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Band:PILLORIAN
Album:A STYGIAN PYRE
Label:Eisenwald
Format:7 Inch Vinyl
Genre:Black Metal
CLASSIC SINGLE 7” RELEASE IN ADVANCE OF THE PILLORIAN DEBUT ALBUM WITH EXCLUSIVE B SIDE !
Pillorian adj.- of, or relating to, scorn and condemnation.
Pillorian was formed in early Summer of 2016 by Stephen Parker (Maestus, ex-Arkhum), John Haughm (ex-Agalloch), and Trevor Matthews (Uada, ex-Infernus) with the goal to create a unique, sinister, and twisted style of dark/black metal. Fusing haunting melodies with avantgarde structures, dark folk elements and blackened walls of furious sound; the music of Pillorian is the perfect aural definition of its namesake
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Band:EXTREME NOISE TERROR
Album:EXTREME NOISE TERROR - WHITE VINYL LP
Label:GRAVE WAX
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Grindcore
Extreme Noise Terror (often abbreviated to ENT) are an English hardcore punk band originally formed in Ipswich in 1985. They are considered one of the earliest and most influential European grindcore bands, particularly in the crustpunk genre. Noted for one of the earliest uses of dual vocalists in hardcore and for recording a number of sessions for BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, Extreme Noise Terror started as a crust punk band and helped characterise the early, archetypal grindcore sound with fiercely political lyrics, grinding guitars, extremely fast tempo and often very short songs. With this eponymous release, EXTREME NOISE TERROR are back to their crust punk original sound, harder, faster and better than ever!
Special edition white heavyweight gatefold vinyl.
“30 years in and ENT show no sign of slowing down; this album is one of their most ferocious to date.” – 4.5/6 Zero Tolerance
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Band:THE STEPPES
Album:DROP OF THE CREATURE
Label:Teen Sound
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
The Rome-based Teen Sound Records, one of the most dedicated new-Sixties label around, delivers a precious reissue of this classic 80’s psychedelic album on its 30th anniversary. The Steppes Drop of The Creature is housed in a full coloured gatefold sleeve, enriched by the songs lyrics and rare vintage pictures, as well as two excellent and rare bonus tracks from the period that fit perfectly in the album’s mood. The Fallon brothers’ band penetrated psychedelic folk territories, even digging into their Irish ancestry, with brilliant, sometimes epic results, characterized by mature writing that does not disdain the group’s subtle references to the Beatles, Kinks, Byrds and a touch of eerie medieval atmosphere, all presented in an absolutely original way.
“Thirty years on, Drop Of The Creature never ceases to amaze.” Rumore Magazine
30th years anniversary ; For lovers of the Voxx-Revolution label days, blessed by the era’s most influential producer, Greg Shaw, the Paisley Underground years and in general the 80’s Garage-Psych revival, this reissue is an unique opportunity to (re)discover a band that still sound fresh and current today.
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Band:SULA BASSANA
Album:Organ Accumulator + Disappear
Label:SULATRON RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Kraut / Space Rock
Time has come – once more: Sula Bassana walks on electronic trails again and produces an album in the attitude of electronic krautrock! After the successful forerunner «Shipwrecked» (2016), which was built mostly on electronic instruments, the sound is a bit more relaxed on this album. «Organ Accumulator» accured on the application of portable keyboards and little organs, also synthesizers, drumboxes, etc... The track «Lichtbuendel», for example, was recorded almost only on a Casiotone 403, played via the fat effect board and guitar amp. «The Frogs» almost sounds like a John Carpenter soundtrack, whilst the title track is the by far most spacerocky track. «Grashamster» is the most krauty one, with loads of Farfisa Syntorchestra and Roland Vocoder Plus, which (together with a Yamaha PS 30) also builds the sound-footing of «Nebelschwaden», a slighty Vangelis influenced song. Additional to the album «Organ Accumulator», the CD has «Disappear» as a bonus, the whole Sula Bassana side of the Split LP with 3AM (which was only released as vinyl on Headspin NL). On the tracks of «Disappear», there are notable more guitars, drums and some vocals (by Komet Lulu and Sula) but also the music is very relaxing and fits wonderfully to the tracks of «Organ Accumulator»! CD lim. to 500 in 100% recycled cardboard fold out digisleeve!
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Band:Minami Deutsch
Album:Minami Deutsch
Label:SULATRON RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Kraut / Space Rock
Minami Deutsch is a krautrock band from Tokyo. Formed by Kyotaro Miula in 2014, they got their start playing live music on the busy streets of Tokyo. In September 2015, they released their first record on the british cult label Cardinal Fuzz Records and, at the same time, they self-released it on cassette and as digital-download through Tokyo based label Guruguru Brain. They became a cult band, more or less over night, which is perhaps down to the fact that their sound is loaded of fresh energy: It is a mixture of krautrock (in the manner of Neu! and Can) and insane psychotic vibes, which you can feel along the whole album. They have constant motorik beats but they also freak out from time to time so there is a lot of movement in their music. Now, Sulatron Records releases the CD version of this debut album, which is containing previously unreleased bonus tracks! Limited to 500 copies in fold out digisleeve, 100% recycled cardboard!
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Band:BOOK OF WYRMS
Album:Sci-fi/Fantasy
Label:TWIN EARTH
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Stoner, Doom, female-fronted Space metal from Richmond, VA featuring members of Bearstorm, Uproar, Divine Suffering, Sematary, and The Hotdamns, will pulversize your core with spaced-out blues/stoner metal.
BOOK OF WYRMS is: Jay Lindsey: bass Ben Coudriet: guitar Kyle Lewis: guitar Chris DeHaven: drums Sarah Moore-Lindsey: vocals, effects.
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Band:Complicated Men Of Leisure
Album:Im Sorry If I Did Something...
