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Band:HOODED MENACE
Album:NEVER CROSS THE DEAD
Label:Profound Lore
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
HOODED MENACE mastermind Lasse Pyykko is a legend of sorts within Finland’s underground death metal scene forming Phlegethon in the late ‘80s and being active within the death metal underground during the course of the early-to-mid ‘90s. Recently though, he’s been one of, if not the most prolific musician within death metal surfacing with several killer acts such as Claws, Vacant Coffin, and Acid Witch. But HOODED MENACE has been the act Lasse has gotten the most attention and buzz with, his true calling manifesting in some of the most vile, old-school and sludgy death doom today.
Only formed in 2007, it didn’t take long for HOODED MENACE to create buzz with its doomy death doom that mirrors some of the most classic and legendary acts of the genre such as Winter, old-school Cathedral, Asphyx, Hellhammer, early Paradise Lost, and of course the almighty Autopsy. But the character embossed by HOODED MENACE was that it became a musical tribute to the classic and cult horror movies in which HOODED MENACE bases its songs around. Movies like Night Of The Living Dead, Manhattan Baby, Night Of The Seagulls, Tombs Of The Blind Dead and Return Of The Evil Dead are a big part of what inspires HOODED MENACE songs to take their form.
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Band:THE OCEAN
Album:HELIOCENTRIC LTD CD BOX
Label:PELAGIC
Format:CD BOXED EDITION
Genre:METAL/POST ROCK
'Heliocentric' is THE OCEAN's 5fth studio album, the CD version is due for an April 2010 release on Metal Blade Records. Pelagic Records is releasing the vinyl version and a special limited CD box edition with special artwork that contains also an instrumental version of the album as well as an exclusive bonus track. "Heliocentric" is the first half of a double album and continues where the "Proterozoic" half of the "Precambrian"-album left off, with dense, epic songs and big orchestrations. "Anthropocentric", due for an October 2010 release, is going to be a bit more straight forward rocking and technical, whilst tapping the full dynamic range from acoustic pieces to eclectic heaviness as well. The concept at the base of both albums is a critique of Christianity from different philosophical and personal angles. While the songs, art and lyrics of "Heliocentric" tell the story of the rise of the the heliocentric world view and its effects on Christian belief from medieval times to Darwin and Dawkins, "Anthropocentric" challenges the views of creationists and other modern fundamentalists who still believe that earth is at the center of the universe.
This limited box edition of only 1500 copieshas a Bonus CD with an instrumental version of "Heliocentric" and an exclusive bonus track - Special artwork and packaging by Martin Kvamme and inside the box special CD digipak packaging with revolving PVC dials on top of the front cover.
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Band:THE OCEAN
Album:HELIOCENTRIC DOUBLE LP
Label:PELAGIC
Format:DOUBLE LP
Genre:METAL/POST ROCK
'Heliocentric' is THE OCEAN's 5fth studio album, the CD version is due for an April 2010 release on Metal Blade Records. Pelagic Records is releasing the vinyl version and a special limited CD box edition with special artwork that contains also an instrumental version of the album as well as an exclusive bonus track. "Heliocentric" is the first half of a double album and continues where the "Proterozoic" half of the "Precambrian"-album left off, with dense, epic songs and big orchestrations. "Anthropocentric", due for an October 2010 release, is going to be a bit more straight forward rocking and technical, whilst tapping the full dynamic range from acoustic pieces to eclectic heaviness as well. The concept at the base of both albums is a critique of Christianity from different philosophical and personal angles. While the songs, art and lyrics of "Heliocentric" tell the story of the rise of the heliocentric world view and its effects on Christian belief from medieval times to Darwin and Dawkins,"Anthropocentric" challenges the views of creationists and other modern fundamentalists who still believe that earth is at the center of the universe.
Limited edition of only 1000 copies on coloured vinyl - Special artwork and box packaging with revolving PVC dials on top of the box front cover, designed by Martin Kvamme.
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Band:THE OCEAN
Album:PRECAMBRIAN TRIPLE LP
Label:PELAGIC
Format:TRIPLE LP
Genre:METAL/POST ROCK
THE OCEAN are an exceptional band, and not just since yesterday. For years the Berlin collective has stood out because of its musical depth, seriousness and high artistic standards. Since their instrumental album “Fogdiver” and the subsequent “Aeolian” it has been clear they are onto something really special in the realm of post-hardcore/noise/ambient music. With “Precambrian”, THE OCEAN have set themselves a monument – from the stunning design by award-winning artist Martin Kvamme, to the double album’s comprehensive concept, to the ambitious music of this behemoth created by 26 participating musicians. Two entirely different CDs bring the listener back to the dawn of Mother Earth. Atmospheric, dense, beautiful – as well as brutal, heavy and destructive. That’s “Precambrian”, the first stage of the Earth’s evolution subdivided into two successive geological eons (“Hadean/Archean” and “Proterozoic”). The songs are divided into 5 subordinate eras, with the song titles carrying the names of subordinate geological periods.
Limited repress of only 500 copies on colored vinyl over 3 LPs! - Special artwork and box packaging with diecut holes in the gatefold and special print colors, designed by Martin Kvamme.
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Band:THE OCEAN
Album:FLUXION
Label:PELAGIC
Format:CD
Genre:METAL/POST ROCK
Re-release of the long sold-out 2nd album!
THE OCEAN are an exceptional band, and not just since yesterday. For years the Berlin collective has stood out because of its musical depth, seriousness and high artistic standards. THE OCEAN never ceased to amaze, with their instrumental debut EP “Fogdiver” (2003), followed by “Fluxion” (2004) and “Aeolian” (2005). Since their monumental double-album “Precambrian”, which was released in late 2007 via Metal Blade Records, THE OCEAN are a big name in the international post-hardcore / metal / ambient music scene. “Precambrian” ranked 3rd in German VISIONS magazine's sound check, and was highly acclaimed by critics in Europe and the US: “Fluxion” was originally released in 2004 and has been out of print for more than 3 years. The re-release on THE OCEAN mastermind Robin Staps' newly founded label PELAGIC RECORDS comes with newly recorded vocals, remixed, remastered and with completely new artwork by Martin Kvamme.
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Band:NEBRA
Album:SKY DISK
Label:PELAGIC
Format:CD
Genre:METAL/POST ROCK
Nebra construct the sonic image of a nuclear-powered icebreaker: choking heaviness, relentless brutality and mind-boggling precision set them apart from most of their instrumental peers. Yes, “Sky Disk” is instrumental AND heavy at the same time. A loud, ugly metal album, more than a nice pretty post-something album. Nebra's roots in progressive noise rock soon become obvious in the 5 tracks of their debut EP: members of NEBRA have been, or are still, active in Swiss math/noise legends KNUT (Hydrahead Records), NOSTROMO and MUMAKIL (Relapse Records). The band has supported Gojira. Debut-CD EP of this Swiss all-star-band.
NEBRA are unique with their catchy yet heavy approach to instrumental metal! Ex- & current members of KNUT, MUMAKIL and NOSTROMO - Special digipak-packaging including mini-CD with special print colors. Design by SELDON HUNT (Isis etc).
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Band:THE CONFORMISTS
Album:THREE HUNDRED
Label:African Tape
Format:CD
Genre:AVANT/POST ROCK
The Conformists are from St Louis, MO. USA. They began in November of and released 2 albums (Two Hundred in 2004 & Three Hundred in 2007).Africantape is proud to reissue Three Hundred (recorded by Steve Albini & originally released on 54º 40' or Fight!) to introduce this unique, provocative, minimalist avant-garde rock band in Europe and Japan. You might like them. You might not.
