SMS 022) Leichenstätte/Nostalgia/Grimlair/Todessucht/Moloch/Horgr(Ger/Per/Fra/Ger/Ukr/??)"Suicide Reflections" --- CD 6 ways split.(SMS 025) Blodarv (Den) "Civitas Diaboli " --- CD Latest full length from Blodarv(SMS 026) Happy Days (Usa) "Happiness Stops Here " --- CD Latest full length from Happy Days from US(SMS 026) Inmitten des Waldes/Mortualia (Bra/Fin) "Happiness Stops Here " --- CD (SMS 029) 16/01/10 New CDs and 7'arrived from Doom Specialist-Solitude Productions, and Dismal Cursing Records Abstract Spirit (Rus) "Liquid Dimensions Change" --- CD This is a side project of a black metal band Twilight is Mine from the suburbs of Moscow. Several musicians have been heard in a well known Moscowian funeral doom band Comatose Vigil. Those guys – Stellarghost (keys) and Hater (bass/guitars) began this project. Present Comatose Vigil vocalist took the vocal duties together with the drums in this project. The first full length album “Liquid Dimensions Change” brings you six tracks with the total length of 60 minutes. This is classic funeral – doom like it was meant to be. Thin of the bands as: Shape of Despair, Coliseum and of course the main band of the participating musicians – Comatose Vigil. At the same time the music is very versatile. You will find very sludgy and muddy parts combined with some beautiful melodies.(Solitude Productions) Astral Sleep (Fin) "Unawakening" --- CD The first full length album of this young Finnish doom death band, with a line-up consisting of musicians who have played in lot of projects and bands, performing music from heavy and power metal to black and death! This work of Astral Sleep draw apart the frames of doom and death metal, in the tradition of Unholy and Umbra Nihil. “Unawakening” is addressed not only to the listeners of the genre, but also to people who search for new music and fresh sensations.(Solitude Productions) Autumnia (Ukr) "O´Funeralia" --- CD New album by the leading Ukrainian doom death band AUTUMNIA! Including in five majestic hymns “O’Funeralia” absorbed all the best traits characteristic of previous work of this group: excellent sound, beautiful melodies, perfect skill and mighty voice by Vladislav Shahin (also voice in Mournful Gust). What’s more for recording of the album extra musicians were invited who performed the parts of bass, piano and violin that introduced new mood and shades into the sound.Disc with gold evaporation and pit art.(Solitude Productions) Ea (Usa) "Ea II" --- CD This brand-new work of the mysterious Ea continuous to suck the listener in a unique atmosphere, creating epic music based on Funeral Doom in a style of Shape Of Despair and Monolithe with noticeable classical influences. Acoustic parts, melodical solo’s and ambient pieces with increasing sounds of an organ are being used again. While collecting great reviews from the listeners and critics all over the world, the band is ready to invite new listeners, those who are ready to touch the mystery of faded times.(Solitude Productions) Ea (Usa) "Ea Taesse" --- CD The debut album of mysterious band EA is based on the sacral texts of ancient civilizations. EA uses a dead language which was recreated according to the results of archeological research. Speaking about musical part – it’s emotional funeral-doom, actually one song for 55 minutes, which contains three parts where epical riffs, acoustic insertions, melodic solo-parts, ambient and horror elements are combined. On the one hand, some people may consider consider EA to be similar to Shape Of Despair, Skepticism, Evoken, but on the other hand it is original music, filled with its own, unique, emotional atmosphere.(Solitude Productions) Ekklesiast (Rus) "When The Dead Boughs Will Awake From The Dreams" --- CD Legendary Russian band Ekklesiast returns with the new studio album compiled of the material from the two old historic demo-albums, not officially released before, “When the dead boughs will awake from the dreams” and “Touch of a snowstorm”. The songs have been newly reconceived, recorded and mastered in a professional studio. Having inspired the old songs with a new life, the new Ekklesiast, once again, proved the title of one of the best Russian bands in the genre, combining in their music the inner dramaturgy with the outward rush of powerful doom riffs.(Solitude Productions) Frailty (Lat) "Lost Lifeless Lights" --- CD + DVD Debut album of the first Latvian doom/death band Frailty. “Lost Lifeless Lights” – rigid, bright and technical music in the vein of European doom death metal school (My Dying Bride, Anathema, Mourning Beloveth), with dark metal influences, which makes the band’s sound very original and fresh. All this makes Frailty one of the best bands of a Baltic heavy scene. The first 200 copies of the album contain Bonus DVD with performance at “Shadow Doom Fest” in “Shade” Club in Moscow. All the copies at Goatowarex come with the DVD (Solitude Productions) Intaglio (Rus) "Intaglio" --- CD Conceptual album “Intaglio”, is a fruit of imagination of musicians from bands “S.C.A.L.P”. and “Yachur”, it is filled with a unique, depressive atmosphere of cold and gloom, developing the best funeral doom in its genre (Evoken, Mournful Congregation), following the traditions. CD contains the eight-page booklet with photos and texts. “Intaglio” – is the first Russian funeral band which has been officially issued! .(Solitude Productions) My Lament (Bel) "Broken Leaf" --- CD Revelation from this Belgian band with their debut album “Broken Leaf”! The first album of MY LAMENT consists of eight powerful, perfectly recorded songs, which have a balance between cruelty of ATARAXIE and melodic lines of OFFICIUM TRISTE and SATURNUS. Brilliant playing skills of the musicians with great sound separate MY LAMENT from a lot of modern bands in this style, and put their music on same line with the famous bands of doom death metal scene!(Solitude Productions) Nox Aurea (Swe) "Via Gnosis" --- CD The debut album of a young Swedish band Nox Aurea is specially created for those ones seeking for combination of aesthetic sophistication with solid sound and deep sense in doom death metal. “Via Gnosis” album is close in musical sense to the early works of Swallow the Sun being pierced by the gnostic philosophy veil and creating a unique atmosphere. Members of Nox Aurea earlier played in several black metal bands while now they try to create the very traditional doom death sound with its own mentality. Nine album tracks based on atmospheric keyboard sound are opened up before a listener as the pages of ancient book carrying esoteric wisdom in lyrics sung by vocals varying from growling to clean male and female vocals.The album was recorded and mastered at Sonic Train Studios, in collaboration with Andy LaRocque (King Diamond)!(Solitude Productions) Somnolent (Ukr) "Monochromes Philosophy" --- CD First album of Ukrainian band Somnolent!Long play album became a result of long work of band members, who played in different music festivals and made a self-release of their concert record “Live in Odessa”, in 2007. Somnolent present to listener a trip to gloomy world of funeral doom metal, mixed from viscous guitar riffs and long solo parts. This is a 1 hour road trough pain and despair, it’s a time of “Monochromes Philosophy”.(Solitude Productions) S:t Erik (Swe) "From Under the Tarn" --- CD Debut full-length album “From Under The Tarn” is a brilliant first step of a Swedish doom metal band S:T Erik towards the top of the genre. The music is mainly inspired by bands like Ufomammut, Sleep, Om, Electric Wizard and High On Fire. But the combined influences of the members’ previous engagements (ranging from death metal and stoner to post-rock), extensive use of spacey synthesizers and something as rare as a talented vocalist, result in an interesting sound, quite unique to the genre. Psychedelic doom metal filled with dense riffs performed by S:T Erik is an outstanding discovery for adepts of the genre.