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Band:HAMMER PRESENTS
Album:DRACULA WITH CHRISTOPHER LEE
Label:DUST BUG RECORDS
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:CULT RETRO / HORROR
100 UNITS ONLY BEING MADE AVAILABLE IN THE UK...JUST IN TIME FOR RECORD STORE DAY!!!!
Unavailable on vinyl since its release in 1974, Dust Bug Records is proud to present this special Limited Edition 40th Anniversary 180 g vinyl pressing of Hammer Presents Dracula with Christopher Lee.
We've gone back to the original 1/4 inch tapes to bring you the best sound possible. 100% analogue- Dust Bug Records is proud to confirm that this record has been cut on vintage analogue equipment. A DIGITAL- FREE PROCESS.
Side one features the horrifying story of vampirism with spine- chilling sounds, and music composed by James Bernard and narration by Christopher Lee. Side 2 features The Four Faces Of Evil music suite: Fear In The Night: She: The Vampire Lovers; and Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde. Music arranged and conducted By Philip Martell.
180 g vinyl, 100% Analogue, Gatefold sleeve, Mist enshrouded blood infused virgin vinyl.
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Band:BOSSE DE NAGE
Album:ALL FOURS
Label:Profound Lore
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Bay Area band BOSSE-DE-NAGE have always been one of the most intriguing bands, extreme metal related, out of the area and its scene even though the band, as prolific as they have been since their first demo “Demo 1” in 2006 demo was released (coincidentally released by Agalloch/Vhol drummer Aesop Dekker), have kept a pretty low profile (i.e. no promo photos, interviews, and live performances were quite rare and few). But it has been through their intriguing mix of black metal and classic early ‘90s indie-rock/screamo/punk along with their thought-provoking lyrics that has defined their visceral sound.
Following their two demos, their three previous full-length albums (released from 2010 – 2012), and their last release which was a split with their friends in Deafheaven, BOSSE-DE-NAGE are preparing to unleash their deadliest, most provoking and vicious work to date. Three years following their last full-length “iii”, “All Fours” sees the band create their most epic album to date, musically, lyrically, and on a production level likewise (the album was produced and recorded by Jack Shirley, known to be responsible with capturing bands such as the aforementioned Deafheaven). Like a soundtrack to someone having the ultimate mental breakdown, “All Fours” harbors the familiar traits within BOSSE-DE-NAGE’s sound while expanding even further into more experimental and noise territory likewise. The result being almost like a companion piece to an album like Deafheaven’s “Sunbather”, all while defining itself as its own entity within the band’s distinct repertoire that sounds unlike anything in extreme music today.
BOSSE-DE-NAGE are one of the most prominent underground bands to combine influences from black metal, early ‘90s indie rock, and classic screamo/punk, and who incorporate said influences most prominently - “All Fours” is easily the band’s best work yet, which follows-up their lauded “iii” full-length from 2012 and the split LP they did with Deafheaven likewise. - For fans of Deafheaven, Slint, Orchid, and Refused.
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Band:BELL WITCH
Album:FOUR PHANTOMS
Label:Profound Lore
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Seattle funeral/death doom duo BELL WITCH (comprised only of bass, drums, and vocals) made a massive impact in the doom metal scene with their debut album “Longing” (which followed their cult demo that had already generated buzz for the band) which was hailed as one of 2012’s best doom metal releases, even though it was released late in the year, in Nov of said year. With the momentum for the band carrying on, the duo would tour extensively (in North America and Europe) in support of “Longing”, continuing to build more awareness in the scene.
Their anticipated new album, “Four Phantoms” (which was recorded and engineered by the legendary and respected Billy Anderson; Agalloch, Pallbearer, Leviathan, Neurosis, Melvins etc.) is BELL WITCH’s most crushing and most moving work yet. With a more honed focus on song structure and more intricate composition, all while taking their sound even further in the soul crushing heaviness realm, “Four Phantoms” is a doom metal triumph for the ages, an album that will go down as one of doom metal’s most triumphant moments of the year with a milestone that no other band in the genre can parallel.
For fans of classic extreme death/doom metal bands such as ASUNDER, THERGOTHON, SKEPTICISM, and MOURNFUL CONGREGATION
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Band:PYRAMIDS
Album:A NORTHERN MEADOW.
Label:Profound Lore
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
The Texas-based musical contingent known as PYRAMIDS have become quite the musical entity since emerging, almost from out of nowhere, in 2008 with their debut self-titled LP which was released by Hydra Head Records. A record that generated a lot of buzz and acclaim within experimental and extreme metal, with its references to such genres as shoegaze, black metal, ambient/drone, avant-garde, and industrial music respectively.
Following said debut album, PYRAMIDS would suddenly see themselves collaborating with and receiving contributions from a myriad of musicians (also note that the debut album also featured a bonus disc of re-mixes of said tracks from it, re-mixes done by artists such as Blut Aus Nord, James Plotkin, Colin Marston, and Jesu just to name a few), notable artists such as Faith Coloccia (Mamiffer), Simon Raymonde (Cocteau Twins), Albin Julius (Der Blutharsch), and Colin Marston (who PYRAMIDS would work on a regular basis with), along with making collaborative albums with Nadja, Horseback, and Mamiffer respectively.
“A Northern Meadow”, the new full-length PYRAMIDS album, is the band’s direct follow-up (that is not a collaboration or split with any other band) to their 2008 debut. For “A Northern Meadow”, joining the PYRAMIDS lineup (already consisting of R. Loren, M. Dean, M. Craig, and D. Willaim) is Colin Marston (Gorguts/Krallice/Dysrhythmia), Vindsval (Blut Aus Nord), and William Fowler Collins. The result being an encompassing album that stretches the PYRAMIDS sound even further into something even more grand and epic; the band’s most stunning offering yet, through an overwhelming sound picture heavy in atmosphere and ambience. One that is dark, dreamy, and lush, yet claustrophobic, mechanically crawling, and surgically cold at the same time.
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Band:BIG BUSINESS
Album:BATTLEFIELDS FOREVER
Label:SOLAR FLARE
Format:CD
Genre:Postrock / Post Hardcore / Noise
Big Business started as a two piece band composed of Jared Warren of Karp and The Tight Bros From Way Back When, and Coady Willis of Murder City Devils. Their sound has been characterized as a bombastic and frantic low end attack, marked by Warren's signature vocal delivery. The band released its first album, "Head for the Shallow", on January 25, 2005.
In late 2006, after relocating to Los Angeles, Jared and Coady both became members of The Melvins, first appearing on "(A) Senile Animal". The tour, titled "the Double-Drumming Rock for Peace tour", featured Warren and Willis playing a set as Big Business before being joined by Crover and Osborne for a set as The Melvins. Big Business started recording material for the new Melvins album, entitled "Nude With Boots"
Two guys grinding out beefy hardcore as loud and heavy as humanly possible. Big Guy Jared Warren wrestles bass and vocals, Little Guy Coady Willis mans the drums and scant backing vocals. And how they do beat the crap out of their instruments! Big Business are Jared Warren (KARP, Tight Bros From Way Back When, The Whip) and Coady Willis (Murder City Devils, Dead Low Tide). They play the kind of music that sounds like steamroller bass rumble dump truck crashing into Slayer having sex with CCR...on acid. 4 years later - Big Business are back with their 4th album - Battlefields Forever, their finest album to date.
"Battlefields Forever is just a very good record, likable and unpredictable as anything they’ve ever done." - 8/10 PITCHFORK
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Band:BIG BUSINESS
Album:BATTLEFIELDS FOREVER - LP
Label:SOLAR FLARE
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Postrock / Post Hardcore / Noise
Big Business started as a two piece band composed of Jared Warren of Karp and The Tight Bros From Way Back When, and Coady Willis of Murder City Devils. Their sound has been characterized as a bombastic and frantic low end attack, marked by Warren's signature vocal delivery. The band released its first album, "Head for the Shallow", on January 25, 2005.
In late 2006, after relocating to Los Angeles, Jared and Coady both became members of The Melvins, first appearing on "(A) Senile Animal". The tour, titled "the Double-Drumming Rock for Peace tour", featured Warren and Willis playing a set as Big Business before being joined by Crover and Osborne for a set as The Melvins. Big Business started recording material for the new Melvins album, entitled "Nude With Boots"
Two guys grinding out beefy hardcore as loud and heavy as humanly possible. Big Guy Jared Warren wrestles bass and vocals, Little Guy Coady Willis mans the drums and scant backing vocals. And how they do beat the crap out of their instruments! Big Business are Jared Warren (KARP, Tight Bros From Way Back When, The Whip) and Coady Willis (Murder City Devils, Dead Low Tide). They play the kind of music that sounds like steamroller bass rumble dump truck crashing into Slayer having sex with CCR...on acid. 4 years later - Big Business are back with their 4th album - Battlefields Forever, their finest album to date.
"Battlefields Forever is just a very good record, likable and unpredictable as anything they’ve ever done." - 8/10 PITCHFORK
LTD LP.
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Band:ACID KING
Album:MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, CENTRE OF EVERYWHERE
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:Psych/Garage
On their fourth outing, the three-piece maintains the corrosive concoction at the heart of their identity, while simultaneously progressing. “I really wanted to add more depth and layers to our signature sound,” says Lori. “Everything still feels like riding a motorcycle on Quaaludes, but things have expanded. It was important that we didn’t write the same record over and over again. This is a little moodier. It happened organically that way.” Certain pillars uphold the underground. Their influence pervades throughout future generations, shaping the sound, style, and spirit of artists for years to come. Such can be said of ACID KING, bubbling up from San Francisco in 1993 through a fog of revved up riffs, thunderous drums, and hypnotic vocal howl. This unholy triumvirate of visionary, vocalist, and guitarist Lori S, drummer Joey Osbourne, and bassist Mark Lamb existed before terms like “stoner rock” and “doom metal” entered the musical lexicon. They unleashed three EPs and three full-length albums, starting with Z oroaster in 1995, the 1999 fulllength Busse Woods, and culminating on 2005’s Acid King III. Their seismic chemistry transfixed audiences everywhere from high-profile festivals such as Hellfest and Roadburn to now iconic shows alongside peers such as Sleep and Mystick Krewe of Clearlight. As personal lives became busier, they focused on a handful of packed local shows and special appearances overseas during the next decade. Song ideas volleyed back in forth, but 2013 saw them hunker down and flesh out the vision for what would become their next offering. ACID KING returns to its throne with 2015’s full-length Middle Of Nowhere Center Of Everywhere. ACID KING are doing things on their own terms, letting their personal ethos continue to drive the music…“We never played this music for popularity,” Lori S. exclaims. “There are no rules. We do everything how we want to. Acid King has always been driven by that.”
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Band:ACID KING
Album:MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, CENTRE OF EVERYWHERE - BLUE LP
Label:SVART
Format:LP - BLUE VINYL
Genre:Psych/Garage
On their fourth outing, the three-piece maintains the corrosive concoction at the heart of their identity, while simultaneously progressing. “I really wanted to add more depth and layers to our signature sound,” says Lori. “Everything still feels like riding a motorcycle on Quaaludes, but things have expanded. It was important that we didn’t write the same record over and over again. This is a little moodier. It happened organically that way.” Certain pillars uphold the underground. Their influence pervades throughout future generations, shaping the sound, style, and spirit of artists for years to come. Such can be said of ACID KING, bubbling up from San Francisco in 1993 through a fog of revved up riffs, thunderous drums, and hypnotic vocal howl. This unholy triumvirate of visionary, vocalist, and guitarist Lori S, drummer Joey Osbourne, and bassist Mark Lamb existed before terms like “stoner rock” and “doom metal” entered the musical lexicon. They unleashed three EPs and three full-length albums, starting with Z oroaster in 1995, the 1999 fulllength Busse Woods, and culminating on 2005’s Acid King III. Their seismic chemistry transfixed audiences everywhere from high-profile festivals such as Hellfest and Roadburn to now iconic shows alongside peers such as Sleep and Mystick Krewe of Clearlight. As personal lives became busier, they focused on a handful of packed local shows and special appearances overseas during the next decade. Song ideas volleyed back in forth, but 2013 saw them hunker down and flesh out the vision for what would become their next offering. ACID KING returns to its throne with 2015’s full-length Middle Of Nowhere Center Of Everywhere. ACID KING are doing things on their own terms, letting their personal ethos continue to drive the music…“We never played this music for popularity,” Lori S. exclaims. “There are no rules. We do everything how we want to. Acid King has always been driven by that.”