Recorded by Steve Albini and highly RIYL Minor Threat,Shellac or US Maple.
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Band:AUCAN
Album:DNA
Label:African Tape
Format:CD
Genre:AVANT/POST ROCK
A crossroad between styles and sounds, AUCAN's music is based on a unique energy: synthesis of the opposites. Digital and analog, cleanliness and distortion, melody and dissonance, quietness and strongness arm free-fall structures, open to direct light...Gifted of an hammering rhythmical compactness, the new "DNA EP" (5 tracks over 35 minutes) is dedicated to Gerhardt Fuchs (Maserati’s drummer, 1974-2009) and will be many people's introduction to their brand new mix of dark ambient landscapes and dubstep broken riffs.
Featuring ZU’sDrummer and RIYL Battles, Zu, Fourtet and Squarepusher.
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Band:MARVIN
Album:HANGOVER THE TOP
Label:African Tape
Format:CD
Genre:AVANT/POST ROCK
Hangover The Top is the second album released by the Montpellier (South Of France) trio Marvin. Recorded in December 2009 by Miguel Constantino and masterized by Jason Ward, this record features a progression towards more complex yet more accessible music. By using the Vocoder and different synthesizers, they have succeded in creating a complex album touching on Hard Rock, Kraut Rock, Math Rock, Noise and Post Punk. Ten tracks total, ending with an unexpected Brian Eno cover. Since Marvin released their first album in April 2007, they have done more than 300 concerts in France and Europe, and crossed paths with Devo, Trans am, Polysics, Qui, Black Mountain… Marvin plans to tour the UK in May 2010 to promote their new album...
"AIR MEETS DAFT PUNK FUCKED BY TRANS AM." - NOISE MAGAZINE
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Band:MARVIN
Album:HANGOVER THE TOP LP
Label:African Tape
Format:LP
Genre:AVANT/POST ROCK
Hangover The Top is the second album released by the Montpellier (South Of France) trio Marvin. Recorded in December 2009 by Miguel Constantino and masterized by Jason Ward, this record features a progression towards more complex yet more accessible music. By using the Vocoder and different synthesizers, they have succeded in creating a complex album touching on Hard Rock, Kraut Rock, Math Rock, Noise and Post Punk. Ten tracks total, ending with an unexpected Brian Eno cover. Since Marvin released their first album in April 2007, they have done more than 300 concerts in France and Europe, and crossed paths with Devo, Trans am, Polysics, Qui, Black Mountain… Marvin plans to tour the UK in May 2010 to promote their new album.
"AIR MEETS DAFT PUNK FUCKED BY TRANS AM." NOISE MAGAZINE
LIMITED VINYL PRESSING.
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Band:THE PHARMACY
Album:WEEKEND
Label:Seayou
Format:CD
Genre:Alt Rock
After 7 months of touring the United States & Europe in 2008, Seattle band The Pharmacy decided to move to New Orleans to write their new album. Recorded in their house over the summer of 2009 near Bayou St. John with a 4-track, used microphone and a cheap reverb pedal the new songs are a raw and liberated departure from the more ornate and produced "Choose Yr. Own Adventure" LP. Songs like "My Business" and "Coldest Morning Light" recall influences of the Shangri-La's and the Zombies, while still retaining the energy and spontaneity of a young and hungry band. This spring and summer they will be making another long round of international touring while they decide where they'll move to next.
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Band:HOLIDAY FOR STRINGS
Album:FAVORITE FLAVOUR
Label:Seayou
Format:CD
Genre:Indie/Shoegaze
The new album from Holiday for Strings is not easy to describe. The group is influenced by pretty much every style and era of music there is- believe me, I've seen their record collections. The band has a standard five piece line-up: bass player, vocalist, and guitarist, with Pony from THIEVES LIKE US on drums and John Eriksson, from PETER BJORN AND JOHN on piano, guitar and a plethora of percussion. The nine songs on Favorite Flavor are dark and atmospheric without ever being close to depressing or downbeat, there is still romance and lyricism built into every moment of its 47 minutes.
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:BAD ACID TAB 9
Label:BAD ACID
Format:CD / DVD / MAGAZINE
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Volume Nine Of The Genre Breaking Underground Music Dvd and Audio Magazine. No other publication in existence combines a paper magazine, dvd and audio in one package. This one features a massive selection of leading underground artists, with no editorial bias towards big buck bands Around 8 hours of audio, 90 minutes of dvd, and in-depth magazine.
CD Includes : Vincentblackshadow / Skitliv / Pombagira / Eternal Elysium / Abomino Aetus
DVD Includes :The Atlas Moth / Blood Fountains / Das Bluul / El Thule / Mono
MAGAZINE Includes : Reviews of all bands featured plus interviews with: Ancestors / Kylie Minoise / White Hills / Santos.
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Band:TROUBLED HORSE
Album:BRING MY HORSES HOME
Label:Crusher
Format:7\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" VINYL
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
TROUBLED HORSE from Örebro, Sweden, looks to 60’s garage rock and 70’s psych-doom for inspiration. The minds behind TROUBLED HORSE are singer and front man Martin Heppich , WITCHCRAFT’S John Hoyles and Ola Henriksson along with Jens Henriksson. Martin Heppich possesses an incredible songwriting prowess combining the raw sounds of the 60’s garage rock with the heavy riffs of the 70’s psych-doom, which brings to mind the days of DUST and LINCOLN STREET EXIT.
TROUBLED HORSE has finally given in to their fans’ demands and completed a brand new 7-inch debut record containing two strong and solid songs ready to carve their way straight into your mind.
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Band:FATALISTS
Album:BETWEEN THE AISLES
Label:GAMMA PROFORMA
Format:CD
Genre:Alt Rock
The debut album release from Edinburgh's Fatalists. Fatalists are amongst the most popular bands in the current Scottish Alt Rock/Punk scene which has flourished over the last 4 years. 'Between The Aisles' Features eight tracks including their well received debut single 'Staring into the Distance..' The album is an uncompromising slice of fresh, energetic modern punk with a twist of prog melded with crowd pleasing, crunching riffs.
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Band:BREAK EVEN
Album:THE BRIGHT SIDE
Label:ANCHORS AWEIGH
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
On November 18th 2008 Perth band Break Even experienced the unthinkable, when their guitarist Rowan Willoughby took his own life. Rowans untimely death took a toll not only on the members of the band, but with everyone in the hardcore community, leaving a giant question mark over the future of the band. After some time the 4 remaining members, Mark Bawden (Vocals), Stephen Sciutto (Guitar), Perri Basille (Bass) and Simon Dreja (Drums),returned to the rehearsal studio to see if they could go on with what they’d come to know as Break Even. Out of this process came their debut album, The Bright Side. Aptly named, The Bright Side is a story of birth and death and everything in between. Recorded in March at Reading Room Studios in Perth, it is an honest and passionate statement that was written to remember, to inspire and to never forget.
Break Even are touring throughout May In Europe / UK / Scandinavia with DEEZ NUTS / THE GHOST INSIDE and have toured with the likes of Parkway Drive, Have Heart, Ruiner, Carpathian, Polar Bear Club in the past...
