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Band:SLEEP OF MONSTERS
Album:II POISON GARDEN
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:Rock
Recorded in an old hilltop villa in Álora, Spain, Sleep of Monsters II : Poison Garden, the long-awaited sophomore album of this unique Finnish band, sees the band venture into even richer, more dramatic and hauntingly beautiful soundscapes, complete with strings and horns… and hooves. Think of Lee Hazlewood getting drunk with the Abba girls in a Metal bar, slurring some of the most spine-chilling, (mostly) true tales of human tragedy and the occult ever heard in rock’n’roll, and you’ll arrive at the moss-covered gates of Poison Garden. It harkens back to the days when Rock albums were larger than life – deceivingly accessible but deviously deep, it is a trip through the dark recesses of Western history and psyche itself, of chtonic myths, bloody faery tales and forgotten archetypes, a treasure chest of nocturnal wonders and forbidden knowledge. SOM marks the return of vocalist and lyricist Ike Vil, the morose mastermind behind the lauded death rockers and occult rock pioneers Babylon Whores. Vil teamed up with guitarist and main songwriter Sami Hassinen, formerly the guitarist of Blake, drummer Pätkä Rantala, who played on HIM’s million-selling debut, and keyboardist Janne Immonen, who has toured extensively with Waltari and Ajattara.
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Band:SLEEP OF MONSTERS
Album:II POISON GARDEN - LP
Label:SVART
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Rock
Recorded in an old hilltop villa in Álora, Spain, Sleep of Monsters II : Poison Garden, the long-awaited sophomore album of this unique Finnish band, sees the band venture into even richer, more dramatic and hauntingly beautiful soundscapes, complete with strings and horns… and hooves. Think of Lee Hazlewood getting drunk with the Abba girls in a Metal bar, slurring some of the most spine-chilling, (mostly) true tales of human tragedy and the occult ever heard in rock’n’roll, and you’ll arrive at the moss-covered gates of Poison Garden. It harkens back to the days when Rock albums were larger than life – deceivingly accessible but deviously deep, it is a trip through the dark recesses of Western history and psyche itself, of chtonic myths, bloody faery tales and forgotten archetypes, a treasure chest of nocturnal wonders and forbidden knowledge. SOM marks the return of vocalist and lyricist Ike Vil, the morose mastermind behind the lauded death rockers and occult rock pioneers Babylon Whores. Vil teamed up with guitarist and main songwriter Sami Hassinen, formerly the guitarist of Blake, drummer Pätkä Rantala, who played on HIM’s million-selling debut, and keyboardist Janne Immonen, who has toured extensively with Waltari and Ajattara.Vinyl LP.
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Band:GEVURAH
Album:HALLELUJAH
Label:Profound Lore
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
The Canadian religious black metal enigma GEVURAH have slowly been shaping their ritualistic blueprint on virulent spiritual black metal sophistication for several years, giving the duo of GEVURAH consiststing of mastermind X.T. (vocals/all instruments/production) and A.L. (guitars) a reputation as one Canada’s most promising black metal prospects. With their debut full-length album “Hallelujah!” (which follows their well received “Necheshirion” EP from 2013 and features the incredible transcendent art of Denis Forkas), GEVURAH’s awareness will be felt throughout the black metal underground as a formidable and spiritual force within it.
Through “Hallelujah!” X.T. (who aside from playing on most of the album was also responsible for writing “Hallelujah!” in its entirety along with being responsible for recording and mixing it) has unearthed an overwhelming layered black metal masterwork through seven massive epic hymns that encompass a furious, dark, and unforgiving nature to them while at the same time harness a complexity through this vision of otherworldly spiritual black metal levitation.
For fans of Deathspell Omega, Mgla, early Watain, Funeral Mist, Marduk
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Band:PSALM ZERO
Album:STRANGER TO VIOLENCE
Label:Profound Lore
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
With their sophomore album “Stranger to Violence”, Psalm Zero takes the aesthetics, poetics, and spirit established with their 2014 debut, “The Drain”, and blows those elements up into an epic work of wide-screen drama. After two years of anticipation built by the gradual episodic release of the Birthright Trilogy of video/cassette singles, as well as a series of personnel shifts, the Queens NY-based outfit led by songwriter/vocalist/producer Charlie Looker finally delivers the next installment of a wholly unique vision of heavy music. Pummeling drum machine, lush swirling synths, razor-sharp guitar (courtesy of former member Andrew Hock), and grinding bass, all provide the dramatic backdrop for Looker’s crooning baritone voice. Comparisons as diverse as Godflesh, Katatonia, and Depeche Mode have all been used in attempts to describe Psalm Zero’s completely singular brand of art-metal.
While “Stranger to Violence” retains, and in some ways even strengthens, Psalm Zero’s roots in extreme metal, these seven new songs feature massive pop hooks, soaring choruses catchier and more emotionally direct than any of the band’s prior work. With harsh vocals now less frequent and only reserved for the highest ecstatic peaks, these melody-driven songs embody an accessible song-craft seldom heard in today’s metal landscape. The production style has evolved dramatically as well. In contrast to the band’s original murkier, more lo-fi texture, this album is a far more crisp, detailed, colorful, three-dimensional sound world of synths, samples, and percussive electronics. Psalm Zero has also expanded lyrically, with Looker extending the scope of his writing outside of the purely personal and existential realm, into a more social, global, real-world critical engagement. Without preaching a strict political agenda, and without constituting a unitary “concept album”, the new record is tied together by several different thematic strands: drug addiction, global financial crisis, Western imperialism, and Jewish identity. All of these themes are interwoven throughout all seven of the songs, interrelating and overlapping differently at different times. The album’s single “Not Guilty” features a video directed by Zev Deans (whose many other credits include Portal and Behemoth), filmed around the alleyways and courthouses of the band’s hometown of New York.
“Stranger to Violence” is a monolithic, cinematic, start-to-finish musical experience with immense crossover potential, which blurs genre boundaries at every turn. As demented as it is socially relevant, this album promises to bring together fans from across multiple different scenes and orientations, and further proves that there is truly nothing out there like Psalm Zero.
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Band:HIGH FIGHTER
Album:SCARS AND CROSSES
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Hamburg-based Sludge Metal / Stoner / Power Doom band HIGH FIGHTER, who already gained high praise in the scene for their self-released demo EP ‘The Goat Ritual’ back in the end of 2014, have just unveiled some new details about their upcoming, first full length album! After the band formed in the summer of 2014 and in one band year only, High Fighter heavily toured across Europe including UK dates, shared the stages with bands such as Ahab, Mammoth Storm, The Midnight Ghost Train, Corrosion of Conformity or Greenleaf, and played festivals in 2015 such as Stoned from the Underground, Sonic Blast in Portugal, Red Smoke Poland, Hamburg Metaldayz or an exclusive press showcase live at Wacken Open Air 2015. “Scars & Crosses” has been recorded live at RAMA Studio in Mannheim, Germany ( Ahab, The Hirsch Effekt, Fjørt & many more ) by Jens Siefert, and is mixed & mastered by none else than Toshi Kasai (Melvins, Big Business) in Los Angeles.
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Band:HIGH FIGHTER
Album:SCARS AND CROSSES - LP
Label:SVART
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Hamburg-based Sludge Metal / Stoner / Power Doom band HIGH FIGHTER, who already gained high praise in the scene for their self-released demo EP ‘The Goat Ritual’ back in the end of 2014, have just unveiled some new details about their upcoming, first full length album! After the band formed in the summer of 2014 and in one band year only, High Fighter heavily toured across Europe including UK dates, shared the stages with bands such as Ahab, Mammoth Storm, The Midnight Ghost Train, Corrosion of Conformity or Greenleaf, and played festivals in 2015 such as Stoned from the Underground, Sonic Blast in Portugal, Red Smoke Poland, Hamburg Metaldayz or an exclusive press showcase live at Wacken Open Air 2015. “Scars & Crosses” has been recorded live at RAMA Studio in Mannheim, Germany ( Ahab, The Hirsch Effekt, Fjørt & many more ) by Jens Siefert, and is mixed & mastered by none else than Toshi Kasai (Melvins, Big Business) in Los Angeles. Vinyl LP.
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Band:LOST BOOTS
Album:COME COLD COME WIND
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:Rock
Come Cold, Come Wind is the debut release by Lost Boots, who consists of the trio of musicians previously performing as Sweatmaster, plus extra guitarist Tomi Helomaa. Sweatmaster were well on their way to fame earlier this millennium, with a deal with the cult garage label Bad Afro and European tours with The Darkness and the like. Somewhere along the way action rocking garage fare no longer appealead to the sweaty threesome, and they ended up calling it a day, only to resurrect as Lost Boots a couple of years later. "After Sweatmaster we tried playing a bit of everything, even Finnish language prog rock, but nothing seemed to click. It was only after Tomi (Helomaa, guitar) came along that we really had a band together", says guitarist-vocalist Sasu Mykkänen. The band defines Lost Boots as being a more manly, slower playing and a tad more melodic unit than their sweat-covered predecessor. There is an electric 'live' feel to the music, with edges not too heavily polished. It owes as much to classic hard guitar rock as it does to garage rock.
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Band:LOST BOOTS
Album:COME COLD COLD WIND - LP
Label:SVART
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Rock
Come Cold, Come Wind is the debut release by Lost Boots, who consists of the trio of musicians previously performing as Sweatmaster, plus extra guitarist Tomi Helomaa. Sweatmaster were well on their way to fame earlier this millennium, with a deal with the cult garage label Bad Afro and European tours with The Darkness and the like. Somewhere along the way action rocking garage fare no longer appealead to the sweaty threesome, and they ended up calling it a day, only to resurrect as Lost Boots a couple of years later. "After Sweatmaster we tried playing a bit of everything, even Finnish language prog rock, but nothing seemed to click. It was only after Tomi (Helomaa, guitar) came along that we really had a band together", says guitarist-vocalist Sasu Mykkänen. The band defines Lost Boots as being a more manly, slower playing and a tad more melodic unit than their sweat-covered predecessor. There is an electric 'live' feel to the music, with edges not too heavily polished. It owes as much to classic hard guitar rock as it does to garage rock. Vinyl LP.
