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Band:MYSTERY
Album:LIVE IN POZNAN
Label:UNICORN DIGITAL
Format:2CD
Genre:Prog Rock
Recorded Live in Poland on April 7th 2019 during the Live and Butterflies Tour. MYSTERY and Unicorn Digital are proud to presents in association with OSKAR Records, the third double live album from the Canadian progressive rock band, MYSTERY Live in Poznan. Just like the name suggest, the album containing a total of 160 Minutes was recorded at the legendary Blue Note Jazz Club in Poznan, Poland. Following the release of the 2018 album Lies and Butterflies, MYSTERY embarked on the Live and Butterflies tour in 2019 allowing the band to perform in 8 countries including 3 dates in Poland where this album was recorded. The albums is made of all the songs from the latest album Lies and Butterflies as well as many other great Mystery songs that the fans around the world can enjoy at a Mystery concert. Once again this new Live album is the perfect memorabilia for the fans who came to the 2019 Mystery tour, and for the new fans, demonstrate the power and emotions of a Mystery concert.
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Band:AGALLOCH.
Album:THE WHITE EP (LTD)
Label:Eisenwald
Format:CD
Genre:NEOFOLK/METAL/PROGRESSIVE/POST-ROCK
REMASTERED RE-ISSUE WITH ORIGINAL ARTWORK AND BONUSTRACK. LIMITED FIRST PRESS WITH DELUXE EMBOSSED SLIPCASE ! Eisenwald presents The White EP: a collection of dark folk & ambient work written & recorded between 2004 - 2007. Originally released in 2008 by now defunct Vendlus Records, the White is the last installment of two companion releases & the stylistic counterpart to the Grey. This remastered re-issue includes the rare track “Where Shade Once Was”. For over twenty years the Pacific Northwest group Agalloch had defined what it means to combine influences from a variety of musical genres into one brooding, colossal, and cinematic sound that provides the soundtrack to existential themes concerning man, nature, loss, and death.
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Band:AGALLOCH.
Album:THE WHITE EP (LTD CLEAR/SMOKE BLACK VINYL)
Label:Eisenwald
Format:vinyl
Genre:NEOFOLK/METAL/PROGRESSIVE/POST-ROCK
REMASTERED RE-ISSUE WITH ORIGINAL ARTWORK AND BONUSTRACK. LIMITED FIRST PRESS WITH DELUXE EMBOSSED SLIPCASE ! Clear/black smoke vinyl Eisenwald presents The White EP: a collection of dark folk & ambient work written & recorded between 2004 - 2007. Originally released in 2008 by now defunct Vendlus Records, the White is the last installment of two companion releases & the stylistic counterpart to the Grey. This remastered re-issue includes the rare track “Where Shade Once Was”. For over twenty years the Pacific Northwest group Agalloch had defined what it means to combine influences from a variety of musical genres into one brooding, colossal, and cinematic sound that provides the soundtrack to existential themes concerning man, nature, loss, and death.
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Band:AGALLOCH.
Album:THE WHITE EP (LTD WHITE VINYL)
Label:Eisenwald
Format:vinyl
Genre:NEOFOLK/METAL/PROGRESSIVE/POST-ROCK
REMASTERED RE-ISSUE WITH ORIGINAL ARTWORK AND BONUSTRACK. LIMITED FIRST PRESS WITH DELUXE EMBOSSED SLIPCASE ! 180G white vinyl Eisenwald presents The White EP: a collection of dark folk & ambient work written & recorded between 2004 - 2007. Originally released in 2008 by now defunct Vendlus Records, the White is the last installment of two companion releases & the stylistic counterpart to the Grey. This remastered re-issue includes the rare track “Where Shade Once Was”. For over twenty years the Pacific Northwest group Agalloch had defined what it means to combine influences from a variety of musical genres into one brooding, colossal, and cinematic sound that provides the soundtrack to existential themes concerning man, nature, loss, and death.
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Band:AGALLOCH.
Album:THE GREY EP (LTD)
Label:Eisenwald
Format:CD
Genre:METAL/PROGRESSIVE/POST-ROCK/AVANTGARDE
REMASTERED RE-ISSUE WITH ORIGINAL ARTWORK AND BONUSTRACK. LIMITED FIRST PRESS WITH DELUXE EMBOSSED SLIPCASE ! Eisenwald presents The Grey EP: A collection of destroyed & rebuilt songs from “The Mantle”. The Grey is the first installment of two companion releases, originally released in 2004. This new edition includes the original artwork and arrives with exclusive bonus track recorded in 2003, that has never been released on any format. For over twenty years the Pacific Northwest group Agalloch had defined what it means to combine influences from a variety of musical genres into one brooding, colossal, and cinematic sound that provides the soundtrack to existential themes concerning man, nature, loss, and death.
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Band:AGALLOCH.
Album:THE GREY EP (LTD SILVER VINYL)
Label:Eisenwald
Format:vinyl
Genre:METAL/PROGRESSIVE/POST-ROCK/AVANTGARDE
REMASTERED RE-ISSUE WITH ORIGINAL ARTWORK AND BONUSTRACK. LIMITED FIRST PRESS WITH DELUXE EMBOSSED SLIPCASE ! Eisenwald presents The Grey EP: A collection of destroyed & rebuilt songs from “The Mantle”. The Grey is the first installment of two companion releases, originally released in 2004. This new edition includes the original artwork and arrives with exclusive bonus track recorded in 2003, that has never been released on any format. For over twenty years the Pacific Northwest group Agalloch had defined what it means to combine influences from a variety of musical genres into one brooding, colossal, and cinematic sound that provides the soundtrack to existential themes concerning man, nature, loss, and death.
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Band:LORD MANTIS
Album:UNIVERSAL DEATH CHURCH
Label:PROFOUND LORE RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:BLACKENED DOOM/NOISE METAL
The inevitable regeneration of LORD MANTIS occurred when vocalist/bassist Charlie Fell and guitarist/vocalist Andrew Markuszewski decided to mend ties and once again join forces for a new renewed union to properly carry on the LORD MANTIS legacy, mired in chaos and virulence, by honouring the memory of late drummer/founder Bill Bumgardner with their new album “Universal Death Church”. With guitarist Ken Sorceron of Abigail Williams fame (who also joined LORD MANTIS on “Death Mask”) and new drummer Bryce Butler, along with honorary vocalist/member Dylan O’Toole of Indian, “Universal Death Church” is the result of a band who has overcome dark and chaotic chapters and bitter internal feuds to set out once again to raise the bar of extreme music after the suicide of a key founding member in the ranks. “Universal Death Church” sees LORD MANTIS with a new sense of purpose and focus. More developed and immeasurable, vast and towering, “Universal Death Church” continues the doomed and blackened depraved metal paradigm that has become the signature resonating palpitation surrounding the LORD MANTIS sound. The threading between punishing, torturous yet direct and at times tangible industrial-influenced riffing with the more abstract, dark, blackened surreal-like crawling and swift passages paint a new disturbing sonic portrait for the band. The renewed union of LORD MANTIS became akin to that of repairing tissue of an unnamable and vile organism. Leveling up the beast.
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Band:LORD MANTIS
Album:UNIVERSAL DEATH CHURCH
Label:PROFOUND LORE RECORDS
Format:LP
Genre:BLACKENED DOOM/NOISE METAL
The inevitable regeneration of LORD MANTIS occurred when vocalist/bassist Charlie Fell and guitarist/vocalist Andrew Markuszewski decided to mend ties and once again join forces for a new renewed union to properly carry on the LORD MANTIS legacy, mired in chaos and virulence, by honouring the memory of late drummer/founder Bill Bumgardner with their new album “Universal Death Church”. With guitarist Ken Sorceron of Abigail Williams fame (who also joined LORD MANTIS on “Death Mask”) and new drummer Bryce Butler, along with honorary vocalist/member Dylan O’Toole of Indian, “Universal Death Church” is the result of a band who has overcome dark and chaotic chapters and bitter internal feuds to set out once again to raise the bar of extreme music after the suicide of a key founding member in the ranks. “Universal Death Church” sees LORD MANTIS with a new sense of purpose and focus. More developed and immeasurable, vast and towering, “Universal Death Church” continues the doomed and blackened depraved metal paradigm that has become the signature resonating palpitation surrounding the LORD MANTIS sound. The threading between punishing, torturous yet direct and at times tangible industrial-influenced riffing with the more abstract, dark, blackened surreal-like crawling and swift passages paint a new disturbing sonic portrait for the band. The renewed union of LORD MANTIS became akin to that of repairing tissue of an unnamable and vile organism. Leveling up the beast.
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Band:OSI AND THE JUPITER
Album:NORDLIGE RUNASKOG
Label:Eisenwald
Format:DCD
Genre:NORDIC FOLK/NEOFOLK/SOUNDTRACK
Helmed by vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Sean Kratz, OSI AND THE JUPITER first emerged from its cocoon in 2016 with the debut album Halls of the Wolf. Led by the ever-poignant, goosebump-inducing cello work of co-conspirator Kakophonix, the album set forth the band's aesthetic, which would come to even fuller fruition the next year with Uthuling Hyl, released by current label home EISENWALD. Not surprisingly, Uthuling Hyl became many people's introduction to OSI AND THE JUPITER, and garnered the group favorable comparisons to Warduna, Forndom, Of the Wand and the Moon, Sonne Hagal, and Vàli among others - esteemed company, to be sure. However, OSI AND THE JUPITER are, by comparison, an American entity, which imbues their creations with a strange and totally unique disconnect from the Old Europa similarly channeled by those aforementioned contemporaries. There exists within their creative sphere a distant yet psychically strong conduit to the lore and traditions of the ancients - a veritable bloodline that empowers Kratz and Kakophonix. A surer-footed suggestion of such came with the Grå Hest 7" this past August, and now fully blossoms with the band's masterful third album, Nordlige Rúnaskog. Quite possibly the most perfect music for autumnal fires and the dying of summer's light, here do OSI AND THE JUPITER weave wistful ruminations on old days, The Old Ways, and the ways in which the turning of the seasons mark our lives. It's every inch the superior to the group's preceding recordings, and yet no marked changes have occurred within this iron-girded aesthetic. Simply, Nordlige Rúnaskog is the sound of OSI AND THE JUPITER at the height of their magickal powers, and we are all the richer for bearing witness to their plaintive paeans.