(Solitude Productions) Dekadent Aesthetix /Joyless (Rom/Nor) "Split" --- 7' Split 7' of Goatowarex's own Dekadent Aesthetix with Joyless.Printed on full colour reverseboard cover with matte finish; including a full colour double-sided insert page and a Joyless sticker made of PVC.The sticker has the band logo printed in gold metallic speckled ink on a black background.(Dismal Cursing Records) 09/01/10 New CDs arrived from Deviant Records, Black Mass Records and Unlight Productions Arvet (Fin) "Ihmiskärsimys" --- MCD 3 new songs of Arvet, gloomy and desperated, playtime about 20 minutes, initial press of 500 copies. Melodic finnish Black Metal Act(Deviant Records) Silent Leges Inter Arma (Ger) "Synästhesie" --- Digipak 4 Songs/25min, released as digipak. 500 copies pressed.Less old school Black Metal, to be compared with Secrets of the Moon, Code etc..(Deviant Records) Disjecta Membrae (Fra) "Taedium Vitae" --- MCD Experimental Funeral Doom from France(Black Mass Records) Domains (Spa) "Towards Pleroma " --- MCD Occult 80s Death Metal from Spain(Black Mass Records) Anwynn (Fra) "Voices of perdition" --- CD Raw Black Metal from France, release from Drakkar's Sublabel-Unlight Productions(Unlight Productions) Voqkrre (Fra) "Palans in Pestilens" --- CD Raw Black Metal from France, release from Drakkar's Sublabel-Unlight Productions(Unlight Productions) 02/01/10 New CDs arrived from Eerie Art Records and Heidens Hart Common Grave (Ita) "Il Male di Vivere" --- CD The COMMON GRAVE debut album, "Il male di vivere", is an ambitious and profound concept album about the "spleen", the suffering of everyday life. It’s possible to consider a long suite of 65 minute, divided in 8 long chapters, where all tracks are linked together (this means no silence between each tracks) and where there's a perfect equilibrium between dark black metal, avantgarde touches and acoustic passages. An imaginary journey between early SHINING, FORGOTTEN TOMB and even DRUDKH. A complex album that unveils itself listening after listening, offering many moments of rare beauty. Everything supported by an excellent performance of these skilled musicians and a professional sound. If you are looking for evolved depressive/dark black metal, COMMON GRAVE can become your therapy to get your daily dose of sorrow.(Eerie Art Records) Enmerkar (Usa) "Starlit Passage" --- MCD A fantastic voyage through time and space. A monolithic and atmospheric black metal opus, with intense and chaotic moments, acoustic passages and drone interferences. Multiple guitar layers and whispered distant vocals sustained with an elaborate and skilled drumming work, performed by Tentakel of brillant TODTGELICHTER. An outstanding piece of art for fans of bands like DRUDKH, WALKNUT, WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM... Mastered from A.O.D. (ETERNITY, KATHARSIS...)(Eerie Art Records) Obitus (Swe) "March Of The Drones" --- CD Hate! This is the only way to describe "The march of the drones"! Brutal, destructive, abrasive black metal with razor-sharp guitars and hysterical drumming that sometimes leaves the space to some mid-paced post apocalyptic and martial passages. A release that defies all preconceived concepts of any normal album: 45 minutes of uninterrupted music all recorded as one seamless arrangement. The style can be described like a mix of WANING for the melodic side, NIDEN DIV. 187 for the non-stop assault, and some ANAAL NATHRAKH for the apocalyptic feeling! A concept album that can be summarized as a multi-pronged attack against the non thinkers (like the drones they are) of the world, a relentless attack on heard mentality of the intellectually lazy, enriched by a deluxe 28 pages booklet that includes all lyrics! Mastered by legendary Peter In De Betou (ENSLAVED, KATATONIA...). (Eerie Art Records) Vhernen (Fro) "The Funeral Era" --- CD Here's a monolitic release for all VHERNEN fans, a precious collection of two "old" records. "Sepulchral sorrows", that is the unique testimoniance of the pre-"S.y.b.e.r.i.a." era; An underground cult piece of extreme funeral doom, with a black metal riffing atmosphere! Something deep and sorrowful, in vein of acts like NORTT and DEINONYCHUS but with the personal sound (including his classic cello) that represent the VHERNEN trademark. "S.y.b.e.r.i.a.", the first classic Ep, finally available again after two years! A real masterpiece of funeral black metal, highly praised by media and audiance worldwide. A obscure sound full of mournful feelings, sinister ambiances and distant desperate whispered vocals. (Eerie Art Records) Waning (Swe) "Population Control" --- CD "Population control" is a sumptuous mix of emotions and brutality, atmospheres and controlled chaos, modernity linked to the classic. Tons of guitar layers to create a real wall of sound, a thundering rhythmic section and impressive evil vocals. The WANING is a personal way to intend extreme music... martial and depressive, avantguardist and visionary black metal, with slight indus and post-rock vibes. Everything supported by a powerful production and a superb studio performance. A new wave of fresh and inspired black metal. (Eerie Art Records) Ancestors Blood (Fin) "A Dark Passage From The Past" --- CD Compilation gathering the three demo's from '04, '05 and '06, showing the roots of the bands' famous epic sound. Now for the first time put together, remastered and released on cd! 16 pages booklet with all original artwork, lyrics, photos. The demo's are actually prefered over some of the re-recorded tracks appearing on the debut by a lot of people, as these original recordings capture more of the grim atmosphere whereas the debut sounded too polished for many.(Heidens Hart) Ancestors Blood (Fin) "When the Forest Calls" --- CD Brand new second album of epic and highly atmospheric pagan black metal. Powerful production, catchy and bombastic keyboard melodies and aggressive guitars and vocals. Ancestors Blood have more and more found an own identity, however still reminding of that old, typical Scandinavian sound bands like Grievance, Demonic, Covenant, Troll, Gehenna and Dimmu Borgir used to have. Essential release!(Heidens Hart) Deifecation (Hol) "Cathartic Octogenaricide" --- MCD Excellent Dutch old school Death Metal with some Swedish melodies.(Self release Pro CD) Impiety (Sgp) "Bestial Domination Tour 2008" ---T-shirt(L) 27/12/09 New CDs arrived from Sentinel Records and Daemon Worship Productions Abaddon Incarnate (Ire) "Nadir" --- CD ABADDON INCARNATE return with their ultrabrutal second album. Recorded in Soundlab Studios, Sweden, and produced by Mieszko of Nasum (Relapse), Nadir provides a musical fist in the face with its weighty production and hammering speed. Cold and grim artwork by Paul McCarroll compliments the lyrical exploration of humanity's grotesque and macabre face. They have delivered certainly the finest in pure extremity that Ireland has produced to this day. Released in September 2001.(Sentinel Records) For Ruin (Ire) "December" --- DigiPak Debut album from Cork's melodic dark Metal outfit FOR RUIN. Strong influences from Rotting Christ, Death, Katatonia & Amorphis gelled together to create their own distinctive sound. December consists of 10 tracks in a stunning digi pack. (Sentinel Records) Morphosis (Ire) "Rise of the Bastard Deities" --- CD MORPHOSIS finally unleash their debut album. Ten tracks of vicious, aggressive hammer to the head Death Metal. 