LTD DLP ON BLUE VINYL.
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Band:ACID KING
Album:MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, CENTRE OF EVRYWHERE - BLACK VINYL
Label:SVART
Format:LP - BLACK VINYL
Genre:Psych/Garage
On their fourth outing, the three-piece maintains the corrosive concoction at the heart of their identity, while simultaneously progressing. “I really wanted to add more depth and layers to our signature sound,” says Lori. “Everything still feels like riding a motorcycle on Quaaludes, but things have expanded. It was important that we didn’t write the same record over and over again. This is a little moodier. It happened organically that way.” Certain pillars uphold the underground. Their influence pervades throughout future generations, shaping the sound, style, and spirit of artists for years to come. Such can be said of ACID KING, bubbling up from San Francisco in 1993 through a fog of revved up riffs, thunderous drums, and hypnotic vocal howl. This unholy triumvirate of visionary, vocalist, and guitarist Lori S, drummer Joey Osbourne, and bassist Mark Lamb existed before terms like “stoner rock” and “doom metal” entered the musical lexicon. They unleashed three EPs and three full-length albums, starting with Z oroaster in 1995, the 1999 fulllength Busse Woods, and culminating on 2005’s Acid King III. Their seismic chemistry transfixed audiences everywhere from high-profile festivals such as Hellfest and Roadburn to now iconic shows alongside peers such as Sleep and Mystick Krewe of Clearlight. As personal lives became busier, they focused on a handful of packed local shows and special appearances overseas during the next decade. Song ideas volleyed back in forth, but 2013 saw them hunker down and flesh out the vision for what would become their next offering. ACID KING returns to its throne with 2015’s full-length Middle Of Nowhere Center Of Everywhere. ACID KING are doing things on their own terms, letting their personal ethos continue to drive the music…“We never played this music for popularity,” Lori S. exclaims. “There are no rules. We do everything how we want to. Acid King has always been driven by that.”
DLP / BLACK VINYL
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Band:SLOMATICS
Album:ESTRON - LP
Label:BURNING WORLD
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
3rd full length by Slomatics from Belfast, Northern Ireland, their second on Burning World Records.
The Quietus included Estron in their top 20 metal releases of 2014. LTD Orange Vinyl LP
Formed in Belfast in 2004, Slomatics aim to reduce riffs to a primal state of heaviness, to produce music which whilst imploding under it’s own weight, creates a a joyous and euphoric state of wellbeing which can only be obtained with a slew of vintage amplifiers, fuzz pedals, analog synths and an alarming array of percussion instruments. This has endured through UK tours, gigs in Europe, three albums and a mountain of split/vinyl/cassette releases. 2012’s “A Hocht” was released to widespread critical acclaim, gaining support from around the world which was capped off with a deafening performance at the Incubate Festival in Tilburg.
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Band:INDIAN
Album:INDIAN - LIVE AT ROADBURN 2014
Label:ROADBURN
Format:LP w/bonus CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Limited edition of 300 copies on pitch black vinyl. Cd included.
Recorded at the prestigious Roadburn Festival in Tilburg in front of a crowd of 600 Chicago’s blackened noise nihilists Indian are now augmented with an even keener sense of harsh noise, all the trademark elements of Indian’s sound have been refined to reach new lows of powerful and punishing anguish. This is the opposite of easy listening.
“Easily one of the most bewitching, hypnotizing, beautiful doom/sludge albums since [Electric] Wizard’s Dopethrone. Nothing has sounded more genuinely evil and distressing in a long time.” – Revolver
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Band:SAMOTHRACE
Album:SAMOTHRACE - LIVE AT ROADBURN - 2014
Label:ROADBURN
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Limited edition of 300 copies on pitch black vinyl.
Recorded at the prestigious Roadburn Festival in Tilburg in front of a crowd of 600
"Samothrace are a frustrating band to love. Their debut LP, 2008's Life's Trade, was a landmark of modern American doom, even if no one knew it then. Nearly an hour's worth of shifting, sludgy, atmospheric, and altogether beautiful metal was offered, and those who fell under its spell fell hard..." (Pitchfork)
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Band:ORGASMO SONORE
Album:REVISITING LIBRARY MUSIC
Label:CINEPLOIT
Format:CD
Genre:TV and MOVIE
After doing 3 albums interpreting the music of obscure soundtracks, the transition to the Library Music world was a natural one for Orgasmo Sonore. Library Music is defined as "music especially created for films, television, radio, publicity and industrial use" on the back covers of Lesiman's Here and Now Vol.1 and 2, which are amongst the most sought after LPs in this their category and selling for many hundreds of dollars, barely available on the collectors market. Indeed, there is currently a lot of enthousiasm and excitement for this music "never intended for public distribution", dug out by DJs and collectors pretending to be some kind of archeologists. It's not a surprise that the whole interest is for a period happening between 1970 and 1985 when a myriad of artists, known and unknown, contributed to label's thematic catalogs under the radar of the popular music realm. In the continuation of his work on the 3 previous records, Orgasmo Sonore is, again, acting as a curator of the obscure and unheard music, always in the right time to explore new territories. After pointing at the work of the like of Stelvio Cipriani in 2011 or Bruno Nicolai in 2013, the new "Revisiting Obscure Library Music" album offer you a carefully selected list of 12 interpretations of some of the most important composers, names like Rino de Filippi, Alessandro Alessandroni or Jean-Pierre Decerf, some of which already begin to become mystic legends of contemporary music. This is just the tip of the iceberg and we are at the beginning of measuring the contribution of Library Music to the recent musical history. This record is a prologue for these unwritten pages. The first and only tribute of its kind.
Fantastic new interpretations of library music from artists like Alessandro Alessandroni, Bruno Nicolai, Rino de Filippi, Giuliano Sorgini, Piero Umiliani, Giorgio Carnini, Lesiman, Les Baxter, J-P Decerf, G. Zadj, Sauveur Mallia, Bernard Fevre and Jacky Giordano, CD MINT PACK LTD TO x500.
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Band:ORGASMO SONORE
Album:REVISITING OBSCURE LIBRARY MUSIC - LP
Label:CINEPLOIT
Format:LP/CD Set
Genre:TV and MOVIE
After doing 3 albums interpreting the music of obscure soundtracks, the transition to the Library Music world was a natural one for Orgasmo Sonore. Library Music is defined as "music especially created for films, television, radio, publicity and industrial use" on the back covers of Lesiman's Here and Now Vol.1 and 2, which are amongst the most sought after LPs in this their category and selling for many hundreds of dollars, barely available on the collectors market. Indeed, there is currently a lot of enthousiasm and excitement for this music "never intended for public distribution", dug out by DJs and collectors pretending to be some kind of archeologists. It's not a surprise that the whole interest is for a period happening between 1970 and 1985 when a myriad of artists, known and unknown, contributed to label's thematic catalogs under the radar of the popular music realm. In the continuation of his work on the 3 previous records, Orgasmo Sonore is, again, acting as a curator of the obscure and unheard music, always in the right time to explore new territories. After pointing at the work of the like of Stelvio Cipriani in 2011 or Bruno Nicolai in 2013, the new "Revisiting Obscure Library Music" album offer you a carefully selected list of 12 interpretations of some of the most important composers, names like Rino de Filippi, Alessandro Alessandroni or Jean-Pierre Decerf, some of which already begin to become mystic legends of contemporary music. This is just the tip of the iceberg and we are at the beginning of measuring the contribution of Library Music to the recent musical history. This record is a prologue for these unwritten pages. The first and only tribute of its kind.
Fantastic new interpretations of library music from artists like Alessandro Alessandroni, Bruno Nicolai, Rino de Filippi, Giuliano Sorgini, Piero Umiliani, Giorgio Carnini, Lesiman, Les Baxter, J-P Decerf, G. Zadj, Sauveur Mallia, Bernard Fevre and Jacky Giordano. CD/LP SET LTD TO x 250.
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Band:PAPIR MEETS ELECTRIC MOON
Album:PAPERMOON SESSIONS LIVE AT ROADBURN 2014
Label:SULATRON RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Kraut / Space Rock
Sula Bassana and Komet Lulu from Electric Moon, all the guys from Papir and Mogens Deenfort from Øresund Space Collective met the second time – to play their first and exclusive live show together: The Papermoon Sessions live at Roadburn 2014. The very first time they ever played together, their studio album was born. Now, live, they played together for only the second time and it became a record, again. This is a 100% music haul from their material! The whole concert is pressed on vinyl and CD, to please the listener and also the people who could not make it to the show or the festival. Only 2 long tracks, which include all the power and love these 6 people share in a musical way. Quite emotional, very hypnotic and trance-like, the band explores the magic of musically reverse osmosis: they melted themselves down into one creature, that flooded the people with psychedelic kraut sounds.
The CD comes in digipacK, Ltd to 1000 copies. Artwork by Lulu Artwork!
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Band:SULA BASSANA
Album:LIVE AT ROADBURN FESTIVAL 2014
Label:SULATRON RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Kraut / Space Rock
Here you get the release of a one off show by Sula Bassana (who normally never plays live under his moniker), who played at the 2014 Roadburn-Festival, accompanied by a strong band! Sula Bassana is the german multi-instrumentalist Dave Schmidt. He is the guitarplayer in Electric Moon, drummer in Zone Six, Synthy- and Organ-player in Krautzone, and well known for his solo-albums, ranging from spacerock via psychedelic to krautish electronic music.
For this Roadburn concert, Sula had to create a band and the line-up is: Sula Bassana: guitars, synthesizer, mellotron, FX Komet Lulu: bass, FX Marcus Schnitzler: drums Rainer Neeff: guitar, FX
On this album you get almost the complete concert, which was a unique thing which never happened before. The music on this record became very wild and noisy! Because of the impression-overdose from the whole Roadburn-thing. The mood on stage was very expressive and psychotic, which the listener can now experience too, due to the intense live-feeling. „Into the red“ guitar-battles, full of fuzz, tremolo and wahwah, powered by a massive bass and drum section, spiced with some Synthesizer and Mellotron sounds. Only one song from older Sula albums appears: Dark Days. But here in a extended version with some improvised parts! The album got mastered by krautrock-legend EROC. And the wonderfully psychedelic cover artwork is done by Lulu Artwork! (Komet Lulu). CD comes in jewelcase.
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Band:EARTHMASS/OLD MAN LIZARD
Album:THROUGH THE HOLE IN THE SKY
Label:ALONE RECORDS
Format:VINYL 7"
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
East England's Sudbury-Braintree-Colchester geographic triangle seems to have become a hive of the underground music scene in the past years. Many of the names of the bands are heard by word of mouth, gaining strength with each show played and each recordind released. There is a undeniable characteristic vibe in the sound of the tines manufactured by there artists that proves we are witnessing the spring of a self branding scene.
Two examples are Sudbury's one of a kind Old Man Lizard and Braintree's breathtakingly captivating Earthmass, who decided to join together in 'Through the Hole in the Sky'. Made up of Jack Newnham (also of Meadows – Superfi Records, Head of Crom Records), Gav Senior and Ban Beales; Old Man Lizard are a power trio in the same vein as Cream or Blue Cheer, but the influence of contemporary band from Taint to Yawning Man set Old Man Lizard apar from the often crowded and unvaried sludge and stoner scenes. Not content to retread the same old tired ground, Old Man Lizard make exciting and original heavy music without compromising the art of the riff.