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Band:TRIAXIS
Album:KEY TO THE KINGDOM
Label:TRIAXIS RECORDINGS
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
In an age when so many bands come and go as they jump on the latest trend, Triaxis stand out as a bastion for timeless UK Heavy Metal. They know what they love, and they set about writing and performing unashamedly rocking Metal songs that are as hard‐hitting and raw now as they would have been if these guys had been around in the heyday of Metal's chart success. Memorable tunes, delivered with a passion & confidence that only a seasoned group of musicians can possess, have cemented their place at the head of the UK's resurgent Heavy Metal scene.
"A big hit at this year's Bloodstock festival... far too good to languish in selfsufficient obscurity. A confident and charismatic debut... If this lot aren't wowing the European metal hordes within 12 months, there's simply no justice in the world." ‐ Dom Lawson, Metal Hammer
"Brings to mind classic Priest, mid‐era Megadeth and Testament, intricately woven together by a taught melodic thread and commanding – yet skin‐tinglingly soulful – vocals." ‐ Calum Harvie, Zero Tolerance
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Band:SEAMOUNT
Album:LIGHT AND TRUTH
Label:THE CHURCH WITHIN
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Seamount is a band that features three extremely talented German Tracklist: guys on the basic instruments (you know the basics) and a restless American vocalist behind the microphone, that is no other than Phil Swanson. Far from a "new guy" when it comes to heavy/doom metal scene, since his voice has graced numerous bands, the most notable being Upwards Of Endtime, Atlantean Kodex and Hour Of 13.
Seamount is a traditional Heavy Doom Metal band from Germany, influenced by the Fathers Of Doom, Pentagram, Black Sabbath, Saint Vitus and Revelation … with a pinch of N.W.O.B.H.M. elements
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Band:HAUST / NEXT LFE
Album:HAUST / NEXT LIFE SPLIT
Label:FYSISK FORMAT
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
This spilt release was born after Haust & Next Life toured together in 2009. It marks the beginning of a new era for both bands, and neither of them have ever sounded better: and the result is heavy, ugly, blackened hardcore.
Next Life Tours with Owen Pallett in the UK March 2010.
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Band:ARABROT
Album:THE BROTHERSEED LP
Label:FYSISK FORMAT
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Årabrot is the name of a waste dump right outside the small west-Norwegian town of Haugesund. But most importantly Årabrot is the name of the local institution for troubled youth where three young Haugesunders first met and founded a band that could have only one name; Årabrot. While orthodoxy and predictably has taken its toll on the once so exciting Norwegian Black Metal scene, a quite different breed of metal is establishing itself in the northern outpost of our civilization. At the forefront of a scene boiling with sludgy and industrial metal is Haust, Okkultokrati and Arabrot: a band that are now about to be represent for the young generation what the sum of Melvins, Throbbing Gristle and Swans was to the generation before them. "The Brotherseed" is Årabrots UK-debut and a noise-rock album where frontman and mastermind Kjetil Nernes gives us a peek into the dark moral matters that gnaws through our brain arteries. “The Brotherseed” is produced by Steve Albini and mastered by Bob Weston. LIMITED VINYL LP PRESSING.
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Band:DAVE EVANS
Album:JUDGEMENT DAY
Label:Rocksector
Format:CD
Genre:Rock
Dave Evans, the original singer & co-founding member of AC/DC, releases his album “Judgement Day” in the UK. This record contains everything you might expect & more from a singer with Dave's heritage with the world's biggest & most successful rock band.
9 date UK tour begins May 20th incl. Newcastle-u-Tyne, Carlisle, Birkenhead (Merseyside), Manchester, Milton Keynes, Swindon, Grimsby, Blackpool. An emphatic live performer & the UK tour includes a UK version of his “Badasses” band featuring guitarists Chris Appleton from Fury UK & Marshall Gill from New Model Army.
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:PICCADILLY SUNSHINE PART TWO
Label:Past And Present
Format:CD
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
The Piccadilly Sunshine series sets foot into the deep and wonderous valleys of British Pop music culture. Daring to bring forth the once overlooked and sadly neglected songs that were laid to waste in a saturated wonderland of suburban teenage pop. Join us as we tip-toe barefoot and trip through the late 1960s and early ‘70s in Great Britain’s vast and glorious, cultural dustbin. Stepping amongst the twenty flowerpowered trippers presented here, together we shall lovingly restore them to their former glory. Let us begin… 20 long lost flower-powered trippers, available for the first time on CD, all housed in a full-colour booklet with detailed sleevenotes as you would expect from this fine label.
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:PSYCH BITES
Label:Past And Present
Format:CD
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
Having housed some exuberant and obscure records from the United Kingdom in the Electric Asylum, the Psychomaniac moves into the world down-under for a similar feat of nail-biting pleasure. The satanic rites of psychedellia have been performed and a gathering of demonic delights have been summoned to write their own obituaries. With twenty sonic blasts of long-forgotten freakrock from Australia recorded between 1967 and 1974, we leave you at the mercy of your maker.
Compiled by Psych expert Psychomania and available for the first time. These 20 awesome tracks are housed in a 12-page full-colour booklet full of detailed sleevenotes and Rare pictures.
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Band:SPEED GLUE and SHINKI
Album:EVE LP
Label:PHOENIX
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
Ex-Foodbrain guitarist Shinki Chen, bass player Masayayoshi Kabe (also know as M Glue) and Phillipino Vietnam war veteran Joey ‘Pepe’ Smith, who doubled as both the trio’s drummer and vocalist, released two legendary albums in the early ‘70s. Eve, the earlier of the band’s two efforts, was probably the band’s only “real” recording as the self-titled 2nd release in 1972 was put together by Smith from studio outtakes of Chen’s guitar playing and tracks omitted from Eve. Eve is a bluesy, psychedelic album, with Chen’s Hendrix-style guitar playing firmly underpinned by Smith’s insistent percussion style modelled on the playing of his idol, Ginger Baker. The band dissolved immediately after the release of Eve as the other two members found Smith’s drug-fuelled lifestyle (he was a huge fan of amphetamines and diligently applied himself to establishing a prodigeous habit) decidedly unappealing. Chen decided he didn’t want to record again, and became a successful live artist, Joey went back to the Philippines and started the power trio Juan de la Cruz Band, and Masayoshi Kabe would win fame with the band Pink Cloud. In spite of their short-lived activity, Speed, Glue and Shinki were important, first and foremost as pioneers of the Japanese psychedelic rock scene. First 180g vinyl reissue - Album was joint first in Julian Cope’s Top 50 Japanese album chart!
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Band:THE AMISTAD
Album:KEPT UNDER BY A GENERATION OF GHOSTS
Label:BOMBED OUT
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
The punk rock sounds of 90's Chicago as filtered through the towns and cities of South Yorkshire... The Amistad have been gigging up and down the UK for the past 2 years and already have two split 7”s under their belt (with Orphan Choir and Above Them). Kept Under by a Generation of Ghosts is their debut album and a belting little album it is too, coming across like Milloy covering The Lawrence Arms after a weekend of listening to Hooton 3 Car and Leatherface. And yes, The Amistad still manage to hold their own despite those lofty comparisons. 10 tracks span the gantlet from fiery, yet melodic, political punk rock to cynical acoustic folk, all the while maintaining the kind of biting satire associated with northern England’s finest bands.
For fans of The Lawrence Arms, Hot Water Music, Leatherface and Jawbreaker!