Label:BOMBER MUSIC
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Reggae/Dub/Ska
Complicated Men Of Leisure are a new band featuring members of Jaya The Cat and Random Hand. This is a very limited edition release. For Fans Of: Jaya The Cat, Sublime, The Tips, Random Hand.
Limited Edition, Coloured Vinyl only release.
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Band:MARK AND THE CLOUDS
Album:Cumulus
Label:MEGA DODO
Format:CD
Genre:Psych/Garage
Mark and The Clouds is a London based band playing a blend of timeless and powerful pop. Evolving from Instant Flight, a band so cool they persuaded the legendary Arthur Brown to sing on their debut album Colours & Lights, Mark & The Clouds is fronted by vocalist and songwriter Marco Magnani. This is Mark and The Clouds difficult second album. Although there’s nothing difficult about it. Like their debut, it’s full of intoxicating bright, jangly pop and rock with more hooks than an angler’s bait box. Think Kinks, Jam and the best power pop imaginable and that’s Mark & The Clouds.
CD features THREE bonus songs not on the LP
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Band:MARK AND THE CLOUDS
Album:Cumulus - LP
Label:MEGA DODO
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Psych/Garage
Mark and The Clouds is a London based band playing a blend of timeless and powerful pop. Evolving from Instant Flight, a band so cool they persuaded the legendary Arthur Brown to sing on their debut album Colours & Lights, Mark & The Clouds is fronted by vocalist and songwriter Marco Magnani. This is Mark and The Clouds difficult second album. Although there’s nothing difficult about it. Like their debut, it’s full of intoxicating bright, jangly pop and rock with more hooks than an angler’s bait box. Think Kinks, Jam and the best power pop imaginable and that’s Mark & The Clouds.
Limited edition 180 gram black vinyl. 250 copies world wide
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Band:KAIRON : IRSE !
Album:ruination
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:Postrock / Post Hardcore / Noise
Progressive shoegazing? Music of the outer spheres? An irrevocably mentally unstable Gentle Giant and a severely alcoholic Todd Rundgren having a love child which, after being adopted to Russia, finds himself performing a rock opera in the Ural Mountains? It is typical of the human mind to try and classify things, but when confronted with Kairon; IRSE!, many are at a loss for words. Behind the moniker Kairon; IRSE! there are four inner space travelers from western Finland. Debut album Ujubasajuba already knocked the planet off its orbit, even though it was done as a DIY Bandcamp release. Despite the lack of a physical release the album found itself on many a best albums of the year ‐list in 2014. Since then the band has performed at various large festivals and meticulously written the new album. Titled Ruination, the album will be released by Svart Records in February 2017 on CD, double LP and digital. The band describe their music as an appreciation of the ideas and overall mentality of experimental pop musicians of the 60s and 70s, combined with a modern approach and original musical vision. Whereas the debut album was largely born out of improvisation and jam sessions, Ruination is the fruit of two years of careful composing and arranging work, taking control of the chaos. Though often bundled with the shoegazer movement, Kairon; IRSE!'s music has since the beginning been a rare bird inside the scene: it rings out with a different tone, and already on the first album the influence of classic progressive rock was evident. On Ruination the curiously named quartet heads further, beyond the point of no return, into their own world of sound, where power ARTIST: Kairon; IRSE! TITLE: Ruination LABEL: Svart Records CATALOG NO.: SVART071 FORMAT: CD PRICE: £7.99 RELEASE: 2017‐02‐03 GENRE: Post Rock / Shoegaze CD EAN/UPC: 6430050669218 chords, arpeggios and quirky vocal harmonies flow. Ruination was recorded in the summer of 2016 at Tonehaven Studios producer Juho Vanhanen (Oranssi Pazuzu, Grave Pleasures) at the helm and Tom Brooke recording and mixing. "Juho shared our vision of how the album should sound", comments guitarist Niko Lehdontie, "but he also gave us a much needed outside view of the proceedings." Svart Records is set to release both Ruination and the group's first album Ujubasajuba on February 3, 2017, on CD/2LP/Digital. The band is heading for an extensive Finnish tour in February, and live appearances abroad are to be expected as well.
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Band:SHINDIG MAGAZINE
Album:ISSUE 64
Label:SILVERBACK PUBLISHING
Format:MAGAZINE
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
Issue #63 of Psych / Garage / Underground bible SHINDIG!
The mighty KINKS are this month's cover stas
This Issue of the magazine also features Fred Neil, Simply Saucer, Cockne Rebel, Foxygen and all the regular columns, reviews, news etc - Available at all good Indie Stores.
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Band:LISA RONSON
Album:Tales Of The City
Label:Maniac Squat
Format:7 Inch Vinyl
Genre:Rock
Following the critical acclaim for her 2015 debut solo album ‘Emperors of Medieval Japan’, Lisa Ronson, daughter of David Bowie's legendary guitarist Mick Ronson, is to release new single, TALES OF THE CITY backed by her new band THE LAST DAY SECT. TALES OF THE CITY was co-written by legendary songwriters Geoff Deane (Modern Romance, Leyton Buzzards) and Paul Gendler (Modern Romance, Roachford, Spice Girls) and Lisa Ronson. Lisa was born and brought up in the US, living in Woodstock, New York, and later in New York City itself, relocating to London in 2012. TALES OF THE CITY recalls the music and the streets of Lisa’s native New York; its eccentric, flamboyant and dysfunctional characters.
7 Inch limited to x500 copies only !
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Band:KAIRON : IRSE !