Earthmass is a four piece from Essex, South-East England. The line up consists of Chris and Rob Saunders, Chris Houghton and Jack Burley, who took a break from previous band Another Dead Hero, before deciding to go back to basics and start from scratch. Earthmass achieves a improvisational and instinctive style along the lines of psychedelic doom rock, tainted with heavy riffs and a unique brand of atmospheric builds ups, volume and jams to make huge sounds and movements.
7'' clear vinyl / limited edition
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Band:EARTHMASS
Album:COLLAPSE - LP.
Label:ALONE RECORDS
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Earthmass has truly made a breakthrough with Collapse . Distorted guitars of captivating density knitted together with textured arrangements and surrounding vocals that will plunge you into a gravity driven journey. We are witnessing a work with an exceptional potential that could take it to make the top lists of post-rock, progressive psychedelic and doom metal related albums of 2015
“Collapse” is a journey into the void comprising four slabs of galactic psychedelic rock, boasting levels of low-end likely to induce a strong gravitational pull. Another excellent release from Earthmass that continues to develop their vast sonic prowess and deserves to make them a big name in the UK metal scene." - The Sludgelord
Earthmass is a four piece from Essex, South-East England. The line up consists of Chris and Rob Saunders, Chris Houghton and Jack Burley, who took a break from previous band Another Dead Hero, before deciding to go back to basics and start from scratch. Earthmass achieves a improvisational and instinctive style along the lines of psychedelic doom rock, tainted with heavy riffs and a unique brand of atmospheric builds ups, volume and jams to make huge sounds and movements.
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Band:OBRERO
Album:THE INFINITE CORRIDORS OF TIME
Label:NIGHT TRIPPER
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Night Tripper Records is proud to present the second offering of Stockholm’s OBRERO. After the critically acclaimed first album OBRERO are exploring deeper into the realms of the of obscure 70’s rock/psych territory while still standing fast to their 80’s metal roots of doom, heavy metal and stoner rock. And again they have the vocal delivery of Martin Missy (Protector)as the cherry on top ,a vocal delivery that has something weird and unique to it, like a magic mixture of Bobby Liebling, Lee Dorrian and John Garcia, turning from a full-throated howling animal to a ghastly, almost eerie master of ceremonies in seconds.
To put it simply if you want your music to be challenging OBRERO is your choice - For fans of Pentagram, Burning Saviours or Witchcraft !
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Band:TYSONDOG
Album:CRY HAVOC.
Label:Rocksector
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
NWOBHM heroes Tysondog release an album of 12 brand new songs, relishing their NWOBHM heritage & blended with a brutal new sound.
Confirmed for these festivals.. March 14th: Barcelona, Metarock 2, 4th April: Netherlands, Very Eavy Fest, 5th April: Belgium, 2,000 Tons Metal Cruise, 27th June: London, Garagedays Revisited, 26-28th June: Scotland, Wildfire Fest, 28- 30th August: Bromsgrove, Beermagedon, 3rd October Fismes, France, Underground Investigation Festival, British Steel Night, 16-17th October, Malta, Doom Fest
NWOBHM heritage & long-standing loyal fanbase / Mixed & mastered by Jeff 'Mantas' Dunn, formerly of Venom / New audience emerging especially in mainland Europe where the heritage British metal bands are still revered.
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Band:SHINDIG MAGAZINE
Album:ISSUE 47
Label:VOLCANO PUBLISHING
Format:MAGAZINE
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
Issue 47 of the Garage / Psych bible
Features on FOTHERINGAY The Promise Of Greatness: Sandy Denny’s short-lived post-Fairport, pre-solo aggregation TIR NA NÒG The return of the Irish progressive folk duo adored by John Peel BOW STREET RUNNERS Neglected US psych merchants from 1970 SUPER FURRY ANIMALS The making of 2000’s surround-sound epic, Rings Around The World THE MASCOTS Sweden’s prime ’60s beat group Plus The Who • French Psych • Dudley Moore • Blackberry Smoke and all the usual news and reviews.
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Band:SUMA
Album:LET THE CHURCHES BURN
Label:ARGONAUTA
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Originally out in 2006, this album became a monster year by year. Produced by legendary Billy Anderson (NEUROSIS, MELVINS), “Let the Churches Burn” by Swedish SUMA is a blast of Stoner, Sludge and Doom sonorities. Produced by BILLY ANDERSON (MELVINS, PALLBEARER, EYEHATEGOD)
Recommended if you like: ELECTRIC WIZARD, SLEEP, NEUROSIS
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Band:LAST MINUTE TO JAFFNA
Album:VOLUME 11
Label:ARGONAUTA
Format:CD
Genre:Postrock / Post Hardcore / Noise
Born in Torino (Italy) in the mid of 2000s, LAST MINUTE TO JAFFNA released their first ep in 2006, allowing them to tour in their country and abroad. With their 2008 debut album Volume I they marked a better refinement of their own music style, also touring intensively throughout Europe, even opening for Isis at Torino’s main independent festival. 2011 marked an important step in the band’s history: after playing an unplugged gig opening for Neurosis’ Scott Kelly they decided to record some old tracks and some new ones with acoustic guitars, clean voices and other odd instruments, helped by Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo of Young God Records’s act Larsen. The result was Volume III, which finally came to light in 2014. Now, the new album Volume II took its shape too, a blast of heavy and atmospheric post metal sonorities, recorded and mixed by Lorenzo Stecconi (UFOMAMMUT, ZU, LENTO) and mastered by Collin Jordan (YOB, CORRECTIONS HOUSE, MINSK).
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Band:TRAFFIC SOUND
Album:A BAILAR A GO GO
Label:LION PRODUCTIONS
Format:CD
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
Hand-numbered limited edition of 300 copies / Comes with a 20-page bi-lingual booklet with unseen pictures and detailed band history / Mastered from the original four-track tapes / Seven bonus tracks from the original tapes, remixes approved by Willy Thorne
This deluxe mini-LP sleeve, limited-edition CD reissue of the mini-album “A Bailar GoGo” is taken from the master tapes, as originally released. As bonus tracks, we’ve added seven remixes from the original four-channel tapes: instrumentals, acoustic versions, and remix/edits; these remixes were approved by Willy Thorne. Comes with a 20-page booklet with unseen pictures and detailed history of the beginning of the band in Spanish and English; also has a silk-screen printed replica of an original Traffic Cound concert poster. Hand-numbered limited edition of 300 copies. Like all Repsychled titles, this is available exclusively from Lion Productions.
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Band:CONFLICT
Album:THE FINAL CONFLICT - LP
Label:PHR RECORDS
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
The legendary UK anarcho-punk band and their classic 1988 album. - Under exclusive licence of Cherry Red Records - After a long period out of print it's back on Vinyl !
Tracks - 1. Countdown To Confrontation 2. Let The Battle Commence 3. I Heard A Rumour 4. The Cord Is Cut 5. Barricades And Broken Dreams 6. Do You Get The Picture 7. The A Team 8. These Things Take Time 9. Radio Trash 10. The Final Conflict
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Band:MAU MAUS
Album:FEAR NO EVIL - LP
Label:PHR RECORDS
Format:LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
First ever re-edition of this excellent album.
The only studio album of Sheffield Anarcho Punks the Mau Maus originally released in 1985 on Rebellion records.
Tracks - 1. Step Across The Border 2. Hard Rain’s 3. Runaway 4. My Judge & Jury 5. Rebellion 6. Johnny Boy 7. Wasteland 8. For Whom The Bell Tolls 9. Promises 10. Oath (Part II) 11. Fear No Evil 12. Be My Baby
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Band:CITIZEN FISH
Album:DANCING ON SPIKES - LP
Label:PHR RECORDS
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Punk / Reggae
Originally released as a CD-EP in 2012. Now for the first time on vinyl with live bonus tracks.
Citizen Fish – great anarcho-punk with brass and dancing melodies - Featuring members of Subhumans (UK) and Culture Shock.
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Band:THE RESTARTS
Album:SYSTEM ERROR - LP
Label:PHR RECORDS
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Second full length album of The Restarts.
Released in 2003 and now again available on vinyl exclusively on PHR Records.
Long running UK Punk Rock act.
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Band:CHRIS POPE
Album:MEANT TO BE
Label:EPOP RECORDS
Format:CD Single
Genre:MOD / MOD REVIVAL
Double ‘A’ sided single from the barn storming critically acclaimed "Peace Of Mind" album by Ex Chord and Pope front man.
Absolutely A1 British songwriting in the Davies,Weller, Townshend, Strummer, Bragg, Costello mould.
On tour in March Playing with The Specials, Selecter and Geno Washington.
Track Listing - 1. Meant To Be 2. Whatever gets you thru your day
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Band:DAVID HILLYARD & THE ROCKSTEADY 7
Album:LITTLE MAN BLUES / SISYPHUS
Label:BRAINLAB GROOVE
Format:VINYL 7"
Genre:Reggae/Dub/Ska
New tunes from the rocksteady kings ROCKSTEADY SEVEN featuring DAVID HILLYARD from THE SLACKERS.
Hellcat records artists released this 45single in a pure vintage style.
Saxophone: DAVID HILLYARD (The Slackers) Percussions: LARRY MACDONALD (Bad Brains, Bob Marley) Trumpet: ROLF LANGSJOEN Trombone: MR T-BONE (Mr T-Bone, The Bluebeaters) Drums, Piano: NICO LEONARD Bass: JEAN DEBRY Guitar: MARCO GENTILE
Tracks 1. LITTLE MAN BLUES 2. SISYPHUS
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Band:THE DELEGATORS
Album:IT AINT LOVE / I DONT MIND
Label:BRAINLAB GROOVE
Format:7" VINYL
Genre:Reggae/Dub/Ska
Two of the most played songs on radio shows in UK, Germany and France, for the first time on 45rpm
Taken from “All Aboard” the debout album from The Delegators - the 3rd repress!
The release of debut album, "All Aboard", was met with critical and popular acclaim, BBC Radio London 99.4FM's Robert Elms describing the album as 'one of my records of the year [by] one of my bands of the year.
Tracks - 1. A – It Ain't Love 2. B – I Don't Mind
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Band:PALE ANGELS
Album:IMAGINARY PEOPLE
Label:SPECIALIST SUBJECT
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Transatlantic noisy punks Pale Angels are back with their second full length!
Follow up to 2013's debut LP 'Primal Play' (and with a couple of limited live 7"s released last year), it's an impressive output for a band spread between New Jersey and Swansea, Wales.
The new album, Imaginary People was again produced with Ben Greenberg (from The Men) over two days at Vacation Island in New York. The resulting LP is ten songs of loud, pounding catharsis that take their influences – Ramones, Pixies, Gun Club, Husker Du etc. – and smash them into tiny unrecognisable pieces. It’s an album that feels possessed – from the creepy lethargy of ‘Lapin, Lapin’ to the dance-inducing ‘Wild Vile Flesh’ and devastating ‘Sinking Shadows’.
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Band:PALE ANGELS
Album:IMAGINARY PEOPLE - LP
Label:SPECIALIST SUBJECT
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Transatlantic noisy punks Pale Angels are back with their second full length LP !
Follow up to 2013's debut LP 'Primal Play' (and with a couple of limited live 7"s released last year), it's an impressive output for a band spread between New Jersey and Swansea, Wales.
The new album, Imaginary People was again produced with Ben Greenberg (from The Men) over two days at Vacation Island in New York. The resulting LP is ten songs of loud, pounding catharsis that take their influences – Ramones, Pixies, Gun Club, Husker Du etc. – and smash them into tiny unrecognisable pieces. It’s an album that feels possessed – from the creepy lethargy of ‘Lapin, Lapin’ to the dance-inducing ‘Wild Vile Flesh’ and devastating ‘Sinking Shadows’.