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Band:POPE
Album:GET INTO LONDON TOWN
Label:ASPOP
Format:CD EP
Genre:Indie/Shoegaze
Brand new single from Pope (ex Chords Chris Pope and Buddy Ascott).
RE-Mix of most popular track from last Album “Tall Tales & Cheap Thrills which was rave reviewed in Mojo and Rock ‘n’ Reel mag.
TRACK LISTING 1. Get Into London Town 2. Make my day
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Band:PERSON L
Album:THE POSITIVES LP
Label:SCYLLA
Format:DOUBLE LP
Genre:Alt Rock
The Positives, which was deeply influenced by classic rock, allows the musicians’’ interests and obsessions with artists like Bob Dylan, James Brown, Curtis Mayfield and Sam Cook to shine through their songwriting and playing. “Goodness Gracious” is a raw, static-laced rocker that sounds straight out of the vaults while “The Pleasure Is All Mine” is boisterous and bluesy, a dead ringer for a song from a much earlier decade. Even Vasoli’s voice, as he sings and yelps and howls, is barely recognizable from the croon of his former band.
LTD ED 2X12” WHITE & PURPLE SPLATTER LP.
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Band:LONG ROAD GHOSTS
Album:R.O.T.U
Label:GHOULISH RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Alt Rock
The eagerly anticipated debut album from Coventry based “Grit-Pop” (Brit-Pop juxtaposed with Grunge) foursome Long Road Ghosts. R.O.T.U combines the indie-pop sensibilities of Oasis with the raw emotion and power of Nirvana. Long Road Ghosts epitomize the return of truly BRITISH music.
For fans of Oasis, Suede, Bush, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Cooper Temple Clause, Nine Black Alps, The Subways.
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Band:THE MORLOCKS
Album:EASY LISTENING FOR THE UNDERACHEIVER
Label:GO DOWN
Format:CD
Genre:Garage Punk
There are records that represent a remarkable event, and so is “Easy Listening for the Underachiever”, the return of one of the most relevant bands from the 80s garage renaissance: the Morlocks. Founded by charismatic member Leighton Koizumi soon after splitting up his previous band Gravedigger V (from which “All Black & Hairy” is still a cult for the fans), the californian band played only a couple of seasons. The promise to reunite the Morlocks became true: now they are back with a new line-up and the result is “Easy Listening for the Underachiever”, the ultimate declaration of love to garage-punk, an album out of time and out of compromise. The perfect combination of garage-punk, not giving a damn of theories of evolution of rock’n roll! This is “blood, sweat and tears”, just take it or leave it!
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Band:THE STRANGE FLOWERS
Album:VAGINA MOTHER
Label:GO DOWN
Format:CD
Genre:Psych/Garage
Vagina Mother, produced by Federico Guglielmi for Go Down Records, is the highest point of a carrier during which The Strange Flowers have been regarded as one of the major acts of the independent scene. The Strange Flowers have always had a peculiar approach to psychedelic rock, far away from revivalist clichés, an attitude that once again is found in the 12 tracks of Vagina Mother, where the collaboration with Federico Guglielmi finally completes the modernization process that had begun with Aeroplanes In The Backyard. Vagina Mother can be considered a contemporary record from the beginning to the end, where the maturity and freshness of songwriting, the intelligence and modernity of the arrangements, the rigorous choice of analog sounds, not to mention a solid studio performance, make a peace of very high artistic value. Vagina Mother is complete and various, absolutely convincing. It surprises you in every single episode, stating loud and clear that The Strange Flowers are one of the most valuable acts of independent rock today. A jewel you cannot miss!
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Band:POISON DELUXE
Album:THE DEAD TREE BLUES
Label:GO DOWN
Format:CD
Genre:Psych/Garage
It may seem easy and obvious to sum up the Poison Deluxe experience as a possible contamination of The Doors’ sound ("P. Skunk" is supposed to be a blues track written by Manzarek as a divertisement) and the harmonic structure of nearly every enterprise by Josh Homme. In “The dead tree blues” for instance, beside the above mentioned big blonde bloke, you would expect that genious Jack White to pop up, since the many-faceted matter of blues is tackled according to his accomplished style of guitar playing. All of this makes pretty good reference for a project moving its first, if not shy, steps. Possibly the best bit is to be found in the good taste displayed by Max Ear (here meeting his former Ojm band mate Frank Puglie on the guitar) in rearranging his boogie to defy the patterns of the main firm. This is exactly what you would expect from a side project: complete freedom in the development of songs (as well proved in the track appropriately titled “A free demonstration”). That’s why, beside the mentioned names, such an album would have profited from the contribution of the early Beck: tracks such as "When I'm down he comes down", "Vortex blues", "Old memories” and "Ocioidei" remind one of the experiments of mr. Hansen at least up tp "Mellow gold". The perfect sound to score with a girl… :-)
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Band:THE MORLOCKS
Album:EASY LISTENING FOR THE UNDERACHEIVER LP
Label:GO DOWN
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Psych/Garage
There are records that represent a remarkable event, and so is “Easy Listening for the Underachiever”, the return of one of the most relevant bands from the 80s garage renaissance: the Morlocks. Founded by charismatic member Leighton Koizumi soon after splitting up his previous band Gravedigger V (from which “All Black & Hairy” is still a cult for the fans), the californian band played only a couple of seasons. The promise to reunite the Morlocks became true: now they are back with a new line-up and the result is “Easy Listening for the Underachiever”, the ultimate declaration of love to garage-punk, an album out of time and out of compromise. The perfect combination of garage-punk, not giving a damn of theories of evolution of rock’n roll! This is “blood, sweat and tears”, just take it or leave it! LIMITED VINYL LP PRESSING.
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Band:GRIFTER
Album:THE SIMPLICITY OF THE RIFF IS KEY
Label:CATACOMB
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Grifter are an ass kickin’, booty shakin’ whiskey rock band from Plymouth. Kicking out the jams with a shared love of Sabbath, Clutch, Scissorfight, AC/DC, Motorhead and ZZ Top… Grifter are the nuts!!!
Grifter are undertaking a UK Tour in the week commencing 5th April 2010 with Sun Gods of Exile from the USA. and have played recent high profile shows with Nebula, Roadsaw and Orange Goblin.
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Band:ABRAMIS BRAMA
Album:RUBICON
Label:Transubstans
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Reissue of long deleted 3rd album from ABRAMIS BRAMA, and what a blaster !! From the opening we get hard guitar riffs, borrowed from the 70's and like the 2 first albums, this contains Swedish vocals as well. Another crown jewel out of Sweden. New layout and a bonus track never before on cd.
For Fans of MOUNTAIN, NOVEMBER, GRAND FUNK RAILROAD, CAPTAIN BEYOND, THIN LIZZY who can take their music with a twist...
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Band:BRUTUS
Album:BRUTUS
Label:Transubstans
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Stunning debut from this Norwegian/Swedish ensamble. Recorded by i Music A Matic studios by Henrik Lipp (Union Carbide Prod., Burst, Sator) in Gothenburg Brutus treats you with a lesson in how classic 70's heavy rock should be played. Influences are spelled Hendrix, Blue Cheer or Grand Funk Railroad or todays Graveyard without being any copycats.
A real monster! For Fans of HENDRIX, BLUE CHEER, , GRAND FUNK RAILROAD, CAPTAIN BEYOND, with a touch of todays GRAVEYARD.
