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Band:LUSTRE
Album:A GLIMPSE OF GLORY
Label:DE TENEBRARUM PRINCIPIO
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Eldritch, boundless desolation, awe-inspiring in its profundity, blanching in its focus, LUSTRE’s “A Glimpse of Glory” is an experience like no other. Awash in mile-high walls of hypnotic, hypothermic synths, the three epic tracks comprising the album idiosyncratically fuse together arcane elements of black metal, dark ambient, pagan metal, and funeral doom, glacial in drift and towering in its vision. Imagine Burzum’s “Dunkelheit” crossed with Summoning’s “Stronghold,” but spawned in the same studio environs Skepticism uses: perhaps then you will catch “A Glimpse of Glory
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Band:FORNOST ARNOR
Album:ESCAPING THE ABYSS
Label:WITCH KING
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
The debut full-length opus, Escaping The Abyss, contains eight tracks of majestic progressive black metal, contrasting extreme elements with graceful passages creating a sound that is refreshingly original and unique. Blending together a wide range of different musical influences, (including the likes of Enslaved and Opeth), Fornost Arnor have created an unmistakable style... one they have made very much their own. “…far from a one-trick pony, more a mythical beast of many forms…” (7/10) Rock Sound Magazine “…the band’s ability to switch seamlessly between tranquil melancholy and raw brutality is impressive…” (4/6) Zero Tolerance Magazine
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Band:DRAPSNATT
Album:HYMNER TILL UNDERGANGEN
Label:FROSTSCALD
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Swedish atmospheric Black Metal hailing the sombre nature mysticism and grim aspects of Swedish folklore. Black Metal art entwined with thunderstorm blast-biting, dark sorrowful doomish and lyrical acoustic passages of nocturnal woodland supported by piano & cold cosmic sympho with strongest clean vocal. Pure Nordic progressive music.
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Band:SOUL STEALER
Album:FEEL THE STEEL
Label:Ledo Takas
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
This is the second time when The Stealer rises up from his pit to make the job he executes best – to steal souls. The same can be uttered about a four-piece band from Vilnius, Lithuania, acting as a direct representative of the haunting creature. This time round The Stealer reveals itself via album artwork, while the group strikes back with double energy, dedication and strength. No wonder, since the times when their debut was released, Soul Stealer have grown up a lot as musicians, composers and personalities. Still pointing their targets at traditional heavy metal with loud and heavy songs, they also march forward with unexpected twists & turns, easy turning into lyrical, mystical or deeply philosophical, when you expect it the less. Another intrigue of the album is track number six, the title of which is not announced officially, so only those who get the album and read the lyrics will get a point about it.
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Band:ICON CLAN
Album:ROCK N ROLL RODEO
Label:Whirlwind
Format:CD
Genre:Rock And Roll/Psychobilly
The band is bravely swimming against the flow and trends and is kneeling before Moto rhead and Peer Gu nt (a legendary Finnish rock group), Honey Aaltonen (a famous Finnish rock-author) has even called ICONCLAN a mini-Moto rhead! The Clan’s music is based on old school Rock’n’Roll with a little bit of Punk-chunks. ICONCLAN‘s reputation of being a great live act does not come without a reason. Body shaking, mind-hammering and sweat-producing rhythms are the main ingredient of their shows. During the past five years the band has travelled around Europe, so clubs and highways have become very familiar to these guys - they have partied in 7 different countries and played around 80 shows. Now in 2010, ICONCLAN have armored up with their third full-length “Rock n‘Roll Rodeo“ and their new style is straight forward heavy Rock’n'Roll! It‘s a straight-in-your-arse bullet you
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Band:ELDAR
Album:AMATERASU SHIROI
Label:Caustic
Format:CD
Genre:Drone/Ambient
All work that appears on this album has been re-recorded and re-mastered, from the demo recordings in 2007/2008, edited by SkullLine in two volumes called "Ama Terasu" and "Solve Et Coagula" currently sold out. They have been re-recorded almost all the instruments and voices that make up the album, also have been changed and added various features and sounds/samples of songs, including inedit songs. The result is an album completely new and different from the first recordings of those years. A must for fans of Triarii, Toroidh, A Challenge of Honour, Stahlwerk 9. This album is based on the relation of philosophy and society. Humanity in their continuing struggle to manage their destination uses the philosophy to guide their society, unlike animals that only use force to impose its collective. Other times it is used for personal purposes and lead the masses. A divine spirit behind the philosophy, but this is used for diabolical purposes. This work is dedicated to all those who have fought and still fighting for that philosophy is a social ideal and the only way for humanity to evolve.
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Band:IBERIAN SPLEEN
Album:DRACULA
Label:Caustic
Format:CD
Genre:Industrial/EBM
Caustic Records presents the club versions of one of the soundtracks from Francis Ford Coppola's film DRACULA (Vampire Hunters) produced and created by Iberian Spleen.
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Band:LUGBURZ
Album:SONGS FROM FORGOTTEN LANDS
Label:Caustic
Format:CD
Genre:Drone/Ambient
The long-awaited second Lugburz album inspired by the books of J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Band:COLD BODY RADIATION
Album:the great white emptiness
Label:DUSKTONE
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
From the restained flickering of candlelight to the blinding rays of the sun: The Great White Emptiness drowns everything in a hazy melancholic slumber that shimmers with golden shine. A depressive study on the nature of light.
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Band:GRISATRE
Album:L`IDEE DE DIEU
Label:DUSKTONE
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Grisâtre is a project of ambient / atmospheric Black metal founded in 2006 by Rokkr. At the beginning Grisâtre had no vocation to become a project which was going to evolve, it was simply a release researching for feelings that shall transcend the perception. But after some encouragements and propositions, Rokkr decided to propose its music to those who wanted to take time to listen to.. Grisâtre produces a music aiming at the call of the feelings which take to the reflexion, to the discovery of an unconscious occult knowledge, it’s also a personal representation of visions, perceptions. A vision Artistically metaphysical.. Grisâtre is an idea (Conceptually).
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Band:THE ETERNAL SUFFERING
Album:MIASMA
Label:I FOR AN I
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
The Eternal Suffering were formed in 2001 and their early 2002 demo release, titled "Born of Chaos", was selected as Release of the Month in several magazines including Metal Hammer and well known webzines such as Metal Invader and Avopolis. Their "In Darkness We Shall Reign" self-financed debut album was, once again, hailed by the press, voted as Release Of The Month by Metal Hammer and numerous webzines. The mastering of the album took place in Tampa, Florida in the famous Morrisound Studios by Jim Morris himself and sold hundreds and hundreds of copies by only using underground black metal distribution channels! Their astonishing "Apognosis" MCD shared the exact same acclaim in 2008, sold out, and ensured a record deal for the band. At last... “Miasma” is the first official and long awaited release by The Eternal Suffering!
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Band:DECEMBERANCE
Album:INSIDE
Label:I FOR AN I
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
The experimental doom/death act DECEMBERANCE was formed in Athens, Greece, in September 1997. With some changes to the original line-up, their first demo, titled "Decemberance", came out in January 1998 and obtained some great reviews from the media. Their second demo release, titled "Just a Blackclad...", came out in January 2001 with equivalent response by the press, giving them the opportunity to share the stage with such acts as Marduk (2001), Candlemass (2002) ,Kaamos (2003), Saturnus and Misanthrope (2008). Their "Time" promo CD (2008) was obviously more than enough to ensure a record deal for the band.
Includes a bonus DVD!
“They know what they’re doing!” - 8/10 Metal Hammer (Release Of The Month)
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