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Band:GREAT CYNICS
Album:I FEEL WEIRD
Label:SPECIALIST SUBJECT
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
London’s Great Cynics are back with more laid back, catchy punk anthems!
Blending influences from modern punk rock and 90s college rock I Feel Weird showcases the band’s talent for writing some incredible pop hooks in even more refined and impressive manor than their previous efforts. Recorded last year at Middle Farm studios with Peter Miles (whose previous work includes We Are The Ocean & Lonely The Brave) and following tours with the likes of Joyce Manor & Cheap Girls this is Great Cynics at their finest!
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Band:GREAT CYNICS
Album:I FEEL WEIRD - LP
Label:SPECIALIST SUBJECT
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
London’s Great Cynics are back with more laid back, catchy punk anthems!
Blending influences from modern punk rock and 90s college rock I Feel Weird showcases the band’s talent for writing some incredible pop hooks in even more refined and impressive manor than their previous efforts. Recorded last year at Middle Farm studios with Peter Miles (whose previous work includes We Are The Ocean & Lonely The Brave) and following tours with the likes of Joyce Manor & Cheap Girls this is Great Cynics at their finest!
ltd LP
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Band:THURNEMAN
Album:DE RAKNAR VARA DAGAR
Label:GAPHALS
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Thurneman is releasing their debut album after an uncountable amount of vinyl singles and ep´s during the last couple of years. With rough edges the band spits out 15 tracks of classic swedish hardcore mixed with early US Hardcorepunk influences - think Huvudtvätt, Missbrukarna and Raped Teenagers reproducing with Husker Du, Articles of Faith and early Poison Idea. A must have for K.B.D fans…
"This band slays hardcore punk with a dagger cut from very strong ore". –Daryl Gussin /Razorcake Magazine
"I have no earthy idea what these cats are singing about but they sure go after it. Kind of like the Regulations, except for that whole Swedish lyrics thing and maybe a little rougher around the edges." Jim Ruland /Razorcake Magazine
CD version in jewlcase : excepting the new 15 track album - contains the bands entire discography, total of 43 songs Previously released singles and EPs on DMC, Sorry State Records, Puke 'n' Vomit Records and Too Circle Records.
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Band:SACRAL RAGE
Album:ILLUSIONS IN INFINITE VOID
Label:Cruz Del Sur
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
After a first promo in 2012, the band made its official debut with the 2013’s release of the EP “Deadly Bits of Iron Fragments”. Now SACRAL RAGE is about to release its full length album “Illusions in Infinite Void” through Cruz Del Sur Music (cd/digital) and Underground Power (vinyl). “Illusions in Infinite Void” is a monumental piece of Metal from start to finish; an ever-changing Metal vortex with countless rhythmic-changes and no weak moments, a tense state of aggression in which singer Dimitri’s excellent performance and the textured guitar lines stand out. The band proves to be more than just a mere replica of the most influencing bands of the Golden Age of (especially) US Metal: hand in hand with a granitic rhythmic session, their songs turn, change and evolve endlessly into a thousand of different riffs, screams and roars! With songs such “En Cima del Mal”, “Lost Chapter E. Sutrama”, “Panic in the Urals”, “A Tyrannous Revolt” , SACRAL RAGE have probably written one of the most-inspired releases of 2015
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Band:KEHLVIN/FLESHWORLD
Album:TO DENY EVERYTHING THATS MUNDANE
Label:DIVISION
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
During their 2013 tour across Europe, the Swiss lads of Kehlvin have met the Polish guys from Fleshworld and after a night of furious drinking, they decide to do a split album together. What you hold in your hands is the final result of their collaboration. This split tells the story of a struggling mathematician through five, interwoven tracks (three by Kehlvin and two by Fleshworld), which musically navigate between the angry, breathe taking yet melancholic doomy post-metal from FLESHWORLD and the more noise infused prog-sludge from KEHLVIN. Smart heaviness and brilliant writing, this is what this album is all about!
180G White Vinyl LP
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Band:ICONS OF ELEGANCE
Album:LIGHTSHIPS
Label:DINNER WITH DAISY RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Indie/Shoegaze
ICONS OF ELEGANCE are two half-Finnish/half-Swedish brothers, who do what Scandinavians do best – melodic guitar pop!
Stepping away from previous albums’ chamber pop and americana - which has received attention from the likes of Uncut, Clash and BBC Radio 2 - towards a fresh, 80s influenced sound, the new album contains less pedal steels and more Junos.
“Memorable hook lines…will sound great on radio.” – Clash / “It is pretty much irresistible...like a Finnish Wilco.” – AmericanaUK / “The very epitome of full-on guitar pop brilliance.” – Whisperin & Hollerin / “An unshakeable penchant for writing great hooks and sing-along melodies.” – MusicOMH **** – R2 Magazine
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Band:BASK
Album:AMERICAN HOLLOW
Label:THIS CHARMING MAN
Format:CD
Genre:Alt-Country / Americana
With roots in americana, stoner metal and post-rock, Bask is turning out their own brand of doom. Psychedelic, heavy, and scenic songs weave through sections of driving riffs, thundering percussion, loose grooves and glimmering guitar. All topped with vocals that conjure spirits of old country crooners. “Bask are a young band from North Carolina that play a highly original blend of Americana, country, post-rock and stoner/doom metal. American Hollow is the band’s debut on The Path Less Traveled Records and, without a doubt, I can say it is one of the most unique records I’ve come across in years. “High Mountain Pass” is an energetic album opener, starting with a half-time shuffle that breaks into a pretty straight-forward stoner rock groove, similar to some of the less aggressive tunes by Red Fang. The vocals have a pretty noticeable twang to them, giving the music a distinctly country vibe, though with a bit more power and volume than anything you’ll hear on a modern country record. The vocals are a strong point, to be sure, but the music they’re soaring over is just as powerful; jangly guitars, low rumbly bass, and big drums that are pretty reminiscent of the tone John Bonham laid down in classic Led Zeppelin, though with a little more dynamics. The first track might be a little misleading though, as the rest of the album has an almost dreamlike feel to them, particularly on the slower songs like ”American Hollow” and “A Man’s Worth,” both of which have a melancholy country-like feel to them. “American Hollow” in particular has a post-rock, indie rock vibe mixed in, almost like Band Of Horses, except Bask go into a bit heavier territory, whereas Band Of Horses obviously have a more radio-friendly vibe.”
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Band:BASK
Album:AMERICAN HOLLOW - LP
Label:THIS CHARMING MAN
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Alt-Country / Americana
With roots in americana, stoner metal and post-rock, Bask is turning out their own brand of doom. Psychedelic, heavy, and scenic songs weave through sections of driving riffs, thundering percussion, loose grooves and glimmering guitar. All topped with vocals that conjure spirits of old country crooners. “Bask are a young band from North Carolina that play a highly original blend of Americana, country, post-rock and stoner/doom metal. American Hollow is the band’s debut on The Path Less Traveled Records and, without a doubt, I can say it is one of the most unique records I’ve come across in years. “High Mountain Pass” is an energetic album opener, starting with a half-time shuffle that breaks into a pretty straight-forward stoner rock groove, similar to some of the less aggressive tunes by Red Fang. The vocals have a pretty noticeable twang to them, giving the music a distinctly country vibe, though with a bit more power and volume than anything you’ll hear on a modern country record. The vocals are a strong point, to be sure, but the music they’re soaring over is just as powerful; jangly guitars, low rumbly bass, and big drums that are pretty reminiscent of the tone John Bonham laid down in classic Led Zeppelin, though with a little more dynamics. The first track might be a little misleading though, as the rest of the album has an almost dreamlike feel to them, particularly on the slower songs like ”American Hollow” and “A Man’s Worth,” both of which have a melancholy country-like feel to them. “American Hollow” in particular has a post-rock, indie rock vibe mixed in, almost like Band Of Horses, except Bask go into a bit heavier territory, whereas Band Of Horses obviously have a more radio-friendly vibe.” LTD LP
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Band:HEADS
Album:DEBUT - CD
Label:THIS CHARMING MAN
Format:CD
Genre:Postrock / Post Hardcore / Noise
Formed in 2014 by two native Germans and one wandering Australian, HEADS. collectively are like-minded individuals, drawing inspiration from the same filthy pools. With a straight-up, no-frills approach, and influences as diverse as The Jesus Lizard, Shellac, Rowland S. Howard, and by the likes of Young Widows, My Disco, this trio is much more than the sum of their parts. Serendipity and pure good luck led to the paths of these musicians crossing. Fresh off the plane from Australia, with the sound of a former band disintegrating still ringing in his ears, vocalist and guitarist Ed Fraser was set about finding new collaborators. The Ocean‘s bass player, Chris Breuer, meanwhile was seeking new creative outlets whilst on tour and when conversation started flowing with Ed, he roped in The Ocean road crew member, Hamburg-based Peter Voigtmann, on drums. With the key players in place, navigating geographical distances and writing a record was next on the agenda. Much of this took place whilst the members were spread out across the globe, often taking advantage of the backstage wifi at various festival, and arranging intense practices in Berlin when schedules aligned. When the songwriting was over, the band headed into the studio with Jonathon Nido of Coilguns to commit the tracks to record. The album was recorded in September 2014 at Bikini Test in the Swiss Alps – a studio chosen for the size and complexities of the space available, which allowed the band to capture the dark intensity of their tracks perfectly. Taking their cues from Steve Albini’s school of thought, the band recorded live, getting down 13 tracks in three days -including a guest appearance from Louis Jucker of Coilguns – which have been whittled down to 6 for their debut. The record is mixed and mastered by Cult of Luna‘s Magnus Lindberg, who counts his own band, PG.Lost, Kongh and EF among his studio credits
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Band:HEADS
Album:DEBUT - LP
Label:THIS CHARMING MAN
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Postrock / Post Hardcore / Noise
Formed in 2014 by two native Germans and one wandering Australian, HEADS. collectively are like-minded individuals, drawing inspiration from the same filthy pools. With a straight-up, no-frills approach, and influences as diverse as The Jesus Lizard, Shellac, Rowland S. Howard, and by the likes of Young Widows, My Disco, this trio is much more than the sum of their parts. Serendipity and pure good luck led to the paths of these musicians crossing. Fresh off the plane from Australia, with the sound of a former band disintegrating still ringing in his ears, vocalist and guitarist Ed Fraser was set about finding new collaborators. The Ocean‘s bass player, Chris Breuer, meanwhile was seeking new creative outlets whilst on tour and when conversation started flowing with Ed, he roped in The Ocean road crew member, Hamburg-based Peter Voigtmann, on drums. With the key players in place, navigating geographical distances and writing a record was next on the agenda. Much of this took place whilst the members were spread out across the globe, often taking advantage of the backstage wifi at various festival, and arranging intense practices in Berlin when schedules aligned. When the songwriting was over, the band headed into the studio with Jonathon Nido of Coilguns to commit the tracks to record. The album was recorded in September 2014 at Bikini Test in the Swiss Alps – a studio chosen for the size and complexities of the space available, which allowed the band to capture the dark intensity of their tracks perfectly. Taking their cues from Steve Albini’s school of thought, the band recorded live, getting down 13 tracks in three days -including a guest appearance from Louis Jucker of Coilguns – which have been whittled down to 6 for their debut. The record is mixed and mastered by Cult of Luna‘s Magnus Lindberg, who counts his own band, PG.Lost, Kongh and EF among his studio credits. LTD LP.