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Band:MARULK
Album:MARULK
Label:Transubstans
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Marulk is a classic power trio with attitude,melodies and a heavy groove. Marulk finds inspiration from classic bands as Jimi Hendrix, Grand Funk Railroad, Black Sabbath and Captain Beyond as well as more modern acts like Colour Haze, Los Natas, Brant Bjork and Clutch. The band was formed in april 2007 when three musicians with various degrees of disillusionment with previous bands and the general state of heavy music, met and jammed. Inspiration and love of playing was discovered, and combined with a hard work ethos Marulk started to pick up momentum. Since then Marulk has released the EP All the Kings Men, played live in Sweden, Germany and Denmark and massively expanded their fanbase and online network.
For Fans of JIMI HENDRIX, GRAND FUNK RAILROAD, CAPTAIN BEYOND as well as new acts like CLUTCH, LOS NATAS or COLOUR HAZE.
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Band:OBLIVIOUS
Album:GOONS AND MASTERS
Label:Transubstans
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Oblivious is a bunch of stoners from Linkoping, Sweden, who in early 2003 started to play melodic stoner rock with a touch of classic rock n’ roll based in the 70’s. Influences include such great bands as Dozer, Kyuss and Clutch, as well as older heroes like Black Sabbath, Pentagram and Led Zeppelin. In their five years of existence, they have recorded four demos and done countless gigs in the south east of Sweden. They have opened for kick ass bands like Dozer, Graveyard and Witchcraft.
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Band:ROY ELLIS and THE TEENAGERS
Album:LET ME TAKE YOU HIGHER
Label:LIQUIDATOR MUSIC
Format:7\\\" VINYL
Genre:Soul/Funk/Disco
This is what we call a surprise! Jamaican singer Roy Ellis playing soul with The Teenagers, one of ever the best voices in jamaican music with one the best soul bands nowadays. Roy Ellis, the jamaican singer who sold seven million copies with Symarip in the 60’s, left reggae music on the 70’s for dedicating his career to gospel and soul music. Just entered into XXI century his fans rescued him back to the reggae scene with a great response from from the audience playing all over Europe, USA, Japan and Latin America. And just now, on the top of his comeback to reggae music, attacks with this northern soul stomper backed by The Teenagers. The Teenagers are based in Granada, Spain, leaded by singer and frontman Al Supersonic. They are making a big name on the soul scene releasing new recordings with the german label Unique Records, one of the best labels in soul music nowadays. They are a talented band which has backed some soul legends like P.P. Arnold and Dean Parrish. Roy Ellis is a gifted soul singer with over 50 years of musical career and The Teenagers the perfect band for making a hit. They have released this limited 7” vinyl single stamped in golden letters for their fans.
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Band:PACK OF WOLVES
Album:A NICE BLACK SUIT
Label:Lockjaw
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Formed in 2006 out of Graz, Austrian’s Pack Of Wolves comprises 4 guys hell bent on creating unusual off-kilter punk rock. April will see the band release its first full-length; A Nice Black Suit, 11 tracks of joy which no doubt will leave you wanting for more from the Pack.
Their sound is influenced by bands like Disco Ensemble and And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead as well as more punkier bands like Propagandhi, Refused and Beatsteaks. From this their unusual sound makes a lot more sense.
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:LOCKJAW SPRING 2010
Label:Lockjaw
Format:CD
Genre:Alt Rock
The first Lockjaw compilation in years comes out swinging, combining some of the best hardcore, alternative and indie on the roster.
The comp kicks off with Fights And Fires with two brand new songs recorded specially for this release which gives a window to their new stuff hopefully coming later in the year. A new much more polished and heavier Fights And Fires than the one seen on their debut EP.
Next up first of the Lockjaw veterans on this release picks up Klay with one brand new track recorded in The Waiting Room studio in a session late 2009 just before it’s closure and a track from the album Maps Of Rebellion.
Nucular from Germany kick up the tempo with their crazy off-the-wall hardcore, the first time available in the UK from their album Stigmata Copyprocess. Hopefully we will be seeing a lot more of this unusual up-beat lot in the UK.
Slowing things down are Bull See Red with a brand new track to appear in one of a series of new EPs coming out soon and a re-imagining of Pig Head originally an acoustic track from their debut album A Girl Called Murder.
Finally the long-awaited return of thisfamilarsmile, the Scottish alternative chaps have an new album ready to go after 3 years of waiting, these two are just a taster of what to expect on their new album, due out Summer this year on Lockjaw Records.
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Band:BASTARD OF THE SKIES
Album:ICHOR! ICHOR!
Label:MOTHER SHOULD KNOW
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Hailing from Blackburn, Lancashire, Bastard Of The Skies formed at the beginning of 2006 to play loud, heavy sludge. Since then the band have bludgeoned audiences across the UK along with bands such as Baroness, Kylesa, Today Is The Day, Jucifer, Truckfighters and many more. The album is influenced by bands like Melvins, Unsane, High On Fire which has turned them onto the doom and sludge tendencies they sport today. The band are booking dates for Spring at the moment so that they can unleash their dirty metal sound around the country.
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Band:MENACE
Album:NO ESCAPE FROM NOWHERE
Label:SUNNY BASTARDS
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Menace were one of the wave of punk bands to explode out of the London scene in the summer of '77. They epitomised everything about that incredible year. they played all the main punk gigs like the Roxy, Hope & Anchor and Vortex, as well as Rock Against Racism festivals, building up a large following which was boosted by regular support slots with Sham 69. 30 years later, after several releases and best of’s on “Captain Oi” records they are still pure punk in its best tradition! Never been caught from majors or doing any compromises in their career, Sunny Bastards proudly presents 14 new Punkrock-Songs from Menace!
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:PUNK AND DISORDERLY
Label:SUNNY BASTARDS
Format:DVD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
The best bits of the 2009 Punk and Disorderly Festival captured on DVD. Includes Punk legends like Cock Sparrer, Last Resort, The Boys, Discharge and Vice Squad. Aswellas cult acts like Die Kassierer, Stomper 98, Argy Bargy, Toxpack, The Glitter Band, Klingonz, Gonads, Mark Foggo, Berserker, Section 5, Poebel und Gesocks, Klasse Kriminale, Eastside Boys, The Despised, Monster Squad, Sonic Boom Six, Middel Finger Salute, Crushing Caspars, Radio Dead Ones, Moped Lads, Crashed Out, Melanie & the Secret Army, Gimp Fist, Pullout, The Defectors, Freiboiter, and Urban Rejects.
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Band:HIS STATUE FALLS
Album:COLLISIONS
Label:REDFIELD
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
HIS STATUE FALLS are a young band hailing from the sunny Saarland in Germany. What started out as a project in their rehearsal room and because of the love for music, turned 2008 into a lot more than just a casual pastime. Since the six members came together, the band gives everything to heat up every club atmosphere with their newly created music style Techcore and to inspire music lovers of every genre. The secret recipe skilfully combines elements of Techno, Screamo and Pop to a new, homogeneous sound which is already trendsetting and will find copycats in the near future. The debut „Collisions“ combines all strengths of HIS STATUE FALLS: Mighty guitars, crystal clear hooklines, hammering beats supported by driving techno-elements, and enriched with a proper portion of Mosh and Breakdown. A delicious dish which is worth to be tasted by all music fans. But HIS STATUE FALLS are not only transporting their Techcore into the world with their album. Their energetic and captivating stage show makes every concertgoer dance and encourages you to party until the sweat drops from the ceiling.