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Band:MIKKO JOENSUU
Album:AMEN I
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:SINGER/SONGWRITER
Mikko Joensuu is the kind of singer-songwriter who’l easily stand out from the crowd. His debut album ”Amen 1” taps into the American folk music tradition, and it is all about deep and healing songs which at times give the listener an impression of spending time in quiet, intimate surroundings with people like Townes Van Z andt, Lee Hazlewood or Leonard Cohen. Arrangements are raw but beautiful: mostly just the piano and guitar accompany Mikko’s voice, with pedal steel guitars and soothing string sections paying a visit every now and then. Mikko Joensuu’s grand solo debut is three albums long, and with part 2 appearing in late 2016 and part 3 next spring, it forms the Amen Trilogy. Joensuu, who’s spent some years in the proverbial wilderness after the split of his earlier combo Joensuu 1685, comments on the creation process of his magnum opus: “In the summer of 2012 I built a studio in a small cabin by a lake in northern Finland. I spent a month staring towards the lake, writing and recording. During that time I realized what I had was actually three different albums, all stemming from the same state of mind, expressing various sides to the same story. From the three, Amen 1 is perhaps the most fragile. It’s an effort to find balance between great sadness and beauty, and to understand the very strange state when one’s mind is close to collapse and yet at the same time more alive than ever."
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Band:MIKKO JOENSUU
Album:AMEN I - LP
Label:SVART
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:SINGER/SONGWRITER
Mikko Joensuu is the kind of singer-songwriter who’l easily stand out from the crowd. His debut album ”Amen 1” taps into the American folk music tradition, and it is all about deep and healing songs which at times give the listener an impression of spending time in quiet, intimate surroundings with people like Townes Van Z andt, Lee Hazlewood or Leonard Cohen. Arrangements are raw but beautiful: mostly just the piano and guitar accompany Mikko’s voice, with pedal steel guitars and soothing string sections paying a visit every now and then. Mikko Joensuu’s grand solo debut is three albums long, and with part 2 appearing in late 2016 and part 3 next spring, it forms the Amen Trilogy. Joensuu, who’s spent some years in the proverbial wilderness after the split of his earlier combo Joensuu 1685, comments on the creation process of his magnum opus: “In the summer of 2012 I built a studio in a small cabin by a lake in northern Finland. I spent a month staring towards the lake, writing and recording. During that time I realized what I had was actually three different albums, all stemming from the same state of mind, expressing various sides to the same story. From the three, Amen 1 is perhaps the most fragile. It’s an effort to find balance between great sadness and beauty, and to understand the very strange state when one’s mind is close to collapse and yet at the same time more alive than ever." Vinyl LP.
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Band:GORGOROTH
Album:UNDER THE SIGN OF HELL 2011 - CD
Label:SOULSELLER
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
The classic 1997 album was re-recorded and released in 2011. Upon its release the label handling it went out of business and only very few copies made it to stores. Now we present it again in its full glory, with refreshed layout and also on vinyl for the very first time! The black metal classic played tighter than ever before by master of the Norwegian black metal riff, Infernus, iconic vocalist Pest and one of the best drummers in extreme metal, Tomas Asklund. This re-release shows GORGOROTH were well ahead of their time with the original songwriting and this re-release leaves any so-called competition far behind! - CD Format
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Band:GORGOROTH
Album:UNDER THE SIGN OF HELL - DIGIPACK
Label:SOULSELLER
Format:CD DIGI
Genre:Black Metal
The classic 1997 album was re-recorded and released in 2011. Upon its release the label handling it went out of business and only very few copies made it to stores. Now we present it again in its full glory, with refreshed layout and also on vinyl for the very first time! The black metal classic played tighter than ever before by master of the Norwegian black metal riff, Infernus, iconic vocalist Pest and one of the best drummers in extreme metal, Tomas Asklund. This re-release shows GORGOROTH were well ahead of their time with the original songwriting and this re-release leaves any so-called competition far behind! - LTD DIGI PACK
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Band:GORGOROTH
Album:UNDER THE SIGN OF HELL - BLACK VINYL LP
Label:SOULSELLER
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Black Metal
The classic 1997 album was re-recorded and released in 2011. Upon its release the label handling it went out of business and only very few copies made it to stores. Now we present it again in its full glory, with refreshed layout and also on vinyl for the very first time! The black metal classic played tighter than ever before by master of the Norwegian black metal riff, Infernus, iconic vocalist Pest and one of the best drummers in extreme metal, Tomas Asklund. This re-release shows GORGOROTH were well ahead of their time with the original songwriting and this re-release leaves any so-called competition far behind! - BLACK VINYL LP
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Band:GORGOROTH
Album:UNDER THE SIGN OF HELL - PICTURE DISC VINYL LP
Label:SOULSELLER
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Black Metal
The classic 1997 album was re-recorded and released in 2011. Upon its release the label handling it went out of business and only very few copies made it to stores. Now we present it again in its full glory, with refreshed layout and also on vinyl for the very first time! The black metal classic played tighter than ever before by master of the Norwegian black metal riff, Infernus, iconic vocalist Pest and one of the best drummers in extreme metal, Tomas Asklund. This re-release shows GORGOROTH were well ahead of their time with the original songwriting and this re-release leaves any so-called competition far behind! PICTURE DISC VINYL LP.
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Band:ORGASMO SONORE
Album:THEMES INTERNATIONAL
Label:CINEPLOIT
Format:CD
Genre:Cinematic Music
CD in LP style Wallet (500 ltd.)
Orgasmo Sonore is proud to present a new album filled with original material all composed, recorded and produced during the year 2015. Themes International is a very special release created under specific circumstances. Every song included is associated with a particular thematic that was imposed during the creative process. Taken as a challenge, the music had to be recorded and completed in a period of two weeks. 21 songs were created during this challenge and the album compiles 12 of the best pieces. Over the course of these 12 selected themes, the listener is invited to take a trip through the exotic landscapes of late 20th century music, revisited with an original and modern spirit. People that are already used to Orgasmo Sonore will be happy to recognize the usual suspects and influences while the newcomer will discover the vast universe and large palette of sounds and genres on typical of the previous albums. With titles such as « Giallo », « Turkish Psych », « Erotische » or « Spaghetti Western » this record will defy any kind of classification. It’s groovy and rhythmic, retro and futuristic, erotic and exotic, cinematic and catchy, electric and electronic, it’s Orgasmo Sonore first original music record, don’t miss this one!
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Band:ORGASMO SONORE
Album:THEMES INTERNATIONAL - LP
Label:CINEPLOIT
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Cinematic Music
LP/CD (ltd. Ed. 125 copies with CD)
Orgasmo Sonore is proud to present a new album filled with original material all composed, recorded and produced during the year 2015. Themes International is a very special release created under specific circumstances. Every song included is associated with a particular thematic that was imposed during the creative process. Taken as a challenge, the music had to be recorded and completed in a period of two weeks. 21 songs were created during this challenge and the album compiles 12 of the best pieces. Over the course of these 12 selected themes, the listener is invited to take a trip through the exotic landscapes of late 20th century music, revisited with an original and modern spirit. People that are already used to Orgasmo Sonore will be happy to recognize the usual suspects and influences while the newcomer will discover the vast universe and large palette of sounds and genres on typical of the previous albums. With titles such as « Giallo », « Turkish Psych », « Erotische » or « Spaghetti Western » this record will defy any kind of classification. It’s groovy and rhythmic, retro and futuristic, erotic and exotic, cinematic and catchy, electric and electronic, it’s Orgasmo Sonore first original music record, don’t miss this one!
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Band:OSCILLOTRON
Album:CATACLYSM
Label:CINEPLOIT
Format:CD
Genre:Cinematic Music
CD (in LP style Wallet 500 ltd.)
"Cataclysm" is the new album by Oscillotron, the solo project of David Johansson (frontman of Swedish doom metal band Kongh, as well as touring/session member of Cult Of Luna and Switchblade respectively). The album is the follow-up to the acclaimed debut album "Eclipse" (2013), a soundscape reminiscent of old horror influenced prog rock fleshed out into an ambient dream state. While the main vision and atmosphere from the debut is largely kept intact, the new album "Cataclysm" is in many ways a vast progression from its predecessor. Made primarily with analog synthesizers, mellotron and drum machines, "Cataclysm" is a versatile, yet uniform experience where the character of early electronic music meets the unsettling and dark resonance of horror and sci-fi movie scores of the 70's and early 80's. The 7-track album was written and produced during 2014-2016 at the Oscillotron studio in Stockholm, Sweden, and mastering was taken care of by Karl Daniel Lidén at Tri-Lamb Studios. "Cataclysm" will see a worldwide CD/LP/Digital release on May 27th via Cineploit Records
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Band:OSCILLOTRON
Album:CATACLYSM - LP
Label:CINEPLOIT
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Cinematic Music
LP/CD (ltd. Ed. 125 copies with CD)
"Cataclysm" is the new album by Oscillotron, the solo project of David Johansson (frontman of Swedish doom metal band Kongh, as well as touring/session member of Cult Of Luna and Switchblade respectively). The album is the follow-up to the acclaimed debut album "Eclipse" (2013), a soundscape reminiscent of old horror influenced prog rock fleshed out into an ambient dream state. While the main vision and atmosphere from the debut is largely kept intact, the new album "Cataclysm" is in many ways a vast progression from its predecessor. Made primarily with analog synthesizers, mellotron and drum machines, "Cataclysm" is a versatile, yet uniform experience where the character of early electronic music meets the unsettling and dark resonance of horror and sci-fi movie scores of the 70's and early 80's. The 7-track album was written and produced during 2014-2016 at the Oscillotron studio in Stockholm, Sweden, and mastering was taken care of by Karl Daniel Lidén at Tri-Lamb Studios. "Cataclysm" will see a worldwide CD/LP/Digital release on May 27th via Cineploit Records.