30 minutes of modern Death Metal with a strong old school feel, drawing on two decades of influences. Recorded in Trackmix Studios, Dublin. Featuring guest vocals from PRIMORDIAL'S Nemtheanga.(Sentinel Records) Sol Axis (Ire) "...To Mark the Ages " --- CD This release is a collective of all the recorded SOL AXIS tracks in existence for the first time available on CD. It not only contains the To Mark The Ages 10” tracks but also a re-mastered version of the extremely limited SOL AXIS demo from 2004 as well as a previously unreleased track, two Bathory covers in tribute to Quorthon and alternative versions and is a comprehensive collection of everything Sol Axis put to tape to date.(Sentinel Records) Funeral Goat (Hol) "Mass Ov Perversion " --- CD From the darkest depths, from the deepest caverns ov unexistence, the unholy prayers for the coming ov the Lord echo and thunder high and low. Eternally dedicated to the glory of our Master, FUNERAL GOAT is a channel of His will. This unholy entity, summoned by His loyal servants, - HerrAIDS and Ludas - manifests itself in a form of pure Orthodox Devilworship! No beautiful melodies, just pure religious exaltation and Satanic devotion. Influenced by and dedicated to such prophets, as VON, Beherit, Archgoat and War, FUNERAL GOAT spreads the Gospel of Ancient Black / Death. Primitive and raw, yet entrancing and hypnotic chants, played solely for His glory and in His name!(Daemon Worship Productions) Insult (Swe) "Abysmal Incantations" --- CD INSULT, hailing from Sweden, was born in 2004, as a manifestation of sinister and hateful spirit of Old-School Death Metal in its (im)purest form! At the moment the band is writing new anthems, and, in preparation for the forthcoming full-length attack, a pact was signed with DAEMON WORSHIP PRODUCTIONS to release both of the band's official demos - "Decree" and "Axiom" - on a single CD, to finally make them available to wider audience. Pounding raw hatred combined with haunting melodies, INSULT proudly marches forth, crushing everything to dust! 11 hymns of (im)pure blasphemy - "Abysmal Incantations"(Daemon Worship Productions) Paragon Impure (Bel) "To Gaius (For The Delivery Of Agrippina)" --- DigiPak One of the Old Goatowarex release is available in Digi-pack form now, with bonus tracks.(Daemon Worship Productions) Pest (Swe) "Blasphemy is my Throne" --- CD A masterpiece, proven by years of worship, now available again, limited only to 1000 copies with a new cover and layout by Necro himself. Originally released on vinyl by Bloodstone Entertainment (Blood005) in 2002. A year later, the same label released a CD-version (Blood005SE) with a different mix on three of the tracks and with two bonus tracks taken from the 1999 demo “Black Thorns”. This CD — the third edition — contains the original vinyl material, without being remastered and without bonus tracks. The way it was and the way it shall be... The only thing that is altered is the artwork/layout, since the original photos have been lost over the years.(Daemon Worship Productions) Sadistic Grimness (Swe) "Asteni" --- CD From bleak and funeral emptiness comes forth SADISTIC GRIMNESS. Do you feel this rotten stench from beyond the grave? This suffocating, blinding and devouring stench of desolation and death.... It surrounds you and gets through you, infecting your soul with ancient fear and bloodfreezing terror. Where graves burst wide open and legions of the dead arise and prowl the earth in their morbid lust for FLESH, where endless horizons are flooded with blood and gore, where you can no longer distinguish life from death or day from night, stands SADISTIC GRIMNESS. Drawing influences from the most ancient of Death Metal Cults and the darkest of Black Metal Hordes, they represent the malevolent force of real Death Metal; wicked and grim, atrocious and painful(Daemon Worship Productions) 20/12/09 New CDs arrived from BlackSeed Productions, Nihil Ward Productions and Erebus Enthroned Anal Vomit (Per) "Gathering of the Putrid Demons" --- CD Third full lenght album of these Peruvian Demons!! Total old school riping Thrash / Black Metal in the classic South American Way. Latest 2009 release.(BlackSeed Productions) Ars Manifestia (Ita) "The Enchanting Dark's Arrival" --- CD Raw but emotional Black Metal with bloodfreezing riffs and a dak mysterious feeling lasting for near one hour.(BlackSeed Productions) Ars Manifestia (Ita) "The Red Behind" --- CD Over 70 minutes of dark and cold Black Metal following the path marked by their debut album but with a higher level of composition and recording.(BlackSeed Productions) Beastcraft (Nor) "Baptised in Blood and Goatsemen" --- CD New album from this True Norwegian Black Metal band with total raw and necro sound!(BlackSeed Productions) Decayed (Por) "The Black Metal Flame" --- CD Lusitanian Black Metal. New full lenght album + extra bonus!(BlackSeed Productions) Vetche (Ukr) "Vetche" --- CD Cult project of NOKTURNAL MORTUM and LUCIFUGUM, Ritual Dark Ambiental Black Metal(Nihil Ward Productions) Erebus Enthroned/Nekros Manteia (Aus/Aus) "Spiritual Deconstruction" --- CD Split of two Aussie underground Black Metal bands, self released professional production, comes with a free sticker. 16/12/09 New CDs arrived from Inferna Profundus Records and Shaytan Productions Argharus (Lit) "Pleištas" --- DigiPak Eight Cynical, crude expressions and malice towards society is born in the new Argharus album Pleištas. Rotting mankind dissolves in its etablished control. Grave is approaching each day. Die Now. Hearken and behold. Deluxe 6 panel Digipak.(Inferna Profundus Records) Poccolus (Lit) "Ragana" --- CD Discover Black Metal from Lithuania, for Burzum, Mayhem, Emperor and Bathory fans. Remastered tracks from 1994 demo record and 2 never published live tracks. Darkness and Melancholy with hints of occultism shall over whelm.(Inferna Profundus Records) Slagmaur (Nor) "Domfeldt" --- Digipak Mysterious Black Metal from Norway. Demo re-released as an exclusive 6 panel Digipak with 2 extra bonus tracks. Re-mastered sound quality and new design made by Rober Hoyem.(Inferna Profundus Records) Aarni (Fin) "Tohcoth" --- CD Tohcoth is Aarni´s second full-length album and contains a plethora of musical styles ranging from various subgenres of doom metal, 70´s prog and folk to ambient, while remaining charmingly guitar-driven. A number of chord progressions and melodies have been implemented so as to cause beneficial effects in the listener (hopefully) according to the principles of "sacred geometry". You may find the album´s overall atmosphere somewhat proggy, experimental and freaked-out. The themes on "Tohcoth" consist of occultism and futuristic theories, brain-change and collective and personal liberation... with added Lovecraftian, alchemical, mythological, Discordian and Thelemic content. Languages featured this time include English, Latin, Finnish and Enochian. Tohcoth also features what may be the first ever recording of "The Battle Hymn of the Eristocracy" from the cult classic book Principia Discordia. As on Aarni´s critically and popularily acclaimed debut album Bathos, the Finnish media personality Sampo Marjomaa has contributed guest vocals and VV from the band Umbra Nihil plays most of the drums. The album has been lovingly dedicated to the late great Robert Anton Wilson. You will probably find "Tohcoth" more brutal than your mom, more sensitive than your dad, more wicked than your uncle, more Kabbalistic than Madonna, straighter than Manowar, more proggy than Slayer, more balanced than Jesus or Moses or Mohammed, more educated than Hitler, more scientific than Dawkins, more honest than any government and perhaps less emo than you.