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Band:THE MOTH
Album:AND THEN RISE
Label:THIS CHARMING MAN
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
A young three-piece from Hamburg. Started in late ’12, the guys didn’t take long to record their first Longplay and releasing it on their own as limited CD (100 copies made). One of these CD found its way to my desk and i was immediately blown away. The play a well tempered mix of Baroness and Kylesa, to keep it simple they rock like hell. No effects used on the guitar, a hammering drumset and a deep punching bass plus female/male singing. that’s pretty much the trick!that’s what the Sludgelord has to say about their Album “They fall”:“Now here is a great band that flew right under my radar. The Moth is a Psych based Sludge/Stoner Metal band that fans of Baroness, Kylesa and Mastodon will surely love like I did. Their debut album – They Fall – is 11 excellent hard-rocking tracks full of epic riffs. The dual vocals of Cécile and Freden give the album a real edge. Sometimes they feel they are having a duel at times. At it makes the album ever more intriguing. These are some original and very different vocals you do not hear much of within the Sludge/Stoner Metal scene. The album is expertly played and produced through out. If you like you’re Sludge/Stoner Metal with an extra layer of lo-fi psychedelic fuzz based vibes then you can’t go wrong here. The Moth deserves your attention now. This album came as a real surprise to me when the band originally contacted me. The album cover might not give anything away but as the famous saying goes – Appearances can be deceiving – Or – Never judge a book by its cover. And both of them are true for The Moth. You want more evidence of how great this band is. Check out excellent tracks – Rawhawk, This Is The Lie and my fave track – They Fall.Look this album is testament that Germany have another excellent Sludge/Stoner Metal band to call upon. It could be that these Sludge Rockers could be one of my fave discoveries of 2013. Excellent and Highly Recommended - FOR FANS OF: KYLESSA, BARONESS
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Band:THE MOTH
Album:AND THEN RISE - LP
Label:THIS CHARMING MAN
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
A young three-piece from Hamburg. Started in late ’12, the guys didn’t take long to record their first Longplay and releasing it on their own as limited CD (100 copies made). One of these CD found its way to my desk and i was immediately blown away. The play a well tempered mix of Baroness and Kylesa, to keep it simple they rock like hell. No effects used on the guitar, a hammering drumset and a deep punching bass plus female/male singing. that’s pretty much the trick!that’s what the Sludgelord has to say about their Album “They fall”:“Now here is a great band that flew right under my radar. The Moth is a Psych based Sludge/Stoner Metal band that fans of Baroness, Kylesa and Mastodon will surely love like I did. Their debut album – They Fall – is 11 excellent hard-rocking tracks full of epic riffs. The dual vocals of Cécile and Freden give the album a real edge. Sometimes they feel they are having a duel at times. At it makes the album ever more intriguing. These are some original and very different vocals you do not hear much of within the Sludge/Stoner Metal scene. The album is expertly played and produced through out. If you like you’re Sludge/Stoner Metal with an extra layer of lo-fi psychedelic fuzz based vibes then you can’t go wrong here. The Moth deserves your attention now. This album came as a real surprise to me when the band originally contacted me. The album cover might not give anything away but as the famous saying goes – Appearances can be deceiving – Or – Never judge a book by its cover. And both of them are true for The Moth. You want more evidence of how great this band is. Check out excellent tracks – Rawhawk, This Is The Lie and my fave track – They Fall.Look this album is testament that Germany have another excellent Sludge/Stoner Metal band to call upon. It could be that these Sludge Rockers could be one of my fave discoveries of 2013. Excellent and Highly Recommended.” / Gatefold Cover, ltd. Color Vinyl / FOR FANS OF: KYLESSA, BARONESS
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Band:THE TIDAL SLEEP / ORBIT THE EARTH
Album:TIDAL SLEEP / ORBIT THE EARTH SPLIT
Label:THIS CHARMING MAN
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Postrock / Post Hardcore / Noise
Finally it’s coming! the two befriended bands The Tidal Sleep and Orbit The Earth long planned Split 12 Inch is finally there. For both bands the record is something special. The Tidal Sleeps first release after their smash record “Vorstellungskraft” which sold 3500 copies in just 4 months. This time the dudes changed their approach to song writing. Each song is written by a different band member, meaning, 3 brand new songs and a Orbit The Earth cover! The Orbit The Earth camp changed quite a bit in the last 12 months. Even though the bass player and the singer left the band managed to pull through the mess with a new bass player and Julian, the guitar player/ songwriter covering the vocal parts. The personnel change left a mark and changed the sound of the band a little bit, heading into a more pop direction, without losing the original OTE sound! The songs were written and arranged on guitar, which makes the songs more accessible, without losing the OTE madness which marks their sound. Every OTE-fan should not be disappointed by this. There’s no way why you shouldn’t get hyped about this record, except you hate the band and the label, but still then you probably will freak out. “Excellent and highly recommended!” / LTD LP
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Band:THE BAD DETECTIVES
Album:THE CURIOUS WORLD OF
Label:WESTERN STAR
Format:CD
Genre:Rock And Roll/Psychobilly
The Bad Detectives are a cult band in every sense of the word. Their songs are eclectic and often tongue in cheek. Their music has turned up on many TV shows much to the band’s amazement. They sell well and have an underground following – hence this being their 5th album release to date! The band also seem to get a lot of airplay ranging from Local BBC regional stations, to BBC 6music and BBC Radio 2
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Band:RIO
Album:BORDERLAND
Label:Krescendo
Format:CD
Genre:Classic Rock/Metal
Although its n undeniable fact that the UK isn’t the natural habitat of AOR and its melodic off-shoots, a number of very fine British acts have plied their trade in that particular field. Amongst their number we can list FM, Strangeways, Airrace, Shy, and a handful of others. One name that is sadly seldom mentioned but is just as worthy of consideration is that of Rio.
Less a band and more of a studio project consisting of vocalist and guitarist Jon Neill and Steve Rodford (son of Argent bassist Jim Rodford) on Bass, Keyboards and drums, Their debut album, which you now hold in your grateful hands, is widely considered to be one of the very best AOR albums to have ever surfaced outside of the USA, and one cursory listen is all that is needed to convince the listener that this is indeed the case.
This was how Rio sounded for a brief but glorious period in those long off and much missed 80’s…
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Band:BIRTH CONTROL
Album:LIVE ABORTION PLUS
Label:SIREENA
Format:CD
Genre:Kraut / Space Rock
This was really right on the button of the German teenage scene during the late Sixties, which was definitely politically charged: fancy using BIRTH CONTROL as a group name, the Pope must have panicked! But this should not distract from the core business of “our” once Berlin based band: The Birth Control boys succeeded in creating their very own brand of Rock – with international sophistication and universal energy. This CD presents those numbers by drummer/singer “Nossi” Noske and guitarist Bruno Frenzel which the world still needs, and which should be updated by new live tours by the members of the last line-up: Sascha Kühn/Hannes Vesper/Martin Ettrich – with drummer Manni von Bohr and ex singing bass player Peter Föller, the other BC lead vocalist apart from Nossi, for instance on the album PLASTIC PEOPLE. Most of the titles on this concert document were recorded in the autumn of 1983, when Stefan Linke played second guitar (assisting in twin lead passages in the vein of the Allman Brothers and Wishbone Ash), Jürgen Goldbeck worked the bass and Jörg Becker handled keyboards. But first and foremost, Nossi called the shots, and Bruno Frenzel was still part of the procedures – only weeks after these concerts, he would succumb to an onsatge electrocution.
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:A TASTE OF
Label:BESTE! UNTERHALTUNG
Format:2CD
Genre:SINGER/SONGWRITER
A double CD presenting the three Labels NORDIC NOTES, BESTE! UNTERHALTUNG and CPL-MUSIC!
You will discover three different labels and three different musical genres and styles. Nordic Notes was founded 2005, concentrating on music from Northern Europe. The label started with a focus on Progressive Rock, Jazz, Punk and Humppa. Now it is the home for Folk, Jazz, Humppa and weird tunes from Northern Europe. In 2008, Beste! Unterhaltung came into existence. The focus here is on Singer-Songwriter and Folk. Finally, in 2014 CPL-Music joined Christian Pliefke´s label family. CPL Music publishes traditional Folk, Worldmusic and Jazz All these labels have one thing in common: They focus on releases which are really worth a listen. It is just like a date – you see, you meet, you fall in love with it. All three labels aim at persons with open ears and open hearts. Who enjoy new musical discoveries!
These 2CD incl. 35 Songs and Artists like: Arstidir, Ylja, Svavar Knutur, The Henry Girls, Lloyd Williams, Myrra Ros, Gudrid Hansdottir, Ragga Gröndal, Anna Maria, Elin Kaven, Eläkeläiset, Rakka and many more.
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Band:ARSTIDIR
Album:HVEL
Label:BESTE! UNTERHALTUNG
Format:CD
Genre:SINGER/SONGWRITER
Árstíðir is a vocal¬based acoustic band from Reykjavík with a sound unique to the Icelandic music scene. All four members are distinguished players known from various bands in the Reykjavík soundscape. Over the two and a half years since Árstíðir’s formation the band has released two records praised by trendsetting music critics, had two number¬-one hits on Icelandic radio, made several TV appearances in Iceland, Sweden, Russia, and the Czech Republic, and played sold out venues all over Europe. Árstíðir’s arresting vocal harmonies and lush instrumentation set them apart, effusing a warm tide of resonant acoustic and baritone guitars, virtuosic piano, and melismatic strings. The result is an uncommonly wide spectrum of sound, driven by the members' exceptional vocal range. Consequently, Árstíðir’s music is a rare composition of the clear-cut and the complex. Their songs are easy to fall in love with, yet mixed with diverse influences such as progressive rock, indie, classical chamber music, and Icelandic folk music.
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Band:ELISABETH CUTLER
Album:POLISHING STONES
Label:BESTE! UNTERHALTUNG
Format:CD
Genre:SINGER/SONGWRITER
In a world of flash and dash, Elisabeth Cutler stands out as the rare artist who combines intimacy, honesty and sophistication in her songwriting and performance. Living in Italy and touring Europe extensively over the past 10 years, Elisabeth was born and raised in North America, honing her craft in her hometown of Boston, and later, Nashville. Drawing inspiration from the likes of Joni Mitchell, Diana Krall, and Norah Jones, Cutler forges her own distinctive and dynamic path, blending elements of folk/jazz/blues.
Critics describe Elisabeth as a dynamic performer and band leader who commands the stage with a rare and engaging honesty. She has graced stages as diverse and prestigious as The Bitter End and CBGB's Gallery of New York, The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, and the Kerrville Folk Festival.
"Smart refined acoustic pop… the point of view is all her own. Mature-sounding acoustic instrumentation… experimenting with forms rather than adhering to formulas… powerful" - Michael McCall – The Nashville Scene
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Band:KLONAVENUS
Album:ANGST
Label:SPACE RACE
Format:CD
Genre:Synthpop
The attention of the electro music scene is concentrated on a release of significant importance that will fill of enthusiasm this first part of the year 2015: it's the new album by Klonavenus. After the great resonance obtained in 2012 with the previous "KlonaWelt", the duo composed by Saffio and Paolo Chemnitz returns with "Angst", a perfect work in which the sonic technology joins the pure energy, generating spectacular modulations that constitute one of the last frontiers of electronic avantgarde. Direct percussiveness, geometrically fractionated, dark vocals, gloomy keyboards: they are the main prerogatives of the twelve tracks of this release that expertly combines synthwave, dark-electro and EBM elements, creating a futuristic and highly danceable climax. Once again Klonavenus prove be one of the best techno projects, publishing a full-length that will overheat the space and time, spreading a dynamic succession of bpm's and sounds that will capture you by wonderful formulations that will satisfy all your needs for physical movement and pleasure of listening. Of great value also the remixes by Dystopia, Spektralized, Cygnosic and Blank. "Angst" is here now to conquer you without any compromise: electro followers from the Planet Earth, your time to r ejoice has finally arrived!