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Band:OCTOPUS SYNG
Album:HOLLOW GHOST / ROCHELLE SALT
Label:MEGA DODO
Format:CD
Genre:Psych/Garage
Octopus Syng was formed in the summer of 1999 by the band’s guitarist and vocalist Jaire Pätäri. Drawing on the spirits of psychedelic innovators from both the USA (Velvet Underground, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane) and the UK (early Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Marc Bolan), Octopus Syng play exquisitely crafted songs that range from warm and sunny acoustic psych pop to acid tinged folk songs with hypnotic Kraut rock grooves and catchy jazzy rhythms. Gluing all the pieces together what you get is a band that plays a unique blend of neo‐classical psychedelic rock.
Hollow Ghost/Rochelle Salt is the band’s second album for Mega Dodo. It’s as strange, dark and melancholic as their previous album and every bit as good. Highlights include ‘Woman’, ‘Surrealistic Room’ and ‘Melancholy of Delight’.
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Band:OCTOPUS SYNG
Album:HOLLOW GHOST / ROCHELLE SALT - LP
Label:MEGA DODO
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Psych/Garage
Octopus Syng was formed in the summer of 1999 by the band’s guitarist and vocalist Jaire Pätäri. Drawing on the spirits of psychedelic innovators from both the USA (Velvet Underground, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane) and the UK (early Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Marc Bolan), Octopus Syng play exquisitely crafted songs that range from warm and sunny acoustic psych pop to acid tinged folk songs with hypnotic Kraut rock grooves and catchy jazzy rhythms. Gluing all the pieces together what you get is a band that plays a unique blend of neo‐classical psychedelic rock.
Hollow Ghost/Rochelle Salt is the band’s second album for Mega Dodo. It’s as strange, dark and melancholic as their previous album and every bit as good. Highlights include ‘Woman’, ‘Surrealistic Room’ and ‘Melancholy of Delight’.
Gatefold. Blue Wax. Ltd to 500 copies.
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Band:OCTOPUS SYNG
Album:REVERBERATING GARDEN NUMBER SEVEN
Label:MEGA DODO
Format:Vinyl 7 Inch
Genre:Psych/Garage
Octopus Syng was formed in the summer of 1999 by the band’s guitarist and vocalist Jaire Pätäri. Drawing on the spirits of psychedelic innovators from both the USA (Velvet Underground, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane) and the UK (early Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Marc Bolan), Octopus Syng play exquisitely crafted songs that range from warm and sunny acoustic psych pop to acid tinged folk songs with hypnotic Kraut rock grooves and catchy jazzy rhythms. Gluing all the pieces together what you get is a band that plays a unique blend of neo‐classical psychedelic rock.
The band’s new single, Reverberating Garden No. 7, released by Mega Dodo, is a vivid garden of earthly delights full of quirky, surreal songs that reverberate with love and harmony. It can also be a dark and sinister place. Yet there's always a loving, sweet cosmic vibe hiding somewhere in the flowerbed. So open the gate and enter the Reverberating Garden with Octopus Syng
150 copies black vinyl in hand numbered sleeve / B-side is a cover of Pink Floyd’s ‘Flaming’.
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Band:MAGNOLIA
Album:PA DJUPT VATTEN
Label:Transubstans
Format:CD
Genre:Rock
The 6th album from Swedish classic rocker. The album have no big surprises, and follows the path of their previous albums. What stands out is that the band have a gen to write really memorable riffs that stucks directly into your head. A powertrio that rocks the shit out of most other power trio combos, with direct hints to bands like CREAM, ABRAMIS BRAMA, JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE, TASTE, MÅRRAN and other similar bands. Be prepared for heavy riffings, walls of sounds, and some of the best tracks produced in Sweden so far in 2016 !
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Band:Unisono Quartet
Album:JAZZ LIISA 1
Label:SVART
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:JAZZ/JAZZ ROCK
Never bootlegged and known up until now only to a few faithful servants (and largely thought to have been lost for ever), these sessions offer a hitherto unrivalled look into the state of Finnish jazz and progressive rock between the years 1972-1977. Imagine if the sessions recorded by John Peel had only recently been discovered, and you get an idea of the cultural weight of what is being brought into the light of day here. Originally recorded as broadcasts by YLE (the national radio service Yleisradio, ”the Finnish BBC”), the thirty-four Liisankatu sessions are a genuine who's who of Finnish prog and jazz. Interestingly, anyone with even basic knowledge of the era's biggest bands will recognize familiar names at play within these obscure bands. As such, these sessions provide the missing link between jazz and prog, explaining through spirited performances - and largely unknown collaborations - the instrumental prowess and dexterity of these players and bands. What's best, these sessions show these exceptional bands playing for the moment in front of a hundred strong studio audience, not weighed down by the tedium of studio recording, and thus somehow miraculously managing to capture the best of both worlds: studio performances in front of a live audience.
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Band:Taivaantemppeli
Album:JAZZ LIISA 2
Label:SVART
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:JAZZ/JAZZ ROCK
Never bootlegged and known up until now only to a few faithful servants (and largely thought to have been lost for ever), these sessions offer a hitherto unrivalled look into the state of Finnish jazz and progressive rock between the years 1972-1977. Imagine if the sessions recorded by John Peel had only recently been discovered, and you get an idea of the cultural weight of what is being brought into the light of day here. Originally recorded as broadcasts by YLE (the national radio service Yleisradio, ”the Finnish BBC”), the thirty-four Liisankatu sessions are a genuine who's who of Finnish prog and jazz. Interestingly, anyone with even basic knowledge of the era's biggest bands will recognize familiar names at play within these obscure bands. As such, these sessions provide the missing link between jazz and prog, explaining through spirited performances - and largely unknown collaborations - the instrumental prowess and dexterity of these players and bands. What's best, these sessions show these exceptional bands playing for the moment in front of a hundred strong studio audience, not weighed down by the tedium of studio recording, and thus somehow miraculously managing to capture the best of both worlds: studio performances in front of a live audience.
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Band:Jukka Tolonen Ramblin Jazz Band
Album:JAZZ LIISA 3
Label:SVART
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:JAZZ/JAZZ ROCK
Never bootlegged and known up until now only to a few faithful servants (and largely thought to have been lost for ever), these sessions offer a hitherto unrivalled look into the state of Finnish jazz and progressive rock between the years 1972-1977. Imagine if the sessions recorded by John Peel had only recently been discovered, and you get an idea of the cultural weight of what is being brought into the light of day here. Originally recorded as broadcasts by YLE (the national radio service Yleisradio, ”the Finnish BBC”), the thirty-four Liisankatu sessions are a genuine who's who of Finnish prog and jazz. Interestingly, anyone with even basic knowledge of the era's biggest bands will recognize familiar names at play within these obscure bands. As such, these sessions provide the missing link between jazz and prog, explaining through spirited performances - and largely unknown collaborations - the instrumental prowess and dexterity of these players and bands. What's best, these sessions show these exceptional bands playing for the moment in front of a hundred strong studio audience, not weighed down by the tedium of studio recording, and thus somehow miraculously managing to capture the best of both worlds: studio performances in front of a live audience.
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Band:Kom Quartet
Album:JAZZ LIISA 4
Label:SVART
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:JAZZ/JAZZ ROCK
Never bootlegged and known up until now only to a few faithful servants (and largely thought to have been lost for ever), these sessions offer a hitherto unrivalled look into the state of Finnish jazz and progressive rock between the years 1972-1977. Imagine if the sessions recorded by John Peel had only recently been discovered, and you get an idea of the cultural weight of what is being brought into the light of day here. Originally recorded as broadcasts by YLE (the national radio service Yleisradio, ”the Finnish BBC”), the thirty-four Liisankatu sessions are a genuine who's who of Finnish prog and jazz. Interestingly, anyone with even basic knowledge of the era's biggest bands will recognize familiar names at play within these obscure bands. As such, these sessions provide the missing link between jazz and prog, explaining through spirited performances - and largely unknown collaborations - the instrumental prowess and dexterity of these players and bands. What's best, these sessions show these exceptional bands playing for the moment in front of a hundred strong studio audience, not weighed down by the tedium of studio recording, and thus somehow miraculously managing to capture the best of both worlds: studio performances in front of a live audience.
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Band:Jukka Tolonen Ramblin Jazz Band Krom Quartet
Album:JAZZ LIISA 3 AND 4
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:JAZZ/JAZZ ROCK
Never bootlegged and known up until now only to a few faithful servants (and largely thought to have been lost for ever), these sessions offer a hitherto unrivalled look into the state of Finnish jazz and progressive rock between the years 1972-1977. Imagine if the sessions recorded by John Peel had only recently been discovered, and you get an idea of the cultural weight of what is being brought into the light of day here. Originally recorded as broadcasts by YLE (the national radio service Yleisradio, ”the Finnish BBC”), the thirty-four Liisankatu sessions are a genuine who's who of Finnish prog and jazz. Interestingly, anyone with even basic knowledge of the era's biggest bands will recognize familiar names at play within these obscure bands. As such, these sessions provide the missing link between jazz and prog, explaining through spirited performances - and largely unknown collaborations - the instrumental prowess and dexterity of these players and bands. What's best, these sessions show these exceptional bands playing for the moment in front of a hundred strong studio audience, not weighed down by the tedium of studio recording, and thus somehow miraculously managing to capture the best of both worlds: studio performances in front of a live audience. TRACKLIST: 1: Jukka Tolonen Ramblin' Jazz Band: A Warm Trip With Taija 2: Jukka Tolonen Ramblin' Jazz Band: Ramblin' 3: KOM Quartet: Spoken introduction 4: KOM Quartet: Varo niitä 5: KOM Quartet: Lapsi / Kalevi 6: KOM Quartet: Mitä sinä sanotkaan 7: Interview 8: Älä tuhlaa aikaa
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Band:Tasavallan Presidentti / Jukka Hauru and Superkings
Album:POP LIISA 1 AND 2
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:JAZZ/JAZZ ROCK
Never bootlegged and known up until now only to a few faithful servants (and largely thought to have been lost for ever), these sessions offer a hitherto unrivalled look into the state of Finnish jazz and progressive rock between the years 1972-1977. Imagine if the sessions recorded by John Peel had only recently been discovered, and you get an idea of the cultural weight of what is being brought into the light of day here. Originally recorded as broadcasts by YLE (the national radio service Yleisradio, ”the Finnish BBC”), the thirty-four Liisankatu sessions are a genuine who's who of Finnish prog and jazz. Interestingly, anyone with even basic knowledge of the era's biggest bands will recognize familiar names at play within these obscure bands. As such, these sessions provide the missing link between jazz and prog, explaining through spirited performances - and largely unknown collaborations - the instrumental prowess and dexterity of these players and bands. What's best, these sessions show these exceptional bands playing for the moment in front of a hundred strong studio audience, not weighed down by the tedium of studio recording, and thus somehow miraculously managing to capture the best of both worlds: studio performances in front of a live audience. TRACKLIST: 1: Tasavallan Presidentti: Lennosta kii 2: Tasavallan Presidentti: Dance 3: Jukka Hauru & Superkings: Mai-Ling 4: Jukka Hauru & Superkings:Twilight Time 5: Jukka Hauru & Superkings:Elegy Elegio 6: Jukka Hauru & Superkings:Angel
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Band:CIRCLE JERKS
Album:V1
Label:STREET JUSTICE
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
The Circle Jerks were born at the end of the 70s. One of the first punk/hardcore bands from the East Coast of the USA. Their albums were all classics of the genre and Circle Jerks members are still playing/have played in bands like Black Flag, Bad Religion and Off!