(Epidemie Records).I got only 1 copy left in Distro, if you are into progressive music, do not miss out Al-Namrood (Sau) "Atba'a Al-Namrood" --- MCD From The Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, come forth Al-Namrood (the non-believers) With rageful Arabic vocals and depressive atmosphere. Join the legion of Al-Namrood!A blend of a fiendish Black Metal and an Archaic Arabian culture. Limited to 1000 hand numbered copies.(Shaytan Productions) Dantesco (Pri) "Pagano" --- CD Dantesco is today the most famous HEAVY METAL band hailing from the isle of Puerto Rico.“Pagano” shows from the first notes an incredible change in Dantesco’s offering compared to the first album, with the distinctive and operatic vocals of Erico “La Bestia” taking the lead, perfectly accompanied by some of the most classic guitars you can hear in today’s HEAVY METAL scene.The songs are built again on an epic and heavy metal background, reminding of classic acts such as Mercyful Fate and Candlemass but sometimes, with their complex structure, going even further back in time to the 70s, to the roots of hard rock/heavy metal. The lyrics, in Spanish, deals with historic and mythological events and figures such as Beowulf and Anibal and the Crusades, but also with Pagan themes as the title in the end suggests. (Coqui Satanico Records) Dhul-Qarnayn (Bah) "Jilwah" --- MCD Eastern Ritualistic Ambient from the Kingdom of Bahrain with a culture and history of its own, Dhul-Qarnayn brings forth the ritualism of ancient civilizations with Jilwah. Listenable only for those that are willing to meditate upon the black book of Al-Jilwah, delving into the Ancient Eastern atmospheres.(Shaytan Productions) Kalki Avatara (Ita) "Mantra for the End of Times" --- MCD Kalki Avatara supports the speeding of the end of Kali-Yuga process. Every vicious and corrupt act is just a step nearer to the rebirth. Every effort to save the debris of our civilzation is a waste of time. The righteous shall preserve uncorrupted his virtue, his honour, his solitude, and he shall not conform nor fight evil, but let it act undisturbed. Kalki will give birth from the ruins to a new mankind.We are awaiting. "Neoromantic Mystical Avantgarde"(Shaytan Productions) 28/11/09 New CDs arrived from Nothern Heritage Baptism (Fin) "Grim Arts of Melancholy" --- CD BAPTISM is known as one of the most reliable Finnish black metal acts with it´s instantly recognizable, yet deeply traditional, sort of puritanical "Eliterian" musical worship and esotericism. Referencing both older metal and a newly awakened purpose for a more extreme form of Luciferian art, BAPTISM´s work is always more than mere music - it´s a theistic black metal ceremony. As it is, "Grim Arts of Melancholy" stands as a natural continuation of the work BAPTISM initiated in the 90´s. Sargofagian´s articulated vocals unveil mysteries of a blackest nature in the foreground of a deeply darkened, almost insane, mostly mid-paced riffscape, which seems this time to have kept to a minimum the use of beautiful counterpointing of melodies. Old-school thrashing parts are captured amidst songs in their flight across godless depths, yet return to obscurity as soon as the listener is awakened from the morbid trance of a mid-paced minor key hammering. For most of the time the whole album sounds like one single extended ceremonial track dedicated to Azazel or some other force whose name is unknown to mankind. It achieves this atmosphere without using standard tricks such as extremely lo-fi production; in fact, this one probably has the clearest and most dynamic production BAPTISM ever had. It serves it´s purpose here to highlight the nature of the album as a sort of anti-symphony, a prayer, a clear vision of doom. The messages of BAPTISM´s "Grim Arts" are serious prophecies, not entertaining background music! 6 panel cover booklet including exclusive artwork and for the first time all lyrics printed also in CD version Baptism (Fin) "Morbid wings of sathanas" --- CD Second full length from Baptism Clandestine Blaze (Fin) "Deliverers of Faith" --- CD One of the well selling title, restock now. Clandestine Blaze (Fin) "Night of unholy flames" --- CD Clandestine Blaze (Fin) "Fist of The Northern Destroyer" --- CD Repress from Nothern Heritage.One of the well selling title, restock now. Clandestine Blaze/Satanic Warmaster (Fin/Fin) "Split" --- CD half collaboration recordings and half each band does "normal" solo track Satanic Warmaster (Fin) "Strenght & Honour" --- CD Northern Heritage is proud to finally present the definitive reissue of possibly the single most powerful Finnish black metal album of the late 90´s: "Strength and Honour". Combining the satanic aggression of early Finnish black metal with the arising militant pagan awareness, this album was instrumental in the subcultural development of Finnish (black) metal. A reissue was deemed necessary because thousands of copies have been sold in several different editions, but lacking the clarity and perfection of a definitive version. That version shall be available now. Despite being a well-known name these days, SATANIC WARMASTER was known from it´s inception as a serious and provocative project. It´s musical awareness of black metal tendencies from EMPEROR to MUTIILATION and moreover, awareness of the heritage of ancient pagan traditions both in national resurgence and through the witchcraft of Satan, the adversary, with it´s unconscious symbolism to modern heavy metal youth as the destructive energies in man, makes the album concrete and evil. It´s possessed with a feeling that makes you think it´s mere presence will turn over tombstones and set churches on fire. Halfway through this album, back in ´99, this reviewer was turned from scepticism towards modern Finnish black metal, to acclaiming it´s potential future existence as a radical artistic force. The truth of this prophecy has since been proved numerous times, by the same artist, and others unmentioned. Whereas SATANIC WARMASTER´s demo works presented a rather different style, the spiritual root of the later works must be found in the obscure, almost secret work of BLUTRACHE, whose demo has been dug up from the archives to serve as part of the current reissue. Also the bonus track "Legion Werwolf" from S&H tape and vinyl version is included here. The CD is remastered from the original master tape with a different vision in mind and has better dynamics and definition, yet containing the esoteric power of the original savage production. The booklet includes new artwork, all the controversial lyrics plus an expanded manifesto revealing some of the aims of the artist in originally creating this Carelian Pan-satanist manifestation and a meditation on its consequences and where he now stands in respect to it. Warloghe (Fin) "The First Possession" --- CD Official re-release of the first album! Same material, same cover as original Drakkar version. Cult band from Finland who barely needs introduction. Warloghe (Fin) "Womb of pestilence" --- CD Official re-release of the 2nd album! Same material, same cover as original Illuminating Void prod version. Cult band from Finland who barely needs introduction. 