Album:Ruination LP
Label:SVART
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Postrock / Post Hardcore / Noise
Progressive shoegazing? Music of the outer spheres? An irrevocably mentally unstable Gentle Giant and a severely alcoholic Todd Rundgren having a love child which, after being adopted to Russia, finds himself performing a rock opera in the Ural Mountains? It is typical of the human mind to try and classify things, but when confronted with Kairon; IRSE!, many are at a loss for words. Behind the moniker Kairon; IRSE! there are four inner space travelers from western Finland. Debut album Ujubasajuba already knocked the planet off its orbit, even though it was done as a DIY Bandcamp release. Despite the lack of a physical release the album found itself on many a best albums of the year ‐list in 2014. Since then the band has performed at various large festivals and meticulously written the new album. Titled Ruination, the album will be released by Svart Records in February 2017 on CD, double LP and digital. The band describe their music as an appreciation of the ideas and overall mentality of experimental pop musicians of the 60s and 70s, combined with a modern approach and original musical vision. Whereas the debut album was largely born out of improvisation and jam sessions, Ruination is the fruit of two years of careful composing and arranging work, taking control of the chaos. Though often bundled with the shoegazer movement, Kairon; IRSE!'s music has since the beginning been a rare bird inside the scene: it rings out with a different tone, and already on the first album the influence of classic progressive rock was evident. On Ruination the curiously named quartet heads further, beyond the point of no return, into their own world of sound, where power ARTIST: Kairon; IRSE! TITLE: Ruination LABEL: Svart Records CATALOG NO.: SVART071 FORMAT: CD PRICE: £7.99 RELEASE: 2017‐02‐03 GENRE: Post Rock / Shoegaze CD EAN/UPC: 6430050669218 chords, arpeggios and quirky vocal harmonies flow. Ruination was recorded in the summer of 2016 at Tonehaven Studios producer Juho Vanhanen (Oranssi Pazuzu, Grave Pleasures) at the helm and Tom Brooke recording and mixing. "Juho shared our vision of how the album should sound", comments guitarist Niko Lehdontie, "but he also gave us a much needed outside view of the proceedings." Svart Records is set to release both Ruination and the group's first album Ujubasajuba on February 3, 2017, on CD/2LP/Digital. The band is heading for an extensive Finnish tour in February, and live appearances abroad are to be expected as well.
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Band:KAIRON : IRSE !
Album:Ujubasajuba
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:Postrock / Post Hardcore / Noise
This is the album that started the phenomenon that is Kairon; IRSE! Self‐released by the band on Bandcamp in 2014, this is the first time Ujubasajuba is available on physical media. Svart Records are happy to present the shoegazeprog masterpiece on digipak CD and heavy double vinyl.
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Band:KAIRON : IRSE !
Album:Ujubasajuba LP
Label:SVART
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Postrock / Post Hardcore / Noise
This is the album that started the phenomenon that is Kairon; IRSE! Self‐released by the band on Bandcamp in 2014, this is the first time Ujubasajuba is available on physical media. Svart Records are happy to present the shoegazeprog masterpiece on digipak CD and heavy double vinyl.
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Band:PARANOID
Album:Cover Of The Month
Label:SVART
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Limited one time pressing of 1000 pcs. After the wildly successful debut full length album Satyagraha (2015) the Swedish d beat punks embarked upon a 12 month project, with one new cover track appearing on the bands Youtube channel each month. The results were also released as a limited tape edition, and now it is time to put this concoction of old school true metal and raw hardcore crust on vinyl. This is a one time pressing of 1000 copies and it comes with a gigantic poster and a 6 page insert.
Tracks - 1. Into The Crypts Of Rays (Celtic Frost) 2. Punk Is Love (Pisschrist) 3. Dont Really Care (The Exploited) 4. Skott (Strebers) 5. Bloodthristy System (State of Fear) 6. Krossad Drom (Acursed) 7. Day of Reckoning (Pentagram) 8. Skallra For Doden (Totalitar) 9. Natsit Ja Kommunistit (Kaaos) 10. Arise (Sepultura) 11. Too Old Too Cold (Darkthrone) 12. Criminal Trap (Anti Cimex)
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Band:ABHORRENCE
Album:TOTALLY VULGAR
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Abhorrence's comeback to the live arena after 20 years of lying in wait in the grave took place in the black summer of 2013. Svart Records were also there, capturing all 35 minutes of the bonegrinding mayhem and cadaveric incantations spewn forth from the stage. After an unholy gestation period the live material is now being let out to wreak havoc and cause grievous bodily and mental harm to the general public. Abhorrence are still old school, still undead and unclean!
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Band:ABHORRENCE
Album:TOTALLY VULGAR - LP
Label:SVART
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Death Metal
Abhorrence's comeback to the live arena after 20 years of lying in wait in the grave took place in the black summer of 2013. Svart Records were also there, capturing all 35 minutes of the bonegrinding mayhem and cadaveric incantations spewn forth from the stage. After an unholy gestation period the live material is now being let out to wreak havoc and cause grievous bodily and mental harm to the general public. Abhorrence are still old school, still undead and unclean!
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Band:HYMN
Album:PERISH
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Hailing from the Oslo underground, HYMN have paved their way forward with their multiple full stacks, hardhitting drumming, and an uncompromising approach to volume and tonality. Starting out early in 2013, the twopiece have kept a heavy foot on the throttle, pushing their raw and brutal doom over the Norwegian rock/metal scene as much as possible. By sharing the stage with bands like Windhand, Eagle twin, Uzala, Enslaved, and Belzebong, touring europe, and by playing some of the biggest festivals in Norway (Høstsabbat, The Øya Festival), HYMN have grown to become one of Norway's loudest and most hard‐hitting live bands to date. Begun earlier this year, the band hit the studio to record their debut full‐length, Perish, and the two‐man juggernaut are now eager to hit the road with their cold, aggressive doom, made with merely four hands.
