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Band:SCREAMING TREES
Album:LAST WORDS: THE FINAL RECORDINGS
Label:BURNSIDE
Format:CD
Genre:Rock
In the waning months of the 20th century, legendary Seattle band Screaming Trees went back into the studio one last time. Having been released from their label and realizing that the outlook was grim, the Trees entered Stone Gossard's Studio Litho to preserve the last batch of songs the band had written. Financed by the band and produced by drummer Barrett Martin, these sessions proved to be their last. Twelve years later, in the winter of 2011, Martin and long-time friend and producer Jack Endino found the two-inch multi-track reels, carefully baked and cleaned the tapes, transferred them to a digital format, and brought those final 10 songs back to life. To their pleasant surprise, the music had a raw, energetic quality, with the band cracking jokes and howling with laughter between takes - they were clearly having a good time. These final sessions were a remarkable last testament to the band's impressive 15-year career.
"One of their very best,a fine last gasp from one of the Pacific Northwest's great groups" - Mojo October 2011.
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Band:KIMYA DAWSON
Album:THUNDER THIGHS
Label:BURNSIDE
Format:CD
Genre:Rock
Ex- Moldy Peaches singer/songwriter Kimya Dawson is most widely known for the Grammy nominated, Platinum selling soundtrack for the movie JUNO. Kimya's forthcoming solo album Thunder Thighs has major and minor themes including oceans, cancer, transgendered heroes, feeling safe in your own skin, saving public libraries and making big albums in a small, familial way. The album features guest performances by rapper/producer Aesop Rock plus members of the Strokes, Mountain Goats, and more. Thunder Thighs is being self-released on Kimya's own Great Crap Factory label.
Kimya has been featured in Rolling Stone, Spin, Entertainment Weekly, NY Times, AOL Spinner session, etc. She has performed live on the View, played the Independent Spirit Awards, and also performed at Carnegie Hall for an REM tribute.
"A veteran of the scrappy anti-folk circuit, with stream of consciousness songs that balance the caustic and the childlike"- NY Times
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Band:LEVIATHAN
Album:TRUE TRAITOR, TRUE WHORE
Label:Profound Lore
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
One of the most notorious and now controversial black metal entities to ever set foot upon this cursed genre over the last ten or so years, LEVIATHAN (and its sole commander Wrest, aka famed tattoo artist Jef Whitehead) has been seen as one of the genre’s most creative and prolific artists. Emerging from the depths of the Bay Area in the early moments of last decade by releasing a slew of demo tapes (which would then culminate in the infamous “Verrater” compilation), LEVIATHAN would eventually gain recognition on a more wide scale with the “Ten Sublevel Of Suicide” debut. Said album was praised as one of the most “transcendental” black metal albums ever recorded for its time and from there LEVIATHAN would be known as one of the most in-demand artists within the black metal scene today.
Several albums, EPs, splits, and offshoot projects later, LEVIATHAN has been resurrected from its slumber by Wrest, after a tumulus several years, Wrest has unleashed his hatred and despair into the form of an album he has christened “True Traitor, True Whore”. Recorded and produced by Sanford Parker (LEVIATHAN’s first time recording an album in an actual studio), “True Traitor, True Whore” is a vicious, surreal, bizarre opus, and probably the most progged-out LEVIATHAN album to date. But most notably, “True Traitor, True Whore” will find its way as the most talked about black metal release of 2011.
RIYL Burzum,Deathspell Omega and Joy Division...
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Band:JAPANTHER
Album:BEETS LIMES AND RICE
Label:Seayou
Format:CD
Genre:Indie/Shoegaze
14 new songs by this New York City based art / punk duo. LIke an animal obsessed Japanther scratch out another album in the hills of Los Angeles. Teaming with their friends and favorite producer (Michael Blum -- Madonna/Michael Jackson) to create a punky surf beach master piece. In fact, the LP has elements of the California sun all over. Collaborators on this album include Ninjasonik, Erick Lyle, Total Warr and John McIntyr. The album was written in the midst of "It Never Seems to End" an 84 hour performance piece in Vienna, Austria for TB A 21. In Paris, France, Bellingham, Washington, Brooklyn, New York, Venice, Italy and lots of airports in between.
Japanther is an art project, circa 2001, They've collaborated with a variety of artist including Penny Rimbaud, Dan Graham, Eileen Myles, VEKS, robbinschilds, Dawn Riddle, Claudia Meza, Todd James, Devin Flynn, Ninjasonik, Anita Sparrow and Spankrock. Japanther was featured in the 2006 Whitney Biennial and the 2011 Venice Biennale. Celebrating ten years in the underground this year, Japanther have made a name for themselves in unique performance situations, such as alongside synchronized swimmers, atop the Williamsburg Bridge, as well as with giant puppets, marionettes and shadow puppets, out of the back of a moving truck in SOHO, and shows with giant dinosaurs and BMXers flying off the walls
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Band:LIVING WITH LIONS
Album:HOLY SHIT
Label:REDFIELD
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
2011 cannot come soon enough for Vancouver’s Living With Lions as the band prepares for the release of their second fulllength record, provocatively titled “Holy Shit”. It has been a long and winding road since the band formed in 2007. The band first emerged in Canada with the release of their acclaimed “Dude Manor EP”, followed quickly by their debut full-length “Make Your Mark” via Black Box (2008) & Adeline (2009). That record produced the popular single “A Bottle Of Charades” which has been featured on a handful of compilations and video game placements, and saw video play on Fuse and MuchMusic. This release also got them included in Alternative Press’ 100 Bands to Know for 2010. The progression that this record shows is evidenced by the international interest that it is generating. With confirmed and coordinated releases in Canada (Black Box), the United States (Adeline), Japan (Ice Grills), Australia (3Wise) and Europe (Redfield Records), the world is embracing Living With Lions.
Playing Eastpak Antidote Tour 2011 w/ A Day To Remember, August Burns Red, The Ghost Inside: 14.11. Leeds, Academy // 15.11. Manchester, Academy // 17.11. Nottingham, Rock City // 18.11. London, The Forum
Supported Comeback Kid in August 2011 on their European Tour...
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Band:LIVING WITH LIONS
Album:HOLY SHIT LP
Label:REDFIELD
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
2011 cannot come soon enough for Vancouver’s Living With Lions as the band prepares for the release of their second fulllength record, provocatively titled “Holy Shit”. It has been a long and winding road since the band formed in 2007. The band first emerged in Canada with the release of their acclaimed “Dude Manor EP”, followed quickly by their debut full-length “Make Your Mark” via Black Box (2008) & Adeline (2009). That record produced the popular single “A Bottle Of Charades” which has been featured on a handful of compilations and video game placements, and saw video play on Fuse and MuchMusic. This release also got them included in Alternative Press’ 100 Bands to Know for 2010. The progression that this record shows is evidenced by the international interest that it is generating. With confirmed and coordinated releases in Canada (Black Box), the United States (Adeline), Japan (Ice Grills), Australia (3Wise) and Europe (Redfield Records), the world is embracing Living With Lions.
LTD VINYL LP INCLUDES CD OF THE ALBUM!
Playing Eastpak Antidote Tour 2011 w/ A Day To Remember, August Burns Red, The Ghost Inside: 14.11. Leeds, Academy // 15.11. Manchester, Academy // 17.11. Nottingham, Rock City // 18.11. London, The Forum
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Band:MOS GENERATOR
Album:MOS GENERATOR 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Label:RIPPLE MUSIC
Format:LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
The 10th Anniversary deluxe edition of the debut album from the Port Orchard, WA hard rock trio, Mos Generator, is set to introduce the tunes that started Tony Reed, Scooter Haslip, and Shawn Johnson down the stoner-fied road of that classic 70’s sound to a fresh collection of ears; and re-introduce the band to the die-hards who thought they had all of the Mos Generator material available. This deluxe package includes a 12” vinyl version of the original album, remixed and remastered, a CD featuring the original seven songs as well as a previously unreleased track and the full “Live at the Manette” concert originally self-released in limited quantities in 2004, and a digital download card that features an exclusive twelve tracks not included on the CD or vinyl. This package is jam packed with live tracks and obscurities from the bands earliest days and contains over 2 ½ hours of music!