21/11/09 New "dishes" arrived from Autopsy Kitchen Ensepulchred (Usa) "Suicide in Winter's Moonlight " --- CD USA's best kept secret in the torrid underbelly of the black metal world rapidly return with a new release! Originally released in an extremely limited run of hand numbered cd-rs in slimline dvd cases in 2006. This final and definitive version also includes a completely re-designed layout with a few newly recorded tracks not on the original version. "Suicide In Winter's Moonlight" is 16 miserable tracks of lugubrious, woebegone black fire. Funereal Moon (Mex) "Satan's Beauty Obscenity" --- CD Funereal Moon have been creating Satanic audio blasphemies in this world since 1993 with the debut release of their "Prayers Of The Crystal Tablet Of Beli" demo cassette. They have had a unique approach to the dark arts from their very inception and it has only grown phenomenally over the decade since. Funereal Moon eventually returned from absolute obscurity however and began recording full time once again much to our own pleasure.This is the first new Funereal Moon recordings in years: "Satan's Beauty Obscenity". Marblebog (Hun) "Forestheart" --- CD Originally released in 2005 on simple tape only format (later to be re-released on tape again!), Marblebog's conceptual blend of anything but jovial ambient passages and deeply personal as well as mature, nature and global depopulation inspired black metal eventually bled it's way onto a super limited CD pressing. All of which made their rounds across the world to end up in the collections of the most die hard and adventurous music lovers and underground black metal fanatics. Here it is again reissue on CD from AKR Silencer (Swe) "Death - Pierce Me" --- CD Probably one of the most influential and pertinent black metal recordings to effect today's black metal climate, Silencer is world renowned for their unique blend of psychotic melancholia and somber black atmospheres. They accomplished this with only one album ever recorded. Recorded between 1995-2000 and originally released in 2000 by Prophecy Productions. It can be said that more popular bands of today such as Xasthur and Leviathan might perhaps be itching that ghost limb were Silencer to be eradicated from history. "Death Pierce Me" is available once again in it's original form with a slightly different layout than the original version. Torch of War (Ger) "The Principle of Cosmic Instability" --- CD Furious German black metal sitting atop the throne of scathing, uncaring & unabashedly cold records of this genre. Every single track a gem on it's own and every riff completing the circle started by Darkthrone with Transilvanian Hunger. A record made by Torch Of War for Torch Of War...this beast left in tow for your ritual worship. Thou (Usa) "Peasant" --- CD Every now and again the rare occasion arises that you come across a record clearly created by fanatics that simply can't help but stand apart from the crowd. Fanatics that have deep roots in nothing else but bashing out the most grim yet beautiful sounding doom.. doom isn't the genre here, doom is the atmosphere. Eyes peer beyond shadows and blood flows beneath footprints. The world is not as vast as the mind. Reality suffers the consequence and we are it's slaves. "Peasant" is Thou's 2nd full length after their debut LP "Tyrant" and both LPs were summoned in their hometown of Baton Rouge, LA which many here in the states consider the home state of that true soulful doom vibe somewhat akin to Motown via Detroit. Unlike many bands of the ilk, Thou doesn't just simply plow over you with riff after unbearably crushing riff over the duration of the album but choose to riff over your soul track by track with more venom per ounce than is likely healthy by any standard. Needless pain and suffering are all around you, Thou are not the answer... they are the alternative. No true pleasure can ever be experienced without a healthy dose of pain. Look no further. Marblebog/Vorkuta (Hun/Hun) "Wanderings" --- 7' Anyone with an ear to the underground or just good taste in what it has to offer are surely familiar with Hungary's Marblebog, and recently riding that same cold, deep and despairingly black wave are countrymen Vorkuta. Marblebog contribute "Uttalan Utakon", a ferocious 7 minute bass driven beast of a track that begins with a fire that only years of black metal tradition can ignite and then segues into a deep deep canyon of despair as only Marblebog know how. Most have never heard Marblebog sound like this as it is their most mature material to date and despite activity on numerous splits recently, Marblebog hasn't had a full length in quite some time. This split will leave you begging for it... Fellow countrymen Vorkuta attack this split with a brand new track "Prophecies" which certainly isn't the lighter side of this release. Written in 3 parts (War/Cleansing/Triumph) the track is a blazing assault in tribute to man's oldest pastime. Those already familiar with Vorkuta absolutely need this in their collection as (like the Marblebog track) it is some of their most mature work to date. PINK Marbled vinyl with 2 sided full colour inserts. 14/11/09 New CDs arrived from Poem Productions, Neverheard Distro and Ahdistuksen Aihio Productions. Black Omen(Tur) "Sinphony" --- CD With a sound filled with deep and intense use of keyboards as of the scadinavian forefathers of atmospheric black metal, this darkened bands comes to head-to-head comparisions with the major acts of the genre, such as,AGATHODAIMON, GRAVEWORM, etc. 2nd full length from 2007(Poem Productions) Groza(Tur) "Geçmişin Kasvetli İzleri" --- CD Groza is a solo project which was created by Bahadir Uludaglar in 2004. the first solo project with its dark-black metal sound in Turkey. Life ,after life was dedicated in the memory of Bosnian people who lost their life in Bosnian War.2nd full length from 2007(Poem Productions) Zifir(Tur) "You Must Come With Us" --- CD Debut album of Raw Black Metal Band consisting 10 tracks of misanthropy,antihumanity,antireligion and hate. "Zifir is a confession. About what Zifir are and what you are…"(Poem Productions) Veér(Hun) "The Measure Of Waste" --- CD VEER is a classical five piece band from Hungary. Plays BM based groovy Metal music with a bit of R'n'R feeling.The band members are well-known musicians from other Hungarian bands like Witchcraft, Ater Tenebrae, Koprofaagia and Sanguis in Nocte."The Measure Of Waste" is their first full-lenght. Contains 9 songs + outro.The band previously released three demos (self releases) and a split 7" EP at Miriquidi Prods. as RAVENSHADES.(Abismal Caverna / Neverheard Distro) Blood Red Fog(Fin) "Radiating Desolation" --- MCD Almost 30 minutes long EP. More straight-forward, stripped-down and rawer Black Metal than on the debut album.(Ahdistuksen Aihio Productions) Kraken Duumvirate(Fin) "From the Dying Soil to the Eternal Sea" --- MCD Kraken's tendril reaching out from the great faceless waves, impelling you to take a bow where the heavens meet the waters. Seizing you to your knees, forcing to gaze to the veiled bottomless depths... First part in the series of experiencing the concealed underwater mysteries, manifested through experimental Black Metal.(Ahdistuksen Aihio Productions) Slave´s Mask(Fin) "Faustian Electronics & Bruise Poetry" --- Digi pack As a counterbalance to raw black metal releases, years of delays and several drawbacks, AAP has finally the honour to present the debut album of Slave´s Mask "Faustian Electronics & Bruise Poetry". Kaarna and SG.7 have poured an absinth-odorish coctail FE&BP into a glass ready to drink, using the finest elements of their several artistic works in the mixture of the potion, consisting of nine organic, polished, pounding and pulsating semen injections to the rubbercunt underlining the attraction not to life, but to its exceeded rate. As a sugar at the bottom of the glass, the quaff has been decorated with luxurious six-panel digipack with four lyric cards, thus making it even more irresistable to devour this deceitful drink down the throat. (Ahdistuksen Aihio Productions) Profetus(Fin) "Coronation of the Black Sun" --- CD "Heavens are dropping with black seed of Doom when Profetus´ congregation burdensomely shambles its burial march onwards. Scandinavian Funeral Doom pioneers of the early ´90s have had a big part in the process of shaping Profetus as the embodiment of their despondency. Yet their musical roots in Finnish underground Black/Death Metal scene lay a strong effect of rawness on their solemnly forged sound - finally burying everything under a suffocating blanket of northern snow. "Coronation of the Black Sun" offers 4 tracks & 50 minutes of Funeral Doom in devastation of solitude, saturnine bleakness and despair - guided with lyrical & conceptual luciferian light shed by the author Johannes Nefastos to invoke this majestic and mesmerising journey into oblivion."