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Band:HYMN
Album:PERISH - LP
Label:SVART
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Hailing from the Oslo underground, HYMN have paved their way forward with their multiple full stacks, hardhitting drumming, and an uncompromising approach to volume and tonality. Starting out early in 2013, the twopiece have kept a heavy foot on the throttle, pushing their raw and brutal doom over the Norwegian rock/metal scene as much as possible. By sharing the stage with bands like Windhand, Eagle twin, Uzala, Enslaved, and Belzebong, touring europe, and by playing some of the biggest festivals in Norway (Høstsabbat, The Øya Festival), HYMN have grown to become one of Norway's loudest and most hard‐hitting live bands to date. Begun earlier this year, the band hit the studio to record their debut full‐length, Perish, and the two‐man juggernaut are now eager to hit the road with their cold, aggressive doom, made with merely four hands. LP
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Band:BATHSHEBA
Album:SERVUS
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
From the depths of the black charcoal mountains rises the Belgian band BATHSHEBA. Fronted by She‐devil Michelle Nocon (ex‐Serpentcult, Leviathan Speaks & Death Penalty), carried by the punishing drums of Jelle Stevens (ex‐ SardoniS), massive vibrations from Raf Meukens (Death Penalty, Torturerama) and relentless riffs from Dwight Goossens (ex‐ Disinterred). BATHSHEBA throws you into deep sadness and inner rage, straight into the cave grim, no meander in the enchanted forest on the way to the deep. BATHSHEBA plays heavy doom mixed with sludge and black metal. The heavy lowtuned monster can persue in fast pace while the haunting vocals go from monotonous chants towards complete schizophrenia.
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Band:BATHSHEBA
Album:SERVUS - LP
Label:SVART
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
From the depths of the black charcoal mountains rises the Belgian band BATHSHEBA. Fronted by She‐devil Michelle Nocon (ex‐Serpentcult, Leviathan Speaks & Death Penalty), carried by the punishing drums of Jelle Stevens (ex‐ SardoniS), massive vibrations from Raf Meukens (Death Penalty, Torturerama) and relentless riffs from Dwight Goossens (ex‐ Disinterred). BATHSHEBA throws you into deep sadness and inner rage, straight into the cave grim, no meander in the enchanted forest on the way to the deep. BATHSHEBA plays heavy doom mixed with sludge and black metal. The heavy lowtuned monster can persue in fast pace while the haunting vocals go from monotonous chants towards complete schizophrenia.
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Band:SE
Album:Ja Me Tehtiin Rakkautta
Label:SVART
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Punk / Proto Punk
The debut album by Finnish artpunks Se is a cult classic of the Nordic 1st wave punk rock movement. The album's inportant contribution to punk rock was to point out that punk as a cultural and musical movement was much more than just a certain musical formula. The album consists of four long and often, for lack of a better term, progressive compositions which together form a story arc. The album was one of the last releases by the legendary Love Records label and original copies are getting scarcer and scarcer. The Svart reissue has the original insert plus new liner notes by band leader Yari. The cover art is expanded into gatefold format.
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Band:FORCA MACABRA
Album:25 ANOS
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
Força Macabra's anniversary album 25 Anos Na Estrada Mas Por Favor Näo Feche O Túmulo Ainda is the perfect gift for any discerning connoisseur of Southern American influenced thrashcore. The album was originally recorded in 2011 and meant to be a 20 year anniversary album, but it's taken an extra five years to carry this monolith out of the basement and into the open. 25 Anos is an epitome of the relentless attitude and pulverising power with which the band hammer their Brazil‐esque thrashcore message home. For the album the band picked a set of older material for reworking, wrote two new songs and added three cover tracks from Salario Minimo, Pyskoze and Armagedom. The band's earlier work, all of it sold out long ago, often suffered from poor production values and lack of distribution, released by underground labels all over the world. So, the band entered the studio with the aim to make the ultimate Força album, something which would stand the test of time as a statement of intent and a summary of the band's spirit and ideology. Never before has the band's thrashcore rang out with the kind of selfesteem and defiance evident on this piece of metal, punk and noise.
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Band:FORCA MACABRA
Album:25 Anos LP
Label:SVART
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
Força Macabra's anniversary album 25 Anos Na Estrada Mas Por Favor Näo Feche O Túmulo Ainda is the perfect gift for any discerning connoisseur of Southern American influenced thrashcore. The album was originally recorded in 2011 and meant to be a 20 year anniversary album, but it's taken an extra five years to carry this monolith out of the basement and into the open. 25 Anos is an epitome of the relentless attitude and pulverising power with which the band hammer their Brazil‐esque thrashcore message home. For the album the band picked a set of older material for reworking, wrote two new songs and added three cover tracks from Salario Minimo, Pyskoze and Armagedom. The band's earlier work, all of it sold out long ago, often suffered from poor production values and lack of distribution, released by underground labels all over the world. So, the band entered the studio with the aim to make the ultimate Força album, something which would stand the test of time as a statement of intent and a summary of the band's spirit and ideology. Never before has the band's thrashcore rang out with the kind of selfesteem and defiance evident on this piece of metal, punk and noise. LP
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Band:NAKED STAR
Album:THE ANCIENT RITES
Label:THE CHURCH WITHIN
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
NAKED STAR is the new musical outlet of Tim Schmidt (Seamount) and Jim Grant (Vampyromorpha), born in a night with a lot of booze, horror movies and a bloodmoon. In spring 2016 the 10’’ EP “Bloodmoon Prophecy” has already been released via Voize Of Azram Records, followed by a tape version from Auric Records.
After the collaboration had turned out to be very fertile, the duo began working on their full-length debut very soon and found the right label with The Church Within Records. Expect a full dose of pure and extremely HEAVY Doom in the vein of Saint Vitus, Goatsnake, Black Sabbath, Electric Wizard, Count Raven, Hour Of 13 and the likes!
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Band:NOVA
Album:ATLANTIS
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:Prog Rock
The Svart reissue of this cult Finnish Prog Rock album comes with loads more than just a simple reissue. We got in touch with the band's leader and songwriter Antti Ortamo, who felt that the album suffered from a mix that could have been better. So, we dug up the original multitrack reels and went to Finnvox, who performed a new mix according to Ortamo's instructions. The reels also contained one completely previously unreleased track, "Lukiossa", which was left unmixed at the time, so it was also added to this new version. The new version omits the track "Kaupungin naiset" which was also released as a single, as was the band's original vision. First CD of this double disc set has the original version of the album, just as released in 1976. Second disc contains the brand new mix with bonus track plus the band's only single "Käytävä / Kaupungin naiset". Also included is a booklet with new liner notes and more.