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Band:GO RAMPAGE
Album:FROM THE INSIDE OUT
Label:FOND OF LIFE
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
At the age of 15 the four music students from Frankfurt, Germany played california-style punkrock for overstrained audiences at local youth centers in 1999. After first disappointing provincial band contests, several selfproduced recordings and lately thrilled feedback from the scene, Go Rampage are now releasing their debut album "From The Inside Out" on Fond Of Life Records. The band just played a series of support shows for Propagandhi in summer and has a whole euopean tour scheduled for january/february 2010 in support for ”From The Inside Out” which contains almost 45minutes of Punkrock.
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Band:SECRET ARMY
Album:SECRET ARMY
Label:DAILY
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Barcelona melodic street-punk kings. This CD contains their fast sold out debut 10" plus three new superb studio cuts. Influenced by Cock Sparrer, The Crack and Section 5.
"Secret Army borrows literally from The Clash songbook, but they do it so well and with such a lack of shame that it totally works. Bits of Rancid and Cock Sparrer. The slower, tuneful numbers are all epic." - Maximum Rock N Roll
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Band:SUBURBAN REBELS
Album:EL FLOTAR SE VA A ACABAR
Label:DAILY
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Suburban Rebels is a band that have not needed an extensive discography to become in their own right one of the leading spanish streetpunk bands. In fact just one LP and a demo tape released since their start in the early nineties have been enough to make them enjoy of a huge and still growing number of followers and have secured a cult status for the band in the spanish punk scene. In this LP titled 'EL FLOTAR SE VA A ACABAR!' (That could be loosely translated as WE ARE BACK IN BUSINESS) SUBURBAN REBELS make their comeback with 10 new songs 100% Punk Rock, loyal to their direct and corrosive style. The result is a record easily comparable with Spanish 80’s Punk classics as the 'Caldo De Pollo' album by DECIBELIOS or the 'Inadaptados' album by CICATRIZ.
"Lace up your boots, rock your braces, grab a pint, and bring your buddy in for a sing-along, fuckers, cuz this is Oi!-punk at its finest." - Maximum Rock N Roll
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Band:SUBURBAN REBELS
Album:EL FLOTAR LP
Label:DAILY
Format:LP VINYL
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Suburban Rebels is a band that have not needed an extensive discography to become in their own right one of the leading spanish streetpunk bands. In fact just one LP and a demo tape released since their start in the early nineties have been enough to make them enjoy of a huge and still growing number of followers and have secured a cult status for the band in the spanish punk scene. In this LP titled 'EL FLOTAR SE VA A ACABAR!' (That could be loosely translated as WE ARE BACK IN BUSINESS) SUBURBAN REBELS make their comeback with 10 new songs 100% Punk Rock, loyal to their direct and corrosive style. The result is a record easily comparable with Spanish 80’s Punk classics as the 'Caldo De Pollo' album by DECIBELIOS or the 'Inadaptados' album by CICATRIZ............LTD VINYL LP.
"Lace up your boots, rock your braces, grab a pint, and bring your buddy in for a sing-along, fuckers, cuz this is Oi!-punk at its finest." - Maximum Rock N Roll
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Band:AGAINST THE SPIRITS
Album:AGAINST THE SPIRITS
Label:DAILY
Format:VINYL 7\\\"
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
First recording session of this Spanish band on vinyl edition. Against The Spirits mixes Old School Hardcore styles such as Champion, Carry On or Have Heart with Mosh parts in true Madball, Terror, Sick of it All or No Turning Back tradition, just to name a few. Featuring members from Spanish Hardcore Kings, Proud’z.
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Band:MELANIE AND SECRET ARMY
Album:WAHRE LUGEN
Label:SUNNY BASTARDS
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
NEW ALBUM FROM MELANIE AND SECRET ARMY.
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Band:STOMPER 98
Album:10 YEARS BIRTHDAY BASH
Label:SUNNY BASTARDS
Format:DVD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
TRACK LISTING - 1. Live in Leipzig (ca. 100min) 2. 10 Jahre Bericht und Live (ca. 60min) 3. Bonus Punk & Disorderly 2009, Live in Berlin with Full Force 2009 4. Audio Live CD
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Band:HAMADRYAD
Album:INTRUSION
Label:UNICORN DIGITAL
Format:CD
Genre:Prog Rock
Hamadryad is a group of musicians all driven by the same passion: musical creation. Their music tastefully blends progressive and classic rock, with a touch of cinematic vision, taking the listener on a musical adventure. (In classical mythology, the Hamadryad was a wood nymph fabled to live and die with a tree to which she was attached. Her mission was to be the link between the mortal and immortal entities.) Hamadryad’s musical mission is to take their audience on a journey that transcends passing trends.
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Band:MAINLINE BUMP N GRIND REVUE
Album:LIVE AT THE VICTORY THEATRE
Label:Akarma
Format:CD
Genre:Blues
Rare Blues Psych from Canada. First time on CD for this 1971 classic.
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Band:JAMES COTTON BAND
Album:LIVE AND ON THE MOVE
Label:UNIVERSE
Format:CD
Genre:Blues
One of the great Blues Harmonica players captured live with a great backing band.
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Band:OVERMASTER
Album:MADNESS OF WAR
Label:Cruz Del Sur
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Overmaster was founded in 2006 by singer "Gus" Gustavo Adrian Gabarro, after six years and four albums with the Italian power metal band White Skull. After recording a 4-track demo tape (which was elected as demo of the month on Italian printed magazine Metal Maniac), Overmaster reached an agreement with Cruz Del Sur Music for the release of its first album “Madness of War”. The idea behind “Madness of War” and its 11 tracks, is to illustrate the horrors of war and its different faces through the centuries, from the Ancient Greece era, to the modern Malvinas/Falklands war and the young suicide children in Middle East. Over this sad topics, Gus and Overmaster were able to create a dramatic and emotional atmosphere, where the description of the “madness of war” is expressed through a galloping and unrelenting drumming/bass lines, a textured guitar work, atmospheric keyboards and the expressive voice of Gus. Every piece then fall in the right place, creating an album that musically at first sight might seems inspired by the Teutonic heavy metal school, but maintains a clear and self-identity thanks to the layered and multifaceted work of each and every one of his interpreters.
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Band:PALACE OF WORMS
Album:THE FORGOTTEN
Label:FLENSER
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
PALACE OF WORMS, a ‘one-man’ black metal act out of San Francisco, has released its monument to self-hatred—“The Forgotten.” “The Forgotten” is PALACE OF WORMS’ first full-length, following its well received sold-out demo, 2007’s “The Decaying Despot.” With “The Forgotten,” PALACE OF WORMS delivers a record that is both thrashed and wet with dark ambience. Balan, the band’s solo multi-instrumentalist mastermind, hereby demonstrates that he is fit to sit alongside San Francisco’s great black metal acts such Leviathan, Ludicra, and Crebain.
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Band:PANOPTICON
Album:COLLAPSE
Label:FLENSER
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Panopticon’s “Collapse” appeared on many lists of 2009’s Best Black Metal Albums. Combining elements of crust, doom and post-rock, “Collapse” is nonetheless a black metal masterpiece. Now finally released as a double LP containing a bonus track featuring anarchist/crust legend Rob “the Baron” Miller of AMEBIX on vocals. The Baron’s contribution to this updated blacked version of the AMEBIX classic, “Beginning of the End,” speaks to Panopticon’s considerable merit.