Essential for any Kyuss,Fu Manchu,Sabbath,Rise Above Records or Stoner fan!
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Band:LUSTMORD
Album:THE MONSTROUS SOUL
Label:BURNING WORLD
Format:LP
Genre:Industrial/EBM
Burning World Records is proud to present the second installment in the Lustmord vinyl re‐issue series. After the release of Zoetrope double album last year, this fall we will bring you The Monstrous Soul, originally recorded and released in 1990. The album has been described as: ‘a journey through a frozen hell’. The first 100 copies will be on green vinyl, to reflect the font color on the sleeve, the other 400 copies will be on pitch black vinyl. The running order of the album has been adjusted and Primordial Atom had to be split into two parts in order to utilize the best length per side for optimum sound quality. “Xaxa/Primordial” is an extract from the live performance in Krakow last year containing elements from The Monstrous Soul is included as an extra track.
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Band:KALEIDOSCOPE
Album:FAINTLY BLOWING
Label:Sunbeam
Format:LP
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
Sunbeam Records is delighted to present these definitive collector’s vinyl editions of these cornerstones of British psychedelia. Produced with the full involvement of the band, each comes complete with lovingly reproduced artwork, as well as lavish 12-page, full-colour, large-format booklets packed with original trade ads, memorabilia and contemporary press cuttings, and with exclusive sleevenotes by the quartet’s leader Peter Daltrey, telling the story of the band in full detail. The result is simply essential for all connoisseurs of British psychedelia.
"The opening title track and closing Music are full of mind-altering sound effects and are thrilling examples of how production techniques can turn an already excellent song into something unforgettable… A lot better than the majority of albums in the genre’ – Aaron Milenski, Galactic Ramble
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Band:KALEIDOSCOPE
Album:TANGERINE DREAM
Label:Sunbeam
Format:LP
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
Sunbeam Records is delighted to present these definitive collector’s vinyl editions of these cornerstones of British psychedelia. Produced with the full involvement of the band, each comes complete with lovingly reproduced artwork, as well as lavish 12-page, full-colour, large-format booklets packed with original trade ads, memorabilia and contemporary press cuttings, and with exclusive sleevenotes by the quartet’s leader Peter Daltrey, telling the story of the band in full detail. The result is simply essential for all connoisseurs of British psychedelia.
‘One of the masterpieces of Britain’s early psych era, Tangerine Dream has no weaknesses: the songwriting and arrangements are terrific, the vocals are good, the balance between melody, mood and experiment is ideal, and even the recording quality is top-notch. This is the sound of 1967’ – Patrick Lundborg, Galactic Ramble
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Band:CONAN / SLOMATICS
Album:CONAN / SLOMATICS
Label:BURNING WORLD
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
"If it’s to be a battle of Conan vs. Slomatics it’s hard to pick one as a winner over the other, but Conan probably have more working in their favor in terms of originality and complete aesthetic. That said, both bands certainly have their appeal, and if they’re taking each other on, the real winner is anyone who hears these six tracks. Two trios of planetary heaviness coming together to demonstrate the strength and potency of the UK doom scene. Damn right it’s recommended." (The Obelisk)
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Band:HAMMER OF THE GODS
Album:HAMMER OF THE GODS
Label:LONE VIGIL
Format:CD EP
Genre:Metal
An onslaught of riffs heavy enough to flatten the Parthenon combine with drums that pound like the feet of ancient armies to crush any expectations you might have. Throw the occasional squealing guitar solo into the arena, and add a venomous vocal line spitting lyrics about that most Metal of topics – the mythology of the violent and decadent ancients – and there’s no doubting their credentials. Hammer of the Gods drive home their well-crafted songs with an intensity that few come close to.
Early 2011 saw the band embark on a UK tour in support of Crowbar, garnering the respect of the Metal audience and beginning the rebuilding of their empire with a mighty and memorable show of force. Their self-titled debut EP was recorded at Outhouse Studios and produced by John Mitchell. The three brand new tracks on the release include 'The Halting' & ‘Earthshaker’ both of which Daniel P. Carter has featured on the Radio 1 Rock Show. The band are continuing to support the release of this release with festival appearances at this year’s Sonisphere & Bloodstock Festivals.
KKKK – “Killer debut EP from Super-Heavy Brit Sludge Sluggers!” Kerrang
8/10 – “Barbarically Heavy & Possessed... The Hammer Has Fallen!” – Metal Hammer
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Band:STEAK NUMBER EIGHT
Album:ALL IS CHAOS
Label:VZW
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
With an average age of just 18, STEAK NUMBER EIGHT is probably the youngest hard rock band in Belgium to enjoy genuine national success; At the age of 15 they won the HUMO Rock Rally, hosted by Belgium’s biggest rock magazine, (which had previously launched the Country’s biggest Belgian artist such as DEUS, Black Box Revelation and Milow), making them national treasures. Mainstream newspaper coverage, TV appearances and radio play resulted in fans of hard rock across the country, young and old, flocking to shows, which became a major talking point in themselves.
With a confidence and professionalism far beyond what one would expect from such a young band, STEAK NUMBER EIGHT’s live performance is more an experience than a show - enormous, hard-hitting riffs sandwiched between moody, atmospheric interludes, with the band themselves reminiscent of what a supergroup consisting of members of Isis, Mastodon and Killing Joke might sound like if fronted by a young Kurt Cobain
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Band:MY DYING BRIDE
Album:34.788% COMPLETE
Label:SVART
Format:LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
The most adventurous and experimental album of My Dying Bride's illustrious career is finally available on vinyl again. The Svart edition is a heavy luxurious gatefold with all lyrics and the original band-approved artwork.
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Band:KATATONIA
Album:DISCOURAGED ONES
Label:SVART
Format:LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Svart's two-part journey into the prehistory of Katatonia, the Swedish masters of all things dark and emotive, started last year with a double vinyl reissue of their debut album. Its conclusion happens now with a deluxe double vinyl version of their third album Discouraged Ones. The original vinyl version from 1998 had the entire album stuffed on a single LP, resulting in lower sound quality. The Svart version has the album split over three LP sides and features the songs from the rare 'Saw You Drown' EP (Quiet World & Scarlet Heavens) as bonus tracks. On limited transparent orange vinyl!.
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Band:AXEGRINDER
Album:THE RISE OF THE SERPENT MEN
Label:SVART
Format:LP
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Our first pressing of this crust-metal classic sold out in no time, so here's another 500 copies, this time on transparent red vinyl. When crustcore and metal began to cross-over, AXEGRINDER were there to lead the way. Their legacy may have been overshadowed by AMEBIX, but their sole album "The Rise of the Serpent Men" remains an undisputed crustmetal classic. Not available either on vinyl or with original artwork since the original came out in 1989, Svart Records now proudly presents a fully restored gatefold vinyl reissue.
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Band:PENTAGRAM
Album:SHOW EM HOW
Label:SVART
Format:LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Once upon an Easter Sunday in the year 2011 it came to pass that Pentagram was to visit Finland on their 40th anniversary tour, and Svart Records alerted their best audio tech staff to record this historical event. The live album project took hundreds of hours of work - from the meticulous recording of the actual concert through the mixing board and several carefully placed microphones to the tireless post-production process. The resulting album Live Rites is a very crisp-sounding document of how Pentagram sounded on their jubilant anniversary tour - vivid, crunchy and all the way alive.