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Band:OSI AND THE JUPITER
Album:NORDLIGE RUNASKOG (AMBER MARBLE VINYL)
Label:Eisenwald
Format:2LP
Genre:NORDIC FOLK/NEOFOLK/SOUNDTRACK
Helmed by vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Sean Kratz, OSI AND THE JUPITER first emerged from its cocoon in 2016 with the debut album Halls of the Wolf. Led by the ever-poignant, goosebump-inducing cello work of co-conspirator Kakophonix, the album set forth the band's aesthetic, which would come to even fuller fruition the next year with Uthuling Hyl, released by current label home EISENWALD. Not surprisingly, Uthuling Hyl became many people's introduction to OSI AND THE JUPITER, and garnered the group favorable comparisons to Warduna, Forndom, Of the Wand and the Moon, Sonne Hagal, and Vàli among others - esteemed company, to be sure. However, OSI AND THE JUPITER are, by comparison, an American entity, which imbues their creations with a strange and totally unique disconnect from the Old Europa similarly channeled by those aforementioned contemporaries. There exists within their creative sphere a distant yet psychically strong conduit to the lore and traditions of the ancients - a veritable bloodline that empowers Kratz and Kakophonix. A surer-footed suggestion of such came with the Grå Hest 7" this past August, and now fully blossoms with the band's masterful third album, Nordlige Rúnaskog. Quite possibly the most perfect music for autumnal fires and the dying of summer's light, here do OSI AND THE JUPITER weave wistful ruminations on old days, The Old Ways, and the ways in which the turning of the seasons mark our lives. It's every inch the superior to the group's preceding recordings, and yet no marked changes have occurred within this iron-girded aesthetic. Simply, Nordlige Rúnaskog is the sound of OSI AND THE JUPITER at the height of their magickal powers, and we are all the richer for bearing witness to their plaintive paeans.
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Band:OSI AND THE JUPITER
Album:HALLS OF THE WOLF
Label:Eisenwald
Format:CD
Genre:NORDIC FOLK/NEOFOLK/SOUNDTRACK
Re-issue of Osi and the Jupiter's debut album, for the first time on CD ! Osi and the Jupiter`s first full-length "Halls Of The Wolf" explores neo-folk with atmospheric acoustic hymns, bluesy, dark and eerie. Hailing from the shadowy forests of Ohio amongst the echoes of old songs dwell the haunting hymns of Osi and the Jupiter. Sean Deth (also the frontman/bassist of Burial Oath and Witchhelm) offers his multi-instrumental talent in honor to Northern pagan traditions and in worshipful tribute to the peaceful finally of death. From its birth in 2015, the focus of the project has been on the spiritual connection between nature and the will of the old Gods – channeled through various representations of life, death and rebirth, this connection speaks through these musical creations, resonating as wordless tributes to these nebulous yet fundamental concepts.
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Band:KRATER
Album:VENENARE
Label:Eisenwald
Format:DCD
Genre:BLACK/DEATH METAL
A 50-minute work broken into nine songs but unified as one winding, widescreen composition, Venenare shows KRATER at the height of their all-too-considerable powers, a blinding and windswept vortex of sumptuous songcraft and passionate execution. Motifs slice and dice, blast and race with a grace that's simply stunning, as melodic counterplay runs riot with a proud 'n' powerful assertion of classic metal sensibility. KRATER's contours here undeniably exude a sleek and urban quality, but with abstracted hints of their pagan past subtly woven in to the soundfield, the result is staunchly second-wave black metal bravely recast for the 21st century. With cover artwork courtesy of Misanthropic-Art and mixing & mastering handled by Esoteric's Greg Chandler, KRATER have gone full-force to deliver a great work for the ages with Venenare.
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Band:KRATER
Album:VENENARE (LTD)
Label:Eisenwald
Format:LP
Genre:BLACK/DEATH METAL
Deluxe Gatefold with 180g poison green vinyl, poster and download. Limited first press with exclusive slipcase ! A 50-minute work broken into nine songs but unified as one winding, widescreen composition, Venenare shows KRATER at the height of their all-too-considerable powers, a blinding and windswept vortex of sumptuous songcraft and passionate execution. Motifs slice and dice, blast and race with a grace that's simply stunning, as melodic counterplay runs riot with a proud 'n' powerful assertion of classic metal sensibility. KRATER's contours here undeniably exude a sleek and urban quality, but with abstracted hints of their pagan past subtly woven in to the soundfield, the result is staunchly second-wave black metal bravely recast for the 21st century. With cover artwork courtesy of Misanthropic-Art and mixing & mastering handled by Esoteric's Greg Chandler, KRATER have gone full-force to deliver a great work for the ages with Venenare.
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Band:DEATHTRIP, THE
Album:DEMON SOLAR TOTEM
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Featuring the long‐due return of Kvohst (Ex‐Dødheimsgard/Code) on lyrics/vocals joining the cold, hypnotic riffs of Host (Thine), the primal drumming of Storm (Ex‐My Dying Bride, Blasphemer) and introducing the bass playing of Thomas Eriksen (Mork), The Deathtrip offer tickets to primeval possession and open portals to other dimensions. Demon Solar Totem captures the spirit of ancient Darkthrone, Thorns and Beherit imbued with old‐English occultism and the chanting of sacred sound formulas. Otherworld Black Metal eeriness for a deep dive into spectral realms, Demon Solar Totem will be released on November the 15th 2019.
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Band:DEATHTRIP, THE
Album:DEMON SOLAR TOTEM
Label:SVART
Format:LP
Genre:Black Metal
Featuring the long‐due return of Kvohst (Ex‐Dødheimsgard/Code) on lyrics/vocals joining the cold, hypnotic riffs of Host (Thine), the primal drumming of Storm (Ex‐My Dying Bride, Blasphemer) and introducing the bass playing of Thomas Eriksen (Mork), The Deathtrip offer tickets to primeval possession and open portals to other dimensions. Demon Solar Totem captures the spirit of ancient Darkthrone, Thorns and Beherit imbued with old‐English occultism and the chanting of sacred sound formulas. Otherworld Black Metal eeriness for a deep dive into spectral realms, Demon Solar Totem will be released on November the 15th 2019.
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Band:DEATHTRIP, THE
Album:DEMON SOLAR TOTEM (BLUE VINYL)
Label:SVART
Format:LP
Genre:Black Metal
Featuring the long‐due return of Kvohst (Ex‐Dødheimsgard/Code) on lyrics/vocals joining the cold, hypnotic riffs of Host (Thine), the primal drumming of Storm (Ex‐My Dying Bride, Blasphemer) and introducing the bass playing of Thomas Eriksen (Mork), The Deathtrip offer tickets to primeval possession and open portals to other dimensions. Demon Solar Totem captures the spirit of ancient Darkthrone, Thorns and Beherit imbued with old‐English occultism and the chanting of sacred sound formulas. Otherworld Black Metal eeriness for a deep dive into spectral realms, Demon Solar Totem will be released on November the 15th 2019.
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Band:VESPERITH
Album:VESPERITH
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
Sariina Tani channels the depths of the cosmos through the vessel of Vesperith. On her self‐titled debut album, Tani meditates on the nature of shadows and emptiness, stating that “This new album is a pilgrimage to the abyss. For many, shadows, darkness, emptiness, or void are almost stigmatized as evil, bad, or scary but I see almost heartbreaking beauty, light, and infinity there.” Mirroring the duality of light and darkness, Vesperith is a conduit for the chaotic harmony of the universe. Tani’s music is spawned from atmospheric drones, screeching distortion, and mesmerizing ambience, suddenly blowing up into euphoric, phoenix‐like waves of bewitching guitars and hypnotic siren song. Co‐produced by fellow dark Finnish extraterrestrial Jun‐His, well known for bending time and space in his psychedelic black metal band Oranssi Pazuzuand their Waste Of Space Orchestra collaboration with Dark Buddha Rising, Vesperith is a multiverse of sonic summoning. Although Tani shares kinship and spirit with her boundary‐breaking countrymen, she is on her own trajectory. This album is a personal odyssey, as Tani explains further: “It was a traverse to the darker inner regions of the soul and, through that alchemical trial of fire, becoming whole again.”
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Band:VESPERITH
Album:VESPERITH
Label:SVART
Format:LP
Genre:Metal
Sariina Tani channels the depths of the cosmos through the vessel of Vesperith. On her self‐titled debut album, Tani meditates on the nature of shadows and emptiness, stating that “This new album is a pilgrimage to the abyss. For many, shadows, darkness, emptiness, or void are almost stigmatized as evil, bad, or scary but I see almost heartbreaking beauty, light, and infinity there.” Mirroring the duality of light and darkness, Vesperith is a conduit for the chaotic harmony of the universe. Tani’s music is spawned from atmospheric drones, screeching distortion, and mesmerizing ambience, suddenly blowing up into euphoric, phoenix‐like waves of bewitching guitars and hypnotic siren song. Co‐produced by fellow dark Finnish extraterrestrial Jun‐His, well known for bending time and space in his psychedelic black metal band Oranssi Pazuzuand their Waste Of Space Orchestra collaboration with Dark Buddha Rising, Vesperith is a multiverse of sonic summoning. Although Tani shares kinship and spirit with her boundary‐breaking countrymen, she is on her own trajectory. This album is a personal odyssey, as Tani explains further: “It was a traverse to the darker inner regions of the soul and, through that alchemical trial of fire, becoming whole again.”
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Band:GRAVE PLEASURES
Album:DOOMSDAY ROADBURN
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:DEATH ROCK
Grave Pleasures release new live album, Doomsday Roadburn, from their atomic performance on the mainstage of Roadburn Festival 2018. Features songs from Beastmilk’s Climax and their most successful album yet, Motherblood, including 2 unreleased tracks from the Motherblood recording sessions. Captured at their climactic and triumphant main stage show at Roadburn Festival, where they had the stoner crowd dancing in rapture like never before, Grave Pleasures have never sounded so alive. Doomsday Roadburn features a bludgeoning non‐stop raw barrage of hits to a rapturous crowd. From songs hewn from their underground origins in their previous incarnation as Beastmilk, from the Climax record, and break‐out hits from the album which stands as the jewel in their crown, the critically acclaimed Motherblood, the recording is a bottled tour de force of an explosive band on fire. Also including two previously unreleased songs which were left off the Motherblood recording sessions, Violence Of Night and There Are Powers At Work In This World, this album is a for any fan or newcomer who might be late to this apocalyptic party.
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Band:GRAVE PLEASURES
Album:DOOMSDAY ROADBURN
Label:SVART
Format:LP
Genre:DEATH ROCK
Grave Pleasures release new live album, Doomsday Roadburn, from their atomic performance on the mainstage of Roadburn Festival 2018. Features songs from Beastmilk’s Climax and their most successful album yet, Motherblood, including 2 unreleased tracks from the Motherblood recording sessions. Captured at their climactic and triumphant main stage show at Roadburn Festival, where they had the stoner crowd dancing in rapture like never before, Grave Pleasures have never sounded so alive. Doomsday Roadburn features a bludgeoning non‐stop raw barrage of hits to a rapturous crowd. From songs hewn from their underground origins in their previous incarnation as Beastmilk, from the Climax record, and break‐out hits from the album which stands as the jewel in their crown, the critically acclaimed Motherblood, the recording is a bottled tour de force of an explosive band on fire. Also including two previously unreleased songs which were left off the Motherblood recording sessions, Violence Of Night and There Are Powers At Work In This World, this album is a for any fan or newcomer who might be late to this apocalyptic party.
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Band:WARSENAL
Album:FEAST YOUR EYES
Label:SVART
Format:CD
Genre:SPEED METAL
Montreal Canada’s own Thrash Metal legends have slated a November 8th release for their much anticipated follow‐up to their critically acclaimed debut “Barn Burner”. “If you crave aggression, look no further. Warsenal delivers with passion. You may not want to be driving while listening to their new album, Feast Your Eyes. You'll most likely be driving twice the speed as the police. Personally, I wouldn't recommend that. In the event you do get pulled over and interrogated, let them hear the opening track "Forever Lost" and I'm certain they will understand.” – Tony Portaro / Whiplash This speed and thrash metal heavy forward collection of songs is the best material to date and will surely turn the heads of all their long‐time current fans, along with worshippers of old school.