Their classic 1987 "VI" album has been deleted for along time but is now available on vinyl again !
Limited edition of 500 copies (colouredvinyl) including a printed inner sleeve with all the lyrics and more.
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Band:SLAPSHOT
Album:BLOODBATH IN GERMANY
Label:STREET JUSTICE
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Slapshot stand alongside Agnostic Front & Cro-Mags one of the first wave of bands that have created hardcore and established the sound worldwide! These guys are from Boston and they are still touring since more than 30 years. This is a top quality and complete live-show with exclusive tracks!
Limited edition of 500 copies worldwide, incl. lyric sheet.
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Band:Sharna-Mae and The Mayhems
Album:LOVE DRUNK
Label:WESTERN STAR
Format:CD
Genre:Rock And Roll/Psychobilly
Debut album by vibrant young UK Rockabilly band
The band are very busy touring the UK currently, with many festival dates booked.
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:Rockabilly Killers And Dancefloor Fillers
Label:WESTERN STAR
Format:CD
Genre:Rock And Roll/Psychobilly
26 Rockabilly 'Strollers' from the Western Star stable of artists
Tracks : 01. Loaded Gun The Bullets 02. Kitten With A Whip Jack Rabbit Slim 03. Prisoner Of Your Charms Rusti Steel & The Star Tones 04. Voodoo Doll The Hicksville Bombers 05. Gimme Just A Lil’ Bit The Cheaterslicks 06. I Don’t Know Why She Makes Me Feel Blue Rudy La Crioux & The All-Stars 07 Watching You Sharna Mae & The Mayhems 08. Sloppy Preserve The Retrobaits 09. She's So Sleazy The Bullets 10. Daddy’s Got A Gun Jack Rabbit Slim 11. Love Struck The Wolftones 12. Without Your Love Rusti Steel & The Star Tones 13. Can't Buy Your Goodbye The Hicksville Bombers 14. Small-time Casanova Jack Rabbit Slim 15. Panic Attack The Bullets 16. On The Buses Theme (Happy Harry) Howlin’ Wilson 17. You In My Heart Rudy La Crioux & The All-Stars 18. Dirty Magazine Jack Rabbit Slim 19. I've Changed My Mind The Hicksville Bombers 20. While You Were Sleeping The Bullets 21. Pick Me The Wolftones 22. Natalie Wood Jack Rabbit Slim 23. Crazy Blues Rudy La Crioux & The All-Stars 24. Tail Of A Snake The Bullets 25. The Speed Of Love Jack Rabbit Slim 26. Stroll Earthquake Lew Lewis & the Twilight Trio
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Band:DADDY LONG LEGS
Album:THE STRANGER RIDES TONIGHT
Label:FOLC RECORDS
Format:Vinyl 7 Inch
Genre:Garage Punk
"The Stranger Rides Tonight" is a colossal tune with that mix that only they can do nowadays, of an harmonica with a classic blues style, an awesome guitar with bluesy riffs in a Lightnin' Hopkins style but with a rockandroller and garage sound, a primitive rhythm and a very powerful howling voice, that connects them with the more bluesy Flamin' Groovies (Roy Loney’s era) and the crazier Howlin' Wolf. The song was recorded in their last Spanish tour, at GuitarTown Recordings, by Hendrik Röver (Los Deltonos), and the post-production was made by John Epperly in Brooklyn. The B-Side has a tremendous version of the classic from their first album, "Evil Eye", recorded live on a radio station (Born to Be Bad Radio Sant Boi), where is not hard to imagine Screamin' Jay Hawkins, with Leadbelly on guitar, with Abner Jay making the rhythm, and again the great Howling Wolf on harmonica and backing vocals. A gem!
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Band:GRAVY MURPHY
Album:THE WORLD IS YOUR MOISTURE
Label:METAL POSTCARD
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Dance/Electronica
Debut album by Western Australian (Perth) Electronic Musician Jon Murphy
New electronica from Perth that sits between James Blake, Oneohtrix Point Never and Palmbomen .
THE SOUND OF CONFUSION BLOG - "Born in the UK, Murphy's been living in Perth, Australia since 2010 where he studied sound engineering. As Gravy Murphy he's released two EPs so far, one in 2013 and one last year. There's a ten‐track album, 'The World Is Your Moisture', ready to go, and the first song taken from it is 'The Many Hands'. He's made here has a retro vibe running through it. There are hisses that could be from an early Kraftwerk record, as well as the warming hum of antique synths all through this piece. A steady stomp of a beat keeps everything grounded and the industrial feel is dampened a little by the more welcoming additions of various melodic touches..."
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Band:ADVANCE
Album:A SIGN OF THINGS TO COME
Label:Analogue Trash
Format:Vinyl EP
Genre:Dance/Electronica
Advance, the Glasgow based dystopian electronica project of Tom Perrett and Kimberly Copland exploded onto the electronic music scene in 2014 with the release of their debut album Deus Ex Machina. Drawing the absolute best from such influences as Depeche Mode, Assemblage 23 and Ludovico Einaudi to name but a few, Advance have continued to win new fans across the world with their infectious sound, prescient social commentary and inimitable live performances across the UK including the infamous Slimelight club in London and the legendary Resistanz Festival in Sheffield. Anthemic in every sense of the word and arguably their most accomplished output to date, A Sign of Things to Come showcases four brand new tracks including largerthan- life futurepop monsters ‘Calm Before the Storm’, ‘The One’ and ‘Trying to Live’, plus the emotive, piano-driven ballad ‘Grey Dawn’.
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Band:MIDNIGHT RAVERS
Album:SOU KOMO REMIX
Label:JARRING EFFECTS
Format:Vinyl EP
Genre:Dance/Electronica
Unanimously acclaimed by critics, Midnight Ravers has succeeded to deliver via his second album a complete work, where the image (picture and video), music and live performance animate the soul of a modern & radically changing Mali, where the West and the national cultural tradition mingle with generosity and subtlety. Proof - if any more was needed– that Midnight Ravers is now a key element of the promising African electronic music. This sexy and sophisticated universe of international references is present in this EP!Each artist has immediately agreed to reinterpret in his own way one of the tracks on the album in order to give shape to this new record of 4 tracks. This album definitely represents modern African musical diversity, so dear to Midnight Ravers.
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Band:BRAIN DAMAGE
Album:BRAIN DAMAGE FEAT RAS MICHAEL
Label:JARRING EFFECTS
Format:Vinyl EP
Genre:Reggae/Dub/Ska
The first idea of the project was to work with the famous 60/70’s generation of creators of reggae music and by extension, dub music. Thus we can find on the opus some great legends: Horace Andy Kiddus I, Winston Mac Anuff, Willi Williams, and finally Ras Michael. In this 45 T,we celebrate the collaboration with Dean Ras Michael. He was for many years one of the worldwide ambassadors of the Nyabinghi traditions. Furthermore, he still captivates us with his spiritual vocals and his unique percussion interventions. His performance on the song Walk the Walk is filled with emotions and showed a remarkable mastery of the genre and its codes. During this song, he was able to travel to the musical universe proposed by Brain Damage; the result was unique and refreshing.
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Band:HHEAVEN
Album:A SINGLE ROSE
Label:AAGOO RECORDS
Format:Vinyl EP
Genre:Indie/Shoegaze
A Single Rose" is the debut EP by Hheaven, the collaborative project of Morgan Enos (Hollow Sunshine, Other Houses) and Bryant Keith Bayhan (.paperman). Kinetic and danceable, "Rose" is a blindingly colorful departure from either artist's previous work, diving headlong into the sounds of disco, electronica, and heavy beats. Written together one summer by producer/instrumentalist Bayhan crafting full-fledged compositional landscapes from lyricist/vocalist Enos' skeletal demos, the whirling, psychedelic songs of Hheaven are alternately lacerating and surreal, packed with addictive melodies, tirelessly operating in the service of the creative mind. Do work. Stay working.
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Band:HHEAVEN
Album:A SINGLE ROSE - CD
Label:AAGOO RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Indie/Shoegaze
A Single Rose" is the debut EP by Hheaven, the collaborative project of Morgan Enos (Hollow Sunshine, Other Houses) and Bryant Keith Bayhan (.paperman). Kinetic and danceable, "Rose" is a blindingly colorful departure from either artist's previous work, diving headlong into the sounds of disco, electronica, and heavy beats. Written together one summer by producer/instrumentalist Bayhan crafting full-fledged compositional landscapes from lyricist/vocalist Enos' skeletal demos, the whirling, psychedelic songs of Hheaven are alternately lacerating and surreal, packed with addictive melodies, tirelessly operating in the service of the creative mind. Do work. Stay working. CD.