The album is available on vinyl only, all on transparent grey vinyl and wrapped in a thick gatefold jacket with a big 16-page booklet glued inside. Also includes exclusive live photos, liner notes and a copy of the gig poster too. Limited to 700 copies only, no represses or reissues on CD/MP3 will be made available in the near or distant future.
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Band:PENTAGRAM
Album:LIVE RITES
Label:SVART
Format:LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Once upon an Easter Sunday in the year 2011 it came to pass that Pentagram was to visit Finland on their 40th anniversary tour, and Svart Records alerted their best audio tech staff to record this historical event. The live album project took hundreds of hours of work - from the meticulous recording of the actual concert through the mixing board and several carefully placed microphones to the tireless post-production process. The resulting album Live Rites is a very crisp-sounding document of how Pentagram sounded on their jubilant anniversary tour - vivid, crunchy and all the way alive.
The album is available on vinyl only, all on transparent grey vinyl and wrapped in a thick gatefold jacket with a big 16-page booklet glued inside. Also includes exclusive live photos, liner notes and a copy of the gig poster too. Limited to 700 copies only, no represses or reissues on CD/MP3 will be made available in the near or distant future
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Band:PHARAOH
Album:OUT OF DARKNESS
Label:SVART
Format:LP
Genre:Metal
Finnish independent recording artists Pharaoh Overlord, who have been working on the dark side of post rock for a decade, have taken a sharp, unexpected turn into the heart of true heavy metal, making the Ektro slogan New Wave of Finnish Heavy Metal come to life in a way that no other Ektro artist has ever pulled off. A blazing journey through guitar shredding face ripping true blue heavy metal as shards of steel blast from your speakers. Features guest vocals from US hard rock outfits Night Horse and Angus Khan.
Features most members from Finnish neo-kraut pioneers Circle
Recommended for fans of both Danzig and Faust!
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Band:NIGHTSATAN
Album:MIDNIGHT LASER WARRIOR
Label:SVART
Format:LP
Genre:Metal
Consisting of three analog-minded individuals, Nightsatan plays laser metal exclusively. This, their debut album, has been only available on CD until this glorious moment. Svart and Solina Records have joined forces to bring you the ultimate version, naturally on vinyl. The artist responsible for the cover of the CD version, Chrzu, was commissioned to create a completely new painting for this edition. His post-apocalyptic vision adorns the gatefold jacket, inside which lurk 12 inches of synthetic bliss on pitch black wax. The album features a bonus track not available on CD and is limited to 500 copies. RIYL - Zombi, John Carpenter soundtracks, Goblin etc.
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Band:FLESHPRESS
Album:ACID MOUTH STRANGULATION
Label:SVART
Format:LP
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
On their fourth full length album Finnish sludge rockers evolve from their days as a rough, gritty metal machine towards the unknown. These three long tracks ebb and flow with an organic pulse, from slowly meditative passages to black swamp-sludge metal. An unsettling but oddly beautiful experience.
Recommended for fans of Grief, Circle, Darkthrone and Sleep. LTD gatefold vinyl edition!
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Band:FLESHPRESS
Album:ACID MOUTH STRANGULATION - CD
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
On their fourth full length album Finnish sludge rockers evolve from their days as a rough, gritty metal machine towards the unknown. These three long tracks ebb and flow with an organic pulse, from slowly meditative passages to black swamp-sludge metal. An unsettling but oddly beautiful experience.
RIYL - Grief, Circle, Darkthrone and Sleep
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Band:SIENA ROOT
Album:ROOT JAM
Label:Transubstans
Format:CD
Genre:Stoner/Doom/Occult/Sludge Metal
Above all else, this extensive double live album, is a resume of Siena Root's early years. This album features all the elements of the band, from their debut up to recent days. They have managed to pour the bands dynamic energy from the stage right into this box of 91 minutes root rock. You will for sure find the good old heavy riffs, side by side with psychedelic vibes and groovy jams. But there is more, much more to experience in this magnificent album. There are no less than 9 guest artists featured, with a range from classical violin by Martin Stensson from Swedish radio symphonic orchestra, to legendary blues guitarist Maxi Dread. You will also find a lot of Siena Root family from the past such as Tängman and vocalists Oskar and Sanya performing songs on a new level. On top of it all you get previously unreleased material and 2 rare acoustic tracks that reveal a new side of the band. Root Jam is the album that covers the whole colorful spectra of Siena Root, and it's all straight from the stage. No overdubs or studio takes what so ever. If you are into tunes from late 60s, early 70s, you should get your hands on this Double album.
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Band:LAST DAYS OF LORCA
Album:LAST DAYS OF LORCA
Label:NICE WEATHER FOR AIRSTRIKES
Format:CD
Genre:Postrock / Post Hardcore / Noise
Last Days of Lorca’s Pete Lambrou, Tim Walters, Anthony Way and David Smith have been together for just over two years. After two full UK tours and high profile support slots with the likes of Martin Grech, Mew, Mono and The Raveonettes, they have gained recognition from Kerrang and Tom Robinson, as well as being featured in Stuart James Smith’s book How To Make it In Music, as a future ‘ones to watch’. LDOL has received BBC6 airplay as well as being featured on the BBC Introducing Podcasts. The band have also written the soundtrack to Spanish independent filmmaker, Jonathan Cenzual Burley’s recent feature film - el alma de las moscas.
RIYL Radiohead and Mars Volta.
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Band:MARCH FOURTH MARCHING BAND
Album:MAGNIFICENT BEAST
Label:BURNSIDE
Format:CD
Genre:FUNK/AFROBEAT
This is the third studio release from the unclassifiable "alternative big-band" known as MarchFourth (also known as MarchFourth Marching Band, or "M4" by its fans). Produced by Steve Berlin (Los Lobos), Magnificent Beast features a wide array of genre-mashing groove-based material that has established them as one of the best live touring acts, while stepping it up a notch with more vocals and guitar. Following their 2009 release, Rise Up (a tribute to new Orleans), Magnificent Beast finds the band bringing it all back home to Portland. What began as an experiment in gypsy brass, second-line, afrobeat, samba, and circus has now evolved into a full-blown big-stage brass-rock-funk assault peppered with moments of swing, jazz, bollywood, ska and metal.
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Band:GREGORY SCOTT SLAY
Album:HOSETHIEF BEATS
Label:BURNSIDE
Format:CD
Genre:Rock
Gregory Scott Slay, former drummer of Remy Zero, lost a life-long battle with Cystic Fibrosis on Jan 1, 2010. Though he left us too soon, he had lived about 20 years longer than anyone expected – and (as evidenced by his ample musical output) made every day worth it. Horsethief Beats was the record Slay finished only a few months before he passed. Slay played wrote, sang, and performed practically everything on Horsethief Beats – and because of that we have an odd little creature that resembles Trent Reznor’s dark funk and David Bowie’s late-seventies madness. Short, sweet, and bearing a spooky grimace, Horsethief Beats is a record best enjoyed loud and on repeat.
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Band:KENNETH BRIAN BAND
Album:WELCOME TO ALABAMA
Label:BURNSIDE
Format:CD
Genre:Alt-Country / Americana
The debut album from The Kenneth Brian Band is an introduction to the New South, by way of a relentless attack of tracks featuring masterful song-crafting, blistering guitar work, spot-on harmonies, and a take-no-prisoners-rhythm section, all tied together by Brian's honest voice and unapologetically strait-forward point of view. Welcome To Alabama shines like a beacon for those who fear that Southern Culture is all but lost, and moreover, proves that it isn't lost at all. Produced by the legendary Johnny Sandlin (Allman Bros. Band), the album features a who's who of Southern music-makers including David Hood, Randall Bramblett, Bonnie Bramlett, Jason Isbell, and more. With their first album, The Kenneth Brian Band has created a Southern Rock Tour De Force that, like its’ namesake, is both progressive and steeped in tradition. Welcome To Alabama.