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Band:WARSENAL
Album:FEAST YOUR EYES
Label:SVART
Format:LP
Genre:SPEED METAL
Montreal Canada’s own Thrash Metal legends have slated a November 8th release for their much anticipated follow‐up to their critically acclaimed debut “Barn Burner”. “If you crave aggression, look no further. Warsenal delivers with passion. You may not want to be driving while listening to their new album, Feast Your Eyes. You'll most likely be driving twice the speed as the police. Personally, I wouldn't recommend that. In the event you do get pulled over and interrogated, let them hear the opening track "Forever Lost" and I'm certain they will understand.” – Tony Portaro / Whiplash This speed and thrash metal heavy forward collection of songs is the best material to date and will surely turn the heads of all their long‐time current fans, along with worshippers of old school.
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Band:BONGRIPPER
Album:LIVE AT ROADBURN 2012
Label:ROADBURN
Format:CD
Genre:DOOM
On the main stage, Bongripper performing all of the beautiful ‘Satan Worshipping Doom’ album proved to be a revelation for most at the festival. Massively framed by the enormous and intricate cover art, the four silent Chicagoans seemed to teach us all a lesson in how to deliver the heaviest and most atmospheric of music using just stringed instruments, drums and electricity. No head was left un-nodded in the 013 building as they blew away most of the competition with such furiously focussed cyclopean riffing that a crack nearly appeared in the Dutch sea walls 60 miles to the west. One hour of faultless instrumental rock. I felt hugely privileged. To quote any young American – ‘fucking awesome’. The Sleeping Shaman‘
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Band:BONGRIPPER
Album:LIVE AT ROADBURN 2012
Label:ROADBURN
Format:2LP
Genre:DOOM
On the main stage, Bongripper performing all of the beautiful ‘Satan Worshipping Doom’ album proved to be a revelation for most at the festival. Massively framed by the enormous and intricate cover art, the four silent Chicagoans seemed to teach us all a lesson in how to deliver the heaviest and most atmospheric of music using just stringed instruments, drums and electricity. No head was left un-nodded in the 013 building as they blew away most of the competition with such furiously focussed cyclopean riffing that a crack nearly appeared in the Dutch sea walls 60 miles to the west. One hour of faultless instrumental rock. I felt hugely privileged. To quote any young American – ‘fucking awesome’. The Sleeping Shaman‘
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Band:BONGRIPPER
Album:LIVE AT ROADBURN 2015
Label:ROADBURN
Format:2LP
Genre:DOOM
On the main stage, Bongripper performing all of the beautiful ‘Satan Worshipping Doom’ album proved to be a revelation for most at the festival. Massively framed by the enormous and intricate cover art, the four silent Chicagoans seemed to teach us all a lesson in how to deliver the heaviest and most atmospheric of music using just stringed instruments, drums and electricity. No head was left un-nodded in the 013 building as they blew away most of the competition with such furiously focussed cyclopean riffing that a crack nearly appeared in the Dutch sea walls 60 miles to the west. One hour of faultless instrumental rock. I felt hugely privileged. To quote any young American – ‘fucking awesome’. The Sleeping Shaman‘
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Band:BONGRIPPER
Album:LIVE AT ROADBURN 2015
Label:ROADBURN
Format:CD
Genre:DOOM
On the main stage, Bongripper performing all of the beautiful ‘Satan Worshipping Doom’ album proved to be a revelation for most at the festival. Massively framed by the enormous and intricate cover art, the four silent Chicagoans seemed to teach us all a lesson in how to deliver the heaviest and most atmospheric of music using just stringed instruments, drums and electricity. No head was left un-nodded in the 013 building as they blew away most of the competition with such furiously focussed cyclopean riffing that a crack nearly appeared in the Dutch sea walls 60 miles to the west. One hour of faultless instrumental rock. I felt hugely privileged. To quote any young American – ‘fucking awesome’. The Sleeping Shaman‘
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Band:BONGRIPPER
Album:LIVE AT ROADBURN 2012/2015
Label:ROADBURN
Format:4LP
Genre:DOOM
LIMITED VINYL BOX SET CONTAINING BOTH 2012 AND 2015 SETS
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Band:PORNO TEO KOLOSSAL
Album:MONROVIA
Label:BURNING WORLD RECORDS
Format:LP
Genre:DOOM
Pasolinian references are evident, from the choice of the themes on which the concepts are built, to the choice of instrumentation and to the discreet use of technology. The extreme musicality of the project brings the sound exploration of the PTK closer to the so‐called "artistic" performances rather than a traditional live concept. Monrovia is also the island of solitude. It is inevitable. For this reason many of the recording sessions of this album from the silence have sprung up and in the silence they have flowed. Almost all. Like the water of the river Mesurado. Choosing a location that was not the classic recording studio, placed about thirty microphones, little more, together and without overdubs, almost all the moments of this suite were recorded. The Mixing was entrusted to two sound engineers who have always and almost exclusively worked in the classical music sector.
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Band:Wigwam
Album:TOMBSTONE VALENTINE
Label:SVART
Format:LP
Genre:Prog Rock
A limited gold vinyl reissue of Wigwam's sophomore album, originally on Love Records, 1970. TRACKLIST: 1: Tombstone Valentine 2: In Gratitude! 3: Dance of the Anthropoids 4: Frederick & Bill 5: Wishful Thinker 6: Autograph 7: 1936 Lost In The Snow 8: Let The World Ramble On 9: For America 10: Captain Supernatural 11: End
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Band:Wigwam
Album:HARD & HORNY
Label:SVART
Format:LP
Genre:Prog Rock
Limited reissue of the 1969 debut on gold vinyl.
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Band:SHINDIG!
Album:SHINDIG!96
Label:SILVERBACK PUBLISHING
Format:MAG
Genre:MAGAZINES
The Doors. The Soft Parade: the much-maligned 1969 album, in their own words
Bryan Morrison. The music industry impresario remembers his young charge Syd Barrett
Pentangle. The rise and fall of the folk/blues/jazz/rock “supergroup”
The Incredible String Band. Rose Simpson’s Woodstock experience
Red Kross. The LA powerpop/rock legends birth and return
Status Quo. The first five years – 1965-70: beat, psych and bubblegum
Shindiggin’ What’s hot on the Shindig! turntable
Thoughts & Words. Your letters, tweets and emails
It’s A Happening Thing. Allah Las, Devendra Banhart, Vetiver, The Schizophonics, Hannah Williams & The
Affi rmations, Bobby Jameson, Diagonal, Neal Francis, Levi’s Folk City
Happening Right Now. Brand new music from Ghost Funk Orchestra, Bananagun and Foggy Tapes
Family Album. Richard Hill’s Chanctonbury Ring
20 Questions. Progressive pop deities Caravan’s Pye Hastings
Reviews. The best in reissues, new releases, books, DVDs and live shows
Vinyl Art. Fred Neil’s Bleecker & MacDougal
Prize Crossword. Win The Alan Lorber Orchestra’s
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Band:CRYSTAL JACQUELINE
Album:A PRAYER FOR THE BIRDS
Label:MEGA DODO
Format:2CD
Genre:PSYCHEDELIC FOLK
A Prayer for The Birds was written by Crystal Jacqueline's partner and musical director Icarus Peel and was inspired by their shared love of nature and the environment. While the album may offer something familiar and dependable, it’s another step forward in a musical journey that started some years ago. For this album, Jacqueline was joined by new backing singers Victoria Reyes and Elaine Lightfoot. Victoria also plays exquisite oboe and Lizzy Wayne, who’s also played with the Honey Pot, adds flute. Both players and instruments add new colours to a pastoral sonic palette. Together they lay down a deep-pile carpet to walk on, a perfectly heated pool to swim in, an adequately logged fireplace to lie in front of.
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Band:SKELETON GOODE
Album:SKELETON GOODE
Label:MEGA DODO
Format:CD
Genre:ROCK/POP SIKE
Sài Gòn based artist Skeleton Goode is the nom de plume of Jack Briggs - an English guitarist and songwriter. Skeleton Goode provides Jack with the opportunity to drag his maladies from post-industrial North-East England, through the sticky heat of the Mekong Delta and into your ears. Having recently signed to Mega Dodo Records (UK), Skeleton Goode is currently working hard forging nuggets of disjointed pop-sike for your listening pleasure. The recently recruited Skeleton Goode Band (an international 4-piece consisting of American, Japanese and English musicians) have just returned from a 3 week SE Asian tour and are champing-at-the-bit to perform their wistful ditties to a brand-new audience.
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:MIND DESTRUCTION MAXIMUM GARAGE PSYCH VOL. 1
Label:MIND DESTRUCTION
Format:6 X 7
Genre:GARAGE/PSYCH
Mind Destruction is pleased to present the first of 6 volumes of mega rare and incredibly sought after US garage and garage psych 45s contained in a full colour collectors box It’s more than 50 years since these fantastic 7 inches were issued in miniscule quantities and despite the various online resources that make finding rare records much easier, the singles contained in this box set turn up infrequently and even when they do, they’re often in less than acceptable condition. If an intrepid collector was actually fortunate enough to track down these records, the cost of buying them would easily exceed $2500! Included here is The Beautiful Daze’s City Jungle Prt 1, which is a much longer and more interesting version than City Jungle Prt 2 which was later to feature on RPR’s release as well as Black Suit by The Iguana (later to become The Iguanas) and My Door by Zakary Thak, both of which are ranked amongst the elite of Texas garage singles. All are mastered from the original records to ensure the best possible sound quality.
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Band:MOTHER TURTLE
Album:THREE SIDES TO EVERY STORY
Label:SOUND EFFECT RECORDS
Format:vinyl
Genre:PROG ROCK/EXPERIMENTAL
Greek prog/avant rockers Mother Turtle return with their fourth album, entitled “Three Sides To Every Story”. The title as well as the cover are purely symbolic, because once again, due to the bands tendency to experiment with different sounds and moods, they now present themselves as a power trio (being a sextet in the previous two albums and a quarter in their debut). With just guitar (and some guitar synths...), bass and drums, they create three songs in three completely different styles. Three Sides To Every Story will be released digitally on September 15th at Mother Turtle’s bandcamp page and later this year on vinyl by Sound Effect Records/Cosmic Eye Records and and CD by Sound Effect Records/Musicbazz.
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Band:MOTHER TURTLE
Album:THREE SIDES TO EVERY STORY
Label:SOUND EFFECT RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:PROG ROCK/EXPERIMENTAL
Greek prog/avant rockers Mother Turtle return with their fourth album, entitled “Three Sides To Every Story”. The title as well as the cover are purely symbolic, because once again, due to the bands tendency to experiment with different sounds and moods, they now present themselves as a power trio (being a sextet in the previous two albums and a quarter in their debut). With just guitar (and some guitar synths...), bass and drums, they create three songs in three completely different styles. Three Sides To Every Story will be released digitally on September 15th at Mother Turtle’s bandcamp page and later this year on vinyl by Sound Effect Records/Cosmic Eye Records and and CD by Sound Effect Records/Musicbazz.