(Rusty Crowbar Records) 08/11/09 9 CD titles and 1 new LP arrived from all different labels. Vinterthron (Bra) "Reign Ov Opposites " --- LP Debut from this Brazilian Black Metal band now is on LP,The LP is 500 handnumbered limited copies and comes with a great A2 POSTER + Sticker!!!(Novus Ordo Diabolum) Krumkach (Blr) "Black Visions of Hatred" --- CD Black Metal from Belarus.Blackness. Rawness. Dirt. Disgust. Hatred(Nomos Dei/Wolfram Prod) Odar (Bih) "Zavjet Dalekom Snu" --- CD Raw, devastating oldschool black metal from Bosnia & Herzegovina in the vein of Burzum, Immortal, Dissection, Satyricon... 8 pages booklet(Sonic Temple records) Profundis (Pol) "Nokturn" --- CD Debut album, 6 nocturnal hymns + untypical cover, rapid rates & crushing riffs with melodious arrangements.(Diachell Musik) Scorched (Swe) "The 5th Season" --- CD Second full length from these Swedish Black Metal horde(Othal Productions) Seclusion (Uk) "Skies Veiled In Black " --- CD Ambient Black Metal from UK. (Novus Ordo Diabolum) Sol Evil (Usa) "Sanctus Satanas " --- CD Kult demo, live tracks of old material recorded before Lord Morder and Arminius were sent to prison! Includes two bonus tracks unreleased trax from a side project of Lord Morder, and a 12pg booklet complete with photos and lyrics! (Anti-Xtian Terror Records) Varhorn (Rus) "Labyrinths of Darkness " --- CD Old school black metal from Russia. (Cold Breath of Silence Records) Warmarch (Svk) "Pactum Cum Diabolus" --- CD 9 tracks of true Underground Black Metal from Slovakia (Hexencave Prod) Weltkrieg (Svk) "Final Death " --- CD Underground NS Black Metal from Slovakia (Armour Get Dawn Productions) 31/10/09 New CDs arrived from Darker Than Black Records, Stellar Winter. Absurd (Ger) "Raubritter/Grimmige Volksmusik " --- CD Reissue of Raubritter/Grimmige Volksmusik EP on one CD.(Darker Than Black Records) Forest (Rus) "Forest" --- CD 1996\2008 - OFFICIAL RE-RELEASE with 3 exclusive bonus-tracks and original art-work with 20 pages booklet! (Stellar Winter) Forest (Rus) "Like a Blaze Above the Ashes" --- CD CD'97/'08. Legendary raw Black Metal band from Russia, which truly achieved the levels of coldness and darkness only underdreamt by Norse BM masters of 90's. Freezing melodism meets haunting trancelike obscurity of endless russian forests at night. Re-release with proper and enchanced artwork. (Stellar Winter) Forest (Rus) "As a Song in the Harvest of Grief" --- CD CD'98/'08. Raw Black Metal, cold and grim as russian winters are. Harsh and evil yet heartpiercing melodic primitivism meets hypnotic darkness. Re-release with proper and enchanced artwork. (Stellar Winter) Forest (Rus) "Foredooming the Hope for Eternity" --- CD CD'99/'08. One hour of Raw Black Metal journey through harshest blizzards and winterstorms into the atmosphere of ghostridden obscurity. Re-release with proper and enchanced artwork. (Stellar Winter) M8L8TH (Rus) "By the Wing of Black" --- CD CD'05/'08. Highly melodic Aryan Black Metal with hysterically agressive vocals, atmospheric elements and ultrafast drumming. The band is particulary known for it's vocalist who is now under investigation in prison's psychiatrical ward, being accused in 4 murders and a few acts of robbery. Re-release with new artwork and now excluding the rehearsal demo which was present on original release as bonus. (Stellar Winter) M8L8TH (Rus) "Nepokolebimaja Vera" --- CD Brand new album 2009. Highly technical and extremely professionally recorded melodic Pagan Black/Death Metal. Features songs with amazing clean vocals in the vein of TEMNOZOR'.(Stellar Winter) Nezhegol (Rus) "From the Heart to Sun" --- CD CD..08. 10 tracks of pure heathen metal with Slavonic lyrics and original atmosphere. CD comes with full-color 8 pages booklet.(Lost reich rex) Oprich/Chur (Rus/Ukr) "Ognetzvet/Z Moroku " --- CD SplitCD`08 Folk Pagan Metal on OPRICH side, a new opus after the split with KRODA(UKR): an unique and powerful interpretation of 2 archaic Russian folk songs in Metal form + their 2 own songs. CHUR's side here is completely different to it's debut full-length, this time CHUR arrives with haunted, deeply atmospheric and cold traditional Black Metal meditation in the vein of BURZUM "Hvis Lyset Tar Oss" without any folk influences or whatever you may recall from their debut. (Stellar Winter) 24/10/09 New CDs arrived from Frostscald Records, latest 2009 releases Dråpsnatt (Swe) "I Denna Skog" --- CD Swedish Black Metal band hailing debut album composed in absolutely unique way. The grand impressive musical creation devoted to the nature, thunderstorm blast-biting, dark sorrowful doomish & lyrical acoustic passages are supported by piano & sympho with strongest ideal clean vocal. Drephjard (Nor) "Maktdominans" --- MCD Brand new album from Norwegian Black Metal hateful war-machine in the vein of DARKTHRONE and GORGOROTH. Cold and merciless massacre in the classic traditions, greatly upbrought and advanced since their debut on Northern Silence Productions back in 2006. Dysperium (Usa) "Dysperium" --- CD Doom Metal with indepth nature atmosphere, superb acoustic parts & some Black Metal touch strongly inspired by ULVER, AGALLOCH, PRIMORDIAL, AETERNUS, KATATONIA, OPETH. Features founder members of US Black Metal cult TYPHOS. Kailash (Ita) "Past Changing Fast" --- CD 2nd album composed in their own extremely avantgarde style according to genre masters VED BUENS ENDE – a genius mix of progressive acoustic & distorted riffs with the proper drum section. CD features bonus cover song on VED BUENS ENDE. Midvinter (Swe) "At the Sight of the Apocalypse Dragon" --- CD Classic Swedish Black Metal straight from the 90s, spirit and agression meets melody and freezing cosmic sympho passages. Features ex-SETHERIAL vocalist. Originally released by Invasion records/Metal Blade Records in 1997. Re-release with new artwork. Sorgeldom (Swe) "Innerlig Förmörkelse" --- CD Swedish Black Metal band hailing debut album composed in absolutely unique way. The enigmatic journey through the solitary cosmos to the total eclipse immersed in magical atmospheric introductions, raw guitar coldness, shoegaze tunes slightly reminding STRID, WALKNUT, SVARTSYN, ARMAGEDDA. Svart (Swe) "Våran Tid är Förbi " --- MCD Brand new second album 2009. Swedish depressive Black Metal. Features debut demo 2008. Enjoy 76 minutes of pure raw melancholy and despair in the best traditions of genre masters like early SHINING and FORGOTTEN TOMB. Svart (Swe) "Vanära, Vanmakt och Avsmak " --- CD Brand new debut album 2009. Swedish depressive Black Metal in the best traditions of genre masters like early SHINING and FORGOTTEN TOMB. Ulvhedner (Nor) "For I Tida " --- CD Striking with their 2nd newest album band performs nowadays Norwegian Black Metal based on classic traditions. Album was composed around mystic fjords & woods in the vein of WINDIR, STORM, OTYG. It brings many excellent solo melodies, powerful guitar riffs, clean vocals. Album was mastered by Ese from VREID. 