“Kenneth is really unbelievable as a guitar player, he’s a real shit-kicking gunslinger with great chops and then he writes songs in that Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt vein of songwriting. It’s not only a hell of a rock ‘n’ roll sound, but the songs are there if you are listening.” - Huntington Herald Dispatch
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Band:LISA MILLS
Album:TEMPERED IN FIRE
Label:BURNSIDE
Format:CD
Genre:Blues
Blazing through a varied landscape of Southern Roots—from the blues of Lisa Mills’ Mississippi birthplace to Muscle Shoals soul—Tempered in Fire showcases Mills’ stunning voice, described by Grahame Rhodes of Blues in the Northwest as being “like a full-throated female Otis Redding.” Recorded and mixed in an all-analogue studio in the countryside of Kent, England, Tempered in Fire includes the considerable talents of guitarist Andy Fairweather Lowe (Amen Corner, Eric Clapton, and Roger Waters) and longtime accompanist, bassist Ian Jennings (Big Town Playboys, Jeff Beck, Van Morrison, and Tom Jones.) All tracks, except for her haunting solo version of “These Arms of Mine,” were written by Mills or someone she knows personally—“from Mobile to Macclesfield,” she laughs.
“When Robert Plant tells you that someone is worth checking out, it’s probably worth listening, when he calls that person a great singer, even more so.” -Blues Matters
UK TOUR DATES: Feb. 14: Scarborough Blues Club, Yorkshire Feb 18: Cranleigh Arts Centre, Surrey Feb 22: The Robin 2, Bilston
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Band:MAN ON FIRE
Album:CHRYSALIS
Label:BURNSIDE
Format:CD
Genre:Prog Rock
Chrysalis sees Man on Fire significantly stretching their sound, which has always been described as refreshingly free of obvious influences. For Chrysalis the band has expanded to a six-piece group. In addition to founding member vocalist/keyboardist Jeff Hodges on grand piano, vintage organs, synths and samples, and Eric Sands, once again providing his signature and distinctive elastic fretless bass and dynamic guitar work, the new Man on Fire lineup features the soulful voice of Elise Testone as co-vocalist, percussion phenom Quentin Ravenel on drums, internationally renown trumpeter Cameron Harder Handel, and classically trained virtuoso violinist Jenny Hugh. Together they create a sound that is more natural, yet ornate, organic, and darkly cinematic than previous Man on Fire releases.
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Band:AURA
Album:AURA aka SATIVA
Label:LION PRODUCTIONS
Format:LP
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
A heavy, oft-sampled slab of Bay Area history—and a psych/funk masterpiece that cannot be denied. Aura formed in 1974 and played extensively throughout Northern California. By 1976, the band recorded their first and only album at Pacific Recording Studio in San Mateo. The original title of the album was meant to be “Sativa”, but out of fear that promoting the joys of marijuana would be too controversial, the band omitted the title and just left it as “Aura”. Over the ensuing decades, the Aura album (Chakra CH 001) has grown in stature to become a major soul/funk collector's item. It features a number of major funk tracks plus funky ballads with female vocals. Standouts include 'Sativa' (heavy 70's funk with waterpipe sound effects and blistering guitar), and the manic fuzz-guitar jam 'Skyrocket.' Old style tip-on jacket, and quality vinyl pressing, mastered from the original tapes.
Limited edition of 1,000 copies - Exact replica edition of rare funk collector’s item.
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Band:SANDROSE
Album:SANDROSE
Label:LION PRODUCTIONS
Format:CD
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
One week in Studio Davout was all it took for Sandrose to record an album that has long been considered one of the most important to emerge from France. After a failed stint as Eden Rose, the various members of that ensemble, led by guitarist extraordinaire Jean-Pierre Alarcen, decided to try a new approach. Their first move was to add a singer. Alarcen had been struck by the vocal timbre of Rose Podwojny (later to become foxy pop sensation Rose Laurens) on a William Sheller demo, and roped her into the band, which was newly dubbed Sandrose. They started rehearsals, and rapidly built a repertoire, mainly Alarcen compositions. He was strongly influenced by both classical symphonic music and rock and roll; his goal was to combine both musical styles, which he finally achieved in several new compositions. The resulting album is something special. On their sole release (Polydor, 1972), Sandrose play a superb mellow proto-progressive rock based on the continuous floating sounds of the mellotron, incisive guitar interventions by Alarcen, and singer Rose Podwojny’s powerful, clear voice.
An elegant 16-page booklet reproduces all original LP art; liner-notes tell the band’s history, and include rare photos, discography, and translations of several contemporary articles.
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Band:THE SEA-DERS
Album:THE SEA DERS ANTHOLOGY
Label:LION PRODUCTIONS
Format:CD
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
This disc contains all known recordings of infectious Middle Eastern inflected rock/beat from the Sea-Ders (or Cedars), Lebanon's top musical export to the world. Eight dynamic tracks, with driving rhythms, blazing electric bouzouki (or oud?), recorded between 1966-1968. Fantastic! Starting in 1965, many groups began to borrow elements of Eastern music to add a little mystery and exotica to their sound. Some prominent examples of this trend include the Kinks’ 'See My Friends,' the Beatles’ 'Norwegian Wood,' and the Byrds’ 'Eight Miles High'; less well-known than the aforementioned acts, but considered masters of the form by those in the know, were the Sea-Ders. For them it wasn’t a case of flirting with foreign culture—they tapped right into the source, there in their own backyard! Decca Records contacted the group and offered them a record deal in the UK. The Sea-ders relocated to London, and in 1967 Decca released ‘Thanks A Lot’ b/w ‘Undecidedly.' The record got some airplay on the pirate stations, but failed to break into the charts. Nevertheless, Decca went ahead with an EP release, featuring three tracks along with the fine ‘Cause I Do Care.’ Apparently the record had a very limited pressing, as it’s now very rare, despite being one of the most exciting releases of the era. Booklet contains liner notes by Mike Stax (Ugly Things Magazine),
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:ELECTRIC SOUND SHOW
Label:PARTICLES
Format:CD BOX SET
Genre:Psych/Garage Reissues
Electric Sound Show is the official off-shoot CD compilation series that follows the long-deleted, vinyl-only compilation LP series, Incredible Sound Show Stories originally issued back in 1995 by Dig The Fuzz records.
Particles presents for the first time ever, all five volumes as originally intended providing a colourful voyage through the handsome and flamboyant heavens of psychedelia.
This exclusive box-set provides complete and professional mastering with expansive and analytical liner notes, promising a wealth of archival material housed in a 56 page colour booklet. Puff on that in your peacepipe!
“A beautiful magic box of aural pleasures for the musical connoisseur, this box-set has absolutely nailed the psychedelic compilation and defined it as a genre in itself” Ed Marsh, Balls magazine, USA, 2011
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Band:PARZIVAL
Album:BAROCK
Label:SIREENA
Format:LP
Genre:Kraut / Space Rock
After the debut album "Legend" (Sireena 4007) Sireena Records now releases the second and final album "BaRock" back again on heavy 180 gram vinyl, too. Unlike the original edition this album appears even in the gatefold cover. Another document from the probably most innovative years of rock musicnsistently the musicians followed their course to theIr 2nd and final album of 1973. "BaRock" was a perfect blend of progressive folk, art rock and classical elements. The musicians had also looked for reinforcements for the recordings. The Aachener Zeitung (German daily paper) wrote after the release: "This is not only worth listening to music of the 70s, that's almost a chore to listen to. Here different influences merge into a warm convincing sound. " Nevertheless, “BaRock became the final step of PARZIVAL. The band split! The musicians were spread in all directions. In 1977 Lothar Siems and Walter Quintus released the critically acclaimed rock opera "Der Führer" . Quintus is still successful working in the music business. The history of PARZIVAL however, was terminated.