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Band:TEMNEE
Album:DIALECTICS
Label:SOUND EFFECT RECORDS
Format:LP
Genre:STONER ROCK/DRONE
Spiritualistic session in space. Supersonic travel to singularity on an acid fuzz. Epic odyssey in the depths of consciousness. Hypnotic jams with orgasmic catharsis. Outstanding psychedelic trip iridescent with all shades of outer and inner space. And all that's Temnee. "Dialectics", the debut full-length album of Temnee, the band from Tver, Russia, is finally coming out on vinyl via Sound Effect Records! That is powerful instrumental heavy-psych stoner with deep and thick riffs, psychedelic passages, southern blues jams, oriental melodies, a lot of Sabbath's legacy and a krautrock drive. Temnee was created in 2013 in Tver, Russia. Their first 5-track, "Astrodiving" EP, was released in 2014. That cinematic minion with a lot of jams and fat riffs was followed by the full-length album "Dialectics", released digitally in 2016. Dialectics is a philosophical concept meaning the evolution of ideas: a dispute where truth is born. It perfectly describes the process of album creation. On "Dialectics" Temnee continues exploring cosmic horizons of heavy space rock. Moreover, the musicians have recently immersed into adjacent genres such as kraut and blues. Powerful sound will transfer you first to the opium haze of the Middle East, then to the Martian race! A turn to the foggy and cruel "Middle Ages" finally makes you feel the grievous fate of an astronaut living his last moments in outer space. "Dialectics" first ever vinyl edition comes with an amazing artwork by Anthony Downie and is available in three vinyl colors. Classic black, transparent milky clear and splatter vinyl and will be out on October 18th on Sound Effect Records of Athens, Greece. Vinyl edition includes "Zoetrope' and previously unreleased track "Rise" which mixes bright oriental melodies and powerful doom riffs.
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Band:GIANT DWARF
Album:GIANT DWARF
Label:SOUND EFFECT RECORDS
Format:LP
Genre:STONER ROCK/HEAVY PSYCH
From the isolated capital of Western Australia, Perth mates from previous bands and endeavours such as The Devil Rides Out, Wizard Sleeve and Loose, obsessed with all things fuzzy/heavy/psychey/droney/proggy and weird, formed Giant Dwarf. Initially an instrumental piece, played live in Perth in 2017 until Aaron Sopolinski, formerly of the Tragic Delicate, joined in on vocals in October 2017 and the band proceeded to write and record their debut album at Tone City Studios in 2018. Giant Dwarf have shared the stage alongside international fuzzers 1000mods & Seedy Jeezus as well as various Australian heavy hitters such as The Floors, Puck, Moana, The Devil Rides Out and several more.. Giant Dwarf are: Aaron Soppo (vocals), Luke Drag (drums/percussion), S.J. Paterson (bass), Eccentric Rick (guitar/sitar) and Russ Tee (guitar/didjeridoo). Their self titled eight track debut album, "Giant Dwarf", was engineered and mixed by Sam Ford at Tone City Studio (Abbe May/ Pond) from Mid 2018 and mastered by Brian Lucey at Magic Garden Mastering (Arctic Monkeys / Marilyn Manson / Royal Blood). "Giant Dwarf" is currently released on vinyl and CD by Sound Effect Records (Europe) and is in digital formats from Spotify, Bandcamp, iTunes, Youtube, Soundcloud and various others. Idle hands are the devils plaything though and Giant Dwarf have already commenced writing and recording new material for follow up releases in 2020.
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Band:GIANT DWARF
Album:GIANT DWARF
Label:SOUND EFFECT RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:STONER ROCK/HEAVY PSYCH
From the isolated capital of Western Australia, Perth mates from previous bands and endeavours such as The Devil Rides Out, Wizard Sleeve and Loose, obsessed with all things fuzzy/heavy/psychey/droney/proggy and weird, formed Giant Dwarf. Initially an instrumental piece, played live in Perth in 2017 until Aaron Sopolinski, formerly of the Tragic Delicate, joined in on vocals in October 2017 and the band proceeded to write and record their debut album at Tone City Studios in 2018. Giant Dwarf have shared the stage alongside international fuzzers 1000mods & Seedy Jeezus as well as various Australian heavy hitters such as The Floors, Puck, Moana, The Devil Rides Out and several more.. Giant Dwarf are: Aaron Soppo (vocals), Luke Drag (drums/percussion), S.J. Paterson (bass), Eccentric Rick (guitar/sitar) and Russ Tee (guitar/didjeridoo). Their self titled eight track debut album, "Giant Dwarf", was engineered and mixed by Sam Ford at Tone City Studio (Abbe May/ Pond) from Mid 2018 and mastered by Brian Lucey at Magic Garden Mastering (Arctic Monkeys / Marilyn Manson / Royal Blood). "Giant Dwarf" is currently released on vinyl and CD by Sound Effect Records (Europe) and is in digital formats from Spotify, Bandcamp, iTunes, Youtube, Soundcloud and various others. Idle hands are the devils plaything though and Giant Dwarf have already commenced writing and recording new material for follow up releases in 2020.
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Band:DRAKO GIGANT
Album:DRAKO GIGANT
Label:SOUND EFFECT RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:DOOM DRONE/EXPERIMENTAL
Drako Gigant is an experimental heavy musical constellation from Athens Greece, formed in 2017 under the concept of exploring heavy music combined with elements of sonic textures like early industrial, ambient, progressive rock, jazz and metal. Improvisation has been the backbone of creating the soundscapes laid down, but not without carefully considering the impact each result might have, first upon the creators and then upon the listener. The members, each coming from different genres and with different approach to how music works and is created, collide in a cauldron of ideas where explosive mixtures and intense dynamics meet and merge into strong bonds of a sound collage full of contradiction; a melting pot of thought provoking color and a deep travel into both the subconscious and dreamy states of mind. In the end this work will have to suffer or win the test of time, depending on the point of view. No boundaries, no walls, just pure music exploration! "Drako Gigant" was recorded and mixed in Wreck it SOUND Studios during 3 days in May 2019 Engineered and mixed by George Leodis Produced by Drako Gigant Mastered by James Plotkin "Drako Gigant" will be out by Sound Effect Records, on limited edition CD, on October 25th 2019.
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Band:FOGGY TAPES
Album:COGITO ERGO FOG
Label:HOWLIN BANANA RECORDS
Format:LP
Genre:60S GARAGE PSYCH
Operating since 2015, Foggy Tapes play garage-pop in a 60’s sauce made up of crystal-clear guitars, a dab of lo-fi, a generous tape echo, and some very harmonious vocal harmonies —on a good night—. After their first EP You Shouldn’t Stick Around, released on Dead Bees Records in May 2016 with a big Toulouse rager with their heroes The Abigails, they are now presenting their first album: Cogito Ergo Fog. The LP is a manifesto that celebrates their undying love of surf, country, psych and garage music all along its eleven tracks, recorded and mixed on tape by the band. Cogito Ergo Fog will be available on August 30th 2019 on Howlin Banana Records.
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Band:SPECIAL FRIEND
Album:SPECIAL FRIEND
Label:HOWLIN BANANA RECORDS
Format:LP
Genre:LO-FI/INDIE POP
Special Friend is a new lofi/Indie pop duo from Paris. It was formed by Guillaume Siracusa (guitar) who’s from Montreuil and Erica Ashleson (drums) who’s from Minnesota in the USA. Their debut EP will be released on September 27th. A few of their inspirations are Yo La Tengo, Beat Happening or The Pastels.
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Band:BACKDROP FALLS
Album:THERE'S NO SUCH PLACE AS HOME
Label:BOMBER MUSIC
Format:7
Genre:PUNK/ROCK N ROLL
Brazilian punk rock band Backdrop Falls joining forces to 10 labels across the world to release their new record
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Band:BLUE CARPET BAND, THE
Album:AIN'T GOT NO DAMN ROCK'N'ROLL
Label:BOMBER MUSIC
Format:7
Genre:PUNK ROCK N ROLL
The Blue Carpet Band won the Vive Le Rock magazine Best New band in 2019 and Best Newcomer at the Alternative Gathering festival . This will be their first official release after signing to Bomber Music
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Band:CHRIS CONNELLY
Album:SLEEPING PARTNER
Label:ARMALYTE INDUSTRIES
Format:CD
Genre:ALTERNATIVE
Chris Connelly returns with his most adventurous solo album to date.
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Band:PAMELA SUE MANN
Album:BREAK
Label:MANIAC SQUAT RECORDS
Format:12
Genre:ALTERNATIVE POP
New Yorker Pamela Sue Mann’s stunning, eccentric and ethereal new album ‘Break’ shows a dynamic new direction in her writing and musical sense, influenced by years working with globally influential musicians. The album includes the talents of Byron Isaacs on bass; Terry Edwards (PJ Harvey) on Sax; Paul Cuddeford (Steve Harley, Last Day Sect) on guitar; Sterling Campbell (David Bowie), Yuval Lion and Doug Yowell (Joe Jackson) on percussion; Gerry Leonard (David Bowie) on guitar; Kevin Killen (Kate Bush) and additional artists on backing vocals.
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Band:TULUS
Album:EVIL 1999 (LTD)
Label:SOULSELLER RECORDS
Format:CDD
Genre:Black Metal
20 years after its original release the epic Norwegian black metal masterpiece is finally re‐issued with its original artwork on limited edition digipack and for the first time ever on limited regular vinyls. After the classic 1996 album “Pure black energy” and 1998 “Mysterion” was the third Tulus album which was embraced by black metal legions worldwide ever since it saw the light of darkness.
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Band:TULUS
Album:EVIL 1999 (LTD)
Label:SOULSELLER RECORDS
Format:LP
Genre:Black Metal
20 years after its original release the epic Norwegian black metal masterpiece is finally re‐issued with its original artwork on limited edition digipack and for the first time ever on limited regular vinyls. After the classic 1996 album “Pure black energy” and 1998 “Mysterion” was the third Tulus album which was embraced by black metal legions worldwide ever since it saw the light of darkness.
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Band:TULUS
Album:EVIL 1999 (LIMITED YELLOW VINYL)
Label:SOULSELLER RECORDS
Format:LP
Genre:Black Metal
20 years after its original release the epic Norwegian black metal masterpiece is finally re‐issued with its original artwork on limited edition digipack and for the first time ever on limited regular vinyls. After the classic 1996 album “Pure black energy” and 1998 “Mysterion” was the third Tulus album which was embraced by black metal legions worldwide ever since it saw the light of darkness.
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Band:EYEHATEGOD
Album:DOPESICK (REISSUE)
Label:PUNISHMENT 18 RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:DOOM/SLUDGE
Eyehategod was formed in 1988 in New Orleans and it could be considered one of the most famous American sludge metal band. Throughout the years, their core line-up has remained, with the exceptions of the bassist, a slot in which several musicians have played, and the death of drummer Joey LaCaze in 2013. Eyehategod have noted Melvins, Carnivore, The Obsessed, Discharge, Black Flag, Corrosion of Conformity, Black Sabbath, Celtic Frost, Confessor and Saint Vitus as key influences to their sound. Heavy, detuned, and bluesy guitar riffs dominate the band's discography. They are combined with walls of feedback and tortured vocals to create a harsh misanthropic vibe.