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Band:THE CONFORMISTS
Album:DIVORCE
Label:AAGOO RECORDS
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Postrock / Post Hardcore / Noise
DIVORCE is the debut fourth album from The Conformists, a St. Louis, MO band in its 3rd 20th year on this planet. It was lovingly recorded at Headley Grange Electrical Audio in J November 2015 by Steve Albini, and thereafter mastered at Chicago Mastering Service by Matthew Barnhart. Offered to you as physical media in the anachronistic fine options of vinyl (with digital download) or cassette, The Conformists are utterly indifferent whether / truly hope you enjoy their new musical album.
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Band:DANIELLA SAVOLDI
Album:TRANSFORMAZIONI
Label:African Tape
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Avant-Garde
Trasformazioni is the first work of Daniela Savoldi, cello solo. Synthesis of classical influences, pop, jazz, contemporary and oriental, writing music embraces the idea of improvisation overlapping emotions and different moods among them. The real thrust that drives this work is to tell and collect the steps of experiences, finally saying a clear point of crossing. A mixed in crescendo of colors and signs; an entire reworked from her only and one loop station who could follows and drives dancers, suggests, hides or reveals walks in the desert, eastern crossroads, walking animals, dissonances, surprises, people, dreams. It was urgent a say where she is and who she is just for now. The album is RIYL Rachel Grimes.
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Band:KAOUENN
Album:kaouenn
Label:African Tape
Format:CD
Genre:Avantgarde/Electronic
An owl with a Breton name (i.e. cauán) explores the depths of psychic reality, the complementarity of opposites. It’s looking for a synthesis, the breaking of borders, a peaceful crossbreeding, suspended in the darkness where he lives and the light of wisdom that guides him into obscurity. Newborn, already mature, there are troubling questions: is there a real ambivalence in realism and mysticism? and between (self)destruction and hope? Kaouenn grew close to the Adriatic Sea, far from great European metropolis where it’s migrating, searching for an artistic Enlightenment like a new belle époque. The northwest borders are its horizon, the territories beaten by wind and tides, where the sunsets let you dream life sharing beyond the sea and open the doors to the darkness. It’s a creature that lives through the vibrations of the night with a teenager’s zest and naivety. It expresses itself in electronics with maximalist attitude which has its roots in a muddy and obscure ground: blues echoes, new wave rigor, trip hop hypnosis and kraut experimentalism. A baritone voice. Anxiety and seduction.
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Band:MOSCA VIOLENTA / MOMBU
Album:HUNTING DEMONS
Label:HEAD RECORDS
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Postrock / Post Hardcore / Noise
MOSCA VIOLENTA is a trio bass, drums and sax that explores the darkness of an explosive Jazz, mixing the craziness of John Zorn to the noisy rhythms of Shellac. After releasing two albums under the name of “Les Yeux de La Tête”, they change their moniker to “Mosca Violenta” like the title of their second record. One day on tour they shared the stage with the italian band MOMBU (with a member of ZU), from this meeting they both decided to make an album together : two saxophones, two drums and one bass to give birth to “Hunting Demons”, a completly instrumental record which mix noise rock and a wild jazz with its roots deeply buried into its african heritage, like a voodoo ritual!
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Band:PNEU / DON VITO
Album:Pneu / Don Vito
Label:HEAD RECORDS
Format:Vinyl 7 Inch
Genre:Postrock / Post Hardcore / Noise
What happens when two monsters of European noise music meet each other? A split 7 inch! PNEU, from France, gave an unreleased track from their latest album “Destination Qualité” and DON VITO, from Germany, dug in their back catalogue to find two exclusive tracks. The two bands have shared countless gigs (and will do again), and now share a piece of wax!
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Band:VERDUN
Album:THE ETERNAL DRIFTS CANTICLES
Label:HEAD RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Arisen in 2010 from the fertile scene of Montpellier, France, VERDUN made a name in the realm of slow and heavy music on the basis of a simple three-tracks demo, leaving a strong impression on every witness of the band’s thunderous live shows. With a line-up solidified after a few european tours and opening slots for forefathers such as Electric Wizard, Eyehategod or YOB, the band finally delivers their long-awaited debut album, mixed and mastered by Tad Doyle. "The Eternal Drift’s Canticles" is the fruit of three years of crafting; far from simple amp-worship, the band excels at creating memorable tracks with their science of instant-classic riffs. A richer background emanate from these guitars, able to tint their sludge/doom roots with metallic hardcore toughness or burden-of-the-world melodies. Another strong component of VERDUN’s trademark sound comes from these charismatic vocals, switching between echoed screams from outer space, spoken words or mournful clean vocals. With an arid, heavy as hell sound, "The Eternal Drift’s Canticles" is a 55-minutes dark and painful procession that transcends the heritage of too-often codified scenes, running away from any form of memorabilia. FOR FANS OF : Amenra, Neurosis, Electric Wizard, Burning Witch, Cult Of Luna, YOB, Eyehategod…
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Band:VERDUN
Album:THE ETERNAL DRIFTS CANTICLES - lp
Label:HEAD RECORDS
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Arisen in 2010 from the fertile scene of Montpellier, France, VERDUN made a name in the realm of slow and heavy music on the basis of a simple three-tracks demo, leaving a strong impression on every witness of the band’s thunderous live shows. With a line-up solidified after a few european tours and opening slots for forefathers such as Electric Wizard, Eyehategod or YOB, the band finally delivers their long-awaited debut album, mixed and mastered by Tad Doyle. "The Eternal Drift’s Canticles" is the fruit of three years of crafting; far from simple amp-worship, the band excels at creating memorable tracks with their science of instant-classic riffs. A richer background emanate from these guitars, able to tint their sludge/doom roots with metallic hardcore toughness or burden-of-the-world melodies. Another strong component of VERDUN’s trademark sound comes from these charismatic vocals, switching between echoed screams from outer space, spoken words or mournful clean vocals. With an arid, heavy as hell sound, "The Eternal Drift’s Canticles" is a 55-minutes dark and painful procession that transcends the heritage of too-often codified scenes, running away from any form of memorabilia. DOUBLE LP FOR FANS OF : Amenra, Neurosis, Electric Wizard, Burning Witch, Cult Of Luna, YOB, Eyehategod…
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Band:HOAX HOAX
Album:SHOT REVOLVER
Label:BLINDSIGHT
Format:CD
Genre:Postrock / Post Hardcore / Noise
French trio Hoax Hoax somehow manage to create one of the most alienating pieces of post-rock with this album. Founded in 2011, these guys have been influenced by the likes of Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Can and Shellac. This music could stun, surprise and awe post-rock fans, noise-rock adepts and heavy jazz faddists alike. CD.
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Band:HOAX HOAX
Album:SHOT REVOLVER - LP
Label:BLINDSIGHT
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Postrock / Post Hardcore / Noise
French trio Hoax Hoax somehow manage to create one of the most alienating pieces of post-rock with this album. Founded in 2011, these guys have been influenced by the likes of Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Can and Shellac. This music could stun, surprise and awe post-rock fans, noise-rock adepts and heavy jazz faddists alike. Double LP Format.
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Band:ZHAOZE
Album:INTOXICATINGLY LOST
Label:TRAIL RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Prog Rock
Zhaoze is from Guangzhou, China. They have built an inimitable sound, blending Chinese classical aesthetics with modern Western rock. Most notably, the sound of the guqin is prevalent through much of the album. Though it is China's oldest traditional string instrument, Zhaoze utilizes it in a modern and innovative way, by using the cello bow and distorting the chords, giving the instrument an original voice and a fresh energy. Among other notable and unique instruments adding to the richness and distinctiveness of style are a 5-string bass, xiao (a vertically-played bamboo flute) and a glockenspiel.
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Band:SHINDIG MAGAZINE
Album:ISSUE 55
Label:SILVERBACK PUBLISHING
Format:MAGAZINE
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
Issue 55 of the Psych / Garage bible.
New / Reviews. Plus features on White Denim The Texan art-rockers hit the UK The Clangers Strange reflections from outer space Kvartetten Som Sprängde Short-lived Swedish prog-jazz pioneers Charles Bradley 21st century soul legend tells all Trembling Bells Free thinking and freeform. It ain’t folk Fifty Foot Hose Groundbreaking electronic psychedelia Ryley Walker The guitarist and loose cannon hits the road 10cc How four Mancunian journeymen changed pop.
Avaialbale at all good UK indie stores.
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Band:JOE EGAN
Album:OUT OF NOWHERE
Label:SIREENA
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Folk
Born in 1949, Joe Egan already played along with his school friend Gerry Rafferty in various smaller British bands in the Sixties before they 1972 then succeeded with the creation of the folk-rock duo Stealers Wheel. With the surprise hit "Stuck in the Middle with You", written by Egan and Rafferty, they were able to place the song in the top ten of the American and British charts. Rafferty then left the band, leaving Egan the role of bandleader. But even before the next recordings Rafferty returned to the band, which meant that all other musicians got out except Egan. The second album "Ferguslie Park " therefore was recorded by Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan as a duo with accompanying musicians. Two minor single hits were released, "Everyone's Agreed That Everything Will Turn Out Fine" and "Star". Thereafter, the partnership between Egan and Raffety did not longer seem to work. Before the release of the third album "Right or Wrong", sluggish sales and artistic differences led to the split of Stealers Wheel in 1975. The two songwriters went separate ways. As both were still bound to complicated contracts, for three years they could not publish further recordings. So in 1979 Joe Egan released his first solo album "Out Of Nowhere", a number of top-class studio musicians like Gallagher & Lyle, Henry Spinetti, Dave Markee, Phil Palmer and Alan Parker accompanied him during the recordings. The critics were enthusiastic, especially in Germany ( "best folk-rock album of the year", "better than Raffertys debut album"). But the harmonious mix of folk and rock had very difficult in high times of Punk and New Wave. The single releases "Back on the Road" and "Out of Nowhere" didn't make it to the international charts. As Gerry Rafferty solo had struggling with similar problems, it came quite quickly to a reunion of Stealers Wheel. But the train had left.