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Band:TENEBRAE IN PERPETUUM
Album:ONORI FUNEBRI RITUALI
Label:ATMF
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Most probably the best Italian Necro Black Metal band to date acclaimed debut album is repressed on a luxurious Digipack edition limited to 1000 copies. The darker side of the Burzum and Darkthrone have inspired an outstanding monumental Album.
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Band:SVARTI LOGHIN
Album:DRIFTING THROUGH THE VOID
Label:ATMF
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Goodbye, bitter cold and bitterer depression – hello, dazzling sunrise and spiraling bliss. Goodbye, black metal – hello, nonconformity. Although Svarti Loghin were never ones to follow, with newest album Drifting Through the Void, the enigmatic Swedes lead black metal to a glorious new dawn, setting fire to well-worn tropes, the now-meaningless clichés, and forge a path for the unknown, literally Drifting Through the Void. A wry view on negativity remains, but Svarti Loghin offer a more dynamic experience that beautifully integrates shoegaze and indie-rock and even alt-country. Bittersweetness was never so narcotic: lay back, bliss out, and experience Drifting Through the Void.
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Band:AN AUTUMN FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN
Album:LOST
Label:ATMF
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Glorious cascades of melancholy wash down upon you, cathedrals built from bittersweet tears pierce the rain-choked sky: indeed, this is an autumn for cripple children. Such is the sound of An Autumn for Cripple Children and their highly anticipated debut album, Lost. Literally wearing their hearts on their sleeves, AAFCC weave emotionally gripping, sonically gorgeous tapestries that canvass black metal, doom, and post-rock. However epic Lost may be in part and whole, the band moves naturally, effortlessly, between these sound palettes, never forcing the point nor evincing cloying “schizophrenia.” This is pure catharsis, and you will get Lost within it.
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Band:NYSEIUS
Album:MILITIAE
Label:ATMF
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Brimming with a hideous energy born from a true understanding of the occult, cult French black metal band Nyseius make their full-length debut with Militiae. Frightening in focus, pure and total energy harnessed through metaphysical magick, the strict and stoic Militiae wholly evokes its title, deftly balancing ancient Scandinavian classicism with a thoroughly avant-garde approach. Dissonant and twisted yet free-flowing in its iciness, Nyseius create black metal that spans generations, both timeless and modern, traditional yet forward-thinking.
Recommended for fans of WATAIN, DEATHSPELL OMEGA, FUNERAL MIST, SVEST, and OFERMOD
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Band:SHATTER THEIR ILLUSION
Album:SHED MY WINGS
Label:DARK STAR
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Great European Progressive Hard Rock. Features former members of Grigori 3.
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Band:TWO TON ANVIL
Album:TWO TON ANVIL
Label:DARK STAR
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Two Ton Anvil is lead and fronted by vocalists/guitarists founding members Chris Chubb and Brian Ericson. TTA been slowly making a name for themselves in the local Chicago music scene but also have shared the stage with national acts such as Five Finger Death Punch, Bury your Dead, In this Moment and Another Black Day. Two Ton Anvil’s gearing up for their first coast to coast tour.
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Band:ANCESTRAL LEGACY
Album:NIGHTMARE DIARIES
Label:FEMME METAL
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
The album is recorded by the band and mixed and mastered by Knut Magne Valle, also responsible for productions with his own band Arcturus as well as well known acts as Ulver, Mayhem and Rotting Christ.
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Band:INHUME
Album:MOULDING THE DEFORMED
Label:WAR ANTHEM
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Features members of CLITEATER – and ex members of SINISTER, ASPHYX, GOD DETHRONED and MALIGNANT. A mix of blasting old-school death metal with a pinch of grindcore. A must for fans Carcass and Nasum.
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Band:KRATEIN
Album:TRAUMA
Label:FOLTER
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Musicians from ATRAS CINERIS, TODTGELICHTER and SIGNUM:KARG collaborate to follow different musical pathways with their debut "Trauma".
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Band:BESTIAL MOCKERY
Album:CHRISTCRUSHING HAMMERCHAINSAW
Label:Hells Headbangers
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Their long out-of-print debut album, now re-issued on CD with new artwork by Chris Moyen. Unpure, unholy, untight buzzing chainsaw guitars thrashing ugly punkish black metal riffs backed by truly mental ranting vocals.
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Band:PERVERSOR
Album:DEMON METAL
Label:Hells Headbangers
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Already a cult name in the underground, on their latest "Demon Metal" mini album PERVERSOR take the evil surge of classic German blackthrash and bolster it with chaotic undercurrents of archaic Brazilian bestiality. However, these Chilean troops of doom are no "retro" joke band, and they are more than able to stand ground with modern bands like Revenge and Diocletian.
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Band:DISFIGURED DEAD
Album:VISIONS OF DEATH
Label:Hells Headbangers
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Old fashion Death Metal raised on genre pioneering masterpieces like "Severed Survival", "Horrified", "Into the Grave" and "Scream Bloody Gore". A must for fans of Repulsion, Death, Autopsy and Grave.
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Band:IN SILENTO NOCTIS
Album:THROUGH FRAGMENTS
Label:MY KINGDOM MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Hailing from Finland, IN SILENTIO NOCTIS fuses scandinavian melancholy with the darkest Symphonic Black Metal. Imagine a dark fusion of Emperor and DImmu Borgir tradition, led by the beautifully haunting, female voice of Armi Päivinen.
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Band:LLVME
Album:FOGEIRA DE SUENOS
Label:MY KINGDOM MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Doom-Black-Folk band formed in Salamanca (Spain) by members of other Spanish veteran metal bands (Chaotic Hope, K-OS).It’s a must for all fans of My Dying Bride, Negura Bunget and Pagan Metal in general...
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Band:LORD AGHEROS
Album:OF BEAUTY AND SADNESS
Label:MY KINGDOM MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Musically this follows an ambient path which flirts with wide ranging influences which stretch from the bombastic sound of Summoning, the film score influences of Ulver, through piano, classical music, opera and Folkloristic Mediterranean music. Expect the unexpected.
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Band:TANTAL
Album:THE BEGINNING OF THE END
Label:Ravenheart
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Russian Band Tantal’s music combines aggressive and virtuosic Death Metal with multi faceted melodies and progressive elements, coupled with strong female vocals.
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Band:MOTHERS HOPE
Album:NEVERENDING HIGHWAY
Label:MANGORA SPIDER
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Swedish hard rockers in a Deep Purple / Led Zeppelin vein.
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Band:PROFUNDIS TENEBRARUM
Album:PATHOGENESIS
Label:CDG
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Black Metal
LP Limited to 500 Hand Numbered Copies, includes Gatefold Cover and A3 Poster. Spains Profundis Tenebrarum s second album is a must for fans of Dark Funeral, Watain, Marduk and Emperor.
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Band:STAIRWAY
Album:INTERREGNUM
Label:STAIRWAY MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Classic Rock/Metal
Interregnum is an unapologetically anthemic hard rock album; here, Stairway has matched and maybe even surpassed their highly successful 2006 album “The Other Side Of Midnight”
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Band:BLASPHEMOUS CREATION
Album:DIABOLICAL KINGDOM
Label:APOCRYPHA
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Classic thrashed up Black Metal recalling gods like Kreator, Sodom,Slayer and Celtic Frost.