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Band:OCTOPIE
Album:The Adventures Of Harry And Walrus Kane
Label:SVART
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Prog Rock
Octopie's ambitious and whimsical concept album is finally available on vinyl. Octopie is a unique group that brings the progressive world up to date. The band’s distinctive and colorful style is influenced by the late 60s and early 70s era of psychedelic and progressive rock, but at the same time is very much a band of the new generation, wanting to bring spontaneity and honest expression back to music. Octopie was formed in 2010 by Tom Tamlander and Axel Thesleff and was soon joined by Jere Lehtomaa. Together they started working on their first album ’Fresh from the Oven’ and performing in local venues. The album was released independently in 2012 and was soon followed by a selftitled and critically acclaimed EP. After Visa Kivisaari joined the band in 2012 and the EP was released in 2013, the band started to gain more national and international curiosity. During this time they started working on their most ambitious album yet, ’The Adventure of Harry and Walrus Kane’. The album is a conceptual piece telling a story about a man who is lost in his life and exists without a meaning. He falls asleep one night and dreams a dream about a walrus named Kane who takes him back in time on an amazing adventure so he could once again find the inner child within him so he could find joy and meaning in his life again. The album was written and recorded in 2013‐2015 and finally released in 2015 to a growing and anticipating fanbase.
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Band:ALBERT JARVINEN
Album:RIDE ON
Label:SVART
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Rock And Roll/Psychobilly
Guitar legend Järvinen's solo debut from 1974 gets a proper reissue finally. The artwork has been expanded to gatefold format and the package also contains liner notes by Jaakko Riihimaa.
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Band:Wigwam
Album:Live Music From The Twilight Zone
Label:SVART
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Prog Rock
The swan song of Wigwam's legendary first lineup (Pekka Pohjola, Jukka Gustavson, Ronnie Österberg, Jim Pembroke). The group recorded a series of shows in 1974 and built this live double LP from the cream of those recordings. Featuring a wild 17‐minute jam arising from a cover version of The Moon Struck One by The Band, a live rendition of Pekka Pohjola's solo number Nipistys and many other memorable moments. The Svart reissue features not only the original liner notes by Tapio Korjus but also new liner notes by Tapio Korjus, looking back on the release after 41 years. The album's audio is mastered for vinyl at Finnvox and the original gatefold artwork is faithfully reproduced.
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Band:Wigwam
Album:BEING - LP
Label:SVART
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Prog Rock
Reissue of 1974 Double Lp from Finnish Prog Legends.
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Band:Wigwam
Album:fairyport lp
Label:SVART
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Prog Rock
Double Lp reissue of prime 70's Finnish Prog Rock.
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Band:PEPE AND PARADISE
Album:Niin Vahan On Aikaa
Label:SVART
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Folk
Folk Rock/ Prog Rock classic from 1972 reissued.
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Band:JUKKA GUSTAVSON
Album:Jaloa Ylpeytta Yletan
Label:SVART
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Prog Rock
1978 Prog/Jazz Rock classic reissued
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Band:MATTI JARVINEN
Album:MARTIN LEVY
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:Prog Rock
1976 Prog Rock classic reissued.
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Band:Jukka Tolonen
Album:pop liisa 9 lp
Label:SVART
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:JAZZ/JAZZ ROCK
The Pop‐Liisa and Jazz‐Liisa broadcast session series presents previously unreleased and forgotten gems from the biggest names of Finnish prog and jazz of the 1970's Never bootlegged and known up until now only to a few faithful servants (and largely thought to have been lost for ever), these sessions offer a hitherto unrivalled look into the state of Finnish jazz and progressive rock between the years 1972‐1977. Imagine if the sessions recorded by John Peel had only recently been discovered, and you get an idea of the cultural weight of what is being brought into the light of day here. Originally recorded as broadcasts by YLE (the national radio service Yleisradio, ”the Finnish BBC”), the thirty‐four Liisankatu sessions are a genuine who's who of Finnish prog and jazz. Interestingly, anyone with even basic knowledge of the era's biggest bands will recognize familiar names at play within these obscure bands. As such, these sessions provide the missing link between jazz and prog, explaining through spirited performances ‐ and largely unknown collaborations ‐ the instrumental prowess and dexterity of these players and bands. What's best, these sessions show these exceptional bands playing for the moment in front of a hundred strong studio audience, not weighed down by the tedium of studio recording, and thus somehow miraculously managing to capture the best of both worlds: studio performances in front of a live audience.
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Band:MIKE KOSKISEN ORCHESTRA
Album:Jazz Liisa Nine LP
Label:SVART
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:JAZZ/JAZZ ROCK
The Pop‐Liisa and Jazz‐Liisa broadcast session series presents previously unreleased and forgotten gems from the biggest names of Finnish prog and jazz of the 1970's Never bootlegged and known up until now only to a few faithful servants (and largely thought to have been lost for ever), these sessions offer a hitherto unrivalled look into the state of Finnish jazz and progressive rock between the years 1972‐1977. Imagine if the sessions recorded by John Peel had only recently been discovered, and you get an idea of the cultural weight of what is being brought into the light of day here. LP.
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Band:MINIMAL ORCHESTRA
Album:LAIKAS TAKE OFF
Label:IOT
Format:CD
Genre:JAZZ/JAZZ ROCK
After several instrumental experiences and rich working sessions, production-wise, the duet from Toulouse Minimal Orchestra (Tom Terrien et Pierre-Jean Trouette) confirm their musical identity: electronic arrangements combining avant-garde jazz improvisations, and their instrumentalist skills that service their very personal production with consistency. Like a soundtrack of a journey to a distant cosmos, we feel the encounter of living/engine, an analogic and digital exchange in the middle of the milky way, where the different delicate keyboards of Tom Terrien converse intimately with the strings of Pierre-Jean Trouette
«Superb album ! I love it» Laurent Garnier
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Band:DOOKOOM
Album:NO!