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Band:BRIAN PARRISH
Album:TRAVELLER
Label:SIREENA
Format:CD
Genre:Prog Rock
Brian Parrish- composer, singer, guitar player performed in the Star Club Hamburg with his band The Londoners as the Beatles did. They were a popular attraction. Before this he had accompanied original rock n roll artiste, Gene Vincent (Be Bop Alula). He later recorded also with Jerry Lee Lewis, another pioneer. Brian Parrish´s songwriting credits included hits for Johnny Hallyday, who was hugely popular in France. His “pop” credentials included songs for Dave Dee, Dozy Beaky Mick &Titch, Alvin Stardust and others. He played on hits by Medicine Head, albums by Jon Lord, Graeme Edge and others.Together with Paul Gurvitz he formed Parrish & Gurvitz. Sir George Martin produced their acclaimed albums as the Beatles were disintegrating. Hailed as “the new Beatles” Parrish recalls it as “a complement certainly, but the kiss of death!” He formed the band Badger with Yes keyboard man, Tony Kaye. Their first album recorded live in concert (One Live Badger) was widely acclaimed and achieved chart success in the USA. This earned Parrish his prog- rock credentials, although his next solo effort “Love On My Mind” had a “blue eyed soul” funk flavour. Changing direction seems to have been a hallmark of his career. He guested with friend, Eric Burdons band shortly thereafter, and over the following years concentrated more on writing / producing. Performing began to play a secondary role. So it might have remained, but he returned to full time performing in 2004 when he was invited to perform in Hamburg as a special guest for a Star Club reunion concert, with great success. His life changed direction and he now lives and works in Germany. He describes it as a series of musical journeys embracing numerous styles, reflecting many facets of the human experience. It is the “last concept album!” he says, but absolutely different to the Gothic pseudo classical style which typified the genre. “Each experience which contributes to our individual story is a mini journey, you could say. In the end we are all travellers. This is the simple theme which unifies the diverse moods of the album” TRAVELLER is presented with a 24 page booklet with photo illustrations along with lyrics.
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Band:IHRE KINDER
Album:WERDOHL
Label:SIREENA
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Kraut / Space Rock
1969 formed, IHRE KINDER decided to connect songs in German lyrics with rock music. Given the lack of acceptance among record labels - rock music at that time was exclusively reserved English singing bands - they produced their first LP IHRE KINDER 1969 themselves (supported by Jonas Porst). In 1970 the band signed with the newly established Munich record company Kuckuck and produced the album "Leere Hände" (not without a precaution to make an English version for all pieces). Kuckuck went on with the next albums by IHRE KINDER untiel the split in 1973. The songs of the band are known for their complex but also engaged socially critical texts on topics such as substance abuse, apartheid, detention and xenophobia.
"Werdohl" was the fourth album and appeared in 1971. For Germany's largest circulation music magazine Music Express Werdohl was "the best pop album, which has been published in the German language". This great album will appear after 45 years again on colored 180 gram heavyweight vinyl, for the first time in gatefold, limited.
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Band:TRIBUTE
Album:TERRA INCOGNITA - CD
Label:SIREENA
Format:CD
Genre:Prog Rock
Terra Incognita was the fourth album TRIBUTE made. Originally released in 1990 it also became their final album. Prior to this CD-production the group had undergone a radical restructuring. Pierre Moerlen, Josef Rhedin and Åke Ziedén had left the band. Those that remained from the earlier incarnation of TRIBUTE were the siblings Gideon, Lena and Nina Andersson, and Dag Westling. In musical terms this album represents a return to a more epic symphonic style, and the individual tracks are characterized by long instrumental passages and orchestration on a grand scale. The overdubs were numerous, including various stringed instruments, vocals, synths, drum sets, orchestral percussion, and many other philharmonic orchestra instruments, played by members of the Norrköping Symphonic Orchestra, with which TRIBUTE had joined forces on several occasions back in the 1980s. The Swedish symphonic rockband TRIBUTE was founded 1982 by the two musicians/composers Gideon Andersson and Josef (formerly Christer) Rhedin. The band created four albums - ”New Views”, ”Breaking Barriers”, ”Live” and ”Terra Incognita”. ”New Views” was the first album and was the one that gave the group their breakthrough in Germany and Sweden in the middle of the nineteen eighties. TRIBUTE toured continuously between 1983 and 1986, and established a large following among the symphonic/progressive rock lovers. TRIBUTE'S music is mostly instrumental. It is focused on rhythm, intricate riffs and melodies. In the orchestration there is plenty of classical percussion, such as tubular bells, vibraphone, marimba and timpani. There is also a strong impact from the keyboard section mastered by Josef Rhedin. Another significant aspect of TRIBUTE is that all musicians were multi-instrumentalists, which made a significant impression on their audience.
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Band:DEMON BITCH
Album:HELLFRIENDS
Label:SKOL
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
DEMON BITCH is a traditional Heavy Metal band based out of Michigan, USA, with a taste for the strange and obscure realms of the genre. The history of the band dates back to 2011, when three long time friends came forth to cement their breed of Heavy Metal with their self titled 3-song demo, which was released in 2012. The line-up was promptly solidified with the integral addition of the second guitarist, Solon Saton, which allowed the group to play various live shows, and a US East Coast tour in 2013. In 2014, the complete line-up came forth with a follow-up to their demo, an EP titled "Death Is Hanging...", which was released by Dying Victims Productions in Europe and Evil Prevails Productions in Indonesia.
The next, and greatest chapter yet is their debut full-length entitled "Hellfriends", which is to be released in June of 2016. A genuine love for the Hard and Heavy, from 80’s legends of the underground such as MERCYFUL FATE, SATAN and ANGEL WITCH, to 70’s Progressive and Hard Rock, provided a foundation for the band to stand upon, but it’s the intangible inspiration of fantasy, camaraderie and the unknown, which sculpts the rare sounds by these Hellfriends of Demon Bitch.
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Band:ARVVAS
Album:REMEMBERANCE
Label:NORDIC NOTES
Format:CD
Genre:Folk
ARVVAS (a sami word meaning having energy, desire for work) is the collaboration of the Sami yoiker Sara Marielle Gaup and the Norwegian bass player and singer Steinar Raknes. The yoik is the Sami traditional vocal music. ARVVAS is a mix of yoik and americana. Gaup and Raknes write all the songs together, mixing Sami and English lyrics,- not as translations, but complimenting and fulfilling each other.
Steinar Raknes is on of the foremost Norwegian jazz bass players, known from several Norwegian jazz bands, such as Urban Connection and The Core, and he has toured with artists such as Chick Corea. Raknes worked for several years with the yoiker Inga Juuso, in the duo Skáidi. Remembrance is Raknes´second vocal album. Sara Marielle Gaup is one of the leading Sami young yoikers, and she combines old and modern yoiking techniques. She is participating in several freelance projects and is most known from the band Ádjagas.
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Band:PUHTI
Album:KOMIA
Label:NORDIC NOTES
Format:CD
Genre:Folk
Puhti from Finland is a vivid co-operation between a musician Anne-Mari Kivimäki and a dancer Reetta-Kaisa Iles.
The unique sound of Puhti is created by the use of accordions, vocals and rhythmic stomping. From the very beginning one of the key objectives of the duo has been to create intense, energetic and high-quality folkmusic with dance, and to develop a new kind of stage art with those elements. The duo's repertoire consists of a variety of shows suitable for both small club environments as well as large scale festival arenas.
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Band:PLEBEIAN GRANDSTAND
Album:FALSE HIGHS TRUE LOWS
Label:BASEMENT APES INDUSTRIES
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
After the highly acclaimed and imposing Lowgazers in 2014, PLEBEIAN GRANDSTAND returns with another milestone. 'False highs, true lows' stands alone with a music elegantly moving from pure black metal, sludge and noise. The repeating dark guitar harmonies, jackhammer drumming, and the fierce unrelenting screams are backed with a top-notch production. Not exactly the black metal cave-dwelling kind, to say the least. It suits the album perfectly and widen the ferocity to a higher level. Departing definitely from their post-hardcore debut, PLEBEIAN GRANDSTAND now dwells in the international extreme landscape. This is all about restrained fury and intimately suffocating layers of harmonies.
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Band:MORGUE
Album:DOORS OF NO RETURN
Label:BASEMENT APES INDUSTRIES
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Grindcore
Cult metal maniacs MORGUE has returned to the scene in 2012 and here is the testimony. This is their third album to date, clearly bursting out this ferociously angry and awesome fierce grindcore. Stirring up a pissed off mix of evilish tunes and dissonant tones, this is all about modern grindcore though. France's MORGUE pound out a furious nine song grand fucking slam of a record.
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Band:COUNTLESS SKIES
Album:NEW DAWN
Label:KOLONY
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Named after BE’LAKOR‘s song ‘Countless Skies’, this Melodic Death Metal quartet from Hertfordshire, UK’s burst onto the modern metal scene with their debut self-titled EP in late 2014. Blending progressive and darkly intense music influenced by their Scandinavian melodeath heroes, the EP began a flood of shows up and down the UK. After winning the Bedfordshire ‘Metal to the Masses’ competition, COUNTLESS SKIES played a triumphant gig on the ‘New Blood’ stage at the UK’s No1 independent metal festival, Bloodstock Open Air in Summer 2015.
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Band:SHADED ENMITY
Album:FORSAKEN AND FORGOTTEN
Label:KOLONY
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Shaded Enmity has received a positive response from webzines, magazines, and has had several reviews/ interviews regarding the band and its music. Journalists have noted in their reviews that Shaded Enmity holds a likeness to bands such as (early) In Flames, At the Gates, (early) Children of Bodom, Ablaze My Sorrow, Dimension Zero, and Dark Tranquility. With such positive reviews/ support and a great fan base Shaded Enmity has been able to place in some of the European metal charts. This band has never needed to follow trends or sacrifice any integrity/ creativity when composing their music. Uniquely true, Shaded Enmity shall be known in musical history as one of the world’s best melodic black/ death bands.