17/10/09 New CDs arrived from Ruin Productions,Dark Adversary Productions, Total Holocaust Records and Ture Face Of Evil Records Black Silence / Paroxysmal Descent (Aus/Aus)"Into the Lightless Depths / The Suffering Within" --- CD Black Silence unveiling a traditional black metal sound with material combining the extremes of anger and sadness, Dragging you down into a place of darkness, hate and sorrow...Into the Lightless Depths... Paroxysmal Descent bring forth 3 original tracks of pure, life neglecting, black hatred and an Abyssic Hate cover! The path to salvation lies within the will to demise, For death is the only fucking god on this earth!(Ruin Productions) Crimson (Aus)"Fading" --- CD Grief, solitude and autumn skies in crimson blossom. The music of Crimson is like well written poetry. You should let it speak for itself, there's no words to fully describe this work. Melancholia lingers in perfect harmony with this soothing and acoustic creation. Music to detach from this plane of existence. Dreams to dust. Reality ablaze. Crimson awakes. Fading. (Total Holocaust Records) Eternum (Aus)"An Ode to Our Fallen" --- CD Epic, ancient and proud black metal from this mysterious Australian horde! An ode to our fallen ancestors and their memory.(Dark Adversary Productions) Mistress of the Dead (Cze)"I Know Her Face from the Tombstone" --- CD Yet another monumental collection of deep and emotionally moving czech funeral doom unveiled on CD. The funeral winds forever blow, covering the tombstone of loss and mourning with thousand year aged snow. Fans of Mistress of the Dead’s previous opus, “Weeping Silence of the Dead” shall not be dissapointed, As this material is as haunting and deep as ever...(Ruin Productions) Paroxysmal Descent (Aus)"Paradigm of Decay" --- CD Pure life-neglecting negativity...Paroxysmal Descent summon forth from the deepest vaults, A virus of dark,Suffocating black metal despair. Presenting the decaying world their debut full length offering, To scar the world once more...(Ruin Productions/Total Holocaust Records) Spiderpact (Fin)"Goatspeed Into Magenta Vacuum" --- MCD Avant-garde metal from Finland(Ture Face Of Evil Records) 09/10/09 New LPs arrived from Ahdistuksen Aihio Productions Circle of Ouroborus (Fin)"Streams" --- LP Second CoO full-length available on vinyl. A unique mix of lo-fi (black) metal and post-punk. Gloomier and more coherent wholeness than its predecessor. Not only the presentation (completely new lay-out & 20 page A4 booklet), but also the format adds a lot to the whole, highlighting the bilateral differences of the vinyls sides and their overall unity. Peste Noire (Fra)"La Sanie des siecles - Panegyrique de la degenerescence" --- LP Raw Black Metal. The highly anticipated first album of Peste Noire "La Sanie des siècles - Panégyrique de la dégénérescence" is now released on LP format. The release is a proud collaboration of De profundis, and Ahdistuksen Aihio Productions. The LP contains same tracks as the CD version, only the track order has been changed, and the layout is different. Due to the high postage for this trade, the price for these 2 LPs are slightly higher, 30 AUS$ per copy. Postage within Australia for 1 LP is 7Aus$, 2 or more LPs will be charged a fixed postage of 12Aus$ only. 08/10/09 New CDs arrived from Black Tower Production Atritas (Che)"Rising Of Eternal Dusk / Dunkler Reigen" --- DCD Digipak Symphonic Black Metal from Switerland. 2 of the early demo reissue on Double CD digipack. Black Jade (Che)"...Of Forest And Fire..." --- Digipak Melodic Tolkien Black Metal from Switzerland, this is the special extended edition digipak with 4 bonus tracks Black Jade (Che)"Helvetica Diabolica" --- CD Helvetic pagan Metal, cd limited to 666 hand numbered copies. Nightside (Fin)"The End Of Christianity" --- CD True Finnish Black Metal,2001 full length ablum reissue on Gold disk. Moloch(Ukr)"A journey to the Vyrdin " --- CD Raw atmospheric Nordic-influenced black metal, Nordsturm Prod 2009 release. 12/09/09 New CDs arrived from Supernal Music Capricornus (Pol)"Alone Against All" --- CD Debut album from Capricornus' (THOR'S HAMMER, ex-GRAVELAND) eponymous project. The explosion of disgust towards the system based on illusions of equality, freedom, and brotherhood culminates 10 years of the band's existence. Similar in style to THOR'S HAMMER's 'Three Weeds from the Same Root', but with more extreme vocals and a more radical stance, as well as cosmic ambiance. Dark Ages (Ukr)"A Chronicle of the Plague" --- CD DARK AGE's second album continues offering us minimalist Dark Ambient from the main member of DRUDKH and HATE FOREST, this time more melodic than before, and inspired on the horrors of the Middle Ages. Between the fall of the Western Roman emprie in A.D. 476 and the fall of Constantinople (capital of the Eastern Roman empire) in 1453, Europe was ravaged by plagues and superstition. Greek was largely forgotten, and with it much of the learned texts of antiquity. 'A Chronicle of the Plague' is a musical tale of the terror of 1349, which depopulated entire villages and decimated Europe's human population; the disease was not understood at the time, and therefore it was assumed to have been the wrathful punishment from the Judaeochristian Deity. Alas, prayers were of no avail... Dawnfall (Ger)"Drei Räume" --- CD Recorded many years ago, this is the long-vaulted successor to the infamous "Dominance of Darkness" debut. Weird, nightmarish, disfigured, you will most likely be repelled at first by what these Germans recorded, walking the thin dividing line betten torture and demented genius. Yet this is a clever work, necro and avant garde at the same time, grimly deranged. Ethereal Woods (Uk)"In The Forest of Arden" --- CD Second album from this Warwickshire entity. Same dreamy mysticism and sylvian sensibilities, but now with heavier guitars, a generally more robust sound, and more confident dynamics. A step forward from the debut. Ethereal Woods (Uk)"Kenilworth " --- CD Third album. This time ETHEREAL WOODS return with an even heavier sound (now touching Death Metal), retaining their Doomy and melancholic sound while infusing a dose of sylvian fantasy into their unique Elizabethan theme. Woods of Infinity (Swe)"Hopplös Väntan " --- MCD Very long mini-album, with six tracks and clocking in at half an hour. This talented duo offer us here some very strange tracks: they are, of course, full of the depressive melodies and melancholic desperation that constitute their trademark sound, but the tracks are very twisted and obscure, done in the weird, sarcastic way that only WOODS OF INFINITY would. The Meads of Asphodel/Mayhem (Uk/Nor)"Jihad / Freezing Moon" --- CD Split of two excellent bands in CD format with bonus tracks, lyrics, and controverail artwork. 07/09/09 New CDs arrived from Asphyxiate Recordings Denial (Mex)"Catacombs of the Grotesque" --- CD Debut album from Mexican death metal outfit Denial! Features members of Cenotaph. Crushing, morbid and dark metal taking you on a path to the abyss! Pure Lovecraftian Horror! Diocletian (Nz)"Decimator" --- MCD Crushing metal from New Zealand in the vein of Blasphemy, Order from Chaos, Revenge and more. Features all exclusive tracks and a cover of Bolt Thrower's "All That Remains". Paganizer(Swe)"Born to be Buried Alive" --- CD Old school death metal straight outa the same book as Dismember, Unleashed, Grave, Seance & Exhumed! 5 new tracks, bonus live track & video footage in a full length packaged release! Vassafor(Nz)"Vassafor " --- MCD Blackened doom death, displaying some of the best and freshest style of extreme music in today's underground! Finishes off with a pure classic cover of Mercyful Fate's "Black Funeral"! Vinterriket/A.E.P.