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Band:PUBLIC DOMAIN RESOURCE
Album:SIX YEARS
Label:SPACE RACE
Format:CD
Genre:Synthpop
After the resounding success in the year 2013 of the previous album "Dead Surface", the Italian power -duo Public Domain Resource returns offering a more and more perfect and intriguing sound. "Six Years" is the new album released in 2015, specially planned for conquering big masses of eletro - listeners and electrodancers by fourteen songs of great technological value in which Pietro Oliveri and Ugo Crescini combine modern EBM, synthpop, IDM and electro elements. The drum-programming mechanically and dynamically delineates energetic rhythmic sections, while the keyboards cerebrally draw synthetic projections and the vocals spread capturing melodies creating an aura of futurism. The cold rationality of electronics joins harmony and the desire of experimentation, edifying a sophisticated and original musicality destined to affirm the Public Domain Resource as new sonic explorers of the Italian avantgarde. This album is marked by brilliant intuitions and technological tactics designed to take a further step towards the highest approval ratings from an huge number of electro -connoisseurs: the target is now fully achieved.
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Band:OBLIVIOUS
Album:OUT OF WILDERNESS
Label:GAPHALS
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Out Of Wilderness is the name of Oblivious third album. Heavy rock and strong melodies have always been the characteristics for the Swedish band. With a changed lineup, a new studio and a new label the band blossomed and found new confidence. With their already strong and compelling groove the band have focused on building stronger choruses and developing vocal harmonies in Studio Underjorden, a studio that previously recorded bands as Year of the goat, Night and Vanhelgd. The biggest change can be found in going from two to one guitarist, bringing forward a more crisp and classic guitar sound, giving more space for the primal groove and the wilderness in the songs. Album artwork is made by Mattias Frisk that has work with artists as Ghost BC, Night and Morbus Chron.
Oblivious new album is released by Gaphals, label and home to Swedish acts as Siena Root, Night and Beast. With two previous records (Goons and Masters 2010, Creating Meaning 2013) on Transubstans Records and three european tours and multiple gigs all over Sweden the band set focus on new goals. Forward, out of wilderness and into the future...
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Band:OBLIVIOUS
Album:OUT OF WILDERNESS - LP
Label:GAPHALS
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Out Of Wilderness is the name of Oblivious third album. Heavy rock and strong melodies have always been the characteristics for the Swedish band. With a changed lineup, a new studio and a new label the band blossomed and found new confidence. With their already strong and compelling groove the band have focused on building stronger choruses and developing vocal harmonies in Studio Underjorden, a studio that previously recorded bands as Year of the goat, Night and Vanhelgd. The biggest change can be found in going from two to one guitarist, bringing forward a more crisp and classic guitar sound, giving more space for the primal groove and the wilderness in the songs. Album artwork is made by Mattias Frisk that has work with artists as Ghost BC, Night and Morbus Chron.
Oblivious new album is released by Gaphals, label and home to Swedish acts as Siena Root, Night and Beast. With two previous records (Goons and Masters 2010, Creating Meaning 2013) on Transubstans Records and three european tours and multiple gigs all over Sweden the band set focus on new goals. Forward, out of wilderness and into the future...LTD LP.
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Band:OBLIVIOUS
Album:OUT OF WILDERNESS - RED VINYL LP
Label:GAPHALS
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Out Of Wilderness is the name of Oblivious third album. Heavy rock and strong melodies have always been the characteristics for the Swedish band. With a changed lineup, a new studio and a new label the band blossomed and found new confidence. With their already strong and compelling groove the band have focused on building stronger choruses and developing vocal harmonies in Studio Underjorden, a studio that previously recorded bands as Year of the goat, Night and Vanhelgd. The biggest change can be found in going from two to one guitarist, bringing forward a more crisp and classic guitar sound, giving more space for the primal groove and the wilderness in the songs. Album artwork is made by Mattias Frisk that has work with artists as Ghost BC, Night and Morbus Chron. Oblivious new album is released by Gaphals, label and home to Swedish acts as Siena Root, Night and Beast. With two previous records (Goons and Masters 2010, Creating Meaning 2013) on Transubstans Records and three european tours and multiple gigs all over Sweden the band set focus on new goals. Forward, out of wilderness and into the future...
LP red vinyl limited to 400copys. Full color artwork, includes CD and digital download - Vinyl version holds one bonus track - Third album.
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Band:ANCHOR
Album:DISTANCE AND DEVOTION - CD
Label:GAPHALS
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Anchor returns with their third album Distance & Devotion. The album holds 11 tracks built out of frustration, personal struggle, firm convictions and deeply rooted ethics. The band have forged a hard and heavy rock album in Distance & Devotion. Adding more melodys and better arrangment to their already energy filled songs made the new album just as powerfull as the bands liveshows. Being one of Europe´s most outstanding tour machines, Anchor founded in 2007, have played over 450 shows on five continents and closing in to 40 countries. Anchor have played festivals as Peace & love, Bylarm, Millencolin Fest, Ieper Fest, New Noise Fest, Summer Blast and Fluff Fest. Have shared stages with Millencolin, The Hives, Madball and Judge and toured with Verse, Trial and Carpathian. Anchor is a full steam tour machine. Distance & Devotion was recorded by bandmember Fredrik Forsberg in Fvck Life Studios based in Trollhättan, Sweden. CD.
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Band:ANCHOR
Album:DISTANCE AND DEVOTION - BLUE LP
Label:GAPHALS
Format:LP - BLUE VINYL
Genre:Metal
Anchor returns with their third album Distance & Devotion. The album holds 11 tracks built out of frustration, personal struggle, firm convictions and deeply rooted ethics. The band have forged a hard and heavy rock album in Distance & Devotion. Adding more melodys and better arrangment to their already energy filled songs made the new album just as powerfull as the bands liveshows. Being one of Europe´s most outstanding tour machines, Anchor founded in 2007, have played over 450 shows on five continents and closing in to 40 countries. Anchor have played festivals as Peace & love, Bylarm, Millencolin Fest, Ieper Fest, New Noise Fest, Summer Blast and Fluff Fest. Have shared stages with Millencolin, The Hives, Madball and Judge and toured with Verse, Trial and Carpathian. Anchor is a full steam tour machine. Distance & Devotion was recorded by bandmember Fredrik Forsberg in Fvck Life Studios based in Trollhättan, Sweden.
LP version on blue vinyl (limited to 400copys) comes with CD and includes digital download
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Band:ANCHOR
Album:DISTANCE AND DEVOTION - WHITE VINYL
Label:GAPHALS
Format:LP - WHITE VINYL
Genre:Metal
Anchor returns with their third album Distance & Devotion. The album holds 11 tracks built out of frustration, personal struggle, firm convictions and deeply rooted ethics. The band have forged a hard and heavy rock album in Distance & Devotion. Adding more melodys and better arrangment to their already energy filled songs made the new album just as powerfull as the bands liveshows. Being one of Europe´s most outstanding tour machines, Anchor founded in 2007, have played over 450 shows on five continents and closing in to 40 countries. Anchor have played festivals as Peace & love, Bylarm, Millencolin Fest, Ieper Fest, New Noise Fest, Summer Blast and Fluff Fest. Have shared stages with Millencolin, The Hives, Madball and Judge and toured with Verse, Trial and Carpathian. Anchor is a full steam tour machine. Distance & Devotion was recorded by bandmember Fredrik Forsberg in Fvck Life Studios based in Trollhättan, Sweden.
LP version on white vinyl (limited to 400copys) comes with CD and includes digital download
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Band:ANCHOR
Album:DISTANCE AND DEVOTION - BLACK VINYL
Label:GAPHALS
Format:LP - BLACK VINYL
Genre:Metal
Anchor returns with their third album Distance & Devotion. The album holds 11 tracks built out of frustration, personal struggle, firm convictions and deeply rooted ethics. The band have forged a hard and heavy rock album in Distance & Devotion. Adding more melodys and better arrangment to their already energy filled songs made the new album just as powerfull as the bands liveshows. Being one of Europe´s most outstanding tour machines, Anchor founded in 2007, have played over 450 shows on five continents and closing in to 40 countries. Anchor have played festivals as Peace & love, Bylarm, Millencolin Fest, Ieper Fest, New Noise Fest, Summer Blast and Fluff Fest. Have shared stages with Millencolin, The Hives, Madball and Judge and toured with Verse, Trial and Carpathian. Anchor is a full steam tour machine. Distance & Devotion was recorded by bandmember Fredrik Forsberg in Fvck Life Studios based in Trollhättan, Sweden.
LP version on black vinyl comes with CD and includes digital download
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Band:TIKKLE ME
Album:WHAT IS REAL?
Label:GAPHALS
Format:CD
Genre:Synthpop
Tikkle Me is one of Swedens strongest outspoken feministic pop/electro collectives. The 20th of april marks the european release of their second album What Is Real?. The ten track album is built on hooks and strong melodies, forged together to a magical landscape. Frankfurt born front woman Frida Herchenröthers strong voice sends a message of hope over the album where "larger than life"-tracks like Niagara or Under The Bridge can be found amongst more rhythm/dance based songs like Time To Act or Six Senses Screaming. The band has created the album together with producer/engineer Niels Nielsen who has previously worked with Ghost B.C and Dead Soul. Tikkle Me has previously released a selftitled album on A Westside Fabrication (Sahara Hotnights, The Wannadies) and toured eastern states such as Russia, Belarus, Georgia and Ukraine
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Band:TIKKLE ME
Album:WHAT IS REAL? - LP
Label:GAPHALS
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Synthpop
Tikkle Me is one of Swedens strongest outspoken feministic pop/electro collectives. The 20th of april marks the european release of their second album What Is Real?. The ten track album is built on hooks and strong melodies, forged together to a magical landscape. Frankfurt born front woman Frida Herchenröthers strong voice sends a message of hope over the album where "larger than life"-tracks like Niagara or Under The Bridge can be found amongst more rhythm/dance based songs like Time To Act or Six Senses Screaming. The band has created the album together with producer/engineer Niels Nielsen who has previously worked with Ghost B.C and Dead Soul. Tikkle Me has previously released a selftitled album on A Westside Fabrication (Sahara Hotnights, The Wannadies) and toured eastern states such as Russia, Belarus, Georgia and Ukraine.
LP in gatefold cover, includes CD and digital download
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Band:PIG Vs MCLORD
Album:COMPOUND EYE SESSIONS
Label:ARMALYTE INDUSTRIES
Format:CD
Genre:Industrial/EBM
Debut solo release from Marc Heal, former front man of Cubanate, Ashtrayhead, C-Tec and Pigface, performing under the guise of MC Lord of The Flies...The first official PIG release since Pigmata in 2005 (on Metropolis Records)... Raymond Watts is a founder member of German Industrial legends KMFDM...Remixers for the EP include Rhys Fulber (Frontline Assembly , Fear Factory, Delerium , Conjure One) and Phil Barry (Be My Enemy, Cubanate).
Deluxe digipack edition, limited to 500 numbered copies worldwide.
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Band:LEATHER NUN
Album:BUDDHA KNIEVEL
Label:NINE RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
LEATHER NUN america releases new album called "Buddha Knievel". This record is packed full with eleven magic, but old heavy tracks! Taking a doom fueled journey through sounds rich with MD/DC standards, then branching into cold harder Northern sound.
45 minutes of traditional doom metal in the vein of Wino's bands like The Obsessed, The Hidden Hand and Spirit Caravan. Fans of Maryland doom metal sound and style will be satisfied!
Leather Nun america from San Diego/California is active since 2003. They released three albums before for PsycheDOOMelic Records ("All Your Kin" 2006, "Absence of Light" 2008, "Kult Occult" 2011), all of which at high levels. Listen to the "Buddha Knievel", and you will see that they have reached a higher level.