Shaded Enmity 4th album, Forsaken and Forgotten, was firstly self-released by the band in June of 2013 and got exceptional reviews from critics. The band also obtained the services of the legendary Warrel Dane (Nevermore, Sanctuary) to record vocals on the single "And Life Was Great...". Now the album is finally available in Europe via Kolony Records, with a scheduled release in Aprile 2016.
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Band:TO CAST A SHADOW
Album:WINTERS EMBRACE
Label:KOLONY
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
'Winter's Embrace' is the long-waited 3rd full-length of from Hamar, Norway's quartet TO CAST A SHADOW. Started as a female-fronted gothic metal band, with this new album the band turned its style to more epic stuff, delivering an amazing album of 'doomed heavy metal' (as the band likes to define its style). Male vocals are now predominant, thanx to the huge contribution of the new singer Nils Stenmyren. TO CAST A SHADOW are well-known in the scene, thanx to the several live concerts in Norway, Sweden, UK, Italy and Germany.
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Band:TENGGER CAVALRY
Album:ANCIENT CALL.
Label:METAL HELL
Format:CD
Genre:FOLK METAL
The third album of TENGGER CAVALRY features their continued exploration of unique Mongolian folk metal. Ancient Call retains the characteristic brutal sound from the first album (Sunesu Cavalry) and the moody melodies found on the second album (The Expedition), adding in even more epic and cinematic elements into these 10 dynamic songs.
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Band:TOXICROSE
Album:TOTAL TRANQUILITY
Label:CITY OF LIGHTS
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
„Total Tranquility“ is the full length album following the critically acclaimed, self-titled EP from 2012. The album includes ten majestic songs filled with blasting drums, intense bass, furious guitars and powerful vocals. With „Total Tranquility“ the band has reached a new level and the album marks the ambition of the bands potential and is a milestone in TOXICROSE´s career. The songs covers a wide range of musicality from fast metal anthems to memorable, catchy melodies. With this album, TOXICROSE really shows they have come a long way from where they once started and the growth and progress really comes to show in their new, dynamic material. „Total Tranquility“ contains everything that has made TOXICROSE unique, and much more.
RIYL Wasp, Crue etc.
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Band:YGFAN
Album:KOD
Label:ATMF
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
A dense fog of emotions, a surreal dark beauty where listeners can lose their mind, travelling into hallucinating states. Far beyond what we generally recognize as Black Metal they’re dealing where the darker side meets post-rock and indie influences and shadings, nothing to do with the recent melting pot but forging a solid and personal style. A Sad Sadness Song, ATMF section dedicated to the promotion of dark and evocative music, the home that contributed on the discovery by the scene of jewels like Svarti Loghin & An Autumn For Crippled Children is now ready to launch a new challenge with Ygfan. Luckely band members comes from different musical scenes providing an original result, dealing black metal, dark rock & folk elements. Remastered edition compared to the previously printed version.
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Band:Sacramental Blood
Album:Ternion Demonarchy
Label:AMPUTATED VEIN
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
"Ternion Demonarchy" - the 3rd release of Serbian death metal division Sacramental Blood brings you back to the ABC of early 90-ies death metal - A.gressive, B.rutal, C.atchy D.eath metal in vein of early albums of Monstrosity, Suffocation and Sinister, with Obituary/Pestilence kind of vocals. Wrapped in modern sound by Stefano Morabito / 16th Cellar Studio (Fleshgod Apocalypse, Hour of Penance...), "Ternion Demonarchy" delivers 10 strong songs of high musicianship, good production and amazing artwork made by Juanjo Castellano Rosado.
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Band:LIVE BURIAL
Album:FORCED BACK TO LIFE - LP
Label:DUNKELHEIT
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Death Metal
Death Metal was always meant to be raw, rotten and bitter. Hailing from Newcastle upon Tyne, England, that’s the sound LIVE BURIAL have set for themselves. The debut ‘Forced Back to Live’ is now released by Dunkelheit Produktionen! Heavy Death Metal with slight touches of Doom, Sludge, Despair and a whole manner of unpleasantness! Expect intense bass energy, putrefied riffs and sick solos. Sounds that will pull you out from your premature death and force you into another wretched existence! LIVE BURIAL recreate the macabre atmosphere and emotions that can only be found in memories of the late 80s/early 90's. Riffs come out in masses, drums punch down like a sledgehammer, and vocals bellow out so haunting they summon the dead to terrorise the living! LIVE BURIAL have the potential to attract the whole scene. Only this way should Death Metal sound! Recorded at First Avenue Studios (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) by Dave "The Mixing Desk Slave" Curle (SATAN, BLITZKRIEG, etc.). Mixing and mastering by Dan Lowndes of Resonance Sound Studios (CRUCIAMENTUM). The album also features horror score merchant Slasher Dave (ACID WITCH) with a ghoulish composition to introduce the album. If you worship the sound of ASPHYX, PESTILENCE and early PARADISE LOST, your raw lust for old school Death Metal will be fulfilled by this album!
Now Available on LP.
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Band:BOSQUE
Album:BEYOND.
Label:DUNKELHEIT
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
DM moved from nowhere to even more isolated places and created a new BOSQUE opus: “Beyond” follows down the paths walked by “Passage” and “Nowhere” but opens up new perspectives – not only when it comes to names. Bosque (port./span.: Forest, the forest with his legends as perception of the north) and DM lead us to a new journey in the deep of his world of thought. We leave the present world and process with a mystic and surreal travel. Bosque success again with their new album to put a mark being a guide of (Funeral) Doom, but this section of music-genre is too small to define all the powerful essence of "Beyond". A unique sound, that creates a atmosphere that search it kind while drag and push the listener at the same time. Bosque call us the rain, send us into a paradoxon of our own feelings only to open us the gate to the otherworld. The band sticks to the strictly analogue style of recording and thus the very natural sound is preserved. The fog created by the guitars on “Nowhere” clears a little bit, the choral style is more present: Here, “Beyond”, lies insight. An insight to emptiness and melancholy, but also aspiration and a subtle enchantment. This is not a music for trend-followers, no worship of senseless dreamings, Bosque is the audial melancholy of souls. The new album comes on noble and heavy vinyl edition, inclusive a poster in A2 format. Also available as digipak edition and digital download.
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Band:CRIMSON FIRE
Album:FIREBORN
Label:PITCH BLACK
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Originally formed in 2004, Greek heavy metallers CRIMSON FIRE are a band that remains faithful to the passion and glory of 80’s heavy metal. The sound is there, the licks and kicks and riffs are there, along with high-pitched vocals and powerful and melodic music, all blended nicely together to make you want to raise your fist way up high into the air and headbang like there’s no tomorrow! With a number of notable performances listed on their CV, including the support slot during a mini tour of Canadian band Anvil, CRIMSON FIRE have quickly gained a large number of loyal followers and in 2010 released their debut album (“Metal is Back”) which is now sold out.
“Fireborn” (their sophomore release) is about re-inventing one’s self. The idea of the circular process of life is represented by the mythical creature “Phoenix” and through its prism we look at different aspects of this interminable process, be it youth, love, revenge, personal struggle, politics, new beginnings as well as endings, etc. It symbolizes man's power to face and overcome any kind of difficulty in order to emerge even stronger. With 12 tracks clocking in at 42 minutes and an average song length of around 3.5 minutes this is an album filled with catchy and “no BS” songs that will simply make you reach for that leather jacket and pick up your air guitar while it’s blasting through the speakers!
For fans of: Judas Priest, Riot, Fifth Angel, Helloween, Dokken
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Band:FUNERAL WHORE
Album:PHANTASM
Label:FDA REKOTZ
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Dutch Death Metal from the crypt is back, after their more than great debut album (2012), they finally release a new 11 track album via FDA Rekotz. Classic Death Metal to the bone, what else.
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Band:DEHUMAN REIGN
Album:Ascending From Below
Label:FDA REKOTZ
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Berlin based powerhouse DEHUMAN REIGN stand for uncompromising death metal since 2011, no modern influences or trends, just death metal: pure, authentic and evil. The current line-up was completed backin March 2012 and DEHUMAN REIGN started recording their debut mini album in summer of the very same year, followed by the first live appearances in December 2012.. The 8-track (mini) debut „Destructive Intent“ was released by FDA Rekotz in late July 2013. Now the time has finally come for DEHUMAN REIGN´s first and highly anticipated full-length albjum „Ascending From Below“, dropping on 7/1/16 (CD / Digital). „Ascending From Below“ is a death metal masterpiece, stylistically dwelling between early Deicide and Suffocation. Death metal fans will love it!
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Band:SLAUGHTERDAY
Album:LAWS OF THE OCCULT
Label:FDA REKOTZ
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Northern German powerhouse SLAUGHTERDAY are around since 2010 and have managed to gain a lot of attention with their previous releases. SLAUGHTERDAY celebrate oldschool-death metal in the vein of Autopsy or Massacre while adding some unique and irrestistible vibes to it. Their new masterpiece „Laws Of The Occult“ will be released via FDA Rekotz, who released all SLAUGHTERDAY outputs so far.
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Band:SURGIKILL
Album:Sanguinary Revelations
Label:FDA REKOTZ
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
"SANGUINARY REVELATIONS" is 10 songs and 35 minutes of pure "BLOOD & GUTS DEATH METAL" in the vein of IMPETIGO, AUTOPSY, INCANTATION, TERRORIZER, etc. As a special bonus, SURGIKILL has recorded the song "PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES", which was the FINAL song that IMPETIGO ever worked on back in the early 90's but never recorded because they broke up in 1993. Stevo wrote the lyrics in 1991 and he finally got to use them for SURGIKILL, and now after 2 decades you can finally hear this legendary HORROR DEATH METAL song!
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Band:FLESHCRAWL/ SKINNED ALIVE
Album:TALES OF FLESH AND SKIN
Label:FDA REKOTZ
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
2 times bonecrushing classic Death Metal from Germany. FLESHCRAWL present 4 new and brutal Swe-Death flavored songs. SKINNED ALIVE the new band in FDA REKOTZ roster recorded 4 new, brutal and catchy as hell Death Metal tracks and you have been warned, they will blow your brain away !!