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Band:TERMINUS
Album:A SINGLE POINT OF LIGHT
Label:CRUZ DEL SUR MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:EPIC METAL
Second full-length album from Northern Ireland epic metallers Terminus that continues their exploration into science fiction realms. It took three years for Terminus multi-instrumentalist and songwriter David Gillespie to compile the tracks for the band’s sophomore A Single Point of Light studio album. During that time, Gillespie was willingly subjected, in his own words, to “endless navel-gazing and hand-wringing” over the album’s particulars. Since he was responsible for every note and arrangement, not to mention handling the recording process at his home studio, the album became all-encompassing, a quest to improve upon the band’s well-received 2015 The Reaper’s Spiral debut. Based on the strength and depth of A Single Point of Light’s seven tracks, Gillespie and vocalist James Beattie succeeded in every respect. Mixed and mastered by Richard Whittaker (Solstice) and with artwork created by Anaïs Mulgrew, A Single Point of Light represents the logical next step in the music development of the Northern Ireland epic metallers. Their brand of twisting, sometimes complex, but always effective metal does not lend itself to one particular era or sonic reference point. Instead, Terminus songs are often mini-journeys onto themselves, a regular confluence of spiraling riff changes, guitar harmony duels and Beattie’s emotive vocals.
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Band:TERMINUS
Album:A SINGLE POINT OF LIGHT
Label:CRUZ DEL SUR MUSIC
Format:LP
Genre:EPIC METAL
Second full-length album from Northern Ireland epic metallers Terminus that continues their exploration into science fiction realms. It took three years for Terminus multi-instrumentalist and songwriter David Gillespie to compile the tracks for the band’s sophomore A Single Point of Light studio album. During that time, Gillespie was willingly subjected, in his own words, to “endless navel-gazing and hand-wringing” over the album’s particulars. Since he was responsible for every note and arrangement, not to mention handling the recording process at his home studio, the album became all-encompassing, a quest to improve upon the band’s well-received 2015 The Reaper’s Spiral debut. Based on the strength and depth of A Single Point of Light’s seven tracks, Gillespie and vocalist James Beattie succeeded in every respect. Mixed and mastered by Richard Whittaker (Solstice) and with artwork created by Anaïs Mulgrew, A Single Point of Light represents the logical next step in the music development of the Northern Ireland epic metallers. Their brand of twisting, sometimes complex, but always effective metal does not lend itself to one particular era or sonic reference point. Instead, Terminus songs are often mini-journeys onto themselves, a regular confluence of spiraling riff changes, guitar harmony duels and Beattie’s emotive vocals.
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Band:NEPTUNE POWER FEDERATION, THE
Album:MEMOIRS OF A RAT QUEEN
Label:CRUZ DEL SUR MUSIC
Format:LP
Genre:METAL/PROTO METAL/OCCULT ROCK
Infectious space rock and metal from Australia, delivered by the one and only Imperial Priestess. Bow to the Imperial Priestess! On ‘Memoirs of a Rat Queen’, Australian psychedelic rock and roll occultists The Neptune Power Federation have arrived to take you on a sonic journey like no other. She came from outer space, a celestial being with supernatural powers, namely, inhuman vocals and a godly stage presence. She is the only one who can make four leather-clad bike-rockers readily dedicate their lives in subservience, ready to serve her in the name of rock and roll. Tales of her existence have already been shared, but there is a new chronicle, one that will shine a light on her trans-dimensional travels and accomplishments. Its name is ‘Memoirs of a Rat Queen’. Its subject? The Imperial Priestess. Her band? The Neptune Power Federation.
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Band:Atrium Carceri & Cities Last Broadcast
Album:BLACK STAGE OF NIGHT
Label:Cryo Chamber
Format:CD
Genre:DARK AMBIENT/AMBIENT/DRONE
After their acclaimed album Black Corner Den, Atrium Carceri teams up with Cities Last Broadcast once more to bring the 19th century to life. Black Stage of Night is the result of a year of nightly studio sessions, again in the company of the trustworthy lantern. Two Swedes, separated by the Atlantic Ocean and united in their vision to create an album that invokes the dream state. Crooked tape loops combine with piano and acoustic resonances. A melancholic, dusty and timeless album that grows and pulsates
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Band:ProtoU
Album:ANOMALIES
Label:Cryo Chamber
Format:CD
Genre:DARK AMBIENT/AMBIENT/DRONE
3 years has passed since ProtoUs Cryo Chamber Debut album Lost Here. Sasha once again visits the realms beyond reality in this dream heavy sequel. Recommended for fans of dreamy dark drones and ethereal atmospheres
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Band:PETER BJARGO
Album:THE ARCHITECTURE OF MELANCHOLY
Label:cyclic law
Format:CD
Genre:EXPERIMENTAL/AMBIENT
Peter Bjärgö, the man behind the now legendary groups ARCANA and SOPHIA is back with his second solo album. On his first solo release "A wave of Bitterness", we got a glimpse into the mind of a thoughtful person. Now this new release, "The Architecture Of Melancholy", we are sent onto a journey to the darkest depths of Peter's mind and thoughts. Melancholy was once a disease, a mental statement of chronic depression, we are now facing this illness again around the world and this album is a real journey with the melancholic mind. Titles like Bitteresque, Apathy and The Death Of Our Sun give us an idea of the aural voyage ahead. The delicate blend of soft guitars, engulfing dark ambient and the sheer power of Peter's voice make this album a shining diamond among stones. Hope is all that is left... Repress of 500 copies in 8 panel Digipak. 7 Tracks. Running Time 40:30
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Band:BLACK EARTH
Album:GNARLED RITUAL OF SELF ANNIHILATION
Label:cyclic law
Format:CD
Genre:EXPERIMENTAL/AMBIENT
Spanish ritualistic industrial sorcerers BLACK EARTH return with "Gnarled Ritual of Self Annihilation" - a sophomore fulllength LP of unreal cinematic sonic disembodiment, conceived with the aim of turning the listener into a sacrificial centrepiece to a surreal ritual nightmare. Following in the steps of their debut LP "A Cryptic Howl of Morbid Truth" and of their followup mini-album "Diagrams of a Hidden Order", on "Gnarled Ritual of Self Annihilation" Black Earth further refine and sharpen their horrific sonic blade, slicing through shadows and darkness with more skill and mastery than ever before to reveal a dimension beyond of incomprehensible ritual abandon. As they first weave and then slice and dissect their impenetrable veil, a sonic ritual of abject disfigurement begins to take shape before the listener, as the strokes and gashes of black metal, industrial, noise and ritual drone intersect erratically and hypnotically, painting an hallucinatory arabesque of absolute dread and deformity. As the album's wicked spires envelops them like a fog of snakes, the listener finds themselves immersed into an hallucinating aural delirium of complete disembodiment and self-implosion, in which they feel simultaneously out of body and helplessly trapped and crushed within themselves at the same time. CD Edition of 500 copies in 4 panel Digisleeve. 7 Tracks. Running Time 45:04
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Band:BLACK EARTH
Album:GNARLED RITUAL OF SELF ANNIHILATION
Label:cyclic law
Format:LP
Genre:EXPERIMENTAL/AMBIENT
Spanish ritualistic industrial sorcerers BLACK EARTH return with "Gnarled Ritual of Self Annihilation" - a sophomore fulllength LP of unreal cinematic sonic disembodiment, conceived with the aim of turning the listener into a sacrificial centrepiece to a surreal ritual nightmare. Following in the steps of their debut LP "A Cryptic Howl of Morbid Truth" and of their followup mini-album "Diagrams of a Hidden Order", on "Gnarled Ritual of Self Annihilation" Black Earth further refine and sharpen their horrific sonic blade, slicing through shadows and darkness with more skill and mastery than ever before to reveal a dimension beyond of incomprehensible ritual abandon. As they first weave and then slice and dissect their impenetrable veil, a sonic ritual of abject disfigurement begins to take shape before the listener, as the strokes and gashes of black metal, industrial, noise and ritual drone intersect erratically and hypnotically, painting an hallucinatory arabesque of absolute dread and deformity. As the album's wicked spires envelops them like a fog of snakes, the listener finds themselves immersed into an hallucinating aural delirium of complete disembodiment and self-implosion, in which they feel simultaneously out of body and helplessly trapped and crushed within themselves at the same time. LP Edition of 200 copies on Black Vinyl. 7 Tracks. Running Time 45:04
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Band:PETER BJARGO
Album:STRUCTURES AND DOWNFALL
Label:cyclic law
Format:CD
Genre:EXPERIMENTAL/AMBIENT
After putting ARCANA to rest in the past year, Peter Bjärgö has now channelled his creative energy towards his solo works. On what is now his 4th full length solo album, we are granted a calm, thoughtful and at times somber aural voyage. Melodic atmospheric guitar work, lush string arrangements and slow, heavy percussive rhythms are present and elevated to new heights. Written and recorded while beholding a wintry landscape in his newly built studio ”Asham Room”, he’s created a perfect balance of complex structures through his distinctive sorrowful, yet hopeful songwriting. CD Edition of 500 copies in 6 panel Digipak. 8 Tracks. Running Time 39:28
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Band:PETER BJARGO
Album:STRUCTURES AND DOWNFALL
Label:cyclic law
Format:LP
Genre:EXPERIMENTAL/AMBIENT
After putting ARCANA to rest in the past year, Peter Bjärgö has now channelled his creative energy towards his solo works. On what is now his 4th full length solo album, we are granted a calm, thoughtful and at times somber aural voyage. Melodic atmospheric guitar work, lush string arrangements and slow, heavy percussive rhythms are present and elevated to new heights. Written and recorded while beholding a wintry landscape in his newly built studio ”Asham Room”, he’s created a perfect balance of complex structures through his distinctive sorrowful, yet hopeful songwriting. Special Edition LP limited to 200 copies on Black vinyl. 8 Tracks. Running Time 39:28
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Band:CLAVICVLA
Album:SEPULCHRAL BLESSING
Label:cyclic law
Format:CD
Genre:EXPERIMENTAL/AMBIENT
Black Ambient at its finest. Italy’s Clavicvla channels the cosmic void, the source and finality of all things manifest. A true sonic force that reverberates through the core, allowing to escape one’s physical form and delve deep without, where logic and comprehensions are null... Diabolical black ambient/death industrial demon Claviclva returns with his blood-chilling sophomore LP "Sepulchral Blessing", unravelling another forty minutes of tyrannical nightmare fuel that will leave the listener catatonic and agonizing in horror. With "Sepulchral Blessing" this time Clavicvla constructs a sonic tomb of immense evocative force that inters the listener into a lucid nightmare and transports them straight into the kingdom of the dead, acting as an abominable sonic vessel to the underworld. Unbelievably repulsive, blood-chillingly horrific and unyieldingly evil, on this astonishing new work sole mastermind Ittiel has harnessed the quintessence of malignity and created a cinematic soundtrack to a ghastly decent into the underworld, where diabolical atmospheres drenched in the stench of death, nightmarish soundscapes, and monstrous drones and sub-bass frequencies are masterfully interwoven and manipulated to envelop, entrance, and entomb the listener into the nethermost pits of hell. CD Edition of 500 copies in 4 panel Digisleeve. 6 Tracks. Running Time 37:30
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Band:CLAVICVLA
Album:SEPULCHRAL BLESSING
Label:cyclic law
Format:LP
Genre:EXPERIMENTAL/AMBIENT
Black Ambient at its finest. Italy’s Clavicvla channels the cosmic void, the source and finality of all things manifest. A true sonic force that reverberates through the core, allowing to escape one’s physical form and delve deep without, where logic and comprehensions are null... Diabolical black ambient/death industrial demon Claviclva returns with his blood-chilling sophomore LP "Sepulchral Blessing", unravelling another forty minutes of tyrannical nightmare fuel that will leave the listener catatonic and agonizing in horror. With "Sepulchral Blessing" this time Clavicvla constructs a sonic tomb of immense evocative force that inters the listener into a lucid nightmare and transports them straight into the kingdom of the dead, acting as an abominable sonic vessel to the underworld. Unbelievably repulsive, blood-chillingly horrific and unyieldingly evil, on this astonishing new work sole mastermind Ittiel has harnessed the quintessence of malignity and created a cinematic soundtrack to a ghastly decent into the underworld, where diabolical atmospheres drenched in the stench of death, nightmarish soundscapes, and monstrous drones and sub-bass frequencies are masterfully interwoven and manipulated to envelop, entrance, and entomb the listener into the nethermost pits of hell. LP Edition of 300 copies on Black Vinyl with printed inner sleeve. 6 Tracks. Running Time 37:30
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Band:PETER BJARGO
Album:A WAVE OF BITTERNESS
Label:cyclic law
Format:CD
Genre:EXPERIMENTAL/AMBIENT
Reissue of the first solo album of Arcana Mastermind Peter Bjärgö from 2010. A singular Ambient album with a fine mixture of styles, taking some of Arcana’s latest foray into ethnic percussive and guitar driven arrangements to new heights. A very personal and profound album that laid the template for his future solo work. Remastered at Asham Room March 2019 by Peter Bjärgö. Edition of 500 copies in 4 panel Digipak with 8 page Booklet. 9 Tracks. Running Time 40:26
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Band:HENRY AND THE BLEEDERS
Album:DOING OUR THING
Label:WESTERN STAR
Format:CD
Genre:Psychobilly/Rockabilly
4th album from popular UK Psychobilly band. Tracklist 1.Public Enemy Number One 2. Cholo 3. Back Down The Jobby 4. Let It Slide 5. Come Back 6. Scooter Boy 7. The Beast 8. That's Fine 9. Skate (Slide-version) 10. Get Buck 11. Friday Morning, Sunday Night 12. Ride Wild 13. W.O.D.