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Band:KAMMARHEIT
Album:UNEARTHED 2000-2002
Label:cyclic law
Format:6CD Box Set
Genre:Avant-Garde
Finally, 15 years after it’s first inception, we’ve painstakingly gathered the very first self released recordings of Sweden’s Pär Boström amazing project. Kammarheit started in early 2000 after a field recording session in an abandoned factory. Inspired by the atmosphere of that special place the first album “Shockwork” was recorded that very same night and this marked the beginning of one of Dark Ambient’s most respected act. The awe felt from these first field recoding ventures translated into a concise sonic vision. Over the course of the next 2 years, five more albums were to be recorded; “At The Heart Of Destruction”, “Among The Ruins”, “Somewhere Concealed”, “The Downfall And The Arising” and “The Northern Hymn”. These were not initially intended for official release, but created as a sleeping aid for Pär’s then incessant insomnia. With time these works were spread to close friends and contacts as very limited CD-R editions and have since been long sought after items. We’re proud to again present these historical works in a proper, deluxe format. All 6 albums were carefully remastered while keeping the original imperfections of some of the releases, keeping true to the original work.
Edition of 800 copies in Bound Book format with 12 pages booklet.
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Band:KARJALAN SISSIT
Album:WANTS YOU DEAD
Label:cyclic law
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Industrial/EBM
Now 6 years since their last opus, we present to you the new masterpiece from one of Sweden’s most notorious act. So, Karjalan Sissit wants you dead, and after going through these new tracks you might not cease to exist but will definitely feel the blow sheer brutality these exude. Intense, bitter and heavier than ever, this new work is to us the epitome of the Karjalan Sissit sound. It’s all still there, the pounding metallic percussions, deep angst ridden atmospheric passages and all held together by Make Pesonen’s angrier than ever vocals. Karjalan Sissit is back, and more pissed off then ever, and we wouldn’t want it any other way.
LP Edition of 300 copies in Gold Vinyl.
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Band:ONEREPUBLIC
Album:NO HOLDING BACK
Label:CLOUD LINE MEDIA
Format:DVD
Genre:POP
Since the release of their debut album in 2007, OneRepublic have emerged as one of the world’s most impressive, consistent, yet often underrated bands. Effortlessly blending finely-honed pop songcraft with a timeless sense of rock dynamics, the group have steadily attracted a significant and devoted international fanbase that grows with every new release.
This DVD features over two hours of in-depth interviews with OneRepublic from across their career, in which the bandmembers discuss their musical journey in detail – their albums, their stage show, their sound and their influences – while frontman Ryan Tedder talks at length not only about his activities within the group, but also his work as a songwriter and producer for such diverse acts as U2, Beyonce and One Direction.
The interviews capture a humble and good-humoured band of friends riding on the crest of a wave, aware that their best is still yet to come.
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Band:ELLIE GOULDING
Album:REVELATIONS
Label:CLOUD LINE MEDIA
Format:DVD
Genre:POP
Since she first emerged in 2009, Ellie Goulding has fast established herself as one of the most alluring, ambitious and talented stars in contemporary music. Having immediately attracted a strong following and several awards in her native Britain, Ellie’s enchanting vocals, impressive song-writing and striking fusion of pop, folk and electronic styles soon saw her rise to international fame, and she has become a commercial and critical phenomenon.
This DVD features over an hour of filmed interviews with Ellie Goulding, from her early days as a developing and ambitious young musician to her present-day status as a global star. These show Ellie to be a down-to-earth yet charming artist with a real passion and dedication to her music and a sharp sense of humour, and in these revealing interviews she’s fully prepared to discuss her work and her life with a refreshing honesty.
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Band:FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE
Album:CONFESSIONS.
Label:CLOUD LINE MEDIA
Format:DVD
Genre:Rock
When Florence and the Machine first emerged in 2009 they cut a totally singular figure on the modern musical landscape. Fusing pop, soul, rock and dance forms into a unique whole, the band first rose to prominence in their native Britain before steadily gaining international acclaim and winning over audiences worldwide. And at the band’s core is Florence Welch, the flame‐haired siren whose dynamic vocals, expressive song‐writing and eccentric stage presence have made her a global icon. The revealing interviews featured on this DVD, taken from across Florence’s career, capture a passionate and inspired artist with a biting sense of humor, and the singer discusses both her work and her life at length and in depth.
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Band:BRANTLEY GILBERT
Album:STRAIGHT TALKIN
Label:CLOUD LINE MEDIA
Format:DVD
Genre:POP
A young musician who in a relatively short career has reinvigorated country music whilst becoming a commercial phenomenon. Bringing rock and roll energy and an outlaw swagger into a very traditional musical world, Gilbert has converted mainstream audiences to the rugged appeal of country and quickly emerged as one of the most significant singer-songwriters in the genre.
And despite being renowned for his love of motorcycles and hunting, as well as his physique and his tattoos, the country boy from Jefferson, Georgia also has real small-town, Southern charm. This DVD contains over an hour of interviews with Brantley from across his career, in which he talks candidly about his music, his personal life and the near-fatal car accident that set his career in motion. The interviews reveal a humble, polite and funny artist who is both passionate and focused - a far more complex man than his bad-boy image suggests.
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Band:ANGUISH
Album:MOUNTAIN.
Label:DARK DESCENT
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Anguish's brand new album, Mountain, sees the band expanding upon their oppressive brand of doom metal. Mountain, the follow-up of 2012's Through the Archdemon's Head, is stripped down from its predecessor, clocking in at 48 minutes (8 tracks) but injects more variation.
”Anguish's demeanour is presented in a sound remorselessly stripped down to the bone, with an uncompromisingly bleak approach to song writing here that further appropriates lyrics as a means of passage over the ragged crawl of Mountain. Vocally, the delivery no longer focuses on providing a namesake, as such, and engages the listener in an effort to place significance on the lyrics and strengthen the "epic" aspect of their doom metal inspirations. "The Woven Shield" does more than suggest this in name, as the slow and guarded riffs are relinquished with peaks of atmospheric organ and chilling air.”
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Band:CRYPT SERMON
Album:OUT OF THE GARDEN
Label:DARK DESCENT
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
The debut long player from epic traditional doom five-piece, Crypt Sermon. Hailing from Philadelphia, U.S.A., Crypt Sermon deliver seven RIFF filled tracks with soaring clean vocals. For fans of Solitude Aeturnus, Candlemass and every discerning fan of top quality heavy metal.
”Guitarists Steve Jansson and James Lipczynski's single-string riffs move at a gallant pace in step with Brooks Wilson's regal voice, which recalls Dio with a slightly lower register and a bit more grizzle. The guitar solos that enter three and half minutes in, however, are menacing swarms that owe more to Autopsy's spiraling death grime than anything else. Featuring members of Trenchrot, Hivelords and Ashencult — metal of the death, sludge and black varieties, loosely and respectively — Out Of The Garden is a hell of a debut.” - NPR
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Band:ETERNAL SOLSTICE
Album:REMNANTS OF IMMORTALITY
Label:DARK DESCENT
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
The reunion of Eternal Solstice has come full circle with the release of their first album in 18 years. ”Remnants of Immortality” is an album that is refreshing and shows the band has not lost a step...if anything, they have improved with age. Nearly 40 minutes of guitar driven death metal with catchy riffs and solos that will melt faces.
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Band:GHOULGOTHA
Album:THE DEATHMASS CLOAK
Label:DARK DESCENT
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
The debut full-length from this San Diego-based death metal band. After a demo, EP and a split, Ghoulgotha emphatically announces their presence in the metal realm with their 53-minute debut full-length, The Deathmass Cloak. Produced by Damian Herring (Horrendous) at Subterranean Watchtower Studio, The Deathmass Cloak is a weird and winding death metal album destined to satisfy even the harshest critics. Cover art by Mattias Frisk (Vanhelgd).
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Band:HACAVITZ
Album:DARKNESS BEYOND
Label:DARK DESCENT
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
The new album is a musical departure for HACAVITZ. While long players like 2005's Venganza, 2007's Katun, and 2010's Metzli Obscura were grounded in bestial Death/Black Metal, on Darkness Beyond the group has shed it Death Metal influences in favor of superbly crafted Black Metal hymns. Ferocity and grimness permeate what turns out to contain the most memorable material of HACAVITZ's outstanding body of work.
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Band:INVINCIBLE FORCE
Album:SATAN REBELLION METAL
Label:DARK DESCENT
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Eight ripping tracks of furious death thrash from Chile. Satan Rebellion Metal delivers a crushing blow to the eardrums of unsuspecting listeners. Not one to overstay its welcome, Invincible Force brings the intensity in just under thirtyminutes. For fans of dirty death thrash metal like Sadus, Demolition Hammer or contemporaries like Force of Darkness.
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Band:SATHANAS
Album:WORSHIP THE DEVIL
Label:DOOMENTIA
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Besides tons of splits and compilations, after since their debut full-length ‘Black Earth’ back in 1996, they have been steadily releasing music through various labels in the States, in Europe or even in Asia without ever loosing steam. Yet, for their ninth (!) long-player, the trio has decided to team up for the first time with DOOMENTIA, as proudly claimed by their longtime guitarist and vocalist, Paul Tucker: “We are excited about working alongside with the up and coming label Doomentia records. Founder and owner Lukas has total support for respect for Sathanas, so expect nothing but the most extreme release from ours in years with still that unique old school feeling!” Once again recorded in between October 2013 and February 2014 at the faithful Innertube studio by Nick Kucel, like all their albums since 2007’s ‘Crowned Infernal’, ‘Worship the Devil’ has been mixed by former FUNERAL MIST and WATAIN regular collaborator Tore Stjeran at his famous Necromorbus studios in Sweden. “When I wrote the album, I was going for an old school black death sound. I guess that compared to previous album ‘La Hora de Lucifer’ that was more in a thrash vein, ‘Worship the Devil’ is way more heavier release. I think it’s actually be our best release to date!!!” Round up by an amazing artwork courtesy of the one and only Juan Castellano (“I was looking for an artist to bring the classic depiction of the devil tempting a woman to sign the book of death”), the eight tracks featured on ‘Worship the Devil’ will once again prove you with a (iron) fist that SATHANAS are metal to the bone. Hail SATHANAS and hail Satan!
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Band:HOODED MENACE
Album:GLOOM IMMEMORIAL - BOX SET
Label:DOOMENTIA
Format:CD BOX
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Special limited edition includes pin, batch, cards, oversizes booklet, poster.
Both a gift to their longtime fans that won’t have to spend shitloads of dollars on EBAY to get a worn out copy of those now long out-of-print titles and a little snack while everybody’s waiting to be crushed by their next album (hopefully in 2015), Pyykkö has gathered all those standalone tracks in one place for this compilation. Clocking at a whooping 76 minutes and featuring four different line-ups and such rarities as ‘I, Devil Master’ (recorded for the ‘Live Evil vol.1’ comp) or the very first versions of ‘Fulfill the Curse’ or ‘The Eyeless Horde’ that appeared on the band’s sole demo back in 2007. ‘Gloom Immemorial’ is also graced by a very special artwork courtesy of Chris from Misanthropic Art. And for all you collectors’ freaks, make sure to grab the special limited edition, a CD box with each release’s original art printed on an individual cards with the song’s credits on the flipside!
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Band:KULT OF TAURUS
Album:ADVERSARIAL PATHS
Label:FOREVER PLAGUED
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
ADVERSARIAL PATHS:THE SINISTER ESSENCE Was recorded during 2014 at Behind The sun Studios,Red House Studios and Studio Unglamorous. Mixed and Mastered by Vicotnik(DHG). Cover artwork was sketched by Bile with additional digital art design from S.I., for Incense Art.