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Band:NEKRARCHON
Album:GEHINNAM
Label:FDA REKOTZ
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
NEKRARCHON formed in 2014 at Athens, Greece and raised as a concept band. Band’s sound refferences related with extreme, dark views of black art. The lyrics are based on concepts like introversion, nihilism, skepticism & transcendentalism revealed through dark rites. In the beginning of 2016 the band integrate their first album called “Gehinnam” which is a concept album. Drums Arrangement made by Fotis Benardo at Deavasoundz Studios, mix & master by Dionysis Dimitrakos at Descent studio and artwork by Apostolos Polymeris at Seventea Studios.
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Band:RED DAWN
Album:Algorithm of Destruction
Label:FINISTERIAN DEAD END
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Red Dawn is a french technical death metal band from Rennes (France). Having many influences such as The Faceless and Decapitated, the band definitely plays a both brutal and technical music. The fast and melodic guitar riffs, coupled with massive and diversified drums patterns and a voice alternating between grunts and growls are bringing power and melody together. Just like an architect, the quintet is building giant musical monuments.
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Band:LORD AGHEROS
Album:NOTHING AT ALL
Label:MY KINGDOM MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
With "Nothing At All", the title of the 5th band's album, LORD AGHEROS' sound offers a very original, modern, powerful and rich of pathos music showing an amazing mix of Gothic Metal, Ambient, Post-Industrial and elements of classical music Everything is conceived to generate an Avantgarde Metal mixed to Shoegaze and Dark Metal that indeliblely marks the cinematographic essence of this album, so close to the Avantgarde soul of masterminds of the genre such as Ulver and Ihsahn. Special guest: Federica "Lenore" Catalano from LENORE S. FINGERS sings on the song "Lake Water" first single of the album.
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Band:FIVE MINUTE HATE
Album:EXPLANATION TO FAILURE
Label:BUIL2KILL
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Born in 2004 from the meeting of Marco (guitar) and Igor (bass guitar), after some “close to home” gigs and few lineup changes, Davide (voice) comes to the mic and suddenly the musical direction is changed. The musical style becomes melodic death metal, partially based on the Goteborg scene (In Flames, At The Gates, Dark Tranquillity) but also influenced by the other bands (Kataklysm, Morbid Angel, Carcass, Heaven Shall Burn). FIVE MINUTES HATE began to play gigs in Piedmont and Lombardy also opening bands as EXTREMA and SADIST. The band stops in 2008 due to artistical differences, but reunites again in 2013 to finally record its 1ST full length: EXPLANATION TO FAILURE!! In the meantime the lineup has found his stability with the incoming of Alto (guitar) and Tia (drums), ready to hit the road again!!
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Band:HELLCRAWLER
Album:SANDSTORM CHRONICLES
Label:ON PAROLE
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Hellcrawler continue their perilous path in the post-apocalyptic world which they started in 2011 with the debut »Wastelands« and confirmed it two years later with »The End Of Humanity« released on 12'' vinyl in collaboration with the Australian band Wölfe. After some personal problems and line-up changes the band finally re-entered the Thunderdome Studios to record the continuing story about »Hellcrawler« and his journey through hell on earth. The new conceptual album entitled »Sandstorm Chronicles« is a tribute to the HM-2 guitar sounding old school swedish death metal, yet it still maintains its own character by incporporating different musical influences into the compositions (heavy, thrash, black, doom, d-beat, punk...). The record, which is basically a mixture of death metal and punk, has been mastered by the legendary Dan Swanö (Edge Of Sanity, Bloodbath, Nightingale…) who put his touch on this 90s sounding album.
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Band:SUBLIMINAL CRUSHER
Album:DARKETYPE
Label:Revalve
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Subliminal crusher started in 2002, from the founders of the italian band S.R.L.. Soon the band entered the recording studio for its first EP: LIFE DROUGH.After a devastating run of live dates (together with SADUS, DARKANE, ENTOMBED etc), in 2005 Subcrush released their 1st full-length for NewLM Records, ANTITHESIS. After some lineup changes that brought Panduk and Steph in the band, SubCrush recently released its third album, “ENDVOLUTION", published by Punishment 18 Records, during a terrific italian mini-tour with DARKANE. In 2010 after a kickstart tour with THE HAUNTED and Methedras to glue back the original band chemistry, Subliminal Crusher released their 4th studio album NEWMANITY on January 2013 published by Revalve Records. Subliminal Crusher, right after publishing their 4th record, renew the main goal of their moniker change their line up. In 2016 the band are ready to release DARKETYPE, a new chapter of their career.
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Band:YARAST
Album:TUNGUSAKE 1908
Label:Revalve
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Death metal sound with lyric concept inspired by Russian Cold war.
For all fans of Hypocrisy, The Crown, Opeth.
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Band:MONUMENT
Album:HAIR OF THE DOG
Label:ROAR
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
UK’s finest, New Wave of British Heavy Metal heroes MONUMENT return with the follow-up to “Renegades” (MGR Music, 2014), their sophomore full length album, “Hair of the Dog”, which is their best musical creation up-to-date. Memorable guitar riffs and twin guitar leads, catchy and powerful tenor vocals, performed by talented frontman Peter Ellis (ex-White Wizzard) and a tight-as-fuck rhythm section that brings in mind the Iron Maiden and Judas Priest legacy are the main elements of the MONUMENT sound, but only few of the reasons why one should get this album. Deriving from the glorious past of heavy metal music but still being firmly rooted in the present (as previously stated by Spanish magazine “Heavy Rock”), “Hair of the Dog” sounds fresh and updated, being also suitable for fans of the heavy-metal-revival movement of NWOTHM and of bands such as Enforcer, White Wizzard, Cauldron and Elm Street. empowered by the slick, powerful, but still a bit retro-loving production of acknowledged extreme metal producer, Scott Atkins, MONUMENT’s new creation is already a nominee for heavy metal album of the year 2016. MONUMENT is undoubtedly one of the rising forces of the modern-day traditional heavy metal sound and “Hair of the Dog” is the living proof.
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Band:ABYSMAL GRIEF
Album:STRANGE RITES OF EVIL
Label:TERROR FROM HELL
Format:Vinyl LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Fourth album from Itaian Dark / Horror / Doom Metal merchants !
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Band:Cercenatory
Album:Swallowed By The Apocalypse
Label:Coyote
Format:CD
Genre:Grindcore
Cercenatory was formed back on 2011 in Barranquilla, Colombia by Gersgrind (Drums) & UlraGore (Guitar).
For fans of Devourment, Amagortis, Brodequin, Internal Suffering...
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Band:HYBRID VISCERY
Album:REDNECK ABOMINATION
Label:Coyote
Format:CD
Genre:Grindcore
GRINDCORE BAND FOUNDED IN 2000 IN BELGIUM
For fans of Napalm Death, Nasum, Regurgitate, Agathocles, Rotten Sound, Inhumate, Inhume, Ingrowing
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Band:AETERNUS PROPHET
Album:Exclusion Of Non-Dominated Material
Label:METAL SCRAP
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Second full-length album by Ukrainian Oldschool Raw Black/Death Metal band.
Recommended for fans of such bands as: Novembers Doom, Rotting Christ, Sceptic Flesh, Belphegor, and Behemoth.
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Band:BLACK CULT
Album:CATHEDRAL OF THE BLACK CULT
Label:METAL SCRAP
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
The second full-length album by Croatian Black Metal band.
For fans of: Satyricon, Emperor, Mayhem, and all Black Metal fans in general.
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:Witchery Flames Of Underground Lust
Label:METAL SCRAP
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
80 minutes of heaviness, melodiousness and craziness right in to your ears !
TRACK LISTING 1. DRUKNROLL - The Loop of World Creation 04:13 2. PSYCHOPHOBIA - The Fall 04:44 3. AETERNUS PROPHET - White Rot of Missing Thoughts 04:40 4. HORTUS ANIMAE - Ungrateful Fate 05:05 5. SABOTAGE - Don't Panic 02:55 6. ESTATE - Hero 03:47 7. ONE STEP BEYOND - Enlightenment 03:12 8. BROKDAR - Lycanthropy 08:38 9. PHANTASMAL - Specter of Death 03:21 10. SUNLIGHT - Struggle for Deliverance 03:58 11. DARK MOROK - Night of the Shadows 02:59 12. NIHILISTINEN BARBAARISUUS - The Child Must Die 02:54 13. STRIDENT - Final Warhead Blast 04:46 14. XPUS - Primordial Evil Essence 04:13 15. GRENOUER - No Sense Aligned 04:15 16. DIVINE WEEP - Age of the Immortal 08:27 17. UNGRACE - Dead Ugly Hearts 05:39
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Band:UNDERDAMPED SYSTEM
Album:PHANTOM PAIN
Label:METAL SCRAP
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
"Phantom Pain" - debut full-length album by Polish Technical Groove Metal band UNDERDAMPED SYSTEM
"Phantom Pain" gets the listener into a hypnotic trance which does not give you a break.
For fans of: Meshuggah, Gojira, Decapitated, Tool, Cloudkicker, Monuments, Pantera, Sepultura, Neurosis, Deftones, After The Burial...
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Band:MILF
Album:MORE THAN YOU
Label:BUIL2KILL
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Rock / Hard Rock / Glam-Metal all mixed to perfection in every song that is full of originality and freshness.
RIYL : AC / DC, Motley Crue, L.A.Guns, Guns ‘n’ Roses, Mr Big, Aerosmith, Bon Jovi.
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Band:YATTAFUNK
Album:YATTAFUNK SUCKS
Label:GHOST RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
"Yattafunk Sucks” is a new born baby, conceived thanks to the meeting of different musical genres from the biggest bands that this planet has ever seen. There’s a little bit of Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Infectious Grooves, Iron Maiden, Dream Theater and Grand Funk Railroad in its DNA, just to mention some of its influences......
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