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Band:HEROINA
Album:HEROINA
Label:SIREENA
Format:CD
Genre:Kraut / Space Rock
The German trio HEROINA recorded early nineties of the last century one of the most exciting albums ever made in Germany. The musicians took popular titles from REM, Patti Smith, Prince, Sex Pistols, The Stranglers and Edith Piaf and interpreted them according to their own ideas. The result was one of the most danceable albums ever to come out of Germany – directly on the desk of the DJs. Indie rock goes dancefloor! The idea worked: Hardly a dance hall, which did not present HEROINA, incidentally, also abroad. HEROINA recorded only this album. The members of HEROINA came from respected indie projects like Die Erde, Donna Regina, Kastrierte Philosophen, The Perc Meets The Hidden Gentleman.
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Band:MATCHSTICKMEN
Album:THROUGH HELL AND KEPT GOING
Label:MAINLINE RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Matchstickmen have achieved a strong presence in the Liverpool music scene.
“Metal With Manners” – Q RADIO
“Matchstickmen delivered an amazing album.” - TRINITY MIRROR
“A breath of fresh air from the usual drab melancholy.” – MUSICMAFIAUK
“Big following in Liverpool and great stage presence as well!” – BBC RADIO MERSEYSIDE
For fans of Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Foo Fighthers and Nickelback!
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Band:TAKE COVER
Album:THE DREAMER AND THE REALIST
Label:ENGINEER
Format:CD
Genre:Alt Rock
Take Cover is good old-fashion pop rock from Minneapolis, MN. With three part harmonies, catchy choruses and clever, honest lyrics, this band breaks through the clutter in a market saturated with artists. No gimmicks, just five friends with ruthless work ethics and an unstoppable love for music. Have toured the US countless time and will soon be hitting the UK.
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Band:SETTING THE WOODS ON FIRE
Album:RUINS
Label:ENGINEER
Format:CD
Genre:Alt Rock
RUINS is the latest release by the Polish post-hardcore sensation, Setting the Woods on Fire. Their 2009 debut saw this power trio from Warsaw hailed as one of the best bands in europe and this new EP is a step up again, maybe one of the best independent releases of the year. The material for the Ruins EP was recorded on analog tape at the Prusiewicz Sound Studio near Krakow and mastered in New York.
RIYL - The Get Up Kids, The Casket Lottery, Coalesce...
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Band:EMBALMED
Album:EXALT THE IMPERIAL BEAST
Label:Hells Headbangers
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
After 17 years of strategically scattered EPs & demos, EMBALMED finally mark their triumphant return with their very first fulllength album. Hailing from the darkest abyss of Mexico, EMBALMED leave nothing to subtlety when it comes to their raison d'etre - "Exalt the Imperial Beast"! A ceaselessly violent, gnawing torrent of black/death barbarity and sulfurous ritualism that is equally atrocious and dark but still retains a certain Death Metal character in the songwriting. A cult name that lurked in the shadows for far too long, EMBALMED surpass 95% of what is being offered in the current "black/death" scene - worship or die!
RIYL - BESTIAL WARLUST, early MYSTIFIER, classic TEITANBLOOD, IMPURITY and NYOGTHAEBLISZ
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Band:MIDNIGHT
Album:SATANIC ROYALTY
Label:Hells Headbangers
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Black Heavy Metal is the law, and MIDNIGHT subjugate all subjects with their highly anticipated debut album after nearly a decade of EPs and splits. "Satanic Royalty" is both a distillation of first-wave black metal magick and an extension into harderrocking territories rampant with lust, filth, and sleaze. The name MIDNIGHT has been a cult one for years now, but here they prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt - bow down before their "Satanic Royalty"!
Comes with live DVD disc - A must for die hard fans of VENOM, BATHORY, CELTIC FROST
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Band:SPEEDWOLF
Album:RIDE WITH DEATH
Label:Hells Headbangers
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Who wants to "Ride With Death"? SPEEDWOLF's highly anticipated debut album is aptly titled: their locomotive, NWOBHM fuelled heavy metal is powered by a hardcore-punk engine, cruising across the wasteland of the not-so-distant future like proverbial Road Warriors... on iron horses they ride, born to lose. Full-fledged Hessians to the bitter end, SPEEDWOLF play for keeps, each of the LP's dozen tracks an anthem unto itself - so come on and "Ride With Death"!
Bad ass old school cover artwork holds a work that is a must for die hard fans of later ENGLISH DOGS, TOXIC HOLOCAUST, G.I.S.M., later GBH, and the almighty MOTORHEAD.
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Band:VLADIMIRS
Album:THE LATE HOURS
Label:Hells Headbangers
Format:CD
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
Darkness comes in many forms, and for Hells Headbangers it's not always extreme metal. Darkest proof in the form of THE VLADMIRS, who first made their black mark at the forefront of the mid-'90s, during the second wave of horror-punk, and now 16 years later animate their eighth zombified creation entitled "The Late Hours." Indelible, utterly anthemic punk rock that's eerily dark and shadow-draped, THE VLADMIRS here pay respect to horror-punk legends before them whilst creeping on with their well-established identity, resulting in a rollicking ride through the graveyard when the devil's on the loose - run far and free with them during "The Late Hours"...
A must for die hards of THE MISFITS, SAMHAIN, DEVIL'S WHOREHOUSE, early TSOL, and 45 GRAVE!
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Band:INMORIA
Album:A FAREWELL TO NOTHING - THE DIARY PART ONE
Label:ROCK IT UP
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
The Swedish Power Metal band INMORIA make their return to the scene not only with new singer (adding ARTILLERY singer Søren Nico Adamsen but also with their strongest effort until today, their brand new studio-album entitled "A Farewell To Nothing - The Diary Part 1"
"A mixture of BRAINSTORM and ICED EARTH" (www.metalkaoz.com)
INMORIA - Live in UK - 21 Oct - Plymouth, The Junction England 22 Oct - Exeter, Havana England 23 Oct - Portsmouth, The Edge England 24 Oct - London, Purple Turtle England 26 Oct - Leicester, Soundhouse England 27 Oct - Wakefield, Snooty Fox England 28 Oct - Burton upon Trent, The Appleby England 29 Oct - Manchester, Roadhouse England 30 Oct - Birmingham, Roadhouse England
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Band:SCAVANGER
Album:BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE SEA
Label:ROCK IT UP
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
"Between The Devil And The Sea" is Teutonic Heavy Metal album in the vein of bands like GRAVE DIGGER, STORMWITCH, TYRAN’ PACE plus influences of old IRON MAIDEN & NWoBHM
Limited Edition CD With Bonustrack.
SCAVANGER feature: Axel Ritt – (GRAVE DIGGER, DOMAIN) – Guitar Carsten Lizard Schulz (EVIDENCE ONE, ex DOMAIN) – Vocals Juliano Scharf (BEFORE EDEN) - Keyboards Tommy Vitaly (SEVEN GATES) - Guitar Ferdy Doernberg (AXEL RUDI PELL, ROUGH SILK) – Slide Guitar
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Band:SVARTI LOGHIN
Album:SEA OF GREEN
Label:ATMF
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
A Sea of Green, a Passage to horizons of merged colours, from the deepest nights echoing the darkness within depressive black metal to vision going through border of metal. Negative rock coming from the black roots has never been so creative. This short lp / long ep of 26 minutes is the logical consequences of the experiments and intuitions of the first 2 full lengths by the Swedish combo. Let your spirit become an unity with the Sea of green.