(Ger/Fra)"Split " --- CD The well known subtle dark ambient from Vinterriket slotted alongside the dark, dungeon deep noise from AEP! Booklet features some of the most beautiful and dark landscapes on this earth! ---------------------------------------------- Eligor(Ita)"Ante Lucem" --- CD Melodic Black Metal from Italy,released through MKM. 30/08/09 New CDs/EP arrived from War Arts Productions and Prime Cuts Music Irae (Por)"Hellnation " --- CD New album, 8 songs of devotion to him. Still raw but more melodic than their other releases. Onirik (Por)"After Centuries of Silence " --- CD 2009 latest release,10 hymns of deep Black Metal art in cruel devotion to darkness Sturmkaiser (Ita)"Veni vidi vici" --- CD A violent masterpiece with 9 tracks of epic tunes and warcries and it's going to be a bloody milestone in the modern war metal scenes Malfeitor / Amok (Ita/Nor)"Split" --- 7' Featuring members of Aborym and Taake. 7" Gatefold limited to 666 copies handnumber by the bands Dawn of Azazel(Nz)"Sedition" --- CD Second full length of Brutal War Metal from New Zealand The Furor (Aus)"Advance Australia Warfare" --- CD Second full length from excellent Aussie War Black Metal band Grotesque (Aus)"Museum of Human Disease" --- CD High quality Brutal Death from Western Australia Tzun Tzu (Aus)"Kunoichi" --- MCD Death Metal with Ancient Japanese theme. Features members from Stargazer, Oni 24/08/09 New CDs arrived from My Kingdom Music and Baneful Genesis records Crest of Darkness(Nor)"Give Us the Power to Do Your Evil" --- CD Evil Black Metal from Norway Deinonychus(Hol)"Warfare Machines" --- CD Suicidal Doom Metal from Holland Majestic Downfall(Mex)"Temple of Guilt" --- CD MAJESTIC DOWNFALL is a one-man-band, which recaptures the feeling of the 90’s European Doom Metal scene, and mixes it with some more modern Doom Metal and Depressive Black Metal overtones. The music is somber and melancholic in some moments, while in others it is simply apokalyptic and funereal. Find here the right way for a travel into a true, supreme and mournful Doom Metal world that doesn’t follow trends. For real fans of early My Dying Bride, Katatonia, Saturnus, Celestial Season, early Katatonia and Forgotten Tomb. ThanatoSchizo(Por)"Zoom Code" --- CD ThanatoSchizO’s fourth album is the perfect match between Progressive Death Metal and World Music: avant-garde in all its potential. With ethnical melodies, catchy vocal melodies and a strong production, Zoom Code is the wet dream of every mélomane. It is a sure must for all fans of bands like Ayreon, Porcupine Tree, Strapping Young Lad, Paradise Lost, Pain of Salvation, Amorphis. Spiculum Iratus(Usa)"Summa Anti-Theologica" --- CD Haunting, and well crafted US underground Black Metal,Baneful Genesis 2009 release 17/08/09 Some of the best titles from Avantgarde Music/Woulded Love Records arrived!! Ad Hominem(Fra) "Climax of Hatred" --- CD Third album of one of the most extreme black metal bands from France! Carpathian Forest(Nor) "Strange Old Brew" --- CD Carpathian Forest(Nor) "We're Going to Hell for This - Over a Decade of Perversions" --- CD Carpathian Forest need no introduction. Dark Space(Swi) "III" --- CD with slipcase "Dark Space III" is a giant album written and recorded over the course of a couple of years withe the band almost getting nervous breakdowns at arranging every single bit and detail of it, though not missing their now worldwide recognized aural and minimalistic apocalypse. Dolorian(Fin) "When All The Laughter Has Gone" --- CD Dolorian, a word reminiscent of grief, perfectly embodies the very essenced of the band; expressed through slow yet powerful music where flesh tearing vocals portrait their own gloomy vision of daily, real life.Impossible to come up with a specific range of musical influences, for the band spans from doom to dark ambient, but those lovers of sickening atmospheres will relish " When all laughter has gone " the band's very first output. Dolorian(Fin) "Dolorian" --- CD Hjarnidaudi(Nor) "Pain:Noise:March" --- Digi Pak Niklas Kvarforth(from Shining,Bethlehem,Ondskapt and Diabolicum etc.)'s Drone/Funeral Doom Metal Project Lifelover(Swe) "Konkurs" --- CD Third album from Lifelover, no introduction needed. Nortt(Den) "Galgenfrist" --- CD Talented Funeral Doom from Denmark, latest album. 11/08/09 Choronzon(US) "Magog Agog" --- CD Blackened Industrial Metal from USA, Nocturnal Art Productions original copy. only have 3 copies left, don't miss out Circle of Ouroborus (Fin) "Tree of Knowledge" --- CD latest full length from Circle of Ouroborus,Hospital Productions. Nartvind (Bel) "Until Their Ruin" --- CD Black Metal from Belgium, Painkiller Records Hoth (Por) "Rites of the black Goddess" --- CD Another cult Black Metal band from Portugal, original Bahamut Records released in 2001. I only have one copy left, sold already Dark Fury (Pol) "Fortress of Eagles" --- CD NS Black Metal from Poland, sorry only one copy available. 07/08/09 Cryfemal (Spa) "Perpetua Funebre Gloria" --- CD Black Metal from Spain,Oniric Records Evoked Curse (Fin) "Merciless Revenge" --- CD Old school Black Metal from Finland, Time before Time Records Infernö (Nor) "Downtown Hades/Utter Hell" --- CD Infernö (Nor) "Metal Commando Attack" --- CD Thrash Metal from Norway, 2 releases from Duplicate Records Malveillance (Can) "L'appel du Neant / Le Froid du Nord" --- CD Black Metal from Canada, released by Suffering Jesus 03/08/09 lastest release from Ancient Dream Records(Germany)arrived. Dead? (Fra) "Dead?" --- CD 12 Tracks that cuts the smile out of your face, await outstanding Black Metal with a decent packaging. Created by Kaiser from Ad Hominem. A mix of cynical Lifelover, suicidal Shining - and martial totalitarism.12 page booklet with golden print on thick and rough paper. - created by Kaiser from Ad Hominem (Guitar, Bass, Vocals) and with members from Eternity (Basilik: Drums), Frangar (Il Colonnello: Vocals), Forgotten Tomb (Algol: Vocals) Gosforth (Luxitan: Vocals) HellLight(Bra) "Funeral Doom" --- CD Amazing Doom Metal from Brazil. A melancholic Masterpiece with some of the most emotional moments you have heard for years. Join the journey to the deepest place in your mind. Explosicum (Chn) "Conflict" --- CD One of the best chinese Thrash Metal band, Areadeath Production. 01/08/09 Bestial Mockery/Destruktor(Swe/Aus) "Metal of Death" --- CD Victimizer (Dnk) "Rapid Thrashing Violence" --- CD with 11 live tracks as Bonus. 2 releases from Hells Headbangers in 2006 28/07/09 Winter Decadence (Ita)"Lacrime di Solitudine Invernale" --- CDR Selfproduced - Ambient music on CDR with 8 pages Pro booklet,limited to 100 handnumbered copies Only Black Angel (Per) "From the Darkness" --- CD Black Metal from Peru,features members from Goat Semen, Ketzer Records. Darkest Hate Warfront (Bra) "Satanik Annihilation Kommando" --- CD Black Thrash from Brazil, Ketzer Records. Kharon (Nor) "Raised By Hellish Demons" --- CD Black Metal from Norway, Ketzer Records. Lux Ferre (Por) "Antichristian War Propaganda " --- CD Black Metal from portugal, Ketzer Records. Myrk (Ice) "Icons Of The Dark" --- CD Black Metal from Iceland, Ketzer Records. 21/07/09 Velehentor (Rus)"Cak-Enra" --- CD A5 CD,Dark ambient/noise project from Russia Krieg (Usa) "Patrick Bateman" --- MCD MCD released in 2004. Krieg / Azaghal (Usa/Fin) "Split" --- 10' Vinyl From Beyond Productions, limited to 666 hand numbered copies 13/07/09 Karna (Rus) "Diabolic (Soundtrack For My Nightmares)" --- CD Karna (Rus) "Raven" --- CD Black Ambient from Russian,Possession Productions 10/07/09 Judas Iscariot (Usa) "Thy dying light" --- CD 2000 reissue with bonus video track, Moribund Records 04/07/09 Frostmoon Eclipse/Ritual Day (Ita/Chi) "Split"" --- CD 3 copies only Voices Of The Styx (Hug) "16 Hungarian black Death metal bands"" --- CD limited to 500 hand numbered copies. news | discography | gallery | sound | contact | links new arrivals | compact discs | demos | vinyl | misc. | ordering info 
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