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Band:VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album:WALL OF DEATH
Label:WESTERN STAR
Format:10
Genre:Psychobilly/Rockabilly
10” coloured vinyl, 8-song coloured vinyl mini LP celebrating the motorcycle stunt show known as The Wall Of Death. TRACK LISTING Side A 1. A Showman’s Spiel Danny Dare 2. A Tornado Called Smith The Sharks 3. W.O.D. Henry & The Bleeders 4. Indian Scout The Howlin’ Coyotes Side B 1. Wall Of Death Jack Rabbit Slim 2. I Fell In Love On The Wall Of Death Delta 88 3. Hell Riders The Sharks
4. Another Sun The Holloway Echoes
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Band:HOT BOOGIE CHILLUN
Album:HOT BOOGIE CHILLUN
Label:FURY RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:ROCK N ROLL/BLUES BOPPERS
Cult German band who have performed worldwide..TRACK LISTING 1. You’ll Never Know 2. Strike Back 3. Come with Me 4. Dimples 5. Wanna Hear You Scream 6. Desperado Love 7. Looiking Back 8. Lights out 9. Dirty Old Man 10. You Don’t Know 11. Whine and Cry 12. Black Cat’s Bone 13. Hey, Girl 14. I Love You 15. Try Me 16. Running Around in Circles 17. Get Hot or Go Home 18. Chillun Walk 19. (Then I Know) I Do 20. Nobody But You, Babe 21. Tonight
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Band:HOT BOOGIE CHILLUN
Album:SWEETS
Label:FURY RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:ROCK N ROLL/BLUES BOPPERS
Cult band from Germany TRACK LISTING 1. She’s Gone 2. Leave me Alone 3. You Better 4. I’m Coming Home 5. Dirty Old Man 6. Fucking Sweet 7. Dirty Robber 8. Shot of Love 9. Talking ‘bout You 10. Yes or No 11. Have Love Will Travel 12. He’s Waiting 13. Dinosaur (instrumental)
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Band:FURIOUS
Album:WRECK THE HOOSE JUICE
Label:NERVOUS RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:50S ROCK N ROLL
A popular band on our rock’n’roll scene for Teddyboys and Rockers TRACK LISTING 1. Hang Your head 2. Cool Little Sue 3. My Eyes Run Dry 4. No if’s, no but’s, no maybes 5. All Night Long 6. Crazy About my Whisky 7. Pretty Little Lilly 8. For You (my Angel) 9. Don’t’ Change Your Style 10. Let it Out 11. Pill Poppin’ Annie 12. Me Ald Man Robbed Me Bike 13. Crazy High School Baby 14. Carry On 15. Punk Bashin’ Boogie 16. We Are the Teds
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Band:RESTLESS
Album:DO YOU FEEL RESTLESS
Label:NERVOUS RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:PSYCHOBILLY
CULT PSYCHOBILLY BAND FROM THE UK TRACK LISTING 1. Bottle on the Beach 2. Here I Am 3. Fools Gold 4. Down at the Swamp 5. Alabama Jailhouse 6. Prisoner of Love 7. Sob Story 8. Crack Up ’n’ Fall to Pieces 9. Sixteen Tons 10. Baby Please Don’t Go 11. Here I Am (dub version) 12. Sweet Surprise 13. Edge on You 14. Slidin’ On Down the Hill 15. Why Didn’t I stay at Home
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Band:MC WARABA & MELEKE TCHATCHO
Album:SUPREME TALENT SHOW
Label:JARRING EFFECTS
Format:CDD
Genre:DANCE ETHNO
We owe to Mc’s of the Supreme Talent Show, Mc Waraba & Mélèké Tchatcho, “ Tassaba”, “Sida” or “Fassy” namely popular titles, sung by all the Malian youth at the dawn of 2010. Everything started in 2009, they appeared on the 1rst compilation “Balani Show”: Balani show super hits: https://sahelsounds.bandcamp.com/album/balani-show-super-hits-electronic- street- parties-from-mali And then come out their album "Danbé" on the label “Sahel Sound” based in Portland – USA created by Christopher Kirkley. In parallel from 2013, they met and worked with Dom Peter (High Tone crew) and his electronic project: Midnight Ravers - Many collaborations follows of this meeting (live, feat, remix of Mawimbi and Spoek Mathambo) and a presentation of their rap 100%made in Mali in 2015 on a unique creation at the Eurockéennes de Belfort broadcast on Arte. This second album composed during the year 2019 is a concentrate of modern Malian music, mix of shifted remixed coupe, listened amply by young people influenced by the sound of Nigeria or neighboring Ghana but which preserves the Mandingo DNA (Balafon / Taman / Kora)
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Band:UDU
Album:UDU
Label:CPL MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:WORLDMUSIC/FOLK/LITHUANIA/BURYATIA
UDU is the holy water of our earth, connecting us all together. Our bodies are water vessels that carry the genetic codes of our ancestors. Folk song is a way to dive deeper into yourself, into your roots. What language does your soul sing? Musical group of two nations, uniting the musical heritage of Buryatia and Lithuania. Throat singing connected with the Baltic songs of pagan times, when man and nature were one. Our goal is not to identify or show similarities and differences of our nations; rather, it is to share our music composed from the heart that is very dear to us. We often sit down and look for similarities in our cultures, stories or song texts, which grows the respect for all nations of the world in our hearts and brings our ancestors closer to each other. Since we met at one of the festivals in Kazachstan, “The Spirit of Tengri”, we have become a music family. We compose together, travel, eat, share stories, visit late into the night and use music to escape from negative experiences.
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Band:ANNE-MARI KIVIMAKI & PALOMYLLY
Album:HAMEEN LAULUJA
Label:NORDIC NOTES
Format:CD
Genre:FOLK FINLAND
The Hämeen lauluja (Songs of Häme) album is based on notes from a Häme accordion player, a sense of homeland and old stories. For centuries, lust for love, scheming for love and love sorrows have been experienced in the lands of Häme and from these intriguing stories and spells, the songs The Bee Spell, Hyhky Girls and The Sad Letter were born. The gospel song Ain’t No Grave, also versioned by Johnny Cash, is borrowed from America. The album concludes with the Lullaby Suite, inspired by Armas Järnefelt’s fine composition Kehtolaulu (Lullaby), and the final song of the series is the Kalevala lullaby Tuu tuu tupakkarulla that my mother sang for me and my brother and to her grandchildren, including my son Vilho.
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Band:STANISLAV YUDIN/ASNATE RANCANE
Album:OP. 2
Label:CPL MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:WORLDMUSIC LATVIA
Stanislav is inspired by ethno music, Asnate — by improvisation. This is how these two musicians meet and understand how much they can give to each other. Compositions by Stanislav, knowledge of folklore by Asnate and the ability to improvise turns into very unique style of music. When improvising, they supplement each other with different special techniques. Stanislav Yudin is known as the jazz and improvisation bass player. He often participates in projects of experimental music. Most recently he’s been composing and he came to realize that inspiration can be found in his homeland, only then the real music will be created. Asnate Rancāne is the researcher of ethno music, she’s multi-instrumentalist and is managing a vocal folk group (Tautumeitas). She’s been very actively involved with folk music since she was a child and most recently her inspiration is in improvisation. The results of her improvising are very special as she’s using her knowledge from her experience with ethno music.