For Fans of Katatonia, Amesoeurs, Alcest, Lantlos...
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Band:NEW RISEN THRONE
Album:LONELINESS OF HIDDEN STRUCTURES
Label:cyclic law
Format:CD
Genre:Drone/Ambient
Filled with New Risen Throne's now trade mark sound of deep cavernous drones, processed voices and percussive moments, this new album is a superb follow up to his now impressive discography.
Edition of 1000 copies. Enhanced CD with a special Video Clip of the track New Risen Throne , comes in a 4 panel A5 folder. 9 Tracks. Running Time 60:00.
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Band:VORTEX
Album:ROCKDRILL
Label:cyclic law
Format:CD
Genre:Drone/Ambient
‘Rockdrill’ by Vortex is consciously caught between archaic and modern energies, between history and present. This truly complex album transcends the frontiers of ambient soundscapes in order to awake a nearly forgotten sense of beauty and grace within modernist avant-garde by using twisted rhythm patterns, pounding industrial percussion and fragile organic ambience.
Fans of Northern European post industrial acts will appreciate this album for it sheer power and atmospheric strength while sound art listeners will slowly uncover layer after layer of this many faced composition.
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Band:THE AUSTRASIAN GOAT
Album:STAINS OF RESIGNATION
Label:MUSIC FEAR SATAN
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
The second full length by THE AUSTRASIAN GOAT, the one-man band project leaded by Julien Louvet. After one year of work, this record is built by 9 various tracks, split over furious black metal, atmoshperic funeral doom and folk ballads; this is surely his best and mature work ever. Guest vocals by Jarboe (Swans)
For fans of WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM, SWANS, XASTHUR & JESU
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Band:REVOK
Album:GRIEF IS MY NEW MONIKER
Label:MUSIC FEAR SATAN
Format:CD
Genre:Postrock / Post Hardcore / Noise
Follow up to the acclaimed “Bad books and empty pasts” (2007) and their 2008 UK tour with SILENT FRONT.
For fans of BREACH, NEUROSIS & JESUS LIZARD.
1000 copies only of this Ltd Digisleeve CD.
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Band:DEVIL WRAYS
Album:HARD TIMES
Label:WESTERN STAR
Format:CD
Genre:Rock And Roll/Psychobilly
Fantastic debut album by up-coming UK Psychobilly band based in Brighton.
Stunning quality Rock And Roll with a modern twist...
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Band:BOY OMEGA / PAPER BIRD
Album:SPLIT 7 INCH
Label:SEA YOU
Format:CD
Genre:Indie/Shoegaze
Two of the most exciting european songwriters got together to do this split recording which features two brand new and unreleased songs! Swedish artist Boy Omega presents a top notch produced, arranged and orchestraded song called “Let the dark Light in” and Paper Bird from Austria participates with a stripped down and experimental but yet very catchy tune called “Elephant Skin”, also featuring her great trademark lyrics.
7" is limited to 300 copies.
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Band:STEEL ISLAND
Album:CHILDREN / TEENAGE DIRECTOR
Label:NAKED TREE
Format:7"
Genre:Indie/Shoegaze
Steel Island are Oliver Rangståhl, Martin Ljungberg, Daniel Goody och Fredrik Agvard. The Band have a studio over the train lines by the Frihamns Viaduct in Malmö, Sweden. Guitar, Bass and Drums share the space with a kitchen island full of organs and synthesizers. Inspired by everything from Jonathan Richman to MGMT, the music has been described as everything from raw and desperate to melodic and hopeful.
This is their second single release LTD to 250 copies.
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Band:TWO BIT DEZPERADOS
Album:TWO BIT DEZPERADOS
Label:SMFSP
Format:7"
Genre:Garage Punk
“They ride their wild ponies through a path of bumping indie tunes, dusty tambourines, acoustic and electric riffs, farfisa, drums, powered by catchy boy-girl duets” Komakino Zine.
LTD 7" - RIYL Os Mutantes, Detroit Cobras
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Band:VERMILLION SANDS
Album:VERMILLION SANDS
Label:SMFSP
Format:7"
Genre:Garage Punk
This excellent ltd 7" of Garage/Folk follows the Fat Possum LP "In The Wood", "Rj012" on Rijapov, recorded together with fellow band Movie Star Junkies, an EP called "Miss My Gun" on Sacred Bones and a 7” for the Italian label Hell! Yes. Their full length came out last March for the German label Alien Snatch. Last September they toured US East Coast to promote their album and their last EP out on Trouble in Mind Records from Chicago.
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Band:VERNON SELAVY
Album:VERNON SELAVY
Label:SMFSP
Format:7"
Genre:Garage Punk
VERNON SÉLAVY is the fresh new band of Vincenzo Marando (Movie Star Junkies) and Roberto Grosso Sategna (Dieci Cani) This is their first release, recorded and mixed in December 2010 by Nene Baratto at Outside Inside studio, Montebelluna, Italy.
“Three rough diamonds sprouted in the swamps on which the moon is reflected swaying ominously.”, Mucchio Selvaggio.
For fans of Fresh and Onlys, Movie Star Junkies, Tom Waits...
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Band:LOVE BOAT
Album:SLIDING DECK
Label:SMFSP
Format:7"
Genre:Garage Punk
“Sliding Deck is an EP of four songs that confirms the whole class of Sardinian act Love Boat, a centrifuge of good vibrations that will make you smile in return the inscrutable gloomy days of late winter” Rockit
For fans of Demon's Claws, Monkeys, Black Lips...
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Band:CHURCH OF THE BLUE NUN
Album:THE ART OF WORSHIPPING
Label:7:45 Records
Format:CD
Genre:Folk
The Church of The Blue Nun are first and foremost Robin van Velzen (NL) and Maekkelae (FIN). The genius songwriter team recorded this more than just conseiderable debut in one years time in an old methodist church in the south of Germany. The few selected shows they've been playing so far mostly in Germany turned out to pull amazing crowds with no more promotion but four songs on MySpace. Both blessed with a talent for writing extraordinary material they got a full-length album together that may for good reason be seen as an original, distinct scheme for European alternative folk/singer-songwriter music. An amazing debut between indie-folk, americana and chamber music flavoured pop.
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:PARTY SAN METAL OPEN AIR 2010
Label:WAR ANTHEM
Format:DVD
Genre:Metal
DVD Nr. 8 of this outstanding Open Air festival recorded in 2010
The Double-DVD features exclusive tracks from CANNIBAL CORPSE, ASPHYX, AUTOPSY, NAPALM DEATH, WATAIN, AURA NOIR, MONSTROSITY, GHOST BRIGADE, DEMONICAL, LOCK UP and many more…
The DVD includes a great making of with shitloads of behind the scene captures and tons of exclusive interviews
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Band:PIANOS BECOME THE TEETH
Album:OLD PRIDE
Label:ANCHORS AWEIGH
Format:VINYL 12"
Genre:Punk / Emo
Pianos Become The Teeth has a melodic yet uncompromising sound that brings to mind such diverse and influential bands as Thursday, Envy and City of Caterpillar. Brimming with sincerity and brandishing an experimental ambiance, the band is pushing beyond the boundaries of a stale genre. Mixing elements of screamo, hardcore as well as post rock, Old Pride breathes new life into a once decaying scene.
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Band:GRIEVED
Album:AGEING
Label:ANCHORS AWEIGH
Format:7" VINYL
Genre:Punk / Hardcore
"We're four friends from Stockholm who started this band a year ago and recorded four songs in January. Got signed by Anchors Aweigh Records and released a seven inch called "Ageing". In half a year we've managed to tour quite a lot. A European tour with Runes, a short swedish tour with AYS, and we recently got home from a UK/European tour with Gold Kids. Right now we're working on a full-length album that will be released next year."