Second opus of adversary glorifying black metal from Greece
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Band:HIRAX
Album:THE NEW AGE OF TERROR
Label:SELFMADEGOD
Format:CD
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
Thrash is back and so is one of the original cult-bands of this genre: HIRAX return to this new age of thrash to teach the new school a valuable lesson in classic ass-kicking with their 3rd album "The New Age of Terror". Taking the epic power of melodic old school pounding, HIRAX forge a perfect combination of great musicianship and clever song-writing into a forceful thrash-attack. Hailing from Orange County, California the band left a strong mark in the almighty Bay Area scene after its early founding in 1984. HIRAX quickly managed to gather an extremely dedicated following, which has gained them their undeniable cult-status even through some years of inactivity and several line-up changes. HIRAX are back and they are here to reclaim the throne...
2015 reissue of the 3rd full album from 2004 of the legendary thrash metal band from California
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Band:KHORS
Album:COLD (REMIXED)
Label:SVARGA
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
KHORS’ second album “Cold”, originally released in 2006, is Atmospheric Black Metal in its purest form. “Cold” features amazing guitar solos by Wortherax (TWILIGHTFALL, ex-NOKTURNAL MORTUM) and keyboards by maestro Saturious (ex-NOKTURNAL MORTUM). Completely remixed and remastered in 2014, now the album is re-released by Svarga Music in a noble 6-panel digipak with new artwork.
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Band:PAGANLAND
Album:FATHERLAND
Label:SVARGA
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
PAGANLAND's second album “Fatherland”, the follower of debut “Wind of Freedom” released back in 2013.
Being one of the oldest Ukrainian Pagan Metal bands, PAGANLAND carries over the love for their Land and authentic atmosphere of Carpathians into their sincerely crafted music. “Fatherland” would be interesting for fans of old BORKNAGAR and FALKENBACH but with a Slavonic touch.
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Band:BORKNAGAR
Album:THE OLDEN DOMAIN
Label:PUNISHMENT 18
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
In 1994, the death-metal guitarist Øystein G. Brun started to work on a musical vision, a vision of musical boldness. Having always been fond of melodious atmospherics, he recruited like-minded musicians from Enslaved, Gorgoroth, Arcturus, Immortal, and Ulver with the goal of rupturing the peripheries of what was deemed “traditional” black metal. Thus, the brilliant and sophisticated anomaly that is Borknagar was born. In 1996, after the release of their first self-titled album on Malicious Records, the band signed with Century Media and released "The Olden Domai"n in 1997. In August 1998 they went back to the studio to record The Archaic Course which featured I.C.S. Vortex on vocals (Dimmu Borgir). Than, they entered Sweden’s famed Abyss Studios in January 2000 to record the material that would become their fourth album ‘Quintessence’, adding to their ranks drummer Asgeir Mickelson and Solefald’s keyboardist Lars A. Nedland. In October 2001, one of Borknagar`s best selling records, Empiricism, was released. The album was nominated for two prestigious awards in Norway, the National Grammy Award and again the Alarm prize. In 2004 Borknagar finished the 6th album 'Epic'. In 2006, Borknagar did the last record Origin for their long-time label Century Media. This album was recorded entirely acoustic and contrary to the predecessor, this album was all about getting back to the very basics in Borknagars musical universe. In 2008, as the deal with Century Media was fulfilled, Borknagar signed a deal with Norway’s Indie Recordings. Jens F. Ryland and Erik Tyr Tiwaz rejoined the ranks of Borknagar. Shortly after, due to different musical ideas and goals, long time drummer Asgeir Mickelson decidedto leave the band. A few months after his departure, drummer David Kinkade (ex- Malevolent Creation, Arsis) joined the band fulltime.In 2010, Borknagar released ‘Universal’ featuring a guest appearance by I.C.S. Vortex on the track “My Domain”. In 2012 Borknagar finished the 9th album 'Urd'!
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Band:ANAL VOMIT
Album:PETSE NEGRA MUERTE NEGRA
Label:Cruz Del Sur
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Formed in 1992 in Lima, Perù, and after releasing a bunch of demo tapes and EPs, Anal Vomit unleash one of the most amazing South American death metal albums of the 90s, “Demoniac Flagellations”. With their following records “Depravation” and “Gathering of the Putrid Demons”, Anal Vomit definitely establish themselves as one of the leading South American death bands. Influenced by old thrash metal and by legendary acts such as Sarcofago, Holocausto, Sextrash, Vulcano and Possessed, these Peruvian tyrants play blackened old school death/thrash the way it was meant to be. And take you back to a time when Death metal was not about gore, but about Satan, leather, spikes and Hell. Now, after almost 6 years during which only a live EP and a compilation were released, Gates of Hell Records is extremely proud to present Anal Vomit’s return with their 4th full length album “Peste Negra, Muerte Negra”. Prepare for an overdose of pure, uncontaminated, satanic death as taught by the Ancient Gods, with razor sharp solos, machine gun like drums and vocals straight out of hell.
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Band:ANAL VOMIT
Album:PETSE NEGRA MUERTE NEGRA LP
Label:Cruz Del Sur
Format:LP
Genre:Death Metal
Formed in 1992 in Lima, Perù, and after releasing a bunch of demo tapes and EPs, Anal Vomit unleash one of the most amazing South American death metal albums of the 90s, “Demoniac Flagellations”. With their following records “Depravation” and “Gathering of the Putrid Demons”, Anal Vomit definitely establish themselves as one of the leading South American death bands. Influenced by old thrash metal and by legendary acts such as Sarcofago, Holocausto, Sextrash, Vulcano and Possessed, these Peruvian tyrants play blackened old school death/thrash the way it was meant to be. And take you back to a time when Death metal was not about gore, but about Satan, leather, spikes and Hell. Now, after almost 6 years during which only a live EP and a compilation were released, Gates of Hell Records is extremely proud to present Anal Vomit’s return with their 4th full length album “Peste Negra, Muerte Negra”. Prepare for an overdose of pure, uncontaminated, satanic death as taught by the Ancient Gods, with razor sharp solos, machine gun like drums and vocals straight out of hell. LP.
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Band:KOMMANDANT
Album:THE ARCHITECTS OF EXTERMINATION
Label:ATMF
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
It’s a quantic challenge anytime Kommandant are ready to perform their new metal aggression to the scene. “The Architects Of Extermination” doesn’t make any exception and it’s representing a milestone in the growth of the band and the evolution of the Black Metal experience.
For fans of Dodheimsgard / DHG, Deathspell Omega
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Band:HAAR
Album:THE WAYWARD CEREMONY
Label:ATMF
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
A Perfect representation of the Haar musical experience is the cover artwork, a distorted and hallucinated vision where a magmatic chaos comes to a primeval form, grabbing the listener to a trip into tunnels of subconscious perceptions. After year of nature based and fantasy-inspired themes the new frontier of the black metal evolution has been crossed by bands like Blut Aus Nord & Deathspell Omega and nothing will stays the same today.
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Band:CTULU
Album:SARKOMAND
Label:Black Blood
Format:LP
Genre:Black Metal
Ctulu is a Lovecraftian Extreme Metal outfit from Northern Germany. While being around for 10 years, the band have released three albums and two demos. Originating from 90’s Black Metal, often regarded as “Swedish-sounding” called “Seastorming Extreme Metal” and manage to mix this with various influences from other Metal styles. The Lovecraft-inspired themes have become distinctive for this band and it may be said that no one else has ever worked this intensely on an overall Lovecraftian image like Ctulu.
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Band:MEMBRANE
Album:REFLECT YOUR PAIN
Label:BASEMENT APES INDUSTRIES
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Black Metal
MEMBRANE make a living from working with noise. From traditional ventures to more obscure times, creating compositions and soundscapes sounding close to epic ensembles. Welcome to their cruel world, namely 'Reflect your pain', their fifth album to date, enhanced with pounding patterns as the rhythmic basis goes, and brewing new ideas, noise-mongering for life. That should sound extremely obvious that pain is becoming pleasure as you go through it. 'Reflect your pain', outrageously made for master and slaves
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Band:EXHUMATION
Album:OPUS DEATH
Label:DUNKELHEIT
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Sinister Death Metal from the dark side of Asia
The first full-length album of the Indonesian Death Metal squad - Metal ov Death in the traditional evil way, like the 1990's are back!
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Band:BLOODSHED WALHALLA
Album:MATHER
Label:FOG FOUNDATION
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Bloodshed WALHALLA is a solo-project created by Drakhen in 2006.
The band fishes into a vast basket of heavy metal, especially viking metal inspired to north European, but in an original-mediterrean way. The music of Bloodshed Walhalla is often compared to that of Bathory .
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Band:HAGL
Album:LENKET TIL LIVET
Label:FOLTER
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
HAGL was founded in 2011 by members of well known Norwegian Black Metal bands like BEASTCRAFT, ENDEZZMA and VULTURE LORD.
Highly recommended for fans of true Norwegian Black Metal
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Band:CORPUS CHRISTII
Album:PALE MOON
Label:FOLTER
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
"Pale Moon“ is the seventh chapter in the history of Portugese most important Black Metal band CORPUS CHRISTII....CC will tour Europe in early 2015 together with THE STONE and MUERT...
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Band:NEOLITH
Album:IZI.IM.KURNU-KI
Label:NON SERVIAM
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Polish act NEOLITH plays aggressive, brutal blackened death metal.
For fans who like bands such as: Nocturnus, Vader, Behemoth, Luciferion
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Band:HELFIR
Album:STILL BLEEDING
Label:MY KINGDOM MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
The decadence and the melancholy will have soon a new great interpreter: its name is HELFIR!
Luca Mazzotta is the mind behind this project who, exploring his innermost essence, finds his personal sound in a contamination of acoustic Dark Rock melodies and gloomy sounds.
“Still Bleeding” music encourages you to fall into HELFIR’s melancholic world because the mood is either decadent and detached and you can easily get lost in the hypnotic and passionate music of this band....It will stand at the deep heart of each listener with alienating atmospheres in the best Antimatter, Anathema and Porcupine Tree tradition.
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Band:OMRADE
Album:EDARI
Label:MY KINGDOM MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
OMRÅDE is an avant-gardist duo performing visionary and delirant Post Rock, Industrial and Depressive Metal expressed through a very rich, artistic and surrealist sensibility what gives its recognizable feeling. Trip Hop, Ambient Electronica, Metal, Post Industrial music and Post Rock are the ingredients for a great dark & psychotic menu expressed in this artistic project. The combo will release its very first opus "Edari" which consists of 8 songs, mixed and mastered by Edgar Chevalier at Ltpstudio...
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Band:TULSADOOM
Album:BARABARIAN STEEL
Label:Nihilistic Empire
Format:CD
Genre:Thrash/Crossover Metal
Tulsadoom combine bestial Thrash/Heavy Metal with an epic atmosphere and dirty rock 'n' roll to an innovative and incomparable debut album...
For fans of MANOWAR, WOLFEN, SABBAT and BLIZZARD
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Band:SACRED BLOOD
Album:ARGONAUTICA
Label:PITCH BLACK
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Hailing from Athens, Greece and formed in 2003, Sacred Blood quickly established themselves as a unique epic metal band through the use of traditional folk instruments in their music. With two albums released so far, each of their albums is distinguished by a theme revolving around Ancient Greece. The band is now back with their third offering,
For fans of: Manowar, Bathory, Running Wild, Folkearth, Accept...
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Band:IN OTHER CLIMES
Album:LEFTOVER
Label:INNERSTRENGTH
Format:12" LP
Genre:Metal
Hailing from France, IN OTHER CLIMES is a metal hardcore band formed in 2004 by 5 members sharing the same goal : to show the world how they use their bestial energy to make each show a true party messiah. Being one of the most active French bands, and known for their video clips, The steamroller IN OTHER CLIMES, gained a strong international fan base through the years, giving them the opportunity to tour all accross the globe (USA, Brazil, Europe ...) and share the stage with bands such as : Down, Dillinger Escape Plan, Hatebreed, Entombed, Walls Of Jericho, Comeback Kid to name a few.
LTD Colored Vinyl.
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