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Band:EXOTERIK
Album:BUTTERFLY IN YOUR HAND
Label:HOLIER THAN THOU
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Female fronted Uk metal act as seen on tour with Lacuna Coil and Epica.
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Band:ANIMO AEGER
Album:IMPULS
Label:ASHEN PRODUCTIONS
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
The power and passion of the classic Norwegain Black Metal scene lives on!
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Band:SLEEPING VILLAGE
Album:FRAGMENTS
Label:ASHEN PRODUCTIONS
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Black / Doom dirge metal, sometimes compared to a cross of Burzum and Sonic Youth!
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Band:EWIG FROST
Album:RUST
Label:NOISE OF DISSENT
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Thrash / Black / Punk crossover - Darkthrone meets Discharge!
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Band:DARKNESS ABLAZE
Album:SHADOWREIGN
Label:Black Bards
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Melodic Death / Black Metal with both blastbeats and melody.
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Band:EVIG NATT
Album:DARKLAND
Label:Black Bards
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Gothic/ Black metal influenced by Anathema and My Dying Bride.
Features former members of Norwegian legends Einherjer and Enslaved.
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Band:ROGER POWELL
Album:BLUE NOTE RIDGE
Label:UNICORN DIGITAL
Format:CD
Genre:Prog Rock
Out of the blue — Blue Note Ridge, rather — Utopia keyboardist Roger Powell has published another album of original music, though this affair was not cultivated with his arsenal of synthesizers. Perhaps a cue taken from the closing piano piece on Fossil Poets called "Astrae," this is a full serving of impressions on acoustic piano whose mission statement is evident by way of track titles like "Path To The River," "Green Shift," "Shadow Of Pines," and "Valley Fog." Many of the pieces in the first half have nary a seam and almost sound broken into segments from a longer, expansive improvisational suite. The rippling chords and delicate shadings parallel a couple all-piano ventures by ambient icons Harold Budd and Robert Rich. However, Powell isn't concerned with letting each tone ring out into horizontal space; his style, as expected, is much more dynamic and melodic, in line with the styles of, say, Windham Hill's Liz Story and American Gramaphone's Jackson Berkey. A crisp portrait of a special rural haven is realized over the duration of this very focused work, under forty minutes in length — an intriguing new side of Roger Powell.
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Band:LATE NIGHT VENTURE
Album:ILLUMINATIONS
Label:QUARTERMAIN
Format:CD
Genre:Alt Rock
“Illuminations” is the new release by Copenhagen quintet “Late Night Venture”, which is now finding its way to listeners in Europe and elsewhere. The “Illuminations” EP is produced by Cult of Luna’s drummer / producer Magnus Lindberg and proves – as did the 2006 debut album – the expertise that Late Night Venture has acquired in creating alluring and cinematic soundscapes. Within the span of only four songs, Late Night Venture presents a multitude of moods and textures ranging from the haunting melodies of “Love Respect Call” to the dark and ghostly layers of “Acorns Fall”.
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Band:NEONMAN
Album:GIFT OF THE GAB
Label:PALE MUSIC INTERNATIONAL
Format:CD
Genre:Alt Rock
A unique release coupling Brit Punk Rock and Berlin Electro. Have been compared to XTC, PIL, Talking Heads and Bollock Brothers.
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Band:NEONMAN
Album:KNIGHTS OF ERROR
Label:PALE MUSIC INTERNATIONAL
Format:CD
Genre:Alt Rock
A unique release coupling Brit Punk Rock and Berlin Electro. Have been compared to XTC, PIL, Talking Heads and Bollock Brothers.
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Band:KILL THE DANDIES
Album:I SAW WHITE FIELDS
Label:PALE MUSIC INTERNATIONAL
Format:CD
Genre:Alt Rock
Sixties garage Rock with layers of hammonds and fuzzy guitar. Think Cramps, Lee Hazelwood, Velvet Underground and Phil Spector...
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Band:DPERD
Album:IO SONO UN ERRORE
Label:MY KINGDOM MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Dark Wave/Goth
Dperd’s music is a contamination of Dark Wave, classical music and theatrical art, that starts at milestones of the 80’s like The Cure and Cocteau Twins, before arriving at the elegance of cult acts like Mira, Lycia, This Mortal Coil and Cranes.
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Band:DANDELION WINE
Album:ALL BECOMPASSED BY THE STARS
Label:BLACK RAIN GMBH
Format:CD
Genre:Alt Rock
The 7th release by this well known Ethereal Dream Pop band from Austrlia Already toured 6 times throughout the whole of Europe, including the UK.
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Band:CEDIGEST
Album:WALKING IN THE FLESH
Label:NOITEKK
Format:CD
Genre:Industrial/EBM
This album confirms the UK based act as one of the worlds leading industrial acts.
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Band:PROSPECTIVE
Album:PERFECT EVOLUTION OF HUMANITY
Label:BLACK RAIN GMBH
Format:CD
Genre:Industrial/EBM
Female fronted Electro act with a more club and dancefloor style sound.
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:14TH ELEKTRISCH FESTIVAL
Label:BLACK RAIN GMBH
Format:CD
Genre:Industrial/EBM
Leather Strip,Tyske Ludder,Neotek,Hioctan and Bionic Bitch recorded live at the 14th Elektisch Festival. CD also contains a bonus Black Rain/Noitekk DJ mix.
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Band:HIOCTAN
Album:UNDER CONTROL
Label:BLACK RAIN GMBH
Format:CD
Genre:Industrial/EBM
Third album by this German oldschool electro act.
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Band:MEKANIK DISORDER
Album:COLD AND STRONG
Label:Caustic
Format:CD
Genre:Industrial/EBM
Promising Old school EBM style act. Think Front242,DAF,Nitzer Ebb etc.
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Band:PSYBORG CORP
Album:THE MECHANICAL RENAISSANCE
Label:NOITEKK
Format:CD
Genre:Industrial/EBM
One of the most promising acts in the worldwide electro/goth scene.
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Band:INFORMER
Album:BLACK PROPAGANDA
Label:PALE MUSIC INTERNATIONAL
Format:CD
Genre:Alt Rock
Electro/Pop/Industrial/Dance crossover from this German/American trio.
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Band:MONA MUR AND EN ESCH
Album:120 TAGE
Label:PALE MUSIC INTERNATIONAL
Format:CD
Genre:Industrial/EBM
Neubaten/Stanglers/Yello collaborator Mona Mur has her hits drastically reworked by KMFDM legend En Esch on this cd.
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Band:VAN RAVESCHOT
Album:EDEN EAST
Label:PALE MUSIC INTERNATIONAL
Format:CD
Genre:Industrial/EBM
Mesmerising "Cold Wave" act formed from all corners of Europe in 2006.
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Band:EL CAMINO
Album:SATANIK MAGIIK CD
Label:NIGH TRIPPER
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
The Swedish band el Camino has since the beginning back in the winter of 2002/03 been a tool for the expression of both music and thoughts. The music has always been the primary with a call to compose heavy music that isn’t limited by either genres or other unwritten laws. The shaping of el Camino consists of cultural, musical, occult and historical elements ”- the way is so to say, winding, as above so below while we create” With the ambition to create their own musical form el Camino drew up the guidelines right from the start. The result could be heard as a form of rockmusic with strength and elements of both hardrock and doom.
Heavy yet groovy metal with stong occult presence - Members from VERMIN, KARNIVORE...
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