Vinyl is coloured - half red half transparent splatter - and limited to 300 units.
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Band:KNITRATE
Album:STARK PUNKT
Label:ARMALYTE INDUSTRIES
Format:CD
Genre:Industrial/EBM
A companion album to last year’s ‘Voltage’ release (on Advoxya Records), ‘Stark Punkt’ is a combination of remixes and new tracks and has its sights set firmly on the dance floor. Formed in the early Nineties, K-Nitrate have been at the vanguard of the UK’s Industrial/Electronic scene and ‘Stark Punkt’ is a relentlessly kinetic reminder of what made the band so exciting originally.
K-Nitrate features Graham Rayner, a founder member of one of the UK’s leading Industrial acts, Cubanate.
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:HUMAN HERD / SCHIZOID
Label:COLD SUN PRODUCTIONS
Format:7" VINYL
Genre:Industrial/EBM
September 2011 brings the exciting release of the HUMAN HERD / SCHIZOID split 7"! Satanic industrial electronic act HUMAN HERD starts off the A side with a dark hypnotic track of stomping entrancing gristle; deadened vocals, depraved guitars, drowning echoes of noisy feedback. SCHIZOID brings home the B side with the title track to the upcoming LP "The Next Extreme". Desolate, blackened digital hardcore metal blastbeats, with seething shrieks to gnash teeth amidst these end times.
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Band:LILYUM
Album:NOTHING IS MINE
Label:DUSKTONE
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Although it is inspired by modern War Black Metal style, Lilyum create music that is intensely original in it’s orientation : thumping violent drum-war-machine, hyperblasting guitar riffs, brutally abrasive voice from beyond create a demonic wall-noise and blasted atmosphere perfectly orchestrated by multi-instrumentalist Kosmos Reversum.
RIYL Classic Death / War Black Metal
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Band:COLD BODY RADIATION
Album:DEER TWILIGHT
Label:DUSKTONE
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
After the high worldwide acclaimed debut album “The great white emptiness” Holland’s COLD BODY RADIATION is soon to release the second studio album “Deer Twillight” on fall 2011. So hard to categorise, CBR is becoming a fiercely original reference in the so called post-bm shoegaze movement. The new seven compositions come with a pounding sound structure trying to flout all conventions of usual extreme metal audio structures. ‘Deer Twillight’ captures the cold season in all shades and lights. Winter provided a perfect backdrop for melancholy and inner turmoil. This is a personal journey looking for hope in bleak circumstances. Trying to capture the overwhelming beauty and despair of winter.
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Band:SKELETAL SPECTRE
Album:OCCULT SPAWNED PREMONITIONS
Label:SELFMADEGOD
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Second full length of the amazing Swedish/US death/doom metal band.
Features Rogga Johansson (BONEGNAWER, PUTREVORE, DEMIURG, RIBSPREADER, THE GROTESQUERY)
RIYL - CELTIC FROST, old BLACK SABBATH, and early 90's Swedish Death Metal ala ENTOMBED.
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Band:PYRRHON
Album:AN EXCELLENT SERVANT BUT A TERRIBLE MASTER
Label:SELFMADEGOD
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Debut full length of the amazing New York based progressive death metal band.
A must have for fans of GORGUTS, DEATH, THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, ATHEIST, SUFFOCATION.
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Band:STONECREEP
Album:THE DEATHMARCH CRUSHES ON
Label:OSM Records
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Metal Maniacs - “As much Metallica and Accept persuasion at play as there is Black Label Society and Motorhead, if collected and melted down into a single metal silver bullet”.
RIYL - Metallica, Accept and Black Label Society.
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Band:ARRAYAN PATH
Album:IRA IMPERIUM
Label:PITCH BLACK
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
“Ira Imperium” features a guest appearance by the legendary Tony Martin (ex BLACK SABBATH) and also sees the return of Vagelis Maranis (SANVOISEN) lending his voice on several songs. The main voice throughout the album remains the same of course; that of Nicholas Leptos, the driving force behind ARRAYAN PATH whose unmistakable charismatic voice is the finishing touch to the brilliantly passionate EPIC metal sound of ARRAYAN PATH.
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Band:ILLNATH
Album:THIRD ACT IN THE THEATRE OF MADNESS
Label:PITCH BLACK
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
ILLNATH could quite possibly be Denmark’s answer to ARCH ENEMY!
The powerful voice of Mona Beck (unavoidably compared to Angela Gossow) is a great addition to the band’s new lineup which includes original member Pete Falk on guitars.
RIYL - ARCH ENEMY, DARK TRANQUILITY, AT THE GATES, AMON AMARTH, CHILDREN OF BODOM
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Band:FIABA
Album:LAPPICCATO and IL CAPELLO HA 3 PUNTE
Label:JOLLY ROGER
Format:cd
Genre:Prog Rock
Two classic slices of Nineties Italian Prog on one compact disc.
RIYL Fates Warning,Magellan and Rush.
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Band:HOLY MARTYR
Album:INVINCIBLE
Label:JOLLY ROGER
Format:LP
Genre:Metal
LTD Vinyl LP version of Dragonheart Records cd.
Livereviewer.com - “Everyone who loves the 80’s epic metal such as Manowar (first four albums) and Manilla Road should check this one out. The incorporation of some typical Japanese sounds form a great bonus to these traditional epic battle hymns. This is a good old metal album with an unusual lyrical theme.”
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Band:SCREAMING SHADOWS
Album:NIGHT KEEPER
Label:JOLLY ROGER
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
New (third) album for Italian Sardinian band Screaming Shadows, lead by guitar hero Francesco Marras.
RIYL - Progressive Heavy Power Metal, Queensryche, Crimson Glory, Helloween...
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Band:VISTHIA
Album:IN AETERNUM DELETI
Label:ATMF
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
There was a time when extreme music was not a mere shouting exercise, but a VISION, an idea of how to develop the magma of creation. Hailing from Italy, Visthia confirm the innovative attitude and contribution this scene is giving to reawakening the daring attitude that scene seems to have lost.
For fans of Dødheimsgard, Diabolicum, MZ.412 and Aborym‘s “Kali Yuga Bizarre” era.
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Band:NO EMPATHY
Album:RUST.
Label:KETZER
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Raging Black / Death / Thrash Metal hybrid on Ketzer Records.
No Empathy are playing at both the 2012 "Under the Black Sun" Festival and the 2012 "Raging Death Date" Festivals...
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Band:CRUADALACH
Album:LEAD - NOT FOLLOW
Label:Black Bards
Format:CD
Genre:FOLK METAL
Cruadalach are not only THE Band in the pagan- and folk scene in the Czech republic, and now they are going to conquer the rest of europe.
If musicians from Eluveitie and negura bunget come together, there would might come a bastard like Cruadalach of it. Contrary to many other genrebands the 8 people from Cruadalach is playing special instruments like citter and gemshorn, flutes, bagpipes and violins live and not from the tape, and bring alot of energy and enthusiasm with them.
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Band:OBTEST
Album:AUKA SENIEMS DIEVAMS LP
Label:Ledo Takas
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Black Metal
Four albums under their belts, many EP releases and live victories achieved worldwide, OBTEST take a look back to their most praised album. To celebrate its ten years’ anniversary, they have not only fully remixed and remastered the raw recordings from the past – that was masterfully accomplished by Gints Lundbergs at the legendary Phoenix studio, but also managed to pull out a completely unpublished and earlier unfinished track, “Amžina Aušra“, from that era, which was finally completed this spring, with added lyrics and vocal lines. So, ten years later, a classic album sounds ten times stronger, ten times heavier, ten times clearer and ten times more balanced – the way it was meant to sound from the very beginning! Celebrating the anniversary, Ledo Takas re-issues the acclaimed album in both CD and never available before picture disk formats.