Label:IOT
Format:CD
Genre:Rap/Hip Hop
DOOKOOM, the infamous Afro-punk noise rap crew that is currently deadlocked in a historic battle with a white Afrikaans ‘civil rights’ group at the Human Rights Commission in South Africa, accused of ‘incitement to violence’ and ‘hate speech’ for raising issues of inequality, land ownership and structural violence with their track ‘LarneyJou Poes’, are back with their debut album, ’NO!’, on I.O.T Record
« DOOKOOM are a revelation. They’re nothing that South Africa has seen before » Noisey-Vice US
For Fans of : HO909, Dalek, MFDoom, Death Grips...
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Band:DOOKOOM
Album:NO! LP
Label:IOT
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Rap/Hip Hop
DOOKOOM, the infamous Afro-punk noise rap crew that is currently deadlocked in a historic battle with a white Afrikaans ‘civil rights’ group at the Human Rights Commission in South Africa, accused of ‘incitement to violence’ and ‘hate speech’ for raising issues of inequality, land ownership and structural violence with their track ‘LarneyJou Poes’, are back with their debut album, ’NO!’, on I.O.T Records
Double Lp - for fans of : HO909, Dalek, MFDoom, Death Grips...
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Band:LOAN
Album:IN SPACE TIME
Label:IOT
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Rap/Hip Hop
Maverick of the musical scene, LOAN has been running several projects lately in both music, dance and vidéo. She is now launching a brand new global artistic project entitled « IN SPACE TIME », including an album (8 tracks) and a short film «QUAGMA». All through these 8 tracks, LOAN takes you for a spin in a time space where electro sounds merge with the pest flow of Grime, the energy of Krump and the influences of Bass music. Each wavelenght is skillfully mastered, the electric beams collide saturates screeching, rhythms collide with rumble for a carefully structured result. Loan’s music finds its essence in the elments that surround her, and some mysterious urban environment where every corner reveals a singular muscality, as well as an orchestrated sensitivity. Featuring Juice Aleem, Bang On!, Clozee, Guillaume Perret, Antipop Consortium (Earl Blaize & Hprizm)
For Fans of : Juice Aleem, Bang On!, Antipop Consortium, Roots Manuva, Wiley, Kode 9, The Space Ape...
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Band:after crash
Album:LOSTMEMORIES
Label:MUSSEK/HMCF
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Indie/Shoegaze
After Crash is a Bologna/London based duo formed in 2005 by Francesco Cassino (aka Comakid) and Nicola Nesi (aka Everlasting Joy) who, with this project, express fresh and contemporary poetics in music. They are musicians, producers and composers of applied music, also co-founders of Museek Record Label. The creative process aims to a constant research of new sound approaches, with no boundaries or restrictions, which blend acoustic elements with electronic/experimental soundscapes moving between IDM, glitch & bass derivations, downtempo, intimate atmospheres, ambient, post-rock, inspirations from soundtrack territories, applied and orchestral music, pop remnants... or anything their mind have thought of.
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Band:ERZATAZ
Album:MEIAN
Label:JARRING EFFECTS
Format:CD
Genre:Folk
Three years after their latest album « Cruel Summer », R ;zatz are back, transformed. To emphasize this change, the band decided to put an “E” to Erzatz, as if he has found his own identity. Constantly moving, the band is today composed by Takeshi Yoshimura, guitar player, composer and Japanese singer and by Celine Frezza, always producer and sound engineer, but also singer in the band now. They have called Aku-Fen, High tone’s guitar player, to produce the album and for the musical arrangement. In actual fact, we have come full circle. Indeed, Aku-Fen gave to Céline her passion for the production, and if she had the willingness to deepened her knowledge by herself, it’s to find her guide again. The rapper M.Sayyid from Anti pop consortium and Air born audio come to add a hip hop touch, underlying theme of Erzatz’s discography. Musically, Erzatz wanted to open up new horizons with this album, more folk, minimal, while remaining electronica and abstract. Even if we always feel their melancholy, this is more sweet, lightly and affirmed. Erzatz invite us to dream in a cinematographic trip. Celine’s singing is closer of spoken words, a little beat raw but also sweet, as if she wanted us to accept delusions that she tells. The songs topics are intimate: homesickness for Takeshi, human relations, trying to accept what we are, where we don’t know where we go, and Céline’s anxiety, an unending dissonance between us and the others, for both. This permanent counterpoint between rawness of the lyrics and the melody invite us to consider the possibility of another world.
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Band:ERZATAZ
Album:MEIAN - LP
Label:JARRING EFFECTS
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Folk
Three years after their latest album « Cruel Summer », R ;zatz are back, transformed. To emphasize this change, the band decided to put an “E” to Erzatz, as if he has found his own identity. Constantly moving, the band is today composed by Takeshi Yoshimura, guitar player, composer and Japanese singer and by Celine Frezza, always producer and sound engineer, but also singer in the band now. They have called Aku-Fen, High tone’s guitar player, to produce the album and for the musical arrangement. In actual fact, we have come full circle. Indeed, Aku-Fen gave to Céline her passion for the production, and if she had the willingness to deepened her knowledge by herself, it’s to find her guide again. The rapper M.Sayyid from Anti pop consortium and Air born audio come to add a hip hop touch, underlying theme of Erzatz’s discography. Musically, Erzatz wanted to open up new horizons with this album, more folk, minimal, while remaining electronica and abstract. Even if we always feel their melancholy, this is more sweet, lightly and affirmed. Erzatz invite us to dream in a cinematographic trip. Celine’s singing is closer of spoken words, a little beat raw but also sweet, as if she wanted us to accept delusions that she tells. The songs topics are intimate: homesickness for Takeshi, human relations, trying to accept what we are, where we don’t know where we go, and Céline’s anxiety, an unending dissonance between us and the others, for both. This permanent counterpoint between rawness of the lyrics and the melody invite us to consider the possibility of another world.