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Band:FLESHWORLD
Album:THE ESSENCE HAS CHANGED BUT THE DETAILS REMAIN
Label:THIS CHARMING MAN RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:BLACKENED HC/POSTMETAL
A five-piece band from Kraków, Poland, revolving around the concepts of uncertainty and change, beauty found in decay, and the indescribable emotions. Unpleasant, noisy, and melodic sludgy post-hardcore, evoking nostalgia, regret, and uneasiness. 2019 will see the release of their new album, “The Essence HasChanged, but the Details Remain” through This Charming Man Records. It blends blackened hardcore with melancholic screamo, and psychedelic improvisation. The album was recorded entirely live in Monochrome Studio, a reclusive retreat in the Silesian wilderness, engineered by Haldor Grunberg from Satanic Audio (Thaw, Behemoth) and mixed/mastered by Sylvain Biguet, who also worked with artists like Birds in Row, Death Engine, Valve, or As We Draw. Fleshworld was initially founded in 2010 as an electronic/post rock duo, the band gradually grew and developed. For a while they revolved around the post-rock/post-metal genres. Since then, the band has been getting heavier and more aggressive with each iteration, while still retaining a certain introspective mood and melodic approach
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Band:FLESHWORLD
Album:THE ESSENCE HAS CHANGED BUT THE DETAILS REMAIN
Label:THIS CHARMING MAN RECORDS
Format:LP
Genre:BLACKENED HC/POSTMETAL
A five-piece band from Kraków, Poland, revolving around the concepts of uncertainty and change, beauty found in decay, and the indescribable emotions. Unpleasant, noisy, and melodic sludgy post-hardcore, evoking nostalgia, regret, and uneasiness. 2019 will see the release of their new album, “The Essence HasChanged, but the Details Remain” through This Charming Man Records. It blends blackened hardcore with melancholic screamo, and psychedelic improvisation. The album was recorded entirely live in Monochrome Studio, a reclusive retreat in the Silesian wilderness, engineered by Haldor Grunberg from Satanic Audio (Thaw, Behemoth) and mixed/mastered by Sylvain Biguet, who also worked with artists like Birds in Row, Death Engine, Valve, or As We Draw. Fleshworld was initially founded in 2010 as an electronic/post rock duo, the band gradually grew and developed. For a while they revolved around the post-rock/post-metal genres. Since then, the band has been getting heavier and more aggressive with each iteration, while still retaining a certain introspective mood and melodic approach
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Band:MOJO JAZZ MOB
Album:FROM BETWEEN THE FIELDS
Label:THIS CHARMING MAN RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:STONERROCK
these lads are some oldtimers out of münster area - around forever, well known for their energy fueled performances. music wise, they sitting between chairs - and build their own with one leg scandinavian rock of the 90s, one coming from the metal classics of the 80s and one from modern heavy music. think of a wild mix of Kyuss, Spiritual Beggars, Black Sabbath, C.O.C., Fu Manchu and Thin Lizzy. their singer reminds a bit of Nathan Gray from Boysetsfire, but without the often annoying pathos. their newest rock monolith combines a lot of todays modern heavy music styles without losing the thread of making a catchy rock hymn.
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Band:MOJO JAZZ MOB
Album:FROM BETWEEN THE FIELDS
Label:THIS CHARMING MAN RECORDS
Format:LP
Genre:STONERROCK
these lads are some oldtimers out of münster area - around forever, well known for their energy fueled performances. music wise, they sitting between chairs - and build their own with one leg scandinavian rock of the 90s, one coming from the metal classics of the 80s and one from modern heavy music. think of a wild mix of Kyuss, Spiritual Beggars, Black Sabbath, C.O.C., Fu Manchu and Thin Lizzy. their singer reminds a bit of Nathan Gray from Boysetsfire, but without the often annoying pathos. their newest rock monolith combines a lot of todays modern heavy music styles without losing the thread of making a catchy rock hymn.
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Band:LOST FOR WORDS
Album:SETTLED IN THE PUB
Label:M & O MUSIC
Format:CDD
Genre:BLUES/ROCK/FOLK
"Lost for Words", for the fans of Jack White or Bror Gunnar Janson, a meeting between Blues Rock, Folk and Pop that does not leave indifferent
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Band:SHAPS
Album:SOUS LES PAVES
Label:M & O MUSIC
Format:CDD
Genre:HIP-HOP ROCK
An abrasive fusion that promotes it’s ideals between Rock and French Rap, as if Linkin Park and the Supreme NTM had a rendez-vous for a featuring.
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Band:BAZAR BELLAMY
Album:JUSQU'ICI TOUT VA BIEN
Label:M & O MUSIC
Format:CDD
Genre:FRENCH ROCK
For fans of Noir Désir, Foo Fighters and QOTSA. TRACK LISTING Démodé ; Découvrir la lumière ; A tout jamais ; Mercy ; Garde les Yeux ouverts ; Un Homme ; Via Frattina.
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Band:CHARLENE BERETAH
Album:RAM
Label:DIVISION RECORDS
Format:vinyl
Genre:DOOM/SLUDGE/CRUST/BLACK METAL
On this first album, the trio distils its influences through 5 titles clearly reeking of the world’s end. The atmospheres are varied, though always tempered by the heaviness and the gloominess inherent to the band’s dark obsessions. Depression, murders and possession (both demonic and chemical) are topics treated in an atmosphere of furious madness and palpable despair. The groove, undeniable, smashing, thunderous, is interspersed with crust-punk accelerations that also recall the great hours of the Scandinavian second wave of black metal. You've understood, this first album is not in made of fine lace, and that's precisely what’s so good about it.
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Band:CHARLENE BERETAH
Album:RAM
Label:DIVISION RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:DOOM/SLUDGE/CRUST/BLACK METAL
On this first album, the trio distils its influences through 5 titles clearly reeking of the world’s end. The atmospheres are varied, though always tempered by the heaviness and the gloominess inherent to the band’s dark obsessions. Depression, murders and possession (both demonic and chemical) are topics treated in an atmosphere of furious madness and palpable despair. The groove, undeniable, smashing, thunderous, is interspersed with crust-punk accelerations that also recall the great hours of the Scandinavian second wave of black metal. You've understood, this first album is not in made of fine lace, and that's precisely what’s so good about it.
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Band:ORTHODOXY
Album:NOVUS LUX DOMINUS
Label:THE SINISTER FLAME
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
A so-far shadowy entity, ORTHODOXY hail from Spain and formed sometime during the past decade. In 2015, the band's first demo, Shaarimoth, burst forth from the womb, displaying a band fully, frighteningly formed. Indeed, this collective were no mere youngsters; the band's founder hails from well-respected cult DOMAINS, also a part of THE SINISTER FLAME's very selective cabal. However, that demo was but a mere taste of the salacious, supernatural slime to follow...At last, it arrives in full-length form, bearing the title Novus Lux Dominus. Howling from a black void, ORTHODOXY arrogantly stride forward with far more focus and utterly gutted execution. No more but certainly no less, Novus Lux Dominus is all-caps DEATH METAL - pure and proud, dark and sinister, sidestepping all the muddled miscegenation of nowadays "death metal" - and duly delivers a ninesong/ 44-minute journey below the bowels of the Beyond. Magickal in every sense, Novus Lux Dominus weaves an alternately hypnotic and disruptive spell, beckoning the listener ever deeper into their devastating energies, only to flay both body and soul with a sadism borne of incomparable blackness. Thusly, ORTHODOXY create a Metal of Death that's haunting and crushing in equal measure. Strident, almost martial, ORTHODOXY's Novus Lux Dominus heralds a new era of ageless darkness.
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Band:ORTHODOXY
Album:NOVUS LUX DOMINUS
Label:THE SINISTER FLAME
Format:LP
Genre:Death Metal
A so-far shadowy entity, ORTHODOXY hail from Spain and formed sometime during the past decade. In 2015, the band's first demo, Shaarimoth, burst forth from the womb, displaying a band fully, frighteningly formed. Indeed, this collective were no mere youngsters; the band's founder hails from well-respected cult DOMAINS, also a part of THE SINISTER FLAME's very selective cabal. However, that demo was but a mere taste of the salacious, supernatural slime to follow...At last, it arrives in full-length form, bearing the title Novus Lux Dominus. Howling from a black void, ORTHODOXY arrogantly stride forward with far more focus and utterly gutted execution. No more but certainly no less, Novus Lux Dominus is all-caps DEATH METAL - pure and proud, dark and sinister, sidestepping all the muddled miscegenation of nowadays "death metal" - and duly delivers a ninesong/ 44-minute journey below the bowels of the Beyond. Magickal in every sense, Novus Lux Dominus weaves an alternately hypnotic and disruptive spell, beckoning the listener ever deeper into their devastating energies, only to flay both body and soul with a sadism borne of incomparable blackness. Thusly, ORTHODOXY create a Metal of Death that's haunting and crushing in equal measure. Strident, almost martial, ORTHODOXY's Novus Lux Dominus heralds a new era of ageless darkness.
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Band:CHEVALIER
Album:DAWN OF BATTLE
Label:GATES OF HELL RECORDS
Format:DLP
Genre:EPIC SPEED METAL
Medieval Speed Metal! The sold out demos available again on a deluxe Double LP edition! Dawn of Battle" includes Chevalier's early and now completely sold out releases: " A Call to Arms" and "Chapitre II". Plus the song "The Greed of the Cross" from the 7'' split with Legionnaire. 500-copy Limited Gatefold DLP edition with a beautiful layout courtesy of Annick Giroux. Tracklist: Under The Sceptre (A Call to Arms) The Sorcerer (A Call to Arms) The Awakening (A Call to Arms) Chevalier (A Call to Arms) Ride for Revenge (A Call to Arms) Defenestration (A Call To Arms) Greed of the Cross (Split) The Messenger (Chapitre II) Wrath Of Steel (Chapitre II) The Curse of the Dead Star (Chapitre II)
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Band:DEPRESSED
Album:BEYOND THE PUTRID FICTION
Label:BLACK LION RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Hailing from Brazilian shores, Depressed was formed in 1998, and got a good Underground recognition around Brazil with a single demo tape, but came to a hiatus around 2000. In 2012, Giovanni Venttura put the band together and Started to work on their first album, Afterlife in Darkness, which came out via Black Lion Records in 2015 Beyond The Putrid Fiction presents us a work of precision that can bring anyone into the most dark and gloomy Death Metal realms. During the 11 tracks, all the crucial elements are there, fast blasts, thrashing precision guitars, guitar-hero Alike leads and even doomer passages, which guarantee to anyone a complete Death Metal masterpiece wrapped up with a amazing cover by the American artist Mark Cooper. It’s 11 tracks of pure Death Metal that will mangle your mind
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Band:CRYPTIC BROOD
Album:OUTCOME OF OBNOXIOUS SCIENCE
Label:WAR ANTHEM RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Because of their lust for rancid and rotten death metal, three maniacs started the band CRYPTIC BROOD in the year 2013. Several physical regurgitations of their unique death metal and morbid live rituals all over the globe made them spread their plague in the repulsive realm of the death metal underground. Now, the brood is back from a short slumber in its cave to unveil their new album entitled "Outcome Of Obnoxious Science". CRYPTIC BROOD's second full-length is a sonic lobotomy that vaporizes your brain in a vortex of filth. Rotten metal of death to shatter your skull with ghastly grindcore and distasteful doom metal, (de-)composed in their dungeon in Wolfsburg/Germany.