Limited vinyl edition Picture Disc.
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Band:OBTEST
Album:AUKA SENIEMS DIEVAMS
Label:Ledo Takas
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Four albums under their belts, many EP releases and live victories achieved worldwide, OBTEST take a look back to their most praised album. To celebrate its ten years’ anniversary, they have not only fully remixed and remastered the raw recordings from the past – that was masterfully accomplished by Gints Lundbergs at the legendary Phoenix studio, but also managed to pull out a completely unpublished and earlier unfinished track, “Amžina Aušra“, from that era, which was finally completed this spring, with added lyrics and vocal lines. So, ten years later, a classic album sounds ten times stronger, ten times heavier, ten times clearer and ten times more balanced – the way it was meant to sound from the very beginning!
Ledo Takas has also taken much care on re-packaging the whole effort in a new, upgraded, deluxe edition, including “All The Truth…” story behind the album creation and recording process, written by the mainman Sadlave, as well as a bunch of never before published photos and tour flyers. CD is released in a super jewel box format, wrapped in extra O-card..
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Band:CASSANDRA SYNDROME
Album:SATIRE X
Label:Ravenheart
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Hailing from Maryland, Cassandra Syndrome is a female-fronted operatic metal band. This passionate, engaging act strikes the perfect balance between playful and sinister. Cassandra Syndrome is an intimate theater of darkness and seduction.
RIYL Lacuna Coil, Old Nightwish Etc...
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Band:SILENT OPERA
Album:IMMORTAL BEAUTY
Label:Ravenheart
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Symphonic Opaeratic Metal from Italia.
RIYL Within Temptation / Old Nightwish.
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Band:HATESPHERE
Album:TO THE NINES LP
Label:SUPREME CHAOS
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Metal
7th Album from Danish thrash Metal kings.
Limited to 700 copies only on Vinyl.
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Band:HATESPHERE
Album:THE GREAT BLUDGEONING
Label:SUPREME CHAOS
Format:VINYL LP
Genre:Metal
8th Album from Danish thrash Metal kings!
CD on the high profile Napalm Records label.
Limited to 400 copies on Red 180g vinyl in gatefold sleeve.
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Band:SKIES
Album:BANE AND REBIRTH
Label:Bombworks
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Kansas based Extreme Post Hardcore/Metal act.
RIYL The Ghost Inside, The Chariot etc.
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Band:BATTLERAGE
Album:TRUE METAL VICTORY
Label:METAL ON METAL
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Chilean "True Metal" warriors new album.
RIYL Running Wild,Omen,Pragon and Manowar.
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Band:OUTRAGE
Album:GO TO HELL
Label:METAL ON METAL
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Old school German black metal maniacs re-record their early classics!
RIYL Sodom,Hellhammer,Venom,Celtic Frost Etc...
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Band:SAINT
Album:TIMES END
Label:Retroactive
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
This 2011 reissue is part of the Retroactive Records Originals reissues collections that celebrates and enhances the brilliance of the original releases without subpar bonus material!
Enjoy this White metal classic now more than ever - For fans of Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, and Iron Maiden.
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Band:SAINT
Album:TOO LATE FOR LIVING
Label:Retroactive
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
This 2011 reissue is part of the Retroactive Records Originals reissues collections that celebrates and enhances the brilliance of the original releases without subpar bonus material!
Enjoy this White metal classic now more than ever - For fans of Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, and Iron Maiden.
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Band:SAINT
Album:WARRIORS OF THE SUN
Label:Retroactive
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
This 2011 reissue is part of the Retroactive Records Originals reissues collections that celebrates and enhances the brilliance of the original releases without subpar bonus material!
Enjoy this White metal classic now more than ever - For fans of Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, and Iron Maiden.
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Band:DANIEL AMOS
Album:MR BUECHNERS DREAM
Label:BRUTAL PLANET
Format:CD
Genre:Rock
Having produced music since the 70’s, Daniel Amos was well known for being elite Christian rock artists. But this 2001 release was so impressive that in 2002 The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music would make the claim that Daniel Amos was not only the best band in Christian music, but “the best they had ever been!” This 2011 Retroactive Records reissue includes an expanded booklet and one unreleased bonus track, “Nowhere Is Someplace.” For fans of intelligent, literate, alternative rock music!
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Band:DANIEL AMOS
Album:SHOTGUN ANGEL
Label:BRUTAL PLANET
Format:CD
Genre:Rock
DA's classic 1977 remastered album features a second disc of more than 26 never before released high quality bonus tracks including unreleased songs, rare 4-track demos, studio outtakes, remixes and more; a 20 page booklet with more than 30 previously unseen photos in a deluxe gatefold digipak. Countless hours of work and care went into restoring the album's original artwork and audio.
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Band:DANIEL AMOS
Album:DANIEL AMOS
Label:BRUTAL PLANET
Format:CD
Genre:Rock
This 2011 Born Twice Records release 35th Anniversary Edition is a Deluxe 2 CD remastered reissue of DA's first self titled album plus new liner notes, rare photos and never-before-heard recordings from the DA archives. In addition to all of the songs from the first album, this collection includes newly recorded "Audio Liner Notes" with Terry Taylor about the history of the songs and the band, 26 bonus tracks including previously unreleased demo and live recordings from the years leading up to DA's record contract with Maranatha! Records, and the first songs recorded for the label, including "'Ain’t Gonna Fight It.
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Band:CARNIVOROUS VORACITY
Album:DEBASEMENT INCARNATED
Label:AMPUTATED VEIN
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Brutal Death Metal from Spain's Basque country.
RIYL Disavowed and Despondency.
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Band:SLAUGHTERBOX
Album:THE UBIQUITY OF SUBJUGATION
Label:AMPUTATED VEIN
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Californan Brutal Death Metal Act.
RIYL Origin,Brain Drill and Decrepit Birth.
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Band:NECROMORPH
Album:GRINDING BLACK ZERO
Label:FDA REKOTZ
Format:LP
Genre:Grindcore
Raging Scandanavian Death / Grindcore.
RIYL Nasum,Brutal Truth and early Entombed.
LP Ltd to 500 copies worldwide.
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Band:REVOLTING
Album:THE GRISLY RAPTURE
Label:FDA REKOTZ
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
3RD LP from Swedish Death Metallers.
RIYL Entombed,Edge Of Sanity and Dismember.
LP LTD to 500 copies worldwide.
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Band:REVOLTING
Album:THE GRISLY RAPTURE - CD
Label:FDA REKOTZ
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Swedish Death Metallers great 3rd album.
RIYL Edge Of Sanity, Entombed and Dismember!
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Band:DEATH TOLL 80K
Album:HARSH REALITIES
Label:FDA REKOTZ
Format:CD
Genre:Grindcore
Finland's finest ever Grindcore act with 23 mindblowing new tracks.
Features members of Hooded Menace (Profound Lore).
RIYL Insect Warfare and Wormrot.
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Band:ENTRAILS
Album:THE TOMB AWAITS
Label:FDA REKOTZ
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
The most brutal and best Swe-Death album since Dismember's "Like An Ever Flowing Stream".
RIYL Entomed,Dismember and Demonical.
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Band:GOREGAST
Album:DESECHOS HUMANOS
Label:FDA REKOTZ
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Crushing German Death Metal with a pinch of grind...
RIYL Morgotha and early Carcass or Emtombed.
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Band:DEAD
Album:HARDNAKED BUT DEAD
Label:FDA REKOTZ
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Their best album since the "Dead" reunion.
RIYL Pungent Stench and Autopsy!
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Band:NARSILION
Album:ELENNA NORE
Label:BLACK RAIN GMBH
Format:CD
Genre:Folk
Fourth album from one of the Drak Folk / Neo Folk scene's heavy hitters.
Limited and Numbered to 888 copies.
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