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Band:Voices of Ashkenaz
Album:VOICES OF ASHKENAZ
Label:BESTE! UNTERHALTUNG
Format:CD
Genre:world/new age
Ashkenaz! There is no term that would better describe the complex history of the songs presented in this album. In medieval Hebrew, Ashkenaz refers to the geographical region that at the time was German-speaking territory. An Ashkenazic Jew was simply a Jew living in this part of Europe, speaking Western-Yiddish, which was still pretty close to the Middle High German of the time. But then it got complicated. Driven out of their homeland by pogroms in the wake of the Crusades and the Black Plague, many German Jews headed to Poland and Lithuania where a new Ashkenaz constituted itself that became the spiritual and intellectual center of European Jewry until the Holocaust. There in eastern Europe, something special happened. Jews did not fully assimilate linguistically into their new environment but instead transformed their language – Western Yiddish – into Eastern Yiddish, which would eventually be spoken by some 10 Million Jews in Eastern Europe and worldwide. An incredible wealth of music and culture came to life in this transnational, pan-European Jewish community that stretched from Lithuania in the north to Bessarabia in the south.
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Band:UNTIL DEATH OVERTAKES ME
Album:AnteMortem
Label:DUSKTONE
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Through 4 tracks mixing funeral doom with ambient and darkwave, Until Death Overtakes Me explores the idea of life being incomplete unless it passes death's threshold.
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Band:ACROSOME
Album:Narrator and remains
Label:DUSKTONE
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
With this brand new album ACROSOME has certainly touched the absolute masterpiece.
"Narrator and remains" is a unique album: violent, surrealistic, mystical and damned spooky.
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Band:COLD BODY RADIATION
Album:The orphean lyre
Label:DUSKTONE
Format:CD
Genre:Indie/Shoegaze
With this new album, COLD BODY RADIATION continues the intimate and melancholic path of the previous "The clear path". These eight new tracks album once again confirm the M. quality and composition depth that, although he definitively abandoned the most extreme sounds, still managed to get us into a restlessness and mystery swirl.
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Band:LORN
Album:Arrayed Claws
Label:I VOIDHANGER
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Two years after the revelatory “Subconscious Metamorphosis” album, Italy's LORN are back with “Arrayed Claws”, probably their more psychotic and violent work to date. The album features 5 tracks that perfectly exemplify LORN's evolutionary path within the black metal field.
For fans of Blut Aus Nord, Leviathan, Deathspell Omega, Axis Of Perdition
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Band:TODESSTOSS
Album:EBNE GRAUN
Label:I VOIDHANGER
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Active since the early 2000's, TODESSTOSS is the creature of Martin Lang, a German musician, poet and painter that has left a lasting mark on the metal underground with his eclectic style. Lang's music is a reflection of his composite visual art and inventive poetry, a surrealistic and theatrical mise-en-scène, as disturbing and darkly bizarre as it is daring and provocative.
For fans of Bethlehem, Urfaust, Silencer, Burzum, Circle Of Ouroboros
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Band:ARUDINI / BALICH
Album:DAWN OF AGES
Label:Cruz Del Sur
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
ARDUINI/BALICH is the result of two very powerful figures in their own right of the metal scene. VICTOR ARDUINI needs no introduction being one of the founding members of FATES WARNING, same can be said for BRIAN “BUTCH” BALICH, the mighty voice of ARGUS.
The story goes back in time to the end of 2013 when Arduini put a final word to his experience with FREEDOMS REIGN. Victor needed more freedom to express his creativity, feeling his ideas weren’t much fitting into the style of FR anymore. In search of musicians who could get along with this challenge, Victor recruited Freedoms Reign’s drummer Chris Judge and was on the lookout for a singer when his path crossed with Brian Balich who had recently shared stages with him. “Dawn Of Ages” is one of the most ambitious records ever released on Cruz Del Sur Music. A monumental piece of music, a rollercoaster of emotions, an album that captures the collisions of two worlds, progressive and doom. The final result is a really amazing journey inside human soul. Through six original compositions that last for more than an hour, the audience will be captured and hypnotized by the eclectically familiar Victor’s guitar melodies empowered by Butch’s passionate interpretation. Indeed “Dawn of Ages” is an album that could have been easily recorded in the mid/late 70s for the total dedication that transpires through each and every note of it. It is not an album that wants to please any old or new trend in metal, rather an intimate expression of two musicians who have always put their passion for heavy music before anything else.
“Dawn Of Ages” will be released in a deluxe 6-panel digipak embellished by a wonderful, original Michael Cowell’s (Alunah) artwork.
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Band:ARUDINI / BALICH
Album:DAWN OF AGES - LP
Label:Cruz Del Sur
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Featuring FATES WARNING founder member VICTOR ARDUINI and ARGUS singer BRIAN BALICH
Recommended for fans of early FATES WARNING, BLACK SABBATH!
LTD Double LP edition features 3 EXCLUSIVE BONUS TRACKS!
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Band:VOND
Album:THE DARK RIVER
Label:FUNERAL INDUSTRIES
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Darkness. Ambient darkness! From cold Blade Runner science fiction- atmosphere over medieval sounds to depressive horror.
Created by Mastermind Mortiis (Ex-Emperor).
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Band:VOND
Album:THE GREEN EYED DEMON
Label:FUNERAL INDUSTRIES
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Green Eyed Demon is one of the essential works from the dark ambient genre.
Mastermind Mortiis (Ex-Emperor) created 5 apocalyptic tracks that will drown you in obscurity.
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Band:VOND
Album:SELVMORD
Label:FUNERAL INDUSTRIES
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Multidimensional melancholy in the form of music created by Mastermind Mortiis (Ex-Emperor).