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Band:LES CHANTS DU HASARD
Album:LIVRE SECOND (LIMITED)
Label:I, VOIDHANGER RECORDS
Format:CDD
Genre:ORCHESTRAL BLACK/AVANTGARDE
LES CHANTS DU HASARD debuted in 2017 with an impressive, eponymous album of neoclassical music pervaded by a venomous black metal aura; a work that brought together the enthusiasts of Mussorgsky, Prokofiev and R. Strauss, the orphans of Elend and the fans of Ulver, Arcturus and Emperor. Arguably the band's sophomore release, “Livre Second” is definitely more focused and confident than its predecessor, getting sole member Hazard closer to what he always wanted to achieve: orchestral music as dark and violent as black metal. The production is clearer, deeper and stronger; the arrangements, richer and full of exquisite details; the atmospheres are more majestic than before, and Hazard's vocals never sounded more tortured, cavernous and evil. However, it's the violent tones of the songwriting that increased dramatically. The innate elegance of classical music, here displayed in all its beauty, emphasizes the emotional roller coster and the sense of grandeur in LES CHANTS DU HASARD's compositions, constantly in balance between perturbing dark arias and sharp fragments of grotesque operas (“Le Voluer d'Yeux”, feat. the spirited guest vocals of Vaerohn from Pensées Nocturnes), uplifting Gregorian chants and irrepressible eruptions of rage (“La Course”). Only the nocturnal, romantic charm of “L'Eveil” is able to momentarily untie the lump in the listener's throat.
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Band:MIDNIGHT ODYSSEY
Album:BIOLUME PART I - IN TARTAREAN CHAINS (LIMITED)
Label:I, VOIDHANGER RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:COSMIC BLACK METAL/DOOM
Four years after their second album, the highly acclaimed “Shards Of Silver Fade”, MIDNIGHT ODYSSEY return with “Biolume Part I – In Tartarean Chains”, the first in a trilogy of albums exploring the themes of banishment and exile, of fallen gods and resentment, of sacrifice and despair. A representation of things that have been taken from us, and the desire to return to a previous embodiment or form. Once again, sole member Dis Pater recounts the ultimate journey through death in the shade of a Nature apparently indifferent, yet always glorious in its beauty and compassionate in its embrace. “When coming up with the ideas for Biolume, I was thinking of how the relationship of light and darkness are tied together,” explains the Australian musician. “In the darkest caves, the deepest parts of the ocean, there are lights which are produced by organisms, with no need for the sun. Darkness is seen as a place of banishment, you are expelled from the light. To survive you have to create your own light, which no matter how faint, enables you to see enough of what you need.”
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Band:XUL OV KVLTEN
Album:ENTROPIC INCREASE FROM THE OMEGA AEON
Label:ATMF
Format:CDD
Genre:Black Metal
XUL OV KVLTEN are ready to get further exposure via ATMF after the totally underground and strictly limited debut album, where they proved their dedication to the darkest and vilest form of black/death metal. The Chilean combo is now evoking morbidity and chaos, throwing in their cauldron of sound both INQUISITION's macabre feeling and early EMPEROR's obscure choruses, in order to glorify the dark lord beyond any sort of modern compromise. Not merely a black metal band with symphonic elements, XUL OV KVLTEN took possession of some elements from the European and US death metal schools, and the result sounds familiar and fresh at the same time. "Entropic Increase From The Omega Aeon" was recorded in DM6 Studio, Chile, between April 2018 and January 2019. If the meaning of true, honest, underground black metal is your mission, XUL OV KVLTEN will ring a bell. The growling vocals and the symbiosis between cold, razor-like guitars, pounding drums and the esoteric vibrations in the background make of this second effort something truly remarkable.
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Band:EMPYREAL VAULT
Album:EMPYREAL VAULT
Label:GREAT DANE RECORDS
Format:CDD
Genre:TECHNICAL DEATHCORE
Emerging from the technical death metal scene of Bordeaux, France, EMPYREAL VAULT presents a technical metal stemming from influences such FALLUJAH, WHITECHAPEL and RIVERS OF NIHIL. Sylvain, guitarist and main composer for EXOCRINE started the composing process in mid 2018, with Sylver (guitar/composition in Death Lab) rejoining the ranks, The goal was to create a strong team to write a first album and start playing live. 6 months later, the band is ready to unleash the freshly composed full length album.
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Band:IN MUTE
Album:CHAOS BREEDER
Label:ART GATES RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Metal
This five-pieced combo from Valencia (Spain) was born in the middle of 2003 and is characterized by being the most extreme and powerful growler female fronted Metal act coming from Spain. The band is characterized not only by their musical quality but also by a strong stage presence, leaded by its vocalist Vanja. Imagine a combination of Extreme, Progressive Metal music and the virtuosity of highly elaborated musical passages fronted by rabid & ravenous growls. In 2006 the band recorded “Aeternum”, their first LP. After some changes the band achieved a stable line up initiating the search of their essence that takes shape With presence in the most important Fests in Spain, such as Resurrection Fest, Leyendas del Rock, Viñarock among others. [IN MUTE[ released their debut album “Gea” in March 2017 and started promoting it through the spanish territory right after it came out, performing in several cities over Spain. This new opus counts with the addition to the line up of Vanja Obscure (ex-Martyrium) as the band's main vocalist, and the melodic vocals of Mike La Riva, which entered in the band as guitarist in the previous album tour, “Chaos Breeder” is their new opus and contains the new sound of the band, more direct, powerful and catchy, defining [IN MUTE] as a new band.
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Band:NOCTEM
Album:THE BLACK CONSECRATION
Label:ART GATES RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Black Metal
Noctem is an Iberian Black Metal band with a long trajectory of more than 15 years. With 2 demos, 1 live LP and 4 albums, released with Prosthetic Records, Art Gates Records, NHR and Metal Blade Records. After 15 years career, Noctem is one of the most active bands from Spain. The band played on many festivals, more than 20 tours around Europe, Asia, Mexico and Russia supporting lot of bands like Marduk, Enthroned, Impiety, Napalm Death, Samael, Gorgoroth, Nargaroth, Keep of Kalessin, Taake, Immolation, Vomitory, Malevolent Creation, Incantation, Hate, Ragnarok, Melechesh and many more... Extreme music, aggressive shows, blood and fire is the mark of this band. After four albums: “Divinity (2009), “Oblivion” (2011), “Exilium” (2014) and “Haeresis” (2016), the spaniards return with their most ambitious and Black Metal oriented opus to date, “The Black Consecration”. 8 tracks full of blast beats, dark melodies and the impressive screams of vocalist Beleth, which takes no prisoners. November 1st 2019 is the date of release for this new Extreme Metal jewel that for sure is going to be one of the albums of the year.
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Band:DRAGONFLY
Album:ZEITGEIST
Label:ART GATES RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:POWER METAL
With over 10 years of experience, nationally and internationally, Dragonfly is consolidated in the hispanic Metal scene. With a well known career including 5 studio albums aclaimmed by the media, this band keeps on opening new horizons with their sixth album, which receives the title of “Zeitfgeist”. With an everchanging music style, from Hard Rock to Power Metal, since the beginning, Dragonfly has achieved to get the praise of the specialized media with every work they have put out, that has always praised the quality and personality of the band, that has been able to keep a distinctive brand and touch the thousands of followers that support them in many countries. With an extensive experience in live shows, this band has done many national tours after the release of every album that has been released, and recently, many international tours through almost the whole American continent, performing with bands as big as Masterplan, Mago de Oz, Medina Azahara or Saratoga. The new album “Zeitgeist” counts with outstanding guests such as Alberto Rionda (Avalanch) & Victor de Andrés; being recorded, mixed, mastered and produced by Raúl Abellán at The Mixtery (Valencia, Spain). “Zeitgeist” will take your breathe away.
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Band:GRIM COMET
Album:AFTERLIFE
Label:ART GATES RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:ALTERNATIVE ROCK
Grim Comet define themselves as a different band, in the beginning their sound used to combine Stoner Rock influences from the 70’s and classic Heavy Metal & Doom references. The trio absorbs in their music and incorporates elements from the 70’s as they could be Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd; also influences from the Big four North American Thrash Metal and NWOBHM bands like Motorhead and Venom. One of the strong points of Grim Comet is their live show, each concert is unique because of the dynamics of their songs, improvisation and changes in their setlist. After releasing their debut ”Pray for the Victims” (2014) through Art Gates Records and touring with Casablanca, the band released their second album “God is Dead, Let’s Eat Him” in 2016 and toured again several times in Spain. “Metropol Sessions” (2018) is a live studio opus recorded at Metropol Studios in Madrid, Spain, consisting in a selection of the most outstanding tracks of their previous albums. After a headlining tour through China, Grim Comet returns with a different sound, way more catchy. Rocker than ever and more personal. 9 new tracks that take us from the most classic Rock to the 90's Grunge, through Garage sounds & progressive influences. This is “Afterlife” and you are going to hear more about it. Don't miss this!
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Band:HYPERBOREA
Album:UMBRA
Label:ART GATES RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:Death Metal
Being around for almost 20 years, Hyperborea has established its name as one of the most solid and experienced Bulgarian death metal bands. This five-pieced combo has the ability to play its complex music as a one entity in a live situation – with precision timing, crushing power, bite and heaviness that are the milestone of any death metal act worth its name. During its career the band has performed with artists such as Arch Enemy, Obituary, Vader (to name a few ...) Hyperborea's third album will come out from the darkness through Art Gates Records on November 15th through Art Gates Records worldwide.
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Band:JERKSTORE
Album:THE GREAT TIME ROBBERY
Label:ART GATES RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:METALLIZED ROCK
Danish Rock/Metal trio Jerkstore were founded in 1995, with their name being inspired by the sit-com "Seinfeld", their music can be tagged as Metallic Rock, being groovy, bluesbased and metallized at the same time, Metal with tons of feeling you could say. After releasing 5 previous albums and sharing international stages with artists such as Volbeat, Raunchy and Heaven Shall Burn, Jerkstore are ready to set the world on fire with the release of their 6th album of studio through Art Gates Records worldwide on November 15th 2019!
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Band:STEINBOCK
Album:TILL THE LIMIT
Label:ART GATES RECORDS
Format:CD
Genre:HARD ROCK/METAL
Steinbock are a young Hard Rock Metal combo from Lleida (Spain) formed back in 2014. The band is synonim of energy, hard work and perseverance, always believing in themselves these youngsters have build a strong basis to start a solid career. Their live shows are energetic, dynamic, full of passion performing their own songs. Their first work “Steinbock EP” and their second one “Black Gold”, are both from 2014 and 2015 respectively, and are part of a presentation mockup called “Brainwashing” recorded in the Norman Studio (Lleida) . Steinbock is now ready to unleash their debut album “Till The Limit” in Autumn of this year through Art Gates Records worldwide.
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Band:DVM SPIRO
Album:MMXIX - IN FRIGIDVM LECTVM
Label:MY KINGDOM MUSIC
Format:CD
Genre:DOOM METAL
DVM SPIRO was born in 2010 following NIHILI LOCUS rebirth and their recording of "Mors". The initial core composed of Max and Robi approaches a very heavy Funeral Doom. After about a year, Valla on guitar and Maurizio on the cello joined the band as the new compositions were more elaborate and complex. Over the years and after several rehearsals the band began to move away from Funeral Doom to approach a more melodic and complex style in which their extreme Doom Metal is combined with classical music scores played with classical acoustic instruments giving the whole a high impression thanks also to the very introspective Valla’s lyrics. In January 2019 they enter the Pink Noise Studio in Turin and under the supervision of Gianluca Barbato they record the debut album of the band entitled "MMXIX - In Frigidvm Lectvm" which will see the light in November 2019 on My Kingdom Music.
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