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Band:VOND
Album:AID TO THE PEOPLE
Label:FUNERAL INDUSTRIES
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Lost for decades. Now released by Funeral Industries; created by Mastermind Mortiis (Ex-Emperor).
Definitely a big surprise!!!
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Band:PRAY U PREY
Album:FIGURE THE 8
Label:SELFMADEGOD
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
New promising British band PRAY U PREY made out of scene veterans have signed a deal with SELFMADEGOD RECORDS to release their debut full length. The band entered the studio in the summer of 2015 and tracked their debut recording. Fast forward to 2016 and the band holed-up at PUP HQ to gather material for a full length release. The quartet spent six months writing & honing the songs and came up with bunch of sucker punches of low end brutality!
“Figure The 8” is the first full release and includes 11 new tracks + 5 remixed songs taken from “Black Light Of Time” demo EP released in 2015 by the band themselves. PRAY U PREY plays most brutal and blisteringly fast death metal/grindcore; a heady mix of brutal riffs, breakneck speed and lyrics to blow your mind!
PRAY U PREY, based in Cheltenham England, features members of such luminaries as UK thrashers SUICIDE WATCH, UK grind legends PROPHECY OF DOOM and noize-mongers ALEHAMMER! The band was formed Autumn 2014 with the sole intention of laying down some of the most brutal death metal and grindcore the UK had ever produced! With over 30 years recording & gigging experience between the various band members, it wasn't difficult to come up with an EP's worth of songs. Within six months the band had a MCD ready to go and an incendiary live set to boot!
For fans of everything from CANNIBAL CORPSE to SLAYER to CRASS!
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Band:NOCTIFERIA
Album:Transnatura
Label:NIKA RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Noctiferia - most renowned Slovene metal band
Transnatura – an acoustic version of selection of eleven songs from previous albums
An acoustic metal album marking the twenty-year anniversary of the band
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Band:SONIC DEATH
Album:HATE MACHINE
Label:OTHER VOICES
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Metal
Garage / Punk / Metal LP LTD to x 200 copies
RIYL Sabbath, Thee Oh Sees and Royal Blood.
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Band:BANANE METALIK
Album:SEXORCIST
Label:Dead Seed Productions
Format:CD
Genre:Rock And Roll/Psychobilly
New CD single release from BANANE METALIK, features all new mastered version of the SEXORCIST and never before released track NO PAIN NO BRAIN.
Strictly limited edition CD single of 300 copies!
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Band:BANANE METALIK
Album:SEXORCIST Vinyl
Label:Dead Seed Productions
Format:7 Inch Vinyl
Genre:Rock And Roll/Psychobilly
New 7” vinyl EP release from BANANE METALIK, features all new mastered version of the SEXORCIST and never before released track NO PAIN NO BRAIN.
Strictly limited edition of 500 copies on “Slime Green” vinyl, all copies come handnumbered in silver ink.
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Band:PUTREFIED CADAVER
Album:Weight Of Massive Shots
Label:AMPUTATED VEIN
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Putrefied Cadaver is a counterterrorist force at the time of escalation of military conflict in the world. "Weight Of Massive Shots" is a clip of 9 tracks filled with gunpowder and eager to penetrate the heads of peaceful citizens. Album's lyrics refer to negative social phenomena the humanity has been experiencing for many centuries during the times of war. Suffocating sharpness of guitar strings, relentless impact of drumbardment, massive earthquakes caused by guttural spewing and bass onslaught create unparalleled visions of self-destruction and motion towards the inevitable evisceration of the world. Putrefied Cadaver is an extreme live broadcasting of calamitous attitude towards life through bloodshot eyes.
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Band:RITUAL SUICIDE
Album:Consecration Bound In Cruor
Label:FOREVER PLAGUED
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Ukrainian black metal imbued in human suffering and torturous infliction upon the masses. No compromises are made within these bloodletting, cursed creations of Ritual Suicide. A return to their 2013 album "Consecration Bound In Cruor" with new artwork and layout, on CD format which comes with a poster. Remember the old days of black metal, when there was only coldness and the dark, no feeling towards comaraderie or any kind of scene, just raw unadulerated hate and no remorse for any actions taken within the sounds spewed from this wretched art form. Expect nothing but hate and disgust, for all of mankind and its pathetic weak existence. Black metal lives on in bands such as Ritual Suicide and FPR is fucking stoked to reintroduce this awesome album! This is right up there with the likes of Black Funeral "Vampire; Throne Of The Beast" & Belketre's "The Dark Promise", true fucking raw black metal for those that dwell in the night!
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Band:CORRUPTED
Album:Nadie
Label:THRONE
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Repress for this absolute masterpiece of blackened thick tar droning Sludge cvlt.
Re-mastered from the original 1995 tapes.
Pressed at 45rpm for maximum power.
Artwork composed with original war photographies from Masahiko "Solmania" Ohno.
Housed in a laminated gatefold sleeve, including a fold-out A2 poster.
With this debut recording, Corrupted expanded both sound/tuning and timing to the extreme. Often imitated, few times matched.
Seminal Sludge / Doom / Drone a la Noothgrush / Neurosis / Sunn O)))
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Band:DARKNESS ON DEMAND
Album:Post Stone Age Technology
Label:Repo
Format:cd
Genre:Dark Wave/Goth
Digital single prior to the album release including remixes and non-album tracks
Featuring the singles "City of the Dreamers“, "Back to Psychoburbia“ and "Believe in Yourself”
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Band:ABOLISHING THE IGNOMINIOUS
Album:Vociferous Obsolescence
Label:Coyote
Format:cd
Genre:Death Metal
Formed in 2016 with former members of Animals Killing People, Abolishing The Ignominious attempts to bring forth new levels of
Technical Brutal Death Metal with influences from Immolation, Internal Suffering and Disgorge.
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